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GERSTER’S BABY.
EUGENE FIELD.
One night the charming Gerster said:
“Now listen, t nlonel. to me—
I will not sing—l'll quit instead,
I nless I'm paid what's due me.
I’m mud to think that you should think
That I am such a greeny
To let vou lavish all the chink
•in Mrs. Nicolini."
Then Mapleson, in guileful vein.
Protested In- was busted,
And Gerster on the midnight train
Incontinently dusted.
Hack to her babe in York she hied—
This operatic charmer—
A nd put all other roles aside
For that of simple mamma.
But Mapleson. w hen she had tied,
Forthwith began to worry.
The telegram he stint her said,
“Come back, and please to hurry;
il build a palace car for you
And bear your tantrums meekly,
And pay your salary when it's due—
That is to sav, tri-weekly.”
So back to Mapleson went she
A- sweet as dripping honey,
And now is happy as can be
Because she's got tier money.
A hen asked what caused the recent row.
They answer, 'twas the baby.
Thir- fairy tale's sufficient now
To fool the public—may be.
Till! CHINESE AIIJIY.
The Army a Motley Aggregation of
Thieves and Beggars. Cnuniforuied and
I'oorly Armed.
Cor. Allge 'lrit,mg.
The Chinese army is divided into four
categories—the landers or I’ntny, the in
fantry or Yaflg-tzian-Doj, the cavalry or
Mma-Doj, the artillery or San-Doj. The
Tsii ntsing is a battalion of 1,000 men—in
fantry- sufsdivul’ and into twenty compa
nies of fifty men each. The smallest frac
tion is called schanquan, and consists of
• ten men. tinder the command of an inte
rior officer. who receives as pay 0 shil
lings and 3 jience a month, the command
er receiving 10s. A brigade consists
of from live to ten of such battalions, and
the commander is paid £3l 7s. 6d. a
month. In order to exist with such a
nominal salary, both lower and higher
class officers are obliged to have recourse
to exactions, and fretpiently to theft and
violence. The Chinese soldier is there
fore a scourge to his country, and is gen
erally avoided. When the troops march
or have to be quartered, the people look
upon it as a calamity; towns and fields
are indiscriminately plundered, and the
approach of the army is sufficient to put
the inhabitants of a town to flight, who
carry with them all their portable prop
erty.
Men who belong to the caste of the
Mandshu are regarded as the true sol
diers. Their maintenance is provided tor
by :tte Ktnperor. Other castes can only
enter the army through influential recom
mendation. The physical condition of the
Mandshu soldiers is not much taken into
account, so that there is an important
av: -age of the crippled and maimed in the
army. Great numbers are absent on ar
bitrary leave, and thereby the effective
strength is much reduced. Soldiers com
pletely unfit for service often receive an
imperial permission to beg. The Chinese
soldier is not bound to his flag nor by any
oath of fidelity; in time of peace he is at
liberty to return home.
A regulation uniform scarcely exists.
The military outfit principally consists of
a sky-blue woolen blouse trimmed with
fur: on the chest and back of this gar
ment are sewed two white disks, on which
are written the words “soldier” or “artil
lery.” The rest of the costume consists
of white pantaloons, very wide and tied
around the calf of the leg, silk shoes with
thick card-board soles, and in summer a
broad-brimmed straw hat, in winter a
kind of turban. In this dress the Chinese
soldier can scarcely be distinguished from
a civilian. The arms are in a worse State,
China having lately been flooded with
guns of all kinds, and there prevails a
most comical confusion with regard to
caliber and ammunition. Col. Kreitner,
an Austrian well known by his travels in
China, says that half the Chinese army is
armed with the old tire-lock gun. three
tourtns of the other half with old pereus
ion guns of German, English, American
and French manufacture, and tl ? remain
ing fourth with modern breech-loaders.
The auxiliary troops arc still armed
With lances, hows and arrows, and clubs.
For a short period the infantry were fur
nished w ith bayonets, but as many acci
dents happened, the awkward soldiers
wounding each other in the legs while
practicing, the dangerous weapon is now
left safely at home. The artillery is no
better provided; the old unrifled cannon
are in tolerable condition, requiring but
litth- .'are, hut the Armstrong and Krupp
guns are in a deplorable state. The com
mander looks upon them as show pieces,
anu only on great occasions is a shot fired
against a target, the soldiers hissing and
he.,ting whenever a miss occurs. The
men who serve the guns are ill-taught and
too numerous. Four clean the piece, six
carry ammunition, two point the gun ac
cording to the directions from an officer,
and commands are issued in English,
German or French, according to the na
tionality of the instructor.
fue barracks are shapeless buildings,
tin -• in the towns bearing the inscription,
“I" ware! Keep off! Here live soldiers.”
There are no proper regulations. A gun
i' fired in the morning, but the Chinese
soldier generally refuses to be disturbed,
ain. ttly begins drill in the afternoon.
'Batches of ten or fifteen men mess to
gether at the hours most convenient to
them. Officers who do not belong to the
Mandshu caste are ranked below the civil
” /wants, having to pass an examination,
w ; ; c is not required of the others.
The superior officers have a bad name.
I'l-t y impose ransom and encourage plun
der. .Yen appear at parade in a tipsy
siate, and, it in want, sometimes sell the
amts >f a whole company, which has then
t" g through the exercise using bamboo
-ti The officers go unarmed in time
ei peace. Discipline and order are almost
unknown. While marching tlTe soldiers
ch ,sc w hat road suits them best, and it
is seldom that fifty men remain together.
The arsenal near Shanghai is directed by
a < rman soldier named Brettsehneider,
Ault produces about ten Remington rifles
A Peer.
Chamber? Journal.
When once a nobleman—by which is
here meant a person ennobled by the
' " n—takes his seat in the upper house
el i’.irlia'ueut he becomes a peer of the
realm, that is, a lord ct Parliament; and
-‘lt' Tagh the well-known gradations of
duk< marquises, carls, viscounts, and
ban its exit, yet, so far as Parliamentary
rights a.econcerned, all ennobled persons
who sit in the House of Lords are the
!'• 1 rs or equals of each other. We pur
s' sely make use of the word “nobleman,”
be ause the two Archbishops and all the
Bishops who sit there and vote, too. are
no: peers; for although they are spiritual
lords of Parliament, are" styled “My
L/rd.” and—with the exception of the
Bishop of Sodor and Man, who has a
“place but no voice” —may vote, they are
not-noble,” and their dignity is not he
reditary. For this reason, a peer merely
for life, in the absence of an act of Parlia
ment conferring privileges of peerage
upon hint, would not be a “noble” person.
