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A BBOKEX THREAD.
Written for Ike Morning Sea*.
The day U dark with mist and rain
On river*, marshes, bluffs and shore*.
And through it all the great sea roars
And moans a wiki and sad refrain.
The day it dark; bat darker still
My heart is lying in my breast.
With all its dumb desire for rest.
And pulses all too dead to thrill.
The dark <lay with its moan of strife
The strife without and gloom within—
Brings back a day of rrief and sin
That memory hoards in ray young life.
Deception brought to me my grief,
Re be ilion was my sin, for ah 1
That which I worshiped for a star
Was but a meteor dread as brief.
O strange, chill June! thy red-rose bloom
So often praised in prose and rhyme.
Seems but a mockery in its prime.
For lo! thy days are filled with gloom.
Moan on, O winds ami waves, to-day!
Sigh out a song of saddest pain.
Weep on, O skies! in sombre rain—
Dead love and trust are laid away!
A sweeter, purer, better life,
Mine might hare been bad God so willed
A dream of tore ami ktnue fulfilled
And joys of mother and of wile.
But, barring these, must I so waste
This life of mine, and vainly fret
Because the waters of regret
At first are bitter to the tasteV
Ah, no, though dear st dreams are furled
And laid forever more to net
In tender memory’s mother-breast.
We each have work in God’s wide world.
There still are lives more dArk than mine.
Ami, striving these to raise and cheer.
By kindly deeds, I yet may wear
A well-won crown of peace divine.
How could I know the sum of things?
That vows of love “thro’ life to death” •
Were but as so much wasted breath—
That untruth filled betrothal rings? 0
Moan on. O winds, through misty gray
Of sobbing sea and floating rain!
The days to come seem full of pain,
For love and trust are laid away.
But love and trust bear fruit at last,
For from the ashes of a trust.
From dead love and its buried dust,
Upsprings a life that shames the past.
A life of nobler aims and ends.
Of high inspired thought auddeed„
Of purer fight and grander creed.
That makes for errors just amends.
Vivien Csstane.
St. Mary'*, Gn., June SO, JML
' SAVANNAH’S SHORTCOMINGS.
Some Things the City Has Not Done
But Might Do.
Editor Morning Neics: Our writers and
orators everywhere with one voice pro
claim the present an era of unexampled
prosperity—that America, especially the
South, is on a “boom” of magnificent
growth that has no parallel in the history
of nations. We, ourselves, have seen
that in less than a dozen years the South
has arisen from poverty and weakness to
a height of prosjKrity and power that ar
rests the attention even of the most
opulent nations on the other side
of the Atlantic. This prosperity,
too, bids fair to lie permanent, to last
until tne great resources of the country
have been developed and its migbtv trade
turned into permanent channels.' It is
expected to enrich millions, and to render
populous and great numerous cities and
towns which have struggled long and
desperately against the evil influence of
croakers and the apathv of commercial
timidity and indolence.
In view of these things it is perti
nent to ask how much of the boom
vannah enjoying? Has the contagion of
enterprise and improvement spread to
her? Is she animated by tbe spirit of the
times, and living up to the high privileges
so well warranted by her surroundings?
The old adage, “make hav while the sun
chines,” is good advice.
If fortune smiles advance to greet her,
and if she prove not cov why tired at
once embrace her; for, who fail# to take 1
Jier tide at flood, will *>'--•* • .
. , —enceiorth bewail
her. The town or city that neglects this
favorable opportunity mav never have an
other—the advantages that appear to-dav
be gone to-morrow. If Savannah has
not secured all her commercial avenues—
if she has not presented her
claims in good earnest upon the
various sections of countrv by nature
tributary to her port, she had better do so
at the earliest possible moment, for the
“boom” is not going to wait on her, or
show her any more respect than what
may be extorted by her energy and capi
tal. These are the terms, the pride of
prosperity and growth.
Savannah is one of the oldest cities of
the Union, the most favorably located for
the Southern metropolis, and why she has
not 300,000 instead of a little moretha”
30 000 inhabitants, must Mttributed £
. aui vi appreciation on the part of the
citizens of her great geographical and
other advantages. From the capes of
North Carolina the grand old Atlantic
dips far to, the southwest to lave the
shores of Georgia, and then retires
as far to the southeast to finish
up a glorious continent with a
semi-tropical peninsula. Thus she
formed a gulf projecting far towards the
great interior, as if to provide with
special care an eastern port fo? the great
country between the Savannah and the I
Mississippi rivers southward to the Gulf
of Mexico. This vast territory, by nature
tributary to Savannah, is yet enlarged by
the same advantages, and stretches away
to mightier regions beyond, since art has
supplied the means of bridging streams
as well as time and space.
If tbe port has failed to claim its own,
whose fault is it? Can it be said that the
population and wealth of the city were
never sufficient to undertake greater
works than she has accomplished? If so,
why have they not been greater? The
fault still remains. A cleanlv, well gov
erned, ambitious city, so favorably lo
cated, should have attracted population
and wealth in a cotluiry where they were
, s' r “?.t;hg States and crowding upon every
locality of a mighty continent. The “yel
low fever” suggests someone! But,
then, there is New Orleans, Havana,
Rio Janeiro and other large
cities in tcamur climates aud the very
birthplaces of the scourge. This may
have been a potent lactor in retarding the
city’s growth, but would only prove the
laxity or incompetencv of the ruling au
thorities. Those who inhabited the city
should have added to it every possible at
traction, remembering that life was not
all for work and hoarding wealth. What
more could be done? asks one whose idea
of a glorious city is complete in a park
with trees and a fountain, a few squares
and monuments, witn a shell road drive
aud street ears.
It may be answered that a great deal
more could have been done years ago, but
as it was not, it is never too late to do
good, provided the opportunity is still
presented, as in this case.
The city might have prevented the lay
ing out ot little narrow streets, to be
crowned with wooden shanties to rot and
111 the air with malaria, and she might
now inaugurate some plan of removing
such structures whenever they endanger
the public health. She might have pre
vented the enclosure of back yards and
fronts with solid brick walls, or close
plank fences, to exclude the sunshine and
pen up f till poisonous atmosphere on so
large an area of the city; and she may
now discourage such bad taste
and suggest open picket or iron fences,
with a few beds of flowers or handsome
trees as far better taste and infinitely
more conducive to the pleasure and health
cf families and the public. She might have
prevented the crowding of her splendid
wharf-front with nondescript sheds, scaf
folds and shanties, blocking up complete
ly and rendering unsightly fully one-half
its extent; and she might now compel its
reopening along the entire front, the old
rotten wharves and shanties to be re
newed or remodeled and the beau
tiful river front once more ad
mitted to view; while ac
cess to and from should be free and
easy in every part. She might have left
undug the so-called “dry wells,” which,
indeed, are but reservoirs of filth honey
combing large sections ol the city to
breed disease and death: and she might
now fill them up, extend the sewerage to
those localities and decrease the fear by
diminishing the danger of fatal epidem
ics. She might have shelled her princi
pal highways for ten miles into the coun
try and facilitated trade with the interior,
as well as to encourage splendid suburban
homes and the draining and cultivation
of the low lands in her vicinity; and she
might now begin to repair the damage of
omission, and finish up as her old debts
are discharged and her population and
wealth vastly increased under reform and
regeneration.
