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LABORIHgIeN’S home
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wk. B. Brown, Proprietor,
182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA,
Meals at ail hours. Choicest brands of
wines, liquors and cigars always on hand.
BEN NETT’S
HUMAN 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
t>f 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.
FRANKLIN F. JONES,
IT STALL NO. 31, IN THE MARKET,
Announces to his friends and themubllc
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. 81.
GREEN GROCERY.
HENRY FIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
GMR.EEIN GROCE Ft
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 fresu
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable-—to suit the times.
Goods delivered if desired.
It Was His Own Nose.
I have attended the MardiGras festiv
ities for the last thirty years, but never
remember to have been so amused as a
dozen years ago, when I went to the ball
with a general of the quartermaster’s de-
S>artmeut. The general was a man of
ine figure and imposing bearing, and
would have been very handsome except
for the fact that his countenance was
decorated by' a nose enormous in size,
bulbous in shape and a deep purple in
hue. While at the ball the gallant of
ficer fell in with a masked lady of most
peaceful figure and camage, with whom
be danced a numl>er of times, and final
ly requested, as a particular favor, to
unmask. After a great deal of hesita
tion the lady consented, exhibiting to
the general’s delightful gaze features as
pleasing as her figure. After a few com
pliments liad been paid her, the lady
said: “But, sir, you should also un
nask.” “Madam,” said the general, a
look of surprise spreading over his fea
tures, “I am unmasked.” His compan
ion gazed at him with incredulity, but
finally it began to dawn upon her that
the rubicund and trunk-like proboscis
to her escort s face was a work
<of nature and not of art. W’ith a shud
der, and a little shriek, she glided away,
leaving the general nearly' mad with
rage and indignation. He at once made
his way to his hotel, and never again
■was seen in New Orleans,— St. Loui»
Globe.
•
Once over the bar at its entrance from
the Gulf, the Suwant-e River holds its
way with a deep cmrent, in places of
forty feet, far up through the forests of
the best hard pine in the State. It is
the Penobscot of Florida. It has soma
good land upon it where plantations
have heretofore been made, but after a
while generally abandoned. The dark
river lias, too, ita romance, ns being the
place which gave rise to the melody
wliieh, like “Home, Sweet Home,” the
affection of the heart will never let go.
lor it was here that a French family in
the time of Louis XIV came over and
settled upon the Suwanee and made a
plantation. After a while the father
and mother ami all died save one daugh
ter, who, disheartened and desolate, re
turnfxl to France, and there wrote,
adopting in part that negro dialect
which she had been familiar with on the
phuitation in her girlhood, a feeling
tnbute to “the old folks at home” in
Wieir graves in the far-off country.
The Dervish.
Unto Prince Abdalasis came one day
A Dervish, saying, “I have fasted still
For six long years on bread and water,
till
My flesh is sore, yet God seems far away."
The prince made answer: “Fasting thou
may’st fare
Half-way to God, His threshold reach by
prayer."
The Dervish went his way, and in six years
Again came back. “I pray both day and
night.
At Mecca and Medina, and in sight
Os every mosque of sanctity; with tears
Have I made pilgrimages to each spot
Os holy fame; but God—l found Him not.’’
The Prince then kindly answered hirn: “By
prayer
The threshold of great Allah do we wm.
But *tis almsgiving that doth lead us in
To stand before His glorious presence there
Go forth; give alms: thou flndest Allah
when
Thou flndest tby poor suffering fellow
men-"
The Derv sh heard the word, and turned to
to go.
Perplexed and grieved he toiled along the
road.
“This one coarse loaf that charity be
stowed
On me is all that I have to bestow
Will the great Allah deign a thought to
take
On such mean offering given for His sake?’’
Within an hour a crippled beggar came
And reached his hand a charity to crave;
Kindly his coarse brown loaf tho Dervish
gave.
“T.s all I have, friend; take it in God's
name."
1 hen suddenly around alxnit him there
A mighty splendor dazzled all the air.
The Dervish bowed his head. A light divine
Did overflow him from a heavenly place.
He knew it was the light of Allah’s face.
“Now need I seek no pilgrimage nor shrine
Wherever one poor soul asks alms of me,
I know, O God, even there I can find
Thee.”
—[Constantina E. Brooks, in Harper’s.
