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WHAT RKCOMIM NSK ?
He might have mug a song the world should
hear,
IVhodo clarion note) bad rung so loud and
clear
That men liad listened and been made
1 he better for the fray.
The moll sod cure ot every day;
Stronger to hear the heavy burdens laid
By lile on toilers in the onwnrd vt ay ;
But tale said nay!
She might have had the right to say “My
own.”
The joy of being loved she might have known;
lbol wrapped around her, as a shield
from everv slinging poisoned dart
yd i nvv. hatred or malicious art.
The mantle of a love that would not yield
To any foe. hut die to save her heart!
liut fate said nay!
She wept her vanished hopes, vet sweeter trod
The path of self-denial, that leads up to God.
He did Ins work in the small sphere
That God had given him, and labored well.
The future world alone can tell
What recompense should come to those who
here
IJon meekly and work on, nor curse the knell
That •tinds fate’s nay!
—Holton Transcript.
THE "MODERN MEDEA.
Hilda Trevor Was not a pleasant-look
ing woman. 1 say “woman” because,
though l am reluctantly obliged to admit
that she must have once been a girl, so
lit vie of the girl remained that, had any
body told tne that she was born at the age
of -10, 1 should have found little difficulty
in believing it. There was something hard
aud unapproachable in everything about
her. She was hard from her straight
brows tiud massive chin down to the
pointy, of her nointed boots, which shone
as it tipped with some metal. YVben
Rite was annoyed an ugly scowl would
spread over her face—and what a scowl!
She seemed in a moment to become an
other being—her eyes glared, lines sprang
up which age never made, and her lips,
which were naturally rather full and pas
sionate, drew tightly together until they
became livid. For several seconds she
would remain motionless and stony, and
l leel sure that, had a steel been drawn
across her clenched hand, it would have
made the sparks fly; the next moment she
was herself again. 1 only saw her once
under the influence of one oi these silent
furious fits of temper, and l hope 1 may
never see its like again. When 1 say that
she never took much notice of me, i am
only speaking the truth, however much it
may hurt my feelings. So if 1 venture to
tell you how it was that I saw her in her
terrible wrath, she will never recognize
mv hand in it.
I do not want you to think that she was
plain or wanting m attraction; on the con
trary, she was rather good-looking. She
had magnificent eyes, well-cut features,
w(di-slutpod hands and a tine figure. Sue
was essentially what is called "a fine
woman,” and few people would pass her
without, taking a glance at her. In fact,
aha lnuf been a beauty, and a very haughty
mfli iui tangere beauty, too, 1 expect. Not
Urn sert-of oaut.y to caress and say pretty
things to, but one to put on a pedestal and
admire from a distance. While thanking
rruvj&enee she did not belong to ypu, 1
suppose she often thought of that “had
been,” with its lost opportunities, which,
pertyips, accounted for her expression in
rdjxHf.'pejng a mixture of disappointment
and (IfitiaOee. She hud lately begun to re
alize that the many oilers qhe had scorn
tully declined long ago did not prevent
her from growing old, and the thought of
it, while making her uneasy and at times
desperate, did not tend to improve either
her temper or her appearance. Now that
men, from constant snubbing, kept away
from her, she did all she could in the un
bending way natural to her to attract
them; need 1 say, with little success?
Rke got her father, with whom slip lived
alone, to give party after party ; but noth
ing came of them. . Men ate his dinners,
drank his wines, were coldly polite to
her, and that was all. It was in vain she
adopted the most fashionable and juvenile
attire,beginning to admit, With reluctance,'
tbe power of such things over the mascu
line neart,. She even put on a xmtjKim
of rouge (“I’m getting so pale,” she said
to herself, in excuse), but as yet there
had not been the semblance ol an aspi
rant*. JJLV
Sue was much too independent to re
unite'a waid to accompany her in her
walks, hut as she was going along the
Kromptop foad one afternoon she began
Wondering whether such a protection
would not in some measure assist in giv
imfiier a more youthful appearance. You
kt> her mind was constantly occupied
with the same subject, and, in her des
vte state, she was not a woman to ueg
rct a matter so trivial even as this, bhe
wns tjealung the question over with all
the gmifity due to its importance, when
the became aware of a man of very at
tractive exterior walking toward her.
in sooi) up. he saw her something unusual
aeeim-il to strike him, tor bis face lighted
to—lt looked all the bettor fir that—he
threw awuj eigur, slackened his pace ami
wared at her with evident pleasure,
tb'rtiah in ho rude or obtrusive manner.
As he passed her she thought he said
•"in'tiling which sounded like “Eureka,”
bm that was absurd, she afterward ad
mlttil,'“because there is no sueli word,
>'ou know,” she said to u friend to whom
•be tv lated the episode. “Of course not,
bar,” was the sapient rejoinder; “you
iiiist have been mistaken.”
Mm iitieu looked at her in the street,
wit there was something unusual in this
Will. ami Hie couldn't have said w hy, hut
•be tiip|Kil in front of a shop window,
•ml took a glance in the direction he had
K" 111 ' with those eyes which women are
th'fiilcd with having in the back of their
■"'*■ lb her surprise, she saw him also
•hunting t a window, but having eyes,
" m ‘ though they were, only on each side
M hu nose, he was using those on her with
I I hie fixity of which they were capable,
hunking it a mere coincidence, she
'oi.d on, only tit find the interesting
f'' ! ■ again nosr i> r, and agtin ds-
J"untig her wi:b iiis brilliant optics. He
ju.lowed her until she reached Albert
hale, where i,,> crossed the road hur
i'cill.v. none hack in H unt ol her, and then
‘"•’"'I her slowly, gazing earnestly, itl
r!vV,' ni! '’ 111 tl(:r ttß it!i 1)0 d e<sentl y
'Wiy. thiii’s the very thing,” he said,
susweup into iho park. “What a piece
L 111 k. Now, all 1 want is an opportu-
1 I'll leaks one, or my name isn’t
kll? ami my Idea v/ill ho rcal
wo bill undid, by .love!”
