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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
Miners and Morphine.

when 1 was in the Northwest during
last October" said a gentleman with some
money invested in mines, according to the
Washington Star, II employed a prospec-
tor to go out into the mountains looking
for properties which had been recommend
ed to me. One day ne was to have gone
from our camp over into a very rough
and rocky district, but when evening came
he reported that he hadn't made the trip"
"'Why not?' l inquired
4" Because l didn't have my morphine
with me- he responded in a very matter
Of fact manner.
d" Morphine?' said I. in establishment,
what has that got to do with it? lou
are not morphine fiend, are your
" Not as much of a one as you are a
tenderfoot he laughed, and proceeded TO
inform me that every prospector who
knew his business always carried with
him enough morphine to kill man easily,
and that he did so in order to end him
self quickly in case of an accident which
would disable him far away from assist
ance. There were many instances of pros
pectors falling over cliffs and Gripping
the plselves, or breaking a leg in hole
among the rocks, or rendering themselves
helpless in some other way, and death was
sure to follow by starvation or freezing,
or in some sections by being devoured by
wolves or other wild animals. In order
to prevent such horrible death as any of
these, the prospector simpified matters
by always carrying a little packet of NOR
phine, which not only quoted the pain OF
| the hurt he had sustained but put him 10
sleep pleasantly to wake no more on
| earth :"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Solomon' Lodge No. l, f. &
"A. NJ; Ocean City Lodge No. s. x. of r. A.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, Georgia
Export and Import Company; Lots for
Sale, John L. Archer; Clothing Sacrificed
Leopold Adler; Ship Notice, Barnard &
Co, Agents: Plasterers' and Masons' Sup
plies Savannah Building Supply Company;
Nantels' Crates and Thing, Andrew Han
ley Company.
Business Notices-E. & w. Laundry; An
nouncement, C. A. Munster.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steamship
Company; French Line Compagnie Cen
erale Transatlantique.
Railway Schedule-Southern Railway.
Legal Notices-Citations from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County; Notice of Application for Dis
charge in the Matter of Anderson Mccall
Bankrupt; Application 10 Chatham r. e
and l. Stock. of Estate of Catherine Wald-
ner, Deceased; Notice of Application. for
Discharge of John Mclaughlin, Bankrupt;
Notice of First Meeting in Matter of Sig
mund Levison, Bankrupt.
25 Per Cent Discount on Mems Cloth
ing, Etc.-Leopold Adler.
Eat Well-Eat- Well Extracts.
Whiskey-Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey;
Hunter Baltimore Rye Whiskey.
25 Per Cent Discount on Ladies Suits,
Etc.-Leopold Adler.
Salt-The Perfect Salt
Medical-McElree's Wine of Cardui: S.
S. S; DR.. Hathaway Company; Aver
Cherry Pectoral; Worlds Dispensary
Preparations; Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Hoods Sarsaparilla; Peruna; DR.. Dexter.
Cheap Column Advertisements-EIelp
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
He WINS Justified.

1t was month after Christmas, says
Harpers Bazaar.
From the cold, black, silent river they
rescued him, and took him up by the hot
stove, and thumped him, and rubbed him,
and dosed him until he opened his eyes
and gave a quick shudder as he realized
that his attempt had been in vain.
Il Will begin at once" he said, land tell
my story, as you are all anxious to know
it, l can see by your faces. Months ago,
in a moment of temporary weakness, l
bought the first Chris mas number of any
periodical issued, and after that the habit
grew on me Every day, as a new Christ
mas number appeared, fastened with
feverish zest to add it to my store. l be-
came possessed with the idea that L
couldn't get along without these Christ
mas numbers. For while 1 struggled
against temptation, but l am only one
man, and 1 could not resist Little by lit
tie my cash was spent Then I mortgag-
ed my house to meet the growing de-
mands upon my resources, and, finally,
as Christmas drew near, / gave up my
business and hired a warehouse to put
my accumulation of Christmas numbers
in, and then the end came. This morning
/ resolved upon the fatal step"
What happened?" chorused his res
cuers.
Simply this" replied the unhappy vic
tim of this terrible disease, my wife in
sisted upon my reading aloud every
Christmas story in the whole collection"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
Personal.

