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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
PER SONAL.

Rev. DR.. A. d. Mayo has returned to
Washington from his eighteenth annual
tour in the South in the interest of popu-
lar education. He has Travelled 5000
miles, visited the most important schools
in six states and given seventy-five lee
lures to teachers and students.
James Marcellus Hobson, a brother of
the Mefrimac hero, has by competitive ex-
animation won an appointment at West
Point. For four years past he has been
trying to secure appointment at the An
napolis Naval Academy, but could not
overcome the opposition of an unfriendly
congressman.
Herr Szczepanik, inventor of the telec-
troscope, has just completed some inven-
lions which are likely to revolutionize the
whole of the textile industry, affecting as
they do all its principal operations. BY
utilizing photography for weaving pur-
poses he can in a quarter of an hour ac-
complsh what il has taken the designer
months or years to complete, according to
the design. At the Paris exhibition he will
have an electric loom that will make silk
handkerchiefs with portrait of each pur-
chaser interviewer.
Says the Chattanooga Times: John H.
Estll. Jr., of Savannah" says the News
and Courier, of Charleston, S. c., has
been appointed second lieutenant in the
Third United States Regiment of Volun-
teers. If he makes half as good a sol
der as his father was about thirty years
ago, he will be an honor to his state and
to his name, and, incidentally, we may
add, to Charleston. His father is a ma
tice of this city, and that accounts partly
for the special interest which we feel in
his appointment" Young Estiu is the
son of Col ]. H. Estill, the proprietor of
the Savannah Morning News. a leading
Southern Democratic newspaper Col
Estill is well known here among newspa-
per and business men, is highly esteemed
for his excellent social qualities, and as
successful American citizen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

Maj. Gen. Merritt, grim old warrior of a
score OF fields, head of the Manila army.
military governor of the Philippines, has
met his first defeat, says the San Francisco
Call. He got il from a yellow lantern
jawed, slant-eyed Chinese armed with a
washrag and Il bucket of suds.
When the general entered the suite
which had been provided at the Palace he
found that important business awaited at
tention. He desired TO discuss affairs of
state. A Chinese servant was in the room,
washing windows. They did not particu-
larry need washing, hut the yellow fellow
vas there under orders, and he proposed
to finish the job. The general asked him
to take his suds and go.
Me no sabee," replied the saffron son
OF toll splashing more water on.
The general argued, but it was useless.
He scolded and harangued, but 10 no ef-
feet.
Affairs of state might wait, but the Chi,
nese was bent on cleaning the windows.
lie looked mildly at the general and dipped
anew into the suds. 'Me no sabee," was
all he said. The general being q student of
human nature as well as the art of war
suspected that the intruder was lying.
john" said he with great solemnity,
don't you know l could have you shot?''
You no shootee me-" replied John. Go
shoottee Spaniard. Me Mclean mans
1lend. Me allie same Stlars and Stlipes, -
and fresh dash of suds struck the pane.
The general was getting impatient. There
was no use in diplomacy. Ctr he yelled,
''Vamoose! Clear out! You sabe clear
out,' you heathen!"
me no sabe clear OUT" answered
John. Me sabe Mclean flag. Me sabe
washee window"
The military governor of the Philippines
was iii despair. Just then a chambermaid
passed the open door.
Say" said the general, come in and
induce this heather 10 get out"
The chambermaid came in, broom in
hand
See here, She remarked to John, "skir
or I'll break this broom over your cocoa
nut"
John picked up the bucket of suds and
started for the hallway. AS he reached the
door he winked at the general. ME nc
sabe much; me sabe war" he said and
went his wav.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
The snwdust Nan.

