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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
PoIitene.s at Family Whist.

Grumpy said Brown, according to
the Detroit Free Press, as he bit the end
of from a choice cigar and struck match
on the hell of his shoe. lis the perfection
of politeness to the utmost degree. He
never gets mad, but he has habit Of say
ing things in a way that causes one to
wish that he would get mad and relieve
himself by swearing.
There are only TWO things in this world
that Grumpy considers serious-death and
whist. 1 don't suppose that he worries
much about death, but whist is a contron-
ing passion not to be lightly treated /
attended a card party the other evening,
and it CHANGED, much to my annoyance,
that 1 was placed at a table with Grumpy
for while I like 10 play whist, 1 do not
look upon 1t, as Grumpy does as being
a life or daeth matter hung around with
the heavy silence of the tomb. But when
L discovered that Mrs. BLANK was his
partner 1 swallowed a grin and prepared
to enjoy myself. Mrs Blank belongs to
that element always to he found at a whist
party known as the one with the wander
ing mind and an overwhelming desire to
be kept continually posted on the question
of trumps. The cards had gone but thee
tlmes around when Mrs. Blank exclaimed ::
" Dear me, what is the trump?'
Y he trump madam answered Grump-
iy, with killing pofiteness, is always de-
termned by the last card dealt which is
placed face up upon the table for he ben
eft of the players. In this hand the three
spot of clubs, being the last card to be
dealt, according to th9 rales of the game
ihe trump Is clubs.
Mrs. Bank g6sp'l and trumped Grump
ly's ace.
"On the fifth hand nround Mrs Blank
came back to life and exclaimed:
" Dear me, is it my play? %
" The play, madam, said Grumpy,
swallowing hard, always goes from left
TO right. Your opponent on your right.
having played, it is now, according to all
rules and precepts. perfectly proper for
you to play
This threw Mrs. Blank in flutter and
she trumped another one of Grumpy s
aces. The game went on with Grumpy
getting redder and redder in the face rs
the last cards of the hand were being
played, Mrs. Blank threw down her card
out of tern and exclaimed;
" 4 have it,
" Madam answered GrUmply, begin.
ming to choke, by the rules of the -"
" I'll trim it with pink silk she broke
in, with sparkling eyes, with a deer gore
up the back and white braid. It will be
a dreamP
Grumpy arose and left the table. He
had to save his reputation of being polite
at all times.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
Getting Ready for Theater.

She had kissed the baby for the last time
until she returned, and then kissed him
again, says the Philadelphia Press. She
had carefully locked every door in the
house and all the windows. She had turn
ed the gas to the exact point at which
it was to be left until her return. She
attended to the CRATE and warned Bridget
not to NEEDLE with it for fear of fire
She had explained to the maid the use
of the burglar alarm, the fire alarm and
the policeman's whistle. She had put the
cat and dog in the cellar and had wrap
ped newspaper around the canary s
cage. And then she was ready.
She locked the inside door and tried ii.
Then she locked the outside door and tried
it. Then she opened the outside door and
tried the inside door again. Then she
locked the outside door again, tried it.
and they started. They had proceeded two
streets, and her husband had just begun
to congratulate himself that she really
was ready when she suddenly stopped.
John" she said, Il must go back and
tell Bridget to be sure and not wake the
baby up unless he wakes himself"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
LET THE GERMANS BEwAREi

