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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Chicago Policeman-Not so fast,
my man. Ye don't take this train.
Ohio nan-In going home-why
am | stopped?
Where We takln' all that money
we've got!"
money I've only got 81 and a
scalper's ticket to 60 hoRe-"
Every well-that's what I'm stop.
PIN we for. Hand over the dollar
If yer ever caught pickin another
dollar away from Chicago during
the fair yell be run in. See :
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

A convict says he was sent to
prison for being dishonest, and yet
he was compelled every day to cut
out pieces of pasteboard, which are
put between the soles OF the cheap
shoes made there and palmed off on
the innocent public as leather.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Charles Tyler, a New York city
letter carrier, has been tortyseight
years in the service, and in that
time, iC is estimated, walked three
hundred thousand four hundred and
eighty miles.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Mrs. Jennie Northern, of Prince
ton, KY, tailed to catch the measles
when she was young, and had an at
tack of that disease few days ago,
at the advanced age of 40 years,
and died. She lived with her daugh-
ter, who is now So years old, and is
now let.San orphan.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Wife-Why Charles what do you
mean by destroying our old love
letters
Husband-I have been reading
them, my dear. After ! die some
one who wished to break my will
might get hold of them and prove
was insane.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Chinese are being struggled into
the United States through the State
of Washington in droveS. One
steamer alone landed LOOP.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

An empty wagon makes a racket
and an empty head makes raft der.
Some people are so light-heafed
that the tongue is all there is of the
thing and it's so loose it won't stay
in its place. Such people are to fbe
pitied. Life has nothing real ilk it
for them. They tritter it away and
the world hardly knows they have
lived, except that there is less noise
when they are gone. Be in earnle est
about something. Have some tdsk
and perform it, even though it be
done under the lash OF fate.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Thousands of immigrants are on
their way to America. Such rush
was never known in the history Of
the country.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Captain Sweeney. U. S. A., San Diego,
Cal, says: "Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is
the first medicine have ever found that
would do me any good Price so cents
Sold by II. M. Hammett, Agent.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

TRAMP-Say, mister, don't you
want to give mo something to do?
Merchant-You . Nonsense !:
what can you do that would be of
the least value to me?
Tramp-Well, I'd move on for a
dime.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
GOING TO INDIAN TERRITORY,
An Interesting Batch of State News
Sifted From the Mass that it Will
Be Worth Your while to Read.

PRoF. CHARLES MORRIS, professor
OF English in the State University,
is dead.
THEY are booming Henry q. Tur-
ner for governor down in the wire
grass belt.
IT is said that the buiiling of
cotton factory at Americas is now
assured.
A very dangerous counterfeit sil>
yer dollar and 25.cent piece are be-
ing circulated throughout Dodge
county.
The wool season will soon open in
Eastman. Wool is now worth about
20 cents per pound in the Eastman
market.
IT is said that the contractor put.
ting in the jetties between Darien
and Doboy will lose from $4,000 to
$4,000 on his job.
During the month OF April there
.was shipped from Darien, coastwise
and foreign, 8,&8,603l feet of heWn
and sawn timber and lumber.
Many commodious and comforte-
BILE storm pits have been constructed
IN Greenville since the cyclone two
months ago.
John Henderson, a we'll known
young married man of Atlanta,
committed suicide by hanging him~
self to a door mob with a piece OF
-four sack.
Harmony Grove, a town of q
thousand population, situated in
Jackson county, Ga, has raised
FIFTY thouand dollars for a cotton
factory.
THOMAS JACKSON, a negro train
hand, was crushed to death on the
railroad at Walden Wednesday
night. The unfortunate man was
making coupling on pile driver
train. He bad a long crank pin to
lift and missed the coupling. His
death was almost instantaneous.
Mrs. W. H. Peek, telegraph oper-
ator at Grady, 60 miles south of
Knoxville, on the M. g. N. G. R. R.,
was instantly killed by lightning last
Monday evening wildcat her work
near the relay Of the telegraph in
strument. Her neck was broken
and body badly burned.-Canton
Advance.
About thirty-fve descendants Of
the Dougherty family, Of Dawson
county, have left for the Cherokee
nation within the past ten days.
They all have Indian blood and have
gone to locate homesteads and get
their pro rata of the S8,500,000 pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Cherokee
strip, which will be paid out in July.
Jackson Walker, who lives about
eight miles northwest of Blackshear,
has in cultivation this year the fol-
lowing crop; 100 acres in cotton,
173 acres in corn, Is acres in pee
nuts, IL acres in potatoes, to say
nothing about other patches, such
as sugar cane, truck gardens, etc.
MIR. Walker runs cotton gin, grist
mill and steam saw mill. He has
q head of working oxen, Is head of
mules and Is heal of horses.
The residence of John NJ. Atwood,
at Baisden's Bluff, near Darien, was
destroyed by fire ON Wednesday
morning last. The fire originated
in the kitchen and was caused from
defective fue. The dwelling, with
nearly all of its contents, was total
loss, there not being dollars worth
of insurance on the place. The loss
of Mr.. Atwood will run up into the
thousands. He was unable to save
any Of his valuable jewelry, silver.
ware, etc.
The details of the attempted es>
cape of ten convicts at Cole City,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