Harvey NJ. Barr, in Nashville Banner.
A simple sawdust man was he,
A clown with a scarlet vest,
With a story and song, and a merry laugh,
When never a thought for the sober half
OF life, you said, when he sang and sent
The long applause through the great
white tent;
Only sawdust man-ah, me!
Only a sawdust man was he.
Only a sawdust man. 1 know,
But a fathers heart beat warm;
And his checks were flushed with a deeper
red
When forth from the dressing room was
A beaa hful child with golden hair.
Who kissed her hand to the great throng
there,
The child of a sawdust man-ah, me!
But sawdust man can love, maybe.
Only a sawdust man stood by
And saw with throbbing heart
A slender form drawn high above
The human sea, but a fathers love
Must wear the mask of a merry air
But his eyes ne'er left the golden hair!
And his heart stood still when she
missed-ah, mel
But only sawdust man was he.
With tender hands they bore her out,
And gently laid her down;
So white was the brow meath the golden
hair,
But the sawdust man must stay out there:
For merry song must yet be sung,
Though the heart be crushed and the harm
unstrung
He was only a sawdust man-ah. mel
But sawdust man can love, maybe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
spain Wants Pence.

The Madrid dispatches say that all
classes of the people of Spain want peace
but that it is uncertain what stand the
army and navy would take If peace nego-
tiations should be begun What Spain APP
pears to need is a capable leader, having
the confidence of the people. She has able
men, and some of them are TO be found
among those who have charge of her af-
fairs, but there does not appear to be any
one whose lead the nation would follow.
1t is admitted by leading Spaniards, both
in and out of the cabinet, that Spain has
nothing to gain and much to lose by con-
tinuing the war. The most that can be
hoped for is a temporary success here and
there of a minor character. The United
States have an army and navy against
which Spain cannot hope to prevail, and
they have all the money they need for
carrying on the war. The longer the war
is continued the greater will be the in
demnity which Spain will have to pay.
Spanish statesmen know this, and yet not
one of them has the courage to come out
openly and demand that Steps in the di-
rection of peace shall be taken at once.
In some of the Madrid dispatches the
suggestion is thrown out that Spain would
be willing to give up Cuba and Porto Rico
provided she were permitted to retain the
Philippines 1t is doubtful now if peace
could be had on those terms. We have got
possession of the Philippines, practically,
and while we may not want to retain the
islands as a part of our territory, it is
doubtful if we would consent to let Spain
have them again. There would be great
opposition in this country to turning them
back to Spain. As for Cuba and Porto
Rico. it is a question of only a little time
when We shall compel Spain to remove her
yoke from them. Still, 1t is impossible to
say what the President would do if Spain
should offer to give up Cuba and Porto
Rico on condition that she be permitted
to retain the Philippines.
One thing that holds the Spanish gov
eminent back from making peace pro-
posals is its desire to infliet upon us seri-
Gus injury of some sort. If Spain could
gain one victory, either on land or sea,
the Spanish government would hasten,
| doubtless, to ask for terms of peace Just
now, however it doesn't look as if she
were going TO have that satisfaction. Spain
may kill some of our soldiers and cripple
some of our warships, but she will win
no victory. And the longer she delays
asking for terms of peace the more severe
the terms will be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
Brave Acts That Save Lives.

On jubilee day, which commemorated the
discovery of gold in California in 1S49, a
squad of Battery l of the regular army
was firing salute at Lime Point fort, near
San Francisco says the Youths Com
panion. One ioad-the charge was fifty
pounds of powder inclosed in a wooden
bag-did not go off, and the officer in
command ordered it to be pulled out of
the cannon.
The charge was withdrawn, and, as t
dropped to the ground, it was seen that
one corner of the wooden bag was on fire.
In an instant the powder would have
caught and the seven men with their off,
Ger would have been killed. Private John
M. Jones jumped toward the smolderiug
bag, rolled it in the mud, and, with his
bare hands, plastered the singed edges
with damp earth.
1t was a quick, brave deed, and had
the hero been a British soldier it would
have brought him a Victoria cross to wear
on his breast.
During the Scpoy war young captain
Of artillery saw an ignited shell fall near
his battery. Instantly he lifted it up,
carried it a distance, and flung it away.
Just then ii burst, shattering his left
forearm
In the Crimean war Capt. Peel of the
royal navy and son of the former prime
minister, Sir Robert Peel, commanded a
vessel before Sebastopol One day a large
shell, its fuse burning, fell into the bat
terry near where Peel was standing Pick
ing it up he carried it to the rampant
and tossed it over. 1t exploded before IL
reached the ground
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
BRIGHT BITS.