For quite long time the Germans have
been annoying US by alleging that they
have found bugs In our apples and bacilh
in our meats, and shutting the doors Of
their markets upon US for that reason. Be
ing good natured, we have heretofore done
very little more than protest against the
remarkable discoveries Of their bug-hunt-
are at last in a position 10 defy them,
and return blow for blow if the worst
comes to the worst. A Chicago chemist has
furnished US with a weapon. Literally, we
have it in our power to smite the Teuton
Justify with his own tin goose that has
heretofore laid the golden egg.
Aha" said little girl with delight on
the morning after Christmas, Il have
found out where Santa Claus lives" And
where is it?" asked her mother. why, in
Germany. because all Of the toys he
brought me have got Made in Germany
marked on them" If one will take the
trouble to look the next time one goes
into toy store. it will be seen that wheth-
er or not Santa Claus is a German, GER
tainly the greater number of tin geese,
woolly dogs, papier-mache horses, tin mu-
sic boxes, various sorts Of dolls and other
toys, bear the legend, MADE in Germany"
And many of the toys are covered with WV
id paints. Therein lies our opportunity for
retaliation
The Germans have alleged that we have
been trying to feed them trichinea in pork
and disease germs in apples; we can reply
that they have been sending US poison,
for our children to suck off their toys, in
the gaudy paints with which the toys are
made more radiant than the spectrum. The
Chicago chemist purchased a number of
MADE in Germany toys of the cheap
grades. of the kinds that go into homes by
the tens of thousands every Christmas and
scraped the paint off of them, and analysed
it. In every case, he says, "oxide of zinc,
or zinc white as it is commonly known,
was found prominent among the ingre-
dents. This is a we'll known poison. The
gaudy red decorations were made with red
lead, another poison. The gold was COM
posed of brass filings ground in shellac.
Small quantities of this would produce Sc
rious trouble with a child" The only
harmless coIoring matter found was lamp
black. There are harmless colorings which
might be used but they cost more than
the poisonous ones used. We buy-or rath-
er Santa Claus brings in-S, 100000 pounds
of these toys from Germany every year.
Suppose we should prohibit him from
bringing in anything of the sort Made in
Germany" would it not hurt? The Ger
mans had better be good.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
PERSONAL.

-Slatin Pasha is about to leave the
Egyptian army in order that he may spend
the remainder of his days among his
friends In Austria. He had enough of the
Soudan during the advance on Obdurman
He left Vienna for Cairo at the age Of
II, and six years later was appointed by
Gordon Governor of Darfur
Senator Ross of Vermont is a man of
punctual habits When offered the appoint
Tn"ht TO succeed Senator Morrill, he said
he would allow himself half an hour to
think 1t over. He shut himself up in his
library for thirty minutes, at the close of
which time he made his decision In thirty
six hours 10 was on his way to Washing
ton.
Prof Dicey, the well-known essayist,
historian and lawyer, is to succeed Sir
John Lubbock as principal of the Work
insmens College, Great Ormord street
London. This Institution, was founded
about half a century ago by Frederick
Denison Maurice, Tom Hughes and Charles
kingsley, its purpose being TO unite the
students, who are for the most part work
ingmen, and the teachers, by associating
them In the common work of teaching and
learning.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
The Story of a Bishop.

Some years ago when DR.. Creighton
now bishop of London, was bishop of Pc
terborough, he got into conversation on a
train with a passenger who mistook him
for a curate, and who soon became sur
prised at the omniscience of his companion
who talked of nothing that he did not
adorn. By and by the passenger discov-
cred that the curate was going to travel
on route on which he wished to send
his own luggage, he himself journeying on
another to meet it later. He asked the
curate if he would mind looking after it,
and then, on his consenting, he thought it
wise 10 know to whom it was that he was
about to trust his portmanteau. So he
said: by the by. it never occurred TO
me to ask you, sir, but where are you a
curate?" well, as a matter of fact, I
am not curate." oh" said the gentle
man, you are a vicar or rector?" mo, -
he said, 1.-The fact is l am not. I have not
a benefce." BY this time the inquirer
was becoming somewhat nervous about his
portmanteau, and So with some degree of
point he said; ''Well, sir, but what are
you?" Upon which the gentleman said,
"Well, the fact is. am bishop" "And
what bishop" ''The bishop of Peterbor-
ough."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
BRIGHT BITS.

