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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
The spanish volunteers in Cuba.

Outside of Cuba, comparatively little is
known of the composition of the military
force known in that island as Spanish
Volunteers. and still less is known of how
important part this force plays in the
government of Cuba in peace as well as
in war.
These Spanish volunteers are irregular
troops, Spanish subjects, white and black,
natives of Spain or any of the Spanish
colonies, excepting Cuba. They are so cor
daily hated that if any Cuban. should
join them he would be Immediately and
forever ostracised by his family and
friends. Even the kind of cloth used by
them in their uniforms, white and black
stripped linen, is tabooed by the Cubans.
1t is impossible to state with any degree
of accuracy the number of these troops
in Cuba at the present time, but before
the beginning of the Instruction there
we're sixteen battalions in Havana, DOING
duty in garrisoning the forts and protect
ing the public buildings
In consideration of such services for a
term of years the volunteers are exempt
from conscription in the regular army
rms irregular soldlery rule Havana Unit
ed in thought and action, they represent
the Spanish element, from the lowest 10
the highest on the island No Captain
General has ever dared to thwart their
wishes. Those they condemn must be
punished without regard to. the question
of their guilt or innocence
Naturally, between them and the Gu
bans, the utmost bitterness of feeling ex-
lists. They never miss an opportunity to
insult and maltreat the Cubans. To the
presence in Havana of this irregular, half
disciplined force, is due. in a great de-
gree, the present insurrection, and many
of the other ills with which Cuba has
been and still is afflicted A long step
toward bringing peace to Cuba would be
the disbanding of the Spanish Volunteers,
who are a source of constant irritation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
LowIands of Georgia.

Miles and long miles of the raggedest
grasses,
Scraggy palmetto scrub, staring white
sand,
Sleepy black pools and gray sedgy NOR
raises:
Would you not think this desolate land?
All, but it is not! A stranger might view
it so,
Careless, cold eyes of tourist pursue it
But if you tramped it, and loved it, and
knew it, so
Close as a friends face or own firesde
Then you would know that whatever be-
tide.
Lowlands of Georgia, these Lowlands of
Georgia.
Living, would haunt you, and after you've
died
Your heart would turn back to the Low
lands.
Climb to the crown of the stateliest noun
tain
Wrapped in the ermine such kings alone
wear,
Feast fun your soul at sublimitys foun-
tain,
WEAKNESS follows this over-rich fare.
Then you'll remember them, hunger for
weary for,
Like "a lost eaglet his lone, lofty eyrie for.
Signing, 20 Lowlands, again to be near
yer' for
Calm through the pine-tree aisles breathe
the soft breeze,
Low laps the pool round the big cypress
knees.
Lowlands of Georgia, o Lowlands Of Geor-
gia!
Heart-rest is wrapped in such memories
As rest in the heart of the Lowlands.
Brown in the shadow and bronze in the
sun lie
Long lengths of pine needles, have you yet
seen
Carpets more rich or more radiant spun by
Looms of the Orient for tread of a Queen?
O, for the reaches of sun-lighted dis
tances!
Where the eye sees, and the eager ears list
fancies,
While in soft, slow fluctuations the mist
dances
Over the rice fields of silver and green.
Green over silver. you know the soft sheen.
Lowlands of Georgia, o, Lowlands of
Georgia!
All your true lovers know all it doth mean
o, true throbbing heart of the Lowlands!
Yet, dear Lowlands, We need not this
poor song,
Though from fond heart in exile it
flows,
Meody's masterpiece, no less is your
sons,
Sung by the mockblrd where jessamine
blows.
o, for the jessamine vine, and the fra
grances
Folding us round through a summer davis
vagrances,
o, for day of the bloom thieving fla
grancies
Stealing the gold from the jessamine vine.
Rdthlessly robbing these treasures of
thine
Lowlands of Georgia. o. Lowlands of
Georgia.
Once we have known We, what wonder we
pine
Again to be with you o Lowiandsi
Minnie Mosher jackson.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
Snme WITTY Retorfs.

