The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-02
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
a WORD ABOUT CARLYLE HARRIS
AND his 6YMPATHIzERS

The Laws Delsy-The Typewriter
Henry JamesP-Printers and Pepper.
Theodore Roosevelt.
(COpvrfaht. 1885,
New YORK, April 1.-The row which is
being made about Carlyle Harris is sicken-
ing. One would think he was some sort of
new fashioned nineteenth century angel.
Innocent or guilty, Harris belongs to a type
too common, the fast young man under no
moral restraint, lecherous and unprincipled.
1t is natural that his good mother should
move heaven and earth to save her son from
a disgraceful death. but there is another
mother concerned in this case-the mother
of Helen Potts. whose character the Har-
rises have sraduced in every possible way in
order to wake sympathy.
There's too much mushy sentimentality
nowadays.
l say hang, electrocute or otherwise dis
pose of everybody that there's the slightest
excuse for getting out OF the way. Treat
them as you would any other ncxious and
exterminable pest. Let the law be executed
firmly and promptly. Emphasis on the
promptly" please.
1t is disgrace TO civilization that young
tough who enters a peaceful dwelling at
night as burglar, armed for slaughter and
shoots down the owner of the place, should
pollute the earth by his living presence
three years after his arrest redhanded from
the crime. DE should be exterminated
within the month.
What would you do if one of these human
proving skunks should irreparably wrong
O sister or daughter and kill her in seeking
70 he pF {t9
Would you wait for the slow processes of
the law, with the chance at last that big
feed lawyers might plead the brute out on
technicalitles or fool women beset a weak
governor with obstreperous "weepsn until
he pardoned him9
Or would you shoot him dead and walk
to the nearest police station and give your
self ups
If the latter, wouldn't it be because you
feared the laws meshes might not hold
him?
Is not sentimentality about prisoners a
direct incentive to private vengeance-tak-
ing by those whose dear ones have been
wrongedf
THE TYPEWRITER GIRL,
l remember, not so many years ago, when
a finely educated, native woman of my &C
guaintance earned $50 week as a type
writer. She left teaching for the new oc-
cupation in high gIee. She could read and
answer letters in French and German.
No such 'plums" in the profession nowa~
days. 1t has been ruined, not exactly by
Chinese cheap labor. but by the most extraoy-
binary influx of girls
Great heavensl where do they all come
from2
Prices have fallen with a dull thud. You
can get the French and German writer,
with shorthand thrown in, for about $l2 or
ID h1 Let Iii
without the frllls, for So to 81. know a
man pretty expert willing to work mis- ma
chine for $l2 week. He's been out OF work
half the time for the last two years.
Typesetting, boxmaking. almost any
thing is a better trade for girls now.
The funny men in the newspapers have
spoiled typewriting. They've pounded
pretty typewriter always marries the
boss" and has carriage and Newport
cottage. that the business has been adver-
fused too much.
And the inexorable law OF supply aud de-
mand grinds away, even though its victim
be sweet young thing with fluffy bangs
and an apron.
AN INNOVATION.
''Speckled beauty" talk is just two weeks
late this year. The legislature in its wis
dom has put off the opening Of the trout
season to April Is. 1t used to be April l,
and this is the first year of the innovation.
Few people realize to what an extent the
trout is an artificial product in New York.
A few wild brook trout are caught in YER
mont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island
and reach the market. Half a pound is
good weight for one OF them. But besides
the big game preserves on Long Island and
up the state owned by rod and gun clubs,
thousands of farmers are raising trout for
rnarkaY ha TalffnT,fa % "a 10
vorite variety. Sometimes a fish of this
species reaches two pounds weight. / have
seen a Rhode Island brook trout caught in
open waters that weighed pound and
ounces.
Fish Commissioner Eugene @. Blackford
is the great authority on trout. He has as
many as 100 Californians in an aquarium at
his fish store in Fulton market. People who
enjoy fussing with Rqusriums may like TO
know that they are very hardy and happy
in their glass case and are little troubled by