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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

When the farmers 90 to buy their plows
and other implements next winter ana
spring they viii run up face to face with
the fact that there are trusts operating in
this country. Last July the pillow and i'm
p.ement trust met al Chicago ard advanced
prices. Last week the trust met again at
the same place and added % per cent.
moro TO the list, and will meet again in
October and put on sti1 another raise. All
contracts to be let after Nov / will be az
the prices 10 be fixed at The October meet
ing. The piow people claim that they have
been compelled to raise their prices be
cause iron and steel have gone up so high.
The probabilities are that next January
farmers via have TO pay for steel plows
about twice as much as they paid for sim
liar plows Two years ago
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Admiral Doweys brother says that the
admiral is a Republican. Ii may be that
the brother does not know anything more
about the admrars politics than the ad-
nirals son does and The admiral said that
.4s SON did not know anything more about
ms political leanngs than a stick OF
WOOD j. is probable that just as soon as
the admiral feels free to talk he will tell
an aXious country whether he is a Demo
cIat or q Republican.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Beginning with Oct. the subscription
price of the Morning News viii be as fol-
lows:
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Things are beginning 20 look up for the
cotton farmer all around. Not only is
the market for lint cotton strong and adj
vancing, but the same is true of the mar
ket for seed. In the Gulf section the price
of cotton seed is now Sl1 per ton, whereas
it was So only few months ago, ana even
less than that was paid last year. The
outlook is favorable for still further i'm
provements. I'VE may be happy yet, you
betuf
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

The steamer Laurada was seized and
libeled on the charge of fHbustering in aid
of the Cuban Instruction That insurrec-
ton ended so long ago that 1t sounds like
ancient history when it is referred to-.
Nevertheless, the case of the steamer Lau-
rada is still in court, in Philadelphia. A
decision win probably he rendered within
a few weeks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

GOV. Roosevelt of New York is NOT a.
trenchman, but be is credited with hay
lug as expressive pair of shoulders as
ever aired their eloquence on a Paris bou-
ieFaid. The other day somebody asked
MIN IL he would take the second place
on the Republican national ticket lie
'''o nothing, but Shrugged his shoulders"
noaH-r that left no room for doubt
ii7 JAai spoken answer would have been
an emphatic negative,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

An English scientist warns Americans
that they are expecting too much of liq-
uid air, and says that it cannot accom-
plish the wonderful things that are being
claimed for it. lie says the cost Of man
ufacture is such that it win MOI pay to
use the air produced by the evaporation OF
the liquid for the propulsion of engines,
and that for refrigerating purposes a lump
of ice is better than bottle Of LIQUID air.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29
THE PRICE OF COTTON.

There seems to be no question but that
the price of cotton will reach cents with
in a very few days but it is doubtful if
many cotton dealers expect it will rest
there. If the present impressions respect
ing the size of the crop are confirmed it
certainly will not Some of the best inform
ed of the cotton men are of the opinion,
we understand, that the price will go to
cents.
Mr.. A. S. Johnston of Meridian, Miss,
in his circular sent out on Tuesday, esti-
mates that the crop will he about nine ana
a half million bales He says of course
that it is impossible to make an estimate
that is at all reliable-that estimates at
this period of the season are mere guesses
but that from the best information OBJ
tanabTe it seems TO him that the crop win
not go over the figures he gives The New
Orleans Picayune, speaking of the esti-
mates, says: The crop estmators, who
created the impression among spinners
that another large yield was in prospect
have been overwhelmed by accumulated
evidences of the erroneous character of
their predictions. The reports of damage
from drought and other causes are now
being confirmed by returns of light yield
in those sections where picking has suf-
hciently progressed to permit of an intelh-
gent estimate of the final results. No one
now believes in crop as large as last
year, and the point at issue is: How much
less than last year will the crop prove to
La?"
1t is probable that the Picayune reflects
the sentiment in respect to cotton prevail
ing in New Orleans. 1t is inclined TO the
opinion that the price viii go considera-
bly, higher than it is at present.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

