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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
Polly Began to Pray.

maiden lady, who lives alone except for her
servants, owned fine parrot, which her nephew
brought back from visit to South America
says the Youths Companion
The bird was sent to professional trainer to
be taught to speak, but when it was returned it
obstinately refused to utter a word. and its mis-
tress decided that the teaching had been a fail
ure. Pollys cage hung In q dressing room
which adjoined its mistress chamber, and at
night the door between the two rooms was left
open.
One night burglar got into the house, and,
after packing up the silver below stairs, crept
stealthily up TO the chamber of the lady where
he proceeded to gather together her iewelry
He had got most of her vauables into a hand
bag without awakening her, when suddenly an
unearthly voice from the next room called out
loud enough to arouse the seven sleeperS:
God bless our home God bless our homer
The burglar was so startled that he dropped
his dark lantern, and then, in trying to recover
it, stumbled over a chair and pitched headlong
to the floor.
The lady suddenly awakened. screamed at the
top OF ner voice. and the thief, now thoroughly
demoralized took flying leap for the stairway
outside the door of the chamber. He slipped,
fell and broke his leg, 80 that he was easily
captured by the butler and cOacamau who had
come to the rescue of their mistress.
All this time the parrot had continued to cry
at the top of his lungs:
God bless our home! God bless our home ~
Polly evidently felt that the time for talking
mistress could not well get out of patience with
her, although she screamed this one sentence
for the rest OF the night. Having begun to
talk, indeed, she continued to chatter for the
rest of her life, and was looked upon as q re-
markably accomplished parrot
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
The HappY Autunnn Fields.

James Lane Allen in the Independent,
All. happy fields, at rest from fruitfulness:
No careless storm of the ungentle spring
Uptore your venturing roots, nor pierced the
sting
OF spiteful frost your early promises.
The skies were blue above you. With caress
OF gentlest beams the sun lured you to bring
Your blushing blossoms forth; and from the
wing
OF night were shaken dews their thirst to bless
For shadows had we but the bounteous clouds
That, passing, spanned you with the arch Of
hope;
No canker worms made of your leaves their
shrouds.
Nor envious hand sewed tares on every slope,
And now the jocund harvesters have blest
Ye happy fields, that from your labors rest
you.
Kind heaven so order the uncertain days
OF my brief mortal season, so defend
From frost and drought and tempest, SO be-
friend
With sun and dew. and bows of promise raise,
SO temper to me all the cold worlds ways
That not In vain my toiling strength
spend:
But come in ripeness to the perfect end.
And lie at rest in lifes autumnal haze!
Nought were it then upon the heart to take
The ice of death and in it lie entombed
AS when on you the SHOWS OF winter break.
Ye mourn not for the springtime when We
bloomed.
All. let me know the harvesters have blest
me,
Ere from all my labor come to rest mel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
PERSONAL.

