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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

John w. Gates. the steel trust magnate
is just now the hero of large
crop of newspaper stories. one of
the latest Of them is that re-
Gently he carried around ia his
pocket for three days a check for 81 100000
because he had forgotten all about IT, and
only remembered it when his broker In
CURED why he had not cashed II. He has
been making so much money lately that
a bagatelle Of $l,2OO,OOO easily slips his
mind.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

A Washington correspondent says 1t Is
predicted in that city that II Admiral
Dewey persists in keeping his lips sealed
respecting the platform he will stand on,
''his chances will very rapidly diminish"
In other words. the fag-end of nothing
would be quickly whitfield to a mint
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Times Qnd) says: "In
the old days Southern cotton was shipped
10 New England or to Great Britain 60
be manufactured into cotton cloth to be
sold in China. Things are different now.
The Dewight Cotton Mills of Alabama
City shipped seventeen carloads of cotton
cloth on Saturday destined for the Chi
nese market and this was only one OF
many shipments now being made from
the South to China and other foreign
countries
'By this means the South secures the
profit on the raw cotton and the profit
on the manufactured products as well,
besides adding TO its reputation as a pro-
gressive go-ahead section of the Ameri-
can republic.
New England and Great Britain may
grow Ittle envious of the South for It's
determination 10 utilize its natural re-
sources by turning them into finished
products before offering them for sale,
but everybody will agree that IL is show
ing good business judgment in the mat
ter"
The Philadelphia Ledger Ond.) says:
"As Associated Press dispatch from Ma
Mia. dated the 22d instant and published
in the Ledger on Monday. says: Last
week has been one of the bloodest since
Probably the weeks work finished
q. e., exterminated) LOCO insurgents
"And thus. let it be faithfully and rev.
erently recorded, the beneficent work OF
benevolent Assimilation goes merrily
on"
The Nashville American Dem) says:
Secretary Long says he discovered Dew
ey but Dewey discovered the Spaniards
In Manila boy and established American
sovereignty in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Dewey would make a great race for Vice
President"
The birmingham Age-Heraid Dem)
says Thomas Jefferson may have been
a free thinker in many things. but he
never thought of giving a dollar dinner
That h. a device OF the later-day saints"
The Galveston News Dem) says; "Tf
admiral Dewey has really LEI II be known
in Vermont that he II a Democrat. sucf
display " courage beats his Manila rec
ord al hollow"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27
DISAPPEARING CARRIAGES.

Gen. Miles has written letter to the
Secretary of War which is well calculated
to cause a little breeze. and possibly an
investigation by Congress. The General
is chairman of the Board of Fortifcations
and Coast Defense. in which capacity he
tells the Secretary that a serious error,
if nothing worse, has been made and is
being continual in the almost exclusive
use of disappearing carriages for the sea-
coast defenses. He regards the disappear
ing carriage as hardly more than an ex-
pertinent, in which opinion he is backed
up by the heavy artillery experts of Eu-
ropean countries. No foreign country has
adopted the disappearing carriage in it's
forts, and in Europe only few Of the
carriages have been constructed for ex-
perimental purposes Sir Edwin Noble,
the greatest artillery expert in Great Bri-
tain, IS utterly opposed TO the use of dis
appearing carriages of any kind.
Gen. Miles objects to disappearing car
riages for several reasons. Chief among
them, and those that will be most readily
understood by the average non-military
reader, are the following: The mechan-
ism is complex in the extreme, consisting
of a great number of parts and requiring
constant daily care to keep it in working
order even in times of peace; rapidly of
fire is impossible with the disappearing
gun. hence when a gun designed for rapid
fire is mounted on disappearing carriage
it loses much of its efficiency. The GEN
eral says that the complicated nature OF
number Of accidents, both because OF in
herent shortcomings of the mechanism
and Of defective material. Experience"
he says, has thus far shown 1t to be more
easily disabled than any other type Of
seacoast carriage" Nevertheless nearly
all of the s-inch. 10-inch and Finch guns
and many of the 6-inch rapid fire guns
tions are mounted on disappearing car
riages and arrangements have been made
for similar mounts for other guns.
The tone OF the Generals letter, which
suggests that undue favor is being shown
the disappearing carriage for reasons that
are personal TO some of the officials of
the Ordnance Bureau, will attract atten-
ten 1t is well known that many of the
inventions and patents employed in the
disappearing carriage are the property of
certain officials of that bureau, hence il
is comparatively easy to follow the line
of Gen. Miles fire. The publn's interest
in the matter is chiefly because of the fact
that 100000 has already been spent on
the Notifications and about as much more
is TO be expended upon them. and that
besides the very much greater cost of the
disappearing carriage than other types,
the engineering work for such mounts is
at least 25 per cent. more expensive than
for the others According to Gen. Miles.
we are paying a big bonus for fancy
carriages that will make our forts
less effective than II standard and APP
proved carriages had been adhered to.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

