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MV FIRST t.' rr -
I itit first lovo in 3 w -Ik to-day,
"Of Mur-e eho's changed—has grown a grCSt
•leal nontcr.
i m anxious what my wife would say
\ K she bat knew I only thought about her.'
Vince I had seen her seven years had passed,
’and Mere I’ve lowed four times and once
have married;
• ate uii-'ortune I hare charged this last
A t o flirtation that I bad miscain^.;
• ar eyes met once, I almost think she blushed,
'She. no. is married, for she had three
habips;
I ot have spoken had the voungeet
hn-hed— '
A Hjuallicg infant drives me to the rabies.
I wonder if her heart has ever charged?
fl well remember when she said it couldn't.
• that from meshe be ameestranged — j
XU odd to have to marrv when you
wouldn’t.)
A r o, too, I wonder is the happy now
As I m matrimony couid have made her.
ff sht is not, upon my life I vow
The Kates have most confoundedly betrayed
her.)
I worshipped once her face. h-?r eye-, her hat.
fTher- never was a more angelic figure.
But see La- grown unbeautifully fat—
There’s no l>utch fishwife that’s a scruple
bigger.
Tctt fir.-t love’s shadow still is in my heart.
That heart of mine is a mysterious packet—
B t j that policeman's very suadtn start.
Anti mat the cause of that infernal racket',
I .bought it meet that I investigate
The row across the street, the basement uc
a- r.
lives down there, and with her dating
mate.
Was nly raising some domestic thunder.
Texas Siftings.
A FOE TO CHRISTIANS.
ii: -phic Details of a Terrible and
Powerful Mohammedan Society.
the following extracts from a letter of
tee London Standard’s special correspon
dent in the Soudan will give an idea of
the strength of the Mohammedan pawer
with which Great Britain is now coping.
The correspondent writes about this ter
ri. !o organization as follows:
•‘Thou shalt be in the hands of Sidi
Mohammed as a dead body in the hands
of a erp6e washer.” Such is the form of
initiation into the great Senoussi Secret
Society, which in point of numbers, power
and influence far surpasses the Society ;
of Jesus, even in the palmiest days of
that confraternity. In !**>*> Mohammed 1
Achmed, the Soudan Mahdi, was initiated
as a knonan, or brother preacher of the !
*id Ab-el-Kader-el-Djiiani fraternity,
which Inrms one of the principal anil '
most direct affiliations of the Senoussi
society. It is, in fact, at the instigation
of b>-Grar.d Master of the .senoussi that ;
Mnumured Achmed commenced his revolt
with tie- Kagarrm tribe in 1881.
The Grand Master of the Senoussi boasts 1
that he has. more or less, at his command
about 30,000,000 of Mohammedans—that
is, over a third of the total number of the '
faithful. The greater portion of these be- j
ing more or less subject to Christian pow
er, dream of nothing but of the universal j
empire promised by the Koran. The feeL I
mg of intense hatred against the Chris- :
tian is deeply engrafted in their hearts,!
and, whether latent or irruptive, the i
work wnich goes on is permanent. They j
h/c at any moment prepared to seize the
opportunity of a struggle with civilized
■atlons. Their sole aim is a holy war,
with n.other truce nor mercy, against the
unbelievers and against all those who
covenant with the infidel.
Tne headquarters of the society are at,
Berhboub. latitude 30, longitude 'ill' on
*n- short s of Lake Faregda. on the !
•g) pu*-Tripolitan trontier. Serhbotib, 1
rsamled in I*6l by Sheik Senoussi, res* m- !
Lies an immense fortified convent. Even .
tan years ago it had sixteen big guns,
purchased at Alexandria, and several
large factories where gunpowder was j
produced at ‘d small arms, obtained in .
Bgypt. remounted and repaired- In Feb
ruary last the number of big guns had j
increased to over a hundred, and there j
were, besides, twenty mitrailleuses of !
•rerritan manufacture. According to j
trustworthy information, two Italian and !
three Austrian vessels anchored during l
tbeTinriihs of June and July last in the
tf Tabroyk—which belongs to the
srder—laiten with arms, snot and shell,
which were immediately forwarded over
the 2<io kilometers separating the poit
Bona derhboub. Tuere are also at the latter j
place a splendid library, transported
thither from Mecca, the former head
quarters of the fraternity, stables contain- .
in£ ~v* 'r VWO >POa ni liC Ot reser- j
veira, p'auWt;6ns, CtC. According 16 i
Htd stinguished French author Duvey- :
rier the bodyguard of the master who re- i
idles there e insists of over 3,000
Algerians. Fortified convents and sta
tions, but on a less extensive scale, ex.st
near Sivtah, in the oasis of Jupiter Am- j
ißf.n, at the important o.isis ot Furafra, j
an., at u*K>ut twenty other places in
Bgypr, mostly in the various oases ol the ■
Lytiiun desert, while five or six hundred j
#ftm se . entres of action nre known to be !
•r. cxi t nee in Turkey, Tripoli, Tui,is. ;
Algeria, Morocco, the IJedjaz, India, j
Venice. Afghanistan, the Somali coast, |
and in fact wherever the Mohammedan i
religion has taken ro it, in Central Airica '
•specially, at 6ueh p'ac s as Tinibuctoo, j
ar.d in the kingdom of the Wadai.
The agents of the order at Alexandria j
nro will known. Moreover, it has its j
-ep.es-nlntives at Constantinople and in j
Y.-am-c. To give ore solitary instance of j
the aet.vitv of these ag. nis, I may state '
that during the Commune one of the
v £ tuv i sta f toued at Paris managed to
purloin from the Mirisuy ot Foreign
Affairs, in the Quai d’Orsay, a document
oi a compromising nature, stamped with j
the seal of the chiefs of the Touareg of ;
U’dnmcs trite. who rank among the mo>t ]
fervent adherents of the order. Only the
otter day the well-known Arab news
paper. the Xuiret, published a letter i
tr'.tn u native doctor, in wnich the latter
relates that the Mahdi asked him '
-whether it was true that Sultan
Wißiam, of Prussia, had sent his Grand
Vizier, Bismarck, to London to tell
the English Ministers that Germany.
Austria and Russia would not tolerate
an English occupation of Egypt,” and
tiiat be bad atterwards sbor.n him letters
Loin agents in Cairo, Alexandria, and
Europe. The administration of the affairs
of the order is confided to four “W nzeers”
or Ministers, residing at Serhboub, and
acting under the immediate direction of
the Grand Master, who is supreme. The
members of the order, whose names are
carefully registered, owe absolute aud
unquestioning obedience to the Mokka
riem, i. e., the rector of the community or
of the convent of the district. The Mok
kadem is,in his turn, subject to the Agha,
or IX an, w hose immediate superior is the
Vakil, or apostolic prefect of tho pro
vince. Everv member of the order be
comes, ipso facto, a. kind of missionary,
who only awaits a sign from bis chief to
become a preacher, a soldier, a brigand,
or even an assassin. For,
just as in the case of the
Jesuits, so It is with tho Stiioussi—!c but
ju stifle les moyenc— ind they have recourse
even to the most outrageous means to at.
tain the object they keep in view, the
'Grand M ister, who styles himself, among
other things, the -Khalifa,” or lieutenant
of God, corresponds with bis subordinates
by means of relays of special messengers,
who in very confidential cases convey ver
bal messages only. To such a perfection
arc the means of communication carried
among the Arabs that the Bedouins of the
pvranii.is of Gist li announced the massa
cre of Col. Su wart's party at Merawl
twenty-f nr hours before the otli dal news
of it reached Cairo. In the same way
the bombardment of Berber, the surrender
of Tokar and the massacre at binkat were
known here In the bazars long before
the official news of it was received. The
order was founded only forty-six years
ago, by an Algerian of the tribe ot Med
iafcer. named Mohammed Ben Ali-os-Si n
oussi. At an early ace he adopted the
philosophical tenets of the Uhadholistic
school, which has much of the Wahbi
doctrines about it. On the death at Mee
•a of bhelk Ahmed Ben Edris, who was
the chief of the school in question, Sen
oussl, who nad been his favorite disciple,
was appointed to succeed him. and soon
evolved, partly out of the Koran and
partly from bis meditations, a purified
kind of Chadhelism, which he caused to
be adopted by the members of the sect as
being the true and reformed Islamism,
•leansed from ail the superstitions and
unorihodox practices which twelve ce_n
•enturies of theologians hadgralted on if.
