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“MAID Mrttßß'S" BBOTHER.
n „ m bied alone down the stone-decked lane,
And out from hi* mid*t there frequent came
A full-strength cuss-word, deep and low,
As be knocked a nail from a wanton toe;
And he wished he was deader’n So.-rates.
And the robins rang out a chime from the
trees.
And he wished—a* he stepped on a business
briar, „ , ..
Which made him reflect “By gosh. Marier’
That he was a hundred miles away
From the farm and the meadow and making
har,
And “Brindle” and “Bright" and the kicking
Anifthe "blackbirds sang in the alder boughs.
Now a poet who sat on a moss-hid stump,
With his face in a smile and his back in a
hump.
Had heard the boy as he muttered away;
And be called him hither and bid him say
What life he’d choose if he had hts pick.
And the brown thrushes piped from a new
built rick.
And the lad looked up with his eyes in a mist,
And. cutting a snack of “Virginia Twist.”
He paused for a moment, then, childlike, said;
“Please. Mister Sir, if it’s all the same”—
And the thrill of a thrush from a hedgerow
came.
“Please, Mister Sir.” the boy began.
And tears coursed down through the fuzz and
tan;
“ ’S irs all the tame, an’ X had my pick,
I could tell ye so suddlnk twould make ye
sick—
I'd be a cashier in a savings bank.”
And the poet fell over limp and
And this simple child with histender thought.
From his sweet desire his wish has wrought;
And he rides in a chariot gilt and gay.
And the poet is up on the box, they say.
And the world hies hence with its jam and
jerk, ,
And the birds, as of old, get in their work.
—B. B. McManus, in Puck.
THE SITUATION IX NEW YORK.
An Outline or the Political Prospect—
The Sunday Concerts in Central Park.
Correspondence of the J lamina -Veto*.
New Yoke, July 17,—What follows is
an outline of the political situation here,
which is the result of talks, personally
and by proxy, with all sorts and condi
tions of men. In it nothing is extenuat
ed which is to the disadvantage of the De
mocracy, and naught is set down in mal
ice to Tammany. All. excepting Cleve
land’s personal enemies, and the work
ingmen whose minds they have poisoned
—even the Republicans—agree that the
Democrats have nominated a ticket which
deserves success; whether it will achieve
it is, of course, a matter of individual
opinion, and in matters political the wish
is always father to the thought.
Indeed, for the following reason, if for
no other, Cleveland is the best possible
Presidential Candidate that could have
been named. Any other candidate would
have been open to the reproach of being
John Kelly’s choice. Had the convention
named either Bayard or Randall, it would
have been considered, and justly, a Tam
many triumph. In order to avoid laying
itself open to the imputation of having
been bulldozed by the worst elements in
the party, the convention was obliged to
nominate Cleveland. Kelly A- Cos. left it
no other alternative. Practically, as I in
timated in my last letter,' he and
his henchman, Grady, did more to nomi
nate Cleveland than any other two men.
Had another candidate been named not
only the Independents and dissatisfied
Republicans would have refused to sup
port “John Kelly’s choice,” but many
Democrats would have refused to follow
where Tammany led. When Gen. Bragg
said at the convention, referring to Cleve
land, “We love him best for the enemies
he has made,” he not only gave utterance
to a truth, but to a truth of which the re
verse is also true. The man chosen by
Cleveland’s enemies would, for that rea
son alone, have been looked coldly upon
by tne better class of Democrats.
According to present appearances Tam
many Hall, in spite of all that has hap
pened, will give Cleveland quite as much
support as it would have given almost
any candidate. Already the different
branches of the organization are wheel
ing into line. But its repentance cannot
entirely undo the mischief it has done.
The slanderous seed sown by the Star,
the Tammany organ, has borne fruit in
the minds of the more ignorant and unin
telligent of the workingmen, and John
Kelly in part told the truth when he said
that he could not, if he would,
secure iuc . labo :X' voto (or c le7C=
land. All workingmen who are not fools,
here and elsewhere, will prefer the reform
Governor of New York to the corrupt ex-
Speaker of Congress, the incarnation of
monopoly and friend of monopolists; but
unfortunately there are more fools than
wise ones in this world, aud Blaine ap
parently is to be the candidate of the fools
as he evidently is of the knaves/
THE OPPOSITION TO CLEVELAND IS SO
IRRATIONAL
that it is a hopeless task to reason with
it. Men object to him for vetoing the
Elevated Railroad five cent bill who only
use the ears in the five cent hours; em
ploye# of the horse railways complain of
his’ vetoing the twelve-hour bill, when,
owing to their being paid by the trip, had
it become a law their salaries would have
suffered by so much; mechanicsfiud fault
with him for vetoing the mechanics’ lien
bill, when it was calculated to in
jdaee of helping tb" _ y n second thought,
.Aiere cannot be many men so utterly
idiotic as to thus believe black is white,
and by November the workingmen as a
class 'will doubtless vote for the candi
date of the party of the people, and not
for the nominee’of the Monopolists’ party.
What I alluded to a fortnight ago as
calculated to offset any defection among
the workingmen will assume mammoth
proportions before the campaign is over,
f those who initiated the movement are
to' be believed. When going up town on
the night of the nomination on a Third
avenue car I met the editor of the Boycot
ter, a pai>er which tails upon working
men to boycot the Tribune and the Tri
bune's candidate. Those who act on the
advice of the Boyeotter not only do not
buy the Tribune, but do not buy of firms
who advertise in the Tribune, and above
all they oppose the Tribune's candidate
for President. The Boyeotter's animosity
to the Tribune is due to Whitelaw Reid's
breaking his contract with Typographical
Union So. 6 and employing non-union
printers. The editor of the paper which
thus believes in waging war to the knife
and the knife to the hilt told me that the
000,000 Knights ol Labor in the country
would comply with the Typographical
Union’s suggestion to boycot Blaine. As
for No. 6 itselt, it already contains a club
of njarlv 700 voters composed of men
who have never voted Democratic be
fore, but are pledged to do so this
time. In fact those are the conditions
of members!*!?: The typographical Union
will evidently boycot jßiLl ne - hut judging
from the alleged action of the lvn*^ 8 or
Labor in St. Louis and elsewhere, its
ample is not to be followed Vrith entire
unanimity. There - g one argument in
f avor which all Republicans
acknowledge, although they pretend to
make light of it,' and that is the difference
between the class of men who are dissat
isfied with his nomination and those who
have bolted from Blaine. Certainly an
odorous comparison, as Do-> rry called
it can be made between George William
Curtis Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
President Eliot, of Harvard College,
James Freeman Clarke, Professors Sum
ner aud Dana, and the rest of the Yale
College faculty, and John Kelly and Tom
Tbecitv is alreadv putting on its elec
tion livery. The streets are becoming
terrible as an army with banners and
wild-eved counterfeit presentments ot the
different candidates stare at one from the
transparencies of the various political
clubs Larger or smaller meetings of
each partv are held in some part of the
town every evening. Election time has
come, and the voice of the campaign ora
tor is heard in the land.
