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She was plain ana he was handsome,
With a culture quite above
Her simple mien; so richer ladies
Won his heart from Mildred's love;
But she feared not. and she trusted
In the love he oft expressed.
He, enamored of another.
Broke his troth—you know the rest.
How she learned the tidinsrs, only
When the village Knew it all,
That he was the plighted lover
Of the lady at the hall.
Not from his lips came the story.
Told with humble mien and grave.
But from one who broke it, careless
Of the agony it gave.
Then she asked him. was it truly
As the village gossips said -
And he. with a brief shame stricken,
Turned away and bowed his head.
Teat was all—no parting answer
Sped from her lips to his ear;
Proud, her heart concealed its anguish—
He saw not a single tear.
Plain and shv, and quiet spoken.
Few the friends poor Mildred had;
None to question why she faded,
None to grieve that she was sad.
So, when all the village gossiped
Of the wedding to take place,
No one noticed how the pallor
Crept into her worn face.
How she bent above her sewing
That her tears might not be seen;
How she strove to hide her sorrow
By a cold, indifrent mien.
Then there came a startling rumor:
He was sudden stricken down
With a loathsome illness raging
In a not far distant town.
Faint with terror, his netrothed
Must her precious self preserve;
He could not expect to see her.
She had neither will nor nerve.
One there was, however, speeding
To the faithless lover ill;
One who shrank not when she saw him—
Faithful Mildred loved him still.
And she folded to her bosom
The poor, weary, aching head.
Asking but that he might know her
Kre he went to join the dead.
Fond she nursed him, but his raving
All was of the faithless one—
She, who in her wealth and beauty,
Had at once refused to come.
Must he die and give no token
Ttiat he knew this faithful heart?
Fervent prayed she for this favor,
Then in peace might he depart.
And her prayer at last was answered,
Consciousness awoke to know
That his tender nurse was Mildred —
She he left awhile ago.
Smiling on her, while bis lingers
Wound about her little hand.
“Mildred, darling!” only that, and
He was in the spirit land.
Low she s'ooped and kissed him fondly;
He had gone, but gone her own.
She could bear her sorrow, waiting
Till uod called her also home.
So. last evening came the summons,
And to-day her coffined face
I-ooks as if the longed-for meeting
May indeed have taken place.
CANDIDATES IX DOTH PARTIES.
Sufficient in Quantity but Not in Quality.
A New York Sun Washingt?" special
Presidential candidates as fol*
lowing;
Four months hence the National Con
ventions of the Republican and Democra
tic parties will nominate candidates lor
the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency.
At no former time was the opinion 0 f
either side less crystallized than it is
now.
Both parties are at sea Grant and the
third term have been laid aside. Blaine
has a hold on an element of his party,
which he proposes to utilize as he did for
Garfield, expecting in a certain contin
gency to be the Warwick ot another Ad
ministration. Conklin.g is ‘-out of poli
tics ’ for the time being, and is waiting
for anew turn in the wheel of fortune
that may bring him to the front. Mean
time he* is prudently strengthening his
resources.
Edmunds denies the “soft impeach
ment” of being an aspirant, and is content
to be President of the Senate and Chairman
of the Judiciary Committee at the same
time. Moreover, he is too far East lor
present politics. Logan put on his war
paint last year, and announced himself as
a candidate against all comers. Lincoln
has been quietly working for the chance
of a possible compromise on the heritage
of his name.
Indiana has three candidates in the
persons of Porter, Harrison, and Gres
ham. Lew' \Vallace, who loads the Atlan
tic cable everyday after an interview with
the Sultan, thinks himself a good fourth
from that state. Honest John Sherman
and Gov. Foster claim to be backed by
Ohio and by strong influences outside
the State. Cold and calculating as he
may be, Sherman has undoubtedly the
support of the national banks and of other
moneyed institutions to rely upon.
Arthur has played his game adroitly,
and has conquered many prejudices.
But a loud voice of protest is uttered by
many Republicans of New York against
naming any candidate from that State be
cause of the danger of reopening old
wounds, and incurring defeat thereby.
Pennsylvania has no candidate. The
machine has dwarfed all her public men
of any eminence, and made corrupt poli
tictaiG the leaders of the second State in
thei nion.
Who among all this crowd of competi
tors will be nominated is a difficult ques
tion to answer. The Republicans have
shrewd managers, who are sharp in action
at the critical time.
The Democrats are in no better condi
tion now for the Presidential contest than
the Republicans. Fourteen months ago
they carried the country by a great major
ity, and elected a reform House of Repre
sentatives, which included members from
California to Massachusetts. They were
inspired w’ith hope of an easy victory
next November.
Untoward events have cooled that hope
ful expectation seriously. While the
Democrats are to-day, as they really have
been since 1872, in a large majority over
the Republicans, a fatality seems to have
pursued their policy or management, or
whatever else it may be calied, so that
this majority, except in 1876, when it was
rendered powerless by the Great Fraud,
lias never been consolidated successfully.
Gen. Hancock may be considered entire
ly out of the race. An officer of the regu
lar army, however gallant he may be,
hardly represents the Democratic idea of
the military being subordinate to the civil
authority (or the first office in the gift of
the American people.
Mr. McDonald is urgently pressed by a
combination of politicians in Indiana and
the Southwest, headed by Mr. Wattarson
and Senator Garland of Arkansas. The
ex-Senator is now 65yearvold, and in fair
condition for that age. He has been a
consistent Democrat, and was so during
the war, when he was beaten by O. P.
Morton as a candidate for Governor. Mr.
McDonald is esteemed by those who know
him as an upright citizen, and he is rated
as a good lawyer. But his great defect of
character is the want of backbone, the
quality of all others most needed for a
President at this time. He is said to have
described himself most aptly: “It is for
tunate I was not born a woman.”
A clear and strong head, afirmhand, and
astern front against all seductive arts, are
prerequisites indispensible for any candi
date. When Mr. McDonald supported the
nomination of Stanley Matthews against
the opinion ot his political friends, and
against the evidence of his own senses,
having seen Matthew's act as the virtual
attorney of the great corporations on the
Thurman bill, he signed his death warrant
to any higher elevation by the Democracy.
“Bill” Morrison is not seriously regard
ed in the category ot Presidential candi
dates by any sane Democrat outside his
-own family circle. But Don Morrison, of
Louis, and enthusiastic cousin, thinks
he ought to be on the list of hopeful aspir
ants.
If Mr. Hewitt was ever inclined to go
belore the National Convention, recent
events have probably decided him to re
consider that intention, and therefore he
may he considered as not contending for a
nomination.