Mortified Old Lady-Oh, kind sir, think
of your mother. Think of your mother!
Burglar (sternly)-No use, lady; I was
brought up in an MISUNDERSTANDING
The Algerian Idea.-JalSey Krouts-Vat
vas standing army, Fritz?
'Vy, dot vas an army dot will sthan'
mos anyt'ings, vrom canned jackass to
embalmed pigs ankle" Life.
THAT young man means WELL" said
Mabels father "but he isn't intellectual.
He doesn't think much"
Eyes, he does interrupted Mabel conf
IDENTITY, "he thinks great deal of me-
Washington Star.
An English lady, walking with her
little girl, saw a lame old beggar bearing
on his hat the legend, 81 fought at Water
loo"
give him some money, for he helped
to save your country" said the lady. AS
the child dropped some silNr into his
hand the ex-soldier bowed and exclaimed
''Merci, mademoiselIe. Tit Bits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Calanthe Lodge No. 2S. K. of
p; the Hlbernian Society; Clinton Lodge
No 81, f. & A M. Savannah Volunteer
Guards German Friendly Society.
Special Notices-Notice of Trespass of
Cattle and other Domestic Animals, F.
S. Lathrop, Administrators Estate of w.
@. Lathrop; Notice of Trespass of Cattle
and Other Domestic Animals on Lands of
j. F. Sweat: Imported Cigars. Ed l..
Byck; Sale of Pale of Horses, Buggy and
Harness Etc. of DR.. George II. Stone,
Deceased. c. W. saussy, Temporary Ad-
ministrator.
Business Nouces-Shakespeare La Car
plita, lie Panic and Artie Cigars, H. Solo
mon & Son.
"Our Price" THE Spalding" Bicycle,
Etc.-Oppenheimer, Sloat & Co.
Amusements-"Fi Ball" at the
Theater March A. Matinee and Night.
Legal sale-Receiver's Sale of Whining
ton Island Pleasure and improvement
Company.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company; French Line, Com
pagnie Generate Transatlanuque.
Bicycles-Monarch Bicycles.
Medlcal-Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky; S.
S. s.; Cuticura Remedies; Browns Bron-
chiaI Troches; Hoods Pills; Ayers Medi-
cines; Munyon's Inhaler
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellane-
GUS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
An Aid 10 Memory.

A stranger dropped into one OF the
Woodward avenue groceries the other day
and inquired of the clerk If he had anv
nuts, says the Detroit Tribune. The. clerk
answered in the affirmative
What kind do you want?" he asked.
81 don't know. Just name them over to
me, win your"
.'Well, we have hickorynuts pecans
beech, walnuts, almonds, peanuts" and he
ratified off number of other varieties. but
the stranger shook his head
"Fiberts," suggested the clerk.
mo, something like that but not fill
berts."
"Butternuts%'
The stranger smiled. That's it. thank
you"
How many do you want?" asked the
clerk.
Il don't want any. I've been trying TO
think OF the name of that street for an
hour, and thought that would be a good
scheme to help me out. want TO get to
Butternut street What car do takeg"
manufacturers Agent-Is the head.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

Col. Bryan isn't a kisser. The other day
in Texas town. during a reception, a
pretty young lady approached and asked,
blushingly, "Mr. Bryan, will you kiss
me?" The silver leader was surprised for
a moment, but quickly recovered himself
and answered: My dear young woman, I
am not Hobson." The young lady Ruby
Gardner by name. will now be known to
fame as the girl whom Col. Bryan refused
to kiss
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
ARE ALL LIES SINFUL,