HE NEW DEPARTURE OF THE I’ABK
COMMISSIONERS
in changing the concert in Central Park
from Saturday to Sunday, while it is a
source of delight to thousands of
the working people, has incurred the
anathemas of those who believe that the
Sabbath was made for man and not man
for the Sabbath. The commission
ers have actually been flooded with peti
tions signed bv mistaken but zealous peo
ple praving tbat the concerts be discon
tinued. 'Oneßaptist clergyman, however,
with whom a petition was left not only
refused to sign it himself but advised his
congregation not to, aud it did not obtain
a single signature. The Park Commis
sioners, sustained by his action and the
support or the newspapers, have thus far
held out against the Sabbatarian clamor.
I hav;e nlver understood how this reve
rence for Sunday as the Sabbath, which
exists among English speaking Protest
ants, originated. It is not a peculiarity
of Protestantism, but only of English Pro
testantism. It certainly does not exist
among the continental Protestants, and
never did. A Geneva tradition repre
sents Calvin, the founder of the
church which originated the Puritan
Sabbath, playing bowls on Sun
day during a visit or his friend and
fellow reformer, John Knox. The elder
Disr.-eli, who repeats the tradition in his
‘•Life of Charles,” says further: “At this
day and in that place, a Calvanistic
preacher, after his Sunday sermon, will
take his seat at the card table.” Knox,
it should be added, is nowhere repre
sented as being scandalized by Calvin’s
Sunday bowl-playing. While the impor
tation of the “continental Sunday” is to
be deprecated, the example of Calvin,
not to speak of that of Luther who took
the same view of Sunday that the Roman
Catholics do, should justify the park con
cert being given on a day when poor peo
ple can enjoy it.
Miss Lulu Hurst is experiencing a re
action. The impression is gaining ground
that she is not much of a “wonder” after
all, but merely a very muscular girl with
great nervous force.' Funny enough, her
reputation suffered most at" her matinee
yesterday at which only women were ad
mitted. Although she' got the better of
Mrs. Langtry, some of the women who
tackled her yesterday stood up against
her more successfully than did the ath
letes of the L'nion Club, and showed that
they, too, possessed her peculiar power
in a greater or less degree.
FASHIONABLE NEW YORKERS,
who are not too far away to get their
newspapers, must have been not a little
exercised at reading ot the arrest of
Bradhurst Sehiefflin’s third wife for
bigamy. Although only wholesale drug
gists, in place of being'professional men,
the Schiefllins, with their families, be
long to “good society,” and both entertain
and are entertained by the “best people.”
Mr. Schiefllin had ma’rried and lost two
wives, when he took to bis bosom an
alleged adventuress with any number of
aliases, who already had a husband in an
insane asylum. Before the latter lost his
property and became alunitic, 6he is said
to have dined and wined the Grand
Duke Alexis when he visited Cleveland,
wnere she then lived in luxury.
One can make himself feel half a dozen
or more years younger by visiting the
Cosmopolitan Theatre this week. “Pina
fore” is being played there, and the
familiar “what, never” and “hardly
ever,” are uttered with as much unction
as if they had the ze9t of extreme novelty.
A cooler July was seldom—l came near
saying “hardly ever”—known here.
Y'esterday and the day before averaged
ten degrees lower than the corresponding
days of last year. Overcoats are neces
sary for comfort of an evening, and are
quite generally worn. D.
MEN IGNORANT OF FIRE.
A South Sea Island Where Cooking is
Unknown.
I do not know of any but a single record,
says the American Naturalist, where
natives of a newly discovered country did
not know the use of fire; that one case
was on Island Fanua Loa, or Bodwitch’s
Island, discovered on January 29,1841, by
the U. 8. S. Peacock, commanded by Capt.
W. H. Hudson, of the United States South
Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition.
Capt. Hudson relates: “The natives
were at first very shy of the boats; but
the Hawaiians who were in them soon
induced them to approach, and to enter
into trade, and finally enticed them along
side the ships. On coming near they
began a song or chat, holding up their
paddles and mats, and shouting ‘kafilou
tamatau.’ They resembled the natives of
Oatafu, or Duke of York’s Island, wore
the same kind of mats, eye-shades and
ornaments, and some were tatooed in the
same manner. Some, however, were
tatooed in a different style, being orna
mented with a variety of arrows on the
forehead and cheeks. They were all fine
ly formed and manly in appearance, with
pleasing countenances that expressed
good nature.
“They were eager enough for trade, and
soon disposed of all they had to exchange;
a few presents were made them, but all
the inducements failed to entice them on
board. They appeared cheerful, laughing
heartily at anything that struck them as
ridiculous. * * * * * *
“The poDulation of the Island is esti
mated to "be about six hunrded souls,
most of whom dwell in the'town.
“There were no signs of places tor cook
ing, nor any appearance of fire, and it is
believed that all their provisions are eaten
raw. What strengthened this opinion
was the alarm the natives felt when they
saw the sparks emanating from the flint
and steel, aud the emission of 6moke from
the mouths of those who were smoking
cigars.”
The writer of this article was on board
the Peacock, and can vouch for the verity
of Capt. Hudson’s account of our inter
views with the nativeSj and also that they
eat their entire food without cooking, but
also had the greatest dread of fire in any
form. We saw no traces of charcoal or
ashes in their village or town, and we
fully understood them as to their food and
how it was taken. It consisted entirely
ofcocoanuts and pandanus fruits; fish,
echini, and other products of the sea. The
few sea birds mostly seen there were not
regarded as food, and even if they were,
could not have been sesily obtained or
relied on for supplies, the population being
large in proportion to the island’s size,
THE .DOG SURVIVED.
Burying I. self In Swamp Mud after Hav
ing been Bitten b.V Rattlesnake*.
John Davis and George Miller drove
from Collonsville to this city on Monday,
says a Williamsport (Pa.) special to the
New York Sun. When they were cross
ing the mountain at a place known as the
Old Hermit’s, a valuable coach dog which
accompanied them ran off into the woods.
Soon afterward they heard him yelping
in a peculiar maimer. Both men jumped
from the wagon and hurried in the direc
tion of the cries. They came in sight of
the dog in a small hollow, and found him
in a fight with several rattlesnakes,
Which surrounded him on a large flat
rock, and struck him from every side.
Miller and Davis each seized a long club
and went to the dog’s assistance. They
killed eleven rattlesnakes, and many oth
ers escaped among the rocks. The larg
est one was four feet long, and had seven
teen rattles.
