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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
BRIGHT BITS.

/ Twynn-I hear thatyou were relieved of $500
| during your stay in Chicago.
/ ITiplett-I never alluded to it as a relief
| Truth.
| Johnnie-So you were really in the war?
/ Col Jenks-Yes, Johnnie; WHY one bullet
/ gTGZed my arm.
Johnnie-Couldnt you find "a wider tree
/ General Manager.
Hello, Charles: not at work? What's up?"
20. we're out on a strike"
What S the trOuble:
Don know, but wen not give in till we
| get it. boston Beacon.
| Daughter-The count comes of a very old
/ family, papa.
Par! .Yes, know. His father and mother
kept fruit stand and both lived to be past
60.-Detroit FFeeiPress. ....
y am Sure there are visitors in the parlor,
John"
What makes you think so?''
Because whenever papa speaks to mamma
he calls her my dear. ''-Fllegende Blaetter.
Ma" said the newspaper mans son, Il
know why editors call themselves We"
SO the man that doesn' like the article
win think there are too many people for him
to tackle tam Horn.
Stage Manager thought I told you to hire
only handsome men as supeS?
Assistant-Nen ell. SO did.
Why, three of them have oarroty hair and
1 the rest tCrn-up noses.
wei. they re vegetable SupCS. you know.
Kate Field S Washington.
Mrs. jones' hear you are going to marry
again and your husband has only neen dead
three months
Widow NTH What Me thinking of mar
rying again. If were 70 be a widow every
six months it WoGld never occur to ne to
marry agaIn.-Iezas SlftinSs.
Patient Cooking Gtthe prescriptio1)-
tor, couldu you Just as well stop in at the
drug store yourself, have the prescription
| filed and send the stuff TO me by your office
| boy?
Doctor taking back the prescription and
writing anOther)-I see / have made mis-
! take. You don't need any nerve medicine.
/ Chicago Tribune.
| Two giddy Young men were strolling
! through Midway plais3nCc the other day
/ when they saw Il eurk a short distance ahead
1 OF them. See the Turk: said one OF them.
! II am going to have some fun with him" so
/ presently he said to the Turk. We'll, old
! FezZy. how yer Hver,N
/ And the rkrepicd in perfect good En-
I Glish: Much better than your manners, sir. -
/ Chicago Tribune.
Your husband is the editor of the Bugle. 1
/ believe, said the noighbor who had dropped
/ IN to make friendly call
/ Yes
And as you have no family and have con-
| siderable leisure on your hands, you assist
him now and then in his editorial work, dare
/ say:
/ %, yes answered the brisk little wife of
I the young newspaper man, hiding her straw
/ berry stained fingers Under her apron, L
eat nearly all mis- inside matter. Chicago
! Tribune.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
A New Civil Service Scheme.

| a New C1Tl4 service oCn6zu6-
Trthere is am foundation for a wash
irrtan dispatch IN the New York san, she
President purposes 10 recommend 10 con-
Gr,-s scheme for great reform In the
civil service. According to this dispatch
/ he has become convinced during the last
/ two months that no appointments should
/ bee made for purely party reasons-that
/ all appointments should be made on the
/ ground Of fitness only. For two months
/ -a. greater part Of his time has been
+ ,ai,0l mp hy applicants for Office and their
/ friends, and when he has decided 10 make
/ am appointment he has not been sure al
WAYS that he has chosen wisely, because
of the difficulty of getting the truth rlla-
I tive 10 the merits of applicants.
70 IS said that he is now inclined to
think that 10 would be beneficial TO the
who'll country if the President had the
appointment of only mcube of his cab
met and foreign minister's. an the other
appointments being made from among
those who have been carefully examined
by competent board as to their moral.
intellectual and physical qualifications. 1t
is his view, of course. that those
appointed in this manner should
hold their places for life. or during good
behavior. In other words, it is his scheme
10 take all the offices out of politics except
The few important ones that have a close
relation with the administration of the
government.
a very large proportion of the Offices
are now filed by the merit system, and
their occupants are not disturbed except
for cause. tits aquestion whether either
political party would consent to 60 in the
direction Of civil service reform as far
as it is now said MIR Cleveland proposes
to go.
This alleged new departure of Mr..
/ Cleveland viii not be regarded by the
spoilsmen with pleasure They have
been hoping for several years that civil
service reform would be abandoned.
They are doomed to disappointment. be-
cause there is no probability that it will
be abandoned, and there is pretty fair
prospect that it win be so extended as to
include more of the offices than was in
tended by those who framed the civil
service reform act.
Themain objection to the alleged scheme
of Mr. Cleveland is that it viii result in
making an Office holding class. The civil
service viii be in danger of having in it a
larger percentage of comparatively
useless men and women than it has at
present. 1t may be that some remedy
for such an evil could be devised.
The number of Office holders has be
come so great that the question of the
best method of filling the Offices is a
serious one. The spoils system is full of
danger and the life appointment system
means an Office holding class. If Mr..
Cleveland should propose a new civil
service scheme it would bring about a
thorough discussion of the whole subject
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
PERSONAL.

