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TWO SMILES.
I neYer knew delight until that day
When, as I crossed a dusty city park.
Though t - weary, tortured t>y fore IxHlintrs dark,
A child smiled'on rae from its happy play.
Thenceforward all my fancies were intent
On baby blisses, songs and childish lore.
And to my days, so Pne and sad before.
The joyousness of childhood's mirth was lent.
Atid when old questions for resoKment priced
And on my brow drew many an anxious line
A budding thought looked out to answer mine
From wide young eyes with doubt yet unop
pressed.
•
Her purity upheld me like a prayer;
And while old poets for us anew,
into my chastened thought the maiden grew
Asa rose opens in rain-freshened air.
Tiie years mied up a breach uit-evn before:
Till one day made us one, in troth and heart.
We never iireame<l that we bad been apart,
I'ntil we knew that we should pari no more.
No more to par:. And yet crewhile she lav
And smiled with li|s-' unruffled by a breath.
And looking on the wan. chill smile of death;
I thought of her tirst smile that far-off day.
—-sAsr wood Bonner.
IX THK CHOCTAW LAM).
The Tribe and Its Dissensions—The
Singular Status of" the White Alan and
Negro.
Corrmjxmdeuce .Vest York Sun.
TheChaetow Nation is one of the five
nations into tv hie h the Indian Territory is
divided, its territory is bounded on the
east by Arkansas, on the south bv Texas,
and on the west and north by the lands of
other nations, including those of the
Cherokees and the Creeks. It contains
11,000 square miles. It is divided into
sixteen counties and three districts. Its
surface is diversified by large rolling
prairies, alternated with low fiat bottoms,
meadows, forests, hills, and mountains.
The forests extend over a large portion of
the Territory. The most valuable timber
Is walnut, hickory, ash, and cottonwood.
The ground is underlaid with eoal, with
in some places very thick scams. The
coal ami timber are hardly touched as
vet. Home day they will be very valuable.
In the river bottoms the soil is probably
the richest in the world. When only
half cultivated it produces immense
crops. Cotton and Indian corn are the
main crops. Tobacco, sorghum, and the
cereals, as well as root crops, also do well.
The development of the country is. how
ever, a thing of the future. A few mines
have been opened, principally in the
neighborhood of McCalister. In the last
year the improvement of the Poteau
river, which runs for about forty miles
through the Territory, has been mooted.
It drains a large section of country near
the eastern boundary stored with abun
dance of coal, timber, stone, and ore.
This improvement will doubtless create a
spirit of progress and advancement which
will furor the further development of the
country.
The government of the nation is mod
eled after that ol Ihe l nited states. It is
composed of a Senate!, it House of Repre
sentatives, and an E.Ttcutive, called
Chief or Governor, elected I'J the people.
Citizens only are allowed to vote. Out of
the population of about 15,000, pro?*abir
not more than hall are citizens. Tim
■citizens of Choctaw lineage number not 1
more th'U 1,000. The remainder are
whites who have married natives. The 1
remaining population is composed of
whites and negroes. A resi
dent is required by law to have a permit,
for which he pays a certain sum, and by
virMc of which he is allowed to remain
one year in the nation, This permit is
issued on the application of a citizen.
The occupation to be pursued by the man
must be distinctly stated. He theu takes
bis application, duly signed, to the Clerk
of the County Court, who records it on
receipt of a lee of fifty cents, and recom
mends to the Sheiiti that a permit he
issued to the applicant, who must prove
that he in honest and swear that be will
abide by the law. If he can do this, and \
nobody can show good reason why he
shoulu not to stay in the na
tion. he receives the permit. If he is to be
a common laborer, or servant to a citizen,
it is so stated in the permit, and he pays
$2.50 for it. For a renter the charge is $5.
Any one engaged in the various trades
and callings, as well as the learned pro
fessions, and allexccpt thoseunder the two
former headings, and licensed traders, are
Charged *lO.
Any white person can obtain a permit,
unless a disinterested citizen of standing
gives good reason why he should not
receive it. In that case his application
will be rejected. Thouirh bribery and
evasion of these laws is common enough,
yet they are far better enforced now than
when first passed, three years ago. Ho
little was the law then regarded that its
effect was only to produce a laugh when
ever mentioned. Outside of a few honest
men disposed to abide by the law no at
tention was paid to it.
The Choctaws wished to remove in
truders—those who refused to obtain j er
mits and those who had settle** places of
their own, many of t>" fitter class fraus
dulenti v rights—beyond the line,
but found it impossible to do so. Jn this
plight the Chief had recourse to the Gm
eminent of the United >tates, and re
quested assist'nee to remove the intru
ders, as promised in the treaty. The
Secretary of War telegraphed to the com
mander at Fort Sill to furnish the Choc
taw Chief, Col. J. F. Mccurtain, with
soldiers to use as he thought necessary.
Lieut. Shoemaker was ordered with his
company to the Choctaw capital, and re
ported there for duty on Aug. 1, 1880. The
Governor, with his aid and 300 native
militia, began the removal of intruders,
including all non-citizens who were in
any manner offensive to the nation.
This spread general consternation
among all classes, including even citizens
themselves. Great numbers of non-eiti
zeus began immediately to apply for per
mits, but many were refused who a tew
months before might have obtained them.
A few among the most respectable non
citizens, however, received them. The
price of the permits was placed at $l7
each. Many who failed to obtain them
fled, and the rest were removed. Little
trouble was experienced in the western
and interior counties in removing the in
truders, but when the Chief arrived in the
eastern division of the nation, notably
Scully vilie and Sugarloaf counties, much
opposition was encountered. This resis
tance was mainly among the citizens
themselves. The average Choctaw loves
work little better than his savage ances
tors. They were settled in a counfry
whose natural advantages are unsur
passed. They received money’ with
which they bought slaves, cleared and
cultivated land, built good houses, and
lived without labor on the produce of a
soil teeming with richness. Thus they
lived for many years, until the war broke
out. This stripped them of their slaves,
and most of their other perishable pro
perty, and left them poor. What could
they do? Only a few had cattle or stock
enough to support them. Work they
would not, even with the fertile soil ill
their possession, which needed only to be
tickled to spring up in abundant harvest.
In this strait they eagerly accepted the
offers of the whites, who, after the war,
came flocking into the nation, to till their
lands. All that had farms were thus
saved from labor, but they were also thus
incidentally exposed to* the great and
growing nuisance of intruders, which
culminated in civil commotion. The
great mass of citizens were dependent on
white labor. If their renters and hire
ling were taken from them, who would
till their lands? The whites composed
their principal labor, as the negroes,
whether native of from the States, were a
worthless set.
Many citizens openly opposed the re
moval of the whites. A law passed about
the time of the arrival ot the United
States soldiers, restricting them to the
employment of one white laborer, still
further aroused their ire. This opposi
tion! was strongest in Sugar loaf and Sculiy
ville counties, because there were far more
whites there than in any other part of the
nation. Many more farms had been
opened and more depended on their labor.
