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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21
FLORIDA.

The Gainesville Daily Sun, which came
ont Monday as an afternoon sheet, has
again resumed its morning edition. Editor
McCreary being of the opinion that the
afternoon paper was not much appreciat-
ed
Messrs. ]. T. Bailey and c. V. Varna-
dore Of Apalachlcola. will soon begin the
manufacture of naval stores at Bailey
Landing, on the Chipola river. In about
yen days they viii begin the cutting OF
poNes They calculate to do an extensive
business in this line.
odet Grulion, of Tampa, the customs in
speotor on the Mascotte, who is a relic
hunter, on his last trip to Havana, Sc
cured "a memento of the battle of Sanu-
7". a dagger, picked up on the field. IL
o' japanese make. The handle is inlaid
".a pearls and the hit is heavily worked
T'1 pure gold while the peculiar shaped
'''1e Is made Of the very finest steel
Nno Cooper, an old darkey, who con-
u0e's a barber shop at West Palm Beach,
T.s' during the war. the body servant cf
Y'1Ison Davis. Cooper was with Mr.. Da-
NAen he was captured and was always
,4.Noled attendant. He was a great ad-
Oh Miss Winnie Davis whom he
1'd when she was a child. When Coop
a child. 10 ~
'is D. E. Murphy died at ocala Tues
after an Illness of four weeks of ty-
Eo,, l iever. She came to Ocala from her
isnsA, III Louisville. Ga, to wait on her
-in-law, Mrs. j. L. Barainer, who
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21

Their marriage was an ideal one, and
Burke often declared that for him al the
cares of life vanished directly he stepped
over. his own threshold.
Lord Beaconsfeld married for money, but
though his wife was Is years older than
himself. the union, which lasted 80 years,
was a very happy ono. She was his con-
fidant. adviser and hepmeet and the
hours he spent with her in retirement We're
the happiest of his life. Probably the
greatest joy h. ever had was when he was
able TO decorate her with pcerage. In
the dedication to her of "Sybir' he af-
fectonately and gratefully describes her
as the most severe of critics, but a per-
feet wife"
The wife of the well known geocogist,
Dean Buckland, was not only an admira-
bic housewife and mother, but first-rate
help to him i'm his scientific work. Writing
of her, her son says: MY mother sat up
night after night for weeks and months
consecutiveiy. writing to my fathers dc
tation, and this often till the suns rays,
shining through the shutters al early morn
warned the husband to cease from think
ing and the wife 10 rest her weary hand.
Not only with her pen did she render ma
terial assistance. but her natural talent in
the use of her pencil enabled her to give
accurate illustrations and finished draw
ings. She was also particularly clever and
neat in mending broken fossils"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21
SHORT WORDS THE BEST.
illustrations of the Power of the
MonOsXIlnbIcs In Writing.
From the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion
Commenting on the success of a recent
author a writer attributes it in large
measure to the authors love for mono
syllables that they give to his style. The
critic says truly chat the authors success
is not the first instance of force and in
fiuence attained by she mastery of small
words.
Shakespeare knew well that long word
was 10 be rejected If shorter could be
made 20 serve, although the exact ex-
preston of his very clear meaning was
that he always sought. and he could use
a long word on occasion.
A fine effect was produced by Young a
comparatively modern writer In the pass
age:
The bell strikes one. We take no note of
time
But from its loss.
Still more striking as sustained ex-
ample of chiefly monosyliabic writing Is
the work of an author still living, Philip
James Bailey in "Testus:'
We lived in deed, into years and thoughts,
not breaths;
In feelings into figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels the mob, ST acts
the best
Lies but a means unto an end that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God.
As we approach solemnity of thought
and feeling all means OF expression but
simple words fly away from us This is
perhaps the reason why Watts, the great
est of hymn writers, writes so often IN
words of one syllable. Few lines could
be more expressive than the following:
Are there no foes for me to face?
Must / not stem the flood?
Is this vile world a friend to grace
To help me on to God?
When the translators Of the Bible wrote
their ep!stle dedicatory of their work to
King James, they used words of learned
length and laundering sound" but in
trans,ating the scriptures, they wrote such
passages as these:
And God said, let there be light; and
there was light And God saw the light
That 1t was good"
Lest l come and smite the earth with
curse"
And the gates of It shall not be shut al
all by day; for there shall be no night
therer
Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid
the foundation of the earth and the heav-
ems are the work Of Thy hands. They
shall perish. but Thou remainest; and they
all shall wax Old as doth a garment; and
as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up and
they shah be changed, but Thou Grt the
same and Thy years shall not fail"
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people will have to learn and fully APP
preciate the fact that the justice meted
out to them Is no easy mistress TO serve
under.
The transition stage whilst this lesson
is being inculcated Will in all human prob
ability be productive of many elements
of discomfort, and the United States au-
thorities must expect to encounter some
unpleasant difficulties when dealing with
these sources of mischief. In time the ef-
feet of just administration win solve the
problem, but during the process of solution
the Americans must not forget that they
are dealing with foreign race, alien alike
in language, religion, and sentiment to the
dominant features of their own great re-
public, and they will do well sometimes to
call to mind the old Italian proverb of
He who goes slowly goes far"
The population of Porto Rico is of so
mixed a character as TO make it difficult
to classify. OF the 100000 inhabitants of the
island, fully one-third are negroes, an
other third are mulattoes the remainder
in many cases show marked traces of a
mixture of African blood In their veins.
Indeed, TO draw a hard-and-fast line where
the pure white families end and those with
a trace of the negro begin is almost i'm
possible.
The number of foreigners in the island
is very limited. OF British subjects the to-
tai is stated not to exceed 600 including
many negro immigrants from Jamaica
and other West Indian colonies. France
is more strongly represented, some 1000
persons claiming French citizenship, Ponce
being their principal center In most of the
chief towns Frenchmen are established in
both wholesale and retail business, more
especially in the latter branch of trade.
The German colony, although not very
numerous, has important interests both in
financial matters and in the import and ex-
port trade of the island.
The number of American resident in Por-
to Rico before the war was very small,
but here, as in Cuba, many of the natives
have taken out naturalization papers in
the United States for the purpose of claim
ing protection, whenever they got into
trouble. This abuse of the naturalization
laws of The United States was not, how
ever. carried on to the same extent by
the Porto Ricans as by the Cubans.
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PORTO RICAN SITUATION.
What an English Correspondent
Says of the Island and Its Inhabl-