Mr. Randall will probably be presented
by the delegates from Pennsylvania as
their preference for the Presidency, upon
his record as a reformer in the House of
Representatives and as a consistent and
loyal Democrat.
Gen. Palmer, of Illinois, ha 6 theelements
of an excellent candidate, with strength
of character, a clean reputation, and tine
ability to recommend him.
Judge Holman unites the qualities, the
experience, the practical wisdom, the
directing mind, and strong devotion to the
interests of people that would make him,
perhaps, the most formidable candidate
the Democracy could nominate. The
politicians are against him, because he is
not for the politicans.
Other names have been and still may be
suggested that would prove acceptable in
the coming contest. The Democrats have j
the votes wherewith to win the Presid- i
ency. Have they the good-sense to keep I
and* to control them so as to gain that oh- |
ject for which they have been so long con- !
tending? Whoever can make satisfactory I
answ'er to that question will deserve to be !
honored as a prophet in his own country. !
THE GAY FRENCH CAPITAL
SCIENTISTS GRAPPLING WITH
“HYPNOTISM.”
Bremaud’s Conclusions on the Sub
ject—The Income Tax Question —What
a Correspondent Thinks of the Suez
Canal and Port Said—The Success of
Messenet with His New Operas—Elec
tricity as a Motive Power.
Correspondence oj the Morning yews.
Paris, Jan. 25.—1 tis with feelings
akin to relief that the public curiosity
finds occupation in animal magnetism
from the wearisome questions of Ton
kin, Egypt, strikes, revolutionary meet
ings and monarchial caucuses. Scient
ists have at last resolved to grapple with
the phenomena of “ hypnotism”—a gen
eric name for the conduct of persons af
fected with hysterical epilepsy. A navy
doctor—Bremaud, of Brest—w r as selected
to make a report as to what science actu
ally knew of the strange mesmeric ex
periments at present so extensively ex
hibited by charlatanism. Dr. Bremaud’s
experience ot every part of the world, as
he has just stated before a reunion of
medical and scientific authorities, leads
him to this conclusion: There are indi
viduals perfectly healthy in body and
mind, but susceptible of being thrown
into the hyponitic state—namely, of leth
argy, catalepsy and somnambulism, sim
ilarly as persons sutfering from hysteria
and epilepsv.
These stages are gradual with the hys
terically predisposed, fascination precedes
lethargy where the patient becomes be
tween the hands of the operator a simple
automaton, unconsciously obeying every
impulsion. The second stage, easily pro
duced, is the lethargic, next muscular
contraction or catalepsy. The last stage
is somnambulism, where the faculties ac
quire an extraordinary power. The lec
turer stated he had patients in a state of
somnambulism 'seated beside his study
lire who were able to hear two persons
speaking in a low tone to each other in
the street, a distance of fifty-five yards.
Another patient resolved a trigonometri
cal problem that he did not comprehend
before being thrown into the somnambulic
condition, and that he could not resolve
on being awakened. Illustrations were
given of subjects obeying all the whims
and oddities the doctor required of them.
Next a prism was placed before their
eyes, when they recognized the two fig
ure, that which proved there was no hal
lucination. -Next, by placing a screen be
tween the two eyes, a comic and a fright
ful xiicture were presented to the subject,
with the result of one half of his face dis
playing joy, and the other contracted
from terror. Thus we are in presence of
the annihilation of will, of self; of the
disjunction of functions whose union con
stitutes ordinary mental life: of states of (
insensibility, ot rigidity and of lethai s */, ,
where life itself seems to disappear, and of !
augmented excitation of the nerves, v/ h -_,
the muscles, senses, and cert*'- : t fj. L
tual faculties, attain an 'extraordinary de
velopment.
I ‘'r lays n# claim to producing
new certain people can be uncon
sciously magnetized, and seem to like that
situation. lie does not believe m nervous
or magnetic fluids; physical agents suffice
to produce the phenomena; the operator
counts for nothing. Thus the admission
of a rav of light entering an obscure room
and striking the eyes of a predisposed in
dividual, will induce hypnotism. The
doctor confesses he has no theory to
broach; science has no explanation to of
fer, but he recommends the study of the
phenomena over as wide a field of observa
tion as oossible.
AX INCOME TAX THAT SOUNDS IX
I’UKASAXT
to the Volscians’ ears, is in the air. The
Minister of Finance sees no other way of
raising the wind but by anew or in
creased taxation. He swears by ail the
gods of Olympus that no new' offices shall
be created, and the functionary who
dares to memorialize for an addition to his
salary will he served with a notice to
quit.
The government, the municipality ?of
Paris and a few newspapers have been in
quiring into the prevailing distress among
the working classes. The conclusion is
that the misery is very real. It is grati
fying to find that the unemployed do not
belong to the Anarchists. But what is
less satisfactory, no one can indicate a
solution. One of the leading builders of
Paris states that two years must elapse
ere the building trades come right again.
The ragpickers are likely to be made hap
py—the authorities will alibi and them more
time to root among the dust boxes of
house holders before the contents are
carted away.
One of the most striking proofs of the
progress of Parisians in taking an in
terest in matters outside the fortifications
is the dispatch by a metropolitan journal
of a live special correspondent to Tonquin,
to the seat of war. Perhaps there is
truth in the general observation that Par
isians having been indifferent about colo
nies, may explain why France displayed
but little* interest heretofore in the matter.
When Voltaire observed, the loss of the
Canadas represented only a few roods less
of snow, he expressed the feelings of
Parisians. The writer in question de
nounces the Suez canal as very ugly,
! but its utility, its importance, must he
! estimated by the shipping passing
through, as Herodotus, to impress us with
the vastness of the great pyramid, sup
plies the quantities of onions consumed
S by the workmen in its construction. Port
Said, it appears, is nothing but a gigantic
European brothel, tempered with a money
or-your-life male element. Suez is the
Arabian Cythera. The stokers of the
packets when passing through the Red
sea have the slenderest of fig-leaf toilettes,
and the place where the bad niggers go to
; ought to have no secrets for them should
I it be their fate e* er to be sent there.
M. Massenet, the composer of theopera#
the “lioi de Lahore” and “Herodiadle,”
has won a fresh success in his “Manon.”