CARMEN SYLVIA continues 70 improve 10 health
az Pailanza. When her majesty is wheeled
around the city In her invalid chair she 10
always sure tOmeet with hearty greetings.
sEcRETARY RJsK retains his early to bed and
early to-rise habits in Washington life. He is
! rarely seen later than O'Clock In the evening
and ls up at this season long before the sun.
EDoUARD LocKREY. the author OF the book on
Won moltke. which has attracted so much at
tention In Paris one Of the 900 red snirted
lrregulars who followed Garioaldi 20 Sicily and
Naples.
LIEUT.. Coz HEwIrr, who died in England re-
Gently at the age of 90. was the last of the Brit
/ ISL officers who fought 81 Waterloo. He was
junior captain OF infantry at that famous
battle,
Ten YEARS AGO Bernard Forst was a clerk in
mems furnishing goods store in Bradford. Pa.
He dabbled In oil speculations, gave himself up
20 II, threw aside his legitimate business and is
today millionaire.
JACOB II. SINS, whose friends are urging him
for the San Domingo consulship. is graduate
OF the Boston University and a member of the
New Y ork bar. He is colored man with strong
republican Endorsements.
Rev. DIR. BRIGGS preached at the West End
Presbyterian church. New York, Sunday even
ing. on progressive sanetiication. He re-
iterated the opinions on which he was recently
at variance with the presbytery.
QUEEN VIcToBIA's favorits retreat it is said
is the private garden of Osborne castle, on the
Isle Of Wight. She is less exposed there to the
restraints OF high place and the espionage of
servants than in her other residences.
The PORTRAIT Of Aaron " Brown, one OF
Tennessee's governors and postmaster general
from 1857 to 1889, is 10 be hung in the custom
house at Nashville during Mrs. Browns life
time. 1t was painted originally for Mrs. Polk.
IT Is DANGEROUS to acquire prominence in
South America. DR.. Rafael Nunez, a lawyer,
was made president Of Colombia in 1874. Since
then he has been banished, recalled, disgraced,
and is now restored to honor and the presi-
dency.
Mrs. PHoEBE HEARST, widow of the late sena-
tor from California, has endowed five $500
scholarships for young women at the state
university. Candidates for these scholarships
are to be recommended by the county superin-
tendents of schools, but the scholarships are not
to be given as prizes for honors in the entrance
examination.
Prince HENRY OF PLEss, who is soon TO marry
MISS CORVALLIS West, daughter of the famous
professional beauty is handsome young man
of 80, who has for some years been attached to
the German legation In Paris. His father do
mains lie in Prussian SileSla, and as he is the
Oldest son, he is consequently heir to the pater-
nal titles and estates
CAPT BENJAMIN THOMPSON of Kennebunk-
port, Me-, SO years old, had occasion to fix a
pulley on the ridgepole OF his barn the other
day. To perform the work it was necessary TO
pull a Ladder up over three stagings and then
place IL IN position on the roof, but the old
gentleman did the job, being afraid, he said, to
tntrust it TO his son Horace, aged 80, the
latter was still and clumsy and might fall.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
Rabbit's Feet GOING out.

There were three or four colored men on the
platform Of a Brush street car. says the Detroit
free Press, and one Of them exhibited rab-
bits foot and expressing his perfect faith in it
as a charm, when an old man with a cane and
basket remarked:
81 dun used to hev one o. dem myself, but
frowed it away long ago"
''Doan you believe in emp
mo. san not now. Dat rabbits fut was all
right befoh dey got de police fo'ce, but it ain I
wuth shucks now"
They looked at him for an explanation, and he
said:
Invent out one night with rabbits fut in
my pocket, and the next thing l knowed was
up in de workhouse fur thirty days"
How you git dar2" asked one.
''De jedge sent me-"
whats de iedge dun sent you furf"
what fur? What he dun sent me fur9 Why.
sab. case dey found de chicken in my bag. OF
co'sel'
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MEDICAL.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
Couldn't Brighten the SQUIRE.

There comes from the town of Baldwin, says
the Lewiston EUenin0 Journal, story of gruif
square-edged old Squire Thompson, one OF the
first settlers of the neighboring
town of Cornish, and father Of
the late DR.. Thompson, for many years a
prominent physician in that part Of the state
1t was a local saying about Cornish that Squire
Thompson had never been scared. Many plots
had been laid by practical jokers, but all had
come to naught.
One night Squire Thompson attended a husk-
ing at which the festivities were somewhat pro
longed. 1t was midnight before the squire
started for home, his way being by a path
through the cemetery. The wags had been busy
ing themselves in digging big hole across this
path, and as the squire proceeded home he sud
denly tumbled in. At the same time sheeted
figure appeared at the edge of the hole and ex
C aimed in measured, sepulchral tones:
What are you in my grave for?''
What are you out OF it for at this time of
night?' retorted the doughty old squire as he
scrambled out and proceeded on his way
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
BRIGHT BITS.