Woman’s Life in Holland.
A few days ago your correspondent
was explaining to some ladies the privi
leges pertaining to their sisters in Amer
j ica, says an Amsterdam letter in the
I Milwaukee Sentinel, and casually men
tioned that women in some parts of the
United States enj yed the privilege of
voting. The incredulous look which in
stantly appeared leads to a letter, telling
the more favored daughters of the land
of the free what part in the economy of
life women in Holland occupy. The dis
tinctions of privileges as to freedom,
etc., between married and single women
are so thoroughly established by social
custom as to be observable in the every
day associations of the sexes. A native
will readily discover whether the couple
walking on the street in front of him are
married or not, and this discovery is
made very easy by the strict adherence
of the populace to an ancient custom in
troduced into the country when under
the iron rule of “Alva the Bloody, ’’ the
cruel tool of Philip the Second.
An unmarried lady always takes the
right arm of her escort, while the mar
ried one selects the left side of her hus
band. So deeply has this custom en
tered into the life of Hollanders that at
a church w.d ling the bride enters the
edifice on the right side of the groom,
the young wife returning on
the left side of her husband when the
ceremony is performed. No unmarried
lady in this country can dream of going
to church, concert or any other place ot
pul 1 c assemblage without the escort of
parents or male members of her family.
She cannot take a walk, pay a visit or
go shopp n' unaccompanied by her
mother or some married lu ly friend. The
Hollander fatlfer is not like his American
competitor, troubled in the evening
; with the thought that his daughter is
i flattening the j>ockctbook of a poorly
paid dude by an indiscriminate indul
gence in ice Cream or oysters. Until the
I betiotbal of the young lady has been
1 announced, she remains the sole charge
> of her father or mother, and she makes ac
quaintances always in the presence of a
third party. The Ho.land young lady
docs not go to the theater with a gentle
man who has been introduced to her a
week before, neither does she vary her
beau to suit h r dress or complexion.
Unmarried daughters in this country
SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 7.1887.
are chaperoned to all places of amuse
ment; even dancing parties arc inter
spersed with songs, recitations, etc., for
the amusement of the ciders of the
family, who sit around tables, socially
sipping their coffee, or other favorite
beverage, while the younger members
glide over the waxen floor to the fitful
strains of music. Here the young must
make the best of their opportunities, for
when it pleases the parents to seek the
quiet solace of the home, the daughters
also quit the gayety of the ballroom.
Parents here certainly have a responsi
bility in raising a family of daughters,
but are no doubt comforted by the
thought that
“The hand that rocks the cradle,
Is the hand that rules the world.”
The betrothal, which sometimes con
tinues for years, is considered as bind
ing as the marriage ceremony and is sel
dom broken. The good news is duly
communicated to all the friends and
acquaintances by a printed letter, signed
by the parties interested and their
parents; a notification of the fact is made
in a special column of the city’s news
papers. To become a benedict in this
watery clime is enough to make the
stoutest heart quake, as below the age
of 30 the permission of parents is essen
tial, and if death have removed them,
the “voogden” or guardians have to ex
press their satisfaction. An elopement
has never taken place in the Netherlands.
Three weeks before the wedding day the
couple, accompanied by their parents or
guardians proceed to the City Hall and
make their intentions known to the
proper official, when a legal notice of
this intention is placed in a frame in
front of the Court House, remaining there
for twenty days. The interval between
the notification and the bridal day is a
period of uninterrupted festivities, the
families of bride and groom vicing with
each other in giving dinners and dancing
parties.
In this city three days in
the week arc set apart for
wedding days; Wednesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. Wednesday the
lower classes marry, as no expense is at
tached to the ceremony. Thursday’s
marriage costs 25 guldens, and on Satur
day double that amount, or S2O. At
last the wedding day arrives; flowers and
evergreens are strewn in front of the
house; the young couple, attended by
relatives and friends, proceed to the stad
hu’s, where the marriage knot is tied by
the Mayor, he being the only one allowed
to perform the civil ceremony. Immedi
ately after a religious ceremony takes
place. The necessary ceremonies being
concluded, the parly proceed to a case
or hall, those musically inclined singing
lively songs on the way, and the others
gaily responding to the facet!® and con
gratulations of the passers by. When
all are indoors a large silver bowl, used
only at births and marriage feasts (and
loaned if not owned), filled with brande
wyn and raisins, is brought forth and
circulated among the guests, who drink
the liquor with an iron spoon. After
ward a substantial dinner is given, last
ing, interspersed with singing, dancing
and amateur theatricals,’ etc., until the
following day, and to leave the festive
board before the dawn is considered in
decorous.
