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THE PROPOSAL.
From the Bofton Budget.
“You've gon>- into business, have you not ’
I beard so from a friend:
I'll call and see you when I've got
Some pin money to spend.
•‘I heard, too, you'd a lovely place
Within the city's heart
Of trade, and that your store would grao
The city's choicest part.
“I really hope you w ill do well.
In fact. I'm sure you must "
His eyes before her clear glance it •
So full of ardent trust
'I know that you will never fail,
Whatever you may do:
Your energy will never quail.
’Kre vie'try conics to you."
“You're very good, I've every ground*
For hope. I'm young and si long.
But, then, I want a hundred pounds
To help mo get along.
“A hundred pounds?" her face grew sad
“Why, what are you to do:'
I know!” her eyes flashed bright and glad"
‘•I’ll ask papa for you: ’
“Ah. no! the hundred pounds I seek
Is not of sordid pelf:
You said that was your weight, last week
1 11 ask your i>a, myself ”
SIDEWALK AND SITTING-ROOM.
The Home and Street Decorations of
yl the Social World.
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jgjgNE* York, April 16.—What is the world
Storing this spring!
BTashion was in bud in the weeks before
jfcster; it has burst into blossom since. Its
ffiwering is of the tropic order, and prom
e|Bs throughout the summer a luxuriant, a
iflrh-colored, n riotous display. There are
Kin years and fat years in fashions os in
Hfecr crops. The present season will ripen
of the pressed down and running
sort.
Hthe importers brought over heliotrope.
Hoc dry goods stores opened heliotrope. The
■bdistes and milliners talkixl heliotro[e. A
Bv ful of women hesitated a fortnight,
their heads doubtfully, rejected
two or three times over, and
Hally accepted it with open arms.
primrose. There is n<* coni-
to be named t-eside it There are
|Hy shades of heliotrope and ten shades of
variety enough for every coni
every age and every style,
and black has its advocates, Put
ope in any case one must wear.
Bbf the other offered shades t hat. find ae-
and begin to give character to the
these April days there is a delicate
yellow that is “absinthe,” a blueish
" that is “serpent,” a reddish
Knr that is“flammant,"and a rich brown
Hav that is "Havanne.' There has team
fallore. on* utter bunkrupt in the oolor
Tho new series of pinks was
a month ago as destined to revolu
all oneY steJudaids. Thp lialf dozen
shades, ranging m tho brilliant rose
deep crimson Chai * N. staked their
Ku the turn of a die and lwt. The start
untoned hues were glorious on tlie color
but womankind studied their effect
lioiinet. trievl them against its faiv aud
them away in disgust.
Bn tlie mutt*-r of dress fabrics the line of
tietweeu the tailor gown and
ft dressmaker’s gown gi-ows sharper and
Each has taken possewion of its
territory and resents uny encroaeh-
BE-nt on it from the other. Eueh aecentu-
its own characteristics, increasing the
between it and its Heighten*. The
, 9Blor gown has conned yet more diligently
.■special lesson of stewing away 6k50 woil.li
severe simplicity iu a coatume that
look to the uninitiated eye as if it
slo. It is exquisite of fit and utterlv
of ornament. Th** dressmaker's
Km riots in Vieads, iu luces, in [lufftxi
in every caprice and even* wlnnisi
that can stamp it ns coquettishlv. ini
Frenchily feminine.
materiul. the plain elnihs to the tailor
the novelty frubrics to the dress-
products. Th" self eoluml S<*iiteh
is the tailor gown's second
the cheviots in small cheeks and
plaids its t hird mid tlie utmost lati-
PtoD it allows. riain gray, unrelieved by
other color, Ls tho special fad of the
gown. B<ild spirits brighten it w ith
Kftlue aigrette or a wreath of blue
forget-me-not* in the bonnet; but the
rigid devotees of tlie tailor cult admit no in
ion at all. Brown with a hint of red
ad a variety of greens are the other
prefered.