The uoctriue ot this most intolerant of
all reformed creeds is pretty much as fol
lows: In the irst place, the glorification
ot God, who alone is to be worshipped.
Living saints way be venerated, but this
veneration must cease immediately they
die, and no pilgrimages to their tombs
nor invocations of their names in prayer
are permitted. The prophet Mohammed
is no exception to the tule, although ad
t mined to have been the most perfect of
human kind. Unquestioning obedience
is strict*' enjoined, and even the sultan
and all other chiefs of Mohammedan
State® is list *(ntorm tc the precepts of
Is'am.em as interpreted by the order, at
the risk of hostility against them being
declared as justified. All embroideries,
gold or silver ornaments, or jewelry are
strictly forbidden in the case of men, but
*re permitted to women. Tobacco and
Coffee are likewise severely prohibited.
Tea is al!dr?d- but it must’ be sweeten
ed with brown su£?.r ? n “ f! with
white, for the latter is drfiled by the
| bones of animals, killed by unbelievers.
. which are used to refine it. Members of
: the order are forbidden to spear, salute,
; trade with, or serve either Jews or Chris
* tians, and according to the precepts con
i lained in a 6ermon” preached in March.
1881, by HadJ Ahmed Ben Bel-Kas*n. Mok
kadec> of tbe t*wn of Rbat, any Jew or
Christian who :s no longer a rayah—that
! is to say. who is no longer subject to a
Mohammedan government—becomes an
adversary whom it is lawful, nay, whom
it is necessary, to rob and kill at all times
and in all places. The members of the
order who possesses a capital of over £5
pay annually per cent, thereon into
tne tresi-i ry, which receives in addition
vast <’ natio s of cattle, lands, slaves,
ani money. B;h the Turkish, Egyp
tiin, and fu.d-sian governments have
been most liberal in granting it subsidies,
lanti6. slid fiscal immunities.
Sidi Mohammed Ben Ali-cs-Senoussi,
who, during the last years of his life,
usfd always to hide his face with a veil,
lest the brilliancy of his aspect stould
uazzle his disciples, died a few years ago
in the odor of sanctity. Before his
j death he solemnly proclaimed his son not
only as his successor as chief of the order,
but also as the Messiah or Mahdi. Ac
cording to Koranic tradition, the true
Mahdi was to make his appearance in
the 1300th year of *he hegira— i. e., A. D.
1883—at which date be was to have at
tained his majority. Ills father's name
was to be Mohammed, his mother's Fati
ma. The present Grand Master of the
Senoussi fulfills ail these requirements,
and is known throughout the Mussulman
world bv the name of Stdi Mohammed el !
Mahdi. It may be urged that since Se- |
noussi claims to be the true Mahdi, there |
i can be no co-operation on his part with •
the Soudanese Mahdi, Mohammed
Achmed. This is a mistake. The Koran
distinctly stages that several Mahdis will
arise simultaneously with the chief one,
but that they will all in the end submit
to the latter. It is probably with a view
of verifying this prophecy that the So- I
noussi has called forth false Mahdis in i
the Yemen and Uedjaz, in Syria, as well :
as in the Soudan.
If native accounts—the only ones we
have at our disposal—are to be relied
upon, it would appear that Mohamet
Achmed no longer claims to be the Mahdi,
but rather the'principal forerunner, the
St. John the Baptist, of the latter. It
must not be forgotten that Mohammed
Achmed belongs to the Sidi Ab-el-Kader-el-
Djiiani fraternity, which, as stated above,
is one of the most direct affiliations of the
Senoussi, and hence entirely subject and
obedient to the Senoussi el Mahdi. There
is no doubt but that the greater part of the
clertry here at Cairo, aud especially at the
El Azar University, which is tbo great
centre of orthodox Islamism, either be
long to the Senoussi or to one of the nu
merous affiliations of the order, such as
the Sidi All Asadheli (which is tbe prin
cipal school of Mohammedan philosophy),
the Sidi Mohammed Ben Aisa, the Sidi
Abd-e!-Rahman Bod Xoberin, the Sidi-el-
Madani. the Derkawa, etc.
One thing at least is certain, that all
who belong to the creed ot Mohammed
are more or less sunjt-ct to the influence
of Senoussi, who teaches that no engage
ment, no oath, however sacred, can be
considered as binding when contracted
with a Christian.
A SMART REPORTER.
How He Learned the Secrets of a Legin
lal ure Caucus.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in a
sketch of Joseph J. Eakinp. a young re
porter who has been made clerk by the
new 51 ayor, relates 6ome illustrations of
Eakins’ journalistic enterprise while be
was serving at Frankfort as capital cor
respondent of the Louisville Commercial:
He was only 19 years old then, but he
attracted the attention of Col. Kelley.
When the session of the Legislature began
in October the Colonel resolved to send
him to Frankfort as that paper’s corres
pondent. He instructed hiui to go there
at once and make a red-hot partisan j
fight for tbe “the only Republican daily”
in Kentucky. There was never a better
show for an active reporter. Col. Kelley
told Joe that previous correspondents hail
always been afraid to attack the State
government, and that he wanted him to
niafcA' Bb such mistako, Joe was a D.-mo
erat. as all his people were before him,
but he knew what his duty to a Republi
can paper was, and he promised to carry
out the Colonel’s instructions. It he
made any mistake in hia vigorous fight,
he did so’ becaus- he was obeying orders.
He went to Frankfort with the determi
nation to unearth sensations, and he sue- ,
ceedfd. Many were the devices to whieh
he nad to resort to obtain the news in
spite of the hostility of the members.
One of the cleverest and most amusing
was the way in whieh he obtained tbe
proceedings of the Democratic caucus.
For the purpose of excluding him, it was
resolved to admit no newspaper rnen. A
reporter is not easily daunted, however, |
and Eakins considered that all things
were fair in the enemy’s camp. The first I
evening thereafter he went into the upper ■
gallery of the House and hid under a row ]
of back seats. When the caucus was
assembled, however, a search was order
ed. and Joe’s feet were discovered stick
ing out from under the bench by a Ser
geant-at-arms. The official, with a laugh,
ordered him to come out, and when he
emerged, covered with dust and humilia
tion, he w-as greeted with an enthusiastic
chorus ot derisive yells. He walked out,
hut he did not give up the light. A pipe
from the stove in the House passed back
into the cloak-room. Securing a step
ladder he mounted aud, placing his ear to
1 the pipe, heard every word that was
uttered. The voices ol the members
1 were perfectly familiar to him by this
rime, and bis dispatch was unusually lull
and complete. There was great wonder
the next day. ar.d this was intensified
when that evening’s caucus proceedings
were also reported in detail. It was at
first thought that ho was in the confidence
of some member, but the next day the
secret leaked out. The door in the cloak
room was locked and tbe step-ladder
removed. Still, this did no good. Eakins
found means to be introduced into the
House early the next afternoon, and se
creting himself behind a book-case, where,
at the cost ot some personal discomfort,
he remained during the caucus session.