A city supplied by nature with so many
attractive localities in her very suburbs
might have shown her appreciation of
them a little stronger by constructing
small bridges-and handsome dry walks to
afford recreation and healthful exercise
to her pent-up, care-worn toilers, whose
slender wages will not afford the luxury
of a coach and four, with toll, on the
costly highway of pride and ostentation,
and she might*now construct such walks
along her vineclad forests and around the
sweet indentations of her beautiful coast,
to the great joy and satisfaction of thou
sands. No street car ride will ever com
pensate for the loss of a reinvigorating
walk through the fragrant woodlands of
spring and summer.
Lastly, Savannah may still line her
whole sea-coast to the Altamaba with a
coast-line- railroad, following the inden
tions mainly, and crossing to the beauti
ful islands'when practicable, aud thus
secure facilities ot egress and ingress to
the city that would soon build up that
now almost waste and deserted but salu
brious and fertile section of islands and
mainland as large as the State of Con
necticut. Splendid residences would soon
line the coast and crown the thousand
poetic nooks and corners along the bays
and inlets of the region, and yearly in
creasing truck farms would spread a way
to the interior, to redeem a once almost
classic land from indolence and barbarism.
What has Savannah to say that while
she has been looking far away over the
distant hills and valleys for trade to fill
her vacant warehouses, full fifty miles of
territory in three-quarters of "a circle
around them lie almost wholly unde
veloped ? There are many cities in Europe,
and some even in this country, larger
than Savannah, whose growth and pros
perity depend upon the industries of much
smaller areas. What shall we say, then?
Can it be that her tradesmen are “one
idea” people, having an eye to catch what
little trade there is, but none to reach out
and create? Of all the cities of the Union
Savannah ought to he ahead in this par
ticular. Her very settlement was under
taken for the purpose of planting indus
tries to foster British trade! What better
investment could be made than to so
beautify and improve the city as to induce
those who visit to make it their home, and
to provide its tributary territory, espe
cially its immediate vicinity, with such
facilities as shall fully develop its re
sources and concentrate its trade upon
the city? Seed-time ever comes before
the harvest, and the crop must be well
cultivated before it can be expected to
yield a profitable return. Would it not
be well for the leading citizens and capi
talists of Savannah to reflect a little on
these things? Local.
COST OF LIVING IN CHINA.
A Land Where a Boarding House
Keeper Wouldn’t Make a Fortune.
Good, plain, substantial eatables are
wonderfully cheap in China, while such
dainty luxuries as birds’ nest soup,
sharks’ tins and beche de mer would soon
swallow up a fortune. Ten cents a day
would provide a mau and wife with two
fair meals of rice, salt—fish and vege
tables, with a cup of congon to wash it
down. I once knew a poor hawker who
made four cents a day and managed to
subsist on two cents’ worth of food, the
other two cents being put by for rent and
| clothes. I have seen eight or ten persons
messing together on two meals a day, con
sisting of two kinds of meat and vegeta
bles, besides rice and tea, all for tbe sum
of $1 25 each per month. A dinner of
dog or caf meat is not so cheap as some
people may imagine. In Canton there
are numbers oi restaurants where canine
and feline domestic animals are slaugh
tered, dressed and cooked for the table.
Tbe animals are either strangled or bled
to death, after which the carcass is
placed in a vessel of boiling water and
then stripped of the fur or hair. When
dressed and cleansed they are hung out
side the door as an advertisement. Inside
the shop the animals are being cut ud
and the slices fried in garlic ana oil. The
price of a dish of black-dog or cat meats
is from 10 to 15 cents, a price which poor
persons could ill afford. Shantung im
ports large quantities of cured dog hams,
which are said to be of excellent flavor.
Frog curry is a great dish at foreigners’
table in Canton, but rats, puppies and
pussies are not so generally appreciated
by the residents In “Far Cathay.”
Fashion Notes.
Buttons are still worn small.
Qabbage green is anew shady hi fti;o
lawns.
Yokes are still popular for ladies’ thin
dresses.
Basques for wash dresses are made ex
tremely plain.
Bathing suits are belted with woolen
belts to match.
Ladies are wearing ties and hoofs made
of alligator skins.
Short fob chains are worn by ladies as
well as gentlemen.
For traveling dresses for mourning thj#
lustreless goods are chosen.
Beaded slippers, once so popular for tliO
ladies, have almost entirely disappeared.
Lace scarfs are used little in the street.
The linen is preferred and looks
thc -cat.
- Ladies now wear a lawn tennis shoe
which is made of canvas, with corrugated
rubber soles.
Alpaca is very much used for traveling
suits this season. They are said to be
cool and serviceable.
Crape veils are still worn very long,
reaching nearly to the feet in front and a
yard or so at the back.
Silk jersey, Chantilly and lace mitts are
the glove now worn, as they are cool and
permit the unrestrained use of the hands.
White uun’s veiling, elaborate with
white silk lace and ottoman ribbon, is a
favorite evening dress for mountain and
seashore.
FootUght Flashes.
Louise Pomeroy has arrived in New
York after an absence ol five years in
Australia.
Billy Emerson sails for England this
week to rejoin Haverly’s Minstrels, whose
business is reported as immense.
Mrs. Langtry made a further invest
ment of $15,000 last week in a mortgage
on some improved real estate In New York
city.
Miss Lillian Russell has been engaged
to play “Black-eyed Susan,” in Burnard’s
burlesque of that name at the London
Alhambra.
Mr. Lawrence Barret has signed an
engagement with Mr. Henry Irving to
support him in Shakespearian tragedy at
the London Lyceum during the season
1885-6.
Margaret Mather is spending the sum
mer in retirement at Chicago, her time
being occupied in studying the three new
roles in which she is to appear the com
ing season.
Another French version of Shakespeare
is projected for next winter in Paris for
Madame Sarah Bernhardt. “Romeo and
Juliet” will be translated by M. liichepin.
who lately undertook “Macbeth,” and
Madame Bernhardt will play “Romeo” to
Mile. Hading’s “Juliet.”
It is said that Elliott Barnes’ new play,
“A Marriage Certificate,” will be the
opening bill for the regular season at the
LTnion Square Theatre in New York. This
is the piece that Tompkins and Hill held
lor two years and forfeited S6OO for each
year, being unable to produce it with time
for a run v
The subscriptions for a monument to
Mozart, started in Vienna lately, have
reached the sum of $25,000. The commit
tee has opened a competition for the de
sign of the monument, three prizes being
offered, viz., one of $1,500, one of SI,OOO,
and one of SSOO. The total cost of the
monument is not to exceed $50,000, the
artist being left to choose the material.
Foreign artists are admitted to compete.
Horrible Cruelty to n Russian Heiress.
A sensational trial was concluded at
Moscow a few days ago, resulting in a
sentence of deportation to Siberia against
a woman named Bulakb for keeping a
rich orphan girl, of whom she had charge
as governess, in a state of wretched con
finement and semi-starvation for nearly
thirty vears in order to obtain possession
of her 'fortune of £50.000. Bulakh was a
governess to Mazurin, a girl, in the house
of the latter’s grandmother, in Moscow,
Under fear of being forced into an un
happy union, and through various other
pretexts invented by Bulakh, the girl was
induced to run away with her scheming
governess to the town, oi Rejeff, where,
by dint of religious terrorism and ex
hortations to take the veil, the weak
minded though accomplished pupil was
gradually reduced to a state of helpless
imbecility. The girl, now a woman of
forty, was at times brought so low that
she ate pieces of firewood brought into her
room. Having reduced her to a state of
drivelling idiocy and got hold of her
money, Bulakh then did all she could to
persuade her victim to commit suicide.