The London News collects some in
stances of quick rejoinders: Mr. Aspin-
wall, clever and reckless barrister, fam
Gus in the eos in Victoria for his fun
and audacity. was addressing an election
meeting in Ballarat, tn. golden city +"
The lively advocate had come to that
time in mis- career when much whis-
ky and soda had wrought palpabale havoc
with his complexion. His speech ended,
and questions were invited. "Aspinwall"
beloved a stalwart digger, tel, US what
makes your face so red" "Blushing at
your COMPOUNDED impudence, sir?" was the
quick reply. 1t carried the meeting.
Sir Rupert Siieve-we may call him So
an eloquent colonial barrister now living,
IS as clever lawyer as Aspinwall was,
though Of very different habits Of life.
He IS also very bitter opponent of the
ministry of one of the jubilee premiers.
Speaking at a public meeting not long
ago he referred to the complaint that
all his charges against the premier were
vague and Indefinite: Ladies and gentle
men, there is at least one charge which 1
have made in season and out of season,
which l still make, and about which there
can be no kind of doubt. What is that?'.
and he paused dramatically: six and
elght-pencer' called clear voice from the
gallery, and for once the laugh was
against the man of law.
A bright answer is put down TO tho
credit of Dr. Fitchett, brother of the
editor Of the Australian Review of Re-
views. He was a member of a colonial
parliament, wherein one day a certain
eccentric and elderly member named Tay-
Tor insisted on making a speech on edu-
cation, The grafton consisted of a hYper.
oolical euloSy of the board of schools in
Mr.. Taylor's constituency. Mr.. Fitchett
lnterJected some jocose expression of
doubt. why, sir" said the irate Taylor.
turning upon him, at this very moment
have school IN my eye" "No-only the
pupil, Mr.. Taylor!" retorted the doctor
and the orators eloquence was drowned
in laughter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
Bad Mail Service.

What is the matter with the postoffice
department? We hardly think that the
time of the Postmaster General is so fully
taken up with applications for postmaster
ships that he cannot see
that the mail service in this
part of the country is outrageous
ly bad. Is the superintendent of the mail
service in this part of Georgia neglecting
his duties or does he find 1t impossible to
make the railroads which carry the mails
comply with their contracts? There is
something radically wrong, Complaints of
bad mail service in Southern Georgia have
been coming to the office of the Morning
News for several weeks, and notwith-
standing the fact the we have been call
ing attention to them nothing is being
done, apparently. 10 remove the cause of
them.
A few days ago we published a letter
from resident of Bryan county COM
planning of the Irregularities of the local
trains. and yesterday we received a letter
from a prominent business man of Lum-
Der City telling of the annoyances of the
people of that town due to the failure of
mails to arrive on time. The Lumber City
merchant says: mo Morning News came
TO Lumber City to-day. This makes three
times within the past two weeks that our
paper has failed TO show up at this place.
1 take only two dailies, and when the
Morning News fails to come and others
here feel upset. / must kick about it, with
the hope that you will get after the mail
shall be performed In accordance with the
mail contract 1 miss the Morning News
more than all the other papers which come
to Lumber city"
The Morning News receives many such
complaints from places along the lines of
the Plant system. These mail service an
noyances should be stopped at once. 1t
is in the power of the postoffice depart
ment to put a stop to them. The railroads
are paid to carry the mails and they ought
to be required to comply with their mail
contracts. The superintendent of the mail
service for this district must be Informed
of the failure of the railroads to carry the
mails regularly and he should have called
the delinquent railroads to account long
before this. Thousands of people are be-
ing made to suffer annoyances on ac-
count of the failure of the railroads to
comply with their mail service contracts
and the postoffice department is to blame
in the mail service at once.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

The National Quarantine Convention,
which is to assemble in Mobile on We'd
nesday of next week will. it is expected,
be one of the most representative of re,
cent interstate meetings. There will be
seven classes of delegates in attendance
namely, members of state boards of
health, delegates appointed by the Gov
ernors delegates appointed by municipal
governments. members appointed by COM
mercial bodies, delegates appointed by rail-
way systems, delegates representing the
transportation interests of the great riv-
ers and delegates by invitation of the
executive committee. 1t is understood that
no less than thirty-seven set papers have
been arranged for, all of them touching
upon topics intimately connected with the
subject of quarantine and sanitation
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
The Country Correspondent.