Ala years before Hilda would have
1 '"ry indignant, no one more so, at
. “ 1 ' alert of a mall following her, hut
■ ms she went home, she was rather
L' ' 1 than otherwise. “He >vus tier
mu very good looking and evidently a
- H MIIIII,” slip thought, as alio sat Work*
, wry si 'ff piece of embroidery, all
r k -ld lace and beads.
. sorry io have to record that, after
rnther badly, she deliberately
~ ''do the Hroinpioii road the next
lT 1 " 1 " 1 ' at the same hour. I don’t say
I j'M but Impeol meeting her unknown
, l i bnt it looked unconinionly like
11 * f"U you that sin* had forgotten
, "’"in the idea of tubing her maid out
" r - and. worse still, tuat it was not
f'l'e Hu-Isir-linii'ed gutit-leuiun with
1 ug inuustacho name sauntering
Their eyes met, and Hilda hit
1 actually blushing (not a common
Nt ' : "Ith lor, by any means). He,
H| i" I '. seemed qtiilo unmoved, mid only
‘ ' ut her In the searching manner
i|,( 1 fad so struck her Imfore. His In
'Uce piipiod her, und the be. inning
L 1 her scowls I have told you about
■ -trial itself and disappeared. He
. <n the little cloud, lie wus
. ' 1 h“ couldn’t havu helped it, but,
Kir Min, iiiHconcertlng him. It seamed to
, I ;1: -1' mu lus, for be looked at hnrniore
■k ■ ever, and can fully went
■ 'he imiiie niHiio'uvros as the day
■ "ot omitting to >•mo full on her at
Jbaui,
i H'hla was puzzled, and no wonder; the
, ** n , wa * ceriainly very odd. When she
got homelier puzzled expression wah so
apparent that, meeting tier father in the
DhII. he a' once said:
! “Well, Hilda, has somebody been asking
< you a comindiuin, or is the momentous
question of w hat to wear tu-uight still un
! answered?”
l am afraid that Hilda was so full of
"hat had just happened that when her
lather spoke to her she only half heard
w hat ue said, and answered as if he must
know all about it, for she said, rather
angrily:
“No; what 1 wear is of no consequence
now. He won’t—”
„ " J* e " stopped and ran up stairs.
Mr. 1 revor seemed surprised, as well he
might, at the irrelevancy of her remark,
tuit being a somewhat indifferent man he
soon forgot ail about his question aud its
unfinished answer. Miss Trevor was
scarlet when she got to her room, not so
much at the though t of this man’s marked
admiration f what else could he be follow,
ing her for?) bfft rather because she had
so nearly behaved like a girl in her toons
before her lather, who would only have
laughed at her and pooh-poohed the no
tion ot the man having noticed her at all,
except in her own imagination; besides,
she wus not in the habit ot making a con
fidant of her father. It was long since
any man had eared for the society ot
Hilda Trevor, and though of course she
still did her best to try aud please those
who came to her father’s house, she did so
with considerable weariness, feeling every
day how r useless it all was. Therefore you
must make some allowance for her when
1 say that this man was very much in her
thoughts as she dressed herself with more
than usual care for the ball she w as going
to that evening; just as if she knew he
would be there, when, alter all, nothing
was more unlikely.
As she took a last look at herself in the
glass she said. “1 think 1 look very well
to-night—for an old maid,” she added,
with a bitter smile.
And she did look very well, for I saw
her. The rouge was well, not too well,
managed, and far front looking old raaid
ish, she gave me the idea of a very hand
some woman. ’ ,
1 have noticed that when women pro
claim, not only to themselves, but openly,
that they' intend to bo old maids, vou nmy
lake it tor granted that they have strong
hopes of somebody proposing to them
whom they intend to accept uncondition
ally, and the fact that Hilda made that
remark to her looking-glass, and shortly
afterward to her father, only goes to
strengthen my observation. She started
for the ball in very good spirits, in spite
of feeling that she would probably snine
only in the capacity ot a wall-flower, lor
she was much above dancing with Tom,
Dick and Harry. Toward midnight she
had been sitting out long enough to make
her look sullen and unapproachable.
Every now and then her glance wandered
toward the door, as if she expected some
bady; hut ail she saw was the usual half
dozen unhappy-looking men, who are al
ways to be seen,leaning against the wails
at the doorway of a ball-room, getting in
everybody’s way, and with difficulty keep
ing from yawning.
Why don’t tney go to bed, if they neither
want, to dance or speak to anybody, in
stead of wearing out the back of their
coats, and depriving themselves of that
rest whica they Seem so much to re
quire?
