The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-10
THE TALR OF JosNNY JONES.
a Poor Authors Effort to Raise the
Wind and the Disaster it Provoked.
From the NetO York Sun.

Wind and the Disaster it Provoked.
From the Neto York Sun.
The man of letters sat alone in his garrett
study, where the cobwebs picturesquely
draped the rafters, and the subdued light,
filtering through the fy-specked window.
shone softly upon the empty pipes and
glasses on his esoritoire and touched with
radiance the returned manuscripts and old
shoes heaped in the dusky corners. The
atmosphere was permeated with the
rare effluvium of genius and the
subtle aroma Of beefsteak and onions,
which the janitor's wife was
frying six floors down. Here the vulgar
clink of juggling gold disturbed not the
phantasies Of the dreamer. Indeed, a silver
quarter would be as much Of a surprise to
that mans trousers pocket as a pousse cafe
tn the stomach of q car driver or a Coney
island sausage sandwich to the internal
economy Of Queen Victoria. Dreaming
there over his pencil Of the cool foam kissing
the beer glass grim, the soothing bliss of the
cigarettes fumes, and trying to recall the
llniaments of the face upon the coin of the
realm, the long forgotten sensation which
accompanies a meat dinner, and the ex-
quisite ecstacy Of a cocktail headache, sud-
denly there came to him one Of the rides
cent inspirations known only to master
minds, and he wrote.
Swiftly the inspired pencil spelled out
the story Of the despised and forsRken waif
who grew up from sickly childhood to dar-
ing manhood, the terror of all law-abidng
citizens, the destroyer Of life and virtue.
"The Redhanded Raider Of Bloody Gulch, u
who, later still touched by the memory Of
his mother, whom he had never seen, or by
the innocence OF fair aud youthful victim
OF his passion, suddenly reformed, and with
his spoils, gathered from holding up''
stages, assisting express managers to get
their last reward, and other equally uprig ht
motives, he founded great universities &C.
cording TO the latest fashion for rich
men, and spent his closing days in hon
orable service in the senatorial halls of
his country, appropriRting her revenues
wrung from the industry of the oppressed,
introducing bills for the free coinage CT the
silver extracted from his own mines, es-
tablishing tariff for the good and glory
of the nation and the protection Of the par-
ttcular combine in which he was most in.
terested, and by supporting in his honorable
name and influence the noble provisions OF
the force bill.
Now this work Of genius sold to the ap-
preciative and generous publisher for the
muui1cent sum of S4 40, aud with the pro-
ceeds it is to be hoped that the starving
author bought enough cheap grog to make
hAAu hAOU IVA SuGO AZ hAo AAlC uOW ~ IeelS
to be q millionaire. with fame and name
thro wn In, for here we leave him to follow
the fate of the child of his brain.
The book, In its attractive yellow cover
and with its alluriug title, ultimately found
its way to a secondhand stall kept by a
berry and venerable old girl, whose head
was white with the SHOWS Of age and whose
joints we're rheumatic with its frosts.
Here little Johnny Jones, who proudly
pgnra tha rCarlaf- braidad cOah and s,Iuo-
shield of the winged Mercury Of the city
messenger service, eyed it wistfully. When
freokles we're dealt out Johnny must have
stood at the head Of the row; when noses
were passed he was forgotten until the last.
when, in the confusion. his nasal appendage
was hastily adjusted wrong side up, tip
tilted skyward, like a flower to the
sun, instead Of having the down
ward infection recommended by the best
authorities on the architecture OF noses
Johnny's most striking feature, however
was pair of eyes 80 oddly focused that it
was possible for him to nonchalantly study
the shop window sweets over the way and
at the same time to see the exact time when
the old woman was engaged with his con-
tederate and he could swipe the sweet. BY
the time she could hobble to the corner
Johnny was far up the block, and when the
policeman could excuse himself from the
maid In the area way and start in pursuit
Johnny's legs were dangling from the back
OF swito moving wagon, aud Johnny's
DIRTY nngers waved impudently from the
tip OF his tilted nose.
All day the boy pored over the book, his
heart thrilled with heroic hope. He read it
In the park, where be waited, where good
old lady bad paid his car fare, because she
wanted him to hurry, sent him after her
minister to bless dying man. The man
died alone, the minister was gone. and
wait. He read more Of it when a young
mother called him to go for her husband,
because the baby was dying. The husband
finished his conference with his typewriter,