Yes, the reporter makes the paper, says
a writer in the Journalist The editor
makes it over again after him. The repor-
teI's eyes look upon the actual incident of
news with all it's graphic and sometimes
groteSque surroundings
The editors vision beholds only the
scene as depicted for the readers perusal.
There is often a wide discrepancy between
these two points of view. The blue pencil
bridges the chasm.
The country correspondent at present is
the most picturesque character upon the
Journalistic boards. All other positions
have become more or less mechanical and
are influenced in some measure by the
trappings of trade and commerce. Not so
with the man who is covering district -
He still clings to pristine principles. He
tells his story, plain and true. You cannot
mistake his meaning.
He loads on the telegraph tolls 20 saw
that the bank kept a deposit book on
which We're entered the deposits from the
deposit slips by depositorsu' The glee
club sang and the gymnasium class gave
a gymnastic exhibition" He desires to
make clear that the gymnasts were not
musical.
Miss Rosie Lee was visiting at the home
of friends"-an insinuation that the good
girl has some enemies whom she does not
visit.
Then funerals and weddings are always
attended by friends and relatives When
a man is being interviewed his opinions are
given out lin the course of conversation -
interesting developments are expected -
generally; and IF the villain is caught he
will be lynched," foreverl
THE recipient who was taken very much
by surprise, but responded in a few we'll
chosen words" still holds sway; and 1.-THE
ladies of the women's auxiliary corps are
ladies unquestionably.
AT the gTandest bali of the season the
young men wore dress suits"
An entertainment of any kind must be
1.-The scene of pleasant festivities
| have edited the copy on a suburban
wedding where the name of the BRIDE
groom was left out, showing how insignifi-
cant, after all, is that poor functionary
But the country correspondent is a good
fellow, withal-very much in earnest and
constantly sincere. He remains one of the
relics of the day when journalism consist
ed in printing paper fundamentally for
news.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
The Teller RESOLUTION.

Some of the newspapers are saying that
the Teller resolution passed the Senate by
larger majority than that by which iden-
tcally the same resolution passed the Sen
ate in 1873, and that therefore the senti-
ment in favor of free silver coinage is
much stronger now than it was then.
There are several reasons for saying that
the conclusion that the silver sentiment
has gained ground in the past twenty
years is a mistaken one
In 1873 the resolution, which is now call
ed the Teller resolution, was known as the
Stanley Matthews resolution. 1t receiv-
ed majority of both the Senate and the
House. The resolution is not now APP
proved by the House. 1t was defeated in
that body on Monday by a majority of 50.
The record therefore stands thus. The
resolution to the effect that the bonds
are payable in silver, at the option of the
government, was passed by both houses
of Congress In 1878, and IN 1898 was passed
by the Senate by a majority of 10 and de-
feated in the House by majority of 50.
That does not look as if the silver sem
timent had grown stronger. And the fact
must be taken into account that the
House much more nearly represents the
people than the Senate does OF the SEN
ators who voted for the Teller. resolution
eighteen represent nine states whose
combined populations are not equal to
one-third of the population of the
state of New York. 1t is appa-
rent, therefore, that If it had not
been for the senators from the thinly
populated far Western states there would
have been a majority in the Senate
against the Teller resolution instead of
for it. Besides, several senators voted for
the resolution who are against the free
coinage of silver. An entirely frank
statement, therefore, is that a comparison
of the support received by the resolution
in 1898 with that received in 1873 shows
that silver has lost ground
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
BRIGHT BITS.

