The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-27


many a wrong one changed and many
"A wiser soul than Uncle Jimmy. as these
things are measured, had been set Alright
by his strong, direct and unpublished wis.
dom.
Even one Of the Concord parsons. dis
traught over the career Of q parishoner,
one of those brilliant and bad Young men
who are ever see-sawing between nights
of rectitude and the depths Of infamy,
through drink. had appealed TO this Con
cord sage for advice.
AS 1 understand Willie's case, Uncle
Jimmy answered. as he softly tapped the
block Of stone UPON which he was work
ing with his mallet, your young friend 5
oncommonly bright
wonderfully So" replied the parson
sadly
knows gins gin, an runs rum, an
jess what three fingers o. eitherll do fur
him -
Why, undoubtedly"
AN knOwin' that, takes a header right
at tn stuff gifts full as a Thanksgivin'
turkey; ramps around Concord, till YOU
/ all hustle him out o. sight; an then all
tn purity wimmin an all tn oil wimmin
prays alongside o. him, an sends him
flowers an Jelly an SIGH, till Willie gifts
( through havin' t. reach over tn side O.
his bed t. ketch his burnin' head from
fallin'; an then Willies all right fur tn
Sunday school an Bible class agin?"
IT'S all too true, Uncle Jimmy
wall, parsOn, faint rum as is tn mat
| ter o. Willie, It's you / well-meanin'
folks. Willie's got so he can't git on
'thout harrowin' up tn church an tn
( wimmin folks. jess about so often. Next
time Willie gifts hungry fur a church
I sociable, all to hisself, an breaks loose
don't see him. Let him ramp. Let him
holler. Let him woller But don't no.
| body mind him. When he's ramped an
holleered an wollered till he gifts in tn
gutter. hev Job Tollson, tn town consta-
BILE, gitahandy holt in his collar an chuck
! Willie inter thu town Jail. Then see no
wimmin, err Jelly. err flowers, gifts Z
! Willie. till Willie gifts T. hisself. Willie
an tn churchill run smoother after
/ that"
The stonecutter's advice having been
acted upon, a good citizen was saved
| TO the community, and Uncle Jimmy's
noble qualities as Concord sage were
more and more priced and honored by all
] of the humble circle who had cause to
know their sterling worth.
/ His home was just the spot in which
| one would like to fancy all kindly sages
should live. 1t set low upon the ground
and spread wide and far among foliage
| and flowers
Kinder allus looks T. me like a OIL
motherly settin' hem Uncle Jimmy
! NOulu EeudEk WIN hluQlIlE pElOe IN MS
| good gray eyes, "'Cept its ali loviu' cluck
hoverin' an outreachin' wings like, with
nary peckin', crossness nor cantankerous-
ness bout itn
He had built it Of stone with his own
hands, after a strange pattern, many,
| many years ago. 1t was nearly all roof
running up to huge chimneys. A division
wall, in line with the chimnevs, starting
from between the little double front door,
ran from floor to ridge-pole through the
| odd structure, and then extended, still
higher than Uncle Jimmy's head, back to
the rear Of a sunny double garden, filled
with shrubs and plants, and fine old
| orchard trees The chimney gave huge fire
places facing either way into impenetra-
BILE seperate abodes, whose caves nearly
| reached the ground, and whose retreat
ing second and third stories were full Of
the Suggest of apartments. lighted by
the quaintest of dormer windows.
The neighbors smiled when Jimmy
! Biggs built so odd double house, for he
was then a much younger man. But be-
| ing philosopher even in those younger
days. he replied pleasantly TO all:
If the Lord sends US a child, that
child II be gal er boy. Gal err boy, time'n
come fur marryin and hivin off Wen
like EN- better. an they'lllike us better,
! If we has to go roun' the front door,
both ways, fur neighborin'"'
But the children they had been granted
! were those that never wrung their hearts
| from estrangement or separation. They
were simply philosophy and radiantly
sweet and almost pathetically trustful
! affection. And 50 at last, Uncle Jimmy
had cut passage way through the stout
wall, and the contented couple lived all
over the double abode as fancy or inclina-
tion prompted.
It's like travelin',n he would explain
to any Of his humble disciples who might
| venture comment. s'Shet emmy two bein s
in one room fur fifty year, an sunth'n'll
happen. Movin' from one t tother side
o that stun wall s nigh as good as a trip
TO Bosting!"
In one vital respect Uncle Jimmy Bggs
possessed wonderful advantage over many
of the philosophers and sages who are en-
rolled among the immortals,
Cynthia Biggs, his wife. believed in
him utterly. 1t even seemed that her
goodness and sweetness took on added
nobility and loneliness from her mute and
radiant admiration and affection 1t was
not merely a submissive recognition 1t
was an upleaping outreaching, ever-joy-
Gus approval, ever and always even in
advance of whatever Uncle Jimmy Biggs
might do or say. This, as all true saees
will do, he recognized, in his own way, as
the source of his fullest wisdom and his
grea test inspiration
WHO couldn't do things and say
things" he would repeatedly ask of the in.
sensate stone, or the occasionally as
insensate villagers, beside him,
with Cynthy Biggs set
tin thar on tn front porch, chirpin' an
chckin' with her knittin, nibblin them
sprigs of caraway or smilin' over her
specs at Uncle Jimmy? Dear! Dear
Who couldn't. u be sure!n
1t was curious phase of love and phi
losophy in the home of this particular
Concord sage, but both Uncle Jimmy
Biggs and Aunt Cynthy had grown into
such delicate sensitiveness to each others
physical and spiritual needs that both
could detect, almost with the impressive
ness of some solemn portent, just when
Uncle Jimmys phllosophic powers were
about TO find expression and, stranger
still, Uncle Jimmy himself could nearly
always prophesy when they were to be
unduly taxed
1t was a pleasant summer morning oil
not so very long ago when Uncle JimmN
sat at his work underneath his little shed
over against the rose-em powered porch
He had been silent for a long time while
softly pecking away at the letters OF
sacred to the Memory or upon one OF
the simpler and plainer headstones which
he often got to this stage of readiness
against hurried order
He had meantime stolen furtive glances