To marry by proxy, or, as it is called,
“marriage by the glove,” is prevalent in
Holland, and is caused by the fact that
many of the eligible young men, after
having fl fished their education in the
schools of the Fatherland, depart for
Dutch India to engage in some lucrative
commercial enterprise or to accept a po
sition in the colonial service. Th
scarcity of marriageable white ladies in
that clime induces the would-be husband
to write to a friend in Holland, inclosing
a wish for a wife. The friend selects a
willing young lady, generally with a sub
stantial dot and otherwise conforming
closely to the specifications of the letter.
A photograph of the favored one is in
closed in the return epistle. After the
lapse of a few months, a soiled left hand
glove, with a power of attorney is re
ceived from the far away bachelor. The
friend in Holland marr es the selected
' bride in precisely the same manner as if
he were the actual groom, and the young
wife departs in the next India mail
steamer to bring happiness and pros
perity to the lonely one in the far East.
A marriage of this description is as bind
ing as if the bridegroom were present,
and never repudiated. If either party
to the glove marriage should die before
meeting in India, the survivor would
share the property of deceased in accord
ance with the laws.
The laws in Holland in regard to the
legal position of the wife are very much
behind the age, and the husband can do
about as he likes with the person and
property of his helpmate. The laws are
silent as to the wife's claim on the hus
band, but legal gentlemen assure me
that this apparent void in the law book
is caused by the invariable devotion of
the Hollander to his home and its in
mates. Love for home, wife and chil
dren is nowhere more thoroughly illus
trated than in the Netherlands, and
cases of neglect to provide in every pos
sible way are very rare in the land of
dykes.
The wives of the lower classes and
their daughters try in every imaginable
way to aid the husband in procuring a
living. In summer time you will observe
hundreds of them on their knees in the
public squares armed with a three-inch
iron spike weeding the grass blades from
between the stones, for which they re
ceive twelve cents per day; others are
engaged in wheeling sand into outward
bound merchant ships to be used as bal
last. You will sec a woman pushing a
wheelbarrow containing about 200 lbs.
of sand up a broad gangway inclined
about thirty degrees, at a gait simply
wonderful considering that the wheeler
is of the weaker sex.
Passing a little farther on you will
meet a small procession on the towpath
of the river Amstel, consisting of the,
mother and two or three daughters,
harnessed to the towline of a canal boat,
very much in the manner of American
mules. They hang, as it were, in the
harness, and the swinging, regular walk
used by them proves that a great part of
their lives has passed in that way. When
the boat comes abreast you feel like
using a rope’s end on the father of the
family, who, placidly smoking a pipe,
sits in the stern steering the vessel; but
your anger will cool when investigation
shows that if he took to the towpath and
allowed his wife the helm all damages
for collision, etc., would have to be paid
by him.
You cross a railroad track, and, cast
ing a glance along the iron path, a
female dressed in red tunic and glisten
ing helmet, waving a white signal flag,
catches your eye. She is the “watch
man" at the crossing. At every railroad
in Holland this position is fillo 1 by a
woman, and railroad offic als assure me
that no accident has ever been caused
by a watch woman’s carelessness. They
receive 20 gulden ($8 per month); a
male would receive double that salary,
and might get intoxicated once in
awhile; hence the railroad is benefited
both ways.
The Teach r*s Ring.
One day recently, the following
amusing incident occurred in one of
our district schools, unfortunately at the
teacher’s expense. A class in the Second
Reader, unapt in ornithology, was read
ing about the “golden robbins” and their
peculiar habits. After they had finished
reading the teacher asked the class if
any one co’*'d tell her the color of the
golden robbin. All were silent. Think
ing to enlighten them upon the subj ct
she took a handsome and apparently
costly ring from her linger, and, bolding
it up before the class, said;
“What does this look like?"
Up jumped a precocious youth of 7
v< ,rs and shouted: ‘ ’Brass! [Erie
(P.nn.) Observer.
