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2 THE FAITH CURING CRAZE CHIEFLY BENEFICIAL WHEN THE PAIIENT IS NOT VEKY SICK. Melancholy Experience of a Young Woman Who Was Made Insane by the Healers—Talks with Some Physi cians on the Subject. From the Few York Sun. Prof. William H. Thomson of the New York University and of the Bellevue and Roosevelt hospitals' consulting staff is also a writer on Biblical topics, and every Sun day afternoon he conducts a Bible class for adults in Association Hall. Prof. Thomson ■aid yesterday regarding the death by pneu monia of Mrs. Robbins in Remsen street, Brooklyn, on Wednesday after treatment by the faith cure: “In any inflammatory disease, such as pneumonia, I bqlieve that all the faith-em-e professors in the world would do a patient o good. Faith goes a good ways in the treatment of invalids, however, but seldom in any but chronic cases. If a child of mine should have pneumonia and I should call in no scientifically trained phy sician and the disease should result as it did in Mrs. Remsen’s case I should say, as Dr. Kpier did of that case, that whoever had charge a few days before the death of tho patient was responsible for the death. “There are two kinds of diseases,” Dr. Thomson continued, “acute and chronic. Acute diseases las* about six weeks, ami faith has little to do with their cure. I have known such a disease to be cured, iu the patient’s estimation, by writing a prescrip tion or some text or other on a yellow pa per and burning it I’ve known such dis eases to be cured by faith cure, but the pa tients would probably have got well any way. It is a question of strength of con stitution of the patient. Consequently, in healing acute diseases the faith cure is not a tost In curing chronic diseases lies the test of healing, and science only has been fouud to be reliable. “In fact, the faith cure is a craze, like the blue glass craze and the meat diet craze. Three of the meat diet patients came to my office, one day recently, nearly dead by be ing crammed with meat. These crazes last about eighteen months each, and we are in the height of the faith cure craze now. There seems to be a hotbed of faith cure disciples in Brooklyn. I could mention the name? of many wealthy families there who are firm believers in it. Dr. Spier has co 1- •ulted me several times with reference to patients who were brought low by faith cure professors before his services were re quired. One case is especially interesting and very sari. A young lady, the daughter of a wealthy man, became a convert to the fait h cure, and, indeed, her parents were cjuite bitten by it, too; so, when tho young lady asked her parents to let her go to Hor ton and learn the practice of faith cure in order that she might be the meant of good to others, her parents did not object. After attemling the lectures of a well-known in structor in the cure in Boston, for a time the young lady became insane. She was brought back to New York, and it is very doubtful if she will ever recover her mind. She seemed strong when she started from home, and I have not the slightest doubt; that the peculiar excitement was the cause of her insanity. “It is said,' 5 added Dr. Thomson, “that these practitioners of the faith cure lmxe their belief on the Scriptures, that God will answer prayers by granting the desires of the petitioner. But St. Paul tells us that he prayed fervently that his physical trouble might bo removed, and it was not. Per haps the faith cure people would say that their prayers would be of more avail than Paul’s. Aha' is th logic of their position Prayer is answered in God’s owu way.” A well-known writer on medical subjects and a practicing physician in tnis city said last evening: “In England a sect or society calling itself by some such name as the Healing Ba and started on a career of healing by prayer five or six years ago. but several deaths took place under their treatment.and theauthori ties brought the law to lx>aron the band and broke it up. As th sis a freer country, the art is culti v : with greater impunity. Tcere is i • doubt of the influence of the mini over the body, especially in nervous ailments. Ringing a dentist’s “bell has cured many a tooth che. Excessive fear pro duces convulsions in some persons. I uad a patient once suffering from a chronic com plaint, and he was persuaded, before became to me, of course, that if he w uld send a lock of his hair to a faith cure profess >r he would be prayed for and would be cured. He was helre-d tor a while, because lie mode every effort to lie better, but he relapsed. I knew a certain old fellow some years ago in this town who practiced something like the faith cure, and he hired a lot of meu to come with crutches and falsi' complaints to his lectures and prayer meeting. When he called on them to believe they were well and to throw down their crutches. The frauds did so, and the people marveled greut iy _ “There was a curious instance of what some people would call divine interposition in Gen. Grant’s case.” continued tho physi cian. “Gen. Grant was very low at one time, and when he believed he was dying and his family were gathered around ‘ the General’s bed, Dr. Sltradv injected some brandy into the General's arm. while the Rev. J. P. Newman prayed. The General revived, and lived lor several weeks. Dr. Newman insisted that the relief was mirac ulous. Dr. Mirady. in discussing the ques tion with Dr. Newman, insisted that it was the brandy. I thmk it was the brandy my self. The utmost that faith can do "for‘a man is to give nature her ow n way and to use the best human skill possible.” Dr. Janeway said he had never run afoul of any of the faith cures in his practice. Tipere was a certain principle underlying their practice, he said, which was sound. The mind certainly did influence the body largely, and in some cases the installation in the mind of the patient of a confidence in ultimate recovery reacted favorably on the bodily condition, and did considerable to aid nieili cation. “But,” he added, “these cases are cotn parativelv.few. The eutire question hinges upon a simole doctrine, and that is, com mon sense.” Dr. lauiiv Blackwell, President of the