The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-09

a scneme, bolder than many known IN
police circles, and new feature in the
thievlng business, is the imam with a light
top buggy, attached to a bay horse.n He
will drive up in front of some small store, a
gents furnishing or dry goods shop some
| what removed from the heart of the city,
and while seated in the buggy win becGon
the proprietor, who, with smiling count
enance and courteous air, appears and asks
what he can do. The man in the buggy
would like to look at some 81 or Sc suit
underwear. 1t is taken to him in boxes
containing half dozen suits. He selects
one, places it on the seat beside him, then
asks to see some socks. II the proprietor
has enough presence of mind he will take
| the boxes with him into the store. but he
! Will lose suit of underclotheS or other
| goods, at any rate, as the man with the
| top buggy and underwear is several blocks
away when he returns with the socks. This
| thief may be the same who, on rainy or
| lnclement days, buys lot of goods, being
careful not to pay for them, and when they
| are neatly buaded up he suddenly sees
pair or suspenders handkerchief or tie in
the remotest corner of the store and asks
would you be kind enough to let me see
that more closely" Pleasing customers is
the happy failing of almost all proprietors
or clerks, and while he has bis backstul ned
trying to please this particular customer,
the gentleman fits. These customers never
close the door carefully behind them, going
or coming, for obvious reasons.
A man with q German accent aud full
beard" made enough money to pay his
board bill and get to the next large city
last month by going around among the
ladies IN the southwestern portion of the
city, while the man of the family was down
town, and telling them he could teach the
art OF wax-fiowe making in five consecu-
tive lessons for SIS. The ladies were de-
irh nd r,aa a
bind the contract" as tue teacher said
They were to call at his studio in the French
market and begin learning the art the
following Monday. The keeper of tine
natural fiower-stand at the French market
was almost bored to death the next Monday
by the delegations of women who insisted
that he must be the man. "the professor, -
and If not he was a partner in crime, aud
If the 30 paid in adj vance was not returned
they would have him arrested, but they did
not.
Perhaps the latest and most genteel style
of swiDdling is the young man wFo learns a
few inside family facts and makes them
profitable. He will call at the house while
the husband is away and tell the nervous
wife he is a clerk in the Recorders Office
and that her husbands property in Yahoo
county Is about to be sold for taxes, but if
she will give him the deed and SIS he will
prevent such calamity. He either gets it
or promises TO call when the husband is at
home. This may be the same man who
rushes breathless into the house, tells the
wife her husband ripped his trousers while
STOPPING at the store and wants his "other
pants" A good pair of trousers will bring
| as high as So in a secondhand store.
A thief who is seldom caught is the we'll
| dressed railroad man who works at night"
| He calls at a boarding house where many
well-to-do clerks ard, engages a room, is
| perfectly delighted with it, and as he has
| been walking in search of such room all
| day and is tired, he thinks he will take a
| nap until supper time. The landladv leaves
| him and is hardly down stairs when the
| new boarder" enters the other rooms
| takes all he can conveniently carry and
leaves without slamming the front door.
| Mrs. Keeper calls him several times to
| supper and finally enters the room and
| finds that the new boarder is not there, and
| has left nothing behind him but a depres-
| sion in the bed.
The missionary, or the man described by
the police as wearing a Prince Albert
| coat, all-around collar and sanctimonious
look" makes fair living among the soft
| hearted sex in taking up collections to pro-
| vide for the abandoned Indian babies. He
will tell heart-rending story of how
| Indian mothers on the reservation throw
| their babies away by the roadside, to be
| picked up by white men and die for want
of proper care, and how they can be saved,
| as it only costs So a year TO feed, clothe
and educate an Indian baby. If he does not
blush at his own lying, he will get a few
| dollars.
The brass-lunged huckster, the seller of
po-ta-te-ups an cant-tell-eups," who
always has a beer-soaked smile for the
hired girl, is not always the most honest of
men. Besides keeping the bottom of the
measure well up to the middle he will nip
atrick" If given an opportunity. Complaints
without number have been filed against
these disturberS Of the peace where it is
alleged that the lady of the hou.e or
servant girl had given them the money for
their goods and a vessel to carry it in, and
trustel them to go around the corner where
the wagon stood, but who waited in vain
for their return. They never feel hattered
when confidence is placed IN them.
Thefts of the kind cited here can be for
gotten and will wear off the memory of a
man or woman who has been vlctimized,
but there is one thief whose purloining will
never be overlooked, because of the circum-
stances leading up to it, aud he is the
thieving beggar, the same person who dur
| ing the warmest days in July, will stand
shivering in the back yard while he tells a
tale of woe, the last chapter of which is
always, Il haven't had bite to eat for
three solid days" Many kind-hearted
| WOfneu anu SOuebltucS Iueu Take COIDpds-
| sion on these creatures and even invite
them into the kitchen, or, perhaps, dining
room, if the family meal has just been flu
ished When meal, enough for two, is
placed on one plate and someone stands
watching him. he is shy and nervous, and
will not eat. 1t is then some one says: "He
don't like us to watch him eat" and every
one leaves 1.-THE poor man all by himself"
Later in the day the lady of the house is
heard inquiring:
Jane, where's that jar of jelly, of pickles,
those sugar tongs, silver and forks and
linen table-cloth"
And Jane is heard replying:
II don't know, mum, unless that nervous
beggar took EN-.