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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
BRIGHT BITS.

What Spoiled It.-Newcomer (at win
ter health resorO-Is this a restful place?
Native-Wal, it used 10 be until people
began comm here for to rest.-Puck.
Not His Fault.-Father-Why when 1
was your age 1 didn't have as much money
in a month as you spend in a day.
Son-Well pa, don't scold me about it.
Why don't you go for grandfather?-Chi-
cago News.
"A Model Of Propriety Up
ton is the most circumspect young lady I
ever met.
Tom-How so?
Jack-She refused to accompany me on
the piano the other evening without her
chaperon. Chicago Record.
How Interesting! Yes, it was the first
time she had ever been on board a war
ship.
"And this" the lieutenant went on to
say, lis the quarterback.
and that deck over yonderr she ex-
claimed indicating the forecastle, with a
pretty gesture. rs that the scent deck
or the 10-ceut deck ?"-Detroit Journal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
A DIFFICULTY ovERLooKED.

If what a New Orleans doctor says is TO
be relied upon the greatest difficulty in
making Havana a healthy city does not
consist in bringing about first class sani
tary conditions there. He says that if Col
Warnings plan for purifying the CITY
should be carried into effect it would still
be necessary to teach the people cleanly
habits.
This New Orleans doctor was a resident
of Havana for several years, and there
fore knows what he is talking about. He
quotes that Old saw which. in effect is
that you can lead horse TO water but
you can't make him drink, and he says
that you can put bath tubs in every house
in Havana, but you cannot make the peo-
pie battle AS he looks at it che unclean-
illness of the people is ingrained-deep root
ed-the result of a condition of things
which have existed for generations. He
says" Before the city can be put on san
itary basis it will be necessary to effect a
sweeping change in the habits of thought
of the people and a general REIMBURSEMENT
Of their prejudices." He thinks that il
will require a long time and the enforce
ment of the severest penalties to make
the people understand that they must
obey hygienic laws.
Sewers and bath tubs and closets NAV
be constructed in year or two for the
whole city, but a long and exasperating
contest viii be necessary to get people to
make use of them. The New Orleans doc
cor puts it this way: The job Of getting
Havana clean will be found to resemble
that of bathing an able bodied wild cat in
a hand basin"
It looks as if Uncle Sam had undertaken
a nasty job. Il is. a hard job to make a
city clean and healthy If it doesn't want
to be clean and healthy. It may turn out
that it is going 10 cost this country more
in lives and treasure TO make a clean and
healthy city of Havana than IL did to
drive the Spaniards out Of Cuba.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Rewarded for His Honesty.

In small village just outside Noting
ham. says London Spare Moments, a farm
laborer went to the general store, which
was kept by an old woman not over-stocl-
ed with brains, and asked for "a pahnd o
bacon"
The old lady produced the bacon and cut
piece off, but could not find the pound
weight.
ooh, never mind Z pahnd weight" said
Me; ma fist just weighs a pahnd so put
ther bacon in t scales"
The woman confidently placed the bacon
into one side of khe scales, while the man
put his fist into Nthe other side, and, of
course, took good care to have good weight.
While the woman was wrapping the ba-
con up the pound weight was found and,
on seeing ii, the man said:
"Nah you see il my fist don't just weigh
a pahnd.'
The pound weight was accordingly put
into one scale and the mans fist into the
other, this time only just 20 balance. A
The old woman on seeing this said: \
"Wha, l niver seed aught so near afore!
Here's a red herrin for thee honesty, ma
lad"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