Woman’s Medical College, thought that in some cases of weak or foolish-minded peo ple the faith curers were liable to cause great harm. The regular physician met few cases of this in practice. !Sbe had had in her long practice but one. A woman w ith a cancer hail been apparently benefited by the faith curers. A year later, however, the cancer killed her. Some way, she thougnt. ought to lie devised by which the law could touch persons w ho persuaded suf ferers to forego medical attendance. ABOUT PIANOS. Advertisements in Public Performers ad Private Prices. New York, Dec. 25. —At least once in the course of every man’s life he feels called upon to canvass the matter of buying a niu sieal instrument,. The city man is Daturally inclined to the piano, the country man is di vided between the piano and the organ, and theorguu usually wins on account, of its lower price. It dot-s not follow tluit every mau confronted with this problem solves it by making a purchase, but a great many of them do, and of these the majority are sorely puzz>d as to what piuuo they ought to buy anti hov/ much they ought to pay for it. I suppose my advico has lieen a-ked on this ma i ter more times than I have been asked to lend a dollar till Saturday. It has always lieen harder lo give the advice satisfactorily than to raise the dollar. “There are tricks in every trade but ours,” is a favorite proverb among gamblers, and the tricks in ihe piano trade are numerous and difficult to fathom. One of them is in teresting an it concerns P public jierform atir-.v ot great player s . Waoha-not been struck with the broadcast ad i ertisuuc of the leading houses and glowing testimonials from noted musicians printed on concert programmes? Everybody knows that such people as Liszt, Rubenstein, Von Bueiow, and presumably little Josef Hofmann and other great pianists of the day, have lieen overwhelmed with gifts of splendid instru ments from manufacturers all over the world. A testimonial in acknowledgement of the honor is a natural and courteous thing, and many of those printed on pro grammes were obtained in this way. Hut this trick is much deeper than that. I talked with the manager of one of the most noted piano houses in the country the other day, and,for the benefit of a suffering pub lic I will transcribe what he said: “Few pianists,” he said, “get. their en gagements to play directly from the mana gers of entertain inerts. It is a part of our business tc secure artists a hearing, and con sequently the pianists make their applica tion to us. We keep track of all the sym phony and classical concerts in the country, and early in the season and at other times offer to the managers the services of well known pianists as soloists. The under standing is that the artist shall use our pi ano. We will not act as agents for any pi anist who will not ugreo to use our instru ment and none other. The artists, as a rule, are very faithful to tho contract, and i know of one mentioning the name of a fa mous and popular player who will not play even iu a private house to private and friendly audiences unless our instrument is furnished for her. That may he carrying the scheme too far, but it is well for us and we do not object. In this way we tree > our instruments constantly before the public in a favorable light. It is a good advertise ment for us that an expert player prefers our piano and will use no other. The fact is, that few players have such a decided per sonal choice bet ween the four or five leading instruments. It is all a matter of busi ness. “ And about prices. No man who knows anything ever expects to pay the asking price for a piano. There are one or two houses in this city where tne priee is kept steady at the asking figure, but that is only to prevent too great a trade at the head quarters. Our bulk of bu -iness, of course, is with the middlemen, and itisour policy to favor them. The result is that you cau do a great deal better than to buy your instru ment of the main bouse. A great many people do that because they then feel sure that they are getting an article that is all that it is represented to be. But as a matter of fact the difference in price is so great betwt en the figure named here and that by the middlemen, that it will pay any body "to go out of town to make the pur chase. For instance, you could go down to Kic.nnond, Virginia, dr to any city in the interi r of New York or Renn ylvani t, buy on • of our instruments there, and save enough mcney to pay for the trip, includ ing all expo ,sas ad the t eightage on the piano back to the city. You could even go as lar as Atlanta ami save enougli to cover the expenses of the i rip and a day or two in the city, There is another reason why we keep the price steep and stiff in the main house. Not only will there tie enough tra lo to justify it, hut the expenses of the main house are enormous, and greater returns are necessary to meet them. F. R. Burton. NOVELTIES IN CLUB LIFE. An Institution In Which Both Sexes Are Eligible to Membership. New York, Dec. 35. —The Drawing Room Club is a novelty m the club line that has just procured a charter preliminary to its blossoming out in this city. Its novel feature is that both sexes are equally eligible to membership in it, and a minor feature is its object, which is to promote culture, dis counteance vanity, have social reunions and raise a library and art gallery. Among its founders are a number of ladies and gentle men well known in our cultured circles. The growth and working of this high-toned club wil'i be watched with interest. In some respects it bears a resemblance to the famous Nineteenth Century Club, which has been in existence for some years, but which is a private enterprise, and has al ways until lately held its periodic il sytnpo siuins in the house of its millionaire foun der. This club bus a membership of both sexes, and it offers a free forutn tor the de bate of burning questions; hut Mr. Palmer has never tried to make it such an institu tion as the Drawing Room Club aims to be come, nor have its female members ever played any such part in its management as is to be played by those iu tnc new ven ture. The Twilight Club of this city