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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
One of the Unreconstructed.

1.-THE war with SPAIN" remarked the
handsome drummer from Philadelphia, ac-
cording to the Washington Star, may,
as our statesmen and oratores tell US, be
a blessing in that it has brought together
once more in fraternal union the two sec
tons of the country split wide open by
the civil war, but while their speeches are
all right in a general way, they are lack
ing in some of the particulars. For in
stance, two weeks ago / was passing along
a remote road in Mississippi. At the ford
of small stream I met man of about
80 years, who was quite as primitive
specimen as 1 ever saw in my life. I
asked him the way to the place I was aft
eT, and, as he was going the same way,
/ asked him to join me, and we enlivened
the journey by conversation. Naturally,
the first thing 1 spoke about after the pre-
liminaries was the war, and 1 said l didn't
suppose he had been in the fight.
" No, he said, but my daddy wuz.'
" How did 1t happen that he went in
and you didn't?' 1 asked.
:" 4 wuzn't born then, mister he an
swered, looking at me as If l ought to have
known better than to ask such question
"'Oh,' 1 FASTENED to explain when
caught on to what he was thinking about
I don't mean the last war between the
North and the South, but the one that has
been on this summer
d" 'Geewhillikins, he exclaimed, has Their
been another WARP
"'Of course there has, I said, laughing
at his surprise and his ignorance
Wen, I'll be derned, ne said, after
giving himself a moments thought; it do
seem like ez eff We never would git them
dang Yankees licked plumb right; don't
it?
Then it took me a minute to compre-
bend clearly what was in the mind of this
far-away, unreconstructed Southerner.
and when 1 did 1 never let on that he was
mistaken in his facts and conclusions, but
jollied him along for a mile down the road,
when he turned off into the woods and left
me to pursue my way alone, wondering
what there was in the world that we had
not yet heard of"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
BRIGHT BITS.

"A Comforting Thought-She-"'I hope
we will always be able to keep the wolf
from the door" He-"Wen, if he ever
comes to this fat he's pretty sure to find
the doorbells out of Order!'-Puck.
Susplcious.-Nephew Ito rich uncle,
who has fallen down stairs)-'I hope you
are not hurt" Uncle-"Oh, you do, do you?
You know very well that 1 must be either
hurt or dead.'-Cincinnau Enquirer.
Mrs. Short" Here's an invitation to
Mr.. Longs wedding. What on earth can
we send them?" Mr.. Short-'He lost a
ten-dollar umbrella of mine a year ago
I'll make him present of t."-Brooklyn
Life.
Mrs. Chugwater-"Josiah, see a good
deal in the paper about Internal machines.
What is an Internal machine?'' Mr.. Chug-
water-"Well sometimes 1 think it's a
lawnmower, and sometimes I think it's a
piano" -Chcago Tribune
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
THE NEXT HOUSE.

The Democrats are very hopeful of elect
ing a majority of the House of Represent
atives this fall And they have good rea-
son to be. One democratic paper of New
York estimates that the next House will
stand as follows: Democrats. 167; Repub-
leans, 129; fusion, 26, and doubtful, 80.
This estimate gives the Democrats ma
jority of So over the Republicans
There is no reliable data of course. on
which to reach a conclusion as 10 how
the next House will stand, but there are
signs which form a very good basis for
estimating the result of the congressional
elections. one Of these signs is the result
of the recent elections in Maine and Yer
mont In each of those states the result
was disappointing to the Republicans. The
Democrats polled as large vote as they
did in 1894, while the Republicans fell far
behind their vote of that year
The Republicans undertake to explain
their light vote by saying that they made
no effort to get out their voters That
would be a satisfactory explanation, pro-
vided the Democrats had made a careful
canvass for votes. But, as a matter of
fact, the Democrats were even less act
i've than the Republicans, mainly because
they had no hope of success. They knew
that the Republicans had a splendid or
| ganization, and they expected that the
war would help the Republican candi-
| dates
Great was the surprise of the RepublI-
can leaders in all parts of the country
| when the returns showed that the Repub>
leans had fallen very far behind Their
usual vote in both Vermont and Maine
! If the same falling off in the Republican
| vote should occur in the other states in
the November election, the Democrats
would have majority over the Repubi-
cans in the next House fully as large
as the estimate made by some of the
! Democratic leaders.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
SWIFT JUSTICE.