The Paris Figaro vouches for the truth
of the following account given Of ter
rier's attachment to his master. There
lived al Marcq-en-B aroeul, near Lille, an
old bachelor, who cared for only Two
things in the world his sister and his dog.
There was nothing remarkable about the
dog He was a sort of mongrel terrier, re-
joicing in the democratic name Of Quat-
Sous, but he loved his master. few
months ago the old gentleman fell i'll
dangerously nl-and Quats-Sous was
changed dog He moped, scarcely ate
enough to keep himself alive, and went
sadly in and out of the sick room, with
his head hanging and his tail between his
legs. AT last his master died and, with his
last breath, he confided Quat Sous, stand
ing wistfully at the post of the bed, TO the
care of his sister, to whom he left his lit
tie fortune.
The sister accepted the dog as a sacred
trust, but, do what she would, he stiA re-
fused ali food and moped and whined Pile
ously. He was petted and caressed, the
choicest tidbits were kept for him, but It
was all in vain. AT last he was tied up
that he might be sure of taking his meals
a regular hours. He would not touch his
food. A veterinary, who was called In.
advised that Quat' Sous should be allowed
to run loose and go out and play with
other dogs, to be cured of his melancholy
and to recover health and appetite. He
is only mourning for his master" Scarce
ly had the chain been unfastened from
Quat' Sous collar when he darted off like
an arrow to the cemetery, good mile
away. On reaching it he shifted at all
the newly raised graves. AT last he stopped
a one. whose mound was not quite dry,
and after walking round it two or three
times laid down on it. 1t was his mas
ters. Since then Quat Sous has not been
chained again, and never day passes
without the little terrier going to the
churchyard and spending some time on
the grave of the man he loved.
A later report states that Quat-Sous one
morning was found dead on the grave by
the keeper of the cemeLerY.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
NO FURTHER USE FOR EAGAN.

The tone of the Washington dispatches
indicates that Gen. Eagan is trying to ex-
cuse himself for the coarse and abusive
language which he used in reference to
Gen. Miles before the commission that is
inquring into the conduct of the war. He
cannot make any excuse that win be ac
cepted by the people. They have put
the stamp of their disapproval upon his
conduct, and in future they will have no
use for him, outside of the limits of his
official duties. 1t is probable if the mat
ter were left to them they would de
mand his resignation without regard to
the merits of the controversy between him
self and Gen. Miles. They have lost sight
of the beef scandal in their astonisnment
at the coarse and outrageous conduct of
an officer of his rank.
Gen Eagan cannot reinstate himself in
the good opinion of the public Even if
court martial or a court of inquiry
should decide that there was no ground
for the insinuation contained in Gen
Miles testimony he could not regain the
respect of his fellow officers and of his
fellow citizens he once had His act was
| deliberate and carefully considered ard
eN posed the coarseness of his nature.
The promise the President gave 20 pro-
tect witnesses who should testify before
the commission does not cover his case.
He understands that very well but he
seems to have overlooked the fact that
the means he took to get an investigation
OF the beef contract exposed him to dis
missal from the army without any inves-
tigation of those contracts. To crafty
his personal feelings he did the entire
army an injury.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Toomhs. MihdIe Name.

writer in the New York Press thus
retells an old story of Robert Toombs:
Few Georgians know that Toombs had
two Christian names. History speaks of
him as Robert Tombs. He was prouder
than a Montague, laughter than a Capu-
let and in his last years The person who
mentioned his middle name was in danger
of decapitation. This dropped name was
ASTON
"Toombs was a marvel on the hustings,
and in his thirtieth year arrived at the
zenith of political debate, still wearing his
full name-Robert Aston Toombs. The in
itials, you win see spell rat, One day
rival candidate for the state Senate of the
name of Charles A. Thornton replied to
Toombs on the stump, and as he fiayed the
patric.an alive his followers and hench-
men yelled That's right; go at him again.
Our Cat has got that Raj. That Rat can't
get away from our Cat. Sick him, Cat
Go it. Rat Thorntous initials spelled
cat The incident so dspleased Toombs
that he Immediately dropped his middle
name and was known henceforth as plain
tBOb' -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Couldn't RecnIi the Name.

Il was recently making out deed for a
man." says a Detroit lawyer according
to the Free Press, land al went swim
mingly till turned to him and asked his
wife's name. oh yes, of course. Wifes
namea Very necessary to be sure and it
was plain to be seen that he was sparring
for time, while making every effort to
bring his memory into play. He had a
rush of blood to the face, looked sorely
troubled and finally turned his back on
me while he looked out of the window, as
though relief were to be found there.
Wouldn't that beat YOU he exclaimed, as
he turned slowly back. I'll be bowed if
l can recall her name. You see they used
to call her pet when she was a girl at
home, and that was her name with me
up to two years after our marriage, when
I began calling her Mamma" l couldn't
ten you her name if it were a capita.
offense not to know it. Spose1it wouldn't
do to just call her pet in the deed?' it
wouldn't do, so ne hurried away, and in
an hour was back with his wife's full name
on a slip of paper"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
DEATH OF VIA DINGLEY.

