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THE WOOINO OF SENDAI.
AX OLD JAPANESE LEGEND.
Forever in the pine-clad shore
Of Takasaceo's Bav
The cunt vaimiiatA iheir crystal heads
In many-tinted spray.
Lom rold'than she whom Sendai's son
Woo’d for so long and strangely won.
Fairer was she than aught of earth,
Divine in form an i face.
Each limb and feature charmed the eye
With more than mortal grace:
Ye* naught of earth coohl move or thrill
Her heart, as marble, hard and chill.
Long was the suit that Sendai urged;
Slow years their courses ran.
Yet never dared the immortal maid
Hear love from mortal man.
Sky iiorn. bow could she bend below,
And e'en a priDce's worship know?
And yet she loved him. Day bv day.
Beneath one wind-swept pine.
She heard him to his samisen
Singing her praise divine.
A woman still, though goddess, she
Drank in his worship eagerly.
Entranced, enslaved, he saw the light
Burn in her deep-lashed eyes;
No longer thwarted, ‘neatb the pine.
He clasped his beauteous prize.
Load thunder rolled: the gods above
Saw that a goddess stooped to love.
A nd then, the story says, the gods
Changed each into a'pme:
And still with sounds of ocean's voice
Their love songs intertwine.
Condemned to sigh and sob in vain.
In term and sunshine, wind and rain.
—AU the 1 ear Sound.
ROMANCE OF FANNY ELSSLER.
Another Sketch of the Life of the Great
Dan sense.
Fanny Elssler, following closely to the
grave her great rival, Marie Taglioni,
‘•the chaste priestess of the dance,” and
the eccentric “Chevalier” Wykoff. whose
name was so intimately linked with her
during her American tour, was a Vien
nese, and the younger sister of the “tall
Thereae,” who died only a few years ago
in Bavaria, Baroness von Barnim, and
widow of a Hohenzoilern, Prince Adal
bert of Prussia, to whom she was mar
ried, morganatically. in 1350. Fanny
made her debut on the stage at 6. The
encyclopedias and obituaries say that she
owed her testhetic culture to Friedrich
von Gentz. and stop there, being ignorant,
apparently, of his identity, or their rela
tions. Von Gentz, the trusted friend of
Metternicb, the platonic adorer of the
brilliant Rahel, and the pen of the anti-
Napoleonic coalition, was in his 65th year
when he met the Elssler sisters. The
curious in such matters will find the
whole story in Hayward. The father of
tne girls had been an attendant on the com
poser Haydn, from whom he received a
considerable legacy, soon dissipated,
though through no’ fault of Elssler's.
Their mother, “bred up in theatrical
company of the lower sort, had,” says
Hayward, “no scruple in agreeing with
her husband to turn their daughters’
personal attractions and accomplish
ments to the best account.” The girls
made their first hit at the *an Carlos, at
Naples, and as soon as he deemed them
sufficently advanced, Barbaja, the
director, who was also manager of the
Opera at Vienna, sent them to the Aus
trian capital. There they created a pro
found sensation, and indeed achieved a
European reputation.
Just here it may be as well to say that
all tne romantic stories about the Duke of
Reichstadt (Napoleon II.) are utterly
without foundation. Metternich is repre
sented—for some inscrutable rea9ou or
other, since it was rather a good card for
Austria to preserve the life of a pretender
to the French throne, sprung of the blood
of her imperial house and devoted to her
interests—as having employed Fanny
Elssler to “ kill cff” the feeble son of Napo'-
ieon and Maria Louisa in a romantic
manner. According to the legend she
disguised herself as a rural beauty, won
his love and confidence, and then broke
his heart by permitting him to recognize
on the stage his innocent “Gabrielle” in
the famous—it might almost be said
notorious—danseuse. The truth is that
the Duke fell desperately in love with her,
and might be seen day after day walking
up and down near her lodgings, in the hope
of a enlace such as befell Faust with
Marguerite, blit he was disappointed, and
they never met iu private at all.
Gentz was similarly struck, aud car
ried off the prize from lull a score ol
veung rivals. It was uot as easy task,
for the theatres were. under the superin
tendence of Count von Gallenberg, who
alone Was authorized to introduce the
performers to persons outside of their
own circle, and who took a malicious
pleasure in refusing an introduction to
Gentz —or perhaps desired to save the old
diplomatist from making a fool of him
self. But the introduction was at last
accorded, and Metternich’s friend made
an assiduous and successful “courtship.”
Savs Havward: “He was reputed rich
on’lhe strength of hts prodigal expendi
ture; he was celebrated: he was the fami
liar comuanion of the great, and he owed
his success, in the first instance, to the
shameless venality of the mother. Tne
poor girl resigned herself to her destiny
with a sigh. How he gradually won upon
her may be collectedjfrom hir letters, and
the enduring attachment she eventually
contracted for him did equal credit to her
understanding and her heart.” Gentz
wrote to Rahel from Presburg iu October,
ISX>: “The best instructed among the
ordinary people around me think and
affirm (for my connection with her is the
subject of endless talk iu society here,
where I am in great favor) that 1 have
conquered her only by what is called my
eloquence. This of itself would be singu
lar enough, but still it is very far from
being the truth. I have gained her singly
aud exclusively by the magical power of
niv love. When she first knew me she
neither knew nor conceived that there
existed anywhere such a love, and a
hundred times over she has confessed to
me that 1 had uniolded to her anew
world bv the manner in which I behaved
to her from the very first moment, and,
still further, bv the revelation of a love
the possibility ‘of which 6he had never
dreamed of, and which is, 1 must own,
neither frequent nor common. You will
understand that, as a matter of course, I
never was silly enough to expect from her
a return of passion, in the narrower sense
of the word. I never imagined that she
could fall in love with me, for even in the
full fervor of passion mv reason does not
abaud on me. It was enough for me to in
spire her with a sentiment floating be
tween friendship, gratitude and love; and
1 did in fact succeed—for men succeed in
everything which they struggle for with
complete energy and genuine presever
acce—in so planting and confirming this
feeling in her mind that it, by degrees,
filled her whole soul, and at this moment,
unless all the evidences deceive me, it
cannot Ik? supplanted or overcome by any
other feeling whatever. Imagine what it
is. at my time of life, with my few re
maining'pretensions. to see a passion like
mine thus rewarded! Imagine the satis
faction of self-love, from which no human
being can disengage himself, and least of
all one who takes as much pleasure in
flatterv as 1 do—imagine the blessedness
of daily, undisturbed intercourse with a
'* rson in whom everything ravishes me;
in whose eves, in whose hands (did you
ever look at them ?), in whose single and
soperate charms, my mind can absorb
itself for hours together; whose voice
tells upon me like magic, and with whom
I carrv on endless conversations which
would often astound you, as I should do
with the most docile school-girl; (or I
educate her with paternal care, aud she
is at once my beloved companion and my
faithful child. Imagine this rich stock of
enjoyments, aud iu addition to it all so
much more which no tongue can tell, and
it will be easy for you to understand that
which to others may still appear foolish
ness.”
