The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17

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duced her marriage certificate and innu-
merable letters that he had written to
her. She had been married to
him three years before he met
the second woman. OF course, she was
his wife. Her children were Legitimate
and the Others were not. The day came
| when the. two women had to meet and
the woman who was bitter against him,
| who called him liar and a deceiver, was
his legal WIFE while the woman he had
wronged only wept for him and refused
to hear aword against him. She insisted,
| however, on the great fortune going 10
| this woman and her children with the
proviso that there should be no scandal,
and there never was. Thewife was quite
willing to keep the name she had borne
| and which her sons knew, and the chill
dren who had no right to it are bearing it.
Old New Workers know who these people
are, but the people who form society to-
clothes when this old family was counted
among the elect.
THE CLUB MANS SOCIETY TALE.
Duplex2 That's one. Tommy Toddles
of the Cad Club drops in to see me and
have cup of tea. Tommy isn't as much
OF fools as he looks. He is young, and
he will probably be all right when he gets
a little older. Tea acts on him as it does
on old nurses; it loOsens his tongue and
makes him gossipy. Here is what he
told me. It Interested me because it was
another duplex life. MIR. and Mrs.
| Goodheart one day saw at an asylum to
which they were liberal contributors,
pretty little girl about years old. Mrs,
! Goodheart has five boys and she thinks
| she would like a little girl around her, so
| this child is taken. She is not adopted,
and neither is she made a servant of, but
she is well educated, dusts the priceless
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not let anybody else touch, reads and
writes for her and eats her meals in
| what used to be the nursery. One day
| the oldest Goodheart boy drifts in there
and asks her to mend glove for him.
| She is just making herself a cup of tea,
and as she has been taught TO be polite,
| she offers him one. He drinks it while
she sews and he watches her. He never
noticed before how black her hair was,
nor how blue her eyes, nor how slender
! her shape, and her voice-he never heard
such sweet voice before outside of Ire
land. After that, he seemed to want her
to do a great many things Tor him, and
his mother was delighted to think that
! the little girl was of some use to the boys.
! Three days after her seventeenth birth
| day she disappeared: nobody knew where,
| nobody seemed to know anything about
| her. She left most heart-broken note
| begging Mrs. Goodheart to forgive her, and
| saying that some day she would be able
| Ia tell her all. In a couple of years time
| the family knew that she was in New
| York in a pretty house, living very
! quietly, and thar she had 4 little baby
! Well, you can guess who was the father
of it AS the months and years went by,
the oldest boys devotion to her became
more conspicuous, and she and her two
! beautiful children were seen everywhere
| that lady could be-"
ONE DAY OLD GooDHEARr
got frightened and went to see her. He
told her that he wanted his son to make
a great marriage, and he told her that he
would settle half a million on her children
| II she would promise never TO marry his
son al any time, even in the most distant
| future. She signed the paper, and brought
the half million to the babies
Now what Tommy Toddles wanted to
tell me was that the news had Just come
out that they were married; that the
family had accepted them, and that it
was all right; and Tommy said with
! grin: Wasn't it clever in her TO promise
not to marry him. Why she had been
married to him ever since the day she
ran away from old Goodheart's house.
| And he was flying around among the
! girls, and they were trying TO
catch him because of the many millions
! that would come to him. and all the time
l confess to joining Tommy in his gig
| gle, because think girls who run after
men for their millions deserve no better
treatment than Strangers as he so
beautifully put it, That is another duplex
! history.
THE RICH NOT ALWAYS HAPPY.
The butcher, the baker, and the mani
cure all know the duplex histories The
butcher can tell you of the man who is
reputed to be rich, who entertains SUI
perbly, and who, when nobody but his
own, family are there gives them abso-
! luteIy less to eat than clerk at $50 a
month would offer to his family. The
baker can tell you of the woman with a
reputation for charity who buys extern
sively from him, who gets him to put
down on his bill gallons upon gallons of
ices that are never sent to her; he han Dis
| her the money, and she tells him she is
going to use it for her poor. Out
in her carriage is a smooth faced
Notwithstanding young man, waiting for
the money that she pays him for keeping
a secret he knows about her. The mani
cure can tell you of doing the nails of a
young girl and getting five dollars from
her for it, accompanied by a request to
take note to q man at the clubhouse
But most of all, can the professional nurse
tell you of the skeletons that walk about
and rattle their bones. while under their
leshless feet are the richest of carpets,
about them ire the most beautiful belong
ings, and of one thing in the world there
is pleuty--money. But of belief and
honor, and kindness and consideration,
there is an absolute lack.
THE POWER OF MONEY.
Money is very good thing. 1t isn't
the best in the world. Money will never
down skeleton. 1t makes life easier
that is true; but money never united peo-
pie through good report, through evil re-
port, through suffering, even through sin,
and made death no parting. 1t takes
love to do that. And you can't buy love
with money. You can fill the scales with
golden dollars, and you can gain beauti-.
full women, you can crafty your passions,
YOU can have all the Injuries you want
and every time you put in piece more of
gold you will get something else, but
when you come to buy love, you have go
to put love in to weigh it by Duplex.
Well, if the duplex lamp that is burning
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