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S SANTA CLAUSA CHEAT? iND OUGHT HE TO EE BANISHED ACCORDINGLY? {lla Wheeler Wilcox, Kate Banborn, Mrs. John Sherwood, Jennie Jane, Lillie Deverevux Blake and a Great Many Other People Say No—The Old Elf Deceives Nobody-Mrs. Lucy Parsons and a Lately Landed Immi grant on Christmas. [Copyright ] New York, Dec. 22.—Must Santa Claus ;o? Is the dear old fellow a mockery and a (elusion ? Do we trick our children with humbug ill they find us out and refuse to believe us orever after? Must we bow Kris Kriugle to the door cud slip the bolt on his cheeks like winter *pples, his twinkling eyes, his frosted beard, iis snapping whip for naughty urchius, his >ack of toys for good ones? Must we stop ho throats of the chimneys and cease to isten for the jmgle of the bells of the rein leer, all in the interest of righteousness? There ba those who say that if we lie in .bo nursery, we can hardly expect much •everence for truth from its inhabitants; hat when parents drop the fir st bits of ifiid they cannot blame the world at large for fouling the crystal pool of the infant nind. “What an idea!” 1 knew by the tone in which Ella Wheeler (Yi cox said it that Santa Claus had one de ler.der. “Don’t toll any one tint you saw my lesk in such an awful condition.” The desk was bestrewn with grammar iud dictionaries from a French lesson just inded, and t o sweeten the dry dust of learn ing a pretty little lad in Dresden china shouldered a a&ket of roses which shed fragrance over the room. In front of the desk a pretty little woman in a white muslin gown. There was a Mack velvet belt fastening the short Josephine bodice and a silver buckle fa toning the belt. There was black velvet tied about the plump white throat and mote velvet ribbon lacing the open sleeves. “1 behove in keening up the illusions an long as we car. We spend our lives out growing things. We have to outgrow the immaculate conception and the Trinity end all manner of other things. There’s no use In beginning toe soon. Why, I would rather *ee a girl go into raptures over every fresti inu taebo than become the cynic so many do before they are fairly grown. I belie red in the world thoroughly at 18,and I would .’t have had myself know then what I know now for a great deal. Not that I don’t be lieve in a good share of the world still. It has been a kind world and used me well. )\ think we cheat children often unnecessarily. I wouldn't te.l them, for instance, that ba bies are dug out of the ground or that the storks brine them, but I would let them en joy Santa Claus. I enj ved the thought of him w ith ail my heart myself, and I out grew the myth s naturally and so grad ually that 1 can’t in the least remember when I stopped believing in him. My sis ter had a terrible experience for a little one when she found out that there wasn’t any Kris Kringle, but I don’t believe that many children take the disenchantment in su h painful fashion. No, I pity children who have never had a genuine faith in the eif. I know from experience what they have missed.” Mrs. Wilcox professes to regard Thanks giving, the home festival, more than Christ mas and to do very little giflgiving, but there are divers and sundry struggling girls who could tell a different story. Her bounty has much in. re mystery about it tlian that of the average Santa Claus. She has often put money into the hands of Gertrude Garrison and otner women to he dispensed by them where it might make a happy fireside without having the faintest notion herself in what quarter that fireside might be. “Is tiie world resolving itself into an in terrogation point?” This is what Mias Kate Sanborn said when 1 asked her if Santa Claus ought to he abolished, and it did not seem to augur well. The rain was coming down in sheets and it appeared that I need not trouble myself about Santa Claus who could not c me to disturb us this year unless he had learned to swim. A tail girl in riding skirt and trousers plodded past cracking her whip as she went. If she could venture, so could I. The elevator boy had large hearted compas sion on my umb.eila. and set it a drying while I enjoyed the light of the flower shaded lanids in Miss Sanborn’s delightful rooms. “There is so much decision required of one. Somebody asked me if I wanted to vote, and it took me t,wo days to make up my mind. Then 1 decided that I did. But it won’t take that length of time U> declare my allegiance to Santa Claus. When Dr. Hall proclaimed war on Kris Kringle and Miss Frances Willard opened Are on the doll, then I asked myself, ‘What is this country coming to?’ “What a practical, matter-of-fact world it is getting to be! “And how it turns one’s ideas topsy tur vy. William Tell, they say, never existed, and Pocahontas was a very immoral sort of Indian g rl, and Henry VIIL was a model of virtue, And J udas Iscariot was no traitor, but wanted to devolop his Ma ter’s power. And now’ they find mischief in poor old Santa Claus. “Well, if one must be painfully accurate, a very Gradgrind for facts, of course Santa will have to go; but you ted the fable with a twinkle in your eye, and the little folks li&reu with an answering spark in theirs aud nobody is deceived. Wliy, I like to think of the dryads in the trees and gnomes down in the mires and Kingsley’s water babies in the brooks. You know Mut how Arnold talks of the dramatic instinct in the race which delights in myth weaving. Not trat one believes, but it is so pleasant to maku believe. I’d like to hang up my stocking myself on Christmas Eve.” exponent of the wit and wisdom of woman, who posesses so large a share of both herself, has a gracious and womanly presence, which takes one captive immedi ately. She is an optimist who looks on the brightest side of life, but just here her cheery face took a graver shade. “I’ve supported myself since I was 17, and I’ve learned that this is a world without much sentiment in it, which values you chiefly for what you can do to amuse it; but it has, after all, its grand throes of feeling. Christmas is sacred, though to most people who have passed childhood it is the saddest day of the year. One wouldn’t mind taking a sleeping potion and not wak ing till it was done. “But.Santa Claus! hang up the baby’s stocking and let’s come as near to believing in the elf as we can.” The umbrella still dripped and the wet streets w ere uone the pleasanter for the con trast with the soft yellow tones aud the profusion of artistic trifles in that oasis of a drawing room. At Mrs. John Sherwood’s there were more pretty things to look at; views of the Lake of Como, Aix les Bains, and other spots tantalizing to think of when the month is December and it rains and blows. Mrs. Sherwood was quite certain that Santa Claus never would be abolished whether, or not he ought to be. At Mrs. Sylvanus Reed’s the sound of a violin echoed through the house, causing one to exclaim, “Still thsjtcomi. the mus ical amateurs.” A photo of Mrs. Cleveland, the girlish picture with black velvet about the neck fastened by the daisy pin, stood on a little table,paving room for conjecture whether or no it were a relic of Mi>s Rote Elizabeth Cleveland’s regime and her favor ite picture of her sinter-in-law. Mrs. Reed has the most fashionable misses of New York under Iter care, aud she had no idea of numbering the days of batUa Claus. Jennie June thought that the reign of Manta Claus was just begun. When tho first came to the city, she said, bis authority was hardly recognized, In the hou os of the old Dutch families there were cruller mountains to eat down and cider ocear.s to drink down, but not much of the children’s Christmas as now recognized. If I were looking for an enemy of his jolly majesty, I had come to quite the wrong person, for Jennie June had talked Christmas aud written Christmas, and she thought that when she went to live in Rockford, 111., it was she who introduced there the custom of receiving holiday calls. She who lias not heard Jennie June talk Christmas has missed something. The difficulty is lam afraid she forgot I was there, and talked straight out of her own Christmas enthusiasm, “reminiscing” in utter oblivion of any listener. Under the circumstances I don't know that I ought to tell, but f erhaps you won’t tell her that I did tell you. She was quite sure in the first place that in a great heart-winning myth there could be nothing but good, and tuat Santa Claus was no deception. You might tell the children what story pleased you, but they would only look up and lisp “maiuma Tanta Caus.” “Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas,” she said, “without a touch of mystery. There was one year when I was quite a girl when I was staying over the holidays in the house of a lady who wa>- an invalid and who had gone away, leaving me in charge. There were only two of us, the servant girl and I, and I thought there never was such a dreary time. The girl had a lover and lie gave her a bouquet. That was her Christ mas. She gave the flowers to me and that was mine. I felt as if I must make Christ mas for somebody, but the only person 1 could think of was a little girl in a family I knew. So 1 had the servant bake a cake the day before, and I got up at 3 o’clock Christinas morning and carried the cake and the flowers ad prowled about the house looking for a chance to get in. I found ray way into the kitchen and then up to the dining room and put the things on the girl’s lilate, and walked back again before day light and climbed the stairs in the dark to my lonesome room. It was three months before anybody guessed where the gifts cams from. Then a son came homo and he said, ‘Why, Jon, anybody might have guessed it was you.” There was another Chris; mas story too pretty to leave out which slipped inio the air. “I used to know, when 1 kept house for my brother, a woman who w.is a saint. Who had when a girl a great desire to edu cate herself and she worked in the Lynn factories to earu the money until she was 15. Then her mother was taken sick and she spent the whole fund which she had so pa tiently gathered on doctors and nurses and medicines and in tho end, on a grave. Then she had to take up her burden. There was a ne’er-do-well father and a little sister crippled from birth. She worked for them, kept the family’ together and put by every thought of herself. When I knew her she was getting old and rheumatic. I asked her one da v, ‘How do you keep Christmas, NtiicyT She said, ‘I have never had a Christmas present in my life.’ I hadn’t much money to do with, but I bought a very large pair of stockings—she was a big woman—and I slipped one of them into the too of th other and filled it up with trifles, nothing of much value, but things to eat aud one or two pretty things. How I was get it to her without her knowing it was a problem. I walked round to her house very early Christmas morning on the chance that she might l e out. aud sure enough I saw her leave the house to fetch kindlings for the breakfast fire. I dodged in, hung the stocking, aid then out again. When she came back I peeped through theViudow and saw her find it, wonder over it and then drop down in a heap on the floor and cry. That was enough for me.” When Mrs. Croly remembered my pres ence—l am not sure that I wasn’t on the edge of crying too —she repeated her con viction that them was no harm in Santa Claus. Her family of little folks used to hang up their stockings regularly and each had in addition a cha rin the sitting room set out as a receptacle for toys. They would wake up at unearthly hours an I run out barefooted, and when she hurried after them to pack them to bed, they would coax her into joining with tjem. aud lor hours there would be pandemonium. She was in clined to agree with au ex-consul who ac counted for the saturnine Spanish character by the fact that there was no Mother Goose in the Spanish language, and first, last aud always she believed in his Christmas maj esty. “What ou ht parents to do if children begin to question ‘ls there a Kris Kringle?’ ” “Tell them the gif s come from a good spirit, the spirit of love, the same spirit that was in Christ aud that is in fathers aud mothers now.” Mrs. Croly, if I remember, wrote a story once about v\ hat Christ did and where he went on Christmas day. Here is a scrap of letter which speaks volumes on the other side. It comes to me from the west from a young girl whose family immigrated with me in the steerage of the Aurauia. “Santa Claus is coming to our house this year. We are going to keep Christmas became we are giad we have come to this land. The first three months are over, we are getting acquainted aud we are glad we are here. We wouldn't go back again for much. We don’t wonder it made you laugh to see tho sailors run up the Stars and Stripes off Queenstown.” Aud so Kris Kringle safe for another year. Eliza Putnam Heaton. REMOVED THE NERVES OF THIRST. A Man who Had Become a Wreck from Drink is Turned Over to a Sur geon who Ventures on a Bold Opera tion. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. New York, Doc. 15.—Drunkenness is the curse ot the land. It gets in its fine work everywhere. Riches cannot buy a way to escape its power, anil poverty is its best friend. Statistics show that it is on the increase, and tbe evil is getting to be so evident and to n fleet so many people and interests that the legislatures in every State will soon be railed upon to pai laws to diminish it by restricting in some way tho sale of stimu lants. It is certain, however, that no matter what laws may be passed to regulate the sale of liquor, drunken ness can never be blotted out, for the reason that it depends more upon a con stitutional condition than upon the quantity of rum made and sold, l’hvsicians who have made a study ot drunkenness do not agree upon itswcaime. It is Leld by some to be a Sjtecies of insanity, others class it at a disease of the digestive organs, and still others at tribute it tf> an affection ■ f tbe nervous sys tem. They are all right in a measure, and all agree that it will certainly end in death. It is hard to explain why an individual will sacrifice himself, bis family, friends, fortune, social position and hope of heaveu on tbe altar of Bacchus, with bis eyes wide open and in the full pos-es.ion of hit reason ing faculties. It is an every-day experience, and carries with it an awful lesson that is not heeded by those who have given it the most attention. There have 1 een various plans and modes of medical treatment tried to reclaim drunkards and restore them to perfect manhood, but iu most cases failure has been recorded, and it is almost true that “Once a drunkard, always a drunkard.” Drunk ards’ specifics are us numerous as leaves on a tree, but are about os useful in accomnlish ing what is claimed for them as a