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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

Charles b. Hanford, while playing in a
Texas town, says the New York Tele-
gram, was approached by young man
in typical cowboy costume, who said:
"Are you the manager of this play that
comes tonight"
Mr. Hanford said he was
do you want 10 hire man to help
act?''
mo. My company is complete"
want to hire man to count money!
NO
want to hire man to get out in ths
back of the theater and holler and APP
plaud?"
Not this tour The audience are at
tending TO that very satisfactorily"
WANT anybody for anything on earth?"
mot that l think of at present"
"Well, that's just our duck. We've got
man here who recites pieces in consid-
GRAFTON of being treated. If he doesn't
get treated he'll hang around and make
the barroom unpleasant for hours. We
don't want to hurt him, for he's a good
sort, in the main. But he only knows
three pieces-'Marc Antony's Grafton
'Hamlet's Soioquy' and 'Rienzis Ad-
dress TO the Romans We thought that
if you could flatter his mind into the be-
lief that he's a great genius and haul
him around the country two or three
trips, so that he can learn few new
pieces from you, we'd be willing to make
up a purse that would come mighty near
making ii worth while
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
WHY A DUTY ON STEEL RAnss

Why is IL that Congress persists in
keeping a duty of $7,s4 a ton on steel
rails? Is there any Republican congress
man who is ready 10 rise in his place in
Congress ana answer that question? Is
It because our law makers want the
steel rad Manufacturers to have the
power to charge their home customers
that much more for steel rails than they
charge their customers in other coun-
tries?
There is no pretcnse now that steel
rails cannot be manufactured as cheaply
in this country as in any other. There
is no one who will say that they cannot
be manufactured more cheaply in this
country chan in any other. AS a matter
of fact our exports of steel products
are becoming enormous.
Recently the Australian government
wanted a big lo% OF steel rails, and it
asked steel rail manufacturers in all parts
OF the world to submit prices for which
they would furnish them. The order was
for 17,OOO tons. and the Illinois Steel Com
pany got it. That company undertook
70 pace eleei TdliS IN 2heiDOtHt bt price
less than that offered by any other steel
company in the world. Is it NOT time that
the tariff were removed from steel rails
Does Congress want our home railroad
builders to pay more for steel rails manu-
featured in this country than railroad
builders in Australia pay for them? If not,
why is 1t that the duty is retained on
steel rails or any other product of our
steel mills?
At this time there is in progress a deal
of gigantic proportions-a deal by which
all of the great steel mills of the coun-
try will be united under one management.
The combined trust viii have a capital
of a billion dollars or more. 1t is ex-
pected that it will be able to manufacture
steel products at even less cost than
they are manufactured at present. There
is no doubt that the United States are
going to supply the markets of the world
with steel products. Can it be possible
that it is the intention of Congress to let
che American people be at the mercy of
such gigantic trust? If not, then there
ought to be no time lost in removing the
tariff from all kinds of steel products
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

81 have a few magazines here which l
wish bound said literary man, entering
one of Omaha's large printing establish
ments yesterday, according to the Omaha
News.
Yes, sir; bind them in our usual way?"
Certainly"
And take out the advertising pages,
presume?'
The customer looked at him a moment
with great scorn in his eyes. My dear
SIR he said at last; II want book out
of those magazines, not a pamphlet"
Then you want them left in?"
Certainly | wish them left in. Young
man, l paid 10 cents each for those maya
zines. l figure that I got cents worth of
reading out of the magazine proper, and
cents worth from the advertising pages
What would life be if we picked up
magazine and were unable TO find the ia
miliar Tears soap or the Wood Soap twins
or ninety different pianos each of the
best; or four different kinds of gelatine
or seven kinds of hot air furnaces, and
sixty different bicycles advertised therein?
hollow mockery sir, hollow mockery
Leave 'em in; and in bygone days we'll
understand how the magazine editors can
afford to pay 800 for a seven-page story
which cost some poor devil of an author
two months hard work. and $40 in postage
before it appeared in print"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
MINISTER WI AND GEN. OTIS.

