The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-26

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We'll. Jane. my dear" he said, In cheer
full mood as he fixed himself in a comfort
able chair, you listen and TN tell you the
whole situation TO dot. The first man
met when I left here was the day police
man on this beat wearing citizens clothes
and when 1 asked him what he was out
that way for, he told me he had struck "a
hundred thousand dollars in cold cash and
could wear any kind OF clothes now that
he pleased. He had resigned, of course,
My newsboy was with him, and he had al
so had the same luck. and asked me
where I thought he could buy an opera
house. Farther down town I found some
stores open and their proprietors were
holding the fort all to themselves. They
explained that their clerks had notified
them that as they had each received q
hundred thousand dollars they could not
come 10 the store any more, but would be
glad to give them their trade. As the own
ers had had the same luck. they were TAX
ing things cheerluliy. l met the president
OF the street car company. who said that
all their employees had notified them that
they had an easier job and wouldn't both
er with the street cars any more. 1t was
the same with the letter carriers and with
the messenger boys and everybody else.
The newspapers had been printed al right
because the men who got them out aid not
know of their good luck until they reached
their homes. But they had sent word down
by their children or friends that they
would not return to work. But the papers
might as well not have been printed. be-
cause the newsboys would not sell them,
the expressman would not deliver them,
and the trains would not carry them. All
hands had received a hundred thousand
dollars apiece aud who would work when
he had that much money?
"All the telephone exchanges are
closed" he went on; "all the messenger
boys have retired TO enjoy their wealth;
there are no telegraph operators at work,
no trains running for engineers and con-
ductors and brakemen and firemen with
500 600 in pocket can afford 10 leave their
work and take a much needed rest. All
the restaurants are closed because cooks
and walters and dishwashers have gone off
20 enjoy their money; the hotels are help
less because nobody but the landlords and
guests remain, and even those landlords
who do not preside over their own hotels,
have quit their houses and are out to
have a good time a s gentlemen of elegant
leisure and extensive Acquaintance. The
steamers will not sail from their docks
to-day. nor tomorrow, for there is no
force to man them; no goods are deliver
ed, for every hard-working teamster and
stevedore and dock hand Is a rich man
now, and doesn't have to earn his bread
by the sweat of his brow, or of any other
part of his person; all the building in town
has stopped, and contracts are at end;
all the laborers on the streets have quit
work and are looking for places where
they can spend the summer; there is not
a cab or carriage to be had for love or
money, and the poor horses are likely TO
starve in their stalls, for coachmen and
hosters are too rich 90 work at such
mental labor; the theaters not already
closed for the summer are done now, be-
cause for once the actors and actresses
have money enough to burn and they have
quit playing and started the fires; the mu-
sic halls are SOIL: the saloons are closed
tighter than the temperance people or
the police could ever close them, for there
is nobody to mix the festive drink or
serve the simple straight; the factories
have shut down; the tramp has quit
tramping; the undertaken has shut up
shop, for he no longer has to bury the
dead of others in order TO make his own
living; there won't be any baseball this
afternoon; the races are Off for the jock
eys don't have to ride for their dollars:
the schools won't keep any more, for
| teachers can live without teaching; the
churches have put up their shutters, be-
! cause preachers can render greater ser
vice with their money; and there's moth
| ing on EARTH Jane for US to do but tc
send for the children to come home from
| the seminary and college, right away
and we'll go off somewhere and enjoy our
selves as the rich always do It's a fine
thing, this having money and being per-
fectly Independent, isn't it?''
Mr.. Tankerton rose and walked IN and
down the narrow apartment, looking upon
his environments with large and increas-
ing contempt
Mrs Tankerman was thoughtful
John" she said with that deep insight
into the problematical that only a wo-
mans intuition can fathom. how are
the children going TO get home IL we do
send for them2 Walk? And how are we
going to send for them? win you carry
the message? It is $50 miles to where they
are, John"
For an instant the conditions incidental
to universal wealth thrust themselves un-
pleasantly upon Mr.. Tankerman. He had
never before been brought face to face
with them, and now as he met them for
the first time and began to realize what
they really were. he made a violent effort
to be calm. He stopped walking up and
down, and stood looking gravely at his
wife. The possession of wealth had be-
gun to exert its influence. A new
thought had swept in upon him on the
wave of a strange emotion. The John
Tankerman of to-day was rich man as
compared with the John Tankerman OF
yesterday, but what were the Tanker
man thousands to the millions of other
people not a whit better than the Tank
ermans were.
MY dear" he said when the thought
permitted speech. "Ill tell you what. la
Dor Is capital now. You do the cooking,
housekeeping and ironing, and I'll go and
hire out to do anything, and we'll be mill
Ilonaires before the summers over. Then
wen be somebody as is somebody Whats
paltry $100.OOo?'
Thus soon had the possession OF enough
developed the desire for more.
LEMONS AS MEDICINE.