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THK LADY OF TEAKS, t fgta
TANARUS: r. .gli valley, and hamlet, and city,
Wherever humanity dwells.
With a heart full of lufinit pity,
A "iea- that with . inputhy swells,
she walks, iu m r ueaiity immortal—
Karh household grow - sad as she nears.
But she crosses at length every portal,
The mystical Lady of Tears."
If never this vision of sorrow
Has shadowed your life in the pa*l-.
You will meet her, I know, serve te-sorrow,
She vi'it- ul ! hearthstones at last-
To house and. cottage and palace,
To servant and king she appear,.
And offer • he gall of her chalice -
The u-.i'i.■.s..me Lady of Tear .
To the c -tl it have smiled -mt in gladness.
To ihi -ouls that have hasC -d in the sun,
~hn .- ns. in her garments r t sadness,
A ctrt store to dread and t> shun.
Arc. |i .s that have drunk Pit of pleasure
Brie pallid and tremble with fears,
*s ftf c pour- out the gali :rom her measure,
TO • terrible Lady of Tours.
lie n midnight lone hearts that are achinf
With the agonii.-il m aihness of grief
\r -aved from the torture of breaking
’ v her bitter-sweet - raught of relief.
• h. then do alt grni~ev infold her—
ik> a goddess she ' wics aud appears,
ml the i yes overflow that behold her,
The beautifal Caij of Tears.
I ugh she turn- lamenting all lanfh.er,
T hough she give us de-pair for deligi- ,
X-ife holds a new'leaning thereafter
F‘*r tho-e who %-.t greet her aright.
Th* > stretch oic 'heir hands to each other,
For sorrow -tr !e- and endears
The children of vur tender mother—
The -vveeu blessed Lady of Tears.
- . r/„ WhteUrin Yanitj Pair.
IH)W!,S IN THK HOI'SE.
Joaquin ltr Poinla Out an l£ly Side
of Congress.
H'/, .. ,n Letter to Philadelphia Press.
Tin.- '.hi e order "f architecture obtains
in tin- tio'we a~ characterizes the Senate
chamber miy the i-laee is made to hold
al-out t-i'jr tine sas many cattle.
Tbifr-t thing that strikes a stangor
here is the villainous air. The first tiling
you herr w hen seated in one of the five cir
cles sw -cjiing around the topofthe corral
is an incessant clapping < f hands. The
bright little pages start up at all times
an-, from all places, and dart industrious
ly al ut to obey their tormentors and the
Ususlly unnecessary calls of Congress
men This continual clappingof hands is
a noisy and absurd nuisance that few of
the veil-bred member' indulge in This
reads like a very broad suggestion that
there are a great many members of Con
-Te-s in the House who ace not well bijsl.
‘Tapi clap! clap! elaji! \ memlier, two
nn uiliers, three, b-ur, five, all on ’heir feet
at mce, and in even key and accent,
fr in guttural to nasal twang, in every
brogue you hear: "Mister Speeker!”
Me. Speeker! Misther Spakher! till
the roar and bellowing i- really like the
i--ar and the rush and the bellowing of a
1 ii ll full i-i t alifornia steers and other
attic on branding day. The pale, tall,
an and leaning Speaker bounds feebly
with tin handle of his broken hammer,
tnd, in self-defense aim in the interests of
peace, catches the eye of the feeblest man
-f the five and makes the others sit
down.
riie man with the feebb- voice has a bill
f -i' making a road to the graves of some
soldiers who died nearly a quarter ot a
i • -utit r> ago somewhere down South, lie
is trying hard to tie hear-. 1. Clap! clap!
clap! lie sails his patriotic eagle and
fairly screams over the graves of his dead,
clap: clap: clap: No one wants to hear.
The Speaker has made a hick-knife of his
long, lean figure and is yawning wearily.
The feeble member is unrolling a mass of
manuscript. Tin House takes alarm.
There is some side talk about having
something printed, and the ceineterv man
sinks into a grave.
Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker! Five, ten,
ill their feet! Clap! elan! clap! slam!
bang! crack! A short fat man with a
-pin voice nearly smashes his desk with a
book, in a wild and desperate effort to
catch the Speaker’s eve. He caught his
ear at least. The split voice begins
squeaking something which I cannot
hear. People pouring in; people pouring
out; dozens of doors; dozens of members
moving about, loafing here, loafing there
—the most ungainly attitudes ever seen
outside of a Bowery bar-room; the hun
dred or two in their seats, with about ten
exceptions, are all sitting askew. Why,
il the buys in an Oregon district school
-iinuld loaf in their seats as these mem
ber' of Congress do, their every back
" mild come in contact with some portion
>f the nearest hazel patch before the going
(low n of the sun.
A> the eyes of the visitors are all the
time directed toward the speaker, this is
a good place to be seen. 1 notice one
massive ami elephantine old member
with ; tremendous shock of grav hair
spreading out like an old mop, is clutch
ing tight to the Sjieaker’s desk with both
hands, as if he was wrecked at sea and
the Speaker’s desk was a sort of chicken
coop.
Horrors! I did not see it at first, for
°ne looks at the Speaker and heart of the
House, ltut the \\ hole edge of the corral
i~ a 'ort of snioerthiiig, smoking volcano; a
smoking, chewing, reeking, drunken and
iched ragged edged. 1 now under*
stand why the ladies left. Ah! yes, lam
a -moker; but there is a time to smoke.
1 never smoke in a church or in a temple.
And such cigars as these, of the cheap
ii.iwery order, no man of any sense or
sensibility will smoke at all!" How do
you know they - are “two-for-five’s 7’
Well, l know this; that a man who is low
enough and mean enough to smoke here is
too mean to smoke any other kind than
"t wo-for-five’s”
fen years ago when writing letters from
this city to Loudon, 1 was compelled to
chronicle the fact ttiat it was no strange
thing to see United States Senators drink
ing. drunk in public bar-rooms along with
knots of lobbyists and loafers. And it
was all true then. But it is no’ true now.
The world moves. There is hope, for the
great American heart is good, perleet.
biate a folly or a wrong fairly to the peo
ple. keep it before them, so that they may
not forget it, and my word fer it in less
than five years it will be swept away. A
vi ar ago, when this paper sen* me to the
Capitol to interview and rei>rt upon the
spittoons, I found hundreds of them there
as big as wash tubs, hideous, filthy, reek
ing things, poisoning the air wliicb the
twenty-six men and all the ponderous and
wonderful machinery under the Capitol
was toiling night and day to purify. 1
found these monstrosities scattered
through all the departments here at our
Federal Capital. Their number was
’housands then, if not legions. But this
year 1 find they are only about half as
large and certainly not" nearly half as
numerous. So you see that by appealing
to ’he people through this paper last year
iu that one article on this foul subject. I
have saved the country and am saving
to-day to the country thousands upon
thousands of dollars. "Let us not despise
the day of small things. And if you see a
member mean enough to smoke and chew :
and spit about the House while at work |
for the people in our noble temple next
year, I shall be surprised.
Now, my howling member of Congress. I
you who hang idly about the edge of the
able aiul industrious members here, and
smoke, and chew, and spit, and bluster,
and swear, you “aecideut,” who have
spent all your abilities in getting here,
and are devoting all your energies to hold
ng on to your place, are you worthv.of
your hire?
