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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
A Days Work.

He was seated on the steps of the Girls
void street side of the city hall, says the
Detroit Free Press. Tramp? Yes.
His face was rough and red and bleary
and berry. One shoe was a boot-pardon
that-and the other boot was a shoe
The mans hat was brim!ess and all
crushed in on top and around his neck in
lieu of collar he had twisted an Old fray
ed and greasy string tie. His coat was
torn and green brown on the shoulders
his trousers ragged around his feet. He
wore no vest and the cheap negigee shirt
may have been b.ue-once. Apparently
tn man was doing. His eyes were clos
ed. But he may have held them that way
because ne was too lazy to wink. He
breathed hard. BY and by he opened one
eye halfway and squinted at the passers-
by in the street. Finding it not at all
inconvenient to keep that eye open, he
opened the other. 1t was easy, and the
man emitted a self-satisfied grunt.
Looking down just then he observed a
bit of raveling on the left leg of his dusty
torn trousers. He eyed that raveling crit
ically. He held his head to one side and
squinted at it. Then he held his head 10
the other side and squinted at it again
Taking a long breath, he slipped his hand
down his trouser leg. His arm wasn't
long enough for the hand to reach the raw
cling The man sighed For fully five
minutes he gazed at that bit of thread
Then with superhuman effort he inclined
his body and reaching down picked off the
raveling 1t dropped from his fingers TO
the stones, and settling back the man
rested mis- head against the pillar and
closed his eyes,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
BRIGHT BITS.

--"Oh, yes" replied the husband of the
advanced person, bitterly. 81 go home to
my meals. l have managed to retain a
coaling station in my home.-Detroit Jour
nal.
Bicycle Admonition.-"B Brethren" said
the bicycle parson, guide youah spiritual
bikes in dis yere void so dat YOU ali
won't scorch in de mex "-Philadelphia
North American.
-Brawley given to boasting)-Do you
know, 1 suppose I've the best eyesight of
any person going?
Litesum-Oh, there's no doubt of that
That book you praised so highly you were
able to read without stopping to cut the
leaves. Don't believe any other person in
town could do it.-Boston Transcript
She Wanted to Knoxville had done
his best to explain to her all. about the
Apia difficulties.
so, you see he concluded, its the
old story of too many cooks. That's the
history of the whole Samoan trouble"
Yes, Charley, dear, it's all as clear as
day, except one thing; who is this Sam
en?"-Washington Star.
He and Human Nature.-'T have been
trying for nearly year" he said, ito
get chance to ask you to be my wife. e.
All Francis she replied, Il am GLAD
to know that you are persevering, and l
shall not let your constancy of purpose
so unrewarded, l will be yours"
"Oh, but / suppose l ought to have ex-
planned first he made haste 10 answer.
that now the chance is offered, l haven
any desire to accept it, What a queer
thing human nature is, isn't it? People
are always longing for that which they
do not possess, and when they finally get
it, or have chance to get it, they don't
want it,"
She was too busy looking hard at moth
ing to rcply.-Chicago News.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
A Modern MaIanrop.

An interesting volume, with a Palette
in Eastern Palaces" by e. NJ. Merrick.
tells amusing stopes of many chimes. OF
the Western weld was a modern Mrs
Malaprop, pretty, amiable and rich, who
sat to the author for her portrait "She
told me- she says, that her husband
'hobnobbed' with everybody and told such
cotton wool cock and bulD stories; that
a girl she knew was training to be an
'arch-deacon' (deaconess); that she was
obliged to part with her coachman be-
cause he was such a gay Othello;' that
she had Indian rubber tiles put on the
wheels of her carriage; that a man she
knew was a regular 'marmoset (marti-
neO in his own house; and a certain title
always descended from uncle to nephew,
as they invariab bly, died childish Among
the numerous celebrities whom Miss Mer-
rick met in India was Lord Roberts, whose
antipa thy to cats gave rise to little story
of metempsYchosis. On one of his home
ward voyages Lord Roberts asked to have
the cat removed when he came on board
ship and stranger, not knowing who
he was, said to Lady Roberts: Don't YOU
think that little gentleman over there
must have been a mouse in a former
state?'"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
AMERICANS As FIGHTERS.