There is promise that the Dreyfus case
will be reopened after the exposition. 1t
is reported that the Pope will intervene in
behalf of the ex-captain. Nothing. how
ever. will be done until the great fair shall
have been concluded
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

The Democratic National Convention will
consist of $50 delegates Under the two
thirds rule Mr. Bryan win need go votes
to nominate him. Already it is possible
10 count $50 votes for him dead sure"
with the 300 others almost as sure. If the
nomination should not be made by accla-
nation it would probably be because the
delegates desired the pleasure of voting
BY roll can.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

A pair Of worsted slippers knitted by
Mrs. Mckinley has been sold at auction
in Paterson. N. j., for s125. Should the
Major find himself out of a Job after
next March. his good wife might be able
thus TO keep the wolf from che door.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

Occasionally a French duel amounts to
something. Two blacksmiths OF Paris re-
Gently fell out and fought with short
knives, one of them receiving a fatal
wound. 1t may be that the court will
decide that an encounter with knives is
nota duel, and hold the victor for murder.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

In Philadelphia the other day a woman
committed suicide because her hair was
falling out She preferred death to bald
ness.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

The indications for Georgia to-day are
partly cloudy weather, with variable
winds; and for Eastern Florida, local
rains, with fresh easterly winds.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

1t was In Chicago. A German stood in
the roadway near sidewalk talking
earnestly TO a crowd that had gathered
He was very earnest. Occasionally his
voice would rise. In emphasis. An Irish
policeman stro.led up. He did not under
stand what the German was saying, but
every once IN a while he could catch some
such remark as. "Verdsmmt werden," In
de Hoelie hineln," "Teufel," e,c. Come
out o thot." said the representative OF the
majesty OF the law: '1rs swearn' yo are.
and that is forbid entolrely by the NUM-
cipai ordynsnces. IN take ser in" And
80 be d. AZ he station house Il was
developed that the German wos an evan
eelisL and WAS eahoriing his hearers 10
walk m paths Of IightoouSness.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27
FRIDAY, APRIL 81, 1000
The MORNING NEWS is published |

Registered at the PostOfiCe in Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

According to the adviees of the New
York Herald Admiral Dewey has decided
that he will not issue a political state
ment, but viii go before the Kensas city
Convention on his record. Dewey's mill
tary record is all right but his political
record consists of a large and glazing O.
He has never voted, and has only once de
sired to vote, when his favorite was Mr.
Cleveland. It is NOT probable that his lk-
ing for Mr. Cleveland will avail him much
a Kansas City.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27

Several months ago the Rev. MI Dixon
OF stroudsburs. Pa, prayed for lightning
TO strike big brewery that was being
erected in that town. few days ago
during thunderstorm a bolt OF lightning
struck the building and knocked out a
number OF bricks When Mr.. Dixon
heard of 1t he exclaimed fervently: Now.
Lord, IL it be thy will, let the rest so!'
The incident is said to have caused SEN
sation in stroudsburs. and to have power
fully helped the temneranee crusade.
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
South African Situation.

