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R. W. WHITE, Solicitor
VOL. 11.
NEWLY FITTED TTP.
LABORIN&IS’S HOME
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wm. B, Brown, Proprietor,
IA2 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA,
Meals at all hours. Choicest brands of
and cigars always on hand.
"BEN
HUMAN BAIR EMPORIUM.
Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order.
£IBO 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 shampoonitig.
Also, hair dressing at your residence if
required. We cut and trim bangs in alt
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 LIN F. JONES
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 bis customers as usual
with politeness and promptness. His
prices are reasonable and satisfaction is
Biaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
ON‘T FORGET. STALL NO. 31.
GREEN GROCERY.
—o —
HENRY FIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
GREENGROCER
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 fresh
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables,
Prices reasonable—to «uit the times.
Goods delivered if desired.
FOR GOOD
JOB PRINTING
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SAVANNAH
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Enielopes, i
Business Cards,
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Stitemente,
Posters,
And in fact everything
in the Job Printing line
neatly and cheaply ex
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SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13.1887.
Falling Leaves.
Do you hear the sad, sweet music,
W hich, like some Aeolian, strain
Struck by warm winds’ unseen fingers,
Comes and goes, and comes again!
’Tis the plaintive voice of Nature,
Singing softly while she grieves.
List! ’tis the funeral march of Summer
’Tis the dirge of falling leaves.
We may catch the faltering accents
If we list with bated breath:
“Time’s tireless wheel in endless cycle
Brings birth and life and death.
Why aie the brightest joys the fleetest
Why sing, if song must end in sigh?
by sin'le, if smiles so soon are faded?
Why live at all, if but to die?’’
Thus is the mournful, whispered cadence
Borne through the air on falling leaves;
Thus: nature, like a sorrowing mother,
Sits by her dying child and grieves-
And my heart has caught the echo,
Beating time to the refrain,
Dying, dying, thus around me!
Is there ought Death cannot claim.
Arouse, my heart, be brave and earnest:
Throw off the chill chains of despond!
Have you not heard the glorious promise
Os a birth and life beyond?
Though the leaves shall fall and wither,
They will surely come again;
Though Death claim you for a season,
Li!e immortal waits you then.
—[Miriam V. Crocker.
A DISCOURAGED MAN.
“It’s the last time lam going to try!
Luck is against me, and I’ll just give
up! There is no use in trying to do any
thing, when the odds are against you.”
It was John Harris who was doing the
talking. His wife was sewing buttons
on the children’s clothes after they had
gone to bed. As she held the buttons
in her mouth, to prevent them rolling
off, she had no opportunity to answer
her husband, even if she had the incli
nation.
Mr. Harris resumed;
‘Tin clean discouraged, that’s what I
am ! Os course I don’t think of myself”
—Mis. Harris’ lip curled a little, and
one button escaped, and rolled under
the table—“it’s you and the children
I’m worried about”, —another button
roiled away—“and if it wasn’t for leav
ing you alone, Mary, I’d—”
He did not finish what he was saying
as just then Mrs. Harris coughed and
all the buttons flew out of her mouth.
“Is it such a bad failure?” she asked
presently. She was darning the child
ren’s stockings now, having sewed on
all the fugitive buttons.
“It couldn’t be worse. When a man’s
partner takes all the money out of the
business and skips to a foreign country,
everybody hounds him to death as if he
had been dishonest. All the creditors
are clamoring for their money, not be
cause they need it,but because I haven’t
got it. It’s no use, Mary, I’m a ruined
man and I’m going to find away out of
it all.”
“How?” asked Mrs, Harris calmly,
although the lonu, slender needle she
was using trembled and vibrated in her
hand.
“There arc more ways than one, ”he an
swered significantly. “I shall not live
to see you want, or to be a burden on
you and the children. There is no dis
honor attached to my name now. We
have lived within our means and tried
earnestly to succeed. It was rash, I sup
pose, to embark all in one venture and
lose it!”
“You have not lost all,” suggested
bis wife; “you have health, wife and '
children and an unblemished character.’
"Poor capital, these,” retorted her
husband gloomily. ‘‘No, lam going to
give up! I tell you, Mary, I’m a dis
couraged man! You don’t know what
it is to endure business worries; women
are sheltered and protected from all
those .annoyances.''
“Are they?” answered Mrs. Harris
with dry lips. She had done the work
of three women that day. She had been
cook, and nurse, now’ wis seamstress.
She had cut and contrive I, counted
pennies and was engaged to give music
lessons to the doctor’s daughter, to offset
their last year's bilk Her whole frame
quivered with the pain of jarred arid
tangled nerves. But it never entered
into her mind that she dared to com
plain. “Doe the Next Thynge,” was the
motto she bad framed and hung up
where she could see it, many times a
day.
“As I say,” continued her husband
after a spell of gloomy thought, “there’
away out of it, and many a man has
been driven to it. I won’t live and be
persecuted by a mob of circumstances. If
I were out of the way you and the chil
dren would have enough to live on
comfortably the rest of your lives. It’s
only anticipating our final fate by a few
months or years.”
