The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-01
When My Sweetheart Died.

seemed alone in unknown worlds
The night my sweetheart died
The stars hung in the tree-tOps dark,
Her outbound soul to guide.
The wind strayed through the orchard
calm,
And laughing down the stream
Came echoes of a bird-song
Bewildered in dream.
Alone l waited-unaware--
Close by the gate of death,
While heaven turned her face away,
And summer held her breath;
The drowsy roses cheek on cheek
Forgot the chilling dew,
The hours at their silent watch
We're undismayed and true;
TIL mornings shining horn at last
Blew earth awake again,
And found my heart a homeless waf
On foreign shores of pain.
-Harper's Bazaar.
A woman who moves in the most ex-
elusive circles in Baltimore, says the sun
Gay times of that city, and who has been
guest of a leader of society in New York
Tor some time this winter, is mourning
over what may prove the fatal illness of
one OF two pets which she has raised al
most from infancy. The pets are two pigs.
They are very handsome pigs, and not like
the pigs which lead quiet. useful lives on
me farm. The two pets have no dirty
habits. They are dainty, clean, well Imam
n mere pigs, and have never seen the IN n
SIDE of a sty.. When they were very small
-uny little piggy iggies, as the fair own
er says in speaking of them-whisky was
gwen to them to retard their growth.
5hey drank whisky at an age when or
uinary pigs are getting their first taste
OF skinned milk. The whisky had its
DESIRED effect. She who owns and loves
the pigs says that she read that a pig was
q very clean, nice animal If properly cared
Ior. 50. being childless, she adopted the
Two little pigs and treated them a good
99eaI better than many little humans ever
dreamed of being treated. Every morning
dhu evening the little pigs had a bath, and
ttneir plnk-White skins We're kept scrupu-
il;1tqiSSly clean One of the pigs has a few
nttle black spots on its sides-that is the
OIe that IS ill-but the other was pure
,MhIte, without a blemish of any kind.
thelr mistress engaged maid especially
" care Tor her pets, and the maid brushes
anu washes them and powders them with
99dpy powder until they are as sweet and
usrTi mn as It is possible for pig to be.
I1elr mistress had two silver troughS
Lhdue Tor them. Each trough bears the
nSine OF the pig which eats from it. One
o ot, me pigs is named Alphonse and the
otner Hortense. 1t is Alphonse that is
SICK; The silver troughs have been put
on the dining table when no guests were
present. and the two little pigs have eaten
t tleir meals at the same time their mis-
Iess ate hers. They were early taught
INV! INV 70 behave at table, and they are par
It4iar to use a napkin after eating. Their
c log1 for rhairs, especially made for their
with buff leather.
- pISS nave Deen in the habit OF eat
LIZ Luz me daintiest of food, and they are
n Me- to it by their maid. When they
,Ttant more of certain dish they express
liTlr desire by a short grunt.
~ dney never squeal. When their educa-
o ao1 was hrst undertaken they did squeal,
anu anu II was not pleasant to hear Every
; Eile one OF the pigs squealed it was pun
,S,ned by being taken from the table Most
plsS sqeal at night when the huddle to-
h n .le and try to get the softest place
NJ NJ me sty They don't sleep together.
Iley nave separate beds, and these are of
ppSSilsned brass, and the mattresses are
~ Si CURED white hair. Every night the
Sleepy little pigs are tucked into their
S Sotl white beds and the maid covers them
b MN the finest eider-down coverIets. The
LIS Us nave lace curtains at their sides, tied
SSIln SILK ribbons. Alphonse has blue rib
s gIons and Hortense has pink. The maid
ooesps IN the same room with the pigs,
anu II one is i'll in the night she gets up
T1 f ATTEND to It, says the New York World.
a. II Is very i'll she rouses her MISTRESS
1la then the doctor is, called in That is
wv "ns ~ happened when Alphonse took sick
c cst thursday. The family physician was
Gaiieo in, and he prescribed for AIphonse
~ not mustard foot-bath was tried. Al
1Yno.nse was a little better on Friday, but
kesttSrday he was very languid and has
a T1i,Sy,,teeen out Of his mistress arms for