The Virginia senatorship contest seems
to be about all over except the voting.
Senator Martin will succeed himself. His
friends claim that he has pledged to him
four or five times as many legislative can
didates as Gov. Tyler has, and it is being
conceded by the opposition that the Sen
ator has won his fight
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

The report that an English sporting man
had made big bet with Riley Grammar
on the yacht race. giving the American
odds Of to 4 on the Shamrock is denied
by Grammar himself The New York back
els OF the Columbia, as "A matter OF fac;,
declare that British money looking for
takers is extremely scarce.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

It may be true ihat Senator Mason OF
Illinois is ashamed OF his government, but
ii is TO be observed that he has made no
movement towards severius his 5000 per
year relations with it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

They are talking Of making the Dewey
alch in New York permanent monument
TO 'he GREAT victory OF Manila bay. Should
the idea be adopted there could be no more
beautiful and lasting material found for
il in The world than the brilliant and in
o. structib.a marble of Georgia
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

When Dewey gets that new sword of
his, he might test its keenness of point
and blade upon some of those who arc
trying to get him to smirch his iaureis
with 9olitics
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Speaking Of brave men, there is a woman
IN New Jersey whose exceptional bravery
deserves mention. She is the second wife
OF her husband, ana employs the divorced
first wife as her cook.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Admiral Dewey practically blocks the eff
fort which is being made by some people
in this country to create the impression
that Aguinaldo is to the Philippines what
Washington was TO this country He
says that the Filipino chief is only a fig
urehead, and that it is well understood in
Manila that the brains of the insurrection
are not possessed by Aguinado. The men
who are directing Filipino affairs do not
appear on the scene at all. They are in
the background, but their orders are
obeyed. Admiral Dewey regards Aguinal-
do as a very pleasant sort of fellow of
ordinary Intellectual capacity, 1t is Il
mistake, however to assume that he is the
head and front of the instruction. When
the real leaders get ready to make peace
it is probable that they win not consult
Aguinaldo.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

The people of Georgia can have a little
Mauila celebration of their own before a
great while. Lieut. Brumby is coming
home in about two weeks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

The Memphis Commercial-Appeai Dem1
thinks Roosevelt is looking 10 the main
chance 1t says: Roosevelt is nothing If
not alert and watchful. lie realizes rs
clearly as any one that the President has
lost prestige 10 "A hurtful degree since the
close Of the Spanish war, and that a few
more backsotS may disqualify him. Should
this come to lass, where but to New York
would the Republicans look for a leader
and who more fit chan the spectacular
Rough Rider Il will go hard if Teddy
does not keep himself 10 the fore and By
dint of political posing, prating and pub
LEFTY sec 70 it that no species of Obscura-
4ion shall come between him ana the peo-
pie"
The Charleston News and Courier Dem)
says: Before many months smoke
glasses for ecipses and sun-fints will be
the only salable articles in The world not
controlled 10y a trust. Pruncs and corsets
were added to the long list last week.
and it is now evident that cigar manu-
featuring is also drifting trustward. one
crowd is organizing to control the business
in Cuba; another to get in hand the clear
Havana trade of the United States, and
then there is the American Tobacco Com
pany planning 10 either acquire a bunch
of .arge factories or start up new ones
There is even talk of the stogie men flock
ing together"
The Nashville American Dem) is in
favor of cotton producers forming an
agreement among themselves against the
cotton bears. II SAYS: This is the kind
Of trust we would favor most heartily. II
comes under the class of trusts which Mr.
Cochran describes as beneficial. 1t would
benefit the producer and would not appre-
ciably increase the price of cotton goods
to the consumers"
The Chicago Chronicle Oem) says:
The United states will not pay the Span
ish-Cuban b. The holders of the Span
ish-Cuban tonds. mostly French and Ger
man capitalists. will have TO get pay from
Spain or so without pay
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

