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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
THE MATTER OFF INVESTMENTS.

The recent sale of the Brush Electric
Light and Power stock to Northern syn
dictate raises question as to what is to
be the character of the future investments
of the people of this section. In this city
has been seen the passing OF local stock
holding in the great railroad systems, the
street railways, the gas company and
other corporations. In the case of the
railroads, the passing of local ownership
of stocks was brought about through
bankruptcy proceedings by which millions
of dollars of Investments were turn
ed into worthless, or almost worthless, pa
per. In other instances the changes of
ownership were made by purchases and
consultations. The earnings of the cor
porations, which were once distributed
among our own people, are now sent away
and distributed in other cities. The last
of the transfers from local to foreign own
ership is that of the electric light com
pany.
These purchases indicate that, in the
opinion of outsiders. Savannah is a safe
community in which to invest money, and
that 1t pays to buy those things which
our people have built or created. Our
surplus earnings. meantime, will have TO
seek other channels. They must look for
investment to the fluctuating stocks of the
New York exchanges--which in many
cases are merely epeculative--or to real
estate, or to new enterprises. Doubtless
great deal of the free money will be
put into lands still there is enough of it
here for considerable sums to be placed
in real estate, and leave a large and
constantly increasing surplus for other
things. What shall be the character OF
those other investments?
The suggestion that a large packing
house be established in this city seems
to be one worthy of attention. There
are many reasons for thinking such an en-
terprise would be profitable to its own
ers, and of great advantage to the city;
and not only TO the city, but to the OUT
lying territory.
The cotton factory might be rehabllitated
and opened under auspices which. by rea-
son of having ample capital, might prove
successful from every point of view.
There is no ground for a reasonable
doubt that money could be earned upon
an investment in a good street railway sys-
TEN having suburban lines to develop the
contiguous outlying districts.
A large dry dock is a necessity Of the
port. An ample dock and repair plant
would no doubt earn good interest for its
stockholders, besides adding to the growth
and conveniences OF commerce.
Such enterprises as the foregoing would
absorb much of the money now lying idle
in the banks. for want of profitable in
vestment, and give employment to many
working people
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
THE MONEY QUESTION.

The Republicans have done practically
nothing in this Congress to provide a more
satisfactory currency, and it is now certain
that they will do nothing. In the caucus
of the Republican members of the House
on Thursday night a committee of eleven
was appointed to consider the money ques-
ton and make a report to the Republi-
can caucus Of the House members of the
next Congress. A like committee of Re
publican senators Is to be appointed to
act with the House committee.
In the next House the Republicans will
have but a very small majority. In fact,
il is doubtful If there win be a majority
in favor of the gold standard In the Sen
ate gold standard currency bill would
stand a better chance of becoming a law
than it would in the Senate of this Con-
gress. 1t is not certain, however, that
even in the next Congress the Senate
will have a majority in favor of the gold
standard. The Republicans claim that It
will contain majority for gold, but the
chairman of the national Democratic COM
mittee does not admit that it will In
fact. he says that it will be impossible to
get a gold standard currency bill through
the Senate in the next Congress.
It looks as if this movement of the Re-
publicans in the direction of currency leg
islation were merely to satisfy those mem
bers of their party who are all the while
clamoring for currency reform. The Re
publican party is pledged to currency re-
form, and II must make a show of doing
something in the direction Of that reform.
1t Is probable that there is nothing that
the Republicans will be more careful to
let alone during the first session of the
next Congress than the money question.
They will not want to antagonize mem
bers of their own party who have a lean
ing towards silver on the eve of a presi-
Dental election. Therefore, it may be as
sumed that nothing will be done by the
committee which was appointed on Thurs
day night.
The Republican position on the money
question is pretty clearly set forth in the
bill for reforming the currency which was
reported to the House day or two ago.
II provinces LOT maintaining Ine SOlu Sthuu-
ard and for retiring the greenbacks and
treasury notes. 1t increases the amount of
silver to be coined annually and changes
the denominations of the paper money.
1t changes the banking laws in some very
important particulars. For instance, it in
creases the amount of notes which a bank
may issue without requiring ii to increase
the security for the notes. and 1t reduces
the amount of the tax on circulation. It
allows the establishment of branch banks
and also of banks having only $4,000 of
capital. The bill doesn't radically change
the present situation-it simply changes
some of the features of the present none
tary system, AS the bill hasn't much of a
chance of ever becoming a law, the de-
tails of 1t are not of very great interest,
especially at this time.
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BISHOP POTTER AND THE SALOON.

