The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05

ozy-Well now somebody's heart aches,
nd the great big murderous shells have
been fired with a directness that killed
some Of our brave men. I hope We will
vim. but l do not believe in war. am
arm believer in that simple but old story
which was probably sung in your grand
,,otber's childhood of Jeanette and
rsannot.', and / consider that Jeanette
lived all the diplomatic questions of the
3., when she said in that slightly mourn
ful ditty:
If were Queen of France, or better,
Pope of Rome,
weeping maids at home.
An the world should be al peace, and II
kings must show their might
Tet those who make the quarrels be the
only ones to fight.
That line is the hight of diplomacy and
wisdom. and following it, peace and hap
piuess will result ana II TOOK woman "
think it all out.
One business has gained a great number
Of customers because of the war. do
NOT mean the manufacturing OF soldlers
clothes. although l suppose there mas
been an increase in that, nor do l mean the
blowing of glass bottles into flask Shapes
,bot1ah unless there was a good stock on
INA there was probably considerable
done in that line but what 1 do mean IS
4bo fancy for fortune tellers. Naturally
if YOUR young mans gone 70 the war you
want to know what his fate's gong 10 De
and whether he is to be made general or
admiral or if the unfortunate fate OF Dan
nv Deaver is to be his, or, if one hasn't
Young man who has gone TO fight, then II
is interesting to know if one is likely TO get
one in time TO do battle. In these days
Of excitement the average woman is great
on paying visits to the fortune teller.
Talk about the divinity that doth hedge
about a king" II is nothing to that when
surrounds the lady who can look into the
future The house in which the fortune
telling lady doth abide has not an air OF
ELEGANCE The window shades look as II
they had been closed for years, and the
dust of centuries rests upon them. Inc
door was opened in answer 10 umd
ring of the bell for I confess to having
been frightened out of my senses by what
i'm the South is commonly called
moke"-that is very light darky girl.
This one was arrayed in purple velVeteen,
cut low in the neck, and around her coffee
co.ored throat she wore necklace thaI
looked as if it were composed of the TEEN
of small babies. Her hands were mani
cured 10 such a degree that the nails
glittered in way that drew your eyes
20 them, whether you wanted it or not.
She was a dignifed 'moke.' She sald'
when l had the courage to inquire as 10
the lady who peeped into the future, that
de madam viii receive you alls pres
emily"
We "alls' went into a parior that was
cold as a vault and which had Brussels
carpet of the vintage of the early Mites
When two roses covered an entire room.
The marble topped center table was mace
to look lively by coffin-iike arrange
ment in black ebony sacred to the mem
DRY of somebody and encircled by those
diabolical things, wax lilies. The pictures
on the walls were evidently ancestors, and
if | were to drop dead this very minute
] should be willing to declare that one old
ancestor, a rather forbidding looking gem
teman, winked at me, as much as TO say;
IA, ha! We have got you? Then the
"moke" entered and cheerfully said: You
alls follow me- and we followed In In
dan file.
BY every law of suitability the fortune
teller should have been tall and grace
full and stately; yet, grievous as it sounds,
she was not merely inclined to emoon-
point" but was fat, distinctly fat. she
wore a black velvet gown cut low in the
neck and a long gold chain that hung
over what the dressmaker calls the cor
sage and on it depended and sWayed 10
and fro by ornament that was
think, a very young mummy. To increase
our fear of her the room was hung in
black cloth, with white muslin skulls and
crossbones az a sort Of frieze. II gave me
the creeps.
We stood in fear and trembling. The
Child of destiny" for that was what she
called herself, wriggled into large arm
chair that was on a dias, with a pack OF
cards in one hand and a wand in the
other She waved it in the air and SAID in
a lovely theatrical manner: Approach,
fair maiden!" As two of us were married
and two of US were widows the invita-
ton was a little difficult to understand,
but the bravest of the lot approached her
and didn't get much for freshness, as she
was told that she would marry dark
man who would beat her and that she
would have one child, a son, who would
wear a crown; that the aforesaid brutal
husband would be hung, making her
lovely widow before she was %. As she
was % on her last birthday and has been
widow six years, her future did not
seem to fit quite as well as one might
have preferred but then she had paid her
money, and she had got q crowned son.
The fortune teller said, as does the hero
an melodrama on the Bowery, Alas,
'tis rruer' and No. / backed out.
The next dip into the future was taken
by a young married woman who owns two
of the lovelest twins that ever cried for
woolly dog, and she heard that she would
never marry, but would lead a life devoted
to charity and leave a large fortune to be
utilized by ladies' who had seen better
days In a grewsomc way the child Of
destiny told me that a handsome hus-
band was coming over the sea to me, that
his wealth would be great and tina, l would
be the joyful mother of thirteen sons, each
a genius in his way.
That in his way struck me as very
fuuny, for out of the thirteen in prospect
one might have a genius for picking pock-
cts another for embezzing and another
for making patent medicines, while the
ability Of the last Of the lot might show
It's II in writing UP prlzehghts for the news
papers. l have an abnormal curiosity, so
/ offered 81 more 10 be given photograph
OF the father of those boys. At first the
child Of destiny" demurred and wanted 81,
put J said he was only worth 81 to me, and
declined 10 give more. So she rang a
bell. and the "moke" entered. After much
Whispering she was told to bring a certain
box from which was extracted dreadful
picture of Richard Mansfield.
looked at it closely and then al her and
told her | would give her 81 more if she
would give me his name. She