The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-23

In the west.
And the stars through the jesamine
glisten;
Then the hawk of the night
Is alright,
To alight
Where the breath of the breeze bids him
listen.
For, it isn't the day
With its life,
And its strife;
Nor the echo of merry words spoken
That affords him delight
But, the night
And the blight
And the sigh of the heart that is broken.
IT'S the sadness Of life
Aye, the woe,
Not the show
The story of trouble and sorrow
That he listens to hear
With an ear
Ever near
And the world knows the secrtt tomorrow
They were gossiping abolt one thing
and another when the subject turned upon
newspaper men.
There was a vast deal of sound sense
in the editorial in the Morning News the
other day reviewing the snlbbing of the
newspaper reporters at Asieville," said
one. 1T always struck me as being a
queer notion some people have of indulging
the fancy that newspaper reporters are
fends incarnate-that they are Jugger-
nauts and all that sort of thing. l think,
and I form my belief by tie experiences
have had with reporters, that the Morn
he Of reixy t1,o
when it stated that the percentage of
gentlemen among the newspaper men viii
rate higher than that of any other class
of professional people,"
"Oh, but they do prowl around after
other peoples business so.'
'Only as to what other peoples business
has to do with the world at large" was
the retort, land such is the reporters
stock in trade-the stories that you and 1
would like to know of otier people. That
is the one great weaknessof human kind
wanting to know what other people are
doing. There is no reason why We
shouldn't know it, so long as it requires
no invasion upon the sanctity of home and
society for us to know it, and newspapers
ties, except in well meaning way.
You let a tragedy occur any hour OF the
night, and almost before the smoke has
left the pistol of the murderer, or the
blood of the victim has grown chill, the
ubiquitous reporter is there and the world
is ON the track Of the felon next day. In
most of the cities the papers have repor-
tiers at the police station all
night, right on the track of
sensations OF this kind, ready to
fly at any moment to the scenes of TRACE
dies and follow in the footsteps of red
handed crime. Is this wrong? On the
contrary doesn't the newspaper man APP
pear here as a great power in guarding
the morals of the community, bounding
felons and Wrong-doers and heralding
their deeds with their powerful lesson
against wrong? Charles Dickens may
have been termed a police reporter, for
such was the nature of his work at one
time, and 1t is probable that In this way
he became the student of human nature
In low life that he was. Court house re-
ports with all the conflicts and quarrels
IN the newspapers of the present time do
good rather than harm. These quarres
among men and their grievances are no
longer secrets when they get into the
courts, and the reporter cannot be called
an invader, meddling with other peoples
business in reporting such stories. The
reporter who goes to hospitals from the
big dailies every night to catch some
story of suffering, or to witness some
scene of death, is not an invader. On the
contrary, he is an apostle of mercy In
disguise, for it is through his reports of
such sorrowing, such grief, such pain that
the world is inspired with pity and sympa-
thy for the afflicted by breakfast next
morning.
"All of these little stories of life-hu-
man interest stories, as the newspaper
men term them-shoveled at us each day
give us fairer and better notions of life.
The man who writes them is to be recog-
nized. He has seen more OF human ma
ture than you or /, and ten to one he APP
proaches the people with whom he has
dealings with tenderer refinement for this
very reason, than perhaps the people he
approaches would approach him If tables
were turned.
Some newspaper man has said good
news is no news by which he means TO
say that the demand on the newspaper by
the public is for the stories Of trouble.
grief or suffering. Emotional stories have
thus come to I'LL for the greater part the
columns Of the daily papers. We have
human nature to thank for this When
we think that something should have been
kept out Of the paper that went In, We
should reflect that very great deal IL
known by the newspaper men that is kept
out. Perhaps we would be appalled, IL we
knew all that they knew and keep out Of
print"
III the grass continues TO weave a will
derness about Savannah's parks and
squares another Gen. Oglethorpe coming
up the river may land another colony here
and begin clearing" remarked public
spirited citizen with affectionate regard
Tor the park and tree commission and
sympathy for their embarrassment.
1T Is extremely dangerous 10 scorch
around the suburbs Of Savannah az
night, remarked a wheelman yesterday.
There Is always some vehicle or other
sroping It's way along the roads on moon
less nights, into which "A wheelman Is la
ole TO run. unless he - very careful
suppose that there a. some accident more