The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-26

into Sousa's marches. For an encore she
sang French song, and, as her auditors
continued TO applaud, she recited The
Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
depate upon our immigration laws
came next on the progra. mme, and noied
sOcIo4oSlst TOOK the floor and SPOKE Wig
ofousIy against letting foreigners into
America all. second speaker reinforc-
ca her Then another and another forow-
eu' and a climax was reached when a
woman doctor made a motion that no for
elgners be allowed to come into The coun-
Try tor tvs nty-hv's years Then Mss Nico-
lar rose and said:
Ladles' believe I am the only real
american IN the room. / think YOU are
very narrow and selfish. If the rules YOU
argue Tor had been laid down two centu-
res ana hat ago, You would not any of
you De here. i think you aliens ought to
ieel sympathy for these later immi-
grants"
The motion was tabled indefinitely.
Like everything else in this matter of
tact age, says the New York Tribune.
love IS rapidly becoming eminently prac-
ticaL IL is obviously true that men no
longer "fall' in love as they used to.
Inc youth of to-day walks Warily and
carefully into the land of sentiment. mi
nutely scrutipizing the adjacent surround
ings and weighing the comparative adj
Vantases of the different paths that he
may choose from. When, therefore. we
near among our associates of a case Ike
the following. il seems quite medieval
in its romance
several years ago a young physician who
ha9 graduated with honOrs from the med
lcaI college and won golden encomiums
from his chiefs at the hospital where he
had taken service, thought he would COM
pihe business with pleasure by selecting
some seaside resort for his summer out
ing, where he could hang up his single
ana practice his profession, while enjoy
ing some social pleasure After due de-
liberation he chose a well-known village
on the coast of Maine, where for two
successive seasons his popularity caused
MN to he in constant demand both pro-
fessionaly and socially
The second year of his sojourn a family
from one of the Western states leased
one of the principal cottages of the place.
and as the household comprised several
daughters, whose ages ran from 10 to 20,
they Immediately became important mem
bers of the summer colony. Before many
weeks the attentions of "the DOCTOR to
the second daughter became so marked
that they We're reported on every side TO
be engaged. That he was head over ears
IN love was obvious, and that the young
woman accepted his attentions with evil
dent pleasure was equally apparent, so.
although the family laughed when ques-
toned on the subject, and said it was
only ''Emily's way" it was universally
conceded that there was at least a mu-
tual understanding.
No one was more convinced of his good
luck than the doctor himself He no
more doubted the young woman's faith
than he did his own, and his simple, hon
est nature never for one moment conceiv-
ed the idea that he was being firted with
for a summers Dastime.
AT the season waned, however. the mail
den grew colder, until al last when press
ed for an explanation by her admirer. she
confessed that she had been engaged for
a year to an officer in the navy. and that
she expected to be married before Christ
mas.
That DR.. S. had taken down his name
from the cottage door, where he had been
boarding, and had left rather suddenly.
without saying goodby to any of his
friends and patients, rather surprised the
little community but as the summer was
practically over, and goodbyes were the
order of the day, the affair excited little
comment, and it was not a couple of years
later that his quondam associates heard
of the sequel of a summer girls flirta-
ton.
1t is a far cry, and a sad one, from the
gay little New England watering place to
the island of Molokai where the most
hopelessly miserable community In the
world appeals to the pity of the universe.
1t was to the leper settlement of Kalau-
papa, 1.-The living tomb" as it, has been
appropriately called that our poor young
Esculapius carried his wounded heart the
world forgetting and by the world forgot,
giving up his life in a hopelessly heroic
struggle with incurable disease and mis-
cry far more despairing than his own-alI
for the sake of "A rag and bone, and
hank of hair" which he clothed with the
attributes of a goddess.
If I had the regulating of society
which praise be l have not-I would es-
tablish a strict time limit on courtship,
and a man would either have to put up
or shut up, says Dorothy Dix in the New