Double ttie-'What
would you do if a young man was to kiss
you against you wiu?" Helen-"Oh,
pshawl Such a thing would be impossi-
BILE. Chicago News.
TO Meet Requirements.-He- man
out West mas patented a new style of
whist counters" She-"What is the idea ,,
He-"They register the number of words
spoken by each player" Puck
Il really believe" said Mr. Meekton.
'that I would like to be a chef" His
wife dropped her knife and fork and
frowned. "Leonidas," she exclaimed, Sc
verely, II believe you have been reading
some of those silly paragraphs about the
way cooks browbeat the woman of the
house. Washington Star.
IF I were only a man." she said, Eve
could Possibly we could" he said,
but the chances are we wouldn't. If you
We're a man l wouldn't he here. I'd be
saying nice things to somebody who wasn't
a man. Sometimes it is worth while to
think of such facts as these.-Chicago
Evening Post.
A fool, barber and bald-headed man
were travelling together. Losing their
way. they were Obliged to sleep in the
open air; and, to avert danger, it was
agreed to watch by turns. The first lot
fell on the barber, who for amusement
shaved the poor fools head while he was
sleeping. He then woke him, and the fool
raising his hand TO scratch his head, ex-
claimed, Here's a pretty mistake; you
have awakened the bald-headed man in
stead of me."-Tdt- Bits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
Troublesome Questions.

Cuba is going 10 present some trouble
some questions for the United States TO
settle as soon as the Spaniards shall have
been driven out Of the island. Among
public men at Washington there is dis
position not to discuss them, because it Is
impossible to say at this time whether or
not they will become party issues IL looks
as if they would.
When we made a demand upon Spain
to remove her flag from Cuba we solemniy
declared that we had no intention of an
nexing the island. In making that declar-
alton we were 10 doubt sincere. But it
may come about that we will be compelled
to annex it to save Il from hopeless ruin.
After the Spanards shall have been
driven OUT the insurgents and their SYM
pathizers will insist upon controlling the
island As a rule, they are composed OF
the poorer classes of Cubans and negroes
Taey are bitterly hostile tc the Cuban and
American property owners, and yet from
these property owners, many of whom are
now residents in foreign countries, ought
to come the men to form a government
for Cuba, and to make and administer the
laws, because they and they alone, are
qualified 70 control the island.
But they will not be permitted to co
90. They are in the minority, and they
know that TIE insurgents will not be salts
fed until they have driven them from
Cuba. WHAT they will do is this: They
will insist upon the annexation of the ISL
and to the United States for two reasons.
- 1,9t ipf IF vie ~
there can be no strong, just and stable
government in Cuba if the insurgents are
permitted to have the control, and the
eecond is that if Cuba becomes an indie
pendent state her chief product, sugar,
will have to pay a duty 10 get into our
market which is her chief. in fact, her
only market. The cane sugar of Cuba
cannot find a market in Europe In compe-
tition with beet sugar.
If, therefore, we take sides with Gen.
Gomez and the insurgents-they are our
allies noW-we shall assist in bringing
about a state OF affairs in Cuba that will
quickly destroy the value of property
there and make the development of the
resources Of the island impossible. If
we side with the Cuban and American
property owners we shall have to turn our
arms against the insurgents, and if we
annex the island we shall lose the very
large revenue which We now get from the
tariff on sugar. Besides, we shall prac-
tically put stop 10 the rapidly increasing
sugar beet industry in this country be-
cause Cuba and Hawaii can produce about
all the sugar needed to supply our mar
ket.
ton it can be seen that our troubles with
Cuba will not be ended when we shall
have driven the Spaniards out of that ISL
and They win, practically, only have
begun.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
Gladstone FIoOred.

