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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25
QUESTIONS FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

.
The outlook is that the session of the
Legislature which begins today viii be
devoted to speeches rather than 10 work
IL is the understanding that the Governor
viii recommend an amendment 10 the con-
stitution for practically eliminating the
negro vote. The proposed amendment is
like the proposed amendment to the con-
s;ituiou Of North Carolina, and the consu-
tuuonal amendment adopted in Louisiana
for getting lid of the negro vote. The con-
stitufionahty Of the amendment was ques-
toned by some Of the ablest lawyers of
Louisiana when &c was under considera-
lion IN that state and there is no doubt
that its constijutionality VIII be question
cd il il is brought forward in this state
There are other questions connected with
the proposed amendment which would af
ford a wide field for discussion. so that
If it comes before the Legislature II is Ger
tain to be Ihe subject of long debate.
Other amendments TO the constitution
will, it is said, be proposed. one of them
provides for Issuing bonds in aid of public
enterprises and another for exemption
newly constructed cotton mills from taxa
ton for a number of years. These three
amendments alone would be sufficient TO
occupy the greater part of the time Of the
session. but In competition with them the
question OF calling constitutional conven-
ton will, in all probability. be considered.
Here are four matters of the highest inn
portance to the people If all OF them
should be given careful and thorough con-
sheraton there would be but title time
for anything else.
But there is the tax bill which the tax
commission has prepared. The tax matter
was discussed at the last session. and IL
occupied a great deal of time. 1t is not
reasonable to suppose that the bill which
the commission has prepared win be ac-
ceptable TO a majority of both branches
of the Legislature. 1t is safe to say that
it will meet with very great opposition
because, unless we are greatly mistaken
1t provides for some very radical changes
in the present method of assessing and
collecting taxes-changes which will not be
satisfactory TO many large and infuen-
tial interests.
In addition to the general measures
there is a prospect of the usual number
of local bills, but unless the general meas
ures are side-tracked local bills which
are strongly opposed will stand very
little chance of getting out of the commit
tees. In fact, with such an opportunity
as viii be presented for speechmaking,
very little practical work will be accom-
plished unless the evil of absenteeism is
remedied and business is pushed along
much more rapidly than mas been the case
heretofore.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Clinton Lodge No "a, F. and
a. NJ.
Special NoHces-Pants and House
Painting. Savannah Building Supply Com
pany; Second Inland Machinery. Etc, for
Sale, Savannah Foundry and Machine
Company; Or. Paige Resumes Practice;
Dividend Notice, Georgia Southern and
Florida Railway Company; Mems Fan
Overcoats, Leopold Adler; Mems Sack
Suits, Leopold Adler Look al These
Prices. c. A. Drayton Grocery Company;
State and County Taxes, 1899; Ship Notice,
Strachan & Co, Consignees.
Henry Solomon & Son.
The Time TO Buy a Gas Range Is Now
Mutual Gas Light Company.
An Endless Chain of Facts-Georgia
Steam Laundry.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the Grand, Louis
a. Levy.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS in Meg Mer-
rifles" at Theater, Oct. 27-2S.
Whisky-"Old Crow" Rye Whisky.
Legal Sale-Estate Of Martin P. War
rem. Bankrupt.
Gelaune-Eat-weil Gelatine.
Black and Tan, the American Porter
--Anheuser-B Busch Brewing Association.
Mineral WateT-Hunyadi Janos
Coffee-Lion Coffee.
sauce-Lea & PERKINS, Worcestershire
Sauce.
Beef-Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Wayfers- finger Wayfers
Medical-Radways Pills; Mothers
Friend Horsford's Acid Phosphate; Lydia
Pinkhams Vegetable Pills; Warmers Safe
Cure; Munyon's Kidney Cure; DR.. Hath
away & Co
Cheap Column Advertsements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