Possibly Dewey brought Bob" with him
so that ne could require enthusiastic wo-
men inclined TO kiss him to first "try ii on
the dog"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

lie MORNING NEWS IS published

Registered at the postohee in Savannah
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19

Sixty thousand dollars and pension
Of 81, 500 year was the fee paid to DR..
Thomas Dimsdale, the Hertfordshire
physician who, in 1872, was summoned
to st. Petersburg to vaccinate the EN-
press Catherine II. DR.. Butler, who
had obtained great reputation for ex-
traordinary skill in the operation for
lithotomy, received a lac of rupees
(then equivalent to $50, 000) from each
Of six Indian rajahs for the single oper-
alton.
The late czar of Russia paid a fee of
S575, 900 to Professor Zacherine of Mos
row for two days attendance. A GER
tain DIR. Gale of Bristol who was blind,
for curing gentleman of a seriously
diseased knee by some electric treatment
received check for $3.50, 600. DR.. Gale
Yowski, the famous oculist, who at
tended the son of the shah of Persia,
received $35, 600 in fees during the
three months of his residence in Tehe
ran, while all his expenses of travelling
and maintenance were paid.
Sir William Jenner received for four
weeks attendance at Sandringham dur
ing the illness of the Prince of Wales
barcnetcy and a fee of $50, 900, while
Sir Morell Mackenzie is reported to
have received twice that amount for
attending the Emperor Frederick. His
royal highness the nawab Of Rampur,
India, few years since paid an Eng
lish army surgeon $50, 900 for an oc
casional attendance in an ordinary at
tack of rheumatism.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
A Quick Witted Thief.

A story bearing upon the ingenuity
of the London thief relates to the late
Sir James Ingham. A charge of watch
robbery was preferred by a gentleman
against an individual who had Travelled
in the same carriage with him from
Bournemouth, but in the end it was
found that the watch had not been
stolen, but had been left home by the
prosecutor.
To mollify the innocent man, Sir
James said: ''It is most remarkable
occurrence. To show, however. how ha-
BILE we all are to make these mistakes, /
was under the impression when left
my house at Kensington this morning
that I put my watch (Which, 1 may
mention, is a exceedingly valuable one)
in my pocket, but arriving at this court
I found that 1 must have left it at home
by mistake.
While business was proceeding an old
thief at the back of the court went out,
jumped into hanson cab, drove off to
Sir James Ingham's residence, and, by
representing himself as a bona fde mes
senger obtained possession of the watch,
which has never been heard of since.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
Hunting Tigers in Persia.

The people of different countries have
different ways of hunting the tiger.
Traps, pitfalls, spring guns and nets
are called into play. The Chinese are
said to employ the mirror to lead the
animal into trap. The tigers curiosity
is excited when he sees his image in
the glass, and he Immediately proceeds
to investigate the mystery. The Per-
sian manner Of conducting the hunt, as
this is described in Chambers Journal.
is more sportsmanlike.
4 spherical, strongly woven bamboo
cage with intervals of few inches be-
tween the bars, is erected in. some spot
near the haunts of the tiger. This cage
is firmly and securely picketed to the
ground. Inside, man provided with
several sharp and powerful stabbing
spears. or with keen and pointed
sword, takes his post at night, with a
dog or a goat as his companion. There
he wraps himself in his blanket and goes
TO sleep.
IN due time the tiger makes his ap-
pearance, the man is walked by his four
footed companion, and after vainly
snufing and prowling round the cage to
find an entrance the tiger rears against
the walls.
The man instantly takes advantage
of the brute's unprotected position, and
with.a resolute stroke of the spear or
the sword puts him to death.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
A Waifer's Dilemma.

