The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-06

even 10 cneat railroad company, the
privilege of every human being. he
wouldn't tell a lie.
But mis- conscience was not what 1 cred
lted It with being. He stood around, look
ed at the boxes, jotted figures on a piece
of paper and then said:
Mr.. Forbes, would like you to make
out the assignment for these goods
BY this time l caught on to him.
SELF
" NO. persisted the clergyman; you
make it out
80 l wrote out the number of boxes Of
household goods and the amount that was
to be paid, but before 1 was half through
the preacher put his hand upon my hand
and stopped my writing. Then he whis-
pered:
" Mr.. Forbes, would your conscience
stretch so far that you could cheat a rail-
road company
Il answered quickly:
" so far as railroad companies go,
have no feeling about them
Very well, them said the preacher,
put those boxes down on the assignment
as Hardware
II did it. AS the preacher moved away
he put his hand in his waistcoat pocket,
took out $40 bill and said
" You're young man, Mr.. Forbes, and
that's for your trouble
of that $40 note, threw it at that mean
towards feet and said:
" I was willing to do wrong myself for
you because you were so wretchedly poor
looking, but I'll be (and here 1 used
word that I wouldn't say before YOU if
any man can buy my conscience
But persisted the preacher, can't
do something for your
Yes said l. When you go to that
church in California and are conducting
a prayer meeting, say prayer for my
SON.
Then that miserable little hypocrite
skunk away as dog does when he is
caught in a mean act He never did the
right thing and the honest thing, and he
never stopped to think that his dishonesty
not only affected him, but every human
being who was thrown in contact with
him. I'll go to church when I find a
preacher whose actions and words are in
harmony"
My friend, none Of US can doubt that
Judas is alive, and he's quite as often in
the pulpit as out of it. He values the 30
pieces of silver to-day just as he did hun
dreds Of years ago, but now when ne
gains them 1t is called "a clever stroke
of business" and there are no conscien-
tious scruples about managing to gain
them. If you live in small town, you
know just how important is the milliner
shop. You know precisely who has the
first glimpse of the new styles. You know
how the choice is given to a select few,
how a large number not quite so select
have the second glimpse, and how all the
town appears to give its opinion on what
is known as Opening day" To me there
comes every spring a special card of in
Vitation, for l am counted among the Sc
lect, to look at the new bonnets exhibit
ed by THE Seven Sisters" These ladies
do not expect me to appear, for they are
IL 1.e, I1.,H
want me to forget them. AS if that were
possible Through them 1 first lost my
faith in humanity. 1t was the day that
Miss Priscilla said to me in her high, shrill
voice:
NO. my dear; they amt really seven
of us. only four. But Malinda she
thought-and Malinda she was always po-
etical-that it would look better to have
the sign read, The Seven Sisters and
then to have In smaller letters under it,
fashionable bonnets and all small pur-
chases that ladies may desire.
or the four sisters who represented the
seven the first was Miss Priscilla. She
was cross and stiff, so stiff that her up
rightness was said by a set of giggling
girls to be due to occasional doses of YER
table ramrod teal
Miss Cornelia, the second of the quar-
tet, was veritable mother of the Gracchi.
She was always ready to take care of
no one else in the neighborhood would be
bothered with.
Miss Malinda, who, like Slas Wegg, oc-
casionally dropped into poetry, showed her
sentimentality by crimpng her front hair
and by wearing on Sundays the miniature
of young man who, it was rumored, once
kept company with her. But, as the story
was told he went TO sea and got drown
ed. Whether he did this because of his
love for Miss Malinda or of his fear that
he would be forced to marry the entire
family, history does not tell. But when
ever a storm on the ocean is spoken of
a smelling bottle Is always handed to the
elderly maid, who, alas. loved and lost the
gentleman whose picture she wore.
Miss Adelaide, the youngest, was spok
en- of by her sisters as $50 proud" This
was said In a self-satished, though an
apologize way. She waited on no custom
ers, except those whose position In life
she considered equal to her own, for of
course. none could be superior. II was
said that the grocer's wife allowed 1.-THE
Seven Sisters TO have their tea at cost
because once, In the presence of the doc
tors and the minister's wives, Miss Ade-
laide chose a bonnet for her.
Miss Priscilla had a great eye for busi-
ness. / say a great eye advisedly, for
early In her youth something happened to
the other eye, and a glass one took It's
place. Whenever she wished TO be friend |
iy with a child she would take her eye
out and let the small person hold IT, so
that the youngsters began TO think that
TO have a glass eye gave you tang OF
arlstocracy that otherwise would not have |
been possible. Miss Priscilla was a great
diplomat She thoroughly understood her !
customers. once after she thought had
reached the age Of discretion, she coniided |
her business principles to me. Said she:
Il get peoples bunnets accordin' 20
their faiths. In religion and In millinery |
there Is a great likeness. Now, for Pts
copals / know there can't be nothin' too |
gay. though / sometimes believe that |
through absolute Ignorance, some mem
hers OF the 'Piscopal church viii be saved. |
still. n gay bunnot does seem better suited |
20 poppln' up and down durin service time, !
and more intrlcatelike trimmln's gives 1
whoever is poppin' up and down behind |
YOU a opportunity to study more. For |
presbyterlnns / naturally select solemner |
colors-deep puppies, dark blues, all black. |
though occasionally for young girl, even |
n she Is convinced OF the truth OF
buruln' and a eternal hell, I usually Sc