While the men were busy cutting off
the rattles of the snakes they had slain
Miller was overcome by tbe peculiarly
offensive odor that characterizes rattle
snakes, and Davis was obliged to help
him away from the spot. It was several
minutes before he recovered from the
effects of the poisoned air. The dog was
nowhere to be seen. Davis went back
into the woods to look for him. In pass
ing by the spot where the snakes had
been killed, he saw a number of live ones,
which had come out of their holes among
the rocks, gliding around their dead com
panions, springing their rattles, and every
motion denoting fury. Davis beat
- —and went off in another direc
t&rSfagl* an- **?.*!
upon the dog, with his body emhedanu
a mire hole ina swampv spot, uead
alone was above the surface. Dogs bitten
by rattlesnakes instinctively seek such
places and bury themselves in the mud.
Old snake hunters say that if a dog is
able to find swamp mud and covers him
self with it, it will invariably draw out
the poison. Davis left his _ dog in the
swamp, and drove on to this city with
Miller. Last evening the dog arrived
home, apparently none the worse for its
encounter with the venomous reptiles,
although it must have been bitten by.
them many times.
A LADY’S SECRETARY MISSING.
A Mysterious Stranger Says He will be
Returned for *I,OOO.
This entire section of country is in a
tumult of excitement, says a Chattanooga
special to the New York World, over the
singular disappearance of a young man
named John A. Neal, a member of a very
prominent family ol Huntsville, 44a.
Neal was private Secretary for Miss Maud
St. Pierre. She is very wealthy, and re
cently bought 22,000 acres in Franklin
countv, Tenn., for $78,000. Neal was sent
to look after the property. On Sunday
morning, June 15, he left tbe botel for a
walk through the woods, and at noon was
een on top of the mountain sitting by
the roadside plucking flowers. Since
then he has not been seen. Miss St. Pierre
employed twenty-five men and instructed
them to search night and day for him.
Boats were built, and every stream for
ten miles was dragged. Canons, abysses
and gulches were thoroughly searched.
Skilled detectives were put to work in all
the neighboring cities and towns, and
railroad agents and conductors were put
on guard, but as vet no trace of him has
l>een found. The lady says her accounts
were left all right and Neal did not have
one cent of her money in his possession.
He was in good circumstances and in
good spirits. A few days since a man
was heard to exclaim in a crowd: “li
Miss St. Pierre will offer SI,OOO ransom
Neal will be produced.” The man was
looked for but could not be found. I
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1884.
CAP IT AD GOSSIP.
Manly Sport* the Craze In Atlanta—The
Coming State Fair.
Correspondence of the Morning Sews.
Atlanta, July 18.—The recently held
walking matches have influenced the
young people of this city in the direction
of manly sports, and the Atlanta Athletic
Club has been organized for the purpose
of encouraging them. This association
has secured a piece of ground near the
city, and a large number of workmen are
now engaged in putting the tract of land
selected in good shape for the purposes
intended. The lot, which is ample in size
for all purposes, will be graded and en
closed at once, and so arranged that base
ball, cricket, lacrosse and other games
can be played thereon. These popular
games are backed by clubs ot the city,
and all of them are in good trim, notwith
standing the fact that they have had no
grounds or place of resort.’
The projectors intend to fix the mem
bership at 1,000, so as to get all of the
i young people in the city interested. There
| are 26 bicyclists in the city, and the club
to which they belong will "have free use of
i the grounds, either for practice or public
contests.
! A base ball club, known as the “Ath
| letics,” has been organized and in a few
days they issue invitations to the clubs of
j Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Colum-
I bus to come here and cross bats with the
Atlanta club. While the club is yet
i young and lacking in experience and
practice, the members of it are of the
I opinion that they can at least play such a
; game as will entertain any visiting clubs
| that may find it convenient to appear on
the diamond with them. The first game
: is looked for within the next two weeks.
I The grounds of the Atlanta Athletic Club
| will be the only resort for open air sports
; in the city. The once famous fair grounds
i and race course, located near the western
limits of the city, a few years since passed
into the hands of the Atlanta
Cotton Exposition Company. This
property at the close of the exposition
was sold, and has since been used in the
manufacture of cotton goods. The build
ings have been remodeled and turned into
a cotton factory, the race track has grown
up in grass a'nd weeds, and the grand
stand is fast falling to pieces.
THE STATE FAIR TO BE HELD
at Macon, opening Oct. 27, under the aus
pices of the Georgia State Agri
| cultural Society, promises to be
; the grandest ’since the big fair
I held by Mayor Huff twelve years ago.
I In addition to the regular line of yearly
i exhibits, there will be immense
1 displays of minerals, deposits of the
; earth of every description, specimens of
the forests of’the State, and innumerable
other articles of value, besides historical
relics, and in fact everything that will
attract interest. The articles to be ex
j hibited as a part of the new departure
I will be gathered together by United States
Commissioner DeWitt C. Bacon and his
! efficient board of assistant commissioners.
I The Commissioner and the State Agricul
| tural Society are in full accord, and by
: the combined efforts of the two organiza
tions the State Fair will be one of unusual
interest. At the closing of the fair all
articles of value or note will be carefully
packed up and shipped to New Orleans,
to be placed there as Georgia’s display.
TWO GAS COMPANIES
now under successful operation in At
lanta, are having a lively fight for su
premacy. Two years ago the Atlanta
Gas Company charged $3 60 per thousand
feet foF its product. This high figure caused
the Gate City Gas Company to be organ
ized. After a hard legal fight, the new
candidate for public favor secured a good
footing, and rate cutting then commenced.
The result of this scramble is that to-day
a first-class quality of gas .can be had at
$1 50 per 1,000 feet, with a reduction of 10
per cent, for cash when bills are due. With
no desire to “bull” or “bear” the stock of
either company, I state it as a fact that
the patrons of the new company are
highly pleased with the product of the
Gate City. A strong fight is still being
made upon the new company by the stock
holders of the Atlanta Gas Company. The
holders of this stock, who are property
owners, are, to a large extent, opposed to
their tenants subscribing to the list of
patrons of the Gate City Company,
THE OTHER GEORGIA WONDER.
A Broken Contract and a Probable
Lawsuit.
If the attempt of the last Georgia won
der, Miss Amy Lee Price, to get away
from Col. Miles is successful, it will break
up the plan which the various managers
of various wonders had to pool their
issues. It was arranged by Messrs. Miles
and Frohman that they should take these
young women to various parts of the
country and work them while the furore
lasted. Even they are not sanguine
enough to suppose that it will last
long, because it is feared that pretenders
will arise in all parts of the'United States.
Hurst being the original, will probably
last longer than any of the others.
Miss Trice's action will benefit nobody,
nut even herself or her parents.
