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OX A WAR FOOTING, GERMANY READY FOR A STRUGGLE WITH FRANCE. The Solid Strength and Perfect War Preparations of the German Empire— A Country of Fighting Men and Working Women-Confidence in the Result. Mr. Frank R. Richardson, of Baltimore, who is one of the best known newspaper writers in the South, writes as follows to the Baltimore Sun. from Berlin: Ger many is on -a war footing. France is on a war footing. Russia is oh a war footing. Such era the sentences which frequently meet the eye of the readei-s of European news in the United States, but the meaning of which is but dimly comprehended, It needs to see with one’s own eyes not. the dead print which con veys such intelligence, but the living, moving evidences of European preparation for hostilities, to comprehend and appreci ate what the temi “war footing’’ means. Every country in cont inental Europe, great and small is on a war footing. Belgium and Holland, with populations not much in ex cess of that of the State of New York, have standing armies larger by thou sands than the entire army of the United States. And these two countries have en rolled ou their reserve list fully one fifth of their whole population, which reserves can Ik- put in the field in less than thirty days. The Netherlands are so situated that they' are in less danger from the eupiditv of their neighbors than any of the other small States, but this does not make them less sensible of the force of the maxim, “In time of peace prepare for war.” They do not know what may turn up, and therefore believe in the fullest measure of preparation. Belgium is, perhaps, in the most critical condition of any of the lesser kingdoms, for the impres sion is that a general European war would inevitably result in a permanent infringe ment upon its territory by the successful combatants. war is inevitable. War is coming, not this year in ali proba bility. perhaps not next year or the year af ter, but that it is coming is the universal sentiment all over the continent, aud when cannot be foretold. There is not a man in this city who does not accept it as cetain that Germany and France are to meet again in the clash of arms, and the feeling is not less deep that this time the struggle must be one to the death, with no hope left to the vanquished of a revival. Such a con test as is' anticipated cannot end, it is thought, without all Europe t>eing drawn in before its conclusion, even to Great Brit ain, although it is quite sure that England will let the others draw its chestnuts from the fire so long as it can. “War footing” means, in Germany and France, half a million of men for each country, fully armed and equipped, drilled to perfection, and ready to grapple to the death at a min ute’s notice. Behind them are the re serves, including in tho various classes every male from 17 to (50 years of age, all of whom can be put into the field in a few weeks. It means the most extensive system of frontier defense that was ever devised: the fortification of all strategic points in the two countries to the very last extent that skill, science and money can go. The Prussians claim that they' have drawn such a line of earthworks about Alsace and Lor raine, and so fortified and garrisoned the important towns of the two provinces as to baffle any attempts at recapture by the French under the most favorable circum stances for an invading force. But they do not concede the m ■*. remote probability' of French success, and the war party in Berlin say they will be satisfied with nothing less than the destruction of French nationalty. The Rhine, along which I sailed for 150 miles, is fortified at every accessible point: every town is heavily garrisoned, several of the more important places having a much larger force of defenders than Lieut. Gen. Sheridan command". FIGHTING JIEN AND WORKING WOMEN. American tourists are so often struck at the sight of women engaged in every kind of manual labor. In all continental Europe there is no species of unskilled labor that women do not perform. This seems shock ing to American tastes and instincts, al though among the peasantry the female almost invariably seems equal in muscle ana endurance to the male. Civilization and Christianity, it would seem, ought nat urally by this time to have wrought a change in the customs and ideas of the feu dal period. But it looks to me as if the emancipation of the women of the humbler classes in Europo from the thraldom of serf dom is yet very distant. It suits kings and potentates that women shall