tants.
Porto Riean Correspondence in London
Times.
There is no room for doubt that the
more educated portion of the population
who are possessors of real estate or
other property in Porto Rico appreciate
that the change of ownership of the ISL
and is to their material benefit. 1t
is also necessary to bear in mind that
the Porto Rican has always been
treated by the Spaniard as belonging to
an inferior caste, and the knowledge of
this fact has been most calling 20 the
inhabitants here. Moreover, such treat
ment has not been justified by circum-
stances a considerable number of the
more wealthy families of the island be-
ing fully equal in refinement culture,
and general intelligence TO the most
arstocratic representatives and officials
sent to this country from Madrid.
In so far as the Spaniards engaged in
commerce are concerned, / think they
regard the change of government with
eouanimity Spanish merchants in
these countries are generally keen bust
ness men who do not allow their pa
triotsm to interfere with their pockets.
and they quite realize that in the pres
ent instance their interests and rights
will be fully protected. An increase in
the volume of business to be transacted
will go far toward paliating any harsh
feelings that may exist to-day as the
result of recent occurrences, and the Uni
ted States government need have small
reason to fear that the Spaniards who re-
main in the island will prove other than
law-abiding and Industrious citizens.
As regards foreign residents generally,
there can be no question that they will
he better off under United States than
under Spanish rule. They will enjoy sound
er security for life and property than has
hitherto been the case: they will have
legal remedy in disputes connected with
commercial transactions or other matters
where they are unjustly treated-a remedy
which the intrlcacies of the Spanish courts
have debarred the great majority of in
iured persons from appealing to In the
past.
But with the mass of the native inhabi-
tants other considerations crop up. and
trouble may occur in consequence. Amongst
the 100000 people comprising the lower
class of the populatio of Porto Rico the
code of morality is of a very low order.
Respect for faw and order has never been
rlgidIy enforced by the Spanish authorities
and this lenency has resulted in license
as to all moral obligations becoming al
most an ingrained part of the native char
acter.
From the observations I have made In
the island | am inclined TO think that the
country people are averse to steady work
and have small respect for individual life
or property All this will have to suffer
alteration under the new regime. The ru-
raj population will have to work to live,
and the amount of the contributions they
viii be called upon 10 pay In the shape
IF taxation will assured,y be heavier than
hitherto. Crime of all kinds win meet with
speedy and severe punishment, and the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21

