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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
He Never peres Fate.

Il never 60 into a cage OF wild beasts unless
it is absolutely necessary, - said A. L. Holton,
the veteran animal trainer in charge Of the Rob
iuson mensgerie, to the Cincinnati Times-Sfar,
In the first place it is dangerous and then
there is nothing TO be gained by it. What is the
use of rskinR ones life for nothing? 1 used to
do 1t when was younger, but don't want 70
do it any more. ShoWnen once thought il was
an attraction, but the people don't appreciate
the danger of the performance, so that it is sci
dom done any more John Robinson will not
allow any one to go on parade in cage of
beasts, aud he is right. Do you know that
during the season am continually annoyed by
men who want to go into the cages? good
trainer viii not risk his life so fooshly, and it is
only novices who take the fearful risk.
Some people think there is lot of money In
it, but know that most of the men now parad-
ing In cages are working for no more than $50
month. Showmen offer no inducement but
often they will permit a man to 20 on parade
with den of lions if he insists on it and agrees
before witnesses to take all the risk uDon his
own shoulders. They do it for glory, but l don't
see where the glory comes 10.
i used TO have a cage OF leOpards that
raised from kittens l went in with them for a
few years, but when they got full grown quit
1t. A fresh young man who was pining for
glory insisted upon taxing the place I refused
to fill longer He got the job, and one day tie
leopards tore him to pieces before a large crowd
to the music of the calliope They got him out
just in time to let him die in the open air. Yes,
it is very thrilling and likewise very glorious,
But don t banker for glory"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
PERSONAL.

Mas. OLIPHANT receives about 5000 for each
story she writes, and she manages to prepare
three or four every year.
GEORGE GIDDENs. the comedian is an artist
in oils. Some of his landscapes have attracted
attention in the London exhibitions.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN THEODORE NJ. PoMERoY
though well advanced toward 90, is said to still
preserve all the fire of oratory for which he was
noted in youth.
BEFORE Mr.. Cleveland has got through with
his diplomatic appointments he win have made
thirty-two gentlemen happy by placing them in
positions which are worth from 50 900 to S17 800
year.
N. WADDINGToN, the retiring French aubas-
sador to the court Of St James, had salary of
S6o,OOo per annum which, large as il was, did
not nearly cover the cost of the receptions and
dinners which he gave
SECRETARY CARLISLE remarked in a paintive
tone to recent visitor: I thought that when
ell these gentlemen who came here to see the
Inauguration had seen it they would go home,
out they haven't; no. they haven't. l have
seen them all, sir. I am quite sure have been
addressed by them all, sir, right in this room"
KING HUBERT has written cordial letter to
Emperor William IL, thanking him for his &C
ceptance of an invitation to attend the royal
silver wedding 10 Rome next month The
promise Of the emperor and empress to be pres
ent at the celebration, King Humbert says, is
"a fresh proof of the personal friendship which
crowns the alliance of the German and Italian
nations"
ONE notable feature of the late Gen. Kirby
Smiths personal appearance was his beard,
which possessed truly patriarchal proportions,
and combined with his broad high forehead to
make him the ideal of the sage that he was
he was erudite and scholarly, and was held in
high esteem at Sewanee for his learning and
urbanity. 1t is a fact of interest that after the
cessation of hostlties nearly all of the great
commanders Of the southern army attained dis
tinction in the pursuits Of peace-some of them
as railroad managers, others as statesmen. not
a few as bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and several, Ike Gen. Smith himself
as college professors. Gen. Smiths affection
for the lost cause remained uudimnIshed UP
20 his death, and as a symbol Of it he wore on
the LETT lapel of his coat an ornament fashioned
in the form Of dininutive confederate ensign.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
Afloat With a Fred MIne.