| The Duke Of Edinburgh wears a gold
bangle fastened with gold lock on his left
wrist
/ Mary Wales. an ancient Boston spinster,
( who died last week. left her entire fort une
/ amounting to about $ 600 to her pet tom cat,
/ called Otto.
Near Tyler. Tex. a young girl. for a wager,
/ outran a fieet-hooted pony a distance Of 800
yards; ana the pony had about ten yards the
I start Of her.
popular Kentucky souvenir spoon repre-
| sents race track, statue Of Mary Ander
son and q barrel Of whisky, entwined with to-
| bacco leaves.
Queen Victoria's crown is worth 81 100000
1t costs in interest $4,000 year for this head,
piece which she never wears. The interest
alone would buy about 1000 lovely bonnetS
/ every year.
Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren has in the
dining room Of her house in Washington the
mirror used by Dolly Madison in the white
| house and afterward in her own home as long
as she lived.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, the well-known
preacher, says that she has officiated in
churches of every creed except those of the
church OF England and the Roman Catholic
denomination.
NJ de Giers, the great Russian diplomatist
and foreign minister, is now a bent old man,
his pale. thin face surrounded by a beard of
snowy WmteneSS. When he walks he leans
heavily on his secretary's arm and steps with
the greatest care.
His Excenency p. de Gloukhonski, C. Ra-
gouza Soustchehsky. Rylbassof, Grincffsky
and Tcherep Spiridswitch has arrived in
chicago, and the Mail enthusiastically tend
ers him not only the freedom of the city, but
the use Of font of type.
The King and Queen Of Greece live in very
simple style, cheerfuily adapting their ex-
penses to the impccunious plight of the
country. ana his majesty often boards the
tram tstreet car when he wants to run down
10 the port tthe famous Pireus) at Athens.
Gen. George G. Greene, the Oldest graduate
Of West Point. celebrated mis- 93d birthday
last Friday. Re resigned from the army in
1896 to take up civil engineering, but volun-
teered when the civil war broke out, and rose
10 the rank of major general. He is well pre-
served. and his friends say he would pass for
a man of 60.
Paris journal pays an enthusiastic tribute
TO the accomplishments OF a young American
girl named Klumphe VINO, within a few years,
mas gained an enViable name for herself as an
astronomer. She is said to be one of the most
interchangeable and successful observers in
france, and is really a youthful Maria
Mitchell. Miss Klumphe is q California girl
tall, slender, auburn hair and "a years old.
The lion OF the hour in London is the Ma
hacajah f BhoWnUgger, an oriental pOtentate
who has Travelled from India to England to at
tend the opening of the Imperial Institute and
fulfil a lOng-cherished desire of paying per
sonal homage to the queen and empress. He
Is an enlightened young man of 35, who is con-
sidered one Of the most benevolent of the
native rulers Of India. having spent s. 000.OO0
in charities. The progress he has made in
adopting the ideas of western civilization is
evidenced by the fact that he has sent his
young daughters to a high school to be edu-
Gated
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
Looks Like Delay.

