The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

4 This is the pledge that all take upon
kheir entrance to the lodge. The rest
kpf the initiation is equally serious.
THE candidate for admission is forced
ro carry up and down the room a rag
baby which is supplied with a phono-
kgraph attachment. The attachment is
zwound up and the infant is made to
kcry out Papa! Papa! l want man.
kna" The would-be bachelor must walk
kup and down until the infant is quiet.
HThis takes long time and the as
Nsembled bachelors sit about and make
Remarks calling the candidates atten-
ftlon to the woes of matrimony and
Etelling him what he is escaping by re-
Xmaining single.
L. perfect day! 1 tried to hold it fast:
ITO make each hour my own, and sip
it's sweets,
Las if it were a flower, and its bee.
mo one should come between me and
my joy,
my will should rule my actions for
one day.
IAN. yes it slipped away, its secret
kept,
/ land hid from me behind the sunset
clouds.
EAnother day: "God help me use the
hours!"
said, And let Thy will be done, not
mine
l watched if might be some one need
ed help,
| If l might speak a word of cheer, or
hand or even softly step where
wounds
We're aching. Day of sweet revealing!
when
1t passed, it left it's perfume in my
heart.
M F. Butts in the New York Tri-
| bune.
A group at the Hoffman House, says
| the New York Times, was talking
exhibit, when James Atkins, a CONNER
1 cial traveller from Kansas City, relat-
/ ed the following:
The greatest exhibition of nerve
ever witnessed was given by one of
/ the most attractive women 1 have ever
seen. 1t was on a Pullman car be-
tween st. Louis and Chicago. The
woman was accompanied by seven
children whose ages, 1 judged, ranged
between and Is years. She was the
mother of all of them, as we learned
Iafterward, but it seemed scarcely cred
lole that she should have such a fam
lily, She must have been under 40,
and was so remarkably we'll preserved
that she did not look over 80. Stylish
OF carriage handsome and with an ex-
preston of winning sweetness, her
children were unusually attractive, and
the atfection that existed between them
ana their mother was a delight to wit
ness. The family occupied two sec
IONS In the sleeper. All of the other
sections were occupied by from one to
TWO persons, mostly men. 1 was with
couple of travelling men who were
trends, and we became very much in
terested in the attractive mother and
ner children, and we all agreed that
she was a paragon of woman.
Inc train was not more than ten
miles out of East st. Louis when the
lady called the porter and whispered
some instructions to him. A few min
ules later the porter began to make up
peI thS. 1t was then a little after 8
CLOCK in the evening. The porter's
Uperatlons soon began to discommode
me passengers. Reaching US. he said
Gentlemen, you will have to move,
as l will have to make up this berth.
We protested, and inquired what he
meant by making up so many berths
dl such an early hour.
The lady with the seven children
nolds the ticket for this lower berth,
ana she wants it made up, he said.
Oh, all right 1 said. We will ad-
yourn to the smoking room. When
we reached the smoking room2we found
crowded by men who had already
peen forced out of their seats by the
making process. We learned from
ulern that the lady whom we had so
fIuch admired also held the tickets
LOT the lower berths of the sections in
winch they had been seated.
will inquire about this l said,
ui.u went back to speak to the porter.
!, How many lower berths has that
t,auy got?' I asked of the colored at
tendant
She has eight he replied.
Well you go back to her and ask
.sr II she intends to inconvenience
Ferybody in the car I said.
ne porter went back to where the
1auy was, and explained to her my
',-.. plant. With one of her most be-
%itching smiles I overheard her say, as
tHe evidently intended 1 should, al
'lough she did not look my way:
al Tell the gentleman that my babies
t"ays go to bed before o'clock, and
a. IL is after o'clock they are going
10 bed now
1 went back to the smoking room,