occasional ly bolds entertainment* at which the fair sex are invited to participate in the feast and tho flow of reason; but the members aver that such occasions are totally unlike those at, which the smoking and drinking gender enjoys itself by itself. In the Lotos and Uniou League ciubs also, once in a while, there is a “Ladies’ Day,'’ when the gentle sex is allowed to get a glimpse into the mysterious precincts of clubdom: but this is merely an incident of a day which has no relation to the course of things all the year round. Hut no innovation upon the old-fashioned ways of regular clubdom has created such interest as tliut just reported from Phila delphia One ol tho high-toned clubs there has set apart quarters in its establishment ior the service of the wives of its members. These ladies are permitted to make the club house a place of rendezvous where they can meet their husbands, and, if if be so de sired, take dinner with them. H ie, for ex ample, is a married member of tne club dwelling in the suburbs and doing ba-ino s in t.ie city who desires to go to a meat re or prayer meeting: ms wi.e drives from her homo to the Hub, and be wends his way from bis place of business to the cluo, where they dine aud are ready for duty else where: any one can tee how convenient tho innovation is for all |ort ec And this start ling novelty, with all that it implies, origi nated in tuo staid city of Philadelphia, and in one of its swell clubs I Tne reports of it have proved quite entertaining to the an cient and saturnine w r horses of clubdom in New York. Yet if the thing w rks well and properly we shall doubtless, after a while, see it tried here. Aid then and thus many people can enjoy social intercourse and agreeable company at table with far less expense and trouble than it could be procured at their own house.-. This is the tavorable view of the Philadelphia novelty iu club life. John Swinton. The EonaparJ.es as Hosts. From the New York Mail and Ex ores.". The Bonapartes are famous hosts. Their dinners are leasts to please the gourmand, and their guests are always chosen with the tact and discretion that are necessary to make any dinner a success. In Washington they are "as renowned for their graceful hos pitalises as iu Newport, where they are al ways pointed out to anxious visitors as two of the most interesting figures to lie seen here. On the avenue they are easily to lie distinguished at u distance, for tlieir ser vants always wear the Bonaparte livery— ecru with scarlet facings—wli eh was at one time very well know n to France. Col. Bonaparte, himself, looks as little like his famous Corsican ancestor as one could imagine. He is a handsome man, unusually tall, with a fine ami well-develoiied figure and some thing iu his high-bml face that, without resembling ruat hero in the least, yet sug gests the nobler qualities of Napoleon. Not a man in Newport, the seasou through, is half so distinguished ia bearing, and it is little wonder that strangers invariably se lect him from the rest as tlia particular character whose history they long to know. Mine. Bonaparte is a granddaughter of Dai.nl Webster. To a Bostonian that is sufficient. No more is needed to assure him that intellectually she has noth n : to desire, and, fortunately, she has also the gilt of good looks, which iu Newport dot's far inoe ior its possessor than brains. Tall, large, aud oi a stately beauty, she makes a mo t fitting t o npanion for her husband, ad womd rule u nation as brilliantly as she nrosi'ies over her own salons THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887. RAILROAD STORIES. A Railroad Man Has Some Remarka ble Experience in the Line of Duty. ht om the New York Sun, “I was,” said the man with the wooden leg, “station agent on the B. and R. railroad for a good many years, and •everal things occurred there which were the talk of the line, aud which you may find interesting enough to publish. My station was both insignificant and inn ortant. While it was only a hamlet m population, it was a rail road crossing. While every train seemed to lie in a hurry to get away as fast as possi ble, all engines had to take water or coal, and various trains had to pull in on the long siding to let various other trains pass. “The policy of our . road was niggardly. The object was to get everything cheap and to work every man to the limit. My station building was little better than a shed and it, was impossible to get any repairs or improvements. I was required to act as telegraph operator, tick* t, se.ler, freight agent, switchman, chore boy, and all else, and did not have an hour I could call my own. 1 had a cot in the office, and was on call during the night. Let ’em sound my call while 1 was in the deepest sleep and in side of “0 seconds I was ready to answer. I should l.ave had a first-class assistant at my station, but the company would not permit it. I must cither do the v ork alone or get cut, for someone who could and would, and so I kept banging on month after month and year after year, always thinking about going, but never making up tv y mind to it. The situation was grave enough to keep my nerves under a constant strain. Train dispatching was not the art it is now, and if a regular got behind her time it caused confusion all along the line. "One of the queer incidents occurred after I had had tho station about two years. It was in the fall of the year, with a great deal of nasty weather, a id trains were con tinually late. The last passenger t rain on our road passed me. according to schedule, at 10:30 p. in. The next one passed at 7:20 a. m., and it was supposed the intervening time belonged to me. If the night freight was on time, aud if 1 did not get a call on the instrument, aud if there was no special on the line, and if a dozen other things did not occur, l could sleep from 1 i to 6. 