saw wood, shall till the ground, shall follow the plow or pull it—shall in truth be veritable beasts of burden for this enables them to draw upon the entire able bodied male population in furtherance of their schemes and purposes. What strengthens the custom is also the willing obedience of the women, for they have never known anything else, and the tacit satisfac tion of their husband, fathers and brothers. In war or in peace there is always a certain glamour about the uniform, a sword or a musket. Tho peasant of Europe is very much like the North American Indian. If he is a soldier he thinks it beneath his dig nity to work, and if the women of his house hold can do everything while he is away to the war, lie thinks they can do it equally as well when ho is at home This accounts very much for tho spectacle so constantly witnessed, and over which American ladies never tiro of venting their indignation of (lie men lolling around smoking pipes and sleeping in the shade while the women are toiling under the burning sun of the harvest field. THE GERMAN WAR PARTY. The war party in Germany is certainly V'.ry influential and very numerous, and if there is any peace party it keeps very quiet. This party is tiring of waiting for France to begin the contest. Wince the treaty of Paris, France has not taken one step in the way of armament, fortification, military or naval preparation that Germany has not followed with u similar one. That the two nations have a corps of open eyed spies in the heart of each other’s territory is well understood, and in the seventeen years there has been no improvement in light or heavy ordnance adopted by one that the other lias not been almost instantly informed of it, and sought at once to effect still further improvements. It is asserted here that Germany has far outstripped Fiance in all successive movements, and this is the reason why FWlice lias not taken the initiate e. France is uwaiting to begin the attack until she shall be in better condition; this, it is declared, shall never come to pass, ami popular clamor is that Germany shall not bide the time of France, but shall itself bring on the contest. A German military officer who participated in every battle of the IK7O war told me the repeating rifle with which the soldiers of the empire are now armed is the most effective weapon the world has evei known, and infinitely su perlor to anything the French have. This officer said there was a feeling that tho last days of the Emperor should Is* as free from euro and disquietude as possible, and but for this feeling lie thought France would have lieen forced to fight liefore this. When the Emperor dies, however, that moment would be the signal for war, if it should not come before. KPIRIT or THE COVENTRY■ The higher military officers of Germany sre all imbued with the idea that the destiny of the empire is to become the greabet na tionality of the world. They insist that llieir tnsips are oompnoMl of better lighting inuferial ami are better armed than any other*. This may not lie so. hut if the AO,- Will 1 have seen are to lie regarded a* a sain ■ pie of tlui whole the German army ie cer tainly a splendid body of men ami In Kploiidbf condition. lie most important exuential of military movement*, the iiiMsuy acd quart*mMittei s department. Smu Ki IwHwit fully provided pa , aim nothing 1 bateau be done in this respect has, it is said, been ieft undone. The German offi cers say that net once in the IS7O war did a German soldier ever go hungry, while the French frequently marched aud fought with empty bellies. They admit this gave them great advantage and allege that the French, not profiting by experience, have their commissary still in a most disorganized and ineffective condi tion. It is interesting to hear how some of their officers talk. Tb6v take it for granted they are to overrun France, and the limits which they set to the anticipated new ad justment of boundaries are absolutely start ling. In all talk of war Russia is alluded to as tho national ally of France, but the feeling agoiDst that country' is not to be compared with the intensity of animosity against the latter. Germany reallv calcul ates upon making such short work of France that Russia will not bavo time to take a hand. But when hostilities once begin in Europe experience has often proved how different it is to forecast results, and if Ger man calculations should be set at uaught there would be nothing very extraordinary about it. But that Germany was never better prepared for war thau now is evi dent; for added to the