As to Bulakh herself, she lived well, built
almshouses and helped her two sons to
become rich. The strangest part of the
story is that the Governor and society of
Rejeff, to whom the truth of the case had
been more or less evident for several
years, should so long have regarded the
crime of Bulakh with indifference. The
poor victim Mazurin was not in a con
dition to be brought into court. Bulakh’s
only defense seems to have been that the
accusation was a conspiracy against her,
and that Mazurin has always been in
sane. She has given notice of an appeal,
and has been set at liberty on bail for 200,-
000 roubles.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1864.
PEDDLING OUT TITLES.
THE INGENIOUS SCHEME OF A
FRENCH NOBLEMAN.
Recognizing Children Whose Fathers
are Unknown—The Storjr of a Bright
American Adventuress How She
Flaunted Under the Bogus Empire.
Paris Letter.
An ingenious French nobleman, who
waa out at the elbows, has discovered a
new opening lor impecunious members of
his class. It is to “recognize” children
who are inscribed at mayoralities as be
| ing those pe res inconnus. The code al
lows the boy or girl so recognized to bear
the name of the recognizing party, how
ever illustrious it may be. It would
seem that the nobleman in ques
\ tion is making a good income out
of the use to which he turns
his patronymic. He is a Marquis,
like Rochefort, Gramont and Maurice de
Talleyrand, and, if he survives his father,
ne will be a Duke. “Moneher,” he said
to an old schoolfellow, whom he met on
j the Boulevard des Italiens, “the business
I I have created for myself is an excellent
I one. I only recognize for a good round
j sum, aud I see tbat a further sum is
I placed in the hands of a notary for the ex
| elusive beneflt of the recognizee. If,
therelore, the mother should be reduced
to poverty tbe child cau be decently
schooled and set up in a trade or profes
sion. I have thus no responsibility of any
kind, no marital cares, and enjoy thorough
independence while awaiting an oppor
tunity to sell my coronet to some parvenue
heiress.”
At the request of a Prince from a Lower
Danubiau State, who is a great amateur
i of modern French sculpture, the noble
! man gave his name, a couple ol years ago,
to a little boy who lives in a kind ot pa
: vilion, which His Highness has built at
Asnieres for an ex-member of the corps
de ballet. This put it into his head to
strike out into the business he now fol
lows with, it appears, excellent pecuniary
results. It used to be said, before the
revolution, “Aristocratigue comme line
Duchesse cu comme une jiUe.” The adage
i still holds good. The dancer was not sat
! isfied until her son had a legal right to
bear a noble and high-sounding name.
1 But as she wanted to remain independent,
she could not follow the example of Mile.
) Schumacker, who espoused the Marquis
de Maubreuil in order to become a real
Marchioness. The conditions on which he
I became her husband were an annuity
j and separation at the church door. M.
j de Maubreuil was of ancient lineage, and
! had been a dare-devil adventurer iu his
j youth. He dragged Napoleon's statue
from the Vendome Column, and was tried
in the Assize Court of Douav for robbing
the ex-Queen of Westphalia of 80,000
francs in the forest of Fontainebleau. Ilis
defense was that he was set on by the
King and Talleyrand. The Marquis* was
suffered to escape from prison, aud to get
away to England, whence he returned
after the death of Louis XVIII. At that
monarch’s funeral he forced his way into
the Cathedral of St. Denis and gave Tal
leyrand a blow in the face, which knocked
him over on the royal coffin. The imper
turbable diplomatist exclaimed on rising:
“Quei eoup de point/.'”—the point being
that a 9lap would have involved a duel,
whereas a blow ol the fist was regarded
as so ruffianly that the injured person
was not expected to fight.
The example oi Mile. Schumacker was
followed by a very clever American ad
venturess, who disposed of army con
tracts and court patronage toward the
Lid of the Second Empire. As the story
of her career in Fi ance cannot fail to have
a piquant savor, I shall venture to relate
it. The iady came here in the character
of a widow, and though, as it turned out,
she had been always childless, she used to
weep about a defhnct infant whom she
called her lost Lenore. She was small,
j'oung, lively and had a passion for weav
ing t-omanceS of which sne was the hero
ine, and interlarding them in her gay con
versation. Without being jolie jolie, she
was fascinating. There was witchery in
her bright eyes. Her laugh was silver*’,
aud its apparent wildness masked
a “smart” and thoroughly prac
tical intellect. When new to Paris,
the pretty widow lodged in the Champs
Elysees In a by no means stylish garni,
anil there used to give card patties.
Though destined “to go far,” she did not
know a word of French. American ladies
who received her in the early stage of her
career soon dropped her because she 9aid
“iIC uaa no Sxeu income, and they were
atraid 6he might ask them or their hus
bands to lend her money. In less than a
year from the time they agreed among
themselves to cut her, she was a person
age at the Tuileries. This is how she rose
to that eminence: When condemned by
her more estimable countrywomen to the
exclusive society of gentlemen she got in
with a Chamberlain of the Emperor, who
now, I believe, has become an Orleanist.
No sooner had she enslaved him than she
demanded to be presented to the Empress.
The Chamberlain was thrown in a
heap by the audacity of the request. On
recovering bis head he told her that she
might as well wish tor the moon as to be
introduced to Her Imperial Majesty, who
was beginning to aspire to sainthood, and
was a Legitimist in every respect but that
of allowing Chambord’s right to the
crown. Scenes followed. The pretty
widow, seeing that the Chamberlain was
getting sick of her tears, wiped her eyes
and originated a plan of campaign which
she carried out with brilliant success and
splendid skill. It was to get possession
of an old name and a high title and to be
converted to Roman Catholicism in the
most strikingly theatrical way. Accord
ingly she went to the Ste. Ferine Asylum,
which was founded by the Em
press Josephine for decayed no
bles. There she asked tbe director
to introduce her to the noblest
of his pensioners. He was a Marquis of
80, suffering from palsy, and con
demned to a milk diet. The fair visitor,
by the aid of an interpreter, went straight
to the point, and asked the nobleman
whether he was free to marry, aud, it so,
whether he would like a round sum of
pocket-money? The Marquis was rav
ished. He had been fed on skim milk,
and saw a prospect ot getting lacteal nu
triment of a better quality. The lady
told him she would keep a cow expressly
for his benefit, and arrange with the di
rector that he was to take measures to
insure the Marquis getting the milk she
would engage to supply him with. It was
part of her scheme that the Marquis
should quit Ste. Perine on a
conge of a few weeks to be marrie
in ' England and then go back to
the asylum. All that she willed she
executed. After the wedding lettres de
faire part were scattered broadcast in
tbe Faubourg St. Germain and elsewhere.
