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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
PATENTS AND TRUSTS.

A.memben of the recently formed bicy
Gle trust was quoted a few days ago as
saying that the trust expects 10 be able
to control the market largely through it's
ownership of patents. 1t owns practical
ly if not actually all of the patents on es-
sential parts of modern bicycles, hence it
has the power of the courts behind it to
prevent independent manufacturers from
becoming competitors.
This however, is far from being the
only trust whose chief bulwark is the pat
ent office. For years the telephone Offered
a striking illustration of how capital could
control an invention, shut out compei-
ton and squeeze the public through the
operation of the patent laws. The round
bale cotton press is another instance of a
patent-law-made trust.
The true purpose of the patent laws is
10 encourage invention by giving the in
ventor the exclusive control of his iuven-
ton for stated period of years. 1t was
for his benefit that the laws were enacted,
and not for the benefit oY aggregated capt.
tai. But 1t comes about in great many
Instances that the laws act directly against
the interests of inventors and the public
and in favor of combines corporations
and trusts. An inventor may patent some
original and basic idea or principle, and
dispose of it to a corporation for a con-
sideration. Other inventors, or the same
one for that matter, may vastly improve
upon the apparatus enfbodying that idea
or principle. but such Improvement is alb
soutely valueless to any person except
the corporation in question so long as the
original patent on the basic principle
stands Thus the inventors of improve
menis must sell out TO the corporation at
its own figures. or receive nothing what
ever for their ingenuity. The corpora ton
does not permit the public to have the
| benefit of improvements unless tribute is
| paid to il. 1t can be seen. therefore, that
| the patent laws put into the hands Cf
trusts a powerful weapon with which to
! fight inventors, competitors and the pub
| lie.
Evidently the patent laws must be taken
into consideration in any plan of anti
trust crusade before that plan will give
| promise of success. 1t is desirable. of
course and necessary, that the protection
of the law should be thrown around the
inventor. He should be permitted to reap
the fruits of his brains and skill, which
he very often fails to do under the pre-
sent laws. Would it not be possible TO re.
model the laws SO that the use of the in
vention would be open TO all who paid the
inventor fixed royalties? Something like
! this. IL would seem. would be ample pro-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
PERSONAL.

The North China Herald says the rich
est man in the world is Lii Hung Chang,
and estimates his wealth at S30oG0.O00
This may explain his interest in the wealth
of others.
Alison S. Sherman, Mayor of Chicago in
1874, is still alive and in perfect health. He
is the last surviving chief of the old volun-
teer fire department and was a member of
the first bucket company formed in
Chicago.
When "Ftghting Bob" Evans was a
student al Gonzaga College, Washington,
D. c.. he was the schools star" baseball
player, and still has passion for the
game never missing chance to see a good
contest on the diamond.
Jerome X Jerome takes his vacations
on a farm, where he becomes one of the
day laborers. He has studied agriculture
both from a theoretical and practical point
of view and expects to establish a model
farm of his own next summer
Gov. Hogs early prediction for poll
tics is established by the story that early
in life, when the Texan was a justice OF
the peace, young lawyer mad the temer-
ity to offer him a motion for the postpone
ment of a hearing. The justice gravely
assured him that as no one seconded the
motion he could not entertain it.
Rev Dr. David H. Moore of Cincinnati
who viii probably succeed to the place OF
the late Methodist Bishop Newman, is ed
itor of the Western Christian Advocate. He
| is a graduate of the Ohio State University
| and enlisting as a private in the civil war
| rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
PRonInIrIoN PARADoxEs.