So many crude opinions have been pre- sented concerning the situation in South Africa, that a clear, comprehensive view will certainly prove acceptable. The New York Herald recently obtained from Lieu tenant General John NJ Schofeld formerly general commanding of the United States army, but now on the retired list, broad view of the case. We give it entire, be- cause it covers the whole feld
 The present British situation in South Af- rica is serious because of the original faulty operations by which the force at Ladysm.th became shut up in that place in- stead of joining the endorsements coming from the rear. The result may be the sac rifice of the garrison of Ladysmith. but even in that event the Boers will have paid pretty dearly for their success.
 The present failure to penetrate the Boer lines was to have been expected. The British will probably now organize a sepa- rate army, strong enough to penetrate Boer territory by another line and thus turn the .Boer position about Ladysmith.
 But the final result is not to be reached by capturing one or even many positions, but in a long series of hard fought battles in which superior numbers and resources ought te prevail. It is a battle between heroes. who will fight it out to finish.
 The wiseacres who are engaged in divid ing out British territory should await de- velopments. General Schofeld may not know much about military operations, but he certainly knows more about such mat ters than the pro-Boer people in this coun- try know. The present war will be con- cluded in due time. and those who are con- sldering the motherland another spain will be apt to go home in the end sadder if not wiser men.
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
PASSES FOR POLITICIANS

Tn lecture delivered in Baltimore An. guste Faure, of the Baltimore and Ohio. said:
 "Why do railroads give politicians passes anyway? You may ask which is the most to blame. I should say it is six of one and half dozen of the other When you ask who gets the most benefit, I should say that the railroad gets the worst of it four times out of five. When the Railroad gives a pass to some poor person for charity it is all right. When you give pass to minister of the Gospel the railroad may get its re- ward in heaven-that's in the sweet bye and-bye. When you give it toN business man it's an investment. But when the rail- road gives pass to a politician it invests it in sinking fund. and fund without any bottom, at that. Some people lose as much time running after passes as would carry them to their destination law was en- acted some twelve years ago for the pur- pose of protecting the railroads against politicians, and the American people against both. The law has been violated--vfo!ated most by them that should violate it least. The American people are being discriminat- ed against, and discrimination is galling. Some day the deDt Will nave 10 De paid. The longer it Is put off the more will have to be paid. The government already allows congressman so much per mile for travelling expenses. Have any of them failed to col lect it? I have not heard of any. As car ried on at present, the political pass system is an insult to the American people. It has become an instrument of degradation. If the political passes remain in use. they should be legaiized. Let the people vote, and say whether or not they wish their representatives, to use free passes Every man, woman ard child in the United States should have equal rights and privileges on the American railroads
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
ADMIRE Mss ROBERTS
From a Washington Letter


