The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22


not be many of them, but there are some.
There Is nothing criminal in matrimony.
1t Is one of the firmly planted laws OF
human nature, and that in fact answers
all the questions about matrimonial incon-
sistencies. Doctors say NOWADAYS thai
Whooping cough, measles, and so-called
children's diseases are not necessary evils
10 De gone through and gotten rid Of
Cmldren take them because their systems
are not strong enough to resist them. But
Hdtrlmony Is not a disease. Daughters
cannot be made germ proof by isolation
II IS pretty thought that the fairy prince
VIII come to Cinderella sitting in the
ashes but 1T is an actual fact that the
cinderella of the fairy tale would have
been Cinderella in the ashes to the end of
her days if she had not gone to the bali
Rational ideas of cause and effect are as
good in general life as in education or med
lc'ne II the girl is not allowed to meet
the fairy prince she is liable to take m
win any housebreaker who comes in at
the window. Or else she becomes one OF
those silly creatures who see a lover in
every man they meet, from the minister
ually.
When Whittier was 80 years old, some
what trained in newspaper work nv edit
ing the Haverhill Glass.) Gazette he was
elected secretary of the American Anti
slavery Society. The next year, says the
new ork Sun, he removed to PhiladeI-
Phla' where he edited the PENNSYLVANIA
freeman during the years 1889. While liv
ing IN a boarding house in PHILADELPHIA a
young woman fellow boarder was great
torment TO him, because he was possessed
OF an exceedingly shy and sensitive tenn
permanent When she went aWav Whittier
complied with the request to write in her
album. A friend of the woman who owned
the album has transcribed the lines from
memory:
Thou are going hence, God bless thee!
Ihou art going hence, farewell!
May the devil ne'er distress thee.
May the wide world use thee well
Thou art going hence forever.
And thou sheddest not tear:
'Tis well, for tears shall never
Lament thy leaving here
Yet some will not forget thee.
A torment as thou art;
And some will cen regret thee
Who do not weep to part
They viii miss thy merry laughter.
AS the schoolboy does his rod.
And the jokes which followed after
Thy visiting abroad.
Farewell! the Lord be with thee
In thy future goings on.
And the pious shun and fear thee
As thy Quaker friend hath done!
Thy life, may nothing vex 1t,
Thy years be not a few,
And at thy final exit.
May the devil miss his due.
The nonchalaut young man in faultless
evening clothes, says the New York Sun.
VINO Wanders about at night, and, with
out disarranging his tie or rumplina his
hair, meets and routs gangs of Bowerv
toughs, would scorn the bloodless victory
OF the hero Of this story, but the girl who.
told the story at the boarding house break
fast table raphsodized over him. She Is
bachelor maid, with no available man
to meet her at stations and be generally
useful, and, like most of the young wo-
men who are called new" she goes
about taking care of herself. and cordi-
ally loathing the task. Last week she
came home from Baltimore and took
train which would reach New York early
in the evening. Her plans went astrav.
so did a screw in the engine, and the
train reposed peacefully on side track
for several hours, and then limped along
with placid disregard of passengers feel
ings Irascibie old gentlemen lost their
tempers, and the bachelor girl though
outwardly serene, thought dolefully of ar
irving at midnight and having no one TO
meet her.
There won't be blame cab at the ferry.
The train ahead of us viii catch every enc
of them" growled one of the old gentle
men. The girls spirits sank still lower.
A long car ride and a walk thron9n
gloomy streets wasn't a cheerful Dros
pect. Verify there We're ADVANTAGES in he
ing a dependent, chnging creature, with
a father or brother or husband. Sill
one didn't come home from Baltimore on
a crippled train often, and there were 2ei
days each year in which one could be in
dependent. One must put up with a thing
occasionally for the sake of not being
Obliged to put up with something else
continually. She thought that out and
waited.
When the train reached Jersey CITY there
was a wild scramble for the ferry. ana on
the boat a swarm of men with deternira
ton in their eyes damned Themselves
against the gates. If there was cab to he
had on the New York side each one of
those men intended to have it, The women
who had been met by masculine protectors
sat and guarded the luggage while their
projectors joined the crowd The bachelor
girl stood by the side rail and looked a !
she felt, forlorn. Occasionally she cast a |
hopeless glance at the mob of men. The.
all looked miidle-aged and unintcresltng |
she -thought--but useful.
Then the hero appeared upon the s,ens |
lie strclled along the deck. He WASN'T ex-
cited about cabs. By no stretch of the nm
agination could one conceive Of mis- HON, |
excited about anything. The bachelor eni |
even I'm her detection noticed how uncon-
monty well he tied his necktie. Sto nod |
Tructiced enHUgh this season to uncer'
stand the innate cussedness of a pum tie
Ills oVcrcoat spoke volumes for his ta,Inr
One didn't need to see the trade mari, ~ |
his hat F1om top to toe ne was ltnn,,o,,
late. well gIoomed perfection. Nforeoyor
he was good-loohng. and he was vonnc
although he assumed an ennui-of-sp.s a.
preston 10 conceal that last sba,nofNl
fact
lie looked listlessly at the middle ava
men who were beginning 10 wrls re 40 ~
boat nearcd the New York doc< tn, ~
looked at the girl He didn't seem inior,s,
ed IN either sight, but, in a lan.,rid w.,