To one who looks with clear eyes at this
liaison there is something inexpressibly
sad in the sacrifice of this girl to an aged
sensualist and egotist. It recalls the
stories of the old enchanters who pro
longed their lives by baths is the blood of
children. Yet of the two the woman,
born of a venal mother, bred amid the
temptations of the stage at a time when
morals were loose, and educated by a
man in whom all was subordinated to
sell, proved the more sterling stuff, and
when Gentz died in 1832, deeply in debt,
whatever of heart Fanny Elssler had was
buried in the grave, which is unmarked
save by the simple stone which she reared
to his memory.
For nearly a decade thereafter she was
one of the wonders and delights of the
choregraphic stage in Europe—the most
brilliant, and, it must be recorded in all
sadness, one of the most shameless wo
men of ner brilliant and shameless day.
An American journal could not encumber
its columns with such episodes as the
presentation at St. Petersburg and the
undignified rage of the rival Fanny,
Cemto. Fanny Elssler had taken Paris
by storm in “La Tempete” ere she was
joined by her more artistic and self-sacri
ficing sister, Therese, and they made their
great hit in “Don Juan.” In “La Cra
covienne” and “La Tarantula,” they ad
vanced in public favor, but popular frenzy
was first lairlv kimlled by “La Cachuca,”
a Spanish dance transformed by Therese.
Her greatest success from an artistic
point of view was. however, “The Gyp
sy.” the story of which is the same as
Balfe’s -Bohemian Girl,” while most of
the music is taken from Weber’s “Prc
ciosa.” HSr tragic power in this piece
was not less notable than her broadly
comic force in "La Tarantula.”
Fanny Elssler, Fanny Kemble and
Charles Dickens were foreign artists
fortunate in being among the earliest visi
tors to our shores, and the lurore which
they created in those days, when there
was but little intercontinental travel and
everything European was invested with
a glamour almost supernatural, still lives
in history and popular tradition. To the
Chevalier* Wykoff belongs the credit
such as it was—of importing the famous
danseuse, and he has told the story of the
preliminary negotiations in his "Recol
lections of an Idler,” with that peculiar
smirking satisfaction which makes tfle
reader malignantly desirous of kicking
him. Of her two years tour through the
United States and Cuba, beginning in
May, 1310, the two incidents that have
survived most pertinaciously are the
alleged dialogue between Emerson and
Margaret Fuller. “Ralph, this is poe
try!” “Nay, Margaret.it is more—it is
religion!” and the refusal of the Boston
women to accept a contribution from her.
Pius IX was more philosophical a few
years later, when the gilded youth of
Rome asked his permission to present her
with a golden crown. “Do as you please,
my sons,” answered the Pontiff, “only for
a person whose fame is won by her feet a
crown seems to me inappropriate.” The
danseuse heard of it, and sent the gift to
the Pope, to be melted down lor the relief
of the poor. “She has more brains in her
toes,” said Pio Nono, “than the donors
had in their heads.”
Fanny Kemble, in her “Recollections of
a Later Life,” gives some interesting
notes on Elssler, and especially on her
singular friendship with the wife of
George Grote, the historian, one of the
most notable women of her day. Mrs.
Butler wrote from Philadelphia in June,
1*40: “3he has great dramatic power:
her •Tarentelle’ and ‘Wylie’ are finely
tragical in parts, but then she had a first
rate head as well as loot-training. She is
a wonderful artist, but there is something
unutterably sad in the contemplation of
su :h career. The blending Tn most un
natural union of the elements ot degrada
tion and moral misery with such exquisite
perceptions of beauty, grace and refine
ment produces the impression of a sort of
monstrosity, a deformity of the whole
higher nature, which fills one with
poignant compassion and regret. Poor,
fair, admired, despised, flattered, forlorn
souls!” Mrs. Grote made a well-meaning
and long-sustained attempt to get Elssler
into London society, and, as she said,
"make an honest woman” of her, but her
success was not remarkable. When the
danseuse came to America the good and
great-hearted woman undertook- the
charge of her girl, a lovely child of six.
“Well, Fanny,” she, said,“send the brat to
me. I don’t ask whosechildit is,and Idon’t
care, so long as isn't that fool D Orsay’s,
and I’ll take the best care of it I ea’n.”
And so she did. One secret of this
curious friendship may have been the tact
that Mrs. Grote, who ‘was as big and as
awkward as Brignoli. always believed
that she had missed her vocation in not
becoming a ballet-dancer! The last
allusion in Fanny Kemble’s letters to the
danseuse is under date of April, 1843:
“Elssler is in London now, and, 1 am
assured by those that know, diviner than
ever. I think her gone off. both in looks
and dancing. That rascal W has
robbed her ot the larger portion of her
earnings; what a nice lover to have!”