Toby Bowen and John Charlton, the two
negroes sentenced to be hung on Oct. %,
did not have to wait long after the com
mission of the crimes of which they were
convicted before knowing what their fate
would be. The promptness with which
justice was administered in the cases OF
these criminals is to be commended. If 1t
We're administered as promptly in all
cases there would be still greater cause
for commencing the courts.
What we have in mind is the slowness
with which justice moves in cases in which
white men are charged with murder.
Many times have we commented on the
fact that il seems almost impossible TO
have a prompt trial of a white man al
legged to be guilty of murder. The accused
is nearly always successful in getting con-
tinuances until the public loses interest
in his case, and the witnesses for the
state have disappeared or forgotten the
most vital part of their testimony.
We know, of course, that the Supreme
Court would grant a new trial if con-
tinuance were refused when good cause
for it was shown, but continuances are
very often granted when the court has
reason for suspectng that the allegations
made as the basis for a continuance are
not true. The courts ought to be given
more discretion in the matter of contin-
uances. That is one of the points in which
our criminal law is weak. 1t opens the
way for Determinations. The white Grim
inal, who has money and friends, is able
to get his trial delayed, and, by means
of delays to avoid a severe punishment, or
to escape punishment altogether, while
the friendless negro Is given prompt triaI
and swift punishment.
The negro of course gets only what he
deserves, but a very large portion of the
people do not understand why it is that a
negro is railroaded to the gallows while
the white murderer is given a dozen
chances to escape the consequences of his
crime. The effect of such apparent dis
elimination tends to strengthen the race
feeling and to nullify, in a great measure,
the good that is done by a swift admins
tration of justice.
The law should be amended without I'M
necessary delay, so that judges could re-
fuse to grant continuances when satisfied
they were asked for simply to secure de-
lay. If the next legislature should amend
the law as suggested 1t would do much
towards checking crimes of violence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
PER SONAL.

1t is said Of John Hay, our ambassador
to Great Britain, who is soon to become
Secretary of State, that he secretly wishes
he had never written Jim Bludsoe" or
Little Breeches," and would rather be
known as the private secretary of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Emile Arton of Panama notoriety
seems to be undergoing an ameliorated
form of punishment for his misdeeds He
was sentenced TO serve his term in the
Central prison at Melum. He is, never
theless, comfortably domiciled in the hos
pital of ST. Louis, Paris, where he has a
special chamber and a garden, and where
he smokes the best cigars
Charles Killing, a pie manufacturer of
Jersey City, was so much impressed by
the courteous treatment he received dur
ing a visit to the warships in New York
harbor that he decided to send some pies
to the sailor boys. He shipped $500 pies
to the fleet, made out of apple, peach,
lemon, huckleberry, mince, pineapple and
plum, and later shipped another consign-
ment of like number and quality.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
THE WAR DEPARTMENT INVESTI-
CATION.

The President is having difficulty in
getting a commission to investigate the
war department. There are various rea-
sons why men who have figured in pub
lie life prominently do not care TO act as
investigators They think that it is very
doubtful if it will be possible to make such
an Investigation as will satisfy the coun-
try. If the bottom facts are not reached
the commission win be severely criticized.
1t is already stated, for instance, that
army officers are expressing the opinion
that the investigation will not give salts
faction for the reason that officers win
not antagonize the war department by vol
unfairly testifying against it, They can
not afford to do so. The commission will
have no authority to compel witness to
attend its sessions and testify. Whatever
testimony 1t gets must be of a voluntary
character. If an army officer should vol
uuteer testimony the chances are that he
would find himself out of touch with the
war department if his testimony should
be of a character to bring the department
into disrepute. Besides, one army officer
would hesitate to give testimony that
would show the incompetency of another
officer, unless he were compelled to do So
An investigation has been called for,
however, and the President is determined
that there shall be one. He is willing
to yield to the popular demand. But if
the commission fails to get the kind of
testimony the public wants, and which it
believes exists, there will be a demand
for congressional investigation. Indeed,
it is not improbable that there will be
an investigation by Congress whatever the
finding of the Presidents commission may
be. There are both Republicans and Dem
ocrats in Congress who will see a chance
TO make political capital out of an inves-
tigation. All the Republicans in Congress
are not friends of the President by any
means.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
Proctor knott,s Rabbtt story.