He was able to do so only that time, as
the person by whose connivance he had
effected it was afraid to longer assist him.
Another resource was discovered, and for
two more nights the faithful reports of
the proceedings were kept up. The third
evening, after the roll had been called,
the Hon. Laban T. Moore arose and 6tated
that the secretary had omitted the name
of one who had always taken a deep in
terest in their delilverutions. He desired
to suggest the secretary call the name of
Joseph Eakins, member from he .State-at
large. IDs words were greeted with
cheers and when the secretary called out
the name a voice sawt “Here” front one of
the windows. Looking out they found
the indefatigable correspondent seated on
the limb ot a huge tree which crew at a
distance of forty or fifty feet from the
win-low. He had climbed the tree and
crawled out on a buge branch, whose
extremity almost touched the shutters.
It was not a comfortable position up
there, but the reporter had a piece of soit
paper and was writing up the proceed
ings as they went on. As fast as a sheet
was finished he dropped it to the ground,
when it was picked up by a messenger
and taken to the- telegraph office. The
spirit ol opposition bael not quite died out
the next evening, and a guard was placed
over the tree. The day following, how
ever, it was resolved to hold the session
with open doors, and when Eakins came
in a little after 8 o’clock he was greeted
with a perfect ovation of shouts, yells,
and cheers. His plucky tight had won
the hearts of all present, and he had
much smoother sailing the remainder of
the term.
A Valuable Hint.
Tea is Siftings.
“What arc you buying now?” asked
Ned Stevenson ol Andrew Powell, on
meeting the latter in Bell’s jewelry store.
“I am looking lor 6ome present to give
my wife on her birthday. I tell you.
making presents cost heap of money.”
“Why don’t you do as Ido? I have
never failed to make my wife a present on
her birthday every year lor twenty-five
years, and 1 am not out a cent thus far.”
“U-iw do you manage it?” . •
“It is very simple. After we Were mar
ried, when her birthday came around I
gave her a twenty dollar gold piece.
When my birthday came around she gave
me the twenty dollor piece back, and wo
have kept that up ever since, and neither
of us are out a cent.”
“Brown’s Bronchial Troches”
are excellent tor the relief of Hoarseness
or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly
effective.—Christian World, London, Eng.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1885 -
A ROYAL FATHER TIRED OF IT.
The Prince of Wale* Glad that his Son
Albert Can Assist Hina—Albert's Lit
tle Joke.
On his return from kl* visit to
ment House, which was so recently Guy
Fawkesed, and where journeymen car
penters are now working day and night
with saw and hammer to make anew
House ot Commons.says an alleged London
telephone to the New York Journal, the
Prince of Wales espied a can of milk in
his basement and was taken with a sud
den faintness. A bdok agent who hap
pened to be nnging the front doorbell,
and the cabman who had brought the
Prince carried him up the front steps of
his handsome brown6tone palace, which
is in the most fashionable part of Maryle
bone. The book agent tripped down the
front steps to get the Prince’s coronet,
which had fallen on the sidewalk and
then rolled into the gutter, and which an
Italian rag-picker from Seven Dials was
now putting into his bag. The book agent
wrested it from the rag-picker ar.d threat
ened him with a State trial for treason.
The coronet was pnt back on the
Prince’s head and the book agent left him
and a sample copy of the ’’Life of P. T.
Barnum.”
A few moments later young Prince Al
best, who is just turned 21. arrived
flushed with pi ide from the opening of the
new Whittington Club in Whitechapel.
He had behaved very handsomely and was
much elated. The old Prince" and the
young Princeling 6hook hands warmly.
‘■Did you make that $5 speech I bought
you in Fleet street?” asked Wales of his
son when the first transport of their
meeting was over.
! ”I did,” said young Prince Albert with
i pride, “and it was a big success. Three
j or four lines of it slipped out of my mem-
I ory, but I threw in a poem which’l once
I learned at school as a quotation and got
j along all right.”
“Well, Albert, I'm glad to hear it,” re
plied Wales. “I’ve been selling pin
cushions at charity fairs and laying the
corner-stones of foundling asylums tor 30
years, and I am glad that you may now
enjoy it for a while. I have walked with
the blind and talked with the deaf,
and flattered the feeble-minded and bowed
to beadles, and dined with provincial
Mayors till lam heartily tired of it. The
greatest pleasures clog after a time, and
perhaps some day you will turn with
longing from the brilliant gayety and ex
citement of this kind of a life. Y’ou will
some day be weary of being dressed up
iike a cavalier in Sanger & Wambell’s
menagerie to lay the corner-stone of anew
Masonic Temple in Seedville, Somerset
shire; you will grow tired of laying the
first brick in the new pier at Herringville,
which has a fleet of thfee boats anu four
teen inhabitants, who move away in the
winter. Y’ou will become fatigued with
eternally committing flashes of wit, in
spirations, bright repartee, spontaneous
thoughts and extemporaneous speeches to
use aipuDlic dinners, which you will
have to attend from eight to nine times a
week. Y'ou will soon regard three public
dinners in twenty-four hours as a small
day’s '\ork. When first I was Prince I
tried to Lave my brother Albert take
these public duties off my hands, but he
said it was too big an assignment and the
public wouldn’t have anybody but me.
Then 1 tri> and 10 divide up the work, to
have one Prince take the blind asylums,
another the charity fairs, a third the hos
pitals and foundling homes, a fourth the
public dinners and parades, but they all
said that they would run away from
home and go to sea, or do something else
that would have broken your grand
mother’s heart; so for 30 years l have been
a peripatetic advertisement for everybody
and everything.”
“Very good, lather,”said young Prince
Albert; “we will divide the cares ot State.
1 snail go to the . üblic dinners and you go
to the dynamite explosions.”
AN OLD WOMAN’S REMEDY.
Gen. Cltngman's Tobacco Cure and
Beverly Tucker’s Cancer Remedy.
A pamphlet by Gen. T. L. Clingman, of
North Carolina, says the New Y’ork Tri
bune, has just been issued in which re
markable cures are set down as the re
sult of applications of tobacco leaf.
About every disease under the sun is said
to have yielded to its charm. Chatting
with a Southerner yesterday he said;
“Tobacco has been classed among the
old woman’s remedies ever since I can
remember. Why, trom boyhood I can re
member its simple applications in various
forms. When 1 got stung by a bee, my
father, who was an inveterate chewer.
would take a cud from his mouth and
bind it on tne wound. Tnat was tne end
of tne pain, if my eyes got sore they
were bound up at night in the same poul
tice, and when I got a black eye in alight
one day, I got the tobacco as well as a
licking when I got home.”
Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, said
yesterday on the same topic:
“It is remarkable what tobacco will do,
when applied as Gen. Clingman directs.
Why, it will even take out a corn. Mills,
ot Texas, and John Hancock both tried
it a short time ago for corns, and after
two eights’ applications they were able
to pick the corns out with their fingers.
Bunions, too, those eternal afflictions, are
retnov and by it. Gen. Ciingman is re
markably well posted on its merits, and
oi* litt e pamphlet will prove a valuable
tiling to the public.”
