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VOL. 11.
XEWLY fitted up.
laboring” MEN’S HOME
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor,
182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA.
Meals at all hours. Choicest brands of
rines, liquors and cigars always on hand.
BE\NETT’S
HOMAN HAIR EMPORIUM.
Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order.
Also Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls,
Frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and
make up ladies’ own combings in any
desirable style. We have character Wigs
and Beards of all kinds to rent for Mas
querades and entertainments. Ladies and
children Hair cutting and shampooning.
Also, hair dressing at your residence if
required. We cut and trim bangs in all
of the latest styles. Cash 'paid for cut
hair and combings of all kinds. All goods
willingly exchanged if not satisfactory.
Kid Gloves Cleaned.
R. M. BENNETT,
No. 56 Whitaker St. Savannah, Ga.
FRANK UN F. JONEB,
AT STALL NO. 31, IN THE MARKET,
Announces to his friends and the public
that he keeps on hand a fresh supply of
the best Beef, Veal and Mutton, also all
kinds'of game when in season, and will
be glad to wait on his customers as usual
with politeness and promptness. His
prices are reasonable and satisfaction is
guaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
DON'T FORGET. STALL NO. 31.
CREEN GROCERY.
o
HENRY FIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
GRE ENG ROCER
WOULD inform his friends and the
public that he still holds the fort
t his old stand corner South Broad and
East Boundry streets, where he keeps on
hand constantly, a full supply of fresn
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable—to suit the times.
Goods delivered if desired.
Washington’s Cat Ductor.
There is a cat doctor who runs a drug
store in Washington who, it is said is
doing the most thriving practice of any
alleviator of the ills of the feline and
canine races of any man in his profession
in the whole country. This physician
has the highest class of callers of any
professional man in the city, as only the
most aristocratic can afford to have an
expert wait upon their pets. At times
as many as three or four carriages owned .
■ by the most, refined and wealthy people •
at the national capital, are drawn up in
front of the drug store and office, and
his business is so large that customers
with their patients have to wait their
turns, like men in barber shops. It is
seldom that a man enters the drug store
or office for the purpose of receiving a
professional call from the doctor. They
are almost invariably women.
I’he doctor was philosophizing yester
day to some gentlemen on the general
ails of cats and dogs, during which he j
stated that more trouble came from a
lack of fresh air and exercise than any- |
thing else He especially depreciated
the fact that these household pets were
guarded so closely in the house, and |
were not allowed to romp around like !
children.-
“I could name," he said, ‘-families in j
this citv that, guard as closely their cats
and dogs as they do their children.
Large numbers of them have cribs and
cradles and lounges made for their pets,
and cushioned in the most comfortable ,
manner possible. At one place I visited |
recently I found a fine old Maltese
reclining on a pillow of down. When ,
I asked for it for the purpose of making
an examination the lady of the house
lifted it as carefully as if it was a tiny
babe. She had delicate spoons and
forceps and a doche to inject medicine
into the poor thing s ears. 1 here was a
swab of bilk and cotton to cleanse its
throat, as-it had had something like
diptheria, and when 1 spoke of a severe
medicine as the only hope for recovery
she threw up her hands in that
same horror mothers do when extreme
measures are to be reserted to to save
their children.”
Joseph Messenger, of Altoona, Pa.,
found a nest of six young rats in a bar
r <d. lie put his cat in the barrel that
she might slaughter them, but she thep,
and there adopted the ratlings, and en
deavored to carry them away in her
■ mouth aa she would her own kittens.
An Imperious Favorite.
I The themes may struggle which we daily
choose,
With some fine motive, over cloudsand all;
j But each its element of charm will lose
1 If on the ear one word should fail to fall,—
’Tis Love!
i The poet wins us by his breezy call
To verses gathered into graceful sheaves;
But if he fail of loving, there’s no thrall
To keep us long—eich hasting reader
leaves,
For Love!
| We mingle with our neighbors every day,
And talk of ail the world, yet round again
! We veer anon to tread the same old way
I Leading to thoughts of the entrancing
pain—
, Dear Love!
—[Rose H. Lathrop.
THE LOCK BRACELET.
1 _____
“This, then, is to seal our engage
ment?” she said, adjusting the bracelet
upon her snovA wrist. “Yes," 1 re
sponded; “henceforth our lives are
linked,” and I turned and kissed her.
I had purchased it that morning,
partly from my own admiration of the
design, but chiefly to gratify Bessie’s
fondness for rubies. It was, indeed, a
i novelty, consisting of several coils of
I gold, which fastened with a lock literally
composed of rubies, and that scintillated
in the twilight like sparks of burning
fire.
Ah, how vividly the rcmemberance of
that summer evening comes back to me!