Angry to be counted servant aud
’.iborer? Well, when you stand up before
your constituents at home you very meek
ly call yourself a public servant; and jou
!■' ad with all your might for the privi
lege of going to Washington to serve the
;•< >ple. Well how are you doing it? You
are not only idle, but you are indolent,
brn an not only indolent, but you are a
chronic disgrace. Now what would you
tuink of one of your constituents, should
you • mploy him and send him into vojir
parlor to do a certain piece of work, and
he should sit himself down there and
"’•coke and put in his time in turning your
h use into a tavern? What would you do
" ith this same laborer if he jmt in all his
time writing letters and trying to make
himsell “solid” with his employer? Y'ou
would turn him out. wouldn't you?
Well, now, I undertake to" say that if
every member of Congress would decently
bear himself, and do the work which be
was sent to do, and only that, we would
have another kind of a House entirely.
We would then have not only order, but
law, and very brief sessions. If members
of Congress, these idlers aud smokers, the
noisy ••accidents’* oho obstruct and even
insult the many able and honest gentle
m* n here, were turned out, and turned
out promptly, as they should be on their
first exhibition of bad manners, there
would l>e peace in the land, love, respect,
law and religion. I am certain it was
ix.'ant that this should be done when it
wa*i given Congress to be the sole judge ol
the qualifications and rights of it# mem
bers to sit in these high places of employ
ment. It is not only the right, but the
duty of tje large majority of good and
true gentlemen here to turn out at once
and forever every noisj clapper, loafer, I
smoker and blackguard "who profanes and
defaces the noblest temple that was ever!
lifted to liberty bv til? people o! the earth, i
KIKE FROM THE ROCKS.
The Famous Luminous Stone of S* t Lake
and flow It VVas Discovered—A Yan
kee's Trick In India—l’hospliorescent
Diamonds and Phosphorescent ltain—
Heat Developing Light.
Philadelphia Times.
“Here’s something rather remarkable,”
said a mineralogist, bidding out a piece of
stone that was of a light gray color and
seemed to possess tie particular interest.
"Just step in this dark room, and now rub
the stone on the wall.”
The writer did "so, and a streak of red
light * as the result.
"Phosphorescence?” queried the some
what startled observer.
“No. It is nothing but simple limestone
fro* n the regie n about Salt Lake. Some
time ago sowe laborers were digging out
the foundation or a house when they came
upon a ledee of this rock that was’so oft
that it was found not necessary to blast.
The contr ict for building called for the
completion at a certain "time, and so a
gang of r.ien worked all night by an elec
tric light, but the first man that struck
his piok into the rock dropped it and
rushed out of the excavation in such a
nianti- r that the others, demoralized also,
left. ud when the boss demanded the
reason the man said that he had seen a
spirit, or had struck the evil regions, for
ass >on as he touched the rock a stream of
red fire came out. The overseer of course
doubted the story, but jumping in he
struck a blow with a bar that went far
towards coroboratingthe other’s story, as
uo sooner did the iron touch the reek than
w flash of red light ensued that lasted
several minutes, finally, slowly dying
away. It was tound that the slightest
touch or scratch produced the same re
sult; in fact, the rock was phosphores
cent. A simple scratch on this, you see,
makes a light that will last two or three
seconds. It is limestone, indeed almost
pure carbonate of lime with lew impuri
ties. Examining it under the glass it is
found to be loose grained, so that it really
appears like a sandstone.
DRAWIXO FIRE FROM THE ROCKS.
“You know,” he continued, “there are
some objects that only show their lumin
ous properties on exposure to heat. Sub
ject this to heat and it will glow for three
minutes with a rich, red light and then
die away entirely. A piece was recently
1 exhited before the Philadelphia Academy
of Sciences and the members made the
interesting discovery that in their collec
tion was another specimeu of a similar
limestone, but from Kangberry, India. A
gentleman who has visited the locality
told me a curious story iu this connection.
It seems that several years ago a genuine
Yankee from Vermont found himself in
Calcutta with less than enough money to
buy him a dinner and his sole propertv an
electi ie battery, lie had been a litt.ie of
everything in iiis time, but had devoted
most of his energies tocollecting minerals
and curiosities of ali kinds, and when he
found himself in the lurch, as it were, he
determined upon starting through the
country and trusting to luck. He was
I very successful at. sleight of hand and
easily paid his expenses. In several
1 months he found himself at the locality
before named, and in prowling around
discovered the luminous limestone by
accident. With mother wit he deter
mined to take advantage of it and In a day
or so the little village iu which he was
I staying was full of rumors to the effect
that a wonderful wizard was among
them, who was enabled to work marvel
ous cures by drawing fire from the rocks
aud imparting it to the patient.
A YANKEE WIZARD.
“In the meantime the American had
erected a hut near the ledge of rock and
was visited by hundreds, and, rigged up
with a curious 'costume, he carried on a
business for some time that made the
native cure-alls and other frauds wild
with envy. His method was to take a
number of persons into the hut and with
Ins finger-nails, that were sharpened lor
the purpose, scrape down the side of the
limestone that left marks of lurid flame, of
course astonishing to behold; then joining
hands with several aud having the battery
concealed he gave them a shock that they
thought came from the rock. No doubt it
did some of them good, and for a long
time he did a thriving business, until
finally a rival appeared in the field and he
was obliged to leave the place.
‘•The subject of the phosphorescence of
inorganic matter is of great interest and
experiments are being made in many
laboratories. Curiously enough,” saiil
the mineralogist, “many of the dis
coveries that have been made regarding
organic phosphorescence have been the
result of efforts to manufature gold. You
see that is worth the labor of the chemist,
it has barely been done, though 1 know a
man who claims to have discovered the
process and expects to flood the market—
so the first successful perpetual motion
machine will probably be made of this
manufactured metal.
SHOEMAKER AND CHEMIST.
“One of the first experimentalists in the
gold-making line was Vincenzo Castinola,
a shoemaker, of Bologna, in the sixteenth
century. He was a famous chemist of the
time, working alternately at his shoes and
his drugs anil bottles. The real reason,
however, for his investigations was to find
out the secret of gold-making, and one
night, in walking in.the country, lie stum
bled over a stone that was so extremly
heavy iu comparison io others that hi*
took it home and, beginning his experi
ments, discovered phosphorescence,
which he considered the element of gold.
Not being able, however, to get the gold
out he took it to another noted chemist
and for many years it was the subject of
innumerable experiments and attempts to
obtain the gold, as the stone had the then
remarkable faculty of shining in the dark
with a golden gleam alter it bad been
exjiosed to the rays of the sun. The stone
is now well known as barytine, that is
phosphorescent after insolation. The
carious mineral is still sold iu Bologna as
the Bologna stone and explained as solar
light.
PHOSPHORESCENT DIAMONDS.
“The discovery that diamonds are phos
phorescent was made in 1163 by Robert
Boyle and created a great sensation. A
diamond was shown that looked like a
burning coal in a perfectly dark room.