Yet the end of this life of storm and
shame was respectability and peace, and
who shall say that unto her much is not
to be forgiven—was not lorgiven, qir' a
multvm amavit, because she had loved
much?
A WEIGHTY HEAD.
A Terribly Deformed Niaeteea-Year-
Old Tennessee Girl.
A remarkable case of hydrocephalus,
say a a Chattanooga special, was discovered
a few days ago near blickamanga, twelve
miles from this city. Nineteen years ago
there was born to the wife of Armour Dob
bins a lovely girl baby. When the child had
reached the age of three months an un
natural growth of the head began to
develop, which continued until it was two
years of age, when it had assumed alarm
ing proportions. The general health of
the child was good, though at the age of
two years the growth ceased, having at
tained the remarkable dimensions of 31J4
inches around the forehead and 27 inches
across the crown ot its head from ear to
ear. The face of this remarkable being is
no larger than that of an ordinary person
whilelhe head looks as large as a water
bucket,. The length of the body now, it
strightened, would not be over three feet
and about the dimensions of a well
developed two-year-old child. The whole
body is horribly deformed, the hips being
drawn back until they nearly reach the
shoulders, the bending of the spine draw
ing back the lower extremities. There is
but little flesh on the legs, the thighs be
ing not over three inches in circumfer
ence. The arms are but little large thau
pipestems, and are also nearly devoid of
flesh. The body will not weigh as much
as the head, the whole weighing not over
lorty pounds. The features are|! rightful
to look upon, being terribly out ot shape,
the teeth projecting lar beyond the lips.
The hair is flaxen, about two feet long,
very coarse, and lies in wild profusion
around the head of the unfortunate being.
For seventeen years, since its present
growth, the girl has never been able to
move her body, but can move her hands
and feet, having little strength, however,
in those limbs. At times she shows some
intelligence and can make her wants
known to her mother. At times she tries
to talk, her voice resembling that of a
parrot. One peculiarity is that while lying
in bed, owing to the extraordinary pro
tuberance of the eyes, she can follow the
movements of any one in the room, beirg
able to see all passing at the head of her
bed. Her health is good, except that she
is subject to occasional fits or 6pasms.
She sleeps well, but her devoted mother
remains constantly with her.
Hydrocephalus is caused by the accu
mulation of water in the interstices of
the brain and head. Many physicians
here consider this the most remarkable
case known to medical science. While
the disease is common in medical prac
tice, cases are rarely cured, except in
infants. Death generally ensues in a few
years at farthest. When this case began
to develop, the best medical taleut of the
vicinity was obtained, but nothing could
be done, and the parents took their child
to Fort Smith, Ark., the physicians there
stating that to tap and draw the water
from the head would cause instant death.
Wliose Property are Wedding Presents'.’
Xeic York Herald.
Are wedding presents the property of
the wife or the husband? This curious
question has been raised in the English
courts.
Mme. Mercier sued Mrs. Williams for a
bill of goods to the amount of $.>,000, sup
plied before the latter's marriage. She
recovered judgment and levied on Mrs.
Williams’ jewels. They were wedding
S resents aiid were claimed by the hus
and as his properry. The case was tried
before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and a
jnry. He instructed the jury that in law
the articles belonged to the husband, and
that accordingly the suit against the wife
could not be maintained. An appeal was
taken to the Divisional Court. The
Judges were equally divided. Then the
Court of Appeal was called upon to
decide the question. It held that both the
wedding presents and other valuables
owned by Mis. Williams before her mar
riage became the property of her hus
band, but that their ownership had been
transferred to her by an ante-nuptial
agreement. This agreement provided
that all property of the wife should be
assigned to trustees for named purposes
“except jewels, trinkets, ornaments of
the person and articles of the like na
ture?’ These, it was delared m the
agreement, should belong to her for her
separate use.
The case was then carried to the House
of Lords, which has just given its opin
ion. It sustains the decision of the Court
of Appeal that the jewels were the separ
ate property of Mrs. Williams under the
ante-nuptial agreement. They were there
fore liable to seizure by her creditors.
The views of the House ot Lords on the
qiestion whether wedding presents be
come the property of the husband or be
long to the wife do not appear in the
report of the opinion. The inference is
tiat the House agrees with the Court of
Appeal on this point also.
HORSFOKD’S ACID PHOSPHATE,
A, a Brain Food.
Dr. S. F. Newcomer, Greenfield, 0.,
says: “Incases of general debility, and
torpor of mind and body, it does exceed-
I ingly well.”
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1884.
AN UNKNOWN WONDER.
Black Canyon in the Summit of the Big
Horn Mountains.
Over the hills and far away, sixty or
seventy miles beyond Fort Custer, Mon
tane, and to the southwest, says the St.
Paul Pioneer Press, Mother Earth has
two enormous gashes in her face. Ten
miles beyond old Fort Smith, with its
well-kept cemetery, wherein repose the
bones of a gallant band of regulars who
Kllvictims to the Sioux in ’67, these gashes
meet at a somewhat acute angle, and
beyond their convergence spreads and
winds the valley of the Big Horn. 01 the
longer of these wounds in the counten
ance of the world a good deal has been
written, and for years the Big Horn
canyon has been regarded as one of the
I wonders cf a wonderful region. But of
canyons the west has a plethora, and the
more striking marvels of the adjacent
Yellowstone Park have claimed attention
to the exclusion of other topographical
phenomena. Striking, even grand, in any
land, however, would be that other gash
which joins the Big Horn and is known
in the vicinity as the Black canyon.
Crow and Sioux have known the mighty
fissure for years, and. of course, rumors
of it reached the settlements through the
hardy trappers and hunters of the later
sixties. Hardy and utterly devoid ot fear
must those same trappers’ have been, for
Black canyon yawns where, up to IS7I or
1572, the fiercest of fierce Indians could
be found—or would find the intruder—at
, almost any day in the year. To Gen.