The talk, turning on Gen. Grant’s re
cent malady, Mr. Tucker said:
“Now, if* it was cancer and external,
we have a dead sure cure for it in Vir
gin ia—redwood bark. They pound it fine
and make a paste of it, which is applied
like a poultice. It beats anything ever
heard of. In fact, it’s like tne story Ned
Burns used to tell of a fellow who was
about to be tried tor a criminal offense at
Richmond. He sat in the back part of
the room, under bail. He had hired a
6crub of a lawyer to keep hita posted as
to what was going on. Presently the
prosecuting attorney got up and moved a
nolle prosequi. The lawyer went back to
nis client and save: ‘He’s moved a nolle
prosequi.’ ‘What’s that?’ asked the ac
cused man. ‘I can’t explain fully,’ said
the lawyer, 'but it just scrapes hell.’
And with that the fellow jumped the
court room, straddled a horse and fled
the town. When he got to Philadelphia
he paid another lawyer $o to tell him
what a node prosequi was. Well, red
wood bark lor cancer and tobacco as a
general remedy are like that nolle
prosequi V
EGGS FORTY YEARS OLD.
How the Value of the Luxury Increases
with Age.
We had beche-de-mer soup, alias sea
slugs, which does not sound nice, says the
Cornhill Magazine, but. which really is
like calf’s head. Then there were sweet
soups and small stews and ragouts of
every conceivable meat except beef,
whieh is never seen at a Chinese table,
oxen being accounted too valuable to tbe
farmer to be consigned to the butcher.
As to cat, rat, aud dog, those curious in
such matters may procure them at res
taurants in the city; but I understand
that they do not grace the festivals of
Chinese gentry. What with turtle soup,
soup of ducks’ tongues, macaroni, fatry
rice, skins of pig’s month, dragon
whisker, vegetables, etc., we found an
ample succession of gastronomical inter
est. No bread is eaten, but all manner of
delicate little preserved fruits and pickles
ar“ brought to each guest on tiny silver
plates to play with between the courses.
One of the greatest delicacies provided
for us were ducks’ eggs, hard boiled,.
quite black, and of incalculable age,
antediluvian perhaps, as nothing is con
sidered respectably old in China unless it.
dates back some thousand years. But,
joking apart, it appears that the value of
these black eggs really increases with
their age. The Chinese epicure discri
minates between the eggs ot successive
decades, treating his most honored guest
to the oldest and most costly, just as the
owner of a good cellar in Britain brings
forth his choicest old wines. The charm
of a lightly-boiled fresh egg is quite un
known to tbe Celestial palate, which only
recognizes eggs when hard boiled, and
much prefers them in an advanced age.
For ordinary use, and especially as a light
diet for invalids, esrgs are simply pre
served bv being steeped in salt water
mfeted w'ith either soot or red clay, in
which they are baked when required. But
the truely* refined process is to prepare a
solution of wood ashee, lime and salt,
mixed with water in which some aromat
plant has been boiled. This paste is
run into a tub, and the newly-laid eggs
are therein imbedded in layers. The tuo
is hermetically sealed, and at the ‘end ot
forty days the eggs are considered fit for
use. but at the end of forty yeara they
will be still better. They become black
throughout, owing, I suppose, to tbe ac
tion ot the lime; but the white becomes
gelatinous, and the whole tastes rather
like a plover’s egg.
HOT BOURBON FOR EGYPT’S
HERO.
Gen. Stewart’* Former FondnesJ f o r
American Drink*.
Oca. Stewart, who is now a figure
throughout Christendom for his marked
pluck and determination in fighting the
Arabs, sajs the New York Morning Jour
nal, was well known in this country just
betore the war. He made a tour of the
country and went on a hunting expedi
tion to what was then known as the far
West. After that he rejoined his regi
ment. the Sixtieth Rifles, in wnich he was
a Captain, at Quebec, Canada, and was
in garrison there for two or three years.
He and R. E. J. Miles, the present
manager ot the Bijou Opera House, were
great friends. Capt. Stewart had taken
quite a fancy to America and liked the
Americans. Miles at that time ran a
ho'el in Quebec called the American, and
Capt Stewart used to drop in every even
ing and remain very often until 3or 4
o’clock the next morning.
‘•He was one of the j*>lliest Englishmen
I ever knew.” said Mr. Miles yesterday
| to a reporter. “lie was a fine, handsome
young fellow, and evidently full of life
and dash. 1 remember well that he used
to come to the cafe of the hotel and call
for hot Bourbon puuch. He had taken a
great lancy to Ameri an whisky and
dropped hot Seotcn, which was then the
favorite drink, liis example set all the
officers of the garrison drinking hot Bour
• bon, and, curiously enough, the American
House became their only resort.
Capt. Stewart, who w as a good deal of
ahorse lover, soon found out my knowl
edge of that animal, and together we or
ganized the first regular course of races
that ever was run in (Quebec. He was a
very good rider and won some of the
prizes. The example of the officers got
the men coming down to the hotel to get
their drinks, and 1 was rather afraid this
might drive away the officers, but Capt.
Stewart told me that he would soon set
tle that, and one night, as the soldiers
dropped in one by one, he stood at the end
of the bar and looked at them in such a
way that they got uncomtortable and left.
‘•From that time lorlh I was not
troubled with the men; go<d enough peo
ple, no doubt,but rather apt toge t noisy and
sometimes uproarious. 1 remember, too,
well the particular room in the hotel they
used to go to, sometimes sitting around
and telling stories and drinking hot Bour
bon until the dawn appeared.
“But this business was rather curious
ly broken up when the Mason and Slidell
affair happened, in which it looked at one
time as if the North would have ta* go to
war with England, as well as the South.
I noticed that my army custom began
gradually to drop off'. Oue by one the
crowd dispersed, tut Capt. Stewart and
one other were the last to go. One night
he explained to me that the regiment
thought, under the bitter feeling that had
grown up at the constant insults that
were being passed to and lro, that it was
not st wise thing for them to patronize al
most exclusively an American house.
“I told him I perfectly appreciated the
position. We shook bands over it and
took a last hot Bourbon. I only saw him
a few times after, as I was compelled to
leave Quebec because 1 had interests in
the circus business, and 1 never met
Stewart since. After the officers left off
coming, they, one bv one, sent down tor
the bills they owed, and their accounts
were paid to the last dollar. They were a
fine, jovial set of people, and Stewart
was the best among them."
THE FIRST STEAMBOAT.
The Amazement Which the First Boat
on the Teonegxee Created.
Mr. Josh H. Nichols in the Chattanooga
Times contributes a very interesting
article on tbe first steamboat that ever
passed up the Tennessee above Decatur,
Ala. He obtained his tacts from Wm.C.
Hollis, of Giles county, Tenn., and relates
them as follows:
“The first steamboat that ever passed
up the Tennessee river above Decatur,
Ala., was in the year 1828 or 1829. Seve
ral other gentlemen, and myself, were on
the river some distance above Decatur,
fishing. The night was dark and we had
just run our lines, and returned to our
little tire on the bank. All was quiet,
when boom went a big gun away down
the river. Our whole party started to our
feet with wonder and excitement. ‘Did
you hear that?’ ‘What does that mean ?’
and various other questions, remarks and
suiri/estions were made, and nothing was
thought of for some time except.tbat big
gun and what it cou and mean. After some
time we became more quiet, when sud
denly the air was rent with another boom,
evidently much nearer. At triis the whole
party became intensely anxious concern
ing the matter and some of us could
scarcely be persuaded to remain longer.
Very soon we saw a iisrht down the river.