plalo of ice cream. Tbe trouble with them all is that only a few branches ai n lopped off w hile tbe root remains as vigorous in form as ever. In tbe case about to lie related it is certain that the root of the disease, if such it can lie called, was reached and a radical cure effected, though it is doubtful if tbe remedy will ever become popular Tbe patient is Oscar Tefft. Though only 35 yeurs old be has bad the delirium tremens several times, and when he came under the care of Dr. Bwoaeeyat Bellevue Hospital bis condition was considersd hope less, as he had got to the very bottom of the pit ot drunkenness. Hit cate prese ts a peculiar history. From his very birth he uas bad au abnormal desire for Quids. Hi* THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1888. mother, though a stout, rugged woman, was unable to furnish enough milk to satisfy him when a babe, and his thirst seemed to increase with age. It could not be quenched. No matter how much he drank, he wanted more, and the persistent taking of large quantities of fluid distended the abdomen u util it became ALMOST A DEFORMITY. He did not care for solid food, and would only take nourishment in a fluid form. In stances •>f abnormal thirst have sometimes followed severe injuries, but this case was certainly a phenomenon, and could only be explained on the theory that the nerve cen ters of thirst were enormously developed. While Tefft was yet a lad he got a taste for liquor, and from the moment that the first drop passed between his lips ho yearned for it. He had to be taken from school on ac count of drunkenness, and before ho became of age was locked up in an inebriate asylum at Fort Hamilton. There was a fair-sizad fortune handed over to him when he be came 31. It all went for rum, and he be came AN OUTCAST, PAUPER AND THIEF. He was taken from the tombs to Bellevue suffering from delirium tremens, and his peculiar thirst attracted the attention of physicians. All drunkards will bog and pray for rum, but with him it was the cry of a lost soul from Hades. Dr. bweasey has for a long time been ex perimenting on nerve centers, and has written much on the subject. In tho lower animals, by exposing the brain in different parts of the head he has been able, by elec tricity and other methods applied difiectly to the brain, to control the action of certain muscjps and organs, aud also to con pie tel y check for a limited time tho movement of the heart and respiratory apparatus. He recently discovered the part of trie brain which is intimately associated with the nerves of thirst, aud which controls the de sire of fluids. It was the result of an injury received in the head of a man by a kick from a horse, and is not necessary to bo detailed here. The precise location of this nerve center is ta the upper part of the back head above the occipitul nrotu! erauce. By irri tating this part of the brain in dogs an artificial desire for water was created, and the animal fairly asked for something to drink. When loft alone the dog’s thirst be came natural. The case of Tefft afforded an excellent opportunity to test the utility of the dis covery, but the situation was one that hardly rendered a trial justifiable, and it was only by practicing a certain amount of false protease upon him that his consent was obtained to AN OPERATION. He was put under the influence of ether after his system bad been toned up as much as possible, a id the scalp was removed from the skull directly over tho nerve center of thirst An opening was made through tho skull with a trephine ab ut au inch in diameter, and tho openi g was enlarged and made oval in shape with bone forceps. The skull at this point was easily t wice as thick as usual, and it gradually fell away to the natural thickness. This indicated that there had boon a great pressure upon the brain in this part of the head, and sim ply the removal of the bone might have re sulted in curing the patient. But it was too good a case to miss the establishment of a fact, if such a thing were possible, and in the interest of science the operation was continued. The brain was punctured close to the lower edge of the opening that had been made, and an incision was made around the territory where the nervous power was supposed to be located. The brain, to the depth of a quarter of au inch, was CAREFULLY DISSECTED OCT. The braiu rose slightly in the wouud, but there was ape oeptible hollow left. The wound was dressed with the greate t care, every atom of foreign substa.ice being re moved, and the scalp was brought into posi tion. Two fine b >ne drainage tubes were i sorted, and the head was wrapped up in antiseptic bandages. It was an alarming risk to take, but it is boldness and determi nation that brings success in surgery as in anything else. The patient was constantly under the sur geon’s eye. aud he took special pains to pre vent disease germs from coming in contact with the wound, and saved the patient’s