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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
BRIGHT BITS.

care you ready to meet that solemn event
in every mans existence. the New Year?'
asked the meditative man.
49, You bet am, y replied the hippant friend.
Il have more material for swearing of than
ever had before In my life. w ashington
Star.
Well hear old Moneybags has died at
last"
Yes: it was a terrible blow and sad loss
Were you a friend of his?"
No, aot exactly; but was his Doctor
New York Herald.
Helen-Oh, dear what will do with that
awful blot on my letter to Harry?
Florenoe-Never mind, dear; he won't see
Helen-Why not?
Florence-You gave it to your father to
mail.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
There g one verse in the Bible that has
been a great comfort during storms and hard
ships" said the converted sailor at the saliva
ton army 'meeting.
Which verse is it, brother?" asked some
body on the platform.
Faint heart never won fair lady. Texas
Siftings.
Huggins-Did your fancee's Christmas
present please you?
Kissam-It was very ane. She made it her
self, but there seems TO be something miss
ing.
Huggins-what? ..g
Kissam-A diagram explaining it's USE
Judge. 49, a
Did you hear about Dolly Foo titles COW
hiding that reporter?" N sH
Yes What was the troubie?'
she objected to the order in which he con-
structed his sentences. He wrote that she
was accompanied on her tour by a maid a
parrot, two pug dogs and Observation-Disclosures
apolls Journal
The minister-Im glad to see you here to-
day, Bobby, in spite Of the bad weather. it
shows that you take an interest in the work of
the Sunday school.
Bobby-Yes, sir; de teacher tole US las.
Sunday dat If we didn't show up ter-day we
wudn get muffin off der Crismus tree mex
Sundy.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Chicago used to keep it up
With persistence dire
Dating the history of the world
"Before--oT since-the frel"
She's changed her phrase little bit
(Her brag is made to wear,
Be- She merely dates all history now
''BefOre-or since-the fair
Boston Transcript.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
Fooled the Barkeeper.

There is a certain German barkeeper up
town who is nursing vigorous wrath and a
particularly knotty blackthorn. because of an
unknown person with an Irish accent and an
engaging. address, says.the New York World.
One night the stranger stepped up to the
bar and asked for a quart OF gin in black
bottle which he placed on the bar. The
barseeDer filled the bottle and the man
walked towards the door.
Here yelled the barkeeper. ''You
give me no moneys for dot chin!"
yery'
We hen no slet; you give me back dot
chin or give me my money"
Not cent, not a cent; take back your
stun If you won't hang ii up"
SO the man handed back the bottle to the
barkeeper, who poured the contents of the
bottle into the cask.
A week later, almost at the same hour the
door blew in again.
Hey, Dutch, give US a quart O. gin, will
The unsuspecting barkeeper poured the
liquor into the bottle, handed it over the bar
started OF.
Here, you, give me my moneys or my chin.
what you do, hey? Flim-hem me? Give me
dot chlni''
All, mark it down on the slate"
we don t kip no slet-give me dot chinl"
cussed with yer!''
The bottle was handed back across the bar,
and the man again disappeared into the night.
X.
-Four more times, on as many nights, the
same incident was enacted. Then the bar
keeper became suspicious.
DOT men buys him no chin" so solilo-
qulzed. but alretty he comes him back six
times. ind out dingS." A week later the
man appeared again, with:
yer?"
HAT you got any moneys dis time, hey
Let us look at some of dot money heinz
Inc man showed neat roll OF bills and the
0arkeeper filled the bottle and handed it
across the bar 1-L
Say, Dutchy, just mark that on the slate,
Here, you, yust give me beck der chin
Vat you want, hey?" Once again the bottle
passed back into the harkeepers possession,
and again the man went away. But this time
the bottle was not emptied into the cask.
Raising the bottle to his lips, the barkeeper
tasted its contents. Then he smashed the
bottle on the floor and the air was thick with
MS lnVectlves. A policeman, hearing the
noise, poked his head inside the door and saw
a ravlng barkeeper, who was saying:
DOT - --- Sw1ndler / brok his
fess Where he isY"
And then it was all explained The man
with the Irish accent and the engaging person
atty had come each time with two bottles
one was empty, the other full Of Water.
When he turned to the side door, he dexter
ously changed the bottle of gin for the bottle
OF water and give the latter to the barkeeper
instead. Six times he practiced the deception
successfully, but If he ever returns there may
be a case for the district court to pass on.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
An Eneetive Protest.