In New York Bishop Potter is being very
severely criticised for some utterances of
his at recent meeting in New York city
respecting the drinking saloons. Those
who are criticising him are trying to make
At appear that he is an advocate of the sa-
loon AS matter of fact he did not ad-
vocate the saloon. He advocated places OF
recreation for the class of people who fire.
quent the saloon, and practically admitted
that the saloon would continue to exist as
a social necesaG ". NIntl a substitute for it
was provided.
In the course of his remarks he said
'The saloon is a social necessity in so far
as the recreatiVe instinct In human beings
makes 1t social necessity. You
will forgive me il 1 say the sa-
loon exists in New York because
you and have given our brothers
no better thing. There ought to be in every
block a place that will give to them, and
to you and me. opportunity for refresh
ment. without the peril of intoxicating
drinks The misery of our philanthropy
to-day is that it is so far divorced from in
telligent business principles"
Bishop Potter did not say that the sa-
loon is the poor mans club, but he might
as well have said it, because that is what
he meant. He wanted TO be understood as
saying that the social side of men must be
provided for and that the saloon is a ne
cessity until something better is provided
TO take Its place. That he is right there
is no reason to doubt. The fight that has
being made against the saloon has been a
long and bitter one, and Il has
.aot been successful, and why? Be-
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bishop and Archbishop.

The st Louis Republic prints the follow
ing: Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia.
VINO was formerly coadjutor bishop to
The late Archbishop Kenrck of st. Louis.
Is one of the best known wits in the Cath
Ole hierarchy of the United States. On
the occasion of his recent visit TO st.
Louis 70 ofiiciate at the golden jubilee
celebration Of st. Johns Church. the
Philadelphia prelate rode in a carriage to
the parochial residence with Bishop Glen
ncn, who also assisted in the ceremonies.
Bishop Glennon is rather diminutive in
size and of slight build, especially in the
stomachic region, while Archbishop
Ryan is tall and very robust As they
alighted from the carriage Archbishop
Ryan said to his companion: Bishop
Glennon, / once was asked TO explain the
difference between a bishop and an arch
bishop. I answered (and the archbishop
extended his arms in a semi-circle from
his own healthy body, at the same time
glancing rather sharply at Bishop Glen
nom: The difference Is all in the arch "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
A Veteran Vanqui.hed.
From the Denver Post.

from the Denver Post.
Since I come back from bloody war in
Eighteen Sixty five,
Shot up in quite annoyin' way, but glad to
be alive.
It's been the pleasure of my life to set my
A-waggin' bout the dangers an privations
that 1 saw.
1 loved TO fight the battles DER an felt an
honest pride
In tellin of the part I tux upon the Union
side,
In grim recitals tendin' to most any heart
appall
But since Snat boy of mine got back
stand no show at all
I guess fur most a thousand times, an
mebbe more I've sot
An told my children thrlin' tales of how
their dady fought,
An when the neighbors'd come in my mar
tial tongue d flop
Until I'D know they'd wish to gosh the
cussed thing d stop.
I'd tell EN- of the tented camps, the march
es an the fights, f1s
The fun around the campfire in the biv-
ouacs o nights,
An all the dire privations that a soldier
could befan,
But since that boy o. mine got back
stand no show at ALL
I marched with Billy Sherman from At
lanty to the sea,
Swung round to old Virginpy for a shy
at Bobby Lee.
1 went through more than twenty fights
where shells an bullets flew,
An stained the soil of Dixie with nv
blood time or two,
An ever since the greatest joy O. life has
bin to set
An fight them bloody scraps ag'In with
some old comrade vet,
Or get the children round me like a eager
lis min wall,
But since that boy o. mine got back I stand
no show at ALL
OF course, as veteran soldier will, some
yarns I'd ofn spin
If given an assay fur truth d pan out
mighty thin.
An had some Old reliable prevarications
Had come to think was Gospel truth my
self, an that's no lie,
I saw some rocky sarvice. an fought right
up TO date,
But if I'd done the fightin that my yarns
ID indicate
I'd be the biggest warhorse in the huh re-
bellion stall.
But since that boy o. mine got back stand
no show at all.
He sets an laughs when begin to boast
ingly recite
The same old stories he has heard since
fust he saw the light,
An says if us old .catacombs had been in
Cuby. We
Would never mention fight ag'in to heroes
such as he.
An then hen turn his talker loose with
stories that d make
The devil want to grab his hand fur fra
ternal shake
1 used to think that could lie with purity
nervy gall,
But since that boy o. mine got back I stand
no show at all.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
THE ARMY BILL.