elty goods run riot in cheeks and
l The plaids that were the extremes
l season are tlie staple goods of this,
is a greater variety m patterns than
erials, however, for the wool craze is
wane. Bilks are not yet in the us
lt, but another three months will see
Irmly in power. It is a natural re
the strife between tailor and modiste,
ned truce is the only possible out
wool to the one, silks to the other. The
acturers have seen their opportunity,
eh a world of silks was never put
market tefore. The Htaple silk this
summer will not be the surah, but a com
paratively new fabric, worked over in the
latest make* and improved faille Finn
raise. A corded silk was the model of the
new material or a gros grain ribbon, may
lie. But where the gros grain is stiff and
unfit for draping, the faille is soft, yielding
and hangs in graceful folds. *
Moire lias te*en gaining on the pluin silks
for six months back, and will be used
throughout the summer on every jswsiblo
occasion and in all sorts of ways. Tbe new
moires match the cashmeres throughout the
whole range of spring colors, und the two
materials will make no small proportion of
the warm weather gowns. To the plain
moire within u month moire antiaue lias
l>een added in a tenative, hesitating fashion.
Feminity has looked at. it, priced it, found
it at first glance too elalionite, left it, gone
back ami bought it the second day. Tlie
chances now are that it will bo popular,
gloriously popular—among tho few who
can affonl to pay for it— but not for long.
Bummer silks have developed beyond the
iwognitiou of their forbears of three or four
years ago. The India silk, with itssoft,per
fect texture, its light weight ami fresh, reol
teel, is a fabric to thunk the gods for. The
dainty printed pongees will see much out-of
town service at the mountains und seashore;
t hey are coming iu so much firmer and more
reliable weaves.
Two summer specialties will lie the tea
gown and tho white woolen gown. Ameri
can women have [>aid comparatively little
attention to the bouse dress until recently;
but. beginning with Ike concoctions of silk,
ribbon bows und billows of lace that go by
the namenf tea gowns, tire [Mission for dainty
indoor attire has spread through every ma
terial and has reference to every hour of the
*lay. For the house dress tho cream, tale
blue and pink surahs, with drapery of Ori
ental lace nre the favorite, though tho rep
iper-eolored shades of cashmere and sage
trimmed with pink are not to be despised.
White woolen for indoor and out-of-door
summer wear will prove a formidable rival
to the wash fabrics, the ginghams and
sateens. White cashmeres, white home
spuns, white flannels, whit** crepes and
w-hitc* nun'* veilings will be quite tho fabrics
of the year.
Spring gowns are made as one's fancy
■ ' <w. The toiii nin eis doomed. It is g->
ing. In three months it will is* gone. Tim
peloimisc i* <>u the teuslei lino between ter
mg nail not being. It. lias te*n Jn c**li|<m*
It I* slowly working out. For tlie rest, jet.
• ■sails, rlbitons. lure You <au te* us daring
l*l eolor und combinations of colors tut v*>ur
•xmiplexiou or your eoiwienre will allow.
You can load youraelf with ornament* till
you Jingle and glitt* r and final) like a lialf
civilized Eastern <ji|een Tin* lest of tlie
••lire Is like unto tin gown. To say wrap i
to my velvet, la***, Jet; <l*eially jet. To say
Imnuet bite say gsc/*, i*>n|., fiowers.** ,
flow cm Tim bounct freak of Dm*
ysl is jiiu*. of forget me note <i’ilia*** or
< rncipiol pim leaves tbiown 6>gc*Uiei in n
tu*v*h utM tied m th** head with a cloud of
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FIRST FLOOR
stitute for some of the time-wasting contri
vances known by that name—nothing can
be more fascinating to women of literary or
semi-literary taste* than extra illustrating.
