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.‘oit.winnli (Tribune. Published by the Tarauxs Publisher a, » J. H. DEVEAOX, 0,1 ( B. W. WHITE, Solioitob. VOL. 11. NEWLY FITTED UP. 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 JOB PRINTING / —GO TO TUB— SAVANNAH . ! TRIBUNE.' Envelopes, « j Business Cards, Statements, Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED < Give us a call. 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."-! (>1.96 Per Annum; 76 cents tor Six Months; 60 cents Tt>re* Months; Single Copies I 5 cents- Jn Affvano*. 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 'JiTcC'CCeats 'hju [Omaha World. ® NO. 50.