An old chemist of Hamburg while trying
to manufacture a gold fluid made acci
dentally a substance that shone in the
dark, aiul in a delirium of delight he went
to the chemist, John George 11. of Saxony,
thinking that he had discovered the golden
secret. He took care, however, not to
inform anyone how it was made. An
other chemist hearing of the discovery
traveled a long distance for those times
and succeeded in buying the secret for
about s2o*3 of our money. But his experi
ments were not successful, the material
being merely phosphorus that was dis
covered in this way. Later, in 169a, a
different phosphorescence was discovered
by ealciming nitrate of lime, and others
soon iollowed, until now hundreds of
different methods of its manufacture are
known.
A Curious Application to a Folic* Mag
istrate.
London Telegraph.
On Saturday, April 12, a young man of
respectable appearance came before Mr.
Chance, at Lambeth Police Court, and
said: “Your worship, I want you to help
me about my young woman.”
Mr. Chance—l will ir I can, but it is
rather a strange request. Ix>t me know
more about it.
Applicant—Well, I am engaged to be
married to a young woman living at
Peekham. On Thursday night I went to
her house to see her, but she was not at
home. After hunting about from one
place to another I found my young wo
man iu company with another man drink
ing together. What am Ito do? I have
promised to marry her; but, il she is keep
ing company with another man, I don’t
feel inclined.
Mr.- Chance—But how can 1 assist
you ? If your young woman acts in such
a way you will have little difficulty in
breaking off the match.
Applicant—Yes, sir; but then don’t let
me marry her. Loud laughter.]
31 r. Chance—l have no pow : er in the
matter. It is in your hands as to whether
you perforin your promise or not.
Applicant—l thought you could have
given me an order so as to prevent my
being married, as she went out with an
other man. [Renewed laughter.!
Mr. Chance—You appear to be rather
simple in such a matter. I fancy you
are afraid of a breach of promise case
against you; but if prove what
you have stated to me rob need not fear.
Applicant—Very well, then, I need not
marry her. [Continued laughter.]
Mr. Chance—Certainly not.
Applicant—That's all right.
He then left the court, evidently very
greatly satisfied.
A peculiar kind of building stone is
found in some localities in Oregon, hav
ing the property of being uninjured by
the action of cold, heat or moisture. It
is called granite sandstone, is very rich
in silica, of a close, fine grain, highly
crystalized, unlaminated and of a fine i
brown color. On being brought to a white
heat and suddenly plunged in cold water i
it comes out aa solid anil firm as at first.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1834.
MILLIONAIRE HORSEMEN".
THE MAX WHO OWNS THK FAST
EST PACERS IN THE WOULD.
Commodore Kittson's Vast Establish
ment for the Brecdius and Hearing of
Trotters and Hitnners— now .lolinston
and Little Brown Jug Rose from Ob
scurity to Fame—TUeir History.
Chicago Tlr&uiu.
The fastest trotter it the world, Mftud
S„ is-owned by Mr. William 11. Vander
bilt, who, like most of the descendants of
the Amsterdam Dutch, the first white set
tlers in N ‘W York, inherits a love for fast
horses. The trotter with the second fast
est record—Jay-E* e-See—is the property
of Mr. f. I. Case. The two fastest pacers
the turf has ever known are the pr iperty
of Commodore y. W. Kittson, of St. Paul,
M inr.., a man who will shortly have com
pleted the allotted age of threescore years
and ten, and he takes to-day as great an
interest in matters pertaining to turf
sports as do the men who are more than a
generation behind him in years as well as
experience. The horses referred to, John
ston and Little Brown Jug, have records
respectively of 2.10 and 2.11%, these fig
ures representing the fastest miles ever
paced.
Commodore Kittson is a man whose
wealth runs well up into the millions, and
he has accumulated it by more than half a
century of earnest application to busi
ness. Over fifty years ago, when the West
was practically an unknown wilderness,
John Jacob Astor, the founder of the
family which bears his name, sent Com
modore Kittson, then a boy, into the Hud
son Bay region as his agent in the pur
chase of furs, and since that time he has
been prominently identified with the in
terests and development of the Northwest.
His fancy for fast horses, however, came
only when his income mounted into the
hundreds of thousands per year, and he
has gratified it in the most complete and
lavish manner. Four years ago his name
was wholly unknown in turf circles—now
lie has more money invested in trotters,
pacers and thoroughbreds than any other
man in the world, his total expenditures
in the purchase of horses and farms
whereon to breed and raise them having
been in the vicinity of $2,000,000. At Mid
way, near St. Paul", he has one of the most
complete and best arranged stock farms
in the world, and on it are to be found
high-priced representatives of every
prominent trotting family. At Erden
lieim, near Philadelphia, is an immense
farm which he purchased two years ago
from Mr. Aristides Welch, whose name
lias been identified with the rearing of
thoroughbreds for a quarter of a century.
It was here that Parole, the liorse that
went to England four years ago and as
tounded the natives of that island by win
ning all the great spring handicaps in the
easiest possible manner, was born, aud
the same paddock which was the scene of
his frolics as a colt witnessed also the an
tics of his numerous brothers and sisters,
none of whom, by the way, attained a
tithe of the celebrity which fell to the lot
of the brown gelding. On this farm,
which was purchased two years ago by
Mr. Kittson for the round sum of $200,-
000, may be found a hundred or so of the
best thoroughbreds in the land. There
are stallions and mares representing the
most fashionable strains of American
blood, as well as animals imported from
England at a great expense iu order that
the effects of their breeding may be tested
in this country.
THK TWO FASTEST PACKItS.
But with all these vast expenditures of
money the horses by reason ot whose per
formances Commodore Kittson is best
known are the two pacers alluded to in
the beginning of this article. It is only
within a few years that pacers have re
ceived more than passing notice at the
hands of the horsemen, and even now the
prices offered for them by trot ting asso
ciations are not large in amount. The
first pacer that attracted notice was Po
cahontas, a famous old chestnut mare
who drew a wagon in 2.17 V something
like a quarter of a century ago. She was
so fast and stout that the "owners of other
horses lacked courage to make a race
against her, and in consequence her turf
performances were somewhat limited.
One of her descendants, also named Poca
hontas, was purchased at a low price by
Mr. Robert Bonner about fifteen years
ago, and for many years was the pride of
his stable. The original Pocahontas was
handled during the early years of her life
by a Mr. Woodmansee, who at that time
was a resident of Ohio. He is still alive,
and last summer, at the age of 74, drove
one ot Commodore Kittson’s horses a
mile in 2.24%. His sons, Dan and Ben,
are Mr. Kittson’s trusted lieutenants in
the management of his trotting stock,
the former having charge of the farm at
Midway, while the latter is the manager
ot the stable of trotters and pacers that
travels through the country from spring
until fall.
JOHNSTON’S HISTORY.
The histories of Johnston and Little
Brown Jug are not generally known. The
former was bred near Berlin, Wis., his
sire being a horse of the Bashaw family,
and his dam a mare whose Wood lines
have never been satisfactorily established.
The man who raised him, like the breed
ers of a goqd many noted horses, was in
moderate circumstances. From the day
of his birth Johnston was a natural pa
cer, and when four years old could easily
distance anything in the shape of horse
flesh around Berlin. There lives at that
place a man named Mather, who came to
Wisconsin a quarter of a century ago and
has grown rich in the banking business.