for the better In the English market Pri-
waite advices indicated that reports We're in
circulation abroad claiming killing frosts
IN Northern Texas. Oklahoma and Indian
territory and lighter frosts IN Northern
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia; chat
cold rains We're prevailing IN the South
west and Mississippi valley Much the
same reports We're In circulation here. The
effect of the frost news was seen lu a
firm active market at the opening with
prices showing an advance of gas points
on the first can. Subsequently there was
partial reaction under liquidation but
still later rally on further reports from
the cotton belt, including the Official
weather bulletin which was calculated 20
confirm the earlier advice of the day.
Suo later traders attached importance
TO the fact that cod weather In yellow ft-
yer districts would put an end 10 appIe-
Eensions from that source The market
was finally steady with prices one point
higher to one point net lower having
broken sharply at the last moment under
a withdrawal Of buyers ana heavy realiz-
ing
New York Oct 20, noon.-Cotton fu-
lures opened quiet and firm. November,
SIZE; December, 52Sc January b.32c; Feb
ruary 5.37ci March 5,42c; April, 5l7e
May 55Oc; June, 5.5ic; july 5.5sc. August,
563c.
p. motion futures closed steady
October, 8 zoe; November, 5.2lc December,
5.26c; January, 5.slc; February. 6.Sdc
March, 5.39c April. 5.iSe; MAY, sac; June,
5.51e; July, 5.5ie; August, 5.5Sc.
New orleans. oct. 20.-Cotton futures
steady; October, 4S7c bid November
AS9d490c December 49iGA95c: January
49&a4,99c February. 50S05.0ic; March,
l09Q510c April. 5,i4a5l5c; May, 5.l9a
52Oc; June, 5.2iQ5, 25c; July, 5.2Sd529c.
New York, Oct 20.--Hubbard Bros &
Co say of cotton Fears of frost We're
revived this morning and the market re-
sponded quickly TO buying orders not only
local but from New Orleans. kilograms
from that point say that the recent storms
leaves the plant specially vulnerable e
frost and the trade there appears appre-
hensye of It's result, Here, while there !.
a disposition to caution, traders are as
yet indisposed 10 believe that frost il
probably or that it would do much dam
age, and some kilograms from Texas as.
scrt the latter opinion"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21
CARMEN IN REAL LIFE.
a Young Man stabs q Death Span
ish singer Just as in the Opera.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Brussels Oct lS-"Carmen," the beau
tiful little dramatic tale by Merimee, so
ingeniously treated by Bizet in music,
was enacted here, almost to the letter,
in real life at l o'clock this morning.
A young man named Ferdinand b,
employed in a life insurance company
office, had neglected his business and
friends during some weeks, being despe
rately in love with asyoung Spanish sin
ger. Carmen de Salvados, of Sevilla, who
was engaged at the Olympic Bourse Music
Hall He prepared to marry Carmen but
she made him unhappy by her tickleness.
This morning, just after midnight, she
went TO a cafe with an actor. and after
playing cards, just as in Bizets opera,
left with the favored lover.
Then wild with Jealousy, Ferdinand
b, who was in ambush. rushed al her,
and after a short struggle stabbed her
three times in the breast. Carmen fell on
the pavement murmuring the same words
as Carmen in fiction, Coward" She died
within a few minutes. Ferdinand B.
was arrested.
Every one is struck with the wonderful
similarity between this real drama and
the fiction. Ferdinand BIS counsel win
probably plead that literature and music
greatly influenced the murderer in COM
hitting the crime and that, having 10 do
with a Carmen so like the Carmen of
fiction Ferdinand B. was impelled by
musical "reminiscences and his own un-
happiness to the same denouement as that
of the book and the opera.
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FINANCIAL.
Money-Markel steady.

