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VOL. 11.
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LABORING~MEM’S HOME
Restaurant & Lodging,
Wk. B. Brown, Proprietor.
1819 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA.
Meals at all hours. Choicest brands of
nines, liquors and cigars always on hand.
_ BE in in i<.T r r ’«
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 shanipooning.
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.
FRANKLIN F. JONES
IT STILL HO. 31, IH 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
Biaranteed. Goods delivered if desired.
ON‘T FORGET. STALL NO. 31.
GREENGROCERY.
HENRY FIELDS
THE OLD RELIABLE
GERJEEIN 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 fresh
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry,
Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables.
Prices reasonable —to suit the times.
Soods delivered if desired.
fob good
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SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1.1887
I Building Monuments.
Through life we build our monuments
Os honor, and periiaju, of fame;
1 be little anti the great events
Are blocks of glory or of shame.
The modest, humble, and obscure,
Living unnoticed and unknown,
Hay raise a shaft that will endure
Longer than pyramids of stone.
The carven statue turns to dust,
And marble obelisks decay,
‘ But deeds of pity, faith and trust
No storms of fate can sweep away.
Theirbase stands on the rock of right;
Their apex reaches to the skies;
They grow with the increasing light
Os all the encircling centuries.
Our building must be good or bad;
In words we speak, in deeds we do;
On sand or granite must be laid
The shaft that shows us false or true
How do we build—what can weshow
For hours, and days, and years of toil!
Is the foundation firm l>elow<
Is<t on rock or sandy soil?
The hand that lifts the fallen up,
That heals a heart or binds a wound,
That gives the needed crust and cup,
Ls building upon solid ground.
Is there a block of stainless whit#
Within the monumental wall
On which the sculptured skill can write:
“He budded weM, so should we all !”
POLISHING A FLOOR.'
BY CALVIN.
My wife ami I, with our three off
spring, took up our abode for the sum
mer in a pretty suburban cottage.
The arrangement with our landlord
stipulated that he should not be called
upon to make any alterations or repairs.
Our means are limited within very
narrow limits, so like the two reasonable
souls that we are, we determined to
economize in all reasonable ways,but one
little extra vagance Cherry, my wife, insist
ed upon; that our dining room floor
should be polished, and she was to be
her own maid of all work and wished as
few carpets as possible to care for.
Cherry is a willing, ambitious, brave
hearted creature,but lackingin muscular
force. So when she proposed to shellac
and polish th? floor to save the expense
of hiring a professional, I at once put
my manly foot down with masculine em
phasis on the subject.
Like the generous, self-sacrificing soul
that I am known to be, I declared I
would bear upon my broad shoulders the i
responsibility of polishing the floor- ■
Cherry made a gentle demurrer, but ,
finally yielded the point.
The next morning I began operations,
rising with the sun in the enthusiasm
born of inexperience. It proved not
difficult to apply the staining, but. when
I began to polish inch by inch, with the
thermometer in a raging fever of one
hundred degrees, my heart was dis
dismayed, for the room measures sixteen I
by sixteen, and to crawl over that
amount of territory on bended knees
was not pleasant to contemplate.
Filled with sad reflections on the de
privations poverty entails and with the
sweat of honest toil trickling in tiny
rivulets from my noble brow, I sat down
to rest. and. picking up a paper, my
eyes chanced to see an article in the do
mestic column, headed “Hints for Ama
teurs in Polishing Floors.” Immediately '
my attention was fixed upon this article.
The writer assured her reader* with the
assurance of experience that the work of ;
polishing could be greatly facilitated if |
the operator would fasten to the buttons j
of his or her feet a pair of stiff scrubbing
brushes, and thus glide over the surface
desired to be polished. After a little
practice the person would become quite
adept in the skating-1 ike motion required
and a brilliant polish would result, with- ;
out tiring the back or bruising the
knees. The plan recommended itself to
me on the grounds of originality and
brilliancy of conception, and I deter
mined to test its feasibility.
Accordingly I hied me forth in search
of brushes. I had a long and weary
march ere I found brushes equal to the
area of my pedal extremetie*, for though
there may be differences of opinion as to
the graceful formation of those mem
bers, no one can deny that they are
built upon a noble design with no stint
cf material.
I argued, too, that the pressure of
one hundred aud eighty pounds avoir
dupois was greatly in my favor, so with
my brushes in place and with a light
heart aud eyes beaming with hope 1 be
gan my experiment.
Contrary to expectations, I found my
self unsteady when 1 stood on my
brushes, so I concluded to cling to the
wall for support till I became accus
tomed to my new mode of locomotion.
1 had been at work but a few minutes
when my attention was diverted bv the
giggling of three liltle imps, as they
sang out in their glee: “Oh! mamma,
come, quick, quick! See papa walking
on brushes.
Mamma came, and soon retreated at
my command of: “Cherry, keep those
children out of here; it is bad enough
to make a martyr of myself without
being laughed at.”
Bennie, the eldest, began to whimper;
“What makes papa so cross? lie did
look funny, didn't he, mamma?”
“Hush! hush! come away!’’ Cherry
answered; “papa is tired.”
I should say “papa was tired,” and
beginning to bemross, too, but, left to
myself, 1 rallied my courage and went
to work again. I determined to venture
away from the wall, and had gained con
siderable self-assurance when in bounded
our Newfoundland dog, with tail frisk
ing and eyes alight with a lumor 1 had
never seen in them before. He seemed
all at once to have developed a keen ap
preciation of the ridiculous, as he gam
boled about; and knocking against me,
I sent me sprawling on the floor. I re
gained my footing and roared in my deep
; bass, “Out of here, Rover! Hear, sir!”
“Bow wow,” answered Rover, in his
merry bark, as he proceeded to gambol
some more, leaving the marks of his
j dirty pa ws all over my floor.
j In the despair born of desperation, I
j forgot my brushes, forgot prudence, for
! got everything excepting the dog that I
resolved to rout from the room, or die
trying. Hither, thither, and yon 1
chased him, aud finally he disappeared
through a French window, smashing the
plate glass by the way. The next I
knew I was on the floor, a heap of
shapeless ruins, destined never to arise
again unaided. My ankle was crushed,
but iny spirit was not. “Help!” I
roared.
With alacrity dear Cherry answered
my call: “Why, Love!—”
“I am not ’Love,’ 1 ungraciously in- :
ternipted her. “I am a fool! Unhitch ;
those brushes from my feet and bury, j
drown or burn them—anything so I
shall never behold them again.”
Cherry, with sweet humility, humored
mo, and cast the ofienrive appendages ;
away. She called in the neighbors, ami i
with their united efforts, they lifted my
180 poynds and gently carried them to
bed, where they laid at rest for eight
weary week*. The doctor came and se
my ankle, he said. 1 only know J set my !
teeth while he seemed to be twisting
o ■
and tearing my leg to pieces.
When I grew strong enough we fig
ured the cost of my experiment. The
humiliation and tears arc not calculated;
they cannot be measured by paltry dol- ;
lars. (I wonder if there ever were
known any dollars not paltry.) The fol- !
lowing bill shows our pecuniary loss;
To Dr. Pullandtwiotem, for surgical ser-
vices $ 75 1
One plate glass for French window 10 ;
Repolishing floor 25
Kitchen maid’s services while Cherry
nursed me ‘!4 ■
I
Learnimx the Lard’s Prayer.
In the Middle Ages, when the great
lords and knights were always at war
with one another, one of them resolved
to revenge himself on a neighbor who
had offended him. It chanced that, on
the very evening when he made this
resolution, he heard that his enemy w.r
to pass near his castle, in company with
only a few men. It was a good oppor
tunity to take his revenge, and he deter
mined not to let it pass. !!<• spoke of
this plan in the presence of his chaplain,
who tried in vain to persuade him to
give it up.
At length, seeing that all h:s words
had no effect, he said
“My lord, since I cannot persuade you
to give up this plan of yours, will you
at least consent to come with me to the
chapel, that we may pray together be
fore you go?”
The duke consented, and he and the
chaplain knelt together in prayar. Then
the mercy loving Christian said to the
revengeful warrior:
“Will you repeat after me, sentence
by sentence, the prayer that our Lord
Jesus Christ Himself taught His disci
pies?”
“I will do it,” replied the duke.
The chaplain said a sentence, and the
duke repeated it. till he came to the pe
tition, "Forgive us our trespasses as we
forgive them that trespass against US.”
Then the duke was silent.
“My lord duke, you are silent,” said
the chaplain. “Will you continue to
repeat the words after me, if you dare
pray them? ‘Forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive them that trespass against
us.’”
“I cannot,” replied the duke.
“Well,” said the chaplain, “you
must either give up your revenge or give
up saying this prayer, for to ask God to
pardon you as you pardon others, is to
ask Him to take vengeance on you for
all your sins. Go now, my lord, and
meet your victim. God will meet you
at the judgment day.”
“No,” said rhe duke, “I will finish
my prayer. My God, Father, pardon
me; forgive me as I desire to forgive
him who offended me; lead me not
into temptation, hut deliver me from
evil.”
“Amen,” said the chaplain.
“Amen,” repeated the duke, who had
now thoroughly learned the Lord's
Prayer.
Ethan Allen’s Plank.
While Ethan Allen was a prisoner on
■ his passage to England closely confined
> to his cabin he discovered that a pin or
| wire that fastened one of his handcuffs
was broken. Extricating the pieces with
his teeth he was enabled to loosen the
bolt and set one hand at liberty, by the
aid of which ami his teeth he soon had.
both at liberty, and he was not long in
liberating his feet. But fearing a dis
covery might lead to worse treatment, he
replaced his irons, bolts and pins Ix'fore
the arrival of his keeper. It soon
became a recreation for the
general to take off and put on his irons
at pleasure. One day the captain wish
ing to afford the crew some merriment
ordered that Allen be brought on deck.
