The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24


and was in the handwriting of my en-
ployer. Ii was aimed at a weakness OF
mine, I knew, and that had been IN
doubleday the cause of the grip syInp-
toms. / did not say anything, but l TOOK
the hint to heart, and I can say that l
never offended again in the same way"
When anything is lost in the sand on
the beach, says the New York Times, kind
friends and officious helpers of the owner
proceed to dig il out Of sight and lose II
forever as fast as possible. Occasionally
some one is found who is wise ana help-
ful. The some one of this story was
woman who assisted at the resurrection OF
"a valuable ring lost on a beach this sum
mer. Every one had begun 10 dig as
they should. according to all past prece
dents, but before il was too late the wise
woman appeared.
If you will stop digging I think you
can find r. she said but sit perfectly
stil and don't move. Now. l will draw
a circle around you
With her parasol she drew a line around
the party, where the ring hal heen lost,
making it large enough to take in the
ring. even if 1t had fallen at some dis
lance. In the meantime the i,eo ple in the
Circia were sitting perfectly quiet, rather
oypccting that the next thing would he
mysterious incantatons. But there was
rolhng of the kind
'how, send up to the house" said tia
woman, "and get shovel and sieve"
That was done, and the sand inside the
circle was carefully shoveled up and put
into the sieve and sifted outside the circle
and it was only a short time before the
ring was found
The match" story that was tod as
people We're giving "reminiscences after
the ring had been found was of another
ring lost by an Eastern business man. 1t
was a valuable ring, and he hunted high
and .oW for II, but without success. He
had been wearing it, and it was gone,
and he did not know when OF how. He
had had every conceivable place
searched and he had finally given up the
ring as lost That night the janilor of
the building in which the business man
had his office heard a strange story from
his wife, and saw a wonderful find that
she had made.
IT was a beautiful ring, and she had
come by it i'm a regular Arabian Nights
fashion. She had gone to the grocery 70
buy corn for dinner had picked out sew
era! good ears. brought them home, and
a short time before dinner sat down to
husk them when the ring dropped out.
We'll, if that isn't queer" said the
janitor. THAT is Mr.. Blanks ring, and
he has had me overhauling everything in
his office to-day to find it, and now you
have come across it in the corn
Yes" said a young man. as he threw
himself al the feet Of the pretty school
mis- tress. according to the Wichita Eagle.
Il love you, and would go to the world
end Tor you
You could not 60 to the end OF the word
for me- James. The world, or the earth,
as it is cailsd, is round ike ball slightly
fiattened at the poles One of the firsl les
sons in elementary geography sNdevoled to
nj o
studied it when you were a boy.
of course l did, but
And It is no longer a theory. Circum-
navigators have established the fact"
81 know but what ! meant Was that I
would do any hing o please you. An, Min
erva, if you knew the aching void
There is no such thing as a void James.
Nature abhors a vacuum But admitting
that there could be such a thing. how
could the void you speak of he a void II
there were an ache in it?"
Il meant TO say that my life viii be
lonely without you; that you are my dolly
thought and my nightly dream. I would go
| anywhere 10 be with you If you were in
Australia or at the North Pole, 1 would
tlyto you. p
= Fly! 1t VIII be another century before
| men can fly. Even when the laws of gray
| itation are successfully overcome, there
win still remain, says a Gate scientific au-
N'4CAAtS TIC uiiAACAlty Vi a IdI-
ance -
We'll, at all eventsp' exclaimed tie
youth, I've got pretty fair balance in
the bank, and want you 10 be my wife,
| Therew
"WeN, James, since you put it Ill tina.
| light" -
Curtain.
To the woman student of ethuology,
says the New York Tribune, who prefers
| 10 make the acquaintance of her sisters
| SO recently acquired by law, the little Fill
Pine village that has recently erected its
| picturesque thatched roofrrees at Glen
| Island offers opportunities close at hand
| Here surrounded by verilable Philippine
| gardens of riotous squashes, oleaginous
| castor bean plants and the vivid scarlet
| blossoms of the hibiscus, four little Fill
| pino sisters, with their husbands. brothers
| and babies, have set up their looms and
| hreplaces of pottery, and, unabashed by
| The crowds of specta Tors who flatten their
| noses at the pailnss which bar the en-
| frances to the tiny homes. have taken up
| their usual scheme of living
Accompanied by Prof. L. NJ Mccormick
: the naturalist and curator OF the nuselIn
az the island, the Tribune representative
was warmly received by the small brown
| hostesses. who stretched out slender hands
| Tor an American shake" and showed a
| g!eam of white teeth and a fash of dark
| eyes in a broad smile of welcome.
Il have tried" SAID the genial professor.
! 10 make this little village a genuine re-
| production of a real Filipino village. You
see, we have even The front wall of the
/ fort that Admiral Deweys guns knocked
down at Cavite. All the material for the
! village we brought with US. The looms.
as you see, represent the principal work of
the women.
THE Filipino women never do mems
work. You never see them working in the
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