We deride rich man for means
ness :. and poor man for extraya.
gance. And in the meantime we GO
about doing as we please-Just as
they do.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

A New York state editor the
other day wrote headline: cal
legged Treason in China" and was
Mortified to see it run through the
paper, "Alfred Tennyson in China. :"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Shiloh's Cure, the Great Cough and
Group Cure, is Tor sale by US. Pocket size
contains twenty five doses, only 25c. Chill.
dren love il. H. NJ. HAMMErT, Agent.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

Many Persons are broken
down from overwork or household cares.
Browns Iron Bitters Rebuilds the
system, aids digestion, removes excess Of bile,
and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-11

For sale by H NJ. Hammett.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

States deputy marshals are as thick as
huckleberrieS in river bottom. Proud
of their little brief authority, they swag
ger about with badge displayed and
Winchester loaded Their control over
the negroes and ignorant whites is absO'
lutte.
That they use their authority for per-
SOnal benefit, however, is a fact so well
understood there that it excites no COM
ment. Only the other day one of these
officers approached a citizen who was
watching the erection of a building and
demanded in the name of the law that he
dismount and surrender his pony, one Of
the best in the town, that he might useit
in the pursuit of his own animal which
had broken its halter and escaped. Upon
an indignant refusal the marshal left,
threatening all sorts of dire vengeance
A little later he was seen speeding away
on the back of fleet little brOnChO be-
longing to a negro, who owned two OF the
best animals in the strip. The horse was
almost ridden to death before its return,
but not a word Of protest was uttered by
its owner
There are far more women in the town
of Perry and throughout the strip gen
orally than are generally met with III
such an unsettled region. They are, one
and all, to be pitied. Accustomed as
they have been, to lives of toll, which .
the more civilized community would
seem positive slavery, their present state
is worst than the first. They are forced
to bear exposure and hardship of almost
every conceivable kind. Before daylgh1
in the morning they are up preparing
breakfast for their lords and masters
They collect and split such wood as can
be found, and many of them are the only
real workers of the family. Kicks anu
curses are the thanks frequently receiver
for their unremitting labor.
Scarcity of water is felt less now Una.
more than half the eager crowd when
swarmed into this God-forsaken country
have realized the folly of their pllgrll'
age and returned whence they came
Good water is by no means plenu'
full, however, and is carried about III cdn'
teens.
Such is life in the strip and such are ie
the people who have settled IT, Iner
habits, their sutferings, and Their pleas
ures. The attraction of the life seeusu
strong enough to lure many men from guo
great cities of the east to seek Their ioL,
tunes here, who now regret thaC UneE
ever heard that Oft-repeated advice VI
Horace Greeley: 60 west, young Aiau
go west ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
But the satirist Of pen and pencil is not