A man, apparently laboring under strong
excitement, stepped into an insurance ONCE
on La Sale street, according to the Chicago
Tribune, and asked;
do you give away calendars for 1894 here?''
Yes, sir, ;" answered the agent
printed in big black letters, with red let
ters for Sundays
Yes"
with a string tied to them so they can be
hung up in front of your"
Yes
Got plenty of them?"
We have any quantity OF them, sir. Want
one?"
Notices at the bottom telling you about
watching out for fires and where to get in
sured and all that?"
Certainly"
How many companies do you representa-
"Six or eight There's the old reliable"
Never mind Do all of them send out cal
endars?"
Yes, all except one. but -"
IAN except one? Have you one that doesn't
issue any?"
Yes"
Then that's the one I'm looking for" ex-
claimed the other, feverishly, That's all 1
want TO know about IL 1 want to insure
$4,000 worth of property in that company.
I've had twenty seven calendars for 1894 from
twenty-seven different insurance companies
stuck on my desk since Dec. 1, and the worm
has turned, yes-the worm has turned =
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
Pornlis,s SIN in the Field.

! The pOpulists of the state intend TO
measure strength with the democrats al
the next state election Their state com.
mittee has been called to meet in Atlanta
Jan. 16, for the purpose OF taking steps 70
nominate a state ticket. The inference
from our Atlanta dispatches is that the
! popuhst leaders are not in a very hopeful
/ frame Of mind. They have no reason to be.
[ 1t Is quite certain that there has been a
marked decline in the strength Of the
populists in this state since the national
! election last fall. At that election they
were in the minority by more than 60, 900
votes. Immediately after that election it
was freely predicted that very little more
would be heard of the Populist party in
Georgia.
Just what the purpose of the Popu-
list party is in preparing to put
out a state ticket is not apparent.
They certainly do not hope to carry
the state. 1t is doubtful if they
think they could poll anywhere near as
large vote as they did at the last ma
tional election.
Their purpose in putting out state
ticket may be to assist Mr. Tom Watson
in his campaign for the United States
senatorship. 1t is understood that Mr..
Watson is a candidate for that office. He
and his party will endeavor to elect ma
iority of the next legislature, and state
ticket may be part of their plan to
accomplish that object.
In some of the counties the populists
are quite strong, but there are very few
counties which they could carry, even by
the hardest kind of work. Even Mr.
Watson's popularity is on the decline. 1t
is very questionable whether he could get
as large vote by third in his congress
sional district as he did when he was de-
feated by Represents tive Black. and he
is far stronger in that district than in
any other.
1t is not matter of much consequence
whether the populists nominate a state
ticket or not, or " hat Mr. Watson's plan
is in respect to the United States Senate.
The democracy is going to retain its hold
in Georgia, and it is going to do it by
majority that will leave the populists no
room TO hope for future success.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
PERSONAL.

