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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
A Cron of Rnwdiea

The license allowed boys to do as they
please in the streets at this season of the
year, eventually produces a large crop Of
young toughs. What should be hoH-
day, or series of holidays is turned into
season of riot and outrage. Yesterday
the streets were filled with boys. some of
whom We're ready for any deviltry. Two
ladies', passing on Whitaker street, near
Jones. had fire crackers thrown on them.
In another place valuable dog was
cruelty hurt by these young roughs
1t would be no deprivation in the end to
stop all firing of crackers and other fire
works in the streets and squares. and it
would insure the safety of the city and its
citizens. Permitting boys to do as they
please during the holidays is Objectionable
from every standpoint and praiseworthy
from none. Is there not sufficient public
sentiment in favor of good order to force
the authorities to put a proper restraint
upon the boys. We believe i'm allowing the
boys all the liberty necessary for season.
able enjoyment. but to let them do as they
please means an injury to them and the
trespassing upon the rights of the public
For years we have protested against en-
couraging the boys to make bon fires in
the squares and streets, to which they do
a vast amount of damage. but the authori-
ties have thought it advisable to put the
city to the expense of repairing the dam
age done to the squares, rather than to
prevent the damage. There is no good
reason why the bon fires should not be
confined to the park extension. There
they would do 10 harm, and would be
enjoyed just as much by those who find
pleasure in them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
BRIGHT BITS.

'Algernon, in parliamentary usage,
what does the presiding officer say when
a matter is to be put to vote? asked
Are you ready for the question:" said
the unsuspecting Algernon.
Yves, Algernon. l think 1 am quite
ready. New York Press.
Somebody says that the tombstone is
about the only thing that can stand up
right and at the same time lie on its face
Kate Fields Washington.
They tell me your servant is a jewel"
said the caller.
Yes, replied the hostess, she's so much
more ornamental than useful
Courant.
Il think" said fond Texas parent,
that Tommy is going to be a poet when
he grows up. He doesn't eat, and sits
around all day and thinks and thinks"
You had better grease him all over.
He is going to have the measles. and If
you will grease him they will break out
all over him, and then he Will feel better
-Tammany Times.
Il didn't see your portrait at the exhi-
bition, Miss Holmleigh."
No; they wouldn't take it. They said
II was a good portrait, but that my face
was out of drawing. '-Harper's Bazaar
1t may seem paradoXical, but when q
man has too great a fondness for port
he IS likely TO find himself frequently all
at sea.-New York Press.
The Usual Result.-Daughter- pur-
chased these goods at Catchem & Cheat
ems.
Mother-Never heard of them.
Daughter-Why. mother don't you re
member how all the pretty places in the
country were daubed up with their hor-
rid signs, and how mad we all got? III
never forget them in the world.-New
York Weekly.
Father-I am fitting my son to enter
college.
Neighbor-To what school do you send
him?
Father-School, nothing I send him
to a gymnasium, of course. That is what
40 If,r~
is developing a good uscle and will prob
ably pass when the time comes for ex-
animation for admission.-BOston Budget
Haven't 70 got this book in chicken
salad binding?' asked the Cheerful Id
lot
What do you mean?" asked the as
tonished bookseller.
Half alf"-Indianapolis Journal
Pipkin-Do you think 1t is wicked to
bet?
Potts-Of course il is.
Pipldns-The Bible doesn't say So
& Co. s Monthly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Merry Old SANITY.

From the New York Sun.
Q, merry old Sanity, what stories YOU tell
To the ears of our dear little, sweet
Rosabelle,
Though only four summers and three win
ters old
She knows you are coming without
being told.
Aye, merry old Santa, she knows you
quite WE'LL
For our little one lispeth
Each day: 18th it Chwithmuth?
Our dear little, sweet Rosabelle
Just as sure as the morning, at dawn of
the day,
She opens her eyes to the light but to say:
18th SANITY Claus come; o, 18th he, mamma?
It's Chrithmuth today; O, 18th it papa?
And out of the bed in her little bare feet
She trips to the window your sleigh bells
to greet,
o, merry old Sanity, such stories you tell
To our dear little, sweet ROsaberei
Her tiny, white stockings she hangs every
eve,
For She says: SANITY tumIn' tonight. I
believer
And ere she's tucked up in her snug little
She. prays for a dolly "wot wiggles it'll
head;
An wifi nice curly hair an wot opens it'll
eyes,
An kin almos' stan stwaight on it'll feet
if it twys!
o, merry old Santa, she knows you so well
Our dear little sweet ROsabellei
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Is His Story TrueP

