The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-04

All Of the girls bore up braVely until
when they were seated in the carriage and
the train having whstled, they must say
their final goodby All four of them then
burst into a shrieking cry. The tall man
turned away and bent his head The big,
rough young man turned away for a mo-
ment, then ne strobe back to the carriage
door, and with fierce look in his eye,
shaking his stick in the girls faces, said
with bitterness. "Ye ought to be asham-
cd Of yours svesr' Instantly he turned
away again, and the train went off with
the girls stil waiiing. AS from out the
carriage window / watched him i saw
him, base hypocrite that he was, rub MS
sleeve across his eyes.
Aboard the passenger steamers to-day
the treatment Of these emisrant boys and
girls is not yet everything it should be
rms Is more marked IN the case or girls
toward whom stewardesses unit to wipe
their boots are insolent and harsh. had
the exquisite pleasure once of seeing one
of these stewardesses get scathing re-
Duke That she only too richly merlted
She was a coarse Scotch woman who had
browbeaten the poor girls throughout the
voyage, particularly venting her spleen
upon those who were sick, because with
them she had most trouble. on the last
morning of the voyage l saw her wanton-
ly reprimand a poorly dressed young girl
who had persisted in going to the doctor s
office. The poor girl in the manner of a
quiet gentlewoman explained to her that
she had done no wrong. The stewardess
waXed more coarse and abusive because
she had dared to reply. and continued to
such an extent, gathering a crowd around
that at length the shy young girl raised
her head her face flushed and her eve
afire, and with a pride that was queenly
demanded: Glow dare you, madam. speak
to me like that? This is nv business and
I q,
attend to it, and do not have the inparti-
nence to open your lips to me again in
this ship" She said all this with such
scathing scorn that the woman shrank
within herself and skunk away. And I
walked away happy.
Tho r,o,1s s,,.,,l.,7 A., .,,. ...,uoor> ,,,-.,,,
gers were fairly GOOD en- Far &C o7,.1itv ana
quantity of the ingredients 20 but GER
tainly more cleanliness and more decencv
might easily be observed in the service.
Out of the hearts of these thousands of
poor emigrants poignant grief and refiec-
ton are, as they near the American
shores. crowded by the tov of anticipation
America is to them not only a land Of free
dom, but a land of prosperity and veal h.
and a land in which they will be able to do
for the loved ones at home chat which
through all their youth in poor Ireland
they had dreamed of; for all the young
boys and girls in Ireland look forward with
high hope and bounding heart TO that day
when they shall, in fhe land of the We t.
pluck the apples of gold that grew in the
gardens of their dreams, and revel in the
JOY of lifting the load that for years has
bent to earth their toiling fathers and sor-
rowing mothers. For to all of these emil
grants America is and always has been,
the land of golden hopes; they cannot real
ize the disappointments, failures, heart
burnings weary, weary toll and heart
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who have gone before have had to endure
again and again in the Promised Land.
Through the years of their youth the one
great and constant ambition Is to secure
their passage ticket to America, and they
take no thought TOT the morrow that must
Follow
To one who considers the childish, Joy
Gus optimism that inspires the Irish youth
whose ewes are bent on the states, and
having been here, realizes the circum-
stances and learns the trials and troubles
and the struggle that await his brethren,
the matter mas deeply palmetto SIDE.
True, Dennis McCalllog ana owen Gaia
gher, ana some others Whom might
reckon on my fingers, after ten years so
Journ in the states, have gone home with
a thousand dollars or Two thousand dol-
lars and bought farm and built house
and married a pretty girl and settled
down for the rest OF tleir lives, rich ana
prosperous men, but against Dennis and
against Owen l might count twenty who
never went back twenty who struggled
all alone here almost as sorely as they
had struggled at home in Ireland, and
are still, after ten and twelve and twenty
years, hoping and hoping to strike that
streak of good luck which Will enable
them to go back to Ireland wealthy men
and proud. Their path, alas! will never
cross this streak of luck; yet they will
wrestle on hopefully to the bitter end,
and far less happily than their struggling
protilei III IieI'iiu 10y 1Ile suo0ess "a 'Io
t"O % IN e0 -, .IH iuChS Uiit VIZ 10 .
soIe HoIile WIN 'leli MS1i'l .ne Soutn d
nome are ehtliu9eu WINE tney "lilu Ily
CIose lhelr EYES anu 'ileli lliliIus 70 tne
TACT that twenty hity' one huhureu Whoi ~
theE knew, ana whom Ihey sa" san Oh
IN the Idch ol tue "eStelh sun' nave hoe
returned because tney are sun III pursuit
OF lhCse elusive hopsS that oechoheu theih
away.
There come hither from Ireland also,
as indeed l suppose, from other coun-
tries, a small percentage of an unwelcome