CLIEST-I'd like to see Mr.. Cleveland
Cierk-Mr. Cleveland isn't down today, He
was up all night with the baby.-ERochester Post
Express.
Miss PINKIE-I don't see how you keep your
sailing canoe from tipping over.
Canoeist (modestly(-I began with bicycle,
Good Nelcs.
SOME countrymen in color change,
When first they visit town;
They're apt to come there very green,
And go back done quite brown.
-Sparks
GUEST lat seaside hotel)-Are you guest here
also?
Naughty Person much offended)-No, sir;
am the clerk.-Nelo York Herald.
THAT young lawyer Blackstone is a very i'm
pertinent fellow"
What makes you think thatY"
Il asked him TO come over to our play next
Tuesday evening and he wanted retainer"
Judge. 1GiL @4A 10
THERE was anold man in Calcutter
Who wouldn't eat bread with his butter,
Till stealthy marine
Put in margarine;
Then they took hun away on shutter.
Brooklyn Eagle.
CONTEMPORARY uses the following head line
over its report OF the electrocution:
"All the details carried out without hitch"
Perhaps 1t was not necessary to state that this
was not intended as any reflection on the old
WAGG-It's too bad about that girl that
jumped off the Washington monument, isn't it,
Wooden-Why, what did she jump off for?
Wagg-Why, you see she was very thin.
| Wooden-What had that to do with it?
Wagg-Why, she thought she'd come down
plump.-Bost0n Courier.
AGENT for Charitable Enterprise with sub
scription paperl--jBut you believe, sir, in our
cause. and a mans money always goes with his
convictions 20,
Iowa Man with sad far-away look in his eye)
That doesn't follow. My convictions are with
| the republicans and my money has gone to the
democrats.-ChtcGGo Tribune.
For thee the devil shudders, and st. Peter never
asks.
Against thee lost souls. well may rail; and pale
ghosts wildly vapor.
For while they lie within their graves thou
lest In thy paper New York Herald.
FATHER-As you have had three terms at the
cooking school, Jane, suppose you'd know how
TO roast piece of beef better than this, Why,
it's burnt crisp.
Daughter don't sec how IN to blame. The
| fire was too hot, l suppose.
Father-And why didn't you look out that the
fire wasn't too hot?
Daughter-The man always attended to that
at the school, and Mrs. Mixter used to do the
baSting. All we did was to do the tasting after
the meat was cooked.-Bostot Transcript
YOUNG LADY On contfalto tones of remark
able depth and richnessl-Have you got any
lo11 French songs?
Music Publisher Indignantly &c ertainly not,
miss You must try some other establishment.
Punch.
my DEAR, will you please explain how your
new CLOAK came to be set down among the house
hold eXpenses?"
why, darling you are certainly not going to
deny that it is a mantlepiece? And you know
you told me to get one Nv Washington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23


Military display promises TO be one of the
most conspicuous and attractive features OF
the forthcoming worlds fair at Chicago
Mere discussion of the subject has already
aroused no little enthusiasm in the regular
army as well as among the citizen soldiery
OF the national guard.
Clearly no soldier on the continent mani
| tests more earnest and enthusiastic interest
in the project than the veteran Gen. Miles
| Of Indian fighting fame. The general
was detailed for this work by the Secretary
of War. He seems to have allowed his zeal
and ambition for the army TO become so in
hated as to cause him to rather
lightly regard the resources of the
quartermaster when be sand to the
assembled soldiers representing every state
in the union at the recent con vention in
Chicago that when the great exposition is
in full blast there should be encamped in
Chicago at least 100. coo men," But the re-
sponsive echo of applausive approval
plainly indicated that the idea was as popu-
lar as it would be expensive Yet there is
very little use in doing this thing at all
until it is done properly and in such a way
as TO adequately show something of our ma
tionai military resources aud reflect credit
upon the country as well as to suitably i'm
press our foreign visitors.
While the objections to this plan urged
by Col. Turner Of Chicago have in them all
the elements of the thoughtful and the prac-
tical they are in turn subject to the objec-
ton of being palpably advanced merely to
facilitate the purposed efforts Of Chicago
to borrow from the general government
s., 1000, 900 with the success OF which such
proposed expenditure might seriously
interfere
So inadequate a reason should not be
allowed to stand in the way of the military
display. Such an opportunity to mass and
mobilize our national troops and
also display at the same time some
| thing of our martial strength to our
| foreign friends, does not occur once in gem
Grafton. Therefore we should make the
most Of it. Certainly we can well afford the
SIS, 000. 900 it will cost That sum will pay
for their time and all their expenses. and it
would have good effect on the troops in a
general way.
To this end each state should vie with
every other in making creditable display
in point of numbers as we'll as in efficiency
and discipline. To do that properly prepar-
| atoms long way in advance will be neoes-
sary and business men who employ young
soldiers should manifest a liberal spirit in
doing all they can to promote and advance
these preparations.
But the proposed preliminary encamp~
ment at the time Of the inaugural ceremo-
MES in 1892 seems altogether impractical in
view of the protracted maneuvers at the
exposition to come so soon after in the fol-
lowing year. Citizen soldiers cannot
afford to lose so much time within so short
an interval.
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Harrison i, Prepared to Hustle.


