The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-28

surroundings; for men, gentlemen, are as
initiative as monkeys in their way, and
there Is nothing, perhaps, In the abstract.
that men crave for more than example /
declare to you, men viii do the thing they
hate most-be good for the pleasure of
following an example.
But then there are women. Yes, and
unfortunately there was a woman in Van
looks show She was a tight-rope dan
Ger, a Nile. Catanet. A blameless young
woman, who danced on tight-rope ana
awaited developments: ana cast her eyes
upon eros Jean. He received forty francs
a week, she thirty; and as she danced on
her tight rope, she determined 10 marry
her thirty francs to his forty francs, and
she did il.
1T seems that she was one of those ter
rible women who are without heart aud
without brain, who roam the world armed
with the five senses, as eros Jean once
roamed the forests armed with spears.
Marriage with most women Is Il o'c'ocf.
II is the turning-point Of the day and with
Mademoiselle Catanet a heralded a stormy
afternoon. She developed with terrlb o
rapidly in her new freedom, she drank.
she was unfaithful to her husband and
she beat hin she beat him. this tiger with
hled teeth. and he. he prayed for her. and
when she struck him on one cheek h
turned the other
His Influence began to wane, the lions
aud tigers remained faithful 20 their az
lection for him, but the men Of the show
made him lutt for their joSes-you can
imagine.
Two months ago the show came 10
Paris for the Gingerbread Fair; six weeks
ago Gros Jean developed alarming head
aches and q sqUnt.
He was taken TO the Hotel Dleu. where
De Guiot ncphined over the old wound
and raised portion of the inner table
Of the skull that had been pressing on the
brain for five years. II had been pressing
so ever since the day Won Bulow and
Count NJ found our man In The Affi-
can forest and might have continued so
harinlessly to the end of the chapter but
for the worry caused to the man by his
wife.
DE Guiot's operation removed the pres.
sure. and. IL seems. released the inpris-
oped memories of Old days in Congo'and
At least we may believe that the saw
age came back and compared notes with
the civilized man, for the nurses say that.
as he lay in his cot, he spoke to himself
in a strange language They noticed IN
other thing about hm-he was continual
~ licking his lips.
"He had not forgotten his French. how
ever, and he had not forgotten his wife.
for the day on which he was discharged
cured, from the Hotel Dieu, he took
1acre 10 the Gingerbread Fair, found Van
looks show, and asked the watchnan for
his wife. II was the dinner hour, and The
Waterman informed him that his wife
was in one of the booths at dinner with
Bimbi, the clown Gros Jean thanked him
and went 10 seek her. but first, II seems.
he sought and found and hid beneath his
coat the l2-pound meat-chopper used COR
chopping the tigers meat
THE Waterman saw him enter the
booth. The woman was carving a fowl;
Bimbi sat opposite TO her with the flour
still upon his face. His face, gentlemen.
was found aflerward under the table A.
eros Jean entered. the clown and the wo-
man greeted him with a shrek of laugh
ter and the woman cast him a mutton
bone and babe him take it and gnaw II
outside
"Gros Jean entered, and, closing the
door behind him. bolted IT, That is an
gentlemen. II required twenty men 20
take him, pnd he received this wound
over the heart in the struggle; but YOU
have doubtless read the story IN the pa
pers.
after ALL the question Is a social one;
was the treatment of this woman by the
Christian or the savage most to be c5m-
mended2 One allowed her to destroy him.
the other allowed himself TO destroy her.
In my opinion, reasonNand justice are on
the side Of the savage. Light up there"
The arc lamps blazed out, and Lesuer
donned an apron and sleeves.