Rosa Bonheur is still painting in her quaint
study near Fountainbleau. She is now an old
woman, small, smburned and wrinlled as a
peasant. The gray hair is cut short and is
still thick. As she wears blouse she dons a
cloth cap.
A San Francisco labor council has informed
United States Senator Stewart, Of Nevada,
that he must have his picture removed from
the inside Of the boxes OF a boycOtted firm OF
clgarmakeAs. under penalty OF the unanimous
opposition of the Federation OF Labor at the
next election.
Mrs. Eliza F. Routt, wife OF ex-Gov John
L. Routt, OF Colorado was the first woman in
Denver who registered to vote under the new
equal suffrage law Her husband was the last
territorial governor and the first governor Of
Colorado after the territory had been admit
ted 70 statehood.
Mrs. N E. Bronston, of Atchison, Kan, has
been setting type for forty three years. She
learned her trade in her fathers ONCE in New
port, Ky, beginning when she was ~ years
old. She has bean a part owner OF one or two
newspapers IN her day, and has set type IN
many offiees in Kansas.
The celebrated Madgadwia or Maukathera,
the celebrated chieftainess whose death is an
nouneed in Cape Town Africa dispatch,
was the original Of Rider Haggarfs "Aysha.
or She" Her legal heir there is no female
successor left is kashaan III, a Christian.
He lives with a missionary.
There is an interesting family group living
In South Thomaston, Me-, consisting of three
old ladies, the eldest, Mrs. Lucretia Estes
being 30 years old. Her two companions,
Mrs. Julia Ash and Mrs. Miriam HUH, are
both over 20. The trio earn a comfortable
living by tllling small farm.
Capt. Magnus Andersen. of the Norwegian
Viking ship, is endeavoring to establish
Sailors Snug Harbor at Christiania. Norway,
on plan similar to the institution Of the
same name on Staten Island The captain
recently received a contribution OF 50 600 from
Norwegians Of Milwaukee toward the object.
Otto Ehlers the famous German traveller,
tells Of an easy going Chinese prince. whom
he visited in the Laos states while on his way
from Siam to Tonqutn. The present ruler
leaves the cares of affairs chiefly to his wife.
He has had his throne placed in the palace
kitchen so that he can receive visitors and
watch the preparation of his meals at the
same time. The subjects seem to be content
with his manner of administration. and ad-
mtre the democratic spirit manifested in his
choice OF throne room. The dynasty, how
ever, promises to become extinct. as the
princes son and heir is confirmed drunkard
and is unmarried
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30

The factory of the Dolges, at DolgeviHe,
N. Y, which, according to the statement
of one Of the proprietors, was closed re-
Gently because of the depression in the
trade consequent upon the tariff agitation.
is cooperative concern. The employees
are supposed to share the profits with the
proprietors, The N. o. Nelson Manufact-
uring Company,iof St. Louis, Mo, is a
concern operated upon similar plan; the
employees share the profits. The Dodge
factory has shut its doors because of the
tariff the Nelson factory, as told in our
dispatches yesterday, finds the times and
the trade fairly good, restores a reduction
recently made upon wages and declares a
dividend of z per cent. These facts make
sure one of two propositions the New
York concern has been badly managed. or
the south is an incomparably better section
than the north in which to operate man
ufacturing plant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
A Welcome Qlut.

FTUH UIIt busUOn Post (Dem.),
IF this Wilson bill should become law
says the manager of an Alabama iron con-
Germ, the foreign producers would ship 100 :
900 tons OF cheap pig iron TO New York and
Boston, Immediately Cutting the markets of
the east And what welcome "glut" il
would be! How the fires would roar again IN
the cold furnaces the closed gates of the
mills swing open again, the deserted shops he
thronged with workmen now idle! With such
a 'glutN the Cambridge Rolling Mills. the
South Boston Iron Works, the Norway Iron
and steel W orks-all the Industries here in
Boston that have been killed by Mckinley
lsm-would come to life. Their hundreds of
workTnen would find employment again ~
good wages, and commerce and trade wouId
feel the impulse from the retail grocer to IN !
great Steamship lines BY all means pass
81 the raw material Of industry. The quicker
che better.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
Make the Quarantine Permanent.

