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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

trat in their disputes and advises them
In their perplexities. He cheers the sick
by the honor of his visit, and. by lending
the luster of his presence and the dazzle
Of his discourse at wedding, wake and
spree, he does many another humble
friend proud.
When the American letter comes TO
those who were hungering for II at home,
though In turn every old croiniach in the
neighborhood has attacked il with his
scratched glasses and wrestied the fun
meaning from the inartistic sprawls Of
poor Jimmy, who scorns the finniclSy sub
tletiss OF punctuation, the missiye must
hnally be brought 10 the masther who, IL
IS universally conceded, can take more
out OF letter than all the wiseheads
In the parish put together. Moreover, he
can tell exactly how far back in the coun-
try Jimmy IS, whether he is in the neigh
borhood Of the Falls Of Niagara or che
Rocky Mountains, and, in terms, of the
distance between here and Dublin" can
say how far. approximately, Jimmy now
Is from Neil Mughan's eldest son John
His Task as scribe.
When, again, Jimmy has got 10 be re-
piled to. who so fit-even who so willing
to write the letter as the mas<her? Who
knows better than he just how to put
down in proper language the statement
Of Jimmy's mother? Who knows so well
not only Wnda 10 lei jimmy kuOW-lOr III
our letters TO those who are struggling
for US In America, repression and sup
preston call for more and DETER art than
expression. Jimmy must be shown a fair
ly accurate picture Of how his poor faith
er and mother are faring--he must get a
hint of the sore circumstances thar are
pressing, and Of the clouds that are loom
lffp-he must get hint of these or he
would reproach them sorely again; but
the poor boy must not be given to know
the.r misfortune in its nakedness-poor
Jimmy God help him, has his own strug-
gle all alone amongst the BLACK" i. e,
utter strangers, and tt would i'll become
his father and mother TO dampen his cour-
age and to make his heart grieye more
than already II does. So, despite all the
ring Of the letter must be CHEEKY, and the
coloring Of II optimistic. A sunny outlook
must Hume 1t, and the good Gods unfor-
getfulness of those who implicitly trust
In His must be emphasized. And right
well can the masther be trusted to do all
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

From the St Louis Globe Democrat.
The growth in the number of newspa pers
of the United States has been far greater
than that In population. In the year 1900
there were seventeen daily newspapers
and 200 weekies published i'm the United
States. while at the beginning of 1900 there
were 200 dai.ies and l5,6Si weeklies, with
many semi-weeklies and tri-weeklies. A
large proportion of these newspapers are
published In the Western states. The
ratio OF newspapers to inhabitants Is
larger in the West than 1t is in the East
or the South. Some OF the most widely
circulated and influential journals On the
country are found in the Mississippi VAL
ley. One or two Americans in California
started newspaper In that locality before
It became United states territory, and, of
course, as soon as the locality was an
neXed the number increased rapidly. This
civilizing and educating agency, the news
paper, has marched in the front Inc OF the
American advance in its conquest of the
continent
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