. The low wind sweeping up fitfully from
■ the river, the hum of the locust and the
! rustle of the maple leaves, all played an
’ accompaniment to my heart’s love-song,
as I acknowledged Bessie Mayfield as my
bethrothed bride. Her real name was
Bessie Mason, but bearing a striking re
semblance to my sister, and having
been left an orphan at an early age, she
was taken into our home and hearts, and
had ever since worn our name.
We had been sweethearts from our
cradles. Our honfes bordered one upon
the other, and it is not singular that, the
interlacing of our hearts should strength
en with our years.
I stood there in the shadows of the
trees, watching her ascend the long
stairway, and wondering if I was worthy
!of her. She had one of those gentle,
shrinking natures that stveetens and
softens every home, I used to call her
my little rivulet, and to-day, as I look
back upon the play-ground of the past, I
find it green and fresh from her influ
ence.
**:!:*♦ *
Lilian Lawrence was coming on the
midnight train to spend the vacation at
Richmond, so I ordered the carriage
driver to cal! at 11.50 p. m., went im
mediately to my office, and sat down to
read. g
Fancy came to me on fairy wings, and
beguiled the tedious h urs. Vision af
ter vision came before me in a kind of
panoramic display, and B.ssie’s sweet
face smiled from the canvas of each pic
ture. Now she promenaded the veranda
with my sister Grace and confessed the
secret of her heart—her love for me.
Now she displayed the engagement
.bracelet, disclosing the charm of its
lock. Flash after flash of the rubies
penetrated my drowsy mind, until I saw
the headlight of the engine and heard
the shrill whistle announce the arrival of
Miss Lawrence.
The moment I saw her I feared her.
She was beautiful, tall and graceful, her
movements willowy, and her eyes soft
and slumberous, that alternated shades
,of brown and black. I felt their power
and tried to avert my gaze, but I could
not. My heart served as a focus that
: concentrated the mellow beams of her
eyes.
“Let me relieve you of your parcels,”
I said, trying to shake off the weight
that burdened me, and at the same time
1 assisting her into the carriage.
“You were expecting me then, to
i night?” she said. “I feared my tele
: gram would not reach you. Has Arthur
Hastings arrived ? He was to have met
me at Bellwood, but as he did not, I
supposed he was awaiting me here.”
“He has not,” I replied, trying to
make myself engaging, but scarcely hear
ing her words for the melody of her
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL •>. 1881.
voice, which seemed almost like a
Caress.
“He has already declared himself a
rival of yours, having fallen in love with
the picture 1 have of Bess,” sho con
tinued, talking in a most familiar strain,
and seeming amused, I fancied, at my
embarrassment.
The carriage drove up just then to the
steps of the veranda, and the girls be
ing there to receive her, I made my bow
and drove rapidly down town to my
office.
Arthur Hastings came three days af
terwards, dressed in his summer broad
cloth, and supporting a gold-headed
cane. A more offensive fop had never
entered the town, and I hated him as
much as I adored Miss Lawrence.
* * + * *
The next few weeks were interspersed
with boating, fishing and driving; 1 of
or o r* i
course, escorting Miss Lawrence, and
Hastings playing the devoted to Grace.
I had scarcely spoken to Bessie since
the night of our engagement , yet I knew
she was true to her vow, although J had
wavered.
Each morning found tie at Miss Law
rence’s side, each twilight at her feet.
Treacherous as I believed her eyes, they
tortured me, and left a scar upon my
memory and upon my heart.
Bessie, must have foreseen the disaster
that threatened me, for she sought ray
society at every available opportunity.
In the blindness of my love for another
I evaded and neglected her.
One day we had arranged to have a
picnic in the woodland that lay across
the river. I arose early, preparatory to*
completing the plans for the day, and
walked out upon the lawn, which was
dewy and refreshing. Some one came
up softly to my side. It was Bessie,
prettily dressed in a robe of light blue
muslin, and a cluster of pink roses lay
upon her bosom as if listening to the
beating of her heart.
That picture! Can I ever forgetit?
No. Time may lessen my vision and
darken the sunlight of my life, yet that
face has looked, and will ever look
sadly upon me from the chamber of my
soul.
“Are you going to Denham’s Woods
to-day with-Lilian?” she timidly in
quired, her voice trembling and a blush
making crimson her cheek.
“Yes,” I replied and turned away
from her, looking in the direction of the
grounds. She crept away like a wounded
fawn, and 1 saw her no more.