Our Two wars of 1889. with Spain and
with the Filipinos. have proved wonderful
educators We have learned more of our
own power and resources than we ever
knew before, aud Europe has learned that
We are a people to be feared and respect
ed. One consequence will be that we shall
hereafter be treated with more Difference
by the other Powers. because those Powers
have now witnessed a demonstration of
The capacity of the American as a fighting
man in foreign lands and on foreign wa
ters, and they now know that he fights
anywhere with about as much dash and
daring and intrepid courage as he does
on his own soil The great civil war
gave the world an illustration of American
Yalor and endurance that will never be
forgotten; but in that conflict the contest
ants were on home ground, and it was
only natural to suppose that Americans
would fight more desperately at home than
abroad.
That seems to have been about the gen.
eral idea entertained in foreign countries.
In some parts of Europe there was a dis
position to make light of the United States
as military power. because we kept such
a very small standing army 1t was
thought that the fighting spirit would
die out; that the nation would become
effemnate; that volunteer troops could
not be depended upon TO fight successful
battles, if called on short notice to the
defense of the national policy. All such
ideas have been abundantly disproved
The battles of Manila bay aud, Santiago
proved that the American navy is manned
by sailors who keep cool and shoot
straight; in shorl. that it is one of the
finest and most efficient organizations of
It's kind n the world. And in che land
battles in Cuba last year. and in the
Philippines this year. the soldiers. regular
and volunteer, have proved that for cour-
age, fortitude and accurate marksman-
ship, they are the peers of any that ever
went into the field, and the superiors of
many of the crack troops of the European
nations. number of Englishmen. Ger
mans and Spauiards who have recentlv
witnessed the fighting about Manila and
Caloocan are quoted in a letter TO the
New York Evening Post as expressing
''unbounded establishment, not only at the
bravery of the men in battle. but the
fortitude and cheerfuness of the wound
ed 1T was revelation to them" CON
tinues The correspondent, these two
traits of the American soldier, which won
their admiration and made them respect
more fully the military Potentially of TO-
100000 of such people as these" We are
a peace-loving people; but when it be-
comes necessary to fight, We can strike
quickly and as hard and often as may be
required TO achieve our desired ends.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
Had Observed Ii.

There had been a brilliant company at
the home of a society leader. a woman
whose husband, while very worthy man,
was noted rather for his wealth than for
his mental attachments, relates the
Youths Companion.
well, Abner," she said, after the las,
visitor had gone and they had sat down
to talk 1t over, lit was a complete sue
cess, wasn't it?''
Sure" replied the husband
Did you notice Prof. Machman?"
He was the man with the bandage
around his neck, wasn't hep
Yes. You heard him talk didn't YOU ~
"Oh. yes. 1 heard him."
What an astonishing vocabulary ne
has"
well, that may be what ii is" sai1
Abner. doubtfu,ly. "but from the way be
held his head should judge it was a car
buncle.'
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Apropos of the utterances of Edward
Washington correspondent of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat writes that Abraham Lin
coin finally came to doubt the wisdom of
Stanton's vigorous policy regarding the
speech of seeessionist sympathizers.
Gradually" says the writer, ''he came
to doubt if Imprisonment for speech in
opposition TO the government during time
of war was good policy. He doubted If
Secretary Stanton's policy of repression
really repressed it; it seemed TO encourage
martyrdcm. Toward the close of the war
Mr.. Lincolns policy of leniency toward
the secession sympathizers became more
clearly defined. Free speech that was not
commendable was tolerated. Utterances
of seditous character were ignored.
NallandighaIn was one of the Northern
sympathizers with the South. He was
imprisoned and banished to the South in
the earlier efforts TO suppress him. Later,
when Lincoln's policy of ignoring this ele-
ment of the North was in the ascendant,
Vallandigham, defying the order of exile,
returned to Ohio. The Information was
telegraphed to Washington. Nothing was
done. One loyal congressman went to the
White House to see about it,
Mr.. President" he asked. "have you
been informed that Vallandigham has re-
turned TO the North?"
Not officially" replied Mr.. Lincoln.
After brief pause, the President ad-
ded:
And I'm taking darn good care not to
be"
This fairly illustrated the policy which
Mr.. Lincoln found to be most satisfac-
tory toward enemies in the rear who used
no weapons worse than speech.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

One of the principal attractions at the
show given by the Cat Club in Chicago
says an exchange. was the tame wildcat"
an animal that had been caught in the
forests of Minnesota or Wisconsin when a
little kitten, and having fallen in good
hands, had grown Up to be gentle, affec-
tomato creature, fond of being petted. and
giving no evidence of it's original wildness
except in lis pointed ears and its size,
which was about that of four ordinary
cats
An interesting visitor having reached a
finger through the wires Of the wildcat S
cage and stroked the animals forehead,
stroldng along, and presently repeated the
performance at the cage of a particular
ly handsome Angora, receiving a savage
scratch as he did so.
Wow! Owr' he exclaimed, wrapping his
handkerchief hastily around the torn fin
ger. "A tame wildcat isn't half as dan
gerous as wild tame caty'
An agriculturist from Iowa, who had
brought some live stock to the city. and
had heard of the cat show, dropped in TO
see what it was like. He had a half
formed idea of buying one OF the handsom-
est OF the animals, if he could be assured
thai he could transport it to his home
without too mucn trouble.
With this point in mind he made the
rounds of the cages, and then, stopping in
front of splendid back cat bearing the
name of Peter Jackson, asked somebody
who happened to be standing by:
What do you suppose they'd sell that
cat for?''
The lady who owns that cat" was the
reply, ''values him at $780,"
Great Scottv gasped the visitor.
That's all 1 got for whole carload OF
fat hogs"
He didn't Buy any cats at that show.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