Suddenly her eyes brightened, though
she could scarcely believe what she saw,
and was half inclined to think it was the
result of thinking too much of her late ad
venture. For there was her unknown
triend among the melancholy band, star
ing at her as if he meant to take a mental
photograph of her. llut though he stared
as usual, he made no effort to get intro
duced to her, which she expected and
hoped,or even to move away from where
she first saw him. Hilda could not very
well make any advances, so she was
obliged to wait os patiently as she could
tor events to develop. Of course, to add
to her vexation, ( why was he so shy? lie
didn’t look as if afflicted with that obsolete
virtue,) several men, emboldened by her
sweet expression, perhaps, now came and
asked for a dance; men of the kind every
woman knows —thick-skinned and incap
able of seeing that they are unwelcome,
anil who always want to snap up td“B■>
dances which she is keeping for her par
ticular friemls. feeing how engrossed
she was in this man, it is not surprising
that she refused them one and all with
little ceremony, fearing that, ifshogave
one dance awuy, it might be the very one
he would want. Two or threo times the
ominous scowl was produced for the
benefit of the more importunate of them,
no one of which escaped Jack; anil the
angrier she got toe more interested did
he seem to be iu his observation. When
the last of her white-tied persecutors had
been successfully frowned away you may
imagine Hilda’s feelings when she saw
her hero quietly walk off. He did not
come hack either; so, still more puzzled,
and for the first time rather disap
pointed in him, she hastened to find
her father and insisted on goitig home at
ouce.
“Well, Hilda; enjoyed yourself?” said
Mr. Trevor, who had been holding excel
lent hands at whist, and was in a good
humor in consequence.
Miss Trevor was seriously put out, for
all she replied was, “No, bored rather
more than usual,’’ ami then pretended to
go to sleep, lint ate was still thinking ol
her mysterious friend, and wondering who
he could he. The more she thought of
him, the more inclined she was to con
clude that the whole tiling was a myth,
and that the man, whose behavior w as ho
strange, only existed in her imagination;
lor, after all, she had never seen him
s|a*ak hi, or appear to know, anybody. It
was rattier a shook to her to admit that
she must have seen a vision, and that,
100, in the shape of a handsome man.
(Hill, as a week wont by, and neither in
Itroiupton road nor anywhere else did
she see a sign of him, stie made lip her
mind ihgt he must have been the result of
a disordered digestion, now , happily,itself
again.
However, the disorder returned, and
under such exceptional circumstances
that she was obliged to acknowledge that
he was flesh and blood; and very glad she
was to do it, too.
It was about a fortnight since the ball,
and Hilda whs having one at her own
house. It was one ol the Is-sl in her
circle ( Mr. Trevor did those sort of things
well), and the rooms were crowded with
pi-ell. women and irreproachably dressed
men.
Hilda was taking a well-earned rest
niter her exertions us hostess, in the coiji
jinny ol a man friend, writb whom she
was quarreling wiih all the vigor of a
really old friendship. Suddenly she
turned very pale and looked unite trlght
died.
"What’s up, Hilda V” sid Spencer, her
friend, In the elegant pbriue ology ul the
nineteenth century.
“Oh, nothing. I suppose too lic it—l ni
rather tired —go away till leal! you—and
get me a glass of water lirsL 1 eliull he all
right In a minute."
You will have guessed the cause of
Hilda's pah'iiess and midden Irivlit.
There be whs I That mysterious man,
standing at the door in the same attitude,
staring silently at, her, ami ia tier own
house, too. This was too much. Still,
she felt She moat do something to clear
up this mystery, *1 she called hack Spen
cer to give her time to thiuk. By a
supreme effort she forced herself to talk
on trivial subjects for a few minutes and
then, us if Mpro|os ol nothing, she said:
“I never knew 1 was short. sighted, or.
perhaps with age, I am getting blind, hut
I can’t see across the room very well.
Who is that fair man standing against the
wall by the I<sir?”
“lly .Jova l" replied fcisaieer, “it’s Jack
Mursdeu. [I didn’t know you knew
him.’’ J
“i don't,T laid Hilda, greatly relieved
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, .TUNE 7, 1885.
to tiud he really was alive after all. “I
wonder how he got here?”
“Oh, 1 suppose somebody brought him;
people have such cheek about that sort
>t thing—think nothing of bringing half
a dozen fellows to one’s house, and girls
to dance with them, too. But Jack’s a
capital chap—old friend of mine—artist,
you know—shall l introduce you io
him? Sure you’ll like him,” ami he half
rose.
Hilda had no intention of letiiug Spen
cer know under what peculiar circum
stances she had aln-ady seen his friend,
but it was with difficulty that she hid the
satisfaction she felt at the information
ho had given her.
“Very well,” she said, with well-feign
ed indifference, “you can introduce him;
he does look rather nice, now 1 have had
a look at him.”
Jack was presently brought up, aud
formally introduced; though, as usual,
neither heard the othtf’s name. He did
not ask her to dance; hut, sitting down in
Spencer’s vacant seat, laughingly refer
red to having seen her before, at which
she blushed nicely, and admitted some
dim recollection of him somewhere—As
cot or Lord's,” she naively suggested.
Jack utterly iguored this transparent
fiction.
“I’m afraid you must have thought me
awfully rude, hut 1 rather stare at every
body, so, of course, 1 would at you.”
(The “you” emphasized in Jack’s best
manner.)
“D dn’t I sec you at. the Mathews’?”
she said, presently. “1 thought 1 recog
nized you in the crowd,but 1 am not sure,”
she added, still clinging to her obviously
useless fiction in the fear of letting him
know she had looked at nobody else.
“Yes, 1 saw you, but I was afraid of
you. you looked so charmingly angry, and
at last you frightened me away, as you
did tne other men, who, bolder 'than my
self, actually tried to tempt you io
dance.”