Minister WI and Gen. Otis are very good
friends. Minister Wa wrote his refusal
to attend the Genesee banquet given in
honor Of Gen. Otis under misapprehen-
sion of the facts. He thought Gen. Otis
was wholly responsible for applying the
United States Chinese exclusion act to
the Philippines He has since learned that
Gen. Otis acted on instructions. There
fore he is sorry that he wrote the letter
at least he is sorry If Gen. Otis feels
hurt about the matter.
But ought not Minister WI TO have
known without being told that Gen. Otis
would not have taken so important a step
without instructions? He must have
thought that Gen, Otis was autocrat of
all the Philippines. Perhaps he had a
suspicion that the government at Wash
ington was responsible for the thing that
disturbed his Oriental mind, but, there
being no way in which he could make
known to the government his grievance,
he automatically seized upon the Otis dim
ner to express his sentiments. If that is
the truth respecting the incident he ac-
NSNiAfiA"ANN MS III POSN "ANhOht OilNhNliS
anybody, though 1t is probable that the
government is not particularly interested
in knowing Minister Wu's views of it's
act in shutting the Chinese out OF the
Philippines.
AS matter of fact the application of
the Chinese exclusion act to the Philip
pines was not due to any enmity to the
Chinese. According to Gen. Otis the facts
are these: The Chinese were crowding
into Manila so fast that the native mer-
chants became alarmed. They were
afraid the Chinese would grab all of the
business of that city and i'm fact of the
islands. They therefore applied to Cen
Otis to prohibit the coming of any more
Chinese. 1t seems that there is not the
best of feeling between the Fiipinos and
the Chinese. There are about 10000 Chi
nese i'm Manila and $4,000 in the islands.
Minister Wa is very popular in this
country. The fact that he stands up for
his people and speaks his mind freely
does not hurt him in the least in the es-
timation Of the public. The government
did not take notice officially of the Otis
incident, and therefore 1t may be regard
ed as closed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

Much of the excellence of Aliens stories
are lost when they are paraded in cold
print, says the Washington Post. They
lose his unctuous humor, his graphic
style, his facial expression, his droll tone.
He is especially clever in negro dialect
stories, one of which he told the other
night when he had assembled his frienIs
for the hog and hominy feast. 1t was a
conversation between two darkies on his
plantation.
"Mose." said one of the negroes to the
other, do you know them niggers down
on Catfish P'int?"
Catfish Point, Mr.. Allen explains, is a
bend In the river.
Sure, says Nose.
DO you member the gal 1 was paying
my civilities to-"
"Sut-nly."
''Dey has been tellin' dat gal that am
tho sneakingest,> onerariest niger that
ever came down to the Pint"
"U'm," says Nose.
"And dey tells her, too, that / am the
LATEST. trifingest niger dat ever was. -
Did dey tell dat gal that you was dat
kind of a nigger?" asked Nose.
"Dey sut'ingly did"
We'd" said Nose, "dey has got you
located sho enuff."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
A waiter. Experience.