Il think about the closest call" said Capt
Sweet to San Francisco Examiner writer,
was in the Gulf of California in the old
schooner Storm Cloud In 1854 took command
or Der at the mouth of Colorado river on short
notice and sailed without making any examina-
qua'nted with the mate. Consequently / was
pretty busy In the cabin for the first twenty
four hours out. We we're well into the gulf on
the second day when / had my escape
Fred Kohler, son OF the proprietor Of the
famous old Blue Wing saloon, was the mate,
and during the afternoon 1 requested him to
take some OF the crew into the half-houss aft
and overhaul ths spare sails. These sails as
was aTterward Mortified to remember, had
been hastily slowed on top of 500 kegs of pow
der, and they were wooden kegs at that. Koh-
Ter dld the work as requested, restowed the sails
ana then Joined me in the cabin.
shortly before eight bells we were sitting at
the supper table, when thought detected the
| odor OF burning cloth. Mr., Kohler, do you
smell anything? ! asked,
NO, he replied,
We sat little longer and I repeated the
question, as the smell Of the smoke was grow
ing stronger. Suddenly thought of the sails
ana the powder and rushed on deck. Sure
enough, there was a thin curl of smoke coming
out OF the hatch. I did some mighty fast
abandoning the vessel, because feared that if
we opened the hatch to fight
the fire it would give it draught
and hasten all hands to glory. Then
looked at the boat, which was not big enough
TO hold US all anyhow, and saw that it could not
De dlsentangled from the deck load which sur
rounded it under several minutes and as we
were going about nine knots, it would have
taken up more precious time to bring the
schooner up into the wind. All this flashed
through my mind on the run from the cabin to
the hatch, and thought we might as we'll take
the chance Of fighting the fire the chance of
being blown up il we stayed by her as long as
we would have to do under the circumstances.
tore the hatch open and went franticaIly to
work dragging out the smoldering sails which
burst into flames as soon as the breeze rushed
through the open hatch. Kohler, who did not
know what to make Of my abrupt departure
from the mess table, followed me and was at
my side helping almost instantly. We burned
our fingers and the sales were pretty well de-
stroyed. but that was the only damage which
resulted. 1t was a broiling hot day. one of the
days when the pitch bubbles in the seams but
vas as cold as a lump of ice for good half
hour after the fire was extinguished. ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03

Insdeqate Punishment for Murder.
Those tender-hearsei idealists who think
the high state of civilization we have
reached demands the abolition OF the death
penaIty for murder have before them q
striking illustration of tns folly Of their
sentiment in the case or irving Latiuer,
the Michigan murderer. Details OF Lati
mer's escape from the state prison, after
poisoning guard, and of his recapture
have been given in our news dispatches. 81
that to recount them is unnecessary. But
to illustrate the point to be made, it may
be well to 60 back TO the beginning.
Lstimer's father had insured his life toT
a considerable sum OF money, payable
| jointly 60 his wife and son. In 1883 Lsti-
/ mer, ST., died under circumstances which
! aroused suspicious that his son had poiso med
| him. The insurance money was collected.
| But Latimer, Jr., was apparently not sat-
| isfe1 with his proportion, for in January
| 1889, he shot his mother as she lay In bed,
and, the bullets not proving fatal immedi-
ately, he beat her on the head with the butt
Of his pistol until she was dead. For the
murder Of his mother be was tried and con-
victed.
Unfortunately, however. he could not be
sentenced to death. For the Michigan leg
islature had abolished the death penalty.
He was, therefore, sentenced TO life impris-
onment in the penitentiary-th severest
sentence that can be imposed under Michi-
gan law.
In the penitentisry be behaved himself
very well for awhile, and. gaining the Son-
fidenos Z his keepers, they allowed him
numrol= privileges. He was clever and
aooomuo dating. He liked to lessen the
work of his guards and do small favors for
them. So cleverly did he play his part
that the guards actually felt under obhga-
tions TO him when he kindly made tea and
coffee for them, which they drank, Then
Lstimer got in his work' by putting
poison in their cups, as has been told in the
news columns
Latimer has been recaptured and returned
to prison, 80 he stands IN precisely the same
relation TO the law that he did before.
Although he has committed his third muir
der, and is known to be a man who
would not hesitate TO commit as
many more, the law continues to
food and raiment in order that he may die
Of old age or disease like an honest man.
Latimer knows that under the law, half
dozen murders more or less will not make
the penalty he must pay any greater, while
q lucky stroke, like the one be made re-
Gently, might give him liberty consequently
he has been, and will be, always on the
alert to make the lucky stroke. In con-
huement, with nothing else TO do and no
worse consequence to fear than the punish
ment he is already undergoing, he has am
pie opportunity to plan and perfect desper~
ate schemes to regain his liberty.
Fear OF punishment may not deter men
from committing murder But capital
punishment, promptly executed, will pre-
vent murderers from multiplying their
crimes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
EXpiation.

