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®te Siwtmnnh ’.©ribrnw. • Published by the Tamers Publishing fin i J. H. DEVEAUX. Maxagb*. ’ I R. W. WHILE, Souoitob. VOL. 11. XEWLY FITTED UP. LABORINGIffI’S HOME Restaurant & Lodging, Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor, 182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA, Meals »t all hours. Choicest brands of wines, liquors and cigars always on hand. 15K IN N ETT ’ S HUMAN HAIR EMPORIUM. Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order. Abo Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls; (Frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and piake 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 sliampooning: Also, hair dressing at your residence if required. We cut aud 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 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 al! 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! Siaranteed. Goods delivered if desired. ON‘T FORGET. STALL NO. 31. GREEN GROCERY. HENRYFIELDS THE OLD RELIABLE GREEN GROCER 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 «uit the times. Soods delivered if desired. < *• « FOR GOOD JOB PRINTING —GO TO TUB— SAVANNAH TRIBUNE. Envelopes, Business Cards, Statements, Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Clve us a SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17,1887. A Song to Sing. : A song of yesterday: Love,shall we sing it, j. Tuned to the pulses of hours that are past? A song of yesterday: Love, shall we bring it , Baek fro:i* he life where it ran too fast? i ■''ays toat are dreams to us now as we won der ' How we could fancy we loved well then? Days and dreams that are put asunder For dreams and days that are sweeter again. A song of t<xlay: O love, shall we sing it, IV arm with new kisses upon the lips, j With Time wrung dry as great hearts can wring it, And Life blown fair like yon white ships? I What strong song can we build and fashion To sing how love hath girt us round? VV bat wide world is there made ’for passion That reaches beyond the gates of sound? , A song of tomorrow: Love, shall we sing it, Looking across the nights and the days, ; Where our two souls together shall wing it Beyond the measure of Fancy’s gaze? . Yes, dear love, let us sing of tomorrow, Each one fuller of loveliness, Days without measure of tears or sorrow, Only the sweeter as life grows less. —[W. J. Henderson. CAU&HT IN A TRAP. A detective’s story. Ten or twelve years ago, when I was on the detective force of Cincinnati, two or three very shrewd rascals “hung up” the town for thrqe or four weeks in a way which annoyed us not a little. They were chaps known as porch climbers, and the way they did their business was simply slick. Porch climbing was then in its infancy. A sneak thief might be ready to take advantage of an open door or window on the lower story, but as for “shinning up" a column to reach a bal cony, or using a light ladder to enter a chamber window, no one had ever tried it. The very first job done by the gang resulted in a haul of S6OO worth of jew elry. Your common thief no sooner has any plunder in his hand than he hastens off to the pawnshop to make a raise. This jewelry was not put up, neither were the second and third hauls. Then we knew that wc had to deal with ras cals who had come well heeled and were holding on to their stuff or shipping it to some other city for sale. The first three robberies were made at the supper hour, when all the family were in the dining room or downstairs. The papers made such an ado about it as to place citizens on their guard, and the thieves changed their hours. It was in summer, ! and very hot weather, and all up-stairs windows were open for ventilation. They went into three or four houses through second-story windows in the evening or up to as late as midnight, and cleaned out jewel cases without being seen or j heard. Perhaps the boldest feat was the sixth i job undertaken. There was a small one- 1 storv house standing beside an elegant ! mansion. The little house was on a corner. One of the fellows mounted to the roof, crept along to the larger house, and then ascended the tin conductor on [ the big house to a bath room window. ■ The blinds inside were locked, but he huno- to the sill with one hand until he o could open them with the other. Peo- J pie on the street saw him, and a police- I man called out to know what he was doing. The fellow was then sitting in ' the window dangling his legs in a care- I less way, and he replied: “Jim and Ido that for expreise every night.” With that he disappeared into the bath room, and proceeded to ransack I the various rooms on that floor. It seemed that all the family except a daughter were away to a neighbor’s, and the young lady had a beau in the parlor. The servants were out on a rear veranda, and the rooms were thus at the mercy of the thief. He took his time in making his search, and, while he was after money and jewelry first, he did not de spise laces, opera glasses, and valuable bric-a-brac. He made up a large bundle es stuff, took a cigar which he found on a mantel, and was puffing away in the coolest manner when he descended the . front stairs. The girl heard him end , came out into the hall and asked: “Did you want to see papa|” “Yes, my dear,” was the ready reply; “but he seems to be out. Tell him I called, will you?” “What is the name?" ••Wilcox—Judge Wilcox. I brought my Egyptian curios over for him to look at, but some other night will do as well.” She saw him depart withoot a thought of how he entered, and the robbery was, of course, discovered later on. The de tectives were instructed to let everything drop to hunt down these slick