Those who differed in politics from Rep
resentative Dingley will not withhold from
him tributes of respect and affection. To
those who came in contact with him Of
hcially he was always kind and consid-
crate, and to his associates in the House
he was courteous and companionable. He
will not go into history as one Of the
great men of the country, yet he accom-
plshed more and Influenced the interests
Of the country to a much greater extent
than many of those who occupy place
in history as very great men. He was
modest and retiring, and, hence, he did
not attract the attention of the public as
often as he might have done.
In holding the tariff views he did he was
thoroughly honest. The protective system
is gradually losing its hold, but it had in
Mr. Dingley one of it's strongest and ablest
advocates. In his death the Whole coun-
try has suffered a loss, but especially will
his loss be felt by the House of Repre-
sentatiVes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Ledger Qnd) says:
Gen. Eagan, commissary general of the
army, has not improved his case by vul-
carly calling Gen. Miles a liar Consider
the facts in the case. The commanding
officer of every regiment in Porto Rico
condemned the beef furnished the soldiers
as offensive and unfit for food. Gen.
Miles, with this evidence TO support his
own observations would have been gross
ly derellct if he had not ordered an inves-
tigation. incidentally, Gen Eagan shows
what bad system now prevails in the
army. Nominally, a subordinate, he bold
ly declares what the general in command
of the army can and cannot do with the
subsistence department If Gen. Miles
had had proper authority, he might have
dismissed Eagan and got rid of the "em-
balmed beef" al one and the same time
The Montgomery Advertiser Dem.) per-
petrates rather grewsome joke in the
following, but there is a point in it: 1.-The
statement that the tomb of Henry Clay
is leaning over and liable to topic down
is not al all surprising. Henry was a
very obstinate, head-strong old chap, and
it may be that his disquiet at some recent
freaks of craftsmanship have caused him
to hump himself in his efforts to turn
over or get out.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem), writ
ing of the era of trusts that has been
inaugurated by Republican legislation,
says: 1T is a dull day that does not see
the formation of new trust, the closing
of factories or other works as a conse-
quence of consolidation into trusts or great
corporations that are in effect trusts, or
the raising of prices through the crush
ing out of competition by the trust pro-
cess"
The Norfolk Landmark Dem) says:
New York has a commission at work
trying to ascertain the reasons why
the Southern ports are getting so much
of the business that she formerly con-
trolled. If New York expects to keep up
with what is going on in the commerce of
the South, she might as well give her COM
missoners a lifetime job"
The Washington Post Qnd) thinks that
"Commissary General Eagan made just.
one proposition as to which the whole
country will be- of one mind
either he or Gen. Miles Is unfit for the
place of dignity and honor he now occu-
pies. To that assertion there viii be no
dissenting voice."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Personal.

When Gov. Stanley of Kansas was re-
Gently requested by the committee having
his inaugural reception in charge to fur
nish list of those of his Wichita friends
TO whom he wished invitations to be sent
he replied by sending to it a copy of the
Wichita city directory.
When Senator Burrows of Michigan
returned to Washington after his re-elec-
ton, Senator Elkins said to him: Pin
gree made you dig potatoes didn't he"'
"Oh, yes" said Senator Burrows, laugh
ingly, but the trouble was that l found
a great many more than Pingree expected
me to find"
According to the "Etoile Beige" the
health of Princess Louise of Coburg,
daughter of the King Of the Belgians, who
has been for many months shut UP in a
lunatic asylum in Austria, is beginning
to decline Her memory is it is said, com
petely gone, and she never asks for any
news of her parents or other relatives. She
passes her time in walking up and down
her apartment, where she is always
strictly watched, and in cutting little pa
per patterns.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
KNIGHT OF THE hath.

