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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-16
Not Blind. but Insincere.

The northern press and people do not
discuss the race problem with that sincerity
which they show with regard to some other
matters. They assume that there is nc
prejudice in the north against the blacks
and that there is no discrimination against
them. OF course they know that this as
sumption is not true. They are not blind.
They see how the blacks who dwell among
them are treated, and they frequently see
in their newspapers cases in which there
has been discrimination against the blacks.
But why should they be insinceres Why
do they not state the facts with respect to
the blacks in the north just as they are:
The reason is that if they were to do so
they would have no ground whatever for
constantly assailing the south for refusing
to acknowledge the black race is equal to
the white one. They are forced to pretend
that the black man in the north stands upon
an equal footing with the white one in order
to appear TO be consistent.
The New York Sun a few days ago had
the courage to point out how insincere the
northern people are with respect to this
race question. That journal said: white
people at the north who consort with
negroes on terms of social equality are not
recognized socially by their white neigh
bors. There is no difference tetween north
and south in that respect, unless it be that
here the prejudice against negroes on ac-
count of their mere color is stronger than
at the south. In all northern towns and
villages the negroes are compelled to live
apart, in quarters inhabited by them wholly,
or almost wholly. Here, in New York. they
really suffer much hardship because of this
discrimination. They cannot select their
residences, as white people do, from among
vast number, but must go to the compare
lively few tenements in which negroes are
allowed, which are usually in districts
where the population is colored altogether.
II the landlord of an ordinary tenement
house should introduce a colored family, no
matter how neat and respectable, he would
lose his white tenants"
We have always contended that there is
more prejudice against the blacks in the
north than in the south. The reason that
it is less noticeable there than here is that
there are so few of them there in COMPARE
son to the number in the south. II can
be safely said that if all the blacks of the
south should be distribu ed through the
north they would soon be glad to get back
to the south, because they would find no
such kindly interest in their welfare there
as is shown here. They would find
barriers against them erected everywhere.
The north wants the south to submit to a
condition Of affairs that it would not sub
NIT to under any circumstances
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WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN


From the Pilot
What is a gentleman Is il a thing
Decked with a scarf pin. a chain and ring
Dressed in a suit of immaculate style,
Sporting an eye glass, lisp and smile;
Talking Of races. OF concerts and balls
Evening assemblies, and afternoon calls
Summing himself at ''at homes" ami bazars
Whistiing mazurkas, and smoking cigars!
What is a gentleman? Say. is il one
Boosting of conquests and deeds he has done,
one who unblushingly glories to speak
Things which should cali up a flush 20 his
cheek?
One who, while railing at actions unjust.
Robs some young heart of its pureness and
Scorns to steal money, or jewels, or wealth.
Ihlnks II no wrong TO take honor by stealthg
What is gentleman? Is it not one
knowing instinctiyely what we should shun.
speaking no word that could injure pain,
Spreading no scandal and deep ming no stain;
one who knows how to put each at mis- ease,
Striving, successfully always to d ease
One who can tell by glance at Your cheek
When 10 be silent and when he should speak?
What is a gentleman? Is it not one
Honestly eating the bread he has won,
walking In uprightneSs, fearing his God,
Leaving no stain on the path he has trod;
caring not whether his coat may be old,
Prizing sincerity far above gold,
Kecklng not whether his hand may be hard
stretching 1t boldly, to grasp its reward!
What is a gentleman? Say is it birth
Makes man noble or adds to his worth?
Is there family tree to be had
Shady enough to conceal what is bade
seek out the man who has God for his guide,
Nothing to tremble at, nothing to hide,
Be he noble, or be he in trade,
he Is Jhe gentleman nature has made.
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a Good Calculator.
Fiom the St. Loalis RenlhLic