Gen. ]. c. Bates, one of the new ma
jor generals. is one of the few officers who
speaks Philippine dialect fluently. He is
said TO be a master of two
The medal awarded to DR.. Lewis Swift
of Mount Low Observatory, California.
for his discovery of an unexpected comet
last March, is the ninth which he has re-
ceived for astronomical discovery.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
University. Baltimore, is to start in the
spring on an extended European trip. He
has been given leave of absence by the
trustees in recognition of his services as
head of the institution since it's founda-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
THE KENTUCKY SITUATION.

William Goebel has been sworn in as
Governor and J. c. w. Beckham as Lieu
tenant Governor Of Kentucky. What wiz
be the next move on the political chess
board in that state.
The political situation there IS
fun of peril 1t would naturally BE- sup
posed that the shooting of Goebel
would have caused a halt in the bat
tie the opposing parties are fighting for
the control of the executive department of
the state government at least until 1t
could be definitely determined whether or
not the wound Goebel received would
prove fatal.
Each side however, was as eager TO gain
an advantage Immediately after the as
sassin's shot was fired as il has been be-
fore that event The legislative COM
mittee at once met and declared that Goe-
bel had received a majority Of the legal
votes cast at the stale election, and was
therefore entitled to the Office of Governor.
1t was the intention Of the Legislature TO
meet M Joint session yesterday morning
and adopt the report of the committee
Gov. Taylor, against whom the contest is
pending, and who held the office of Gov
ernor because the returning board DEM
ocratic body, gave him the certificate OF
election was informed of the plan, and he
adjourned the Legislature on the ground
that there was an instruction in the state
and fixed Feb g. as the date of its reas-
semblng. But he was careful not to have
it meet in Frankfort. He ordered ii to
meet in London, Laurel county. London
is in the heart of the Republican strong
hold
The Legislature tried to get a hall in
Frankfort in which to meet and declare
Goebel to be the Governor, but the mill
tary under the instructions of the Repub-
lcan leaders, in all probability, refused to
let the members enter any hall. Evidently
the Republicans carried things with high
hand The Governor must have been care
full to summon only military companies
known to sympathze with the Republi-
cans. Otherwise he could not have plac ID
such dependence upon the military to de-
feat the plans of the Legislature.
The Democrats were not to be defeated.
however. by the adjournment of the Legis-
lature by Gov. Taylor, and by the refusal
of the militia to let the Legislature meet
in any hall in Frankfort. They got the sig
natures of a majority of the members of
the House and Senate to a document that
the report of the committee that had de-
clared that Goebel had received a major
ity of the legal votes cast, and Goebel and
Beckham took the oath of office. What
next? The Legislature will obey Goebel
if he lives, and Beckham if Goebel dies
VIII the Republicans appeal to the fed
eral courts? What else can they do?
What the end of the contest will be no
one can foresee at present. The Repub'i-
cans are as determined as the Democrats,
and the Democrats have no intention of
yielding.
The Frankfort tragedy has made those of
the, Democratic legislators who were luke
warm in the Goebel cause determined to
stand by the position which the party has
taken. Peace in all future proceedings IS
hoped for, but violence on a large scale is
NOT inproba BILE.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
TROUBLE FOR TILE REPrRLIcANs