Three years ago Mather owned a team of
gray horses that could trot a mile close to
three minutes. He was driving them along
a country road one day when John Bassett,
who raised Johnston, came up to him with
a neatly turned gelding that was a pacer.
The talk turned on horses, and Bassett
said that his four-year-old pacer was a
very fast one. lie could beat anything
around there, Bassett said. Wanting to
test the truth of this assertion Mather
told him to drive ahead and he would fol
low him with the gray team. Bassett
started up the pacer, and in a moment or
so was lost in a cloud of dust, leaving
Mather far behind, and wondering
whether his team had suddenly lost all
their speed. Although nothing of a horse
man Mather was an excellent financier,
and argued that if this horse could go so
fast at four years of age he would with
proper training attain a rate of speed that
would make him worth a great deal or
money. Bassett was poor and willing to
sell one-half of the horse; Mather was
rich and bought a half interest for $350.
At that time the horse was known as Bar
ney. The following year he was brought
to Chicago by Bassett, and kept here
about two months, doing a mile at the
West Side track one day in 2.15j^,
Before this performance he had been of
fered for sale at $5,000, and it is probable
that four-fifths ol that sum would have
purchased him, but alter snowing this
speed Bassett took him home again, and
subsequently disposed of his interest to
Mather for a nominal sum, the banker
thus becoming sole owner of the pacer.
The following winter he arranged with
Peter V. Johnston, of this city, tc drive the
horse, and he was entered in’several races
under the name of Charley M., having
been so called by the banker in honor of
* himself.
When the horse reached Johnston's sta
ble in the early spring of 1883 he was iu
bad shape, but careful attention soon
brought him round. About this time
“Eb” Smitfi, of Milwaukee, a rollicking
sort of a man who had made considerable
money in the liquor business, became in
terested in the pacer and finally purchased
a controlling half interest in him for $7,-
500. The horse’s name was then changed
to Johnston, as a compliment to his uew
driver; and last Slav made his first ap
pearance in a public race in 3lichigau.
He passed through the circuit in that
State, not losing a single heat, and came
back- to Chicago with a record of about
2.17. At the great meeting held here in
July he was entered in a race that had lor
starters three or lour other horses. One of
these, Billy 8., was owned in Buffalo, N.
Y., and his backers were confident that
he could beat Johnston, they claiming
that he had shown them a half mile in 1.05
and a full mile in 2.15. The race was for
a purse of $2,500, with SSOO added if 2.17
was beaten, and the betting was fast and
furious. In the first heat Johnston dis
tanced every horse in the race except a
mare named Gurgle, the time being 2.15,
aud in the second beat the mare was also
shut out, Johnston thus winning the en
tire purse and the SSOO added money, the
total amount being $3,000, which is the
largest sum ever won by a horse in a
pacing race.
This performance brought Johnston
prominently before the public, and the as
sociation promptly ottered a special prize
for him to try to beat the best pacing re
cord, 2.11 %, made by Little Brown Jug
two rears before. On the appointed day
the driver of Johnston had a man sta
tioned at the half-mile post, whose duty it
was to tell him as he passed how fast the
first half-mile had been paced. This in
dividual, who seems to have been some
what overpowered by the sense of the re
sponsibility which rested upon him, made
a mistake of three seconds in his calcula
tion, aud as Johnston went flying past him
he shouted '“1.02.” Thinking that as he
had gone the first part of the mile so fast
it would be an easy matter to accomplish
the remaining distance before the allotted
time Johnston made no effort to urge bis
horse, and the animal came home at his
ease in 2.11 %, the first half mile having
been done in 1.05 instead of 1.02. At Pitts
burg the following week the horse wfs
taken sick, and did not pace again until
tall, when he was driven a mile over the
[ Chicago track in 2.10, as officially an
nounced, although a number of outside
watches made the time 2.09%.
It was after this performance that Com
modore Kittson purchased Johnston, pay
ing for lum $20,000. He had bought Little
Brown Jug two years before for a like
sum, but trouble" with that horse’s feet
had prevented his making any showing iu
races. 1
BROWN JUG.
Like Johnston, Little Brown Jug was
of humble origin. He was bred in Ken
tucky, his sire being the horse called Gib
son’s Tom Hal—an animal with not eveu
local reputation as a sire. Little Brown
Jug was used in his colthood as a saddler,
and the fact that he possessed great speed
at a pacing gait was discoyered by aeci
deut. When four years old he was put in
a race, and while pacing a heat at Jack
son, Mich., attracted the attention of Mr.
11. V. Bemis, of this city, who at once
purchased him for $2,500. This was in
1881, and that season Little Brown Jug
paced the three fastest heats on record at
Hartford, the time being 2.11%, 2.11% and
2.12%.
At the dispersal of Mr. Bemis’ stable
the following spring lie was sold to Com
modore Kittson, but foot-lameness pre
vented his showing anything like his real
speed. Last fall Mr. Robert Bonner, who
perhaps knows more about horses’ feet
and the ailments to which they are sub
ject than any other man, took the pacer in
charge, and a few weeks ago returned
him to Mr. Kittson's trainer in Cincin
nati in perfect health.
MR. KITTSON’S TROTTERS.
Besides these two pacers, Commodore
Kittson has a large stable of trotters in
training, among them being Fanny With
erspoon, 2.17; So So, 2.17%; Minnie It.,
2.19; Von Arnim, 2.19%, and Pilgrim.
This last-named horse, now six years old,
is a son of Smuggler, whose record of
2.15% is the fastest ever made by a stal
lion. Pilgrim was driven last season in
order to develop bis speed, but not trotted
in races. During the Cleveland meeting
he showed a half mile in 1.07%, and it is
believed that this year he will be able to
equal or surpass the record of his sire.
THEIR DRIVER.
The Kittson trotters travel about the
country in a, handsome car made specially
for their use, and each one has an attend
ant to look alter its wants. Their driver
is John Splan, who became famous a few
years ago by driving Itarus a mile in
2.13%, it being the first time that Gold
smith Maid’s record of 2.14 was beaten.
Splan is a good-looking, bright-eyed man,
a little over thirty years of age, and lias
worked his way to the topmost round ot
his profession, it being generally conceded
that in point of ability as a driver and
trainer he is second to no man in the
country, although there are three or tour
that are his equals. Asa matter of tact
Commodore Kittson’s driver is full as in
teresting as his hoises.
As an entertaining conversationalist
Splan has no superior. He can reel off
interesting stories by the yard, and keep
an interested circle of auditors around
him for hours at a tune. He never smokes,
never took a drink of wine or liquor in nis
life, and says that a good night’s sleep is
the best preparation for driving a race.
He is a perfectly fearless reinsman, and
in the excitement of a hotly-contested
heat will endanger his life without a
thought as to the consequences. No mat
ter what the circumstances may be, he is
never at a loss for an answer to any ques
tion that may be put him. His story of
how he graduated from the position of
“rubber” to that of driver is worth re
peating. “I was rubbing horses for Dan
Mace,” said Splan. “Anil one day an old
gentleman who had taken a great deal of
interest in me came along. ‘Why don’t
you get a horse, Johnny,’ he said, ‘and be
a driver yourself?’”