[ Sheridan ard party belong the honors of
first exploration, which occurred in 1371
during one of the long plaiu and moun
tain trips of that officer, and it is under
stood that he gave the gash the name it
bears.
Black canyon is reft in the very summit
of the Hig Horn mountains, and yawns
for a somewhat tortuous length of thirty
miles, stretching from its junction with
the canyon, through which the waters of
the Big Horn riv- r force their way, south
eastward into Wyoming, and almost to
the boundaries of’the National Park. It
has never been thoroughly explored, but
except at the southernmost extremity,
maintains a nearly uniform depth ot 2,000
feet. As Westerners well know, moun
tains in these parts are treeless and rise
to snow line beyond in gradual and
rounded slopes. There is not the slightest
indication of the Black can von until one
reaches its very verge, and’ the effect of
the contrast between its densely-wooded
sides, where “the tall pines, like’ funereal
plumes,” wave to and fro and sing cease
lessly, and the treeless acclivities tehind,
is as unique as can he imagined. Well is
it named "Black,” for these same pines,
massed as they are with naught but the
denser foliage displayed, give an air of
Erebus itself to the whole huge fissure.
Briuging into more market! effect the som
breness of the greater portion of the can
yon are huge white cliffs, perfectly ner
pendicular. and with their sheer height of
more than a third of a mile towering into
impressiveness which compels silence on
the part of the onlooker, be he garrulous
as Falstalf or querulous as Holman.
He would be a queer American who.
looking down into this chasm, did not
feel an immediate and irresistible desire
to penetrate the depths and look up. To
accomplish this is arduous, but neither
difficult nor dangerous. Two or three
miles south of the debouching of the Big
Horn canyon a bridle path leads to the
bottom of the Black. It is partly a bed of
a stream which depends upon the rainy
season for its flow aud partly a track
made by bears, elk, or deer, terraced as it
were in the very side of the steepness.
From the entrance to the deep wood to
the bottom plateau is about a mile and
three-quarters by this path, and over all
but a half-mile it is possible to ride.
Steep as the side ol a house in almost
every part, but winding sufficiently to
allow the line of direction to be main
tained within one’s base, a careful horse
can make good progress until more than
half-way down. Then must his rider dis
mount, for what was steep before becomes
precipitous now, and the footway, instead
of being hard and even, is covered with
sand, earth, loose stones, and other detri
tus from the towering sides above. Both
horse and rider must slide; and as in the
middle of the steepest part bends round a
large rock, at an acute angle, while to the
right yawns a precipice hundreds ef feet
in depth, one has the elation which comes
of semi-danger after he has passed this
evil half-mile and remounts lor the last
and comparatively easy hall-mile of de
scent, with the complacency of him who
has encountered and overcome obstacles.
Yet it isn’t really very dangerous, since
the loose earth helps to hold oue back,
and a number of army ladies have made
the descent in perfect safety, but with
more or less damage to habiliments.
Ouce landed on the perfectly level sur
face at the bottom of the Big canyon, the
explorer finds that the sides do not meet at
the bottom, as they teemed to do when
looked at from above, out are separated
by from a few hundred feet to a quarter of
a mile. The huge bare walls of rocks are
even more impressive when seen from
below, and seem to be like the battlements
of some huge castle erected by Titians
aud worthy of delense by the Olympian
gods. Shut out from the world, aud
singing a merry dashing song through
the center of the lower level, runs Canyon
creek, here deep and narrow, there wide
and wadeable, and always as cold as ice
and as clear as crystal. Why not? It is
led by snow and ice, and on its waves the
sun can pour its beams but four or five
hours out of every twenty-four. And in
that creek what trout! Lovely salmon
colored fellows: the mountain trout of
Montana and Idaho; gamy as the cutest
and bravest of their Allegheny brethren:
delicious to the palate as a Ward could
desire, and sizable in that many attain
the noble size of three or four
pounders, and few which the
angler cares to save weigh
less than a pound. They will bite at any
thing, from a piece of red flannel coat
lining to a grasshopper, and to see one
snatch the bait in the midst of a headlong
rush up stream, and then to feel the thrill
iu wrist and shoulder as he resents the
barb, is to “have fun” in as true and lull
a sense as the heart of a fisherman ever
imagined.
Black canyon is not so inaccessible as
to make a journey thereto either tediousor
tiresome, and in the near future it will be a
place of favorite resort with sight-seers.
Then will come the utilitarian, and the
puff, whirr, and buzz of the steam saw
mill, turning into “first clear” those
mighty millions of pines, will usurp the
stillness and frighten away forever the
speckled denizens of the Crystal creek.
THE VENDER OF FACES.
The Odd Dealer in Elastic Countenances
who Frequents Chestnut Street.
It makes little difference, says the
Philadelphia Press, whether the rain is
falling or the sun shining, whether the
breezes are soft in summer or a cold
winter wind is blowing, the traveler along
Chestnut street between Seventh and
Broad streets meets the same odd sales
man hawking the same odd article. The
individual is a little old man, wearing a
faded black Derby hat and long brown
overcoat. There are dozens of other
itinerants along the street, but this o-e
has no competitors in his particular
branch of trade. He sells laces, or rather
endeavors to sell them, for he does not ap
pear to find many purchasers of his
wares.
He may be seen on any day standing on
the curb. In one hand he holds a basket
containing a dozen or two faces, made of
jujube paste. The faces are all alike,
about four inches in diameter, round and
rosy, blue-eyed, smiling and red-nosed.
From morning until dark the vender
stands with one hand raised to the level
of his hat, working an elastic face be
tween his fingers and thumb, and by pres
sure contorting the countenance into ex
pressions of agony or mirth. The faces
sell for ten cents each.