 Miss Ada.l Roberts, daughter of the wont to style Climself has not been ostra- cized by the congressional set. Quite the reverse, she -has received much attention and admiration for her bright intellect and scintinatang wit. At the large reception given by the wives and daughters of the members wao make their homes at the Metropolitan hotel Miss Roberts was asked a soft yellow crepe that chung to her figure and swept in undulating folds about her feet. Pink roses and creamy lace were the only ornaments to set off her Brunette beauty. She was generally admired.
 The Chinese minister at once became her most enthusiastic friend. In speaking of Ll.m she grew reminiscent and spoke of the picturesque Chinese gardeners who go about the streets of Salt Lake City with baskets of green vegetab.es swinging from a long pole laid across their shoulders.
 Never once l1as Miss Roberts sought to attrao. attention to her unique position duri1g her fathers trial, but slas gone quietly aoout, accompanying him day by day ao lhear the testimony on both sides Of the case. She has been beset b news papers for contributions and she wrote for a periodical concise and scholarly statement upon the attitude of the pubs-c toward her father and the trial. When asked as ito her return to Utah, she said:
 II cannot well speak of that. It depends upon my father and I will not leave wiJa- out him. He has great deal Of business to attend to in Washington before ne leaves"
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
A MONUMENT MOVEMENT
From the Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 Near the town of Talladega, in Alabama, are the graves of seventeen Tenenssee soI- diers who were killed in a fight with the Creek Indians near that place nearly eighty years ago. The battle was one of "Old Hickory's' most famous victories, and also one of those events in history that have served to attest the valor of the sons of the Volunteer State.
 There is a movement on foot in Talladega to remove the remains of the soldiers from their lonely isolation to the city cemetery, where they can receive proper attention. The proposal ito remove the soldiers re- mains has caused some comment in the Alabama papers. The Birmingham Ledger seys: Mot only should these remains be removed and properly buried, but those old gray stones which now rest above them should be moved also and rebuilt into tomb and monument to these brave Ten nesseans. They will make the most ap- propriate monument that could be erected to these men,"
 This has led the Montgomery Advertiser to remark: That is a matter for Tallade- ga to settle, perhaps, but would it not be better to allow the bodies to remain where they are and build suitable enclosure and monument over and around them? For more than eighty-six years they have lain in their houored graves, and as they were buried hurriedly, without any preparation for preservation, it is not at all likely that anything will be found in the graves but dust and perhaps few fragments Of bones. But whether removed or not, they deserve a handsome monument
 This view seems to be the better one. The ashes of the soldiers, after their long rest on the battle field, should not be dis turbed, but a fitting monument should mark the place of their burial and com memorate the victory they won.
 The matter should not be left for the town of Talladega to deal with alone. It is an interstate matter, In which both Ala bama and Tennessee should be interested. Since the matter has been agitated this broader aspect of the sace should be pre- sented and something really handsome done in memory of these brave Tennessee ans of the long ago.
The age-herald., 1900-02-02

the north, which recognizes Morgan as an unblemished statesman and man of acute and powerful intellect. His services to his courtry have been of the greatest value. No man stands higher as a constitutional lawyer, and no one has handled foreign affairs with more dignity, patriotism and intelligence To his efforts more than to anyone else is due the freedom of Cuba, the release of the colonies from the domin- ion of Spain, and the inauguration of the Nicaragua canal. For these achievements a monument in his honor should be erected at Havana and at the mouth of the great interoceanic canal. Such a man is an honor to ny nation, and it speaks well for the people of his state that they have in- dgnantly refused ito permit him to be pttdaforked out of the way by the dema- gogues who are dragging the proud name of the south into the mud. It Is to be hoped that this verdict Is the turning of the tide, and that the conservative people of the south will ever more render honor to the true and worthy This victory of Morgan's is so decisive that it will perhaps have far reaching consequences for that state. 1t win bring the gold standard dem
 
 democrats, and pave the way to a recon ciliation upon some middle ground upon which the two factories can stand. Nor gan had the support of almost the entire body of gold democrats who preferred him. as am honest bimetallist, to one who was simply butting his head against a stone wall. He had also the support of a large body of populists, who care nothing for sil- yer coinage, but much for government pa per money in place of national bank notes. These various elements will command the next Legislature, and will probably renew fhe call for a state convention to neutral dze the dangerous effects of negro suffrage It was Governor Johnston who procured the repeal of the act calling a convention last year, and it was Morgan who resisted the repeal. Now that people have vindi- cated Morgan, we will see in Alabama some wise measure to secure the state per- manenltly for white suffrage
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
WOES OF THE NEWSPAPER