Money-Market steady
Foreign Exchange-The market is
steady. The following are the savan-
nah quotations: Commercial, demand
"a. s25s; sixty days. A.797s; ninety days.
"a 1884,: francs, Paris and Havre sixty
DAYS. SCI; Swiss, sixty days, 5.2giI
marks, sixty days, 1874.
Domestic Exchange-Steady: banks are
buving at 3-l6 per cent. discount, and eeII
ing as follows. Amounts up to $25, 10 oenta.
s25 TO $50. Is cents; $50 to 800, % cents. sooo
or over at par 81 900 and over az 1-gs
per cent. discount.
seourities-A fair investment deman.
hut light offerings. Very little doing
stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-fieor-
ola az per cent bonds OF 1890, lO7 bid IosiL
asked: Georgia Sia per cent, due 1eis 9oE
b,d 1o6 asked; Georgia "a per cent bonds
to,s 1884, bid 10 asked; Georgia 4 -
nent due 1920, III bid. liz asked. soi'tL
Carolina AIS. III bid. 112 asked. N'"
Citv Bonds-Atlanta, AZ per cent 100,
,os bld. - asked; Augusta, AIS. Ie;s 'D ~.
hid 108 asked Augusta, per cent -,
IA no asked Augusta per cent III ~
liz asked; Columbus, per cent. los ia
161 asked: Macon per cent. 11s Ma -
asked: Macon AIS. 1926, 104 bid, 105 as,ad.
Savannah per cent. quarterly Jannar,,
e"unons. III bid, 1l1h asked: So,
nah per cent, quarterly November co.
mons. ii1M bid. III asked; Charleston. a.
81 bid, 9S asked.
Ratlroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida ara
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
a ner cent. interest coupons. 1lS bid. I'D
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
drst mortgage per cent. gold bonds dne
1924 1Os bid, 100 asked Central Railroad
and Banking Company, collateral S. 90
hd Of asked; Central of Georgia RaIi-
road first mortgage IS, 50-year gold bonds
inc bid III asked; Central OF Georgia RAN
,gav first consolidated mortgage S. ggih
hid. 90h asked; Central Of Georgia Rail-
wav first preferred incomes. 36h bid 37ik
asked; Central Of Georgia Railway second
nreferred incomes, 10l1 bid liz asked.
Central OF Georgia Railway third
nreferred incomes. bid. asked.
Georgia Railroad IS, 1870 115 bid. III asked.
Charlotte, Columbia and August first 81,
los bid, LOG asked; Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is, III bid, Iis
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-21
MIR ASTOR WINS MS WAGER.
He Seats Twenty-SeVen Guests
Around II Section of Redwood

From the New York Sun.
London, Oct 17.-rIn the course of
conversation last spring Mr. William
Waldorf Aston spoke of the immense size
of the redwood trees of California.
Some of Mr. Astors guests were lit
tie incredulous, and he ultimately made
wager of $500 with Gen. owen Williams
that he could get trunk of one of these
trees around which twenty-seven persons
could sit to dinner.
Mr.. Aston won the wager on last Thurs
day. How the monster section of the tree
was conveyed to England and deposited
at Cliveden Mr.. Astor'E residence, Will
be well remembered.
A month ago a firm of upholsterers An
Aylesbury began trimming and polishing
the log which lies in a glade in the part
of Mr. Astor's park called the Half Moon.
The work was satisfactorily finished the
log taking a beautiful polish.
A large marquee was erected over the
glade and the ground was strewn with
bracken Miss Aston superintendent the
decorating of the table with wild flowers
and ferns The dinner was served al
$50 O'Clock.
The guests, most of whom had been at
Cliveden for the week were mustered in
the great hall and marched to the mar
quee The route was festooned with Chi
nese lanterns,
Among the twenty-seven diners were
the Duchess of Abercorn, Lady Randolph
Churchill, the Marquis of Hamilton, the
Earl of Desart, Lord Athlumney, Lord
Castletown, Lord George Hamilton and
Sir Watkin Wynn p
The menu was hand-painted. 1t repre-
scented a redwood tree of full growth, and
the viands were listed on the trunk. The
hot savn 1aA
gether the dinner was great success.
The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke
of Teck were invited, but were prevented
from attending. N&
The food was prepared in a neghboring
tent, which, with the kitchen apparatus,
had to be shifted during the evening be-
cause a breeze drove the odors of the
cooking into the marquee.
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CHIcAGo's COsTLIEsT car.
His Owner Pays 81 Cents to 30 Cents
Day for His Turkey.