When Gov. MeCurtain reached this sec
tion the excitement became so great that
open talk of resistance was heard on
every side. Several citizens gathered
crowds of their friends, servants, and
renters, all armed and determined on
tight, and for some time a revolution was
apprehended. Had not conciliatory mea
sures been adopted this would probably
have been the termination. The law re
stricting the citizens to one hireling was
modified so as to allow of their employing
three, provided that they were of good
character, and that they had never fraud
ulently claimed rights dr settled places of
their own. This pacified so large a num
ber of the malcontents that but few were
left, and these were easily overawed.
After this the work ot removal went on
quickly and was soon accomplished. The
Chief returned to the capital and dis
missed his forces. But right here a total
ly unexpected result took place. The in
truders oegan to return, at first covertly,
one by one, and then openly and in
crowds. Nothing could now be done with
them, as every means of removing them
had been used. True, the law provided a 1
line and punishment for such offenders,
hut it was found impossible to enforce it. ,
Their return gave rise to civil commotions
in which Sheriff Lanier of Scullyville
county lost bis life.
These troubles, however, gradually died
away, and the Choctaw Government, by a
mild policy and by modifying the rigor of
their permit laws, restored a degree of
peace to the country. The opposition to
the law is not so strong as tormerly, and
the price of permits has been greatly re
duced. Dissensions still exist, but on the
whole the comparative calmn\js of the
times promises peace for the future. It
now only remains for us to see what part
1 the negroes play in the affairs of this
nation.
After they were freed, the United States
j offered the Choctaws a subsidy of $4*10,000
if they would make citizens of them, giv
; ing them equal rights. The Choctaws
made no immediate answer, for, in truth,
it put them in a sad quandary. Though
they loved well the good money ot Uncle
Sam, yet they hated the negroes almost
worse than death; and to raise them to an
equality with themselves in law, if not
socially, was extremely repugnant to
! them. For years they worked to get the
i money without positively making citirens
i of the negroes. They passed laws giving
to the negro forty acres of land, and they
! allowed him to raise all the cattle anil
; stock he could. Many began making
places of their own at once, but thisfailed
i to satisfy the United States. It wa9 re
solved that the Choctaw negroes should
• have an equal chance with their former
j owners. It reminded the Choctaws that
they had sufficiently considered the mat
ter and they must make up their minds at
once. Accordingly, after a delay of fit
t en years, the Choctaws settled theques
| tion in their council for 1883 by making
j citizens of the Choctaw negroes, but re
i striding them from voting or holding of-
J fice. This, for various reasons, does not
i seem to have satisfied the negroes, nor
! does it seem to have satisfied the govern
ment, for we hear of talk in Washington
: of cutting off a large and valuable strip
‘ of the eastern portion of the nation to
1 give to the negroes. Whether this will
■ be done or not no one here knows.
j Another class here are the State ne
i irroes, so called in contradistinction to
, those who were former slaves to Choc
; taws. Being citizens of the United States,
■ they have no claims whatever upon the
! Choctaws. Asa class they are far more
J lazy and shiftless than the others, and are
j a nuisance to the country.
j Such are the various classes into which
! the people of this nation are divided, and
J such the condition of affairs at the pres
-1 sent time.
BROTHER SHIN BONUS AI.S
Aud Makes Trouble for Three Very
Dear Friends at a Game of I’oker.
JP w York limes.
“Hi, vi! ha! ha!’’ laughed Shinbones
i Smith as he entered the humble residence
j of I’eter Maeuff about 1 o’clock this rnorn
j ing.
** ft nit’s de niattah, Brudder Shinbones ?”
| asked Pete.
‘•1 ben ter Xoo Yawk.”
And then Shinbones broke down with
j laughter.
I ‘*Wal, tell us all ’bout de cuccus,”
■ begged Pete. .
I “Jes’ yo’ hole yo’ breff a minnit, chilg.
I ben ‘"r call 0 u Brudder Squeezeout Pea
body. W ’ en * got dar I foun’ Brudder
Wakenp Mis. r - v anc * Brudder Lemuel
Pot ter bury. Dey war playin’ pokah. Did
} •' tuber play pokah....
‘•Yas, 1 ben dar,’’ ans'" smßy
“Wal, dey axed me fur iC' ’ D . ,
tole ’em dat I didn’t know nuflin u. ,IC t,e
game. Dey ’lowed dat ’twas berry easy
fur ter learn, an’ dev’d show me how ter
play. Wal, 1 tuk a hand in. Dey luk’d
at my hand ebbery time, an’ tole me jess
how ter bet. De luirny part on it war dat
ebbery time I bet zacklv de way dey tole
me I got leff.”
“Doggone me, Brudder Shinbones,’’ ex
claimed Pete, “didn’t yo’ know no bettar
dan ter do dat!-”
“liyar, now, chile, yo’ hole yo’ breff till
dis byar uiggar gits trough. Arter we’d
done gone pUyed ’bout ’n hour, I sez to
Brudder YVakeup, who war settin' ue.\’
ter me, sez I, ‘Brudder Wakeup, I reckon
I got dis hyar game ’bout learnt now. so
’f or don’t mind I’ll try ter play widout
yo’ ’sistance.’
“ ‘Y'o’nx right welcome, Brudder Shin
bones,’ sez he.
“ ‘Let de precession wiggle,’ sez I ter
he, sez i.
“So we played de hex’ hand an’ I held
two small pair an’ bet like de duce on
’em. Wal, 1 ios’ 50 cen’s. 1 didn’t say
nuffln, ’cause de nex’ hand war my deal.
De way 1 shuffled deni dar keerds would ’a’
made you tired.
“•Don’t wear out depack,’ sez Brudder
Lemuel.
“ No, but I want ter get ’em well shuk
up,’ sez I,
“Wal, I denied de keerds. Brudder
Squeezeout he put up de ante. Brudder
! Wakeup he riz it two, an’ Brudder Lem
uel lie doubled it. I seed ’em an’ went
| ’em fotih better. Gorramighty! Yo’ jess
ort seed deni niggahs open deir eyes
] on /amine deir hands. Brudder Saim*.*..
out, sez he ter me, -t reckon dat I’ll have
ter see dat raise an’ go yo one better.’
Wal, dey went right on roun’ de table
raisin’ it*, an’ I stuck right by ’em. Putty
soon Brudder Squeezeout begin ter look
scart.
“ ‘Brudder Shinbones,’ sez he, ‘yo’ got
I putty good hand, ain't yer?’
“ ‘Fair to middlin’,’ sez 1.