1t is apparent already that our new
possessions are going to give the Repubi-
cans vast amount of trouble. The idea
of the administration was that there
should be free trade between them and
this country-that, in fact they should be
as much a part of this country as New
Mexico or Alaska. Mr.. Root, Secretary
of War, said as much in his annual report,
and the President Endorsed what he said.
A big element in the Republican party,
however, would not have il that way.
This element said thA nothing should be
done that would seem in the least to indi-
cate an intention to break down the bar
riers Of protection.
The Ways and Means Committee has
just reported bill to fix the trade rela-
lions between this country and Porto Rico.
That island is to be governed as a colony,
and its products coming to our markets
will have to pay a duty. This amounts
10 an announcement by the most import
| ant committee of the House that our con-
! stitution does not extend over Porto Rico
or any other one Of our insular possess
sions.
There will be a big debate when this
question of taxing Porto Rican imports
comes before the House. The Republi-
cans will find themselves divided upon 1t.
and It is probable that the Democrats will
be solid against treating Porto Rico in any
other way than as part of the national
domain. The whole question of imperial
ism and milltarism will come up. and the
chances ate that the Republican party will
have cause before the debate is concluded
to regret that it is responsible for the pol
! icy of Wrestling territory from Spain
! II is the understanding that the duties
on Porto Rican imports win be very low
as will the Porto Rican duties on imports
from this country. They will be so low
that the tobacco and sugar growers Of
this country will, in all probability. be
dissatisfied with them. There is trouble
ahead for the Republicans in connection
! with our new possessions.
-o-a-s-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
THE GOOD WORK OF JUDGE
GRIGGS.


If it had not been for the watchfulness
of Judge Griggs, of the Second District,
it is probable that the foundation for
civil pension list would have been laid by
the House on Monday night. The bill for
the REORGANIZATION of the weather bureau
was under consideration. One of its fea-
lures was a provision for pensions for en-
ployes of that branch of the public ser
vice Judge Griggs pointed out that If
pensions for employees of the weather bu-
reau were allowed it would not be long
before bills for pensioning employees of
other branches of the public service
would be introduced into Congress, and
that with a precedent such as it was pro-
posed to make in the case of employees in
the weather bureau, it would be diff
cult matter to prevent them from pass
ing.
1t must not be overlooked that this prop
osition to inaugurate a civil pension list
came from a Republican committee with
a favorable report. 1t is true that when
Judge Griggs objected to pensoning en-
ployes in the civil service there were some
Republicans who came to his assistance
and helped him to defeat the scheme, but
if no Democrat had objected, it is quite
certain that the bill, as it came from the
committee, would have been passed.
The Republicans are utterly reckless in
spending the public money, and they do
not hesitate to spend it where it will do
their party the most good. When Gen.
Garfield was a member of the House he
said, in discussing pension bill, that
the pension appropriations would never
exceed 100000 year. The present
House, for the next fiscal year, has just
passed a pension bill which carries $40,
OO0,COO
Senator Cullom has bill pending in the
Senate in which it is proposed to pay $40
a month to the surviving officers and en-
