The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-02

IN OASN VI dBODlSAys anu lGlAN MARY
Lee found herself a widow at the age
of p, with 100000 at her command
. In deep mourning she went to Wies-
baden. Here she met Count Won Wall
ldersee, member of one of the oldest
families in German% and a distin-
guished officer on the, German Emper-
or's staff
The. following year he married Mary
Lee, the widow of the Prince Won
Schleswig- Holstein, and they went to
live in Berlin.
Here the diplomatic game began.
Here the American widow began to
disclose those strenuous traits which
have gone so far, toward the official
success of her husband. +.
She became acquainted with the EN-
peror and with Count Bismarck. She
became one of the most important per-
sonages of the Prusstan capital.
Her influence with Bismarck was only
second to that of the Emperor HIM
self. rH~r, ~
Here is one of the most interesting
and curious stories which ever pos
sessed a. business and. domestic inter
est. 1t is. absolutely, true, and, says
the New York Times, It seems to undo
good many morals which have been
preached all through the past ages. In
a charming little town not SO far from
New York but. that it has many COM
muters who come to the city daily,
there has been SyoGng business man
who has attracted much attention
among the housewives of the town.
This was. not that he was unusually
brilliant in any way or anything out
of the ordinary, for he was simply q
butchers clerk. But he had some val
liable qualities for a man in his posi-
ton. He knew his business. he was
accommodating, and absolutely reliable.
If certain cut of meat was ordered
of limit was always sure to be exactly
what was required and IL he promised
that it should be delivered at a certain
time it was sure to be on hand prompt
ly. Women going to the market where
he was employed gradually became
aware of, this fact and If the favorite
clerk was. busy waited until he was at
liberty to serve them. Itpaid, them to
do it in, the sureness OF being well
served. And with all this the clerk
never became presumptuous or any
thing but the. same faithful workman.
Now if would seem that a trait CT
this kind would be Invaluable to the
proprietor of a shop, but, strange to
say, in this case quite the opposite
RASNCN " NC u uC. kAS oil tilC CuSLOlii-
ers gradually came to rely upon the
faithful clerk, he was not able to do
the work required of him, and the
other clerks remained idle while the
ustomers waited. 1t was for this rea-
son that in the first market in which
he served he was discharged. Custom
ers-some of them-folfowed him to find
the samec clerk with the same accom-
modating ways. in another shop, with
finally the same result-no business for
the other clerks-and at last a dis
charge for too strict attention to duty.
The end Of that worthy young man, as
far as it known of him in the town,
was most unfortunate. He went from
shop to shop being in each too good a
man to be Kept, and finally. having run
the gamut of all, was out of position.
He started a meat cart then, but this
not being convenient way of trading
for even those who wished the young
man well, he lost what money he in
vested in the business and eventually
was obliged to leave town as a result
of his too good qualities.
1t is a. very common superstition,
says the Chicago Chronicle. that to rub
the hump Of a cripple,s back is sure
to bring good luck. In some parts of
the country women believe good for
tune may be assured by touching a
Chinarnaf While passing him on the
street, andT the women of New Or
leans Seem to have gone daft on the
subject OF course they endeavor &c
create the impression that they do II
playfully, but they newer neglect an
opportunity to- touch an Oriental as
they pass him. A young girfsat one
of the railroad stations a few even
ings ago figured in a rather embarrass-
ing incident on account of her ambi-
ton and her effort to touch a China
man. The Oriental had drifted into
the station and was evidently bent on
an out-of-town trip, and he was going
at a rather rapid rate, probably fearing
that he would miss his train. AS. soon
as the girl spiedf him she jumped UP
and made quick dart, evidently for
the purpose of crossing the Chinaman's
path at certain point and just brush
ing him as he passed. Here is prob
ably where she made a mistake. AT
any rate either the girl or the China
man erred. Both were walking rap
idly and each seemed to be indifferent
to the course of the other. She touched
the Chinaman all right, and if the good
luck incident to the act of touching
is measured by the vigor and force
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shower on her whole family. 1t was
a fierce collision. The girl was en-
barrassed, and from the capers cut by
the Chinaman he evidently thought a
freight train had struck him. Yes, in
deed, this business of touching a
Chinaman is regular fad now, and
If you see girl rushing wildly and
aimlessly down the street watch her
and see If she doesn't brush the clothes
Of a Mongolian gently in passing.
Tribune, might well be designated the
apostle of social ethics, so keenly has
he detected and held UP to ridicule
and reproach the foibles of Vanity
Fair" said a matron recently. "Snob-
berry especially he might almost be said
to have discovered, for ii is under that
head that he has divided and classified
everything in the way OF pretense--
but so cleverly, so humorously and
withal so kindly does he deal with
our very human faults that even those
whose consciences are pricked feel no
resentment at being self-detected. So,
aided blythe insight he has given us,
when we call certain qualities in our
friends snobbish,we like them none the
less we simply see through the veil
which they fancy they have cleverly
drawn over our eyes, and laugh in our
sleeves at their attempts to mislead us.
Mrs. H, for instance, affects to scorn
Mrs. Tiptop and her set. when we all
known that she would give worlds to
know them and be intimate with them.
We care for other things than mere
freaks of fashion, she says grandly.
We appreciate literature the arts and
music. l would not belong to the
Tiptop set for any considerations She
cannot leave them alone. Again and