In spite of this unpromising beginning
Jack managed to make himself uncom
monly agreeable, as he always could
when he bad an object in view'. Before
they parted they were the best friends
imaginable, and Jack made their farewell
quite an affecting little allair. Sjon af
ter Jack dined with Mr. Trevor, which
led naturally to an intimacy between
Hilda and himself, which seemed mutu
ally agreeable. lie told her how he first
began painting, bis early struggles, and
enlarged, with all the egotism of an artist,
on his method and its advantages. He
amused her by telling her, in the happiest
way, his many adventures when In search
of those situations which should be, as
nearly as possible, identical with the sub
ject he was painting. 1 won’t yield to the
temptation of becoming prolix by detail
ing how they met everywhere, and how
everybody was talking of Maraden’s in
fatuation for that queer Miss Trevor.
Suffice it to sav that Jack rows 11y seemed
smitten with Hilda} and as for Hilda, one
scarcely ever saw her scowl now. and in
her own heart she hoped everything from
the devotion ol her new friend. But
though he was always at her side at the
various entertainments at which they
always managed to meet, he had not said
a word wtiieh could he tortured into any
thing approaching the serious auil matri
monial. Persiflage formed the staple of
their conversation, and he seemed to take
a never-ending pleasure in saying those
little nothings most calculated to pique
her. aud at times maso her positively
angry. Still, as he always seemed so peni
tent, Hilda possessed her soul in patience
and waited. One evening they were sit
ting together as usual, at a small soiree,
and Jack was evidently indulging himself
in bis favorite amusement, for Hilda’s
scowl was on the point ot appearing more
than once. Spencer, who was also there,
walked up to shake hands with both of
them, when Marsden, who had hardly
said a word for some time, suddenly got
up, as it he had come to a serious resolu
tion. lie went straight up to a particu
larly pretty woman, who was surrounded
by a number of gentlemen, and who was
making herself very charming to them
all, to judge by their pleased expressions.
As soon as Marsden joined them, howev
er, she pother arm in his, and they walk
ed a little nearer Hilda, talking in low
trines. Spencer just then passed them on
his way to the door, when Marsden stop
ped him and whispered: “Ho and tell
Hilda who this is. She’s sure to ask you,
and 1 have a particular reason for her
knowing it now.” Nobody could refuse
Jack, and Spencer went hack to Hilda,
wlio hail been watching those roaim-uvres
with growing surprise. The moment
Spencer had gone on his unpleasant mis
sion, Marsden disappeared, or raiher
went, and placed himself where he could
see Hilda's lace without being seen him
self. As he had anticipated. It was not
long be lore Hilda, vainly trying to appear
indifferent, asked who the lady was Mars
den hud just left.
“Don’t you know? Why, that’s his
wife,” said Spencer, as If he wore
saying the most important thing in tho
world.
“It’s a lie, and you know it is,” retorted
Hilda, in a low, angry hiss, utterly for
getting herself iu thef suddenness of the
revelation.
Spencer was naturally taken aback at
the vehemence of this unladylike remark,
but, Immediately understanding the state
ol affairs, und being a prudent man, he
ignored her violence, and merely replied
thut there was no doubt of it, und that he
bad known her a long time; and wus go
ing to enliyge on her many attractions
(surely a want of tact alter beginning so
well) when the sight of Hilda's lace stop
ped him, as if he had been shot.
Despair, bate, and impotent rage crossed
her face like hlai-k shadow s; In an instant
she became livid, her teeth clinched like a
vice, und a scowl spread over her lace till
she looked like a chained devil. Site
seemed tinned to stone, except that her
eyes glared in the most horrible manner,
and there wus murder, nothing short of it,
in the fierce look which she fixed on the
unconscious Mrs. Marsden. It wus all
done in a moment, and when Mr. Trevor
came up to say he had seen Marsden bur
rytug out with a muttered “important
telegram,” all he noticed was the paleness
ol Hilda’s fce.
“Let's go home, papa,” she said in
a broken voice; "I don’t know wtiat
is the matter with me, but 1 feel awfully
ill.”
1 will pass over the paroxysms of rage
that poor Hilda went through during the
next week, while she obstinately refused
to leave h“r room, or even spssk to any
body. One day when she peemod calmer,
and as it were exhausted by ihe relent
less bitterness of her thoughts, site
was idly looking over, without reading,
one of the ••.■Society Tapers,” when tho
following paragraph urrested bur at
tention:
“Mr. Marsden. whose mythological pic
tures ure so eagerly looked tor at Burling
ton House, has, we hear, another work,
very vigorously treated, almost ready to
submit U> the hungers. Ills metlmd is
original, and ordinary models tail to lu
pi*c him. He never really sets to work
until he has not only imagined his pic
ture, hut actually seen, iu leal life. Ihe
play of those passions which lie wishes to
portray; and it is well known thut he is
not over scrupulous In carrying out his
system, llis subject this year is Mmldu
and Creusa, und it Is only quite lately
Hint lie has succeeded, no one known
bow, In forming lor himself the sort of
situation which the story requires, aud
wineli Is essential to his method. Those
who have had the privilege of seeing
Ilia picture pronounce tbe Medea ‘terri
bly real,’ which is, ol course, tbe highest
praise.”
The pat>er dropped from her hands.
Hilda understood It all now.
“The coward 1” she said, springing up.
“But I’ll he revenged,” and then sue burst
into tears.— Tintley' Magazine.
KNOW THYSRI.K, by return* tbs “Hel
anew or Lite.” the best medical work aver
published, ter young aud ndudio-agod coca.
THE FATED THIRTEEN.
Hittid of Boy Burglars in a Louisville
Court.
From thr Cour*tr- t loumo'.
! Thirteen juvenile burglars tiled out of
! the prisoners’ dock as llitir names were
called in the City Court and took position
;at the bar to answer the charge of break
ing into a grocery at Fifteenth and Wal
nut streets. Mr. Armstrong explained to
the court that he bought the stook of
[ groceries at an assignee’s sale, ami amoug
the articles purchased was a lotot tobacco.