1T was the funniest thing" said the girl in
the blue macintosh, according to the Buffalo
Erpress. Before l got on the car flshed up
fine pennies from my purse and held them in
my hand. When the conductor came along 1
handed him the five pennies, Thought, but it
seems THAI one of them dropped in my lap and
didn't notice it. The conductor looked at me
in queer way and went on. When he came
back he told me had given him only four
cents"
''What'd you do'" asked the girl with the fur
Il looked through my purse and found that 1
didn't have another penny. Then gave him a
So bill. He got mixed and gave me back so
cents too much change"
did you keep iti" asked the girl with the fur
cape
Certainly"
but that was the same as stealing. 1t didn't
belong to you, and the poor conductor had to
account to the company for it."
WELL" said the girl In the blue macintosh
guiltily, che had no business to give 1t to me -
Then she added in a relieved manner, Besides.
l put it on the plate at church the very next
night
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
A Successful Colored Man.

At least one men made fortune while he
was a clerk in government office. Until
last Friday Thomas II. MerIwether was a
clerk in the Office of the second auditor Of
the treasury departments. He is d colored
man and is about - years Of age. He went
to Washington from Kentucky when a
mere youth and was given place in the
office Of Solicitor General Bristow. He
was merely an office boy, and hence his
compensation was small. He finally got a
place as night Waterman in the treasury
department, and be spent much of each
DAY at Howard University, from which in
stitution he finally graduated. He then
passed a civil service examination and
secured the clerkship which he resigned
last Friday He saved his
money and invested it in
real estate in Louisville and Washington.
From his small beginnings he has accumu-
lated fortune. A fair estimate Of the
value Of his property is said to be $3.50. 600
and be is steadily increasing it. He is now
building nine houses which are to cost
$4,000, and he recently completed block
Of sixteen houses at cost OF 1920, 900. 1t is
doubtful il any other government clerk in
Washington or elsewhere has made as much
Of his opportunities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
BRIGHT BITS.

SIS Miss Trip girl Of meansg"
Phipps-Yes, but what am trying TO discover
Is whether it is yes or no she means-ChtcaQo
Inter Ocean.
RECENT advertisement in a country paper
reads thus; For sale, ulterrier dog, years
old viii eat anything; very fond of children
Apply at this Office. Tit Bits
EXTRACT From LOVE LETTER.-"Should you
fall Co reciprocate my affection, then please re-
turn this letter, in order that may use il on an
other occasion. y FIfegende Batter
He. seized hsr. in tn Q. dark and kissed her.
And for moment bliss was his;
20, my, thought It was my sister"
lie cried, She laughed and said, sit is"
-Aeto York Press.
QUITE AN APPETITE. -Mamma-What, Mark.
have you come home to luncheonS l thought
you TOOK your luncheon to school this morning,
Mark Yes, IN, did; but ate it all up at re-
cess-HarDer's Young People
HARKINs-It's good thing the worlds fair Is
being held in the center of the continent.
Butchart-WhyY
Harkins-So that foreigners can see the ex-
tent of Chicago's suburbs-Nelo York Herald.
DID you read my speech on the tariff" asked
a member of congress
Yes, l heard Of it."
What do you think of it?n
Its as clear as mud"
well, 1t covers the ground, anyhow. There
Is some consolation in that. "-Terds SIftinOs.
BLACK-They've got twins up at Quiver's
house.
White You don't mean it! What did Culver
say when he heard of itY
Black-Re slraightened up, drew a long
breath and exclaimed: Gracious but isn't this
a growing country, MISUNDERSTANDING
Chronicle.
HERR LEIsESPEILER-I belief. tear lady, dat
pretent your out EoIngf
Mrs Gormly-O dear professor, We are all
going to the opera But won't you join us9
Herr Leisespeiler-N hit pleasure, tear lady!
What will be gifen?
Chorus-O, we don't know: we have a box
HGTperS u eekiy.
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INDEY To NRR ADVERTISE HgNTS.

