The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16


vacation and spending IL AZ home lie IS
at present clerking in a hardware store.
and burning the midnight oil IN the inter
est Of Greek He Is saving his money with
the view Of going 20 college and then
studying medicine which means. o.
course. either becoming Ga very ricn man
or starving. There is no happy medium
in medicine Willie however. is likely 10
succeed. He has the first requisite to-
ward being "a good doctor He is intense
" sympathetic with women. and sees
nothing funny in anything they do The
consequence is that he was willing TO un-
dertake teaching me how TO drive Al
first. when ] saw the horse ! was to con-
troll, I feared that his opinion and mine
would differ in regard 10 speed He was
an animal with a curious eye Framed In
white. IL seemed TO flicker about in an
unsteady sort OF way. and loking into the
future ] imagined him sailing through
the village controlling the reins. while
Willie and were dashed out and had our
brains spilled. But things never turn out
as I expect them to.
The colored gentleman. who held this
animal while ] mounted the wagon. told
me that he was a great horse, that he had
blood in his veins. ] was glad 10 hear
this, for from his eye feared that gun
powder filled that portion OF his system.
He said that he was a progeny This
was rather terrifying, but under whites
advice / took the reins and of we started
II took me some time TO get used TO thar
horses eye-the right one. He kept look
ing back and looking back as much as 10
say. "You don't hold those reins right
And ] didn't i held them in fierce way
ffs4frr "a h
ion that would have made a horse bred
in Kentucky on Kentucky whisky lose
his temper. But as i lossened the reins
the eye ceased to stare at me, and IL
dawned on me that Willie. in his sym
patty with me. as a woman, had hitched
10 that wagon not horse, but sheep,
and that there was no necessity for me
TO hang on to the reins at all; II was only
asked that / let the horse alone, and then
he would take the alrive that was best for
both woman and beast. We went at a
pace that was easy, kicked up no dust,
made no noise, gave paSSers-Dy the I'M
preston that / was driving. and while
really the horse was pulling the wagon
and regulating the speed to suit himself.
] think this Is the kind OF horse / like. 1
now know that If / set up a trap in the
CITY the best sort Of horse for me to buy
would be one that in his early days was
attached to a cross-town car. In time he
could be fattened. made to look sleek and
we'll, and then attached TO my vehicle.
We might hide the bell under the seat
and ring IL when We wished him TO stop.
There is one good thing about driving
sheep in the country-you get a chance TO
look at the houses What pleased me was
the sudden fancy that has arisen for at
taching names to cottages A small house,
painted a milky gray. with herce-looking
furrets, that suggested pepper-boXes. bore
the legend in white on black ground, an
nouncing that 1t was the "Priory." Where
was the prior, and where were all the
monks? A rather MISUNDERSTANDING house,
painted a light rose color, with green
shades, having a baby bay window. and
piazza that permitted one rocking-chair
and two foot-stOOlS to crowd It. was call
ed "Elmhurst" After that there was a
succession Of Hursts, from Oakhurst to
Maplehurst. OF Maplehurst II may be said
miles; but the proprietor, who was a bit
Of a wag. said they suited their living TO
the name of the cottage and had maple
syrup for breakfast. / do not see why this
mania for naming houses has increased,
unless Il is that the feminine part of the
establishment like TO have name at the
head OF their letter paper. Somebody with
two acres Of land In a hollow calls her
place bellevue" and the only view to be
gotten is the back of a brewery. Some
body else evidently of a respondent state
of mind, named a gloomy-looking cottage,
w oodlawn," with a hope that the archi-
IeCL VIII IGel as IQnRE6dl as ne ought To-
Then there is the nest that looks
as II It were painted with the yolk OF
the eggs from dairy that
dealt in second-class ones, and this
IS proud or - title as "Boffn's Bower. ="
Then there is ''Sunnyside," Sunnyside be-
Ing next to a cemetery, and with no end
of cedar trees about it "Dulce Domum"
is painted above the door Of another man.
sion-in color it is bilious, not sweet.
II people really have places worth
naming, why don't they go back to the
Indian language, and seek for names
that have meaning. and that are not silly?
This Is not my suggestion, but Wilie's.
He said, why not name some place
Iona which means Hunters rest? or.
why not call house that is surrounded
by park, in which there are brooks and
little lakes. 'Talula,' which means leaping
water? or another, 'Ossego,' which
means Fair Niewg Or another built of
stone, and on a high mountain, 'Tarlo.
I told Willie that nobody would call
their places by these names because they
are American, and the average American
likes to name his country place after some
castle built and inhabited by an English
man. In the next town to us and to
which I am driving, there is a fancy for
adding villa 10 the name. and so there
are all sorts of colored villas and villas
with peoples names before them, and
Villas with nonsensical descriptions ahead
OF them, while in reality they are moth
ing but small cottages submerged under
Gotham; l suppose he thought it sound
ed big, but as he made his money in
timed meats. all the small boys in the
neighborhood call 1t got ham, As Will
lie knows everybody around here, he has
told me the history of the people as he
has pointed out the houses. One rather
dilapidated-looking house was occupied
by a man who had divorced his wife,
and when / asked why, he said II was
because her taste was bad. She ate mo-
lasses on fish and Worcester sauce on
pie. thought he was not telling me the
truth, but as Willie lacks humor alto
gether, he was simply stating a fact
What a lot of queer people there are!
Willie foced me to study one family-the
Dashers. A long time ago they were rich;
now they are poor; but they float along
on the wave Of society, and nobody knows
just how they support themselves. They
nave this little cottage in the country and
in the winter they are ali in town visiting
the many friends courageous enough to
invite them. The mother is popular
nuisance This sounds like a contradict
ton. Early in poverty she made up her
mind that 10 be eccentric would be de-
cidedly advantageous so she is sloyenlv
in her dress greedy as far as feeding is
concerned, pushing, from social stand
point and with sufficient courage at