A writer ia the Popular Science Month
ly. treating o. The recent legislation
against the drink evil. finds that the Off
cial statistics which he had secured for
study develop TWO paradOxes; first, that
the fewer the places where liquor is Legal
IN sold the larger the consumption OF
liquor and second. the larger the legal
sale and open consumption Of liquor The
less drunkenness there is Maine has
been an absolutely prohibition state-the
only one in the Union-for a great many
years; nevertheless the consumption OF
liquor in Maine is very large and the
amount OF drunkenness in that state ia
proportionately not less than in any other.
on the other hand Montana, which re-
CARDS the liquor business from revenue
standpoint merely and which has the un-
enyiable prominence of having more liquor
sellers paying license fees, in proportion
to population. than any other state of the
union, Is less burdened with drunkenness
than Maine. In Montana IL is stated,
saloons are run wide open day and night.
and while there is a great deal of drink
ing there Is very little drunkenness; and
anyone in an intoxicated condition is
promptly arrested and fined" Louisiana
is another state which looks at the liquor
question from the revenue standpoint, The
state has an elaborate excise, but it is
guil1ess of any suggestion of reformatve
objects; and yet the statistics show that
Louisiana is one of the most temperate
states in the union.
The author of the article referred to does
not attempt to explain these paradoxes. He
gives the facts, which apparently tend to
show hat prohibition Is not the true solu-
ton of the drink problem. Not only has
| Maine failed to stop liquor drinking and
| drunkenness with her drastic prohibition
laws. but since the adoption of those laws
| she has seen both her wealth and popuia-
ton dwindle Her decline has been
steady, and states admitted into the sister
! hood only a few years ago have already
! passed her in afiuence, power and pros
! perlty
Throughout the country there have
been ten distinct systems of liquor con-
troll incorporated in their statutes by the
various states, namely, % prohibition. (2)
example, CD education, "a government con-
troll of all warehousing and sales, 90 regu-
lation of hours for retailing, 90 refusal 10
employ drinkers, ca personal damage law
| 81 encouraged use of light wines and beers
and removal of duties or imposts on food
products, 90 high license, GO) local option
| or all of these the evidences are that the
last two. especially where they have beer
combined. have given the most satisfac-
tion-have been attended by the best re
suits. Local option prevails in Georgia
Under it by far the greater part of the
state has abolished the dispensing or sal,
of liquor; ana the abolition is recognize
and respected, for the reason that tn,
majority of public sentiment is behind Il
This is voluntary prohibition, and its gooC
| results are recognized and conceded.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

In the southern end of Columbia, near
the river, is a roiling-miI office, which to
these who know it recalls romantic story
closely Identified with the writings of sew
eral English novelists, says the Baltimore
Sun That Office was once the home of
Robert Barber, high sheriff of Lancaster
county, about l7l0, and in log jail which
Barber built near his house was confined
for a time James Annesley, subsequently
a prominent character in England as
claimant Of the EGrldOm of Anglesey.
The story Of James Annesley's adven-
lures and prosecutions forms the ground
work of Charles Reade's wel-known nov
el the Wandering Heir" and is also in
corporated into portions of SCOTS Guy
Mannering" Smoletts 'Peregrine Pick e.
and a once popular novel, Florence Ma
earthly"
Annesley was a son of Lord Altman, a
grandson of the first Earl Of Anglssey.
After his fathers death in 1727 his fathers
brother Kidnapped the nephew ana had
him sold as an indentured servant in Phil
adelphia through which action the uncle
afterward was enabled to become the Earl
of Ang! esey. The lads service was bought
| by a Lancaster county farmer, whose
| daughter fell in love with the servant as
did also a young Indian girl. These en-
| barrass ments caused Annesley 10 run
| away, but he was caught and kept in In S
Jail at Columbia until returned to his mas
! ter.
! He was recognized as the heir to the An
| glesey title by two Irishmen who hap
| pened to visit his masters farm, and they
! became so much interested in his story
| that they offered to go back with him to
help prove his righIful inheritance, There
was a big sensation in London on his re-
turn His uncle contested the charges
against him by assertions that Annesley
was not really the son of his brother, but
! Annesleys cause was justified by the
court though he never had money enough
to prosecute it TO the end and again the
title and estates. His uncle remained in
possession ana there were several bloody
quarrels between them and their follow
| ers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
Genesis of Luetgert's Case.

"a boy fishing in a pond in Lincoln
Park caused the first step in the arrest
of Adolph Luetgert, the rich sausage max
er in Chicago who was tried for killing
his wife ana boiling her body in a vat"
said a Chicago man to New York Sun
reporter after he had read the news of
Luetsert's death in Joliet penitentary.
1T has never been printed. This is the
story: A boy was seen by reporter fish
ing in the pond which is contrary to the
law. The incident wa. printed. The po-
lice captain in the district sent cop to
the pond TO watch. The boy saw the cop
and kept away. The cop did bit of
quiet fishing on his own hook. The boy
saw it and gave it away. The paper
printed that The police denied it. The
report was verified and the paper turned
its attention to the violation of the park
laws by the police. Down goes the cap
tain of the district to the newspaper office
and makes an explanation His eXplana-
ton was printed. and it pleased the cap
tain. Down goes the captain again to
thank the city editor for the explanation,
and then he says 10 the city editor;
" You've treated me white and now I'll
give YOU a bunch on a big piece of news,
or what will turn out to be such in my
opinion Luetgerts wife is mysteriOusly
missing-has been for -FOUR days-and he
has made no report of it. But whenever
one of his dogs goes out over night he
rushes in to report that. That's the
hunch."
The city editor takes the bunch and
next day he has beat on the most SEN
sational criminal case in the West. Sup
pose the boy had not gone fishing in the
park pond?. Or having gone, suppose he
had not been caught?. Or having beer
caught, suppose he had not squeaied or
the cop?. Anyway, a boy fishing hastened
| the case against Luetgert'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
The Advantage of the Eye.