Mrs. Harris folded the last pair of
stockings and laid them neatly away. A
little smile hovered about her lips.
“John,” she said in a firm voice, “I
have a last favor to ask of you.”
“What is it, Mary?”
“Don’t die in the bouse!”
Before the astonished man could
speak, she continued:
“Because it would be so unpleasant
for the children and for me. It is our
home. I have the deed of it in my pos
session, sent to me by my father yester
day. And I should hate to have any un
pleasant associations connected with it.
I should very much dislike to have you
buried at the four corners near here with
a stake driven through you, though
people would soon forget that we ever
belonged to you. For I would not own
to being the widow of a coward or let
my children bear his name. And even
if you were not held responsible I would
be ashamed to think you had written
your own epitaph, ‘Here lies a dis
couraged man.’”
John Harris was dumb with surprise.
“I know,” continued his wife, “that
it is a favorite thing for men to say that
they will get out of it all, and that
women do not realize how desperate the
situation is, and a lot more rubbish that
they ought to be ashamed of.”
John tried to speak, but his wife had
the floor.
“It is only a coward who would take
refuge in death and leave his wife and
children to fight the life of battle alone.
“And right here, John, I want that
subject to end forever. It is hard enough
to live with a man who is chronically
discouraged, but when he hints at get
ting out of it, I object!”
John Harris never again made any
vague and improbable threats, but took
the dilemma of business by both horns
and practically mastered it. Nor has
his wife ever heard him declare since
that evening that he was “a discouraged
man.” —[Detroit Free Press.
About Army Animals.
Captain Archer, of the Fifth Infantry,
was celebrated in “the old army” for his
love of dogs and the number he pos
sessed. At one time, while stationed in
Albuquerque, N. M., his servant came
rushing down to the sutler store to re
port to him a great misfortune. A wild
Texas steer had gotten into the corral
where he kept his dogs and played sad
havoc with thorn. “Kill any?” exclaimed
the captain. “Yes, sir; all but 30,” re
plied the servant.
Major Joe G. Tilford, Seventh United
States Cavalry, stationed in Fort Harker
in 18G8, had an imported sky terrier,
Gyp by name, who was the prettiest dog
in the army, on account of its ugliness,
and very intelligent. The major prided
himself on his well trained dog, and
spent no little time in educating him.
The major had a charming wife, unfortu
nately very rleaf, and his mother-in-law,
a courtly lady of the old style, lived
with him at the time who was deafer
than her daughter. One morning, just
after reveille, the major was standing on
the back stoop of his quarters, when he
ob’erved Gyp worrying some chickens
He called to the dog, and shouted again
and again, but the usually obedient
brute paid no attention; and the major,
in a vexed tone of voice yelled out:
“You Gyp, stop; can’t you hear because
you are deaf like the rest of the family?”
General M ■«, when Colonel of the
Fifth United Slates Infantry, command
ing at Fort Harker, had a Gordon setter ■
named Jack, and which was given the !
surname that made his whole designa- :
tion run among the soldiers as Jack
Miles. He a wonderfully intelligent i
dog. Illustrative; One day when show- |
ers and sunshines varied the “indica
tions,” Jack Allies was trotting along
the sidewalk in front of Major Joe Til
ford's quarters, when he was attracted
by a fluttering hen, with abig brood of
chickens, on the front porch, apparently
is great distress. Jack Miles looked at
the agitated mother and around, and
finally perceiving a young chicken in a
waterbutt under a spout leading down
from the porch, lie reached over, took
the chick tenderly in his mouth, lifted
it out and deposited it on the sidewalk,
and trotted off with a wag of his tail, as
much usto say, “lam agood Samaritan.”
The hen came down off the porch,
gathered in the lately imperiled one of
her brood and chuckled vehemently her
“thanks.” [Omaha II 'raid.
Striking Incident in Hawaii.
The name which her Majesty the
Queen of Hawaii bears recalls, it may be
mentioned, one of the greatest acts of
heroism recorded in the history of the
rebellion of human intellect against fa
naticism. There existed a horrible
Goddess Pole, presiding over the great
volcano Mauni Loa, who was the most
cruel and dreadful of all the insular di
vinities. Wherever upon the soil the
huge crater of Kilauea had thrown out
lava, stones, or scoria, there her blood
thirsty temples were erected and human
victims were daily sacrificed. It was in
the name of Pele that the priests exer
cised their worst oppression, and there
fore it may be judged what splendid
courage was shown when the heroine
Kapiolani ascended the volcano to defy
and publicly dethrone the hateful god
dess. She was the wife of a great chief
tain, who had become a Christian, ami
she had determined to take on her own
head the tremendous response ity of
exposing the folly of idol-worship. As
she drew near the great crater a violent
eruption of fire and sin'ke took place,
which looked like the anger of Pole,
and was attributed to that cause,
while furious attendants of the fiery
goddess confronted K ipiolani upon its
brink, declaring that she would be '
certainly killed, and all the islands de- |
stroyed. Yet this noble woman fear
lessly advanced over the quaking ground, ,
through the sulphurous air, and amid
fire, noises and in >ke, and on the very
summit of Mauna L >a defied the infernal
deity, and declared her false, impotent,
and abominable. Insultingly throwing
stones into the seething lava lake below,
she turned to the people and quietly
said. ‘‘Peele is nothing! Jehovah is
God, and made these fires. If I perish '
by the anger of Pole, then you may fear
the power of Pele; but if I trust in
Jehovah, and He should save me from '
the wrath of Pele, when I break through
her tabus, then you must fear and servo
the Lord Jehovah. AH the gods of Ha
waii are vain! Great is Jehovah's good
ness in sending teachers to turn us from ;
these vanities to the living God and the '
way of righteous:: ss 1” Then they
prayed, and sang a hymn, and as noth- ,
ing particular happenc 1 the revolution
was achieved. The volcanic fires have
since continued, but Pole’s evil light i
was entirely put out by this heroic
demonstration, and since then the beau
tiful islands have become, if possible,
only too much Europeanized. —[London
Telegraph.