When he took possession next day he
c<>uta (iml no tobacco. Its absence was
explained by the discovery that tlio win
dow had boon broken amt the place en
tered by some hoys, and the police began
to work up the burglary. When the hoys
learned that they wore being shadowed
| they made a break for the station houses
and surrendered. Thoir ages van from !i
to lb years, and they presented the appear
ance of being as innocent a lot of hoys as
ever broke a window or learned how to
chew tobacco.
Their names were John and Jacob Vo
i gle. George and W’tu. Howard, Win.
I Stonily, Joseph Nitekum, Julius I’hilllps,
Nick Nock, Wm. Weplor, Frank Donley,
. Henry Hue, John Keenan and Andy bi
nd), and alter the officers produced the
! tobacco which they had found when told
1 hy the boys where it was, Joseph Nite
kum w T as put on the stand and told the
court all about it. Ho deported himself
in a very manly manner, making himself
the greatest offender and impressed t-e
court and audience w ith the belief tluit he
was tolling the “truth, the whole truth
and nothing hut the truth.” Unsaid that
he visited the place in company with Ul
rich Howard and two or three others, and,
with the permission of the man in charge,
went into the yard to get some books and
papers that were in an outhouse. Alter
getting them they conceived an idea of
breaking the window and entering the
store, and he broke the window and went
in first, lollowed.by bis ooitipiuiione.
He selected for himsell three bars of
soap, a twist ot tobacco and ten ginger
snaps, ami the rest took what they w anted.
They went to Seventeenth street, where
they told the other boys of thuir lind, and
they went to the store and helped them
selves. John Keenan was placed on
picket l > watch w hile tbo last, gang en
tered. and each gave him a portion cf the
booty for his services.
There was no evidence against Stolnlv,
Weplor and Willie Ilowaid, and they wore
discharged, hut the Judge read the law lo
the rest of the class, those who entered
the store after the first gang had gone wore
each lined $2O, the tine to he suspended on
condition that their patents would admin
uter severe floggings to each one, anil the
advance guards were detained for further
action.
A rule was issued against the pm
rents of Nitekum, yivich, George Howard,
Keen an 'and one or two others to show
cause why their young hopefuls should
not be sent to the House pf Utdiige. I'he
rule was made returnable to-dav, and the
proceedings promise to lutveiy interest
ing. None of-the hoys seemed lo realize
the full import of the proceedings until
the Court began tp talk about the House
of liefiige, and then they began Pi look
serious and wear more aged expressions.
Up to that time they were a jolly group,
and when asked what base ball nine they
belonged to replied: “The house-break
ers.” There was, however, throughout
the trial a marked difference between them
and older offenders. Notone of them of
fered an excuse or sought to lay the
blame on another or initiate the nfrense.
and altogether it was a, very iutpreming
trial.
Four of the hoys who were concerned in
the offense were sentenced to the House
of itefuge this morning. Their parents
were told by the Judge that it they would
administer a Hogging to ihe chaps the
sentence to the House of Itefuge would
not be enforced. The parents accepted
the alternative, and, without consulting
the bovs, 'he Hogging took place. Veeoh
was tne first victim. He was led Into the
office of the City Court Marshal and re
lieved of all clothing save one shirt and a
pair of pantaloons. The young ’un hud
evidently been there lief ire, and knew
from the peculiar glare in the eye of hi*
paternal ancestor that he was not going
to have a picnic. And he was right. The
elder Veech took tin* strap, which was
about live and a half feet long, doubled
it, and, grasping it firmly, ordered Ihe
boy to lie down on the sofa. He did so,
and the dust began to flv. The strap was
applied vigorously, and, being doubled, if
got in iwo licks at each stroke, I'he boy
squirmed and kicked and bellowed, but
the irate lather spared him not. Finally
he was ordered to desist, awl the young
hopeful put cn his coat and hat and left
the place blubbering and begging.
Voting Ai>pl, 14 years old, wus next led
in. He was'fat and plump, and presented
a rare opportunity for some good work,
UnfortuiiuCbly torhlm his “little tweehes”
tit very tight, and his father scorned to
understand the vantage points, ami pul
in his work accordingly. Abel received
about twenty caresses, when he was re
leased, lie will lie very apt to take his
meals standing for some time to coin**,
Craig, a negro boy nearly lo years old.
was the licit saciWlce. Jlis farm r is u
muscular man about 40 years of age, and
seemed to uppreefuto the op(ortiiuity nl
getting even with the hoy. 'l’he son’s
clothes were not of the best. He wore
two pairs of pantaloons, which would
have afforded him some protection, but
ids sire commanded bun to remove tin*
outside pair. It was done, and through
various rents in the other pair the black
skin ol the youth seemed to Invite the
strap, and to these tin patched holes the
father paid particular attention, and
didn’t miss a shot. The boy bellowed.*
but in vain. Thu cruel lash was laid on
ill dead earnest for h minute nr two, aiet
it was with considerable reluctance that
be desisted.
Little Appelbaus was next brought In.
Ho Is about 12 years old, and, his father
tsiing dead, his mother was allowed to do
ths flogging. He thought it was a good
joke, and laughed very heartily while he
stretched himself out on the sofa. Mrs.