The bridegroom returned to Ste. Perine to
vegetate with a few thousand francs in
his pocket, and the prospect of enjoying
milk fresh from the cow for the rest of his
life. The Marquise next applied to a very
chic abbe, who had been converted from
Judaism, to instruct her in the Catholic
faith. He was delighted, and it is only
just to Bay that he believed her heart was
warmed by celestial fire. The baptism
took place at St. Clotilde’s, and Mme. De
Montalembert acted as godmother. 1 for
get who the godfather was, but
I remember that Caroline made the
christening dress, and that all the
great ladies who were at the ceremony
were delighted with it and in ecstasies
with the beauty of the neophyte, who
wept and fainted from emotion. The
vear 1870, however, spoiled the ambitious
game of the Marquise. She therefore
went back to New Y'ork, where, I believe,
she published her experiences of court
life at the Tuileries. The Marquis did not
survive the siege. Ste. Perine’s Hospital
still exists, but it is gradually being
turued into an asylum for decayed gentle
women. One of its inmates is the once
famous Countesse de Bassonville, who
wrote in the reign of Louis Philippe a
standard work upon etiquette and cere
monial.
A Polite Father.
All the Year Round.
Louis XV., like most people, had his
moments of forgetfulness, and frequently
embarrassed his courtiers by uncon
sciously asking them questions to which
they had already replied. One morning
while at his toilet, turning to a lord-in
waiting, he inquired how many children
he had.
“Four, sire,” was the answer.
In the course of the day, addressing the
same individual, he repeated the question
and received a similar reply. Even this
did not satisfv him, and when the evening
came, and with it the usual game ol “bre
lan,” he once more commenced his inter
rogatory, whieh was this time responded
to oy:
“Six, your Majesty.”
“How is that?” said the King, “you
told me this morning that you had only
four.”
“So I did. Sire,” stammered out the
courtier, “and it was'the truth; but I was
atraid of wearying your Majesty by al
ways telling you the same thing.”
ATLANTA NOTES.
The City to Have No Special Exhibit at 1
New Orleans—The Health of the Capi- 1
tal.
Correspondence of the Morning Sew*.
Atlanta, July 11.—It is now pretty
generally conceded that Atlanta will not
have a special or individual exhibit at the
New Orleans Exposition, and that, in
stead, Atlanta and Fulton county will
take space in the State’s display, along
side of the other cities and counties of
Georgia. This determination was arrived
at a day or two since, although as yet the
local press nas had nothing’to say about
it. The scheme, when first sprung upon
the people of Atlanta, was a popular one,
and for a lime it looked as though it
would go through. Recent investigations
of the plans suggested have created a
great change in public sentimeut. and the
impracticability of the scheme has been
shown to those who at first advocated it.
Atlanta will work in the interest of the
I State. It is thought that this determina
tion upon the part of Atlanta and Fulton
| county will help make the State exhibit
something like what it ought to be.
Along about January last Maj. .T. AY.
Robertson, of the Roswell laetory. Robert
J. Lowry, an Atlanta banker, G*. J. Fore
j acre, the railroad manager, and a number
j of other capitalists formed a stock com
| pany and purchased an admirable piece
of water power in Habersham county,
; three miles from Clarksville, for the pur
pose of putting up at that place a mill to
make woolen goods. Work was at once
| commenced, and a few days since the
machinery of tbe mill was put in mo
tion. Maj. Robertson, who is attend
ing personally to the enterprise,
| told me tbat he was getting along tlnelv
| with his new venture. He says tbat the
! product ol the mills will be jeans, and
; that the company expect to turn out a lot
i of it of the best quality before the winter
\ trade sets iD. In answer to a question
! put by me as to where he got his wool, he
said: “So far we have had to bring it from
the West. If the Legislature would only
pass a stringent dog law, aud thereby en
courage sheep raising, we could get all
the wool we need in Georgia.”
EVERY DAY OR SO I AM TOLD
of the wonderful health of Atlanta, and
occasionally asked why I do not write
something in this line to show what a
healthy city Atlanta is. I would be very
glad to gratify these people if I could only
find out how healthy Atlanta really is.
For some time the mortuary report has
not been published, and the public has
been kept in ignorance as to the death
role. It the city is as healthy as claimed
no other cause than that of pure,, good
luck can be assigned. The streets are
filthy, while the back alleys and out-of
the-way places are in no better condition.
Two sanitary officers connected with the
police force and a few dump carts consti
tute the sanitary and scavenger depart
ment ot the city. A sort of lick-and-prom
ise programme is carried out by this de
partment, and little effective work is done.
The prevailing idea is that tbe force is not
large enough to do the work thoroughly.
Maj. Couper, of Darien, the Commis
sioner of the First Congressional District,
who is engaged in getting up Georgia’s
display for the New Orleans Exposition,
was h'ere a day or two since. When 1
saw him, he was diving into a premium
list of the State Fair to be held At Macon
in the fall. As he pocketed the pamphlet
I noticed a despondent expression upon
his face, aud asked him what had gone
wrong.
“Why, it is just this,” said he. “There
is no premium offered for olive oil, and
we are making the best in the world down
our way. I’lf tell you the crowned heads
would smack their lips over our J'.'ret Dis
trict olive oil if they had it. lam sorry
that they haven’t offered a premium for it.
Undoubtedly it was an oversight in the
gentlemen who got up the list. However,
I am not going to let the fact that there is
no premium bother me. I am going to
get up a display, prize or no prize, and
show the management what an important
industry they have left out of their cata
logue. I expect to astonish Georgia at
the State Fair and open the eyes of the
world at the New Orleans Exposition.”
Questioning him as to the prospect of
Georgia’s display from the First District,
he said: “We are getting on finely.
Judge Harden’s plan" of organization is
an admirable one. I think it will be pret
ty generally adopted all over the State.
Not because it originated in Savannah,
blit ft>r of tue tact tbat it ie
simple aud complete. We are
going to make an effort to lead all
the other districts of Georgia in the way
of a display of fruits, vegetables, rice,
oats, wheat, corn, cotton, and woods.
The County Commissioners of the district
entrusted to my care are assisting me ad
mirably. Mclntosh and Glynn counties
have already organized and settled down
to work. The other counties are starting
iu on the same line. Look out for us when
you hear us coming, aud we promise that
you will not be disappointed.”
AT THE HOTEL TO DAY
I met Mr. Hotchkiss, a prominent hotel
man from Buffalo. As our conversation
turned upon politics, he said: “Cleveland
is considered a good man all over our
State. I know Cleveland personally and
intimately, and I tell you he is one of the
best men in the State. He makes acquain
tances rapidly, and before you have been
with him ten minutes you will find him
calling you Tom or Jim as friendly as it
he knew you all his life.”
A government officer, speaking of Cleve
land to-day, tells me that he was living in
Buffalo when Cleveland was Sheriff, eight
years ago. The Democratic nominee
served four years as Sheriff, during which
he hung only one man—John Gaffney
The condemned man tried the insanity
dodge for two weeks, after which he let it
drop at the suggestion of Cleveland, who
told John to “brace up and die like a
man.”
GIRLS WHO CAN SWIM.
A Peeping Tom in a Swimming School.
One sensible preparation some of us
have made for the season at the seaside—
we have learned to 6wim. Several swim
ming schools have been fashionable here
in New York during the winter and
spring.