immense balance which has been stowed away in its treasury', the perfect equipment aud discipline of its soldiery, is the enthusiastic eagerness of the nation for the contest and the abiding con fidence in the result. PERFECT PREPARATION. To show the remarkable vigilance of the government in its exactions of military ser vice from its subjects, it is said that Ger many never loses sight of any of them ; that the subject in all his wanderings is still kept on the list, with his last place of residence. When war comes lie is immediately sum moned home, and should he fail to obey is branded as a deserter and punished as soon as hands can be laid upon hitn. Germany, as well as the other powers claims and exercises the right- to take possession without a mo ment’s notice of tho entire railway system within its territory, and conduct it under military surveillance exclusively. The Gov ernment now has a record of every car be longing to every railroad within its borders. These cars are all numbered in plain letters. Every regiment in the service is assigned to a certain number of cars specifically desig nated, and in the event of a rapid move ment, the commanding officer of a regiment Knows without any inquiry into what oars he is to pack his men. This is the perfec tion of preparation. Railroads here do not run over the vast stretches of territory t hey do in the United States, and consequently rolliiij* stock is not, as with us, scattered hundreds of miles apart. There is probably not a railroad in all Germany whose entire equipment could not be concentrated in one day. CAUGHT AFTER ELEVEN YEARS. The Remarkable Story of the Dual Life of Henry S. Volkmar. From the Philadelphia Times. When the Chicago express came into the Broad street station Monday night, two travel-stained men in light suits jumped off the front car. One was Detective Weil, of this city. The other was3s-year-old Alfred H. Lewis, of Millbank, Dak., who, as Henry P. Volkmar, fled from Philadelphia in tho centennial year, while under heavy bail on the charge of arson. After eleven years he was brought back to answer for his' alleged crime. SY olkmar was a printer in the Star build ing, 7th and Jayne streets. On May 1, 1875, a fire broke out in Volkmar’s office, and ho collected the insurance ou the place. On the night of January 1, 187(5, another fire was discovered in Volkmar’s printing office by In spector Hank, of the gas office. It was soon extinguished, and on the floor was found a fuse filled with powder and waste paper. The fuse ran from a closet to the center of , the floor. There was SIO,OOO insurance on the establishment, and Volkmar was ar rested by Fire Marshal Thompson on tba charge of arson. Volkmar was released on $5,(X10 bail, liis father-in-law being the bondsman. When the case was called for trial Volkmar had fled. 1880 three men appeared in a lonely part of Grant county. Dakotah, and started a settlement. The fates favored them,and the place prospered them. It was called Mill hank, anil now boasts of bustling popula tion, three banks, an opera house and two newspapers. One of the founders was the bright-faced young man known as Alfred H. Lewis. He became the owner and editor of an influential paper. The Grant County Fie ri ew; was postmaster of the town for over four years, and last June was appointed a member of tlie staff of Gov. Church, of Dakota. In the early part of last week a stranger came to Miilbauk. He had been in the town two days when he placed Editor Lewis under arrest. The stranger was De tective Weil, and he said Lewis was wanted in Philadelphia for arson. The news of the arrest, of Millbank’s most prominent citizen fell like a bomb among the people, and there was the greatest ex citement. His wife, a lovely young woman, was overcome with grief. Volkmar, under his assumed name, had lived a blameless life in Dakota, aud his energy aud intelligence had made him the idol of the people of Grant county. Asa Democratic politician ho had tlie county seat of Grant county removed to Millbank, and he had the brightest pros jreefs before him when the detective from tho east appeared. Volkmar said he was willing to come back without a requisition, and when Detective Weil and liis prisoner left Millbank the w hole town accompanied them to tlie station and gave spontaneous expressions of sympathy for their towns mail. It was only since Fire Marshal Thompson!, resumed his old office that he learned where Volkmar was located, anil sent the detective on his errand to tlie West. No Place for Young Men. Kansas City Letter to the Louisville Cowier- Journal. Kansas City is overrun with clerks and other commercial young men in search of something to do. The city is likewise full of business, and many merchants accumu late large fortunes in a few years, but the proprietors, like their brethren in the older cities, see no reason why they should divide the profits with their employes, and as they can obtain plenty of the latter, they are never afraid of a strike. The cost of living is very high in Kansas City, and clerk hire is correspondingly low. Add the two together and you obtain the total produced by the same process in the Eastern towns. The result benefits Kansas City, because the clerk, when he goes away, as ho usually does, he never takes any money with hnn, but leaves it behind in the pockets of his employer or boarding-house keepor. ••I workod iu that wholesale dry goods store four years for 840 a month,” said a young man, pointing to a five-story build ing iu front of which tho sidewalk was lit tered with Ixixes of goods, “and I labored like a galley slave, too, but I could never get any more salary. I came out West to make my fortune in the commercial busi ness, und I was then tfl yearn old. I went to Omaha, Denver, Atchison, Tojieka and everywhere else, and the only thing I could get was that place over there. Every town in the West was crowded with young men in search of profitable employment, but willing to take anything tliut would keep them alive. I was considered very fortu nate when I secured my clerkship, and as compared with the others I was. 1 could liuve gone to my home, a pleasant iittlo Pennsylvania village of -JO, (KM) inhabitants, and taken a much easier place at 875 a month, but I was too proud to do it. 1 hail conic West to make my fortune, aud I would not change my intention,” “Do you retain that ideal’’ "I clung to it for four years, hut at lost I have come to my senses. I resigned three days ago and sin going iwck borne. My iieople always wauUst me to stay there, and they will kill the fatted <-aif for me, 1 can obtain employment there os is as I wont to for a mJarv double that I receive here, with tb work much lighter and the cost of living not half so great. No more Kansas City for me I Itavn had enough. Thee*- livrleuce of four year* has taught me that 1 ,m, make a f.u urn- Just as ea*Dy iu Puua •yhaid:< as .ut West, THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1887. A BURGLAR MINSTREL. A Musical Crook Prefers Stealing- to Earning an Honest Living. From the Syracuse Journal. Syracuse was one of the first places that Thatcher, Primrose & West’s minstrels struck at the opening c-f their season in the fall of 1884. They gave a good show, and not the least attractive feature of the per formance was the “musical moke” act of Wood, Beasley, and Weston Brothers. They made music on everything from a hairpin to a hand organ, anil filled the hearts of the big audience with delight. But next after noon the same peoplq who had listened entranced to the music were reading in the Jo urn al an account of the arrest of Sam uel G. Beasley, one of tire team, for burglary. The.ro had been several attempts made during the preceding day or two to enter houses in t lie city. Among them were the residences of Bruce 8. Aldrich, in South Salina street; Geo. O. Campbell, in Warren street, and the Rev. Norman Seaver, in West Genesee street. -All members of the police force were instructed by Chief W right to keep their eyes peeled, qjid they did it. The night of the minstrel show Special Officer Foster was patrolling Warren street, just above Fayette. As he passed 54, a big boarding house just opposite the Crouse building, he heard a woman sereum “Shoot him! shoot him!” A fellow came running out of the yard and fell plump into the officer’s arms. Breaking away, he started to run: but a levelled revolver and an order to throw up his hands brought him to n full stop. He said: “This is all right, officer; it is only a girl racket. Let me go. Take my gold watch aud let me go.” Foster wouldn’t have it, and escorted his prisoner to police headquarters. It was Beasley, the minstrel man, and he had been trying to get iuto a bedroom window of the boarding house. The proprietor, Edward Cameron, and llis wife occupied the room. They had been awakened by the noise Beas ley made in opening the blinds. Cameron drew a revolver from under the pillow. Beasley hurried away, and Mrs. Cameron cried -'snoot him.” When arrested Beasley had an elegant watch, but only a few cents of change in his pockets. His claim was that he had met on the street a girl named Mary Lnwlor, who worked in the house. He urged her to smoke a cigarette, but they had no matches. She told him there were matches on the bedroom window sill, and he climbed up to get them. This yarn would hardly wash, as Beasley had matches of half a dozeu different sorts in his pockets. He set up a defense which was very flimsy aud which he changed in some particular every b:mr. The girl, of course,denied the truth of his story entirely. The company went away and left him, which was presumptive evidence that they knew him for a crook. Beasley’s matter went beforp the grand jury, but they didn't indict. He stayed hero for a while making music at Cal Wagner’s theatre. He was a well dressed follow with a fearfully hard face which was smooth shaven. It ill comported with the lamblike innocence lie professed. He was a skillful musician, having fair mastery of almost all instru ments. His English birth and breeding wero evident from his speech. Finally he disappeared from tlie town. Now he turns up again in Cedar Rapids, la., and this time ho won't get away, for the evidence is all clear against him. A paper published there gives the following facts concerning the affair: On the night of Saturday, Aug. 15. Haverly's Minstrels, of which .Beasley, was a member, played in Cedar Rapids. About 8 oV-lodk in the morn ing Beasley was found by an officer in the suburbs, and when arrested pretended to be intoxicated and was looking for his hotel. The officer directed him there, and nothing more was thought of tlie matter until next day, when the discovery was made that a house had been burglarized fully half a mile from the place where Beasley was found The burglar hart been discovered by the owner of the house, who saw him plainly and described him well. The officers con cluded the minstrel was the man wonted. Two watches which had been taken from the house before tho burglar was discovered were found in the grass on the spot where the officer had met Beasley, half an hour after the burglary. On Sunday afternoon the authorities were unable to find him, but about 2 o'clock Monday morning be was fouud in the street and in the immediate vicinity of four at tempted burglaries. Upon arrest he was inspected by the mac and woman in whose house the burglary of Saturday night or Sunday morning had occurred. They positively mdentified him as the man they saw in their room. It is considered impossible for Beasley to escape conviction. The authorities'll! Cedar Rapids have received advices from H. Koster of 100 Hudson street. Hoboken, N. J., saying that while be was on the Pacific coast on business, some actors arrived in Hoboken. Beasley was among them and boarded at Roster’s house. He won the confidence of Koster’s pretty daughter, aged 17, and married her. When the father came back and found Beasley quartered at his house he didn’t like it.. Beasley left and went West with the Haverly troupe. The musical crook is still in custody at Cedar Rapids, and from all appearances is likely to remain so. A Smuggler's Museum. fr'ian the St. James Qazette. At Scotland Yard, there is an almost un known museum full of the significant and sometimes ghastly objects which have aided in tho commission of great crime. Probably the police ot most great capitals have made similar collections. At the custom house there is lielieved to be a room iu which are kept a selection of the most curious aids to smuggling—hollow cheeses, boxes with false bottoms, and tho like— which have been seized in tho possession of person* of undoubted ingenuity but of slinky honesty. In Paris there is a similar but probably much more interesting museum since the existence of the octroi duties which are levied upon a great variety of articles induce* a goal many people who, in othor regards are probably honost enough, to endeavor to de fraud the revenue. Here are kept some score* ot the most clever devices of profes sional or amateur smugglers which have from time to time been seized at the barrier* of the city or at tho custom houses through out the country. Most of them are exceed ingly ingenious, and some are indeed of a nature to suggest that in France even smugglers posse is esprit. What appears at a casual glance to be a block of Carrara marble is really a painted sheet iron box. It arrived at the frontier in a train from Italy, along with five similar ones. A curious depression upon one of these blocks aroused the suspicion of a aouanier, and upon examination the trick was discovered. The boxes were filled with ballast to make them heavy, and at the bottom of each lay Jt'l.OfK) worth of Vene, tian lace. A pile of innocent-loosing logs of firewood, such as are burned in Paris, were found to be hoiiow metal tulies, covered with the bark of trees and filled with duti able liquors. Probably only an officer who possessed long familiarity wliii the ways of smugglers would *us]>ect a pile of four dozen ordinary soup plates, llere is such a pile. There is nothing in the least sus picious about the top and bottom dozens, but the twenty-lour plate* in the middle form one deep vessel with two dozen pro jecting rims and when the adroit little ar rangement was seized this vessel was full of is uitraband brandy. A coffin dispatched from Marseilles und hearing a railway label lias a curious history. During the epidemic of cholera at Marseilles, two or three years ago, coffins were constantly passing the liarrinr* of tiiai city anil the officer* respect fully uncovered ns another coffined victim of the pestilence was solemnly wheeled |t*t on a handcart. The fear of infection lulled their suspii-ion* perhaps, tail when the cholera was stamped <>ut and still tie* coffins did not dinituUh in number, it was resolved to pluck out the heart of the mystery. The next coffin that arrived woe opened, and was found to lie crammed with chon si cigar* TviUapa the most daO-K w helm ter cheating the Parisian city chest, of which the museum contains evidence, was elabor ated by a gentleman who was in the habit of driving his elegant victoria every even ing past the barrier at tho entrance to the Bois de Boulogne. Ho was always aecotn- ] allied by a smart groom who slumbered peacefully upon the nox while his master drove. Shortly afterwards —sufficiently long to allow the gentleman to make the regulation “tour du lac”—the carriage would return; and the official became so accustomed to its passage that they ceased to examine it, and the owner drove back into Paris at a smart trot, courteously re turning their salutations with his whip. That smart trot was his undoing. One evening the victoria ran into a heavy wagon and master and groom were thrown out. Monsieur was picked up insensible, while from a deep wound in the head of tlie groom slowly trickled a stream of champagne. ‘The interesting menial was composed of zinc dexterously fashioned and j sun ted; and he has found a resting place in liis smugglers’ museum. The carriage was found to contain a zinc “well,” which was likewise full of champagne. India rubber dress improvers, arranged to conceal articles of contraband, have often been seized, while not the least curious exhibit is an india rubber baby capable of containing 18 pints of untaxed liquor. Hen Talk. From Wide Awake for September. As an example of bird-language, the or dinary domestic fowl presents the most in teresting and perfect range, so common that it is rarely considered or reflected upon; not a few will be astonished at. the vocal possibilities of the hen if they will give the subject a little investigation. Knowing that tho hen has a voice, we assume that its office is to afford communi cation between individuals. Half an hour in a farmyard will beyond question demon strate this, and that certain sounds arc the equivalents of words. Tlie crow of the cock is assuredly a challenge, the moment another bird is noticed, and is kept up either in advance or retreat. It is sounded in the morning in answer to others, anil is com parable to the challenge'or war cry of many savage tribes, or even the answering shouts of college hoys or men, that are unexplain able on other grounds than a challenge of merits. closely our rooster, accompa nied by his family, we notice that the hens pav no attention to tho challenge; but let him find some delicacy, he utters a suc cession of short notes, “Tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck!” upon which the others rush about him eager to share. Again, if _a hawk (lies overhead, the cock, guardian of the flock, raises his head and utters a pro longed note, as different from the for mer as possible; “Ka-r-r-r-e,” he seems to say, which, translated iuto English, means “look out for the hawk! run!” and imme diately hens and chickens duck their heads and rush for cover. Now let a dog dart af ter ilie head of this family, and listen to the clucks and other sounds coming fast ami furious—protests in every intonation. The hen cannot crow, hut she has in other respects as perfect control of language as her master. Indeed, she can sing; purely a self-congratulatory performance expressive of deep contentment aud complete satisfac tion, hoard when hens are let out and they are running for food, and upon warm days in spring it is a “kerr, kerr, kerr,” differing in its modulation and intonation in individ uals. How differeut is this from the sharp • cluck, cluck” of the mother-hen. The lat ter is a general warning to everybody, and plainly says: “I have a young family, and must he let alone.” If a grain is found how suddenly this is changed to tho quick call, “Tuck, tuck, tuck!” upon hoering which the little ones come rushing pell-mell; and they' un derstand it the moment they leave the shell. Indeed the different notes, or “l>aby talk,” of a hen are of great variety. No one would think of saying that the “cut, cut, ca-da-cut” was a call. It says as plain as words can tell, “I have laid an egg,” and the bright little egg-hunter who hears im mediately starts for tlie liny loft, as a favor ite bound of mine was in a liahit of doing. She understood hen language, and fed upon freshly-laid eggs for some time before I dis covered that she was such a linguist. The moment “cut, cut, ca do-eut” was heard she trotted to the beu coop. When the little chicks are nestled under the mother another sound is heard, a pro longed hoarse “c-r-a-w-z-z-e, c-r-a w-z-z-e,” which I copy from a happy mother in my possession without the aid of a phonograph. Enter a chicken coop at night, and a soft whistling noise is made, a gentle chirping by the birds, sounding something like “w-h-o-o-i-e,” rapidly repeated, that speaks plainly of apprehension. If a chicken is seized by the leg the “c-r-a-i-a-i-o-u, c-r-a-i --n-i-o-u” that follows could never lie con strued into anything but a wail of anguish. So if we commence a dictionary of the do mestic fowl language wo might have the following as a basis: Ur-kadodle-do-o-o. Challenge of male. Tuck. tuck. hick. Food call of male. K-arrr. Announcing presence of bawl?. Cut. cut, cadacut. Announcement of egg lay mg. Cluck, chick, cluck, (’all of young. Kerr. kerr. kerr Song of contentment of hon. C i ■a-ni :-:-e. Quieting young chicks. tr/i-n-o ,<- (whistle). Expression of appre hension ill olglil. C-r a-L-a-i-o u. Terror and protest at cap ttire. These sounds of course vary in indivi duals; that is, in the intonation, as, like per sons, no two birds cau utter the same vocal sounds. Tho Toad and Its Prey. From Nature. The accuracy of aim in the young toad is similar to the accuracy with which the young quail or chicken picks up a grain. A young chicken, having only Us head out of the shell, picked up a fly that lighted near it..’ And said Mr. Caithrop, when you con sider the nice co-operation of nervous and muscular movements necessary to this feat, you will perceive that the chicken must imvo l>eeii practicing fly catching in the person of its ancestry for thousand* or mil lion!! of years. But I once had curious proof that the toad is capable of improve ment by practice. Under a beehive I observed for several successive summers a toad watching for overloaded trees who tailed to reach the threshold of the hive. No sooner did they fall on the ground thau hesnnpped them up. But one day 1 saw he bad lost by some acci dent his right eye, and when he struck at a tree he lost his aim, and picked up dirt from one side of the liee. He wiped his mouth with his forepaw and tried again ami again. The bee generally managed to climb to the top of some little prominence on the ground and fly away ireioro tlie toad succeeded. The poor fellow was half starved and grew thin, but I oliserved Irefore the summer was ended he had learned to aim as correctly witii one eye as he used to with two, and had again recovered his plumpness. MKDICAI,. If a Dyspeptic will Take Sim mons Liver Regulator. “Up to a few weeks ago I considered my self the champion Dyspeptic of America. During the years that I have been afflicted 1 have tried almost everything claimed to be a specific for Dyspepaia in the hope of finding something that would afford per manent relief. I had a I out made up my mind to altaudon all medicines when I noticed un indorsement of Huiimon* Liver Regulator by a prominent Georgian, a jurist whom 1 knew , and concluded to try its effects in my case. I have ums) hut two tmttles. and am satisfied that 1 have struck file right thing at last. 1 felt its Is-neflcial effects almost immediately. 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Zephyr Shawls, hong Wool Shawls and Fancy Theatre Shawls from 75c. tip. If prices will do it we shall sell all the Blankets and Flannels that will be sold in Savannah this winter. We are offering Scarlet Medicated Twill Flannels at 85c.; worth 56c. 10 i Wool Blankets at $3 50; worth $5. White ami Unbleached Canton Flannel at (Kjc.; worth 10c. New Goods and Special Bargains in all dt*t>artmeiits. EC Iv STE 1 N*S. CLOTHING. UNTIE VAT FIRM. MEUKEN & ABRAHAMS, 158 BROUGHTON STREET, HAVE NOW A COMPLETE STOCK OF Men’s Fine Clothing, Youths’ Fine Clothing, Boys’ Fine Clothing, Hat Sand Furnishing Goods, LATEST STYLES AND BEST QUALITY. In onr CUSTOM MADE DEPARTMENT Suits made to order on short notice. PARTIES IN THE COUNTRY sending orders can have same expressed C. O. D., free of charge, with privilege of returning if not suited. MENKEN & ABRAHAMS, ir.B lIROUGHTON STREET. NEW YORK OFFICE, (150 BROADWAY. MILLINERY. Wg M il Oirs Mot I FALL AND WINTER. Krouskoff’s! Krouskoff’s! 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THE, Morning News Steam Printing House SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. THIS WELL KNOWN ESTABLISHMENT HAS A Lithographing and Engraving Department which Is complete within Itself, and the largest concern of the kind In the South. It Is thoroughly equipped, having five presses, and all the latest mechanical appliances In the art, the best of artists and the most skillful lithog raphers, all under the management of an experienced superintendent. It also has the advantage of being a part of a well equipped printing and binding house, provided with every thing necessary to handle orders promptly, carefully and economically. Corporations, manufacturers, banks and bankers, mer chants and other business men who are about placing orders, are solicited to give this house an opportunity to figure on their work, when orders are of sufflclont mag nitude to warrant It, a special agent will be sent to make estimates. J. H. ESTILL EDUCATIONAL. The Savannah Academy Will open its Nineteenth Annual Session on MONDAY, the 3d of October. Instruction given in Ancient and Modern languages, Mathematics ami English. Catalogues at all of the book stores. Office hours from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., commeno Ipj the 3Hth. JOHN TALIAFERRO, Principal. CHARLES W, BAIN, Upiv.Va., First Assistant. University of Georgia. P. 11. MELL, D. D., LL. D., Chancellor. r pilE 87th session of the Departments at Ath- Inn will begin Wednesday, October 5, 1887. TUITION FREE, except in Law Department. LAMAR COBB. Secretary Board of Trustees. WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE, Macon, Ga. THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL SESSION BEGINS OCT. 5, 1887. Location beautiful. Life home-like. Educa tion thorough. Health, Manners and Morals carefully guarded. The best instruction in Literature. Music, Sci ence and Art. Twenty experi*need officers and teachers. Low rates. Apply lor Catalogue to W. C. BASS, President, or c. 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Hi, 1887. f From and after this ilate, the city ordinance which specifies the Quarantine requirement* to l* observed at the port of Kavanuab, Gs., will be most rigidly enforced. Merchant* and all other parties interested will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine < irdmauce upon application to office of Health Officer, and are requested to keep copy of this publication. , From awl otter this date and antil further uo tice all steamships and vessels from or having touched at South America. Central America, Mexico, toe West Indies. Itaiy.Sicilv.Malta. Mar scilles awl the Guinea coast of Africa, direct, or via American ports, will be subj-ctedto Quaran tine detention and be treuted us from infected or suspected ports or localities, vU. : Section 9, Quarantine Keffutationn. captains of such vessels will bare to remain at the Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers and vessels from foreign porta not included above, direct or via Aniericau ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, will !• required to remain in quarantine until boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer. Neither the. nri/doi/w nor anyone on hoard of KWii Venn In will be olbnneet to come to the city or taint until the vemtli are innpected and panned by the Quarantine Officer. As tsirts or localities not liereln enumerated are reis.rted unhealthy to the Sanitary Author!- ties. Quarantine restrictions against some •til be enforced sit bout furtiier puolicauon. ' The quarantine leguiaiioii t squiring the fly Oat of the Quarantine tbit/ oit t'ennein nutljfctrit to detention or inspection ici l In- riaidtu tnftneni. 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