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2 DOLOIiES, ALIAS BELLA. THE GIRL WHO MADE A SENSA TION SEVEN MONTHS AGO Then She Fainted in the Grand Union Hotel and Said She Had Deserted a Base Dpceiver Who Made Her His Wife-How She Came to Shoot the Jennings Woman in the Winchester Cottage. The following facts concerning the alleged St. Augustine girl, in addition to those pub fished in the Morning News on Sunday, are from the New York World: Dolores Dartmoor, the young woman who amused hoi-self Thursday afternoon by till ing Mary Jennings with sundry pistol bul lets at West Brighton, S. 1., was released on SI,OOO bail yesterday afternoon. When the Staton Island isilice locked her up after her little shooting she told them a marvellous and moving tale about her groat wealth and her stern, wicked father, with whom stie could not live. Her lawyer, A. S. Warner, added to this talo yesterday, putting in lit tle amplifications and pretty- minor details that had not occurred to Miss Dartmoor’s fertile imagination as she fabricated tier wondrous yarn. “When the cruelty of her father drove her to New York six months ago she was taken in by the Protestant Episcopal Sisters on Seventh avenue, lielow Fourteenth street, who gave her a home. They cun tell you aliout her character and her’ conduct while with them.” A reporter found the Shelter for Respecta ble Girls and Domestic Training School at No. 87 Seventh avenue, just above Fifteenth street. He did find out, about Miss Dart moor’s pranks—much more, perhaps, than the innocent and unsuspecting lawyer ever guessed. On Sunday, Jan. 10 last, the newspapers were full of ’ the story of Bella Harrington, who was found unconscious in her room in the Grand Union Hotel, opposite the Grand Central Depot. It was thought she had taken poison and she was at once taken to Bellevue Hospital. There no traces of poi son were found in her, hut she was declared to be suffering from hysteria mid nervous trouble The pitiful story she told attracted the attention oi a Indy who visited the hns pita), and she brought it to the attention of the Superior of the Episcopal Sisters of tli • Holy Communion. That lady visited Bella in the hospital. The girl said she was lit years old, although she looked all of 2li, and that she came from Albany'. A few weeks before coming to New York she mar ried a man who believed her wealthy. One day she found a letter in his pocket showing that he had a wife and children alive when she married him. The wicked husband urged her to live with him, hut she indig nantly refused ami ran away to New York. She would not oven take money from him to pay her faro nor would she wear any of the dresses ho had liought for her. Homo unknown charitable persons had paid for her room at the Giand Union Hotel and she stayed there penniless until she fainted from hunger and excitement. The Sister Supe rior was so impressed with Bella’s story and the deep and effective sobs with which it was punctuated, that she lielieved the girl a victim of the unknwn man’s per fidy in Albany. She took the girl to the Shelter on Seventh avenue, and gave her a pleasant home. On cross-questioning, the girl admitted that she didn’t really cotne from Albany, and that her true name was Dolores Dartmoor. At that time she didn’t happen to have a wealthy English nobleman for a father, with great orange groves near St. Augustine, Fla. He did not come into view until she reached Staten Island. In fact, she told the sisters that her fattier had died when she was it years old, and her mother not long afterward. The story- Lawyer Warren told of her yesterday was that her father still lives in fine style amid his orange groves, and that her mother died a year or so ago. The girl had been her mother’s constant companion for eleven years past until the time of her death. During that time she had l>een living apart from her husband in various parts of America and Europe, having l*vn driven from him by his cruelty. Dolores had learned five or six languages and was versed in many accomplishments. Asa matter of fact she cannot write or speak English, save in an archaic fashion that the venerable Bede bimselt would Ist ashamed to call his own. She spells “know” with only two lot liars. calls “gentlemen,” “gentlemens,” and plays other tricks with the English tongue that no person who even half knew it would dream of {flaying. Some charita! le ladies raised a fund by subscription for Dolores and sent her to the Decorative Art School to learn embroidery and other work in crewels Dolores took four lessons and quit. Sue said she didn’t care for that sort of thing. Then die began to develop an un governable temper, and inadi herself so obnoxious that iho Sisters sorrowfully con cluded they must part with her. “Her actions were so peculiar,” said the Sister Superior, “fhnt we felt that she must go.” Dolores didn’t mind going. Early in April she announced that she had got em piovment ns “medicine distributor” in Bt. Luke’s Hospital. The Sisters afterwards foimd out that she was hired only tempo rarily to take the place of a nurse who was sick.' Some time in April Doloiei fell ill with diphtheria. She was sick three weeks. As she began to recover she said she wan going to live with a discharged female patient who took in washing for a living. Not long after this Dolores was well enough to walk about. Soon after this she disap peared without being discharged or saying good-by- to anyone. Vanished would be the Lest word to describe her going out from the hospital, for no one saw her depart. This brings Dolores Dartmoor's story down to the earl v jiurt of last May. She then went to live with Mrs. Anna McKernan, a very good, honest woman, who kept board ers and took ill washing in her small home on Jersey avenue. New Brighton. She was afflicted with a never-do-well husband mid had a hard time to get along. To her Do lores spun her little yam about having a rich, heartless father, who was keeping her nut of her inheritance from her mother ■kill she should reach her 21st birthday, when the law would force him to disgorge. At first she spoke of getting $5,000 a year income from her father, hut when days' and months went by and no money was appar ent, Dolores moderated her story some what, and said that her