The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-07

news Stories ana sketches Caught
ucrc and There on n Morning
News. Mans Not Book.
n, what strange mixture of weather.
Ton,t seem to care which way 1t blows,
GO fclxle il doesn't care whether
Il sleets, or it rains, or it SHOWS.
ore minute it's raining down torrents,
The next brings a beautiful sky,
As clear as a sunset in Florence
And the weather man never knows
why"
There was weather for the masses and
classes yesterday. Let no man complain
that he didn't have weather to suit him.
+ rained and shined, and blew and Gained
4, euch changeful fashion as to have
nIeased everybody at least every fifteen
minutes in turn.
The storm which was expected to come
this way. it seems from the weather bu-
reau reports has played it's little game
nj coouetry about on the Gulf and has
now wheeled off up the Mississippi valley
and on, perhaps, TO the Windy City of
the west.
There was no very severe shock of dis
4 anpointment on this score felt in Savan-
3 nah. The people had feared that the
4 storm was aiming directly at this city,
the weather reports having stated that
the storm, which was then central on
4 tbe Gulf would cause high winds along
u the Atlantic coast.
y There has not been sufficient wind yet
10 damage the rice crop, but there has
been enough rain to delay slightly the
n threshing of it. The rice has been cut
and is lying on the ground now, that is to
say the first harvest, which includes
about two-thirds of the crop. This is
n time when the rice planters would suffer
very greatly if there should be any severe
winds The rice gets blown down and
twisted and beaten so that it cannot be
threshed The rain has already caused
some delay in the threshing of the crop,
but further than this there has been but
4 little damage done. There is an increase Of
from 10 to Is per cent. in acreage this year,
and the crop will be a good one, besides,
provided the yield is not cut short by bad
weather. There seems to be nothing seri-
Gus to result from the predicted storms
along the Atlantic coast.
bad luck! Either a fire or a stormr
exclaimed one hack driver to another yes
terday.
why SOP" asked the other in profound
seriousness.
Don't you hear dem clocks striking
together?" was all the satisfaction the
anxious inquirer could get, but listening,
he could hear the bells of the city ex-
change clock and the Independent Pres
hyterian church pealing out together,
striking the hour of the day.
1t may, or may not be known, but it is
really a fact that such a superstition
dwells in the minds of certain
darkies in this city concern
ing these two bells. 1t Is
known that they rarely ever strike
exactly together. The city exchange clock
is usually the first to send out it's mes
sage of the time from it's rusty iron throat
and the church bell, further up town, usu-
ally strikes Immediately after the ex>
change clock has finished.
Now and then-very rarely, however,
the two clocks do get exactly together
and strike the hour almost in one Ginning
peal. 1t is on such occasions that some
of the superstitious darkies listen with
breathless interest stopping sometimes in
the street and holding their hands to their
ears, as if TO listen more closely to the
Ginning of the bells. 1t is pretty gener-
ally believed by them that the simultane-
Gus striking of the clocks in the steeples
means that there is going to be a fire in
the city, and these darkies look forward
confident of such catastrophe being one
OF the things the next few hours will bring
forth.
The young man who was recently put
IN Jail on a charge of vagrancy will not
De put on trial with the other criminals
ana outcasts in the city court to-day. He
has been befriended and will be sent from
savannah with genteel clothes on his back
and great big chunk of gratitude in his
neaIt. 1t is not known yet just what will
oe his fate, but it is known positively
mat ne will not be sent to the chain-gang
Oh charge of vagrancy, nor will he have
70 wear the clothes he wore when he came
70 this city. This young man was in
coAeSe with several young men who now
,aNk nigh in society and in the world of
4 business. He was zone of them" in those
udys which is to say he was a gentleman.
lhey sat in the parlor of a CASTOR
street. house alone-he in the big old arm
Clalr she in the daintier little rocker of
white and gold trimmings.
IL was one of those endearing moments
"Aen soft eyes look love to eyes which
"A
q Sllsht lights cleaned and glimmered
uo"n from deHcately frescoed wall, and
'e pig red lamp shade on the table in the
corner ripened into the full richness of
a. color with the burning of the Pickering
name beneath. They sat silent for awhile
3ney were in love. But, that is nothing
Sgalnst them.
me equinoctlal gale kept sweeping down
we street, and at every gust the old pail
lsto tree would lean affectionately
9o4lst the house side, and after SILVER
Il ms mere for moment would retire and
Wot not of.
yo,io, ioVe the rain and the wind, don't
- ana as she spoke i'm soft, sweet
s. ssiSs pleadingly, plaintively, she drew
a or. me pretty white curtain and looked
Cd i' INTO the dark, gloomy night and sigh
aIo lhe wind kept on its wailing.
str a. yes he breathed in slow and
d. trend, Il love-bad weather very
Do, His eyes for a moment dropped
I'M ward but with a few quick pardona-
AnS's they regained their equilibrium.
'art ehe wind kept on it's waillng
Ma, one good thing about the rain
ths my lasts few days" she resumed.
sebisuIIhe Gaming back in her chair. and
"Wbs andibly, though sweetly.