About Washington there is now a rumor
will now get out and proceed to hustle for q
renomi alton. Apparently he has finsnt
concluded that he has very little 70 hope for
from the diffidence or devotion of Secretary
Blaine. So he will get among the hold over
postoifices and see if he cant in that way
persuade some of the people that he is a
pretty good man TO nominate. According
TO his plan it will all be dead smooth"
When Chairman Garrison held down a
desk in the postofiice department as First
Assistant Postmaster General he gained
national notoriety as the principal heads
man of the whole administration.
Through the chop Of his ak,
of course, only the heads of
fourth-class postmasters fell. But before he
finally resigned, be had hacked them so
lively that only about one-fourth Of all the
democratic postmasters in the country were
able to hold their officials heads In place.
Though Executioner Clarkson could not
directly reach any above the fourth-class,
he managed to procure the official down
fall Of many who we're really entitled to
hOiA ONSA uhACA buo EOSJkuALcu uACs "a bhO
service.
Still great many were allowed to finish
out their terms. Within the next three
months something like 200 of these demo-
cratic commissions expire. OF course. re-
pubiicans are to replace them. With these
appointments the President contemplates a
little adroit conjuring.
Only good and active hustle-s are de-
sired. No drones neei apply. Men who
would fill all the requirements
usually embraced in the Specifications Of a
stalwart offensive partisan are preferred.
Experience with herding and a deft and
graceful manipulation of "block-of-flve"
would also be in favor of the applicant.
Hustlers "have the call" No doubt but
they will call freely enough. Then they
may take fool notion to work for Blaine.
Still Mr.. Harrison expects to have his
nomination pretty well secured by the
time he disposes of all these nice, prime post
offices.
At least he will probably have It pro-
fusely promised.
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silence ReIened Supreme.