1t Is expected that the army bill will be
passed by the Senate in about the same
shape that It passed the House. No
doubt there will be some minor changes
made in it. An impression seems to have
gone abroad that it provides for an army
of only $1,000 men, and gives the President
power to increase il to 100000 men. AS
a matter Of fact it provides for an army Of
100, 500 men, and authorizes the President
to reduce 1t to $1,000 men IT, in his opinion.
1t should appear that the reduction could
be made with safety to the country.
If the bill becomes a law it is certain that
our army viii consist of 100000 men in time
Of peace. Having once increased the reg
ular army 10 100000 men, it will be about
impossible to reduce it one half. or to re-
duce it at all. The army officers and their
friends will have sufficient influence to
keep themselves IN the service. On account
of our war in behalf of Cuba we shall sad
die ourselves with an army three times
as large as we had before we undertook
that war. After the army bill becomes a
law the cost Of maintaining the army in
900 a year. That Is more than three times
as much az our regular army has been
costing us, and yet our army was large
enough for our needs before the trouble
with Spain
And the increase in the army is not the
only burden which the Spanish war is go
ing to impose upon us. We are to have
great navy. We have already contracted
for a number of battleships and torpedo
boats, and we shan continue building war
ships until we have the greatest navy in
the world. The cost of building the navy
viii be small in comparison with the cost
Of maintaining it.
And then when we get great army and
a mighty navy we shall become aggressive
in our attitude towards other countries,
and will not be satisfied until we have a
war with one or more of them. With the
passage of the army bin we shall have
taken long step towards militarism, and
for the first time In our history we shall
begin to feel seriously the burden imposed
by a standing army.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
HEALTH PRECAUTIONS IN CUBA.

DID not our government make a mistake
when it failed to act promptly on the
recommendations of the late Col Waring
for the Improvement of the health of Ha-
vana? Something is being done for bet
tering health conditions in that city, but
not nearly all is being done that is nee
essary TO insure comparative immunity
from the yellow fever. There are no sew
ers In there, and there is swampy land
close TO the suburbs which is said to have
a very bad effect on the public health.
Col. Warning said In his report, that there
was time before June 1 to do the work
which he mapped out. 1t is not being
DONE however. though a great deal of
sanitary work is in progress. But what is
being done will not be sufficient, 1t is be-
lieved by many sanitarians, to save the
city from a visitation of yellow fever, If
the season should be a sickly one.
In paragraph we stated a day or two
ago, that In June, 1895, a regiment of
Spanish soldiers landed in Havana A lit
tie more than a week ago the same regi-
ment landed in Spain. When IL landed in
Havana it contained 1,4OO strong and
healthy men. When It landed in Spain it
contained 300 men. the majority of whom
were physical wrecks. In a little more
than three years the regiment had been
almost wiped out of existence by the
climate of Cuba.
But soldiers can be kept healthy in the
tropics. Great Britain has demonstrated
that What she has done In Jamaica in
the way of preserving the health of her
soldiers stationed there by means of san
itary measures can be done in Cuba. In
July, 1879, the Seventy British Reg
iment arrived in jamaica, having zoos
men in its ranks. Within four years it
lost 80 men. Five regiments which fol-
lowed the Seventy-ninth lost about half
their number in six months from fever
and camp sickness of one kind and an
other. AS late as 1896 the death rate
among the English soldiers in Jamaica
was 121 per 1000. But what a change was
wrought by sanitation In 1889 the death
rate was only per 1000
These figures from the statistics of the
British army are very encouraging TO u.s.
They show us that we can make Havana
and other Cuban cities as healthy as the
cities of the United States. 1t seems to
us, however, that our government should
have acted on the advice of Col Wariug
as soon as it was given. BY failing to do
so a great many lives may be sacrificed
the coming summer.
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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Light Infantry;
Sons of the Revolution; Ancient Landmark
Lodge No. 2S1, f. & A. M.
Special Notices-Now Columbia Reigns
r. A. Bryson, Columbia Agent Horse and
Trap for Sale, Mrs. II. M, Packard; A
Cheap Home at Isle of Hope, Right at
the Station, C. H. Dorset; An Old Es-
tablished Drug Store For Sale; Ship No
tlce, j. f. Minis & Co. Special Notice,
"A. w. and E. c. Schwartz Why Buy
Your Butter Ten Days Ahead, Nelson &
Lee; Ship Notices, Georgia Export and
Import Company; Special Notice. R. D.
& VIM. baltimore; Notice TO Superior
Court Jurors; We Solicit Your Laundry,
Savannah Steam Laundry Company; First
Annual Hop, Star Social Club; Chocolates
Bonbons, AT Conidas; Notice to Shoe
Dealers, E. l. Okarma; A. L. Desbouillons
Jeweler; Beef, Lamb and Poultry, Jos. H.
Baker; Pansy Plants, Wolf & Co., Florists;
An ounce of Prevention, Etc, John T.
Evans & Co.; Groceries, Hay and GRAIN
]. C. Slater; Masquerade Bah at Miss
Benefits Dancing Academy, Feb. 10; No
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Business NOTES.-The Old Valley Whis-
ky, Smith Bros, Wholesale distributors;
E. & W. Laundry.
The Staff Of Life--At C. A. MINISTER'S
Auction Sales-Nice Home, Nice Cot
tage, by I. D. LaRoche, Auctioneer; Fur
niture, Etc, by C. II. Dorset, Auctioneer.
Muslin Underwear-Daniel Hogan.
Neal-Millard Co.--Paints Oils, Etc.
Around the Corner to-Falk's.
''Studebaker" Doctor Phaeton-H. H.
Cohen & Co.
Bargains in Shoes-Racket Shoe Store.
My Reputation as Leading Shoe Dealer
"a S. Nichols.
Handsome Sideboards-J. w. Teeple.
White Goods Fair-Jackson, Metzger &
Co.
The Gas Range Grows in Public Favor
Mutual Gas Light Company.
Do You Know That We Keep Sterling
Eilver?-West's China Palace.
Everything Is Yours-M. S. Brown
IS Per Cent. Discount for Cash-M. Dry
fus.
Spring Blossoms-At LeVy's.
Postum Coffee-Postum Cereal Company.
Rare Chance in Gloves. Etc.-walsh
e Meyer.
If Low Prices Will Sell Them. We win
MOT Carry over a Dollars Worth of Win
ter Goods-Leopold Adler.
Beee-Liebig's Extract of Beef.
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cause the recreative instinct In
human beings must be provided for, and
the saloon provides for it. The rich have
their cfubs, and the poor resort to
the saloons to satisfy the social side of
their natures. That the saloon is abused
and works great harm to society there is
no doubt. but the only way it can be got
rid of is to provide something that win
afford men the recreation they want in
more satisfactory manner than the saloon
does. When that is done the day of the
saloon will be over.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
A GREAT INDUSTRY.