It is to he regretted that he did not bestow'
his talent on a more fitting subject than
the 01d—153 years of age—smutty novel of
the Abbe’Prevost. It is the trite story of
unchaste and adulterous women appeal
ing for sympathy to the society they out
i raged, for the natural punishment of their
| misconduct —lingering, neglected and
| ignominious death. All the spare time
and help we have ought to be devoted to
virtue in.rags. Passionate love does not
j beautify corruption. “Manon Leseout”
was a beautiful young girl of a proud
family, on her way to a convent school;
at Amiens, where the diligence changed
horses, she encountered a Chevalier Des
grieux. They no sooner saw but they
loved—and eloped. Subsequently they
I came to Paris, Desgrieux living with, but
, always intending to marry Manon, his
I mistress. Desgrieux was arrested by his
! father and sent to the Seminary of St.Sul
pice to be educated for the church. Manon
j became a demi-mondian, till, dis-
I covering the whereabouts of Desgrieux,
: she found her way, as a penitent, to
■ make her confession to the Seminary and
i abducted the young priest. The unfortu
nate couple led a wandering life, finding
| in the lower deep a lower still. He was
i imprisoned for gambling; she was trans
i ported as a prostitute, and ultimately the
I beautiful sinner expired on the sands at
Havre in the arms of Desgrieux, who had
organized a rescue. Harferv and Scribe
attempted, unsuccessfully, to set the
story to music. Mussenet has been more
fortunate. The music is written with
great elegance", and is attractively curi
ous from many novelties in point of oper
atic treatment. It is a continued ex
change of melody between the orchestra
I and the artistes, full of unexpected mod
ulations, grave, soft and poetical. The
j best songs are those executed by
I Manou and Desgrieux at their first
meeting. Then the duet in the semi
nary, the gambling house and her
death. The latter did not succeed as a
hit, as in the “Dame aux Camellias” and
“Frou Frou.” Madame lieilborn and M.
Salazac interpret the music absolutely
perfect. As in the novel, so in the opera,
there are only two roles. Massenet in his
earlier days was a Wagnerian, and sub
scribes still to that composer’s natural
or scientific ideas in principle. Massenet
uirastosurround his characters with their
special lyrical and dramatic atmospheres.
Each has the music peculiar to their roles.
Thus Manon has hers, gay and melan
choly; local, dare it be said, human? One
of the librettists is Meilhac, but who
detests music like Theophile Lautier, that
held the only difference between ordinary
noises and music was, the latter was the
most wearisome and costly.
M. MARCEL DEPRKWB HAS DELIVERED
a very interesting lecture at the Sorbonne
on the employment of electricity as a
motive power. Indeed, his name Is
prominently identified with the idea. He
exhibited a very respectable Nasmyth
hammer, worked by electricity, that could
crack nuts as well as bend huge bars of
iron. In a few weeks he intends to be
able to supply I’ariS with electricity as
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1884
others do with water and gas, from a
factorv in course of construction at Creil,
thirty-three miles from Paris.
Fair-play Frenchmen even are pleased
at the nomination of Chiuese Gordon for
the Soudan; better late than never. The
French would have no objection to join in
the work of “dual” pacification; perhaps
they are less hot about Egypt, as they
conclude they have a superior “bonanza”
in the future with the Celestial Empire.
While De Brazza, like the princes of the
earth, is going to and fro on the Congo,
the Madagascar question is likely to enter
upon anew phase. Perigord is not only
the land of truffles and gaseous, it is the
nursery ground al6o of kings. The An
thon family claims to have given Deys to
Algiers; a Talleyrand had a hair-breadth
escape from being elected King of Poland;
the attorney De Tauens died—in exile, Or
lie I. of Patagonia. At present another
native, one Bonnet, of Malagassy extrac
tion, claimed the crown of Madagascar by
right of descent.
Wax works do not pay in Paris, though
supported by the authorities, who send
models of all unidentified prisoners there.
A panorama is now added of passing
events. The “future of China” is prom
ised; the Marquis Tseng had better look
sharp, or the Philistines will 6cale the
walls.
When cheap lodging accommodation
occupies so deeply the “ slummers,” here
is a “straight tip” from Pekin. An en
terprising native philanthropist has
opened a casual ward of his own; price \
for the night, “half a farthing.” The es
tablishment consists of a large hall, the
floor covered with two feet of ducks’
feathers. Customers make their own
shake “up.” Rugs were at one time sup- !
plied, till the tenants took them away as
souvenirs, or converted them into jupons
on the spot.
Magistrate to prisoner slightly deaf:
“What brought you to the lockup?” “Two
policemen.” “Now, was it not intoxica
tion?” “Yes, mon juge, they were both
drunk.”
Worth adopting: the government ac
cords New Year's gifts, in money, to the
actors of the Theatre-Francais, but pays
the amount to each in twelve monthly in
stallments.
A toper boasts that it is easier to get
into Roquette (the prison) than into the
French Academy.
Master, to his valet who has come home
tipsy, and was waiting to go to the opera.
“Francois, you have been drinking
again I” “Yes, sir, I met a native of my
city, and we had a glass.” “To what
city does he belong?” Paris, sir.”
A l-T.VNV PHILADELPHIAN,
Who Stirs Up Denver by Marrying, as
Some Say, Mr. Tabor’s Divorced Wife.
The reported marriage of Airs. Augusta j
L. Tabor, the divorced wife of Millionaire i
Tabor, to Air. Artnian, says the Denver j
Republican, was the talk ot the town Fri
day. There were many who believed it to j
be true, but the majority scouted the idea.
It was hinted that Artman was a clever j
adventurer. A gentleman who knows Air. I
Artman well was met last nivbt.
-
“I know him very well,” said he. “He
came here front Philadelphia to go into
the cattle business.”
“Air. Artman is a widower, is ho not?”
“Yes; his wife died about ten years ago.
He has lour children. One, an accom
plished daughter, is studying music at the
Boston Conservatory. His two sons are
in business in Minnesota and are quite
wealthy.”
••Do you know anything about his pur
ported marriage to Airs. Tabor?”
“I believe it is true. lie led me to infer
that by what he told me. He said that he
was going to marry her and spoke about
his bridal tour through Florida and Cuba.
That was several weeks ago. AVhen he
left he promised to telegraph me within
forty-eight hours and I expect a telegram
to-morrow.”
“How long has he known Airs. Tabor?”
“Since infancy, 1 believe. A day or so
after he came to Denver he dropped into
my office and told me he had met an old
friend, Airs. Tabor. He said they were
natives of the same city, Augusta, Alaine,
and had gone to school together. His vis
its to her were frequent.
“He has had a w'onderiul career. He is
quite a naturalist and was connected with
Professor Agassiz. He made a voyage
up the river Niger and wrote a book about
it. He is an entertaining talker and loves
to prate about his adventures somewhat,
but they are all true. He is now' anxious
to settle down and when he returns from
his bridal tour will settle in Denver and
go into the cattle business.”
“You talk as if you were sure of his
marriage.”
“I have no doubt about it. He is not
a fraud and there is no reason why he
shouldn’t marry.”
“Artman is a fraud,” said another in
dividual to the reporter last night. “He
claims to have traveled through Europe
and Africa and verifies the explorations
of Stanley through that desert continent.
