The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08
THESE DOG DAYS.
Bah Thinks That the CannibalS Must
Be a COntelted Lot.

Justice is Scarcely Understood.
Mercy in Court Rooms-That Sum-
mer Prima Donna-The Mosquito.
Snake Terrors-People Who Consider
Themselves Superior BeinEs--Tire-
some Musical Performers.
New York. July Nobody can be ex-
pected to get up very much energy when
the thermometer goes sailing around as
1t wants. and the early morning and the
late night alike are barely breathing
spells. Nobody cares to argue, and every
body Just wants to be let alone These
are the times when the blessings of civil
cation are appreciated; when cool lemon
ade tepid baths, lively soda, loose blouses
and everything that will convince one, at
least for a minute, that life is not to be
spent in bake oven, is counted
as of great value. Personally,
there are attractions in not being civil
lied Fancy the JOY of the young canni-
bal who walks around, happy and free in
a necklace and a palm-leaf fan Fancy
how delightful it must be TO discourse
with Miss Cannibal on the arrangement
OF her bracelet while the gentle winds
meander over her under the impression
that she is living picture / have al
ways thought that Cannibals understood
the real meaning of dress reform. There
is no question of seams and whalebones,
or tight stays or drawstrings in their get
up; instead, it is simple, easily arranged
and quickly forgotten.
NoIsE-PRODUCNG YOUNGSTERS.
Then, too, it must be cheerful to be
able, as are the cannlbals, to eat up any
children who may annoy them by sing
ing Daisy Bell" when the evening Is
sultry. | live In neighborhood where
there is one small shop. Said shop is
kept by widow lady with only one eye,
from Ireland | don't mean that her eye
alone came from Ireland, but the lady
herself Is product of that overproduc-
tive country For four weeks she has
been selling shooting crackers. |
shouldn't mind that in the least,
for as She is a rather grim per
son she can sell anything she
wants as far as / am concerned, but
the small BOYS who come to buy the noise
producers are given the money by their
mothers, who warn them that they are to
shoot off the crackers where they buy
them and not come home TO do it. And
the result is that for weeks before and
weeks after the day we do celebrate our
neighborhood has been little hades Of
its own, and we find ourselves given over
to strong language and bitter thoughts,
and dreadful headaches, and all because
the product of Ireland must be supported.
have never approved of the Fourth of
July; it is undesirable as far as the
weather is concerned; il is indecently
noisy, very few us of know what it is
about, and the few who know don't care.
We are not independent. AS a specimen
of the nation, if we will just take New
York city, we don't have to think very
hard to come TO the conclusion that we
are the least Independent Of all people in
the world. We are under the control of
corporations IN every direction, and
NOBODY HAS THE MORAL COURAGE TO KICK.
We submit to poor gas, insufficient water,
bad railroad service, badly paved streets,
and grumble little, but fail to see how
we can make anything better. | would
like to see the English or the Germans
submit to what we do; and yet we call
ourselves Independent. The conductor in
the street car don { pretend to do his work,
for he will let three or four people take up
the room of six while a woman hangs on
the strap, and he never says word.
And the porter on the railroads waits
on us well If he sees a chance for tip;
otherwise, we might ring the bell until
we got tired and there would be no atten-
ton Forthcoming. The man in the shop
is impudent or agreeable, as he feels
like it. and nobody likes to complain for
fear the poor man might lose his situa-
tiOn. Now, it wouldn't be a bad thing,
you know, if few people were, metaphor
ically, kicked because of their inability
then, after they had known the pleasures
of idleness for a little while they would
probably appreciate what 1t meant TO do
good WORK for value received.
1t is funny idea, that for value re-
ceiyed." A wise man and good worker
gets that which represents his home and
happiness for value received, while the
uhf nd 90 grnf hr,. ,,4N
tRnce for the value that he has given.
Things are apt to straighten themselves
out in the business world and that is the
reason why / can't understand
THE NATIONAL CONDITION OF TO-DAY.
AS a nation we are, presumably, rich,
and yet the spending of few thousand
dollars here in New York to beuatify the
city or make it more agreeable is fought
over and discussed and talked about I'M
til all the money has been squandered on
the arrangements Of the committee. Men
who are to be tried for some offense
against the law will make an earnest re
quest to be taken before some one Judge,
because they will cite how this one or
that one likes to get the credit of being
severe, rather than Of thinking things out
and being absolutely just. Pure justice
is scarcely comprehended, and the fact
that justice means not only thought for
tne crime, Out Tor Ine age OF the Onender,
his former reputation, his temptation,
and all that went TO make him sin, is not
recognized. The Judge represents the
fury of the law. He forgets that the law
is to protect as well as to condemn, and
he only thinks what the newspapers will
say about him and his so-called opinion.
Nine times out of ten his sum
ming up is directly against the
prisoner, and then he is charmed TO
think that the jury are such an intelli-
gent Obody that they agree with him.
And very often the jury is simply anxious
to get to its supper, is tired of staying
down there. and it quickly decides that,
of course, the Judge knows it all, and so il
does as he has suggested. Mercy That
is an unknown quality of the bench to-
day, unless the prisoner at the bar has a
pull. 1t is all such fraud. / don't sup
pose IL will be Strengthened up in your
time, or in mine; and all we can do is to
be sorry for the people who have to ask
for justice where it is not dealt in
THE PESTS OF SUMMER.
When get to thinking about this. find
myself almost serious, and that is bad for
the summer time. 1t tends to make one
feel warmer, and consequently mad better
be postponed, like new play, until the
early autumn Some very learned person
said there was nothing in nature for
which a use did not exist Now, will
somebody tell me the use of that prima