At regular intervals the proprietor of
the wares calls out spasmodically, “Here
you are, only 10cents!” ne never looks
up at the people passing. His head is al
ways averted and his eyes fixed on the
rubicund visages in his basket. From
long continued study of them his own
face has assumed much of their charac
ter. His nose is exactly the same red
hue as the noses of all the faces. The full
portion of his cheeks shows their pinkish
tinge, and bis eyes are blue. Occasionally
he involuntarily grins broadly or draws
down his eyebrows and puckers his mouth.
The 875,000 Prize to an Unknown
Hero.
It is collected by the Louisiana National
Bank for an unknown depositor. The
lucky 78,455 was presented at the main
offices of the Louisiana State Lottery Com
by Mt. A. Luria, Cashier of the Louisiana
National Bank, fora depositor. This is
all that the Lottery Company knows of it,
and Mr. Luria declined to name the fortu
nate holder. A check for $75,000 was
deposited to the credit of the lucky de
positor.—yerc Orleans City Item, Oct. 18.
MISS VAN ZANDTS MISFORTUNE.
The Actress Slandered by the Paris
Press, But Vindicated at Last,
Speaking of critics, says a ’Paris letter
to the New Orleans Picayune , I wish to
assert that In all my experience as a jour
nalist I have never known anything so
brutally cruel, with one exception, as
were the outrageous remarks made by the
Paris papers about Miss Marie Van Zandt
last Sunday morning. The exception was
when the late Wilbur F. Story made an
attack on Lydia Thompson, and she gave
him a good horsewhipping for it. Miss
Van Zandt tried to* sing last Saturday
night in the “Barbierde Seville.” but was
taken so ill in the second act that she had
to be carried off the stage, and the opera
was finished by another’artiste. Tne next
morning every journal in Paris save one
declared that she was led off tee stage be
cause she was too drunk to sing. One
critic said she hiccuped, and came near
pitching headforward into the prompter’s
hole; another declared that alt Ameri
can women drink whisky continually,
and that she was only keeping up the tra
ditions of her compatriots; all said she
never could sing; had too long been
spoiled; that she had insulted uot only
the public, but the “dignity of the press,”
and that she must never be permitted to
reappear at the Opera Comique or at any
other subventioned theatre in France.
This and a good deal more that was untrue
was written about this young lady, and I,
lor one, feel like taking’her part, although
as everybody knows, there is no reason on
earth why 1 should do anything of the
sort. I feel like breaking a lance in her de
fense just to show that the profession oi
American journalism is not yet so low a9
it seems to be here in France, if I am to
judge by the specimens of last Sun
day morning. Well, I was present
at this unfortunate affair, and I am bound
to assert that I do not believe lor one
, moment that the young lady was in any
degree intoxicated, unless it was with an
overdose of medicine of some sort, taken
to relieve the intense pains under which
she was then suffering. I went back with
31. de Blouitztosee 3lanager Carvalho,
but, for reasons which w ill be readily
understood, I did not accompany him to
31iss Van Zandt’s dressing-room. But I
saw 31rs. Yan Zandt. received from her a
positive statement about her daughter’s
illness, and that statement, printed in the
Morning Xeics, was the single article in
all Paris that took the part, or rather I
should say told the truth, of the young
American. On Sunday afternoon Blouitz
telegraphed the London Times as follows:
"The curtain rose on the second act,
but Mile. Van Zandt, on advancing to the
front of the stage, had a haggard look,
was unable to articulate a note, and stag
gered. Thereupon a voice exclaimed,
r Elle est ivre,' aud the cry was echoed by
the audience. An actor announced that
she was unwell, and that thepertoimance
was suspended. After a pause, in which
the audience made an uproar, 3llle.
Mezeray, who happened to be present,
was brought forward in her usual dress
aud played ‘Rosine’ nmul plaudits natu-
rally exaggerated. 3lean\vhile the three
theatre doctors had attended the unfortu
nate singer in her dressing room, and had
found her suffering trom cerebral paraly
sis, not in the slightest degree due to any
spirituous liquor, for she had drank noth
ing but orange flower water, and owing
to a nervous attack during the day, had
eaten nothing. It was heartrending to
see her brilliantly dressed for her part, yet
unconscious, pallid and shivering. 31uch
as she must have suffered last night, she
must have doubly suffered to-day on find
ing that sensational journalists, rushing
out of the tneatre without waiting for the
sequel or for explanations, had propaga
ted a cruel and unmanly calumny. Such
an outrage on a young and promising
singer, entitled to commisseration, must
excite universal indignation.”
I am glad to be able to add that the tal
ented singer is getting on very well, and
will make her reappearance in a few
days.
OLI) TIME RELIGIOUS NEGROES.
What a Baptist Preacher Kuows of
Ante-Bellum Life in the South.
At the Baptist Ministers’ Conference
yesterday morning, says the New York
World of Dec. 3, Rev. W. Eddy, from the
special committee appointed for the pur
pose, presented resolutions expressive of
the regret of the Conference at the recent
deaths of Rev. Isaac Westcott and Rev.
Jabez Swan. Several of the brethren re
called incidents in the lives of these de
parted brethren. Mr. Swan, whose labors
it was said had resulted in the conversion
of many thousand souls, he having per
sonally baptized over 10,0t)0 persons, was
a very eccentric mau and especially fer
vent in prayer. The Moderator, Dr. Morse,
said that he recalled an incident in the
career of Brother Swan where at a meet
ing that he attended two Congregational
ministers prayed. It was then Brother
Swan’s turn, and, kneelingdown, he said;
“O Lord God, Thou hast heard these two
prayers, and Thou knowest that they are
cold enough to freeze hell over and send
all the little devils out skating.”