fellows, and there was any amount of jawing over our ill luck. We had every hotel aud boarding house under strict scrutiny, but we could turn up no suspicious char acters answering to the description of these. The man who sat on the sill of the bath room window was said to have long black whiskers. The one who passed for Judge Wilcox had auburn Burnsides, and was an unctuous sort of a fellow. Five hundred men could have been found in a day’s hunt to answer these descriptions. For many days the Post Office was watched, strangers were dogged about, depots guarded, and gar dens aud concert halls looked after, but we made no arrests. At least ever? second night there was a fresh robbery, and every second day the papers had opportunity to come out with a fresh ar ticle and belabor us. We were seeming ly doing all that men could do, aud our position was truly uncomfortable. The climax came about in the oddest sort of way. On one of the fashionable thor oughfares lived an old maid—that is,she was one of a family, being,,if I remem ber right, the man’s sister. She was pretty well off, and always had several hundred dollars in a bureau drawer in her room. She had read about the work of the gang, and was in a state of terror for fear the house would be visi ted. One day a brilliant idea occurred to her. She would capture one of the mob. She planned it that one of them would climb up to her corner window by means of the conductor, enter with out disturbing her, as she was a sound I sleeper, and go for that money. What did she do but go out and buy a steel trap —-something big enough to hold a fox. She got one of the servants to set it for her, and the open trap was placed I in the top bureau drawer, and the chain led out through the back side and made fast. Two nights passed without another depredation. Wo were keeping such a j sharp lookout that the fellows had to be j more fly. On the third night, at exactly { a quarter of 12, the old maid was ! aroused from her deep sleep by a human ! yell of pain, and she was no sooner on I end than she saw that she had caught j her man. He was down on his knees in front of the bureau, and both hands i were fast in the trap. His first yell was j his only one. When he found the i woman was awake he calmly observed: “Excuse me, but I think I’m in the i wrong room. Please don’t make any i disturbance about it.” “Who are you?” “A friend of Will's, and we both came home a little sprung. Won’t you please help me to get my hands loose?” There was a Will about the house— the man’s own son—but be had not been out that evening, nor was he in the habit of drinking. Without getting out of bed the woman touched an electric but ton, and within ten minutes the house was aroused, and two policemen had the j man in charge. The jaws of the trap j had caught him about the wrists, and he had suffered a good deal of pain. lie was the Judge Wilcox chap, Burnsides, unction and all. When taken to the station his whiskers were found to be i glued on, and he also had a false wig. ! When these were removed he stood forth as pert and trim a thief as you would wish to overhaul. He turned out : to be a New Orleans man named Davis, | and was only 26 years old. The capture of Davis’s partner fol lowed swiftly, and also in a curious way. As a train was about ready to leave for the North, a spruce young fellow came into the baggage department at the depot to get his trun? checked. It was there all right, and he got into a jangle with [ the expressman alxiut the charge for bringing it down, and the depot officer finally arrest'd both. On the way to the station the young fellow tried to bribe , the officer, and that settled him. We went for the trunk, and when it- was opened every dollar's worth of property which had been stolen was found therein. If there was a third man in the party, which some of us believed, he saved his bacon and got out some other way. In the baggage of the second man. whom we never identified, were three different wigs aud whiskers to match. Both had been in disguise when abroad, and it was little wonder we could not spot the right men. Both are still in prison, or have not been at liberty over a year.—[New York Sun. Facts Concerning Tinfoil. “What was that be threw away?” “Oh, only a piece of tinfoil from his tobacco.” Only a piece of tinfoil. Did you ever consider how large a manufacture of that article, apparently of so little value, is carried on? Will you believe it when vou are told that more than 1.000,000 i pounds of the foil are used annually to ' cover the smoking and chewing tobacco manufactured i:i the I oiled States alone. The method of making it i> interesting. The tin is of course first taker out of the mines, the best of which for this purpose arc in Australia and the Dutch posses sions of the East Indies. The metal is found in veins or fissures called lodes, though it is often found in a dispersed form in loose stones, which, when found continuously are called streams. The rock containing the ore is blasted with gunpowder aud carried to the stamping mill, where it is pounded and washed. llt is next smelted and the tin run ! into blocks containing from 200 to 400 weight, each. This is the condition in which the metal is kept for ordinary use. Two means are use 1 to reduce it to the necessary t hinness. The old man" nor of hammering by hand after first being cut is still used to a great extent. By this process, however, only one surface could be produced, and to obvi ate this difficulty, rolling mills were in vented. Prior to their invention nearly all the tinfoil was imported, but their use has completely revolutionized the tradfc. The metal is now placed between two heavy rollers, which gives it a fin ished surface