We looked with amazement, and as it
approached we heard a strange sound—
‘pshu, p&hu.’ We moved back from the
river some distance, where we thought it
safe to stay and see w hat the great mon
ster was. All on tiptoe we stood, looking
in breathless silence until tbe boat got
opposite us, and boom went the biggest
gun we ever heard. This proved too
much for an old gentleman ot the uarty,
and thinking it time to take care of num
ber one, he started at a lively gait tor the
nearest house. Very soon he was going
at break neck speed. He went by the
nearest route, ignoring all roads, plunging
into a lagoon ot considerable width, some
times in deep mud, then in water to
waist. Nevertheless be made his way to
the house on quick time. Next morning
circulars were found mi the bank at a
terry landing, inviting tbecitizens to meet
the boat the next day at a little town a
Short distance up the river and take a
•free ride,’ but the old gentleman who
made his escape by flight the night be
fore could not be induced to go to town
that dav.”
Mr. Hollis said he was sixteen or sev
enteen years old at that time, aud though
he went to town intending to enjoy th“
“tree ride,” his courage failed and he did
not go in Hit/ yards of the boat. Many
people went to town, but only a few had l
the courage to get aboard the boat. Those
who did enjoy tne ride thought it a long
one—they went five miles up the river
and back. The south side of the river
was then inhabited by the Indians, and
so terrible was their tright that they re
moved their tents from near the river to
the mountains. Everj body talked of the
great Doat and the big gun, and wonder
ed what would come of this running a
steamboat up the Tennessee river.
He 4Va* not to be Imposed Upon.
“A Colorado Cowboy" in Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
“Steer his name was,” said Tex, “Jim
Steer, ’n’ he wouldn’t never be imposed
on by anybody. Nobody mopped the floor
with him, now, you bet. He started once
to drive a bunch up from San Antoine to
New Mexico, follerin’ the Colorado river
up t’ where’t rises, crossin’ the staked
plains ’n’ the Pecos ’n’ follerin’ along
that. There was 3,500 head in the bunch,
’n’ he’d got 11 men—an arnery crowd of
Guasces’n’ niggers. Well, it all went
well ’nough till the second day on the
plains. The bunch had stopped feedin’
’n was uneasv ’n’ hard to hold, ’n’ the
men was put on short allowance of water
’n’ was nearly crazy for sleep, ’n’ them
Guasces began to jaw ’n’ cus, ’n’ bime
bv they struck. They could ride back to
water in 10 or 12 hours without ho cattle
to drive, ’’ they concluded to quit; ’n’
the wust of’t was then the niggers be an
to talk of going back too. But Steer was
keepin’ cases on ’em all the while, ’n’ he
wa’n’t the teller to get left, now I
tell yer. Them cattle was
wuth $35,000— every pioayuue Steer
bai got in tne world—’n’ he knew if they
onst, trot turned loose the d — himself
couldn’t get ’em together again. He
wasn’t takin’ tkattrip for his health, now
yer bet yer life. He just waited till them
seven Mexicans was at dinner together,
’n’ then he waltzes up ’n’ pulls a pair of
six-shooters on ’em. ‘Hold up yer hands,
htmbres!’ says he, ’n’ seein’ he hed
the drop on ’em, that’s what they
done. Then ho collared the nigger
cook’s gun ’n’ made him take the
shootin’ irons ofl'n the rest, ’n’ then,
afore them Guasces had caught on to his
racket, he’d blown the whole bunch to
kingdom come, one after the other. Then
he rode out to the three men on herd, ’n’
scooped in their irons; ’n’ then they went
on, the five of ’em — four niggers ’n’ Steer
—driving the bunch. The cattle went
easy, goin’ toward water, ’n’ a peaceabler,
contenteder lot of niggers a man would
never want to see. They’d found out
that Steer wa’nt a man to be imposed on.”
Reminiscences or a yiemorable Event.
The pleasure seekers who are flocking
to New Orleans to the great Exposition
make it a point to invest in the world
renowned Louisiana State Lottery, and
examine the integrity and correctness of
the distribution under Gens. G. T. Beau
regard, of Louisiana, and Jubal A. Early,
of Virginia. The next (the 177th) Grand
Monthly Drawing will occur at noon,
Feb. 10, of which M. A. Dauphin, New
Orleans, La., will give any information.
HOW THE FAMILY MANAGED.
An Investment Which Wag a Mere Mat
ter-o’-MoDejr,
Well, how many of the people in this
metropolis, says a New York letter, are
worthy only so far as a mere veneer makes
then! seem so? Here is a very interesting
true story, and I am sorry to be obliged to
omit the names. There lived in a Brook
lyn boarding-house a gentleman, his wife
and their pretty daughter. He was a
salesman in a Broadway dry goods house,
and his salary was $3,000 a year. He had
saved $lO,OOO in the course of thirty years
of hard work. Last summer the wife and
the daughter went to Bridgehampton,
LoDg Island, for a little recreation, and
there met a young man from Chicago, who
instantly fell completely in love with the
young woman. He seemed to have money,
and the father was sent for to come down
| and look him over. Tue man of busines
ascertained in half an hour that the
youngster was the son of a rich merchant
j who was rated among the millions bv the
I commercial agenciesT Indeed, the’Chi- j
; cago merchant and his wife were at that 1
moment in Bridgehampton. The Brook-
I lyn man formulated a scheme and hur- .
I ried to Brooklyn to put it into execution. |
In that city ot churches there are to let 1
fully appointed mansions, in which are
i not only furniture but bedding, table
i ware, silver service, china, lace curtains. \
; piano and library. Tbe best of them come <
i high, to be sure, but they are exceedingly ,
! sumptuous, and to live in them is to en
joy life as though you owned them. Our
Broadway salesman ats3,ooo a year hired
' one of these elegantly furnished houses
lor six months, paid two months’ rent in
advance, moved in and sent word to his :
wife and daughter to invite the Chicago j
folks home with them. The Chicago folks |
accepted and came along. They found j
their newly-made Brooklyn acquaint
ances living in one of Brooklyn's finest I
dwellings. The practiced eye of the Chi- j
cago merchant saw that it "must require j
an income ol at least $15,000 a year to
even live in such a house—more j
likely it would require double
that sum. The Brooklyn man
evidently was very rich, and his daughter
was doubtless well worthy to be the wife
of his son. They had a very pleasant visit.
The boy pressed his suit. He was asked
to come again in a few weeks and ge f his
answer. He did so, and was accepted.
The girl could not then be married too
soon, and December was named. Accord
ingly just before the holidays there was a
grand wedding in the mansion. There
was a big handful of Chicago guests who
congratulated the young man lrom Chi
cago on his good luck in getting so pretty
a bride, and one apparently with such
well-to-do parents. It was a very success
ful wedding, and the bride is very happy,
presumedly, in her Chicago home; but the
Brooklyn man’s lease of the mansion ran
out on Jan. 15, and he is now back in the
boarding house, and still selling goods in
the Broadway bouse at $3,000 a year.
Almost all of " the $lO,OOO he had saved is
gone too. But he has married his daughter
to the son of a millionaire, and she has
promised to take care of him.
PETTICOATS WORN BY MEN.
A Ilemarkable Fact that Appears to
Have Been Forgotten.
It is a remarkable fact that
the petticoat was first worn by men,
and that even in this age and generation
| men are loth to discard its flowing dra
: pery. I like to record this fact. Natur
ally women take a sort of savage satis
faction in discussing a weakness in the
other sex, especially in the matter of
dress. Please don’t 6tare me out of
countenance at the supposed presumption
of my assertion that men have, or appear
to have, a sort ot envious feeling toward
us for having stolen from them this pre
rogative, and that they clutch at every
means in their power to wrest it from or
at least share it with us, for I’ll prove it
betore I’ll get through. And we do not
wonder this is so. There is dignity in
drapery, as well as grace and elegance.