The attorneys for Alexander Brown &
Sons and others who have been taking
testimony before a master in this city for
the last two days, in the Central railroad
case that is to come up before Mr.. Justice
jackson in Atlanta next Thursday, have
finished their examination of witnesses.
Unless they obtained testimony that has
not been published they have not got
much that viii help them in their effort
TO Gust Mr. Conner from the receivership.
They have called for facts and
figures, however, that cannot be obtained
by next Thursday, and it may be that the
failure to get them may be made the basis
Of an application for a continuance of the
case. II they don't want a continuance it
would seem as if they would have asked
sooner for the information they now de-
sire.
Tho opponents of the IIollins plan of re-
organization propose TO ask Mr. Justice
jackson to elloin the sale OF the
Central under the tripariite bond mort
gage and also TO remove Mr. Conner
from the receivership. TO make out their
case they viii have to show that tho sale
of the road is unnecessary and that Mr.
Corners management is not wise and
economical. We DO not know what they
wil@be able to show, bus il is quite clear
that the part Of the testimony that has
been published does not furnish much of
basis for either an injunction or the
removal Of EIr. Conner The Nancy
Hanks train that has been criticised as
an extravaganza is, according to General
Manager Wadley, putting $500 a month
more in the roads treasury from passen-
ger business than was received from that
business before that train was run.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
Pompoy Remembered roxna.

There is nothing that horses are sol fond of
as being talked to, said a cluhman-one who
knows all about the animals he was dis
cussing-to a New York Tribune writer
so well known is this that in the Austrian
cavalry, and i'll several other armies of Eu-
rope, the soldiers have strict orders never to
enter the stalls without speaking a few words
to the nags 1 had often endeavored to i'm
press this TACT upon my eolored groom very
bright and unusually intelligent lad, who,
whenever | told him to talk to my horses
would invariably laugh sheepishly, convinced
that l was making fun Of him The other
evening. after taking one OF our friends to the
station, he was driving home leisurely in a
rather mellow mood, when suddenly my rec
ommendation on the subject of talking to the
horses occurred to him, and without thinking
what he was doing. he addressed the pony he
was driving as follows: We'll, Pompey. old
boy, do you remember the name OF the man
as used to own you in TexasY" 1
do not know whether the word Texas
aroused memories in the breast of the pony
but the fact remains that he stopped short
turned his head round and whinnied at Daw-
son-that is the lad S name. Balaam was GER
tainly not more aStoniShed when his donkey
addressed him than was Dawson, who with
cry of ''Jee-rusalem. Great Scotl Hey,
what's the matter with you, Pompey, are YOU
crazy jumped out of the carriage and ran to
the ponys head convinced that either he
himself or the horse had become bewitched.
SO startled was he by the horse S utterance
that il was quite two or three minutes before
he could recover his equanimity sufficiently
to mount the box once more and to resume
his drive home-now talking all the way with
the pony, who ever and again whinnied in re-
ply. Since then my horses and this particu-
lar attendant have become infinitely better
friends and the groom is delighted to have
found at least two creatures who appreciate
his jokes,
While on this subject" he went on "let
me give you an infallible cure for baking
horse, which moreover, will have the advan-
tage of diminishing much of the beating and
other kinds Of cruelty to which the animals
are subjected by people ignorant of the true
character of this kind Of equine hYsteria
There is nothing to do save TO take up a hand
full Of ashes or dustin preference ashes-and
opening the horses mouth wide to put the
ashes or dust as far back as possible down his
throat The horse will, in his endeavor to get
rid OF the foreign substance forget all about
baking, and will, without thinking OF it. 90
forward without the slightest whipping or
other methods of forcible persuasion
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
She Was a WIDOW.