on both sides. It is then cut into widths of from twelve to fifteen inches, rolled upon wooden reels and carried to cutting machines where it is cut according to order. It is then packed in boxes of one hundred pounds each, being laid in without pressure. There is another difference between the foil which is beaten and that which is rolled. The former is full of small holes, but the foil to be used for tobacco wrap pers must be airtight. Strength of Timber. A discussion is going the rounds of the press as to the relative strength of wet or dry timber. The Scientific Press says: We do uot believe there is much to be made out of the discussion. Some kinds of timber are stronger dry, while other kinds are stronger when wet or green. It is safe to say that all woods are Harder and less liable to bend when dry than when wet or green. But most hard woods when wet w ill possess more tensile strength than when dry. Tim ber thoroughly seasoned is more brittle than when green, and with the necessary force will break square off, while the same timber green will stand about the same pressure by bending more or less without breaking, ’lake a hickory ipling that is almost impossible to break in its green state, although it may bend double, and thoroughly drv it, and you may easily break it almost “square off,” as the boys say. So with almost any kind of timber. Drying makes it stiffer, more unyielding, but in a very few instances stronger. A Nii ni her of Sin i les. Young Ted Castle—Quite a lot of girls smiled at me on my way down the avenue just now. Jack; chawming girls they were, too. Jack —1 don’t wonder they smiled, Teddy. Your accktie is way rcuad under your car. I ®1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents ter Six Months: -? 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies I 5 cents'-In Advance. Senator Fair’s Skull. The Chicago Tinies tells the following | story of Senator Fair: A number of ■ years ago, when ho was engaged in j actively superintending one of his min- 1 ing properties, he directed the boss in I one of his mines to have a wrought-iron i crank made at a certain angle. This foreman told him it was impossible. Mr. Fair then went into the works at j the mouth of the mine, put on a work man’s apron and cap and began the work of making the crank himself, at the angle which he had described. The foreman in charge of the room, coming around, saw a workman, as he supposed, disobeying orders in wasting property by trying to make what had already been declared to be an impossibility; he picked up a piece of iron and knocked the amateur workman down, just as he was completing the piece of work* ' This blow fractured Fair's skull. 1114 life was saved only through trepanning. Mr. Fair to-day has a small silver plate in the top of his head. After he had recovered he felt very uncomfortable. He felt symptoms of a brain trouble. i Altera time he went back to the surgeon ■and said: “I am certain that that job i was not well done; there is a splinter feft in that wound -I can feel the prick , of it.” The surgeon at first would not listen to Mr. Fair, but he insisted on I having it done over again. The surgeon then discovered that there was a splinter, : and that if the .senator had not himself discovered the cause of his trouble,*his brain would have been affected in a short time beyond the hope of recovery. Walking Sticks. To break off a branch for defensive purposes, as Crusoe did on finding him self on an unknown island, would be oue of the first ai ts of primitive man. A rude support of this kind would soon be followed by the pilgrim’s staff, familiar to us in the pictures of the patriarchs; and from these early staves down to the gold-headed cane of our modern dandy, what a variety of walking sticks have been produced, according to the fancy and fashion of the time. When in 1701, footmen attending gentlemen were for bidden to carry swords, those quarrel some weapons were usually replaced byj.., a porter’s staff, with a large silver handle," as it was then described. Thirty years later gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords and to carry large oak sticks, w ith great heads and ugly faces carvei I * thereon. Before very long a competi- 5 tion arose between long and short walk ing sticks ; omc gentlemen liked them , long as leaping poles, as a satirist of the day tel ft us, while others preferred a yard of varnished cane “scraped taper, bound at one end with wax taper, and tipped at the other with a neat turned ’ ivory head as big as a silver penny.”— A Heartless Skeptic.- “How people do change,” said the’ - beggar. “Some men get spoiled by ‘ riches. There’s a man who never ro ’ fused to give me a half when I told him my wife was dying, or my child was ill. —no, not in five years, and now, Just because he’s made a lucky strflcc in land. and I raised the limit to $2.50 he turns around and calls me a liar and sayt I hain’t got no child and I hain't got ncv. wife, I ain’t,” and the beggar wipeu ** away a tear. “’Tain’t so much th|t lie> . didn’t give me the money that nuikes me feel bad. It’s for him to call me ti liar now, after he’s believed me for five ’ » years.” As J - ’Wy..; Archery Practice, Mi s Hood--Three in the gold, cap-’ tain! I’ve outshot you this time. , >■. Captain Angus-Yes; Lut what’s be-* j come of my other arrow? I shot three. ' C Voice of Tram ]> in Bushes—When you * folkegit through countin’ up I wish you’d jest come in an’ unpin my car fioin this hickory tree; ’taint gold, bat it's got feclin’ in it. Tid Bits. * * The Latest Luxury. “Gubbius have you heard what the' latest luxury is?” ■' “No, what is it ?” 7• i . •‘Why it's the one you enjoy last. Good evening.”—[Danville Breeze, ■ NO. 48.