listed men including marines, militia and
volunteers of the military and naval SER
vice of the United States who, being duly
enlisted, served sixty days with the army
or navy in any of the~wars Of the United
States, and were hoi6rably discharged"
TIE surviving widows of such officers and
men are included in the bill. 1t is estl-
mated that if this bill were to become a
law it would increase the pension burden
at least $50 10000 year.
It might not be just to Senator Cullom
to assert that his chief purpose in urging
the passage of this bill is to increase his
popularity with the people of Illinois. He
is a candidate for reelection, and the
outlook for his success is not particularly
bright. But Senator Culom is only one Of
many public men who seek to use the
public money for the advancement Of
their own political fortunes or for the ben-
eft of their party. No doubt the effort to
inaugurate civil pension list, which was
checked by Judge Griggs will not be the
end of that mat er 1t will come before
Congress again, and if the people are not
watchful, and do not com-tiit their inter-
ests to the right sort of men there will
be q big civil pension list before many
years
There is absolutely no reason why a per-
sen who has remained in the civil service
many years should be given a pension. No
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Record (Dem) says:
THE Usited States Circuit Court, sitting
in Chicago, yesterday decided the Illinois
antitrust law to be void because as class
and special legislation it was in violation
of both the state and federal constitutions
The difficulty of making laws to curb the
operations of the trusts, and of carrying
such laws into effect after they have been
enacted, seems to puzzle the ingenuity of
lawmakers. Attorney General Monnett,
of Ohio. who has sedulously tried to en-
force the antitrust law of that state, de-
clares that he finds more vigor in the
common law than in recent statutes. He
thinks that the common law cannot be
improved UPON"
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem) says: our friends the Texas Pop
ulists. desire anticipating the National
Democratic Convention by nominating
Bryan as their candidate for President so
that the Democrats can only indorse him.
Orator Stump Ashby either desires a for
eign mission or he has learned a new
story which he is anxious to tell to a con-
vention Of the horny handed"
The Philadelphia Ledger Gnd.) SAYS:
"Bourke Cockran's offer to support Bry-
an for President on condition that the
silver issue shall be postponed until 1904
Is worthy of Mr. Micawber. II is simply
waiting for something to turn up. There
is more policy than principle involved in
such a proposition"
The Louisville Courier-Journal Dem)
says: Perhaps Billy Mason is right in
thinking that the Filipinos are as capable
OF self-government as the people of the
state which sends Billy Mason to the
United States Senate"
The Atlanta Journal (Dem) says:
Georgia is in it in many ways. Savan-
nah is the greatest naval store market in
the world and turpentine is higher than
1t mas been in seven years"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Senator Tiliman seems TO be losing some
of that careless habit of vitriol singing
which. has. heretofore characterized him.
His Philippine speech the other day had
been carefully prepared, and was type
written-something unheard of in Tillman
annals up to that time; and it's style is
said TO have been as smooth as that of a
sophomores essay, another departure for
the pitchfork senator. The South Caro-
lilian had better be careful or he will
become polished and commonplace gen
tleman
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