From the Atlantic Monthly.
 In every city of the land the newspaper man is an outcast. He knows more people to be stranger to then any other being in the world. He has no holidays. His Christmas is the record of other mems Even the Fourth of July and Sunday serv- ants of the commonest man, refuse him their cheer The Fourth of July is the day 'he must be in every place at once. because everything is happening, and Sunday is the day he must make things up, because nothing is happening. His labors are our pleasures. He gets his vacation by doing another mans work, and carts his living by watching other people live. The very days and nights turn their natural backs upon him. The lamp is his sun by night and the curtain is his night by day, and he eats his supper in the morning. His busi- ness is the reflection of life. He is the spirit behind the mirror. What is left to us is right to him. and right is left: some- times right side up is upside down.
 The world is all awry to the newspaper
 
 umns, now in one edition and now in an other, but it needs him never in return. He is a spectator. The show passes before his face-a shut-out. unsharing face. He lives the years go on notebook under the stars, and when the notebook is scrib- bled out he dies. | Men Who might be immortal, morning after morning, week after week, year after year, fighting to b@ allowed to live in the current of aoday, reaching in vain for something that lasts longer than a day to hold to, only to go under like all the rest-a few bubbles-4 twi-inch obituary at the bottom of a coll umn by the man who is going under next and the story is told.
 The man who can furnish quantity and quality at once, who can thrive on the imt possible, who can swim in the whirlpool instead of being carried with it, is a man who sums up in himself not only the defl hilton of what the problem is, in litera ture, today, but the answer to the problem.
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
Gun Rule in Kentucky.

The armed desperadoes from the "feud counties of the state were quartered by the sitting governor in the state house, and beyond any reasonable doubt one of these men in broad daylight, necessarily near scores of others, within the hearing of nun dreds of others, shot down a state senator from a window of the capitol itself Gov ernor Taylor brought those men to the state house. keeping them there to serve his own purposes, and when one of them most villainous and dangerous of eircum- stances, shooting five times from win Cow very near those of the executive office. no special effort seems to have been made ; to apprehend and secure the outlaw and attempted murderer.
 The probability is he joined his col- leagues, all of whom stood near with Win chesters dn hand, and no one could tell one from another. All were guilty enough, and all were pretty much alke-mouutain- ger desperadoes, not a few of them coming from Laurel county. No detectives have been put at work, and no efforts of any kind have been made to apprehend the particular villain. It is reasonable to as- sume that none wili be made by .he ray- aorites.
 And so it comes about that the gun, can in America be used against an opponent fn. daylight, in the presence of scores of persons, from a state house itself as a vantage ground, and no one be punished therefor. No one will even be arrested who is presumably or possibly guilty. The
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
A VOICE FROM LOUISIANA

The contest made by Governor Johnston. of Alabama, for the seat in the United States senate, now held by General John T
 Morgan, is practically settled in favor of Morgan by recent primary elections in sev- eral courties Chat were claimed by John- ston. These counties have gone oyer. whelmingly for the distinguished serY4tor
 and prove That his hold upon the people ,f Alabama has not been forfeited. He will be returned to tsle senate for anc:ser SIX years. This dce.sien wl2 De spplapiea thIVu2taours the souIh, and indeed all over
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
Burglars at Isloc.on

Blocton, Fc.ruary 1.--(Spccai)--A safe cracker got in his work at this place some time last night, out, fortunately, not one cent was in the safe at the time. W. E. Martin on opening the door to his office this morning, found the lock broken, six or eight panes broken out Of a window and nls safe standing wide open with several Dieces of the iron dc1r scattered around on the floor. Some books and q chair had evidently be packed around the door of the safe. a tJ. -eae blown to pieces and scattered oy.r he f. There is no clue to the 'bu ar.
The age-herald., 1900-02-02
A DISGUSTING HABIT

From the Providence Journal.
 persons who shudder at the words indulge in the thing-has reached such proportions at Cleveland that it is proposed to line the principal streets with "spittoons," twi hun dred feet apart. This is licensing vice with vengeance. The only remedy for the practice which defiles public places all over the United States and makes the country the jest and reproach of enlightened trav- elers is the strict enforcement of laws against it. Something Of this kind has al- ready been done, but not enough.