The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-15
IN THE MORNING NEWS.
Things Seen in Its Columns and
Comments on Them.

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Gainesville, Fla, May 14-Much has
been written about women using the
feathers of song and plume birds as hat
and bonnet adornings, and the cruelty OF
the custom, but nothing I have heard of
yet equals the act Of a woman, mind you
a woman of a Florida city, who killed and
fed to her cat a nest OF young hooking
birds because, she said, when they were
grown they would eat her grapes. l be-
lieve, man that 1 am, I would as soon
think of piercing with a dagger the lungs
of an angel whose throat was swelling
with the Te Deum, Laudamus or the
Gloria in Exceisis, as soon think of
strangling the babe who was cooling out
it's first joyous taste of life in my arms.
Speaking of spiders, as the Morning
News was the other day, calls to mind
the amusement of one whom our hired
girl calls "wun OBJ desc hyar tuana peen-
ers frum Aplantur, Cory" While pass
ing a row of brick buildings a few days
ago saw him (Mr Clarke) strike his tun-
ing fork against a window casing and
then hold Ii near a spiders web. Instant
~ large ferocious booking spider darted
out and siezing the fork with his fuzzy
nippers tried to draw into his hole what
he thought to be a toothsome yet unwary
fly. 1t is hard to picture the look of dis
gust which spread over that spiders face
when he found his mistake. In every in
stance a spider would run out, clutch and
bite the hard, yet musical, fork. only to
retire with disappointment to the dark
recesses of his cable guarded den and
brood over the loss of meal.
Then, too, some one had something
to say in the same issue or the
Morning News about national airs
the New York Press 1t was, abe Press
strange to say, seems to like Maryland,
My Maryland" better even than John
Browns Body" 1t says the prettiest of
all popular songs Is Maryland, My Mary
land" but, it was composed by a South
ern sympathlzer during the Civil War. So.
after forty years. we find that we OF the
South were guilty of yet another grave
crime. One of Us spoiled for the use OF
the editor of the Press one of the prettiest
songs ever written. How unfortunate.
what savages we must bel How nearly
to death we must have scared those fell
lows up North during the sixties perhaps
we shall never know.
The editor of the Press says the words
OF Maryland, Ny Maryland" have been
warped to the Union side. Is warped
polite term used by the Press 20 take the
place of the coarser yet more expressive
word "yanked," in such universal use In
the land Of "culchaw."
Yankee Doodle" he says, Is only At to
march by Nobody sings II. We have
grown too English, doncher know Yet II
was the notes Of this inspiring air that
sent the Continentsls flying up the slopes
OF Breeds hill in the face Of the British
batteries, belchng besoms OF destruction
at them the while. At Monmouth. at
Lexington, at Yorktown, at cowpens. az
Kings Mountain at Ninety-Slx at Eutaw
Springs. at Guilford Court House. at
Camden, at Moultrle. In the Santee and
Congaree swamps Il animated the patriot
army II was Packenhams requiem at
New Orleans. Pulask's funeral dirge at
savannah. and the dead march OF the
sayares OF Florida. It's vibrations. po-
tent az the famous rams horn OF Joshua
ct Jerico, shattered the walls OF the city
OF the Montezurnas and rolled away the
impedimenta from the heights OF Chcrru-
busco. But the men who sung Il are
dead. and in the EFFORT TO PEN
sion ali the bummers which all the trusts.
coddle all the expansionists on the face
Of the continent and marry our women
10 the im5eclie sons Of the English no
bllity, we have forgotten them and would,