The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-11

sex sTt received 10 message from their
loved ozes- They died iC barns IN
bushes IN bitches. TIE 5uzzards OF the
summer heat the only attendants on Their
Oasequies. No ore but the sudnits God
Wao knows everything knows The ten
taousardth part OF tire length. ard
breadth. and depth. and hight Of an
zlIsh % the Northern and Southern bat
t,edelds Why did these fathers leave
their chiIdreu ard go TO the front ard
Why did these young men postponing TIE
marriage day. start cut into the PROBABLE
ties o. never coming back2 For a princi-
uIe ttsy died. LIfe for life Blood for
blood Substitution.
But We reed not 90 50 far. What IS
that monument il the cemetery Il = 70
the doctors who fell in the Southern ep.-
5emics- WY go2 Were there n0t enough
sick TO b attended in these northern Isti-
tudes7 on. yes: but the doctor puts
few medical books in his valise, ard some
vLzis OF medicine. and leaves his patients
here in the hands OF o-aer physicians. and
takes me raiI-trail- Before he gets 70 the
infected regions he passes crowded ran
trains. regular AMI extra, taking fhe II.
ing and affrizhted populations He ar
rlves in z city over which a great horror
iz broodfng. He goes from 151-h 20 aoEIcI.
feeling the pulse and studying SYMPTOMS.
and prescribing day after day. Z gar s.fter
night. until a fellow physician says: Doe
tor. YOU had better 70 home ard rest. you
look miserable But ne cannot rest while
50 many are suffering On and on. until
some morning finds MIN in a deIirium, in
which he talks Of home, and then rises and
SAYS he must go and hook after those pa
tents. He is tod 10 iie down; bat he
fights MS ATTENDANTS until he falls back,
and Is weaker and weaker. and dies for
people with whom he had no kinzhiP. and
far away from his own family. AMI Is has
tily put away in a Strangers tomb ana only
the fifth Part Of a newspaper line tells Us
OF his sacrihcs-his name just mentioned
among FIVE Yet he has touched the furth-
est hight Of subimity in thar three weeks
OF humanitarian service. He goes straight
as an arrow TO TIE bosom % him VINO said:
4 was sick and ye visited ne" Life for
life. Blood for blood. Substitution!
IN the legal profession I see the same
principle OF self-sacrihce. In 1876 William
Freeman. a pauperized and idIotic negro.
was at Auburn. y. Z. on trial for murder.
He had slain the entire Van Nest family.
The foamfng wrath OF. the community
could Be kept of him only BY armed con-
sta 0es- Who would volunteer TO be his
ccunseI3 No attorney wanted to sacrifice
his popularity by such an ungratefui task.
All were aient save one. a young lawyer
with feeble voice that could hardly be
L-aEQ A@lSlJE tAe JAR I14E anu A44A-A anu
awkward Il was William II. Seward,
who saw that the prisoner was idiOtic and
irresponsible and ought 10 be put in an
sxyiuu- rather than put TO death, the
ssroic counsel uttering these beautiful
o-ds.
- speak row in the hearing OF a people
who haze prsiudged prisoner and con-
6sraHed me for pleading in his behalf.
He IS a convict. a pauper. a negro. with
49, H.. obi
with an effectiOnate smile disarms my
care-Worn face OF its frown whenever I
cross my threshold. The beggar in the
street obiiges me 70 give because he says
Cod bless your as I pass Ny dog ca
resses me with fondness II 1 viii but
smile on him. Ny horse recognizes me
when I I'll his manger. What reward,
what gratitude. what sympathy and affec-
ton can I expect here2 There the pris-
oner sits. Look al him. Look at the as
semblage around you. Listen to their i'll
suppressed censures and excited fears
and tell me where among my neighbors
or my fellow-men, where. even in his
heart. can expect TO find a sentiment
a thought. not TO say Of reward or of ac-
acknowledgement. or even Of recognition
Gentlemen you may think of this evi-
dence what you phase. bring In what YER
dict you can, but I asserverate before
heaven and YOU, that. to the best of my
knowledge and belief the prisoner at the
bar does not at this moment know why
il is that my shadow falls on you instead
OF his own"
The gallows got It's victim, but the post
norton examination OF the poor creature
showed 70 all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public were wrong and
| William II. Seward was fight, and that
hard. stony step OF oblOquy In the Auburn
/ court room was the first step OF the stairs
| OF fame up which he went TO the top or
/ TO within one step of the top, that last
/ denied him through the treachery of
| American politics. Nothing sublimer was
/ ever seen in an American court room
/ than William II. Seward, without reward
/ standing between the furious populace
/ and the loathsone imbecTe. Substitution!
In the realm OF the fine arts there was
+ as remarkable an instance A brilliant
I but hypercriticised painter, Joseph VIII
| Lam Turner, was met by a volley OF
abuse from all the art galleries of Eu-
| rope His paintings. which have since
/ won the applause Of all civilized nations
The Fifth Plague of Egypt" Fisher
| men on Lee Shore in Squally Weather. .
! Calais Pier. The Sun Rising Through
Mist" and dido Building Carthage. -
| were then targets for critics to shoot at
| In defense OF this outra geously abused
| man. young author OF a years. lust one
| year out OF college, came forth with his
| pen, and wrote the ablest and most IA
nous essay on art that the world ever
saw, or ever will see-John Ruskin's
Modern Painters" For seventeen years
this author fought the battles of the NAL.
treated artist, and after in poverty and
observation-disclosures. the painter had died
and the public tried TO undo their crueltbes
toward him by giving him a big funeral
and burial in ;. Pauls Cathedral his old.
time friend took out Of a tin box 10 90
pieces of paper containing drawings by
the old painter, and through many weary
and uncompensated months assorted anf
arranged them for public observation. PEG
pie say John Ruskin in his old davs is
cross, misanthrOpic, and morbid. What.
ever he may do that he ought not to do
and whatever he may say that he oupbl
not TO say between now and his death
he viii leave this world insolvent as "a,
as II has any capacity to paw this AN.
thor's pen for IT'S chivalric and Christian
defense Of a poor painters pencil. Jobr
Huskin for William Turner. Blood 10,
blood. Substitution
What an exalting principle this wbicl
leads one to suffer for another, Notbinr
so kindles enthusiasm or awakens elo-
| quence or chimes poetic canto or roo,-e.