1t was in one of the large down town
restaurants that the short little woman
and her tall husband went for dinner
one night.
"Will you have oysters ?" asked the
man. glancing over the bill of fare.
'Yes, said the short little woman,
as she tried in vain to. touch her toes to
the floor. And. John. want has
sock. -
John nodded, and, as he handed his
order to the waiter, he said, Eyes. and
bring hassock for the lady
Zone hassock?" asked the waiter,
with what John thought more than or
binary interest, as he nodded in the
affirmative. Still the waiter did not go,
but brushed the tablecloth with a towel
and rearranged the articles on it several
times, while his face got very red.
Then he came around to Johns side,
and, speaking soto voce, said: ''Say,
mister, | haven't been here long, and
I'm not on TO all these things Will the
lady have the hassock broiled or fried p
Chicago Chronicle
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
GrRNeNnrIs In Chinn.

The wife of an American naval officer
stationed at Tien-t tsin writes thus to a
friend in Baltimore: ''The trip by train
from the landing to .Tien-tsin takes
about an hour and half The cars are
not palatial, but they are comfortable
When you land, hundreds of coolies be-
siege you for your baggage. You Won
der how it ever reaches its destination
in safety. The trip is somewhat inter
esting, but rather desolate to take alone
You pass through miles of graveyards.
There are thousands of mounds without
a sign of green grass Or green leaf.
'tChina seems to be one vast grave
yard, fer they bury their dead anywhere
they wish. They bury in large coffins
placed on the surface of the ground,
covered over with mud and earth. This
is blown and washed away, and then
the coffins are exposed to view A few
miles from the railroad station on the
river you come to trees and vegetation.
1t reminds you of some of the poor land
that some of our railroads at home 90
through "
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
Wonderful Appetite.

The digestive power of the heron i.
remarkable, as well as its capacity and
ability to swallow large fish, says For.
est and Stream The neck seems to ex-
pand as if made of india rubber-the
fish slips down, and the bird is ready for
another In eating beef, large bones are
swallowed intact. On one or two occa-
sions after feeding beef this way, great
alarm was felt, as the birds showed
signs of great distress. but the uneasi-
ness was soon Gained when the bird
threw up large bone, clean and white,
the meat having been thoroughly digest
ed.
In eating catfish they instinctively
pierce it with their strong beaks. until
there is no question in their simple
minds but that it is harmless. If in
their hurry to swallow their food, it
goes down the throat covered with sand
or trash, they Immediately eject it,
carry it to the water and, having rinsed
it well, swallow it again.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19

"Of course you can't imagine what
curious experiences we have with sicl
people confded trained nurse. 81
have just come from very interesting
case-a dear old lady, lovely in every
way. but utterly unmanageable and un-
reasonable on the subject of early rising.
The dear woman cannot turn over in
her bed or put her hand to her head
she is fatally i'll. poor creature-but she
wakes me every morning at o'clock to
have her face and hands bathed and
her cap changed. oh. l groan, 1T is
only 8 o'clock. Mrs. Lorrimer; that is
too early for sick people to get awake
Let us have another little nap
No, no. she always answers; my
father reared me to get up at o clock.
| can't disobey my training You must
make my toilet. | mustn't sleep any
longer.
$50 have to get awake, prepare the
dear old lady for the day-S0 years old
she is. and weak and sick-just because
she was reared by father with abnor-
NAL ideas of rising time. ."-Indianapo-
lis Journal
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
Truly Remnrka BILE.

When the artist Hayden, stopping in
a rural inn near Stratford, was beguiled
by his own enthusiasm into expatiating
upon the fame of Shakespeare to an as
sembly of local rustics, they admitted
readily that Shakespeare was person
who had shed some distinction upon his
native place, but they added that STRAIT
ford now contained another prodigy, one
John Cooper
John "COPPER"" inquired Hayden.
"Why, what has he done?'
"Why. zur, III tell e, replied the
spokesman. He's lived 90 years in
that ere town, man and boy, and niver
had the teothacheH'
This ancient anecdote has recently
found parallel in the same English
county. A woman from Nuneaton was
making local boast of its connection
with ''the lady with mans name who
wrote books, meaning George Eliot,
when another woman from a neighbor-
ing village contemptuously interrupted
her.
with mans nameI' she cried
scornfully. whats that ? And what's
the good of books? Now we've woman
you may talk about in our placel She's
lived 100 years and a bit over and quar-
relied with seven daughters and two
daughters-in-law and all her grandchil-
dren! And her tongues as brisk as ever
it were, and she quarrels with the par
sons wife herself every time she comes
to visit her. That's what call wom-
an to respect and fine sight more to
boast of than person who miscalls her
own name and makes booksI''
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19