that he is truly and undisputedly king
in his own little low matched school
house; a house filter in size for twenty
pupils than for the hundred which often
crowd 1t. A motley hundred of all sizes,
from the babbling infant sent to school
to keep IL out of the way, to the mustach-
ed young man who has come in the idle
days of winter TO brush up his much neg
lected literary requirements before sail
ing for the state-where he is ambitious Of
being able 40 write his own letter home.
They are of both sexes and of all descrip-
tons. wear every variety of dress, and
are alike in one thing only-the amount
of noise they make For into the little
house each carries the pitch of voice he
, used on the hills. Every one shouts for
himself and tries to outshout his neigh
Dor. The only thing l have met with
elsewhere TO remind me of a little ma
tional school In the hills is the New York
Stock Exchange on a day of panic. The
most extraordinary thing is that the mas
ter can know that every one of his hum
| bred pupils is saying-what lesson this one
| Is committing to memory for each treats
his memory as If Il were hard of hearug)
what request that one is hurting at him,
what nicknames the next two are swap
| ping and what problem a fifth is confus-
| ing.
His young Confucians as he styles
| them collect at 10 o'clock, each with "a
1
| fire. under his arm. Some of them. in
I deed are at the school house and hava
! successfully brought off few pugilistic
encounters before the teacher himself ar .
| rives AZ $3.50, but these are they who live
( four or six miles off. and got up before
] the screek O. day and had their breakfast
| by the light of the fire. Others do not
arrive till just before roll coll at IL
! O'Clock; these are pupils. of course, who
! live within call of the school house and
! can easily afford TO take their leisure in
the morning. Most of them are bare
| footed. unless there Is much snow on the
ground. but when the weather Is good few
| burden their feet with unnecessary cover
\ ing.
The first duty of the day is the punish
| ment of the schemers who remained from
| school on yesterday, and, for instance.
| built up owen a-Dunnion's, filling every
door and window of the cottage with
| snow, and then added insult to injury by
getting on the roof top and satirizing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Owen down the chimney. A moral dis
course from the master, italicized by two
heavy slaps of rattan cane on each hand
OF each criminal. disposes of this.
Then six Glasses are formed. The mas
ter takes charge of one and leaves the
others under the guidance of forward pu-
pills from the higher ranks. Half the
classes sit and half of them stand; and at
the end of each half hour they exchange
positions. The school work goes on un-
interrupted by play, till o'clock. But
though there is no Officially recognized
play hour, the young rascals indulge in
many lessons not specifically provided for
in the school time table. The bunch of
budding heads which the master, good
man, believes TO be racking and wrestling
with the intricacies of fractions only in
dictate an eager audience to a fascinating
Fenian tale, and that other group that he
thinks are gathering grammatical crumbs
at the feet of Phelmy Owen McGragh,
are hardening, in awed establishment to
Phelimy's recital of how the big eel of
Loeb Pefste chased his father for five
miles over the hills. Phelimy's father, in
deed, had at first faced ii with the scythe
and cut it quite through, but since it
united again as fast as he cut it he finally
ran for self preservation, rather than cow
ardice; and other schemers are engaged
in the bloodlsss, but exciting war of fox
and-geese, in crossy-crowny, in playing
pins, or in the gamble of mammy-and-
daddy-c hild-or- baby.
The Old Hedge School Days.
In the old Hedge School days, which
ended half a century ago. land. indeed,
in still later times the master followed
the individual system of teaching; that is,
whilst the other pupils sat around the
walls assaulting their tasks" the master
called each in turn to his rostrum, ex-
III a.,d ofr,ts,
tasks" to be absorbed before the NOR
row, sent him to his place. He began with
number one at 10 o'clock and finished
with the last pupil at 8. Then he went
home with one of his students-for he was
entertained week by each. Where do
you stop" a Stranger asked one of these
peregrinating masters. Sir" he replied,
II have as many stops as a UNIVERSAL
"a Universal Spelling Book.'O
In those days spelling (Which was
taught according to the syllable method)
was the test of the scholar-and he was
classified according to the statute meas
ure of the words he could tackle and sue
cessfuily negotiate. The child who start
ed with a, b, alb. graduated upon Phila-
delphia and Authoritarian.
1t is something more than sixty years
since our benefcent rulers vouchsafed as a
system of public school education, called
national because our language, our litera-
ture and our history were strictly barred
from its curriculum. But, thank God, in a
few years more our Gaelic will after streu-
uous efforts, get its place in our schools.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
A TEXAS WONDER.


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more loving toward humanity at large
and more loved and more reverenced by
his circle of worshipers.
End. as with us, tbs in his own country
a prophet gets most honor. beyond the
bounds Of his own parish the masters
fame is eclipsed by that of him who wislds
the rule. and whose word is law in the
next parish. Consequently, when the men
of different parishes meet at a wake, not
infrequently do they wage a wordy war in
assertion of the claims of their respe ctive
masthers to signal pre-eminence among his
fellows.
Where the Master Is King.
But, after all, it is in his own little castle
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
THE CONTRITE
COWARD.
A Story of Decoration Day
by p. Y. BLACK.
ABEL went to war one day,
Dropped his gun and ran ava

The children cried after him the jingling
doggerel. Abel Tut went on his road and
would not look al them. nor seem to near
them. The insult was a very old one TO
his ears. These were not the first children
TO modest MIN in the village street, a. the
schools were dismissed. The parents OF
some of them had yelled at him years ago,
parents who were the first concoctOrs Of
the rhyme The elder brothers and sis
tiers of these present babes had chanted
it in their turn, and still the hooking words
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

