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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
THE MORNING NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IT, $685.

An American inventor IS working upon
a MODEL electric fire engine which, ap-
parently, has much 60 commend it to the
attention Of city authorities a rotary
pump is mounted upon truck like that
Of a street carr Indeed, it gives a clearer
idea to say that the rotary pump is placed
in an. ordinary street car, and is geared
by friction or other means with the motor
or motors which propel the car. A lever
in The cars disconnects the motors from
the pump ana connects them with the
running gear of the car. Thus the car
runs under its own motive power to the
scene of the fire Arriving at the fire,
a reverse movement of the lever discon-
meets the motor from the car wheels and
attaches them to the rotary pump and
the apparatus is ready for throwing va
ter. The power in the model referred to
is to be derived through two trolleys con-
Meeting with two motors. 1t is said that
a powerful pump could be operated with
the motor used on the ordinary street car,
and that an ordinary car could be trans
formed into an efficient electrical fire en-
CINE at small outlay above the cost of a
rotary force pump.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

Maj Esterhazy would like TO lead his
regiment against the Jews of Paris. "
whom he would shoot as willingly
as If they were so many rabbits" Posi-
bly, Esterhazy has an idea that the whole
sale slaughter of citizens OF certain
class, or Of any class, would tend to keep
in the background certain facts which
would have most unpleasant consequences
if they were to become known. Would
not person who could shoot down Jews
with so little feeling be quite capable of
conspiring to send one of them to living
death on Devils Island?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

1t seems that the trading stamp, other
wise known as premium coupon or prem
ium ticket must go The Virginia Legis-
lature the other day, following the ex-
ample of the Massachusetts Legislature.
passed law prohibiting the use of such
devices. In Virginia the new law will go
into effect on July l. This extension of
time is made so as to allow persons hold
ing partly used books to complete them
and secure the prizes before the scheme
becomes outlawed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

A Washington theosophist has advanced
of Joseph Letters experiences at corner.
ing grain. 1t is claimed that young MIR
Letter is a reincarnation of Joseph. the
son of Jacob, and has the same bent OF
mind which made the other Joseph such
a favorite with Pharaoh. The theosophist
admits that the modern Joseph is not quite
up to the level of his former Incarnation,
but says he is a young man yet and has
hardly had time to develop. Having gone
so far, the specialist in occultism should
have told also who was the former incar-
nation of Phil Armour. Who was it on
the other side when Joseph was cornering
the corn of Egypt?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

Senator Tillman's position on the Ha-
waiian question is now clearly defined
He is opposed to annexation There was
a report current in Washington and South
Carolina recently to the effect that pres
sure was being brought to bear upon him
to induce him to vote for the treaty one
New York publication went so far as to
write him down as very likely to vote aye
1t is clear now, however, that whatever
pressure may have been exerted upon him
has fallen short 1t could he hoped that
the senator We're as level-headed upon all
matters as he is upon Hawaiian annex
alton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

The navy department has just placed
an order for large number of steel pro-
jectiles for the great guns of the battle
ships. II may be that these projectiles
win not be needed; but just about this
time we are In about the position of the
Texan who when asked why he carried
a pistol, said he did it to be on the safe
side; that while he might not need it
al all, still he might reed it at any time
and II he should, he would need it mighty
badly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

The counties of Hampton, Bamberg
Rarnwell and Aiken in South Carolina are
Directly interested in the proposed i'm
provement of the Savannah river between
this city and Augusta, since their freight
facilities would be extended and they
would have the benefit of competition. It
is to be hoped that the congressional rep
rosentatives of these counties will be re-
quested to use their influence in favor Of
the appropriation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas, the cold
water advocate, has got himself into hot
water. He was elected Governor of the
state upon the prohibition platform. The
other day he signed petition 20 permit a
druggist at Olanthe 60 sell whisky. The
prohibition people of the state want to
know something about this departure from
his principles; however when he tried to
explain the matter in an address recently
he was howled down.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