Bookkeeper Seeley. who assisted in rob
bling the Shoe and Leather Bank Of New
York Of s354.0o0 insists that he got no
more than S1l.0OO Of the money. He de-
clares that his confederate. Frederick
Baker. got all the rest OF the money. Is
his story true? II il is Seeley is a very
weak specimen Of humanity.
The probabilities are that the story
is not true. There is no way. however.
TO prove it is not Baker is dead, and
nothing has been found among his papers
20 show that he ever drew any part of
the $4,000 from the bank. His sons in
sist that the charge that he was in any
way connected with the bank robbery is
wholly without foundation.
The money was taken from the bank
during a period of nine years. Seeley
kept the books in such a way that it
appeared that Baker always had the
amount to his credit for which he drew
checks. without seeley's assistance
Baker couldn't have got a cent from the
bank. Why then should Seeley have been
content with such an infinitessimal share
Of the plumber?
It may be said he was in Bakers
power. and he yielded to Bakers demand
for fear of exposure and the consequent
loss of his position. But was not Baker
as much in his power as he was in
Bakers? And Baker had much more at
stake.
If all the facts could be obtained it would
appear probably that Baker and Seeley
divided their stealings equally. And the
chances are it would also appear that
Seeley was a Spectator and lost money
not only in the bucket shops, but also in
gambling on the races.
No sympathy is expressed for Seeley
among his acquaintances in New York,
because he is entitled to none. He is
quite safe in trying to make it appear
that Baker was a bad man and forced
him to do what he did, because Baker
is dead. He will not find it easy, how
ever, to make either the court or the
public believe his story,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Fail7d to Get Into West Point.

The other day I saw an indignant west
tern congressman, says a New York
Mail and Express writer. Look at that"
said he; another candidate for West
Point turned down, and another big con
stituent made my enemy But how am
to get the boys in if they haven't the ca
paclty? To satisfy myself l sent for this
ones examination papers, and | don't
wonder that he didn't get through"
took the papers and looked them over
They were about IS funny as anything
that l have seen in "a long while Here
are some of the questions and answers:
What oceans wash the shores of the
continent of America"
Answer: Atlantic Pacific. Northern
Southern, Eastern and Western"
What is meant by latitude and longi-
tude@'
Answer: There is no such thing"
In what latitude is the city of New
Answer: "If wanted to know I would
look at a good atlas"
Where and when was the battle of Get
tysburg fought, and who was the PRINCIPAL
commander on either side?"
Answer: The battle of GETTYSBURG was
fought in the Rocky Mountains Washing
ton commanded the Americans and Lord
CORVALLIS the British. The British sur
rendered, but Washington would not
take his sword. 1t was taken by Gen.
MONTGOMERY"
Where does Mormonism exist? What
Is II! By whom was it SuppresSed?''
Answer: "MormCnism is a species Of
Mohammedanism 1t existed in West
Virginia and Massachusetts, and was nut
down by Gen. Grant Mormonism means
a duplCitY of wives. -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
The Joke Was on the Joker.

A few days ago the assistant postmaster
of Port Chester, Penn, suspected the car
rleTs of having stolen some oranges he had
in the office, according to a local paper.
So he bought another stock and asked a
neghborng druggist to inject into them
sick but not injure them. The druggist
injected water and then informed the car
r.ers They of course stole the oranges
he found them ali very sick In a little
while they were writing on the floor
Then the joker thought the druggist had
prescription. He prescribed brandy and
Ut took IS worth to relieve them of their
pain. Some of them got a little overcured
by the medicine or. on the other side of a
normal condition. but they enjoyed their
superiors joke all the same.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Getting Higher.

The whole country is profoundly inter
ested In the developments that are being
made before the Lexow committee rela-
tive to the corrupt practices OF the police
Of New York city. Tho FIRST testimony
showed that the patrolmen. sergeants
and police captains We're very corrupt.
and that they blackmailed citizens 10
the amount Of many millions Of dollars
annually.
Mr.. Gon, who is conducting the prose
cution. has been trying ever since the
investigation began to reach the higher
officials. He has endeavored to get higher.
and he has succeeded. one police captain
has testified that he paid Sl5.0o0 for his
appointment. This money has not yet
been traced 70 the police commissioner
who appointed this particular police cap
tain. 1t is belived. however. that Mr.
Con- will succeed in tracing great part
of the money TO him. He Is no longer a
police commissioner. having been made
a police judge. which Office pays a much
higher salary.
II it should be proved that the police
commissioner accepted a bride the conclu-
sion viii be that all the other police COM
missioners did the same thing. 1t will
also be accepted as fact that Mr.. Croker,
ex-Mayor Gilroy, and other political lead
ers received part OF the blackman which
the police levied upon the people.
The disposition to attack the Tammany
bosses is remarkably strong The attack
may not be successful. but it looks now
as if it would. No rascal should be per
mitted to escape.
The Lexow committee meets again to-
day. and startling disclosures are prom
ised. If the Tammany leaders have been
guilty Of wrong doing it will be difficult
for them to escape. While it is hoped
they will be shown to be innocent they
should be dealt with as severely as the
law will permit If they should be found
guilty.
Both Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Gilroy are
reported to be very rich. 1t is alleged
they gained their wealth within the last
few years. If put on the witness stand
they may find it difficult to tell where
they got their fortunes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Two Standards for Money.
From the New Orleans Picayune Oem)

