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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
Peace on Earth.

Eddy" said Queen Victoria, according
to the New York Press, addressing her
eldest hopeful, stop looking at those pic
lures of Mrs. Langtry and call up ST.
Petersburg for me- 1 want to speak 10
Aleck."
Albert Edward shut up the illustrated
supplement to the American yellow Jour
nal that he was perusing and began to
vigorously work the crank.
Here you are, mommer," he said. add
ing as he CALAMITY handed her the receiv-
er you couldn't spare me 'tenner'
could you? The latest from the stable
boys is that"
mo, I couldn't" snapped the Queen.
This is rent day and I've got to pay the
help, too"
"Hellol Hellol ST Petersburgl Is that
you, Aleck? Got off that line or III
Aleck? All right. Yes, it's me. Victoria
What? VictoriaI V-i-c-t-o-Oh, say. can
you come over Christmas and eat a roast
with US? It's going to be turkey-real
turkey. Mack sent the bird to me-Mack,
you know-McKinley, and I'll cut water
melon and open some currant wine. Can't
come? Too bad. I'd counted on you and
the wife and children.
mo? Is that so? You think I'm really
looking younger and prettier every day?
No? Well do look pretty nicely, think,
myself. Come to think of it, Aleck you
never looked finer in your life, and l think
you are about the handsomest Car ever
What? Let's throw away our navies and
armies? All right; anything you say Well.
Goodby Give my love to the wife and
babies. Ring off,
Eddy" went on the Queen, hurriedly
put on your cap and mitten and run
down to Thornycroft's and order a dozen
more torpedo boats right away. Aleck is
too nice. And you might stop at Laird s
too and tell him to send up three or four
battleships, too
And the Queen settled herself again in
her wooden rocker and opened her atlas at
India as Eddie trotted down the street.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

George V. Hobart in Baltimore American.
wisht the Board of Inquiry would come
down here an set
On this here question which has got us in
a mighty fret;
The town is all upset because nobody
seems to know
Jest who should git the credit and jest
where the laurels go.
It happened thisaway to wit: Jim jenkins
owns a mule,
An ornery little cuss with which nobody
dasts to fool;
His legs behind are thirteen-inch projec-
tiles, an fer fight
They show up better than them guns con-
tainin dynamite.
1t happened jest a week ago down in jim
jenkins shed,
A tramp broke in an tried to steal most
everythin' he had.
The mule was sleepin' in that shed an
Mr.. Tramp says, Gee!
l reckon I'll jest make this mule move
these here goods fer mer'
The tramp he goes to work and packs the
loose things lynn round,
Then with prod he starts to wake the
mule ats sleepin sound.
The mule rose slowly to his knees, fer
action cleared each hoof-
Bang! went his thirteen-inchers, an the
tramp went through the roof.
jim Jenkins al the time was down at
Diggses grocery store,
An didn't reach the scene until the fight
in it was Ger.
But when he saw jest what his mule had
done he swelled with pride,
An posed as hero Of the day fore all the
country side.
Some peop,e says, Jim Jenkins, you amt
got no cause for airs!
1t wasn't you at went an laid the tramp
up fer repairs"
why not?" says Jenkins. Didn't tie
up that mule jest so
His heels could reach intruders and pro
coed to lay them low?"
Some other folks they says, why, Jim,
when all this happened you
Was at the store a-tallkin' crops with
Digs and Deacon Crewe"
Il know" says jim. where I was at; but
can't you fellers see
This mule has kicked accordin' to the
plans laid out by me?'
Says Deacon Crewe, 1--WE 'preciate the
good the mule has done;
He gifts the credit, but fer you-you amt
deservin' none!"
You're wrong, thar, deacon" answers
jim; "accordin' to the rule
The glory ought to come to me-the man
behind the muen'
wish the Board of Inquiry would come
down here an say
Who gifts the credit fer the work so nobly
done that day
The question agitates us all-in store an
church an school;
Does jenkins ge. the laurels,i or does Mr..
Jenkins mule?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
OBSTINATE ASSESSORS.