81 guess we viii have storm tonight" OBJ
served Hornaday, 20 the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette reporter, coming into the cabin on the
mountain side and Elancing casually out Of the
open door at The clouds rapidly rolling up in the
'wouldn't be s'prized durn bit il we did,
podner, commented the host. I'VE sometimes
has right peart storms up hyer.n
wind supposef" asked Canicott
"Yas, pooty muchly wind. An when Il do
blow It passes the bill right over the Presidents
veto. podner. you bet"
Blows pretty hard in Arizona" said Horna-
day. feeling called upon for a specimen. I've
seen the thinnest sort Of sage.brush twigs driven
three feet deep into granite boulders by the
sheer force of the wind"
yes, they say the breezeis pretty fresh IN
Arizona" commented Callicott, but land o
Goshen it can't touch the northwest. Why, I've
seen every drop OF water blown. clear out of q
river bed for miles at a time and. running alon :
in solid mass on the top of the opposite bank
gale"
Here she comesg" cried the old hunter, as
the storm broke over the cabin and the wind
rushed by like fiend Internal, shrieking aud
screaming horribly. chow fast does you gents
'spose them winds Of yourn ulster blow on
WELL" yelled Hornaday. to be heard above
the bowling tornado, the signal service in
Arizona reported it as about $50 miles an
hour"
up there in the northwest" Clipped in CAL
licott, at the top of his lungs. ''the wind has
been estimated at 100 miles an hour and up
ward"
-"Humph," contemporary put 10 the old
mountsineer. do you gents call that bowin'g
You just wait shake or two and I'll size up
this here zephyr that's amusin' itself outside
1t commenced BLOWN wheni"
Just fifteen minutes ago by my chronometer,"
replied Hornaday
The old fellow hurried to the door.
Come here" he called, opening a small
peephole as he spoke, through which the storm
rushed madly with a whistle like a steam en-
glne. Shifting at the air once or twice he said:
Il thought 80. What dyer smell, gents?'
"Phew! Something rotten-skunk" gagged
Callicutt, holding bis nose.
'Limburger cheesew CALCULATED Hornaday
Right, my bully buckl Right you are. That's
Limburger cheese you smells Fifteen minutes
ago that wind blew through the front door of
Pete Gashwiler's saloon In Bobville, right across
the free lunch counter"
We'll, Intercepted the two hunters.
'Bobvilles just agzactly 279 miles from
where you're standin' this here identickle
minuter
Then silence reigned supreme inside, and the
breeze from Bobville continued its jaunt.
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Before Brooklyn jury the other day a
local druggist named Avery was sued on a
claim for $4,000 damages by Customer
Price who charged that his wife had been
given corrosive sublimate instead of choral
in a prescription by Avery's clerk, and then
she administered it to the plaintiff with re-
suits that nearly proved fatal. As the
substituted drug is deadly poison he would
probably have died but for vomiting it up.
For all this misery he was awarded $4,000.
That is certainly righteous verdict. No
man who doesn't thoroughly know his BUSH
ness should ever be allowed to handle deadly
drugs. Those who claim to understand
such affairs should be held strictly account
able for errors which are altogether too
dnnperous
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Threatening More Thsosophy.

Alarming symptoms Of the returning vi
tality of Nine. Blavatsky are reported to be
again discernible in London. Notwith-
standing that she departed this life in
apparently good faith aud was medically
pronounced duly dead she now begins to
manifest the disquietude of restless spirit
and a very reprehensble theosophic predi-
lection for Matchmaking her ethereal aud
apparently portable soul back into the
foggy precincts of the British capital.
Somebody should at once notify her by the
Mohatma fast mail or some other expedi-
tious method that this is not a good time to
go there. Miasmatic moisture turks all
along the route and she'd be sure to take in
huenza and talk through her always I'M
slightly nose.
While it is great pity that she is dissat-
isfied with the climate and environing soen-
cry she really ought to stay there now that
she has once migrated and settled down.
Naturally the well>known and greatly adj
Iuired ''Kamarupa not being sufficiently
dense she is unprotected from the cold
breezes of Akaza." Everybody expected
that when she started But then she never
Christians. Possibly she has brought I'D on
some exposed portion of fddlers' green
where the sportive zephyrs have a frivolous
tendency to whistle through the incipient
whiskers that were always a notable char
acteristic of her visage. Or it may be
merely the recent exposure of her occult
professions that has such chilling effect
upon her sensitive organization. But she
| should not grow FESTIVE.
Patience. madam, patieuce In all hu-
man probability you'll catch it hot enough
little later on.
Meanwhile you might enfold your ample
and robust proportions in that sufficiently
dense" mantle of mystery with which you
used so successfully to conceal yourself
when you were feeding on bologna sau-
sages, sublime faith aud Turkish cigarettes
at the old stand 10 London. But in the
name of Buddha and his whole constituency
| don't get disconnected SO soon and threaten
| to return.
Heavens! There is misery enough here
| now!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23

Notwithstanding the native brazen auda-
city of the notorious Eva Steele alias Eva
Mann and many other aliases she did not
have the impudence to face the indignant
populace of Atlantic City with her vulgar
burlesque show and remind them of her
escapades when she sojourned there while
she was engaged in the operation OF wreck
ing the life of hapless Ray Hamilton. Still
there are said to have been enough of the
morbidly curious there to have actually
paid premium to see that female freak
who acts almost as badly upon the stage as
she does in real life