1t was at a circus in a North Carolina town,
says a New York Sun writer. The perform
ance had begun when a little old woman
wearing poke bonnet, white cotton gloves
| and a blue calico dress stepped UP to the
! ticket wagon laid down p cents and held out
her hand for ticket
Fifty cents ma am said the wagon man.
I'm a wilder" she replied
Cant help that
Bin a wilder fur thirteen years
Yes, but the price of a ticket is 50 cents"
Buried two children sense I was q wild
! der"
That makes no difference"
she picked up ner % cents and took walk
around and stopped at the wagon again to
hand II up and say:
Gimme ticket to the show"
Fifty cents ma am, - replied the man.
But N a wilder"
You told me that before, but we make no
discount to widows"
They never pass the contri' bushun box to
me in church cause m wilder. Bin a wild
der fur thirteen years.
We'll, you couldn't buy ticket for 25 cents
il you had been widow for thirty five years, -
he said as he turned away.
She picked up her two bits and travelled
around the circus tent and stopped at the
wagon for the third time.
Ticket fur a wilder" she said, as she
handed up her % cents.
Look here, ma am" shouted the man
haven't l told you that the price was 50
cents, and that you couldn't buy ticket for
less:
Bin wilder for thirteen years" she
calmly replied.
4 don't care if you have been a widow
from the cradle up Don't bother me any
more"
She took her money and went out in the di-
rection of the side show, where the fat bow
was on exhibition, and 1 entered the circus
tents l had not been seated over five minutes
when something from beneath the seats pulled
at my leg and voice whispered:
stranger hitch along to the left and give
wilder a showi'
not only hitched. but assisted the little
Old women in the poke bonnet to climb up
sI,e me when she had got her breath
ASKED:
Did the man sell you a ticket for bits?''
No. He got no compassion on widders."
Then how did you get in?'
Same as [ always do. Bin a wilder fur
thirteen years. and I've crawled under the
canvas twelve seasons. u Do YOU feel like
buvin' lone wilder glass of that air lemon
ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
The Sing Sing Mystery.


3 New York papers containing exhaustive
/ accounts of the finding of the body of
I Murderer Panister in the Hudson river,
near Sing Sing, declare that the identif-
cation was perfect. The theory Of the
/ prison officials is that Roehl. who escaped
with Pallister from the death house of
the prison, and whose body was alleged TO
/ have been found last week, murdered
/ Pailister and then shot himself.
IL would be the most satisfactory course
for the people Of New York to pursue to
take il for granted that the two bodies
found. and buried in the prison grave
yard. were those of the escaped muir
derers. They would then feel sure that
the brutes were beyond preying on society
in the future That the prison officials
would ike to have this explanation of the
whereabouts of the murderers accepted
as conclusive there can be no question.
But there are doubts in the public mind
thatahave been made only the stronger by
the finding of body alleged to be that of
PaAister. The prison officials were rest
ing under suspicion of gross carelessness
and possible collision in the escape of the
murderers. The suspicion went beyond
Brown, the warden, who has been re
moved from Office II it could be shown
that the murderers were out of the way
beyond the power of doing further harm
the suspicion against the officials might
in a measure be counteractod.
When Roehls body was found it was
discovered that death had been caused by
a fracture of the skull. A hole made by
a pistol ball was also found in the skull. but
DR.. Irvine, the prison physician, asserted
positively that the blow on the head had
caused death and that the other wound
had been inflicted subsequently,. The
theory then was that Pallister had killed
ROehl. Now that Pallister's body has
been recovered and has also a bullet hole
through the head, and that Pallisters
pistol has been found with every chamber
loaded, the theory has been reversed
Roehl did the killing, of Pallister first
and himself afterward. Yet DR. Irvine
is on record as saying the blow that tract
ured Roehls skull produced instant
death; that he could not, after having
been struck. have shot either himself or
anybody else.
Granting that Roehl murdered Pallis-
ter, the supposition that he committed
suicide afterward is very violent one.
His nature was coarse and brutal With
the open country before him; with
loaded pistol of heavy caliber in his
pocket he would, it seems, have been the
last man to take his own life. Had the
guards been on his track-had he been
brought to bay-he would have fought.
Yet the theory is that, fearing rearrest,
he committed suicide A high strung,
intelligent murderer, like Carlyle Harris,
might have killed himself in the face of
inevitable rearrest after an escape but it
is highly improbable that Boehl did.
The Pallister-Roehl mystery is deeper
than ever. 1t may be that both murder
ers were found in the Hudson just as has
been. alleged But if they are dead third
party must have killed them. No third
party has as yet appeared in the matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
Pawnbrokers, Liconses.