Suppose that the government instead
of having to make good $3.50, 900, 900 of so
cent dollars, and $3.50, 900, 600 Of paper cur
rency not representing silver, were forced
in addition, to guarantee or maintain at
par unlimited silver dollars, the fruit of
free coinage of silver. The government
could not do il. A point would be reached
where the government could no longer
make a 50-cent silver dollar pass for 100
cents. When that time should come, the
silver dollars would drop down to their in
trinsic value, the worth of the silver they
contain. Then they would pass only for
so cents each. Then there would be two
standards, one of gold dollars worth 100
They would both be called dollars, but
one would be worth twice as much as the
other. This would be bimetallism, with
two standards and two metals. What
good would it do to the,country? It would
double the nominal prices OF everything,
but it would not bring any more real
money into the country. The home buyer
of cotton would pay 10 to y cents in silver
for it, but the foreign buyer would only
pay 5 or cents for it in gold. The home
but the foreign buyer would only pay so
cents. What would this profit the farmer
or the laborer who when he was forced to
buy any imported article, would have to
are still many people alive who paid $500
a barrel for flour, or $1,000 for a horse,
and for all articles in proportion, in con-
federate money. There are people, also
who remember when $3.50 in greenbacks
was worth only 800 in gold. Here are eX-
amples of the uselessness of big figures
which do not increase the value when they
multiply the number of dollars named
The proper bimetallism IS when all the
dollars are the best that can be made
metal or material Any other is sham and
a deception.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

The state papers are looking for flaws
in the new registration bill. So far none
that amounts to a great deal has been
found. There is some little adverse COM
ment on the provision that permits a
voter the privilege of casting his ballot
at the county seat instead of limiting him
to his own militia district. 1t is argued
that the voter should be required to vote
where he is known, and that the option of
voting at the county seat will permit of a
massing of partisan voters at one poll, to
the exclusion of voters of the opposition
at that poll. Whatever there is in this
objection will be brought out in time to
have the weakness remedied at the next
session. Meantime the search for defects
will be continued.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

If Gov Evans of South Carolina is the
man of "gumption" and backbone that his
supporters have claimed him to be, he
will veto the salary reduction bill passed
by the legislature a few days ago. If
the legislators desire to cut down their
own pay, they should be permitted to do
so. Three dollars a day is probably 100
per cent. more than the majority of them
could earn at anything except legislating
But when they go to reducing the salary
of the governor and the professors in state
colleges to the basis of ribbon counter
clerks salary, they ought to be held up
1t is proposed that the governor shall re-
ceive $4,000 a year. None but a rich man
one to whom the salary would be no OBJ
1ect-could afford to hold the Office. and
maintain its dignity, at that price.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

Robert Louis Stevenson's fame will rest
chiefly on DIR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" He
was comparatively unknown until the pub
LEGATION of that queer book, and none of his
subsequent works ever attained to such
popularity as that grewsome tale. DIR.
Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde not only made its
author famous, but brought Richard
Mansfield into prominence as an actor of
peculiar powers. Other novelists fol-
lowed Mr.. Stevenson into the field of the
weird and uncanny, but not one of them
approached in power the story of his
double-natured man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

society" makes a note of the fact that
at the first patriarchs' ball of the season
there were present, among the Four Hun
dred, Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer and Mr.. Peter F. Col
lier. The Patriarchs' is one of the
swell society functions of Gotham. The
persons named have never before been
recognized by Society"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
When Road Work May Be Done.