During the late Spanish-American war a
certain Old colonel who had lost an eye
al the battle of Gettysburg was very in
dignaut because he was put aside as ply
sically incapacitated, when he applied for
admission TO one of The New York voiun-
teer regiments, says the Youths Com
Danion
Filled with wrath and chagriu the col
onel journeyed to Washington, bent on
having personal interview with the Pres
ident He succeeded in gaining an audi
erce, and the President, after listening TO
his plea, said, kindly. SRI
But. my good Col J., you have only
one eyer
Just so. SRI" was the prompt rejoinder,
but can't you see the great advantage of
my having only one eye? When l aim
my gun I shan't have to close the other"
He fought at Santiago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
what the south win Do-to Dewey

From Leslies Weekly,
When Dewey comes home-we are going
down TO meet him,
In our uniforms of gray.
We are going down to greet him;
We viii wine and dine and fete him;
We all know just how to treat him;
Once we struggled hard to beat him,
But we found it didn't pay.
We were forced to thrust away
Our old uniforms of gray,
But wen don them on the day
That Dewey comes home.
When Dewey comes HONEYWELL be there
with banners tattered;
Emblems of the Old "Confed."
Wen be there with muskets battered:
Uniforms blood-stained, despatched;
Helmets bullet-pierced and shattered;
But he'll never know it mattered-
For Wen tell him we have said:
Though our blood we freely shed,
Time has healed the wounds that bled;
Hate lies buried with our dead"
When Dewey comes home.
When Dewey comes HONEYWELL be waiting
there TO cheer him
With the old-time rebel yell.
He will know that we revere him
When with that old yell we cheer him.
1t will give us places near him:
Ii will make us long 10 hear him,
Hear the hero Dewey tell
OF the day Manila fell
OF the work he did so well;
Did so wen with shot and shell.
When Dewey comes home.
When Dewey comes home-we will all be
there to meet him
And to grasp the heros hand
We will all be there 10 greet him;
Royalty wen dine and fete him;
We old vets know now to treat him.
There's no man on earth can beat him.
And united we will stand,
Sons Of one great fatheriand;
Brothers comrades, hand in hand:
yankee DoOdle-DiXie Land"
When Dewey comes home.
Lawrence Porcher Hext
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetng-G Georgia Historical Society.
Special Notice-Ship Notice, sUachan &
Co, Consignees.
Business Nouces-Banque Hal All To-
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Wholesale Agents.
Legal Notices-Cttation From the clerk
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Steamship Merchants and Min
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

of Illinois. Kansas. Indiana and other
states Of the West and North, and ne Is
destined to carry that competition still
much further. The day is probably not
very far distant when the sons and grand
sons Of those who fought against the COM
petition of negro labor, and un.ntention-
ally freed the negro before they had got
through with it. Will find themselves bur
dened with quite as much of race proc
lem as exists in the South
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
Too Much Learning spoIs a Sale.

IUO NucH LtHIHIHE eNO'IH ]"
Have you got any watermelons on tce?'
inquired the man with the basket on his
arm. says the Chicago Tribune.
NO sir" replied the young man with
the eyeglasses.
The customer was about to go. when the
young man stopped him.
we haven't any melons on ice he said
but we have some under ice. 1t keeps
them colder that way. Heat rises and cold
descends. you know. VIII one be enough
Il reckon it will" rejoined the man with
the basket. But I'm going somewhere else
to get it. l don't believe I can afford to
trade at a grocery shop where they keep
SCIENTISTS for clerks Afternoon, sir
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

once more a new cure for consumption
is announced The discoverer this time
is a Frenchman, who resides at RoubaiX.
His treatment is described as follows: HE
daily injects into the bronchial tube es-
sence of eucalyptus, thyme and cinnamon,
held in solution in olive Oil The oil in
descending slowly comes into contact with
the walls of the bronchial tube and the
upper lungs. The gas that is set free
saturaies the air in the lungs and acts on
the mucus membranes as far as the ali
penetrates." II is claimed that the dis
coverer. Or. Mendel has treated siXteer
cases by this method, and that in each OF
them either a complete cure or grea
benefits have resulted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

It is rumored in Lexington, Ky, that
Goebel will be requested by certain Of his
friends TO retire from the head Of the Dem
ocrauc state ticket in favor of
ex-GoV. John Young Brown, in
the interest Of harmony But it
may be doubted that Mr.. Goebel will
accede to any such request. He lis not
known as a gutter; Furthermore, if he
were to quit now. it would mark the end
of his political career.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

