The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
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fed and strange shapes are given to ia
miliar objects.
In shipping gold abroad from this coun-
try the yellow metal is always packed in
kegs resem bling those used for nails In
England and Germany the bankers use
wooden boxes, Is inches long inches
wide and 6 inches deep, which hold about
$4,000 each, the same amount that a keg
would contain. BY the uninitiated the
gold boxes might be easily mistaken for
small boxes of tools, for tools are shipped
abroad in cases similar in size and strap
ped with steel bands in the same manner
as the boxes Of gold. The cases bear
simply the name and address of the con-
signee and the words per spree"
This feeling of anxiety, this fearful,
lonesome feeling, this sense of indescrib-
able danger which every man feels who is
not asleep at that hour is described here
in the Bible better than | can describe
it." And Evans took up Il Bible and
with his one hand ran over the pages as
one familiar with every word, and saying
ut is in the fourth chapter of job" pro
ceeded to read:
In thoughts from the visions of the
night when deep sleep falleth on men, fear
came upon me, and trembling, which
made all my bones to shake. Then a
spirit passed before my flesh the hair Of
my flesh stood up; it stood still, but
could not discern the form thereof; an
image was before mine eyes; there was
silence
"There is the expression of a universal
truth, continued Evans, laying the book
down. There is as much difference in
the courage of men at different hours as
there is in the courage of bees.
"ln the long and anxious watchings in
the mountains Sontag and found it much
easier to part in the earlier part of the
night than in the after part. But we did
not deem it so necessary to keep on guard
late in the night, for we knew the pur-
suers were as big towards then as we
were, and would not make an attack.
But in the early part of the night we
kept a sharp guard, for men will fight
like devils before midnight and will run
like sheep after ~ or / o'clock.
81 have often had occasion to observe
this when ] used to fight Indians up
north. These red villains seem to I'M
derstand the matter, and if they could
get enough liquor to stimulate their own
courage and could make an attack along
about 2 or o'clock in the morning they
were pretty certain to cause stampede.
But if they could not load up with
whisky they seldom made an attack at
that hour, because they were influenced
by the same law as the rest of us and
were dlEdlu. uO ilOJ KNOW buub 4 ever
knew the Sioux TO make an attack on our
soldiers late at night unless half the In
dians were drunk or all of them half
drunk
"Thus conclude that McWhirter new
er had the courage 70 get out of his bed
at 3 o'clock, 60 out into the darkness,
where he had already prepared for the
tragedy, then deliberately fire five shots
into the fences and the sixth into him
self. His courage would have failed
him"
"Well, D." suggested the newspaper man,
twill not the same rule apply TO the men
who killed him. Would not they be cow
ards and shrink from it the same as her"
ayes, but they might brace themselves
up by liquor, and unless they did do it
they would scarcely be able to carry out
their plot.
'Some people do not believe in such
things, but if anybody would 60 through
with what have and see and feel what |
have seen and felt, it will leave no doubt
that there is something in the hour that
rules and guides the courage and destiny
of men. II is law which no man can
set aside more than he can set aside and
nullify the law of gravitation."