Accordingly, when Baron Parke in 1 356
w -.s raised to the peerage for life as Lord
W ensleydale, it was decided by the Lords’
Committee of Privileges that his lordship
could not sit and vote as a peer. Selden,
in his "Titles of Honor,” seems to refer to
life pee.ages as quite ordinary distinc
tions; hut whether they were so or not, it
is clear that they were practically un
known or had fallen into disuse between
his time (1584 1B54) and that of Lord
B ensleydale. However, now, by section
bof 59 and 40 Viet., chapter 59. (the Ap
tx Bate Jurisdiction Act, 1*76,) the Crown
ittav appoint by letters patent two quali
fied persons to be Lords of Appeal in Or
dinary. with a salary of £6,000 per annum
ea. . And these persons shall be entitled
tor life to rank as Barons, “by such style
a> r Majesty shall lie pleased to appoint,
ami shall, during the time that they con
tinue in their office as Lords of Appeal in
Ordinary, and nolonger.be entitled to a
writ of summons to attend and to sit and
'"te in the House of Lords.” lint “their
dignity as 'ords of Parliament shall not
descend to their heirs.” Since this enact
ment three Lords of Appeal in Ordinarv
have been created—namely, Lord Black
burn. (formerly Mr. Justice Blackburn,)
Lord Gc-dor, who is deed, and Lord Wat
son. The object of appointing these no
ble and learned persons to life peerages is
“for the purpose of aiding the House ot
Lords in the hearing and determination
ot appeals.”
Yankee Gumption.
Bangor Commercial.
A Bangor trader ordered a ton of coal,
which he wished to put in the second floor
ot hi- store. The coal was dumped betore
the building, and the merchant went into
the loft and put up a target. Going out
doors where there were fifteen or twenty
countrymen loafing he said: “Boys, come
and have some fun throwing coal at that
target.” The crowd became interested,
ami tired away at the mark until all the
coal was in the building. What did the
merchant do? Give theerowd ice cream?
Oh. no; but he brought water to wash
their hands.
YOSEMITE FALLS.
The St#ry of the Discovery of the Won
derful Valley.
A correspondent writing from Andover
t Mass.) to the Boston Post , tells the fol
lowing story of the discovery of the Yose
mite Falls:
It is not recorded in any work that lam
aware of, who tne parties" were that dis
covered the Yosemite. The recent geo
graphies, cyclopaedias, and books of his
torical record, which give brief notice of
that wonder of creation are silent as to
the men who first penetrated the val
ley and gazed with astonished eyes upon
the world-renowned wonder ol nature,
and merely mention the fact that the dis
covery was made by a party "in pursuit
of a band of Indiaus who had made them
selves troublesome to the whites,
and who were understood to have
a stronghold in the mountains where
thov imagined they were safe from any
attack, and in which they sought refuge
w hen obliged to retreat from the neigh
borhood of the settlement.” The main fact
is as stated. The discovery was by a
small party who were in pursuit of the
Indians. 1 happened to know the princi
pal actors in that affair, and, being a
lover of historical accuracy,even in small
matters, beg leave to recall a few inci
dents by way of reminiscence of by-goue
days—the good old days of ’49. I wintered
in "’49 on the Tuolurnnes river, and I will
so far digress as to say it was the
severest winter 1 ever passed in
California, although my experience
extended to nearly twenty years’
subsequent residence, all of which
was passed in the mountain regions of
country, extending from l’uget Sound to
the Tulare Lakes. In the spring of that,
year, as soon as traveling became practi
cable, my partner, Alonzo Ridley, and
myself packed a mule and started on a
prospecting tour towards the Mercedes
river, and reached a small stream, a tri
butary of that river, where we located a
trading post. The stream was called
Matsell’s creek, since and now named
Coulterville.
A few miles below the mouth of the
brook, on the main river Mercedes, dis
tant about ten miles, was a beautiful lit
tle valley known as “Happy Valley,” the
abiding-place of a numerous tribe of In
dians. A white man had come among
them about the time of the discovery of
gold and gained the confidence of "the
tribe, and, at the time I knew him, exer
cised supreme control. The tribe con
sisted of about 500 men and women,
or, as they were more commonly
called, “bucks and squaws.” They
mined and worked for him, and all the
gold flowed into his treasury. By obtain
ing a constant supply of Indian goods and
trinkets, which he did by running a large
pack train to the coast, he kept them
contented and reaped the benefit of their
labor. How he obtained such supremacy
over not only that tribe, but all tho
Indians with "whom he came in contact,
was and is a mystery to me. There was
nothing imposing in personal appearance,
on the contrary he was small in stature,
but active, quick in motion, and fearless.
T have known many men who had great
sway and control over the Indians, but
never one like him. James Savage, Maj.
Savage, or Jim Savage as he was more
commonly called, was the man. The
amount of gold that he collected was im
mense, and when he went below to the
coast it was scattered with a profuse
hand, as though he knew where to find
more, which he certainly did. He was
finally killed in a “personal difficulty” on
King’s river, by a white man, con
cerning a disputed land claim. In 1851
all the Indians in Southern California
living in the mountain regions seemed
possessed of the war spit it. Whatever
may have been the originating cause of
this feeling the fact exists that all that
region of country in the Mariposa anti
Mercedes was in a state of war excite
ment, and in all camps there was the
greatest vigilance and every man on the
alert, and a general warfare was carried
on for some time. It was literally “war
to the knife and the knife to the hilt.”
It was after a raid by a wild band,
which had attacked and committed depre
dations on a mining camp, that a small
party of whites under the direction and
command of James Savage and my part
ner, Alonzo Ridley, followed up and pene
trated the Yosemite valley, which expe
dition resulted in their coming upon the
great natural wonder the Yosemite Falls,
This was in the early part of 1851. On
the return of the party I had the account
of the discovery from Ridley himself, who
was an enthusiastic admirer of the moun
tain life which he had adopted, and to
gether we passed through many ad
venturous scenes, both by “flood
and field.” was "a West
ern man, and, as I have stated
was afterward killed. Ridley was trom
Maine; a braver, truer heart never beat;
independent of thought, conscientious in
his convictions, inflexible of will, and
although a Northern man. when the war
of the rebellion broke out he went where
the conviction of duty led him and fought
in the Southern army against home and
kindred, and yielded up his life in their
cause. When those officers on the
Pacific coast resigned and joined the
Southern aimy, Ridley raised a company
and escorted them across the country,
being himself killed in one of the great
battles ot the war.
The reader will pardon an allusion to
myself. lie went one way and I went an
other; my duty called me to the army of
the Union, but"l honor the man who, re
gardless of the world’s obloquy and scorn,
can stand to his conviction, and it was
Alonzo Ridley, one of the discoverers of
Yosemite Falls, my old-time friend of
other days, who bravely fought lor his
convictions. I pay this tribute to ills
memory.
Birds That Do Not Fly.
Longman'* Magazine.