mean old father refused to send her a cent. Mrs. McKernan didn't abate her kindness, however, ami still sheltered the girl. Etiriy in May Mrs. McKernan asked Heal Estate Agent William A. Col lins, who hns charge of the Winchester place, on Bard avenue. West Brighton, whether ho couldn’t appoint her caretaker of a house. Ho arraugisl to give her the Livingston place. Mrs. McKernan brought over Miss Dartmoor, who at once repeated her charming romance aliout. her father, her mother who died a year ago, and the fabu lous orange groves. Mr. Collins and his mother and Maj. Brown, who owns the property, were all much impressed with Miss Dartmoor’s fable and believed it, Mr. Collins forthwith appointed Miss Dart moor caretaker of the Winchester place, and she moved in with the McKernan fam ily, minus Mr. McKernan, who was shift less and idle and Inal threatened to shoot bis wife and children a few weeks before. On tliis occasion, by the way, it was Miss Dolores who disarmed him. On May 17 Mrs. McKernan calltsl in great distress on Dr. Walser, of New Brighton She begged him to have “that wicked girl. Miss Dartmoor," taken a way-from her home because she was “a disgrace to the place.” The doctor visited Miss Dartmoor and found strange eruptions that he couldn't quite di agnose on her arms. He took hor in a car riage fcn the Smith infirmary in Tompkins vilie, where her trouble was finally set down as ivy poisoning. On the way to the hos pital she sprang the orange grove story on Dr. \Vnlner, but he did not take any stock in it. and mentally set down Miss Dolores as “an erratic person." The girl remained at the Smith Infirmary until the middle of June, when she was dis charged, cured. Somehow or other she pah-hod up peace with Mrs. McKernan, and wont to live with her again. The Siberian 1 bloodhounds and rare dogs aUeged tb have ! belonged to her, wero really tnc property of | a coachman near at hand. They wero al lowed to roam over the place. The shooting of Mary-;Jennings took place substantially as told in yesterday's World. A reporter called on the McKernans and found Miss McKernan only at. home. Her mother could not be seen because she was ill. Miss Dartmoor had come to their home, Miss McKernan said, because the doctors at St. Luke’s advised her to get a homo in a quiet place in the country so that she might, entirely recover from her heart trouble As a matter of fact. Miss Dartmoor never had heart disease, and her story was an imposi tion on Mrs. McKernan. Miss McKernan said that, she believed Miss Dartmoor had gone upstairs and got her little brother's pistol (Willie McKernan’*) to shoot Miss Jennings. The wounded woman was very comfort able at the Smith Infirmary yesterday. The doctors determined that it wouldn't bo wise to dig the bullet out of her cheek bone, be cause they would have to disfigure her face to get at it, and the bullet doesn’t amount to much any how. The bullet in her right forearm lodged near the wrist. At 2:30 o’clock yesterday Justice of the Peace William J. Bowers held a preliminary examination of Miss Dartmoor. She flit ted through his dingy little office, where twelve reporters Mf\t. and dodged into Mr. Power’s private office. She scorned about 2fi years old. with a tall, well-rounded figure, shortcut brown hair, and eyes. Her features are fairly regular, but she isn’t a beautiful woman. She wisely- re fused to talk with the reporters, any one of Whom would have detected her utter lack of education in five minutes’ chat and sent out 1 mu' gorgeous story about herself through innocent and unsuspecting Lawyer Warner. Inspector Cobh told how little he knew about the shooting. Then pretty little Miss Kitty McKernan,a peachy cln eked girl, with wavy brown hair and great soft brown eyes, took the witness chair and related the story of the shooting. Julia Howland. Mrs. McKemau’s servant girl told the same story of the shooting as her employer. Justice Powers admitted Miss Dartmoor to #I,OOO bail. David Chris topher, who owns many horsecars and much solid property, and Henry 1). Leslie a wealthy coal merchant, liecamo Miss Dart i noor’s suorties. COST OF A SWELL WARDROBE. Exorbitant Prices which New York Tailors Charge for Good Clothes. New York, Aug. fib—l have heard half a dozen men say recently that they found they could save money by- going over to London to buy their clothes. It is particu larly true of actors, who are obliged to have a large number of suits on hand, but the economy is just as evident among less extensive purchasers. Herliert Kelley went to England this year for the sole purpose of replenishing his wardrobe. “One can get good clothes on this side of the water undoubtedly,” he said, “but the trouble is they cost triple what they- do in London. A crack tailor hero charges #2O for a pair of trousers, and that sum will buy exactly three pairs in England. The tailors of New York are constantly f rowing more exorbitant in their prices. here are, of course, huge emporiums or bazars where clothes are clipped out like shoe pegs and sold like hot muffins, but. it goes without saying that well-dressed men do not patronize them. A man to earn the distinction of lieing pronounced well dressed in New York, must exercise great care not to dress too much or too richly. lie must spend considerable sums upon hisattire, hut nothing like the amounts set down of late in numerous articles that are floating about in the daily press concerning the cost of a well-dressed New Yorker's wardrobe. The statepient that at least twenty thousand men here spend $5,000 a year on clothes causes an aching void to replace my heart. I’m not an export on clothes, but realize the absurdity of that statement. Suppose a man buys eight suits of clothes a y-ear, which is an extraordinary number, the cost would be about as follows: Two frock suits #2lO One evening suit 120 Two business suits 130 Three cutaway suits . 