Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-18

llluor being sold on the y, especially at
hotels; this prohibition which went
Ihto euect throughout lhode Island on
ouly l, Is a regular olddouble-b ack-ac-
ZION stem Wlnder, and can't be fooled
WIN Whlle there's pleny of room in the
new penltentiary; it's patty tough when
one man can prevent aother from TAX
ing glass of claret, or OF beer or
"Ie' or even nice wblsF punch; but L
expect the less schooner there are un-
ioaaed, the less drunken raft there will
DO seen sailing rOunC the streets
al all hours of the highland majority
OF poor working men will z home TO their
wives and children Saturd8 nights sober
with their. earnings in thei pockets; for
hyself, L ike moderate sitter once in
Wnlle, out guess 1 can quill through
Win the rest OF the m0urners The pretty
little brunette that just pissed is Miss
bancroft; guess you've herd OF her
sne's as gamey as sparrow: the next
Que coming is Miss Redmond. No, there
ISN'T much bathing; you see neupper ten
are TOO nice and too clean L 20 into the
SAT- Water-'that ls, the wom,n-most of
them are high steppers from New Y ork and
boston, and they do not wan; 10 expose
themselves in the same water with girls
who sew for living and other whom an
lhscrutable Providence has sent into the
world with less sheckels than them
selves; why, there are hundreds of fash
lonable ladies here who never sur out O
doors except in their carriages, about this
time OF day. there is really very little fIn
IN Newport; some of the folks have high
old rackets in their own houses, nd
make believe they like poio-all the SINE
they are cooler than ice cream freeers,
generally, and don't take any chanes of
getting contaminated for mixing win the
common herd; aud so the common herd
prefer Block Island and Narraansett
Pler, where there is more lun 10
the square inch in one dS than
there is in Newport DUNG
whole season; yes, these mokes
VINO study up the guides an. hotel ad-
refreshments Will tell you tha Newport
stands alone, and that its frst settlers
were contemporaries of tie Pilgrim
Fathers; that society is lavened, and
That the meet here each sea9n consists Of
those who occupy high socil positions in
our midst, and the pets oftortune from
New York and elsewhere; that Newport
has the most magnificent Give'ways, the
best beeches and the oidet parks in the
country; that it's cliffs and lodges, its
spurs and headlands, its ecreative pow
ers of sunshine and stimulating ozone
knock the stuffing out of all other ocean
side resorts from Bar Harbor to Cape
May-then they'll thDw in the old
mill, Perry's statue, Ocean House,
Touro's grave, the Casino, forty
steps, the huge chasm called PurgatOry,
Gravelly Point, where wenty-six pirates
all danced at once between heaven and
earth one fine morninRin 1923; Spouting
Rock and the first printing press used by
Franklin when wOrkinI at his trade, and
which may be seen a. the Office of the
Mercury. There are more mokes here
than you can snake stick at, and every
mothers son of ZEN carries razor in
one pocket and lottery ticket in the
other. They are very religious, these
mOkes are, and allgo to church on Sun
days, but there amt one of 'em who ever
keeps the seventh and eighth command
ments; that you, can put down as a
positive fact. Aan-
"How many tunes have you driven up
and down the aYAnueY.
'Four times"
"Whats the damagep
''SiX dollars"
show much would one of these thiev-
ing mokes have charged meW
"Why, you wouldn't have ridden in one
of those yellow and green, ancient-GOth-
ic-Eastlake, musty-smelling old rattle
traps, with Tom, Dick and Harry, would
your You're gentleman, amt you"
"-.v
Besides, any of those niger drivers
would have talked you to DEATH"