“Wal, next roun’, Brudder Squeezeout
called ine. ‘1 got a ace high,’ sez I. Den
dey all looked s’prised, an’Brudder Wake
up, sez he ter me, sez he, ‘Yo’re lamin’
I putty fast wen yo’ know how to bluff.’
Den dem blamed fools all showed deir
ban’s. Brudder Squeezeout had fouh
twos, Brudder Wakeup had fouh sixes, 1
an’ Brudder Lemuel had fouh nines. He
reached for de pot, but I sez, ‘llul on,
dar!’
“‘W’a’s de matter wid yo’ ?’ sez he; ‘yo’
got a ace high.’
“‘Yes,’ sez I; ‘but it am deace of clubs,
an’ de odder keerds am de king, queen,
jack, an’ ten o’ de same flush!’
“ Yo’ see, chiie, I played dat game befoah
de wall.”
A LITTLE "PREVIOUS.”
A Gentleman who Made a Few Inquiries
in Hi* Wife’s Interests.
It was at a late hour one rainy night re
cently, says the Boston Budget, that a re
porter stood in the doorway of an express
office on Washington street talking to one
of the clerks. The conversation was sud
denly interrupted by the approach of a
well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman,who,
after glancing at the sign over the door,
advanced towards the clerk, when the
followingcharacteristieinterview ensued:
‘•ls this an express office?”
‘‘Yes, sir.”
‘‘Do you run to W ?”
‘•Yes’, sir.”
“Well, do you folks take boxes?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, what 1 wanted to know was how
much you would charge to take a—and
the speaker looked It round to see if any
one was near, and lowering his voice con
tinued —to take a bodv to the W ceme
tery ?”
“i can’t tell you exactly, sir, but if you
know the passenger fare lean give you an
idea.”
“Well, 1 paid about $2 65 last time I
went down to see the folks,”
“in that case l don’t think the charge
will lie more than $5, sir.”
“Little high, ain’t it?”
“No, sir, not very: and you know a
body takes up considerable room in a
car.”
“Yes, that’s so; and that’s just where
the trouble lies about the cemetery. I got
a letter to-day from one of the first citi
zens of W—-, in which he says he is en
titled to a toot more of land ior his lot.
But then, my wife has always said that if
she went first she wanted to be buried
with the old folks.”
“It's sad to lose one’s relatives,” softly
replied the sympathizing clerk.
“That’s so,” said the other. “Can I
bring her here?”
“Not to-night, sir, for we don’t take
anything after 6 o’clock. But if it will be
any accommodation one of our teams will
call at your residence early in the morn
ing and take the corpse to the depot. What
is the address, please?”
“Welt, I am much obliged to yon. I’ll
call again. She ain’t dead yet; the doctor'
said it was doubtful if she lived through
the week, and as I was passing by I
thought I’d stop anti inquire. I’ll let you
know, though. Good night.”
“If I ever,” muttered the clerk. “I'd
like to be that man’s wife.”
“Have many like him?” the scribe ven
tured to inquire.
“I hope not,” replied the clerk.
And as the writer, who on account of
his interest in the conversation had missed
his car, wended his way to his home, he
could not help thinking" that while some
lieople were always behind time there
were those who were a little previous.
Coughs.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches are
used with advantage to alleviate Coughs,
Sore Throat, and Bronchial., A flections.
Sold only in boxes, 1
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1884.
LEGEND OF THE TWINLAW CAIRNS
Chamber*' Journal.
On the southern ridge of the Lammer
moors, five miles from the v illage of Wes
trutber, Berwickshire, stands the Twin
law Cairns. They form one of the most
noted and interesting features of the coun
try side. The Twinlaws, as they sre fa
miliarly termed, are two pillars of un
hewn whinstone, which stand about fifty
or sixty yards apart. Around the base of
e tch, a rough circular ca*eway of flat
stor es, unpolished by the touch of art,
extends to a radiU9 of several feet. A
few miles to the wrestwardof these monu
ments, and hidden, all but.the turrets,
amid a clump of fir-trees, is the mansion
of Spottiswoode; while to the east is the
, decayed house of Wedderlie, once the
home of the Edgars, now the property of
Lord Blantyre. On the plain beneath,*be
tween tbe rising ground and the turnpike
that leads past Lauder and on to Edin
burgh, the infant Blackadder trickles
through fields that not long ago were
marsh-land, on its journey Mersewards.
In this same flat area, a ragged remnant
of an ancient forest is still to be seen,
straggling toward the Jordonlaw peat
moss—a bog full of treacherous pools and
stagnant ditches. Still a dreary district,
this was once a savage region, the haunt
of wild animals, whose names have been
given to farms and clachaus. In the
neighborhood one comes across such places
as Wolfstruther (now Westruther), lioe
cleuch, Ilarelaw and Hindside.
The Twinlaw Cairns are two grim me
morials of a tragic and pathetic incident
in Scottish tradition. Connected with
them is a legend which every dweller in
the district knows bv heart. Though to
the great herd of tourists they may be un
known, never a summer passes but they
are visited by faithful pilgrims. Anglers
on their way to the fishing-burns beyond
climb to the top of the pillars by means
of projecting slabs, to enjoy the pure at
mosphere, which is cool in hottest days,
and to gaze on the surrounding scenery.
i From the pinnacle of the pillars a fine
■. prospect is to lie had. Away in front of
J the spectator, in a direct line southward,
j are the imposing and massive remains of
Ilume Castle; and beyond, the dim out
i line of the Cheviots meeting the horizon.
! Westward are the Eildon Hills and the
| heights in the neighborhood of Earlston,
the ancient residence of Thomas, the
Rhymer. To the eastward, between the
Lammcrmoors and tbe Northumbrian
coast, stretches the Merse, with its farm
steadings and fair fields—a perfect garden
of agriculture.
But our immediate subject is not the
surrounding scenerv; it is the two som
bre Cairns on the brow of tbe Twinlaw
hill. The hills have aebarrn all their own
in the daytime; but it is only after sunset,
t an, J when viewed from the plain beneath,
i that tbe Cairns themselves are absorbing
in their interest. In the gray twilight,
t when the silence is unbroken save by the
I sough of the wind or the solitary cry of
| the curlew, they loom through the thin
j rising mist, dim, desolate, fascinating the
imagination. It is then the story that ex
plains their presence appeals with all its
force and pathos to the mind. There is
not a rustic in the country-side but knows
the tale. Meet a hind or a shepherd by
! tbe wayside after his work is over, and he
I will repeat it, as it has come to him from
[ bis fathers, with a subdued seriousness
i that borders on reverence. He will tell
J you jt occurred in the time when Scotland
[ tought for her independence, and on a hot
j summer’s day.
j The Anglo-Saxons* restless band
| Had crossed the river Tweed,
[ Up for the hills of Lamtnermoor
The host inarched on with speed.
The E.?slisb army encamped on one side
of what is now known as the Twinlaw
hill. On the oi^ e l s M e - a Scottish force,
inferior in numliers, assembled, and pre
pared to offer resistance.