Aopelbaiis is not a large Woman, but she
is .* graceful wudder of the leiuner. Her
hoy nnd laid taw* downward on the sofa
in or ler to suppress Ids laughter, hut lie
precaution was not necessary, as he soon
discovered. Ills neither was thoroughly
in earnest, and meant business. Him
played up and down the boy’s back, and
he wriggled like a worm in hot iithcn,
crying and begging most lustily. His
pantaloons were very thin, especially In
the* most favored porti<*i* of Ins anatomy,
and .Mrs. Appclhaus evidently knew jl,
and made tue dust flv. ritic gave him
about twenty-five—a lesson he will not
soon lorget.
Tile J uilg* occasional I y adopts the above
method of punishing small boys In cjtsrs
where they show no evidence of excess,
ivo vtciousness, mid it is approved
by all.
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There Is no article which so richly
deserves the entire confidence ol the com
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Colds should try them. Price 2ft cents.
Nervous Debilitated Men
You are allowed u frr trial of thirty <tny
of the use of Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Voltaic
Belt, with Klectrlc Puspensorr Appli
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Vitstlty snd Manhood, uml all kindred
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Complete restoration pi health, vigor and
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Illustrated pamphlet, with full Informa
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Ml
tfapritte piaotcro.
Too Deep for Sponges.
“Yes, sponges ure certainly a very curious
form of life*. They teem to stand on tho
boumiitrv between ihe animal ami tho vege
table kingdom*, partaking i iomo degree of
tbe nature pf each/’
i lie speaker wm* Mr. A. Blunic.of Mansel.
lilume & < 0., npuagc dealer*, of New York,
Hint the Bceuo wu** wholesale, drug bouse in
Providence, .1. Time, the summer of ]BS4.
Surroundings, bale* and barrel* of *pougi—
which suggested hi* remark.
“H tlk a dump sponge,*' ho continued, “you
o<;n wlp* chalk murk from a board, but it
lukeioueof these (handing down an elegant
box from tho shelf) to drive the lumbago from
h man’* back.’’
“What are tbcyV” said 1,
“The best plasters on tb is planet,” answered
Mr. lilume; “they relieved me of lu mini go
alter tbe other alleged remedies hud proved
u-ebvs. They are tlcnson 1 * taped no I'lumeix,
and when you need anything of Ihe sort you
now know wiiut to Mfk for.”
Mr. HI lime’s opinion i* celioOd from else
where, as follows:
“I have never been troubled with lumbago
since using Benson’* BUstera.”—James Byrue,
Chicago, fll.
‘•I would smv to all sufferers from lumbago,
try what Benson’s fftsferswill do for >ou.” —
tieorge K. Hunt. 8 Kiuridge ( ourt. Chicago.
“I buffered from lumbago for 1M months. At
tiie end of that lime I \\ as led to try a Benson
Cluster. M ark the result: In twelve hour* / fpll
unit iv*id* <\f ti day and a half / wa* en
tirely free front all of the nympUmm. u Grate
fully yours, Crank G. Cearson, 525 Wabash
avenue, Chicago, 111.
“I bad n very severe attack of lumbago, iu
which I found Benson’s Clatters very effec
tual.”—M. A. Burbank, 181 Kiuzio street,
Chicago.
Asti to *ee the Three Red Seals. Imitations
of BeuHon’a Blaster are sold under similar
names. When buying Benson’s examine the
plaster yourself before it is wrajipcd up. Ibe
genuine has the Three Red Seals irudc mark
on its to* o. Look for the Three Hen Heals.
jUeftital.
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Debility, Premature I>ec)ine in Man. terrors
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from indiscretion or exeesses. A book for
every man. young, iniddle-hged and old. I
contains IP prescriptions for all acute and
chronic disease*, each one of which is invalua
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President of which, the lion. P. A. Bis***’l,
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ton. Mnot , who may In* consulted on nil dis
cases requiring nkill and xperiepee. Chronic
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skiHof nil other physicianst Ag* My A aspe
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KtH.ie.e of failure, fi MSI Itl !L ■
Mention thM paper.
Amputation of the Leg.
Money is Ihe universal necessity, and none
lint a cynic or a fool will affect to despise, it,
Mr. Abram Ellsworth, of Port Kwen, Cist r
county, N. Y., had realized tics truth. His
disease involved the whole of Ills thigh-bone,
and the suffering mail looked forward, not
n it Lout apparent reason, to death as ids only
deliverer. The family physicians relused to
amputate the limb, asserting that the opera
tion wo-du kill the patient on the spot. Dr.
OiteiU KENNEDY, of Rondout, N. Y., who
sun nonsuited, held a different opinion and
amputated the limit. The Doctor then ad
ministered freely Ids great Blood Specille
FAVORITE REMEDY to afford tone ami
strength to the system anil prevent the return
of tho disease, end Mr. Ellsworth remains to
this (lav ill Ihe bloom of health. This gentle
man’s disease was the offspring <tf foul hlood,
and Kennedy’s FAVORITE REMEDY puri
fied the hlood and restored to him the power
once more to enjoy his life. Arc you suffering
from any disease traceable to the same causeV
Try Favorite Remedy. Y’our druggist has it.
ONE DOLLAR a bottle. Hear in mind the
p cprielor's name and address: Dr. Vacul
KENNEDY, Rondout, N. Y.
To Keep the Blood Pure is the primppsl
end of Inventions ami discoveries in medicine.
To this object probably no one has contributed
more signally than Dr. David Kennedy, of
Rondout, N. Y., in the production of a medi
cine which has become famous under Llm tills
of the “Favorite Remedy.” It removes all
hn/iurlti** of the Hlood, regulates the dis
ordered Liver and Kidneys, cures Constipa
tion, Dyspepsia, and all diseases and weuk
m-HM H peculiar to females.
MY WIFE.