Advantages of a College Education
She (who has just come outD: What
does "Quo Vadis" mean?
He famous half-back, 80: What are
you giving us? or something like that
Brooklyn Life.
"A Quiet Game.-Tommy: Can we play
at keeping store in here, mamma?
Mamma (who has headache): Yes; but
you must be very, very quiet
Tommy: All right; Wen pretend we
don't advertise.-Truth.
-Talkative.-"You was in the minstrel
business, wasn't you, Mr. Marigold?"
why, no. Johnnie; what makes you ask
that?" PA said that if you could only
be corked up, you wouldn't be such a bad
sort of eilow"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
internal Evidence.-Lawyer Sharpsett
found he would be unable to go home in
time for supper. His typewriter girl hav-
ing quit for the afternoon, he sat down
at the machine himself and succeeded af-
ter half an hours work in evolving the
following note which he sent TO his wife
by a messenger boy:
"atthe Office 5--S0p. m! DEAR miLLie 80:
l shlal not be MISUNDERSTANDING home his
evnennenig until until vrey very xxxxxx
late do not. wait fr for MIA a A. ellen I
w no Has Aciient with whom haev an
apopointmen t IS Xxxxxxxxxc is cmoing
to cnosult consultme q 1t will take al al all
eqenxXXxxxevening your lvoing husgxxxxx
husbnd. j: hiraMq?" Il know Hiram
wrote it, exclaimed Mrs. Sharpsett. after
she had read il. Those KS are where
he sworeF'-Chicago Tribune.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

There is pending in the New York Leg
islature a bill which favors the opening
of theaters in the state on Sunday. The
member who proposed the measure prob
ably thought il would have the backing
Of the labor element. since Sunday is the
laboring mans holiday. But it appears
that organized labor is opposed to the
measure. The actors who would have to
go on the stage on Sundays IL the thea
ters were opened on that day have a
union Of their own, and are AFFILIATED with
the Central Labor Union Of New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
Opening streets.

The recent action of the City Council,
through it's committee on opening streets,
has received the general approval Of those
who are interested in the future of the
city. II was doubtless the most extensive
street opening project that Savannah has
ever known. Many of the streets now
open or about TO be opened under that pro-
ject should have been opened long ago,
when the cost to the city would have been
less. Had the improvements been made
then there would to-day be thousands of
dollars, more taxable values, paying money
into the city treasury. A strenuous effort
should be made to complete the street
opening, SO that every street from the river
to the southern limits of the city, and be
tween the eastern and the western bounda-
ries, would be- open for traffic and the
Improvement of the adjacent prop
erty. By anticipating the growth
of the city in opening the
streets ahead of the building up,
crooked streets and cul-de-sacs would
be avoided, and large sums which would
have to be paid in future years for rights
of way would be saved. The committee on
street opening has done we'll but there is
still much more work in it's line to be ac-
complished.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
lADEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting-Georgia Chapter No. 8, R. A.
NJ.
Business Notices-Coal Oil Johnny Soap;
Runnymede Club Pure Rye Whiskey, Hen
ry Solomon & Son, Wholesale Agents.
Legal Manifestations from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County; Notice of Transfer of Merchants
National Bank Shares.
Auction Sale-Choce Vacant Lots, by C..
H. Dorsett, .Auctioneer.
See Our Overcoat Ad. on Page 5-B. H.
Levy & Bro
Keep OFF the Cold-Daniel Hogan.
The Cold Snap Helped to Swell the De-
mand-The Metropolitan Clothing Compa-
ny.
ADJUSTMENTS - What Happened to
Jones" at the Theater. Feb. 4.
Legal Sales-Chatham Sheriff Sales.
Financiai-Statement of the Condition of
the Chatham Bank.
Put In a Gas Heater-Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Couolene-N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Medical-Terraline: Baco-Curo; Cutcura
Remedies; Hoods Pills; Carlsbad Sprudel
salt; Lydia Pinkham's Pills; Castoria;
Browns Iron Bitters; SCOTS Emulsion;
Paine's Celery Compound.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

There is no secret and no mystery with
regard to what is needed to put the city
of Savannah and the surrounding terri
tory into frst-class sanitary condition. The
means are readily available, and it only
remains TO do the work This being
true, it is passing strange why there
should be representation, or negligence.
in the matter of the Improvements. Is it
because the authorities imagine themselves
above taking advice? In that case. they
would be perfectly welcome to all of the
credit which would accrue from taking
steps to insure the citys good health If
they are after the glory of the thing
there will be none to detract from what
ever good work they may do. Those who
are advocating the prompt and thorough
drainage of the outlying districts do not
care three straws who receives the credit
all they desire is that the needed drain
age shall be done, for the public good.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