The term is one which means a good deiu,
ranging from the edition of his “American
Poets,” which the Poet Stedman is prepar
ing, and which, with its store of elaborate
illustrations and embellishments, is valued
at several thousand dollars, down to the
simplest scrapbook. A friend of mine has
made a unique volume out of an account of
a European tom - , by including with the
type of a series of newspaper articles writ
ten by himself hundreds of pictures, the col
lected treasures of years. There are en
gravings, photographs, wood cuts, etchings;
of all sizes, all characters and nil dates. To
avoid that, bunchy appearance which the
ordinary scrapbook has, all the pictures are
let into the blank pages, a space being cut a
trifle smaller than each picture and the
edge of the hole and of the picture beveled
to fit The [tasting is done along this bev
eled edge. The result is a volume of rare
beauty and, of course, of much interest to
the owner and his friends. •
Anything may serve as a basis for extra
illustrating and as wide a scope is afforded
in the matter insei-ted. A sumptuous book
may be made out of a magazine article by
adding portraits of distinguished persons
mentioned in it or pictures of buildings de
scribed. One that has Vieen frequently used
in this way is G. P. Lathrop’s “Literary
Movement in New York,” winch affords ul
most unlimited opportunity for illustration
i with portraits of authors and literary men,
their autographs and pictures of their
homes, their libraries and study nooks. Pre
pie of artistic tastes and inclinations paint
in water colors or trace sketches upon the
broad margin through which the “rill of
text” meanders.
In the ease of Btedman's magnificent edi
tion of the “Poets of America” which I have
mentioned, each single leaf was given a
wider margin. This was it task of enor
mous size, and required much skill in the
workman, but, it of course permits the use
of very large prints ami engraving which
could not be used in any other way. Sev
eral large quarto volumes, which it u ould Is)
impossible to duplicate, und whose intrinsic
worth is measured by figures which sug
gest a reasonable fortune to ordinary mor
tals, may thus be evolved out of a book
costing in the begimiing but ii 10.
If the craze for extra illustration eon
tinues to increase at the present rate it will
soon furnish employment to n good many
people, und it would not Is* surprising if
women, with their patience, artistic feeling
und deft fingers, were to be found compel
ing with men ih this ns iu other lie)'is. Of
course the vast majority of extra illustrat
ing is at, present crudely done by unuiteurs,
but already quite a manlier of men Und rea
sonably sternly and certainly remunerative
employment in doing such work for those
who distrust their own abilities in this di
reetion. The skill which some ol the men
display is something marvelous. To I level
the edge of an ordinary piece of thick put km*
is itself it tusk requiring uo ineun anilty,
but to |ire|ue in tin* maimer |uge after
imge mi Hccuratelj liiut tlie Ikmik when
iKitmd slmll lie os true end even us any
printed volume in even more difficult, split
ling a printed )*•*•> whan it is too thick, or
in iuw* wiii’D wJiinh!e pictures lih|i|>'ii In
lie printed on Isilii sides, is one of tie ti nts
of the new profiwxiilll. it in dune by pn-ling
u strip of fine linen to e*i' h side of the jo ]KT ,
and '-Artfully tearing th* two stri|e a|mrt.
They are ilieit put in water to soak, when
re*'ll kir Is taken off its r*|KK’tlv*’ piece of
1 111*11 uninjured. It doesn't sound w>) i
Biel I don't Udteve It is nmy, but It < >iii Is*
•lone.
wu*a* IN Ml NirTPAI AFFAIR*
Ms. fie is eVet a ImUei’ iilustratfijo <4 Ih*
new stand that wmint! are taking with ii
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS : SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1887-TWELVE FAGE'S.
Size of Structure—Front, 23 feet. Side, 30 feet. .
Size of RooMS-See floor plans.
Height of Stories—Cellar, 6 feet; First Story, 9 feet; Second Story, 8 feet.
Jlateri.vi.s- Foundation, wood posts; First Story, clapboards; Second Story, shingles and panelled work; Roof, shingles.
, Cost—sl,2oo to $l,lOO, complete.
Special Features—There is a cellar 10x10 feet, with a stairway to tho same from the dining-room.