Il had a funny experience with one OF
the best-known meh in this town the
other day" said the head waiter at a
Broadway restaurant, who was discussing
the peculiarities OF customers. according
TO the New York Times. This man
guards his pennies well, even when he is
drinking, as he had been doing when he
came in here for dinner He ordered a
whole broiled chicken. While waiting he
found he was not SO hungry as he
thought. So he carefully cut the chicken
in half, ate half of it, and then an
nounced that he didn't want any more.
His check, Of course, called for 81, in
payment of the whole chicken. He OBJ
jected and called me over TO his table.
See here said he, this waiter has
charged me for a whole chicken and I've
only eaten half one; how about it?'
You ordered the chicken, didn't your
On, yes, but a man is not supposed
to pay for more than he eats here, is her
No, sir; of course, not
Well, I've eaten half chicken, and
there's the other half, as good as ever it
was, ready to be served when some one
wants half chicken. The house can have
il and won't lose anything by keeping it..
Do you think it's right for me to pay for
a whole chicken under such circum-
stances? Whatever you may think.
won't do it. But I'll tell you what 1 will
do. I'll pay for the half have eaten and
YOU put the other half away in the ice
box, keep it for me, and I'll eat and pay
for it tomorrow. That's fair, isn't it?'
Il knew there was no use arguing with
him. and as he was regular customer I
let him have his own way, paid for half
of the chicken out of my own pocket, and
allowed him to go without any fuss. !
knew he would forget all about the order.
when he came in again, he was so well
loaded and he did. 1 was out the half
dollar / paid for him, as the manager
would not stand the loss, claiming that l
should have made the customer pay his
full bill. If l had done so he would GER
tainly have remembered it, drunk as he
was, and would never come to the place
again. So you see IT is not all tips aid
cigars and beds of roses for a head
waiter"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
PITTSBURG's LOSS.

1t is said that the monster
steel combine that is being or
ganized by j. Pierpont Morgan and 9TH
ers will have its headquarters in New
York City That will mean an immense
loss to the banking interests of Pitts
burg. And it is not the only loss that city
will suffer. The offices of the company
will be in New York. In the administra-
tive offices of the Carnegie Company alone
there are 1000 employees. 1t will be seen
therefore that the office force in New
York. when the combination gets in
working order, will be as largo as the
population Of fair-szed city.
A few months ago Mr.. II. C. Frick Sc
cured an option on the Carnegie plant
for which he paid, so IT was reported a,
the time, $l,000000. He failed to make
the combination which he had i'm view
Mr.. Carnegie, no doubt, is glad that the
deal at that time did not go through He
pocketed the option money, and 1t is
the understanding that he gets SIS, 900, 900
more out OF the Morgan deal than he
would have got out of the one that Mr..
FriclS undertook to engineer Mr.. Car.
negie appears to be lucky as well as
brainy and rich.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

What Christian Science may accomplish
during the current century cannot possi-
bly, be conjectured. Its powers, II seems
are already far beyond the comprehen-
sion of the average individual, notwith-
standing ID is a young science, its founder
being now in something like 200 pounds
of the flesh. In a New York court the
other day witness told of some of the
marvels that had been performed by the
scientists. One OF the most astounding
OF the cures" was in the case of
clock. The timepiece had held up its
hands aud stubbornly refused TO go an
other tick. Then the scientists came in
AMI prayed for it, and the clock forthwith
resumed it's tick-tock. and has kept It
up ever since In another instance
moulung canary bird was dropping lis
feathers too fast Here again the power
of prayer was resortcd to- land the fentb-
crs an stayed in" After such demon
strations us these. Il rs difficult TO con.
celye why there should be doubters.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
BRIGHT BITS.

Money in Politics.-"What we need
do cried I. holly, lis to take money out
of politicsr' Il took out all 1 saw, sir"
protested the legislator with convincing
candor.-Detroit Journal.
-Mistress-"There is only one possible
objection to the place. The children will
keep you busy cooking; they are great
eaters" The New Cook-"Don't let that
worry you, ma am. They won't be after
I have begun to do the cooking Boston
Transcript.
The Department Store of the Future
'Who are those soHd-looking men going
up in the express elevator?' "They are
capitalists We have a marked down sale
of railways to-day on the twenty fourth
floor in the second annex back.'-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
-Easy.-"Ah! yes" sighed the lovelorn
Van Fickel. l wonder il 1 will ever sue
coed in winning her affections" why
not?" replied his cousin Helen. "I know
at least half dozen other men who
have. "-Philadelphia Press.
-Boyhood's Diversions Mamma-"John
Mrs. Cummern was here just now to
complain how you are all the time fight
ing with her little boy. Don't you know
that we must love our enemies?" Johnny
why, mamma, Dickey Cummern amt
no enemy. He's my best friend. '-Har-
per's Bazaar
Strictly Business,-"Do you believe
that Mars is inha bited?' asked the
young woman. 'T am sure I haven't the
faintest idea" answered the young man
with the close-cHt hair and the striped
shirt. Surprising 1t is. What's the use?
couldn't get there to sell the people
any of our firms goods. "-Washington
Star.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
PER SONAL.