MEET1xas-DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I, O. o, F.;
Memorial Association.
SPECIAL NoTicEs-As to Bills Against Nor.
wegian Bark Nordksp.
BOYS SU1rs-Falk Clothing Company.
. Now That EASTER SUNDAY Is CyER-Appel &
Schaul.
IF You KEPT Your EYES OPEN-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDvLE-Baltimore Steamship
Company; Ocean Steamship Company.
RENovAL-Lindsay & Morgan.
SUMNER Rzsoacs-The Allegheny Hotel,
Goshen, Va.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE Central Railroad of
Georgia.
AUCTION SALss-Furniture, etc, by @. H.
Dorset; Furniture, Clothing. etc, by J. H.
Oppenheim & Son.
LEGAL NoTIcEs-Citations from Court of Or
binary.
OagAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wsussi; Empty nent waats J; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Hiscellans1ls
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"keep on Eighth &. "

From the Ne1 York World (Dem.).
This is Benjamin Harrison's condensed state
ment of the idea Of the true republican policy:
Keep on fighting" The saying is charac-
teristically plucky and has the ring of leader
snip In It But what is the fight TO be! Win
taxesf Can Mr.. Harrison point TO party that
ever won victory on this issuef viii they
Keep on nghting" for the creation and bull
warhng OF trusts and monopolies? Have the
results Of the elections in the west for the past
three years encouraged such tactics? VIII they
keep on fighting for a force bill? They did
not dare defend it in the recent canvass. VIII
they Keep en- fighting" for more pensions
heaping further bills upon the mountain Of OBJ
legations already piled upi Are the people really
anxious 10 run The pension list above 1900 coo 900
Napoleon wanted to keep on lighting" after
waterloo. But he would hardly have chosen
the old line and plan of battle il he had secured
the chance. What are the republicans to fight
forl
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skiIlful Though Drunk.

Queer and racy are the tales told Of the skill
of the Maine shpbuilders in the use Of the adzs
and broadax, says the New York sun. One
old-tme yarn is of the carpenter who applied,
very drunk. at shipyard for employment, In
order TO have a little fun with him the foreman
set him TO give a proof of his skill by hewing
Out a wooden bolt with no chopping block but a
stone The carpenter acc lmpiished his diff
cult task without marring the keen edge of the
br adaX. and showed the foreman a neatly
made bolt. Then he brought the ak down with
a terrific blow that shattered its edge upon the
stone.
II can hew fust-rats on your ohopping
block" he hccoughed, but I'll be diff I
can make the ak stick in it when l get
through"
The story runs that the foreman lost no time
in employing such workman.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
Cant Catch q Yankee nov.

You can never catch a yankee boy, says ex-
Judge Rowland in an after dinner story, &C
cording to the Buffalo Ne,0s. You never can
corner him. A gentleman travelling in the coun-
try at Stoddard, n. H, where it is all rocks
and powders and abandoned farms the old
farm house going to ruin, saw boy 12 or ID
hoeing in a corn field on the side of what would
be pasture land on anyone ese's farm. The corn
was rather poor looking. The traveller refined
in his horse and spoke TO the boy He said to
him: "Your corn is rather small corn
We'll" said the boy, I'VE planted dwarf
corn"
We'll. ii looks yellow, poor and thin"
well, we planted yellow corn"
"Well, said the traveller ~ don't mean that.
1t don't look as if you would get more than half
a crop"
'T don't expect to. We planted it on shares "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03