Our Scottish warriors on the heath
In tiie close battalion stood.
Resolved to set their country free,
Or shed their dearest blood.
But the fates decreed that there should be
no general light, for wuiie ~otU
, waited in readiness, an English chieftain,
exuU’hg in his might, sent a challenge to
the Scots daring any one of them to come
and meet him in single combat. Young
Edgar of Wedderlie, who was in the Scot
tish camp, heard the challenge and ac
cepted it. The two champions at once
commenced the duel, the armies on each
side looking on. The tight was fierce—-
From left to right, from right to left,
The sweating focman reeled.
Young Edgar was the first to be wounded.
He received a “bluidv gash” in the right
side, and a moment’s* truce was held till
ihe wound was stanched with lax. The
fight was renewed, and grew me*-e despe
rate, and at last it ended by Edgar slay
ing the Southron. Just as* the struggle
ceased, and when Edgar was looking on
the face of his lifeless toeman. u old frail
man with long gray hair tottered across
from the English lioct to the tatal place
where the victories youth stood. The old
man, “heav'Jj pressed by sorrow,” bent
over tic ueatl champion of the Southrons,
jt- ( then, looking up at Edgar, burst out
into a piteous wail: “Woe! woe is me for
this deed of blood! Edgar of Wedderlie,
sore will thy sorrow be. Look on the dead!
Thou hast slain the son of thy father! It
is thy twin-brother that lies lileless on the
heath. It is thy brother whom 1 stole
away in inlanoy from his father’s hall. A
man of might he was—brave and noble—
and lie now lies dead—slain by the hand
of his twin-brother! Woe, woeful day!”
From his childhood, Edgar had known
that his brother had been stolen by gyp
sies or soldiers; and no sooner did be hear
this revelation than he unstanehed his
wound, and stood calm and passionless
till the blood flowed from his veins, fn a
few moments be sank in death bv the side
of his brother’s body. Both armies, deep
ly impressed by the'seene, laid down their
arms and gave up all idea of battle. In
the quiet of the evening the two hosts
formed into a single line, that stretched
from the brow- of the hill down to the val
ley—to the side of the Watch—
A lonely stream that sob* along.
Like a child who has lost his way.
Making its moan to the heal Hess hills
That imprison it night and day.
From the bed of the streamlet they picked
the stones, and handing them one by oue
along the line, built the Twinlaw Cairns
by the grave of the two brothers.
Such is the legend that tolls the story of
these rude pillars. Since they were raised,
once or twice they have been partially
overthrown by the rage of the elements,
but always tenderly restored. Ladv John
Scott, of Spottiswoode, takes a p'rida in
the sacred relics, and sees that thev are
kept in good order. It is a lonely place,
far from the roar of railway trains and
fashionable resorts; butevery tourist who
finds himself in the neighborhood fails not
to make a pilgrimage to the Cairns.
RED .JACKET’S RONES.
To be Reinterred Near liufi'jlo After a
brand Council of the Six Nations.
For some time the Buffalo Historical
Society has had safely locked within its
vaults the bones of the great Indian
warrior and statesman, Red Jacket, says
a Buffalo (N. Y.) special of the 18tii inst.
to the World. They were removed from
an old Indian burying-ground four miles
from Buffalo, for the purpose of reinter
ring them quietly at Forest Lawn Ceme
tery. The facts becoming known, there
has been such general interest in the mat
ter that it has been decided to make the
affair a national event. The plans in
clude a grand last congress of the Con
federacy ofthe Six Nations of the Iroquois.
These were the Mohawks, Cayugas,
Senecas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas and
Oneidas. A large subscription is to be
raised to bring as mauy representatives
of the Six Nations as will come. An ef
fort will be made to make it a fitting
tribute to the dead warriors who lived and
worked and died with Red Jacket.
Besides this Indian orator there are
many other chiefs interred near here
whose bones will be taken to Forest Lawn
at the same time. Among them are
Farmers’ Brother, Gov. Blacksnake, Lit
tle Billy, Capt. Pollard, Seueca White,
Young King, Destroy Town, John Mo
hawk, Hon. Non-IJe-Uh, Capt. Strong,
Tall Chief and Chief Warrior.
A committee of fifteen prominent citi
zens has been placed in charge of the
celebration, which will occur probably in
September. Among the relics in the so
ciety’s rooms is Red Jacket’s tomahawk,
presented George Washington. It is
silver-mounted, and can be used as a
pipe. This trinket was secured from the
wife ot the dead chief many years ago
by the relic hunters, and has just been
purchased by the society. Then there is
an oil painting of the Great Chief, taken
from an original water color sketch. Be
sides these there are oil paintings of his
grandchildren, and a copy of Stanley’s
famous picture of the trial of Red Jacket,
the original of which is now owned by
Stanley’s widow, who lives in Detroit.
The society has also secured the original
slab which marked Red Jacket’s grave.
It was erected by Henri PJacide, the
French actor. It is proposed to have Gov.
Cleveland as orator.
Wood and Coal
For sale by R. B. Cassels. Tavlor and East
Broad streets. Telephone No. 77.— Adv.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Lull in the Peanut Trade, bat Indication*
that the Country will Full Through.
Recent advices from Norfolk, the centre
of the Beanut trade in the South, says the
New Y'ork Sun , read as though it might
become necessary to shut up the east
side places of amusement tor want of the
usual peanut supply, and to run the trav
eling circuses the coming season without
the wonted crackle of shucks to accom
pany the hat spinning and other silent
leatures of the show. A serious business
disagreement has arisen, resulting in a
deadlock.
A member ot the firm that is exten
sively interested in the trade, both as
cleaners in Virginia and as wholesalers
in this city, said:
“Some six or seven years ago the first
peanut ‘factory’ in Virginia was started.
At these factories peanuts are bought in
large quantities, cleaned, picked over,
bagged, branded and sent to tbe Northern
markets. The brands are well known in
the trade, and prices are made according
to the brands.
“The factories increased rapidly, till
the bulk of the business was done through
them. Instead of being compelled to
clean, bag and ship the nuts, and often to
wait for their money till the goods could
be sold by commission merchants, the
farmers now sell the nuts right on their
farms and get cash for them. They have
never sold their crops so advantageously
as since the factories have been started.
The cleaners find their profit in the better
prices brought by goods after they have
been cleaned and picked over and brand
ed with brands known to the trade.
“The present disagreement arose in this
way: A good many peanut raisers have
been shipping goods to commission mer
chants in Norfolk. The commission men
prefer to s*dl the nuts in large lumps—so
many thousand bags at a uniform price
per pound. In the' factories it is often
tound that there are a good manv light
nuts in these lots, which are blown.out
by the fans, and w ban they come to bag
and brand the cleaned nuts, thev hndthey
have lost money. So there w as*a meetin'g
a few days ago of men interested in the
factories, and it was decided to adopt a
weight-and-color standard in buying of
commission men and farmers. They de
cided simply to buy each bag of nuts on
its merits, instead of buying in lumps.