Mr. Miles, who made the contract with
the fast named wonder, said: “Before
bringing on Miss Price here I desired to
see what was in the business. If Miss
Hurst were a failure it would be no good
to attempt it. When she took so well 1
sent for Miss Price to her home in Georgia,
where she had gone. I had a contract
with her manager, a Mr. Cunyus, and I
paid their expenses to New York. I
bought the wonder dresses and shoes and
hats and all that sort of thing to make
her presentable. I found that during, the
few exhibitions she had given her
manager had lost money, but believing
she would now be able to do well, I
offered her manager a better contract
than the first one I had made with him.
By this he was to receive S2OO a week and
the father of the girl was to get S2OO. I
think now that if I had offered Mr. Cunyus
the extra hundred, he would not
have attempted to make a contract else
where. But on the very next morning I
learned that he had signed anew contract
with a man named Bullock. Conyus
swore to me that the father was the cause
of it. The father told me atterwards that
he was induced to sign by Conyiins, who
had not told him the new contract I had
offered him. But I swore I would follow
them wherever they went and put in my
claim to their services. It is not that 1
care so much about the matter, but that I
will not be trifled with in this way. I
first of ail put a watch on their house, for
I understood they would skip if they
could, and then I sent to court for an in
junction. I intend that the}' shall carry
out their contract with me if it costs me a
fortune. I think the girl will be success
ful. She is a mere child, and therefore
the feats she does, which are better any
way than Miss Hurst’s, would appear the
piore wonderful,’’
DEATH OF A FAMOUS COW.
A Jersey for wliicli *15,000 was Twice
Refused.
The Jersey cow Bomba, No. 10,330, says
the New York Times, died on Saturday
last of milk lever at the farm of her
breeder and owner, A. B. Darling, near
Ramseys, N. J., two days after having
dropped her fourth calf, a bull, by Dar
ling’s Rioter. Thi9 was the first cow
that openly challenged public skepticism
regarding her alleged great butter yield,
and her trial of seven days in the hands of
a disbelieving committee in the fall of
1882, did, perhaps, more than any other
one thing to establish public confidence in
the claims made on behalf of Jersey cat
tle. The result of the te9t was 21 pounds
ll'i ounces of unsalted butter in seven
davs, and it still remains the
best public record for a cow milk
ing in second calf, though one
private trial claims to surpass it.
Bomba had just reached the age at which
her famous grand-dam Eurotas, No. 2,454,
came to the zenith of her capacity, and it
was in contemplation to test her the com
ing year, in expectation of realizing her
owner's prediction, that a cow will yet be
found capable of yielding 900 pounds of
butter, followed by a calf, all within a
vear. In the combination sale in May
last Bomba’s daughter, an 8 months
heiler, brought $5,200 at auction. Her
second calf, a bull, now heads Col. H. S.
I Russell’s herd, near Boston, Mass., and
| sold privatelv for a similar sum. The
owner of Boniba received two cash offers
of $15,000 each for her, shortly after her
notable test, but preferred to retain her,
iu hopes of demonstrating the correctness
of hi 9 estimate of the possible capacity ot
a cow for butter-giving.
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upon which its growth depends.
Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are abso
lutely pure.
THE SHUT-IN SOCIETY.
Somethin*; About an Interesting; Organi
zation Numbering a, OOO Invalid*
A lady who has been 14 years a bed
ridden invalid, and who has read platonic
philosophy to good purpose, sends the St.
Louis Republican, from West Richfield,
Ohio, the following sketch of the “Shut
in Society.” It is addressed to “those
who didn’t know” there was so many
people in the world confined to their
beds:
This society was formed in 1877, and to
Mrs. Jennie M. D. Conklin, then Miss
Drink water, of New Vernon, N. J., be
longs the honor of originating and giving
l it a name. She had been shut in three
| t ears when she began to pray that she
might find someone else shut-in, “some
oue to write to, to do good to. and receive
! good from.” She already had one such
correspondent. Miss Susie S. H. Hewett,
of Belleville, N. J., of whom she spoke as
! “a dear little maiden, who is seldom taken*
out into the sunshine and never stands
upon her feet.” But she wanted another,
and “the resolve was made to find some
body new to broaden her life as well as
mine.”
At this juncture Miss D. was attracted
| by an article entitled “My Invalid
Friends,” signed “Cousin Alice,” in the
Advocate and Guardian. She at once
j wrote the editor for the full name and
| address of “Cousin Alice,” and com
menced a pleasing and mutually profit
able correspondence with Miss Alice M.
Ball, of Pittsfield, Mass. A second arti
cle, called out by the above, and entitled
I “To Invalids,” added Mrs. L. J. Geer to
the little circle. From that time the num
ber has steadily increased, until now
there are nearly 2,000 members.
In the fall of 1879 a manual containing
all the names and addresses were issued,
and every three mouths afterward, up to
January, 1883, a circular letter, which
! contained names and addresses of new
members, messages from the members,
removals, withdrawals and deaths.
A monthly, called the Shut-In Visitor,
: has taken the place of the circular letter,
and fills the demand of the society for a
more frequent method of communication.
It is edited by Mrs. Kate Sumner Burr,
Walworth, N. Y., one of the associate
j members.
To be a sufferer, shut in from the outside
; world, constitutes one a proper candidate
; for membership to this society, which has
; no constitution, officers, by-laws, or ini
tiation fee. The only expense incurred
in becoming a member is the price of the
! Visitor.
It is a simple agency to give and re
j ceive diversion of thought, comfort and
! cheer, by sending and receiving letters
and other tokens of remembrance. Each
! Is at liberty to write to any one on the
1 list, or to all. *
Some of the members are unable to
write, and some would find the expense of
an extensive correspondence embarrass
! ing. Writing, therefore, is not compul
sory. Those who are not able to write
may feel content to be recipients only of
the sympathy and love of the more fav
ored. But to those who can, it is recom
mended that they select as many corres
pondents as they can attend to'without
making a task of what is designed only
to be a pleasure. Nothing gives such
cheer and comfort as letters. They not
only aid us with their sympathy and
bright ness, but help us to go out into other
lives instead of staying shut in with our
own sufferings, and surely there must be
suffering for the sin of omission for those
who are able to write, if some of the
comfort and sympathy is not “passed
on.”
NO one but a “shut-in” can appreciate
the longing we have for mail tiifte, nor
how bitter the disappointment if there is
not even a postal-card for us, for even a
postal-card is often enough to make the
whole (lay happy. I appeal in the name
of suffering humanity to every one who
reads the following extracts ’from the
messages in the circular letters during
1882, and the Shut-In Visitor during 1883.
to try to imagine themselves in each
writer’s place, though no one who has not
experienced what the term “shut-in” lully
implies can but very dimly comprehend
the story of suffering and woe they tell.
One writes:
“My heart lingers long and tenderly by
each dear ‘shut-in,’ for 25 years on a sick
bed will teach one to sympathize with
others.”