The United States Court of Appeals. sit
ting at st. Louis, has rendered decision
in which an Interesting legal definition of
an accident is given. The case was one
in which a woman sought to recover acct
dent insurance upon her husband who had
died from blood poisoning as the result
Of a sore toe caused by tight shoe. The
lower court had awarded the plaintiff the
amount of the policy, and the company
had appealed The decision of the lower
court was affirmed, and in his opinion Judge
Sanborn held that the hurt to the foot OF
the deceased was accidental. What is
not the result of design or prearrange-
ment," said the Judge, lis accidental. Nc
man Intentionally wears the skin off his
toes, and such injury must be considered
accidental
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
ADEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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Electric Light and Power Company; Solo
mons Lodge No. l, F. & A. M; Haupt
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Special Notices-House Furnishing
Goods, Hardware and Bicycles, R. D. &
VIM. baltimore; State and County Taxes,
1898; Complimentary Concert to Prof, Jo-
seph Steeg Tonight at Mehrten's Music
Hall.
Business Notices-E. & w. Laundry.
Amusements-stua Robson at the
Theater Saturday Matinee and Night
A Suit Looks Just as Well Under Our
Cut Price-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company: White Star Line; American
Line; Red Star Line; Baltimore Steamship
Company.
Gold Dust Washing Powder-N. K.
Fairbanks Company.
Medical cElree's Wine of Cardui;
Worlds Dispensary Preparations; Hoods
Sarsaparilla Cuticura Remedies; Ayers
sarsaparilla; Johann Hoff's Genuine Malt
Extract; Erie Medical Company; S. S. S.;
Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
A Tariff Failure.
From The New York World Dem.) }.

Whatever opinion one may hold of the
merits of the impending strike in the New
England cotton mills, there is only one
opinion possible as to the efficacy of a
scientific tariff schedule" in insuring
prosperity. The cotton schedule of the
Dingley tariff was guaranteed as a pro-
moter of prosperity and a protection
against strikes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

1t is 10 be hoped. now, that there will be
no more "monkeying" with the bronzes
ON the monuments in the squares
Brightness and glitter may be desirable for
cheap chromos and new coins, but in most
works of art the mellowing influence of
age is regarded as adding to their beauty
and value
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

1t seems that Col. Gamblers is the only
resignation on file up to this time. How
ever there is no need for especial hurry.
tons; one can resign at any time within
the next five weeks. and then so out
along with the Colonel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
MORO pingIe, Protection.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican Qnd

The Dingley law increased the protection
the news last week brought word of a re-
duction of wages in one Of the large Michi-
gan furniture factories and of the failure
Of New Hampshire concern-both on ac-
count of hard times" Thus The question
goes on growing upon the popular mind
Does protection any longer protect in this
country?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

According to Senator Marion Butler, the
''so-ealled Observation-Disclosures in Pop
ulist politics is zone in thousand" 9TH
erwise. that here are 999 Populists of the
Butler stamp where there is one of the
Tom Watson kind It may be doubted
that Senator Butler is correct in his esti-
mate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
An Unfortunate circumstance.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer dem.

There is not a flrst-class drydock on the
whole Atlantic coast of the United States.
Secretary of the Navy Long emphasizes
the great need of one. In the event of war
there is no good place on the eastern sea-
board where battleship could go for re-
pairs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

That Spontaneous uprising" does not
appear just now to be so large and lusty
as it was some time ago However one
cannot always sometimes tell" it may
be that the uprising is just resting to
catch it's second wind.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Trust for the Treaty.
From the Atlanta Journal Dem.

1t is we'll known in Washington that
the sugar trust is bringing to bear all the
influence it can command to aid the an
nexation movement and that every vote
it can control will be cast for The treaty.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

Lingering 'Stickenlooper gets
his moneys worth whenever he buys a
newspaper" in what way?' "He can
read any joke four times. before he sees the
point. Puck.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17
LOVELY FLOWERS.