But the satirist of pen and pencil is not
without the tribute of enmity at home.
He is accused of carrying his liberty to
license. He has, says critics, destroyed
respect for serious things and made rev.
erence a tradition. 1t was argued recent
ly that the President of the United States
stands for the sovereignty of 10000 900
people and should not be the target OF
every cartoonists ridicule The men
whom we have chosen to rule us are
living embodiment for the time being of
our institutions, and to heap absurdlty
upon them is only another way of hold
ing republican institutions up to con-
tempt. Such arguments strangely miss
the point Of genuine caricature, putting
aside the fact that popular Judgment
never fails to distinguish Scurrlllty
from satire. Did any American
ever achieve distinction as either
humorist or cartoonist, by holding the
institutions of his country up to con-
temptl For in this republic we have the
most rigid of all press censorships-that
of the people.
If any one were curious enough to COM
pile such a book, the history of any given
event or person, as our humOrists have
told it, would be well worth reading. 1t
is told of Queen Victoria that she posses
SEES almost a life of herself in a collection
of caricatures taken for years back from
the pages of Punch and that weeklY's
contemporaries. Various eminent Ameri-
cans have been said to preserve all the
jokes and pictures of which they become
the target. Unfortunately works so COM
piled never come under the public eye. 1t
may be. of course, that the transientnature
of all such productions would not make
them generally interesting even were they
published. But,as a matter OfretrOspectiOn
and an amusing way to study history, the
old jokes and pictures are worth looking
over. Roscoe Conkling lives again. Grant
is president once more The absurdities
of foreign visitors now in their graves
seem of the present day.
Here is biography of one sentence for
instance:
1T is not known which side VIII have
jay GOulds opposition in the coming pres
idential campaign, but both parties are
competing strenuously for it,
These three are our old friends-the
dude and the cigarette girl, and the col
| ored preacher is Caricatured in procession
through one cartoon after another. When
these types have passed away their forms
and features will still live in the files of
| Judge.
Who, when the memory Of Behring Sea
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

new theme after old methods, provided
the effect be good. Thus in the rhymes
above quoted there is nothing brilliantly
original. The same lines have been paro
died before. Only the adaptation of the
words to the picture and both to an event
of great transient interest made the re-
suit n success
1t is this quality of harmony through
out that makes the genuine humorous
production. The pictures alone may be
almost ordinary, the words ACCOMPANYING
it not particularly bright: but if the two
together make a flash of wit, the object
aimed at is achieved. A superb cartoon
with weak sentences beneath it is
| spoiled So is a brilliant paragraph
when the artist fails to do it Justice. pic
lures should not merely cdricature types
with which everyone is familiar. If there
| be no action in a drawing it would be
a mere dummy adapted to any kind of
| letter press
An artist recently had this to illus
| trate
"Algy-Weginald, what did you say,
! you know, when you were presented to
| the Pwince of Wales}
Reginald; Why, deah boy, the first
thing l did was to apologize for the
Amewican revolution.
1t would have been common place to de-
pict pair of young Americans swells in
characteristic attitudes, To make the
score colonial dining room wherein
lacReys were removing painting of
George Washington and substituting for it
one ef the Prince of Wales, was both ar
tistic and harmonious.
Are cartoonists true to life? is some
times asked. That is, are theirsportraits
like the Originate AS a rule, yes. A we'll
known anecdOte made Garfield say that it
was a convenience to be universally carl
catured for it resulted in general famili-
arity with ones personal appearance.
The comic artists are no fiatterers, but
they are faithful. Queen Victoria is
probably as adipose in real life as she is
! in a funny picture, and the race track
gambler has equal justice done him.
There is such a thing, too, as honesty
| to be considered in connection with the
work. The humorist. with pen or pencil.
may not officially allow his talent to be
! debased into an instrument for the propa-
| cation of error. If there be no conscience
| in his work, our modern satirist is merely
an intellectual or artistic bufioon. paid to
/ make people laugh like clown in q cir
| Gus. We are not, perhaps, so rigid in this
( respect as they are in Europe But the
| artists there seem to lack the wealth of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