The one which I visited had a big pond,
and I had great fun in it, after getting
rid of the last lingering tear that there
were peep-holes round the sides. Th 1
costume enjoined upon us—and to vary it
made one seem prudish—was a single
garment reaching from neck to hips, leav
ing the arms and legs bare their entire
length. The place was adjacent to Filth
avenue, and dozens of the nicest girls in
town used to go there for a swim every
day. They made a lively scene, I can tell
you, though scarcely spectacular, in a
theatrical sense, for it was cold, uncom
promising daylight instead of calcium
that glared on the swimmers. And it
must be confessed that the skm woven of
silk is finer than that nature produces.
The exhibition of shins—if they nad be
longed to heifers wouldn’t have been sala
ble for soup—would have been further
disenchanting to any Peeping Tom with
ideal notions. lam not libeling the phy
sical configurations of the pupils at all.
The fact is that the excessively thin girls
did most of the standing on the brink,
while the plump ones kept submerged.
Flesh floats and bone sinks. Therefore
the fat ones found it easy to spend an hour
in the water without bile the
skeletons humped and around
the tank. The upshot of the training,
however, will be some surprisingly expert
swimming this summer at Newport and
Long Branch.
How Webster Saw tbe Sea-Serpent.
Thor fan's “Summer. ”
B. M. W tells me that he learns
from pretty good authority that Webster
once saw the sea-serpent. It seems it
was first seen in tbe bay between Manomet
and Plymouth beach by a perfectly relia
ble witness (many years ago), who was
accustomed to look out on the sea with
his glass every morning the first thing, as
regularly as he ate his breakfast. One
morning he saw this monster, with a head
somewhat like a horse’s, raised some six
feet above the water, and his body, the
size of a cask, trailing behind. He was
caieering over the bay, chasing the mack
erel, which ran ashore in their fright, and
were washed up and died in great num
bers.
The story is that Webster had appointed
to meet some Plymouth gentlemen at
Manomet and spend the day fishing with
them. After the fishing was over he set
out to return to Duxbury in his sailboat
with Peterson, as he had come, and on the
way they saw the sea-serpent, which
answered to the common account of this
creature. It passed directly across the
bows only six or seven rods off, and then
disappeared. On the sail homeward,
Webster, having had time to reflect on
what had occurred, at length said to
Peterson: “For God’s sake, never say a
word about this to any one; for if It should
be known that I have seen the sea sea-ser
pent, I should never hear the last of it,
but wherever I went should have to tell
the story to every one I met.” So it has
not leaked out till now.
CHAIRS IN THE PLACE OF PEWS.
A Modern Idea for Making Sinner* Com
fortable IV hen They Come to Chureh.
“Is the trade in pews for churches in
creasing?” said a young man to a dealer
in those and kindred articles, to a New
York Nun reporter.
‘•No, it is going to fall off more and
more.”
“Sad proof of the wickedness of the
people and of the inability of modern
preachers to reach the masses, isn’t it?”
“No. There is nothing sad about it.
It’s a cheerfill indicationof the apprecia
tion ot modern improvements by conserv
ative churchmen. Pews are go'ing to be
replaced by ebairs, such as are now used
in theatres. It’s all right morally and
physically. A man will not go to sleep
in a comfortable seat as soon as he will
in an uncomlortable one, because w hen
uncomfortable he loses the thread of the
discourse, fails to catch it again, because
his attention is devoted to making himself
comfortable, and meantime he strikes a
tolerably easy position, and away he goes.
Why should a man find a straigat-backed
bench when at church and a comfortably
covered and upholstered ehair at the the
atre?”
“Are the modern pew 9 straight-backed
lienehes?”
“Not exactly, but they are not chairs.
Pews are made of various sizes, running
from a capacity for four to eight people.
They are of wood, and in most of the
churches the backs are straight. Cushions
make them more comlortable, but the only
occupants having arm-rests are those at
the ends. Hassocks or something similar
serve as foot rests. Compare them with
the chairs. Chair backs are more agree
able to tbe eye than the straight line of a
powback; they prevent crowding; each
chair has a book rack, a hat rack, and a
toot rest, and some have places for canes,
umbrellas and parasols; they give better
, cash returns than pews.”
j “I should think that men would hire a
chair or two instead of a pew, and at a
I less price.”
‘‘That is just what happens, but many
1 who do not want whole pews hesitate
about hiring parts of pews. When a
church is seated with chairseach member
of a family hires a seat. Single men aud
women hire seats. Asa matter of actual
experience churches that have substitu
ted chairs for.pews have obtained perma
nent increases of income from the sittings
of from 60 to 80 per cent. That means, ot
course, greatly increased attendance.
People who desire to be very' exclusive
sometimes hire an entire row of seats.
} “Chairs are also desirable because they
can be made in greater variety than pews.
We have them made of cast iron, or with
wooden frames, using iron only in the de
vices that enable the chair to be tilted
back and the seat to be thrown up. There,
by tne way, is a good point. People can
reach inside seats much more comforta
bly past tilted chairs than they can
through solid pews. The most popular
chair is the one made of perforated ve
neering, which is at once light and strong.
When chairs are upholstered in silk, plush
or embossed leather they are very beauti
ful.”
“And very expensive, too?”
“Not as expensive as pews of equal ele
gance. The cheapest pew made with solid
ends costs $2 a foot, and the cushion $1 a
foot more. High-priced pews cost $lO a
foot. A sitting requires eighteen inches
of space. Now we can furnish an
elegaut chair for $4 50. The cheapest
folding chair costs $2. We can get up
chairs worth S2O, but $lO is about the limit
for even wealthy churches.”
“Why don’t church committees put in
the chairs, then ?”
“They do in the new churches and in
many old ones. The only objection is the
conservative spirit that opposes a change
because it is a change. Changes wonid
be more frequent, however, only a church
seating say 2,000 or 3,000 people will re
quire an expenditure of perhaps SIO,OOO
or $15,000. They would soon get it back,
but they don’t know it.”
WAITING FOR SWEET REVENGE.
A Young Poliiinler Keeping a Faithful
Watch Upon His Mother's Murderer.
Fourteen years ago, says the Mount
Carmel (Pa.) News, Joseph Comoski, Sr.,
died in Poland, leaving a snug estate and
Joseph Comoski, Jr., his sister and the
two cnildren’s mother. The hours of
mourning had scarcely passed when Mi
chaei Shamolick turned his eyes upon
Miss Comoski. He wooed and won. To
possess the estate now became his unholy
ambition. The widow stood in the way
of the successful accomplishment of his
foul object. lie meditated and finally de
termined to resort to foul means for the
removal of his obstacle.
One morning the little Polish village
was excited as it had never been before.
Someone, during the hour of sleep, bad
foully murdered Widow Comoski. Sus
picion at once attached itself to the son
in-law. Pursued by the law and a guilty
conscience, he fled from the land of hi 9
birth, crossed the ocean and found em
ployment in the mines of Pennsylvania.
Here he considered himself secure.
