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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
She was a Lady.

FROM the NetO YORK sum-
Shortly after O'Clock yesterday a daintily
dressed and pretty woman, of perhaps 30 years,
started to cross Broadway, at Twenty seventh
around the corner. She stepped back to the
curb, but before she could get out of range the
truck wheel jumped over car track into pud-
die and sent a shower of mud in every direc-
ton. The front of the young woman's gown
was sprinkled with the black mud. At the same
instant the cartman yam ed his horse to stand
still and glared at the work he had done. Not
the slightest shade of annoyance appeared on
the face of the pedestrian, and she continued to
look up the street as though waiting for q car,
and appearing utterly unconscious Of the mis-
hap. The trucklnan jumped to the street and
numbered heavily toward her. He was a big.
red faced and honeSt-looking man. and he stood
- 'r"Tt of the dress with dubious and sorrow
full look.
4 AN awful sorry. misses" he said shortly.
Never mind, said the lady pleasantly, with
half glance around at the people who had
stopped to look on. ITS Of no consequence at
all"
Shall dry it off ?''hsked the man, yanking
n-colored handkerchief from the pocket of
his jumper.
"Oh, nor said the lady again, half nervously
1T will he all right when it dries. Pray do not
think of it."
We'll, I'm awful sorry" mumbled the big
driver again and again, shifting from one foot
TO the other, and looking like an awkward
schoolboy
She smiled, nodded and started across the
street She had gone four or five steps when
the man blurted out:
You are a lady, you are, and no mistake"
This seemed to relieve his feelings, and with
a glance of defiance at the crowd he climbed up
to the seat of his truck and started down Broad
way.
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Mounting an Elephant.

FROM the 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Barras, in bis India and Tiger Hunting"
gives description of his selection of an ele-
plant, and his first experience in riding it, He
was offered his choice of half a dozen, and at
once picked ont big fellow, nearly 10 feet high.
It's name was RoghaDath Guj, AID as Mr. Barras
says, 1t bore an excellent character for both
courage and gentleness 1t had already killed
two men. to be sure, but that was hardly the
animals fault, as they had approached it care
leSsly when it was furious.
began by feeding him with bread and sugar
whilst the keeper was explaining to me the ami
mails manners and customs.
Though ever ready to obey orders, he much
disliked having to kneel. An elephants elbows
are tender, and it sometimes gets diseased
joint from being made constantly to assume
this posture on all sorts of ground, to enable
people to mount. | began, therefore, by get
-irr M in the orthodox style, which was as
follows:
ON standing before him, and indicating that
you wished to mount. he would lower himself
by advancing both his front legs; you then took
hold of his lips at the root of the tusks, and
placed foot on the tip of each. He then rose
to his full hight, and tossed up his head as high
as his short neck would allow and SO enabled
you to slide between his ears
To let me dismount he would half stoop on
one hind leg, and raise the other outward. On
this extended limb would slip by means of his
tail. and from thence TO the ground, which was
an easy step.
To do all this with an elephant at the first in
terview was, naturally, rather risky, but, as our
acquaintance was to be short, / thought it ad-
yisable to pass vote of confidence at once. /
wished my first ride to be pleasure to all con
cerned, especially to Roghanath Gui, as it was
his first experience with an enlightened Euro
pean mahout.
the native driver, from want of thought,
kept up q constant drumming the beasts
head with the goad, or "ankus;' l therefore
hoped not to use Ct at all. Such an improve
ment all at once, however, proved more than the
elephantme mind could grasp. He began really
to enjoy himself; going his own way more than
mine, till at last he marched straight into an
immense forest tree of the banyan species and
began to browse. He sliced the boughs above
his head and, Juggling violently at them,
brought them down upon my devoted skull.
This was too much. | raised the ankus, and
brought it down with blow that brought the
blood This had the desired effect. and he at
once bundled off by the road he knew wanted
him to go. He merely took with him branch
about the size of a small apple tree to discuss
as he went along. From this moment we were
friends, and do not think ever had to use the
hook gain so as to bring blood; generally it
was sufficient to tap him with my fingers to get
do hat I nta
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INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS

MEET1NGs-DeKalb Lodge No. 9, l. o. o. F.
Hibernian Society; Railroad Loan Association;
Congregational Meeting OF the First Presby-
terrain Church; Hebrew Benevolent Society
TattnaIl Council No. SS4, A. L. of II.
SPECIAL NoTICEs-A Card, w ii. Matthews;
AS to Bills Against British Steamship Peconic;
Horses, ]. w. King; Last Notice State and
County Taxes, 1888.
RAILWAY ScHEDULE-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway.
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULEs-Baltimore Steamship
Company; Ocean Steamship Company.
AUCTION SALE-Groceries, Furniture, Clothing
and Plated Ware, by c. Fl. Dorsett.
LEGAL NoTICE-Apphcation for Direction,
Etc, as to VIII of Catherine P. Hayden, de
ceased.
CHEAP COLUMN Recommendation Want
ed; Employment Wanted For Rent; For Sale /;
Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

The State Lunatic Asylum.

Our dispatches stated the ether day that
the lower branch of the legislature had re.
fused to provide an appropriation of
SlSOOOO for the expenses for the next year
OF the state lunatic asylum. The amount
allowed was $175, 900, the same as last year.
The increase of 5000 was asked because
there are now in the asylum ninety patients
more than there were when the appropriation
of last year was made. No doubt the House
Investigated the matter carefully, and acted
wisely. Uniformly, Georgia legislatures
have been quite liberal with the asylum,
and to that may be attributed in a great
institution has been run.
There probably is no better managed in
stitution of the kind in the country. The
buildings are handsome and comfortable,
and are supplied with modern improve
ments, and the officers are capable, attentive
and humane. The care that is taken of the
unfortunate patients is highly creditable to
the state.
The report of the officers for the last fiscal
year contains some interesting information.
There are now in the different departments
of the asylum $50 white and 40S colored
patients, and last year 164 white and AZ
colored patients were cured and discharged
DR.. T. o. Powell, the superintendent and
physician, says that of those who were ad-
mltted soon after the malady appeared,
many were cured. When, however, a
patient was kept at home for some length
of time, the disease more frequently be-
came chronic and incurable. This should
impress upon the public the Importance of
early hospital treatment
A greater number Of white patients be-
came insane between the ages of SIS and 40
than at any other period of life, and
greater number of colored patients between
the ages of 20 and 25. Among both races
moro males than females were admitted.
Among the white patients there were three
clerks. three druggists, seventy farmers,
forty-eight housewives, two physicians,
four minister's, six printers, and six teach
ers, while among the colored patients there
we're four blacksmiths, forty-six farm
hands, seven farmers, and seven washer
women. Insanity was produced by some
what remarkable causes in several cases.
In one case a snake bite was the cause, in
another eating peach kernels, and in still
another overheating.
The cost per capita of maintaining the
patients for the year was $127 4S, or frac-
ton over "a cents day. In 1878 the cost
per capita was SO cents day, but it was re-
duced year by year until it was only 80
cents in 1879, since which time it has aver
aged about "a cents.
OF the 319 white patients received last
year 62 were treated for dlpsomania. An
effort probably will be made to induce tine
legislature to provide for the erection of
separate institution for the treatment of
this disease, and if. as has been claimed,
such an institution would be very nearly
self supporting, there does not appear to be
any good reasion why ltshould not be built
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
TIE Plant of the Fool.
From Burdette.