When Henry VIII. went to meet Ann of
Cleves be was habited, we read, “in a
a coat of velvet somewhat ma le like a
trocke, embroidered ali over with flatted
gold ot damaske, with small lace mixed
between, of the same gold, end other
laces of the same going traversewise,
that the ground little appeared;” and in a
description of a similar garment belong
ing to his lather, Henry Vli., we read of
its being decorated wirh boas ot
quite as a belle of the present day would
adorn a ball-room dreßs. It is well known
that the garment was at first not alone a
skirt, bur, as the name denotes, a little
coat. How it came to lose iis upper half
or body we do not know, unless the “pet
ticoat”’ was made w ith long skirts for the
sake of warmth, and in each case it was
as much a petticoat, as w'e understand it,
as anything else. We have only to look
at shakspearean characters; nay, let us
be thorough and go back to the time of
patriarchs to discover the skirts of men.
And easily enough we trace them down
tn rough the ages.
in the inventory of the effects of nenrv
V. appears a “petticoat ot red damask
with open sleeves,” and although it was a
question whether this had been fashioned
fra man or woman, it would, if a wo
man’s, be the only instance known before
Elizabeth’s time of a woman using such
a gamiest. Thus we hear nothing of wo
men’s petticoats before the Tudor period.*
“Good Queen Bess,” with all her learn
ing, which was essentially masculine In
her age and time, had the true instincts of
womanliness m her as regards personal
adornment, and even though we find her
deficient in taste, and heartily wish she
might not have made such a guy of her
self in her old age, yet as a woman we
have her to thank lor stockings and petti
coats and many other luxuries which
have become necessities, and which we
now appropriate with as true a belief in
our inalienable right to their sole posses
sion as though the legacy had fallen tous
from Mother Eve instead of ilaiden Eliza
beth.
AN ARCTIC HERO’S PLEDGE.
To Write a Name Across the Face of tbe
Polar Continent.
It has been known for some time, says
the Philadelphia Record, that one ol the
heroes of the ill-fated Jeanette Arctic
expedition, Chief Engineer Ylelville, de
sires to make another attempt to find the
North Pole, and he now appeals to the
American public for someone to con
tribute the funds for another Polar expe
dition, to go out under his leadership. He
says that $130,000 will oover all the ex
penses for a four years’ ettort to solve the
mystery of the Polar seas. Engineer Mel
ville, in urging his plan upon public at
tention, says that there will be no danger
of such calamities as have befallen other
enterprises of the kind in an expedition
by the route he proposes, viz: by the way
of Franz Josef Land. He thus explains
the proposed plan: “The personnel of tbe
expedition will consist ol 5 officers and 35
men, equipped for four years. The work
iu all probability can be completed in two
or three years, but the surplus supplies
are intended for contingencies.”
A snip is to take .. party as far as Cape
Nassau, at the northern point of Nova
Zembla, where a depot of supplies will be
established. The advance pai tv will go
by ship as far north on the west side ol
Franz Josef Land as they can, and there
land sledges, boats, a house and equip
ments for a four years’ stay. The journey
to the Pole will then be undertaken by a
series of overland advances.
Mr. Me'ville says: “Above latitude 85
degrees I have every reason to expect the
existence of a paleocrystic sea of ice,
over whose surface—smooth because of its
fixitv—travel tfill be easy and free com
pared with the difficulties encountered in
more southern latitudes, where the ocean
currents and storme, constantly agitating
the ice, cast into such a chaotic condition
that it is impossible to march upon it
without cutting roads. From well
grounded theories whieh have been thor
oughly digested I confidently predict land,
smooth ice, and water extending all the
way to the Pole.”
As an incentive to some wealthy nation
to fit out and pay the expenses ot the ex
pedition the confident and intrepid ex
plorer who thus proposes to make a fourth
visit to the locked seas of the North says:
“The mere millionaire must abandon both
name and wealth at the final call of na
ture; but not so theman distinguished as
an artist, scientist, physicist, discoverer
or benefactor of mankind, and it is such
au undying name that I propose to make
for the patron of my expedition by writ
ing it in full across the tace of the Polar
continent.”
Anew building material—a mixture of
cork, silica and lime—is coming into ex
tensive use in Germany. It has the ad
vantage of keeping out heat and cold, and
is also claimed to be an excellent pre
ventive of damp and deadener of sound.
It is substantial, light and durable, and
seems to be especially adapted for ceilings
and wall linings.
A RAILWAY V OSI>EK *
“"V, 'h Moving
How Signal Men May ViHv
Trains in a MirroF- "vniad.
An apparatus has just beew hTY"'
says the Paris Morning Seicg, Wa.K *®
simply astounding, for with it the lnrs 1
er need no longer fear any accident#.
Safety will be assured on railroads. This
apparatus permits the employe charged
with the duty to see in a mirrOT the en
tire section of the road he is to control,
with all the trains in motion, and he
knows at every Instant just exactly
where each train is. When one of them
approaches another at a distance which is
dangerous he can immediately signal jhe
menaced train.
The apparatus consists of a sheet tf
opaque glass, on whieh the rails are indi■-
cated by horizontal lines and the stations
by vertical ones numbered. Little ar
rows, representing the trains, move along
the horizontal lines. They are put in mo
tion by aid of electricity developed by the
contact of metallic trusties attached to
the locomotives w.H : zinc oar.cis placed
along the rails. The train thus continual
ly traces its traj.etory cn the grass indi
cator.
The apparatus was exhibited some days
ago m Germany to a commission of Ber
lin scientists.
A DUDE DECOY.
Unvr He Flays His Fellow-Dudes for
the Benefit of His Begger Pal.
Philadelphia Stvst.
“Do you see that young dude walking
up the street with those four swell com
panions? Well, that gent Is one of the
trickiest of the many who live by their
sharp wits. Keep au eye on him,” said are
serve officer on Chestnut street yesterday.
Tbe fashionable group at once became
the object of attention.
This action was followed by a geseral
and very liberal alms-giving by the tailor
made men. Coins were showered into the
beggar’s ragged hat, and the conclusion
naturally drawn would be that the party
had just returned from a church revival
where “charity” was the subject of the
sermon.
While walking up Chestnut street the
tricky dandy a little in advance, the bou
ton crowd suddenly stopped before a poor,
decrepit, blind beggar. Dude No. 1 en
tered into an animated conversation with
his companions.
“Oh, no; charitable motives have very
little to do with the proceeding,” remark
ed the peace guardian.
“That’s the last aet of a clever trick of
the dude. You see, it’s done in this way,”
continued the officer: “The fashionable
young mar and that blind beggar, strange
as it may seem, are confederates. The
beggar stations himself on a principal
thoroughfare, receiving whatever extra
alms he can get, bile the dude hies off to
a neighboring hotel or billiard-room. He
plays several games of pool or billiards
with the young bloods there assembled, is
very companionable, invites them to
drink, and finally proposes to patronize
some other saloon in the vicinity.
“The beggar is stationed between these
two places. The young fellows innocent
ly comply. Tbe gang walks up the street
past the blind beggar, who at this mo
ment wails sadly. The sharper fiude is
suddenly conscience stricken, turns back,
throws a dollar or two into the man’s hat
and jocularly invites his eomra es to do
the same. Asa rule they comply. Then
in a bantering way the dude offers to bet
$5 that he will contribute the most, the
stake ol the vanquished to be given to the
beggar. A weak point in the average
young fashionable is struck, tbe bet is
accepted, the sharp dude contributes $lO
or more, the bloods have their pride of
birth aroused and cover that sum. At
length a limit is reached, the contribu
tions stop and tbe lour successful n en,
the dude probably among the number,
forfeit $5 apiece to the beggar or continue
to contribute.