Gen. Funston does not like to have il
appear that political influence had any
thing TO do with the movements of his
former regiment, the Twentieth Kansas.
nor with his promotion. He wishes ii to
be understood that it was the intrinsic
merit of himself and his men that car
ried them to the front and won them dis
tinction. 1t Is easy enough TO appreciate
Gen. Funston's desire, at the same time
everybody knows that, unquestionebiy,
political influence had a great deal to do
with the assignment of individuals aud
regiments In the Spanish war; and the
same is true of the Philippine war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

An Indiana court has held that there is
nothing in the law which compels parents
20 furnish medicines and medical atten-
ton TO their children. The grand jury at
Frankfort had indicted a man and wife
named Chenowith for refusing to provide
medical attention for their child. The pre-
siding judge directed the jury to acquit
them, since there was no law under which
they could be convicted. The judge an
nounced from the bench that there had
never before been such a trial in the coun-
try. The state filed exceptions, and will
appeal to the Supreme Court.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

A Missouri husband has appealed for a
divorce on the ground OF his wife's home
sickness. The wife, who is only II years
old, admits that her husband has tried in
every way that he can to make iier happy.
but she declares that unless she is per-
mitted TO go back 10 her mother she will
die The husband says he has exercised
patience until he thinks IL has ceased to
be a virtue, therefore ne begs the court to
release him from the homesick girl who
is making his life miserable.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

An Atlanta dispatch says that certain
anu-Bryan and Palmer and Buckner
Democrats had arranged TO spring a
Dewey boom for the presidency upon the
occasion of the Admirals now cancelled
visit to Atlanta; that the Admiral heard
of the scheme and killed it by his declina-
ton. to the visible" chagrin ana disap-
pontmcHt Of the schemers An of which
will no doubt be Information 20 everybody
except the brilliant correspondent who
wrote the dispatch.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25
NOTICE.

Mr. H. c. Faulkner has been appointed
Eastern Manager of the Morning News 10
succeed mis- father, the late c. S. Faux
ner, Esq. The Office will be at the same
place as heretofore, % Park Row, New
York
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

a Wisconsin dentist claims to have in
vented a 'phonototypewriter," or an appa-
ratus that will reduce spoken words into
typewriter matter instantaneously The
inventor claims that by talking into an
ordinary photograph the keys of a type
writing machine will be worked by cleo
tricity and will record any dictation YER
batim. If this genius can perfect a ma
chine which win instantaneously master
the idiosyncracies of English photography
he will deserve the very highest niche
in the temple of fame. for he will con-
fer an inestimable boon upon about seven
tenths of the English-speaking population,
who cannot themselves spell correctly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

The fighting in South Africa II is said,
"has increased British respect for the
Beers" If il has also increased Boer re-
speet for the British, so much the better.
Mutual contempt is largely responsible
for the bad feeling between the two peo-
pies. When Jhey have learned 90 respect
each other, it will be possible for them to
dwell together peaceably in South Africa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

The Tennessee Board OF Health has
adopted resolutions declaring consumption
OF me lungs to be "a contagious and infec-
uous disease, and directing that all in
mates Of state institutions afflicted Win
1t be isolated in rooms or wards set aside
Tor such patients. and not permitted 90 as
sociate with other inmates. When the
rooms or wards become vacant they are
10 De disinfected i'm accordance with the
prescribed regulations for contagious dis
eases.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Dem) says:
Somebody thinks Admiral Dewey made
a sad mistake in riding in a rich mans
private car from Washington to Boston.
Yes. and he slept in a rich woman's home
in Washington, and was the guest of A
very rich man in Vermont. Ii is too bad
Cousin George should know better than
10 put himself i'm the power of the gilded
cormorants. The proper things for him to
have done would have been 10 walk to
Boston. sleep on a park bench in Wash
iugton and live under a shelter tent in
Vermont George was very thoughtless."
The Philadelphia Record CDem) SAYS:
"Tripartite government in Samoa must
always prove a failure. The proposition
to divide the islands between England,
Germany and the United States is a wise
one and should afford an easy solution of
the continuing troubles in that quarter
The disposition of the natives to mix
things up ny keeping an oversuppy of
kings has not been more uuwise or i'm
practical than the three-headed protec-
torate established by three of the great
est among civilized Powers"
The Nashville American Oem) says:
president James X Polk was considered
a good Jeffersonian Democrat and good
Jaeksoniau Democrat and good Demo-
crat i'm an respects. But were he living
now he would ne ruled out Of the party by
men vastly his interiors because of his
expansion views expressed in a message
to Congress relative to Texas and the war
with Mexico
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

