The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05

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| bond IN the world-the parental one. 1t
| may be that about them are their ohildren's
| children; it may be that all this affection is
| conferred on one little grave; but it is there,
! and that is the reason why, putting aside
| every other, the moral and social obliga-
/ tlons, the wife has always been and always
1 will be, pray God, the strongest among
! women.
LOVE, SUNSHINE AND PEACHES.
| The girl who wrote to me said she didn't
| want me to preach. l wonder il l have
| done it. IL have am unlike most preachS
/ ers, for believe what say. Love is said
TO come like thief in the night. don't
! believe it. believe love, like a
| perfect peach, is the result Of careful
! training; of plenty Of sunshine and
| Of no cold, biting frost; that it needs to
| great heat or too great cold; too many
showers or too fierce drought; but always
! it wants care, and given this care IL will be
as perfect a specimen of fruit as ever a
| gardener dreamed Of. Neglected, it will be
/ tasteless, shapeless, lacking bloom aud
| without the intangible something that
! makes either love or peach worth having.
My dear girl, you are quite too anxious for
| love, and you are not willing to test il, and
see IL it is really love, and il it is worth the
| training. You are like most Of the dear,
| delightful women of our own country; you
| are in too much of a hurry. Somebody
said that womankind will never have
reached the great art of repose until she
is willing to appear ignorant OF many things
she really knows. Noltaire said the wisest
woman he ever met told him there were
three fOllies OF men which always amused
her: The drst was climbing trees TO shake
the fruit down, when. if they waited long
enough, the fruit would fall itself; the
second was going TO war to kill one another,
when, If they only waited, they would all
die naturally the third was that they should
run after women, when, If they refrained
from it, the women would run after them
Now, If you will Just reverse that last, we
can all agree with Voltaire about that
woman's wisdom.
DEATH AS A DINNER GUEST.
Is getting into anecdotsge a sign of old
age! hope not, for l always love to hear
the Rfter-dinner stories. The other night
some men were talking about the most
tragic deaths they had ever seen. The first
said: II was travelling in Switzerland and
went to a table dhote dinner; there we're
only two seats vacant at the table, which
was long one. Many of the people wore
invR!ids, but after l sat down l was sur
prised to see that l was regarded at once
with sympathy and curiosity. l could not
understand il. / ordered a bottle of
Burgundy and was drinking my first
glass when a chair was wheeled be-
side me in which sat man. | saw q man,
and yet when l closed my eyes and remen-
Der him, 1t seems to me it was simply the
soul of a man in the frame of bones and skin
"A veritable skeleton at the feast. l was
young, healthy, but for q minute even my
courage failed me; then, TO the astonish-
ment of all the people, l asked my strange
Deighbor to take glass of wine with me.
His eyes Rlowed, and he said In a whisper:
Sir, you are the first human being who has
a In T. m On
will drink your health in my wine, and
you will drink with me- He made
a motion to his servant who left
the room and came back bringing a
bottle of almost priceless La hrymi Christi;
he filed our glasses; lifted niue, touched
that OF my stranger, who said TO me in a
gasplng whisper. TO your health, God bless
YOU He drained the glass, his hand fell,
the glass was In a dozen places, and the
man was dead. That was the most tragic
death have ever SEEN"
DEATH ENTERS THE BALL ROOM.
The second man said: II was at one Of
the public balls in Paris. party of US
had box, and when we we're tired OF being
on the floor, or wished to give our partners
glass of wine, we took them up to it. l
saw a woman, whose figure was very charm
ing, who w0s beautifully dressed, and l
asked her to dance with me. She consented,
and after the dance, as | stood tanning her,
man came up and spoke to her; the Ian
he used was neither French, Russian, ltal-
ian or Germsn, as l know all of them.
He was evidently very angry, and
pointed with Indignation to two other men
who had asked her to dance she whispered
something to him, he smiled, and she told
me in very good English she would dance
with me agein. After this | suggested that
she come to the box aud have a glass OF
wine. AS we went there we were followed
by the two men, she spoke TO them ia the
same language she had used to the other
man, which | now think was Roumanian:
they then left. She was standing in the box
with glass Of wine in her hand, when the
other man came to the door, still
holding the wine, she walked into
the lobby behind the box, and l watching
them with a certain amount of curiosity
saw before l could move something flash in
the air, the wine glass fell from her hand.
and the woman was dead. Stabbed to the
heart. In second the police were on hand
and the man gave himself up, In ten MIN
utes the body of the woman had been taken
away, there WAS no sign of the tragedy, and
polite Frenchmau said to me: You can
now go on enjoying Yourself But for me
that night there was no enjoyment. When
l got home | found that l had held the black
lace fan that had belonged to the woman,
and that L had unconsciously put it in my
pocket. | have 1t tackled up in nv bed
room now, because it represents to me the
most tragic death l ever saw.
TRAGIC LOVE STORY.
Then they looked at me for my story:
Years ago there were two people who
loved each other they were young, and the
troubles of life seemed as nothing as long
as they we're together. but poverty, that
thief Of love, came and tried to separate
them. They were faithful to each other.
and each Da.tled in whatever way was
possible with the world, and when the
working hours we're over they were
together, and would laugh and Jest
and be as happy as only people
can be who are young. who are healthy.
and who love each other. At last poverty
had SO much the control that the cheeks of
the woman grew thinner, that life was made
full of woes and the man found that health
was slipping away from him. Unused to
work, he had toiled like a slave, and not
having had q training for it, he bad broken
down. The woman could not work, because
she had to take care Of him, and she saw
everything, her little store house of Jewels.
even her clothes. going to that refuge OF the
poor-the pawDshop. One day letter came,
a heavy letter, which the postman wouldn't
leave because there was no money to pay for
the extra postage: good neighbor, for there
are neighbors among the poor, went to the
sign of Golden Balls and pawned the wedding
ring that the letter might be gotten. Yes,
1t had good news in it; news that there was
plenty OF money; news that meant Joy and