The Savannah tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, December 11, 1886, Image 1

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Sawuufli (tribune. Published by the Tarauxß Publishing Os.) J. H. DEVEAUX, Maxageb. J. R. W. WHITE, Solicito*. J VOL. 11. McCILiJS&MERCER 199 Broughton St., Cor. Montgomery. Parlor Goods, Bed Boom Suhs, DINING AND KITCHEN FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, SHADES, MATS & RUGS ! PARLOR STOVES, COOKING STOVES AND RANGES. STOVEWARE, CLOCKS, PICTURES, &c. Be sure to call and buy goods at lowest prices to be found in the city. t S. W. ALTICK. W. B. ALTICK. H. R. ALTICK. D. A. ALTICK’S SONS SUCCESSORS TO D. A. ALTICK & SONS. HEADQUARTERS EOR BUGGIES, PHAETONS, CARRIAGES AND CELEBRATED McCALL WAGON, New Goods arriving from our factory by every steadier. BROUGHTON AND WEST BROAD STREETS, SAVANNAH, CEORCIA. mini in.ll»hi ■mu uh.i ~ n ■ mi i mm.u—-rrn—i ■■■—■ iihiii i JOYCE & HUNT, ~W liitaker Street. Savannah, G-eorgfia —Exclusive Dealers in this Territory for the Incomparable— I®w lea® Sewtog Macha® The only Machine that has a Perfect Automatic Bobbin Winder. * Which enables the operator to wind a perfect bobbin without any aid from the operator. —ALSO AGENT lOI? The Mock and New Engianfl Pianos, AND —1 Kimball Clough & Warren Palace Organs, , Th Pta to Buy th MMs forth hast Money —IS AT- TEEPLE & CO.’S, 103 and 195 Hroughton St, CALL AT OUR STORE I If yon want Furniture, Mattings, Window Shades, Refrigerators, Bed-Springs, Mattresses, Cooking Stoves, or anything in the Housekeeping Line, it will pay you to call on us before buying elsewhere. New Goods Constantly Arriving. TEEPLE & CO., 193 and 195 Broughton St., Between Jefferson and Montgomery. JOBPRINTING Neatly and Expeditiously EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE I SAVANNAH GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11.1886. A Little While. If I could see thee once again. A little while, once more, Thy tender heart I might regain And my lost peace restore; You would forget the scorn you felt— So penitent I’d be. You would forgive while low I knelt, If I might only sea Thy bright eye? smile on me: Only a little while, Only once more. If I should see thee once again And find thea stern and cold; An ever dead —ah, bitter pain— Th ■ bright, strong love of old; Yea, even while I felt your scorn, —All bitter though it be— And my sad heart with grief were torn I'd welcome misery, If I thy face could see: Only a little while, Only once more. W. A. Hunt, in Detroit Free Press. SUSIE DALTON’S RIDE. We were sitting out on the broad piazza—grandma and I—and as Barney went by with the horses to water at the spring grandma said; “Why! how much that horse does re mind me of Blucher!” I saw by her peculiar smile that she recalled some pleasant reminiscence of the long ago. “Do tell me!” I said coaxingly. She laid down the scarlet stocking she was knitting for Pearlie, and let her eyes wander to the hills, golden with the October sunlight, as she dreamingly went back over the long stretch of years inter vening. “Let me see, it’s sixty years and over, for I was coming on fifteen and Susie was two years older, Susie was an orphan— withseven brothers and sisters who had found places among relatives and friends —living with Weymouth Brewster, her cousin Pauline’s husband, who was a merchant in Lime Rock. She was a quiet, capable girl, and they set great store by her. Her sister Bailie had mar ried during the summer and gone to housekeeping over in Massachusetts, and Susie had been longing to go and see her for quite a while. So when it came a slack spell on the farm, late in Septem ber, Weymouth told Susie she could take Blucher—■ a great roan horse—and go over to her sister’s one daj and come back the next. “Susie was wild with delight, as she ran over to get me to come and help along with the work during her absence. She did look sweet, to be sure, as she came out with her batiste dress of soft, silvery gray, her jaunty velvet hat, turned up to show the pearl satin lining, with its os trich plumes a-nodding in the wind. You see, that hat was bought on pur pose for her in New York, when Wey mouth went after goods. There was not another in town to compare with it. “Well, the hired man held the horse while Weymouth helped her on, and she was off down the road while we were calling out good-bye to her. Women in those days mostly rode horseback when they went anywhere, and Susie went on< happy as a bird, until she got over the state line, when her earcaught the sound of drums and fifes, and her horse began going as though he was ‘a-walking on eggs.’ Then Susie remembered al! at : once that it was ‘general trainin’ ’ day over in Massachusetts. “Iler horse had been owned by an officer of the troopers for several years, and always stepped in time to music. She spied the troopers now on a cross | street making for the main street. If they only would pass before she reached them! She tried to restrain her horse, so that he would not overtake them, but he heard the martial strains, and as 1 though the sweet elixir had filled all his | veins with life, he pricked up his ears and swept on like the overwhelming leap j of a cataract, to join them. Oa he went, never pausing at the rear of the glittering | column, on, past the array of men sitting 1 so proudly with'n their saddles, on, t<> the very front, and there, beside the tall i form of the gallant captain, he deignc l | at length to form in line and sweep oa to the martial tread of inspiring strains; j for, 10l he would have his accustomed j place! “Poor Susie! what she do? . She longed for a ma - have the j earth open and swallow her up, as it did Korah of old. There was a perceptible smile on more than one lip, as the men glanced at their perturbed captain, who was an old bachelor of the most ortho dox kind—rich and hard-hearted —yet terribly afraid of all women. When Captain Drew saw how terribly fright ened Susie was, and that, try as she would, she could not make that incorrig ible horse budge, he pitied her, and essayed to say something comforting. “He saw,too, that she was very come ly to look upon, and modest ami very tastefully dressed. He kept looking more and more. Finally,a bright thought came to him, and he said, very respect fully: ‘Miss, if you are willing, I will exchange horses with yon, as mine I am using for the first time in this way, and he has not become so attached to martial music as yours.’ So, helping Susie off, and exchanging saddles, he inquired her name and place of residence that he might come to exchange them again. “Well, Susie went on and had her vis it out. We all wondered a great deal when she came back on a strange horse, yet she never tried to enlighten us any. Weymouth said, ‘Susicmade a very good bargain in trading horses, and any of them are at her disposal if she does as well every time.’ “But the next day when the handsome captain came driving up and we saw Su sie’s blushes, we knew just as well how it would end as we did the next May when we saw her stand up beside the captain in the little church, while the solemn words were said which made them one. “Yes, I was one of the bridesmaids, and wore a silk dress for the first time. Well, Captain Drew took her to a home of love and plenty, and she said many years afterwards, ‘I never had cause to regret my first ride with the troopers.’ That was her first ride but not the last. “For, every general training, the men would have their captain bring out his sweet wife just as they had formed in line on the village green, and the way they would cheer her! So this is what I thought of when I saw the horse that looked like Blucher.”— Good Cheer. A Monster Alaskan Glacier* Heading for Glacier Bay we found a flood of bitter cold water so filled with floating ice that it was quite impossible to avoid frequent collisions with musses of more or less magnitude. There was an almost continual thumping along the ship’s side as the paddle struck heavily the ice fragments which we found it im possible to avoid. There was also a dull reverberation as of distant thunder that rolled over the sea to us, and when we learned that this was the crackling of the ice packs in the gorges we thought with increasing solemnity of the majesty of the spectacle we were about to wit ness. Thus we pushed forward bravely toward an ice wall that stretched across the top of the bay from one high shore to the other. This wall of ice, a precipi tous bluff or palisade, is computed to be from 200 too 500 feet in height. It is certainly nowhere less than 200 feet, but most of it is far nearer 500 feet above sea level, rising directly out of it, over hanging it and chilling the air percepti bly. Picking our way to within a safe distance of the glacier, we cast anchor, and were free to go our ways for a whole glorious day. According to Professor John Muir—for whom the glacier is de servedly named—the ice wall measures three miles across the front. Ten miles further back it is ten miles in breadth. Sixteen tributary glaciers unite to form the one.