Symmetry and Achievement.
A small, well-made engine, with all
parts adjusted, will do more work than
a larger one with parts loosely connected
and a great disproportion between the
important members. So a small man,
compactly built, with symmetrical pro
portions and a well balanced organism,
can accomplish more than a larger man
less solidiy made with all parts wanting
tn symmetry and shapeliness. This law
of adaptation and harmonious adjust
ment of parts prevails throughout the
greater portion of the animal kingdom.
Among the civilized portion of the 1
human race it is controverted by social
laws that tend to foster an inharmonious >
development. Ti e division of labor,
for instance, Las ma le it possible for a
man to earn a livelihood and to maintain
a footing in the world by the use of a
very few muscles and faculties.--[Scrib- '
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THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Uinta (or the Nfar.igiUed.
Persons who suppose themselves to bo
nearsighted and feel the need of glasses,
nvver ought to depend on their own
judgment in making a selection. They
should consult a physician, and aspccial
•st in diseases of the eye if possible.
Young people especially should observe
this rule, for if an unwise selection was
made, r ot only will permanent injury of
the eyes very often result, but general
diseases of the system which often cause
the defect in sight which appears to
demand the use of glasses will be over
looked.— [Boston Herald.
WclkHlhk the llnby.
Since the first year is by far the most
critical period of life, and since weight
gives the most reliable evidence whether
a child is thriving or not, sanitarians
now teach that the parents should,
throughout tho first year, weigh their
babies and record this result every
week, as is now habitually done in the
best hospitals and asylums for infants.
During the first three days of life there
is always a loss of weight which should
be fully legained by the seventh day, by
which date a baby ought to weigh fully
as much ns at its birth. During tho
next three weeks according to Chailie.
there should be a gain of at least from
two to four ounces every week. The
greatest gain of weight throughout life
is during the first five months, the maxi*
mum being usually attained during the
second mouth. The increase during this
maximum month should be from four to
seven ounces weekly, and the next three
succeeding months about five ounces
weekly. During the remaining seven
months of the first year the gain should
bo at least iron: two to four ounces
weekly. The gain is less than indicated
at times when the infant may suiter,
whether from teething or other cause.
Treatment In l.ivt-v Complaint*.
According to Murchison, a careful
regulation of the diet will do more for
one who is afflicted with a liver trouble
than all medicine. The foods to be
avoided are the fatty, the saccharine,
and the highly seasoned.
Corn, oats, wheat, sago, rice and
potatoes consist largely of starch, which,
in the process of digestion, is converted
into sugar. In severe cases, these an 1
kindred substances must be given up.
As most people would find it exceel
ingly difficult long to dispense with the
use of wheat bread, gluten bread may be
substituted for it; that is, bread made
of wheat from which about two-thirds
of the starch has been removed. The
diet should absolutely exclude clear fat
and sugar.
The quantity of the food is a consid
eration hardly secon 1 to the quality.
Too much food, of whatever kind, must
be strictly guarded against.
The liver is injuriously affected’by al
coholic liquors, generally. These bever
ages are to be rigidly prohibited, es
pecially malt liquors, port wine, and
champagne. One would not have sup- •
posed beer to be worse than brandy, but
it is uidch worse.
Next to regulating the diet is securing
an abundance of fresh air—sea air is es
pecially helpful in liver difficulties—and
a sufficiency of vigorous exercise. The
action of the skin should be kept up by
frequently bathing the body with warm
water and soap.
It is also beneficial to drink h: If a
pint of cold water, or water with a little
soda in it, on going to bed, and while
dressing in the morning.'
Liver diseases are, however, so diffi
cult and refractory that it is peculiarly
necessary to call in the services of a good
physician as soon as the complaint has
declared itself.
Too many persons are inclined at once
to begin dos ng, supposing that they are
•‘bilious.” The incautious and unwise
use of medicine at such a time may
fasten a chronic disease up >n one who
might have been permanently cured in a
few days, by proper treatment.—
[Youth’s Companion.
Means am always in cur power; ends
very seldom so.
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