“I explained to him that it was almost
impossible for a boy who had no influen
tial friends, to obtain possession of a trot
ter. ‘I have got two,’ he said, ‘my favor
ite team, Twang and Sting, and if you
like, 1 will let you train them.’ Of course
I accepted his proposition eagerly, and
lay awake half that night thinking over
my good luck. The next morning the
horses were sent to the track, and, bov
like, I wanted to begin operations on them
at once. So 1 harnessed Sting up to a
sulky that I borrowed for the occasion
from one of the trainers, and while this
was being done took Twang out in the field
inside the track and turned him out to
grass, tying him by a long rope to a strong
stake, which X drove into the ground.
Then 1 went back and began driving
Sting. I warmed the old liorse up pretty
well, and then started to drive him a full
We got along very nicely until we
came to the place where Twang was nib
bling grass. The old horse saw His mare
coining at a very unusual rate of speed,
anil as we neared him he gave a loud
whinny and started in hot pursuit. When
lie had galloped the length of the rope that
held him there was a sudden stop. The
stake to which the rope was tied held its
own, and the result was that Twang
turned a double somersault and broke his
neck. Unconscious of the destruction
that was going on behind me I drove Sting
down the homestretch at his best rate of
speed. After completing the mile and
stopping the liorse I found that the un
usual exercise had made him dead lame,
and from the way in which he limped it
seemed highly probable to me that he
would never recover. While bemoaning
this fact a small boy who had witnessed
the catastrophe to Twang came up and
informed me of it. The next morning the
old gentleman who took so much interest
in me and who regarded me as a bright
and promising boy came out to the track.
He buried Twang, led Sting limping home
behind his buggy and my career as driver
began and ended in one day.”
HOW KARUB WAS NAMED.
Rarus, the horse that gave Splan his
reputation, belonged to an old farmer
named Conklin, who lives on Long Island;
who raised Rarus himself, and as a colt
the animal was about as ungainly-looking
as could be imagined. Mr. Conklin’s son
returned lrom college when the colt was
four years old, and, having acquired
enough of college education to render him
useless on a farm, occupied his leisure
moments bestowing on the live-stock
names which he selected at random from
a Latin dictionary. It was by reason of
this fancy on the part of the young man
that the big bay colt was thereafter known
as Rarus, that word being a Latin adjec
tive, which in this case proved to have
been rightly bestowed. ,
Commodore Kittson’s annual expendi
tures incurred in maintaining his vast es
tablishments for the breeding of trotters
and runners and the training and travel
ing of his stables of horses that are ac
tively engaged in turf contests are some
thing enormous. Men who race or trot
horses on a large scale do not expect to
make money thereby. It is a pastime lor
which they are willing to pay a liberal
sum. Thus far Mr. Kittson ha 9 not been
very successful either with his runnens or
trotters. Several of the horses for which
he paid large prices have failed to fulfill
the expectations formed regarding them,
lie now has the two tastest pacers in the
world, and that they will hold the place of
honor during the eomingjeason is scarce
ly to be doubted. Unless something un
foreseen should occur the best running
horse during 1884 (Eole) will be owned by
Mr. Freddy Gebhard, of New York; the
best trotter (Jay-Eye-See) by Mr. J. I.
Case, of Racine, IVis., and the best pacer
(Johnston) by Mr. N. W. Kittson, of St,
Paul, Minn.
A Criticism of American Humor.
Whitehall Reriew.
There seems some danger that a change
will come over the tone and character of
American humor, and that, instead of the
half-unconscious comicality of the early
school of American humorists, we shall
have the audacious buffoonery of liter
ary clowns. Hitherto American humor
has not lacked refinement. Whether it
resided in the quaint phraseology of
Artemus Ward, the rough homeliness of
Bret Harte and J. R. Lowell, or the curi
ous invention of Mark Twain, it main
tained an invariable puritv of tone. If
never very subtle, if was at any rate never
“low.” If, according to our ideas of
humor, it was tricky, it was infinitely
above punning. One positive quality
hitherto developed by American humor
is an adroit employment of false
hood and exaggeration. It makes
us laugh in spite of ourselves,
it carries our judgment by assault,
and thu9 humiliates while it amuses. Un
fortunately, the change at which we ha\e
hinted is in the direction of depending
still more on the trick of exaggeration,
with the addition of a most unwelcome
impudence and coarseness. We should
have i-een delighted if to the buoyant self
confiii ,nco of the indigenous Yankee a
measure of European refinement and sub
tlety had been added; but this it seems
vain to hope for.
WHO FAMOUS “OUIDA” IS.
A SKETCH OF HER IN HER FLOR
ENTINE HOME.
Her Early Life and Antecedents—A Dis
appointed, Unhappy Woman—The
Profits of Her Marvellous Pen—Her
Best Novels.
Plorence Letter to Philadelphia Press.
Louisa de la I’amee is of French extrac
tion, her grandfather having been a
Frenchman; but she is English on both
sides ot the house, having lieen born at
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, forty-three
years ago. The story runs that her father
and mother, being inharmonious in their
domestic relations, separated during her
girlhood—he coming to the Continent and
she remaining in England.
Ouida’s youth was passed in various
countries, so that she may be said to have
no particular nationality. She speaks
fluently French, Italian and German, as
well as her native tongue, anil writes
those foreign languages with facility. She
has often declared that she had no child
hood, and indeed, no youth; for her ex
periences were unpleasant and forced her
very early into a kind of morbid maturity.
For years she has been overflowing with
cynicism and bitterness, disliking men
aud distrusting women, and giviug the
most unpleasant pictures of fashionable
society, indicating that selfishness, ras
cality and wantonm ss are the distinguish
ing traits of humanity. She is even more
of a misogynist than a misanthrope, for
she never "allows an opportunity to pass
without arraigning her own sex at the
stern bar of her warped judgment.
To read Ouida’s later novels one would
form the same idea of society on the Con
tinent to-day that one would have
formed of France had he lived in
the time of the Regent, Phillippe
d’Orleans v or of England during the
reign of Charles 11. Her representa
tives are repulsive; but she vows they
are strictly true, not even exaggerated
for the sake of fiction. Doubtless there is
always more or less corruption in society
which claims to be the best, but the cor
ruption is rather exceptional than general,
while Ouida portrays it the reverse.
THE PLAN OF HER NOVELS.
She is a very prolific writer. She has
produced in the twenty years that have
passed since “Held in Bondage” appeared
some thirty-five novels, besides any num
ber of magazine articles and contribu
tions to the newspapers. It may well be
said that her pen is never idle, if it were
; her literary reputation would stand
higher, for she frequently repeats herself
and is obviously careless iu construction,
incident and the development of her char
acters, which are decidedly prone to re
semble one another. She almost invari
ably introduces two or three rich, bad,
brutal men and several handsome, arti
ficial, impure, mercenary, completely self
ish women, all of them occupying exalted
social positions, in salient contrast with a
preternatural ly good, noble, self-sacrific
ing woman, who is commonly persecuted
and whom nobody understands.
The celebrated authoress lives in a
handsome villa outside the gates, fur
nished and decorated handsomely and ex
pensively. It is full of pictures, engrav
ings, statuettes, bronzes, books and all
sorts of bric-a-brac, for which she lias
great fondness and fine taste. If she has
little love of her own kind, she loves dogs,
horses, cats, bitds and animals generally,
having iu her house many pets. She often
says that they are neither perfidious nor
ungrateful, and that to call a man a dog,
as most men are constituted, is a compli
ment that he seldom merits. She drives
out daily, when the weather is pleasant,
and is usually accompanied by two or
three dogs.
Everybody in and about Florence knows
her by eight. She is a rather striking
figure, being tall and well-formed, and
having a strong, remomberaMo face, with
light eyes and an abundance of yellow
hair. She dresses handsomely and ex
pensively, but in an unconventional man
ner and not always in good taste. At
times she is overloaded with color and or
naments, and then again she is simple in
attire to a point of severity. It would
seem that she enjoys attracting attention
and making a sensation, although
she pretends otherwise. An American
artist here calls her a feminine imitator of
Byron, for whom she cherishes anenthu
"siastie admiration. She also adores Hein
rich lleine and Leopardi, which shows
that the bent of her mind is sombre aud
cynical. In fact, most of her literary
tastes are what would be denominated
unhcaltbful. Her views of life are not
cheerful, and her countenance is general
ly marred by an expression of unamia
bility. What has made her bitter nobody
knows. It is due partly to temperament
and partly to circumstances." Her early
life has probably been such as to sour her.
Moreover, she is an idealist, and, conse
quently, doomed to disappointment in all
her relations with the world.
The poor are very much attached to
Ouida, which is natural, as she is very
kind to them personally and pecuniarily.
She gives freely and largely in charity,
and she is said never to hear ot a case of
indigence and suffering which she does
not try to relieve. On the whole, she ap
pears to he a strong, earnest, generous,
honorable, pure-minded woman, whose
faults are mostly on the surface. She be
lieves she does "much good by exposing
the weaknesses and meannesses and vices
of society, and by presenting patterns
of men amt women who put the common
creatures or life to shame. She travels a
good deal, spending six or seven months
here, and the rest of the year in France
and England. She has a few friends who
are devoted to her, and for them and to
them she is goodness itself. With all her
talents and successes she is discontented,
and is, inwardly, a solitary and unsatis
fied soul.
THE PROFITS OF HER PEN.
If Ouida’s books (she derived her pen
nfl®e from the childish pronunciation by
her little niece ot her tirst name, which is
Louisa de la Rainee) arc not quite appre
ciated by the critics, they are’appreciated
by her publishers, for they sell largely and
rapidly. Her first novel,’•‘Held in Ifond
age,” brought her, I understand, $3,000,
and she now gets at least SIO,OOO for every
new work in three volumes that she
writes. She has grown so popular within
the last eight or ten years that she can
make very favorable terms with publish
ers, and she never neglects, it is said, her
own interests. “Moths” and “Friendship”
have been exceedingly profitable, yielding
her to date, respectively, $14,000 and
$15,000, and are still in demand.
The fact that her stories are reputed to
be wicked gives them a zest with manv
young women, not a few of whom have, I
am told, been sorely disappointed in them
in this respect. They may have been
thought to be allied in some maimer to the
grossly indelicate stories of Crebiilon,
Lou vet and other French authors of a past
age, who reveled in minute descriptions
of Interdicted things. Nothing could be
much further from the fact. Ouida is re
ported to have made from $250,000 to $300,-
000 by her writings, and her money has
been so well invested that her income is
estimated at $15,000 a vear, considered
very large in Italy. When to this is add
ed her annual earnings by the pen, it is
not strange that she is counted here as
very rich.
A Love Tragedy in the Escurial.
London Daily yews.
A singular tragedy was enacted recent
ly in the palace of the Escurial. While
the visitors were being conducted through
the cloisters, they were startled by three
or four reports of a gun following one an
other in quick succession. Several of
them ran in the direction from which the
sounds came, and met in one of the pass
ages a handsome and well-dressed gir l ,
who exclaimed in piteous accents, “Help
me, for God’s sake; my heart is cut in
two.” She was holding her hands to her
breast, and blood was flowing in large
quantities down her dress. A few paces
further on a young man was found lying
in a pool of blood, with a gunshot wound
in his side. When he saw the crowd, and
the girl among them, he ju9t had the
strength to exclaim, “Oh, look at me,
thou star of my life! I wish to die with
your eyes looking into mine.” The two
victims were taken into the hospital of
the palace; they may both recover.
It has been a9certaiued that the young
man, a native of Madrid, had for" some
time been in love with the girl, find, as
she would not listen to his suit, be deter
mined to kill her first and himself after
ward. Hearing that she was going to
visit the Escurial with one of her friends,
he thought the opportunity would be fa
vorable for carrying out his scheme of
vengeance, and he lollowed her from Ma
drid to the palace without being observed,
and called out to her while she was in one
of the corridors, shooting her as soon as
she turned round.
The Men Who Direct the Drawings
of the Louisiana State Lottery Company
at New Orleans, on the second Tuesday
of each month, are Gens. Beauregard
and Early, who have entire charge of all
things connected with them, and who at
test over their own signatures to their
absolute fairness. These gentlemen are
of unimpeachable character and honor.
For any particulars address M, A. Dau
phin, New Orleans, La.
SIX PAIRS OF SHOES A MINUTE.
Machines which Turn Them Ont as if
Thev were Barrel Staves.
-Vet* York Sun.
A cobbler takes half a day to sole and
heel a pair ot shoes. In Crow Hill peni
tentiary a few hundreds of men and wo
men start with the raw material, and
turn out 3,800 pairs ol shoes in ten hours,
or more than six pairs ol shoes a minute.
The men and women have little to do with
it. Machines do the work, and need only
to be fed, started, and stopped; all the fine
and ingenious work of building a beauti
ful shoe they do, one part at a time and
one machine to each part. For instance,
the first machine cuts fjie soles out of the
leather. It is nothing but a punch fitted
with a knife the shape of a shoe sole.
Different sized knives cut out anything,
from a baby’s to a plantation darky’s
size. Cutting out the soles leaves the
sheets of leather in tatters. The biggest
tatters are used for heels; the smallest
make fuel. Leather scraps make as good
a furnace fire as coal does. The next
machine splits a thin slice of the upper
surface ot the sole a little way from the
edge all around, so that it looks as if a
thin sheet had been pasted on to the sole,
leaving the edges unpasted. Under this
loose edge a machine presses a little
gutter or channel in which the nailing or
sewing is done, and afterward hidden by
pasting the loose edge over it when the
upper is attached.
At the same moment other convicts are
cutting uppers out of sheets of dressed
calfskin. They lay patterns on the skins
and thus cut the needed sizes. This is
done by hand, but the linings are sewed to
the uppers, and the buttonholes are put
through both leather and lining by ma
chinery. The buttonholes are stitched by
automatic machiues, consisting of a sew
ing machine having under the needle a
little plate which turns exactly in accord
ance with the outlines of the buttonhole,
and stops when the buttonholeis finished.
One man feeds several machines, starts
them, anil does not touch them while they
are at work. After this the soles and
uppers come into the hands of one set of
convicts, the lasters aud tackers on, who
put the two together with a very few
small tacks. These people all work like
lightning, but are slow beside the niaehin
ery.