From the Chicago Tribune.
Tom Majors claims distinction as the
Oldest wisest. best-fed and wlthal sleek
est cat in this town. He is, in fact, the
king of cats.
He is about TO celebrate his nineteenth
birthday, has cost the man who owns
him, and in whose honor he was named,
more than 5000, and constantly gives
evidence of greater wisdom than many
people possess. He is up to date on ev-
erything an aristocratic cat should know
and only once in great while eats any
thing but roast turkey.
Toms career has been confined chiefly
to high living and repeated combats with
strange dogs. When four days old Mrs.
Katherine Riley placed him in the care
and keeping of Thomas Majors who was
then training to make the race for alder
man, made it, was showed under, and re-
tired from politics. The orphan kitten
became his consolation and companion.
The kitten soon grew into cathood, and
became passionately fond of cooked tur-
key meat, with liver fried in butter on
the side. Then it was christened and NOV
ed into luxurious quarters.
For nearly nineteen years Mr.. Majors
during that time the amount expended
upon the animal aggregates. In round
numbers, $20J0. For the past six years
1t required an outlay of % cents a day
TO give Tom all the turkey ne wanted.
AS he grew older his appetite increased
until the daily expenditure reached 40
cents, and sometimes so cents.
Every evening the owner goes 70 a
neighboring restaurant and purchases the
next days supply, and places It In an
icebox to keep from spelling. Tom refuses
TO eat anything tainted. He Is particular
in his tastes ana habits.
No stranger. cat or dog, can appear on
the premises without trouble following,
and Toms record is one of victories. He
has been in many fights, and never was
defeated. He prides himself on fine
growth of whiskers,
There may be finer booded and proud
or cats" says Mr.. Majors. but they are
not to be found in the black and white
tribe"
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SPIRITS BOOM STILL ON.
THE PRIcEADVANCED TO ~ CENTS
4 GALLON.

strong Demand for the offerings
at the Market Price-ROsin In
Good Request nj Advances on Sew
eraI GrRdes-COttOR Quiet and TN
chaRRed-Othcr Markets steady.
Savannah, Oct. 2O-The steady upward
trend Of spirits turpendne continued to
day and another one-half cent was added
to the price. AT the closing of the mar
ket the price was 30 cents with good
request for the offerings. The rosin mar
ket was also firm and prices in several
graoc' were advanced. The cotton mar
net remained quiet and unchanged. Other
markets were steady ana generally un-
changed The following resume of the diff
ferent markets viii show the tone and
the quotations at the close to-day:
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NAYAL sTnnEs.

Spirits Turpenune-The price continued
10 rise to-day and at the closing OF the
market was at % cents. There was a
good demand at the advance and offerings
were freely taken. At the first call at
The Board of Trade the market was bull
lctined firm at SlI9 cents, with sales of 2is
casks. At the last call the market closed
z firm, at % cents. with sales OF 200 casks.
Rosln-The market was strong and the
offerings were IN good demand. Prices.
TOO, we're at the advance and at private
sales some OF the grades were sold above
the quotations, At the first call ut the
Board OF Trade the market was bulletined
firm. with sales OF LILO barrels. az the
quotations published below. At the close
there was no change, but no sales re-
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DRY Goons.

New York. Oct 20-There was a fair
sprnking OF buyers In the city and good
average mail orders are received from
time to time The market, locally showed
no decline in cotton goods there was con
siderable frmness. Tho silk goods mar
ket was at q standstill on account OF auc-
ton sale of silks to-day. The sale was
well attended by buyers from nearly all
sections of the country
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HELPED THEIR HUSBANDS.
wives of Famous Men who Were
Factors In Their Success.
FROM the Kansas Clly journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Charles Darwin was so weak in health
that but for the wife and children who
saved him from trouble and gave him the
leisure of peaceful home. he would prob
ably never have made his great discover
les.
Edmund Burkes political career was i'm
mensely aided by his wife, who undertook
the management Of hts private affairs, so
as to Seave him free for public duties.
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AT Chicago.-"And what Is the big wire
enclosure for?" That's to hold the st.
Louis girls We couldn't get the heroes to
promise TO come here untll il was built. 3"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Ehaflestoni 3 q, OCT. zJ-TuT@nUne
market firm at soc: sales none Rosiu
quiet. unchanged sales none.
Wilmington, N. c., Oct 2O--Spirits tur-
pendne, firm at 31hQ30Ac receipts, 49,
Rosln, firm at $780, $lC5; receipts. 3i9
Crude turpentine, firm at $1.15, $l7O, $1.70
receipts, 70, Tar, quiet at $l.1O; receipts,
S2l
New York. Oct 2O.-Turpentine, hrmer,
3ilk035c. Rosin, firm, $l2A
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Sea Island Cotton-The market remain
ed quiet and unchanged. There was a fair
demand for good round lots. The quota
tiOns We're as folloMa.