Beautiful designs. bouquets. plants an o,
Abercorn street, at Nursery, or telephon,s
$40. KIESLING. Take Belt Line Kan
way for Nursery on White Bluff road
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

"A Parliamentary return showing the
| taxes and imports on intoxicating liquors,
and the traffic for the year ending March
| 81, 1885, would at first sight appear to in
| dicate an increase of the habit of drink
ing among the population with a decrease
| in the number of licenses, says the
British Medical Journal. According to
the analysis of the return, the number of
licensed brewers has fallen from 1879 in
1885, to S,3O5 in 1897, while the gross num-
Der of barrels of beer which paid excise
duty has gone up from, in the same pc
Rod 27,9S7, 405 to 34,203, Gao The total num-
Der of proof gallons of spirits (home and
foreign) has risen from 81, S87 in 1885 to
1925, 632 in 1897. Yet the whole number
of retail licenses has diminished from
1875 in 1882 to 1901 in 1897. Curious to
relate, the total gross receipts of revenue
from the liquor traffic here, though there
was a decrease in 1896 and 1887 mounted
up from $50 10, 161 in 1885 to f36, 662 142 in
1897 a rise of over IS, 600. The natural
conclusions is that more business is done
under each license probably from increas-
ed accommodation.
Appalling is not too strong an
epithet for the disclosures which Gen.
Losada, inspector general of the royal
forces in Cuba, makes in his official re-
port issued on tne AZln instant at Mad
rid, says the London Lancet. OF the 2OO-
600 soldiers sent by Spain to put down the
instruction in the island from the be-
ginning of February, 1885, to the begin
ming of December in the year Just termi-
mated, not more than $1,000 Ga little over
one-fourth) are at this moment fit for ac-
tive service. The $4,000 are either dead
or sent back to the motherland i'll or
wounded. The causes of this unprecedent-
ed death rate and sick list are (besides
casualties in action mainly three-d) the
clothing furnished to the European troops
was in no respect adapted to the climate
of Cuba; 81 fatigue; and go lack of food.
The report, which does not apparently err
on the score of reticence, paints a lurid
picture of military service in the chief
Spanish colony. Under successive gener-
ais the three years campaign, in spite
of numberless royalist victories" and as
many defeats" of the insurgents. leaves
Cuba as precarious a Spanish possession
as ever, while whole generation must
intervene before island and motherland
alike can recover from the loss of blood
property, and hard cash incurred.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-17

Registered at the postoace in Savannah.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22
How He Saved the Old B1ne.naer.

In Il. Z. Beard IL Co.'S safe thew
keep an old blue-back spelling book
which they use temporarily for put
ting away their checks, papers, etc.
coming in through the day. The other
morning the News man happened TO
he standing by when the bookkeeper
was adjusting the account for the
previous day, and had the book in his
hand. FIR. b. +. Beard remarked
that there was an incident connected
with that book which he would not
soon forget. Said he During the
war the guerrillas we're pretty thick
around here, and q man didn't know
when he or his property either we're
safe. One day a half dozen or more
Of these fellows walked into our store
intent on robbery. We then did busi-
ness in the old frame near Johnson's
corner. The leader Of the gang walked
in and ordered me to open the safe I
tried 90 eyade him by telling him that
] didn't have the key; that my brother
had II and that he was not in. This
seemed 90 make matters worse. so he
cooked his old carbine. and drew il up
and said, III you don't open that, safe
TIL blow your head off, Well, + con-
cluded that il was best to unlock.
which / "a they went into the safe
tumbling ent, papers and everything
on the hunk money. In the scrim-
mage the oldt ue-back spelling book
rolled ont o. the floor with $500 in
bills in il. le man didn't seem 10
notice it at ally md while I stood there
watching him 4 ,lfer whatever he could
find, he turned his head for something
and ] kicked the old blue-back under
the safe aud saved $500 They got
considerable money. but the old blue
back escaped. aud we intend to hold
on to it. "-Cloverport (Ky.) News.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22
WORDS OF WISDOM,

