The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27


sons, A few more years will pass. and
then. froL. the center Of the city. will rise
Z stately white tower-a home for Justice
but alas justice Is slowly dying Her
wounds are almost mortal. You will live
70 De the last of your family. for there will
re no sons TO perpetuate your name. Who
am !. you would ask? Inquire of the one
who nrst builded this house. Ask Of him.
1 was stranger and he took me in. and IN
me darkness OF the night he buried me
Ior me sake OF my gold. / cannot tell you
VINO am, bur you viii live 10 learn the
truth OF all my statements
Il remember the words pretty we'll for
they made such a strange unaccountable
impression upon me. In the morning Dor
othy exclaimed What IS the matter with
your mar. / shook my head and replied
mat nothing was the natter She insisted
Otherwise, and looked in the mirror You
VIII probably be inclined 10 doubt nv
word but IL was as white as il is now
hed it shorn and il came out again in its
natural color The experience did not
convert me TO any belief IN ghostly in
lofnals' but ! have lived 10 see the veri-
hcation OF all I heard then.
That really was the only remarkable
experience of that memorable trip We
look a very roundabout way. revealing in
the autumnal beauty Of the country. We
tarried az the cd roadhouse. which IN
now near NicetoWn. and-such Is fame
and 10 such degenerate uses has il fallen
Where oysters are sold TO whomsoever will
nuN a few weeks ago. having nothing else
70 DO / followed as near as ] could-for
tne growth Of the city has changed OF
ooliterated many of the old highways
the road We had taken and visited some
OF the old places. As is always the case.
i suppose, time ruthleSsly tears away all
romance, and these houses. around which
n
most In ruins. Poor. forlorn families
dirty children, chickens. cats and dogs.
are all that is left of the brightness. life
ana activity Of the wears agore. Most OF
them. like the old punch bowl which re-
called this tale, are soon to be taken down.
and thus will Philadelphia lose many OF
her oid-une Interesting and historic
landmarks
1t IS the exception to ind one which
mas 10 interesting stories connected with
us history. In the one called the Fash
ION. cen. Washington tarried for a. night.
ana ~ the room he is said to have occu-
pied his name is carved Some fun-loving
urchin, Tor boys We're tho same then as
now. probably did 1t. as IL IS most un-
skilnul and then carefully drew the at
teniion of the landlord to It, The latter
Immediately jumped at conclusions and
created the statement that the ilmstrious
Father Of his Country would spend his
tlne at such schoolboy FRANKS
Around the old building at Lamb tav-
ern road now most forlorn. clings the
story OF the extinction OF an entire fami-
ly During the early part Of the revolu-
ton a noble French family came to this
country 10 settle. They brought with them
much money. brains, ana culture, but no
power 10 battle with stern life in a new
world. There We're the father. mother.
son. and daughter. After remaining in
Philadelphia for some little time they
started for some land which had been
purchased in the vicinity of Pittsburg.
They only reached this old road house
when the mother and daughter feD III
and Cied shortly afterward. Probably
had a physician been near at hand they
could have been saved. Death. not salts
fed, soon sought for and took the father
and son. The father, who acknowledged
" bore an assumed name. never divulged
his own, but gave to the hospitable land
lord what money remained and then fol-
lowed his son, with no one to mourn for
them
But. why do you not stop me when I
start on such melancholy tales? Each
time ] tell one l mentally resolve that It
shall be the last But my resolves APP
parently are made of sand. or better. of
water, which is unstable. you know. My
pine is Just out--dead. 1t usually is a
pretty good monitor to tell me when to
60 home for / am such q taker that ]
could bore you all night with these rem
iniscences Of mine.
by the way, If you want to see those
old roadhouses, you had better drive out
that way-I viii pilot YOU If you wish
pretty soon. as demolition has been com
menced upon some Of them. But I must
go-au revoir'
And the colonel passed out. leaving
with me the memory Of the past, the air
of which clung about him in a most Sc
ductive and fascinating way I mentally
determined that a trip 70 the old road
houses Of which he had just spoken
would he taken in the very near future.
accepting his kind offer TO act as guide.