At a distance of 3,000 miles up the Niger
river Air. Artman saw a Christian temple
which measured 700 feet trom the base to
the dome. He also saw’ the ruins of Pom
peii. At another time he claims to have
been the proprietor of a large hotel in
Philadelphia.”
John Brown and the Queen.
London Truth.
A Tory contemporary relieves its usual
sleepy dullness by an outburst of wrath,
to which it has been excited by my ac
count of the contents of the Queen’s new
book, which account, by the way, will be
found to be strictly accurate when the
work appears, and* it will probably be in
the hands of the public at a much earlier
date than had originally been intended by
Her Alajesty. Aly contemporary is par
ticularly enraged because I stated that
the book “will be in reality a sort of trib
ute to the memory of John Brown,”
which is described as “a covert sneer at
the Queen” and “a pandering to Republi
canism.” There is no trait that I admire
more in the Queen's character than her
regard for the humble dependents about
her; if this be a “pandering to Republi
canism,” my Tory contemporary should
blame Her Alajesty, not me. Aly contem
porary would have done better,"however,
to stop here, instead of going on to print
such egregious balderdash as that J. B.
was “specially recommended to the Queen
by the Prince Consort on his dying bed,”
etc. It is quite evident that the writer
knows nothing whatever about either John
Brown or the Prince Consort. “The
Highlander” was simply an ordinary up
per servant when the Prince died, who
had risen from a very menial post through
tact, honesty, and intelligence, all of
which Brown showed in a very marked
degree to the last day of his life, although,
of course, he had his failings, like*every
body else. He was no more to the Prince
Consort than lilty other persons in the
same position; and the assertion that his
Royal Highness recommended Brown on
his death-bed (or even mentioned his
name) is a preposterous invention. It is
no exaggeration, moreover, to assert that,
w ith all his good qualities, Prince Albert
was quite incapable of conceiving a real
regard for any servant whatever, with the
one solitary exception of Lohlein, his
valet, who had been with hint since boy
hood, and who is still in the Queen’s ser
vice, and lives in an excellent house at
Windsor. To Lohlein even Brown gave
the pas to the last. Prince Albert, like
most other Germans of “exalted rank,”
looked with ineffable disdain on those be
neath him; and it is not easy for anyone
who had any knowiedge of his Royal
Highness to conceive him as being happy
in anyplace where the rules of precedence
were not strictly observed. Heaven itself
would scarcely be acceptable to a German
Prince if he were doomed to inhabit the
same regions as his sometime domestics;
aud I apprehend that such personages re
gard the assurance “In my Father’s house
are many mansions” as a sort of guaran
tee that no such grievous huddling to
gether of patricians and plebians is to
be anticipated. The silly twaddlings of
my contemporary are not “facts,” but the
“fancies” of an imagination distempered
by a servility grafted on intense igno
rance.
Cause of Her Glumness.
Yonkers Statesman.
“Why do you look so glum this morn
ing?” inquired young Aliss Yeast ot her
friend. Miss Fussanfeather, as they met
in the hall of the hotel after breakfast yes
terday morning.
“Well, I just think it is too awfully
mean for anything,” poutingly returned
Aliss Fussanfeather, sticking her tooth
pick in her bang.
“Why, what’s too mean?” asked her
friend a little perplexed.
“Why, that I should be fool enough to
ask old Aloaeybags to marry me,” replied
she.
“He accepted the proposal, I suppose ?”
continued the Philanthropist’s daughter,
in the act of congratulating her friend.
“No, he did not,” frankly responded the
rejected suitor; “he declined it.”
“Well, you might have known better
than to have proposed to a man In declin
ing years,” said the amiable Aliss Yeast,
who "inherited some of the peculiarities of
her parent.
FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.
THE SEASON OF BALLS IN THE
METROPOLIS.
Conspicuous Features In Dress—Some
Striking Toilets—Looking for a Color
—Not a Very Costly but Studied
Tronsseau—The Promise of Spring— :
The Wearing of Mourning.
Correspondence of the Morning Metes.
New York, Feb. B. —The season has
not been an unusually gay one by any
means. On the contrary, the long-con*
tinued depression has had a most disas
trous effect in reducing the amount of
social gaiety. Still there are always
enough people who have money to keep
the ball rolling, and whose atmosphere is
unaffected by local or temporary causes.
The “gay” people are largely the rich
from other cities, who live in hotels and
boarding houses, who come for the winter
months to have a “good time” and to
spend money lavishly in dress, balls, thea
tres, suppers and the like. It is these
who give most of the theatre parties in re
turn for the hospitality in the shape of
dinners and receptions which they re
ceive; and it is this floating popu
lation which largely fills the thea
tres and opera houses. Private balls have
not been numerous. They have almost
been relinquished in favor of subscription
balls at Delmonico’s, which cost little and
at which it is now’ quite the thing to bring
young daughters for their first introduc
tion to society. The dancing at private
houses seems to be gradually restricting
itself to “germans,” which employ a com
paratively small number of the guests,
while the rest are interested spectators,
and for which the usual long, narrow’
drawing room can be utilized to advan
tage. These are practically “Cinderella”
dances—a fashionable London protest
against the enormity which late hours
have become in the British metropolis. A
german—that is, an ordinary one—is a
small and early affair, beginning at 9 or 10
o’clock and closing at 1 or 2, and requir
ing only light refreshments, not an ex
travagant supper.
FEATURES OF TIIE SEASON.
The conspicuous features, so rar as
dress is concerned, have been the revival
of the low’ bodice, and the extent to w’hich j
the use of feathers and fur has been i
carried. In regard to the first, evidently, i
as was remarked recently, the ladies of j
what are called our “best” society do not j
give the gentlemen of their acquaintance j
any credit for imagination, and are deter- ]
mined they shall not be ignorant of anat- j
omy. The second has fully justified the j
assertion made in the beginning of the I
season that furs would be domina,-* an( j j
!noi*' er ‘ S of flowers as orna-
The novel ball dress is still the
one described tw 7 o months ago, w’ith the
raised flowers, or shaded and graded balls
in chenille, plush or velvet upon the
front; the plaited train; the low pointed
bodice outlined with oriental
lace, and the groups of
feathers upon the left shoulder and skirt;
in place of flowers; and the feathers have
these great advantages, that they are soft
er and do not crush. Fur has been em
ployed in bands of extraordinary depth,
both upou cloaks and drosses, the restora
tion of the coat and pelisse forms being
favorable to this mode of trimming. A
striking and picturesque application of
dark fur consists in using it as a trim
ming for cashmere or India wool for in
door dresses. Laid in a diagonal line
from the shoulder to the loot of the tunic,
or down each side of the front and around
the bottom, the effect is warm, softening
to the complexion, and highly distinctive.