From Burdetfe.
Would that had mite of sense
A little is enough for me;
With half as much as most men have,
A millionaire in brains I'd be.
I'd like to say the thing I'd mean.
Yet not say everything | think;
Be seldom heard. more seldom seen,
A jester with mask of ink.
I'd like to cry before do
The thing I'll cry for when tits done;
My secondhand sight old and new,
I'd trade for foresight-ten for one.
| wish | knew little less;
wish knew great deal more;
/ wish | knew how to express
The thoughts l never keep in store.
I'd like to know enough to know.
| know much less than wiser men;
With SO much wisdom could go
Two days; then be fool again.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

For divorces and separations in which the
sensational abounds, Chicago is entitled to
stand at the head. Divorces may be OBJ
tanned in that city on the slightest pre-
texts, and it is sometimes the case that one
is obtained before the defendant knows
proceedings wee instituted. A curious
case of separation came to light the other
day. A wealthy young man In that city
married young lady of excellent family
connections, but in few weeks he took il
into his head that he had made mistake
so he left 5000 in the bureau drawer, went
his way, and posted TO his wife l.tter
telling her TO use the money in procuring
divorce. She put the money in her
pocket, and wrote him that she would not
trouble about getting divorce, but that b,
could marry again IL he chose, and sh,
would never bother him; and probably she
won't, but when he dies, abe is worry likely
living, 10 contest his win.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
Why They Opposed Mr.. Cleveland.


The New York World is publishing let
tiers from democrats in that state, giving
their reasons for having voted against Mr..
Cleveland in the late election. Some Of the
reasons are decidedly rich. One man, for
instance, says he voted against Mr.. Cleve-
land because Mr. Cleveland showed, by 60
ing into the Adirondacks and fishing, fight
ing gnats and living in shed, that he was
too much of barbarian to be fitted for the
presidency. Another, because Mr. Cleve-
land permitted his name to go
before the democratic convention
after having expressed himself favora-
bly, to the one-term idea; another,
because he held the President responsible
for the attack made on Coy. Hill; another,
because the President did not smash the
trusts: another, because the President
signed the last river and harbor bill ;
another, because he thought the President
treated Minister West in an ungentlemanly
manner; another, because he was opposed
to second terms; another, because he
thought the President was machine can
didate; another, because he thought the
President was too friendly to the southern
brigadiers;" another. because he thought
the President appointed too many Catholics
to office; another, because he thought the
President was on terms too friendly with
the Irish. Two stated their reason to be that
the republicans paid the highest price for
votes.
Quite a large number of the answers
border on the facetious, and in such In
stances it may be doubted if the writer's
gave their real reasons.
If the first installment is to be taken as an
Indication of what is to follow, iG is proba-
BILE that, after the several thousand answers
have been printed, the public will not be
very greatly enlightened. 1t is noticeable.
however, that among the voters who gave
apparently serious answers, very few ap-
pear to have been frightened by the free
trade bugaboo, while good many seem to
have thought that the President paid too
much attention to the wishes of the mug
wumps, and that he left too many republi-
cans in office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
The Girl We Left Behind Us.