Many quaint and some grotesque OBJ
servances of Good Friday have prevail
ed in various localities. In Brighton
the custom of skipping the rope on that
day led to the use of the term "Long
Rope day Six or eight adults, with a
long rope, skipped at one time. In the
Sussex villages men and boys play mar
bles. At st. Bartholomew church,
London, 81 old women appear and be-
fore crowd of curious onlookers bend
their stiffened. aged knees opick up 81
sixpences.
This latter custom had its origin be-
fore the great fire. when an eccentric
woman left her property to have 81
sixpences laid upon her gravestone in
st. Bartholomew church, which We're
annually to be picked up by aged wild
ows.
At the Church of All Hallows the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
A NOVEL CIGAR HOLDER.
Captain Maitland POssesaes One Made
From Il Lobster's Claw.

Captain Maitland Possesses One Made
From a Lobster's Claw.
There is novelty in the shape of a
cigar holder which is being introduced
into Kansas City. 1t is distinctly Eng
lish and decidedly uncanny. The holder
is made of the inside claw of the left
fin of the deep sea lobster
Captain Maitland cf the zoo has one
of the cigar holders, and he has present
ed several others to his friends As one
would naturally expect from the cap
tain, who has many interesting curios
about his person, his possessions are
very much out of the ordinary. He Sc
cured his lobster fin cigar holder some
time ago while on the Atlantic coast
He was in market place one day and
noticed Il very fine specimen of lobster.
The captain is an Englishman. and,
having seen and used many of the
unique holders, decided that the claw
of this lobster would make very fine
holder for his Havana He purchased
the lobster and cut off the claw and put
it in his trunk. A few weeks ago, struck
with the novelty of the thing in a city
where even the lobster is not common,
to gay nothing of the trinkets made
from the shell, he got out the shell and
polished it up. 1t makes an ideal cigar
holder. 1t is about two inches in length,
and one side of it is-serrated. When it
is first used, it is "A bright red, the color
of a boiled lobster. AS the smoke and
nicotine penetrate the soft shell it grad
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
Laughs Better Than Tears.

I bless. all the apostolic college of
humorists. The man that makes me
laugh is my benefactor. 1 do not thank
anybody to make me cry. can do that
without any assistance. We all cry
enough and have enough to cry about.
God bless all skillful punsters, all re-
parteeists, all propounders of ingenious
conundrums, all those who mirthfully
surprise US with unusual juxtaposition
of words Thomas Hood and Charles
Dickens and Sydney Smith had divine
mission, and so have their successors in
these times. They stir into the acid
beverage of life the saccharine. They
make the cup of earthly existence,
which is sometimes stale, effervesce and
bubble. They placate animosities. They
foster longevity. They slay follies and
absurdities which all the sermons of
all the pulpits cannot reach.-T. De
Witt Talmage.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19
Why He FliIeG.

The Michigan Tradesman suggests
in the course of an anecdote, the reason
why certain old fashioned tradesmar
came to fail. When one of his creditors
reached the place, after this catastro.
phe, he found the merchant working
hard to figure it all out
'"Land, but don't see why l should
fall" he kept on saying. "Mebbe,
though. didn't collect sharp enough. -
"You have heap of goods round
here, said the other. looking about
him.
eyes, more or less. -
"When did you take the last inven-
tory
Inventory Take erything down ?"
eyes" "
S'And make out list?''
eyes"
''And dust off the shelves and mop
the fioor?''
'sThat's it.
"And clean the windows and paint
the front of the store?''
''Yes.
Il never went into that | was going
to one day about 10 years ago, but they
had wrestling match in town, and I
forgot the inventory. Mercy on me, but
| can't understand why should faill"