My wife baa been n great miflTrrer from
Catarrh. Several physician* ami vttrioiiN
patent iiiedleiiie* were reported 10, yet the
■ IImomm! rontinu*-if unituated, nothing appear
ing to make any inifireMlou upon it. Her
eonatilulion tinnlly beta rue implicate I, the*
jhilmmi luring in her blood.
I neeuwl a bottle of It. H. It an t p'nerd her
upon it* uao, MR(| tooiir fttirpriae the Improve
nielli begun at nti<*g 9 ami her rerovery mi
rapnl and complete. No other preparation
ever produced tmcJi u wonderful hang".
M. I*. PODUK,
Yarduiaater Georgia Uatlniad,
Atlanta, Ga.
A Ti. 4 nt A, June 15. I**4.
Poring the pant few m*fittm I have given
11. It. It revere teat* lit the l itre of BlomFllf
uml iitihe*ltHtiiglY pronoun*** it. a nafe.
mire, barm bn* uml |reedy hlood I'tirl ft** r,
full) nmrUing Hits CM’.nlideiice <•! tint public.
My e.ntomerM are delighted with ltefTeelr,
and the demand ha** o wonderfully increMeed
that I have l*eu compelled to buy by Up
groM, Mlt Id the hkht I leg Muml r‘fn*fy |
hitmtile. W A. Gll4 II N.M. llrUtfgPd
ror aale by osi;KOLA HU I I.KIt• l>rngytt.
Wbys" j
gilding!
h ... ~ a. *
Jfsuv/v Are Instant fee.
“Rich as gold leaf.”—.A’ste York Herald.
This splendid Gliding Is tbe eg set color of
English sterling Gold. It Is very easily ap
plied with a brush, and may be usxd by the
most me .perieneed amateur.
ItLHY’a GILDING i valuable for Gliding
Household Grnanisnta, Furniture, Frames,
Coraiees, Haakets, Fane, Decorative i’aistiug,
etc.
,% Osmsl’t Hair Brush In Rack Itov.
Aay one can use It. Frier 50 cents.
Ask for KUBY’g GILDING. Refuse all
in Isoilli tea.
Sold by all Dealers In Art MaterlaD.
NkW to BMjMIUI’AIi MAHbKACTURINO CtL,
Pm oioDflo.
IT IS NO MYSTERY!
But a fact kuowit to Krcrybotty in or about Savannah, that at
Weistein’s Poplar Dry Goods Honse
Everybody nets tho Very Best- Goods at the Lowest Prices, and always receives
courteous attention. It is well known tiiat we never deoeive the jiulilio, never mis
represent goods, and always come up to our advertisements. The Spring season is
about ended, and wo have determined to eloso out our entire stock of seasonable
goods, and to accomplish tho result, we have made such immense reductions in prices
that it is absolutely necessary for you to see it, (or we admit it almost loj)ks impossi
ble. Yet wo have made those heavy reductions aud meau to stick to H, as wo aro
luliy determined to sell off the bulk of our iuimcusu stock.
Mo Nonsense, Solid Facts!
Our DRESS GOODS in low grades wo have reduced 25 per cent.; In line gr illes 60 per
cent, from ferner prices.
Our Pluck DRESS SILKS we have roduood 25 fier cent.; our < oiored DRESS 81 I.KS 5®
por oeut.
Our t> ATI Ns ami lilpit'ADKS we have reduced 40 to 50 por cent.
Our i A It A sol.S amt L'M HKEI.LAS wo havo reduced 25 to so per cent., according to their
desirability.
Our line LINKS DAMASKS, tine NAPKINS, DOYLIES and TOWELS we have reduced
53 per cent.
Our.staple 1,1 N K N DAMASKS, NAPKINS and TOW KM wn have reduced 25 percent.
Our M \ IISKI I ,I.KS tjl' 11 .Ti nu<t If an 'V BK DSP UK AUS w have reduced 40 per rout.
Our SUKKTINGS, SIGHTINGS, I’l LLOWC ASK COTTONS and DIAPERS we have re
duced from *JS tu 50 por cent.
Our I.INKN It AN Dh Kilt'll I KFS for Ladles ami Gents we have reduced fully from 38 to
50 per mil.
our LACKS and KMHKOIDKKIKS aro reducod, the low grades 35and the fine grades6®
per cent.
Our ALL OVKK LACKS and KMHHOIDI.RIKS fur Yokes and Sleeves we sell at any
price, almost at -half their former prices.
our Ladies’, M issen' and Gents' GOSH A M Kit HD It 11 lilt (OATS are reduced 33 per cont. '
Our Ladies’, Misses’ and Gents’ Host, we offer ulextraordinary more especially
in line goods.
Our GLOVE DKPA ItTMENT is unequaled in the city, and our prices are reduced to one*
half.
Our FANS arc new and novel, as well as staple, from the Ic. Palmetto to the llnest umh.
choicest.
Our EM It I*ol DKRY SILKS we Continue to sell at Pic. for 25 assorted Skeins.
Our line of .1 HUSKYS arc immense, wn arc selling 1 hem at any price to c.le ir the stock.
Cur CORSET.S arc our pride. Wo liave 75 of the best stylos in use, nnd give the best fop
the money.
Our INDIA I.AWNS at 5n., Sc., 10c. and 12'vo, are bounties; our 12'.je. LA WNS aro panel
to any at 20c.
Our W lIITE GOODS stock capnot be excelled in quality, nor approached in prices.