11 may have occurred that niv sleep was unbroken five nights in a year. ’On all other nights t was turned out from one to three or four t ines. The night freight should reach me at 12:05—five minutes after midnight, She never left nor took up a car at my station, leaving that for the day freight, but made a stop of seven or eight minutes for coal and water. If there was a special on the lino, or if there bad been an accident, the freight might have to side track and wait, but such a thing was rare. “Asa rule, I was always asleep when the freight camo in, but somehow or other I knew of her arrival. I knew of it without waking p, and next ni >rning could have told whether she was late or ,on time. Twenty-eight minutes after her time a pas senger train on the other road made the crossing. This crossing was eighty rods above the station, and, while T had nothing to do with the trains on the other road, I naturally kept track of them aud knew- whether they were late or on time. On this particu lar night I went to bed at 10:45, and was asleep before 11 o'clock. At 12:20 I sud denly awoke. Tne night freight had not come in. 1 had been sound asleep, but I knew she had not. She was flit en nunutes overdue, and yet my call had not lieen sounded. This to me meant some sort of accident between me and the next station north, which was eleven miles away. lat once called for the station, but the operate r had gone. I ran to the door and looked out. There was a line rain and a dense fog. “Freight trains are seldom on schedule time, and I had known those on our line to be an hour late without worrying over the fact. However, on this night I was all worry. The rain and the fog, the crossing, the fact of my waking up as I had, the failure to raise the agent at the station above, these things made me terribly un easy. and at 12:25 I lighted my lantern, put on my rubber coat, aud started up the line on a run. I hail not gone forty rods when I heard a hissing of steam, and two or three minutes later I could see the glare of a headlight through the fog. In a couple of minutes more I found our midnight, freight —twenty-two cars and a big locomotive— and she was standing directly on the cross ing of the roads. I began to shont as soon as I had made out the locomo ive, but no one answered me. I pushed along the cars, climbed up, and found the engineer and fire man on the floor of the tender, arms around each other, and fast asleep or dead. At the same moment the passenger train on the other road whistle 1 for the crossing. “i am telling you, sir, that I lived a year for every minute in the next five or six. I knew very little about an engine, though 1 had seen how they were reversed and how the throttle was worked If anything was done I must do it, and do it quickly. It struck me that i must back up, and I flung over the bar, gave h r steam, and she be gan to move. The steam had run down and wo moved at a snai.’s pace, and even when I pulled her wide open, the engine scarcely had power to back the heavy train. We did move, however, although it was foot by foot. I could hear the roar of the passenger train, and I knew that every second was hastening a terrible calamity, but I did not leave the engine. Back! back! back! we crawled, and of a sudden a great light flashed m my eyes, there was a crash, aud I saw stars moving in front of me and disappearing into the darkness. What had happened? Wei], I bad backed the freight until the locomotive of the passenger train only carried away the pilot ns it crossed our line. That was all the damage done, and no passenger bad a suspicion of his narrow escape from an awful smash-up. “When the train bad disappeared and I could realize the sit uation. I began to in vestigate. I ran back to the caboose, but no one was to be found. I shouted and I screamed, but soon found that I was all alone. Then, climbing buck into the cab, 1 1 sought to arouse the engineer and his "fire man. Dead? No. Drunk ns two lords! > Yes, sir. They were drinking men, though the company did not know' it. They hiul I been taken off another run two weeks before, and coming down the line on this trip had brought a Pottle with them. At the station above they had reached the limit, and in their drunken deviltry had suddenly pulled out and left all the train crew liohind. The con ductor could not readily find the station agent, and when be did rout him out and get him to the office I was out of luiue, and did not answer his oall. The two men had let the steam go down, and the train had crawled down to the crossing ami bean stopped who e I found it. The men were by that time too drunk to stand up, and had grabbed each other and colled on tho floor to sleep. I was yet in the cab, trying to kick some sense into them, when tne con- I ducoor atid his two hrnkeman arrived on a ! hand oar, and after getting up steam we : got the train over the crossing to the 1 station. The two drunkards ought to have i been sent to State prison, but for fear of I tiie story getting into tho papers they wore : allowed to skip. “It was with this same night freight 1 had a startling adventure tho next summer. 1 had gone to lied and to.sleep before it came in. It was exactly 11:50, as shown by the clock, when I got u call on thi iu-trumeut, ami as 1 sprang out of bed I heard the operator at K , a station eighteen miles below me, clicking off, ‘For Gal sake slop and side track No. 9! There’s u runaway engine coining up the line!’ I got this by ear, you understand, and 1 gave him an't). K.’ as soon as be was done. In three minutes I was out doors and had my ‘Danger—Stop!’ signal set for the first time in month-, and ns I start 'd down the track with my lauteru 1 could hem- the rumble of No. i) as sho crossid the bridge three mi ex aliove. She was on time and booming right along, but it, was clear and the red light would stop her “1 snoiiid nave told you that there were only two tracks in front of the station. One was the main track, of course,and the other a long siding, with a switch at either end. No. 9 had the right of way at night, and in stead of side-tracking her, I proposed to switch off the runaway. I went down over the ties as fast as 1 could run, and just as I reached the switch I heard No. 9 blow for my station. While I was unlocking tho sw itch the engineer called for brakes, and then I knew lie bad seen the light and would stop. I pulled the bar ovor and then picked up my lantern ami ran back, reach ing tho station just as the heavy freight was coming to a standstill. My purpise was