Secretary Gresham caused it to be an
nOunced the other day to the govern
ments of Europe that this country would
receive no more assisted" immigrants.
If the policy indicated by this announce
ment had been adopted years ago. this
country would be better of. Assisted"
immigrants are, as a rule, bad immi-
grants. They are assisted to come to this
country because, for excellent reasons g,
they are not wanted in their native coun-
tries. The most of them are criminals,
paupers and anarchists. They have no
respect for law, and they have no
love for our institutions. They are pests
that prey upon society. They purpose to
do as they please, and it pleases them TO
live at the expense of the communities in
not assist in advancing civilization. Their
tendency is towards barbarism.
Europe sends US the cholera, grip and
Russian thistle. We quarantine against
the cholera. Why should we not estab-
fish permanent quarantine against IN
desirable immigrants They do US more
harm than the infectious diseases against
which we shut our gates. Indeed, they
bring not only the diseases, but also ideas
and principles which are dangerous to
our peace and happiness. Why should
we permit ourselves to be troubled by
them2
Let Europe keep her anarchists and
bomb-throwers. 1t easier and less expen-
sive to prevent them from landing on our
shores than to suppress them after they
have obtained homes here and have be-
gun agitations which lead to violations of
the law. The Secretary of State is to be
commended for his firm stand against
permitting Europe to make this country
dumping ground for her refuse popula-
fiou
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30

The ousting of Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease
from the Office of state superintendent of
asylums, of Kansas, as told in our dis
patches yesterday, is a matter of para
mount Importance in populist circles.
for it means war to the knife between
Gov. Lewelling and the woman pohti-
clan, who has been his supporter. Just
after the November election, in which
the populists of Kansas were knocked
over and rolled in the mud, Mrs. Lease
made some disparaging remarks about
Lewelling and his official family, but
later she sent an humble apology to the
governor and promised that she would be
more careful of her tongue in future, and
would give him her support for renomi-
nation. The apology was, to all outward
appearances, accepted, and it was
thought that once again everything was
lovely and the goose honked high. But
it seems that the governor is afraid to
trust the woman, and took advantage of
the first opportunity to get rid of her.
She now promises. to expose the popu-
list leaders at Topeka. Whatever she
may expose will not amount to much, but
the strife she will foment in the party
will hasten its dissolution.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
The Making of New States.
From the Charleston News and Courier Cd

FROM theOharleSton news ana courier DEM
Abstractly, in our opinion not one OF the
four applicants, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona
and Oklahoma, is tit for statehood, but the
precedent set by congress in admitting other
states no more, II as we'll, fitted for the high
positions and duties of a sovereign state, can
not be disregarded without injustice,
concerned but to ali the people
of the United States This is a elf-governfng
republic, and we should not only avoid
acquiring any territory whose people are not
capable Of self government, like Hawaii. but
We should get rid OF what we already have,
like Alaska. The United States should no
longer have any territories
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The boom of the guns of those Domini-
can soldiers shooting American sailors
attracts our attention. Now, how does it
happen that the United States are not
under obligation to give San Domingo a
good and stable government And the
same question applies to Hayti These
countries are nominally republics, it is
true, but they are actually despotisms.
They are ruled by tyrants, who are sup
planted by other tyrants as often as am
bilious black politicians out of Office can
find an opportunity to remove the incum-
bent of the executive chair. The geo
graphical position of each of these coun-
tries makes it of strategic importance
to the United States. We have long
wanted coaling station at Mole ST.
Nicholas, or some other point in the Car
ibbean sea. The natives have long since
demonstrated their incapacity for self
government; why not send John L.
Stevens over there and let him form a
provisional government of Americans for
each of the two countries, depose the ex-
isting governments with United States
marines and offer the islands for annexa-
tionl Thus we would be able to accom-
plish the great moral purpose of over
throwing corrupt and incompetent govern
ments, and of getting. something we want
at the same time 1t is a great scheme,
and is earnestly commended to the Re
publican party for incorporation into its
next national platform.
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Have All the Weak Companies Gone
UnderP
From the Philah

N1OI1 VIIO HIIuuoIP llIa fNoOUIU IutIn.J,
The addition rof the New York and New
England railroad to the unprecedented list
OF railway companies that have passed into
the receivers hands during this eveutful year
raises the amount OF capital thus involved
the further addition tothese OF railroads like
the Richmond and Danville, that went into
the hands Of receivers previous TO 1893. and
have not emerged from them, the astounding
total Is over 81 1850 1000 900; or, to be more ex-
act about S2 Ol1 100000. Happily, it is be-
neved that all the weak companies have now
been exposed; and that with 1904 may begin
a lon yneeded work of reorganization and
elimination of water from these mon
strously swollen capitalizations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
Licensed Pistols Against Cranks.