The day passed away pleasantly. No
cloud prophesied the tragedy the twi
light would disclose. Late in the after
noon Miss Lawrence and I climbed to a
grassy knoll overlooking the river, and
watched the sun go down, which tinted
the glassy surface of the river with ail
the glory of an autumn forest. My soul
reveled in the poetry of the scene, and I
was drifting away from her, when sud.
denly she turned her eyes upon me, and
in the tenderest voice said:
“Such a disappointment your sister
could not attend to-day. H r presence,
however, is not missed by one," and .she
pointei to a skiff some distance off upon
the river. “It is Arthur Hastings and
Bessie; they have been upon the river
the entire afternoon;” and her voice
trembled just the slightest, as an aspen
leaf will quiver when kissed by a zephyr.
A party or friends came up then, and,
excusing myself, I hurried off towards
the river to make inquiries as to my sis
ter’s absence.
Nearer and nearer came the skiff. Too
well I knew that figure in pale muslin, I
the large flower-crowned bat, the pink
roses, and—and—the lock bracelet. Al- |
though her face was turned from me, !
every feeling that animated it was re- |
fleeted in Arthur Ilasting’s countenance. '
He loved her, and as I heard him utter I
the words, all the old boyish love came ;
bounding back into my heart with a ;
twofold intensity. Di 1 she care for ;
him? Was she untrue? And driven to
desperation at the mere thought, I drew
my revolver and crouched behind a
clump of reeds. They were close be
side me now; I heard the skiff trail
against the shore; and, with the ven
geance of a tiger, I sprang up and fired
once, twice!
“Fred Mayfield, what have you done?”
exclaimed Arthur, and lifted the lifeless 1
figure of—my sister from the skiff.
“Oh, God!” I cried, and in the niton- ,
sity of my agony I swooned and fell— <
not into the river, but upon the floor of ;
my office. The shock aroused mo from j
a horrible dream!
1 looked at my watch. In five min
utes the driver came and I met Miss
Lawrence in reality, whose summer staj
proved a delightful event, and whose
friendship ripened into such a state that
she became Bessie’s bridesmaid before
the close of the suiiiniex
Do you wonder that I shuddered when
Arthur locked a companion bracelet to
Bessie’s upon my sister’s arm?—[Frank
Leslie’s.
Schools of White Whales.
Schools of white whale—-beluga or
grampus—-are the fust of the cetacean ;
family that appear along the Alaskan
shores when the ice begins to break up.
Their gleaming white color is sensibly
visible as they gracefully cleave the dark
green watersofthe sea. Following the ice
pack as it drifts to north and west, these
grampus seem to be the lorcrunners of
their gigantic lidhthcrs, the bow -head |
whale ba’tena, in their passage to the ■
northern waters. In bunting these white
whales the natives on Kotzebue soun I
display great iftgenu.ty. A fleet of kiacks I
spread into a semicircle inc oses the j
school, gradually driving the affrighted
fish into shallow water, until, being un
able to escape by reason of grounding
upon the beach, they fall easy victims to
the spears or harpoons of their hunters.
On the coast to the north of the sound
the rifle again serves as a weapon to kill
the beluga.
The Mutes have a curious custom
which is observed whenever the first
white whale of the season is killed. '
After the carcass is brought on shore the :
oldest male of the village or hunting
party sits upon the beach, and, facing j
the dead whale, intones a scries of iuvo- ,
cations to the deceased, imploring its j
spirit not to return to the sea, and
thereby warn other members of his fam
ily against his captors. Small portions ,
of the lip and fins are cut off and buried i
in the earth. Before this ceremony (
takes place no one is allowed to com- i
mence stripping the blubber or working ,
upon the body. When a seal is brought j
ashore it is laid upon its back and some, |
fresh water is poured over its head, so j
that the spirit will not go back to the j
sea and warn off the other phocee. ;
White whale blubber resembles lim
burger cheese in taste, while the flesh, if
of a calf, is tender and palatable. The
fins, when boiled and covered with
vinegar, are an excellent substitute for
pigs’ feet.—[Saa Fraycisco Chronicle.
How Eggs Are Utilized.
Egg soap is made from the yolk of
eggs by the Tartars of Eastern Russia.
Album ui is made from the white of
eggs, and egg oil from the yolk. E.ig |
pomatum is also made. Egg oil is used j
for oiling egg leather and wool in the '.
wool mills. Egg albumen sills for about I
75c per lb in France, while blood albu- [
men is worth only 25c per lb. The >
yolks of eggs are also preserved in the
form of a powder, which is used in
bakeries and confectioners. The yolk
may also be preserved in glycerine and
salicylic acid in the liquid shape, and
is used in tanneries in this form. In
Russia, over a million dozen are
oo
annually used for these manufacturing i
purposes, their cost being from 5 to 10c
per dozen.
The Bee’s Sting.