idea which we show. They are satisfied
to make perfect works of art. We like to
have our pictures tell a story. However,
1T is difficult, perhaps presumptuous, for
Americans to Sit in Judgment upon their
fellow-wOrkers in other countries.
French humOr is for Frenchmen, German
wit for Germans, and our fun has that
briskness and breeziness which makes it
a reflex of our life So the Englishman
who styles our humor a national calamity,
merely shows that he does not under
stand us.
A defeated statesman once pointed to
political cartoon with the remark: THAT
picture defeated me for congress" If a
true history of American caricature is
ever written, the momentous influence it
has had in politics will be worth a long
chapter. Let any citizen analyze his i'm
pressions of our public men and assure
himself how far the cartoons ne meets
with in his books and papers are respon-
sible for those impressions. No wonder a
candidate for Office once bought up and
burned every copy of paper cartoon
ing him that came into his district, before
his constituents had a chance to see It,
Occasionally, however, the effect is not
the one intended. A politician of dubious
renown always remained grateful to one
artist who caricatured him inimitably in
cartoon that attracted attention all over
the United States.
Before that picture came out, =" he de-
clared, II wasn't anybody. Now I'm
known to the whole country"
1t is trifie melancholy, however, to re-
fleet that the authors and originators of
the many bright things we see and read
remain for the most part obscure.
Some jokes spread through the country
newspapers like fire in forest, only to
tiyy1n and die lilo cl- 1.oslrntc IN
Kreutzer SO-naughty' was one of these,
and Venetian Blinds: Italian counts, " is
another. So with pictures. Many an
artist receives praise for a brilliant idea
| that was not his at all-purchased, it
may have been, from a person utterly
unknown. For the division of labor is
carried even into cartooning. The sale of
ideas is quite a source of revenue to some
original men.
Those persons who are fond of assert
ing that there is no distinctively Ameri-
can type of man or woman, must be una
ware that we have cartoonists in this
country. The work they do is made up
of just such types. There is an American
type of business man, society man, work
lngman and every other kind of man, as
| the readers of Judge have long been
aware. These types are distinctly ma
! tional Nothing like them is native to any
other country.
This suggests, finally, how familiar we
| are all becoming with every kind of high
! and low life, as a consequence of comic
| illustrated journalism. What plea for
tenement house reform was ever so pow
erful as that made by the picture and
| joke portraying the absurdities of such a
a sardine eXistence' How often would
the street waits be thought of did they
not afford such a wealth of material to
the American cartoonist, thanks to whom
one-half the world has come to know pref
| ty well how the other half lives
BERNHARD GILLIAN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

transient things. veritable mushrooms Of
fancy, created to perish with the occa-
sion that called them forth. The soul of
wit was never meant to find in them
more than temporary abiding place
1t is this very Elasticity that makes
American humOr so all pervading Moth
ing is too high or too low to afford it ma
terial. Its achievements are the repub-
lies history in burlesque James G.
Blaine is reputed to have looked over a
collection of Cartoous aimed at himself
with the remark: There is my pictorial
biography" In the same way the hui
morists of America have written their
country's history and shaped it as they
wrote 1t. Who would think of Grover
Cleveland as fleshy gentleman if he had
no cartoonist' What posthumous fame
has been recently conferred in Caricature
upon the headgear of the first president
that ever died in Office! How many dema-
gogues would there not be in Office TODAY
Dut that American wits have laughed
them out of it?
Hence those foreigners who do not ap-
preclate our funny men" merely be-
tray their ignorance of what il is the lat
Ter would accomplish Our people no
longer wish to be made to roar and guf-
law and have their buttons sent f1ying
from their coats. They would be amused.
surely, but there must be method in the
amusement. For twenty years the male
population Of this country underworld
ouu Valnly, to induce women to appear at
VI aJers with small hats on their heads
inc numorlsts took up the cause and ac-
COmpAshed the work in as many weeks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
The Dangere of FOOTBALL
From the Baltimore American