Rev. E. J. Raymond, of the Carmel Bap
tist Church, East One Hundred and
Twenty-first street, in this city, read a
paper on the religious lile of the old-time
nes.ro. There was, he said, no aspect of
religion less understood; it was like unto
nothing in the heavens above, or the earth
beneath, or in the waters under the earth,
and it was a type of American civiliza
tion that was fast passing away. The ne
gro of the present generation could not be
compared to those of the olden time, and
it might also be said that they belonged to
another race. The religious thought of
the negro of the olden time was largely
tinged with the Voudooism brought with
him from Africa, but there were no people
on the globe more thoroughly imbued with
religious sentiment than those of his race;
all things to him were tinged with a reli
gious tone, and the very current of hie
life was forced to flow in the one narrow
channel of religious thought. The Bible
was to him a mysterious book which he
revered without attempting to under
stand. One old negro asked the speaker
once whether Nicodemus was the only
“nigger” that came to Christ. In his
state of slavery he could not imagine that
any white mau could have need of the
Saviour, and therefore he thought that
Nicodemus must have been a colored
man. ,
“There has never been on the earth,”
said Dr. Raymond, “a more powerful at
testation of the power of Christ’s gosnel
than the picture of the old-time negro’ in
his state of slavery, lifting his streaming
eves tewards heaven and pleading with
Jesus for salvation from sin. The one
thing which he believed in was redemp
tion by Jesus Christ, and in that he was
as orthodox as any of the doctrines we are
wont to teach.”
Among the many anecdotes related was
one in which he said a good sistei, de
scribing her feelings of rapture at being
converted, said: “I fc-el just like I had a
fiddle in my belly.” At one time, he said,
he went to* preach for a colored brother,
who, in introducing him, said: “I believe
in the doctrines of Jefferson; you will find
it in the 10th chapter of Luke, which says:
‘All men are born free and equal.’” In
conclusion Dr. Raymond gave some
amusiug accounts of"the peculiarities of
the old-time negro preachers, imitating
their peculiar idiom very happily and
causing much merriment.
“Dot Vhas All. - ’
Detroit Free Press.
“I pelief I vhas shwindled voncemore,”
he said to the Sergeant at the Central Sta
tion as he was a6ked to take a chair and
report his errand.
“How?”
“Yhell, I vhas in my place apoudt two
hours ago ven two strangers vhalk In, and
one of ’em says to me:
“ ‘Shake, I haf a bet on you. I know
you vhas a great man to haf confidence in
human nature, und I bet $2, eafen oop, dot
you vhill lend me feety cent.’
“Vhell, I dunno. I nefer see him pe
fore, but if somepody bet $2 on me I doau’
like him to lose it, und maype he also di
vide vhat, he wins.”
“And you let him have it?” .
“Vhell, I haf some confidence in hu
man nature. He vhalks off init my feety
cent, und my vhifesays I vhas der piggest
fool in Detroit.”
“And what do you want of me?”
“I like to know if you pelief like my
vhife?”
“Yes, sir, I do! You’ll never see your
money again.”
“My son Carl says I petter soak my
headt. I like to know if you think dot
vhay?”
“I do.”
“Und my brudder-law says I make a
fine lunatic asylum all by myself. Vhas he
correct?”
“He is.”
“Yhell, dot vhas all. If I vhas right I
got madt und clean oudt der shanty. If 1
vhas wrong 1 go home und keep still until
my headt vhas soaked enough to lose my
confidence in human nature. Dot vhas all
-good-day.”
A PRIVILEGED COMMUNICA
TION.
The Trouble It Has Caused in a South
Carolina City.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 3.—The most re
markable trial recently held on the civil
side of the courts in this State was con
cluded on Sunday. 3lrs. W. B. McDaniel,
the soprano singer in the Baptist Church
choir in this city, and 3lr. W. H. Huntt,
the organist, met m the choir gallery
about midday in last May, While the lat
ter was in the gallery repairing the orga
the former, while passing by, saw the
gate off its hiifge3, and went in to get a
sheet of music. During this time three
ladies and a gentleman went to the church
to put some curtains in place, and discov
ering the above circumstances reported
them to Mr. H. E. Bruce, at whose house
the church keys were kept, and he in turn
reported them to the pastor, the Rev. 3Y.
C. Lindsay. An investigation of these
circumstances called forth other remarks
by 3lr. Albert E. Fugle, who accompanied
the ladies upon the curtain expedition,
and thereupon W. B. McDaniel and wife
entered suit against H. E. Bruce and Al
bert E. Fugle, in separate complaints,
charging them with malicious utterances,
by whicn they imputed to Mrs. 3lcDaniel
improper conduct. The damages to char
acter were laid at SIO,OOO in each case.
The suits were town talk, and the soprano
singer was removed from the choir by the
disbanding of the choir. The trial began
on Tuesday, Nov. 18, and the examination
of witnesses was continued until Friday
morning last, and the arguments and
charge of the Judge consumed the other
two of the ten days. The jury retired at
4:20 and. m. on Saturday, and came into
court on Sunday at 9:30 a. m. with a ver
dict for H. E. Bruce, defendant (the first
case tried), on the ground that his report,
as custodian of the church keys, was
made to the pastor under circumstances
which made it a privileged communica
tion. The plaintitt's attorney claimed
that the utterances were malicious; that
they were uttered to defame plaintiff’s
character, and insisted on a verdict ac
cordingly. Tne defense claimed that the
utterances were not malicious; that they
were made as a privileged communica
tioj, aud put in testimony as to the repu
tation of the plaintiff in mitigation of dam-
ages.
The defendant’9 attorneys and the male
members of the plaintitTs’family, it is al
leged, appeared in court daily, armed,
and the Sheriff, who feared a tragedy in
the court room, kept a sharp watch oh all
parties. The jury was very much divided
throughout Saturday night, a portion
standing by a cleftr verdict for the defen
dant and others by a verdict for the plain
tiff, with nominal damages. Asa com
promise the verdict given was agreed
upon.
After the announcement of the verdict
and the adjournment of court W. B. Mc-
Daniel, husband of the plaintiff, ap
proached William H. Lyles, Esq., of
counsel for the defendant, and, pointing
to the testimony of 3Jr. Lyles, wherein he
had declared that Mrs. McDaniel had ad
mitted to him that she acted imprudently.