This will benefit the farmers —-j
nuts of a good quality to market, and
will encourage the production of fine
goods.
“There is no fight going on, though buy
ing is nearly at a standstill. Several con
ferences have been held, and all that can
be done in a decorous and business-like
way to come to an agreement has been
done, or will be done in future meetings.
Meanwhile, the large stocks held by the
cleaners have kept the factories running,
and the market in New Y'ork will probably
not !>e affected for some tunc to come, if
at all. The factofy men say that rather
than do business under the old method
they will close up their factories.”
A retail dealer who was located in
Chatham street yesterday was asked
whether the trouble in Norfolk had affected
the retail trade here.
“Maka no diff’raut,” said the Count.
“Tree cent, fiva cent, ten cent. Alla
fr-r-resh bake.”
W AS SHE HIS YVIFE?
The Death of a Wealthy Jerseyman Ex
poses a Family Skeleton.
The Traphagan family, of Jersey City,
says the New Y'ork World of the 18th
iust., is among the oldest and most wide
ly known it the city. Its members are
wealthy, and one of them now living was
once Mayor. Some years ago Cornelius
Traphagan died, leaving a valuable estate
to his two sons, Cornelius N. and Henry
Traphagan, and his daughter, Mrs. Ann
P. Hilliard.
Corqelina after fixing up the estate,
removed to New York and toon up his
residence with a yopng wernan at No.
12!) West Twenty-ninth street. She is de
scribed as being about 30 years of age, of
medium height, with brovn eyes and
fair complexion. The courla have been
living together at the place iidicated for
the past few tears, The door-plate bore
tbe name “Brown,” and in the neighbor
hood the young woman was known as
Miss Minnie Brown. On numerous oc
casions, however, it is said she had been
introduced by Mr. Traphagan as his wife,
and on various hotel registers the two hatl
been recorded as mail aud wife.
Mr. Traphagan’s conduct in this respect
had estranged him from his family, and
tjueh was the feeling manifested that dur
ing his recent fatal illness his sister de
clined to visit him. On February 20 Mr.
Traphagan died of consumption ’ On the
following day a caveat was filed by e.x-
Mayor Traphagan in the Surrogate’s of
fice prohibiting the probating of any paper
purporting to be the will of the deceased,
though none bad been offered.
The Aineral of the deceased took place
on Paturday, March 1, but Mrs. Hilliard
and other relatives declined to attend it,
and Miss Brown, or Airs. Traphagan,
wearing the deepest of widow's weeds,
was present as chief mourner. The ltev.
Dr. l’armley, of Jersey City, conducted
the services.
Air. Traphagan owned real estate worth
about SIOO,OOO, and great anxiety was
manifested to know to whom the property
had been willed. About a week qfter the
funeral Miss Brown, accompanied by ex-
Senator Paxton, her counsel; ex-Mayor
Traphagan, representing Henry Trapha
gan,brother of deceased, and Mrs. Hil
liard, met in Jersey City, and, it is said,
adjusted the matter to prevent the case be
ing made public in the courts. Efforts to as
certain the exact sum paid Miss Brown for
relinquishing all claims against the es
tate were not successful, all the par
ties to the transaction being pledged to se
cresy, but it is generally understood that
she received SIO,OOO. The receipts for the
money were, it is said, signed in the name
ot “Minnie Brown.”
FOR WEARING THE GREEN.
Uiss Surali Dooley Walks Proudly Out
of a raterson Mill on St. Patrick**
Day.
There was much excitement among the
Irish residents of Paterson on Wednesday,
says th#New York Sun of the 20th inst.,
by the publication of the fact that one of
the girls employed in the Barbour flax
mill had been discharged for wearing a
green ribbon in her hair on St. Patrick’s
Day. The story created the more surprise
because the Barbour Brothers are Irish
men, and one of them, Thomas, is a mem
ber of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.
On the morning of St. Patrick’s Day a
number of the girls engaged in the de
partment under the management of Fore
man John Walker, wore green ribbons in
their hair. Mr. Walker ordered them to
remove the ribbons. Some complied, but
others refused. Then Mr. Walker told
them that all who failed to remove the
ribbons would be discharged. A1? com
plied with the order under this threat ex
cept Miss Sarah Dooley. She said if she
couldn’t wear Ireland’s green ribbon in
the mill she would go where she could
wear it. Mr. Walker then discharged
her. Three others, Miss Maggie Butler,
Miss Mary McKeown, and Miss Nora
Menton, were so indignant that they re
adjusted the green ribbons in their hair
and walked proudly out of the mill by her
side.
Miss McKeown and Miss Butler return
ed to work on the following day, but Miss
Menton remains out yet, and says she
will not go back until Miss Dooley is re
instated.
Mr. Walker says that he discharged
Miss Dooley for refusing to obey his or
der. He did not care anything about the
ribbon, but he wanted to be obeyed when
lie gave an order. The reason he ordered
the ribbons to be taken off was that the
wearing of some orange ribbons on a for
mer occasion had made trouble among
the girls, and as there were lots of Eng
lish girls In the mill, he was afraid there
would be trouble over the wearing of the
green.
Superintendent Sutherland says he ap
proved of the discharge of Miss Dooley,
because Mr. Walker reported that it was
for creating a disturbance. Had he
known that a simple green ribbon was at
the bottom of it he would not have ap
proved of it. He says Mr. Walker made
a mistake in discharging the girl.
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Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itch
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cases of 20 years standing. Xo one need
suffer five minutes after using William’s
Indian Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors,
allays itching, acts as poultice, gives in
stant relief. Prepared only for Piles, itch
ing of the private parts, nothing else. Hon.
J. M. Coffenbury, of Cleveland, says: “1
have used scores of Pile cures, and it
affords me pleasure to say that I have
never found anything which gives such
immediate and permanent relief as Dr.
William’s Indian Pile Ointment. Sold
by druggists and mailed on receipt ol
Erice, sl. Sold by O. Butler, Savannah,
jpprnan Bros., wholesale agents.
RUSSIAN-JEW FARMERS.
Their Indagtry, Peculiarities, and Re
ligious Views.
A letter from Mitchell, Dak., to the St.
Paul Pioneer Press says: “In company
with one of the young" Jewish farmers of
the Cremieux colony, your correspondent
left Mitchell at daybreak for a visit to the
Hebrew farming colony, situated about
twenty-two miles southwest of Mitchell.