Joseph Comoski, Jr., though but a boy
of fourteen years, swore solemnly to
avenge his mother’s death, even should
the murderer seek the most distant spot
on earth. In pursuance of this resolve he
bade a tender adieu to his betrayed sister
and sailed for America. Fortune tavored
the brave youth and after a time he dis
covered his mother’s murderer iu Potts
ville. He at once made known his dis
covery to the Polish Consul at New York
and acquainted him with all the facts in
the case. The sympathy ot the official
was enlisted in the boy’s behalf and he
promised his assistance. The boy kept a
watch over the murderer’s doings, tracing
him from town to town. Finally the fu
gitive was apprehended while engaged in
tbe commission oi a robbery and sent to
the Philadelphia Penitentiary for a term
of three years. The Consul In the mean
time had written to Poland and learned
of the correctness of the boy’s story. He
then secured the extradition papers, and
the boy came to Mt. Carmel, where so
many of his countrymen reside, to work
while the three years were passing. He
found employment at the Pennsylvania
Colliery as an ash-wheeler. By his indus
trious 'habits he gained the good will of
his bosses and was finally promoted to
foreman, a position which he now satis
factorily fills.
Tbe young man is scrupulously careful
in saving his earnings, and it was a
knowledge of this, followed by an inquiry
from ar. official, that led to a recital of
the above facts. The young man has suc
ceeded in keeping his secret from hi 6
countrymen aud this account will proba
bly be to them startling. He has collected
a snug little sum by his economical habits,
and, with fire in bis eye, one day this week
remarked to our informant that upon the
completion of the murderer’s term of im
prisonment the extradition papers would
meet him in the face and the villain should
swing from the Polish gallows if it took
every cent lie earned at the Pennsylvania
Colliery.
GREATNESS AND THE OCEAN.
How Some Scholarly Gentlemen At
tempted to Stop the Tide.
A number of eminently proper and re
spectable gentlemen, who had conceived
an intense and glowing admiration for
themselves, and who felt that without
them this world would be a dreary and
disappointing mistake, says the Youngs
town (Ohio) Sunday Morning, went bath
ing in tbe ocean one fine summer’s day.
They bathed, not because they needed a
bath, for they were without defilement,
but because they thought the ocean might
feel slighted if they never bathed as they
passed by. So for a time they paddled in
a mildly merry manner, in the surf, and
enioyed*themselves as far as it was be
coming and proper that such peerless gen
tlemen should enjoy themselves.
Then with scholarly originality they
conceived the idea of holding back the
tide. So they clasped hands daintily, and
with the choicest oi rhetoric and the most
elegantly couched sentences, they com
manded the tide to roll back.
But the breakers roared, with laughter,
perhaps, and the tide came on and on,
and the scholarly gentlemen were tossed
hither and thither like straws; finally the
ocean rolled over them, and the tide
reached a higher mark than it had reached
ever before.
Tbe scholarly gentlemen, amazed and
mortified, scrambled ingloriously out of
the surf, and, in so far as it is possible for
such superior creatures to feel that un
couth and barbarous sentiment, ven
geance shone from their mild and scholar
ly blue eyes.
“We will taunt the thoughtless and
sacriligious ocean,” said they, “with the
irreparable defacement we have accom
plished by leaving him. For surely we
have left vast holes to mark where we
stood***
So they adjusted their Scotch pebbles
and looked for the holes in the ocean.
But there were none discernable, and
the tide was moving smoothly and pla
cidly.
A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY.
A Novel Means of Livelihood in which
the Citizens are Engaged,
There is an enterprise carried on in De
troit, says the Post and Tribune t, which is
not generally known and never appears in
the statements of the city’s varied pros
perous industries. Iu novelty is such
that it has never yet attained the dignity
of a name. It is carried on when a ma
jority oi the citizens are asleep. Those
engaged in it prosper upon the careless
ness and misfortunes of others. Their
income defies definite prediction, but can
be depended on for a handsome return on
the capital invested. The few engaged in
; this industry might be termed “nmlers.”
The pioneers in the business were gas
lighters. Scarcely one of their number,
who has been engaged with the craft for
any considerable length of time, has failed
to find one or more articles which afforded
a handsome addition to his regular in
come. Almost every night there was a
valuable find or two, and as a knowledge
of the fact came to a few men who were
waiting for something to turn up they
saw in it a goldeu opportunity, and are
now laying up treasures from what they
can find.
One of these individuals lives in Close’s
alley and is a negro. At the very peep of
day he may be seen abroad, traveling at a
good round pace, scanning the sidewalk
and do >rwaysand swooping down on any
thing ot sufficient value to repay the loss
jof a minute or so. There are also three
men who travel together, their rounds
i generally beginning about midnight aud
| continuing until daylight. They walk
abreast, taking in the sidewalk, scanning
it as they go, the centre man carrying a
bull’s-eye lantern attached to the front of
his coat. They go as rapidly as is consis
tent with their business and nothing of
value escapes their uotice. A basket is
the receptacle Cor many articles, money
goes into their pockets and heavier find’s
sometimes necessitate the sending of a
detail of one or two for assistance or a
wagon. What they pick up comprises
almost every movable commodity worn or
carried upon the streets. They secure
hats, handerehiefs without nuqiber.coats,
money, umbrellas, feathers of value, oc
casioually a valuable watch dropped by
some night marauders, purses, rings,
breastpins, canes, chains, bracelets, keys,
letters, gloves, furs, skirts and OTen hose,
dropped by some luckless adventuress.
An invoice of these findings would show
an immense annual aggregate. A plume
picked up not long since netted $8 to the
finder. A watch was quietly disposed of
for SSO, and the purchaser had a bargain.
Much of the jewelry is sent to a distant
market. Ready money is tucked away
and tells no tales.
Curious finds are also made. An old
lamplighter said to a reporter: “I have
picked up two bushels of potatoes when
they were worth $1 50 per bushel, and no
one even called for the bags.”
Another had found anew suit of clothes,
neatly done up, and found them a good fit
without the change of a button. Some
disciple of Bacchus tucked a S2O bill out
side his vest pocket and the eagle-eyed
finder gathered it in. Purses containing
several limes this amount have been picked
up, and the business is said by those in
formed to be a lucrative one.
A peculiar case is that of an aged negro
who.is found around the market building
at an early hoar during tbe warm weath
er. He gathers up the heads and ieet of
chickens, declaring when questioned:
“Boss, dem am de quintessence ob de
fowel. De possum am de only bird flat
oberratee dese fob regalah ole time soup.”
He never misses a squash, bunch of vege
tables or some other choice bit of diet.
THE FAITHFUL SOLDIER,
Or the Influence of a Good Wife.
Mrs. Bryan in the Sunny South narrates
the following story on no lesss authority
than that of Gen. John B. Gordon. It oc
curred in the later years of the war when
the edge of enthusiastic patriotism
had worn away. A soldier in the Vir
ginia army heard, through a letter re
ceived by a comrade, tbat liis family were
iu great distress through sickness and
destitution. He applied for leave to go
home, but could not obtain it. He laid
hi 9 petition before thehighest authority
and represented his case with desperate
eloquence, but a battle was impending,
every man wae wanted at the tront, and
his prayer was refused. Then he went
without leave. He stole from the com
mand and reached home, after weary
tramping night and day. When he
entered liis cottage it was night, bis
children slept, but his wife 6at by the
hearth. She sprang to meet him and
clung to him, sobbing for joy.
“And you got a furlough after all—l
was so afraid—”
He shook his bead.
“You did not desert surely. You would
not, John?”
“Could I know the fix you and the
children were in and not come to help
you?” he answered, doggedly.
Then she thew her arms about him and
begged him to return at once. She and
the “children could get along. If they
suffered, why anything was better than
he should stain himself with dishonor.