Among those who are "also running"
for Mayor of Philadelphia is Col. ]. EN-
DRY Byram. He is known as the Peoples
party candidate though in this instance
the party names does not mean that he is
a Populist or the candidate of Popuhsts.
This becomes more clear when it is stated
that Col Byram wears a full dress suit
upon occasions and is an advocate of the
bath. And not only that, but he has been
known to take his full dress suit into the
bath with him. His first leap into promi-
nence, as a matter of fact. was from a
spring board In public bath house. It
is stated that, like McGinty, dressed in
his best suit of clothes"-a fun dress suit.
even to gloves and patent leathers-Col.
Byram by way of Inaugural ting the bath
house and defeating it to its great work
of ctyilizing Philadelphians, plunged head
first into "the drink" as they call il in
The City of Brotherly Love
From that day the colonel has been a
marked man. He took the bath pool tide at
its flood and il has led on to a mayoraIty
candidacy. He stands before his constit-
uents as an advocate of personal cleanli-
ness and a reformer who is not afraid of
his own prescription. There are some per-
sons who are so inconsiderate as 10 sug-
gest that his candidacy is reflection upon
the habits of the Philadelphians, as it I'M
plies that it has been a matter of neces-
sity TO inaugurate political campaign for
The purpose of inducing the citizens to
wash themselves; but that campaign story
will hardly hold water. II is also charged
that Col. Byram is whooping up his candi-
dacy by going around taking baths in
pubic, in support of which assertion is
cited his experience in the river at New
York the other day. The fact seems to
be, however, that Col Byram did not jump
into the river for the purpose of illustrat-
ing the beauties of bathing in mid-winter
in an icy river with ones clothes on. but
that he fell in. At all events. Col. Byram
is into the swim in Philadelphia politics
and is making a splash which is attract
ing some little attention
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Ventilation Very Bad.

ventilation, was one day making an in
spection of frontier post which was very
much in need of repair, says the Detroit
Free Press. In some places the roof show
ed the blue sky overhead and the walls
were ornamenIed with gaps.
The brigadier general was escorted
through the building by the colonel in
charge, a sergeant going on before, as is
the custom, to warn the men to stand at
attention in honor of the general.
AS they proceeded the general asked:
and how is the vetilation, colonel"
Before the colonel could reply the old
sergeant with a familiarity born of long
service said:
Sure, general, an the ventilation is bad.
sorr, vera bad, sorr. The place is all fun
of holes, sorr"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Alpha Lodge No. /, A. & A. S.
r.; Republican Blues.
Special Notices-That Columbia at $40,
T. A. Bryson, Columbia Agent; Clothing
Department Leopold Adler Notice as to
Resumption of Schedules H. c. Benagh,
Superintendent S., T. &, 1. II. Ry.; Special
Notice as to Stearns Bicycles, r. V. Con-
rerat; Dividend Notice, Savannah Gas
Light Company; Down at Headquarters
Bicycles Are on the Move, R. d. & VIM.
baltimore: Savannah Steam Laundry; In
vestments, Isaac Beckett; Notice to Ju-
rors of City Court; Special Notice, Joseph
Gallager; Notice, E. 1. Okarma Samples
of Mouldngs at Ladeveze's; Chocolate
Cream, Etc, at Oglethorpe Pharmacy; A
Winter Clearance. Falk Clothing Compa-
ny; Conida's Confectionery
Business Notices-E. & w. Laundry
G. & r. Soho, Sweet Pickles, ETC..
A. Munster.
Gardner's Bazaar-12 Broughton street,
East
The Money Saving of Gas Range-Mu-
tual Gas Light Company.
Second Week of Our January Sales
Leopold Adler.
Ladies Furnishings-Walsh & Myer.
Amusements-The Bendix Grand Con-
cert Company, Guards Hail. Jan. 90;
Peruchi-B eldeni Company, at Theater.
Commencing Jan. 16.
Special Silk Sale-Danlel Hogan.
Insurance-The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York.
Facts Are Stubborn Thing-Metropolb-
tan Clothing Company.
Talk Is Cheap-Byck Bros.
Libbeys Wedding Presents-Wests
China Palace.
Meat Choppers and Lard Presses-Ed-
ward Lovelrs Sons.
Auction sales-Receiver's Sale of Jour
mai Printing Company, by c. H. Dorsett
Auctioneer; Old Hoss Sale, Central of
Georgia Railway and Ocean Steamship
Company; Clocks, Bookcase, Etc, by c.
III. Dorsett Auctioneer.
1899 Viking, Syracuse and Monarch BIZ
cycles-E. P Terrie.
Notice TO the Ladies, Kabo Corset-B
III. Levy & Bro.
SNuoNbe@ASA > representative II. Co.
hen & Co
Your Benefit as Well as ours-M. S.
Brown.
Postponement of the Sale of Lots-C. II.
Dorset. Auctioneer.
Races, Grand Horse Show at Tampa.
Fla.-Tampa Agricultural, Racing and
Fair Association, Jan. A.
There's A Great Noise Abroad-B. H.
Levy & Bro.
True Bargains This week-Gustave Eek
stein & Co.
Fifteen Thousand Square Feet-Jackson.
1ietzger & Co
Many New Arrivals in Muslin Under
wear, Etc.-At Gutman's
DO Not Trihe With Grippe-w. O. cub
hedge.
Postum Coffee-Postum Cereal Company.
Cocoa and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Medical-Pe-ru-na; Worlds Dispensarv
Preparations; Cudcura Remedies; Hood S
Sarsaparilla; Wine Of Cardui; Erie Medi-
cal Company; S. s. S.; Munyon's Kidney
Cure; DR.. Kennedys Favorite Remedy.
'77' for Grip.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