At the banquet given by the Delta Kappa Ed
slon Fraternity of Hamilton college, says the
Utica Observer, A.. Miner Griswold (the Fat
Contributor') responded as follows to The toast
THE Girl We Left Behind U.s.:
MR.. PRESIDENT AND BROTHER DEKEs-The
toast you have assigned me is one that touches
very tender chord in my heart. have always
felt sorry for the girls we left behind u.s. 1t
seemed cruel at the time, but how could we
help it? Circumstances were such that we
couldn't possibly take them alonR-we had to
leave them behind US. | think promised three
or four to come back for them in the spring or
early autumn, but i was too busy for several
years to attend to IT, and after that-well. | was
afraid my wife wouldn't like it. | met one of
the girls we left behind Us in the street the
other day That is, thought did. The same
soft brown eyes the same sweet, sunny smile
us II possible" said that behold Miss
Sally Jonesy"
THAT was my mothers NAME" she smiled
before she was married. l am married now
and have named my baby after ma"
Great heavens The girl left behind me was
grandmother!
told the young lady who was and she
said she often heard her mother speak of me rs
one she used TO know great many years ago
Then asked about the girls used to know.
and what had become of them. | found that
some. alas, were dead. Others, who were mar
ried, wished they were dead. Some, who were
widows, had lovers seeking for their hands
Others. not yet widows, were seeking for
divorces.
Oh those seminary girls of long agol-how
We ulu regret ltuNlnR tileIn Denlnu uS-eNcept
one poor fellow who eoped with one of them
He has regretted all his life that he didn't leave
her behind with the rest of them.
But we had TO go and leave them. Fate
beckoned US on And, in some cases, the faculty
urged US to 20. We're we to blame, then, for
temporarily forgetting the debts-I mean the
girls we left behind usl Why, some Of us had
to leave our trunks
A rare collection OF girls they were, gentle
men, as l recall them now, Tail, willowy girls;
short, plump girls; black-eyed girls that q de
us blue and blue-eyed girls that we we're ready
TO take black eye for any time; fair complex
Toned girls, brown girls, Smith girls. girls with
auburn hair and girls who, not being able to
match their own hair in Auburn, were COM
PEELED to buy 1t in Utica or Syracuse. In fact
there was about every kind OF girl then that
there Is now, except the tailor-made girl, who
seems to be altogether a modern creation. Still.
the latter has points in her favor While the
girl 80 tenderly recall possessed virtue. beauty,
intelligence and many engaging ways l must
admit that she somehow lacked the get up-in
fact, she hadn't the hustle OF the girl of to-day,
No, brothers Of the oldeu times, we must con-
fess that, In comparison with the tailor made
girl OF to-day, the girl we left behind us had
very little left behind her
still we remember her with tenderness and
respect and let us all join IN bumper TO the
girls OF long ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
On the Anxious Seat.

Several very eminent republicans are on
the ragged edge of expectancy. They will
be in perpetual state of unrest until Gen.
Harrison announces his cabinet One of
them is Mr.. Blaine. Gen. Harrison would
do the leading republican newspapers real
service by sta ting whether he intends to
invite Mr.. Blaine to accept the portfolio of
state or not. These journals are as anxious
as Mr.. Blaine about the matter. Every day
they have long dispatches stating that
Blaine will or will not be in the cabinet
or that he has or has not been offered a
cabinet position.
OF course Mr.. Blaine wants to be Secre-
tary of State. and if it is offered to him, be
will not loss a moment in accepting it. If
it is not offered to him he will do his best to
make Gen. Harrisons life in the white
house an unhappy one.
Senator Sherman pretends to be uncon-
cerned, but fails to hide his anxiety. He
wants a cabinet place, and he would like to
be Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Har-
rison is not likely to have an ADLER man in
his cabinet.
The anxiety Zof BOSS" Platt and ex-
Senator Miller for cabinet positions is said
to be so marked as to be pitiable. There is
a story that BOSS" Platt tried to get the
Union League Club of New York city to
indorse him. The club adopted resolutions
in which it said: eve earnestly deprecate
the studied efforts which are being made
with undisguised impertinence to force
Gen. Harrison's hand, and to put upon him
clamorous applicants for places in his cab
met upon the ground of alleged partisan
service, or pecuniary contributions, or local
CONTROL From this it appears that the
efforts in BOSS" Platts behalf were imper-
tinent. The club seems to have as little re-
spect for the Doodle claimants for cabinet
positions as for those whose claims are
based on ''bossism." Mr.. Wanamaker and
Gen. Alger don't get any more comfort
from the Union League than BOSS" Platt.
Those on the anxious seat are not by any
means limited to those named above.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

The statement is now made that recently
Mr.. Blaine was offered and refused yearly
salary of S25, 900 to edit a literary magazine
in New York. About the time Mr.. Blaine
was writing so called refusals to accept the
probable nomination for President by tb >
republicans, it was stated as a reason for
his action that he lost considerable money
in 1884, and could not afford to run again.
II this was true it would seem that he has
let slip a good chanco to retrieve his fortune.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

