The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-29
Copyright, 1898.


in my veins At one time I even belong
oil TO Il peace society, and I should stili
ra a member; but, alas for me-or for
then,-they raised the fees, and I. not hav-
in. had much fun in peace for nothing,
concluded there would be even less in pay
ing for it. You see, there was little trou-
ble about me when l made my original
how into the world. I came just at the
end of the war, and my maternal parent
has a fashion of referring to me as "a
peace child" which means that l was de-
prfved of all pleasure, as far as fighting
was concerned, and that I never knew the
delights, except by hearsay of being as
defiant and bitter and as altogether war
like as only woman can be. 1t is hard
not to have been born either in 1872 or 1860.
In days gone by l have listened to war
stories from men and women who We're
some black, some white. The one who
told the most interesting story gained my
ear. color having no influence. Then, too,
1 possess a hand organ that plays MARY
land MY Maryland" Dixie" and The
Bonnie Blue Flag" and whenever / have
felt weakening toward the land we live
in | have literally ground myself into a
noble state of patriotic feeling. But now
now l hang out of a window in my dress
inc gown and wildly cheer at regiments
that have gone to seek victory or-nO
there is no or" about it. They have gone
to seek victory, and they mean 10 have it.
We mayn't have the clear hidalgo blood
ir Us, but we have got such a splendid
mix ture of good fighting material, coming
in a direct line from the Kings of Ireland
the fine middle class of England and the
oil Of
whom make native Americans, that 1 do
believe, with Sousa leading the band, we
coul5 lick any nation except-wen, no. 1
won't except England, because she is so
fond of US just now that rather than see
us in trouble she would step forward with
Tommy Atkins and all her wonderful ships
10y ner sidei and we would have an Anglo
American alliance that would own the
earth and the fulness thereof.
When women are patriotic they are in
tensely So There is nothing in the way Of
a middle course about them Just now
they are wearing red, white and blue belts
red, white and blue ribbons on their hats,
and have heard-Whisper it gently!-that
one fearless creature wears a red, white
and blue garter, with badger" stuck
through it in such a way that more harm
can come to her and less, l think, to the
Spanish spy for whom it is intended, since
in a moment of excitement and consider
ing the difficulty of raising a ruffied skirt
she might mistake the handle for the
point. Another girl who loved her coun-
try with all her heart endured agonies of
pain for which mustard plaster was of
no use, and she suffered and was strong
rather than have Spanish flies put on
her, and so it goes. In fashionable res
taurauts Spanish mackeral are never,
eaten, while in all of the comic operas the
Spanish dances are entirely omitted.
But, testing aside hasn't il been lovely
how the North and the South have
met together and how appreciative the
men in power have been of our splendid
Southern fighters. Why, when the bio
graph shows a picture of Fitzhugh Lee
and the orchestra plays Dixie" women
bang their umbrellas on the floor because
that makes more noise than clapping,
small boys yell "Hurrahr' and the men
why, the men join in the song and applaud
the distinguished gentleman who may oc-
cupy any position that the United States
can give him provided he wishes it. The
Lees are gentlemen, and it takes a gen.
tleman to be a fighter even if he is only
gentleman of one generation and cannot
write his own name. But how sturdy the
Lees have been! They fought for the colo
MES in the war of independence, they
fought for what they believed was right in
the civil war, and now their great repre-
sentative offers his hand to fight with and
to greet his brave brothers, whether they
come from Maine, Oregon, New Y ork or
Texas.
But TO return to the present war. Did
the Spaniard ever attract you? To me
he always seemed like colored icing on
pound cake. 1t looks pretty enough, but
everybody breaks it off before eating a
biG of the cake. They have always been
traitors and always brutes. Tenderness in
Spaniard is an Unknown quantity. At
ordinary times he is rated as a beast, in
war he IS a coward, and when you think
how he treats women and children what
name is bad enough for him? The war
to-day brings back TO me all the stories
that have beer told me of that last war;
when brother fought against brother and
friends became enemies In Baltimore, as
all the world knows, there was great
deal of strong feeling, but the city was
always held by the army in power some
very funny and some very sad stories are
told. The funniest l have heard was
about a young woman whose sweetheart
was in the Southern army. She hung
out of The window of her bed room, which
tronted Oh the street, what seemed to be
black flag and a black flag, as you
know means sedition. In a very few min
utes company of soldiers came TO the
house, rang the bell and asked for her
mother. Her mother knew nothing abouI
1t. The girl was brought down, looking
as innocent as a baby, and when she
vas Informed hat she was to be arrested
for daring to do such a thing, for dar-
ing 10 defy the authorities, she began
to laugh and said: "Why, captain, thai
is not a black flag! That is only my
grandmOther's shawl pinned on broom
suck and hung out 10 ar!" The cap
tain, being human, hid his twitching lips
behind his hand and then advised her
that in the future when her grandmoth-
ers black shawl needed airing it would
be best to hang it on a clothes line in
the back yard. And didn't that giri
laugh! And doesn't she tell that story
to-day 20 her own children, and yet-and
YET one of her boys was on the Maine!
Rut when a regiment was going through
the city in those days-ah, that meant
something, for it was a Company ofsSouth-
ern prisoners being taken to a Northern
prison! The law allowed anything in the
shape of something to eat to be handed
from the pavement to any soldier by any
person but speech was not permitted
hen The word came, my ola nanny
Who has told me OF this a hundred times
began to make big unfuls of coffee white
her assistant baked hot rolls, and the
mistress Of the house busted herself fixing