1t is to be hoped that the efforts that
are being made to have one of the new
battleships named Georgia will prove eff
fective. AS the Empire State of the South
and one of the foremost in the union
Georgia deserves to be so honored. And
the ship which bears her name should
be one of the finest and most effective
atloat. Those that are now authorized
viii be Of that character They Will. in
deed be better than the Kearsarge and
Kentucky, and viii embody every improve
ment suggested by the experiences of the
fights at Manila and Santiago. Nothing
therefore, has been lost by Georgia be-
cause Of having 10 wait so long for a
ship TO be named for her But the prop
er time has come for Georgia to 20 into
'he nomenclature Of the navy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

some woman suffragists of New York
have presented to the House of Represen-
tatiyes at Washington a petition praying
that the women Of Hawaii be granted the
privilege of voting on equal terms with
men. II is sometimes surprising to see
what idiodc things some people can do in
perfectly good faith
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
Not Trxing to .N1nsh Z.

He was an old man, says the Baltimore
News, and he had an honest face, but it
was evident to all the passengers in the
street car that his persistent stare at the
pretty woman opposite embarrassed and
annoyed her. Several hints were thrown
out, but he did not take them, and the
man beside him finally asked
did you ever see woman before?"
"Of course" was the reply.
well. they don't like to be stared at as
you are doing. Can't you see how un-
comfortable you have made that woman?"
Have I? BY George, l didn't mean to!
Say, ma'am, you must excuse me.
didn't mean no disrespect nor nuthin', but
you are a gaul-durned good-lookin' wo-
man. and 1 was gain at you same as
would look at a cow
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

Gen Eagan seems TO have empued ! is
Sop jar against the wind, with the ef
feet that he got the most of the contents
upon himself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

Nobody denies that the country wants
expansion; but 1t is commercial and not
territorial expansion that is desired
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

Where there is one woman who trims
her own bonnet, there are scores who
pick other womens bonnets to pieces
Boston Transcript
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

New York has had more than her fair
share of the big plums from the present
administration. She has had a cabinet
minister, three ambassadors and two min
isters of the first class. New York is be-
coming almost as much an office seeker
as Ohio
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15

A woman acted as speaker of the Colo
RADIO House of Representatives the other
day, She was Mrs. Lee, representing
Arapahoe county. At first the gentlemen
did not know precisely how to address
her. They first tried Mr.. Speaker" and
then Mrs. Speaker and Madame
Speaker" and Mrs. President" and
Madame President" Finally it was
agreed that about the best thing under
the circumstances would be to say Mrs.
Speaker" hence according to the Colo
RADIO precedent that is the proper form of
address when a woman occupies the chair.