They are Hebrews, but claim to have
shorn off the traditional practices of their
ancestry, while retaining the spirit of the
teachings of Moses, which they apply in a
practical sense, and adapt themselves to
their surroundings. They say that now
the time has come when Judea will re
deem herself and become a nation of pro
ducers Instead of consumers, and they
will prove to the world that Hebrews can
again be as successful farmers as they
have proven to be tradesmen for genera
tions past. The ‘Cremieux and Bethle
hem-Judah’ colonies, known now as the
Cremieux Society, were founded through
the advice of Michael Heilprin, a leadin’'
Hebrew; ol New Y'ork city, in August,
1882. There arc now about seventy
colonists here, but they claim thev are
only an advance guard, as it were, of
those w ho are coming as soon as the great
reservation across the Missouri river is
opened up to settlement. Some of these
Hebrews already have farms opened up
and good farm buildings erected. Mr.
Herman Rosenthal has a farm of nearly
1,000 acres, which he is rapidly putting in
a high state of cultivation. He lives in a
well-finished eight-room house, and has
also good tarm buildings. Bernard Flicht
has alarm of nearly 500 acres, and has
a good house and buildings, and many
others are becoming comfortably situated.
The greater number of these
colonists. however, came to the
United States from two to three years
ago, with only enough money to pay their
passage, and at once engaged in physical
labor and commenced to learn the Eng
lish language. One of the colonists, 1
Prof. E. S. Mashbir, who this winter is
professor of the German language in the
Mitchell high school, had engaged as a
laborer on a railroad at Mitchell. His
vocabulary of the English language was
confined to a few words, and his knowl
edge of the use of a shovel was even
more circumscribed. Aftor.. *.,n uuurs
"a* unable to swing his shovel
w ith the gang, and the section boss dis
charged him with the threat that if he
ever showed up there again he would
break his head. The professor retired to
a shady place and consulted his dictiona
ry on the term ‘break his head.’ He se
cured farm work, however, has taken a I
good claim, and will engage In farm work
in the summer season with his mother and
sister, who are now on their way from
Russia, and a brother who is coming from
New Y'ork.
I “ A commendable characteristic of these
j I?e°i>lo is their patient preseverance,
i 1 hey have come to a strange land, where
they are unacquainted with the customs
and language of the people. Thev work
hard, are practical, aud look at facts as
they find them. They are saving, and not
a dollar is wasted, nor is a cent spent
tor drink, and very few incur debts, and
then only in case of urgent necessitv.
Pome of the colonists are getting a goo’d
start in stock, but a number by hard
work have not as yet been able to*lay by
enough to buy the much-needed ox-teams.
I hen- number will be largely increased
the coming summer by relations and
friends who will come from Russia. The
colonists have a private school at the resi
dence of Mr. RosenthUl, taught by Miss
Burnes, a highly-educated ladv. 'She is
paid by subscription, and the school is
well attended by the Russian children, who
are all learning to speak English flueut
ly. They are, as a people, fond of music,
reading, and society. Even the lowliest
have a good education, and the brawniest
has a knowledge pf music. In tne long
winter eve Dings, and on days when it is
too cold to work, they collect together and
P a fs. away the time with music and
.ittucmg. and consulting together on
matters ot practical business. Parties
are frequently held, to which their Ameri
can neighbors are always invited and
welcomed. There are now a number of
Hebrew-Russian farming colonies in the
United States, but they” are ail new as
yet. The most numerous is that of New
Odessa, Ote., founded under the advice of
Michael Heilprin, Dr. Julius Goldman,
Edward Lauterbach, and Judge Isaacs,
all of New Y'ork city. They claim that
the time will soon be here vxlhen Hebrew
farmers will be no novelty in the United
States. The colony, young as it is, and
rotwithstanding the fact that nearly all
its members have commenced without a
dollar, embarrassed by all the inconveni
ence of pioneer life, is self-sustaining.’’
A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
Mr. George Grace, Hi* Wife and Cliildr* n
Narrowly Escape Death.
Public feeling at Cape May runs high
against the 18-year-old son of Air. George
Grace, whose arrest is imminent on the
charge of having poisoned his father,
mother, two sisters and two brother with
“Rough on Rats,” says a Cajie May N. J.
special of the 18th inst. to the Philadel
phia Press. The boy has been a grief to
his parents for several years, wild in his
habits and ungovernable In temper. The
punishment which Mr. Grace adminis
tered to him rather hardened than sub
dued him. Dr. Downs, the family physi
cian, also keeps the village drug store.
Several hours before supper time yester
day young Grace entered the drug store
and said: “I want some arsenic to poi
son rats.” “Arsenic is not used nowa
days to poison vermin,” replied the doc
tor, “but I can give you some ‘Rough on
Rats.’ ” The youth’s sullen face fell anil
he hesitated, but finally took what was
offered to him. About 8 o’clock, Dr.
Downs was summoned hastily to the
Grace mansion. He found the entire
family, except the little daughter Bertha,
writhing in agony. Six patients in such
an awful condition at first rather para
lyzed his energies, but he soon discovered
that the sufferers had been poisoned, and,
missing the youth to whom lie had sold
the rat’s bane’, asked for him. “Oh,” said
little Bertha, “it was awful. Pa and ma
and the children drank their coffee, and I
didn’t take any; all at once ma turned
pale and screamed, and pa and the boys
jumped up from the table, and I thought
they were all going to die.”
On being confronted with the suspected
young man, Dr. Downs questioned him
closely, and received such confused and
contradictory replies as corffirmed his
already strong suspicions. In the mean
time, by the use of antidotes, all the suf
ferers, except the youngest child, had
been relieved of their cramps and retch
ing. The infant is still dangerously if
not fatally ill.
No cause for this fiendish act is assigned
save the idea that by doing away with his
family the boy might inherit hi’s father's
property.
FANNY DAVENPOUT’S LOSS.
Shrinking Forty-seven Founds After a
Paradise of a Time in Italy.
A reporter interviewed Fanny Daven
port on the morning of the 19th on the
question of her extraordinary victory
over superabundant adipose tissue and
the tactics by which she accomplished it,
says a St. Louis special to the New York
World. She said:
“How did I reduce my weight? AVell,
it is nothing more than hard work and
perseverance. 1 have worked as few peo
ple can imagine. Friends said I couldn't
doit; that I couldn’t give up my sugar
and my sweatmeats and my habits. But
I did.”
“Give me your recipe. Fleshy people
would like to know bow to do what you
have done.”
“Well, you’d be surprised to know my
weight when I began and my weight now.
When I went to Italy, where I stayed
three months with my sister, I weighed
180 pounds. To-day I weigh 133 pounds,
I had a paradise of a time, though I work
ed hard. I walked twelve miles every
day and dieted myself; no candy—that
broke my heart; no sugar in anything and
nothing with sugar in it; no vegetables
of any kind except sliced toma
toes and others on which vinegar
can be used, and not- a particle
of bread. Now I eat only dry toast, a
few crackers and a little* meat of some
kind. I drink claret and I will have my
cup of coffee in the morning, although i
ought not to take it. I exercise. That is
what has made me what I am. I de
termined to do it and I have done it. 1
never felt better in my life. I feel strong
and well, equal to any task. I believe
that fleshiness is a disease anyhow, and
that very fat people are never well.”
“Do you think it was absolutely neces
sary to the part of Fedora to be slen
derer?”
“Yes, I do. How would a big, fleshy
woman look falling around the stage and
throwing herself into gentlemen’s arms ?”
YEARNING.
Over the west the glory dies away,
Faint rose flecks gleaming in ttie darkening
And the low sounds that mark the close of
day
Rise up from wood and upland—rise and
die;
Soft silence falls o’er meadow, hill and grove,
And in the hush I want you, oh, my love.
In the gay radiance of the morning hour,
In the warm brooding glory of the noon,
ft'hen man and nature, in’ their prime of
power,
ft'ith the day's fullness blend in eager tune,
Tiie rush of life forbids the pulse to move.
That now, in yearning passion, wants you,
ft'ants you to watch the crimson glow and
fade.
Through the great branches of the broaden
ing lime;
W ants you to feel the soft, gray, quiet shade,
Lap the tired world in blessed eventime;
Wants you to whisper: “Come, your power
to prove,
The gloaming needs its angel; come, my
love.” —All the Year Round.
QUEER THINGS IX PEOPLE'S
EARS.
A Young Woman TV ho Was Surprised
at tbe Removal of a Button.
Xew York Times.
“Y'ou would be astonished,” said a
skilled aurist in one ol the public eye and
ear infirmaries, “at the large number of
children who are brought to us in the
course of a week to have something re
moved from their ears that they have lool
ishly stuck in them and have been unable
to get out again. I have sometimes dis
posed ot ten such cases in an affcruoon,
and have pulled almost everything out of
the human ear that is possible to get in
there —shoe-buttons, pieces of slate pen
cil, caudies, and wads of paper. Four
times out of five the youngster is old
enough to know better; but it is a habit
they fall into, the same as biting their
nails or scratching their heads. One boy
not yet 12 years old is almost a weekly
visitor here. ‘Well,’ I said, as I saw him
come in as usual yesterday afternoon,
‘what have yoa got in there’this time!'’
‘Xawthiu’ but a bean,’ he drawled. Oh,
yes, I took it out.
“But I recently mot with the most re- j
markable ease of that kind in 20 years’ j
practice. A young woman of 23 ca’iue in j
=.o Juaf that 1 could ha nil.- n.axe ner near !
by shouting through a trumpet. After re
moving a great quantity of wax from her
ears i found something metallic.
“ ‘What’s this,’ I said, ‘have you been
putting something in your ear?’
“ ‘Oh, dear, no,’ she said, ‘i am not so
foolish as that.’
“Imagine her surprise when I pulled
out a smooth, round brass button, with
quite a large shank to it. ‘This seems to
have been in there a great many years,’ I
said. To my surprise the young woman
crouched iu ttie corner in undisguised
terror.
“ Alb, doctor,’ she said, ‘what is that
awful noise?’
“It was nothing but a wagon rumbling
by, but I instantly suw what the trouble
was. Her hearing had become normal
when I removed that button, and she was
frightened and bewildered at the jumble
of confusing sounds. The ticking of the
clock, chirping of the canary, or dripping
of water distressed her, and* the rustle of
her own silk dress made her start with
fear. I sent one of the assistants home
with her in a carriage, and he said that
the clatter in the street so distracted her
that he was compelled to hold her in her
seat. About a week afterward she came
in again—”
“And wanted that button put back. I
suppose,” interrupted the reporter.
“Oh. no, she was brimming over with
happiness, though for a day or two she
was afraid to leave the house. But she
told me about that button.
‘“When I was about 8 years old,’ she
said, ‘I was sent to a village church in
New England with my grandmother. The
sermon was always long and tiresome,
and 1 used to amuse myself by pulling at
the brass buttons on my cloak. One of
them came off one Sunday, and I occu- i
pied myself for a time with putting it in
my ear and shaking it out again. Sud
denly I felt it sink away in there and I
could not get it out. I was afraid to tell
my grandmother at the time, and soon af
terward forgot it. At 10 years of age I
began to grow deaf and have been get
ting worse ever since, but I never once
thought of that button until you removed
it. ’”
“Do grown people,” asked the repor
ter, “ever come to you with things in their
ears.”
“Frequently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. I know
one man, a butcher, who comes here reg
ularly in the summer time to have flies
removed from his ears. I have taken out
six at one time lor him. However they
get there I don’t know. He says they fly
in; but thev don’t fly out, I’m sure of
that. A mail called me out of bed one
night to get a Croton bug out of his ear.
Now, a water bug will never back. He
must either turn around or go straight
ahead. This fellow had crawled into the
man’s ear, and, not finding room enough
to turn around, went ahead. He was
pawing away with his feelers on the drum,
causing the poor man fearful agony. Men
employed iu tanneries often get a pecu
liar-looking worm in their ears, which is
no small trouble to remove.”
The Thin Man on Marriage.
The thin man without the shirt-collar
was evidently perturbed in spirit. He
elevated his chin, and scratched it with
a match; then worked the match for a
time in his ear and stared hard at the man
with the cold-tea scheme.
“Divorce is a queer subject,” at last he
said, reflectively.
“So it is,” said the cold-tea man. “Got
one, or want one?”
“I’m not speaking for myself,” replied
the other, with native dignity mixed with
tobacco juice.
“Oil! Sort of feeling for your fellow
being?”
Without deigning a reply, thecollarle6s
mau continued:
•*A queer subject. A queer subject, sir.
It people can’t live happily together, what
do they marry for?”
“I chip,” said the cold-tea man.
“I tell you what causes most of this
divorce business. It’s the bossy nature of
women. There’s lots of women in the
world duty in life appears to
consist in nagging their husband*. They
seem to think a marriage license is a per
mit to pester the life out of a man. They
don’t wait fpr causes for complaint, but
get up imaginative ones and enjoy tnem
selves with them. They seem to know
t y have a man fo I. if he has children
of course he does not want to leave them,
and if not, they know he cannot help him
self, for if he flees their torture he has to
give up friends, position, and all else, and
go bury himself in some strange commu
nity. Y v ou’d naturally think that a woman
having got a man in this awful position
of helplessness, she’d have some mercy on
him. But if she belongs to the complain
ing kind she won’t. Not a bit of it. She’ll
jump on the poor fellow with both teet and
grind her heels into him. There’s only one
cure.”
“As how?” asked the cold-tea man,
deeply interested.
