The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30
AT HOME, SWEET HOME !
"BAB" ONCE MORE AMONG KIN
DRED AND FRIENDS.
With John Howard Payne She Believes

Inc Earung BaOleS IN the ETERNAL
Summer Land-Ths Game of Politics
During the Heated Term-Beautiful
summer Girls With Satin Cheeks,
Like Roses Blooming IN the Spring.
Fair Summer Resort Chatterers-Men
and Gossip Dent Aeree-what Les
sons Has tho Summer Taught You,
My Friend?-The Rights ofMortals.
(Copvi0ht.)
AT HOME IN NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-ls
there anything in the world quite as good
as getting home! You have ridden on steam
cars and scoffed at the idea of calling the
parlor coach comfortable, you have sailed
on steamboats, down queer, narrow rivers,
where the trees seem to make q
bower for them to go under; you
have ridden on coaches up the noun
tain side; end yet the most delightful
drive of all, the most interesting journey,
is the one made from the station to your
own home. You laugh at the idea that the
streets are dirty, they don't seem 80 to you.
You smile when somebody says that you
are being jOlted over the cobblestones, and
you are so glad that you feel as if you were
driving on down, and when YOU get to the
house ard the pc PIE you care for come to
meet you. the dog that you adore barks
loud welcome, and the canary birds start
tunes that would make
ADELINA PATTI HIDE HER HEAD
in shame because she can't reach such notes,
then you just sit down and cry because you
are SO glad you are home. You walk
around the room, the place where you
know you can be alone if you wish, and
you caress the books, you lay your cheek
against the picture of somebody you love,
and then you begin to think over the sum-
mer.
You wonder what everybody else has
been dolng-you think OF the numerous
messages you will have to send out saying
you are back, aud how you will take up the
strings that form the web of life, straighten
them out and tegin over, and you have
new interest in life, because of this. Then
you think OF the summer days that you
have had-the long, golden days-and you
get up from your favorite chair, and you
walk over to where there stands
a little picture of q tiny baby lying in
basket and you look at it and you think
| how that little baby fought for life, how
the bright eyes looked on those they loved
until they could look no longer, and how
the little hands reached out for help, and no
human being could give it, and then the
| angel of death came, and the little baby has
gone where the days are always golden
and Where no tears are shed. And
| you find that you are shedding tears,
and that your faithful four-legged friend
is pulling at your skirt, as much as to say:
How foolish you are TO cry And then you
aud he go over and sit down together, and
you try to think it all out You remember
| how many mothers there are weeping for
| their babies because they are not, and you
remember how like q lily looked this
/
and then you put your hand up be-
fore your eyes and you say to yourself,
The rest of us have grown up, have seen
| the sin and sorrow of this world, are Scared
| from the battle, and when those who loved
US years ago meet US in the hereafter, they
will find men and women-which means
people who have suffered people who have
| sinned-but, let us pray, people who have
been forgiven But you and |. my friend
will find
THE BABIES JUST TEE SAME;
they left us, sweet, pure and innocent, and
we find them that way; they have never
grown old they have mover looked on sin,
they have never grown weary in work, but
Jus6 as they went away, they are waiting
for u.s. and il seems as If 4 woman, whose
little child hal died. ought to be as good as
she can, because, on the other side of tina.
great river, there is an innocent heart
doggie and get up feeling better, and we
look at the picture egain, and we think, yes
| both OF us think. that. certainly, "of such is
the kingdom of heaven"
| After awhile, somebody comes in to see
| you, and the woman friend you care for
most, and she says: NOW, just give me
| your impression Of what you have seen. ("
You stop and think, and then you remem-
| Der that you saw little bit of the game Of
politics; it Is a funny game. To know any
thing at all about it, You have got to get
on the inside and see the wheels 20 round.
You know SO little about it that you can't
explain that. but you can tell her what
| you think the average politician is
like. The average politician is the
one who has not yet learned to let other
people tell him everything that he already
knows, without betraying his knowledge.
The average politician is the one who really
| believes that the people who talk a great
| deal about their influence have it. Now.
the successful politician mus be as hard
hearted es the proverbial rock, he mustn's
miud having all his personal affairs ex-
plotted, and he must be totally Impervious
to the hits the newspapers give him; he
| does not seem to dress well but probably in
that he pleases some of his constit uents.
THE POLITICIANS MANNERS AT THE TABLE.
are not always what one would wish. but
\
stake. he can't be troubling himself about
his method of feediDg-for that he too often
does. The successful politician counts
everybody az of worth-he doesn't know
who may govern a vote, and he is so inn
bued with this idea that it is probable be-
fore be departs from this world Of demo-
crat; and republicans, he will see if be can't
arrange a syndicate of votes to get him
inside of the gates guarded by st.
Peter. He is fdlly alive to the value OF
worth of money. The politician who used
to treat everybody else is now gone out III
favor of the one who let's people treat him.
He usually plays close game Of poker,
and you do not wonder that he is success
of his play; he never comes in I'M
less he knows he is going to win.
and be looks at the people who pay to
see a hand lust for GU iosty, with kind
ness that is too condescending to be sincere.
He has fashion Of throwing one ace on
the table and calling for four cards, be-
! cause, as human nature comes out in poker,
/ or rather as political nature does, he wants
| 20 make you believe that his hand is as
open as the day. Maybe it is, but l doubt
| il. Inever saw a politician do that but be
didn't get the other two aces that ne want
/ ed. How it happens know not, but | sup
pose it is his pull on the game of chance.
You can't get him to say one word against
the powers that be, be may 10th them, but
! by word of mouth be is loyal to them. IL
YOU happen to be on the other side Of the
that be deals with you in gentle but sym
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