The most apparently distinctive feature
of birds lies in the fact that they fly. It
is this that gives them their feathers,
tbeir wings, and their peculiar bony
structure. And yet, truism as such it
statement sounds, there are a great many
birds that do not fly—and it is among
these terrestrial or swimming kinds that
we must look for the nearest modern ap
proaches to the primitive bird type. From
the very beginning birds had "to endure
the fierce competition of the mammals,
which had been developed at a slightly
earlier period; and they have for the
most part taken almost entirely to the air,
where alone they possess a distinct
superiority over their mammalian com
peers. There are certain spots, however,
jvhere mammals have been unable to
penetrate, as in oceanic islands; and there
are certain other spots which were insu
lated for a long period from the great con
tinents, so that they possessed none of the
higher classes of mammals, as in the case
of Australia, South America, New Zea
land, and South Africa. In these dis
tricts terrestrial birds had a chance
which they had not in the great circum
polar land tract, now divided into two
portions, North America oil the west, and
Asia and Europe on the east. It is in
Australia and the southern extremities
of America and Africa, therefore, that we
must look for the most antiquated lorrns
of birds still surviving in the world at the
present day. The decadent and now al
most extinct order of struthious birds, to
which ostriches and cassowaries belong,
supplies us with the best examples of
such antique forms. These birds are all
distinguished from every other known
species, except the transitional Solen
hofen creature and a few other old types,
by the fact that they have no keel to the
flat breast hone, a peculiarity which at
once marks them out as not’adapted for
flight. Every one whose anatomical
studies have been carried on as far as the
carving of a chicken or a pheasant for
dinner knows that the two halves of the
breast are divided by a sharp keel or edge
protruding from the breast-bone, but in
the ostrich and their allies such a keel is
wanting and the breast-bone js rounded
and blunt. Atone time these flat-chest
ed birds were widely distributed over the
whole world, for they are found in fossil
forms from China to Peru, but as the
mammalian race increased and multi
plied and replenished the earth, only the
best adapted keeled birds were able to
bold their own against these four-legged
competitors in the great continents. Thus
the gigantic ostriches of the Isle of Shep
pey and the great divers of the Western
States died slowly out, leaving all their
modern kindred to inhabit the less pro
gressive southern hemisphere alone.
Even there, the monstrous tepyornis, a
huge stalking wingless bird, disappeared
from Madagascar in the tertiary age,
while the great moa of New Zealand,
after living down to almost historical
times, fell a victim at last to that very
aggressive and hungry mammal, the
Maori himself. This almost reduces the
existing struthious types to three small
and scattered colonies, in Australasia.
South Africa, and South America respect
ively, though there are still probably a
few "ostriches left in some remote parts of
the Asiatic continent.
Wood andCoal
For sale by R. B. Cassels. Tavlor and East
Broad streets. Telephone No. 77 ,—Aclv.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1884.
SPOTTING BARTENDERS.
INGENUITY STRAINED TO PRE
VENT STEALING IN SALOONS.
Fair Sharing With tho Boss No Longer
Satisfactory—Spying Wives and Chil
dren and Bosses Watching Through
Peepholes.
Meio York Sun.
The proprietor of a big Third avenue
liquor store slapped down the lid of his
desk, locked the desk, opened the money
drawer behind the bar, and took out all
the money except about $5 in bills and? 5
in change, put on his overcoat and hat,
took a last long look around the store,
told the bartender to buy some cigar light
ers if a peddler came around with any,
and went out, saying that he would be
back in about three hours.
“Now,” said the bartender in a very
low voice, “you would imagine that he
had gone away, wouldn’t you?”
“Well, hasn’t he?”
“Not by a long shot," said the bartender.
“It he is not in this room, he will be here
before you can count thirty-nine.”
The bartender noted the mystified ex
pression upon the reporter’s" face, and
presently remarked that he would explain
what he had said it the reporter would
movalong the bar to the cigar case close
by the door. He followed on his side of
the counter, and began his explanation in
a whispered tone by saying: “I guess I
ciin’t bo heard here. I don't want to be
caught talking about it, you Know, tuc
boss is in this room now. I’m sure of it,
for 1 think I heard him come in. Take a
look around and see if you see him, but
—remember—he is dead certain to be
looking at you, so you don’t want to give
yourself away.”
The reporter took a cigar, lighted it,
and, under the pretence of looking at the
big stock of attractively bottled liquors,
narrowly examined the’ big store, and
afterward the smaller room behind it.
Being absolutely convinced that no one
but the bartender and himself were in the
room in human form, he was conscious
ot;a slight sense of mystery, blended with
a faint suspicion ‘that the"bartender was
launching a practical joke.
“I haven’t looked behind the bar, or in
the water pitcher, or down the bung
holes of the barrels,” said he, “so 1 sup
pose he must be in one of those places.”
“No,” said the bartender, taking a seal
ring from his finger and looking at it as if
it was the subject of what he was saying.
“The doss is behind a little lattice blind
right opposite the other end ot the bar.
Don’t look now, but when you are going
out you can see it. It looks like the rest
of the woodwork. You can walk right up
to it and stare at the slats in every possi
ble manner without being able to see
whether or not any one is behind them,
hut by means of some tiny gimlet holes,
whoever is behind there can see every
thing that takes place in this room. You
will notice that that part of the wall
projects into the room. It is a little
room or box built on purpose.
As soon as the boss quitted the door
just now he walked right around the
corner and let himself into that box by
means ot a door leading in from the
street. You will see the door w hen you
go out. When he let himself into the box
he found his wife sitting there reading or
knittiug. She got up from the chair and
mounted a steep ladder-like flight ot stairs
into her rooms overhead. She will attend
to her housework until the time agreed
upon for him to quit watching, and then
will either take his place or send down
one of the larger children, who will then
have got back from school. What do they
want to watch for? To see that the bar
tenders don't steal.”
“But you have got an electric register
ing apparatus and checks ”
“Y'es, and in busy hours we have s boy
to take the checks and money, and make
the change, bnt, don’t you see, if the
bartenders and the boy stand in together
and don't pull the machine, the machine
won’t register. The boss is up to every
thing. lie believes there is no certainty
like being sure. So, when he is not
Matching through that gimlet hole, and
putting down every cent we take in, some
member ol' the family is doing It for him.
The electric register records every trans
action on a tape in that little box at the
same instant that it records it here.”
The reporter said that he would not
have thought that the bartender would
till his position under such circumstan
ces, but the bartender smiled and replied
that if it wasn’t one thing it was sure
to be another, so what difference did it
make?
“Bartenders are supposed to be dis
honest. I guess there is no getting around
that,” said he. “Of course a great many
are not, but the way the liquor business is
carried on is proof that the I losses be
lieve the majority of the bartenders to be
more or less given to dividing the re
ceipts. I’m leaving my own morality out
of the question. You "would think me a
fool if 1 said one thing, and a liar if I said
the other; but I find the business is run
on the principle that 1 may be crooked,
whether lam or not. You’d be surprised
at the lengths to which the bosses go to
prevent stealing. In two of the largest
concert halls in the city the proprietors’
wives spend most of their time at the
cash drawer, and In many of the busy
German places, nowadays, the wife
or son takes in the "money. Yes,
indeed, there are German gin
mills where the daughters do that work.