Maj. Emma Bonn, Of the Salvation Army,
has astonished and shocked New York. In
a recent lecture at Binghamton she stated
that from an intimate knowledge of con-
ditions in each OF the cities, she was pre-
pared to say that "while there is not as
much poverty in New York as in London,
Jret in vice New York is far worse than
London's blacklist district, Whitechapel. ~
The majority Of Americans Will not be dis
posed to accept the majors statement as
true. She is, so far as is known, the only
person who has ever made such a
charge, while numbers OF writers and
investigators Of note have declared
conditions TO be otherwise. 1t is gen.
orally admitted that poverty, ignorance and
vice go hand In hand. And the most dense
Ignorance and the most abjeos poverty are
to be found in the slums of London.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
Getting Even With the Landlord.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Wen crack the windows, mar the doors, and
ruin everything!
Wen tear the paper off the walls-it's pretty
nearly spring.
Wen make the house present an awful picture
of decay;
It's time to go smashing things-we'll move the
first Of May.
Wen dump the ashes in the hall; wen clog the
water pipes;
Well paint the ceilings and the walls in wild,
fantastic stripes:
Wen break the knobs and latches all, the house
we'll dissrray.
For that is how the people do who move the
first of May,
The place we leave behind us will be awful to
behold
An cir of wreck and ruin will the premises en-
fold.
No other can awaken such a depth of dark
diSmay,
Except it be the house to which well move the
first of May.
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Old Capt. Jake" Vanderbilt, the brother
of the commodore, who died two weeks or
80 ago, was not one Of the very rich mem
bers Of the family. He was good and care
full business man, but lacked the tact to
seize money-making opportunities and build
up great fortune. His will, probated a
day or two ago, shows that his entire estate
will not amount TO more than 5000, 600.
Ordinarily speaking, that would be con-
sidered quito fortune; but compared with
the S-hgure sums possessed by the other
Vanderbilt, the captains estate sinks into
httleness
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03
An Easy Solution.

Most people are aware that 1t is the custom Of
turf gentlemen to settle their accounts every
Monday at Tattersalls, says It'd Bits. It.was
on one of these occasions that hacker, BY an
oversight paid his bookmaker betting debt
which he had settled already. This put the bookie
in mental fix as to what would be the best
course for him Co take. "Shall rob my wife
and family" he argued with himself land re-
turn the money; or shall keep It and 20 about
with a scared consciousy" Unable to decide the
point himself, be sought the advice OF brother
professional of greater experience.
Paid you twice over, did he?' said the latter
ASK him for il again"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03

The New York legislature, following the
example of the California legislature, is to
consider a bill making it a misdemeanor for
the publisher of a newspaper to make a false
statement concerning its circulation for the
purpose Of securing advertisements or other
patronage. II the New y ork bill should be-
come law some Of the big dalies might
have to pass dividends in order to pay the
daily fines of their circulation experts.
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So firm has become the belief among Ger
tain Washington correspondents that Pier
pont Morgan has gone to Europe to nego-
tiate loan for the government that they
have gone into calculating how much he
will make out Of the matter. Says CORE
spondent: THE prevailing commission
allowed by the government in past bond
sales has been oue-fourth of l per cent. up to
$l0,000,000, and one-fourth and one-eighth
or per cent. on amounts of over $40, OOO,-
600 If the same rate holds good day Mr..
Morgan's profits on the $50 900 900 loan be
is believed TO be negotiating would be about
$3.50 900" 1t is recalled that the foundation
Of the great fortune left by Mr. w. W. Corr
corau, Of Washington, was laid by nego-
tiating for the government a loan with
which TO pay the expenses of the Mexican
war. The amount of the loan was SIC. 0O0,-
600, on which he was allowed commission
Of 2 per cent. From this and other loans
which he subsequently negotiated he is be-
lieved to have realized profits aggregating
at least 1000, 600.
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The Financial Crisis Over.

From the Springfield (Mdss.) Republican tInd.)
The treasury has been gaining in both its
cash and gold balances all through the month
Receipts are increasing, and the officials pro-
Tess to believe that all danger is past for the
time being. This is not to be put to the credit of
the new management, probably, but Secretary
Carlisle is at least to be credited with having
put stop to the indisoreet talk that used to
pour forth from the department under Secre-
tary Foster, and was constantly causing alarm
in financial circles