A Canadian naturalist has found out
that the bee’s sting is not alone for giv
ing stinging icprooi to those who med
dle with or offend it, but it is used to
cap the comb and infuse the formic acid
which gives to the honey its keeping
qualities. This formic acid not only
Leips the honey to keep, but when in
jected into a playful boy helps him to
keep —a poultice on the afflicted part.
Sometimes it keeps hirn home from
school, and at any rate serves as a warn
ing to keep off the honey bee’s private
grounds without a permit at am ped with
a capital B.—[tufting#.
($1.25 Per Annnni: 75 cent* for Six Months;
-? 50 cents Thr> c Mouths; Single Copies
I 5 cents —In Advance.
Soldiers of the Shah.
The Persian soldier, even on state oc-'T J
casions, presents generally a rather ludl ’
crons appearance, says St. James’ Ga- fll
zette. His uniform is of cotton cloth, ji||
and mostly of a deep blue color. It
made of what we call shirting, and when dflJ
new is very suitable clothing in a warm ■
country. But soon the military buttons n[
begin to disappear and are replaced by 5 j
substitutes of all sorts, shapes, colors jft
and sizes. The hair disappears from the- |:T
warrior's sheepskin sfiako, which quickly ! i
trows shabby on account of his habit- JB
nally using it as a pillow. Moreover,,
the foot coverings of no two men in the
regiment are alike, mid the whole crew ■
presents a melancholy appearance, II
But yet the Persian soldier docs the
best he can. Previous to a review or
festal parade hemiy be seen carefully pre- 'a
paring a plume of white feathers, pro- fl
cured from the nearest domestic fowl, fl
and binding th :n to a piece of stick, fl
When this martial plume has attained | X
Ibe size of a lamp brush he triumphantly fl
affixes it to a shako. On the occasion of ’j
official illuminations composite fl
candles are served out by the local gov- fl
ernor at the rate of one to each man. ■
The colonel has, of course, a greater num- fl
ber of men on his list than ever make an 1
appemance; he keeps the difference. >fl
The other officers appropriate half the ■
remaining candles. The non-coiumis- fl
ioned officers eat (1. e., steal) a certain fl
proportion ; and at length one candle is fl
served out to < very five men. This is fl
divid'd into five portions, a new wick is . g
inserted; and, when the regiment is I
paraded, at a given signal a box of I
matches is passed round, mid the regi- I
ment triumphantly presents arms with a I
lighted candle in each man’s musket as I
per general order. |
The pay of the Persian soldier is J
nominally seven tomans (£2 15») per
annum mid rations. He is lucky if ho :
gets half iis pay, which does not reach I
him till it has passed through the hands ,
o' many persons, his superiors. But hi# *
rations of three mid a half pounds of ft
bread a day are quite another matter.
If his rations are tampered with the sol
dier mutinies at once, and there is no
atrocity of which the Persian soldier, ||
robbed of his rations, is incapable.
' Iggfl
The Extremes of City Life.
Is city life favoiuble to women? In , i
one respect, yes; in others, most cer- ft
tainly no. 1 had the curiosity to u-k
the head of one of New York’s great |
dry goods firms the other day if he ; 'i
could give me any idea of the yearly ag- J
gregates of the bills of his heaviest custo- d
rners. Twenty-five thousand dollars, he f
told me, one woman had spent with him .
within a twelve month, and several
others had grown poorer to the tunc of <■
$20,000 to $15,000. Thirty thousand dol- s O
lursisnot unheard of as the price of “i,
the dress and toilet equipments of an
extravagant city’s extravagant dames.
At the other end of the social scale the *1
unwomanly employment of the very
poor arc before the eyes daily. I sco
women raking in the ash barrel# for bits ♦
of coal, bags of fuel slung upon their ;
backs; women balancing heavy plgnk’H ‘'j
and broken wood on their head#, j
sered from houses in process of erection;
women bent in anxiety over the offal
buckets for stray morsels to eat, and
women on the shanty farms in summci, q
doing as heavy out-of-door drudgery as
under any phase of the old world civili
zation on which we suppose we have
improved.—[Mail and Express.
Former Fats of Poor D(4>tors.
The old merchants of New York half
a century ago had a different way of do
ing business from that in vogue to-day.
A merchant who did not promptly pay
his debts could bo locked up in the old
jail which stood on the site of the pres
ent Hull of R cords, east of the City
Hull. It was a square brick building,
and had on the top u cupola and a bell.
Up in the cupola poor debtors used to
sit and sun themselves for hours. Some
of the prisoners were allowed to go on.
what was called “jail limits," and signs
with “jail limits” painted ou the board
were riailtd up in conspicuous spots in
different pans of the city.—-{Diy Goods
Chnzuiciu.
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