In the last place 1 worked the boss had a
: mighty unfair plan. He was an Irish
| man, fond ot fishing and opposed to work.
| He makes it a rule to spend two consecu
tive weeks behind the bar in each six
months. In that way he gets an idea of
how the business is running. ‘Now,’ he
says to each new bartender. ‘I want $9OO
i a week trom you. More it I can get it,
j but $9OO sure.’ 1 was fool enough to try
! it. I did not turn in $9OO the first week,
| but after that I turned in more than that
| sum every week for more than a month,
i Business was very good. Suddenly the
l receipts hegatv to’ drop off. I could not
! turn in the required amount, and I was
j discharged under a cloud.
; “I once worked for a man who has sev
eral liquor stores in New York—four, 1
! think, but he has had more than that at
times. Ilis plan was to measure all his
' goods every week. He allowed so many
drinks to each quart bottle, and so many
, drinks to each quarter keg of beer. He
1 locked the stock up in each place and left
the bartender so many tilled bottles each
day. He knew within a dollar of w hat lie
; ought to get. lie took an inventory of
j every sealed bottle and every separate ci
gar once a week. That was pretty fair in
itself, and he was by nature a
fair man. I got along well with him,
and never tried to beat hint or was sus
pected of beating him, but he had another
bartender who went into the thing as if it
was a game of chess. lie made a science
of getting mot e money out of the business
■ than the boss ever dreamed could be made
ot it. For instance, be would get twenty
five more glasses of lager out of a keg
than the boss would have believed possi
ble. and would do it right before the
boss’ eyes, drawing at least one-third
froth. He used, when he got hold of a
greenhorn or a drunken man, to sell him
5-cent cigars for 10 cents. I shouldn’t
wonder if lie watered the liquors in the
bottles just a little. The boss thought the
world of him, and, indeed, he was a
mighty good bartender.
“But the iugenuity is mostly on the
side of the bosses,” the bartender con
cluded. “They’ve got peepholes cut in
the ceilings, they hire men that worm
themselves into "the secrets of the bar
tenders, they employ chaps to loaf about
their saloons and keep their eyes open,
they turn their wives and children into
cashiers and spies, they shadow their bar
tenders when they are not at work, and
they compare notes and buy machinery
and tax their brains until you wouldn’t
wonder sometimes if a bartender who
started out to be honest should take a lit
tle credit to liiinselt for occasionally beat
ing his boss out of a dolhir. When I first
went at bartending the rule was that if a
bartender divided fair with the boss he
was considered square, but there are too
many liquor stores now, and the bosses
can’t afford to be too generous.”
Concerning Gloves.
Jfeto York Graphic.
Mrs. Horace Greeley had an antipathy
for kid gloves—9he would never put them
on. A correspondent remembers a bout
6ke had with Margaret Fuller on this sub
ject. We all met on the street, and, in
stead of saying “good morning,” or some
such human "salutation, Mrs. Greeley
touched Margaret’s hand with a little
shudder and said: “Skin of a beast!
Skin of a beast!” “Why, what do you
wear?” inquired the astonished maiden
from Maine. “Silk,” said Mrs. Greeley,
reaching out her hand. Margaret just
touched it and shuddered, crying: “En
trails of a worm! Entrails of a worm!”
For Coughs and Throat Disorders
Use Brown’s Bronchial Troches. “Have
never changed my mind respecting them,
except I think better of that which I
began thinking well of.”— lien, llenry
IF'l'd Beecher. Sold only m boxes.
-ESTHETIC BURIAL.
A Suggestion bv Miss M. Betham-Ed
wsrils.
Pall Mall Gantte.
Surely now is the moment to say a few
words about the burials ot the future.
The sudden changes of the M’eather at this
time of the year seriously affect the bills
of mortality, and hardly a day passes but
our street is traversed by one of those
lugubrious processions which add much
more than is usually imagined to the
gloom associated with dissolution and the
grave. We are thereby reminded ol the
necessity for some association formed for
the purpose of bringing about a less hide
ous fashion of bearing to the tomb, and
there can be no doubt of the readiness
with which many of us M'ould join it when
formed. The matter is easy enough. It
is only necessary lor a few learned,
thoughtful, and artistic men and women
to league together and accomplish in this
field what has already been accomplished
in domestic art. Membership should ba
open to all under certain conditions, and
all members, whether resident in the
United Kingdom or in the more accessi
ble quarters of Europe, should be entitled
to aesthetic burial. I am putting down
these thoughts on paper merely as a ten
tative suggestion, in the hope that the
suggestion will be seriously taken up by
those who have the leisure* and capacity
to M ork it out. Abundant scope for in
vention here, and of course the mode and
scale of interment should depend upon
the individual and career which has
closed with him. Music should be the
invariable accompaniment to the grave,
alM'ays solemn, yet not altogether,uncheer
ful. lno imuii UouMo, trappings, and
mutes must be altogether abolished and
replaced by a light open ear, with white
drapery and abundance 'ol flowers in the
case of children, but in that of men and
women, cut down in their promise, their
prime, or at the close of a long and useful
career, a symbolism altogether original
and strictly appropriate. At the present
day, except in the case of royalty and
military men, one funeral is precisely
like another, the additional pomp impart
ed by wealth lending perhaps extra som
breness. What we want is, not only
aestheticism, but individuality iu our
mode of burial. The man of a thousand
ideas should not be borne to the tomb
after a fashion as insignificant as that of
the man without any. The noble charac
ter, the commanding spirit, the splendid
achievements, which raise one human be
ing troin another should be symbolized to
the eyes of all as his remains are borne to
their’last resting-place. Thus a funeral
would be a moral lesson as well as a
beautitul, albeit solemn spectacle.
For testheticism before everything! Let
there be, first of all, beauty in our mode
of burial. Let us no longer tolerate the
nineteenth-century undertaker, so little
in keeping uith the Christianity ofany
age or the scientific spirit of our own. It
is odd hoM’ the hopefulness and faith in
culcated by the Christian religion should
be thus belied in one of its most solemn
ceremonials. Surely all u’lio believe in
the “world to come and the life everlast
ing” should put on white robes and gar
lands instead of crape and sables when
bidden to a funeral. Nor to the philoso
phic minded outside Christianity can
death have any unbearable sadness*about
It, except in the case of the very young,
and those prematurely cut ott'. Who, see
ing that death is a condition of our mor
tal state, would wish to live on and on
indefinitely, surviving his friends and his
faculties? Surely, in Dryden’s words:
And could we choose the time and choo e
aright,
'Tis best to die our honor at the height,
When we have done our ancestors no shame,
But served our friends and M elt secured our
fame.