The above design was furnished us for publication by the Co-Operative Building l’lan Association, a large, firm of Architects
doing business at 191 Broadway', New York, who make a specialty of country and suburban work, being able to furnish the
drawings and specifications for more than three hundred different designs, mostly of low and moderate cost. They invite
correspondence from all intending builders, however distant. They will send their latest publication (called Bhoppell's Modern
Houses, No. 5) containing more than fifty designs, on receipt of sl.
gai'd to municipal affairs than the memo
rial which the Ladies’ Health
Protective Association sent to Mayor
Hewitt the other day ! The
transaction of the city business is only
housekeeping on a large scale after all, and
tho wi mien remind tlie Mayor that he mnsn’t
keep) his house' in such a way as to make it
harder for them to keep theirs. Two-thirds
of a woman's manual labor, aside from her
sewing, they say, is spent in keeping her
house clean. If the Department of City
Works doesn’t attend to its duty in cleaning
the streets and removing tlie ashes, dust
blows in at every window and all her pains
is thrown away. True every word of it,
and not altogether a bad idea on tho part of
the women to hold the city officials respon
sible in part to them. The tendency is ob
vious and almost as significant as tlie turn
out at the polls in Kansas.
death’s shining marks.
The death in New York, at such a, brief
interval, of two of its wealthiest women,
Mrs. Cornelia Stewart and Miss Catherine
Wolfe, has naturally provoked much discus
sion of their relative habits and ways of
life. They were different enough in most
rei-l>ects. Mrs. Stewart having shared her
husband's struggle up the hill toward
wealth, while Miss Wolfe inherited her vast
jxissessions. Both suffered equally from the
persistent greed of beggars of all'kinds, but
lievond that there was not much resem
blance. Miss Wolfe was an active, busy
woman; Mi's. Stewart shut herself up in her
marble dungeon. Miss Wolfe was an intel
ligent, patron of art; Mrs. Stewart never
bought a picture after her husband’s death.
Miss Wolfe yearly spent almost her entire
income on practical charitable and reforma
tory work, while. Mrs. Stewart lavished her
money on the marble memorial of her hus
band at Garden City. I doubt whether
either of these much-envied women knew
much real happiness. Miss Wolf's wealth
barivsl the door to married happiness. She
had suiters enough, but could never believe
in the disinterestedness of any of them, and
so shut the disjr to all.
ri o dogs.
Fashion long ago reached such a depth of
abauivlity in the matter of pug dogs that
any further de*scent seems impossible. At
any rate, there is little that is new to
chronicle about their cure or their costum
ing. They still 101 lin their mistress’ lups,
thrust their impudent anil ugly physiogno
mies out of carriage windows and luxuriate
in cushions, dainty final and aesthetic sur
roundings. They still wear embroidered
harnesses, the most conspicuous portion of
which is the handle by which they are lifted,
little blankets still protect them from pneu
monia and feminine ingenuity exhausts it
self in the details of their neckwear. Thu
favorite variety -though the Mpitz mtp has
yet its votaries—is the creamy but English
pug. whoso color darkens to deep black
ills ml I lie nose mill eyes. With thiwe* the
less hair and the I.**. avoirdupois the liettcr.
in one n>s(Krt only is there much change,
and that is de*cidilly for tlie better. Young
women no longer wear, or rather carry,
them. At the present rate it wiil noon Ik?
as goel as a eoiiti'ssion to to years to Is* seen
on the street with a pug.
The yachting reporters who went Into
ruptures over “Mix Lieut, lletin” lust, year
iso take lienr; of grace. Mr. Hell, the
i ner oi tieThistli*. which is to try con
e lnsioiu, for the Vrnerhii s e*up, is u barb
e |o|. to l lire; but the Mutter of leiiiinilii'
eira|K-i ,es it |)| ieit |h a stranger to the? disks |
of in? .in lit. lb* ill In mg a pretty young i
*islee hi law ai'i'i* the water with him a |
New York girl, l‘i, bv the wav.
Give rt g'si whis ling, tricycle* want only !
three inoiiili, |,e mak* tin m s |K>pular here j
as with English women Every bright |
morning brings Ait. u Imlf tleai'n fn-.h rulci S ■
la Central Park, i'lit'i how to |
otw a y ear ago. eMHMBWHi
PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN.
Horsemanship is the New York girl's
latest fad. From eight to ten riding clubs
have been formed in the past, month, and on
every available boulevard you come upon
jrarties of merry equestriennes.