An anecdote of Gladstone at the time
of his greatest rivalry with Disraeli is
told in the Jewish World, credited TO the
Vienna Welt. At dinner party the SUBJ
Ject of Judaism cropped up. Admitted, -
said Gladstone, that the Hebrews have
given the world a philosopher in Spinoza.
musicians in Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.
a poet in Heine, the fact remains that thew
have not produced a single statesman. !"
There was silence for moment Every
one knew, of course, that this was a di-
rect allusion to Disrael Then one of the
company, stepped into the breach. "Mr.
Gladstone he said, "as a matter of fact
the Hebrews have produced a statesman.
and one of the greatest the world has
seem" The fighting instinct of Mr.. Glad
stone surged up at once. May ask, sir, ;"
he said, pontedly. who was this Hebrew
statesman Everyone, anticipating a
more than lively scene, waited in tense
expectation for the answer. II came in
the quietest tones: Moses, sir" Every
one smiled, and Mr.. Gladstone Joined in
the laugh.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
The situation at Santiago.

It is expected that there will be very
serious fighting within a day or two at
Santiago. 1t seems to be the understand
ing that it is Gen. Skaters purpose to
attack that place at once. According TO
the reports there are about 10000 troops
there. The defenses of the city, however,
are regarded as very strong. They con-
sist of earthworks and heavy guns of the
latest pattern. These defenses are supple
mented by the squadron of Admiral Ger
vera in the harbor. To what extent the
guns of the warships of that squadron
can be made available is not known. A
few days ago the opinion was expressed
that the hills around Santiago are so
high, and so close TO the harbor that the
guns of Admiral Cervera's squadron could
not be used to much purpose against our
army. Whether or not that opinion is
well founded time alone can determine.
It was not expected that Gen. Shafter
would attack Santiago until he had OBJ
tanned his large siege guns from the trans
ports. 1t was said that he could not land
them without lighter and that he had
no lighter, having lost at sea the one that
had been attached to the feet at Tampa.
If what the dispatches state is correct
however, he has determined to attack San
tiago without siege guns. The reason for
this course is alleged to be the efforts
which are being made by the Spaniards to
reinforce the Santiago garrison. These
reinforcements have been ordered from
stations in the eastern part of Cuba.
IL they could get into Santiago the Span
ish army there would greatly outnumber
Gen. Skaters army.
No doubt every precaution has been
taken to prevent the reinforcements from
reaching the Spaniards. The insurgents
are watching them and, doubtless, are
fully able to keep them back until Gen.
Shafter has taken Santiago.
There is another reason why the attack
upon Santiago is FASTENED. 1t is that a
storm is likely to arrive at any time and
scatter both the fleet of transports and the
squadron of Admiral Sampson. The scat
tering of our warships would give Admiral
Cervera chance to escape from Santiago
That would be a great misfortune for rs
because the principal reason for the cam
palgn against santiago Is 10 capture oI
destroy the squadron of Admiral Cervera.
If that squadron should get to sea again
our opera tons against either Cuba or
Porto Rico would be greatly retarded.
Any hour may bring news that the at
tack upon Santiago has begun. That it
will be successful we have no doubt but
the battle, owing to the strong fortifica-
tions of the Mace and Gen. Skaters want
of siege guns, may last two or three days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

There are no complaints of business de-
preston. In localities the retail trade
may not be wholly satisfactory, but the
business situation, taken as a whole: is
promising. While there is dullness in some
lines of trade there is great activity in
others, and the reports of the mercantile
agencies are to the effect that none of the
new business is due to the war.
One thing that is causing comment is
that the war is not checking business and
Industrial enterprises which have been
undertaken, or preventing others from be-
ing projected. The feeling appears to be
that the war is not going TO hurt this
country in any respect, and the hesitation
about engaging In new enterprises which
was apparent when the war began, has
disappeared
A few days ago it was stated that a
great plant for making steel was to be
established within a few miles of Bir-
mingham, Ala. This plant is to cost about
5000, 600 The men who are putting their
money into it feel confident that
the war is not going to interfere with our
business and industrial enterprises, and,
therefore, they are going right ahead with
the work of erecting their great steel
plant If they thought that the war
would be productive of business stagnation
they would put off their undertaking I'M
til after the war.
Those who have never lost faith in the
future of Birmingham, and have made in
vestments there in the belief that it
would one day be a very great manufac-
turing center, are going to get their re-
ward. The great steel plant will en-
courage the building of other factories at
Birmingham, and in the course of few
years there will be talk of Birmingham as
the Pittsburg of the South. Iron and
steel can be manufactured there proba-
bly, cheaper than elsewhere in the world,
and the products of the Birmingham fac
tories will find a market wherever there
is a demand for such products.
There is nothing to indicate that the war
Will arrest the countrys development or
cause depression in business. The coun-
try is great enough to carry on war
with Spain without feeling that the war
is a drain upon its resources.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
Judge Obliees a Criminal.