Another writes;
“For 22 vears I have been ‘shut-in,” my
whole life bounded by the narrow confines
of my room, unable to leave my bed ex
cept at rare intervals, unable to use either
head or hands in reading or in light work,
which would help fill up the weary hours
of suffering. I have much to be grateful
for, and not the least of my blessings are
the precious words of love and sympathy
which have reached me from other suf
fering ones. I would gladly respond to
the kind messages if it was in my power,
but can only send my grateful thanks by
the hand of a friend, in this way.”
A little over one vear after the above
appeared in the circular letter, the weary
hours of this sufferer were over.
Another writes:
“I have have been a sufferer for 23 years;
for the last 10 have not walked a step, and
the last 9 have not been able even to he
down, I have to sit in my chair both day
and night.
Another writes:
“Only think! I have been an invalid
fifty-one years and a half! Forty-nine
weary years I have been confined to this
bed of pain and weakness.
“It is astonishing how much the human
system can endure. I was only 18 years
old when this disease settled internally,
so that I could not walk. But I could sit
up a short time during the two years and
a half, but all these 49 years I could not
take a step or sit in a chair to nave my
bed made, but am taken up by a kind of
machinery. It is a sad trial; but then I
have so many blessings, so much to thank
God for. Oh, how thankful I feel lor my
eyes and the use of my hands. I can do
so much for myself. 1 have done a good
deal of light work while lying on the bed.
This has been a great comfort. 1 can do
but eery little now, I am so weak. I am
now 70 years old. No one thinks lam 70
till I tell them; my hair is but little gray.
I have many letters from the ‘Shut-In
Band,’ but cannot answer them all, 1 am
glad I know of it and belong to it. God
bless all the poor suffering ones.”
Another writes:
“Among the many blessings and favors
extended to me during a shut-in life of 22
vears with spinal disease, it has been my
Heavenly Father’s pleasure, through the
kindness of my friends and correspond
ents, John G. Whittier and James Wil
lard, to introduce me to your suffering
band.”
Another writes:
“I have been shut-in more than 40 years,
and entirely unable to walk lor 36 years;
and at present wholly dependent upon
triends for every comfort of my life; can
not turn myseli in bed, or move my feet
in the slightest degree, and my arms are
almost useless, only having strength in
my hands to sew, knit or write with
great effort. These sufferings and priva
tions are the result of spinal disease.”
Another writes:
“How I wish 1 could see you all, and
learn from each the story of your shut-in
life, not from curiosity, but from true
sympathy, having myself been confined
to my bed 11 years.”
Another writes:
“It is nearly 13 vears since I was laid
aside, and my sufferings at times
tense. 1 have not to bear my
long illness at once, but minute by min
ute.”
One hundred and seven millions two
hundred and twenty-two thousand four
hundred minutes in tne 206 years the
writers of the above extracts have had to
bear their mental as well as their physi
cal suffering.
HIGH-TONED SMUGGLERS.
The Swell* Who May Bring In Valuables
Duty Free.
“I could tell you some interesting
stories about the United States treasury
smugglers and their devices,” said a
special agent in the custom house, to a
New York Dial reporter, this morning.
“Only two days ago we found some hun
dreds of cigars in the condenser of one of
the steamers. The goods were all spoiled,
but the smugglers were caught. But that
doesn’t come up to the diamond smug
glers. who are mostly females. They have
greater chances than a man. Only the
other day we found over SIO,OOO in the
heel£ of a pair of old boots, which were
laki carelesslv around the steamer during
the vuvage across. Sometimes a woman
will have over fifty yards of fine lace on
an old white skirt. What can you say?
Whv. you cannot do anything. Presum
ably high-toned American citizens go over
and buy thousands of dollars’ worth of
clothing, and can bring it in with impun
ity; and this kind of smuggling has in
creased considerably since the recent
decision of Judge Blatchford in the Astor
case, because they have now only to plead
‘social position.’ and they can get any
amount of goods through duty free.”
THE HAUNTER GULCH.
The Scene of a Colorado Tragedy Where
the Victim’* Cry of Agony I* Still
Heard.
Coyote gulch, one of the numerous
arroyas on the divide which during heavy
rains become the course of raging rivers,
in a few hours to become as dry as the
surface of the surrounding hills, says the
Denver Times, Is situated right in the
heart of the district which is now the
scene of the gold excitement of Douglas
county. At the distance of a few rods
from its banks stands a dilapidated
cabin, a one-roomed structure originally
built exclusively of logs, but to which
several apartments had been added of
frame roughly constructed. At the present
time the place is in a state of decay,
peopled only by the numerous families of
swallows who live in absolute and undis
turbed possession. Nothing could be
more lonely or desolate looking than this
pitiful remnant of what was once a hofne.
Stripped of its sheathing the log wall of
the abode stands out like the ribs of a
skeleton from which has fallen its comely
outer covering, between whose openings
the storms pitilessly beat, and through
which the winter winds howl their re
quiems.
Thirteen years ago the cabin and ranch
upon which it stands were occupied by
the Mclntyres—tather and two grown
sons, together with the wife of the elder
Mclntyre and two children by a former
husband. The reputation of ’ the family
in this sparsely-settled neighborhood was
anything but good, and dark stories were
told of unwary travelers who had sought
shelter there for a night, but who had
never afterward been seen.
One stormy evening in June, 1873, a
stranger, supposed to be from Denver,
who had missed the stage and had at
tempted to walk to Russellville, but who
was overtaken by the storm, knocked at
the Mclntyre abode and asked shelter for
tha.night. The house at that time con
sisted of the main log structure, two
frame additions in the rear and a rude
sort of loft over the principal room,
reached by a narrow flight of steps. The
one window lighting this loft over
looked the roof of the low addition
immediately in the rear, in which
Jack anil Jim Mclntjre, the two “boys,”
slept. The knowledge of the terrible
tragedy which followed was derived
chiefly from the confession afterward
made by Jim Mclntyre. When the
stranger,after the door was opened had pre
ferred his request, he was told to be seated,
when the old man and his two sons went
into a back room aud had a long whis
pered conversation, at the end of which
the father returned, and, taking a candle,
asked the visitor to follow him up the nar
row stairs to the apartment above, and
showing him a rude bed bade him good
night. Soon his deep ‘breathing,
which could be heard through
the chinks of the floor in the
room beneath, attested that he was
asleep. No sooner was this made certain
than the two boys slipped outside, placed
a ladder against the low building, gained
access to its roof, and thence to the room
in which the stranger was sleeping, j
through the window, which had been
purposely left open. Stealthily advancing
upon the unconscious sleeper, a blow with
a knife was delivered with a swift and
sure aim. Death, however, was not in
stantaneous, and there rang out upon the
night air, up and down the gulch and far
over the divide, such a cry of mortal
agony as haunted its listeners to their
dying day. Another deadly stab, and all
was over.
