The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-17

5,rd are counted-have decided TO
.5 Mace we viii HE Il rather like that
-sfon. &c sounds as if l had inten>
,ovard the STAGE. Really. we think
t.. IDEAL place is reached. II as a farm
..r a lot Of room outdoors and not too
, in. Consequently, the supply of
lenders is limited. The landlady has
cams IDEAS tending toward civilization
SIM. there is a bath tub, and she can
,.,rizs. unlike the average landlady, that
,,s of fastidious tastes prefer when
t.sr4 as only one tub in the house to have
HI, ..rmateIy acquainted with the scrub
hing brush and some soda and hot water
,.- In a while. l once went to a farm
house in the really rightly" country where
r,s.d TO help with the tea things, assist
+ ..7slrps" to chase the mice in the barn
and reach the girls in the family how TO
..r their skirts after the latest new fash
Sam buf woe is me! The mouse no longer
fears me. for when I start to run a twinge
nj rheumatism announces to him that
ora9bed youth and rheumatism cannot
run after him with success, though they
do sometimes.
However. to return to the present,
which. when one has passed p, is always
peasanter than the past, we are here.
Like the detective in the melodrama who
always pops up and saves the heroine,
Owe have came" How we will like it
remains to be seen. This morning, when 1
felt a little poorly and one shutter would
Snake. our courteous landlady fetched a
to Ia
shutter who, seeing me arrayed as most
people are who are in bed, gave me no
opportunity TO say anything, but an
nouuced that he had daughters of his own
and I needn't apologize. He little knew
that / had no intention of doing this, for
had put on a matinee Jacket with pink
ribbons especially for his benefit. At first
did not understand exactly why he look
ed at me with what seemed a measuring
eve He appeared to be taking me in by
inches.
Then think of It'll 1 learned that this
shutter fixing person was the village I'M
dertaker, and he was staring at me with
an eye to business. But am glad to know
that gentle and genial as he was, he will
never make anything off me, for when l
bid goodbye TO this gay and festive world
] shall depart in plain pine box. / want
nobody to look at me- and want TO be
taken TO my grave in a wagon and have
q
the funeral.
Have you ever seen what call a genteel
poor funeral? They feel as nobody else
does that htey must go into debt and suf-
fer for months in order to give what they
call "a proper funeral to their dead. 1t
consists in spending money on an expen-
siye Casket and having a frightful look
ing hearse with waving plumes upon it and
long line of carriages 10 bring up the
rear as an expression of their grief Why
should you and l, my friend when We can
no longer protest have strangers stare at
US and comment on us? Why should any
but loving hands touch you or me, and
why should the living be made to suffer
py giving TO the dead the money which is
SO badly needed? I tell you, my friend.
IS all wrong, all wrong.
but We Will drop that now and talk
eoout going to the country. When we
started out we were a procession. There
were an the rest of them, and then l came
with the Two dogs bowling with delight
because they were going to ride in a bag
gage car and be made much of, while a
!ouus man who has a weakness for me
carried the canary, chipping ats shrllest
because It realized it was going where il
Cau De m the sunshine all day long and
1aH sum the very sweetest of flowers
men mere were a couple of men who an
nouuced that they wouldn't carry a thing
pu' VINO staggered under a dress suit case
Vo"dlhlh2 something which was forgot
"u unii the last moment while some
99uS else had a box of candy, a pound of
n"e YEA ana three umbrellas and a storm
taS ' "Hloh we forgot to put up but they
i'h 10 go, so they went. Aud when we
so' mere, there was a large wagon to
o.t u.s. ana we looked as if we had Just
tH'u from the old country and we went
a'l,s metaphorically) sitting on our
nos me two dogs turned up their
1[ay, as tnis, so one sat in my lap, while
No'F neld the other one. who would in
OIL trying 10 catch flies.
mere are times when a puppv cheerful
IN may De, is somewhat in the way
0'i arrival this truth was proved
,"' l"o small fox terriers got into
n '-, WIN large collie, and much to
rnrt.l wv OF our small boy, it was inter
me collie was tied up in the sta
op,siI- '.' me Two pups went out, sat iust
Coz H, ana he walled as if there were
ur,3 90 ne death in the neighborhood
all 0 i1rlner united him, and then ths.v
frs@I ana shook paws and were good
and .. ne average dog is very peculiar
Inn. t' rather eat some dirty old
re covered with cold fat and fished ouf
cutie than nice piece of chick
IsosI emma plate. To return TO the two
,e'5. ian can be expected. we are now
opd ana we sit out on the veranda
ard INDUSTRIOUS beyond EXPRESSION
I'o lounse ia hammocks and read t or 20
tbal 'lt We take life easily, and find
yord'1 IN flesh by doing so. We have
ers E. discussions. in which the farm
and Ter JOINS, running in every now
mgg. Ken rom the kitchen, where She IS
vH. merry pies, to give her opinion,
IT, Us moi a fowery. but a fioury. one.
St.,, aye discussed the war, killed the
sso own the world. having long
T,., assessed the flesh and the devil
tN ONE down to clothes, ana the
N.. u'ushter who is a pretty girl,
tr. very sood idea as to The correct
D." rocks and other things, said.
".a 'en the last look at the pies,
SUI l. SHOW never can get veil 20
ira who came with US and who
c.r e"e of the best dressed in the
ro.i -Nnsy and answered, You are
r.-. 9tH one-dear, nor Then the far
p..-..... 'I7H,el, whose name is Bessy
t. 'Lat suggest clover and good
"l,. Eau ana dimpled cheeks?), said: