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MORALITY ON THE STAGE
THE PRICE OF a WOMAN’S SUC
CESS AS AN ACTRESS.
Blakely Hall Presents a Few Inside
Facts of Special Interest to Stage
etruck Women—Only One Chance
In Ten Thousand for a Virtuous
Woman. $
New York, Sept. 3.—A group of players
stood on the platform of the railroad station
at Cincinnati one day when I was traveling
that way. They were a sorry looking lot.
The chorus girls were huddled together,
chatting in low voices and drawing their
wraps closely around them. The weather
was bitterly cold. Many of the girls were
thinly clad. It was 8 o’clock in the morn
ing. AVhile I stood looking at the baker’s
dozen of shivering young women the come
dian of the company, whq is now u f ambus
man, came up, and, looking hard at me, put
out his hand:
"I scarcely knew you under all those
coats,” he said, genially. “Are you travel
ing West}”
“lam. Is this the company you nlaved
with in New York?”
“The same. The ladies are apt to look a
bit rocky in the morning, you know—late
hours, i o'clock breakfast, badly heated
rooms, and all that. They do look pale,
don’t they ?”
“Most pathetic looking group lever saw.”
“That s because most of them are good,’’
said the comedian, succinctly and dryly.
“When they have relaxed their morals
they’ll be better cared for and have pleas
anter times. It is our first week out. and
nearly all the girls are new to thetiusiness.
Mauy of them are highly respectable, but
they will all go the same way of their pre
decessors. It is inevitable. The conditions
are such that they cannot avoid it.”
I glanced at him sharply. At first L
thought he was guying, hut it was evident
the man was thoroughly in earnest. His
mobile face was as glum as a mourners,
and he looked at the girls sympathetic-alt.
“When that discussion was going on bet
winter in the New York papers about the
morality of the stage,” he continue!, “I
thought that, if some of the members the
symposium of newspaper writers wio dis
cussed the question at such length could
travel for a few weeks with our burlesque
or light opera companies, they would fipd
out how far wrong they were in upholding
stage life as a calling in which any woman
could be respectable if she c.ho. I have
baen in this business eight yers now, and
always in traveling companies The condi
tions are such that it is just as impossible
for a woman of any attractive qualities to
remain decent on the stage s it is for a man
to voluntarily go without food for two or
three days every week of bis life. The very
instant a girl is—”
Here he stopped and put his hand on my
arm and said;
“THAT TELLS THE STORY.
“Watch this little tableau.” He drew me
half aside. A carriage rolled up to the sta
tion, the door was yanked open, anjl the
manager of the company, a portly, red
nosed and flabby man, stepped out. He was
smoking a cigar pleasantly. He put his
hand back in the coach and helped a young
woman to the ground. She was clad in seal
skin from her neck to her heels, well gloved,
and her chubby face had a healthy color.
She had a little poodle in her arms, and
after giving it an ecstatic hug she passed it
over to her maid, who followed her out of
tile carriage. The manager paid his cab
man, smiled amicably upon his companion,
and they swaggered toward the train, with
the maid walking amiably behind them.
The manager nodded half surlily to the
women of the chorus who stood there, and
the girl gave them a bright little nod. Most
of them bowed in return in a restrained und
far from cordial fashion. The chunky youug
woman was assisted into a parlor car, where
she had a compartment to herself. They
began to lay the table for breakfast before
the train started from the station. The
chorus girls stood in the cold and gazed in
at the luxurious and wanned interior of the
car. Presently one of the agents camealong
and huddled them all back to the rear of
the train, where they were bundled into a
rickety, chilled anu ill-smelling car, with
rattling windows, and no other warmth ex
cept that imparted by a queer and far from
effective stove at one end. Here they dis
posed themselves amid their miserable and
dismal surroundings as best they could for
an eight hours’ journey ou one of the worst
days of the season.
SHE TORE UP TnE CONTRACT AND THREW
IT IS HIS PACE.
“That tells tbo story,” Raid the comedian
shortly, nodding liis head first toward the
rear car und then toward the window where
the plump young woman was at breakfast..
“The girl who came in with the manager
was one of the chorus when we left New
York. Her salary, like that of the other
girls, was sl4 a week. We hnd not been out
a day before she saw the Inevitable, took the
plunge and there was the whole story. She
lives at the very best hotels, has comfortable
■jiartmerits, servants in plenty, furs, nutri
tious meals and the best ot' traveling ar
rangements. The othyr young women who
started with her on an even footing live
in cheap and nasty Ixinrding houses, are
Iraiis|)orted from one town to tno other like
cattle, and they wait for promotion with a
very dismal premonition that, whenever a
vacancy occurs in the upper ranks, it is the
manager’s favorito who will get it and not
the girl who deserves it, according to merit.
Virtue on the stage and in a traveling com
pany means what yqti can nee in the rear
car. The women nave to carry their own
luggage, pay their own bills, and fight the
thousand extortionate demands that are met
with at every turn in traveling. But if
they once give way the way is clear. Home
of them stand it a couple, of days, some of
them a week, and others stick out for a
month or two. But the result is almost as
inevitable as death, anil any man who can
t>lame the woman altar seeing what they
! t* aV j endure in the w| of privation,
hardship and insult must ive a heart of
I stone. - ’
This instance was brout. to my mind
very forcibly last night ' an accidental
meeting with a young woin who went on
the stage two years ago. |e was the sister
ot a classmate of mine in dege. and when
she went on the stage it *iost broke her
mother’s heart. I happed to l>e going
through the street where ,e lives, ami 1
found her sitting on the frit steps, wield
ing her fan vigorously. I ( down and lis
tened to her story that I Ifl bean l lief ore,
but never in such absolute id elaborate de
tail, Her ways are, of coup, herown, and
the morality of theatrical (anagers is not
my business to any partieulr extent. Ido
not care to advertise her ot the man with
whom she had dealings, biihe is about as
elaborate and consummate i scrtindrel as I
know of. The details of tie pitienco and
ingenuity tliat hodisplavedyond have done
credit to a Mephistophoics, Hewas fatherly
and benevolent. He introipod the pretty
soubrette in his company family and
insisted upon her stoppinga reek with him
in his country place. He t)bl her to drivo
w-ith his two daughters tq the park, and he
was so careful of her ltnutitiou that he
would net allow her oven to meet the mem
bers of iis company except at rehearsals.
1 hen he performed the ptroiuctions him
self. He was exceedingly careful to see that
she alyays had an escory to tier house at
night tft the play, and he held esjteeial re
heancais just for her benefit, so that she
mightmake as much of a lit as possible in
the [arts that she played. All if this went
aloig for nearly seven mentis. The girl
had naturally grown loud of hm, so uure
mifting and respectful were ip attentions.
Bvt, in the end, she had to fece the inevi
table. He placed the matter before her as
absolutely and baldly as though it had been
a hunk of cheese, with the iltemativo of
An-cess in her profession or ai absolute and
instant discharge. She tore up tb contract,
threw it ill his face, and accepted the dis
charge. Then she joined a company in a
neighboring city. She is not a fartieularly
robust girl, and she has the sweetest and
gentlest manner in the world. She is, in
fact, precisely the sort of a wman whom
any man who is half a man woild feel called
upon to protect rather than ti abuse. She
is of admirable family and excellently bred.
The second manager that she vent, w-ith was
of the gruff and hearty type,. He was going
to send her to the top of the Udder at once.
He spoke to her in an open aid ingenuous
manner about his facilities for aidiug her,
talked over certain parts tint it was her
heart’s ambition to play, andarranged with
the stage manager to give her special tutor
ing in these very characters. She played in
this company three weeks aid then came
home. This particular rus) was simply
brutal. She escaped without broken limbs,
and, in that alone, she was fortunate.
ONE SUCCEEDED AND THE OTHER FAILED.
I recall the instance of two girls w-ho
started almost even in theatrical life less
than four year's ago. They were warm per
sonal friends, though in no way related.
The first of them is a cold, statuesque and
handsome sort of a womiui, with a dash of
Hebrew blood in her veins and a manner
that nothing ever ruffled. She took lessons
in dancing, singing and elocution hour after
hour every day, aud she worked like a Tro
jan, even though she wasonly in the chorus.
Having- perfected herself in this part of her
work, she saw that she needed gorgeous cos
tumes to make any sort of an impression,
and she took the” usual means of getting
them. The last time I saw her here in the
spring she had a brougham of her own,
woro SIB,OOO or fL’O,OOO worth of diamonds
on the stage, and was a majestic, eompla
cent, handsome and successful woman. The
girl who started out with her is still respect
able and esteemed by her small circle of
friends. Occasionally she capers about in
the chorus; at other times she aud her
mother teach a children’s dancing class.
They are iu wrectohed circumstances, and
the dramatic career of the daughter is an
emphatic; and flat failure. Yet she started
out more thoroughly equipped than her com
panion. Had she gone the way the other
did her success would have been very much
greater. The conclusion of every man who
is honest, and whose experience of stage
life is at all extensive, must be absolute on
questions of this sort. There is abont one
chance in ten thousand on the stage for a
woman who is thoroughly honest and virtu
ous, and who is not backed up by influential
friends. The other nine hundred and ninety
nine chances go to the women who accept
tilings as they find them, and swallow the
pill with as light a grimace as possible.
These are the facts, stripped of all tawdry
sentimentality and wishy-washy gush.
Blakely Hall.
PROFANITY AND PARALYSIS.
A Sudden Prostration That Looked
Like a Judgment.
The Wichita (Kan.) Beacon is responsi
ble for a very singular story of a young
man who was suddenly paralyzed iu that
city some time ago immediately after hav
ing nAde a very irreverent remark.
Frank Morton, of Moberly, Mo., was
boarding in April last at the Arlington
House, Wichita. He was a good-hearted
hearted young man, but inclined to scoff at
religion. Lett by curiosity, he visited meet
ings then being held by members of the
Salvation Army, and on a Friday night,
about the middle of the month, placed him
self among the penitents at the bench.
After the meeting Morton, in company
with a friend, repaired to the hotel, and for
some time stood talking at the counter near
the clerk's desk. There "’ere probably
twelve or fifteen other people in tue office
at the time Finally Morton’s friend said,
“Good night, Frank,” and Morton respond
ed, “Good night; I’ll meet you in hell be
fore morning.” Almost before the words
were out of bis mouth lie lay stretched on
the floor, falling as if he had been struck
with a club. The people in the room ran to
him, and, lifting him up, they saw his
closed eves and livid face, looking for all
the world like death.
He was gently laid back on the floor, and
Dr. J. H. Hoskins, the nearest physician,
was called. He sa wat once that, the man
\las not dead, but thought that he had an
epileptic stroke or had taken poison of some
kind. After working with him for some
time consciousness was restored, but 'be
could not move himself to s|*'nk. After
vainly attempting to speak or arise ’he
motioned forjnai>cr and pencil, which was
given him. The first thing he wrote was
tile address of his brother, aad asked thorn
to telegraph for him. Ho next wrote:
“When I made my last remark I was nearer
hell than I thought.”
Morton was suDHequontly sent to his home.
He evidently regarded his his affliction as a
punishment. Among those who saw the
occurence, and vouch for the truth of the
story, are Isaac Roberts, proprietor of the
Arlington, and several other persons well
known locally.
The Nineteenth Century Club is an or
ganization that will consist of an equal
number of men and women. It is hardly
to be expected that they will agree on ail
subjects; but it can surprise no one to learn
that Dr. Pierce’* “Golden Medical Discov
ery” is unanimously pronounced the most
successful remedy extant for pulmonary
consumption, and has been demonstrated in
hundred* of cases; it positively arrests this
disease and restores health and strength, if
administered in it* early sUgea. By dm*-
gista.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER t, ISR7.
CLARA BARTON.
Some Points About the Coming Red
Cross Convention.