Her strong sense of right prevailed.
Though he knew that to return after
desertion meant court-martial and pro
bably death, he went back. He was
tried and condemned to be shot. The
sentence would surely have been carried
into effect but for the intervention of Gen.
Gordon. That kind-hearted officer sought
him out, heard his story and used his
influence to obtain a pardon lor the con
demned man. A few days later the battle
of Seven Pines took place. Near the close
of that terrible fight Gen. Gordou was
near a battery which had done gallant
execution, but was now all but disabled.
The men and horses belonging to it lay
dead or dying. Only one man stood at
the guns when the General rode up. His
lace was blackened with gunpowder,
blood poured from a deep wound in his
side, but he was loading his gun with his
last strength. He rammed down the
charge, applied the match, and as the ball
sped on its errand, he dropped down dy
ing.
“Don’t you know me, General?” he
said, as Gen. Gordon paused beside him,
struck with admiration and pity- “I am
the man you saved from being shot; the
man with such a good wife. AVrite a line
to her, please General, and tell her I died
a faithful soldier, because of her.”
“MAIDEN’S ROCK.”
The Multitudinous Legends of Lovers’
Leaps.
There are 650 “ Maiden’s Rocks ” in the
State of Michigan alone, says the Free
Press. That means lots of different places
where beautiful Indian maidens, with
their svlphlike legs and graceful shoul
ders and beautiful faces preferred to leap
from the rocks to be wedded to a horse
thief whom they could not love. We don’t
blame ’em one bit, although it would have
been loss trouble to choke themselves to
death or step on a rattlesnake.
AVlsconsin has 300 Maiden Rocks, lowa
180, Illinois 187, Indiana 250, \ r ermont 567,
and we were counting up the total the
other day, and found the figures to be
13,862, with Idaho and AVashiugton Terri
tories to I>e heard from. Thirteen thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-two Indian
maidens softly stole from as many wig
wams at sundown and climbed to the top
of as many rocks. Their old bull-dozing
dads beheld them and called to them to
come down and get some paregoric, but
they sang their wild death chants and
flung themselves on the cruel rocks be
low.
One thinks of it with sadness. The
maidens hadn’t orter done It. Had they
waited a week or so they would have en
tirely recovered from the feeling and ad
mitted that the old man was right m ar
guing that an Indian husband with a
broken nose and 14 ponies could take the
cake over a love-sick youth without a
second pair of socks to his name.
AVe are now preparing in this office the
sad story of the Indian girl’s leap from
Maiden Rock. The same story answers
for the entire 13,862 maidens. Each one
perished for love in the same sad way,
and the father of each died of grief. Owing
to the recent reduction in the price of ink
we can furnish these sad tales at the low
price of ten cents each, or three for a
quarter. They are warranted to fit any
scenery, stand in any climate, and cause
old ladies to sob and young ones to
shiver.
Don’t address us unless you mean
business.
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Patting JJoniber.
Test Your Baking Powder!
PLACE A CAN OF TOE
ROYAL
AMMONIA MBIHH
Bakingr Towder top down on a hot stove until heated, then retime the coTer
aud smeU.-.*AMXONIA.
THE TRUTH FROM GREAT IV3EIM.
DR. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER does not contain and and
contaminate food articles in which it is used with poisonous “Ammonia which cut r
into the composition of the “Royal” and "Pearl.-’—Prof. K. w. WITTHA.I s \
M., M. D., University of Buffalo. N. Y„ University or city of New York, a l tv
versity of Vermont, June 11,1881. B ‘
“I find that the Royal contains “Ammonia. The use of this drug is wron" ”
DR. PRICES CREAM RAKING POWDER does not contain “Ammonia
CURTIS C. HOWARD, M. SC., Professor of Chemistry Starling Medical Co'!,.
Columbus, Ohio, June 6,1881.
lU. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER is pure and aud .
perior to the Royal in every respect. “The Royal when heated vieids sufficient
“Ammonia to be plain!v discovered in biscuits made therefrom."—lt. OGDEN l)OUR
MI S. M. D„ LL. D., Prof, of Chemistry Toxicology ia the “New York Bellevue U *
pital Medical College,” and Prof, uf Chemistry aud Physics in the College of the citv
of New York, May 21, 1884. *
“DR. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER is a pure, clean and wholetotnc
preparation.” “I have used it lor years in my family.” “It is the best.”— Prof it
C. KEDZIE, Michigan State College, Lansing, June 3, 1881.
“Dlt. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER is scienttticnllv compounded
from pure materials. Yields the largest amount of carbonic acid.” “The addition of
“Ammonia would endanger its excellence.”—Prof. H. W. SCHEFFER, St
May 22,1884. '*>
I>R. PRICES CREAM BAKING POWDER does not contain “Amiuonii
“The Royal is found to contain “Ammonia.” “The addition of “Ammonia to bnkin
powders is useless and may prove injurious.”—Prof. JOHN M. ORDWAY. tuJ*
Inst, of Technology, Boston, May 24, *lBBl.
DU. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER does not contain “Ammonia
“It is a scientific combination of wholesome materials.” “The ‘Roval’ and ‘Andrew?
Pearl’ Baking Powders contain “Ammonia.” “It is a drug.” "Bread baked with
these powders retain the “Ammonia.” “The less medicated bread we have tin- i„tnw
for public health.”—CHAS. S. BOYNTON, Consulting Chemist, Brandon, Vt„ ,j ilne
DR. PRICE’S CREAM B VKING POWDER is superior to the “Roval Itakin-
Powder.” Dr. Price’s is scientifically proportioned, from the purest and bee- ,
als known. It is free from Alum, * Ammonia, or any substance 0/ objection ibi.
acter. The lloyal contains “Ammonia, which L regard as a disgusting constitu. tit in
a Baking Powder.— F. BABCOCK, State Assayer; late Professor of Chem
istry in Boston University and Massachusetts College ol Pharmacy, Boston, Mass.
DR. PRICES CREAM BAKING POWDER is superior to the “Roval” It
contains no “Ammonia. The Royal contains “Ammonia. The use of * Ammonia in
articles of food I believe to be injurious.—ELI AS H. BARTLEY, H. s., \| i>
Chemist of the Department of Health, Brooklyn,Y., May 20, issy.
DR. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER lends the entire list oi Bakine
Powders for purity and strength in the National Board of Health Bulletin, Supple,
meat No. 6, page 33, Washington, D. C.
There is no Government Chemist as advertised by the Royal. Price /{akin, p,, f
Cos.: “I know nothing about such an office as Government Chamist.”—PEtfii
COLLIER, Ph. D., Washington, D. May 28 % 1884. 1
“NOTE.—ORIGIN OF AMMONIA : “it was probably originally prepared from
putrid urine.”—United States Dispensatory.
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We Mean to Surprise You,
One-Half of Our Stock at One-Half
its Actual Value.
First of all, Let Us Talk Hosiery.
YITE offer Gents’, Ladies’ and Misses’ Fancy
v\ Colored, Bleached and Unbleached Hose
at sc. a pair. You can’t buy them elsewhere
at leas than 10c. and 1 ’Ajf'.
One lot Misses’ Full Regular Bleached Hose
at Bc.; worth 25c. Ask for these in the Bazar.