We noted the other day the entrance of
the injunction into the social field, in the
case of a father who sued out writ to
prevent a young fellow from clipping with
his daughter. At the time the opinion was
expressed that more would be heard OF the
injunction as an instrument with which
to govern marriages. The expected has
happened. The other day in Iowa a young
man sued out writ of injunction to pre-
vent father from interfering with the
marriage of his daughter and himself. The
legal paper had the desired effect. land
they were married and lived happily ever
afterwards"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

1t seems that the razor back lawyer
flourishes in New York as well as in At
lanta. The Publishers Association of the
former city has offered rewards aggregat-
ing 5000 for proof against lawyers who
have excited groundless actions or legal
proceedings against a daily newspaper of
New York city, with a corrupt or ma
licious intent to vex or annoy" the publish
ers of the said newspapers. The razor
back" lawyer is the person who smells
out libel or damage suits against all sorts
of corporations. and prosecutes them for
a contingent fee. In a great many cases
the corporations sued would prefer to COM
promise than to be bothered with defend
ing a suit The razor backs" know this,
hence they frequently trump up charges
in the expectation of securing a compro
mise settlement without the case going to
trial. There is nothing to be said against
the practice of taking contingent fees,
considered in itself, as under that prac-
tice poor men are enabled to get their
rights against rich and powerful corpora
tions but there is much to be said against
unprincipled shyster lawyers who employ
the poor mans grievance, real or imagin-
airy, and the contingent fee, for the pur-
pose of blackmailing corporations and
well-to-do persons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

Hugh McCabe of New York feels that the
Erie Railroad has added insult to injury
10 him in its answer to libel for dam
ages filed by him. While on board one
of the companys trains McCabe was
kicked by donkey also on the train, and
his leg broken. The company, in its ans
wer, quotes decision of the Supreme
Court 20 the effect that a common car
rier is not liable for damages inflicted upon
a passenger by fellow traveller McCabe
does not like the suggestion that the DON
key was his fellow traveller.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

President Diaz will receive a much more
genuine and popular welcome in this coun-
try than has been given President Dole
Diaz has done much for his country. He
represents progressive ideas and an indie
pendent people, and he has no favors to
ask Dole, on the other hand, represents
a syndicate of American hlibusters, and
comes to beg that he and his company be
given the protection Of this government, so
that they may hold what they have pur-
Joined from an outraged people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

The Philadelphia Record looks forward
to the accomplishment or much good bv
the textile schools which have been author
lied in Georgia and Mississippi They
will, it says, be more effective promoters
of competitive manufacturing than any
form of industrial effort upon which the
Southern people have ventured. With a
supply of skilled labor for those manufac-
turing operations for which the Southern
states have advantageous natural facili-
ties, they will be able to defy the world"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02
GermnnN's Nueer Emperor.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).

II cannot be gainsaid that there was a
peculiar aptness in the Kaiser's choice of
the text. BE still and know that 1 am
God. / will be exalted among the heath
en-" for a special sermon on the occasion
Of his recent birthday. There is a singular
parailelism between the text and the Kais-
ers charge to Prince Henry 20 go forth
and proclaim the gospel OF his Majesty's
consecrated person 10. the unbelieying
ssChipep."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

The session Of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture-which, by the way, is an extra one.
will come to an end with The close of this
week. Something must happen very short
~ in the senatorial contest. therefore, If
il Is going to happen TO a all during this
session. These senatorial deadlocks, by
the way, have their uses, although they
are annoying, and cost the taxpayers
round sum Of money Each deadlock of
the kind is an argument in favor of plac-
ing the election Of senators In the hands
Of the people; and after a while the re-
peated arguments will prove effective.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-02

An exchange calls attention to the fact
that cotton was about as cheap in 1916
as it is now, and that it was worth $l.2O
per pound in 1865. Why would it not be
good idea to pass some sort of law to
preserve the ratio between cotton and
money, say at the ratio of 10 to Item
mounds to 81