A Topeka man (who is not a saloon
Keeper thus describes Mrs Nation: 1T is
hard to accept her as the 'motherly old
soul she is said to be, or to find in her
the characteristics of godliness. She is
rat noisy and impertinent. She hasn't
the hrst conception of good manners or
politeness. She will snatch a cigar out
OF mans mouth and go to roaring In
the middle of the street about her own
call to visit out the vengeance of the
Lord. She has no discrimination. and she
Is coarse and talky to the utmost de-
gree"
Andrew Carnegie tells an interesting
story of how he first became acquainted
with Shakespeare's plays: when / was
carrying messages as a boy i'm Pittsburg,"
he says. lit was the rule that when one
had telegram for the manager he might
go into the theater with tiff he arrived
after the performance had begun. 1t
was really surprising how few dispatches
that manager got before the beginning of
the performance and how many came to
him just after the performance had be-
gun. Sometimes we delayed them two
hours or more to gain that privilege"
Gov. Greer of Oregon does not approve
the bill NOW before the legislature of that
state) to provide for the purchase of an
executive mansion. 81 am too poor a
man to accept such a favor at the hands
of the state" he says. 81 am now living
very comfortably, very economically and
very happily I'm a house the rent for
which amounts to SIS per month. To buy
a fine house and turn IL over to me to
furnish and keep up would. instead CT
being financial help, simply amount to
an increased burden. Paradoxical as it
may seem, I cannot afford it, and if the
bill now pending should pass, the house
so purchased would have to remain va
cant while / am i'm office"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Georgia Historical Society;
The Hibenian Society: Haupt Lodge.
No. IS. l. o. o. F.; Ancient Landmark
Lodge. No. 23l. F. and A M; Solomon's
Lodge. No l, F. and A NJ; Savannah
Lodge, No. 1SS. B. p o. Elks
Special Notices-ship Notice. J. F. Min
is & Co, Agents; Notice to Superior Court
Jurors: Black Beans for Soup, Etc.
a. VI. & c. ". West; Geranium Exhibi-
tion Postponed Till To-day; THE Two
Little Tailors," As Drayton Street; Ship
Notice. strachan & Co.. Consignees.
Business Notiees-Red Cross Blend
Roasted Coffee. Hery solomons & Son;
Hunter Van Keuren; E & ". Laun-
dry: A spriugtime DeIicacy, The S. w.
Branch Company.
Amusements-May Irwin. at Theater.
Tonight.
Insurance Statement-Forty-n An
nual Statement of the Massachusetts,
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Springfield, Mass.
Cigars-Henry George Cigars.
Legal sales-Receiver's Sale, Max L.
Byck. Receiver.
Whisky-Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky;
Yellow Label Whisky; Murray Hill Club
Whisky.
You Have No idea What a Difference
-Bxck Bros.
Legal Notice-Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate Yesias Hecht, De
ceased.
Medical-Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Pills; Pyramid Pile Cure; s. S. S.. TUFTS
pills; Worlds Dispensary Preparations;
Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic; Moth
er's Friend; Cascarets; La Creole Hair
Restorer.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

Some time ago petition was drawn
UP and circulated in New York asking for
a Jewish chaplain in the United States
army The American Hebrew is opposed
to any such thing 1t says. "The num-
Der Of Jewish soldiers is necessarily small.
and the work of such chaplain would
be largely sinecure. The Jewish soldier
has not yet expressed a desire to be
accommodated with a chaplain He has
no dying confession to make which re-
quires the presence Of priest Patri-
otism makes all soldiers OF one religion.
The jew can be his own priest-he re-
auires no mediator"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

