The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28
Challies.
INTO A TRUE LOVERS KNOT

said to myself: "Dick, your wife has got
to have that, and the man who gives it to
her Is the man who has loved her all his
life, and who, while he don't need a true
loverg knot TO bind him to her, still likes to
think that she has got the outward symbol
OF bis love. and that it's pinned on her
breast" And then there flashes before her
eyes the most beautiful true lovers knot
worked out in diamonds that you ever saw
In your life, and the children collect around
and sea 1t, and the proud buyer of every
thing Is delighted because everybody else is
delighted, and thinks, after all, that the
best part of going away is coming home
It's funny how little trinket, book, a
photograph or little box OF sweets delights
the souls Of women and children. Do you
know, think it's n sign there is still
deal of innocence left in the world. that the
world isn't as black as 1t Is painted, and that
it is all going to turn out for the best after
all.
AN AUTHORS EXCUSE FOR JUDAS.
Have you read jerome X. Jerome's new
booki It's called the "Story of Pilgrim
age and has IN IL the best description of
the Passion Play that have ever read and
/ have read them until wished thai Ober-
amnergau had never existed. But this one,
besides telling about the play, tells of the
impression made by the people IN 1t, and
full Of things-he makes an excuse for Judas
1t is that he was poor. It is that although
he sold his Lord and master. though he COM
mitted the basest of crimes, turned traitor
and informer, be did it for the same rea-
son that we are oil struggling to-day-to
gain money. He did 1t because of the gold,
without realizing sense of the dreadful
thing he was doing.
WHAT POVERTY REALLY MEANS.
Maybe you know. my friend, how hard IL
is Co be Door. If you do, get this book and
see what Jerome says about IL. Maybe you
don't know what IL Is to be poor
maybe you have got plenty Of money. If
you have, then for Gods sake. let the people
who haven't gain some benefit from it,
Our prisons are filled with men who became
criminals because they needed money; our
streets are paraded by women with vice.
hardened faces. with bold, Haunting man.
ners, who have become what they are be-
cause they wanted money. We can't nave
an honest politician because of money. We
can't even have straight horse race be-
cause Of money. It gets all the most beau
tiful things in the world, aud 1t brings
down upon the world all the most sinful.
! tell you, it's not easy to be poor. 1t is
easy TO be poor in a very grand way, and
let all the world know about it. and die in a
halo Of unhappiness that will set the world
a-talking, and then monument will be
raised to you afterwards; but it's very hard
to be poor when you are pretty young
girl and want party dress; when you are
boy and want to 60 to a foot ball match
and have TO stick in an Office. When you
are woman and would like to have a home
| OF your own, and yet you live in one room
among Strangers. When you are a man
and would like to take care of the woman
you love and can't do it because you haven't
| got the money. II isn't easy TO be poor.
| am not making a special plea for Judas
haven't the ability Of Mr. Jerome. I'm a
long way after him, but l ask you, did you
ever see a picture of Judas done by a great
painter! And when / say a great painter
mean one who can understand the hearts as
well as the bodies of men, aud who can
think out the why and wherefore and put
it In their faces.
JEROME AND RUDyARD KIPLING.
He made Judas look sensitive intellec-
tual man With just slight line that told
| you Of his desire for money. 1t was a mar
Vicious piece of work and it gave the key
note to the mans character. But there's
no use my saying anything about this.
Just get the book and then you will have a
something that is like a rainbow. first one
| color and then another, always with hone
| in it while it tells of some sad things and al
/ ways with an undercurrent of joyfulness
| that ought 70 make the books Of Jerome
| live when those of Rudyard KipIing are
forgotten. l think I've said it before-I