Upoti examining the person and effects
of their victim, the murderers found, as
they had suspected, a considerable sum in
money and gold dust, a costly gold watch,
and other valuables. Appropriating these,
they lifted the body, while yet warm,with
the blood oozing from the gaping wounds,
through the open window, carried it down
the ladder, and thence to a thicket of oak
brush a few rods to the rear of the house,
when, hastily digging a shallow grave,
they thrust the ghastly evidence of their
crime into it, filled in the earth, and cov
ered the whole with dead leaves.
Several days elapsed, and the murder
ers, alter dividing the spoils of the dead
man, were living in fancied security,until
suddenly, one morning shortly alter day
light, and before they had arisen, the
cabin was surrounded by a large body of
determined men, armed and evidently
bent upon an errand of vengeance. En
tering the abode the father and sons were
quickly made prisoners, their arms pin
ioned, and a strong guard placed over
them, A thorough search of the prem
ises began, and ir. the fatal loft were
found damning evidences of the crime in
the stains ot blood in the bed, on the
floor, and casing of the window. Tracing
the course of the murderers when re
moving the body by the clotted spots
which had not been removed, the object of
search was eventually found and disin
terred, and their horrible suspicions con
firmed.
It seems that the stranger, who proved
to be a prominent banker oi' Denver, had
left for Pueblo with a considerable sum
of money which he intended to use in the
latter city, but leaving the stage at the
first station for a few moments was for
some unaccountable reason left by it and
in his anxiety to reach his destination
had started to walk to the next station of
Russellville, thinking to obtain there some
sort of conveyance with which to proceed
on his journey. Upon the return of the
stage to Denver two or three days after
ward his mysterious disappearance was
learned by his friends.
A party was organized and mounted on
good horses, started on the road making
Fnquiries everywhere. Learning at the
station where he had been left the fact of
his having started to walk to Russellville,
they at once proceeded to that place and
discovered that he had not been there.
Feeling convinced of foul play, and being
aware of the bad reputation of the Mcln
tyres, they resolved to make them a visit,
whose discoveries justified their worst
fears.
After disinterring the body they return
ed to the house and found that through
the negligence of the guards Jack Mcln
tyre, the elder brother, had slipped off his
shackles and escaped. He was never
captured, but from accounts published
some years afterward a man answering
his description was lynched in a New
Mexican town for killing another over a
game of cards. Ropes were placed around
the necks of the old man and the other
son, aud they were led down to the gulch,
where a gigantic pine reached its long
arms nearly across its bed. Jim Mcln
tyre was given sufficient time to make a
confession, in which, after reciting in a
cold-blooded manner the details of the
horrible deed, from any participation in
which, however, he exculpated his
father, he was swung off from
one of the branches of the tree by
strong and willing arms, thus meeting a
swift punishment for his ghastly crime.
The body was left swinging over the
stream for some time aud was then cut
down and buried at the foot of the tree.
Partly from Jim’s strenuous assertions ol
his father’s innocence, and partly because
of the pleadings of the latter’s wife, he
was suffered to go. with the understand
ing that he should at once leave the State,
which he lost no time in doing with his
family and has never since returned.
Travelers and cowboys, who have occa
sion to pass the deserted cabin after
nightfall, stoutly assert that the agonized
death cry of the murdered man can be
neard every night, echoing over the hills
and through this gulch, which, strange
to say, is the heart of the gold district,
and has proved to be one of its richest
placer diggings.
SKIPPER TILDEN, QF THE VIKING
Tlie Venerable Sage Seek* Rest and
Health on the Waves.
The steam yacht Viking, which Mr.
Tilden has just purchased from GeorgeS.
Bcott, Commodore of the American Yacht
Club, says a New York special of the 16th
inst., is one of the prettiest pieces ol
yachting architecture afloat. She is 133
feet all over; 20.3 feet beam; 10.3 feet
deep, and has an average speed of 12
knots. All her houses on deck are of ma
hogany and are luxuriously fitted. The
main saloon seats fourteen at a table. She
has four state rooms for guests,
and four for the crew forward,
closets. bath room, chests and
all the other appurtenances of a first
class boat. She is a comparatively new
boat, first going into commission last
July. Mr. Tilden hired her last June
through Morring’s Agency, with the
privilege of buying, and forty-eight hours
preferment should any other offer be made.
As an offer was made, Mr. Tilden was
forced to buy her last Saturday to retain
possession. ’ The price paid was $40,000.
She generally lies just above Yonkers,
and Mr. Tilden is said to spend most of
his days aboard of her, returning to Grey
stone at night. Mr. Tilden is a member
of the American Y'acht Club and there is
a probability that he will go on its pro
posed cruise, unless some political com
plications interfere.'
’ Amos Pebkins, at the age ot 84, is Treasur
er ot the town of Unity, N. H.
BEJEWELEP NEW YORKERS.
The Dude* of the Metropolis Said to be
Wearing Bangle*.
Men are beginning to wear bangles now
in New York, says a New York letter.
Some of them are not real men, and have
all the characteristics of dudes, but there
are others who are strong and muscular
and manlike, but who have given way to
the craze. It hasn’t prevailed to any
large extent yet, as it is a lit tie bit too
much for the average American to under
go. The bangles or bracelets are all alike.
They are closely-woven chains a quarter
of an inch or less broad, which are welded
on the wrist just at Its juncture with the
hand. It is impossible to get them off
in most cases, though men with slim
hands manage to tug them over their
fingers. The bracelets are usually made
ol plain silver, though there are a few
gold ones. They are never ornamented.
The links are closely made after the
fashion of the average watch chain. In
Russian baths, in boat crews, on the
athletic grounds, and at the beach, one
occasionally sees a man's naked arm
adorned by one of these chain bracelets.
The wearers claim that the bracelets pre
vent disappointments in love and other
sentimental things. The majority of men
who wear bangles are pronounced Anglo
maniacs. .The fashion, I believe, was set
by the Duke of Beaufort, who came here
on a visit to James Gordon Bennett three
years ago. His Grace is one of those Eng
lishmen who take their pleasures sadly
and tranquilly. He enjoyed sitting better
than any other man I ever saw. He was
quite a9 inert as James Gordon Bennett
himself when m pursuit of pleasure. One
of the Duke’s most absorbing occupations
was to sit on the southwest corner of Del
monico’s every afternoon and admire his
finger-nails. On his left wrist he had a
silver bangle, which was always promi
nently displayed.