270 This would call for loss than SBOO of the #•>,000 a year, leaving the overcoats, yacht ing flannels and underwear to come out of the trifling balance. Even under those con ditions a man would have from fifteen to twenty -aits in his wardrobe, for they would accumulate rapidly with olio coming in every six weeks. In sober fact a tailor who succeeds in yanking what the gamblers call “a merry little five ’nnderd” out of a cus tomer regards him with reverence, respect ami aff<x'-on. Thero is a limit to such ul terior iuid interior trappings us over gaiters, scarfs and linen. A thous and dollars a year wifi dress the Prince of Wales or the most impressive of Union or Knickerbocker Club men. If he buys his toggery in London half the sum will bring the same results, though I thoroughly believe that there an- better tailors in New York than across the water. Two men who sat on the rail of a yacht the other dav wore comparing the prices of their yachting flannels. The younger of them, who had just returned from a six years' term at Oxford, said to the other: “What did you pay for that white suit?” “It was mode to order,” said the other, survey ing his flannels complacently. “The coat and trousers were made by my tailor for $45 and the shirts were $7 50 to order.” “Well this outfit," said the Oxford man, stretching out his athletic legs and exhibit ing flannels of far better texture and fit than those of the other man, “cost, includ ing shirt, trousers and coat, made by a crack Luidon tailor, just sll inour money.” That’s the reason it pay-s to go abroad to buy your clothes. Blakely Hall. HIS COSTUME LOOKED BAD. A Young Cowboy, Dressed in Western Style, Frightens a Country Town. From the Meadrilie Tribune. A young man liunicd Teagarden, who is from tlio West visiting his home in Wash ington county, came over to Brownsville recently dressed in the habit of a cowboy, which consists of a sombrero, belt, knife and revolver, to get his picture taken. Ho was followed to West Brownsville by Constable Huught, of Bridgeport, arrested and taken before Justice Smith. He explained that his warlike nppuranco was not an indica tion of auv hostilities meditated against the people of Brownsville. He statort in effect that although loaded he would not go off, to which the Justice is supposed to have an swered that tlr-re jvould be no danger of his going off until he paid his fine. The young man from tho West was a good talker. In fact he propounded several stunners to the court. Wlion the Justice pointed to his hat and said in thunder tones, as if it was an indict ment of murder in the first degree, “What is that you are wearing oil your head f" the young cowboy, with a loqk of pity at such a “t •nderfoot” question, answered “Is there any law proscribing the kind of hat a man shall wear?” “Well,’’said the Justice,“you were carrying concealed weapons,” and he innocently inquired: "If mv weapons were concealed how did the Constable happen to see them?” But his shrewdness availed him not. No ml-honded rooster from the Rocky Mountains can use himself for an arsenal in Bro-.vtisvilie "if the court knows herself, and she thinks she do." So, this young man, who doubtless could have shot the light* out of every street lamp in town, or even could have shot the lights of the whole court, meekly submitted to tlie inclemency ol Browns villi law and was kindly admitted to bail to answer the charge of wearing a hat with a brim three feet broad, with a leather saddle girth for n hand, and having on ids person two Gatling guns and an Ar katixas toothpick large enough to carve uu ox. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1887. A WAITER’S RESTAURANT. One of the Queer Eating Places of Gotham. New York, Aug. 13. —Reading recently about the cheap tables d’hote I determined to patronize the more prominent, although I may observe en passant thut my eating is the last thing I seek to economize, os inferior food is harmful, and there is everything in the sty-lea meal is served. I straggled midday into a 40-oent place on West Twenty fifth street, thinking that I would try the dejeuner -and there would not lie so much of a crowd. Imagine my surprise on entering to find the little salon —a basement of a high-stooped house— crowded with a distinguished ap jiearing assembly, a glance revealing that they- were all cleanly shaven and attired in dress suite. A sec ond glance revealed to me the familiar faces of the waiters at Delmonico’s and the other fashionable up town cafes and restau rants. There was the pale-faced, dark-eyed and spirituelle Francois from Del’s; the sturdy, good-natured Fritz from the Hoff man; the tall, military looking Henri from the St. James; the swarthy, saturnine and sleek Auguste from the Brunswick; the portly, rotund, bald and blue-blooded Emil from the Gilsey. Compelled by their duties to l>e cleanly shaved and neat in their attire, this gathering at dejeuner of the swell waiters of the swell restaurants was a more congenial assemblage than the heteroge neous and untidy lot of small pay clerks and poor gentlemen generally encountered in the cheap restaurants. Thinking of the joke that will lie ex plained, I managed to escape observation by sinking into a seat near the door among some strange waiters whom I did not iden tify and who did uot recognize me, proba bly concluding I was one of the poor clerks who dined in the place. It is a singular fact which all men about town will now recognize if they have not done so before, that there is always a strik ing resemblance among waiters to distin guished men, whether intentional on their part or not, 1 am not prepored to say; and here I discovered a Charles Dickens, a I’ere Hyacinthe, a Gladstone, a Cleveland, a Carl Seliurz, a Gen. Grant, a Disraeli, a Frchter, a Booth, a .foe Emmet. When i entered all wen. devoting them selves to the meal, and an excellent meal it was. too, superior, indeed, for the price, lb cents, including a small bottle of via ordin aire. , After coffee cigars and cigarettes were lighted, and soon the place was a cloud of smoke, and there was conversation in French, German and Italian, with the non chalance and sangfroid of those to the manor liorn, which to me who had seen most of those waiters on obsequious duty and alert for the inevitable douceur, was simply very amusing There were no table hells. In-cause everything was served in course with military precision, and mine host's eye could be caught by raising the finger. I regretted the absence of the bell for the reason that, I am sure sounding it would have brought nearly all of the waiters, suddenly taken off guard, to their feet, in custom ary obedience to the summons. I