The question of licensing pawushops in
this city is one that should be carefully
considered by the city council. The
police reports show that much of the
stuff that is found in such places is
stolen. Apparently the ease with which
small sums of money can be obtained on
articles of one kind and another en-
courdges stealing. Pawubrokers' shops.
however. it is but just TO say. are not the
only places where stolen goods are bought
and sold. The court records show that
there are quite a number of other shops
where stolen goods are bought, and
where apparently there is not great eff
fort made TO find out whether the goods
offered are stolen or not.
1T sucn places many articles are offered
for pawn or sale thai could not have
come honestly into the possession Of those
having them The proprietors Of these
shops can hardly heip 9u-pecting that
they are stolen In fact, they do have
their suspicious but they Justify them
selves in purchasing such goods by saying
that if they do not buy them others will.
A vigorous prosecution of those in whose
possession stolen goods are found would
do much to put a stop to the traffic in
stolen property. If a person should
buy stolen goods and were prosecuted it
would be a difficult matter to corvict him
if he did so innocently. The circum-
stances surrounding the purchase would
indicate pretty clearly whether the pur-
chaser had cause to suspect that the
articles were stolen.
This city is full Of black thieves and
there are a good many white ones, most
Of wnom would stop stealing if the op
portuuity of disposing Of their booty did
not exist A crusade against these petty
thieves and their abettors would do much
toward putting a stop 10 the wholesale
/ pilfcring that is going on.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19

Capt. Higginson, who was deprived of
command of the Atlanta because he was
slow about obeying orders, has asked for
an investigation. His friends say that
the delay of the vessel after being ordered
TO sea was not the commanders fault;
that there are ''screws loose" all around
the navy yard in Brooklyn, and that it is
not right that Higginson should suffer for
the shortcomings of others. An investi-
cation viii show whether or not there is
foundation for these claims. If they are
well founded it may prove a good thing
for the service that the Atlanta did not
1eave ON time
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19

The Chicago Dispatch has an item set
ting right the erroneous statement that
Miss Floride Cunningham, one of the
worlds fair lady managers from South
Carolina, stamped her foot in anger. at
Mrs. John A. Logan. on a recent occasion,
and made her apologize for an affront.
The item says Miss Cunningham neither
loss her temper nor stamped her foot. but
thai she did demand and receive an apol-
ogv from Mrs LOAN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
The Taxation of Inheritanees.

From the Springfield Mass. )Republican Qnd)
Instead OF attempting to repeal the states
collateral inheritance tax law, the Pennsyl-
vania House has voted by a decisive majority
measure Will undoubtedly become law The
Philadelphia Record calls such a tax rob
berry u IS robbery 10 just the extent any
property or other tax is robbery and no more.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
There'u Be No Chinese War.

From the Philadelphia Ledger lInd).
The talk Of war with China as a possible
outcome of the Geary exclusion law is, of
course, ridiculous, but the consequences of
the enforcement of the law may be only less
serious. Trade with China will of course 90
on, but if it is thrown into the hands of other
nations we will have only ourselves TO blame.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
Disciplined, But Not Repentant.


The grand army post IN New York that
formally protested against the pension abuses
ls likely 10 lose ifs charter for having given
out ~ lpensl0n resolution without first
submitting ~ ~ the state headquarters but
there viii b. DO recanfatlOn o. the resolution
liaeiL nor viii fhe post disDapd. it r. quite
likely ~ become ne nucleus % u veterans
pension reform association,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
Brunswick,g Broken Banks.

The condition of the two banks in
Brunswick that suspended yesterday
was, for quite long time before they
closed their doors, much like that of the
banks in Indiana that failed last week.
namely, shaky. From all accounts bank
ers acquainted with their affairs are
rather surprised that they held out so
long They might have held on, probably,
and finally got on a solid footing it if had
not been for the stringency in the money
market.
The impression seems to be that their
failure is largely due to lack of caution in
making loans during the boom period in
Brunswick and other D lrts Of the south a
year or two ago. They goJ their money
. out on securities that were not available
when cash was needed promptly.
The banking institutions of Brunswick
outside of the two that have suspended
are reported to be in sound condition,
and there is no reason to doubt the report.
There is no uneasiness in regard to them,
and there is, therefore, no occasion for
any panicky feeling in Brunswick's bus
mess circles. If the suspended banks had
been strong institutions there might be
cause for alarm, but as they were known
to be weak tue closing OF their doors was
but the final step to bankruptcy The
only sensational feature of their suspen-
sions is the suicide of the president of one
Of them.