Postoffice Inspector Jesse B, Mcclure. who
has lust returned from Arkansas entertained a
number of his friends in the lobby of the hid.
land last night with anecdotes of his recent
trip through that state. "a very amusing
thing took place on one of my runs out near
Newton, said he. Ihad got off at Newton. a
town on the Arkansas river, and was making
my way out to BateSville, a village situated at
the terminus of q branch road running out of
Newton On the way out we we're DELAYED for
nearly an hour at a small wayside station
just before the train started a man and
MS ms wife entered the car. When the
tram started the woman kissed her
husband good-by and got off The
man was evidently Hebrew and he had an un-
usually long, detected looking countenance. In
the car beside the stranger and myself were
two natives, and long, lank fellow with an
immense beard and the other equally long and
lank, coatleSs and restless and with but one
suspender. We had just fairly started when
the bearded native opened conversation with
the dejected-looking Hebrew.
lou look like a man who had seen much
trouble, stranger he began, striking his long
beard and glancing inquiringly at him. L be.
lieve you are in trouble right now
No., answered the lSraelite, L am not over
burdened with sorrow. | travel a great deal
however, and as have just left my wife l am,
of course not feeling in the best of spirits
beard
"'No, was born in Germany
$50 you have crossed the ocean, eh?'
"'Yes. l have crossed the ocean eight times
cat this point in the conversation the one
gallused native who had been an attentive
listener changed his seat across the aisle to one
directly in front of the detected man and alb
ruptly interrupted him.
''You say, colonel, you were born in Ger
many?'
Yes
"'And that you have crossed the ocean eight
times?'
Yes
''Then. 'cordin' to my rules o. 'rithmetic.
calculated the native, giving his one suspsnder
a vigorous tug, you at this minute on the
other side the Atlantic. -
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PERSONAL.

Ben BUTTERwoRTH, congressman from Gin
cinnati, has determined to abandon politics
entirely: He has built up a large law practice
III Washington and wi settle there per
manently This will be pleasant news to sew.
eral prominent politicians in Ohio.
SENATOR BLACKBURN of Kentucky is not GER
tain of reelection, Proctor Knott and James
A. Mckinzie are both anxious to succeed him
and are making an open canvass for his place.
The contest will occur in January. and the Ken
lucky legislature expects a lively time.
ALBINI Mrs. Gye) writing to the New York
World of the Queens health, says: II have
had the privilege OF seeing and talking with her
majesty frequently during the last three
months, and can testify that she is in excellent
health and capital spirits The Queen gets
through great deal of hard work daily and
takes good amount of exercise.
THE coMrE D'zU is so unpopular that in tour
through North Brazil he was Kissed in the sea.
ports. What most rendered him unpopular was
his having gone into a speculation which made
him a Stun landlord He had some ground near
Rio which was likely to sell if held over for q
great price. Meanwhile he arranged to build or
it quite town of novels for the negro wharf
myers and other colored working folks, who
were pushed out into the suburbs by town i'm
provements Rackrents were asked, and the
Counts agent was hard man. who took the
law OF non-paying tenants.
MRS EMMA BEcKwIrH, the lady who wished
to be mayor of Brooklyn, was the cause of Civ.
ing wellknown professional man of that CITY
severe fright couple of years ago. Mrs.
Beckwith is a spiritualist, and used to take
charge of the meetings held in a large hall on
Bedford avenue, near Fulton. One evening the
professional man accompanied his wife TO the
meeting, and naturally his first glance was
given to the presiding officer. He looked at her.
turned away, then looked again, Something
was wrong, but whether the lady or his eve
sight. he was not prepared to say Finally, he
said to his wife: MY dear, do my eyes de-
ceive me, or is it possible that one side
of Mrs Beckwith's head is black the
other .whites" Certainly not. was his better
half's prompt reply. Something is wrong
with your eyes" He looked again then began
to test his sight by glancing at different objects
in the hall. Suddenly his wife turned to him
with an expression of bewilderment upon her
face. There is something wrong about Mrs.
Beckwith's hair" she said. zone side is dark.
the other pure white" And so it was greatly
to the doctors relief, for he was beginning to
fear that his eyes had been playing him tricks.
Since then, Mrs. Beckwiths locks have become
touched with frost quite generously, aud no
longer present the startling appearance of a
year ago.
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The Presidents Pension scheme.