tapped the glass with my knife after the fashion of many in restaurants, and there was a gen eral involuntary glance towards me. Many commenced playing cards on the cleared tables. Gaming. I have since learned, is the favorite past imo of the foreign waiters. Watching a good moment, I exclaimed, “Didon! Garcon!” Immediately half the crowd arose to their foot before recovering from their surprise. In an instant the host was at my side, whisjiering. “Raise your finge. wlien you want anything; “I'll see you.” Francois recognized me, and leaving his companions came over to my side anti explained to me that the waiters never cat their breakfasts at the places where they are engaged, blit always took this, their principal meal, here. He further informed me that the proprietor had formerly liven a chef at Delmonico’s, and that the cooking was equal to that oi any of the fashionable places. “If it was not good,” he said confidentially, “you may know we would not come here, for \ve, Moii sieur, know what good cooking and eating is." lie continued that the proprietor sublet the other part of lib house for sufficient to reduce the rental of this portion to a nomi nal sum: that, he purchased his supplies at the market himself, and that cooking and running things liimsMf most economically he could afford to serve really excellent meals for the small sum charged. Tile vin ordinaire wns California claret, which was cheaper than the imported wine, and often us good if not better. “L’addition s’il vous plais!” I exclaimed, and there was a (hitter of hands reaching for pads in the pockets before the trick was di covered, and then Francois scowled at me hut controlled himself, observing, ■'Mon sieur is a joker, hut his little joke might lend to trouble if there was any drunken one here. Some of these men would not hesi tate to stab Monsieur for his roniarK. We waiters in private life do not !i koto be remind ed of our duties in service. We consider ourselves the aristocracy of this place and the Americans who come here to dine take our leavings,” he added disdainfully. John d’Armk. BUFFALO BILL’S BARBECUE. His Noted Guests Learn f om the Red Man to Use Fingers Instead of Forks. From thr Xew York Sun. London, Aug. 9.—A feast was given here to-day which afforded a novel sight to the astonished Britishers. A long table was stretched under a big tent on the grounds where Buffalo Bill is giving his Wild West show. The table was surrounded by u dis tinguished party. In the middle sat the veteran Simon Cameron, with his keen eye fixed on tho lingo pieces of ox ril>s which were hanging on three sticks over n large (ire which had ls<n built on the ground. A young Indian squaw, clad in a bright red dress, occasionally raised her daintily nioc easined foot and gave the ribs a kiek to keep them swinging back and forth in the flames. The Hon. Cnmineey M. Depew sat beside Mr. Cameron and also watched the ribs and the comely squats ; ami so did Lawrence Jerome. Senator liawley, of Connecticut; Editor Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati; Jus tin McCarthy, the Purnellito mcmlier of Parliament and author, and forty other gentlemen, nearly all of whom are cele brated personages. Each guest was en gaged in tho same occupation, and divided his attention about equally between tlx* rousting bovine ami t!v> dusky aborigine. Mr. Buffalo Bill Cody, in ail t lie gorguous ness of his alleged frontier attire, was the host. The guests, or at least the Britons among them, had come to see what a real American rib roost was like. The ground Ixifore tho table was covered with an abun dance) of fresh straw through which fifty sharp-pointed stakes were sticking up. While the guests were watching the fire, and the ribs, and the maiden, a band or gaudily painted Indians appeared on the scene and squatted down upon the straw, one by the side of each stake, in a minute each stase hud a huge rib of beef fa:'toned to it, and a like huge rib i\a.s placed on the table directly in front of Simon Cameron, another before Lawrence Jerome, a third rested in front of the President of the New York Central railroad, and so on, until each guest had a rib all to himself. Tiio Indians set the example to their white brothers by biking tho ribs in both hands, and Geri. Hawley. Mr. I tepew, Mr. Cameron, and tho other celebrities did just the same thing, and the nimble waiters wore kept busy car rying away the denuded ribs. Hominy was owten in various ways. So were salmon and trickles. The savages looked to M-. Depew and Buffalo Bill and Gen. Cameron to instruct them how tho-e emblems of American civilisation, apple mid coooanut pie, should be consumed. Mr. liepew gave them a lemon full of grace, but it was wasted, for the red man all agreed upon one manner of pie-eating. Each aborigine receive! Ins section of pj on tile palm of his hand, and in two bites It was gone Tlie cupidity of its disainx-.u nnoe amazed the distinguished gentlemen whi > were present. It is evident that the savajjes take kindly to certain elements of civilization. Red Shi it ate two pieces of pie. Little Horse consumed three pieces, Flies Above devoured four sections, and the lass distinguished warriors as many pieces as they could got. Mr. Chnuncy M. De pew ate only r one big piece of cocoanut pie, and the other distinguished white men showed the same inferiority to their red brothers. No fire water was served as un example to the red men. hut there were speeches just the same. Gen. Cameron’s health was drunk He answered and spoke to Hod Shirt, who was introduced to the company. He said he was glad to witness nt his great age the queer mixture of civilization and Indian life- a rib roost within a stone’s throw of the underground railway system. Each of the notable persons present made a speech. Many of the talks were worthy of reproduction.’ Especially were the remarks of Mr. Depew. He was in a particularly felicitous mood. He boomed Buffalo Bill and told a story of Christopher Columbus and the primitive Indian, which reminded all the old gentlemen present of their youth, lie praised old Simon Cameron in a way that made the old Emperorof Pennsylvania look very happy. Mr. Cameron was the greatest man in America, he said, and he had made and un made pretty nearlv all the Presidents. Mr. Jerome was meanwhile offering to het a friend $2,000 to lie. that Mr. I)epew would In the next Republican nominee for the Presidency, but nobody offered to take the hot, foi'Mr. D'i|>ew was talking at the time. Those who listen lo the great railroad President somehow get. an idea that lie can have almost anything he wants, and there is a general impression among Americans here that he wants the immolation for the Presidency. In the forcible language of n gentleman who was eating roast ribs close by* him, the Presidential bee in his lionnet is rapidly assuming the proportions of a partridge. At the close of the speeches, in the course of which friendly |XM'soniil attacks revealed the sad fact, that almost every distinguished American present had lieen seen by liis friends in the front row at the Alhambra Theatre, where the wicked ballet, and lots of it, draws many patrons through its doors, an adjournment was taken to another tent. Every kind of fire wafer was there, and every gentleman made at least one more s|i:n'!i. I<uwivnce Jerome said that, he once killed seventeen buffalo. Other shooting stories followed, hut to send them to you under the ocean would cause I he fishes to lose nil coulidoni'e in the verac ity of tile human race, and l forbear. AN AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL. It Lures a Reader Into Impersonat ing One of the Characters. From the St. James Gazette. One day I heard through my publishers— l admit I had lieon questioning them—that one person had ordered six copies of my novel. I kept my countenance and asked, with apparent calmness, who it was. with out, however, expecting that they lfculd be able to toll me. 1 had been vainly trying to track my admirer for weeks; and if they had said that he bought the books across the counter and took them away himself, I should have accepted it as my usual luck. But he had not done so. He had left a name and address for the parcel to be sent to. The address was , Kliep herdV.-biisli, and the mine was Banks. That evening, having nothing particular to do, I took the Underground to Shopherd’s-btish. You would have thought that every one I asked to direct me to the address was in league against me, for no one seemed to know it. I was not to be balked, however, and presently found it for myself. I liked the look of the house. There we e pots of flowers in the window and the door stood open, showing two umbrellas and an over coat in life hall. A beggar happened to pass me at this moment and I gave him six |x‘iiee. I would have stool and lookedatthe house for soni" time, but I felt thnt the peo ple in the other houses were staring nt me, so I walked hack and forward in a tottering way, glancing up and down the street occa sionally and consulting my watch as if I was waiting for a friend. All this time I kept an eye on the house and at last I saw a gentleman come out. My heart beat fast, but; the next moment it sank within me. This was not mv admirer. Evidently he was a doctor. What had he been doing in that lionsi.' I sow it all in a flash; my ad mirer was ill. Very likely he would die just when I had run him to earth. Was there ever such an unfortunate person as myself < lie did uot die. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had; for he was a very disappointing man on acquaintance. It turned out that the reason why he liked my novel was entirely because one of the char acters happened to be called William Banks. His name was William Banks also. The coincidence struck him as by far the most amusing and curious thing lie had ever hoard of. The copies of the book he ordered were for friends; and before lie sent them away he went through each one underlining the name of William Banks every time it. occurred, and adding a note of exclamation on the margin. His eldest daughter, who was a girl of 14 or 10, must have grown to hato me. Every evening on his return from the office Ins had her into the dining mom after dinner to read chapters to him. When she came to such a sentence as “Banks shook hands with himself and be hind his back, which was a custom of his,” or “Banks drummed with his fingers on the windowpane,’ her father Hung back his head and reared. So far as I got to know him, he was only interested in one thing, and that was how 1 came to hit u)K>n the name William Banks. I would re ply that it was by an accident and then try to get him on to something else; butitwasnou.se; his mind dwelt on that one theme; and after 1 had said some thing about, the comet or the housing of the poor, he would roplv, “I don’t think thnt that, kind of thing could be entirely an acci dent.” Whether his friends were really as ridiculous as himself, or only pretended to be io out of politeness, I don’t know; but when he introduced me to them os the man who lmd put him in a book they said it was too bad, and expressed a fear lest I should put them in my next one. As I have said, I have written a good many books since that one. Banks gets them ufl: but his invaria ble criticism is that they are not equal to my first one. The strangest part of the business has st ill to bt* i old. Should a biographical notice of the writer over ho pinned it will undoubt edly ix- pointed out that the character of William Banks In my first novel was not only drawn from life, but named after the original. This was not, of course, the ease; but it, is inevitable that the charge will be made, and I shall not lx' able easily to prove it groundless, Tim fact is that the Banks of i-ihopherd’s-buslj had thought over the coin "Videuee ol names nntil he lins got to mix himself up with the Banks of fiction. Whether uiiiiitentiaily or not, lie has adopted most, of the peculiarities of the other Banks, such ns clasping his hands be hind his back mid drumming with his fingers on window-lames. The Banks of imagina tion was distinguished by a white hat, which ho wore Rammer ana winter. Banks of Bhepherd's-bu‘ih has discarded black hats for white ones. He also divides his hair as my Banks did, “with two tufts that looked lik? horns, one on each side of his lead,” and "never walks on the pavement v.-hen tie can get the curbstone to himself.’’ I have s ?cn the living Banks within the last month and was quite takon aback by the resemblance. Consumption, Scrofula, General De bility Wasting Diseases of Children, ('lmmii- I'ontfhs anil Bronchitis, cun be enro lbv t lie use of Stott’s Kmclmon of • ’utv Cos l I<iver Oil with /{ypophoftphites. Ihoimueiit physicians use it and testify to ic- |;ivat value. I’lons" read the following: "1 iristi Scott's Bmuisiou for an obstinate Coiijth with Hemorrluuio, Lam of Appetite. Kinaciation. Sleeplessness. etc. Allot them have now loft, and 1 Iwllevc your Utnulslen oas saved a case of well do volo|ied Consump tion. "--T. J. KI.NDLKV, ii. 1>„ Lone Star, Texas. POINTS ABOUT ALASKA. A Great Deal of Weather, Some Pish, Mines and Shins. Mr. John J. Chielcering recently said to a reporter of the Washington Star, who asked if the weather was cold in Alaska: “Well, now, its queer, almost every man who has spoken to me of our summer’s trip has asked that question. Very few people seem to know that the coast climate of south eastern Alaska is much warmer than the corresponding coast of the Atlantic; that the Japan current sweeps across the Pacific and warms up those shores till the average winter temperature of Sitka is higher than that of Washington. But it can and does rain in Bitka. And it's very interesting to see it rain: no big, black clouds; no thunder; no premonitory guest-, of wind. The skv is full of fleecy clouds and you stand talking with a friend and remarking on the delicious sunshine, brilliant hues of the sky and vivid green of the mountain sides. All of a sudden the rain comes down in drops as big as marbles ahd the whole landscape turns a dull gray. One of those white, fleecy clouds Tins sauntered across the face of the sun, and for an hour or two it ‘pours as if the lid was off the everlasting teapot.’ This is summer weather. In the winter they say it pours all the time. Very little snow, but lIK inches of rain the water soaked officials at Fort Tougass registered the only year they kept a record. Our own rainfali here in Washington is, I believe, about 41 inches. The vegetation is simply marvelous. Such living green as clothes the mountains must lie seen to be appre ciated. The growth of timber is enormous, mul while much of it is the Oregon pine, which doesn't rank very high as lumber, there are enormous tracts of the yellow cedar, which is the great shipbuilding wood of the Pacilie coast. Grain can’t be raised there with profit—too much wet weather. Some vegetable and root products thrive, but you can writedown Alaska emphatically as not a farming county. In Victoria, which is practically the same climate as ,Southeastern Alaska, was measured stalks of the common brake or sweet fern, which boys smoke in New England, fourteen feet high, and ordinary alder hushes, which I used to cut for Ashing poles in Maine, thirty-six inches in circumfer ence. Yet many people, including a goodly number of national legislators, ray, ‘nothing grows in Alaska.’ Her main resources, lie side her woods, are tlsh, minerals and furs. The fisheries seem inexhaustible; cod, sal mon, herring and other tish peculiar to the Pacific coast fairly swarm in the waters. In the spawning season one can wade into the mouth of a brook and literally kick the salmon ashore. These wild northern fish, however, won’t take the fly. and it is very aggravating to see the water fairly alive with them and yet find yourself absolutely unable to get a rise. Many peole ask if I saw much of the seal fisheries, evidently failing to appreciate the extent of coast line belonging to Alaska and not understanding that one can sail north along the coast, from Washington Terri tory 1,500 miles and still not come within 2,000 miles of the Pribyiof Islands, where all the seal fishing is done. But southeast ern Alaska lias furs in abundance,and black, grizzly and Silver of St. Elias bears, red and silver fox, beaver, mink, blru-k wolf and squirrel skins are abundant. Tne minps and stone quarries are at present an unknown quantity with the exception of some place at, Juneau and a few other places, and the finely de veloped Treadwell mine at Douglass Island. This is, l believe, the biggest ‘crusher’ in the world—a 1~0 stamp mill. The mine is owned by Mr. Treadwell, who discovered it. Senator Jones and some San Francisco capitalists. No one knows what it is paying, but some estimate as high as #7o,(rib monthly. They have worked the sulphurets to groat advantage, and Mr. Treadwell showed me a greenish yellow dirt in one corner of the yard which he said was bv actual assay worth #250,000. We brought, down $04,000 worth of gold bricks in the steamer with us. One queer thing about those Ihlinket In dians is that they cut off the noses of all the bears they kill, as an offering to the deity of the chase. In the whole length and breadth of Southern Alaska you can’t get a bear’s skin with the nose on. A little German tanner in Sitka showed me a room half full of black ‘St,. Elias’ and grizzly skins, and every one of them was minus the nose. This, of course, materially lessens the value of the pelts.” “Has Alaska much of a white popula tion f” “Yes, there are some 2,000 white people there now, Americans and Russian half breeds, and there will lie many more when ever it becomes passible to acquire any title to property there. Under the existing state of things iio man can acquire a title to a foot of ground or stick of timber. The only claim that can be taken up is mining claim. What few laws tlicv have are very imper fectly enforced, an-1 it has been a shamefully misgoverned country. I think t.hut struck every visitor there more forcibly than any thing else.” “What of the native population ?” “The Idians, or Siwash, as they are all called, are a race with fine heads and splen did chests and arms; their legs are unde veloped and weak, owing to their 1 oat life; their walk is almost, a shamble. They are willing to work and the Treadwell mine is now worked entirely with Chilkat Indians. The scenery of Alaska is superb, surpassing anything else in the world; 5,000 glaciers between 50’ and 60', some of them big enough to cover the whole of Switzerland; thousands of waterfalls, oven surpassing the streams of Yosomitn Valley in height; fiords which would take in dozens of the Nor wav article: mountain peaks- but one mud visit the place to appreciate it. 1s t me recommend it to you