Nobody seems inclined to have a try at
answering Mayor Hewitt’s question pro
pounded to the New York Board of Educ
ation, Why not pay a woman equal wages
for better work than a man;
The yellow tea has anew terror. A city
hostess last week east aside chairs, even yel
low plush oil 's, and perched her guests on
carved oak stools, mildewed as if with age,
solid and magnificent, pseudo ancestral and
genuinely uncomfortable. E. P. H.
ON BOARD A STEAMER.
How the Vessels Are Run by an Army
of Men.
Prom the Sew York Star.
That “human nature is a curious thing, and
there is plenty of it,” is probably better ex
emplified on board a great ocean steamship
than in any other place in the world. There
is to be found a motley assemblage of men,
women and children, sometimes numbering
upward of 1,500 souls—not [lacked like her
rings in a barrel, motionless and compressed,
but as bees in a hive, active and swarming
about every hour of the flay. Their lives
are linked together anil subject to one com
mon destiny for the time being, and the
knowledge of this fact, as well as the cir
cumscribed nature of the immediate sur
roundings, promotes sociability and good
fellowship, and induces passengers to take
an unusual interest in their neighbors.
The vast majority of the traveling public
accept with complacency the refinement and
convenieneie* b > be found on board the ocean
steamers of to-day. They tail to grasp the
full extent of the advancement which lias
taken place within the last half century,
and they are apt to overlook the intricacies
of the human mechanism which has to be
constantly but quietly kept, in motion for
the attainment of order, regularity and dis
cipline.
The difference bet ween a ship of fifty year*
ago and one of to-day is vast. The Britan
nia, built in is:;;), took *OO tons of cool leav
ing Liverpool on her outward voyage. She
burned Ft tons per day. white her steam
pressure was ii pounds and her speed a little
over 8 knots ]K*r hour. Gradually and
steadily the ocean steamers increased in all
those particulars until the culmination was
readied in a vessel built in 18,35. She has
averaged a sliced of IS knots in il con
secutive voyages lietwren (,>uecn.*(ovni and
New York, which is equal to nearly 21
statute miles per hour, or somewhat greater
than the average wired of the ordinary train
service on any railway in the world. Her l
engines indicate 14,(XX1 horse [lower, mid m e
supplied with steam from ! double-ended
boilers, each with 3 furnaces The total
consumption of cihl is 300 tons pw day. and
if tiie whole of the Urns were raked together
mid formed into one large fin’, there would
be 12 tons of coal, or a mass 20 fis t long, 20
fret broad, and ml her more than 4 fret high
fiercely burning. Besides the coal, gal
lons of oil an* used daily for journals,
Is'iil'ings, etc. 11l the engine room are
(Is-dynamo* and driving engim* ii.**| for
lighting the ship, which are look'd after
by the engine room stuff.
Kvcntotho* who cannot Is- termed epi
erne., th” eliii f concern and uppermost
thought of curt. -lay Is undoubtedly "What
*dnill wee.it ami wlmt shell we drink *" Tin*
• •lilef steward is not only rrejsinsible for th”
gi>Nl order of ilia servant* and tin* . Irani,
lies* of tie -ul ...||, cnbliw, iMtlls, ell-,, hill i
for provldna the passenger* with a g > * | '
nisi lilm'iu) tabli The <*nolu< turn isit, at j
UMlx. in. At n a m. . .ff ( s-t* steal j n the i
etnteiiKiai • any |Kuwenger requiring it, or I
on deck -heiiManj on*-h* veto farforgoto-a §
himself as to get out of bed at that hour.
Breakfast is served from 8 to 10 a. m.. lunch
from 1 to 2 p. m., dinner from 5 to 7 p. m.,
and supjier from 0 to 10 p. m.: in the inter
vals between breakfast and lunch, lunch
and dinner, dinner and supper, the passen
gers assist digestion with ginger nuts, prunes,
oranges, nuts, cake, and many other things,
looker! upon with horror by the natural
man; ana this never ceases until the end of
the Voyage, giving employment to the cook
till 10 p.m. The bakers" finish the day's
work at 7 p. m. The stewards turn out at
0 a. in., clean saloons, smoking room, etc.,
and prepare the tables for breakfast; a
portion of the stewards attend the bed
rooms, but the greater number attend at
table or wherever they may lie required.