York or any other city. win get a chance
right away to have big blowout with
Admiral Dewey as the center of attrac-
ton He has not accepted the invitation
to attend that Sl0O-a-plate dinner concern
ing which so much has been said in the
papers Of late. He has cabled that the
condition of his health requires that he
have rest and quiet. 1t is sincerely to be
hoped that this expression is merely one
of diplomacy, to avoid distasteful noto-
riety, and that the admiraPs health is not
impaired. The American people would
think none the less of him if he should
find it inconvenieSt to eat the hundred
dollar dinner
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Auction Sale of Lots
This Afternoon, John L. Archer; Books
of Subscription, Georgia Telephone and
Telegraph Company.
Business Notices-Celebrated Whistles,
Henry Solomon & Son, Distributors.
Government Sale-sale of Surplus AMI
mails and Other Supplies at Augusta,
May &C.
Picnic-sunday School Picnic Savannah
Baptist Church, at Wilmington Island,
May 49,
Pearline-James Pyle e Son.
Proposals-For Repairs to Quarantine
Steamer Theckia.
Bicycles-Monarch Bicycles
Overwhelmingly Busch Brewing Associa-
ton.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company.
Legal Notces-As to Transfer of United
Hydraulic Cotton Press Companys Stock,
Estate Arthur Padelford, Deceased; Cita-
ton From the Clerk of the Court of Or
binary of Chatham County.
Medical-Cudcura Remedies; Hoods
Pills; Alligator Liniment; Mothers
Friend; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; PERSONAL; Miscellaneous
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Elijah G. Harvey, colored, of Boston is
a graduate of an educational institution
at Andover, Mass. II is said that he
speaks several languages. dresses fault
lessly, reads and admires Browning and
Emerson, occasionally drops into poetry
and is ever ready to discuss theology
having been educated for the ministry
But Elijah is in jail in New York on The
charge of burglary; and when he was ar
rested he tried to slash the policeman with
a razor
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Gomez is fox. There is no accounting
for the shrewd and devious tricks he may
have in his mind. His actions since he
came into Havana and had a meeting of
exuberant friendliness with the Ameri-
cans has been such as to cause suspicion
of him. 1t may yet transpire that this
government viii have TO invite Gomez TO
return TO his home in San Domingo before
there can be solution of the Cuban prob
lem.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Mrs. George is going to sue, as the COM
mon law wife of George d. Saxton, for a
dover interest in his estate There ought
TO be some way of choking this woman
Off, for the sake of those who are inno-
Gently but inevitably involved in whatever
potoriety she succeeds in stirring up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

The American cruiser Reina Mercedes,
formerly the loyal ship of his majesty of
Spain. may never again be a first-class
fighting machine, but she can be made a
great success as the representative of the
navy department at festivals and flower
shows from the Rio Grande to the st.
Lawrence
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

The losses by fire in the United States
and Canada during the month of April
were less than in any month this year;
but, as in the previous months, there is
an increase when compared with 1898. The
total loss was $4,000. and $1,000 900 more
than in April of 1898. The loss of the four
months exceed those of the first four
months of 1898 by nearly ST., 600 900.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Ten Filipinos brought to this country
Tor show purposes have been denied ad-
mission at San Francisco, on the ground
that they are foreign contract laborers.
AT the same time, we have an army in
the Philippines engaged in teaching the
natives that their islands are, as a matter
of fact, American territory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Senator Mcmillan says that he will not
step aside in order that Michigan may
send Secretary Alser 10 the Senate; he
viii be a candidate for reelection. Should
Gov. Pingree also be a candidate, the
three-cornered fight that would result
would probably come pretty near 10 being
q scramble
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

The anu-Quay Republicans of Pennsyl-
wanna have challenged the ex-senator TO
test his mold upon the party of the state
by running for the Office of state treasurer.
Il IS moi likely, however, that Mr. Quay
win accept the challenge. He will be too
busy during the next few months elect
ing a legislature favorable to himself to
bother about running for the treasurer
ship by way Of securing a vindicauon. Be
sides, II is not vindicauon that he
wants, but the seat in the federal Senate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

One of the newest trusts announced is
to be international in character. A group
of American and English literary agents
have formed a syndicate for The purpose
of controlling the future productions of
Rudyard Kipling.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