AT the Carnegie mills the manufacture
OF steel cars has begun. Contracts for
such cars to the amount of 100000 or
$4,000 have already been made. Before
many years about all the freight cars in
the country, IL Is safe to say, will be of
steel. The making of steel cars is a new
industry, and one that will give an i'm
mense amount of employment to the steel
plants of the country 1t Is not stated In
our dispatches what the cost of a steel
car is, but it is probable that taking
Into account the time it will last. it is
much cheaper than a car made of wood.
And why should not Birmingham, Ala,
be the great center for the building of
steel cars? The understanding is that
steel can be made there at less cost than
elsewhere. assuming that such is the
case there IS no reason why that city
should not practically monopolize the steel
car industry.
Railroads viii not of course go from
wooden TO steel cars at once They would
not do SO even If they could get the steel
cars, because they haven't the money.
They will change the character of their
rolling stock gradually. For number of
years therefore 1t is probable the steel
plants of the country will have all the
work they can do. Times ought to be
lively therefore in the steel making indus
try, both for the owners of the plants and
for the operatives.
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1t Is said that some of the New York
physicians have a new set of questions
which they ask in diagnosing a case sus-
peeted of being typhoid fever. They are:
Have you been eating uncooked oysters
within the last two or three weeks? Have
you been eating raw apples? Have you
been drinking fresh milky" If these three
questions can be answered in the negative,
it is said, and if there are no conclusive
symptoms, the physician feels safe in as
Stunning that the disease is not typhoid fe-
yer. 1T is not known" says a correspond
ent, that the medical profession as a
whole has accepted this test as conclu-
sive, but it Is known that many of our
ablest physicians begin to be suspicious
when other symptoms suggest typhoid If
they learn that either raw oysters or I'M
cooked apples have been eaten or fresh
milk drank, for the feeling is that In New
York city, where the water is pure these
are the chief means for communicating
the bacilli Of typhoid fever"
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There was a sudden drop in the quota
New York Stock Exchange on Thursday
due to the small dividend of the company
The Herald says that during the six
minutes that the decline lasted Mr.. Rookie
feller's fortune shrunk at the rate of ST.
100000 a minute. 1t must be a good deal
Of satisfaction to Mr.. Rockefeller to know
that he can lose money so rapidly and
still not have to hustle for the price of a
meal ticket.
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I had been troubled with letter for sevs,,,
years. AT times my hands would be sore all owe,
30 that could not use them at all, and were a
tender that clear water, even, smsrted like fra
and it spread over arms, neck, and face. I bas
been treated by physicians, but without bene8t
when began the CUTIcURA remedies. f9,s5
relief before IhGd taken the first bottle. fused
three or four bottles of CUTIcURA RRsoIvyV-
one cake Of CUTIcURA SOAP, and one box N
CUTIcURA (ointment), and it has never troubIes
me since. ELLA CURZON,
March 10, 1898. Eppingham, III.
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The News and Courier is leading Wig
orous movement to have the cows driven
out OF Charleston. our neighbors seem,
indeed, to be disposed 10 put on city airs.
Amer awhile they will be wanting to
burn gas. ride on street cars and put fun
length stationary bath tubs into their
house