After a little two or three actors,
among others young Sidney Howard, of
Wallack’s, and a little dude called Rene,
who supported Rhea last season, appeared
diffidently but happily with bangles
which closely resembled that of His
Grace. Then two or three musicians and
one composer, who has since died, ap
peared timidly with the chains around
their left arms, and the fashion was well
under way. Bogart was also rather fond
of rings. He wore a plain gold ring on
the little finger of his left hand, two rings
on the third finger of his left hand—one
a serpent ring and the other known as a
“glove” ring. Tbat is. a diamond
and two emeralds were set in
a solid gold band. They
were level with the surface of the ring, so
that you could slip a glove over it with
more ease than you could if the jewels
projected. On the third finger of the
Duke’s right hand was a huge black stone,
which was popularly supposed to he an
heirloom—an antique crest, or something
of that sort. The men who are afraid, or
have too much good sense to wear
bangles, but who are fond of jewelry, copy
the Duke's arrangement of his rings and
now it is no exaggeration to say that
time-fifths of the wealthy club loungers
and well-to-do Wall street men wear
as many rings as the Duke of Beaufort
wore and in exactly the same manner.
This wearing of jewelry by men is a
sort of revival. It was popular years ago,
and then it became so snobbish and vul
gar that gentlemen could only be dis
tinguished from cads by simplicity of
style. Two years ago a gentleman’s at
tire for evening dress was so plain as to
appear almost poverty-stricken. His tie
was plain lawn and cost not more than 15
cents—satin and silk ties were then and
still are left to waiters and serving-men—
the studs of his shirt front were bone, his
cuff-buttons were two plain gold disks
linked together and his waistcoat had
plain white buttons.
Curious enough, this perfectly simple
attire was inaugurated by the bosom
friend of the gaudy Duke of Beaufort, Mr.
Janies Gordon Bennett, who, it is said,
copied the Prince of Wales. At that
time the majority of men wore no rings at
all, and their watch chains were scarcely
larger than a bit of thread. As might
readily be imagined, the snobs soon
caught up with this fashion. It was 60
very economical, it appealed to their
purses though not to their tastes, and
they soon adopted it. Then a lot of
Knickerbocker Club men startled the
men about town by appearing with
a single stud. It was a Parisian fash
ion. The stud was a cat’s-eye surround
ed by little diamonds, and was placed
exactly in the centre of the shirt bosom.
The cost of such a stud was anywhere
from S2OO to SI,OOO. This was consid
ered about right until the world found
out how much the stud cost; then it was
frowned down upon and called gaudy.
But the single-stud idea took hold, and
two months afterwards nearly every
man’s shirt bosom had a single gold stud
a little bit smaller than a copper cent.
That broke the ice, and during all last
winter, and particularly this spring, we
have had gold galore. A number of the
enthusiasts who worship jewelry have
carried the thing to excess, and the
chances are that in a year or two we shall
have to come down to plain bone buttons
again.
LAST OF THE LEECH FISHEHS.
A Curious Occupation which Has Seen
it* Rest Days.
A grizzly old man with his breeches
legs turned up to his thighs, says the
Philadelphia. Record , waded through the
ditches of “the Neck” in the First ward,
ture scoop net. He was engaged in the
He carried with him a tin can and aminia
somewbat curious occupation of catching
.leeches. “The business,” said he to an
inquiring reporter, “is nearly played out,
but I make something at it yet.” The old
fellow then proceeded to carefully wash
out his tin can, remarking: “Have to be
very careful to have nothing but pure
water in this can, for the leeches will not
live in anything but pure water. I have
been a leech fisherman for twenty years,
and it took me a good while to learn how
to keep them.”
The manner of this odd old man’s fish
ing was very simple. He vigorously
stirred up the mud in the ditch with his
feet, and then watched for the leeches to
rise to the surface or perhaps settle upon
his bare legs. Those which came up he
caught with his little scoop net, trans
ferred them to his tin can full of water,
and then calmly proceeded to pick off such
as had fastened upon his limbs. The loss
of blood appeared to give him no uneasi
ness, although in a day’s fishing this must
be considerable.
Chatting about his curious mode of
making a living the old man said: “I have
frequently taken 2,000 leeches from a
single stream. If they once get filled with
blood they drop off dead, and thus many
die after 'getting a square meal from the
legs of the cattle which roam through the
ditches. Leeches may with care be kept
indefinitely. There is a fair sale for
them in Philadelphia, but the demand
has dwindled very much of late
years. French and Swedish leeches
are now very generally used,
because they can be preserved
so much easier. Years ago many men
and boys were engaged in leech-fishing in
this neighborhood. lam all that is left,
and only I because I am too old for any
thing else. The pauper leeches ot Europe
have destroyed the industry, you see,”
concluded the fisherman, with a twinkle
in his eye, as he went on his way up the
ditch, and the reporter pondered, as he
walked back toward the city, if this would
not be another chance for protection to
American labor. The old man bad proba
bly one vote at least.
SWEARING AFTER A PRAYER.
The Curious Mistake a Religious Lady
Made In the Custom House.
An elderly lady with delicate features
and refined manners, says the New Y'ork
World of July 15, entered the custom
house yesterday with timid steps. It was
evident that she had never been there
before, and she seemed bewildered by the
whirl, bustle and clatter of the rotunda.
The doorkeeper directed her to the desk
where she could transact her business.
This was of a nature that required—as
nearly everything at the custom house
does —an oath.
“You’ll have to swear to this, madam,”
said the Deputy Collector to the old lady.
Her pious countenance became very
thoughtful and troubled at this announce
ment. She said nothing, but anxiously
watched the Deputy Collector make out
her papers. This done he said:
“Do you swear to this, madam ?”
The old lady had clearly made up her
mind that it was necessary for her to pass
the ordeal. So, with a sweet but hesita
ting voice, she replied:
“God have mercy on me—Damn it.”
The Deputy Collector was dumbfounded
by this reply, but a glance at the lady as
sured him of her sincerity. She had mis
taken “swearing” for profanity, and had
actually believed that it was necessary
for her to utter a “swear word” In order
to get her papers.
Pairing Pddn\
Michigan State College.
1 have several times examined baking powders in the market to determine their
purity, raising power and influence on the health of those using them. I have uni.
formly found DR. PRICE’S CREAM BAKING POWDER the best in all these respects
1 have just made another examination ol the “Royal,” “Andrews’ Pearl” aß( j
“Dr. Price’s Cream,” and the results are the same as formerly. DR. I’RICE’SCRt;
is free from AMMONIA, while the “Royal” and “Andrews’ Pearl” both contain Am.
monia. The final reaction of “DR. PRICE’S CREAM” is acid, while the “Royal”
and “Pearl” give an ALKALINE reaction, which LEADS to DYSPEPSIA. Price’s
is a pure, clean and elegant proportion of Cream of Tartar and Bicarbonate of
Soda, and there does “in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatso
ever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie.”
In raising power “Price’s” stands at the head.