It has always been common enough in
Russia, but here the combination has all
the freshness of novelty, white fur or
swansdown having been almost the only
fur used for dress trimming.
SOME RECENT COSTUMES.
It is not necessary to study temperature
in winter for indoor dresses in great cities,
for such slight changes as occur are easily
provided for by a soft wrap or knitted
shoulder shawl. Ladies, therefore, can
follow inclination and temperament in re
gard to the warmth of their clothing or
adapt it to special circumstances. In
making a round of morning calls it is not
unusual to find one lady wearing a wrap
per of India muslin over primrose silk,
the garniture only wide ruchy lace and
floating ribbons. Another will appear in
a warm soft robe of crimson wool with
broad chinchilla bands folded around her
throat and stretching down to her feet.
A pretty dress worn by a lady recently
while receiving afternoon calls, was of
grey blue (smoke grey), velvet clasped
with wrought silver over a full skirt front
of ruby satin. The outstanding collar
was lined w ith ruby satin and old lace—
the lace extending in jabots down the
sides ot the front and outlining the skirt
and its extension. The pleated back was
lined with ruby satin and turned over
from the basque.
Among the beautiful dresses worn at a
recent dinner one was of tine Venetian
lace, made since the recent revival of the
manufacture, and drawn full over rich
w hite silk. Tunic and sleeves w ere edged
with lace, and the ribbons used were ex
quisitely painted with lilies ot the val
ley, the flowers being repeated in the
lovely corsage and hand bouquets. The
ornaments were single strings of pure
diamonds round the throat and round the
wrists. Another notable dress worn on
the same occasion was a black
velvet ITincesse dress, cut diag
onally across the front, which was
draped low and outlined with amber
beads, three rows of which fastened with
clasps, were festooned from the shoulder
and carried across the breast as an order.
A third dress was of mouse colored vel
vet, and with this were worn very striking
ornaments made of polished claws and
silver mounted.
Mrs. Langtry’s dresses in “Peril” are
very handsome, except the evening dress,
which is vulgarly low and strikiug. The
first is a bronze satin, with shirred front
of India muslin over pink satin—a wide
scarf ot Oriental lace is arrayed as a col
larette fastened with pink satin ribbons
and drawn otT as drapery upon the skirt,
and the ends arranged at the back
with wide sash ends of ribbon. A
short morning dress formed a jacket
with vest front over skirt made of narrow
lace plaitings— and a third indoor dress is
of grey velvet with velvet trimmed panels;
between which and filling in the front are
puffs and plaitings of a soft cream-tinted
transparent fabric, probably nun’s veil
ing; down the sides of the front are maca
roons of gold and silk cord, and those
also form ornaments at the back. The
evening dress before mentioned is white
satin duchesse, the front enriched with
fruits in deep shades of red. Above the
low’ pointed bodice is a partial veil of
white lace and on the left shoulder a
group of blue ostrich leathers.
A bride receiving lately w-ore her
w edding dress of white satin, with the
orange blessoms removed and email
groups of white ostrich feathers tied in
their places with narrow ivory satin rib
bons. The blossoms had been placed at
short intervals around the train on the
folds of a thick ruche, above which was a
line of lovely embroidery on silk and sil
ver. The front was ornamented entirely
in this costly fashion, the niching and
tied-in-feathers being repeated to form
the high jacket front.
A dress in preparation for the mother of
a bride is of black velvet, forming a raised
scroll pattern almost an inch in depth
upon the copper foundation. The long,
narrow, plaited train is of the velvet.
The panels are of fluted satin, outlined
with cascades of gold embroidered lace,
which separate them from the satin front,
which is entirely covered with lace em
broidered in a magnificent pattern. The
velvet in this case forms the high basque
bodice and long, narrow princesse train.
The sides form small paniers edge dwith
the lace en cascade , and the sleeves are to
the elbow, with long gloves and lace
above; Aledici collar of velvet and satin
lined with lace.
The costumes for the “Countess” in
“Two Alpine Roses,” about to be pro
duced at the Madison Square Theatre,
have just been received from Paris by
Aiadame Yon Stanwitz, who assumes this
role, and one at least foreshadow-s a style
for the coming spring, while all represent
the latest French inodes. The first is a
carriage dress of nasturtium satin and
cardinal velvet, heavily trimmed with the
finest Spanish cream lace. The skirt is
demi-trained, the basque of satin covered
w-ith lace, the sleeves loug and close fit
ting for the gloves, which are worn over,
and a Stuart collar of satin lined
with velvet, which Is turned back,
outlines the throat A second
dress is of heavy grey Ottoman satin and
claret velvet, the cords of the satin soft,
but thick as rouleaux. The skirt is grey,
with large claret flowers in high relief
and the drapery is hooked upon the basque,
which is finished with a small outstanding
collar of velvet. The bonnet which ac-
companies this dress is of claret, trimmed
with gray feathers and a steel agrafe, and
a very large agrafe of cut steel is used as
an ornament at tMfe side of the skirt. The
traveling dress is very effective and would
be suitable tor any laidy off the stage. It
consists of “deer skin” wool over a skirt
of brown satin, the front draped and
buttoned, the sides laced with
cords and tassels, and the whole
completed by a cape which is
draped up and laced upon the left shoul
der. This suit is completed by a large
brown hat faced w ith gathered velvet and
trimmed with magnificent plumes. These
laced effects reappear at stated intervals,
but they are always a stylish finish for
wool. The light weight, weather-resist
ing and softly draping brown cloth will
be much sought after for traveling
dresses this coming spring. Its qualities
were hardly appreciated last year, but
some ladies discovered them, and it will
be in demand among these.
LOOKING FOR COLOR.
It is more than curious, it is quite dis
heartening sometimes,to find how difficult,
how impossible it is to procure favorite or
what are spoken of as “fashionable”
shades of color when an occasion arrives
for the acquisition of anew dress or cos
tume. Perhaps a friend at a distance re
quests you to procure her a piece ot silk
or wool or satin of a color or pattern not
obtainable in her small community, and
you set out without a shadow of doubt
upon your mind of being able to meet her
wishes. But you travel one thoroughfare
and down another, from Broadway to
Sixth avenue, or vice versa, dually visit
ing as a forlorn hope more remote regions
without finding even an approximate to
the object of your search, and finally you
are obliged to give up the acquisition’en
tirely or take something quite oppo
site to your original intention. Extra
ordinary, you think and say, that in all
New Y'ork not enough of that fine gold
shrimp pink, bronze, smoke gray, or
prune can be found to make a dress.