The soles and uppers are firmly joined
in several ways. ’ One machine puts in
brass screws and bites them off exactly at
the right distance between the upper and
the under surface of the leather; another
drives in an iron screw with the same
nicety, another sews the" parts together
with wax thread, the thread passing
through a heated mettle horn, which keeps
it soft and warm; yet another imitates hand
sewing with yellow thread, leaving an
extended sole which is afterward bevelled
to look pretty. The merit ot this ma
chine is that the shoes it sews are pliable
and easy to the foot, and bring a good
price. This does its work in 11 seconds.
The heels are made separately, and
when finished have all the nails projecting
half an inch below the bottom of the lower
sheet of leather. A convict puts one of
these heels into a metal cup in a press of
great power, and over that he rests a shoe
in the right position. Then down comes a
great bar and squeezes the heel and shoe
together, driving every other nail all the
way in, and leaving every other nail
sticking a little way out. He takes the
shoe out puts a pretty heel tap in, puts
the shoe back, submits it to the oressure,
ami theu withdraws it, and finds the tap
firmly nailed, with the nails not quite
through the tap, which presents a smooth,
unbroken under serfice. The heel-shav
ing machines present to the heel a set of
rapidly revolving knives, shaped to make
a straight heel or a guttered one, or even
a lady’s French heel. Another machine
cuts the front of the heel square, and an
other trims and smooths the edge of the
sole. The edge of the soje and the sides of
the heel are blackened and the edge is put
under a hot iron about the size of a fat
chestnut. This iron moves to and fro
with incredible rapidity, in imitation of
the motions of the cobblers who used to do
the work by hand. A large iron, also
heated by a gas jet, does the same thing
for the heel, and does it under such pres
sure that cracks and unevenesses in the
heel are smoothed over, filled up, and con
cealed.
Some shoe uppers have eyelet holes in
stead of buttonholes. There is a machine
iu the prison for doing this work. It has
two steel rods close to one another, and
while one punches the holes the other
inserts the eyelets, which run down a
little gutter, right side up, exactly into
place to fix into the punctures in the
leather, and to have their edges squeezed
over by the other rod* and the piece that
fits upon it. Twenty years ago sbo*mak
ing machinery performed only one-half
this work and did that roughly." Now the
shoes made in Crow Hill prison are such
as most persons wear, and are in all
respects shapely, presentable, and well
tini'hod. Some or them retail for $4 or $5
a pair.
In this prison, side by side with the
scum of humanity reputable men and
girls are employed. There are probably
two hundred girls in the female prison",
who live in Brooklyn, come every morn
ing, and are free to go home whenever
they present a certain ticket at the prison
door. The Warden, who is, iu all proba
bility, not consulted, since these persons
work for the contractors, was asked what
he thought was the effect of such sur
roundings upon the youths of good morals.
He replied that there used to be a general
feeling that the arrangement was impro
per and dangerous, but it has not proved
so. Outside free labor has been employed
in Crow Hill eleven or twelve years, and
of all the hundreds who have thus come
daily to the prison not one has ever been
sent there as a prisoner. The outsiders
do not have anything to do with the pri
soners. They sit apart, and never, under
any circumstances, speak a word to the
convicts.
RUSSIAN COURT LIFE.
Eugene Schuyler on Conventionalities
In the Time of Peter Veliki.
The hours kept by Peter were very dif
ferent from those now in fashion. He fre
quently attended sessions of the Senate
or had conferences with his ministers at
3, 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, then went
to the Admiralty to supervise the ship
building, and generally managed to get an
hour at the lathe before his 11 o’clock din
ner. Then lollowed the usual Russian
midday nap; later he went on tours of in
spection round the town, or worked in his
private chancery, lynl the evening he
passed in the society of his friends or in
the more public assemblies.
Such hours are scarcely possible, ex
cept in St. Petersburg, where At midsum
mer it is always light, and at midwinter
the sun is below the horizon from 3 p. m.
to 9a. m., and frequently, owing to fogs,
it is dark much longer, and early and late
become mere relative terms. At least
three or four times each week Peter either
dined or supped with his most intimate
triends, and most frequently with Menshi
kof, for, in spite of accusations, and per
haps a certain withdrawal of confidence,
friendly and intimate relations were
maintained. Thus, in October, 1719, on
the anniversary of the battle of Kalisz,
Menshikof came to the Tsar at 5 o’clock
in the morning to invite him to dine. He
remained talking with nim several hours,
when both went to the hpuse of General
Golovin, then to the liturgy at the Trinity j
Church, and then to dinner, after which
there was a sailing party on the Neva, and I
the Tsar returned to Menshibof’s for sup
per, and stayed until 10 o’clock.
The court of Catherine presented a irreat
contrast to that of her husband. She was
fond of luxury and display, ofdress and of
jewels, and Peter humored her in this. In
deed he liked the nobility also to keen up a
fitting state. When the Princess Go’litszn
was the jester in ordinary to Catherine,
Peter had two regularlv entitled fools.
One, Balakyref, was a Russian, the other,
La Costa, was from Portugal. The latter
was commonly given the title of Count,
until, on the arrival in 1719 of the Samo
yedes, who came down in the winter with
their reindeer and camped on the ice of the
Neva, he was appointed King of the Samo
vedes, and twenty-four ol them swore al
legiance to him. In accordance with the
customs of the times there was no lack of
dwarfs at the court. Even no private
house was considered well furnished with
out them. They were produced on all oc
casions, put into pies at great banquets,
and their conduct always furnished food
for spiritual entertainment. At the fune
ral of one who had been long attached to
Peter, twenty-four male and twenty-four
female dwarfs walked in procession, lol
lowed by the Emperor in person and his
ministers and guards.
A Remedy for Lung Diseases.
Dr. Robert Newton, late President of j
the Eclectic College of the city of New I
York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, I
used Dr. Wm. Hail’s Balsam very exten- ’
sively in his practice, as many of his pa- j
tients, now living, and restored to health 1
by the use of this invaluable medicine, <
c-n amply testify. He always said that
so good a remedy ought to be prescribed !
ireelv by every physician as i sovereign
remedy in all cases of lung diseases. It
cures Consumption, and has no equal for
all pectoral complaints, I
Ulatrr CToolrre, <?tt.
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Sole Agents for Jewitt’s “Filters and Coolers.
(Flottjino
mi I MHEI Ml I);
Clothing, Clothing, Clothing.
OUR LINE OF CLOTHING IS NOW FULL
AND GOING VERY FAST, BUT WE WOULD
SAY TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT AS YKT
BOUGHT, COME IN AND LET US FIT YOU
OUT AT ONCE AS WE HAVE A FEW SUITS
LEFT.
STRAW HATS ! STRAW HATS !
OUR LINE OF STRAW HATS ARE THE
LOWEST IN fi’HK CITY.
STRAW VACATION HATS,
that you can roll up and put in
YOUR POCKET.
UNDERWEAR ! UNDERWEAR !
ALL STYLES AND PRICES.
“KING OF SHIRTS.’’
THE BEST SHIRT IN THE CITY FOR THE
MONEY.
Chas. Logan & Cos.,
THK SAVANNAH
Clothing & Hat Store.
