The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-29
A Novelty in Coats-of-Arms.

A Novelty in Coats-of-Arms.
There isn't much poetry or ideality in
the makeup of the governor of South Car
DINA. He likes for everything about him
to mean something. and something as
definite as rocks; something about which
there will have to be no thinking. The
governor dislikes to have his people put to
the trouble of thinking. He can do think
ing enough for the state, and he likes to
do it and save the state the trouble. 1t
is folly for the people to waste time in
giving play to their imaginations, hence
the governor is gradually removing ideals
from their sight and setting up realities
in their places.
The coat-of-arms of the state recently
had the governors careful attention. He
found that the old-fashioned device con-
sisted of two shields containing the motto,
the palmetto tree, etc, one of the shields
being supported by revolutionary patriot
and the other by Greek goddess. These
figures had ideal countenances the first
being that of what artists consider the
typical face of a brave and loyal soldier
of the revolutionary period and the female
face being of the pure Greek type. To
some people these figures were suggestive
of patriotism daring, heroism, a lofty
soul; of liberty, virtue, beauty simplici-
ty, etc
But governor pillman didn't see them
that way, and, of course the South Caro-
linians didn't either. He saw in the con-
tinental patriot only an old-style man,
and in the Greek goddess only an improb-
able woman, with one leg stuck through
the folds of the sheet she had hurriedly
thrown on; hence it was evident to him
that as the thinker for the state a time
and an opportunity to make some more
changes from the old order of things
had arrived. So he devoted few minutes
to the improvement of the coat-of-arms
and great seal of the state. The result is
something unique.
He has gwen the continental soldier and
the goddess individual instead of ideal
faces. The soldier has been transformed
into Gen. William Moultrie and the
| Greek goddess into Emily Geiger Why
Moultrie should have been chosen in pref
| erence to Marion Jasper, Sumter. or
any of the other Carolina patriots, is not
apparent. Indeed, why the governor did
not bring the figure down to date and or
der his own phiz immortalized in the great
! seal is something of a question.
| The Moultrie soldier however, does
not present such a striking incongruity
as the Geiger goddess. Emily Geiger, it
will be remembered. was a brave young
country woman who made a long and
! daring trip on horseback to bear a dis
patch to the continental commander, and
when captured by the British chewed up
and swallowed the dispatch. She was a
sensible as we'll as a brave young woman,
and wore frocks and poke bonnets just
like other women in revolutionary times.
Yet. the governor has got her in the great
seal bareheaded, in the open air in the
/ presence of a man and draped as ideal
Greek goddesses are! Emily Geiger would
have died first. She was no living pic
ture. If the governor means to be true
to history, he must give Emily her poke
bonnet and her wide skirt. And he might
also give her a wad of paper to chew.
In Ohio on Wednesday a week ago Of
ficers of the law were compelled to shoot
five men to keep mob from lynching a
! colored rapist named Dolby. The rapist
was saved Since that occurrence two
other criminal assaults upon white ie-
males by colored men have occurred in
Ohio In one instance, at Newark, on
Friday, the victim was a woman, and
again a lynching mob was formed. IN
the other instance, at Hicksville, on Sat
urday, the victim was a thee-year-old
1 baby. and its grandmother wished to keep
the assault a secret and let the perpc-
traitor remain upon the place until after
the corn was housed" Now. the question
is, which party illustrates the spirit of
Ohio, the would-be lynchers or the old
woman who thought more Of her corn
crop than OF her granddaughter?
New Orleans is discussing the dust nus-
ance She is suffering from prolonged
drought. and the dust is making about
everybody in the city limits believe they
have a cold or catarrh.
Senator HIN is making such a splendid
canvass in New York. and Is arousing so
much enthusiasm. that those who have