for a summering.” HINTS TO PEN NY-TOSSBB& What Prof. Proctor Says About Chance and Buck. Proctor, in his new book on “Chance and Buck,” touches upon one point which must at some time have interested almost every body. It is the notion that if you toss a coin, say ten times in succession, and it comes down “toils.” it is more likely on the eleventh throw to come down “heads” than “tail-.” The truth appears to be this, that I if you toss for an hour “heads” will not ex ceed “tails” or “tails” “heads” in a greater ratio than twenty-one to twenty, if you to s for a day the inequality will not lie greater than 101 to 100. And yet, if during that time you toss “tails” ton times in suc cession (as you may often do) there will be no more likelihood of “heads” than of “tails” on the eleventh throw. It, is, indeed, obviously out of the ques tion that anything that has previously taken place can have given the coin a ten dency to come down in one way rather than in another. The notion is peruups capable of a reduction to ateurdity in this way. Suppose it to be true that a coin which has come down “tails” ten tunes in succession is more likely at the eleventh throw to come down “heads” th in “tails.” Now let the tower who has thrown “tails” ten times refrain fivtn making the eleventh throw. Let him put the coin in his pocket and toss it a year hence; it is still more likely to come down “heads" than “tails." Or let him not toss at all, but jtass it to an other, who will toss it five years after. As the probability inheres in this coin it is still more likely to come down “heads” than “tails. ” Supposing all this to be trite, it would ap pear that you might take up an old Roman coin and tow it, thinking the chances to lie even, whereas the probabilities had really lieen decided by the last pitcher, who tossed it two thousand veers ago. Anew method of scouring veneer to its base consists in spreading gme or other ad hesive matter lietween the veneer and the base, passing the t w o secure 1 parts under a beaten roller to melt the glue and cause it to enter the pores of the wood, then finally 1 Kissing the connected haso and the veneer under chilled roller* to harden and set the glue, and prevent, the warping or shrinking of the vansor consequent urt in the gradual cooling or drying of t tie An \ MEETINGS. CLINTON LODGE NO. 54. F. A A. >f. A regular communication of this /, Lodge will beheld at Masonic Temple— THIS (Monday) EVENING, Aug. 15, at 8 o’clock. The E. A. degree will be conferred. Visiting brothers are cordially invited to meet with us. HENRY BARTLETT, W. M. Wap.[N<; Russell. Jk.. Secretary. DcKALH LODGE NO. f>. I. O. O. F. A regular meeting will tie held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock. The Initiatory Degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers nre cordially invited to attend. By order of 11. W. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. GEORGIA TEXT VO. 151, 1.0. R.‘ Attend a regular session of your Teut THIS (Monday) EVENING, at. 8 o'clock. Election to fill vacancy of offices. By order of C. O. GODFREY, C. R Thomas M. Hoynes, R. S. RAILROAD LOAN ASSOCIATION^ The forty-eighth regular monthly meeting will be held at Metropolitan Hall THIS (Mon day) EVENING at 8 o'clock. WILLIAM ROGERS, President. H. C. Cunningham, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICE! Lady, full graduate, wishes situation to teach usual branches. Latin, French and Music. Ad dress P. O. BOX G 4, Marion, S. C. NOTICE. All stockholders in the ,Jasper Mutual Loan Association holding upcane 'led stock are di rected to present their scrip to me at the office of J. S. Wood & Bro., 74 Bay street, for regis tration. By order of the Board of Directors. CHAS. S. WOOD, Treasurer. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 13, 1887. NOTICE Central Railroad Bank. I Savannah, Ga.. August 8, 1887. f I an- instructed by the Board of Directors to notify the public that this bank is prepared to do a genera! banking business and solicits ac counts. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier. SPECIAL NOTICE. City of Savannah. I Office Clerk of Council, Aug. f>, 1887. f All persons are hereby cautioned against placing obstructions of any kind around or about the public hydrants or fire plugs in I bis city. Nothing that will obstruct or hinder the Fire Department front having free access to said hydrants or plugs should be placed within fifteen feet thereof in either direction. The ordinance regulating this matter will be rigidly enforced. By order of the Mayor. FRANK E. REBARER, Clerk of Council. DR. HENRY 6 FOLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the reiteration of tone and strength to the sys tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other ills, caused by a disordered liver. It cannot be excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING, is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with the most improved machinery, employs a large force of competent workmen, and carries a full stock of papers of all descriptions. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, mer chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies and committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send ing their orders abroad. J. H. EBTILL. PROPOSALS WANTED. Proposals for Paving. City of Savannah, Oa m ) Office of the City Surveyor, V July 2luh, 1H W 7. ) I PROPOSALS will I>‘ received until WEPNES -1 DAY, August 24th, at 8 o’clock i*. m., directed to Mr. F. E. Rcharer. Cierk of Council of the city of Savannah, (in., for the paving of that portion of Congress street in said city lying between tin* east property line of West Broad street and the west property line of Drayton street; ai.