Cannot the government get competent
pilots to navigate its transports? Already
two Of the largest of them are on the
rocks. and may be lost, through the em-
ployment Of Incompetent pilots; and this
comes about just at the time when all
Of the vessels are wanted TO bring the
volunteer soldiers home from the various
islands. Is the government proceeding
upon the theory that It has 20 much
money IN the treasury that Il makes no
difference whether a few transports are
run npon the roeks1
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia North American (Rep)
is owned and edited by the son of former
Postmaster General wanamaker. 1t
says: mo excuse is too puerile, no argu-
ment too feeble, no plea too squalidly dis
honest to suit the purposes of those who
are plotting to exploit Cuba for the profit
of the syndicated pirates of commerce.
Because the trainers of the Cuban consti-
tuition have declined to inject into the
organic law matter wholly foreign to its
purpose and have properly refused to as
sumo authority not conferred upon them
they are abused violently for 'ingrati-
tude,' and the Cuban people are told that
unless they abiectly PROSTATE themselves
at the feet of their magnanimous benefac-
tor they will be forced to their knees and
flogged into a becomlngly humble and
grateful frame Of mind"
The Springfield Mass) Republican Qnd)
says: IAN amusing, and also discredit-
able, situation has been revealed by the
investigation of a recent state senatorial
election in Kansas. 1t one precinct there
were some fifty Russian voters who
knew no English Two judges went with
them into the voting booths to aid them in
marking their ballots. One judge was a
Populist and one was a Republican. but
only the Populist could talk Russian. II
now appears that the Russians said they
wanted to vote for the man for whom the
majority of the people were voting. and
that the Populist accordingly marked
straight Democratic tickets for them
Here is one of the benefits of practi-
caly unrestricted suffrage"
The New York Tribune says: "The new
war vessel, the Georgia, is to be built in
Maine. Among all the New England
Yankees none can be found more thor
oughly and Enthusiastically the children
Of Brother Jonathan than those who
dwell upon the banks OF the Penobscot
and the Androscoggin, while the splendid
state Of Georgia Is In the front rank OF
all that is best and most typical In the
South Maine and Georgia will be drawn
together as never before by the work
that viii bc carried on IN the shpyard4
Of Bath. ana whom the Georgia g. launch
cd Savannah ana Atlanta aud Augusta
will be hty represented at the cere-
monies"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
My Valentine.
From Ieslle,s Weekly.

FROM EeSlie'S weekly.
l know thou'lt be my valentine
We've loved since first me met
For | am thine. as thou art mine;
We've never quarreled yeti
Thou'st naught upon my pathway cast
Save what is warm and bright,
Tho many years have long since passed
Since that sweet. happy night
When first upon thy heart l lay
Encircled by thine arm;
And since that time both night and day,
Thou'st shielded me from harm.
Though not so bright may be thine eyes,
Thy smile Is just as sweet;
The love that ever in them lies
Ny gaze is sure to greet!
Then, while thoult be my valentine,
Ill surely seek no other.
ln llfe an1 death thou wilt be mine
Ny loving, whltc-haircd mother
May Halfey Miller
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12
Romance.

After the joust, the victorious Sir Laun-
fal knelt at the feet of Clara We're &c
We're, says the Detroit Journal.
"Oh what name thou hast made for
thyself!' murmured the fair lady, shyly
Time had been when the knight would
have raised his eyes ardently and ex-
claimed:
mot for myself! For thee"
But now he protested, not unbitterly
Not for myself! For some three-inch
collarI
None knew better than Sir Launfal that
the mission of romance is no longer what
Il WAS.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-12

The New York Legislature has before It
a bill to license and supervise BARRIERS.
Every person who shaves or cuts the hair
of another for consideration is to be
considered a barber. and no barber is to
be permitted TO do business without IL
cense. All shops, soaps, towels, etc., are
sanitary rules. Violations Of the law will
be punished by fine Of $25. 1t is cold
day when the politicians fail to create
new offices