The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

were as well pleased with him as he was
with them"
What did You do. doctor?''
oh just discussed things II was, as
| say, a most interesting collection of
liars. Everybody carried some treasures
about with him The stories told some
times were more amusing than profitable.
There was an old col in the place which
REID rugged in one day, and il used to be
the custom to hide things In that cot.
doh't know how il happened, that no one
ever stole the treasures which he found
there
Willard, you know. had charge of the
corner and one day a funny thing hap
pened. But before that let me say none
OF US was rich. They all wanted to have
the things they saw and suppose often
we broke The commandment which for
BIDS US TO covet. For instance there was
no nope OF our ever getting a treasure if
FRANCIS Wilson found il and wanted It,
lie was making plenty of money. and he
knew what 1t was good to have. One
Gay man came in there and looked
around and piled up more than twenty of
the books and manuscripts which we had
al admired and desired. Then he said 20
MIllard: Send these, with a bill. to the
Auditorium Annex
What nance asked Millard
Sinner.
Milard almost went through the floor
Ben Gable was another desirable mem
Der So was DR.. Stryker. He was bitten.
remember with the scheme of illustrate
ing And l. suppose If he had not been
made college president he would have
produced Thompson Seasons in thirty
volumes 'hnt9
Bristol was the most daring of the lot
lie certainly collected a great many de-
sirable things. l remember one time a
Ieliow came In there with a copy of Burns
lt mad been owned by George Washing
ton and had been carefully read and
marked by him. We all wanted to get
the book, and 1 think Bristol would have
carried it away. but that Francis wilson
came IN and found 1t. We never saw it
again.
Another thing / think of just now was
tield's rhyme by which he saved a book
which he greatly coveted. He could not
buy 1t, and he wrote this on the fy leaf:
GUIDE friend, for Iesus sake forbeare
To buy ye booke thou seest here;
for nave gone to earne the pelf
meane to buy We booke myself
Field, you know. was student Of the
classics And he translated many things
IN the most ridiculous and amusing way
one time he brought in a translation OF
OVID. Some of the Sinners must have
told about 1t, for not long afterward Mil
lard showed us q cartoon which some of
your clever newspaper artists had made
II represented Mr.. Gladstone reading
Fields translation, and | know | wrote
something Of that sort in red ink under
the picture. 1 fancy that cartoon was
burned with the rest of the Corner.
Harry B. Smith used to come there n
great deal He was an acceptable Sinner
Oh, there were scores of others. | can
not now think of half their names. The
interesting thing was that we found de-
lightful companionship and reveled in the
books and manuscripts If we could not
buy them and take them home, we could
at least read them and talk about them
And we could tell each other about the
desirable things that we saw in our trav-
els. II was always a great day when some
one could bring In a gem that he had
picked up in the wilds of Nebraska or
something Of that sort"
There never will be another Saints and
Sinners Corner. These things take years
for growth. Such a place means more
than money, and the assembling of the
men who made this corner at McClurg's
so notable never will get together again
Field is dead. Bristol has gone to Wash
ington. DR. Stryker is no longer in Chit
cago. DR.. Gunsaulus is fearfully b,Tsv
with other cares and interests. The old
CorDer were possible the associations
which made the old one famous could
scarcely again be realized.