The department and deeds of Prender-
CAST and DOMAIN, and of Kane,
who threatened DIR. Parkhurst,
and Schwarz, who made an
attempt, upon the life of Mayor Tyler,
of Louisville, KY, should be sufficient
warning to public men who are annoyed
by cranks against temporizing with or ig-
noring them. Mayor Harrison ignored
Prendergast, and got killed for it. Sena-
tor Mills son took prompt notice of Don
jan and armed himself in anticipation of
an attack upon his father, and DOMAIN
was taken in hand by the authorities
1t is probable, however, that if DOMAIN
had remained at liberty he would have
let Senator Mills and his son severely
alone. He knew that young Mills had a
pistol and would use it, and that knowl-
edge acted as damper upon his murder
Gus passion. DIR. Parkhurst carries pistol,
and says he would use it should occasion
arise. But this was not generally known
when his especial crank was preparing
a knife for the Doctors vitals.
Men who are known to be armed are
never molested by cranks, nor are
guarded buildings attacked by anarch-
lists. Superintendent Byrnes, of the New
York police, is one of the best known
and most feared men in this country, vet
no crank has ever made an open attempt
upon his life. No police station or mill
tary barrack has been blown up with dy-
Mantle. The fact that such men and
buildings are always prepared for emer-
gencies affords them protection.
The conclusion to be drawn, therefore,
is that the public men who are annoyed
by cranks should provide themselves with
licensed pistols and be prepared to make
lively music for the cranks to dance to
when they put in an appearance. It
would be decidedly novel sight to see
President Cleveland, Vice President
Stevenson, Senator Mills, Senator Voor-
hees, Speaker Crisp and the other big
men at the capital, each going about his
official duties with derringer in his belt.
But it is safe say that the sight would
make cranks in their neighborhood as
scarce as snakes in ireland.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30
Misleading Workinemen.

The protection papers are beseeching
workingmen to organize and protest
against the Wilson bill because the pas
sage of that bill means great reduction
in their wages. 1t is not at all likely that
the workingmen will respond with alac-
rty TO their frantic appeals.
They remember that these same papers
called upon them to support the Mckinley
bill enthusiastically, because it
meant great increase in their
wages. Was the passage of the Mckinley
bill followed by an increase in their
wages2 1t was not. Whatever benefits
have arisen from that bill have gone into
the pockets of the protected monopolists.
The workingmen were deceived by the
protection organs, and they are not likely
to permit themselves to be deceived by
those organs again.
The passage of the Mckinley bill was
not followed by an increase of the wages
OF workingmen, and the passage of the
Wilson bill will not be followed
by a decrease in their wages, but the
passage of the Wilson bill will be
helpful to workingmen because il
Wa AAdhO ChOdpGE uduy dTblcI0S
that are necessary to their comfort.
The thing for workingmen to do is to
study the Wilson bill. They will be able
to determine for themselves whether or
not it threatens to injure them in any
way. The more they study it the more
clearly will they see that the purpose of
the appeals of the protection organs to
them to oppose it is a selfish one. Those
appeals are in the interests of the protec-
ted monopolists, who believe the tariff
taxes are not intended for raising reve-
nue., but to enable them
to charge monopolistic prices.
The workingmen ought to know by this
time that the pretense that protective
tariff is wanted so that higher wages may
be paid workingmen is sham. Protec-
ton is wanted for the employers of work
ingmen, and the employers get the bene-
fits that flow from it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-30

A Denyer man recently wrote to Gov.
Waite, of Colorado, protesting against
his profanity in discussing public CUES
tons, especially in saying the other day
that he proposed to keep up the fight for
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
10 TO l until hi freezes over" In re-
ply, Waite said that Jesus Christ had
used as severe language as any he had
ever used, and under much less provoca-
tion. Waite is evidently in training for
oblivion and the lunatic asylum at the
same time.