— San Jfyanciteo Chronicle. Fighting Ants. The jolliest sport among the juvenile lienoites is fighting ants. They scrape itp a shovelful of these busy insects from one colony and car; y them to the next nearest colony, dumping them together. '1 he result is immediately a pitched b ittle, which is fought most viciously, the little warriors literally tearing each other to pieces, until the last of the in terlopers is dead. They fight in pairs, or in threes, fours, and bunches, as it happens to come handiest, but it is always “fight to finish,” and no quart** asked or shown. — San Francisco CuU. ($1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months; 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies | 5 cents —In Advance. The Shark and the Pearl Divert. “The reason why big strikes in pearls j don’t create a boom, as a gold discovery would,” said an old hand at the bust ness, “is because most everybody knows the danger of it, and if you don’t super- 3 intend it yourself you Uro at the mercy of a pack of the biggest thieves that ever • lived. The principal dangers are sharks, iSj rays ami drowning. The sharks are tho tfl worst, and some grounds have old man- fl eaters that hang about them lor years, atJ’S least the men think so. “I remember one season we got on tho grounds early. I was owner of an outfit 9 comprising ten men, but when we go}’‘fl ready not a man would go over. I didn’t blame them, as they pointed out tho fin of a big man-eater that was swimming about. 1 wouldn’t have gone over myself for all the pearls on the farm. The shark had a notch on his top fin where some one had put a bullet through, and one num slid it had eaten his brother, another that his cousin was killed the year before by the same brute, and you would have thought that every man in the place had lost a relative of some kind, so I con cluded it would be a charity to put thow old murderer on the retired list. I had a harpoon with me that had barbs that fitted into the iron so that it would go in easily, and then when u slight pull was made they would set back. This J rigged to flpole and fastened to a line about one hundred feet long, having it fastened to a keg. Heaving the toggery into the bout 1 got one of the men to pull me to the shark that was swimming around and around, and as it came by the boat I put the spear into its back as well as I knew how. ; “We didn’t bother about hauling in, but just threw over tin; rope and keg i and let him go and that’s the last we ever see of the •>! 1 man-enter. I reckon he ain’t stopped yet, us we kept hearing of the keg up along the coast for several weeks.”— San Francisco Call. Driver Ants. There are certain ants which show wonderful intelligence, and the “drivel- ‘ ants” not only build boats, but lauuci/ them, too; only, these boats are formed ‘ •of their own bodies. They arc called “drivers” because of their ferocity. Nothing can stand before the attack of these little creatures. Large pythons. J have been killed by them in a single ' night, while chickens, lizards, end others-' animals in Western Africa flee from them in terror. To | rotect themselves from ; the heat, they erect arches under which numerous armies of them pass in safety. \ Sometimes the arch is made of grass and. earth gummed together by some secre tion, and again it is formed by the bodies of the larger ants, which hold themselves- < together by their strong nippers, while the workers pass undenthem. At certain times of the year, freshets, , oveillow the country inhabited by tho i “drivers,” and it is then that these ants i go to sea. The rain comes suddenly, and the walls of their houses are broken -i in by the flood, but in .teal of coming to ‘ the surface in scattered hundreds and being swept off to destruction, out of - ruins rises a black ball that rides* | safely on the water and drifts away. At the first warning of danger, the little creatures rush together, and form a solid ball of ants, the weaker in the centre; often this ball is larger than a base ball, and in this way they float about until they lodge against some tree upon the branches of which they are soon safe and sound. Information for Ilk Father. “Father,” he said, as he sat on his , parent’s knee; “have we got lots of money ?” “A pretty fair sum, my boy.” “Did we make it in Canada?” “In Canada? How could we make it in Canada ?” . 1 “That’s what I told the Smith but he stuck to it that it was the same as making it in Canada. He said you com promised with the bank for half, and was allowed to return. Father, I—” “You go to bed, sir,” exclaimed the indignant father; “and if lever hear of your playing with that Smith boy again, J I’ll have your hide on the .'enoe.”— If’uU j Street Newt. NO. 8.