The Yaqui Indian outbreak Is in Mexico,
stin ii is not without an element of dan
ger to citizens of this country. The va
qu country is in the Mexican state of
Sonora, which borders on Arizona, and the
troubles are not a great way from the
frontier. The hostile Indians would not
hesitate to cross INTO Arizona if it should
suit their purposes to do so; in which
event we might have to join Mexico in
lighting a hOt little Indian war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

Those vivacious, rather than veracious.
correspondents who are sending out 60
Northern papers stories Of crimes and
murders in Georgia might find it profta-
bic to investigate the field of criminality
in Ohio, where there seems to be an cpl
demic Of wife murders. Every day there
occurs one or more of these crimes. the
principal variation in them being the num-
Der Of children killed along with the
mother These crimes ought to make
good human interest stories, and be
rather profitable at space rates. The New
York Herald's Atlanta correspondent might
do well TO spend his vacation in Ohio
wading through the blood of murdered
wives and children. He would no doubt
ind it a delightfully."- congenial pastlme
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

Oddly enough Esterhazy, who confesses
to having written the bordereau, is free
and cannot be convicted, and Du Patty de
Clam who has confessed to various acts
of rascality, has been released from i'm
prisonment while Dreyfus, who has al
ways stoutly maintained his innocence, is
still in jail.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

The recent Republican state convention
of Ohio indorsed the HannaPayne ship
subsidy bill, and the Iowa Republican con-
vention last week passed a similar resoiu-
ton. 1t thus becomes apparent that a
strong effort is going to be made in the
next Congress to push through this piece
of legislation which win enable ship own
ers to thrust their hands deep into the fed
eral treasury.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Louisville Courier Journal Dem.)
says: Judge Gambler, of Georgia, is quite
right in notifying critics in the Northern
states that they win do well 10 look at The
lawlessness nearer home. Undeniabiy
there is a great deal of very ugly defiance
OF law in the large cities of the North as
well as many hideous crimes, secretly
committed in small towns and rural dis
tricts That lawlessness takes a somewhat
different form I'm the South from what it
assumes i'm the North is due to the differ
ence of conditions. In the South, as Judge
Gambler points out substantially, mobs as
semble TO punish crimes which SUR the
blood TO the point of insanity, while IN the
North they are provoked by controversies
about the management of property, the
rate Of wages and the like. This point is
rather cfeverly presented and puts the
Northern cities in the wrong
The Washington Post Qnd) says: "If
the Democrats are really in earnest about
the eviction of william Mckinley, they
will do wen not only TO get together but
to secure the votes of the greatest posi-
bic number OF all sorts and shades of o.
position 10 the Republican policy. 1t would
be easier to win by re-enforclng the grand
combine of 1896 than by dispensing that
and building anew.
The Nashville American Oem) says:
when Grand Chief Arthur, of the Broth.
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers. declares
the tactics of the Cleveland strikers ridic-
cuious we may depend upon il their cause
is without merit. There is no more con-
servative man or staunch friend of labor
in the country than Chief Arthur"
The Memphis Commercial-Appea Dem)
says: In Missouri too, they shot at the
trusts and hit the insurance companies.
The attorney general OF Missouri has tax
en- steps to Dust these institutions from the
| state,n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

If the Michigan people keep on shouting
for Alger the President may feel con-
strained to recall his acceptance of the ex-
secretary's resignation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

same as the ocu-'
list has in the eye
or the aurist with
the ear. The adop-
ton of such meth
DDS by DR.. Fl. &
Co. enables them
TO C u r e where
others have failed.
Try them and you
Will be satisfied.
d on t experiment
with electric belts,
fr e c prescriptions
and sample medi-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

kid" Layigne has enlisted in the army.
Whether he can kill with a gun may be in
doubt but he has demonstrated that he
can kin with his fists.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

Mr. Cookers objections to being conunu-
ally watched and logged by the New York
newspapers are perfectly legitimate. Es-
pecially is this true when it is considered
that The most persistent priers into his
private life are the yellow journals
which have little regard for truth and less
for personal rights. The policy of these
papers was Wen outlined by the telegram
sent 10y the editor of one Of them to his
Washington correspondent during the ses-
sion of the last congress. The editor had
wired the correspondent Of certain alleged
rumors that had reached New York. and
ordered him 10 send "a story on that line.
The correspondent answered: Absolutely
no uuh in the rumors" Back came a
reply from the great yellow editor. Damn
The truth; send Us something 10 sell the
paperw
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STRICTLY
SAFE

And SCIENTIFIC treatment is only given bg
DR.. Hathaway & Co., the expert speci,..
lists, They wish to impress upon the pub.
lie this fact that all disea ses pecuu3,
to men and women should only be treatel
by experienced physicians and scien III,
methods, and, if so, such diseases ATE