better; and sends word to old Nanny
Gallagher that il she tried three spoon
fuls of buttermilk and baking soda three
times day it would be big ease to the
heartburn that's troubling her since
Christmas last
And when a great man conc rms himself
so with the hopes and troubles of com
mon people his small wonder he should
be made an idol.
But his kindliness does not stop at this
He Is scribe for all the countryside dwell
lers, writes their letters and draws up
their wills and their agreements, arbi-
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enough now to get away safe. Best stay
al home"
Abel went 10 war one day,
Dropped his gun and ran away"
rs that true?" the sergeant asked cold
ly, looking up and down the mans lank
form with sneer.
That's why want to join" said Abel
with pathetic appeal. II want chance
to wipe IL out. Can see the officer?"
mo good" the soldier answered, turn
ing sharply. THE Captain wouldn' t
speak to you. He never let's up on a
deserter."
Abel. with white face and down-look-
ing. shamed eyes, slipped away through
the jeering crowd and went back to his
farm. He sat there, silent and sorrow
ing, until long after dark. and then
sprang to his feet.
81 must gor he cried. 'T can bear it
no longer. 1t is my only chance-I must
co.
From many trasports the American SOL
diers poured into Cuba. The regulars and
volunteers, white and black, paused but a
little while and then plunged into the inte-
rior to do speedy battle. But besides there
were others to be landed. With shouts and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Vlcksburg, Miss. Jan. s, 1900
have used Halls Great Discovery for
bladder and kidney trouble and would
not take a thousand dollars for the bene-
fit received from using one bottle. l feel
that I am permanently cured. 1 make
this statement from a sense of duty that
1 owe to those likewise afflicted, and trust
that they will take advantage of the in
formation and realize the truth of my
assertion. G. H. Foster.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
THE master" and
The MOUNTAIN SCHOOL.
Seumas MacManus Tells How the Youth of
His Loved Donegal Are Educated

Is by
the and
Fight for the of Parish
House Is and wded,a
Are of Ages-Ho His Days Are occupie
Round" Par of the d Timesy
Pay OF Teacher
wright by seumaS MacM
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Mark Twain rs hard at work upon
another book. He does all his writing
before noon; gives the rest of the day
10 what he is pleased to cali "loafng,"
and corrects proofs in the evening.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Mrs. Plat, wife Of the New York
senator, is fond of old china, and during
her extensive travels abroad and az
home has gathered together one OF the
finest collections in Washington, wheEs
1t has many rivals but few EQUALS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
Abel went to war one day.
Dropped his gun and ran awayw

He was young when first he had been
called "coward''-a lad of eighteen. Now
he was stopped and grayer than some men
older than he, but his Woodworking life
in the open and almost necessitated alb
stentation from all revels had kept him
strong and active. He had suffered in soul,
but not in body. Now, when he was over
fifty, an old, familiar call came to 'his
solitude. call unheard for many years,
a call which rang out until every citizen
from the Atlantic to the Pacific heard it
the bugle call to arms. Abel heard in the
store and saw in the paper what had oc-
Cured, and he fell on his knees in his
lonely house and sobbed and prayed.
''If 1 am permitted another trial." he
cried, give me strength, oh Lord, give
me courage"
There was a recruiting station in a
large town not far from the village, and
there gathered many of the region who
desired to enlist for the war against
Spain. Thither went Abel Tut. telling no
man of his mission. A sergeant, selected
for the service because of his smart and
prosperous figure, stood at the door of the
offices. and to him Abel applied. Many
young fellows were hanging about, and
when the gray beard arrived his presence
occasioned curiosity and smiles. The SER
geant, however, was sufficiently cordial
in his mann.
1--WE come to list" said Abel straight
ening up.
II guess" said the sergeant. not un-
kindly, This war can be fixed without
calling on the veterans. The Doctors only
passing young men and hearty. How old
are you?"
"Fifty-odd
Grand Army?"
mo. sir"
Thought maybe you'd been in the Civil
War"
II was In the army"
well it's great 10 see the way you
veterans are eager 90 fight aga!n!" the
sergeant said. with an approving smile,
you shame lots of the young chaps. But
you old bands at the trade have had your
fill of glory, so don't grudge the new boys
their chance"
Glory" cried a voice in the little
crowd. and a youngster from Abers town
ship pushed forward with a loud laugh
GLORY! Him! Great Scott, but that's
good. It's Abel Tut, the deserter, who
would have been shot for running away II
President Lincoln hadn't pardoned him
when his mother went to him crying
Him want to enlist That's good. You
Amt as spry on your feet as you used
to be. Abel. You couldn't run fast
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were relished by the urchin mob. For
nearly thirty-four years the now gray
bearded and solltary man had been the
butt of his native township No girl had
in that time walked with him OF danced
with him, although he had been a straight
and handsome youth. nor had he been q
sharer in the sports of the young men. AS
he grew oder he was allowed no part in
the councils of the village. If he desired
to vote at a presidential election he did 1t
only by running the gauntlet of a thous-
and sneers. Manifestly, it seemed absurd
that a man who had deserted in the face
of his country's enemy should have a say
in the choice of hfS country's chief. He
was tabooed; he was ostracized; he was
outside the camp.
AS the lonely years passed by and
many of the soldiers who had fought
while he ran dropped out of life, his pun
| ishment became softened to great eX-
| tent. He lived 50 consistently apart, and
was so long suffering under torture and,
| also so many new and interesting events
happened. that people began to forget if
| they never forgaYe. For a large part of
| the year, therefore, Abel Tut could now
| come into the market place from his patch
| Of farm and be contemporary ignored.
| But one day of each year, even of those
| years Wnen d new was spring.
| ing up, his humiliation was freshened and
| complete his agony of shame peculiarly
| acute. This always happened on Decora-
| ton Day When the schools were closed
| end flags were displayed; when war SCARF
| ed veterans limped TO fife and drum, and
rosy cadets claimed their fathers cheers;
| when wreaths of laurel and the best loved
| flowers were piled on heroes graves, and
| the modest monument on the green was
| surrounded by the swaying crowd, who
| listened to the orators-then Abel hid him
self away. May and springtime were to
| h m no season for rejoicing, but a period
| of penance and remorse. Then the story
| of his shame was certain to be retold and
if he dared TO go abroad, his ears must
| hear the old refrain:
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enough now to get away safe. Best stay
at home"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Abel went 10 war one day,
Dropped his gun and ran awayw
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