The Central of Georgia Railway Company
announces that wherever there is in any
one locality not less than 200 acres of
ground that one or more farmers are will
ling to set aside for the planting of tobac-
CO." the company will send a tobacco ex-
pert, free of charge, to the farmers 10 in
struct and assist in making the crop a sue
cess. 1t seems to us that the farmers along
the lines of the Central ought TO be quick
to take up this offer. That tobacco can
be made paying crop in this section is
no longer a question. 1t has been shown
in number of instances. The proper time
for preparing the beds for tobacco is No
vember and the proper time for sowing
the seed is December and January. Those
who contemplate going into tobacco grow
ing. and desire the advice of an expert
should therefore lose no time in commu-
nicating with the Central officials and
making arrangements to secure the ex-
pert's services
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-25

Consul McCook states that there are pos
slpili'les Of good farming in Alaska But
why should any one desire to go to that
country Of cold feet and chlblains to farm.
when the farming is so much better in
Georgia2
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
LAWS FOR SANTIAGO,

General Wood Issues hop
Can't Draw Pay.
Santiago de Cuba. Oct. 21.-General
Leonard Wood, military governor pro
TEN of the department of Santiago,
to-day issued a proclamation In ten
sections, which is u sort of provisional
declaration of independence.
The first article guarantees to the
people the right of assembly for the
common good. and to apply to those in
power by petition remembrance for
the redress of grievances.
The second section guarantees the
right to worship God according to in
dividual conscience, provided there is
no interference with any existing form
Of worship.
The third section declares that
courts OF justice shall be open to all.
and that no private property shall be
taken by the government without COM
pensation.
The fourth section, dealing with
criminal trials, invests the accused
with the right to be heard himself or
by counsel. and to have compulsory
process to secure the attendance of Il
witness in his behalf.
The NTH section says no person ac-
cused of crime shall be compelled to
give evidence against himself.
The sixth section declares that no
person once acquitted Of the charge
brought against him shall be tried
again for the same offense.
The seventh section provides that all
persons charged with crime shall be
entitled to bail, except in cases of cap
ital onense. and that the writ of ha-
Dens corpus may not be suspended,
except the commanding general of the
department deems 1t advisable.
The eighth section says that exces-
sive bail shall not be required, and
that no excessive fine nor cruel nor un-
usual punishment shall be inflicted
The ninth section provides that in
order to secure the people against un-
reasonable search there shall first be
established. under oath. Il presump-
tion of guilt.
The tenth section guarantees to all
the right to write or print freely on
any matter. subject to responsibility
for abuse of the right
The municipal laws are to be admin
istered in accordance with these dec
larations of rights. subject to modifi-
cations which. in the judgment of the
commanding general. would be benefi-
cent and promote the principles of en-
lightened civilization.
General Wood received communi-
cation from Washington to-day in
which the government refuses to pay
any compensation to the archbishop Of
Santiago, Mgr SEAM de UrturI
Crespo.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
OUR FRIENDS. THE GERMANS,
Bonds That Connect Us With ,
Fathsrlsnd.