139 CONGRESS STREET.
fjootcttrr’o PHirto.
y!|3l ah" 8 Ln V systems, suffer-
CUEMATM "lading from a gener
ic til want or tone,
stacle'to renewed
STOMACH health and vigor,
Bv Site ved that is a genuine
BZa Ejr k [faT ft3T JMF corrective i~ the
3 a EEaE* real need, it is
_ . , “ r*" the possession of
this grand requirement which makes Xlostet
tcr’S Stomach Bitters SO OfferWeas an invisro
rant. For sale by all Druggists a—i Dealers
generally.
Ulatrljro atti
AT F. H. MEYER’S,
120 Broughton Street,
You will always find a superior stock of
ffaltlai fatcles,
“ROCK CRYSTAL”
Eye-Glasses and Spectacles,
FLORIDA CURIOSITIES.
A stocK of cleeant SOLID GOLD JEWEL
RY and the very lowest prices.
I make it a point to sell the best and most
reliable goods only.
F. 11. MEYER.
jttefraln.
The Cry is Dull Times!
Where Does the Dnllness Come In ?
TWO MEN employed at the Guards’ Fair
every night disposing of the Guards’ Fair
Medal, in which the Company and ourselves
arc jointly interested.
One man in Columbus, Ga., rnshmg off the
Columbus Guards' Medals. Another Medal
in course of manufacture. Four men can
vassing tie city for maps and books. Two
men at our printing oflice have all they can
do. Three men at the store, busy receiving,
selling and shipping goods.
We receive new goods by nearly every
steamship. What becomes of them? Do we
.bury them? Oh, no! Come around at once
and assist in carrying them off.
Artists’ Materials, Fancy Stationery, Base
Ball Goods and Croquet, to be leaders this
week.
DAVIS BROS.,
Stvawbmiro, (f tr.
Fresh Stravhemes
RECEIVED EVERY MORNING,
V E -R, Y FINE,
—AT—
F. L. GEORGE’S,
COR. STATE AND WHITAKER STS.
j?ron Illovtta. '
KKHOK’S IRON WORKS.!
Castings of all Descriptions,
SUGAR MILLS & PANS
A SPECIALTY.
CEMETERY, C|ARDEN, VERANDA
AND BALCONY RAILINGS. \
WM. KEKOE & CO.,
East end of Broughton st„ Savannah, Ga.
McKIM.MIN’S
Combination Live Stock Sale,
STATE FAIR GROUNDS.
NASHVILLE, - TENN.,
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MAY
21 and 22, 1884.
"YI7ILL be sold at public auction, for net
cash, over 130 head of matured horses
ready for immediate use, from the two great
breeding States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Elegant Harness Horses, Stylish Saddle
Horses, highly bred Trotting Horses, Ladies’
Phaeton Horses, and Shetland Pomes for the
children. Several pairs of well-matched C ar
riage Teams and a few choice Brood .Marcs
with foals at foot. For catalogue* adlres*
11. L. CRAIGHEAD, Nashville, Term.
Cattle
AN APPEAL FOR
Improved Cattle Cars.
’PIIF. United States law to protect animals
A during the transportation hy rail pro
vides that when tliev are carried in car*
in which they can lie fed, watered and
have rest, its requirement that animals shall
be unloaded every 2S hours, and then have a
rest of 5 hours, shall not apply to animals in
such oars. The law prevents starvation amt
too loug confinement in ears so far as it is
obeyed by the Railroad Companies, and its
existence" and enforcement are of the first
necessity while the common stock cars are
used, but the reloading at the stopping places
is attended with much cruelty, it being natu
rally hard to get the poor creatures back into
cars, where tliev luive already so suffered,
without blows, of worse.
To meet this want of an improved car the
American Humane Association offered a prize
of five thousand dollars (fo.cOO) for such a car
in 1880, to stimulate the inventive ability ot
the country. One of its conditions was "i at
the patents on the approved car should e
given to the Association, that the car migot
be offered to the railroad companies by it free
from charges of royalty.
But the owners "of the best inventions de
cided not to compete for the prize, thinking
that their cars would prove more valuable to
them than the $5,000. Accordingly, the price
could not be awarded. The offe’r, however,
caused the construction of airs which msec
THE KEql'l REM ENTS OF THE LAW, and the
trustees of the fund take this way of making
known the fact to Officers, Directors ana
Stockholders of Railroad Companies, and to
all humane people whose hearts have been
touched by the atrocities of this traffic.
Gold medals have been given to the jmrsont
and companies named below. The names are
given in the order that the several cars were
examined:
A. C. Mather, Chicago, Illinois.
W. Stuart Hunter, Belleville, Canada.
J. M. Lincoln, Providence, Rhode Island.
Montgomery Palace Car Company, New
York City.
Burton Stock Cap. Company, Boston,Mas
sachusetts.
Thomas Clark, Truro, Nova Scotia.
John W. Street, Chicago, Illinois.
So long as the common car is used, the
words of Senator McPherson, of New Jersey,
will continue true: “I declare the live stock
traffic to by one long and uninterrupted lino
of suffering from the West to the East.” The
sanitary objections are also of the gravest
character.
The great success of refrigerator cars is
lessening the number of animals transported
alive; bat there must al wavs remain such a
traffic in them as to make the improved car a
permanent necessity.
To avoid all misrepresentations on the sub
ject, we add that neither the Association or
any of its officers have a pecuniary interest
in any of the cars above named.
EDWIN LEE BROWN, J Trustees of
Chicago, 111. Car Prize
I Fund of
Mrs. EMILY W. APPLETON, f American.
ABRAHAM FIRTH, | Humane -
Boston. Mass.j Association.
April 9. 1884.
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yiumltrro’ Suppltro.
JOHN NICOLSON,
DEALER IN
Plumbers’,Machinists’
—AND—
MILL SUPPLIES,
Wrought and Cast Iron
Pipe and Fittings,
—AND—
Brass and Iron Cocks and Valves for
Steam, Gas and Water.
30 and 32 Drayton Street,
SAVANNAH, GA.
paobrtfi.
BASKETS.
A nice assortment of picnic, lunch, work,
key aud clothes baskets, just received.
At crockery house of
JAS. S. SILVA.
?itrrij Stable.
W. F. CONSTANTINE CO.,
95 and 97 York Street,
Between Abercorn and Drayton,
Boarding and Livery Stables
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to boarding
Horses. A nice lot of CARRIAGES,
BCGGIES and SADDLE HOR-fcS. Furnish
Carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Railroad
and Steamboat calls at short notice.
JtJoltaic Brito.
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JCj Appliances are sent on 30 Pays’ Trial TO
MEN ONLY, YOUNG OR OLD, who are suffer
ing from ncbtocs Debility, Lost Vitality,
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EUROPE!
COOK’S GRAND EXCURSIONS leave New
York in April, May and June, 1884. Pass
age Tickets by all Atlantic steamers.. Special
facilities for securing good berths. Tourists
Tickets for individual travelers in Europe, by
all routes, at reduced rates.
Cook’s Excursionist, with maps and full
particulars, by mail 10 cents. Address
TUOS. COOK & SON, 261 Broadwav, N. Y„
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