But, after all, it is in his own little castle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-21
BRU TO BE PAROLED.
Will BE Given Chance TO suppo,
HIS Wife.

HIS Wife.
Rasmus Bru, the young farmer who.
formerly lived near Gilman. but at pres
ient resides near Laurel. will probably.
be given chance to support his wife
after his conviction a few days ago
of the nisdemeanor Of desertion after
seduction and marriage. Judge Burn
ham and County Attorney Stone are in
receipt of communication from Cow
ernor Shaw, in which the chief executive
states that II there are any who have
been convicted at the present term OF
court who, in the opinion of the court
and county attorney. would be better off
If paroled. he woulG issue such parole
upon recommendation of the court and
the county attorney.
Judge Burnham and County ATTORNEY
Stone have talked the matter over at
considerable length. and have conclud-
ed that Bru is not a criminal at heart,
and will recommerd his parole The con-
ditions of the parole are numerous, and
include the promise of industriousnes S
and spending his evenings at home. and
sBru has given his word that he will keep
the parole IL 1t is granted.
Bru Will probably be up With the 9th
ers who have been found gullty--Laskey
and Triplett--on Tuesday. at which time
he will be sentenced to one year in Jail.
a formal offer of the parole will then be
made and the terms accepted by the
prisoner. II the parole is not kept the
sentence will be in force at any time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-21
sssag les sst,gds spgt b. ,ano

morning. visiting Eddyville and Abba
today. and will be home on No. 8, at
s5:05 this evening.
The Peoria Herald Transcript OF Fri
day thinks II sees a preconceived mis-
sion in the meeting Of the general Of
fees there. and in its issue of Friday
says:
General Manager Clarke. OF the
Iowa Central, arrived in Peoria over
the Alton yesterday evening. and will
leave early this morning for Marshall
town. General Passenger Agent Batty
and Superintendent Huntington were
also in town. but refused to divulge
their mission. Mr., Clarke said 1T just
happened that the three met here at
the same time, and, while Mr.. Clarke's
sveracity is never once To bt. doubted
yet it would seem to the observer that
the Iowa gentlemen were here with a
purpose in view. Whether or not this
purpose is tosclose a deal for headquar-
tiers does not develop, but their coming
undoubtedly has something to do with
their prosposed removal from Mar
shalltown to Peoria !"
On board the Hawk Eye on the trip
from Chicago was young man, a
stenographer named Richards, of Nal
Tory & Co. Chicago, VINO will accom-
.pany the general manager to this city
this evening.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-21
ARE GOING III STYLE
Retail Grocers Of q arshalltown % r.
the Guests 81 the wholesalers.


the Guests OF :she Wholesalers.
The second annual convention Of the
Iowa state Retail Grocertf Association
and the Trans 6dississIppi Pure Food
Exposition. t0sbe held 81 Cedar Rapids
on the 23d 10 2Sth insts., Inclusive, are
to be attended by The grocers Of Mar
:shalltown in gtyle. The wholesale
grocers OF this. cit the Let's Fletcher
Company, Marshall town Grocery Com
.panys and the Spencer-Letts Coffee
Company--are to be the hosts of the
retailers and have chartered private
car for the use Of their guests. The
sgrocers will go Tuesday morning at
9:35. Round trip tickets are to be
furnished the retailers and they will
have the privilege of returning at any
time they see fit during the week. The
wholesalers have taken this means OF
showing their appreciation Of the city
trade of Marshalltown.
There is some talk of Marshalltown
inviting the 1900 convention to be held
here, but as the retailers here are not
we'll organized. it is doubtful IL any
great fight will be made. Waterloo is
the most active candidate in the field.