In his message, President Harrison did
not say that the pension measure which he
urged congress TO pass was what is known
as the dependent pension bill" vetoed by
Mr.. Cleveland, but sucl is the fact He
stated that there was a class of veterans
who served in the army aud escaped the
casualties of battle and the assaults of dis
| ease" aud who, though mustered out in
! good health, have, since the close Of the
war, while fighting with the same indomi-
table and Independent spirit the contests Of
| civil life. bee1 overcome by disease or
casuslty,n and he recommended that
pensions be granted TO such as "are now
dependent upon their own labor for main
tenance," and are incapacitated by disease
and casualty from earning it, This is the
| class Of ex-veterans that the dependent pen
sion bill had in view, and the President,
probably, advocated pensions for this par
ticular class in order to cause direct COM
parisOn to be made between his course with
regard TO pensions and that Of Mr.. Cleve-
land. He may be under the impression
that Mr.. Cleveland made mistake ia veto
ing the dependent pension bill
If such bill as the President advocates
is introduced and passed, it will be interest
ing to not3 the comments of some of
the leading republican newspapers and
politicians upon it, and their atti-
tude toward the President Mr.. Ceve-
lands veto received very warm praise
from them. The Chicago Tribune said
that it was a courageous act for Mr.. Cleve-
land to face the demagogues IN congress;
that he did it without hesitation. and that
he justified himself at every point in a
document that was remarkable for close,
clear analysis a1d strong reasoning, and
that republicans had better not vote to pass
the bill over the veto. The Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette said that the bill
opened the door for vast abuses, which
were strongly stated by Mr.. Cleveland.
The Philadelphia Press said that the pension
business had been overdone, and that the
people sanctioned the veto. The Worcester
(Mass.) Spy said that Mr.. Cleveland's
reasons for the veto were sound
and sufficient, and that the bill
opened great opportunities for fraud. SEN
ator Quay said: "The men who did the
actual fighting, and who have some pride
in their record as soldiers, don't want to be
pauperized. The veto message is the best
thing President Cleveland has put his hand
to, and if l was in the Senate | would vote
to sustain him" These are oaly few Of
The words of disapproval from republican
sources of the bill the President wants
passed, but they show that it cannot receive
the united support of the Republican party
if that party has any regard for consist
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Declined, with Thanks.

observe Senator George Hearst of California
in his accustomed seat in the Senate The
pleasure derived from his presence is not con
fined to the floor of the Senate An ex-Califor-
MAN, who is here booming western village for
the world Is fair, looked down from the galleries
the other day and told this story:
Uncle George, as he is affectionately called
by all who know him-and to know him is ia
esteem him-and his family were on the JERSEY
coast last summer when / visited them The
senator enjoyed the seaShore and the good fei.
lows he met there who could talk horse but
the society folks fatigued him very much. I,iy.
ing in an adjoining cottage was a well-known
New York society man who also had his family
with him. The ladies of the two families were
quite friendly and many little courtesies were
exchanged. Whichever head of a household
went to New York for day was obliged to do
the errands of both families. Uncle George
started off one dsy when Mrs X. wanted hun
TO bring her a number of songs She said there
was one she had forgotten the title Of but she
might recall il in time The senator started for
New York without seeing his friend ayain, but
at venture bought I Dreamt that Dwelt in
Marble Halls, The Old Mill, Listen to NV
Tale of Woe, and various other classical pieces
which he thought might include the one his
friend could not recall. He received tele.
gram that evening which, in his own language,
was sumner 1t bore the date line of the
New jersey seacoast resort and was signed
Mrs. x. The message itself was startlingly
brief. II merely read
Call Me Thine own
= THE old 'Forty-niner was upset He hunted
up some of his racing friends and frankly laid
the situation before them. He protested that
There had been no Irritation on his part and he
didn't think it had gone SO far on the lady s
part. Uncle Georges friends we're so moved by
his distress that they didn't take advantage Of
him. At their suggestion he wrote an answer
to the message as follows:
Mrs X.-Am flattered by your confidence,
but lovely woman, Mrs. H., has a prior claim
Uncle George didn't go back to that New
Jersey resort for aweek and then the New York
family had gone to the mountains. But il you
want to keep in his good graces be sure and
don't refer to his seaside Irritation with Mrs. X.
You may get hurt if you do"
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INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS.

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Newberry Gives the Cue.