A beautiful 25c Mo. 7 Misses’Hose, band
some colors, at 10c.
A foil regular made Misses’ Hose, in all
sizes, at 15c.; was alwavs worth 35c.
Avery superior Misses’ Hose, some call
them Lisle Thread, at 19c.; worth fully 50c.
One lot extra fine Misses’ Hose at 25c. AYe
used to sell them at 60c.
A lot Gents’ Cardinal Full Regular Silk
Clocked Half Hose at 17c.; worth 33c.
One lot Ladies’ Solid Color Silk Clocked
Hose, fine gauge, at 25c.; worth 40c.
And any quanity of Hosiery in Silk, I.isle
and Cotton at equally low figures.
Now We Shall Speak of Haudker*
chiefs.
We have too many kinds in Silk. Linen and
Cotton to be enabled to enumerate and specify
each style, but this we assure you: we have
made immense reductions in these goods; for
example, we ofler a nice Fancy Bordered
Handkerchief at 2c.; a Pure Linen at 5c.; a
nice quality, all Linen, Hemstitched at 10c.;
in fact, von can’t afford to purchase Handker
chiefs elsewhere, for you would he losing
money.
We Will Now Tell You About Our
Laces and Embroideries.
At the prices we have put them we can
verily say we are giving them awav. We offer
Hamburg Edgings at lc., 2c., 3c., 4c., sc. and
so on as has never been equaled; in fact, such
bargains you have never seen before, the same
holds good with our Lace stock, such as Laces,
All Overs, Curtain Laces, Fichus, etc.
Just Thiuk, We Offer Our Elegant
Parasols at Half Price.
Yes, we have reduced our Parasols and Um
brellas just one-half, come and judge for
yourself. If they are still too high, we will
lower them further, for they must go. Vow
do not come too late, when they are all picked
over, for bear in mind, we anticipate a great
rush atod naturally they can’t last all the time.
It is Very Warm, So AVe Most Talk
to You About Fans.
We have all kinds, from the humble hut use
ful Palmetto Fan at lc. to the very finest style
and quality. These goods were purchased
this week from the Assignee of the importing
house of Nathaniel Bloom in New York at
one-third its actual cost, hence these unex
ceptional bargains.
Now a Word or Two About Our Gloves.
We have them in Silk and Thread, in Jersey
style, Foster Hook and Button, in black and
in white, and every ini agin aide shade; also, a
full line of Silk Mitts, and have made prices
to correspond with the rest of our stock, very
very low indeed.
WWf~ Please hear in mind that these Goods at these prices will lie sold only whilst they
Wecannot duplicate them at these prices, and as we expect a very large rush, they can ‘ *
very long. If you do not wish to ue disappointed call early, or else do not b.ami. usn j
find the best bargains gone.
Ml MIN k 1
153 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ca.
(Corocio, gtc.
Our Stock Must beßeduced.
Our annual inventory takes place the latter part of this month—until u.
offering special bargains in all our Departments.
Ladies’ BRILLIANT LISLE HOSE, 75c; reduced from $1 *2o.
FRENCH AVOA’EN CORSETS, 85c; former price $1 00.
FRENCH AVOVEN CORSETS, $1 15; former price $1 30.
FRENCH AVOVEN CORSETS, $1 35; former price $1 50.
FRENCH AVOVEN CORSETS, $1 55; former price $1 io.
Ladies’ SPUN SILK HOSE, black and colors. $4 ‘o: worth $-•*
Gentlemen in need of UNDERWEaA, SHIRTS, SOCKS, TIES and
CHIEFS will save money by calling at
GMJTM A. IN ’ S,
141 BROUGHTON
Carrtaaro, fjimtroo.GEtc. —■—
“SALOMON "cOHEN'S*
CARRIAGE AND WAGON REPOSITORY,
CORNER BAY AND MONTGOMERY STREETS
Where can be found a large and well selected stock CARRIAGES and BA -
W ill be sold at reduced prices. Also, will call the attention ot
NAVAL STORES MANUFACTURER*
T 0 ,2’p4.?. r, . c si:
call and examine my stock and prices. _____
Also, a full line Of DOUBLE and SINGLE HARNESS.
Every Lady Wears Corsets,
THEREFORE, w'e have made it a specialty.
We have fifty different styles in all i:t
up to No. 36. Every style is a gem. Our3lc.
Corset is sold elsewhere for 50c., ami 50c. Cor
set is really worth 75c. You can’t buy fortl
what we sell for 75c.; our dollar < orsetvre
pride ourselves to lie unexcelled. We hats
then, aicra nt fl ZS. *1 W, 42 60 ftnd ?:i apiece,
and remember if one style don’t please yon,
we can show you forty-nine otiier stvles. Do
yon know why we keep so many styles? Just
because we wlsli to please every customer, aiel
we do it. There is not a day when we sell lest
than one hundred.
We Have Something to Say About Our
Ladies’ and Misses’ Underwear,
Ulsters and Rubber Water Proofs.
If you should want a If and-Embroidered
Chemise, Nightgown and Drawers, or an ele
gantly or plainly trimmed one, you will find
them in our Bazar at such low prices that yos
can’t help to buy. for we sell the garment at
low as the material al me would cost you.
Linen Ulsters wc have at 75c., sl. f: 25 aud so
forth, all very cheap indeed. When yon are
in want of Rubber Cloaks for Ladies, Miaeei
or Gents, please bear in mind that we hve*
full line of them, good and cheap.
Only a Few W'ords We will Sy About
Onr Housekeeping Goods.
We have two yar>!s wide, good quality,
Sheeting at 17c.,and of very extra good quality
at 20c. Pure Linen Table Cloth at lie. i*er
yard; 40-inch, all Linen, Towels at loc.;
Toweling or Crash by the yard at sc; heavy
Undressed Bleached 4-4 Shirting at Bc.. worts
10c.; yard wide Bleached Shirting at ti 1 ,* 1 '.,
worth Sc.; Bed Ticking us low as6)-(c., usual
S rice 10c.; Gingham Cheeks at 5c., worth Bc.;
lerrimac Shirting Cambric at 5c., worth Bc.,
etc.
Listen to What We Have to Say Abont
Dress Goods, Silks and Satins.
We wish to close out our entire stock oi
these goods and are willing to make any and
every sacrifice to accomplish it. Believe in,
wc mean just what we say, and surely it can
not hurt you to give us a test call; you will
certainly find us very anxious to seii all these
goods, and, having reduced our prices so im
mensely, we are confident we will more than
please you.
What Do Yon Think Abont Jerseys I
They are getting to be the rage more and
more. AVe have them as low as 41 W the
choicest kinds—plain black, fan-shape bacae
with satin bow, braided and in all the new
shades.
Victoria Lawns, Nainsooks, Marseilles
And all other styles of White Goods, such M
plain and embroidered Swisses; Persia Dawns
in white,cream,blue and pink; Piques, Linen
de Ireland, French Welts, India Lawns, m
fact everything in that line will be sacrifleeu
for what ft willtiring, for we have determine' j
to sell these goods at any price. JusttluMi
Victoria Lawns at 5c., some merchants call
Linen Lawn and charge 10c. fo’ it; 40-m>
fine Victoria Lawn at Bc.; Lonsdale Cambric,
the genuine article, at 11c., etc. ,