There is in Brooklyn a boy who plays
the fiddle all day and a greater part of the
night. The neighbors are undecided
whether he is a nuisance or a genius, hence
steps have been taken 10 hold an inquiry
Upon the report of the commission de-
or encouraged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

A sensational poisoning affair occurred
IN Philadelphia the other day. II is be-
lleved 10 have been caused by jealousy.
Some Phlladeiphians regard il as guile as
dasiardly crime as anything New York
has produced lately. The victim was a
$500 orchid plant, in the conservatory Of
Mrs. Wilson, where 100000 worth of or
;hids have their habitation. Some new
and priceless additions had recently
'een made to the collection. and It is be-
IeVed jealousy instigated The poisoning of
ne "Laelia" orchid in question
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

Probably Dewey wishes to give us a
plenty of time TO get used to the fact that
he is coming home.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15

There are at least two Mayors who are
supposed to be incubating presidential
booms. They are the Mayors of Chicago
and Toledo. A Chicago newspaper has
been running over The list of Presidents
and finds that the number of those who
went up to the White House from the
Mayors chair IS. extremely limited.
Cleveland, il says was the only one. Both
Mayors Harrison and Jones may be very
good men as one-city executives, but It
is an open question if either would not be
something like the New Hampshire Dem
ocrat said about Franklin Pierce, rather
thin when you come to spread him over
the whole United states"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

Discussing the question of the care of
Confederate graves by the national govern
ment, the Nashville American Dem1
says: THE idea that the federal gov
eminent is the Yankees - government.
and that 1t is in some way hostile TO us,
should not be entertained. The federal
government represents the whole country.
The South has as much interest in it as
the North, and the East as the West
Southern men have had more to do with
shaping the policy and destiny of the
country since the beginning of the gov
eminent than those from any other por-
ton of 1t. Why, then, any hostility TO
the federal government? 1t is ours as
much or more than anyone else's. We
are taxed TO support it and pay the taxes
50 when the federal government takes
care of Confederate graves il is the work
of the whole country, not any particular
section of it,"
The Philadelphia Record Oem) says:
Let us not cavil nor make faces at the
agrarians in Germany, who insist on tax
ing our meat in order that they may sell
their own at greater advantage. These
stalwart protectionists are proselytes of
our own making. They are doing TO us
as they have been done by. Why should
we reproaeh them?
The Birmingham News CDem) says:
Andrew Carnegie has given away to COL
leges. libraries and like institutions $17.-
100000 within the past twenty-five years.
And yet some people profess TO see no
good in millionaires."
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15

jury was got together at 10 o'clock the
morning and inside of exactly eight
minutes the verdict was reached that
"Bucking Freeman had met a justifiable
death at the hands of a tenderfoot, who
is hereby acquitted
The jury having been dissolved, the
members of it repaired to a room and
formulated resolutions of thanks to the
tenderfoot for having wiped two hard
citizens out of the towns population.
When Joe Hardesty came back the next
day and heard how his piano thumper
had lined up to meet an occasion he gave
Algernon Montclair 5000 an a ticket up
to the Colorado mining country, where
the tenderfoot wanted to go.
'Tenderfeet haven't been toyed with
much here in Phoenix since that thing
happened"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15
BILLIONS OF

1t has been lately discovered that Uncle
Sam has an unrecorded feather in his
cap. He not only consumes more whisky,
beer, ETC., than amy nation in the world,
but, as a direct cause or consequence, he
annually swallows more pills. England is
a close second, but then the second man,
like a vice president, has always sunk
into the bottom of oblivion. There is no
need to put off rejoicing. We lead man.
kline in patent medicines.
The introduction of machinery has in
pill-making, as in all other trades, greatly
Simplified and increased the business.
Where formerly chemists and appren-
tees Were engaged there are now ma
chimes to mix, coat, box and count the
goods. The output in Great Britain, in
of the extreme case in which
both the medicine and the money may be
made, has yearly increased until it is now
estimated that $50 hundred weight, or
about 40, 900, 600 pills, are consumed ach
week. In the United States the figures
run over So 900. 900. This means that five
humans out of six take a pill every seven
days.
The uses to which this mass of medi-
cine is put are of course manifold. The
majority are for so-called incurable dis
eases, while, of course, a great portion are
panaceas. The advertising from the
business is enormous, $4,000 per week in
England and So, 900 in America being a
modest estimate. The profits are said to
be monstrous, as the ingredients in the
most cases cost little or nothing. America
is a great, although unconscious, believer
in faith cure. Her generally e~XtraOrdln-
airy health has been by some attributed to
the fact thai the majority of her people.
before calling a physician will dose them
selves with these ready-made pills.