A Columbus, o., dispatch says that
Paderewski the other night kept an audi
ence in that city waiting forty minutes
because he could not find his cane, and
would not leave the hotel without it, In
deed, he sent word that there would be no
performance, but when he was notified by
telephone that the cane had been found at
the theater, he changed his mind and put
in belated appearance. Paderewski evi-
dentiy cares less for the almighty dollar
now than he did when he first played in
this country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Those French scientists who have been
searching for the secret of longevity had
as we'll quit and devote their time to some
thing else. We of this country have dis
covered the secret, and see it in operation
every day. The recipe is simple; get
pension. or marry a pensioner
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
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Agent for Kimball's Anti Rheumatic
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School and Miscellaneous Books
Stationery, Toys, Games, Dolls.
Sterling Silver Shirt Waist Sets, 25c.
Side Combs.
Pompadour Combs.
Lamp Wicks, all sizes, dozen, &c.
Cuspidors, 1Oc.
Canary Bird and Cage $3.50
Gold Fish and Globe, 25c.
Agent for Oelschig's Nursery. All kinds
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

1t is not improbable that that latest
deal by Russia, in the matter of the Per-
sian loan, has something to do with the
purpose of the British to mobilize their
navy. For it is certain that, notwith-
standing her war in Africa, Great Britain
is keeping her eye on the Eastern situa-
ton, and that when any Power attempts
to change political lines in that section,
Great Britain viii have to be reckoned
with. The lion has got thorn in his
foot, it is true, but he is far from being
HELPLESS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Let us a little permit Nature to take
her own way; she better understands her
own affairs than we."-Montaigne.
Nature reads not our labels. great and
SMALL
Accepts she one and all
Who, striving, win and hold the vacant
place;
All are of royal race.
Him, there, rough-cast, with rigid arm
and limb,
The Mother moulded him.
OF his rude-realm ruler and demigod,
Lord OF the rock and clod.
With Nature is no better" and mo
worse"
On this barred head no curse.
Humbled it is and bowed; so is he crowned
Whose kingdom is the ground.
Diverse the burdens on the one stern road
Where bears each back its load;
Varied the toll. but neither high nor low,
With pen or sword or hoe,
He that has put out strength. To- he is
strong;
Of him with spade or song
Nature but questions-"This one, shall he
stay?'
She answers Yea" or May"
"Well, i'll, he digs, he sings; and he bides
Or shudders, and is gone.
Strength shall he have, the toiler, strength
and grace,
So fitted to his place
As he leaned, there, an oak where sea
winds blow,
Our brother with the hoe.
No blot, no monster, no unsightly thing,
The soils long lineaged king
His changeless realm, he knows it and
commands;
Erect enough he stands,
Tall as his toll. Nor does he now unblest;
Labor he has, and rest.
Need was, need is, and need will ever be
For him and such as he;
Cast for the gap with gnarled arm and
limb
The Mother moulded him,
Long wrought and moulded him with
mothers care,
Before she set him there.
And aye she gives him. mindful OF her
own,
Peace of the plant, the stone;
Yea, since above his work he may not rise
She makes the field his skies;
See! she that bore him, and metes out the
lot,
He serves her. Vex him not
To scorn the rock whence he was hewn,
the pit
And what was digged from IL;
Lest he no more in native virtue stand,
The earth-sword in his hand,
But follow sorry phantoms to and fro,
And let a kingdom go.
John Vance Cheney. Chicago.
He Knew Him--Hewitt-I saw the sun
rising when l was getting up this morn
ing.
Jewett-Then the sun didn't rise on
Gclpftlla time Il
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Those Texas Populists who are trying to
drive Mr.. Bryan into a corral and brand
him with their own private mark are not
"the" Populist party. of which Senator
Butler of North Carolina is the head, but
the Middle-of-the- Road Populsts, of whom
Mr.. Watson would probably be the leader
if he were in politics. This latter organ
ization of Populists and Senator Buffers
following are bitterly opposed to each
other. Neither faction, however is large
enough to be feared by the other, or any,
body else.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
"Man without n Hoe"

A distinguished New Yorker, who pre-
ferred that his name should not be pub
lished, gave the New York Sun 500 to be
offered in prizes of $500, $500 and 500 for
the best three poems written on the gen.
eral subject of Markham's Man With
the Hoe" The committee of three, con-
ssting of the editor of the Sun, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich and Edmund Clarence
Stedman, has, just reported, and awards
first money to John Vance Cheney of Chi
cage; second, Hamilton Schuyler OF
Orange, N. j., and third to Kate Master
son of New York. One thousand manu-
scripts were received.
The first prize winner read thus:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

one is asked to enter or to remain in that
service, and no one in that service is alb
soiutely necessary to the welfare of the
government. If civil service employees put
by nothing for oh age it is not the fault
OF the government. They are paid more
than they could get outside of that ser
vice Civil service employees have man
aged to get along without pensions since
the foundation of the government, and
there is no new reason why those who
have enjoyed salaries from the public
treasury while they had health and
strength should call on the people to sup
port them when they have become inca
pacitated for work by old age. There are
in every community persons fully as de-
serving of pensions as employees of the
government
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Mr.. Bryan says he win consent to no
truce on the silver question, not even to
secure Bourke Cochrans vote and infu-
ence. 1t may be doubted, by the way,
that Mr.. Cochren's influence has amounted
to a very great deal since his break with
Tammany
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01

Don't shoot untH you can see the
whites OF their eyes" was the instruction
Of "Old Hickory" at New Orleans. The
patriots obeyed and when their muskets
nnally blazed the columns of Packenham
were fairy cut 10 pieces. The Beers are
pursuing the same sort of tactics. In
many Of the dispatches Il is stated that
the Beers remained perfectly quiet and
completely hidden until the British were
within 200 or 300 yards Of them, and then
sua1enly turned loose a hail Of fire sand
lead.