The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-04

proofs and not a sign Of life from the com
posing room yet. Well. life's too short to
fret. I'll shut my eyes and rest in that ap-
proved manner that promises a woman ten
years more of existence II she but closes her
eyes for five minutes every day"
just here my musings we're interrupted
by little silvery voice that exclai med ::
Thank goodness, my travels are over at
last, and opened my eyes and looked at
the door 70 see who the visitor with the
musical voice could be. Seeing nobody,
came to the conclusion that my imagina-
ton was playing a sorry trick upon me,
and having watched the snow-hakes that
had now begun to fall until l felt sort OF
drowsy again, l settled down IN the revolv-
ing chair TO wait for the delinquent from
the floor above.
"Im wounded beyond all hope of future
usefulness, | know went on the voice
which | now perceived to my amazement
proceeded from the dime that hung on a
bracelet that wore for good luck. my
face is sadly msrred by some hierogilyphics
an unfeeling mortal branded me W th, and
there is a hole in my shoulder; yet, my
dear, l am truly thankful to know that
can now rest in peace until fashion or ca
price relegates me to oblivion in dark
bureau drawer
w Ou0bLltk W HuOul LubaB REMARKS were
addressed, 1 glanced hastily about and my
eyes rested on the cat, who now was blink
ing up at my wrist in very eager and in
teresting manner. Yours, / know con-
tinued the piping tones, lis nomadic life
also, and you are reputed to have nine lives.
For my part don't desire more than one,
its eventful happenings being quite suffic-
iently exhausing without the terrors of
duplicate existence awaiting me in the
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briefly some Of the most exciting episodes
in my career" The cat having ''mewedn
assent the dime began Its story.
The first thing l remember distinctly
was a large gathering of my family at a
swell government function in the mint We
were all dressed in our shiniest clothes and
lolled about IN great receivers, chatting and
laughing together. little dreaming of the
journeys on which we would be sent in the
near future. People who were interested in
our ancestry we're conducted through the
large building by a man who explained our
lIneal descent and who permitted them to
lift our great-Rrandparents, the silver bars
though he took very good care to see that
no one attempted to kidnap any OF them.
1--WE of the younger set were admired and
commented upon, and can assure you life
was then the very haopiest it has ever been.
shortly after that some of my compan-
ions aud myself we're inolosed In paper
outergarment and transferred to another
large building, which we learned was a
bank. From that place l date my earliest
troubles. l had not been there day before
| was moved out through window along
with some members of that plebean paper
money family and stuffed down in the
depths of pocket that was filed with such
refuse that it makes me even now sick to
think of it, There were brass keys, a hard
substance that | learned after ward was a
bit of plug tobacco, some cloves and a horse
chestnut.
Imagine what agony my refined nature
endured amid such surroundlnGs-bu dear
me, that was not the worst! My owner
soon pushed open a swinging door and
seated himself in room that was filed
with men, who greeted him cordially. Sud
denly felt my cheeks pinched and l was
in bis hand. ri match yer fer de drinks,
he said, and | wac tossed aloft, dreadful
jargon Of heads or tails was muttered over
me, and the next knew / slapped into a
little drawer that opened and closed with
the ringing Of bell.
"From there passed in quick succession
into the box office of the theater, q oon-
ductors pocket, swell confectioner's. and
then such lovely young lady took mo up
in her gray-gloved hands and slipped me
into little jeWeled receptacle she called her
change purse.
II thought surely now | would be all
right and was quite happy, though there
was one nickel among my associates that /
thoroughly despised. One day when she
went out to buy package of hairpins, she
took me out and pressed me between her
soft lips as she hunted for tha5 scent piece
to pay for her purchase. How / would
have Rliked to tell her Of where l had been,
OF that greasy pocket with It's chewing TO-
baoco and brass keys, Of the man who died
of fever the very next night after he
counted the receipts at the box office and
100 other places | had lived in that made
my presence between her lips decidedly dan
gerous, but l couldn't you know, and
when that miserable nickel had deceived
her by hiding away down in the purse un-
der a quarter she took me out Of her mouth
pressed her suede gloves against me and
handed me over the counter.
"From there l went 60 church, though 1
got there through an error; the man tnat
put me on the plate, being old aud near
sighted, having mistaken me for a penny.
Then l lived for week in little bows
bank, and would have been there yet, but
one day he pried me out with pair of
scissors aud exchanged me for q bag OF
peanuts at a stand on the corner
After this l wandered hither and thither
in aim ess fashion, until one day l found
myself once more done up in paper. l bad
been carried long distance ana at last |
climbed long, rickety flight of stairs and
entered a very smell room with few sticks
of furniture and woman with baby in
it. The man flung me with my mates on
the table, and said in a DISCOURAGED tone
that was half sob, half laugh: 'Factory's
shut down, Mol, on account OF the weather.
There's my pay-an we've got 20 live on till
spring. God knows what We are going TO
do Then she came over and smoothed his
hair and tried to speak cheerfully, though l
saw tears standing in her pretty eyes
Never mind. Sammy; this will last a week,
and surely by that time you will get some
thing else to do
"She put us 10 an old cracked teapot, and
day by day one after another of my COM
panions would leave me. l could hear her
sob and cry when the man was away, but
she was always cheerful when he returned,
though his answers were always the same
no one would give him work. At last came
the day when she took me, the last piece re-
and went out TO get some milk for
the baby. The child was very white and
still all she way. ana the mother would
wrap her thin shawl about the pinched little
form, though she had on only a calico dress
herself and the Thermometer outside the
saloon stood four above zero.
"When she said good-by to me knew
she was filled with despair as she received
the tiny portion Of milk and the change and
went out into the biting cold Of that winters
night. leaving me safe and warm in the till.
The next day there was great commoGon
In the shop, and the women, one by one,
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