Hoping to frighten him the captain said
‘•There is a probability that (he ship
will flounder; if so what will become of
us. especially you. Mr. Allen, a rebel
against the king?” “Why,” said Alien,
“that would be very much like our din
ner hour.” “Why so?” said the captain,
not. reflecting that Allen was allowed to
come on deck only when the captain
went down into his cabin to dine.
“Well, you see,” answered Allen, “I’d
be on my way up just as you would
he going below.” This answer did not
please the captain and he began a regu
lar tirade of abuse against the Ameri
can people. “In a short time,” said Ihe
captain, “all the rebels will be in the
same situation as yourself.” 'This was
too much for Alien, and, raising his
hands to his teeth, he soon snapped the
bolts and pins, took off his irons and
threw them overlmard, seized the panic
stricken captain by the collar and threw
him headlong upon the deck. Then
turning to the affrighted crew he ex
claimed iu a voice of thunder. “If I am
insulted again during the voyage, I'll
sink the ship and swim ashore.” This
exploil had such an effect on the captain
and crew that no further insult was
offered to the general during the voyage.
—[Troy Times.
His Dinner Hour.
H. N. (newly married): •Well, good
bye, ol<| man. Come up some night ami
take dinner with us.”
I’.: “Thank*, 1 will. What hour
(io you have it?”
H. N. (meditatively): “Oh, some
times at six, and sometimes at seven, and
then again at half-past seven, and, by
Jove, sometimes not till half-past eight."-!
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VALPARAISO.
i Things Noted by an American in
a Chilian City.
■ ■■ '■■■
i The Peons, the Police} Militia
and Fire Service.
| A correspondent of the Detroit Free
I Press says in a letter from Valparaiso:
i 1 watch from my consulate windows the
“peons” (laborers), some carrying boxes
ami bales which would stagger many of
our porters, some riding on the “near”
horse of a team of three, harnessed
abreast, the driver or rider with bare
legs ami feet, but wearing a spur
strapped to his left foot, which he in
dustriously plies. Indeed, the animals
I (the quadrupeds) seem accustomed to
. the whip and spur, one of which is al
most every moment administered, and to
care little alxnit them; the riders never
speak to their beasts. The ]H»lice and
other mounted men ride steadily ami ap
parently securely, but not in the Ameri
can or English style. All persona here
are erect. and alert. Tlint is especially
noticeable among the young, even chil
dren, who arc robust and “well set up.”
The hands ami feet of both sexe* are re
markably small and neat, even those of
the laborers and mechanic* being deli
cate and well formed.
The militia and fire services are effi
ciently discharged by young men, many
of good position, who are well drilled.
Th* tire service excuses from jury duty,
as it did with us before our paid depart
ment. The orders of all kinds to the
“boinberes” (pumpers) are given by the
> bugle exclusively.
In speaking of fires, I am reminded of
a curious regulation of law or custom of
the police. When a fire breaks out in
shop or dwelling, the owner or occupant
is promptly arrested, his guilt as an in
cendiary being presumed, and he is held
for examination, or, in some favorable
cases, held to bail, until lie can explain
the circumstances or prove how it was
that he did not fire his own house or
tenement. The presumption of inno
cence obtaining at the common law' does
not seem, al least in such cases, to exist
here, that presumption being reserved
ami the guilty act assumed.
Speaking of local affairs, I saw some
days ago a considerable laxly of the mu
nicipal police in lull bine uniform, carry -
ing rifles with fixed bayonets, white
gloved, hehm ted and with a drum or
Iwo marching in the centre of the city.
On inquiring the reason for their parade*
1 was informed that, it was for the pur
pose of making public a governmental
decree. This was the reappointment for - "
three years of the present efficient “in
tendente,” or governor of this province.
The. decree for such purpose is read aloud i
by the officer in command of the de
tachment at several principal points iu -
the city, and then published in the pa
per*. I think it a good plan.
1 want to tell the Detroit people how
to secure their saddle horses <wi dis
mounting. Get a short strap with
double buckles ami strap the fore feet of
the animal together just above the pas
tern. So they do here, where they ride
a great deal, and then leave the horse
standing for any time in the pubH®
street without firing.
A (’audit! Author.
A. —“I see that in the prz*face to
your book you state it is writtea ‘to
fill a long-felt want.”
B. “Yes; ami so it is.”
“What do you mean by filling a Ioi(g
--felt want?”
“What do I inrun? Why, ■
needing a square meal for the past two |
year*. Don't you call that a longifelt I
want?”—[Siftings. >
A Crafty Child.
Gm >ba mamma “Now dear, you mn4 fl
invite one of your little frie.ok. to |
share your candy.” >
Little Dot gu-*« Ui! iflvite 1
i.ncy."
“Well, that will be nice J' K
I’VWf her an’ j
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