The town of Mount Pleasant, n. Y, is
in great rnuddle on account of its as
sessments. The assessors Of the town re-
fuse TO swear to the correctness Of the as
sessments and sign the assessment rolls
The trouble comes about in this
way: william Rockefeller owns
fine properly in the limits OF
the town The assessors doubt
less thought it would be a good stroke
of business for the town if they put up the
assessment of Mr.. Rockefeller's place so
high that he would have to pay a very
large part Of the taxes Of the town. There
fore they assessed his house and grounds
at $2,OO,000 Very naturally, Mr.. Rookie
Teller demurred. He said that his proper
ty wasn't worth anywhere near that sum,
and he offered to sell it for about one-sev-
enth of the amount at which the assessors
had valued il. The assessors, however, re
FUSED 60 make any reduction. Mr.. Rock
efeller, therefore, took the matter into
court, and that tribunal reduced his assess
ment to $34S ,775. Experts said that that
was about the market value of the prop
erty
Now the assessors refuse to swear to the
correctness of the assessments Of the
town. They say if they made such a
great mistake in regard 10 Mr.. Rookie
fellers property, they made fully as great
a mistake in respect to all the
other property of the town. But if a pro-
portonate reduction in the other prop
erty were made, the taxes would not pear
~ pay the expenses of the town govern
ment It is not clear what is to be done
in the matter 1t is probable that the
courts will again be appealed to for the
purpose of compelling the assessors to
swear to the returns and sign the rolls.
That the property was assessed far be-
yond its market value there does not APP
pear to be any question. What the motive
of the assessors was in trying TO contis-
cate Mr. Rockefeller's property can only
be guessed They thought probably that
Mr.. Rockefeller, being a very rich man,
would accept the assessment rather than
to have trouble about the matter. If that
was liielI view tilSy WGAG lllotcNCH
The safe way to assess real estate is to
assess it at its market value. Any other
rule is likely to be productive of injustice
The Mount Pleasant assessors, however
seem to have been animated by a desire
to punish Mr.. Rockefeller for having so
much wealth Being well able to pay al
most any amount that might be assessed
against him, they concluded apparently
to make him lift a part of the tax burden
from the shoulders of the other tax pay
ers. If he wouldn't voluntarily assist
other tax payers to pay their taxes they
concluded to make him do so by means of
the power they welded. In other words,
they went outside of the law in distribut-
ing the tax burden, thinking themselves
better qualified than the lawmakers to
say what was just in levying taxes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

In matters like the "spark-arrester'' or
dinance and others which touch upon the
free movement of traffic on the water
front, City Council should proceed with
great care. 1t is desirable and necessary.
of course, that all proper precautions
should be taken to prevent fires. Al the
same time it is equally desirable and nee.
essary that no unreasonable hardships
should be imposed upon the craft which
ply the river or take cargoes at the
wharves. Keeping up steam on vessels
al the time while they are loading, day
and night. involves a considerable expense
lin some instances a large expense
which would be apt to initiate against
the port, as Alderman Reid says. What is
wanted is that the port expenses shall be
kept down TO the lowest possible point con-
Eistent with safety. New Orleans. Mo
be, Norfolk, Charleston and other South
ern ports are continually taking steps to
make port expenses less burdensome to
the craft which visit them for cargoes.
and Savannah cannot afford to proceed
in any other than the same direction.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
THE RANNIS-FELTON CONTRo.
VERSY

The little controversy between Mrs. Eel
ton and Mrs. Gannis is not without its in
teresting features Mrs. Grannis, it will be
remembered is the woman, who. it was
alleged, uttered the Islander against the
women of the South at the meeting of ne
groes in New York to protest against the
political revolution in Wilmington, n. c..
by which the negroes We're driven out of
power and against the killing of negroes
in South Carolina. Mrs. FELTON,, in very
severe article, suggested that Mrs. Crannis
must have been dsowned by the white
people, and that she had been forced to
take refuge with the blacks, otherwise she
would not be found at their meeting SLAM
derng the people of her own race. That
was, however. about the mildest thing that
Mrs. FELTON, said. Now Mrs, Grannis comes
TO the front and declares that she never
uttered the Islander attributed TO her. She
says that she is surprised that Mrs Eel
ton should take notice of an insignificant
little New England woman such as she is.
but she wants 1t distinctly understood that
she has not been ostracised by her peo-
PIE, and that her family is one of the best
in the land. She declares that she is a di-
rect desceudent of John Alden, who plead
with Priscilla for his friend. She also saws
that she has a membership in the Society
of the Mayfiower descendants through six
teen lines. Clearly Mrs Grannis has come
through lines enough to have
known better than 10 have
shown herself at the negro mass
meeting and made herself conspicuous in
a matter of which she evidently knows
nothing. She may be a descendent of the
Mayfiower people. but is it not probable
that she as a degenerate?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
Humors of the Catalogue.