“Tne young bloods are fleeced without
knowing it, and console themselves with
the idea" that they havo done something
very charitable. It is needless to say
that there is a grand divide afterward
between the two sharpers. Y'ou s-e, that
crowd had just been roped in, and the
worst of it is we can prove nothing
against either of the operators. There’s
big money in it, I tell you,” concluded
the stalwart preserver of the public peace.
Some British Personal Statistics,
Lotuior% Times,
The oldest member of Her Majesty’s
Privy Council is the Right Hon. Viscount
Eversley, aged 90; the youngest, bis Royal
Highness the Duke of Connaught, aged
34. The oldest Duke is the Duke of
Cleveland,aged 81; the youngest, his Royal
Highness the Duke o( Albany, an infant.
The oldest Marquis is the Very Rev. the.
Marquis of Donegal, aged 85; the young
est, the MarquisCamden,(a minor,) aged
12. The oldest Earle is the Earle
of Buckinghamshire, (who is the
oldest peer in the realm) aged
91; the youngest is the Earl of Cottenham,
(a. minor.) aged 10. Tne oldest Viscount
is Lord Eversley, aged 90; the youngest,
Viscount Southwell, (a minor,) au Irish
peer, aged 12. The oldest Baron is Lord
Brougham and Vaux, aged 59; the young
est, Lord Ampthill,(a minor,) aged 15.
The oldest member of the House of Com
mons is Alderman Sir Robert Walter
Carden, member of Parliament lor the
borough of Barnstaple, aged 83; the
youngest Mr. Matthew Joseph Kenny,
member of Parliament for the borough
of Ennis, in Ireland, aged 23. The oldest
Judge in England is Vice-Cnancellor the
Hon. sir James Bacon, aged St*; the
youngest, the Hon. Sir Archibald Levin
Smith, of the Queen’s Bench Division,
aged 48. The oldest Judge in Ireland is
the Hon. John Fitzaenry Townsend. LL.
D., of the Court of Admiralty, aged 73;
the youngest, the Right Hon. -Andrew
Marshall Porter, Master of the Rolls,
aged 48. The oldest of the Scotch Lords
oi Session is the Hon. Sir George Deas,
(Lord Deas,) aged 81; the youngest, the
Hon. Alexander Smith Kinnear, (Lord
Kinnear,) aged 51. The oldest prelace of
the Church of England is the Right Rev.
Richard Durnfofd, D. D., Bishop of
Chichester, aged 82: the youngest, the
Right Rev. Ernest Roland Wilberforce,
D. I)., Bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne, aged
45. The oldefet prelate of the Irish
Episcopal Church is the Most Rev. Mar
cus Gervase Beresford, Archbishop of
Armagh, aged 83; the youngest, the Right
Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg, Bishop of
Cork, aged 50. The oldest prelate of the
Scotch Episcopal Church is the Right
Rev. Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and
Ross, (Primus of Scotland,) aged 80; the
youngest, the Right Rev. James Robert
A Chinnery-Haldane, Bishop of Argyll
and the Isles, aged 44. Tne oldest
Baronet is Sir Moses Montefiore, aged 100;
the voungest, Sir Stewkley F. Drayeott
Shuckburgh, (a minor,) aged 4. The old
est Knight is Sir George Ruse Sartorius,
G.C. 8., Admiral of the Fleet, aged 94;
the youngest. Sir Waiter Eugene de
Souza, of Calcutta, aged 38.
Why He Didn’t Fail.
Last spring an Indiana man started a
bauk in a town in Dakota, and about Oct.
1, having secured deposits to the extent
of $23,000, a notice was one morning
posted on the doors of the bauk reading:
“Temporarily closed—hope to pay de
positors in full.”
The banker wanted to test the temper
of the public, previous to a big scoop. In
the course of half an hour the doors were
kicked in, the office gutted, the banker
stepped on until he was 17 teet long and
onlv 2 inches thick, and the chap who
held a revolver to his ear jovially re
marked:
“Now, then, my friend, we give you
just five minutes to unlock that safe and
count out the slugs to depositors in full.”
Depositors were paid in full, and the
banker has come East in search of more
civil people.
£itagnalta Baltu.
HAGAN’S
Magnolia Balm
is a secret aid to beauty.
Many a lady owes her fresh
ness to it, who would rather
not tell,andjycw cant tell.
Dottle.
HARNETTHOUSE
SAVANNAH, CA.,
IS conceded to be the most comfortable and
bv far the best conducted Hotel in Savan
nah. Raies: $2 per day.
M.L. HARNETT.
Cldafco. Silhe, (Sir.
DO WE MEAN IT?
We have determined to close out the entire balanrp
of our Fall and Winter stock regardless of
COST. We are going to make it the
GREATEST EVENT OF THE SEASON!
Ail we aek A 8 tllat • c ’' l c ' ome to see our bargain* here advertised. Do not cctne, h<wv ,
in a week or two and ask for them, you won t find them- Cut out this advertiK-Kießt
bring it along with y° n - 11 y° u call early, you will find everything as here state*. '
I.—Blankets.
SI pair* Heavy GRAY BLANKETS, usual price 1 45. we offer die pair at i.fc .
143 pairs' Hcavr OK \ Y BI.ANKLVB. usual price *! &J, \\e offer the pair a: I
331 pairs Very Large Wk’jJE BLANKET-, usual price ti 00, we off.-r the |.a:r v , ,
57 pairs terv Largft WIL tTh HLANhET?, upual pric*? yi so\ we offer the pair j>- * ;. w
Hi pairs 11-4 W HiTE BI.A nk ’ T8 i U 8 al P rlce f 5 *, we offer the pa rat $ r
>'S pairs 11- i WHITE BLA. N KKTB. usual price 16 50, we offer the pair at ; .
■> pair. ll—£ Extra Pine Wh ID- BLINK fc,TS, usual price 410 00. we offer the p„;r ,* i
5 pairs 12-4 Extr- Flue WH. 'TE BLANKS 8, usual price 415 00, we off.-r the pair mV,-
11 pairs 12-1 r.xtra Fine WHI TE BLANKET-, usual price 00, weoffer the i :i ; ji ■“
25 pairs Slighrly Soiled BLASL vETs, at any price.
ll.—sChiidren’s Cloaks.
1 Lot CHILDREN’S CLOAK V former price *1 50. now reduced to 50c.
1 Lot CHILDREN’S CLOAKS’, former price $3 to $5, now ndneed from $: : t;
* J Lot- CHILDREN'S CLOAKS*.former price <5 to $lO. now reduced frets *4 5, e, 1
111.-Ladies* .Cloaks, Circulars, etc.
We hav* made a terrible cut u prv* e offer ihat were > at ~o cent*
the higher grades we h&re reduced equaJl. 7 a ® matter in w? art *ivr
mined to closeout these goods at anv prli We have yet left a verv . hoiee line oi Walk
IS a JACKETS, NKWMArtKETS, il\\ Utk* and CLOAKS, aud whilst we would be*;*
to get rid of th?m without incurring the-*. *4 rrible tosses, yet we nave determined to clone
the entire lot as ali hazams; thereiore, feeLU 'S we we present to you
Au.tual Facts and n>ot Bombastic Words,
we believe that "it who des rc such a chanev will avail themselves of it.
Goods.