The business man who is going to
advertise next week is a twin brother
of the fellow who is always Just miss
ing fortune by the skin of his teeth.
When a girl comes home from
school, and is as nice and modest as n
girl who has not been away to school.
it is a sign that she has extra good
sense.
Personal consciousness is, perhaps,
higher aud more satisfying proof Of
life beyond the grave than any his
torical or logical proof that can be
offered
If some dealers worked as hard to
build up their own business as thew
do to tear down that of their competi-
tors, there wouldn't be so many fail
ures to record
That love which is based on the
mutual esteem of pure hearts, re-
fracting and rejecting the ray of good
qualities on each other, is alone pro-
ductive of earthly Joy.
If you want to accomplish anything
IA it should be done, You must 20
about it coolly, moderately, faithfully,
heartily. Hurrying, fretting, fumb-
ling, spluttering, will do no good.
If you mean to do something worthy
of being remembered, mind your work
well, but never mind your fame; leave
that 10 time. He is the lawful adj
ministrator of all such affairs.
There is great difference between
being in the world, aud having the
world in us. Let a ship be in the
water and it is all right, but let the
water be in the ship and down she
goes.
When the burdens of life rest heav-
lily upon us, when sometimes a weight
of despair seems to be settling down
upon our hearts, then we know the
value of sympathy, the need of help
ing hand.
Heroes of principle are the demand
of the hour-men who believe some
thing and who will not swerve from
what they believe, and who are not
time servers, weather cocks, tickle and
variable; these are the characters most
necessary to-day to the stability and
progress of society. The South
West.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22
At Washinrton,s Ennt

General Nathaniel Greene's dauoh-
ter always thought of her meeting
ing with General Washington as one
OF the events of her life. She SAYS:
'The eventful day came, and i was
taken by my mother to Mount Vernon
to make the longed-for visit. At
length the door opened and General
Washington entered the room. felt
my mothers critical eyes, and adj
vanced with the intention of making a
courtesy and disclaiming the little adj
dress previously taught me; instead
of which 1 dropped on my knees at
Washington feet and burst into tears.
All the resources of dramatic art could
hardly have devised more effective
coup. Washington stopped and ten
derby raised me, saying with smile,
Why, what Is the matter with this
foolish child?' The words do not
have tender sound, but language
may not convey The gentleuess of his
manner and the winning sofGiesrp 81
his voice, as he wiped away ny tears
with his own handkerchief, kissed my
forehead, aud led me to q seat as he
might young princess. He sat be-
slde me, aud with laughing tests
brought Inc do IN to the plane of my
appreciation, banished my sins from
my eyes, rescued me from humilia-
ton, and brought me back to cor
posure. He guarded me from
mothers outraged eyes, kept me WA
him while in the drawing-room, haA
me placed beside him at the dinner
table, and with his own hands heaped
all the good things on my plate. After
dinner be took me to walk in the gar
den, aud with an intelligent stopping
TO my intellectual stature, and sym
pathetic understanding of my emo
tiolal state and need, he drew me
into talks on the themes Of my
daily life, and won me into revelations
of my hopes and fears. '-Century
Magazine.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22

server will notice evidences of excite.
ment among the numerous large vul-
lures perched among the palms and
expresses near the tower. They utter
no cries, but move restlessly on the
branches and indicate plainly their
impotence to begin the feast prepared
for them.
The nassasalars having performed
their task, emerge from the tower,
closing the door with a sharp bang
The instant this sound is heard there
arises loud whir of wings aud q low
roar as of a fierce wind through a
dense forest. A cloud of vultures
darken the air and settle down upon
the tower. In from one to two hours
the bones of the dead man are picked
clean and the gorged birds fly lazily
back to their perches or roost upon
the parapet of the tower, with their
heads turned inward as If contemplat-
ing regretfully the remains of their re-
cent banquet.
The bearers, upon leaving the tow
er, retire to small Enclosure near by,
remove all their clothing, burn it aud
battle their bodies thoroughly. Not
an article they have touched or that
has touched the corpse during the
ceremony is permitted to leave the
garden, and they are supplied with
new garments for each funeral. As
these bearers are supposed to contract
impurity in the discharge of their
duty they are forced to live quite
apart from the rest of the Parsee COM
muulty and are therefora wall mold
The bones of the deceased are al
lowed to remain exposed in the recep-
tacle from two to four weeks. Then
the nassasalars, with gloved hands
and implements resembling tongs,
throw them into the central well,
where they ultimately crumble and
pass into the underground drains.
Thus" says the Pnrsee, "the rich
and the poor meet together on one
level of equality after DEATH
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22