There are many funny things in the
fortuitous juxtaposiuons Of an alphabet
cal arrangement, says the Springfield Re
publican. The London Academy has hunt
ed up some choice specimens from an Of
fetal catalogue:
Lead copper-Metallurgy
kindly light (Newman).
poisoning.
Another runs thus:
Mill-eotton. silk.
on the Floss elliot.
flax
But most mystifying of all is this from
a recent government catalogue of a ships
tackle:
Rope-Mapila.
tarred.
wire
the Grandissimes Gable.
This far surpasses the case of the young
man of anecdote who entered in his ac-
count book: Patti, tickets 81; do, oys-
ter, 75c'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Woodmen Of the World. Mis-
uetoe Camp, No. 4; Palestine Commandery
No. Z, K. T.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, A. Minis
e Co, Consignees; Ship Notice, j. F..
Minis & Co.; Ship Notice. Georgia Export
and Import Company; State and County
Taxes, 1898; Crystallized Cherries, Etc,
"a. M. & c. w. West.
Wilbur Opera Company, at
the Theater Tonight, in the Mascot"
Business Nodces-E. & w. Laundry.
$500, That's All-Byck Bros.
Medical-Warner' Safe Cure; Duffy's
Pure Malt Whisky; Johann HoTs Cen
uine Malt Extract; Hoods Pins; Ayers
Cherry Pectoral; Mothers Friend; Lydia
Pinkhams Vegetable Pills; Castoria; ALI
gator Imminent
Cheap Column Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

What good purpose would be served by
passing in the Georgia legislature bills
that would cripple the Southern Railway.
or other railroads in the state? SO far as
we have been able to discover, it has not
been shown where justice would be sub
served. and where the state would profit.
by the success Of the plan of action which
seems 10 have been adopted by certain an
ti-railroad "reformers' in the legislature.
Indeed, it appears 10 us that the action is
baeed upon merely a hostility TO corpora
tons and nothing else, unless there Is
some personal animus behind the schemes.
Take the Southern Railway: Is it possible
that any good purpose can be served by
barassing and possibly embarrassing that
property? II is at present in good shape.
Its employees are satisfied, and its patrons
are wei served. II is. Furthermore. doine a
splendid work in advertising and develop
irg the sections Of country through which
IL passes, including a large portion of the
state Of Georgia. There has been no asser-
ton that the Southern is not treating the
People Of Georgia fairly, even literally. To
assail the corporation upon manufactured
technicalities would be a very short-sigbt-
ed policy. The legislature should be guided
by consideration for right ana Justice.
efen 10 corporations; aud 81 should be
careful TO see that it is not employed TO
pan chesinuts out Of the ire.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

The Augusta cotton mill employers claim
that they are paying higher wages to their
employees than are being paid in adjoining
states for similar classes of work, and
hence the necessity for a reduction of
wages in order to enable the mills to meet
competition. An idea of the average wages
per day paid in the several states may be
gained from the following table, which
was prepared by a trustworthy cotton au-
thority in South Carolina.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

Stuart Robson tells the following story
in which the late President Grant occupies
prominent place: Il was playing some
years ago in a weH-known managers thea
ter outside of New York The first act was
over and was chatting in the wings with
my manager when a boy rushed in on the
stage to tell us that Gen. Grant and his
family were in one Of the boxes A flush of
gratified pride mounted to the managerial
race followed by a look of agonized doubt
as he evidently reflected that perhaps the
general had 'dead-headed' into the box.
Did you sell him a box? he asked me
and on my replying in the negative ne
pulled out card from his pocket and
scribblng line on ii tod the bov to
take II to the box Office and bring back an
answer. The boy rushed off his head full
OF the general, and returned in few min
utes with the card, which he handed to Mr..
Manager. A CHASTITY look crossed his face
as he read it, and without a word handed
it to me. The first line read, in a rather
shaky managerial calligraphy: Did Gen.
Grant pay for his box?" while underneath
appeared No, but my son Fred Grant did
u. S. Grant,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
Has Had Enough of 1t.
rom the Macon telegraph CDem)

Gen. Longstreets suggestion that the
government shall build and operate dou-
the Pacific coast may attract some little
discussion. but il will hardly get beyond
THAI This government has had an ex-
perionce with trans-contnental railroads
which it has not finished paying for yet,
and II will be some time before IL dabbles
In that sort Of an enterprise again.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

When those Iowa and Nebraska soldiers
OF the Seventh Army Corps while basking
in the warm sunshine in Savannah, read
of sixty-mile breezes and 10-below tenn
peratures in their home states, they prob
ably congratulate themselves chat they
are spending the winter in the most de-
lightful climate of the sunny South.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

1t appears from the sworn statements
filed with the secretary of state of New
York that the following candidates for
Congress from that state paid the amounts
following their names in elecGoleering ex-
penses during the recent campaign: Will
liam Aston Chanler, $64H; Lemuel f.
Quigg, $685.; Mr.. Ketchum, $3.50; and
other candidates sums ranging from 5000
to $1,000. The term of a representative in
Congress is two years, and the salary Is
$500 a year. Living in Washington comes
nigh. Many congressman find it difficult
to live within the congressional salary,
especially If they are men blessed with
families. 1t may be that these New York
ex-csndidates are rich men who can af-
ford to spend approximately half of the
sum they would receive for their services
for the glory of going to Congress; but if
an expenditure of $1,000 to $500 is neces-
sary to secure a seat in the House, what
showing has a poor man to get into Con-
gress from the state of New York?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
Mad Fakirs of Swat.
rom the New York Herald dnd).