They finnish the day’s work at 11 p. m.
and are the hardest worked men on board
the ship.
The amount of provisions, groceries, etc.,
on board nt the time of sailing are very
large. For a single passage to the westward
one of the steamers, with 547 cabin passen
gers and a crew of 287 persons, had, when
leaving Liverpool Aug. 28 last, the follow
ing quantities of provisions: i2,550 pounds
fresh beef, 700 pounds corned beef, 5,320
pounds mutton, 850 pounds lamb, 350 ;rounds
fresh fish, 600 fowls, 300 chickens, 100
ducks, 50 geese, 80 turkeys, 200 brace grouse,
15 tons potatoes, 30 hampers vegetables, 220
quarts ice cream, 1,000 quarts milk and 11,-
500 eggs.
In groceries alone there w’eve over 200 pif
fereut articles, including 650 pounds tea,
1.200 pounds coffee, 1,600 islands white sugar,
2,800 pounds moist sugar, 7.50 pounds pul
verized sugar, 1,500 pounds cheese, 2.IXK)
pounds butter, 3,500 pounds ham and 1,000
pounds bacon.
The consumption may easily be accounted
for when it is considered that the crew (each
member of which is allowed 2 pounds of
iieef per day ) use.s74pounds, that 3;>opounds
per day will !>•> used in making hi-of. ea,
making a total of !124 pounds for the crew
and the singD item of beef tea; then break
fast., lunch, dinner and supjKT for .547 ims
sengers accounts for the remainder; 11,500
eggs appears to lie a large consumption for
an eight days’ passage—it is in reality one
egg per miiiuto born the time the ship sails
from Liverjiool until her arrival at New
York—but. they Hfe prepuii’d in many ways
for breakfast, and dlsupjieur in hundred* at
supper: in fact, it is not an unusual thing to
see a lady or gentleman HtiLsh off a rtup))er
of grilled chicken and deviled sardines with
four jioaehed eggs on toast, and it is the same
witli everything on board.
The quantities of wine, spirits, beer, etc
put on istal'd for consumption on the round
voyag" eomprisi't. 100 bottles of champagne,
850 bottles of claret, 6,000 Isittles of ale,
2,5(K) bottles of porter, 4,500 bottloN of
mineral watei’s. (V>o bottles of various
spirits. Crockery is broken verv exten
sively. lining at tfio rate of 000 plate’s, 280
eiqis, 43S saucers, 1,213 tumblers, 200 wine
glasses, 37 decanters and 63 water bottles in
| a Mingle voyage.
I’lissongei-s annually drink and smoke to
the following extent :B,o3oDitties and 17.61:1
hnlf bottles chiniiiMigne, Id,(Ml bottles und
7,:i10 half Ditties, claret, ii,2(Ni bottles other
wine*, 4Mt,644 bottle* nle and poller, 174,1121
I Kittles mineral waters, 34, lull Ditties spirits,
34,360 I>und< tobacco, fid, dg) eigui .>6,875
cigarettes. The heaviest item in tin* anmial
isiiiKunijitlon is naturally coal, of which they
hum 550.764 t*u>*, or almost Miiil'in* for
every day in the year. The con-nniption of
engine oil is pit, o4s gallons: of burning nils,
33.020ga110n5; of |stint oil, 0,200 gallon*; of
warte, tti inns; of white lead, 51 torn*; of red
lend, 12 tun*.
Hojks, fnriti another bugh item and If
all Were Joined kfUtllN' tlicy would stretch
li'itu Glasgow in 1/ as ion ami forty uiilmh
Is , olid
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MKCOND KI.OOK.
ployment of labor by this same company, it
requires bl captains, 14b ofUcers, fi'2B engi
neers. boilermakers and carpenter*, 665 sea
men. SU6 fireznen, itdO stewards, 02 steward
esses, 42 women to keep the unliolstery and
linen in order, wlLh 1,100 of a shore gang, or
about 4,500 jieople to run the ships, which
traverse yearly a distance equal to
live times that between the earth and the
moon. .