Then should we wish our happy life to close,
And leave no more for fortune to dispose,
so should we make our death a glad relief
From future shame, from sickness, and from
grief.
Enjoying while we live the present hour.
And dying in our excellence and flower.
This matter of aesthetic burial is of more
moment than may at first sight be appar
ent. Life must be the best expression of
humanity, and often it is a very inadequ
ate expression, too. In an age "of positive
science, a generation imbued with the
spirit of Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and
others, it is high time that M'e should ac
company, and when our own turn conies
be accompanied, to thegrave alter a fash
ion less meaningless and uiioecoming
than is at present In vogue. We are
evolutionists. AYe believe in the theory
of development and the doctrine of con
tinuity. Why, then, this unmitigated
gloom and despair, this lugubrious taw
driuess of funerals? Surely the symbol
ism of such an occasion should be more
cheerful, more moving. Initiators may
comfort them selves with the re
flection that if they cannot make
things better, they certainly cannot
make them Morse. So let us hope
soon to be enabled to enroll ourselves in
an a>sthetic burial association, Mhich
would certainly do an’ay M ith one pang
at the notion of quitting this earthly stage
of activity and maybe usefulness. It is
a matter for the consideration of all, alike
the devout believer and the humble seeker
after truth, for Christian, Jew, and agnos
tic, irrespective of creed. The suggestion
is thrown out for the leisurely and the
true lovers of beauty to take up, but I
could make many more did space permit.
Kuskin on l’li^tue-Cloudg,
London Daily Telegraph.
Lecturing at the London Institution on
the plague-cloud, Mr. Kuskin said he was
desirous of drawing attention to a series
of cloud phenomena which, so far as be
could weigh existing evidences, were pe
culiar to our own time, and had not
hitherto received any special notice from
meteorologists. Neither ancient nor
modern poets referred to these storm or
plague-clouds, and, so far as he could
ascertain, they had not been seen in the
skies of England, France or Italy prior to
1870. In olden days when the w eather was
line it was beautifully tine, and when it
W'as bad it was abominably bad; bet
then there w r as an end of it. * Now, how
ever, we had these plague-clouds for
months without intermission. In consid
ering the whole, question of clouds they
should be careful of the advice of scien
tific people, who, if they endeavored to
explain anything, would’be sure to show
one of two things—either that they knew
nothing to speak of about their subject,or
that having seen one side of it, they had
not troubled to go round to the other.
Newton, for instance, w'as supposed to
have explained why an apple falls, but he
never explained the more difficult ques
tion how the apple got up there. There
fore they would not expect him to explain
anything, but merely to put a few facts
before them. His lirst experience of the
plague-cloud w r as in 1871, when walk
ing from Oxford to Abingdon, and he
then described it as appearing to be
composed of dead men’s souls, blown
hither and thither as if doubting
which was the fittest place for them.
The scientific signs of the plague wind
were briefly these: It was a wind of
darkness, the sky becoming suddenly
black. It was a malignant quality ot
wind, unconnected with any one quarter
of the compass. It always blew tremu
lously, making the trees shudder, and it
polluted as well as enhanced the violence
of all natural and necessary storms. If
they wanted to know what the sun looked
like in one of these plague-clouds they
had only to throw a bad half-crown into a
basin ot soapy water. If he were asked
the meaning of these venomous clouds he
could tell them none according to their
modern belief. lie could tell them what
meaning it would have borne to men of
olden time. For the last 20 years Eng
land and all foreign nations, either
tempting her or following her, had
blasphemed the name of the Deity
deliberately and openly; and every man,
by the advice of his superior, had done as
much injustice to his brother as it was in
his power to do. The seers of old predict
ed physical gloom, and we had had so
much physical gloom the last few r years
that it had been said that England was no
longer the empire on which the sun never
set, but had become one on which the sun
never rose. What was best to be done?
Whether they could bring back the sun
or not, they could assuredly bring back
their own cheerfulness, their own hon
esty, and their own tranquillity of mind.
The paths of rectitude and piety once re
gained, who should say that the promise
of old time wauld not be found to hold
good, and that the windows of heaven
being opened, blessings would be poured
out so that there would not be room
enough to receive them.
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the bowels, and is the best known remedy
fir diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. 25 cents a bottle.
Wood and Coal
For sale by R.B.Cassels, Taylor and East
Broad streets. Telephone No. 77.— Adv.
WASHINGTON ON FIGURES.
The Letter He Wrote to the Author of
the First American Arithmetic.
The following letter was written by
Washington to Nicholas Pike, of Neu'-
buryport. Mass., author of the first
arithmetic published in this country:
Mount Vernon, June 20th, 1788.—Sir: I
request you will accept my best (hanks for
your polite letter ot the Ist of Jamiarv
(which (lid not get to my hand till yesterday’)
—and also for the copy of your “System of
Arithmetic” which you were pleased to pre
sent to me.
The handsome manner in which that work
is printed and the elegant manner in which it
is bound are pleasing proofs of the progress
which tlie arts are making in this Country. But
I should do violence to my own feelings if 1
suppressed an acknowledgement of the belief
that the work itself is calculated to bo
equally useful A honorable to the United
States.
It is but right, however, to apprise vou
that, diffident of my own decision, the favo'ur
able opinion I entertain of your performance
is founded rather on the explicit A ample
testimonies of Gentlemen confessedly pos
sessed of great mathematical knowledge, than
on tlie partial Irnd incompetent attention 1
have been able to pay it myself. l!ut 1 must
be permitted to remark that the s ueject, in
my estimation, holds a higher rank in the
literary scale than you are disposed to al
low. The science of figures, to a certain de
gree, is not ouly indispensably requisite to
every walk of civilized life, but the investi
gation of mathematical truths accustoms the
mind to method and correctness in reasoning,
and is an employment peculiarly worthy of
rational beings. In a cloudy state of exist
ence, where so many things appear precari
ous to the bewildered research, it is here that
the rational faculties find a firm foundation
to rest upon, from the high ground of Math
ematical A Philosophical demonstration we
are insensibly led to far nobler speculations
& sublime meditations.
I hope & trust that the work will ultimately
prove not less profitable than reputable to
yourself. U seems to have been conceded,on all
hands, that such a system was much wanted.
Its merits being established by the approba
tion of competent Judges, I flatter myself that
the idea of its being an American produc
tion and the first of the kind which has ap
peared will induce every patriotic and liberal
character to give it all the countenance &
patronage in Ins power. In all events, you
may rest assured, that, as no person takes
more interest in the encouragement of Ameri
can genius, so no one will be more highly
gratified**'ith the success of your ingenious,
arduous & useful undertaking than ne, who
has the unfeigned pleasure to subscribe him
self with esteem & regard
Sir
Your most obedt. ami
Very Ilble Servant
Geo. Washington.
. “Außeyoir.”