More Than Sh ■ Bargained For.
She —Well, 1 declare! 1 never saw a
man with f-o little taste as you have.
lit—My dear y< u forget something
when you talk like that.
She Forget I I forget nothing. W’hut
do you mean?
lie I m an, darling, that you fail to
remember that I chose y.u, of all the
women in the world, to be my wife.—-
(•I. U Per Annum; 75 wnta /or Btx Months;
60 cents Ttirre Months; Single CopuM
I 5 cent* —In Advance.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
JI
Ignorance too often mistakes cone ■
for dignity.
Impose not » burden on others wh .■Bl
you cannot bear yourself.
If demands a giant’s strength to stafl
duo the weakness of love.
The joys of parents are secret, and 1
are their griefs and fears,
He can never s|>eak well, who knoWM
not how to hold bis peace.
Dignity doos not consist in pottsossiffl
honors, but in deserving them.
He who waits to do a great deal
good a l once will never do any thing. 1 p
Conscience is the voice of the sou®
the passions are the voice of the body.M.l
Self-will irso ardent and active, thgfc
it will break a world to pieces to make®
1 stool to sit on. I’M
Ihe word knowledge, strictly
ployed, implies three things, viz.: Trut H
proof and conviction. wj
What a pleasure it is to give! The ■
would be no rich people if they we ■
' capable of feeling this. |
Virtue docs not give talents, but I
supplies its place. Talents neither gil I
virtue nor supply the place of it.
Weather Errors.
Few erroneous notions are spread 1 I
: readily and cling so tenaciously as thoi ■
; respecting the weather. In uotiein B
! common errors of this kind, Prof. Clev< I
> land Abbe, the distinguished meteorolc |
gist, urges attention to these fact! I
That while the moon might well be ex ■
pccted to influence our weather, scicntifl a
evidence shows that it does not; tha !|
there is no sound reason for believin I
that sunspots have any appreciable effec I
in producing storms, or other loca I
changes; that animal instinct ranki |
greatly below Luman intelligence as i I
guide to future weather; that the indi- 1
cations furnished by plants are duo tC 'I
the hydroscopic condition of the air, tu |
are also other “signs, ” and are less deli; I
! cate and reliable than the accurate in- I
strumental tests of meteorologists; that 1
electricity and ozone do not produco 1
the effects often ascribed to 1
them; that thunder-storms do not cool!
the air, but the cool inrush results, lik©[
the storm, from the rise of hot a r—at|
least in many cases; that it has not yeti
; been proven that the removal of forests 1
and the extension of railroads and tele-,
graphs have influenced our climate;,
that the weather is materially the same
as in old-fashioned times, scientific
records disproving the faulty recollec
i tions of the oldest inhabitant; and that
severe storms are no more liable to oc
cur at the date of the equinoxes, or on
certain days of the week or month, than
1 at other times. —[Arkansaw Traveller.
Vei diet of the Ashes.
Two barns said to be filled with un
! thrashed wheat were recently burned iv
Germany. They were insured, but it
was impossible to collect, because tho
I claim was made that the contents of the
barns were simply straw. When the
affair got i>to the courts, chemical ex-. '
ports were ca led to analyze the ashes.
Wheat contains a large quantity of phos
phoricacid, almost ten times as much aa 'g
does straw. Naturally, in the burning of
these barns, wood ushes, cement an<fc
other mineral substances were mixed
with the ashes submitted to the chem
ists, but none of theso admixtures cons -
tain phosphoric acid. The experts found
that of two samples placed in their
hands one contained 10.2 [ht cent, and
the other 19 per cent, of the acid, thus
proving conclusively that tho farmers
were in the right, and the insurance
companies in the wrong.—[F.reman’a
Herald.
A Cow Takes Cure of Puppies.
The anc ent fables of the dog and the n
i elephant is enacted on a >m filer scale in I
O c.dcnt fl, this county, savs the Stnta
■ Rmi (Cd.) D inocrat. Sujervisvr J.
D. Connolly has a large re! caw winch .
i answers to the name of Pet. She may I
I Le seen any day wander ng alx>ut fol
lowed by two puppies. If they wander
j out of her sight ahe cals af.er them
until they return to the shelter of their
foster mother’s wing.
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