to run down and open the other switch, and thus let the runaway out on -the main track again, to run until her steam went down, but had scarcely moved a hundred feet when 1 heard her coming. It was then too late, and I stood on the platform to see her go past. She was truly a runaway. She had broken away from the accommodation train, which came no further up than G , and was coming up w ibh a fnll head of steam and everything roaring. There was gross carele suess i bringing about this accident, but it was covered up and kept out of print. We could hear the runaway a mile off, and we could locate her as sho came through the woods by the sliowor of sparks tl. ing from her smokestack. On she came, and as she struck the switch it secur'd as if she must go over. There was a clickety clash aud a bang, and she righted and whizzed past us lik a fiery arrow. “Weknew what would happen at the other end of the siding. There was a field beyond, and when the runaway left the rails she tore up a hundred feet of track, made splinters of a score of ties and plowed her way into the field for a quarter of a mile and tlew up. Had she encountered No. 9on the main track there must have been a ter rible smash-up. At the speed she was going the run way would have climbed right on top of the train. After the explosion I en tered the station and called for K to give him the news, but heeould not be raised. 1 could not get him until the usual hour next morning, and then I learned something which made my hair stand on end. He had not heard a word of the matter. He was not in his office when the accommodation passes!, and he had heard nothing from G . the statian above where the engine broke away. I then called for the agent at G , and it tur led out that at. 5 o’clock on the afternoon previous be had met with an accident by which ho had been inarie delirious all night. When they went for him to telegraph ab ut the engine he was in bed, and being held there by nurses, and they did not even try to make him understand what had happened. Asa matter of fact and record, no living band clicked that message to me. Every man on the line was examined, but all de nied it. I heard it, and understood it, and acted upon it. and it came from K . How do I explain it? I never could. I have Uad people teil me that it was mind telegraphing to mind, but you can take any theory you wish. I was called for in the usual way, understood fully what was being said, and hurried out to do what I have de scribed. The matter has been a puzzle and a mystery for years, and I have no hopes of a solution. “How did I lose my leg? Well, there was a mystery about that. Wo had changed our time, and a passenger train passed my station at 2a. m. I awoke one night at 1 o'clock feeling that the upper switch hail been left open by the freight train. I lighted my lantern and ran up th re, and sure enough it stood wide open, aud a death trap hud been set for the express. I closed it, and was on my way back when three ears which had broken away from the freight several miles away, at the top of a grade, came whoopingdoivn, and. in trying to get out of the way I made a stumble and got my leg under "the wheels. I dragged myself into the station and tried to call up the offices above me, but could raise no one. The cars were missed, and hunted for from one end of the line to the other, and, strangely enough, they could not be found. It was an odd thing to lose ears in that fashion, and before they got through searching meu walked over every foot of the line. It was six weeks before they were fouud. They had left the rails at a curve near a steep" bank, and had gone over tho rocks into a deep river without leaving a trace. It was as if they had been picked up and thing over by human hands. Being loaded with hard ware, they Li id gone to the bottom, hut the current rolled them along until they finally showed above the service in a bend. When hauled out none of the three were damaged a cent's worth, but it was a deal of trouble to get them buck to tho rails again.” M’GARh AHAN’S CLAIM. Thirty Years and a Fortune in Trying tojtstablish it. Washington Letter Sew York Graphic. While passing along one of the Senate corridors I ran across the most re markable of the great army df claimants at the door of Congress, Billy McGarrahan. For thirty years McGarrahan has been fighting for his light, or alleged right, to the Panocho Grande quicksilver property in California, which has been during that period, and still is, held by the New Idria Company. Ho tells me he is prepared to die on the spot if his claim is not soon al lowed by Congress. Senator Voorhees is smu to re-introduce his claim in the Senate, and someone not yet decided upon in (ho House. MoGarraliau says the mine has become considerably reduced in value. In former yeai s it bus been worth a clear half million a year, but now, he says, it is not worth over #106,000 total value. This great reduction in value is due to the fall in the price of quick ilver, and to diminished consumption. Quicksilver is used principally in the processes of silver smelting. Ever hopeful, the plucky Irishman says he will be sure to get his rights this time. Three times bo uas passed his. bill through the House, but lie bas always failed in the Senate. He de lights to recount the uames of the eminent men of Congress who in the last thirty years have becu bis friends and supporters. Among those are Morton, Hendricks, Beck, Garrett, Davis, Pitt, Fessenden, Bingham, Matt Carpenter, Montgomery Blair, 1, >gan, Tom Ewing, .lauics O. Bredhead, Luke P. Poland, Thud Stevens, Jumes F. Wilson, Garland, George W. McCrary, Pat Collins and Judge Nib.ack, Abraham Lincoln was the greatest man out of Congress who thought his claim good. But there has ever been a fatality around McGarrahan and his claim. Jlis opponents were power ful and had money. They cast the sus picion of jobbery around the claim, and of this, or at least of its exposure, public men are afraid. McGarrahan told me that the night before Hayes was inaugurated the slate of the Cabinet was changed at, the in stance of Aaron A. Sargent, then Senator from California, uud two or three other in fluentiai friends of the New Idria Company. Hu said that McCrary, of lowa, a g.ssi lawyer and the principal Hep biiuuu advo cate of the E.ectoral Com mi aion hill iu the House which gave Hayes the Presidency, was to have taken the Attorney General ship, and Gen. Charles Devens, of Massa chusetts a gentleman who imagined hiiu- Mdr a great m.litary man, tbo portfolio of War. in personal appearance McGurruhan is about the same as when 1 saw him tlrst two! ve years ago. All hough .V.J, he looks no more than 40. He is .