The county commissioners have decided,
and very properly, that the drainage work
is of such Importance that it should be
given preference over all other public
work There are times however, when
the chain-gang force could be employed
upon the roads. There are days during
the winter when no work can be done to
advantage upon the canals and bitches,
because they are too fun of water, or be-
cause the weather is so cold that it would
not be advisable to require the men to
work in the mud and water.
In such weather as that, instead of per-
hitting the men to be practically idle. they
could be put to work in opening the Meri-
dian road.
That road is adjacent to the Casey canal.
All the rights-of-way have been secured.
The grand jury has recommended that it
be opened and has made an appropria-
ton for its Improvement. When the con-
victs cannot be employed to advantage
on the canals and bitches, why not put
them to work on that road. 1t could be
finished probably during the present win
ter. as there will be many days when it
will not be advisable to work the chain
gang force on the canal.
The former board of commissioners did
a good deal in the way of opening roads
without neglecting the drainage work.
The Bay street extension, the Waters
road to the Montgomery cross road, the
Stephenson road, the intermediate road
and EstiI avenue were all built without
neglecting the drainage.
No opportunity of pushing the most i'm
portant of the drainage work to compile
ton must be missed. but by a judicial and
vigorous handling of the chain-gang force
the Meridian road might be opened during
the next few months at times when drain
age work could not be carried on to adj
vantage,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
The ProdiGals Will Come Into Power.
From the Chicago Times DemN

The republicans are gIoriouslv in the
saddle this year and the taxpayers are
under the saddle. In New York they will
build a house for a millionaire governor
to keep his servants in. In the nation as
whole they will plan to tax the people
that the Carnegies, the Cramps. the Hav-
emeyers may enjoy huge profits and pay
starvation wages. There are two years Of
profiigacy before the Republican party
The people will eat the husks while the
prodigals in power reVel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Trying to Excuse Themselves.
Springtield (MassD Republican Dem.

The republican organs seem to be a lit
tie clustered over the action of the party in
the Senate in rushing solidly to the de
Tense of the sugar trust. Most of them
are keeping very quiet, but the New York
Tribune volunteers an explanation which
is very funny. 1t says in effect that the
republicans could not safely have allowed
the sugar bill to come up because the
democrats might then tack on to it other
tariff legislation. The Tribune plainly I'M
dertakes a task beyond its power
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
No Cheap Money Wanted.
rom the New York Times DEM

The temper of congress has changed
There is no talk of imitation through leg
islative action. Mr.. Bland cannot even
get his committee together to talk about
free coinage measure. The advocates Of
state bank notes no longer talk of uncon-
ditional repeal of the tax. They accept
without objection, the conditions imposed
by Mr. Carlisle's plan, and they do not
repel the suggestion that these are not
sufficiently eXacting. There is plainly a
feeling that those sections of the union
that want more" money do not want
cheap" money, but want and are enti-
tied to the best that can be had
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18

In the hail of the South Carolina House
OF Representatives hangs a large oil paint
ing Of Senator Butler. 1t is said the
Tillmanite members of the House will vote
10 turn the picture to the wall and pass
an appropriation for bigger picture Of
Tillman to be hung over it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
Heartily Indoors d 1t.

A story is told of a country clergyman
whose finances do not apparently extend
Going to a bank with check. the clerk
handed it back with a request that he
would indorse it, and it should then he
cashed. After much deliberation the rev
that he could, without violation of his
conscience. accede to the request. So he
took the treasured piece of paper and
wrote across the back of it: Il heartily
indorse this check"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
A Gambling Adventure With Satan.

I viii repeat one of many legends told
ne by charming Swedish lady about the
family of Count Piper. the weIl-known
minister of her country to the court of
~. James, says a writer in the National
Review. Once upon a time the head of
dld castle, and he yawned his thousandth
yaWn ana said. u would I had even the
devil TO play cards with me-" and at the
word Satan himself appeared in the guise
OF a gentleman, in which Shelley also
knew him. oddly enough, the devil lost
Rls money and having none in his pockets,
LOT reasons best known to himself, he Of
tered the count, in fun quittance of all
claims, an apparently golden chain, re-
marking incidentally that whenever that
chaln was lost or injured the castle of
the Plpers would inf3llibly be burned
ms unusual announcement aroused the
winner suspicious, and happening to lock
under the card table, he beheld the cloven
moor. instantly he sprang to the wall to
leach down his sword, for swords in those
days, the date of which 1 cannot exactly
give, We're always ready to the hand
alone remained. on examination it proved
to be long and thin, with innumerable
Httle inks, such a chain as old gentlemen
USED 10 wear around their necks for watch
chalhs not long ago. An assay discovered
the metal to be something other than gold
put could by no means determine what it
actually was. An accidental injury to
one of the links, however. caused by the
hammer of the goldsmith, cost the count
a wing or his castle, and a second injury
ana a temporary loss of the chain having
resulted in a second and in a third fire
II az once became apparent that the devil
would keep his word. Each successive
head of the Piper family has worn that
chaln around his neck from the day of his
accession 10 the day of his death