Ex-Gov. Proctor Knott and a distin-
guished professional gentleman of Danvilse
were discussing the claims of Sampson and
Schley to the credit of smashing CerVera
at Santiago, says a Lebanon, KY, dis
patch to the Louisville Times. The profess
the honor of that memorable conflict be-
longed to Admiral Sampson, and was In
clined to ignore entirely Commodore
Schleys part in the affair. The governor
listened until his companion had finished
and then, with that characteristic twinkle
in his eye, said:
MY dear sir, it is exceedingly gratifying
to me to hear you take the position you
have in this matter 1t Is like a balm to
my conscience and settles a point that has
worried me many a day.
II was walking through the woods with
a boy friend of mine when We saw a rab-
bit run into a sinkhole. We stood around
the hole a while; then 1 told the boy to
keep watch while 1 went to get some fire
to smoke the rabbit out. When I returned
the boy had the rabbit. 1 promptly took
it away from him, claiming that 1t be-
longed to me, because 1 had told him to
catch him if he came out.
THAT was over fifty years ago, and you
are the first man who has ever agreed with
me that the rabbit was mine. 1 feel now
that l was right in taking it and my con-
science is at rest
The gentlemen looked solemn for a few
moments, then smiled feeble smile, and
changed the subject
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

An Italian count is suing the estate of
a rich Boston woman for a considerable
sum of money said to be due him las
consideration for marrying the daughter
of the deceased" 1t is quite well known
that most of those foreign mobiles and
grandees marry American girls for
consideration" but 10 have one of them
go into court and swear that he was
to receive a price for marrying the girl
strikes even Boston as scandalous. In
Europe it is way they have of doing,
but in this country the idea of buying
and selling husbands and wives is decid-
eddy repugnant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

A small Scotch boy was summoned to
give evidence against his father, who was
accused of making disturbances in the
streets, says Tit-Bits. Said the bailie to
him:
Come my wee man, speak the truth,
an let us hear all We ken about this
affair."
"Weel sir" said the lad. "d'ye ken In
verness street,"
Il do, laddie," replied the magistrate.
"Weel We gang along it and turn into
the square, and cross the square"
Yes, yes" said the bailie, encourag-
ingly.
And when We gang across the square
we turn to the right, and up the High
street, and keep up High street till ye
come to a pump
quite right, my lad; proceed" said the
magistrate. 81 know the old pump WE'LL
'Weel," said the boy, with the most in
fantile simplicity I'VE may gang and
pump it; for yen no pump me"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
His blood.
From the New York Sun

