The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

tussle with a salmon. The fish was hook
ed in the morning, probably in the back
fin, and pushed 10 and fro with such eN-
traordinarY vivacity that hour after hour
passed without the least sign ofits weak
ening. Luncheon time came. The lady
gave the rod to the attendant to hold, and
reinforced her strength with a hearty
meal. Then she returned to the fray, and
was dragged up and down the banks IN a
most unpleasant fashion by the rushes Of
the fish.
BY the time the shades of night began
to fall the news had opread through all
the country round, and as twilight closed
in the neighbOrs came with lanterns
and candles, by whose uncertain light the
fight was still carried on. At last, some
fourteen hours after the hooking Of the
fish, the line was cut by rock, and the
episode ended with a very undeserved
disaster for the angler, but well-earned
freedom for the fish.
A physician upon whom have occasion
to call professionally and otherwise was
handinga messenger a prescription when
I walked into his office, says writer in
the New York Press.
Come in and have a chair he said.
Il have a story for you. No names. You
saw that boy go out as you came IN. He
is carrying a prescription to sick woman
whom / was called upon to attend while
ago. Nothing strange about that l know.
There were two women sitting in the
waiting room of one of the great retail
stores where women go for employment
as well as for bargains. They were
strangers. One of them was taken sick.
Tainted, of course. As a doctor, l assure
you that woman is much
more liable to faint when
taken suddenly i'll in a public place
than she is when taken sick in the priva-
cy of her own home. Don't ask me why
that is so. There are boundary lines
which you must not pass. In this case,
however the woman who tainted was Ie-
Ultimately sick. The other woman in the
case, with presence of mind commendable,
gave the fainting woman a drink of water
| know it is a simple thing to do, and that
is why most women wouldn't have
thought of it. This partially revived the
fainting woman. The thoughtful woman
who had given her the water did another
thoughtful thing: She took her sick sis
ter to retiring room, un-
loosed her lacings and assisted
her to a lounge The sick woman thanked
her and said if she could get message to
her aunt. mentioning where that relative
could be found, she would receive all the
further attention necessary. The thought
full woman took the address and went
after the aunt She found her at a board
of foreign church missions and delivered
the message. / was called in, and, as
said before, the case is one of legitimate
sickness
up to that point there is nothing move
in the story. The story turns on the
Good Samaritan. She was waiting at the
store for message, which meant bread
and meat for her and her children. That
message never came. She had a burden
on her shoulders and on her heart, at the
time she comforted her sister, that would
have made most women go to bed. But
in a darkness that was gathering about
her every moment she turned aside to re-
lieve another She found the woman
whom she went for in the midst of a
coterie that was wondering how the
heather was going TO be converted.
And while this Good Samaritan stood
in the crowd for anOther's benefit she
was weak from waiting and watching,
and metaphorically, she was furnishing
while the missionaries We're puzZling
their alleged brains about some naked
Hottentots. I give you this story as a
! text for a sermon. never wanted to be
| a preacher before in my life. Let's see
| your tongue"