From "Her Vas%ar Education ,” h>j Murat Hal
stead.
“All revoir.”
It was a sweet, girlish voice that spoke
these words—a voice that fell upon the
night air with a sad cadence in strange
and striking contrast to the beautiful face
and form of Caroline Catchfly as she stood
there on the veranda of Brierton A’illa
close-pressed in the arms of the only man
in all tlie world Mho had M _ on her heart,
and to whom she had given the one great
love of a woman’s life—that of the sum
mer after she has begun M earing store
bangs.
It is a solemn thing for a man—strong
willed, self-reliant, and with turquoise
blue suspenders—to win a M'oinan's love;
and amid all the radiant joy and feeling
of proud triumph there should be ever in
his mind the sense of a great responsibil
ity that may not be denied nor avoided.
For into his keeping lias been freely
placed that most precious of gifts—the
life of a pure, trusting woman. It is his
to make that life an ever-pleasant voyage
ailown silver-tinted streams, whose every
ripple laughs back responsive to the fer
vid hissings of the sun, or a sad, M-eary
march through the arid deserts of despair
and misery, upon M liose trackless u'astes
one sees only the M'hited skeletons of love
and hope and ambition.
Jasper K. Rollingstone knew this. He
kneM 1 that this fair girl, who M-as just bud- j
ding into M omanhood and her mother’s |
corsets, loved him with a passionate iu- ;
tensity and deep trustfulness. He knew !
that some day (provided they were mar- j
red and had any) she M ould he the mother j
ot his children—that her sweet voice
would teach the little lips to speak his
name, her hand guide aright the uncer
tain footsteps of infancy. AU this
came to him M'ith dreadful force as he
stood there in the purple haze of an
August twilight M'ith this woman’s gleam
in£ white ftiiiDt around bio noolr, hor prot
ty head upon his shoulder, and her deep
blue eyes, which seemed to mirror
only trustfulness and love, looking up
into his. But, despite all this—despite
the large, take-it-away-for-a-quarter kiss
that the wine-red lips o’erhanging tFe
riant mouth had pressed upon his brow—
there lurked in liis mind a vague shadowy
suspicion, a haunting fear that something,
he knew not what, M r as on Caroline’s
mind. It was the tone of her voice as she
spoke the words with which this chapter
opens-*-the mounrful cadence that M as al
most a sob —that bad affected him so
strangely and given birth to the upas
like suspicion which M'as blighting his
happiness.
“Why are you sad u'hen speaking those
M'ords ?”
No answer. The vesper chimes of the
cathedral a league aM 7 ay come stealing up
over the hills that lie'to the westward,
and as their tones—SM’eet and solemn and
faint —fall upon Caroline’s port ear Jasper
feels a shudder pass over her lithe form.
She is intensely religious, this girl, and
with the sudden instinct of a man Mho
has played third base be resolved to turn
this reverence of hers for all things spir
itual to account. “Listen,” be says, in
whispered tones. “It is the vesper hour.
The chimes are calling the faithful to M or
ship, and one Mho deliberately tells a
falsehood at this time can never be saved.
Y'ou know this, Caroline, do you not?”
“Yes,” murmurs the girl.
“And would you perjure yourself?”
“No.” Tlie voice is faint and lom\
“Then tell me,” he says, “why you were
sad when saying ‘Au revoir’ to me a little
time ago?”
“I cannot,” she says.
- “But you must,” continues Jasper, “I
demand an answer.”
For one instant she looks up at him, her
pure young face as M hite as if the hand of
death were upon it, and then she M'hispers
softly: “X cannot.”
He pushes her quickly from him, almost
rudely, aud then, as she stands there be
side a cluster of roses that have twined
themselves around a pillar, he sees the
drooping lips quiver as if in mortal agony,
and an instant later she has fallen at his
feet and is sobbing as if her heart would
break.
He picks her up in liis arms as he M'ould
a child and rains passionate kisses upon
her face. “Forgive me,” he cries. “I
was wrong to doubt you. It M’as but
idle curiosity on my part, and your re
fusal to answer my question angered me.”
“I will ansM'er it now,” she says.
“There is nothing to conceal. You M’ished
to know why I M as sad when saying ‘Au
revoir,’ and I replied that I could not tell
you. it is the truth.”
“But M hy can you not tell me the cause
of your sadness’ when speaking those
words?”
“Because,” she says, looking at him
tenderly, “I do not know what they
mean.”
.Extent of tile Czar’s Estate.
London Times.
One may form some idea of the extent
of the possessions belonging to the Rus
sian Emperor, as property immediately
attached to the croM n, when we hear that
the Altai estates alone cover an area of
40,000,000 desjatins, or over 170,000 square
miles, being about three times the size of
England aiid AVales. The Nertehinsk es
tates, in Eastern Siberia, are estimated
at about 18,000,000 desjatins. In the Altai
estates are situated the gold and silver
mines of Barnaul, l’aulov, Sinijov and
Loktjepp, the copper foundry at Sasoum,
and the great iron Morks at Gavrilov,
in the Salagirov district. The re
ceipts from these enormous estates
are in a ridiculously pitiful ratio
to their extent. In the year 1882 they
amounted to 950,000 rubles, or a little
more than £95,000; while for 1883 the
revenue M'as estimated at less than half
this sum. or about 400,000 rubles. The
rents, etc., gave a surplus over expense
of administration of about a million and a
half rubles. On the other hand, the work
ing of the mines showred a deficit of over a
million; hence the result just indicated.
A partial explanation of this very unsat
isfactory state of things is to tie found in
the situation of the mines, which are gen
erally in places quite destitute of wood,
while the smelting M-orks were naturally
situated in districts where Mood abounds,
sometimes as much as 600 or 700 kilo
metres distant from the mines. The cost
ot transport ot raw materials became
considerable in this way. By degrees all
the M'ood available in the neighborhood of
the smelting works became used up, and
it was necessary to fetch M'ood troin dis
tances of even over 100 kilometres. For
merly the mines were really penal settle
ments, worked by convicts, Mho M'ere
partly helped by immigrants whose sons
were exempted from military service on
the condition ot working in the mines.
But since the abolition of serfdom this
system has been quite altered, and there
is noM- a grufft deal of free labor ou the
ordinary conditions.
FACIOLI.E'S fortune.
The Frenchman in Florida who Wooed
Wealth aud Won It.
The neM-s somehow got to Jacksonville,
Fla., that Frank Faciolle held a part of
the ticket M hich dreM- the capital prize of
S7S,(XX) in the February drawing of the
Louisiana State Lottery Company. A
search was set up for him by a reporter,
but he could not be tound. Finally some
of his friends were discovered who sus
pected, although they did not know of his
good fortune.
Faciolle was a carpenter and cabinet
maker, at No. 23 J’ine street. He is 47
years of age, catno from Paris, of which
he is a native, to America nine years ago,
and settled in Jacksonville about a year
ago. He learned bis trade iu France.