‘tout and chunky with a pleasant, smooth shaven face, lilue eyes, short hair, and a smile that in a woman would be called very sweet. He always dresses well iu black, but tells m • ho is be ginning to get hard up. He made a good deal of money in San Francisco dealing in liquors and groceries at wholesale during tne gold excitement period, ami from Ins ac cumulation be is said to have been living ever since. When he Succeeds with his claim he is going to have a book written. He says it i. a romantic story, and one th .t. w.tli the disclosures he would muke, w< u and astonish the country. But he must, lirst, win his long tight, lie says he's going to do it—that he hasn’t sjieut ins fortune anil thirty years of his life in Washington for nothing. Boys’ Corduroy Hats 65c., Gents’ 7.5 c., at •Appel & Bell a ill’s, One Price Clothiers. WHY SENATOR BROWN SMILED. A Reminiscence ol the Tariff Inter views. Washington, Dec 3!. —Senator Brown, of Georgia, once seen is not likely to l>e for gotten. His long, yellowish white beard gives him a patriarchal appearance, and his placid face is as unreadable as the Sphinx. A larger man but one not less striking is Chief Doorkeeper Bassett, of the Senate, whose long snowy white beard gives to linn also the air of a patriarch. His face is quite as placid ami unreadable as the Senator’s countenance. The very marked difference between the t.wo uieu is that the Senatorial step is soft and catlike, and one almost hem’s the ‘‘purring” as ‘‘Old Joe Brown,” the richest man in Georgia, moves about the Senate Chamber. Now, on the contrary, though there caa be but little liffere ce in their ages, Doorkeeper Bassett's step is still springy and active. Not long ago when the deluge of New York “inter viewers” on the President's message swept >ver the Capital, Senator Brown and Senator Gorman happened to be in the Senate restaurant getting luncheon. They were at separate tables, but it seems that “old Joe was combining the business o f eating with he pleasure of slyly watching the Maryland Senator get rid of an “interviewer.” Mr. Gorman’s face expressed surprise, annoy auhe, and, it must tie said, disgust. O) course lie made short work of it, and then Senator Brown's curiosity led him directly over and ho asked, as he sat down with con fidential nearness to Senator Gorman: “What i- the matter, Gorman? You seem put out about something.” “Why, one of those fellows from New York, you know. He wanted me to tell him what I thought of t e message, and what iny views were oil the tariff,” was the reply, in a vexed tone, "Well, what did you tell him?” asked Sen ator Brown, stroking his long beard 'kith unlielieving deliberation and determined to get at the bottom of it by ferreting out the cause of the othor’s annoyance. “I told him I had nothing to say about the message or tariff at present.” “Well, I’m sure there was nothing in that to put you out,” soothingly commented the Georgia Senator. “I’d like to have put him out. Why, Brown, the fellow's first question was— well, now, what do you think he asked rue?” “Haven’t the least idea,” with full em phasis on the first letter o> the word “idea.” “Why, be began, ‘Senator Brown, are yon a Democrat or Republican?’ Think ot asking me such a question I” “I wouldn’t talk tariff, or anything else, with a newspaper fellow wno didn’t know enough beforeuand not to ask me such a question 1” Seven years in the United States Senate and unknown by name and of unknown po litical faith whs more than the Maryland Senator could stand. And to be taken for “Brown, of Georgia,” too. Of course it came out plump enough and with merci ess directness. There was a dead pause, but only for a moment. A smile more than slowly passed over Senator Brown's serene countenance—passed slowly down and lost itself in the iong yellowish white beard. Then ho said, with his deliberate, ministe rial condolence manner: “Gorman. I can tell you something much worse than that. One of these newspaper fellows went for old Doorkeeper Bassett yesterday and interviewed him on the tariff. Now, what do you suppose the fellow said when he got through with Bassett and went out?” “Oh, I haven’t an idea," replied Senator Gorman, brightening up with the hope that somelxxly else had been hit harder than himself. “Well, that newspaper fellow went out and said: ‘l’vebeen talking for half an hour in there with old Brown, of Georgia, and the ouly tariff he knows anything übout is the tariff of 1819.” Some Autobiographies of Congress men. From the Lewiston Journal. It is well known that the Senators and Congressmen write their own biographies that appear in the Congressional Directory. This fact makes them all the more interest ing. The statesmen are allowed in a gen eral wa v to say what they please, but thero are instances where the compiler of the Directory has to do some pretty thorough pruning. One Arkansas Congressman wrote in answer to the usual request what would have tilled a dozen pages of the Direc tory. He gave the full history of his and his wife’s families, the characteristics of his children, the names of the husbands and wives and children ot those married, and introduced several illustrated sketches or incidents in bear, nud bee. and’ coon hunt ing. He introduced a poem on spring writ ten by his second oldest son, gave the names of two young fellows, rivals for the hand of one of his daughters named “Pink,” and de scribed the distress she was suffering over the question of which one she should (moose. The compiler cut the “biography” down to eighfv lines. A Kentucky Congressman in his biography descnlied a stock farm owned by him, named the horses, and gave their peciig ees, records and prices. Another Kentuckian