l
Bonds That Connect Us With the
Fathsrland.
To war against Germany would be
to war against our own flesh and
blood. No European country, with the
exception of Great Britain, has so
large a representation in our citizen
ship as the fatherland. In the decade
ending with 1890. over 1.400, 900 immi-
grants came to us FROM Germany, more
than a fourth of the total immisra-
tion from all Europe in that period,
Several of our large cities, including
Cincinnati and Milwaukee, have a Iars-
er percentage of German-born citizens
than of all other foreigners put to-
sether. And these people are among
our most loyal, substantial and valu-
able citizens. They are not wanting
In love for the land Of their birth, but
they love the land Of their adoption,
still more. They are true Americans.
A common love Of learning is an
other strand in the bond uniting us
with the German people. Nowhere in
the world Is the leadership of Germany
IN various fields Of scholarship SO fully
and frankly recognized as in the Unit
ed States. We send many Of our bright
est young men to sit at the feet of her
great teachers and to drink deep at her
springs OF learning. We glory in her
unparalleled achievements in the do
mans Of science and philosophy. To-
ward the country OF Goethe and Schil-
Ter. OF Luther and Humboldt. we can
never De set in hostile array. Du.-
stronger. perhaps. than any 9TH
er strand in the bond that unites US
with Germany is our common trade in
terest. The shuttles of commerce. fly
ing swift and fast across the seas for
a hundred years, have woven us to-
gether by golden threads that may 1ot
easily be severed. Last year we sent
Germany breadstuffs, manufactured
products and other articles to the val
ue of $123. 3.784,453. Germany sent US
back in exchange chemicals, cloth and
other needful things to the value OF
$lll,2lO.614. With no other country
except Great Britain does our volume
OF trade reach such proportions as this.
We export to Germany more than
twice as much as we do to France,
and more than twelve times as much
as we do to Spain. And the volume
of trade between America and Ger
many is more evenly balanced than
between us and any other country in
the world. We take nearly as much
as We give. A friendship based on
such considerations as these will not be
lightly broken.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
SEEING AouInALpo,s SHIPS.
Admiral Dewey Making the Insurgents
Angry

Angry.
New York, Oct. 21.-A cable to the
Herald from Manila says:
Admiral Dewey has seized all of
AgufnaldO's steamers and trouble is
likely as result.
The natives who follow the standard
of the insurgent leader are indignant
ana have assumed threatening atti-
tude because Of what they term the
high-handed acts of the Americans.
The health of the American troops
is good. the only ailments being those
to which Europeans are subject when
not accustomed to this climate.
The rntions, according to the army
standard, are of good quality, but the
soldiers, who have been used to better
fare at home, are complaining to some
extent. The boys continue happy, but
they are anxious to return home.
Lots Of fun has been furnished the
soldiers by baseball contests for silver
cups given by business houses In
these contests the Utah team defeated
the Fourteenth regulars and South Da-
kotn routed Minnesota. Colorado bat
tied manfully with Nebraska, but the
game was called.
Chinese thieves are legion in Manila.
Everything portable Is liable to disap-
pear II the owner turns his back for n
few moments. Officers and civilians
both suffer frequently from the depre-
dations of the Mongolians.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11

A visitor to the Moro, one of the
Santiago defenses, found that shell
fred from one of our ships had dis
mounted six-inch bronze gun made
in 1893. What vista OF history is
opened by that single shot, A quar-
ter Of century after the cannon be-
gan Its career. Wolfe was to die vic
torious at Quebec, and France was to
lose vast possessions on this side of
the sea. Soon after came our war of
Independence. and the ejectment of
the English from our land; and so on,
through list OF developments in poll
tics In the new world which have been
q source of wonder to the old world.
The floating triumphant battle ship-a
moving symbol of national power
from which came the disabling shell,
and the dismounted gun. venerable but
scarcely menace, may be regarded as
suggesting the condition Of the two
countries-victorious United States
and decadent Spain.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
Brlblng spurgeon.

