The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17

! Where Scudding clouds and wlntry winds
! Go sweeping by;
| A woman with Il crown of years
On silVered hair
And faded cheek, where youths fair bloom
Once fingered there
| Besides the hearhstone knits and rocks,
While someone near
Bends low his whitened head and says.
Il love you, dear"
-Inez May Felt. in Boston Transcript.
An old Virginia gentleman arose in
car the other day, says Leslles Weekly,
and with a great flourish of his SLOUGH
! hat, offered his seat to a beautiful and
handsomeiy-dressed woman.
Take my seat, madam" he politely
| requested The lady demurred. Take
my seat I beg of you, madam" he in
sisted Il could not allow a lady to stand,
! unless" he added under his breath, she
was one of those women's rights people"
The lady bristled vislbly. IT," she said
in a freezing tone, Il am 'woman's
| rights person.
Take my seat, just the same. madam"
said the gallant old gentleman, smilingly;
| you are too good-looking 20 be suspect
ed Of it if you hadn't confessed"
Would that some occult perception
might be given US so that we could recog-
nize an opportunity when it comes TO us
| III the BulSe Oh some simple everyday OC-
| currence. For instance says the New
ork Tribune. we might be taking a walk,
! and hesitate whether TO take
trolley or an omnibus home
without any apparent motive we
might decide on the trolley, accidentally
meet some one, and that chance meeting
! might be the pivot on which some adj
vanta geous circumstance might hinge.
| Now, if we had taken the omnibus, all
| THAI would have been missed
IAN odd thing happened to-day" re-
marked a business man to his wife re-
| Gently. II wanted to get hold of Mr.. Mi
| das to make some representations to him
| in regard to a certain property in which
| he is interested l did not want 20 go to
see him, as men of his position are gener-
| ally on the defensive when attacked di-
| rect, and ] was cudgelling my brains in
| the elevated how to bring about a pre-
! sumably chance meeting, when I looked
up and saw him in the same car with me.
| l walked over, took the empty seat near
! him, and after a little ordinary CONVEX
/ sation, deXterously led the subject up to
| the transactions I ed to bring about,
/ and before we reached City Hall had OBJ
/ aimed his consent to do what 1 wanted.
| Now, if I had stopped to give you that
| money you asked me for this morning
when I was leaving the house. would
! have missed that train, and might have
/ lost thereby thousands of dollars"
| Whether marriages are made in heaven,
| as some assert or are altogether of the
earth, earthly, no one can say, but that
| they often depend on the mereSt chance
is undeniable. A meeting that might just
as well have not happened, accidental
! propnquity that has been brought about
| by the merest hap-hazard, mutual attrac-
| ton that is developed by some incidental
happening, all are the factors THAI gener-
ally change a destiny, and yet we can
| TO WI Is s
| mott A well known author asserts that
| If we could only understand the laws of
crises we might be better able to regu-
late our actions-that from time 20 time
our lives eliminate to a crisis and that
| nothing done at that time is important.
Then the crisis bursts and we begin
| again, rapidly or slowly as the case may
be- to eliminate 70 another crisis. These
critical periods, according to the writer,
occur with nations and with individuals,
but, alas, he does not give us the key to
reveal the mystery of such chances, and
we have no choice but to remain in ig-
norance Of our opportunities.
several years ago" said New Orleans
lawyer, chatting about queer experiences
in his profession "a women died In New
Orleans" says the Times-Democrat. VINO
to my certain knowledge had made at least
twenty-five different wills. OF course, there
are people in the world who have mania
for will-making Just as there are manias
In other directions. but there was dis
tinct method in this woman's Madness
She made her numerous wills for the de-
uberate purpose of exciting cupidity and
then profiting by IT, and if the true story
of the curious complications growing out
of that policy could be written 1t wonld
form an astonishing chronicle Of greed and
duplicity.
ITO begin with. she had a couple of
pieces of improved property worm per
hanps $4,000 and a lot of personal belong-
iugs. which were mere junk and rubbish,
but which she valued at a fabulous hgure.
Between the two she was reputed to be
worth from $4,000 to 100000, and there was
much jealousy as to prospective succession
among a lot Of distant relatives.
THE old womans plan was 10 take up
her quarters with some particular set OF
her kin and make a will in their favor
Needless to say, she would be treated with
every consideration, but she was very
irascible, and invariably got INTO quar-
rel in the course Of a few months ana
moved somewhere else, where the same
programme was repeated She spent years
in nigratious of that sort, going the
rounds of her relatives several times ana
camping temporarily with numerous per
sonal friends. When she finally died II
was found that her last authenuc WIN zen
fhe, coveted property to a niece who mad
eboUn her scarcely any attention at all,
ana the wall of rage and disappointment
mat rose was something simply terrific
I dare saw she engendered more family
bitterness ,-ran she was alive, precipitated
more rov I'd was instrumental in caus-
ing IF number of people TO stop
speakir hen they passed by than any
other person In the parish.
Young woman saws the New YORK
Times, who lives in a suburban town and
is something Of a good Samaritan TO
dogs is continually being rescued from
them BY k nd hearted strangers who mis-
IN erstand The conditions The young
woman is the happy possessor or set
ter dog of her own, which accompanies
her on her walks and frequently a big
black Newfoundland b longing o neigh
bor goes with them. The owners OF the
ne ghtor dog have not the love for ami
mails which makes them enjoy such
company, and their dog is never allowed
10 take tramrs with them. This is where
the Young woman acts the good Samari-
tar. rhough wi hout any trouble 10 her
self It is a pleasure to her to have deg
escort The neighbor dog greatly appre-
ciates the trips with his friend the set
Ter and tn tiers mistress, but there
IS one thing TO which he seriously OBJ
iects. and that Is shopping. 1t is mas
culine objection which seems 70 be In
herent in all male animals human ana
otrerwise The dog animal does not put
I'D with Il al patiently as the human an