mentioned, among o\ ents of his eventful life. th number of lights he had been in. and gave descriptions of two, in each of which be had killed a man, mid gave the names of the men he had slaughtered. One Ohio man gave the number of sheep lie owned, the lluetuntions in the prices of wool in an elanorato table, and introduced a strong protest against a reduction of the duty on wool, all of which was sacrificed. A Congressman from lowa sent in his bi ography in verse, and very bad verse, too. Another from the same Sta.e stated that be was living separate from his wife, but in a detailed statement laid all the blame upon her, and appealed to his brother Congre s tnan to overlook the matter, and to the Speaker not to allow himself to be influ enced by it in assigning him to committees. Lining Your Face. Frovi Chambers' Journal. The art of "lining” the face to simulate the wrinkles of age, is one very imperfectly understood. Frequently does the uumteur performer draw a labyrinthine mesh work of thin, nark lines, which only convey the effect of a dirty face when seen upon the stage. The point to decide is rather how few. than how many, wrinkles to mark upon the face. A few broad touches, par taking more of the nature of shadows tha 1 mere lines, will oft n give an effect which would be destroyed by any attempt at a more minute treatment. The lin s should t.e made with nark red. not h.ack. An ordinary water-color cake and a small brush are the implements ueeued. The natural wrinkles of the face will afford the be t guide to where the artillcicl ones are to he painted, although, of course, they must l varied according to the character to be represented. For example, in marking the "ciows’ ieet" in too. outer corn -rs of the eyes a jovial expression is given by drawing tne lines downward, ad a serious or mournful expression by drawing them up ward. It should lurcher be borne in mind that if the light, is strong the lining will re quire to lie strong in proportion, but in pc; forming by an imperfect light the lining should be subdued ns much as possible. To Be Fjver Near Her. /Yom the Chicago Xeics. They were sitting by the open fireplace together. "Have you over,” she said, “looked into the philosophy of the Fast.” "Somewuat.” “And do you believe in the transmigra tion of souls!” “I think I do.” "Well, vvhftt would you like to be in the next life!” the flames cast thetr bright light upon her beautiful red tresses, as ho replied; "My darling, I should like to boa white horse." Long time she sat and wondered why he made so strange a choice. Lcbkuohon, Lcbkuchou, at Strauss Bros.’ MEETINGS. \oT I, F. AND A. M. A special communication of Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, F. and A. 31., nil! ba held THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock at Masonic Temple by request of the Masouic Lodges in the city to receive and welcome HON. JOHN S. DAVIDSON, MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND MASTER of the State of Georgia. ZERUBBABEL No. 15, CLINTON No 54, ANCIENT LANDMARK No. 231 and LANDRUM LODGES No. -18, F. and A. M., will unite with SOLOMON’S No. 1 in the ceremonies of the re ception and iu the celebration of St. John's Day. Ail members jn good standing and visiting brethren are invite ! to be present. By order of J. R. SAUSSY, W. M. Solomon’s Lodge No. 1. J. R. Saussy, Jr.. Secretary. OGLETHORPE LODGE AO. 1, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Tuesday) EVENING at 8 o'clock. There will be an election of officers for the ensuing term. Members of other Lodges and visiting broth ers are cordially invited to attend. JOHN S. HAINES, N. G. J. H. H. Osbohxe, Secretary. CHIPPEWA THimc AO. I, I. O. OF R. 31 A regular meeting of this Tribe will be held THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock .at corner of Bull and Bay streets. Visiting and transient brethren fraternally in vited. A. W. STOKES. Sachem. C. K. 31. Bernhardt, Chief of Records. SPECIAL -NOTICES. Jdverttsements inserted under ‘Special Satires" will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. ' AOTICK. The A npwal Feast for Poor of Christ Church Parish will be held in the basement of that church ou THURSDAY. Dee. 39, from 9 to 13 o'clock A. M. It will be under the supervision of the ladies of the Bishop Elliott Society. The members of the congregation will please send their contributions between the hours of 9 and 11 o'clock A. M. SPECIAL NOTICE. Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, 1 (Office Traffic 3lanager.) > Savannah, Dec. 23, 1887. 1 The. route to Florida via Waycross Short Line having been temporarily interrupted by an acci dent to the bridge at St. Mary's river, until further notice the service, both freight and passenger, will lie rendered via Live Oak, Fla. The regular schedule t rains w 111 lie run as usual, the only difference living that the time will be about four hours longer. It is expected tbat the damage will be repaired within the next four (4) days, when the service will re restored via Waycross Short Line. C. D. OWENS, W. I’. Hardee, Traffic Manager General Passenger and Freight Agent. APPLICATIONS Have Been Mode to tpe Management of “THE MENDELSSOHN CONCERTS” for tickets for “THEATRE PARTIES” of ten and more, aud for their convenience these seats will be reserved together. Others that contem plate going likewise would do well to hand in their names, to be entered on tbe SUB SCRIBERS’ LISTS AT ONCE, as the lists will be closed in a few dajis to allow übscribers privilege of reserving CHOICE SEATS, after which box sheet will be open to the general public for the usual prices. Lists are now open at Davis Bros.’ and Liidden & Bates’. Sub scribers will remember they get TWO FOR THE SI 35 (both reserved), one for the evening con cert and one for the matinee. DIVIDEND. The Brush Electric Lioht and Power Cos., I Savannah. Ga., Dee. 20th, 1887. f A dividend of THREE DOLLARS per share from the earnings of this Company has beeu declared, payableouand after January l, 1888, to Stockholders of record THIS DAY. SAMUEL P. H AMILTON, President. S. S. Guckenheimer, Secretary. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Augusta and Savannah Railroad. I Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21, 1887. \ The annual election for seven Directors of the Augusta ami Savannah Railroad, will lie held at the Banking house of Ohas. 11. Olmstead & Cos. on 3XONDAY. January 2, 1888, between the hours of 10 a. M. and 1 p. M. W. S. LAWTON. President. MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK OF SAVANNAH. The annual election for seven Directors of this Bank will be held at the Banking House, on TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 1888, lietween the hours of 12 aud 1 o'clock. THUS. GADSDEN. Cashier. Savannah, Ga., Doe. 11, 1887. EJECTION FOR DIRECTORS. Central Railroad and Ranking 0;. ok Ga., > Savannah, Ga.. Dec. Ist, ’.887. l" An election for Thirteen Directors to manage the affairs of this Company for the ensuing ye r will be held at the Banking House, in Sa vannah. MONDAY. the SECOND day ol JANU ARY, 1888, between the hours of l 6 o’clock a. m. and 2 o’clock p. m. Stockholders aud their families will he passed free over the Cornpanv's road to attend tbe election from til' list De cember to 2nd January inclusive, and be passed fro*- returning Irom the 2nd to sth of January inclusive, on presentation of their stock certifi cates to the conductors. O. CUNNINGH AM. Cashier, HIEFFER'S DRUG STORE, I have now on hand a very large supply and excellent variety of Cleveland Peas mid Beans, considered the liest in ilia market. Also. Paints, Oils, Brushes, White Lead, etc. A full line of Toilet and Fancy Articles for the holidays. Window Glass cut to order. E. J. KIEFFER. Corner West. Broad and Stewart street*. THE MORNING KEVVS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 8 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 equipiied 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 (he establishment to execute orders for anything iu the above lines at the shortest notice aud 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. 11. ESTILL. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR. This vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to tho 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 bottles Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D.. Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga. PRINTING. “ASWELLED IILAI)” Yes, Sir-eei Arid a jolly time on our Christmas Sprke. N \v if you're in business, listen awhile,- M oTI whisper a word and make you Bniiie, and get your Printing done by the STRAUSS PRINTING 00., 130 Bay street. Telephone III). IKON I'lPi-.. RUSTLESS IRON-PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE. J. D. WEED & CO. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH ' THEATRE. THE GREATEST EVENT OK THE SEASON. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF Miss LOTJISE BALFE, FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY—3IONDAY AND TUESDAY, DEC. 26 AND 27. Monday Night, Balfe in DAGMAR! Positively vour only change to see England'* Greatest Actress in America’s Greatest play. 31iss Balfe has po.equaJ in her great character of Dagwar.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Her splen did voice, admirable presence aud great genius fit her admirably for the part.—Louisville Cou rier-Journal. Miss Balfe is surely the peer of Morris, Cushman or Neil son. —Indianapolis Sen tinel. Miss Balfe is the greatest artist aud Dag mar the greatest' play ou the stage.—New York Herald. TUESDAY NIGHT. PLANTER’S WIFE, 3Uaa Louise Balfe. as Edetia Grey, Positively your only Chance to see the Greatest of Actressaa. igey seats on sale at Davis Bros, Dec. 24. Next At tract to —“Bbadowsofa Great City,” Dec. 29, 31) and 31. „ lr(T r R Es ~ - SAVANNAH THEATRE.' Lecture on Pope Leo XIII., On the Occasion of His Golden Jubilee By the Riout Rev. LEO IIAID, Abbot O. S. B, Preceded by a Musieale given by Local Talent. December 28th, 1887, at 8 O'clock, P. M. RECEPTION CO3IMITTEE: J. B. Read. Chairman; J. .1. McDonough, J. O'Brien, A. McCormick. J E. Grady. W. L. Cor bett. 11. Uliin. W. A. McCarthy, John Lyons, P. Reilly, W. F. Reid, A. Hanley, E. J. Kennedy, Wm. Keltoe. L. E. McCarthy, A. J. O'Hara, M. O’Brien. 31. Cooley, J. F. Brooks. TUos. Daniel*. Reserved seats may lie secured at Davis Bros'. Tickets can be obtained from the members of the Reception Committee, at Fernandez' Cigar Store, and Connor’s Book Store. The proceeds of tbe Lecture and Yfusieale will be for the benefit of the Church of the Sacred Heart. —————■———————————— DRY GOODS, XXL. toll & Dim, Successors to B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET, WILL OFFER At An Extraordinary Reduction THE REMAINDER OF THEIR STOCK OF Ladies’, Misses’ and Gentlemen’s White and Seariet, Vlerino and All-Wool Underwear. Jlisses’ Plain and Ribbed Black and Colored Hose. Ladles' Unbleached Black and Colored Cotton Hose. Ladies' Black Lisle and Silk Hose. Gentlemen's British, Balbriggan and French Half Hose, in Unbleached and Colored. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Linen Collars and Cuffs. Ladies' and Gentlemen'sWhlteandColored Bor dered Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs. White and Colored Silk Handkerchiefs. I COLGATE’S EXTRACTS i TOILET SOAPS. We have just received a complete assortment, of Colgate's Celebrated Extracts, Toilet Soaps, Powder and Vaselines. Telephone No. 401. CROIIAX l- DOONER. CON FECTIONS. IMPORTED CONFECTIONS IN HANDSOME BOXES. Elegant Baskets of Perfumery. Whitman's! TystaUized Fruitsandother Candies in one aud five-pound boxes. Stuffed Primes. Layer Figs and Dates. I.aver Pecans and other Nuts, all new. Preserves In every form. Park & Tilforri's Imported Cigars. All these goods very desirable for Holiday Presents. A. M. & C. W. WEST’S. FINE L 1 XI; OF Beusdorp’s aud Wright & Rich's Chocolates and Whit man’s Confectionery —AT— Msf’s Dri Store. Comer Whitaker and Wayne. f vnm.Kßv. etc. MIISIIAN SADDLM C 4 187 BROUGHTON ST UNDER TURNER HALL, HANITACTURERS & DEALERS LN ALL KINDS Of Mm, Harness, Wls, HORSE CLOTHING, ETC. A FULL LINE OF Scotch. Irish and Concord Team Collars, We v, ill duplicate any Northern or Weaiorr. bill of hand-made Harness aud warrant satis faction. 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