Obviously the thing when one is SEN
enced to twelve months imprisonment is
not to lose ones presence of mind. saws
the Sydney Herald. If you do il may cost
you month and five days extra incarca-
ratlon-a serious matter when time is Jail
A prisoner represented this to Judge Muir
ray at the sessions the other day. He
was sentenced to twelve months impris-
onment, and he appears to have accepted
the result like philosopher. his only COM
ment being to ask the judge to make il
one month more. His honor was staggered
by the request, but was quickly enlighten-
ed. II seems that In any sentence over
twelve months prisoner is entitled to a
remission of two months and five days for
good conduct, but with sentences of
twelve months and under there is no re-
bate 1t is the principle, l suppose. of TAX
ing large quantity at a time. His honor
az once saw the reasonableness Of the re-
quest, and save the extra month, as de-
sired,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

Why should there be so many juvenile
umns yesterday told of the arrest of five
young white boys, from ten to seven
teen years old, for criminal acts. Four
of them had broken into a drug store,
and one had been, taken going through
the clothes of bather at Warsaw. Only
a short while ago another ten-year old
boy was arrested for burglsrizing a
Broughton street store. One of the boys
arrested on Sunday is said to belong
to the Margaret street gang" And there
In may be contained a pointer indicating
why there are so many youthful criminals
"The gang" whether it be of Margaret
street or elsewhere, should be suppressed.
There are a dozen gangs" probably, in
various parts of the city. Young boys
gather in vacant lots, on corners and about
the streets after night, and smoke cigar
cites, tell obscene stories and hatch up
devilment. There can be no doubt that
these gatherings are schools for crime nd
dissipation Nevertheless there are some
parents who seem to pay no attention to
the Whereabouts of their young boys,
either day or night; just so the boys are
out of the way the parents seem satisfied.
They seem either not to think or not TO
care if the boys are in training for the
penitentiary or the gallows. If parents
wild not take proper steps 70 break up
these gangs" the police ought to do it,
and do it at once.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

Carl Schurz has written a letter to
leading Berlin journal in which he warns
those rabid German newspapers which are
abusing the United States in round terms
that they are doing their own country an
injury. There is no fault to be found
with the position of the German govern
ment, but there is fault to be found with
the malevolent antipathy which German
newspapers are expressing towards this
country; and the Communications will
be among the first TO resent it. There are
hundreds of thousands of Germans who
have made their homes in America. 1t
is their adopted country, they can appre-
ciate its advantages and institutions, and
they are proud of it. Now that the war
with Spain is on. they stand with their
new country; its friends are their friends
and its enemies are their enemies. Mr..
Schurz is himself a German-American
and evidently feels as he speaks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

The prospective removal of the Georgia
regiments TO the front at an early day will
bring the war right home to us. The lists
of wounded and dead are now scanned
with sincere sympathy for those in other
states who are called upon to mourn their
losses. Within short time we shall De
eagerly reading those lists which may, and
probably will, bring poignant grief into
our own community. However, this is
war, and war is hell" Those who re-
main behind must be brave as well as
those who go to TIE front.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28

After three or four years of canvass
ing, the attempt in North Carolina to
raise among the negroes of the South
$4,000 with which to build a cotton mill
10 be differed and manned entirely by
negroes, has practically failed and sub
scriptions are now being asked from white
capitalists. The probabilities are that
upon its new basis the scheme will so
through. Several cotton mill owners have
subscribed, in order that the value of ne
gro help in cotton mills may be tested.
The negro labor feature of the enterprise
IS to be retained.