There are plenty of staring reds, yellow s,
blues and mongrel greens, plenty ot dingy
browns and staring purples, plenty of
flowered fabrics in undesirable shades and
mixtures selling at hail price. Y’ou go
home with the impression that taste is
changing, that the colors that do not sell
and that the stores are full of are those
that are fashionably worn, and you try to
reconcile yourself to what seems to be the
inevitable’order of things.
But in reality the lashionable shades
were all bought up long ago, and the un
sold remainder represents the unfashion
able, the conventional, perhaps it would
be better to say fhe accustomed colors,
which are always furnished in a package
of goods w hether they are wanted or not. I
One of the reasons why a tine or otherwise I
desirable shade costs more to purchase j
than a common one is that it must always
be produced to order. If not one piece
will come in the color desired and eleven
in the regulation series of primaries.
One lady oj;c nt a day recently in trying
to find a shade of nasturtium, w hich one
would suppose pentiful enough, and
flualiy took old gold. Another made as
fruitless a quest after smoke gray to match
a French dress and was obliged to content
herself w ith a bonnet of claret velvet and
train it with grey feathers. The only way
to secure choice colors and patterns’ is to
select early in the season froiu the fresh
productions, unless one can afford very
special fabrics, and in these the supply is
naturally limited. The most fashionable
color of the season, yet the one least seen
upon the street is gray, in the mouse,
smoke, and electric shades. Doubtless it
will appear in public and among a less
exclusive class during the spring and
summer, for during its second season
when a thiug is on the decline In the most
fashionable circles it begins to acquire
popularity. These soft dun and blue gray
tints are, however, so refined and lovely
that they can never be undesirable, and a
lady is perfectly sale in w earing them
whether they are “fashionable” or not.
A TROUSSEAU
not very costly, but very carefully
studied, shows some good aud original
ideas. The traveling dress is brown
camel’s hair and satin, with full fine
pleated front of the satin, and a hat orna
mented with a group of pale yellow
feathers. This is the real traveling dress.
The bridal dress is called the traveling
dress, but it is really a visiting dress of
prune silk and velvet, with a tine interior
pleating of exquisite gold embroidered
lace over tulle. Ail evening dress is of
pink surah, the front covered with two
wide flounces of Oriental lace, draped up
under a bunch of large crushed roses. The
bodice is high aud covered with the lace
drawn full into a wide belt of satin rib
: bon, where a cluster ot roses will natur
ally find a place. Another evening dress,
made short, was of cream satin with rows
of pompons round the bottoms and groups
of them for ornaments. Small ones stud
ded the front of the dress. A fawn
colored satin had a front covered w ith
brown cones in shaded plush, a plush
jacket and a full satin vest. Wide bands,
w ide lace, wide flounces and much over
laying are employed, and it is thought
will be continued for some time to come.
The aigrette is revived as an ornament
for the hair, now that the coiffure has
mounted to the top of the head again. It
consists of three little feather tips, with
light filaments grouped in the centre to
give airiness and grace, and is fastened
with a jeweled ornament—fly pin or
arrow. It is twenty-five years since ttey
had a fashionable vogue, the hair having
been much of the time worn low' and in
very simple fashion.
Net over silk is very much used this
season for the ball toilets of
debutantes and very young ladies.
It is always full and often doubled for
draperies, and is not edged with lace,
loops and plots of ribbon being the only
garniture. The style whieh married ladies
have largely adopted of a simulated
double dress, w ith long lines and pleated,
flounced or gathered front, is capable of
much variation, and is very becoming. It
is graceful, yet possesses dignity, and has
elements of permanency. Short, fanciful
drapery is only fit for young girls and for
secondary fabrics.
It is said that the :estlietic styles have
disappeared. On the contrary, the best
of them have become incorporated into
the fashionable dressing of the period.
We owe to the aesthetic rage the fashion
able revival of many charming old-time
j inexpensive fabrics. AmongJhem chintz
cottons, thin wool de laines, known as
nun’s veiling, the light, pure China silks,
and the restoration ot the pretty gathered
w’aists, useful bonnets and picturesque
sleeves. Even the “Mother Hubbard”
and other styles which are little used by
women are relegated to children, and the
whole movement has been one full of odd,
quaint and amusing ideas free from all
vicious tendencies, and therefore worth
more than a sneer or the harsh tone of
condemnation.
TIIE WEARING OF MOURNING.
There is one old aud long established
custom that women ought to possess
moral courage and common sense enough
to take into their ow n hands and settle
for themselves on a simple and permanent
basis. It is the custom of wearing mourn
ing lor departed friends. The putting on
aud taking off of black within a stated
time is in itself, instead of being a compli
ment, an insult to the dead. Une does nofc
put on and put off one’s sorrow in this
way; there is, therefore, no reality to this
fashion of symbolizing it. A loss by death
is irremediable; the grief of it may be
hidden away, but it lasts forever. It is
true that the desire when one has lost a
near and dear friend is lor silence
and darkness, for neutral tints
ami for the presence and association
with only that w hich harmonizes with
our ow n sense of loss and bereavement.
But we cannot often indulge in this selfish
absorption and exclusion, and it is doubt
less good for us that we cannot. Our
lives go on; our duties remain. They
must be performed. We put our griels
away. We do not intrude them upon
others. We lock them up and keep them
as a sort of luxury for quiet hours when
indulgence w ill not interfere with our ob
ligations to the living and active par
ticipation in the duties of the hour. There
is no reason, of course, why
women should do violence to nat
ural feeling, and wear high colors
and gay ornaments at a time when their
hearts are saddened by heavy loss. Let
them lay aside what they no longer take
pleasure in, and wear their simplest,
plainest, darkest dresses; but why lay
aside w hat is perfectly suitable and even
in harmony with their own feelings and
incur much unnecessary trouble and ex
pense merely to put on garments a little
deeper, a little darker, a little sadder and
w hich oblige an entire change in the hab
its of life, the avoidance of much that
would be healthful and salutary rather
than harmful, the adaptation of social
conditions to the circumstances and acci
dents of an individual, and the actual
creation of a code of ethics the observ
ance of which depends on the pres
ence or depth of a crape band. The
most ardent supporters of outward and
visible signs of woe are those who are
least sensitive to grief, but who like the
novelty of an entire change of wardrobe
and the pleasant excitement of finding
out exactly what ought and w'hat ought
not to be’employed under such circum
stances. As there is no authorized code.
the rules extracted from self-constituted
authorities are often more amusing than
practical or reliable. To many limited
but well-intentioned women the imagined
necessity for “doing as other people do,”
in this regard, is a source of extreme em
barrassment and perplexity. Perhaps
they cannot afford the outlay. Perhaps
they have only recently, by dint of much
contrivance, replenished their ward
robes. Perhaps it was not a near
relative. Perhaps the relative lived
at a distance. All the facts are
agitated pro and con to make a case
against assuming this new burden, and
the only argument on the other side, the
strongest feeling is this, that if they do
not conform to common custom they will
be the 6ulfiects of common and impious
remark. This is naturally much stronger
in small neighborhoods arid communities.
