The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-19

will see that the delicate are not to-
rudely joStled. 1t Is all very friendl,
and encouraging, except when the doc
tor lays a firm hand on some shoul
der and peers into the face through ap
pallingly sharp glasses. He turn:
up the lid of an eye-all right, il
is only the common or garden sly
and is not likely to pauperizt
the poSsessor, and the line moves on
again. Another is halted. Why, my
friend, that scar on your forehead? II
is obviously merely a combination OF
unsteady sea-legS, and a sharp bit of
furniture, SO that man is passed on and
he breathes again. An old woman
very, very old-iS stopped and made to
sit down with a few delicate looking
women. There is no reason why these
should be wearied with the long wait
ing. They will pass out quietly, by
and by, and so the doctor explains to
the rather frightened old soul, who
thereupon subsidies and looks superior.
A bright-eyed gatekeeper discourses
in friendly fashion about what he sees.
He is young, and his accent does not
denote that his training has included
a college education, but shrewd obser-
walton and common sense, thank the
powers, may be learned for less than
college fees. You'd have to build a
school house day." observes this dig
nitary, for the children alone that
comes in here" And so indeed it
seems. Children to the right of you,
children to the left of you-and such
good children. None of them are cry
ing, and hundreds are fling through
the iron ratings. Not only are they
uniformly of a cheerful mind. but they
are helping, with much enthusiasm, to
carry the baggage. Little tots, hardly
six years old, plod away with heavy
baskets.
Two of them together stagger under
a great sack-one of the meal sacks
which are convenient for the carrying
of baggage, if you don't happen to be
possessed of trunk. Several of them,
in childish fashion, walk straight
ahead without paying the least atten-
tion to what is happening, and never
notice that their mother has been put
in the little room to wait until the line
passes. Then arises a maternal shrek
for the kinder" and the word is
passed down the line, and various Of
ficials disentangle from the general
mass the particular kinder" who
seem unattached to any grown up folk,
this is something like looking for a
needle in a hay stack to the uniniti-
ated, but the officials seem to have a
marvellous system of their own) and
then the reunited family displays much
affection and waits patiently for their
turn to go out
At the desks past which the immi-
grant marches, man, whose linguis-
tic accomplishments are beyond the
comprehension of an ordinary mind,
straightens out the destination of each
one, and they pass out joyfully, tick
eted so that anyone can drop them at
just the right station. The philosoph-
ical gatekeeper before mentioned
beams pleasantly at them, {" 'Tain't no
joke, landin' in a strange country, and
it don't cost nothing to be pleasantly },
inspects their cards and separates
railroad casts" from railroad VESTS, .
and assures them that they will be
carried to the train. For Uncle Sam
does a good deal for newly arrived i'm
migrants that one would not expect to
find in a red tape place like a govern
ment Office. The gatekeeper has a
friendly soul. and IT is easy to see the
reinsurance that comes into bewildered