He dropped in on one of his friends the
night before hi3 departure from Jackson
ville, and said he was going away.
“Why are you going?” asked his friend.
“Oh, business is dull in my line, and I
can get nothing to do.”
The mystery of his whereabouts was
solved on Friday, when he turned up iu
the office of the Louisiana State Lottery
Company, at the corner of St. Charles anil
Union streets. Faciolle had in his posses
sion one-fifth of the ticket No. 71,342,
M hich drew the capital prize of $75,000 at
the drawing on February 12, 188-1. He
presented the precious slip of paper, and
it Mas immediately exchanged for a check *
on the New Orleans National Bank, it i
was a noteM'orthy transformation scene—
coming to the office a poor cabinet-maker,
and leaving it comparatively a man of
means.
Faciolle is a single man, and came to
America to better his fortune. He labored
diligently for years, but did uot meet M'ith
much success until some lucky impulse
forced him to invest a dollar iu a lottery
ticket, which he ordered by correspon
dence from M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans.
He became aM-are of being entitled to a
share in the $75,1X10 prize soon after the j
draM’ing, and came here to collect his
money.
Faciolle says lie will continue at his
trade for another year, and will then re
turn to his sunny home in “La Belle
France” to meet his kindred and friends,
M'ho Mill doubtless be overjoyed at his
good fortune.— Meu) Orleans (La.) Pica
yune, March 2.
A FREE RIDE.
The Device of an Ingenious Englishman
to Beat a Railway Company
American Register.
A free journey by rail inside a carriage,
holding a “complimentary” in your waist
coat pocket, maybe, and doubtless is, a
very pleasant thing. To travel free, as
Mr, Geo. Adams, of Wolverhampton, Eng
land,did the other day,however,is scarcely
to be recommended. Nor is it at all plea
sant, as that gentleman will be ready at
this moment to admit. Mr. Adams found
himself in Liverpool sans six sous, and
being ot a sans souci disposition, deter
mined to get home by anew and original
method of “macing the rattler,” as a
cracksman would say, id est, of cheating
the railroad company. Ilis idea, to say
the least of it, was ingenious, but he had
reckoned without his host. He procured
two stout pieces of rope, which he fasten
ed to the axles of the carriage, leaving a
noose at the end of each. Into one noose
he put his legs, while he inserted his
shoulders into the other. In this position |
he hung when the train started. The
train was an express, and did not stop
until Crewe was reached, which is about
70 miles front Liverpool. He was rather
uncomfortable when the train began to
move, but when it got into full swing he
had real torture, and when he reached
Crewe he was nearly dead with fright.
Here he was taken into custody. To the
magistrate who adjudicated on the case
he explained that his sensations when
swaying to and fro were something awful
and the effect of the sleepers as they rush
ed past him nearly robbed him of reason
and be “was afraid that every moment
the rope would slip from his shoulders
and hang him.” The magistrate decided
very cutely that u bad had enough pun
ishment and remarking ’—v safely that
he was not likely to repeat the wri .
ment sent him about his bus:-
hess. An excursion on the stick of a
Congrove rocket on the tail of a comet
might be more exciting than this, but not
much.
How Great .Judges Make Invalid Wills.
St. James' Gazette.
The case of the Ear! of Cottenham agt.
Pepys, another illustration of the misfor
tune.. which proverbially overtakes the
wills of great lawyers, came before Mr.
Justice Cbitty ? in the Chancery Division.
It will oe remembered that
the will of the late Lord St. Leonards was
never found after his death, notwith
standing that the ex-Lord Chancellor was
ever po nting out in the numerous edi
tions of his popular legal handbook the
necessity of testators taking special pre
cautions lor the preservation of wills.
The late Lord Westburv, again, took
upon himself to alter the ’ will prepared
for him by one of the greatest and best
known conveyancers of his day, namely,
the late Vice-Chancellor Hall, and such
alterations gave rise to an important and
difficult question on the law of election.
The present action was one having
among its objects that of the administra
tion of the will of the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Cottenham. The will was in the
handwriting of his lordship, and by it he
authorized his trustees to invest his per
sonal estate “as they might think most
beneficial for his family or estate, exclud
ing all personal securities except in aid
of others.” The question arose whether
this direction authorized the trustees to
retain among the investments certain
shares of a life assurance office, canal
shares, etc. Mr. Justice Cbitty made an
order enabling the trustees to"retain all
the shares.
It is worthy of remark that the late
Master of the Rolls was cailed upon, dur
ing a period of three or # four years, to
decide upon cases involving the testa
mentary dispositions of three Lord Chan
cellors.
A Severed Food-Passage Healed.
Christopher Bedinger was found with
his throat cut at No. 73 Division street.
New York, on October 1, and taken to
Chambers street Hospital. He is now
able to attend to the duties of his trade—
that of a cigar-maker—as if nothing had
ever happened. His case was an unusual
one, and it has attracted much attention
because of its peculiar character. When
taken to fhe hospital it was tourid that the
razor with which the cut had been made
bad penetrated the food-passage. At first
it was believed Bedinger could not possi
bly live, but tbe physician having the
case in charge concluded there was a
mere possibility that the patient's life
might be saved. A tube was inserted
into the hole in Bediuger’s neck through
which nourishment was introduced into
his stomach in the form ot milk. The
wound was carefully dressed each dav.
Gradually the cut healed and at the eriJ
of a month the tube was removed. For
more than five weeks after this time the
patient could take only liquid nourish
ment. Then he was discharged from the
hospital a well man. Bedinger’s grati
tude for the benefits received from the
officers of the hospital has led him to call
at the hospital every week since his dis
charge and express liis thanks.
What will Burst a tiun.
' Philadelphia Times.
Some strangely twisted pieces of gun
barrels in a window on Chestnut street
exhibit in most interesting fashion the
vagaries of overtasked gun barrels. These
specimens are parts of some guns burst
by Capt. Heath of this city during some
protracted experiments with various
weapons. Five of the barrels were burst
because a ball was “stuck” near the muz
zle in each case, two gave way because
about four inches of snow was put in the
muzzle, two were burst by reason ot hav
ing some wet sand at the muzzle, and
three were ruptured by mud at the muz
zle. Sportsmen often’ scoop up a little
mud or sand unconsciously, bang away
at game, and are then astonished to find
the gun with a ragged and shortened
barrel.
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t MUST-CLASS in all its appointments and
’ unsurpassed by any hotel in the city.
Is especially inviting'to business men visit
ing city with their families.
Hates Reduced to $3 Per Day.
HENRY CLAIR, Lessee
HARNETT HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, CA„
IS conceded to he the most comfortable and
by far the hest conducted Hotel in Savan
nah. Rates: $2 per day
M. L. HARNETT.
Rliurral lllater.
GOSGRESS SPRING
The Standard Mineral Water.