From the New York Sun.
Col. Roosevelt is by descent French,
Scot, Dutch and Irish.-Current Newspa-
per Information.
ices Tayodore, re "Ridaire Rude
Who led re charge at Caney,
Possess q coorazh vera good,
Mon Dieu! He's Won of many!
Ze papaires talk re man upon
And praise hees hero-eesm;
ley like ices new Napoleon,
Nor ees eet strange he please zem,
Pourquoi? He ees a Frenchman!
I ken nae mon sea flu o. fire
An weel renoon deservin'
AS he that fought mid reek an mire,
WI nae retreat nae swerVin'
When Spanish shell an Spanish gun
Resmeared the groun sac redlie;
But his was nae the race to shun
Tho sword an shot be deadlie,
For, trulie, he's ae Scotchmau!
1t vas not queer dis Roosevelt
Vas sooch a prave commander;
1 dells you 1 minesef hat fell
AS pold as Alexander;
1t vas der ploot, mine frients, der ploot,
Dot images der vearless soldier;
An dere vas none Won ha'f so goot-
Remember Vot l toldt you
AS his Vor hes Won Dutchman!
Av coorse our Teddy's bould and brave,
How ilse could he be other?
No foiner lad, OF well behave,
Fer woman had for mother.
Av coorse he drubbed thin Spanyards
hard
Down there at Santiago;
He's not the spalpeen TO be scared
Az any div'lish Dago,
Because, begob, he's Oirish!
Vraimentl ices Tayodore ees grand!
Parceque he ees a Frenchman;
But dinna reck ae Scot is bond
To serve as any's henchman
Dere vas no nation on der earth
So bold as vas der Deutscher;
An livery mon av amy worth
Is Oirish in the future
As Teddy is this prisent!
w. d. Fox.
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Landrum Lodge No. as F. and
"A. M; Savannah Tribe No 4, l. O. r. NJ
Special Notices-Old Established Bust
ness for Sale, Henry suffer; The Best Sub
stitute. A. NJ. & c. w. West
Military Orders-Order No. 20, Georgia
Hussars.
Business Enthusiastically Crackers
and Cakes, Henry Solomon & Son, Dis
tributing Agents.
Extraordinary Reduction in the Price of
welsbach Burners-Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Announcement of Our Grand Fall Open
ing-W. E. Wimpy.
No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows
--Byck Bros.
Closed To-morrow-Leopold Adler.
Holiday, Our Store Win Be Closed-B.
II. Levy & Bro.
Auction Sale-sails, Rigging Anchors,
Chains, Etc, by 1. D. LaRoche, Auction
Ger.
Steamship schedule-Ocean Steamship
Company.
Medical-Woman's Friend; Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable Pills; Hoods Pills; Cas-
toria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

The Grand Turk refuses to withdraw
Edhem Pasha and his troops from Crete;
the admirals of the international fleet at
Canea say that if The Turks are not out
ana away within the time named in their
ultimatum they viii make 1t warm for
them In view of that state of affairs,
there ought TO be come warm news TO
come over the wires within the next day
or two. The Sick Man of the East. il may
be remarked, has got quite saucy since
he took that fall out of the little Greek
some months back 1t would amuse the
world to see him attempt to repeat the
performance with the Powers that are
represented at Canea.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

The dictionary makers may have to re-
wise their definition of the word "imme-
date" Websters says it means mot de-
ferred by an interval of time; present; in
stant." The Standard says it means FOL
lowing without the lapse of appreciate
time; done or occurring at once; instant"
The peace protocol says there must be
an immediate" evacuation of Cuba and
Porto Rico by the Spanish troops. That
We mean to live up 10 the terms of the
protocol, and to make Spain do likewise
there can be no doubt. Yet the "imme-
date" evacuation has not yea taken
place.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
A Pointed Rebuke.
Springfield, Mase), Republican Qnd.)

A letter from Atlanta, Ga, TO the New
York Evening Post says that the South
still fails to draw desired immigration from
Europe. but it is gaining some from the
Northwest. Since 1898 it is said that A.
Geo persons have settled in Georgia from
the central western sta ties, and the Illinois
Central Railroad, through its COLOMBIA ton
schemes, has settled a still larger number
of western farmers on lands in Mississippi
and Louisiana But IL is rather surprising
to hear that the South wants immigrants
from any quarter. Judging from the call
for territorial expansion into the tropics,
which is made by such southern organs
as the Atlanta Constitution and the Co
lumbia Is. ca State, the South is already
so congested with population and capital
khat it must have relief or burst.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
The Woman Did 1t.