It is therefore the duty of any woman of
position and influence in such communi
ties to set an example in the right direc
tion. and afford the moral support of this
influence to her poorer neighbors. In
cities women out of a certain exclusive
class are fast emancipating themselves
from their traditions. Jenny June.
AFTERGLOWS OF OLD.
Scientific Statements Made a Century
Ago.
A writer in the London Times calls at
tention to the fact that Gilbert White, in
the year 1783, in his “Natural History of
Selborne,” a village in Hampshire, about
50 miles from London, writes as follows:
“The summer of the year 1783 was an
amazing aud portentous one, and full of
horrible phenomena; for besides the
alarming meteors and tremendous thuu
der-storms that affrighted and distressed
the different counties of this kingdom, the
peculiar haze or omoky fog that prevailed
for many weeks in this island and in
every part of Europe, and even beyond its
limits, was a most extraordinary appear
ance, unlike anything known within the
memory of man. By my journal I And
that I had noticed this strange occurrence
from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, during
which period the wind varied to every
quarter without making any alteration in
tbe air. The sun at noon looked as black
as a clouded moon, and shed a ferruginous
light oil the ground and floors of rooms,
but was particularly lurid and blood-col
ored at rising and setting. The country
people began to look with a superstitious
awe at the red lowering aspect of the sun;
and, indeed, there was reason for the most
enlightened person to be apprehensive,
for all the while Calabria and part of the
Isle of Sicily were torn and convulsed
with earthquakes, aud about that junc
ture a volcano sprang out of the sea on
the coast ol Norway.”
Other writers, says the correspondent
of Ihe Times , also mention volcanic dis
turbances in this same year. We are told
by Lyell and Geikie that there w'ere great
volcanic eruptions in and near Iceland.
A submarine volcano burst lorth in the
sea, 30 miles southwest of Iceland, which
ejected so much pumice that the ocean
was covered with this substance to the
distance of 150 miles, and ships were con
siderably impeded in their course, and a
new island was formed, from which fire
and smoke and pumice w r ere emitted. Be
sides this submarine eruption, the volca
no Skaptar-Jokull, on the mainland, on
June 11, 1783, threw out a torrent of lava,
so immense as to surpass in magnitude
the bulk of Mont Blanc, and ejected so
vast an amount of fine ctust that the at
mosphere over Iceland continued loaded
with it for months afterwards. It fell in
such quantities over parts ol Caithness—
a distance of GOO miles—as to destroy the
crops, and that year is still spoken of by
the inhabitants as the year of “the asbie.”
These particulars are gathered from the
text-books of Lyell and Geikie. lam not
aware w hether the coincidence in time of
the Icelandic eruptions, aud of the pecu
liar appearance of the sun, described by
Gilbert White, has yet been noticed; but
this coincidence may very well be taken
as some little evidence towards explain
ing the connection between the recent
beautiful sunsets and the tremendous vol
canic explosion of the Isle of Krakatoain
August last. The letter of the Rev. Mr.
White referred to will be found on page
300 of Bohn’s edition of his charmiDg
book, and the letters preceding it contain
further statements regarding the meteor
ological wonders of 1783 and 1784.
How Bears Fisli.
Lewinton {Me.) Journal.
Very few people know' that bears take
to water naturally. They roam over the
mountains and through the forests, dig
open rotten logs for ants and worms, and
secure all the hornets’ nests they can, and
tear them to pieces, and eat the young
grubs, pick berries of all descriptions and
eat them, and would seem to belong to the
dry land animals.
The fact is different. They love the wa
ter, not, perhaps,as w ell as the moose and
deer, but better than most dry land ani
mals.
They are very fond of fish, and are ex
pert fishermen, and show more cunning
and instinct, if not reason, than many city
chaps I have seen about the lakes.
I came suddenly upon a very large bear
in a thick swamp’ lying upon a large hol
low’ log across a brook fishing, and he was
so much interested in his sport that he
did not notice me until I had approached
very near to him, so that I could see ex
actly how he baited his hook and played
his fish. He fished in this wise. There
was a large hole through the log on which
he lay, and he thrust his forearm through
the hole and held his open paw in the wa
ter and waited for the fish to gather
around and into it. and when full he
clutched his fist and brought up a haudful
of fish and sat and ate them with great
gusto; then down with the paw again,
and so on.
The brook was fairly alive with little
trout and red-sided suckers and some
black suckers, so the old fellow’ let himself
out on the fishes. He did not eat their
beads. There was quite a pile of them on
the log. I suppose the oil in his paw at
tracted the fish and baited them even bet
ter than a fly-hook, and his toe-nails were
Ills hook, and sharp ones too, and once
grabbed, the fish are sure to stay.
They also catch frogs in these forest
brooks, and drink of the pure water in hot
summer days, and love to lie and wallow
in the muddy swamps, as well as our pigs
in the mire.
They often cross narrow places in lakes
by swimming, and also rivers, and seem
to love to take a turn in the water. I once
saw one swimming from the mainland to
the big island in Mooselmaguntic lake,
with just a streak of his back out of the
water, looking like a log moving along.
Sometimes you see only their heads out of
water; at other times half of their bodies
are to be seen. We account tor this dif
ference by their condition. If fat, the
grease helps buoy them up; if lean, they
sink lower in the water.
To Europe in Four Hays.
Hartford Pont.
A French engineer, M. Sebillot, pro
poses to shorten the time between this
continent and Europe to four days. Ilis
idea is to adapt to ocean navigation, on a
more acute and longer scale, the idea
which models the North river steamers
and the ferryboats of the East river. It
is that of having virtually two hulls, a
lower and an upper, the lower in the cen
tre to be deep, long, narrow’, and at the
hows very sharp, reducing the angle for
ward by the line of the bows where they
cut the water with the line of the vessel’s
motion from one to fifteen degrees, as
now, to even three degrees. The lower
hull w’ill thus preserve a width from stem
to stern of only a third the width of the
upper hull, and the latter will either be
out ot water, or, when the vessel is deeply
laden, w ill barely rest upon the water.
He estimates that a vessel of 12,000 tons
as compared w ith the newest fast steam
ers,, with 10,000 horse power, 1,200 feet im
mersed cross-section, and running 20
knots per hour in calm water, would show
a speed of 32 knots and probably 35 knots.