New York, Sept. 3.—The International
Convention of the Red Cross assembles at
Carlsruhe on September ±l. Delegates from
thirty-two nations, comprising every civil
ized country on the globe, are expected to
attend the session. President Cleveland’s
appointees, representing the United States,
will sail from New York on Monday. They
are Miss Clara Barton and Dr. J. B. Hub
bell. The last Red Cross convention was
held in 1884. It was said of it at the time
that not a man of its 300 or 400 delegates
was unknown, and that no sueti number of
royalties, nobilities and military and scien
tific notabilities had lieen drawn together in
Kurope for years. Miss Burton then, as now,
represented this country, almost the only
feminine delegate in the assemblage, and,
lone American woman that she was, carried
resolutions and amendments that material
ly enlarged the scope of Red Cross activi
ties and assimilated its w orklngs in Europe
to plans already put in execution in this
country.
Clara Barton, whose name is known the
world over in connection w-ith the world’s
hospital flag, the burning cross on a white
ground, is a woman of 50 or thereabouts,
whose face corresponds with the ideal that
one might form of her character. Her hair
is that rare thing in nature, artists some
times call it an impossible thing, raven
black. It is thick, heavy hair, a burden to
the comb, and she wears it after the simple
fashion of our mothers and grandmothers,
drawn in satiny waves down over the ears,
and pinned up in loose curls behind. Her
eyes are like her hair, very dark. Her
features are i-egular, hut one hardly notices
them for the r are beam of good will that
shines out from the soul through thecounte
nanee. Miss Barton is of medium height
and somewhat slender build. She is an ad
mirable conversationalist and owes her suc
cess in her philanthropic work not merely
to her great organizing and executive
ability, but also in great measure to her
faculty of clear speech, to putting what she
wishes done into language so simple and
dii •ect that nobody can misunderstand or
fail to wish to help her in it. Miss Barton
was nominated as President of the American
Red Cross Association by President Gar
field, and in that capacity stands at the
head of a movement in this country which
in other lands is almost altogether in mas
culine handss and which has claimed the
services of some of the best minds of the
time. She is a quiet, unassuming woman,
living very simply in Washington, when al
lowed to be at home, and though one of the
most prominent, is in another sense one of
the least known women in America.
CLARA BARTON COMES OF GOOD OLD
PURITAN
stock. She is a Massachusetts woman,
daughter of one Mad Anthony Wayne’s old
soldiers. When Sumter was fired on she
was a young woman, occupying somewhat
responsible position in government employ.
She threw up her piace at onco, conse
crating her life to her country as truly as
did any one of the thousands of volunteers
who sprang to arms, aud reported for ser
vice, to look after the Massachusetts men
who were attacked in Baltimore on their
way to Washington. Miss Barton was not
an army nurse in the usual sense of the
word. She was not another Florence
Nightingale nor in any way like Florence
Nightingale. Of the minutiae of nursing
she knew and knows comparatively little.
She was a woman ot unique organizing
power, whose especial gifts for planning
and supervising relief work were speedily
recognized at the army hendqunrtei-s and at
the White House. Hhe did not work with
the Sanitary Commission, but was a whole
sanitary commission in herself. She in
spired involuntary confidence, and steam
boats and military trains were placed at
1 her disposal for the distribution or supplies
and the transportation of provisions." She
served in the Army of the Potomac, was
present at the Irat.tlos of Cellar Mountain,
second Bull Run, Chantilly and Antietam;
was with Burnside’s corps at Fredericks
burg, was eight months at the siege of
Charleston, was at the storming of Fort
Wagner,at the battles of Hpottsylvania and
the Wilderness, in front of Petersburg
during Butler’s campaign. She was the
only woman on Morris Island when shot
and shell fell like hail, removing the dying
and wounded. She met the AndersonvilU
prisoners at their release, and to her help
many of them owed it that they were able
to go home to their friends in the North.
It was Miss Barton who, at her own ex
pense, and when military men said the thing
was impossible, organized the Bureau of
Records of Missing Men, making it so effi
cient as to be of substantial value to the
government and an inexpressible help to the
soldiei-s’ friends at home. It was Miss Bar
toil who urged the government to identify
the graves of the men who died at Ander
sonville, and who. when she was told that
it could not be done, spent five years tracing
the occu(Mints of the 13,000 graves, ami pub
lished nt last the most pathetic volume that
ever saw type, giving one line to each dead
man’s name, and by a system of cataloguing
indicating the place of burial so plainly
that his relatives could reclaim the body if
they wished.
THIS DONE, BROKEN IN HEALTH,
s£iss Barton went abroad. It was with her
European experience that the new phase of
work with which her name is now identified
began. When the Franco-Prussian war
broke out she was at Berne trying to rest.
Within three days a number of the agents
of the Red Cross, which had lieen organized
in Kurope under the Geneva convention in
1804, were at the door of her villa asking
for the benefit of her experience and help.
She was not strong enough physically to
take the same active part in relief work
that she had done here, but a second call
came before long, this time from tbo Grand
Duchess Louise, of Baden, the only daughter
of Emperor William who hail” taken the
charge of the hospital work in her own
hands.
The story of the days she spent with the
Grand Duchess, as heard from her own lips,
is a horrible dream of war. The Duchess
with her court formed a committee of
superintendence and relief, and her castles
through all Baden were turned into military
hospitals. Miss Barton relates that the
news of the fall of Htrasburg was brought
t hem by a courier, mud-spattered and out
of breath, who dropped on liis knee Iroforo
the Duchess as they were catching a breath
of air on the balcony, gasped out, “Htras
burg is fallen,” and fainted at her feet. Miss
Barton was in Htrasburg with the victors
next day, caring for women whose breasts
had been shot away by shells, fi-oiling chil
dren and organizing relief far the wounde I.
Hhe followed the German army to Paris,
worked as faithfully in French and G rman
as she had done in American hospitals and
came home resolved to do her best to have
the United Htates government., which had
thus far refused to enter into the Geneva
convention, give its adherence to that treaty
whose beneficent workings she had seen
abroad.
PRESIDENT HAYES WOULD NOTHING OF IT.
President Garfield promised liis help but
died before matters came to a head. Presi
dent Arthur put the United Htates along
side other civilized nations by signing the
treaty in July, 188”. The articles of the
Geneva convention, into which by persis
tent urging Miss Barton thus brought the
United Htates, do uway with the needless
barbarities of war by providing for 1 lie
neutrality of all sanitary supplies, ambu
lances, surgeons, nurses aud wounded men
and their safe conduct when under the (lag
of the Rod (,’rnss, which is the Hwiss ensign
with its colors reversed. The Red Cross
means that tlu-iu is but one military liom
pltal flag in Christendom ami that wherever
it flies, every lielligerent power respects it.
To fire upon it is to I non k an international
treaty. National Rear Cross societies exist
in every civilised country. The American
(Society, of wmuh Miia Barton is President
and Dr. Hublmll general field-agent, lias
milled to war relief, of which we hope to
have little need, every calamity by fire,
flood, famine or pestilence, large enough to
be called national. This idea, which Is Miss
Horton's own and whose adoption by
European societies she secured in IfctH. w
known as the “American Amendment,”
and sufferers by the Ohio and Mississippi
floods in 188” and 1884,by the Michigan fire,
and Charleston earthquake, and Texas
drought think it not the least important
feature of the work.
The American Society appoints its own
delegates to the Carlsruhe Convention, !m>-
sides those named by and representing the
government. Mr. A. S. Solomons, of New
York, and Dr. Hheldou ore of this number,
named by Miss Barton, -s is Dr. Lucy M.
Hall, of’Brooklyn, resident physician at
Vassar College. Miss Barton will be the
guest of the Grand Duchess of Baden during
her stay abroad, and court etiquette will re
quire her to wear the decorations she has re
ceive.l, trinkets which she stows away in
a liox at home. These are the Iron ( Voss of
Germany presented by Emperor William,
a medal from the Queen of Italy, a badge
of honor from the Queen of Servia, a court
jewel from the Grand Duchess Ismiao, and
a good many other trifles which a good
American can hardly be expected to re
member. Mias Barton lias been and is on
this visit likely to be feted and caressed to
an extent sufficient to turn any head but
one so exceedingly level as her own.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
A MODERN COLUMBUS.
The London "Times” Awakens to the
Discovery of America
From the New York World.
London, Aug. 2t). —The lxmdon Tunes has
“discovered” America. It announces to-day
in an editorial of over a column in length
that it lias undertaken the enterprise of send
ing a liold and tried correspondent through
“the unknown country of the United Stales
to make a report upon the marvels of this
wonderful country.” It prints to-day a
three-column description of New York liar
bor and Madison Square. Other letters are
in hand from the same corres|>ondent, who,
the editor says, will describe this “wonder
fnl people at what seems to be the most
woltderfUl moment of its material expansion
and development, when the most active
branch of the human race has found itself
suddenly put in possession of unbounded
physical resources, and when it is undertak
ing the task of developing those resources
with an onorgery and a success of which t ho
world has never before known the equal.”
Upon the information furnished by this
investigation the Timex has published tin
most eulogistic editorial upon the United
States that has ever appeared in any Eng
lish newspaper. After picturing the tre
mendous progress of our country, it says:
“It is impossible as one reads any such ac
count as our correspondent is about to give
to refrain from asking whither nil this
progress is tending, and what will bo its re
sult upon the American jieople themselves
and upon mankind in ireneral. Merely to
state the question Is to imply that it is one
to which time alone can furnish an answer.
The future is obscure enough everywhere,
but in a country where the past has been so
productive of rapid change it must ho still
more inscrutable. What iuost occu
pies the minds of the more reflective
among the citizens of the American re
public is the question whether their social
organization will be able after a while to
stand the strain of this extraordinary de
velopment. Till now it may be said that
the progress has been coui|wtratively a small
affair, for the reason that the supply of
land was practically unlimited, and that
new settlements could be found at pleasure
for new- settlers. Already, however,,this is
ceasing to be the case, ;upi, although the
land still continues to be, in mod parts of
the continent, extremely cheap, it can no
longer he had for nothing. With every
year its price will rise and with every year
the population will increase. Tbo danger,
of course, is that serious labor troubles may
be the resulLof any check upon, the devel
opment of the country, whieb, after a
while, must almost inevitably come.
“It is often said by the Americans them
selves that their whole jiolitical and social
constitution, as established by the fathers
of th% republic, was bused upon the theory
that men were pretty nearly equal, and that
there neither were nor would be any groat
difference of wealth or of inviUeot or of
character. Modem New York Is, however,
the very negation of equality, since it con
tains at once the poorest and richest popula
tion of any city in the world. Will Ameri
can institutions, then, bo able permanently
to stand in the face of the inevitable press
sure from below, which must come when
labor, uaable to find ready and perpetual
employment at good wogi-s, begins seriously
to organize itself ? Hide'by side with
this greatest of all questions gome whole
groups of problems, scarcely less important,
such as the effect of the continuance of the
poliry of protection, and the effect of the
probably increasing divergence of interest
between the West and East. In one word,
there are plenty of rocks ahead. But, on
the other hand, the American launches of
the English race has shown itself up to the
present time wonderfully well equipped for
dealing with its own political problems,
and there seems to lie no reason why - any
hut a hopeful view should be taken of its
power of so doing in the future. For it
must be remembered that, though every nn
tion pours its emigrants into America,it is the
English race which Is dominant them. A sin
gle generation is enough to turn the German
or the Swedish setler into a thoroughbred
American, assimilated to. his native-lsirn
neighbors. The Irish-American is the more
difficult individual, but even, he, after two
generations of lobbying and poMtiral in
triguing, usually settles down into an ordi
nary citizen and becomes a hard-working
man of business, with a proper contempt
for political bosses. It is this extraordinary
power of moulding all incoming races into
their own likeness which is, perhaps, the
most remarkable feature of the Anglo-
American people, and. as it si-eins to grow
stronger instead of weaker us the time goes
on, it is an augury of peace for the future,”
Just Like Women.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Now, everybody knows that a woman
will never allow another woman to get. the
best of her in anything. Hhe may play
modesty out of politeness, but if one in
sists too much upon the superiority of any
thing belonging to her, she will provoke bad
fueling and very acrid contradictions.
"I have been so ill,” said a lady calling
with some others at a house uptowu the
other day. “I have been very ill.”
“What was the matter?”
“It was pneumonia.”
“Pneumonial” said another; “I had the
same thing.”
“But mine was very serious and I didn’t
know if I’d get over it.”
“Ho was mine. The doctor was quite
alarmed about me."
"I was in bed three days." •
“I was confined to iny room four.”
“But you couldn’t possibly have been as
ill as I was.”
“I was—even worse.”
“It could not have lieen pneumonia.”
“Yes, it was.”
“But my case was very aggravated.”
“Mine was most serious.”
“Yours could not have lieen the same
kind—not as id. My doctor said mino
was the most dangerous case of tho kind he
had ever seen.”
“Mine told me 1 would surely die.”
“I don’t believe it was pneumonia you
had.”
“I know it was, but yours wasn’t.”
“I don’t believe you were sick at all.”
“I know you weren’t. You bad a cold in
the bead.”
“Well, l never!"
And they are strangers now.”
Renews Her Youth.
Mix Phodie Uhesley, Peterson, ('lay coun
ty, lowa, tells the following remarkable
story, tho truth of which is vouched for by
the residents of the town: “I am 7)1 years
old, have lieen troubled with kidney com
plaint und lameness for many years; could
not draas myself without help.' Now I am
free from nil train and soreness, atul able to
do all my own housework. I owe my thunks
to Electric Bitters for having renewed my
youth and removed completely all disease
ami pain.”
,Try a Little, only 00c. and 91, at Lippmau
Bros.' drug store,
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENT A WORD.
ADVERT IS EM KNTS, 15 ironfa or
more, in this column inserted for ONE
CENT .4 WORD, Cash Advance, each
insertion.
Everybody icho has any want to supply,
anything to buy or sett, any business or
accommodations to secu re; indeed,an y wish
to gratify. should advertise in this column.
HELP WANTS!). ”
O RUM M Fits WANTED Men to scUtohaooo
direct from manufacturers, on a handsome
cnnumssii* ll ; drummers with other lines can
make an extra ialary s'-lhny our goods. Ad
dress at once, 1 iOok Box No. 8, Liberty, Va.
\VT ANTED, six good plasterers; best wages
' V paid; Central railroad, new building, P.
J. FALLON.
IX/'ANTED, a competent white servant in a
" family. Address \V , Morning News
office.
IT" ANTED, four experienced lady clerks; best
t * salaries given. Apply at once to I'LAT
SHEK'S.
\\7 ANTED, to employ two ladies for office
M work. Address LADY, News office.
A\. r ANTED, first -class dress goods salt i nan;
i not married. Apply at 12' Cougress
street, city.
\ IT ANTED, a good mattrcssmaker and up
i* holsterer; must have good references:
steady work and good wages. Addivws MAK
TIN LOVKNUIiEKX, Tampa, Fla. Box 118.
1: M I■LO V M EN T W A NTKI.
\\T ANTED, a situation as collector, shipping
Vi clerk or as an assistant In office; writes a
good band; reference given if required. Ad
dress Cl., News office.
\V, r ANTED, a position in some good house by
II a young man of experience; eftn furnish
best of reference. Address ()., Morning News
4 I SA Li-.SMAN AND COLLECTOR wants
il Ia job: salary or commission. Address TANARUS.,
care Ibis office; references given.
YITANTED, a position ns cook by a white
i l woman; can make herself generally usc
ful. Address B. M., this office.
\y ANTED, position as saleslady In a store;
* * would assist at bookkeeping If required.
A. M. TANARUS., this office. ___ __
yOUNfi MAN having spare evenings wants
1 work; bookkeeping or copying. BOOK
COP, News office.
MIriCEL L ANEOLSi W A NTS.
r p\VO quiet. Hotter young men wish to St-cure
1 good board in a strictly private Protestant
family, not south of Liberty street; best refer
cnees given. Address, stating terms, C. W. G.,
Box 88, city.
\AT ANTED, ft small five or six-room house;
> Ii nt not to exceed twenty five dollars |>er
month; central location preferred Address P.
O. Box 205.
\y ANTED, a suite of four or live connect log
i v rooms; water and gas on floor; rent mod
erate and location central. Address P. O. Uox
205.
\U r ANTED TO RENT, cellar or shed for
l V storing empty boxes. SCHREINER'S
MUSIC HOUSE.
\y ANTED, by two young men, nicely fur
ii nished room, centrally located; will pay
about $lO per month. Address, giving particu
lars, with price of room, 11. H., News office.
UJ ANTED, a large, well furnished room;
southern exposure. A. T.
ROOMS TO RENT.
I/OR RENT, from Octoiier Ist, a large frout
I room, furnished or unfurnished, with use of
!>Sth; also, large black walnut dining table for
sale. Corner of Bull and Charlton street*.
I /OR RENT, a floor of two large rooms; hot
1 aud cold baths on same floor; also, large
front south room on parlor Ihxir. Apply to
Miss BANCROFT, 158 Jones street.
I /OR KENT, second floor, four nice connect
ing rooms, with private bath room on same
floor Inquire at No. 158 State street, near Bar
nard.
1/OR RENT, a very desirable room, nicely fur
nished; privilege of bath, hot and cold
water. 83 York' street.
1/OR RENT, two large, pleasant rooms, well
furnished or unfurnished, at 170 South Broad
Street.
I/OR RENT, a fine large second floor south
I room, furnished or unfurnished, 79 Brough
ton street.
I/OR RENT, a large and small south front
room, furnished, at 50 Broughton street.
I /OR RENT, pleasant south front rooms, with
board, at .'lns. McLAWS, 156 Liberty.
>1 ICELY furnished room to rent for a single
I gentleman. Apply 62 Bull street.
I/OR RENT, good rooms and reasonable board.
1 5(1 Barnard st reet
I/OR RENT, immediately, ortho Ist of Octo
I her, a handsome parlor floor, consisting of
three connecting rooms, with pantry adjoining,
having water and plenty of closet room; they
arc situated in a choice location; no children
upstairs and none allowed in thehouse. Address
P. < i. Box 154. ■
f|ZWO ROOMS on parlor floor, two large
A closets, back pia/./a. kitchen and hall room
in basement; also use of l>ath room in second
story, Bolton street, second from Drayton.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT.
I /OR RF.NT, that desirable three-story brick
1 dwelling on Mouth Broad street, three doors
east of Abereorn; has ull modern conveniences;
stable and servants' quarters on lane; rent very
low Apply to PETEK REILLY, Agent, 26
Drayton street.
I /OR RENT, the three middle houses in block
1 northeast corner Barnard and Bolton
streets: latest improvements; newly repainted
and repaired. Apply to (I CH. GEMUNDEN,
corner Mt,. Julian and Whitaker street*.
I/OR KENT, three story, brick house, 76 Rern
rd street, second from Liberty; hot and
cold water, speaking trumpets and all the
imslcru Improvements. I>. B. LESTER.
I /OR RENT, a tew l wo-story dwellings In good
localities. Apply to PETER REILLY,
Agent. 26 Drayton street.
1/OJt RENT, a six room house, Anderson near
I Barnard. Apply LOUIS VOGEL'S Store,
Jefferson and Waloburg lane.
I /OR RENT, froni Octoiier 1, the large and
cbpiilKslioim house corner Bull and Tay
lor street*.’fbrtncriY occupied by Judge Speer;
also oLdit room house on Taylor street, be
twenn Hull and Whifakcr. For particulars ap
ply toJsJHN LYNCH. grocer.
1/OR KENT, the most desirable residence on
I Taylor si red two doors west of Abereorn
street; ponie shld given from Is! Oct, Apply to
VAIATIWURi fcRIVKItM, No. M Bay street.
I /OR RJCNT, brick store 156 Congress street.
three sttfrtm on cellar; possession given
imniediafWv: '. Apply to WALTHoUR & RI V
ERS, No. 83 Bay street.
J/OK jSA-NT. * cotnfoi-table seven room house
on HAbersham street, Ihlrd door from
Taylor 'Afo'Iv'tWPOTKR ASENDORF, Halier
Klisui and Jones street lane.
1/OR RENT, from Ist October next, tliat desir
able residence on the southwest corner Lin
coln and St. Julian ireels. Apply to I>. O'CON
11IR, M Congress slreel.
IX)R KENT October Ist, for on* year, hoiiKo
on |)ndfy, fourth Wont from Bull; modern
oonvoriltuiocs. Rent, 2,-. per month. H. V.
TRAIN. New Houston and Bull.
I .•'OR KENT. dwelling* 42, anil 41 Jefferson
Htroet. corner of York; in (food condition,
with modern convenience*. Apply to O. H.
REMHHART, 118 Bryan *treet. __
JNOIt HUNT, from Nov. Ist, More* In the Odd
Fellow*' Hall. hlho room* In Odd Fellows'
Hall: poswHXion given at ones. Apply to A. K.
FAWCETT, Market square.
lAOK RENT, that desirable realdeiice, No. fit
LunmrJ street, with modern conveniences,
faring square. Apply to W'AI.THOUR &
RIVERS, 88 Huy (tram i
ITMiR RENT, that desirable mddenoe. No. iH
linmghton street; possmialou riven Nov, lut,
1885 Apply WALTHOUR A RIVERS. 88 Ray
atreet.
I,X)R RENT hiiirk residence I'M York; nine
room*, water, ga* and bath: ronvenlsnt to
business; potman lop Oct. tat. Apply next door,
at 191. f
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RF.NT.
1/OR RENT, two fine two story- brick houses,
1 Nos. 27 and 274 Broughton street, in excel
lent condition, with modern conveniences and
good yard, ala reasonable rental Apply to
P. J. O'CONNOR, in Southern Rank building, or
at his residence. 25 Broughton st reet.
1/OR RENT, desirable brick dwellings, cen
1' trallv located and having gas, water, etc.,
on premises; also offices on first ami second
floors of buildings on Bay and Drayton st reets,
suitable for merchants, broker* or lawyers. Ap
ply to JOaN FLANNERY & CO.
I /OR RENT, tenement. 72 Caswll Row. front
ing south on St Julian, next, to corner
Abereorn street. 11. J. THOMASSON, lit
Bryan, near Drayton Street.
|/OR RENT, from Ist October next, five tine
l 1 dwellings, two story on a basement, uth
modern improvements; in easy access to two
lines street can. Apply to R. 8. CLAUHOHN,
No. 11l Bay street.
I /OR RENT, a desirable dwelling No. 70 Tay
lor street, between Abereorn aud Lincoln
streets; possession given Oct. Ist or Nov. Ist, a*
desired. J. F. BROIiKS, 185 Bay street.
1/OR RENT, dwelling houses Nos. 151 and 153
1 Barnard street; ill first rate order. J F.
BROOKS, 135 Bay street.
I /OR RENT, from Sept. 1, the line two story
' brick bouse. No 29 Broughton street, with
modern convenience and good yard, at a mi
sonable rental. Apply to !' J. O'CONNOR, in
Southern Bank building, or at his residence, No.
MS Broughton street. _ -
1/OR RENT, the si or.- No. 165 Congress street,
next door to Holouious ,N Cos.; one of tile
best stands in the city. For terms upply to
UICORGE W OWENS. 118 Bay street.
1/OK BENT. I twit tine store No. 140 Congress
F slreel friMil Nov. 1, 1887. Apply to ED. F.
NF.Uf’VILI.E, 100 Bay street.
i/Ol; RENT, desirable three-atory brick tlwel
-1 ling 185 Charlton street, between Bull and
Whitaker; rooms large; modern conveniences;
possession Oct. 1. F. W. COBBEDGK, 131
Broughton street.
l/OR RENT Two dwellings, northeast, corner
P Huntingdon and Montgomery street*. Ap
ply toll. li. KKMSHART, 118 Bryan si root.
I/OR RENT, Store No. 138 Congress street,
P facing Johnson's square. Also, eleven-room
brick house, w ith two story out buildings, No.
86 Slate street. J. C. ROWLAND, No. 1)6 Bay
street.
1/OR RENT, house on Anderson, fourth wist
1 from Whitaker. Apply Mbs. FREW, New
Houston aud Bull.
F'ull RENT -One large house, or two houses
of medium si.ic. Apply 21 LINCOLN
STREET
I /OR RENT. Iwe desirable houses Abereorn
1 and Waldburg strocta. Apply 184 State
street.
I /OR RENT, from Oct Ist. splendid store No.
1 87 Bay street, situate in Hutchison's Block,
next to corner of Abereorn; baa splendid cellar
and is splendid stand for any busmen*; second
and third stories can lie rented if desired. A.
R. LAWTON, Jr., 114 Bryan street.
FOR KEN T MISCELLANEOUS.
J/OK RENT OR LEASE. "Oakland Farm." on
I Middleground road, just ton minutes walk
from street car; good six room house, with out
buildings; 22 acre*: highly enriched for eigh
loon yeare; excellent place for cows or chickens.
For particulars apply 152 Gaston street.
/ OFFICE for rent from Ist November next.
V / That desirable office on Bay street now oc
cupied by M. A. Cohen A Cos. Apply to T. A.
ASKEW, 151 (Tmgross si reef.
I/OR RENT, the warehouse on Bay street,
I southwest corner of Price, possession given
any time after Sept. 1. Apply to JOHN F.
HERB, No. 94 Liberty street.
OFFICE FOR KENT, second floor of No. 1W
Hay street, Stoddard’s upper range. Ap
ply 1,. (Tl AS GREEN'S SON A CO.
I/OR RENT, office 92 Bay sti-eet. Apply to
r I>. Y. DANCY, 92 llay street.
I /OR RENT, one-half of office, 114 Bay street,
1 upstairs: Immediate possession. JOHN
STON A DOUGLASS.
FOR SALE.
r pHE gentleman that had the refusal having
1 failed to make arrangement* In the lime
allowed, still leave* for sule, after fifteenth Kep
teniber, store and dwelling corner Farm and
Olive street*, dilng k three thousand dollar
cash business, to good party, either for cash nr
longtime; books open for Inspection of Intended
purchasers: fulling health or present occupant
the only reason for wanting to sell. (Tall on or
address JAMES MoOUIRE. No. 46 Indian street ■
Rake chance to buy out an old
ESTABLISHED BUSINESS. Tb Soap
Factory of the undersigned requiring their
whole attention, they will sell their wine aud
liquor business, in which they have been en
gaged the past twenty years in this city. Here
is a fine opportunity for a party with a small
capital to secure a profitable business. WM.
lIuNE A CO.
I/O R SALK, nice office, with aasb and
1 panel door; also four heavy wire sliding
doors and rollers, suittble for warehouse.
GRAHAM A HUBBELL, 190 Hay.
|/OR KALE, a four horse Otto Gas Engine;
I good as new; price low. For further iufor
matloii address THE ADVERTISER CO , Mont
gomery. Ala.
1/OB SALE, four pairs Window Shades, orlgl
-1 nal cost thirteen dollars. Lounge and Moa*
Mattress; all good as new. Cali 174 Harris
street.
I/OR HALF., Milk, Cream, Curd, Clabber,
r Fresh Butter, Buttermilk, at Oglethorpe
Barracks, Bull street. W. BARNWELL.
f/OR SALK, ope Cart, with gears for carting
I hay, and one Spring Wagon, by JOS. H.
BAKER. Market.
1/OR S ALE CHEAP, a spring wagon in good
r order. Inquire at No. 52. Reynolds street.
| AELIGHTFUL HOME FOR KALE. In the
1 t town of iVnlteld, Greene county, Ga., a
well finished, eight room dwelling, double iron
verunda, ample outhouses, a large garden
stocked with fruit*, tlsb pond, and a farm of
about forty acres In good cultivation. Penfteld
Is four miles from railroad, ha* churches,
school*, dally mall, good water, and a fine
health record. A rare opportunity to those
who desire an elegant home, with small farm,
and on very reasonable tonus. Apply to
CHARLES M. BANDERH. Pen field. Ga.
RICE MILE FOR HALE.-If not sold or put
in a stock coni|>aiiy by lat October, will he
rented, that splendid water-power rice, saw
and corn mill at Mllltown, ten mile* north of
Nayk r, on Ravannah, Florida and Western
railroad: *end for description and eatiniate of
proltalile profit*. HENRY BANKS, Atlanta.
|.''OR HALE, plantation on Georgia Central
I railroad, Arty-one inllra from Savannah,
contalnlnir twelve hundred acre*, four bundreil
under cultivation: place well improved, dwelling
alone having co*f, twenty five hundred dollar*.
Apply to I'. 0. ELKINH, Italcyonilale, o*.
I NOR RALE, 8 Home power Portable Engine,
nearly new, In flrst-claa* order; price, f&MI.
J, W. TYSAN.
J.ovi .
IOHT, gold breastpin, blue setting, bangle of
j one gold dollar attached monogram
M A. K.; lost on Liberty, between Lincoln and
West. Broad Will litierally reward by return
ing name to Morning New* onion.
BOARDIXU.
UOARDMO! Mas. JANE F. ELKINS Im*
I > moved to the corner of President and Aber
corn atreet*, where she I* prepared to accommo
date Isiurdent with nice, comfortable room* anil
board; also table board.
ONE gentleman can got board; large airy
room: private family; reference required.
8., thin office.
/ OOf> K<ii)MK and board, also table boards
II nr* wanted, at 85 Congress street, corner
Atiercorn.
IMIOMM.RAIMI Y.
LiPK<TAL M'l ICE PJCOTf HJKAPHY IvTcee
(7 redunnd Petitee $1 80, Oar>l* $2, Cabinet
|2 per dosen, and larger work in the same pro
portion.
J. N. WIIAiON,
21 Bull street.
i ii . ii
M IS< ELLA N EOUB.
/ lUJTHIXO cleaned, repaired, braidi l. altered
' ) and dyeil: new milt* cut ami made In latest
style*, charges moderate: satisfaction guaran
teed A. UET/j, twilor, ,11 Jcgerson street
n UHHER LOAKDKDaad good attention given
at (id per month at 9$ Congreee street.
Ur ANTED, customers for Pond LUy Toilet
Wash. Used at the White House daily.
An indispensable luxury for the toilet and bath.
I'rada supplied by LU'rMA.N BRuS., bavanuah,
Ua.
>ll SCULL A NEOUS.
II (H.LEK ITNTRAL' Ring up 862, LOGAN,
I the Butcher, my wife ha* been worrying
me to cell on him for some of his popular meats,
and hen- you keep me standing for the last half
hour.
nAIRWORK of all descriptions In stock;
combings made up: children*' haircuiting.
BR< tUGIIToN STREET II AIR STORE. Coun
try orders for wigs, switches, hangs, whiskers,
moustaches, etc. carefully matched.
H LOGAN, the Butcher, guaraicees to sell
• as Mne meat as you can get North, at the
same figures. Give him one trial and you will
try again. Stalls 67 and 68 City Market.
/ t EORGF. W MATH USB is still in the ring.
"Ilf you want papeiliangiug done cheap, tea
him. Will also furnish paiier at lowest prices.
09 Whitaker street, under Masonic Temple.
('tONGKF.SH STREET is to Is* paved this win-
J ter, and LOGAN still ho.ds the van in fresh
Northern Meat*. Stall Nos. 66 and 67 City
Market.
| F you want your Clot bing renewed, cleaned
A repairefl. braided, dyed, remodeled, altered
to suit your taste go to A. WHITE S, corner Jef
ferson iind State streets. ___________
¥ A DIES use Bnracine Toilet and Face Powder
I J because of it* superior quality ; it is also
highly perfumed.
SYSTEMATIZED, scientific and fashlonahla
it Imtiviitting. EMILE F. FEGEAB, Brough
ton street, lietween Bull and Drayton
VFi >K APPEL and B for BUTCHER LOGAN,
the headquarter* for fresh Northern Steaks,
etc. .
\ LARGE assortment of fine and reliable
toilet articles at reasonable prices. G. M.
IIEIDT & CO.
WANTED, every body to know that we are
on divk at corner Whitaker and Stare
streets. Call and see us. Agent* wanted. Tha
New Home 8. M. Cos.. A. J. PCKSLKY, Agent.
\FINE LOT of home-grown Cabliage Plants
and Strawberry Plant* for sale by GEO.
WAGNER.
N'OTICK The Rosedew river front lots ad
vertised for some months past at the mini
mum priee of $125 each, will not l*' sold hant
ufter under $250 each; terms accommodating.
Am. 25th, 1887. L. A. FALLIGANT.
LIMUIEV A BATES S. M. H.
Even Old Ocean Can’t.
Get the Best of Them.
Funny thing* in print about piftno*. We read of
one fulling from a four-*tory window without
being much demoralised and of another t hat re
ceived a cannon ball In ita "intervals''and ratbag
enjoyed the effect than otherwise; but, whila
t hose are pretty fair land performance*, we can
actually show a piano that even Old Ocean
failed to silence.
An American Piano Lies at Ocean's Bottom
for Weeks, and is To-Day a
Good Piano.
Rome eight year* ago a vessel having on
board an U pright Piano for us was wrecked and
sunk to the bottom. Weeka after she waa
raiiel. The coho containing the piano was full
of voter, nn 1 the piano itself was a sight to
behold. Everything about It and in it waa
flooded, soaked, rusted and discolored. Not m
key would sound or a hammer would work. Ws
never expected to realise $5 for it as it did no!
seem possiiflc that a piano could survive such a
Kouk ug. But It soon dr e 1 out and to our as*
ton aiment its tone was still there. We then
pul if In repair ami revarnished the case, and
ewer since that Piano has been ill constant use,
on rent, and giving satisfaction. It is a woo*
der to us aud all u-ho know it* history.
This piano wo* not a (.'bickering, Knaba,
Weber, or any high price instrument, bill
merely an honest made, medium priced Ameri
can Piano, such os we have sold thousands ol
since 1870.
As long as American manufacturer# can fun
nlsh us with water proof piano*, like the ahovq
that thoroughly satisfy purchaser, and bear Out
any guarantee that we *-an give we shall art]
them and defend from all disparaging and urn
fair aspersions by tho&i whose interests lie if
the sale of Imported instrument*.
L&B.S.M.H.
Depot for Finest American Pianos*
AUCTION SALES FUTURE DAYS.
A Fine Stand for Grocery and
Liquor Trade
AT AUCTION,
I. D. Laßoche’s Sons, Auctioneer?
ON TUESDAY, SEPT. Bth, In front of thi
Court House, we will offer that valuable prog
erty situated on the southwest corner <j|
South Broad and Arnold streets, comprising
ONE STORE AND DWELLING.
TWO TENEMENTS.
Thi* is good renting property and Is in goal
repair, houses having been built but reoently.
Terms at sale, purchaser paying tor paper*
Beautiful Building Lot at Auctioi
I.D.Laßoche’s Sons. Auctioneers
On TUESDAY, the 6th day of September, 1881
wn will sell before the Court House, duruj
the legal hours of sale,
That BEAUTIFUL BUILDING LOT sltuall
on the south Hide of New Houston street, bi
tween Drayton and Abercom etreeta. known and
eaat one half of lot No. 0 Cuthbert ward, 80 fed
by 108, fee simple.
TERMS OAHH. purchaser paying for paper!
Valuable Lot and Improvements for Sal
AT yVTTC'UION'.
I.D.Laßoche’s Sons, Auctioneer
On TUESDAY, the ttth day of September, I
front of the Court House, we will sell
The western half of Lot Ne. 91 White waH
situated on Anderson street, between Aberoof
and Lincoln streets, with improvements.
-m -j-jLJia
HOKSESHOEING, ETC.
P. BARRETT
33 West Broad Street,
HORSESHOER, GENERAL BUCK
SMITH AND WHEELWRIGHT.
I AM now prepared to do ail kind* of bufldtg
and repairing of Carriages, Buggies. Tru- 4
Wagon*, etc., a* I have just repaired a d|
Truck and alno painted, which I think non *■* and
pi-te with any oilier Truck lu Savannah, and ■ 4
)*• seen on the Bay. Pk-ane examine it and I
me a trial, aa I have flrst-claa* men so* I
handle them, and will guarantee to give ..*
satisfaction m all brsurbe* of my buxlaea*. *4
will thank this** who will patronize me.
■ 1 1 1
MERCHANTS, manufacturer*, meebamg
o*.i poiiuion*. and all otbere In seed j
printing lithographing, and blank books ■
Lave then order* uroinptiy filled, at modera
price*, at the MORNING NEW* POINTII
HOC HE, 3 Wldlahar street.
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