.MOOM-BLIND TIM DELANEY.
The Surgeon Said He Was Shamming,
but he Walked Into a Well.
A New York business man, who served in
the Union army through the war and
marched with Sherman through Georgia,
says of a recently printed story about a
Montreal man who is moon blind:
“ It is pooh-poohed by some people, but I
happened to know that there is such a thing
as moon blindness, because I saw cases of it
in the army. The doctors may scout it as
much uk t hey please.but it is a fact. I was in
Company G, Second Massachusetts Infantry,
and in Company D was u "ray-haired Irish
man whom we called ‘Old Tim,’ and whose
last name, 1 think, was Delaney. Some
time during tho campaign Tim slept on the
ground without shelter and with the moon
light falling upon his face, and after that he
was unable to see anything when the moon
was shining. That sounds like an old wom
an's superstition, but 1 know it is true.
Tim’s company and ours became so thinned
out that they were practically merged into
one, anil Tim and i sometimes marched side
by side. At night he would take hold of my
arm for guidance, because he could not see
his way, and that is how I learned that lie
was moon blind.
‘'The old man was detailed fori vidette
duty one night when I was sergeant of the
guard, and 1 went to Dr. W. S. Nichols, tho
regimental surgeon, who is now in Cincin
nati. to get the old man relieved. I told the
doctor that Delaney was not tit for picket
duty, liecau-'o ho was moon blind, and askisl
to have him excused. Nichols declared that
it was all nonsense, that there was no such
thing as moon blindness, and curtly ordered
lue to go ulsiut my business. Then I went
to Col. Cogswell, who is now Congressman
from the Seventh Massachusetts district.
Ho inquired about moon blindness, and
said: ‘Very well. relieve Delaney if you think
he isn’t shamming.”
“Between Aug. 2 and 27, 1864, we were
ramped lietwoen the Chattahoochee and
Atlanta. Tlie Confederates had burned a
house where our regiment vas posted, and
the Colonel’s tent was near the site of the
house. Col, Cogswell was promoted to a
Generalship while we were there, and Col.
Morse succeed' and him in tho command of the
regiment. One night old man Delanev was
put on camp guard, and his beat was before
the Colonels quarters. It was a bright
moonlight night, and unyboily whone eyes
wore all l ight could sis* almost well enough
to distinguish a pin on the ground. In
11 1 morning old man Delaney was missing,
and ho was put down in tin ’ report of the
guard as a deserter. Nnlnuy believed
that, Ihe old follow had deserted. however,
and what hud Dxsmieof Inm was a mystery
The mystery win solved thi's'days later bv
the finding of Tim Delaney's Issfy In an old
dry dl iniar the sip-of tho bous*. lie had
lilt .si ll I oil’ll of Ills stepson tile lieat Mild j
walked njtsj tin well. If he tunin') lieeii moon
blind lie isaild have s*en tho well easily.
A Thunder Btorm
May piltffv tli uir, But nothing egi ept Ho
zotiotiT will purify the niiMitti filled with o*.
gleet <ml teeth, and rcurue Umw taittifui ser
vant* nt matikitvl liven litter ruin tiefore it
in t<a* Jute Don’t neglect to try it. You
will tie miipi tawsl un i delighted with it* to
*ulU. (■MIHM
BROWS’S IRON BITTERS
A QUESTION ABOUT
Browns Iron
Bitters
ANSWERED.
The dsesMon has probably been asked lhoij M .s.
rr tunes, How can Brown s Iron Bitters
thing?” ’Well, it doesn't. But it te. “55
fr which are im table physician would prescnbiiiSw
Physicians recognise Iron as the bit nrS ’
fgept known to the profession, and inqurt
leading chemical hnn will substantiate ttieasini T
that there are more preparations of iron thanS
other mibstanco used in medicine This shnw „ *
elueively that iron is acknowledged to be the
important factor in Bucoeeaful medical practice
however, a remarkable fact, that prior to the
eryof BROWN’* 1 HON It ITTERSnofe
ly satisfactory iron combination had ever beenfoumi
BROWN’S IRON BiTTERStes
headache, or produce constipation—all other ii
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cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Weakneu
Dyspepsia, MrJnrin, Thills and FeiLl’
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Kia—for all these ailments Iron is prescribed dfl.
