The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09


been out In the garden for walk, and
that thls was the result OF her early visit
10 the flower beds. but one morning j
Hou-ed that her bouquets was largely
composed of primrOses and purple pan
sizes, sucn pansics as only STOW In Mrs.
Jim Johnsur's beautiful garden The stO-
l} d plain 10 me. Every morning as
young Jim Johnson goes down 10 the
village. where he Is studying law under
a single judge. who is the power. he
leaves "a bouquet ON the gate post. and
Nanny. queerly enough, finds g. II would
pe cruel, but u would be interesting TO
get up early and go down and pre-empt
mat bouquet. / wonder what Nanny
would think II she saw her posies IN the
Deit or another woman She would prob
aniF thlnh the truth, as she is the only
absolutely young girl in the house.
IT, Is almost as pretty as seeing two
birds making love to watch one young
girl when she is first conscious that Il
young mans heart IS drawn toward her
She nushesi she is nervous and she fits
around In quick sort Of a way exactly
as the yellow canary bird does In its cage
when the bird In the other window trilis
particularly sweet song. II is n good
thing, this old-fashioned love. Il
Keeps everybody young. Even the
lockers on find their hearts
growing tender. and somehow every
human being, hearing the love story OF
someone else. lives again in the first love
that came TO her. Ny first love was given
To "a gentleman Old enough to be my grand
father. / nursed u in silence and never
told him Of the deep affection that I had
for him. To me he represented everything
that was great. everything that was hand
some, and everything that was intellect
ual. The fact that ne was my own uncle
did not interfere I'm the least with my love
since IL was a spiritual one. purely. The
first love IS always spiritual and that is
the reason why no wise woman marres
her first love. In marriage. a little thought
must be given to the material. The bread
and butter Of the future is to be consd-
cred. II is impossible TO live without loving
words, and 10 is also impossible to live en-
tirely upon them.
That is the reason why It is well for a
boy TO learn the value Of money since
through IL, he can care properly for the
woman from whom he wishes loving words
and loving kindness
/ never pretend to undervalue money
I think IT great blessing. nice, kind
man wrote me a letter and asked me what
l thought Of the silver question. To be
quite honest, / do not think very much
about it, but l do know this-gold is
much nicer TO handle. Then. too. I re-
member the day Of the trade dollar that
awful day when one did not know wheth-
er ones dollar represented eighty-eight
cents or one hundred of them Silver is
not pleasant in the purse. A man who
knows great deal says that II We have
silver we will not be counted honest bv
foreigners. ! do not think we are count
ed as particularly honest by foreigners
now. AS "A nation, we are too forgiving
gentleman thief as a person who is to be
regarded with sympathy. Our law courts
are laughed at by people of the Old
word and when we say honesty, they
teil us that We do not know what we are
talking about; that we are not an i'm
moral nation as far as honesty goes. but
an immoral one, not knowing absolutely
Mnat real honesty Is. And sometimes /
The eagerness of our men for money!
masking causes them to forget that "cute''
deals are not always square ones; thar
getting ahead Of a man may result in a
pile of money. but not in seif-respect IN
the Ola days our merchants thought OK
IRENE honesty a good advertisement
Nowadays, II Is believed that extreme
business ability, so called Is most destr-
able l do not ike those words business
ability. Ability ought to mean capability
IN the direction of honesty not in the
dlrecuon or overselling in one way and
overseeing in another. II a merchant can
sell me a pair of gloves for half their
value, l know he is going to make II IN
by charging double the value for a hand-
kerchief. 1t doesn't pay to buy things
Tor less than they are worth, and when
anybody Is fool enough to be caught In
TINS trap she deserves to be pinched You
see am not strong on the silver aues-
uon, though confess to liking a silver
spoon TO eat with, and a sill
Ner-Dacked brush for my hair
but am particularly strong
on an honest basis for all business deals
business
we will be honest in our daily life. Hon
estly should permeate our mind. In the
old days girl was taught 10 he
virtuous, and a boy was taught 10 he
honest and all society morally was in a
better state than 1t is now. To-day IL Is
enough II our women dress well and orr
men make money. There is no mention OF
either these two things in the Ten Com.
mandments. l don't think there is in the
New Testament. but still as we read trans
lations, the old books can be twisted
around to suit the morals of the day.
What are the morals of the day Tho
chleI rule seems to be to get as much
out of your neighbor as you can. and n
do as little for your neighbor as YOU can
II is bad law, one that is not good 10
live by, nor to die by. and that is what
we have got to think Of Not only the
living but the dying. The sweetest old
writer who belonged to the DAYS that have
gone, gave the world a great book ON
Holy Living. Then he wrote one on HOLY
Dying. He knew that what we did here
counted Tor what we did i'm the hereaf-
ter and he combined the two. That is
what we want to do Live so that orr
dying will be easy. Try to? Well YES
as we'll as l can, but even If l do moi
practice so perfectly, l assure YOU that
when 1t comes to preaching. neither YOU
nor your neighbor can compare with
Bah.
TRUCKING a MAGICIAN