The New York Graphic, referring to the
fact that Col Dudley could make 81 900 by
returning to Indiana, and swearing that
the signature to the now famous "blocks OF
fire" circular was a forgery, is bothered to
know why the colonel persists in remaining
away. 1t says: "Col. Dudley is man Of
domestic tendencies, and his friends and
relatives are anxious to see him at home.
He left his home some time before election,
intending to return at least in time to vote
in block Of one, perhaps-and yet he is
still wandering about the country, having
really nowhere to lay his aching head. This
seems extraordinary when such remarkable
inducements are held out to him to return.
Can it be that William is not in his right
.mindp Possibly it is because Dudley is In
his right mind that be doesn't go home.
The direct tax bill will probably be passed
by the Senate, and then II will require
President Clevelands signature TO become
law. Win IL get ia Win the President
make II the subject of another ringing veto
nlessagel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
Not a Republican Victory.

From the Boston Herald (Itd).
The New York Tribune is msinformed. The
election of Mr.. Hart is not a great republican
triumph. The victory was achieved, as Mr.
Hart himself says, by all parties, all creeds and
all natlonallties. 1t was not a fight on party
lines. Had it been such contest, another re-
suit would probably have been achieved. Bos-
ton is a democratic city when party issues
ut stake. The Tribune is way Off in its news
from Boston
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
A New Prophet Speaks.

Mr.. C. C. Blake of Topeka, Kan, looms
up as the great weather prophet of the
west He writes in the first person plural,
and seems to be deeply impressed with a
sense of his Importance. He says he has
been student of meteorology for the last
twenty years, but did not meet with very
great success in his predictions till 1875,
since which time his forecasts have been
correct in a remarkable degree. In fact,
he hints at infallibility. All of this will be
taken by the public with grain of allow
ance; but the fact that Mr.. Blake has the
Endorsement of some Of the leading western
newspapers will cause many people to
regard him seriously.
The farmers of Kansas are represented as
having great confidence in his calculations,
and as believing that he has given to agri-
culture a key to the future.
In MIR. Blake's tables of weather predic,
tions for 1889, he says that the maximum
temperature in Georgia for January will be
72', whiles the minimum will be so; for
February the maximum will be S. and the
minimum 40; for July and August the
maximum will be 104' and 9So, and the
minimum ~ and IA respectively. With
regard to rainfall in the south during the
crop season, he says there Will be dry spots
in this section of the country, but generally
there will be a superabundance of rain,
and he gives this advice to the
southern farmers. 1.-The southern
farmers should plant all the corn they can,
as the northern corn crop will mostly be a
failure, and prices will be high year from
now. The cotton crop will probably be
good except in the wettest places, and, as
will be seen from our table of prices, we do
not expect high prices for cotton. The low
price for cotton will not all be due to a
large crop; but much of the low price will
be due to the general failure of food crops
both in America and Europe. In times of
famine people will get along without much
cotton or silk, but they cannot live without
food, and they will spend the last dollar for
food to the neglect of new clothing. It is
for this reason that we think the southern
farmers will make more money by raising
corn aud other food crops than by raising
all cotton"
In the table or prices referred to, the esti-
mated prices Of cotton next fall for "mid-
ding uplands" in Now York are given as
follows; September, Z Is cents; October,
6 $40 cents; November, 6 As cents; De-
cember, 90 cents. The estimated prices
for corn in the Chicago market are So cents
in September, IS cents in October and No
vember, and 80 cents in December.
Whether Mr. Blake's predictions and esti-
mates should prove to be correct or not it
would pay the southern farmers TO plant
more corn, wheat and oats, and TO raise
every thing that they can for home con-
sumption.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

The Chicago Tribune, speaking of educa-
ton for the colored people of the south,
says: "Give them the fairest, freest oppor-
tunities for education, and in ten years
from now the south will have no oppor-
tunity of charging ignorance upon its black
people. They will keep up with, if they do
not outstrip, the whites" They are not
built that way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

There are conflicting reports as to
whether or not Gen. Harrison is going to
admit the Blaine elephant into his cabinet,
but it seems probable that the question will
be settled in few days. If MIR. Blaine
should go in, as it seems probable he will,
he would be very likely to run matters to
suit himself.