The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

ment: "No, Watchdog, I went too
fast IN those threats to eXpound my
self You are in no sort prepared for
so tremendous course of study"
Wherein do 1 lack them?"
why, you founder in abyssmal ig-
norance of yourself To study another
with hope of light one should first
| own some liberal knowledge of ones
self. To have gone about to teach
| you that difficult lesson of Peg, you,
| VINO are as unaware Of yourself as any
| bush or tree or tuft of grass would
! have been as truly wise, and a task
! well worth ones while, as would be a
| discussion of Moore with that savage
of the woods who has yet to hear of
! the alphabet. However, we will rest
! content with you as you are, oh,
! Watchdog! oh. slave of Peg, wearing
| her mark! The more, for that your
! splendid ignorance of both yourself
and me has to be its characteristic. a
! white, high beauty like unto some
snow-capped peak-safe, too since in
! accessible. And now, because 1 have
| stayed long: and because we are good
| friends again; and because we will
| infallibly quarrel should l remain, l
| think, Watchdog, l shall go home"
And so Peg went away, singing a
| little song which was no song, but
! like the whistle of some thrush. leav-
! ing me in calm of peace; nor did l
| fail to remember how Pegs tune, when
| she departed, was the earliest music
| upon her lips since ever she would
! be in anger with me for those i'll opin-
| ions against Eaton.
| There was no long time given me to
/ think on Peg and her whims of tenn
| per, black and white, for Noah was
| with me briskly on the tail of her go
! ing away. Noah brought with him that
| Blair who had come in Difference to
my note, to be the rival of Duff Green
| and organize the Globe as a death-stab
| to Duff's Telegraph. l had met Blair
| before, and liked him; most of all, was
! he a favorite of the General for his
! pen was fed of fire and the heart of
! his friendship was like the loyal heart
! of dog. In person, Blair was a slen-
! der, sckly man, but with a great head
on his shoulders, and strange feverish
! eyes that shone like jewels. He was
not unlike the General; only the latter
| stood vastly taller, and, while Blair
| was as some fire to blaze and sparkle
| and burn, the General would be more
! that hurricane of wind, bridled of no
man, sweeping fiat as a field of tur-
nips everything. to stand in the way
Here is a delicate question" said
| Noah, with his grin of the cynic. 1.-THE
department folk will give our friend.
| Blair no public printing; it goes all
| to Duff. That should be stopped, since
your public advertising-I speak from
my place as an edltor-is for your
newspaper as the breath in its body"
"And what would you propose by
way of cure for that felon perversity
| of our folk of the departments who
still send printing to the recreant
| Duff?' This I put laughingly, to be
abreast of the lightness of Noah.
Surely" said Blair. speaking with
| a kind of eagerness natural to him,
and which ran red-hot throughout all
he did; surely. the President must
make no personal interference. Were
| he to order printing out of one paper
and into another, the opposite side
would use 1t for a club against him
to the last day of his career"
But there is a way" said Noah.
eve may have advantage of the mean
fears of our folk of place who are
ever prompt to read threat against
themselves. Such cyclists do they grow
| to be that, following a decade of Of
fee holding it may not so much as
thunder. but your agitated deskman
| knows il at once for some plot of
heavens hand to snatch him from his
pan"
How would you approach these
fears with an appeal?" l asked.
|
quoth Noah, while missing every word
that might look like an order from the
White House. You have but to issue
| a request, addressed to each who is
| in control of any least of printing,
to send to the President with every
month a full report of what advertise
ments he has dispensed and to what
| imprints. There you have 1t in your
| claw: after such notice not one line
will go to Duff, but all to Blair. With
the one stone you kill two birds; the
! telegraph is destroyed while the Globe
| in its fortunes is made beyond
| chance"
"Your mighty proper suggestion will
be adopted" said I. "The request
you speak of goes forth this very day"
When Blair had departed the scene
to look after the daily fortunes of
his paper, Noah and 1, as was much
and frequently our case, settled to
| mouthful of party gossip. We had
| not far, however, when my Jim APP
peared with a word from the General
to meet him in his personal workshop
on some trivial concern.
"D'Marse Central trees Jim by d'win-
der,' said that worthy black man, AN
tells him to ask you-all, Marse Major,
| TO come squanderin' along down to his
| room. He allows, d'Marse Central
does, how he's got letters from home
you might like to see"
"And how is your 'Marse Gen'ral?' ="
said Noah, for 1.-The red-head Jew gen..
tleman." as Jim ever referred to him,
was fond of making Jim talk. How
does you 'Marse Central carry himself
these winter days?"
Mighty toler bile an tranquil, than
kee, sah!" replied Jim; mighty toler'-
BILE an tranquil. Jim on'y wishes he
himself was feelin' half so good. But
Jims got a mis'ry in his back, an
d'rheumatics in his laigs an Shout
ders ontwell he can't but jes' make
out to hobble round. .Yassir: them
rheumatics leaves Jim like a fly in a
saucer of mlasses; he gets about plumb
slow"
Jim furnished a most doleful air to
be the frame for this piece of news:
one might have thought him some
fame enveloped martyr.
"At any rate" said Noah, in tones
of greatest sympathy. "you are fortu
nate. Jim. since now you are an in
valid, in having such a kind, forbear-
ing master as your 'Marse Major
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