*o. that portion of Bull street in said city lying between the south line of Congress stPM and the north line of State street, being a total arel of about eight thousand square yards. The pronosals may I>* for granite, grawackc or asphalt bliwks or for sheet asphalt, the speci fications >f which will bo the same &u civen by the Engineer Department of the District of Co lumbia in their repeit for 18Kb. Any iHU“*on desiring to bid upon the above work, but use different specifications from those enumerated above, may do so provided that a copy of the sjyvitieaiions upon which they bid is enclosed with their bid. All bids for grawaoke, granite or asphalt Mocks must l>o accompanied by a specimen of tie* blocks intended to tx* used. Separate bids will also i>o nxjeivod for the fur nishing and laving of about thirty-tin* hundred running feet of curbstone. of either blue stone or granite of the following dimensions; four inches broad, sixteen incite* deep, and in lengths of not less than five leot. The curbing to tx* dressed on the ton ten inches from th*' top on the front face mid four inches from tin* top on th<* rear face: to be perfectly straight and suuure on the ends. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. For further information address J. deBHUTC HOPS. Jr., c. R., Acting Surveyor. BRICK. Wm. P. Bailey & Cos., 3RICK MANUFACTURERS, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, lu large quantities. at their ynnl on the SPRING FIELD PLANTATION, furl w ill deliver the sumo in any part of the city upon the shortest notice. Tbo best Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. OrFi'-E—Corner Bull and Eroughvin, at St- MON UAZAN’S CP 'AR STOKE. where uil or ders will reeoive prompt attention. MOXIE. M O X IE. FOR SALE WHULEoALE BY C. M. GILBERT & CO. SoulhciUit curuor Bay aid li rn.im ... i. SUMMER RESORTS. Ocean House TYBEE ISLAND. GEORGIA. SEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur nished. Fare the best the market affords. Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate. GEO. D HODGES, Proprietor. THE COLUMBIAN* SARATOGA SPRINGS. THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIAN3 Opens June 35th. JAMES M. CASE* Proprietor, NEW YORK BOARD. ]TO \ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th. • i " "• I House kept by a Southern lady; loca tion desirable. Refers by permission to Col. John Screven, Savannah. 'T'IIOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel, 1 Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.— “Unquestionably the finest location in tho Thousand Islands."— Harper'* Magazine , Sept,, 1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F. INGLEHART, Proprietor. r a EXCURSION'S. international Steamship Cos, Line OF “Palace Steamers” —BETWEEN Boston, Portland, East port and St-John, N. 8., With Connections to all Parts of th® Provinces. PORTLAND DAY LINE. Steamers leave Commercial Wharf, Boston, 8:30 a. M . every Monday, Wednesday and Fri dav for Portland, making the trip in 7 hours, affording excellent coast scenery. EASTPORT AND ST. JOHN LINE. Steamers leave Boston 8:30 a. M.,and Portland 5 p. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Eastport and St. John. ST. JOHN DIRECT LINE. A steamer will leave Boston every Thursday at 8 a m. for St. John direct. ANNAPOLIS LINE. A steamer will leave Boston every Monday and Thursday at Ba. m. for Annapolis, N. S., con necting i’or Yarmouth, Digbv, Halifax, etc. J. B. COYLE, Jr.. fi. A. WALDRON, Manager. Portland, Me. o*n. Pa.* Agt. Charleston & Sayamahßy. M Mis Idibiis! Through Pullman Service. /COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman V 7 Buffet service will l>o rendered daily Ik*- tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via Spartanburg and Ashviile. Leave Savannah 12:20 pm Leave Charleston 4:55 pm Leave Columbia 10:30 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a m Arrive Asheville 7:00 am Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG sl3 30 To ASHEVILLE 17 15 To HOT SPRINGS 17 15 Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. 31st, 1887, can Ire had at BREN'S TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass Agt. HOTELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, M4IMSON SQUARE, N. Y. r JpHE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel iu the city, with the most central and delightful HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO. A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House, Mobile. HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. NEW HOTEL TOG NX (Formerly St. Mark’s.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. ’ | 'IIE MOST centra! House in the city. Near 1 Post Office, Skrent Cars and all Ferries. New and FJegattt Furniture. Electric Bells, Baths, Etc. Sc 50 to $3 per day. JOHN lY TOGNI, Proprietor, DUB’S SOREVEN HOUSE. rpillvS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the city) and has i>c remodeled and" newly fur nished. The proprietor, who bv recent purchase is also the ownsy of the establishment, spares neither pains nor expense in the entertainment of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. The table of the Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad caii afford. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA. / - EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of V 4 the Metropolitan Hotel, New York. an<l the Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of tho city and places of inter est accessible by street car.? constantly passing the doors. Special inducements to those visit ing tbs city fo; otnsmeas or pleasure. THE MORRISON HOUSE. ’ One of the La.rge.st Boarding Houses in the South. \FFORDB pleasant South rooms, good board with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing table, regular or transient accom modations Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House. STOLI \. $25 REWARD* QTOLEN from the Tod 1 Place, 1 miles from Waynesboro, Ga., on Hie night of August llth. ONE BLACK KAWBONE MARE MULE, sixteen hands high and about nine years old, with unusual criaiko.l hind legs. When lying down lias a peculiar wav of first rising on bar front feet an Is imctuues turning round before goring her hind feet upas if w :tk in back. I will pay tiCo reward for her arid thief. WALKEK McCATIIERN. Waynesboro, Ga., Aug. IS, 1887. FOR HE NT." " For Rent or For Sale, rpHAT DESIRABLE RESIDENCE southeast corner of Gaston and Abercoru streets. For particulars apply to HENRY BLUN, Blurt's Building. CHANDELIERS. FOE SALE/ 1 18 BURNER CHANDELIER, suitable fur church or hall. SI II BURNER CHANDELIER. 8 4 BURNER CHANDELIER. 8 S! BURNER CHANDELIER. Apply to JN<>. MuoLSON or K. M. HULL BAY HUM. ...... . Imported Bay Bum, A FINE ARTICLE, AT STRONG'S URUG STORc, Cutset' Bull and Perry street lan*.