Mr. McDaniel demanded that Mr. Lyles
retract his testimony, which was flatly
refused. 31 r. McDaniel then lost all con
trol of himself, and used insulting lan
guage, but fortunately the Sheriff sprang
torward at the first move'tnent and placed
him under arrest, else one or more per
sons might have been killed in the court
room. 3lr. Lyles was prepared for such
an emergency, and would nave shot his
assailant had it been necessary. 3lr.
Lyles is one of the deacons who held an
investigation in the Baptist Church in
reference to 3lrs. ilcDauiels and 3lr.
Huntt. Mr. 31cDaniel has almost lost
his reason through the severe ordeal
which he has undergone. The Sheriff re
leased him from custody on Sunday night
on promise of a peace bond Monday morn
ing, which was given. The end of the
slander suit has been reached in a legal
aspect, but may be revived on the street
when least expected. A remarkable fact
is that the plaintiffs and defendant, to
gether with their counsel, are all satisfied
with the verdict of the jury.
GEN’. BEAUREGARD.
The Growing Reputation of the Great
Confederate.
By the bulk of educated Englishmen,
says the London Times, Gen. Beuregard
is thought of principally, if not solely, as
the commander who bombarded Fort
Sumter into surrender, thus striking the
first blow in the civil war. His French
name and origin, together with the fact
that the feat above mentioned, though ac
complished with an almost nominal loss,
was yet much vaunted, caused many non-
Americans to look upon the General as
rather a tinsel hero, to be ferthwith dis
missed from the memory, especially as
the government of Richmond ever sought
to make him play a secondary part. Asa
matter of fact, he was actively employed
throughout the war in the most important
posts, displayed remarkable talent and
energy, and really merits to be clashed
among the most able of the commanders
employed on both sides. Of late his repu
tation, in spite of misrepresentation by
interested persons, has been steadily
growing, and we should not be surprised
if impartial military critics eventually
placed him at the head of the list. In de
ciding on his proper place it is evident
that the circumstances by which he was
surrounded, the resource’s at his disposal,
and the amount of support afforded him
by the government, and not merely the
successes which he achieved, must be
considered.
(Tapritt? Vilaoii'io.
Walking the Floor.
All patrons of the great retail shops in the
large cities have noticed those quiet yet im
perative gentlemen who are never seen be
hind the counters, who sell no goods, who say
little, but appear to sec and hear everything
that is going on. They are the floor walkers.
They are constantly on the watch for negli
gent clerks, dishonest customers, professional
thieves; and they also direct people to the
particular departments of which they are in
eearch. The position of floor walker calls for
men who are patient, alert, cool-headed, cour
teous, and good judges of human nature as
expressed in dress and manner.
Mr. F. Edward Cramer, of 559 Wabash ave
nue, is floor walker in a leading house in the
Western metropolis, and in a recent talx he
said to the writer:
“Yes, my position involves no small degree
of care and responsibility. To stand it a fel
low ought to have good legs and good lanes.
Until lately I had trouble with my lungs for
nearly three years. Whenever 1 caught a
fresh cold I suffered great pain. I was afraid
it would break me all up before long. Several
physicians whom I consulted said they could
do "nothing more than relieve me temporari
ly.”
“That was rather a sad lookout for a man
who had his bread and butter to earn. But you
seem better now. What under the sun did
you do?”
“I took the advice of a lady friend, and
some months ago began the use of Benson’s
Capcine Plasters. I didn’t take much stock
in them at first, because I had tried other
plasters, which didn’t amount anything. But,
faith or no faith, Benson’s Plasters gave me
quick relief, and I have no hesitation in say
ing that I owe to them my present ability to
work.”
“Still,” said I, “there cannot be any material
difference between such simple things as plas
ters.”
“Yes, there is,” replied Mr. Cramer, “as
much difference as there is between cotton
and silk. Benson’s act more quickly than
others, they soothe irritation, and heal all
soreness where thev are applied, and seem to
penetrate to the hidden seat of the trouble. In
short, all that I can say in their praise will
not express the real value of Benson’s Plas
ters to those who suffer.”
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174 BROUGHTON STREET,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
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With a fine selected stock of
Fire Arms at importers’ Prices.
GUNS WARRANTED. GUNS FOR HIRE.
Repairing done. Shells loaded. Choke bor
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Send for illustrated catalogue.
UtrOical.
OPIUM and WHISKY HABITS cured bj
B. M. WOOLLET, M.D., Atlanta, Ga,
Reliable evidence given and reference to cured
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arm JHoprrtittttttte.
CHRISTMAS
WATCHES,
JEWELRY
—AND—
Fancy Goods
SUITABLE FOR
CHRISTMAS
—AND—
Holiday Presents.
Samuel P. Hamilton,
Importer & Dealer,
Corner Bui! and Broughton sts.
jyfY STOCK OF FINE WATCHES, DIA
MONDS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE and
FANCY GOODS is now complete, and I am
prepared to sell
FINE GOODS
AS LOW as they can be bought in the
United States.
Do not associate my class of goods with the
WORTHLESS. GOODS
with which the country is flooded.
If you wish any goods to PRESENT FOR
CHRISTMAS, get a GOOD ARTICLE that
will last.
Call and EXAMINE MY GOOD3 AND
PRICES before purchasing elsewhere.
While I return thanks for the liberal patron
age for OVER NINETEEN YEARS PAST,
I also refer to the goods sold during those
years as a guarantee for the future.
S. P. HAMILTON,
Cor. 801 l & Broughton Sts.
Selling Out
Having determined to close my busi
ness, I offer my entire stock of
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
CANES, SOLID SILVER and PLATED
WARE AT COST and BELOW.
This is no humbug, but a bona fide sale.
Every article waranted a9 represented.
Here is a rare chance to buy fine goods
AT ALMOST YOUR OWN FIGURE.
DIAMOND SHAWL PINS, DIAMOND
EARRINGS, WALTHAM WATCHES
ol all sizes and prices. No trouble to
show goods. Call early.