A lie is a falsehood uttered or acted for
the purpose of decelving; an intention
violation of the truth anything which
miseads. According to the strict con-
structionists, the devil is the father of
liars, and all lies are abomnable. It
makes no difference what the purpose of
it is lie is held to be wicked and repre-
hensible.
But, as a matter of fact and common
sense, are all lies sinful and wicked? In
deed, are not some lies not only pardon
able, but commendable? Passing over the
social lies, in which regrets that are not
felt are expressed for the purpose of
avoiding the wounding of feelings and the
estranging of associates, one comes TO the
earnest and desperate lying in the sick
room. OF this the telegraph dispatches
have recently given us at least two cases
in point One involves the fatal illness of
a soldier in Cuba, and the other the illness
of Mr.. Kipling
In the case of the soldier, he was in the
last stages of a. disease which eventually
proved fatal. The nurse and the doctor
told him there was only one chance in ten
thousand for his recovery. He had at
home young wife and child who were de-
pendent upon him for support. He request
ed the nurse to write letter to the wife
At his dictation the nurse wrote: Dear
Mary: l have been quite I'll, but am doing
as well as could be expected now. I hope
to see you before a great while. Do not
feel anxious about me, as l am being well
cared for. God bless you and the baby"
And that was the last message from her
husband that Mary ever got. When he die
tated the lie he was dying Was that lie,
told for the obvious purpose of soothing
a sorely troubled heart, wicked and sin
full lie? VIII 1t be charged up against the
soldier in the final accounting?
During the time of Mr., Kipllng's despe-
rate illness his little daughter Josephine
died. She was his favorite and playfellow.
one of the first requests that he made af-
ter coming out of his condition of deli
rum was that he be Informed of his child
rem, and that Joe" as he affectionately
called her, be sent to him as soon as pos
sible. In his weakened and precarious con-
dition the attendants did not tell him she
was dead. They could not have done so
without endangering his life. In short they
avoided the truth; otherwise, they lied to
him Was the lie reprehensible and wick
ed? Should the attendants have adhered
to the blunt, crushing truth, merely be-
cause it was truth?
1t is not intended. of course, TO defend
lying, or to apologize for the despicable
practice of telling or acting untruths, but
merely to draw attention to the fact that
there are differences even in lies, and that
some lies should not be regarded as
fruit of the activity of the prince of evil
The devil has no part in or sympathy for
the lie which the gentle sister of mercy
tells the sinking patient, in the hope of
buoying him Up for final struggle against
death, when she says: oh yes, you are
better now" while her heart Is breaking
with the bitter truth that the end is only
matter of hours or minutes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

There is the prospect of some lively and
interesting times ahead between Gomez
and the Cuban Assembly" Gomez will,
IN all probability ignore the assembly 50
Impeachment of him. and go on about his
business just the same as if he had been
given a vote of confidence except that he
will cooperate with the Americans more
heartily than ever before. AS between the
old general and the Assembly the peo-
pie of Cuba would probably choose to
follow the lead of the former.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

The New York Board of Trade ami
Transportation has already begun 70 work
on having the Democratic and Republican
national conventions meet in New York
next year. The plan is to have the citi-
zens contribute towards defraying the ex-
penses of the conventions. The objection
seem to be that not the citizens, but the
hotels saloons, street railways and the
railroads. will reap the benefits, hence
there has not been as yet general out
pouring Of citizens eager 10 subscribe to
The funds.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

A dispatch from Washington to the New
York Evening Post says that the war de-
partment has abandoned. or win abandon
canned roast beef as an army ration in the
Philippine Islands Hereafter beef on the
hoof viii be sent to the soldiers in those
islands, to be slaughtered as needed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

An interesting story is being told in the
Washington correspondence of some of the
newspapers. to the effect that the admin
istraiion has determined to defeat Mr.
Read for reelection to the speakership
in retaliation for his antagonism,
real or apparent, TO the policies
OF the President respecting expansion.
The story goes on to say that Representa-
tive Sherman of New York has been de-
cided upon as the administrations candi-
date for succession to the speakership
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

The Norfolk Landmark seems to regard
q large part Of the funds in the New Jer-
sey treasury as lll-gotten gains. Com
menting upon our paragraph respecting
the amount Of money the New Jersey leg
isiature has appropriated for the voluu-
tcer soldiers, the Landmark says: 1--WE
erudge the New Jersey volunteers moth
Ing, bat we venture to say that most of
The money that their state will spend upon
them viii come from fees charged for
licensing trusts to prey upon the people of
tile whole country" New Jerseys corpor-
alton laws are, indeed. extremely liberal
Inc STATE seems 10 seek revenues from
monopolies and combinations of capital.
Only few days ago. it is stated. her sec
rotary Of state received a fee of $4,000 for
recording two or three hundred words of
the charter granted to a great trust. At
the same time, there is one mitigating cir
cumstance, namely, that New Jersey turns
her money loose literally,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

Atlanta's new anti-spitting ordinance
will go into effect on the first day of next
month. Savannah ought not to be very far
behind the capital city in instituting this
needed reform.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