During this w- we will uaugurare such' £# PRICES that will surprise the
skeptical. PI *ase ear in mini that we do not on prices, w e simply desire lo ee{ rid
of our Fail and Winte r Dre.-s Goods, and a:e realize something for it. Truly there
never was a more 1 Mia tide Clearing Sal rof 3 Goods anywhere. It is with u* k rre.v,
necessity that yvc tr? to sell thece roods. They etc* 1 be sold, even at any price. We
direct your attention to oar beat lifui line 'f ]KUkM and Colored an i kva i
some All-Wool PLA'D9 and LADIES’ CLOTHS.
Y.*Oiir Black and -Colored Silks.
These goods, as al* v*ur SATUM nmi VELVETS .. must share a like fate. Any lady and,
mg a handsome SILK PRESS I’ATTEUN, can buy iff now of us at a Uoter advantage
was ever offered before. The main thing Is U Till a # - ®once f whilst the assortment ... v
broken. . __
Vl.—Flannels, Pank ■ Cloths.
Andover so many Woolcirartirlcs, hare been reduced u.-such low prices, that it is a w.m,- 0 f
money, if buyers neglect ©call on us Irst. We are sur<-- w e ran save them a great <J,t ; .
money.
Vll.—Housekeeping Goods.
Even in these goods we have made ar/e redix-tion iff’ prices We have the i-m; anj
cheapest TOWELS, the bes>and cheapest TABLE OAlfatt S. the best and cheapest nap
KINS and I> IYLIES, Hie aud caeapcst LINEN CK\ ASHES, the best and eh-anej-
SHEETINGS. Note.—We vrill sell you a Sheeting (t trues; but excellent quality it U' -j
a yard a inch cann -t be matched for less than 25c. a yard; bi-W 'ever, as we have ouiv SOUyargi
of'it on hand, we are compelled to limit each purchaser to-S-y* ’ds enough for a p3ir of sbseis
We will also sell the celebrated Wamsutta 4 4 SHIRTING itvbo 'ts. ranging Ir mlO to4' yards,
at 9l*e. Please bear in rain-1 that this is toe genuine article-, i‘ e will not place it on sal
fore TUESDAY, Feb. 3. Tne celebrated Lonsdale CAMita 0 t r e continue to tell at Kt
yard,
Vlll.—Hosiery and Haiidki rcluefs.
In these goods we have a great man v lots which we desire x> <V<*e oat—especially Wo#;,
HOSE for Ladies and Gentlemen. Also, various lets of Cotton- HtME. We will mention ose
lot of full regular made, solid colored. >ilk Clogged LADIES' H l-t E at JTc.. form rp.;*,’ss c
But one must see al! the goods to appreciate the bargains. We rat a sacrifice also aB or
Ladies’. Gents’ and Childrens’ UNDERWEAR.
IX.—Domestic Goods.
We offer the best Dark PRINT-, snoh as Merrimack* and other.Standara Brandso! Pun;
Cali-'-oes at Se.; tnese are the same good* aa are sold at Bc. We inure made- great redaction*
in BED TICKINGS, Bleached and Unbleached SHIRTINGS, GiN-jHAMS, etc. Tin, t, p.,, .
lively
A SALE OF GREAT MAGNITUDE!
DAVID WEISBEIN,
153 BROUGHTON STREET.
lEW MUDS, NEWSTYLES!
Ladies’ Linen Collars and Cuffs,
Children’s Linen and Lane Collars.
Also, a large assortment of Kuching,
Special bargains this week in Embroidered Flannels and
Chenille Fringes.
Also, balance of our Foster Hook Kid Gloves, perfectly
sound, at 25c a pair, worth $1 00.
Ladies’ White 6-Button Kid Gloves at 75c. a pair, worth
$1 50 a pair, at
GUTMAN’S
111 BROUGHTON STREET.
MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
Bjo'o itnD
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Special Sale™ Attractive Bargains!
BEFORE RECEIVING OUR SPRING STOCK WE ARE DESIROUS TO
close out a considerable number of lots of our Fall and Winter Stock of
SHOES, and, in order to make a speedy sale of them, have decided
to Institute for the NEXT THIRTY DAYS a series of
BARGAIN SALE S.
Beginning on MONDAY, Feb. 2, we will place on our Centro Tables the follow mg
LOTS OK GOOD 8:
LOT No. I—o 7 pair Ladies' fine CURACOA KIP BUTTON BOOTS, Worked holes. Opera toe
one-half French heels, manufactured by Sailer, Lewin & Cos., of Philadelphia, wind
have been sold all this season at $3 50 a pair, reduced now to $2 50.
LOT No. 2—58 pair assorted LADIES’ SHOES, consisting of fine Curacoa Kid high t&.r.
BOOTS, with eyelets and hooks, fancy tips, and one-half French heels; fine Curacoa Kid
Button and Straight Goat Button BOOTS 'hand sewed), all Zeigler's Philadelphia aakL
former prices ranging from $3 75 to 44 50—all reduced to the uniform price of $2 50.
LOT No. 3—54 pair assorted LADIES’ SHOES, Buttoned and Laced in fine Curacoa Huh
French Kid, Glove-top, Patent Leather Foxed—-ome machine and some hand-made, add*
and ends of different lots—ranging in price from $4 to $6, all reduced to close the let k
the uniform price of 43. This lot is an extraordinary bargain.
LOT No. 4—46 pair YOUTHS’ Calf Sewed Laced Tipped Balmorals—sizes 11a to Is—redv.i*
from $2 50 to 41 75. Call early before the sizes are sold out.
JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO.,
14 1 CONGRESS STR EET.
(glottjmg.
AT AGD BELOW COST,
IN order to make room for our Spring stock, wc will on MONDAY, Jan. 2-. inau£mriw*
genuine clearing out sale. Although it is a well known fact that we have always °* r
Fine Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing GGods
At greatly reduced prices, we have decided to make still further reductions.
To prove that this is no advertising scheme, we have placed in <rar handsome showtj*
on the sidewalk where they can be seen by all, a few samples of SI i K HaXDKEKCUI**
which we will sell at 41 each. All other goods h*ve been correspondingly reduced.
We guarantee all goods as represented, and will refund the money on al! unsati*f6“®fj
purchases, provided goods are rcturued uninjured within ten (10) days after purchase.
and convince yourselves.
A. FALK & SOV,
Successors to I. L. FALK A Cfi -
CORNER CONGRESS. WHITAKER AND ST. JULIAN' STREETS. _
HUitrtiro anD
AN ALMOST ENTIRELY NEW STOCK!
MR. STERNBERG DESIRES TO ACQUAINT HIS PATRONS AND THE PI BLIC
LARGE tint he has just returned trom New York with an exquisite selection oi
MoNDS, WATCHES and JEWELRY of all kinds, far superior to anv ever seen in u> * •
under one roof. Owing to the extreme dullness of the trade in New York ant vU m
country, he has found the Wholesale trade and Manufacturers of Jewelry *”4#-
to realize at any price. In mo>t case?, strange as it may appear, they were wuhi ag *®
pose of their wares t almost the actual cost of the Gold, and, in consequence. I ‘ ‘ , v
in saving that I have not only the NEWEST STYLES, but the CHEAPEST Gi'OOs la ~
VANN AU. and, as lam willing to part with tbem at a small advance on cost. 1 81 “ s;
rare opportunity for the purchase of goods in my line—an opportunity that snll u< '.
again very soon. Ifeelthit my reputation is anfflciently established that l need _n ‘
assure the publie that my goods are as reliable as if they were purchased of 11 •'
establishment at TWICE THE ACTUAL VALUE.
M. STERNBERG)
157 Broughton Street.