said she was peculiar about money
matters, and found she only took a
very little-just market money and q
few bills-and didn't care, Charlie.
L charged it to new gloves every time
in the account, and"
Here Miss Abigail hastily pulled
an envelope from her pocket, ejacu-
lating:
''Merciful Heaven do believe
the child thinks 1 stole from herl
Read that, Charlie. L meant to give
it to her when left tonight"
Mr.. Van Essen, too bewildered to
ask questions, read slowly, aloud:
MY Dear Niece: Aunt Abigail has been
little worried over the loose way in
which you trust that butler and maid. /
know you won't believe II, but he-e Is
forty dollars have picked up around the
house and got in change at market To n
have put forty dollars more. With II
l want yon to buy something pretty and
keep 1t where you can always see it, as n
little reminder to be more careful OF your
small change. Lovingly
AUNT ABIGAIL"
"Oh, auntiei" cried Marguerite.
rushing to her. ''then You aren't a
kleptomanisc, after alll''
Before Miss Abigail could reply a
clerk entered hastily, and said to Mr..
Park:
Here is that lost diamond, sir. It
was caught On n pendant pin the la.
dies were looking at, and was put into
another tray where L just discovered
it,
The quartet in the room gazed at
each other moment, and then Mr..
Van Essen, who had been looking
as black as a thundercloud, burst out
laughing.
do You know" he ,cried, ''this is
the LIST of April, and if there is big
ger set OF fools, or at least worse
fooled set, in the city, I should like
to see theml Aunt Abigail. You and
Marguerite kiss and make up, and we
will all go home"
Yes" replied the forgiving aunt,
that's what we'll do, Marguerite.
There's no denying we are a pair of
April fools, but nobody can say we
amt honest ones. MEG. IS Monthly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-22
POPULAR SCIENCE.


DIR. Nicholas Bray. of Dubuoue.
Iowa, has invented a range-finder 70,
naval gunners. 1t will measure nc.
curateiy distances within ten miles,
and gunners can adjust their sights
accordingly.
The oil glands of the skin are most
numerous in races living under the
tropics, because the oil is natures
protection against the heat of the sun.
In hot countries its action is often as
sisted by the application of vegetable
or animal oils.
To the average eve not more than
five thousand stars are visible: some
persons having extraordinarily strong
eyes can see about eight thousand
stars; through the Lick telescope and
other powerful instruments about fifty
million stars are visible.
To distribute oil over the waves of
rough sea, for long distance ahead
of ship, proiectile is used which can
be filed with oil and placed in n
spring gun, which throws it to the de-
sired distance, n weighted valve open-
ing automatically to discharge the oil
as the proiectile sinks.
That birds build their nests bv imi-
tation has been called in question by
A. q. Butler, of London, who saws
that the reason why many of them at
the>beginning of the season trife with
building material for some time before
they produce satisfactory result is
that they are unable at once exactly
to remember what the character of the
nest was in which they first saw the
light of day.
Nj. G.. Jacquemin states that plants
which bear fragrant or sapid fruits.
such rs the apple, pear and raspberry,
have also an aromatic principle in the
leaves. If these are immersed in a
saccharine fluid, together with sac
charomyces or some other engine.
the fluid will acquire both the flavor
and the odor of the fruit. and the a.
cohol obtained by dist:llation from
this fluid will possess the corfesfand-
ing bouquet. s-o'
curious illustration of the power
of light matter to perforate more sub
stantial substances, when driven at
n high velocity, occurred in the Royal
Arsenal. England. A cast-iron target
plate, one inch thick, was placed
twenty-five feet in front, at an angle
OF forty-five degrees, in order to break
up everything into dust and throw it
upwards. A clay plug, weighing
seven and one-half ounces, perforated
an inch iron plate