A.W. MEYER,
120 BROUGHTON STREET.
L DASHER & CO.,
Broughton aud Whitaker streets.
Have on hand a large stock of
Blankets
-AND-
Comforts.
Our customers will find it to their advantage
to look through our stock before buying.
We keep a well selected stock of
HARRIS I3ROS.’
Celebrated Seamless
KID GLOVES,
In Black, Colored and Medium Shades.
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educational.
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PHONOGRAPHY, TYPEWRITING, TEL
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oughly and practically taught.
No. 135 and 137 Bay street, between Bull and
Whitaker streets.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. RICHMOND,
Priarir* 1 *
IIEAPEST VARIETY STORE.—We have
now on hand a fuUlineof Picture Frames,
Cliristmas Cards. Albums, WaU Pockets,
Clocks, Shelves, Toys, etc., which we will sell
at such low figures that wiU astonish every
body, at NATHAN BROS’., ISB Congress st.
Hew A&urrtieftntnto.
mamm
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WILL DISPLAY
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MONDAY, DEC. 8,
THE LARGEST AND FINEST COLLECTION OF USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL
ARTICLES ADAPTED FOR’
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
COMPRISING AN ELEGANT LINE OF
Autograph and Photograph Albums, Sc*ap Books, Work Boxec Celluloid Sets in Plu3l>
and Leather cases, very elaborate, at remarkable low figures; Cigar and Cigarette Cast s,
Portmanteaus. Ham! Bags and Satchels, Odor Cases, Writing Desks, Ink Stai ids. Card Cases’,
Artificial Flowers, in Majolica Pots. Handso-ue line of Fans, Solid Sterling Silver Jewelrv’
Opera Glasses. Silk Umbrellas with Solid Gold and Silver handles. Beautiful, line of Gentle’
men’s Scarfs, Silk Braces, Silk Socks, Kid Gloves, Silk Handkerchiefs.
Fine Selection of Christmas Cards
IN LATEST DESIGNS. And hundreds of other useful articles TOO NUMER OUS TO
MENTION.
Gents 9 Slippers.
GENTS’ E3IBROIDERED SLIPPERS and HOWARD TIES at ?1 00, $1 25, 41 ssrad Jl,
Gents’ Maroon Goat Opera Slippers, Patent Leather Trimmed, 41 50 and 42.
Men’s Genuine Alligator Skin Opera Slippers. In black and colors, 41 50 and 42.
3ien’s Patent Leather Slqipers, 41 30.
CLOAKS—ENORMOUS REDUCTION I
IN RICn, SHORT WRAPS, DOLMANS, NEWMARKETS, RUSSIAN CIRCULARS, Ere,
Those who have not purchased may consider themselves rather fortunate titan otherwise :c
having deferred buying, if they attach any importance to saviuz dollars, which ttlic ex
tremely low prices that will prevail in this department this week will accomplish for them.
SPECIAL.
Having just closed from one of the largest manufacturers another lot of 500 all woo!
CASHMERE SHORT WRAPs, richly trimmed with heavy Chenille fringe, in Navy, Myrtle,
Gray and Brown, at a tremendous loss to the latter, we have place® the same for sale on
Special Counter at the remarkable low price of FiVE DOLLARS—which hardly pays for
cost of fringe. These goods are warranted all cure wool, and have never been offered before
for less than 410 to 112. Good reason why every lady should secure one of them.
We will offer a manufacturer’s stock of Misses’ and Children’s Newmarkets and Have
locks at FIFTY CENTS on the dollar—at $1 50, 41 75, 42 00, 12 25, |2 50. up to 420.
We are offering special inducements in Trimmed and Untrimmed lIATS. Our prices ere
far be'ow all other houses.
JUST RECEIVED—£OO dozen blacs OSTRICH TIPS (three in a bunch), which we shall
offer while they last at 33c. a bunch—good value at 75c.
SILK VELVETS in Cardinal, Garnet, Brown, Navy, Myrtle. Bronze, Olive, Plum and
Black (all good shades), at 41 23 a yard—worth 42.
. DRESS TRIMMING DEPARTMENT.
WE DISPLAY the largest and best selection, and newest styles of latest importations in
Beaded Fronts, ranging in >rice from 41 33 to 410 apiece.
Beaded Laets 35c. to 45 a yard. Beaded Nets 45 to |7 a yard. Beaded and Chenille Orna
ments, Chenille and Beaoed Fringes in newest designs.
Passementaries from 25c. to 48 per yard.
Fur Trimmings in Black, Crown and Chinchilla—Hercules and Fancy Braids to match
all Dresses, Cloaks, Clasps, etc., and a thousand different styles of Buttons for your selection.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
It reldoin occurs that a fine Shoe —stvlish and made of the best material—will not bring
the manufacturer’s its first cost, but such is true of a Boot we shall sell you this week. La
dies, the Shoes that we offer you actually cost to make them $4 50. They are the finest French
Kid (hand-sewed), and are warranted to keep their shape and color, and could not be bought
under ordinary circumstances for less than fti.
OUR PRICE, 81 00.
$1 98 for our Fine Glove Top Curacoa Kid Foxed Button Boot and Shoe, Store price, $3.
$3 00 for our Fine Curacoa •* id Boot on Opera or common sense style, worth 14.
$3 50 for our hand-sewed Flexible Sole Boot. Would be cheap at $4 50.
We have a large number of lots—each small in themselves but large in the aggregate—
which we shall close much below cost.
Cash down on the spot tempts Manufacturers to sell goods far below cost. When we say
we can give you one and Bar on a shoe at four dollars—as good as can be purchased in regular
shoe stores in Savannah at five dollars—or, in other words, reduce vour shoe bill twenty-five
per cent., we hardly think it possible for yon to believe this statement until you see the goods
with your own eyes. But we know when you do see them, that what here appears extrava
gant are simply undeniable facts.
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