Cathartic, Alterative. A specific
for disorders ot the Stomach, Liver
and Kidneys. Eczema, Malaria and all
impurities of the Blood.
So enviable a name has this famous Mineral
Water that the managers of inferior mineral
springs, desirous of imitating the natural
purityof the bottled water of Congress Spring,
inject a powerful acid in their bottled water
to preserve the crude ingredients in solution—
being so heavily laden with
LIME AMD IRON DEPOSIT.
With such contrivances, bogus testimonials
and doctored analysis cards they seek to rival
the pure medicinal waters of Congress Spring.
The regular season visitors to Saratoga fully
understand these crude, harsh, waters, many
of them after painful experiences. In proof
of this fact we can produce a great many re
sponsible names. Uut the Saratoga visitors
without experience, and many who use the
bottled waters (often labeled as curatives for
disorders which they positively aggravate),
should remember that crude, harsh mineral
waters produce headache, a sense of burning
and internal irritation, and do irreparable in
jury to the digestive organs and kidneys.
Congress Water Pure, Natural and
Reliable.
NONE GENUINE SOLD ON DRAUGHT.
For sale bv Druggists, Grocers, Wine Mer
chants and Hotels.
BOTTLE “C” MAKK.
asreco.
VALENTINE BEAKS
A full supply of VALENTINE and JIO
HAWK BEANS.
Rattlesnake and Scaly Bark
Watermelon Seed
From the celebrated Birdsville Seed Farm.
B. 1\ ULMER,
17 BROUGHTON STItEET.
BACON, JOHNSON & CO.,
In addition to tbeir large stock of
Planet! Lumber, Shingles, Laths, Etc.,
Have a full stock of
DRY CYPRESS AND PINE BOARDS.
(fotton Comin’W®.
"morse
COTTON COMPRESSOR
Exerts a pressure on tlie bale of 5,000,000
Pounds, the most powerful in the world.
lias loaded the largest cargoes, per ton
measurement, ever taken from an American
port.
The whole number of Cotton Compressors
in use in this country is lit, of eight, different
kinds, 48 of these are .MOUSE, and all in
troduced in the last six years. In the last
three years. ‘iO MOUSE have been built,
and ouly lour of all other kinds com
bined.
OVER ONE-HALF OF THE AMERI
CAN COTTON CROP IS NOW COM
PRESSED 15Y MORSE COMPRESSORS.
Its use is saving Four to Five Million Dol
lars Annually te the crop, in freight charges.
Several of those erected six years ago have
now compressed GAO,OOO to 800,000 bales
each, without breakage or appreciable wear.
Not a single breakage or defect lias
ever occurred in any one of the MORSE
COMPRESSORS, built of Cold Blast
Charcoal Iron.
It has made the business of cotton com
pressing the safest and most profitable of any
in the South.
Those wanted for next season should be or
dered at once. For particulars address the
sole proprietor.
S. B. STEERS,
NEW ORLEANS.
Hinirliro aitD Itwelrq.
F. H. MEYER,
120 Broughton Street,
Agent for the justly celebrated
WalthamWatches
Has always on hand all grades, sizes,
styles and qnalities. at the LOWEST
PRICES. Sells the hest and most
reliable goods only. Examine nty
stock before purchasing.
yublicittioito.
Georgia State Gazetteer!
Business l Planters' Directory,
.‘ld Volume, 1,282 Pages.
more information
than any book of tin. t-ifiit ~ornublislievl
in this country. It is invaluable to
men who desire information concerning Geoi
gin, her c ities and towns and her People. Ex
amine the table of. contents and see if it is
not just the book you want for reference:
ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS.
ALPHABETICAL LISTS OF TOWNS.
BUSINESS OB COMMERCIAL DIREC
TORY.
CENSUS.
CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
CLERGYMEN.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
COUNTY DIRE! TORY.
COUNTY OFFK ERS.
COURT DIRECTORY.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
DIRECTORY OF TOWNS.
EDUCATIONAL.
FARMS AND IMPROVED LANDS—num
ber of Acres.
FISH CULTURISTS.
FINANCIERS OF COUNTIES.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
GOVEKMENTA L.
LEGISLATURE.
MINES.
NEWSPAPERS.
PLANTERS AND FARMERS.
PRODUCTS OF COUNTIES.
RAILROADS.
11AILROAL> ABTSREVIATIOXS.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
STATE OFFICERS.
SUPERIOR AND SUPREME COURTS.
TEACHERS.
UNITED STATES COURTS.
The price is only $5 delivered in Savannah,
or it will be sent post paid to any address in
the United Slates or Canada for $5 40.
J. 11. ESTILL,
Savannah, Ga.
llmjal (SiltMita-
IRUBY'SROYAL)
'GILDING
Heady for Instant Use.
“Useful in every home in the land.”— A rgns.
This magnificent Liquid Gilding may lie
used wherever Gold adds beauty.
It instantly gives a surface resembling Solid
Gold, no maitcr where applied.
It is in constant use by over 1,200 Manufac
turers, Decorators, Gilders, etc.
FOR HOME USE.
RUBY’S ROYAL GILDING is invaluable
for Gilding Household Ornaments, Frames,
Furniture. Ceilings, Cornices, Baskets, Fans,
Etagere Objects, Decorative Painting, etc.
Most fashionable articles are more than
doubled in value by the merest touch of Gold,
A Camel's Hair Brush in each Box.
ANY ONE CAN USE IT.
Price, 50c. Refuse all substitutes. Sold by
JOHN G. BUTLER, 6 Whitaker, A. HAN
LEY, corner Whitaker and York, JOHN
OLIVER, 5 Whitaker, O. P. HAVENS, 143
Broughton, aajl most other leading houses.
New York Chemical M’f’g Cos.. New York.
Holtait gclto.
I
(BEFORE. 1 (AFTER.)
TyLLCT KG-VOLTAIC BELT and other Electric
j Afpi.iascks are sent on 30 Days’ Trial TO
MEN ONLY. YOUNG OR OLD, who are suffer
ing from Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality,
Wasting Weaknesses, and all those diseases of a
Personal Nature, resulting from Abuses and
Other Causes. Speedy relief and complete
restoration to Health, Vigor and Manhood
Guaranteed. Send at once for Illustrated
Pamphlet free. Address ,
VOLTAIC BELT CO.. Marshall, Mich.
©rouitD 2 ttn.
GROUND FEED.
CORN AND OATS
GROUND TOGETHER.
rpHE oniv manner in which grain should be
A fed to stock. It is equal to Cow Peas as
a food for cows. Wc guarantee the FEED to
be made of STRICTLY' PRIME GRAIN.
HARMON & REMSHART,
Successors to
SAI'SSY, HARMON A REMSHART.
' J, 11. WALKER & CIUT'
Naval Stores Facccrs
—AND—
Generai Commission Merchants
102 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
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