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS h”we*erdoei
benefit is renewed energy. Ti e muscle, then beZZ
hrmer, the digestion impror,., the bowels aretb?
In iromm the effect is usu ally more rapid and mwW
The evos begin at once to brighten “he ektadSi
npi healthy color comes to the cheeks; nervouenS
functional derangements become re£?
jar, and if a nnrsmg mother, abundant susteiS.
is supplied for the child. Remember Brown’s tS!
Bittern is the ONLY iron met lioine that° in*
lunoufl. Physician* and Druggitt* recommend \f
The Genuine has Trade Mark and croesed rd lm
on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER.
LOTTERY? ' ’
| A V-0'
CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000
‘' >'<■’>' do hereby certify that, ire unperrim tin
arrangements for nil Che Monthly and. .Semi
Annual Dtatmngs of the I/misiana state m
tery Company, awl in, person manage and ran
trot the Drawing* themselves, and that the nnu
arc conducted with honesty, fairness, and ~
good faith toward all parties, and mt author &
the Company to one rhis certificate, with fas
similes af nyr signatures attached, 111 Usaduo
tin incuts,"
Commissioners.
H> the undersigned Banks and Bankers iril
pay all. Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State lot
teries which may be presented at our counters
J H OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat’l Bank
PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank
A BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Bank
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bank
FTNPRECEDENTED~ATTRACTION!
Vj Over Half a Million Distributed
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY,
Incorporated in IKSK for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Educational and ( ’nantable purpose!
with a capital of Sl.noo.ono—to which areseiri
fund of over $550,000 lias since been added.
By ail overwhelming: popular vote its franchis!
was made a part of the present State couatita
lion adopted December 2d, A. D 3'TO.
The only Lottery ever voted on and indoreci
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawing* tak
rilace monthly, and the ttemi-Anoual Draw*
tigs regularly every six months (June and
Deer in her). ,
\ SPI.EA DID OPPORTIMTV TO Wit
x ton i t ve;. fifth grand drawing,
CLASS K. IN THE ACADEMY OK MUSIC
NEW ORLEANS TUESDAY, May tO, 1887-
‘.tOlili Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $150,000.
Tf?” Notice Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves, $5 ; Fifths, $2; Tenths, $!.
UST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OB’ $150,000...5150,n
1 (IRANI) PRIZE OF 50,000 .. 60,001
1 (IRANI) PRIZE OF 90,000.... 90,004
9 LARGE PRIZES OF 10.000 .. ao.oot
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 6,000. .. 30.001
30 PRIZES OF 1,000 ... 20,004
50 " 500... 55.004
100 “ 300,... 80,001
ano “ 900.... 40,004
500 “ 100... 60,001
1,000 “ 50.... 50,00i
APPROXIMATIOW PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prize* of s3oo $30,004
100 “ “ 300... 30.004
100 “ “ 100.... 10,000
3,179 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
Application for rates to clubs should bn mack
only 10 the office of the Company in New OP
leans. ~
For further information write clearly, cm u|
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express MonM
Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary let
ter. Currency by Express (at our expense) a
dressed M. X. DAIPHI.V
Biew Orleans, La
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XEW ORLEAAB NATIONAL BA>k.
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REMEMBER ends Beauregard an 4
Early, who are In charge of the drawings, is •
guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity,
that the chances are ail equal, and that no on*
can possibly divine what number will draw *
REMEMBER that Four National Bank*
guarantee the payment of Prizes, and that as
Tickets bear the Signature of the 1 resident 1
au Institution, whose franchise is recognize® s
the highest Courts: therefore, lie ware o£ a y
imitations or anonymous schemes.
I I KTI 1.1/.ERS. -
William Raven el, President.
PHOSPHATE COMPANY
CHARLESTON. SC.
Established 1870.
HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS.
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