The recent autobiography OF the late
Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon contains an
account of what may be termed an
early business venture, and its influ,
ence On his character. Spurgeon was
brought up on Watts hymns; but not
altogether willingly. His grandmoth-
er coaxed- him with money to learn
them. At first she gave him a penny.
but when she saw how easily 1t was
earned, the old lady reduced the prize
to q halfpenny and then to farthing.
There is no telling how low the
amount per hymn might have fallen.
but Just at this time his grandfather
made discovery which seemed more
desirable to Spurgeon. He discovered
that his house was overrun with rats.
and offered his grandson a shilling
dozen for all he could kill. The oc-
cupation of rat-killing gave him more
money than learning hymns. But"
Mr.. Spurgeon Enthusiastically says,
II know which employment has been
the more permanently profitable to
me-"
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
A nis Ro,l.a Dinner.

Cooks in large hotels and boarding
houses may think they get up meals
on big scale, says the Portland Tran
script, but when 1t comes to whole
sale cookery the little village Of Liss,
on the London & Southwestern Rail
way, England, surpasses them all. At
a barbecue held there not long ago an
OK was boiled-not 'roasted-whole:
and this is how 1t was done: A large
hole was dug in the ground and lined
with brick. Inside this tank large
enough to hold the OK was built. The
carcass was then lowered into the tank.
having first been placed In a case
formed by heavy cross-bars, to which
chains were attached. Pulleys from a
scafolding above were used to raise
and lower the OK. Many vegetables,
such as carrots, onions. cabbages and
potatoes. were boiled with the meat,
The boiling required seven hours.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11

Does the man who is addicted to vice
in any Of its many phases use his
brains? On the contrary he ignores
them. pushes his logical faculty into
a corner. and foolishly allows his en-
joyment of temporary pleasure to
interfere with his lasting good, II
he were to spend half an hour a day
in examining himself, and could do it
as impartially as the naturalist ex-
amines a weed or an insect, would he
voluntarily allow himself to be pois-
oned by an evil habit, or would he ex-
pect to avoid the consequences of i'm
moral courses? His difficulty is that
he does not think half enough. or even
makes an effort not to think at all,
knowing, in a vague sort Of way, that
II he thinks he will be forced to con-
denim himself. II l could persuade
men to think more profoundly about
their souls, about consequences which
are the effects of causes. I should be
benefactor of my race.-Myron w.
Reed.
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
Impure Blood
Moods Pills cure constipation. 2se.
Intelligence of Ducks.

There is popularity about the flight
of wild ducks. A flock of ducks flying
flights In the same direction days or
weeks afterward. will not vary to exceed
ducks which have preceded them. and
they will alight In almost the exact spot
where preceding flights have settled. This
currence as to establish the theory that
the lines to be pursued and the resung
places have been a matter of prearranRe-
ment, but how the plans were intelli-
gently communicated and followed
a profound mystery until the hunters be-
come as familiar with the duck language
a. they are with the habits of the fowls.
''1t wasn't much of a job to lick the
Spaniards." remarked Uncle Allen
Sparks. but Its going to take long time
have got to deal with now"
The Meeker herald., 1899-02-11
svsoNlc PLAGUE AT VIENNA.
Experiments With tho HaciIli Prove Fatal
to Doctors

E4PeEs"cht1 WIN the HActlIt ffOv4 Fatal
to Doctors.
Vienna. Oct. 21.-Dr. Mueller, the
physician who attended Herr Barische.
the assistant in Professor Nothnagers
meteorological establishment who con.
tracted the bubonic plague while assist
ing In cultivating the plague bacillus,
and who was buried yesterday with re-
markable precaution, is himself serious.
ly Ill. exhibiting every symptom of the
fatal malady.
There has been no improvement in
the condition Of the two nurses who at.
tended Herr Barische and who have
developed plague symptoms. TIS case
of one is already pronounced hopeless.
Vienna. Oct. 21.-The lectures ut the
Pathological institute have been sus-
pended and all DIR. Nathnagel's assist
ants and attendants have been isolat
ed. The government has appointed a
committee containing representatives
of national and municipal bodies tc
adopt measures to prevent a spread OF
the plague.