An English paper tells a story of a man
who was attacked by infammatory rheu-
matism and was carefully nursed by his
wife, who was very devoted to him IN
spite of his fault-fnding disposition. His
suffering caused her TO burst into tears
sometimes as she sat by his bedside.
one day a friend of the invalid came in
and asked him how he was getting on.
Badly, badlyn' he exclaimed, land it's
all my wfe's fault"
rs it possible?' asked the friend in sur
prise.
Yes. The doctor told me that damp
places were bad for me; and there that
woman sits and cries just to make the .ir
moist in the ROOM
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

The government is gradually extending
it's postal service in Porto Rico. The en-
barking point for mails for the island is
now New York There is no good reason
why it should continue to be New York,
if more conveniently situated ports Of
fered steamer facilities. Savannah would
be much better point from which %
embark Porto Rican mails. A regular
steamer line from this port, if started
promptly. could probably secure a valua-
bic mail contract.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

According TO a Portland CMe), dispatch
published in the Chicago Times-Herald,
the voters of Maine the other day re-
elected Seth L. Milliken to Congress, Civ
ing him a majority of 1888. The prob
abilities are, however, that Mr.. Milliken
will not be sworn in. The fact is that he
died some months ago. and at last ad-
vices he was still dead
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

Two Boston jokers the other night 'held
up J. B. Schoeffel of the fremont The
ater as he was driving along a suburban
road. They did it merely for fun, of
course Mr. Schoeffel entered into the
spirit of the joke splenddly. He knocked
one of the make-believe highwaymen
down and horse-whipped the other until
the blood came. Practical jokes are so
enjoyablel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

In primary class of the near future
Teacher-'Willie, bound Forsyth Place"
Wilie-"It is bounded on the north by
oyster shells, on the east by asphalt, on
the south by Augusta gravel part of the
way and vitrifed brick the balance, and
on the west by cobble-stones." What
does the lack of uniformity in paving
denote?' THAT the city does not APP
preciate a good thing when it has it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

The worst feature of Admiral Cervera's
home-going aside from the fact that ne
may be court martialed and shot is that
he viii hardly be able to continue to ex-
press appreciation and gratitude for his
treatment while IN this country. If he
were 10 say good things about the Ameri-
cans the spaniards would be sure to sus-
pect him of having sold out TO the enemy
az Santiago
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

Count Almenas might present an object
lesson illustrating just what he means
by saying some of the Spanish generals
ought to have their sashes around their
necks instead of around their waists, us
ing Weyler as lay figure.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

An Alabama beau the other day shot and
killed his sweetheart because she stepped
on his sore toe. The young fellow prob
Rbly would have stood the pain like
man, if the girl had merely trampled upon
his wounded and bleeding heart but when
she stepped on his sore toe it completely
unnamed him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

From the Philadelphia Record Dem.)

From the Philadelphia Record (Dem)
Mr.. Dingley appealed to the faithful in
Maine to remember "the gains by the
war" i'm voting on Monday last and the
result of The appeal, as reported in a spec
ial dispatch from Portland to The New
York Tribune, was "a net Republican
loss of II per cent" The Republican Con-
gressional Committee is right; the war is
not turning out to be a reliable shibbOleth,
and a better one will have to be found If
Congress is TO be saved"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

Mr.. John Addison Porter, President Nc
Kinley's secretary, is once more and for
the third time trying to reach the gov
ernorship of Connecticut. If Mr.. Porter
has a coat-of-arms. it must have been
from it that the Atlanta banker got the
motto which he quoted before the bank
ers' convention recently: Behold the
postage stamp. how it sticketh to one
thing til it gets there"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16
The American Pig.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer Dem

i
Germany, too, is beginning to learn
something of the proclivities of that much
discussed animal-the great American
hog. 1t is roofing It's nose around among
the German iron mills, and the workmen
declare that the American pig bar has no
equal in the production of fine steel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-16

The transport Mnnewasl1a, which re-
Gently sailed from the wharves of this
city deep laden with men and munitions
for Santiago, cleared from Charleston
a day or two ago on a trip TO Porto Rico.
The Minnewaska is a very large vessel
We extend congratulations to Charleston
upon this evidence of good work done on
her bar by the jetties.