It follows that such a vessel could cross
the ocean, in calm water, from New York
to Europe in about four days. This is by
no means an extravagant supposition, as
the fineness of the lines is out of compari
son w’ith the usual lines in fast steamers,
and can be compared only with those of
some fine race boats renowned for their
speed, and built either shallow and wide
or narrow and deep, the new type par
taking of both those principles, and car
rying them to the utmost. It is possible
experience might show that the shape of
the prow will cause such a vessel to be
much less influenced by rough weather
than the ordinary shape. The ocean trav
eling public would gladly welcome the
day when M. Sebillot’s new rapid-transit
idea shall become a fact.
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
should always be used when chikuvjn are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf
ferer at once; it produces natural, quiet
sleep hv relieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as “ bright as a
button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays all pain, relieves wind, regulates
the bowels, and is the best known remedy
lir diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing gr other causes. 25 cents a bottle.
ALTMAYER’S
135 Broughton Street.
HANDKERCHIEF
DEPARTMENT.
Unapproachable Bargains,
TTTE are aware that Handkerchiefs must be
TV 6old at an amazing sacrifice in order
to create any interest so soon after the holi
days. Acting under this impression we have
secured a manufacturer's stock ofHANDKER
CHIEFS, and shall put the entire lot on sale
at prices that will astonish the multitude of
buyers that will throng our Bargain Counter
on MONDAY, February 11.
Manufacturer’s stock of Ladies’ Linen
Cambric, Plain and Colored Bordered Hem
stitched HANDKERCHIEFS at 3’i cents
each, worth 10 cents.
Manufacturer’s stock of Ladies’ All Linen,
Solid Colored Bordered HANDKERCHIEFS
at 8 cents, real value 15 cents.
Manufacturer’s stock of Ladies’ All Linen
White and Colored Bordered HANDKER
CHIEFS at 10, n}4, 15,17 and 19 cents, are re
markable bargains.
Manufacturer's stock of Ladies’ White Scal
loped and Embroidered, in fine grass linen, in
freat variety of patterns, at 57 cents each.
here is not a style of Handkerchief in this
lot which was 6old for less than $1 to 1 50 in
December.
One lot of Children's All Linen Colored Bor
der Hemstitched HANDKERCHIEFS at 10
cents; the cheapest ever sold.
One lot of Gents’ All Linen Plain and Col
ored Bordered HANDKERCHIEFS at 25
cents; cost |3 75 dozen to import.
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.,
135 BROUGHTON STREET.
PLATSHEK’S!
GRAND CLEARANCE SALE NO. I
OF OVER
25,000 Yards Embroidery
EMBRACING IN ALL A MOST EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL
DESIGNS IN
Irish Point, Cambric, Nainsook and Swiss
EDGINGS AND INSERTIONS,
AT SUCH MARVELOUS LOW PRICES
That they are bound to meet with a speedy sale. Every lady should take tbe
opportunity and call early to secure the choice.
Kid Gloves Still at Bargain Prices ?
iUatrr giltrr.
JEWETT’S ~|gg
ITER PlLTElfrjflH
FILTER and COOLER W jjf
John A, Douglass & Cos.,
157 Broughton St., Savannah, 61. ■/a
(fonftetiottn’.
JOSEPH S. OPPENHEIMER,
CONFECTIONER,
SUCCESSOR TO .JOHN NUGENT,
139 1-2 Broughton Street, South Side,
Begs to inform the public he will be pleased to supply tbe best quality of CAKES,
CONFECTIONERIES, SODA WATER and ICE CREAM. Banquets, Balls and
Picnic parties supplied at short notice.
PmmonUo, lUatrliro, <£tr.
Diamonds! Diamonds!
TH E undersigned begs to acquaint his many patrons and the public at large that he has
purchased one of the largest and most select stocks of these precious stones which were
eve under one roof in this city. I invite an inspection, and feel satisfied that I can suit everv
tas c. I guarantee every article as I represent them to be, besides I DO NOT CHARGE
FANCY PRICES, but sell my goods at a very small advance above cost and at strictly but
one price, thereby placing the amateur and the judge upon the same footing.
11l I I "F I I B II lAf H I11“ ft I have every grade of these celebrate 1
H 9 I y Rfl uH Is I fUL V Watches, in Gold and Silver Cases an i
WHLI nHIVI Wfl I n,rrel * t 11
aF* I ■ If" I nif There is no better assortment of all kinds of Jewelry to be found,
Ila IAS 5L a U V aml 1 can sult everybody, whether it be for a BRACELET. EAR
il fir! ll I RINGS, PINS, CHAINS, LOCKETS, or anything else that mav ’>.
QftliH CiluQru/QrQ r^ie S oo '* B 1 handle are from the most reliable manufacturers. I in-
OUIIU OIIVCI Wdl C. vite comparison in quality and price. 1 mean Strictly Bi siM" .
M . STERNBERG,
22 1-2 BARNARD STREET.
Watches, Diamonds,
JEWELRY,
Sterling Silverware, Plated Ware,
OPTICAL GOODS, FRENCH CLOCKS, GOLD CANES,
FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Prices Low, Quality Correct ami Assortment Large. Save Money
by liiiyiug at
a. l. i)i :si{< >1 II A A
INO. HULL STREET.
Cfmbroi&rrico.
WE WILL CONTINUE OUR
EMBROIDERY SALE!
CONSISTING OF
HAMBURGS, NAINSOOKS,
SWISS and IRISH POINTS.
Our entire stock has been reduced to astonishing low prices.
A BARGAIN IN LADIES’ BOSE.
Consisting of FANCY’ and SOLID COLORS, all sizes, and full regular made, at the uniform
price of Ssc. a pair, worth 50c.
A T GUTMAN’S,
141 BROUGHTON STREET.
Pm ©coco.
ALTMAYER’S
135 Broughton Street.
JERSEYS!
JERSEYS!
Grand Display This Week!
1 A HE latest and most elaborate assortment
. ever shown in this citv in Ladies’, Misses’
Children’s and Boys’ JERSEY'S, in all colors
and all sizes.
Our stock of IMPORTED JERSEY’S sur
pass anything ever beferc exhibited in regard
to quality and perfect fit, and prices having
been made to favorably impress all as to their
excellent value.
Parasols, Parasols.
In addition to our immense stock of Para
sols shown last week, we received per steam -
er Chattahoochee Saturday, 9th, a most ele
gant and sunerb line of IMPORTED PARA
SOLS, which stand without a parallel in ail
our previous presentations. Ladies desiring
to avail themselves of these superior values
should lose no time in doing 60.
Our Unprecedented Bargains in
KID GLOVES
Will be continued for this week only.
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.,
135 BROUGHTON STREET.