The citizens Of Fort Wrangel, one of the
principal towns in Alaska, have petitioned
the government 10 be allowed to annex
themselves TO Canada. They say that the
United States laws are not enforced at
Fort Wrangel that the flag means nothing
20 the people. that the town is the center
OF travel between Canada and Alaska, and
that a change of flags from the American
10 the Canadian would greatly benefit bus
mess and aid the preservation of law and
order. This, it will be borne in mind, is
In country which has been American ter
ritory for more than thirty years. If Alas
ka is still estranged from us after thirty
years, how long viii il take for us to
benevoienTy assimilate the Philippines?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
Soft White Hands
IN A SINGLE NIGHT

Soak the hands thoroughly, on retir,.
a hot lather of CUTIcURA SOAP IN
anoint freely with CUr1cURA lo,- ~ and
greatest Of emollient skin cures. v ,,,-suIl,
gloves during night. The effect ia +r,'- l Old
derful, and blessing to all with Sow Won
itching palms, and painful finger end. lands
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

The extraordinary number of officers in
the Cuban army has been accounted for
They were brave enough as privates, to
be officers; we had no other way of recog-
MIXING their merits, therefore we promoted
them to be officers" says Gomez. The
point is, of course in the fact that the
officers will receive the larger proportion
of that 100000 which is to be distributed
among the Cuban soldiers. AS we observed
some time ago, when it comes to getting
this money into the pockets of the pa
triots,'' it will probably be found that only
the officers have pockets.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13

Bishop Potter of New York has written
a letter to the Rev. Lyman Abbott about
saloons in which he severely criticizes
the Prohibitionists. He refers to them
indeed, as the "Pharisees and Sadducees
of our day." In the course of his letter
the bishop says: mo more perfect re-
production of the first named 0he Phari-
sees) has appeared in our day than the
Prohibitionists, arrogant, denunciatory
ignorant, INSCRIPTIONS and untruthful
holding one meager fragment Of the truth
to their eyes, and denying great and fun
damental facts in human nature, in their
foolish and futile endeavor to remedy the
perversion of human instincts by extir-
pa ting them. Meantime, il may
be well to relieve the minds of fanaticaI
and hysterical people by saying that there
is no one cure for so vast mischief as
the saloon stands for; and, generally, that,
in dealing with humanity and its pervert-
ed instincts and appettes, the Divinest
Teacher that the word has had would
seem to have taught US a law of trans
formation, as that for the regeneration,
whether of society or of the evil instincts
of individuals-not extirpation."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-13
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1899.
Inc MORNING NEWS IS publish

Registered at the p0stOaiee in savannah
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Manufacturers Agent-Is the head
buyer upstairs?
The Springdale news., 1899-04-21
lNN~NHNN~~~N~~N~
An Interesting Trial.

4 trial of funusual interest oe- cured Friday afternoon In Mayor Chapman's court. The defendant was F. G. Miller, who eiected Earl Goree from the NJ. E church the night be | fore and who was arretted on the charge of disturbing the peace, Earl Goree having sworn ou the warrant.
 It seems there had been whis- pering and talking all during the series of meetings at the church and on the night in question Mr. Miller, at the re quest of the pastor, seated him self i'll the rear of the building To preserve order. While the service was in progress Nr. Miller thought he saw Earl Goree talking, and getting up went to him and requested that he leave the room. This Earl refused to do when he was tor cibly ejected
 The trial was before jury, consisting of Jeff Banks, k. E. Renner, Bob Atwood, Ike Jack and Jno S. Dodson The prose cutionwas represented by attor ney J l.. Long and the defend ant by Col Mills. 4 number of witnesses were examined, in cluding R. H. Goodman, Fe. lix Anderson, Chas. Parrot, J. S. Dearholt, Rev Granger and J. c Pendergrass Earl Goree and Mr Miller were also on the stand. Those occupying seats nearest Earl sad they saw him do nothing calculated to disturb any oue, and after due dellberation the jury brought in verdict of guilty, fixing the fine at S5.00 and costs. amounting in all to something over S30.
 The case was appealed to circuit court.