The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-17
The Governors
Frero8afives.
From the Westminster Budget.

been expecting this explanation, gave a
shout OF laughter, in which the cues
TONER joined, as he hurried into the train.
AS the crowd dispersed Adams found
himself standing by MT Hallam. the old
Baptist minister, who had been listening
IN quiet amusement to the governor 5
prayer. MIR. Adams looked at him in sur
prise.
You here, Mr.. Hallaml" he said.
Yes; why not2' the old man asked,
comprehending perfectly the reproach
which Adams did not express. It's a
good thing, once in a while, to see one
self as others see one. I've been told that
the governor takes me for his model; but
tell Brother Parish am sure the old
fellow has more the Methodist style"
Adams Snook his shoulders impatiently
Wen, he said, IF you ministers don't
mind being taken of like that, | suppose
i would be othcious for any one to inter
tere in your behalf"
You've adopted our ways, and con-
Verted US TO yours, until there's not
much difference left between US, - Mr..
HaLam said, with a soothing laugh IT.,
but thei e's one thing that marks you
Tor a norCherner yet, Mr.. Adams, aud
That is the way You call our darkies to
account as if they were white men.
You'll learn in time that the best of them
are not exactly responsible; as Tor the old
governor, he has been crazy for years"
You say they are not reponsible, and
yet you trust even the crazy ones at
large"
The governor is perfectly harmless,
and IN certain way we are fond of him.
Can't you see that, as long as we have
him about, we are all of US kings with
him for fooll We don't mind if our dig
nifty suffers little The old fellow is
healthy for us; he is shrewd enough to
hit all our weaknesses"
Its very pleasant and kind to take
that forbeariug view of him" Adams
said, "but l feel that the community will
regret its course some day. He is I'M
trustworthy, and he's likely at any time
to make trouble, either by unexpected
violence or by pure lack of sense Mrs
Adams thinks I'm hard hearted not to
let him hang round our place any more
since we've had the children. but tell
you don't dare to have him with them.
and my minds not easy while he's at
large. suppose l take him more seriously
than any other people do, because he's so
devoted TO my family"
II don't think you have cause to-" SAID
the minister. Even if the governor
were to grow violenU-though he never
Willie would not hurt a hair on YOUR
wife's head or touch the children He
NOuANA ulO 4lhO lux 1UF any Ol your
father-in-laws people. / don't believe he
would ever have gone crazy if the family
had not broken up at the old gentleman S
death. After Miss Halle went north
sir, he just crawled into his cabin and
grieved himself to death His heart
would have broken if his mind had not
-" Mr., Hallam checked himself sud
denly; he was growing warm, and he re-
membered that he had SAID all this be-
fore. IL had done 40 good, 10 be sure,
yet he felt that Adams was kindly, we'll
meaning man, whom it would be useless
to olend, since, after all, he could not be
expected to unders and.
at is queer, isn't it, the minister re-
sumed, that the cody stands a broken
mind so much better than a broken
hearth A sad illustration of that came
to me the other day. l was called to see
a dying woman; she was dying of heart
breah, nothing else, and it was because
her husband had gone insane. He, poor
man, is hale and hearty, likely to live out
his years, but the doctors say he is hope
lessly mad"
81 know who you mean, the Taylors, 8"
said Adams, and tneir talk drifted safely
away from the governor. who, in the
meantime, was wandering down the
street, while the whole town might hear
that he was on his way to camp meet
ing then in progress in the next town
south.
Just as the knot of people who had been
waiting for the mail to be distributed
scattered from the postohice, Adams
hurried in. MIR. Hallam, in his privileged,
elderly way, had delayed him after it was
evident that the mail was open, and now
Adams was eager TO be getting home, for
the afternoon was wearing late, and there
were clouds gathering. He must stir his
tomato pickers to get over the field as
fast as possible, for fear the storm would
catch him with ripe tomatoes on the
vines. the laxative postmaster seemed
to have been lying in wait for him, how
ever.
Heard the joke on Brother Parish2"
he asked,
mo" said Adams, brusquely.
"Well," said the postmaster, in the ex-
asperating tone of one who Sc ties to leis-
Grely enjoyment OF his own story, We'll,
you know, Brother Parish-only being
stationed here last year-don't know the
governors ways very well and don't like
him, but he don't want to show it, so he
is always irwin to joke with him. Bless
you, the old governor knows the diner
ence as well as you or me. Well, just
now Brother Parish he met the old COVER
nor singing about going to the Gilman
cam " uIG6bliif3 anu lC W lAlil' AlON
this, governor, going to Methodist
camp meeting! ! thought you turned
Baptist last week The old governor
Just says, See Marse Mont Stuart over
there across the roadP And when
Brother Parish said yes. he says, 'Marse
Mont Stuart got rich tendin' to his own
business an that's what I'm ADDING
Some of the boys heard it and come right
up to tell It's pretty hard to get ahead
of the old man, amt it,"
He's an old nuisance, said Adams,
laughing slightly, but feeling more than
ever that Newton was unpleasantly as
well as dangerously dominated by Gov.
Brown.
On his way home, to add to his vexa-
ton, Adams came across the governor
again. How the old man could have got
ten so far north OF town when he had
lately heard his voice resembling so far
down the south road was hard to under
stand. But it was useless 10 try to eX-
plain the governors presence in one
place or another. He knew all the short
cuts and byways, and his long legs car
ried him so swiftly over the ground that
his guard of dogs despaired
and submitted to be dragged, fore legs IN
air. rather than to follow him at such
steady trot People said that he brought
news from the neigh boring villages
quicker than the telegraph could.
"Storm a COMM Storm a comm!
Wild man loose! Wild man loose" was
the refrain he shouted as Adams passed.
Adams. noticing an unusual eagerness in
his manner, thought that the coming