OUE PKICES ARE UNAPPROACHABLE f
Wc Will Make a Few Quotations:
Yard wide SHEETINGS, which were He. now 3c; WA MSI TTA SHIRTINGS, worth UV,e,
now *<■; n 4 UNBLEACHED SHEETINGS, worth 2(h\ now lie; a-4 HLKACIIKD HIIKET- '
ING-. worth 2bc, now IZ'.c; Bent Standard CALICOES, worth Bc, now sc; Best Mourning
i A LlcoEx. worth H, , now oUo; Kant Colored UNION I*l NEN LAWN, worth fl'ic, now 3W;; ,
I'D' \ and VII TitlU A LA iVNH, worth He. now sc; one Job lot of perfect Gents’ II Yi.K
HOSE nt le; a large lot of Ladies’ Fanny HOSE, worth li'.c, now Sc; Ladies’ CHEMISE,
worth J.'ic, now tie; Ladies’ SKI Rl’S, Worth 60r, now Sse; < hildren’s DRAWERS, worth 40e.
now Ist'.; CORSETS, worth 4he, now 25c; PILLOW CASK UOTTONM, worth lie, now > 4 c;
CltEI’E VEILS aud CREPE liy the yard at oipt-lmlf value.
Do Not Delay, But Secure the Bargains at Once.
David Weisbein,
158 BROUGHTON NTRFF.T, SAVANNAH, OA*
Jfiuto anl> Stioro.
STRAW AND FELT HATS. LOW SHOES AND SLIPPERS]
A. N. NICHOLS’,
li!H BROUGHTON STREET.
HATH.
The BEST II AT for HOYS at Fifty cents.
GKN IV MACKINAWS, latest shapes.
MEN’S FELT MATS, Black and Pearl color.
Rough and Ready (Strawj for Mon und Hays.
for .lamos Moans* $3 Shoos for Centa’ Wear.
furnioiitng ffionfa.
LOOK! LOOK!
-AT-
LaFAR’S
BOYN’ HATH,
At 25c. ami 50c.
Men’s Fine Mackinaw.
DUNLAP’S FINE HATS a specialty,
CHINESE HELMETS,
The best Sun Hats made.
G A U/. K I: NIK It V KS IS at 50c„ OnoJE ANS
DRAW Lit* |ii per dozen.
Lisle Thread Underwear.
IL\ LlllllGG \ N NlllltTH end DRAWERS.
LISLE Til It E A D and HALHItIUGAN HALF
Husk.
HEMSTITCHED HAN DK E lICHIKES,
plain mid fanny bordered.
WHITETIKS, isc,. to 25c. tier dozen.
Extra Long sUSI’E.NDKH3, Extra Large
IIA IS.
Hammocks! Hammocks! Hammocks!
From ft upward; the best made at U 2.
SATCHELS. V AI.ISKs and 11 AND HAG*,
SUN L M BUELL,V*. HLWGY L M blt ELLAS.
WHITE VEST*. USES DUSTERS, any
thing needed by Gentlemen, at
LaFAR’S,
n HULL STREET.
S fwtlfllw.
HOLMES’SURE CURE
MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE
Cures lll)rding Gums, Ulcers, Sure Mouth.
Sore Throat, Lienns*** the Tselh aud Purifies
the Breath; used and rreiimm-udrd by lead
ing dentists. Prepared ti Da*. J. P. AW.
It. Iliil.ME-, Dentists, M,icon, Gn. For sale
by all druggist)) and drnl:*t
IHeftirinai.
npmuHAe.T^BED
Ul IUIVI THIN FROM BUSINESS
A I COM MUNILATIONS STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL. roll PAM PIILKTF
aud < KKTiriCATKH address GEO. A.
BRADFORD, M. D„ Druggist and
Ulouuia- ,t, I*, o. Box |(M. Columbus,
| BHOEH.
I Kull line of UKNTH’ and L.AUI KH’ SUI’PEUS’
The best I. A PIES’ KIP HU'ITON at I*.
The hesl LA PI EH’ KIP HUTTON at 3 50.
1 A Rood LAIIEh’ KOX POL. at*l.
iUutciiCD anft ge uirirg. *
Honesty is tie Best Policy !l
This should tie the rule of every merchant. I
It has been mine for 7 years—all my lile—and
I bare Never Deviated from tiiat
And Novor Shall!
The public Is convinced that it does not re
quire to be a judge of Diamonds or Jewelry,
when they purchase of me, as I lake good care
of even the most ignorant. I agree with what
is said by others, that there are unscrupulous
peonle in th* business who have no regard aa
to what karat or quality goods they sell, or
How Much They Overcharge
Their Customers.
Hut experience proven that the man who
treats the public with justice, that is,
Neither Here hen nor Overdiartres,
lit Immint to no a bum hum. My
business lias steadily grown sad is still in
creasing, for the public appreciates
FAIR and HONEST DEALING.
Having a very lurge and desirable stock of
DIAMOND*. WATUIKH umi JHWKLKY on
hand, and owing lo the fact that Hie close of
the season 1s near at hand, I shall give greater
bargains thnu ever before to reduce stock.
M. STERNBERG,
K>7 nitOt'DHTftS MTKKKT.
*t>&* £Uatrr, *u.
Soda Water Factory.
IHKHEWITH iufurm ray friends and tho
l-olillc generally that lam now prepared lo
till all orders for Soda Walrr, (linger Ala,
•Sarsaparilla. Svrups. etc., from mi new place.
No. 2ai Hir street, near wesPßroad. Solicit*
Inga share of their kind patronage, I hope to
merit the saom bv m, endeavor to fumi-h
only the I .its 1 artloles. At on low hr mall will
receive prompt attention. Kenpeetfully,
iEO. KBRKItW KIN.
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