The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-14

that the man had had some unpleas-
ant experience. He attacked the sex
bitterly, dwelling on the vanity and
extravaganza of womankind. and fail
ing to credit them with any merits. AS
he talked Gov. Odells face gradually
flushed.
When the stranger had finished talk
ing the Governor began. This was a
surprise to those at the table who knew
him, and the fact that his voice grad
ually rose as he proceeded gave still
more cause for establishment. He
spoke earnestly and feeiingly, paying
tribute first to his own and all other
mothers; then to his own and all other
sisters, and wound up with a voice full
Of feeling and words full of eloquence
in an impassioned eulogy of the whole
sex. His face was glowing with earn
estness even as the strangers was
glowing with shame when he finished.
Other diners in the big room had
stopped the rattle. of knives and forks
and had been listening with fascinated
attention. There came a little patter
of applause from all over the room.
The Governor rose, woefully embar-
raised because of the vehemence into
which the strangers remarks had sur
prised him, and started to leave the
room with very red face. But the
stranger would not let him go until he
had shaken hands with him and ac-
knowedged his own error, asserting
that he had spoken without proper con-
sideration. Then Gov. Odell went out.
After he had left, one of the men at
the table said:
That was one of the two finest
tributes to womankind I ever heard"
What was the other?" some one
one asked.
Before / came into the Republican
party" said the first speaker, II was
| one of a number of New York Demo-
Gratis who visited David B. Hill at
Wolfert's Roost, his country place
| Among the party was New York
politician who spoke disparagingly of
the sex when the matter of the value
| of women's influence in political COM
| paigns was referred to.
Senator Hill heard him through
with much Impotence, and then he
rose. walked up and down the room
and delivered something which very
| nearly approached a panegyrcal ora
ton on the sublimity of womankind.
1t was fine.
| 1.-The politician did not remain for
| luncheon, although all the rest of us
| did. And this, notwithstanding the
fact that David b. Hill is a confirmed
bachelor and a reputed woman-hater.
mo matter how 1 may disagree with
| him in my political opinions, / shall
never lose the feeling of admiration
and respect for him which he inspired
in me that day."
| II. G. Frick, who has entered into a
| scheme with George j. Gould, A. j.
| Cassatt and other to build an Ameri-
can Riviera at Cape May, N. j., is a
| man strong in his domestic side. Said
a well-known Pittsburger who was in
| town this week:
| Let me give you an instance of Mr..
/ Tricks devotion to his family Several
years ago ii was the custom of Pitts
burg millionaires to spend Saturday
and Sunday during the summer at the
| big railroad hotels at Cresson which
are now closed from one years end to
| the other. They would take a train
back to Pittsburg early Monday morn
| ing, and frequently their wives and
children, DESTROYS of shopping in the
city, would accompany them.
Now it was the habit of many of
| the millionaires to foregatlrer in the
smoker for the trip and make merry
| with talk or quiet game of cards
| Mr.. Prick was invariably a member
| of the party so long as Mrs. Prick and
the children were not on the train but
| whenever they were along he was alb
| sent.
One morning several of the million
| aires hoping to induce Mr.. Frick to
| join them, went in a body into the
| parlor car where Mr.. Prick was chat
| ting with his family.
Won't you come out and join us in
| smoker" spoke up the visitors.
Mr.. Frick smilingly shook his head.
| as he quietly replied
No thanks, gentlemen; my fam
lily is dearer to me than a good cigar
or your company any day"
The millionaires beat a hasty re-
nd Nv NK-t,
| wife. resumed the conversation where
| it had been interrupted"
Although the hard coal strike has
been over for some weeks now IL is
still exerting a disastrous influence on
the schedules of through railroad
trains generally.
Locomotive engineers and fremen
are unit IN declaring that the poor
quality of coal furnished them pre-
vents strict observance of schedule
time, despite all their efforts. They
say that this fuel, in a run of less than
a hundred miles-between New York
and Philadelphia. for example-will
cause the best and fastest locomotive
made to lapse from ten to twenty min
utes behind time
Travellers and railroad officials saw
that nearly every train that is suppos-
ed to do flying can generally be safe
~ reckoned upon to lose time these
days And the men in the cabs are
positive in their statements that sched-
ules will not be maintained again I'M
I'll the grade of coal they used to get
is furnished them once more, and they
are no longer afflicted with what they
ccntemptuously refer to as "dyna-
mite, BLACK mush.' and Smoke
dust"
The action of Capt. Piper. Deputy
Police Commissioner, in taking squads
Of men belonging to the mounted
branch of the metropolitan force. to
West Point, in order that they NAV
learn to ride properly according to mill
ftary ideas, will probably be gall and
NORWOOD to the members of the
force. They had an idea that they al
ready knew how to ride. Most of them
have seized every opportunity for
studying the methods of cowboy rid
ers, and whenever Buffalo Bills show
comes to town every member of the
mounted force who can get off for it
goes to see it.
The principal work of the mounted
force is stopping runaways, and they
have figured that ranch methodc vraro