“A man should be a wan and assert him
self,” replied the thin man with em
phasis. “Nature has created him the
superior of woman, and he should not al
low her to assume a government over
him. She is his inferior anil dependent on
him, and if necessary for happiness he
should make her understandit. How men
can be so chicken-hearted as to allow wo
men to crush their independence I do not,
lor the life of me, understand.”
At this moment the front door opened,
and from behind the barricade of boxes
came a shrill, feminine voice, asking:
“Is Mr. Jarfly here? I want him, this
mi nit.’ Jarfly, you good for nothing—”
“Great Casar! I came near forgetting
a very’portant ’gagement ?” hastily ex
claimed the thin man, as he made a bolt
out the rear door.
Arranging ihe Divorce.
Buffalo Tjmts.
“I should like to get a divorce,” ex
claimed a hen-pecked husband, entering
a lawyer’s office and addressing the pro
prietor.
“What grounds?” asked the lawyer, for
effect.
“Cold feet,” came the response.
“Any children?”
“Two.”
“Have you decided how to dispose of
them ?”
“Oh, yes; Ave each take one. That’s
understood.”
“Any property or household effects?”
“Yes, but that is all provided for; we
have made a division. But there is one
thing that is troubling us. You see we
have $6,006 in the bank, and we can’t de
cide who shall take that.”
“Oh, well, don’t let that trouble you,”
replied the lawyer, taking a fresh cigar
from the desk drawer; “we can readily
arrange that.”
"A'es. but how?” inquired the stranger, j
“I’ll take care of that,” said the disci- |
pie of Blackstone. “Six thousand dollars,
did you say? Give me your check and I
will give you my receipt how.”
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More Bargains at Eckstein’s
GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS 5c., GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS 5c.,
GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS 5c., GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS lie.,
GINGHAMS 5c.. LAWNS 5c., GINGHAMS 5c., LAWN'S 5c..
GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS 5c., GINGHAMS 5c., LAWNS sc.
5,000 Yards Checked Ginghams at sc.
5,0(10 Yarfls Fast-Colorei Lawns at sc.
CHEVIOT GINGHAMS 7c. A GRAND BARGAIN ! CHEVIOT GINGHAM - To.
CHEVIOT GINGHAMS 7c. A GRAND BARGAIN ! CHEVIOT GINGHAMS 7c.
CHEVIOT-GINGHAMS 7c. A GRAND BARGAIN ! CHEVIOT GINGHAM- 7c.
CHEVIOT GINGHAMS 7c. A GRAND BARGAIN ! CHEVIOT GINGHAM? 7c.
5,000 Cheviot Ginghams, Half Price, 7c.
EMBROIDERIES 5c., EMBROIDERIES 5e., EMBROIDERIES 6c.,
EMBROIDERIES 10c., EMBROIDERIES 10c., EMBROIDERIES 10c.,
EMBROIDERIES 15c., EMBROIDERIES 15c., EMBROIDERIES 15c..
EMBROIDERIES 25c., EMBROIDERIES 25c., EMBROIDERIES 26c.
Great Slaughter in Fine Embroideries !
HUCK TOWELS, KNOTTED FRINGED, DAMASK TOWELS, FANCY TOWELS,
nUCK TOWELS, KNOTTED FRINGED, DAMASK TOWELS, FANCY TOWELS,
HUCK TOWELS, KNOTTED FRINGED, DAMASK TOWELS, FANCY' TOWELS,
HUCK TOWELS, KNOTTED FRINGED, DAMASK TOWELS. FANCY TOWEL*.
A Superb Bargain—lso dozen TOWELS!
Reduced to $4 50 dozen—former price $0 to #7 50 dozen.
FRENCH CORSETS, HEALTH CORSETS, WOVEN CORSETS,
FRENCH CORSETS, HEALTH CORSETS, WOVEN CORSETS,
FRENCH CORSETS, HEALTH CORSETS, WOVEN CORSETS,
FRENCH CORSETS, HEALTH CORSETS, WOVEN CORSETS,
NURSING CORSETS, NURSING CORSETS, GLOVE FITTING CORSETS,
NURSING CORSETS, NURSING CORSETS, GLOVE FITTING CORSETS,
NURSING CORSETS, NURSING CORSETS, GLOVE FITTING CORSET'.
BEST CORSETS 25c. AND UP!
Colgate’s Perfumes 75c. Lubin’s Extract 75c. Vaseline 15c. Lubin’s Powders 20c.
Colgate’s Perfumes 75c. Lubin’s Extract 75c. Vaseline 15c. Lubin's Powders 20c.
Colgate’s Perfumes 75c. Lubin's Extract 75c. Vaseline 15c. Lubin’s Powders 20c.
Colgate’s Perfumes 75c. Lubin's Extract 75c. Vaseline 15c. Lubin’s Powders 20c.
SOAP ! SOAP ! SOAP !
100 dozen Soap, very sweet, worth 75e., now 47c. dozen.
Black Silks, Colored Silks, Satin de Lyons, Summer Silks,
Black Silks, Colored Silks, Satin de Lyons, Summer Silks.
Black Silks, Colored Silks, Satin de Lyons, Summer Silks,
Black Silks, Colored Silks, Satin de Lyons, Summer Silks.
Largest Silk Stock in Savannah!
India Linens, Piques, Lawns, Nainsooks, White Checks, White Strips,
India Linens, Piques, Lawns, Nainsooks, White Checks, White Stripes,
India Linens, Piques, Lawns, Nainsooks, White Checks, AVhite Stripes,
India Linens, Piques, Lawns, Nainsooks, White Checks, AVhite Stripes.
BEST VALUE 25c. AVHITE GOODS!
* ENTIRE NEW STOCK, AT
C. ECKSTEIN & CO.’S
GRAND OPENING!
AT PLATSHEK’S,
IHW BROUGHTON STREET.
A SUPERB DISPLAY OF FULLY
25,000 yds. FINE NEEDLEWORK!
Comprising the iollowing qualities and styles in Edgings and Insertions: IRISH
POINT EMBROIDERY on Swiss and Cambric, CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY. NAIN
SOOK EMBROIDERY, SWISS EMBROIDERY, GUIPURE EMBROIDERYon Swiss
and Nainsook, undoubtedly the handsomest collection ot designs ever shown in any
one establisnment.
As usual we will offer Grand Bargains on this occasion. 1.0(0 yards cambric
Edge at 3c., worth 5c.; 1,500 yards Cambric Edge at 5c.. worth KV.; 3.000 yards Cam
bric Edge at 10c., worth 15c.
CALL EARLY AND PROVIDE YOURSELF.
jOaoal Storro Jactoro.
J, H, WALKER & CO.,
Naval Stores Facccrs
—AND—
General Commission Mercfonfs
102 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, LA.
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TRUC K FAR M ERS!
Leave your orders now with
BACON, JOHNSON A CO.
FOR HEADS AND SPATS.
HAVE Tour Crates made in time, and avoid
trouble when you are ready to ship.