From the Nete York Herald Qad).
When Postmaster General Wanamaker pro-
posed TO appoint a postmaster distastefu1 to
the South Carolina town in which he was to
serve, he was informed that il he persisted in
doing this the townspeople and merchants
would no longer trade with John Wanamaker.
Thereupon, Postmaster General Wanamaker,
beng good business man, withdrew the OBJ
long Mr.. Harrison intends to keep Mr. Wanna
maker at the head of the postoffice department,
but so long as he is there the people of New
berry, in South Carolina have shown their fell
low-citizens in other towns how to put a curb
on the impetuous Wanamaker and secure a
postmaster Notwithstanding to themselves.
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Democratic fourth-class postmasters will
be interested to know that when they are dis
missed it will be eight or ten months before
their accounts will be closed and the money
due them on commissions of money orders,
etc, paid. 1t is given out in Washington
that this is because the clerical force in the
postoffice department is too small More
likely it is because the force is inefficient,
being mismanaged. The people have yet
to hear of a republican administration
which did not have a surplus of employees
in the departments,
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Chief Justice Fuller ought to be in a very
happy frame of mind since he delivered his
Grafton on the character and public services
of Washington. He is receiving unbounded
praise for it from all parts of the country,
and the republican newspapers are hardly
less complimentary than the democratic
ones. The general verdict seems to be that
in future years, it will be ranked among
the most eloquent and impressive utter
ances Of the public men of this generation.
The chief justice is a small man only in
stature
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He Took the Money.

From the Ne1O York Weekly.
New Clerk anxious to show his sagacity'
This silver dollar you just took in is counter.
felt.
Proprietor (nervously)-I was waiting on the
minister's wife.
But you don't take counterfeit money from
women just because they happen to be min
1sters' wives, do you?''
mo, of course not"
Didn't you see this was counterfeit?"
'Consarn it! Young man. If YOU must know.
mat S the dollar dropped into the contribution
box last Sunday
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-16

The New York Evening Post has been
specializing as to what Mr.. Cleveland would
have done in certain matters if he, instead
of Gov. Hill, had been governor of New
York. For one thing, it thinks he would
have signed the alleged ballot reform bill of
Mr.. Saxton, and it bases its conclusion upon
some of hts recent utterances. Mr.. Cleve-
land is no doubt honestly in favor of ballot
reform, but to say that he would have
signed the Saxton bill might be a reflection
upon his penetration. That bill has not
received from all sources the same degree
of praise given it by the EUening Post.
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MEDICAL.
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Of malaria in my system,
and even under the skillfui
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[ persevered in its use, and
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Mr. Octavus Cohen, managing editor of
the Charleston World, accuses Gilbert &
Sullivan OF plagiarism in their new comic
opera, The Gondoher." He says that he
wrote the libretto of comic opera, called
'Niatriee," aud sent to Sir Arthur Sulli-
van complete synopsis of it, to learn if he
would set it to music, and share the profits
with him. Sir Arthur declined, but when
Mr. Cohen read the forecast of ''The Con
ooiier," he was convinced that the two
leaoing ideas of his '.Niatrics" had been
appropriated He says he proposes to pre-
vent, II possible, the production Of ssThe
e0ndolier'' IN this country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-16

The convention of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, in session at Boston, took
very important action the other day. It
passed resolution demanding reduction
in the hours of labor. SO that eight hours
will constitute days work on and after
May l next, and called upon organized
labor throughout the country to join in the
movement. If the workingmen of the
country sustain this action, aud if the de-
mand is not acceded to, strike of huge
proportions probably will be the result. This
resolution was adopted amid great excite
ment and enthusiasm.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
What q spsctecleI

From the Neto YORK World (Dem.l
Think Of William E. Chandler, the manipula-
tor OF Floridas 1876 vote. as pleader for pure
elections Can it be that our political Saul has
seen great light In the heavensy
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The Congressional Heart Touched.

From the GfGlUeston Ners (Dem.).
No question has claimed the attention of
congressman in many years ia which such
lively personal interest was manifested as the
absconding of the cashier who carried away
so much OF their salary and their savings A
congressman's heart is no further away from
his pocketbook than another mans.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-16

A New York newspaper remarks that it is
interesting to watch the struggles of a
northern editor when he comes to formulate
his theories as to what should be done for
the colored people of the south. 1t was a
long time noticing this, but that is not sur
prising, as exceedingly few northern editors
appreciate the amusing spectacle of q
brother northern editor trying to solve the
race question.
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Senator Turpie of Indiana has become
quite prominent figure IN the senate He
is an able man, and he can hold his own in
debate. Aside from that, he defeated Pres.
ident Harrison for reelection to the senate
Perhaps if the President had remained in
the senate, he would not have been nom
mated for President Has Senator Turpie
ever meditated upon that view of the mat
ter, and, if he has, isn't ne apprehensive
that an indignant people will wreak ven
geance upon him?