The Mad Fakir of Swat has retired from
British circles in India that had become |
too warm for him. Two mad fakirs of |
swat met in this city last night in a cir
Gle warm enough to cause their retirement |
from it for all time, but there is no such |
good fortune In store for us.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

A ship win leave Philadelphia shortly
with a cargo of 1000 tons Of iron pipe fer
London direct This win be the first ship
ment of the kind from America 10 the
British capital, though American pipe
has recently been sold in large quantities
to GLASGOW and TO Australia, in comped-
ton with British manufacturers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

Mime, Dreyfus has received letter from
her husband ''in his own handwriting" II
she could only feel sure that Capt Drey-
fus had himself written the letter or had
ever seen il, the knowledge would no
doubt be very consoing TO the lady. But.
under the circumstances, the FACT thai the
letter was la Dreyfus "own handwrilina DO
IS very far from being conclusive evidence
chat il came from him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

If the Washington correspondent of the
st. Louis G.obe-Democrat is well inform
ed, the selection of Gen. Shafter for the
Santiago campaign was made by Gen.
Miles, and not by Secretary Alger, as has
been generally supposed. According to
the correspondent the President, Secre-
tary Alger and Gen. Miles were in con-
ference respecting the contemplated attack
upon Santiago. when the question of a
commander for the expedition came up.
Gen. Miles, taking up a list of the general
officers of the army, ran his finger down
1t, making comments on the generals as
he passed over them. Each one was
"blackballed" by Gen. Miles, says the
correspondent, until he came to the name
of Shafter. "Shafter is a fighter; he is
a good man for a short rough-and- tumble
campaign, such as that of Santiago will
be-" Gen. Miles is alleged to have said
and Shafter was given the billet. The
story is interesting if true
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
situation in Pennsylvania.
From the Washington Post Qnd.).

No doubt Brother Wanamaker will be
able to beat a very lively tattoo on the
Stats of Mr. Quay, but that doesn't nee
essarly mean that the good man will
land in the United States Senate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
WOnIdn't Put Up With Tanner.
From the Baltimore Sun Dem.).

The African is a source of trouble, but |
the Malay is vastly more difficult to man
age. The Malay would not put up with !
Gov. Tanner for day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
THE THANKSGIVING DINNER.

The Thanksgiving dinner of the Seventh
Corps was a great success. The ladies who
provided it were happy because they were
conscious that they did good deed and
that il was appreciated and the soldiers
were happy because their hearts were
warmed by the kindness shown them and
by the knowledge that though far away
from their homes they We're not forgotten
on Thanksgiving day. It will be a Thanks
giving long remembered here because so
many were made happy by a kindly act
Even those who had no part in the din
ner regarded it with approval, and they
heard of its success and of the great APP
probation of it by the soldier boys with
a thrill of pleasure.
The dinner was great undertaking. and
by many it was thought that the ladies'
could not provide for all of the soldiers,
but they did. The dinner was appreciated
appreciated as fully as it was possible
for it to be-but it was the loving kind
ness that prompted the giving of ii that
touched the hearts Of the soldier boys
because 1t made them feel that though
away from their loved ones and soon 10
start for a foreign shore upon some
what hazardous expedition they We're
among friends who appreciated their sac
rices for their country. And the lay
was glorious one. The sun shone bright
ly and the air was crisp and invigorating.
1t was a day to make people feel happy
and thankful, and it was Thanksgiving
that viii be a bright spot in the memory
Of the soldiers of the Seventh Corps and
of the people of Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25

Hawaii is to become a territory, with
the elective franchise hedged in with edu-
cational and property qualifications. This
is TO prevent the native Hawaiians from
having a controlling voice in the elections.
and to place the government In the hands
of the white American population. The
annexation commissioners have taken the
ground that the superior race must rule
position which the Republican party has
condemned when taken by the white peo-
pie of the South
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-25
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Good BEGINNING.
Memphis commercial-Appeal Dem).

The new Governor of Alabama wrote a
long message without once referring to a
national issue. There is a bright future in
store for Gov. Johnston.