The relative amount of Carbonic Acid Gas given off by the same weight (h)
grammes) of these powders, heated in the same way, is as follows:
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder 650 cubic centimeters
The Royal . 600 cubic centimeters
Andrews’Pearl 543 cubic centimeters
1 have used PRICE’S in my family for years. “Even if the price is higher
PRICE’S is always the best.”
Lansing, June 3, 1884. PROF. R. C. KEDZIE.
HOUSEKEEPERS TEST.
Every housekeeper can test Baking Powders containing the disgusting dru
AMMONIA by placing a can of “Royal” or “Pearl” top down on a hot stove until
heated. Then remove the cover and smell.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
I,
jprto* 00O&0, <str.
We Mean to Surprise You,
One-Half of Our Stock at One-Half
its Actual Value.
First of all, Let Us Talk Hosiery.
XI7E offer Gents’, Ladies’ and Misses’ Fancy
t t Colored, Bleached and Unbleached Hose
at sc. a pair. You can’t buy them elsewhere
at less than 10c. and lilic.
One lot Misses’ Full Regular Bleached Hose
at Bc.; worth 25c. Ask lor these in the Bazar.
A beautiful 25c. No. 7 Misses’ Hose, hand
some colors, at 10c.
A full regular made Misses’ Hose, in all
sizes, at 15c.; was always worth 35c.
A very superior Misses’ Hose, some call
them Lisle Thread, at 19c.; worth fully 50c.
One lot extra fine Misses’ Hose at 25c. We
used to sell them at 60c.
A lot Gents’ Cardinal Full Regular Silk
Clocked Half Hose at 17c.; worth 35c.
One lot Ladies’ Solid Color Silk Clocked
Hose, fine gauge, at 25c.: worth 40c.
And any quanity of Hosiery in Silk, Lisle
and Cotton at equally low figures.
Now We Shall Speak of Handker
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 offer a nice Fancy Bordered
Handkerchief at 2c.; a Pure Linen at 5c.; a
nice quality, all Linen, Hemstitched at 10c.;
in fact, you can’t afford to purchase Handker
chiefs elsewhere, for you would be losing
money.
We Will Now Tell Yon About Our
Laces and Embroideries.
At the prices we have put them we can
verily say we are giving them away. 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 Think, We Offer Our Elegant
Parasols at Half Price.
Yes, we have reduced our Parasols andUm
brellas just one-half, come and judge for
yourself. If they are still too high, we will
lower them further, for they must go. Now
do not come too late, when they are all picked
over, for bear in mind, we anticipate a great
rush and naturally they can’t last all the time.
It is Yery Warm, So We Must Talk
to Yon About Fans.
We have all kinds, from the humble but 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 Tork at
one-third its actual cost, hence these unex
ceptional bargains.
Now a Word or Two About Onr Gloves.
We have them in Silk and Thread, in Jersey
style, Foster Hook and Button, in black and
in white, and every imaginable shade; also, a
full line of Silk Mitts, and have made prices
to correspond with the rest of our stock, very
very low indeed.
lease bear in mind that these Goods at these prices will be sold only whilst they last.
tVe cannot duplicate them at these prices, and as we expect a very large rush, they can t last
very long. If you do not wish to be disappointed call early, or else do not blame us U you
find the best bargains gone.
DAI B 1 A U.
153 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ca.
Crust it 0, (Etc,
TIES! HIS! TRIES!
SATCHELS, SATCHELS,
BAGS!
—AT—
E. L. NEIDLINGER, SON & CO.’S,
156 St. Julian and 153 Bryan Streets. __
gttortittim’o Coo Po.
Arms & AmiinitioD a Specialty.
KING’S GREAT WESTERN
GUNPOWDER!
GUNPOWDER!
SPECIAL PRICES TO PARTIES BUYING
IN LOTS.
P. O. KESSLER & CO.
Every Lady Wears Corsets,
THEREFORE, wc have made it a specialty.
We have fifty different stylca in all sizes
up to No. 36. Every style is a gem. Our 3Sc.
Corset is sold elsewhere for 60c., and 50c. Cor
set is really worth 76c. You can’t buy for fl
what we sell for 75c.; our dollar Corset we
pride ourselves to be unexcelled. We have
them also at fl 25, $1 50, $2, *2 50 and 13 apiece,
and remember if one style don’t please you,
we can show you forty-nine other styles. l)o
you know why we keep ho many styles? Just
because we wish to please every customer, und
we do it. There is not a day when we sell less
than one hundred.
We Have Somethiug to Say About Onr
Ladles’ and Misses’ Underwear,
Ulsters and Robber Water Proofs.
If you should want a HanA-Embroidercfi
Chemise, Nightgown and Drawers, or an ele
gantly or plainly trimmed one, vou will find
them in our ltazar at suoh low prices that you
can’t help to buy, for we sell the garment as
low as the material al ine would cost you.
Linen Ulsters we have at 750., sl, $1 25 and so
forth, all very cheap indeed. When you are
in want of Rubber Cloaks for Ladies, Misses
or Gents, please bear in mind that we have a
full line or them, good and cheap.
Only a Few Words We will Say About
Onr Housekeeping Hoods.
We have two yards wide, good quality.
Sheeting at l7c.,and ef very extra good quality
at 20c. Pure Linen Table Cloth at 17c. tier
yard; 40-inch, all Linen, Towels at 10c.;
Toweling or Crash by the yard at sc; heavy
Undressed Bleached 4-4 Shirting at Bc., worth
10c.; yard wide Bleached Shirting at 6Jic.,
worth Bc.; Bed Ticking as low as usual
price 10c.; Gingham Checks at 5c., worth Bc.;
Merrimac Shirting Cambric at 5c., worth Bc.,
etc.
Listen to What We Have to Say About
Dress Hoods, Silks and Satins.
We wish to close omt our entire stock of
these goods and are willing to make any and
every sacrifice to accomplish it. Believe us,
we mean just what we say, and surely it can
not hurt you to give us a test call: you will
certainly find ui very anxious to sell all these
goods, and, having reduced our prices so im
mensely, we are confident we will more than
please you.
W hat Do Yon Think Abont Jerseys !
They are getting to be the rage more anil
more. We have them as low as 21 to the
choicest kinds—plain black, fan-shape backs
with satin bow, braided and in all the new
shades.
Victoria Lawns, Nainsooks, Marseilles
And all other styles of White Goods, such as
plain and embroidered Swisses; Persia Lawns
in white, cream, blue and pink; Piques, Linen
de Ireland, French Welts, India Lawns, in
fact everything in that line will be sacrificed
for what it will bring, for we have determined
to sell these goods at any price. Just think!
Victoria Lawns at Sc., some merchants call it
Linen Lawn and charge 10c. for it; 40-inch
fine Victoria Lawn at Be.; Lonsdale Cambric,
the genuine article, at 11c., etc.
ssrcno.
OSCEOLA BUTLER;
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on the Habits and their Care, free.