It lOll inc DdlblllOlC HAlAioI+N
Within a week two young men nav nav,
died from injuries received while pay in G
football So dangerous has the game W ",
come that players in recent games nav 1,o
adopted guards for their faces, ana onJ
young man is said to have used a steet
corset. A player with these appi5lanftoesS
looks more like an insurgent ready co. for
battle than young American READY lat Io
sport. The truth of the matter Is 'il AZ,
football is more dangerous and IS Ine an
rect cause of the loss of more llVes 80 =,
prize-fghting. The element of je2?lP G ~ \
makes 1t attractive, just as the perL sid WI
bull fight draw thousands who wa W. N
not attend a game that would be sale .oo at
life and limb 1t is undeniably g nc.
sport in its excitement and picturesqtIbTe
ness, but surely the civilization VI nv
latter half of the nineteenth ce Iotter
should be worthy of something peT ble,
than professional rough-and, tl III cas,
with occasional smuggling, and enoutn mi.
ualties to demand the constant "a'ON
moss and attendance of q surgeon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

in this country there are produced pict-
ures and puns which betray a sad neon
ception of what humor is.
This melancholy specimen with &C
companying picture has appeared, in in
finite variation, any number of times dur
ing the past fifty years. To call it fat
would be insulting to prairie. Ia palm
off secondhand goods as new is just as re-
prehensible in a humorist as in a piano
dealer Even paucity of ideas is no excuse
for that counterfeit wit which manu-
features one theme into hundred
'jokes, - or pictures.
But this is a legitimate way of treating a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

min Takes choice Of the following Mems
Suits:
IN Blue Beaver, former price o.. S14 90
WI v Fancy Worsted. former price. Is 90
Homespun, former price ............ IA 90
Fancy Worsted, former price. 16 90
Fancy Worsted, former price. ....... Is 90
See them in window.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
Historian Wrong.

The army of Xerxes has always been
greatly overestimated by historians.
Commonly computed at 100000, the best
evidence goes to show that, camp follow
ers and all, it did not exceed 1000 600
His thousands of ships" numbered only
1900 to begin with, and of these 400 were
lost in storm, so that he reached the
coast Of Greece with about 500
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
Growing Sponges.

Sponges are being propagated Ear, Ia
cheap way Just now. About tire. inv
ago a cute German divided a few h eeao5iy
specimens of live sponges into 5eeD
number of parts and placed them ~ las as a
water, with the result that he now 5iture
crop of 1000 at an initial eXpenu-'
of 500
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

Mrs. Nathan Collins, of Teton, Mont, is a
We known tile raiser of that state. Re
Gently sac shipped thcce cas- o. cat lie to Chi
cl2o, and accompanied them riding. in the
.re.Hht cabOo-e with th3 droVers She rode
10 the tram In q spring wagon with prod
pole In one hand and q lunch basket In the
other. She is l rye woman, with vigorous
voice and a S rive ways.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

arbitration is a matter of only history
will find anything funny in this, with its
accompanying cartoon of American and
British commissioners:
A DITTY.
Mother may 90 out to swim?'
Asked the seal with aspect awesOme
Yes my child. her mamma replied:
But look out for The mare clausum"
II must be added, however, that even
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
FOLLY'S CARB ON WISDOM.
Americas Master Of Satire Considers
the Province Of the HumOriSt,
That viii Live in Our Republics
History.

(COpyrlght)
New York, Nov 1S.-A gifted English
man declared, not long ago, that the
American sense of humor was a national
calamity. His observation is as justif-
able as the charge against Britishers that
they cannot see joke John Bull can
see joke if it be native product 1t is
only when he goes abroad and finds the
play upon words superseded by the play
upon thoughts that he sees nothing to
laugh at. For the Englishman dearly
loves pun.
But in this country we dearly love
ideas, If humor be not original it pals
upon us. The cartoon or the joke that
requires abstruse cogitation to discover
the point of it is something we have no
patience with. For this reason our
lucubrations of wit are very often but
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

One of the finest houses built in Perry
was a combination saloon, dance hall. and
gambling den. Other similar resorts
were soon running in opposition. but this
one, owned and conducted by woman
called BLACK Nell, " will probably always
hold more than its share of patronage.