life. It was a close calf,the chances ever against recovery for i Wee*. The result is even better than was anticipated. The patient not only does not desire stimu lants, but he has lest the idea of thirst altogether. He refuses to take food in the liquid form, for which be always had a preference, and eats solids with a relish. It is three weakfclfrape the operation. The patient is fast recovering strength, and while his system was so badly shattered by dissipation that he will never be thoroughly sound, it is certain that he will remain tem perate for the rest of his life. Mr. Ward McAllister's Substitute. From the Epoch. Col. Delancey Kane will assume charge of the 400 during the temporary retirement of The McAllister. He is a Knickerbocker, and enjoys the further undeniable advantage of being ricn. He is also popular, aud an adept in leading the german. He drives a four-in hand, but the manner in which he handles the ribbons has not escajxid criticism. He is, and always has been, a well-known figure in society, and he ought to make au admirable leader. It is understood that The McAllister has reserved the right of issuing invitations. CUTICURA REM EDIKS. ECZEMA CAN BE CURED. The moat Antagonizing, Humiliating, Itching, Scaly, andftßurnlng Eczemas are Curad by the Cuticura Feme dies, when Physicians and all Other Remedies Fail. I have been afflicted since last March with a Skin disease the doctors called Eczema. My face was covered with scabs and Hores, and the itching and burning were almost unbearable. Seeing your Cuticura Remedies so highly rec ommended. concluded to give them a trial, using the Cuticura and Cuticura Soap, externally. End Resolvent, internally, for four months. I call myself cured, in gratitude for which 1 make this public statement. Mrs. CLARA A. 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It only comes once a year, so we hope you will try and make it a happy one for all your loved ones, and we know of no better way to help make it happy than by giving them a CHRISTMAS PRESENT. /Holiday Goods, / [ Santa Glaus Headquarters./ Those Cabinets and Brass Tables ARE SIMPLY ELEGANT, AT LINDSAY Sc MORGAN’S. Come and make a selection from our large and well assorted stock of FIRST-CLA.SS GOODS IN ENDLESS VARIETY. Old and Young, Rich and Poor, Hard to Please, Easy to Please, People with Lots of Money, and Those with a Limited Amount, will have no trouble in get ting what they want to make someone or more spend A Merry Christmas or a Happy Hew Year. CLOTIIIXG. A MERRY UlllllU llllilU ! And Our Big Discount of 10 Per Cent. Continues. ' • ■ Ministers, Lawyers, Meehan-1 ics and Professional Men, | i Boys and Children, j! Will all find our establishment full of I useful and elegant articles for I Christmas and HOLIDAY PRESENTS. "" Smoking Jackets, elegant Ilandker chiefs, Fine Hats, Underwear. One of m our Superb Satin Lined Overcoats would gladen somebody’s heart Christmas. “THE LEADING CLOTHIERS, p"" B. I I. LEVY & BRO. MERCHANTS, mutufoetunira, nMtntbonk*. ooriKir.Uoo., aud all uthura In >ml or pnnttofr, Utboarapblm-. ud Hunk bock, cu n*c tfeeir ord.ru promptly nilrd. M modurot. pr,CM atth. MOKNINU NEWS imNTDiti HOUSE. 3 Wtutuker aur- st. JTUBT OPENED. 35 ISRABS EASELS. LINDSAY & MOBGAN. MEKCHANTH, maourociiirara, mcrchanlcs, corporation*, and all other* In ured of limiting, Uthotrrapbloir, and ilank hooka can have tbalr ordrrv promptly tilled at modcraw lir„T., etthr MORN ISo NEWS TtUNTANO HOUSE i Whitaker etrwrt. A. K. ALTMAYER Sr < o*. KITTY! 1 Christmas Sforj, Founded on an Actual Occur rence of Last Night. CHAPTER L Weary and disappointed. she had wandered from store to store, seeking in vain to sauko her slim pocketbook fit the macy wants which the season's demand called for. The cold winds pierced through her thin aud tattered garments, nut, brave little woman t. at she was, sue heeded it not. She had tried every store that she had been accustomed to trading in, and many others besides, but she found it impossible to make anything like bothen.is meet. Tom. dear. good hearted Tom, had handed her fll .V), his week’s wags* in full. “ ’Tta hard, Kitty,” he said, “but ’twhs all I could make this week. Work whs very scarce, and we had to divide it up.” So brave little Kitty had started out to settle her grocer and butcher bills and buy her “Santa Claus” presents for the little ones. And now, after sne had walked herself weary and foot sore, disappointment was indeed truly aeen in every movement. At last a sudden thought came to her. “Perhaps,” she said, “perhaps at that big store ou the corner they may have Just what I want. But, no! I have tried every where. and I cannot bear to get for one when I cannot get for all.” So mused poor Kitty, but a sudden resolution overcame her, and straight way to the corner of Broughton and Bull streets, to Altnmyer’s palace of bargains, wended the dear little wife aud mother. AT THE BIG STORE. CHAPTER 11. “Teddy wears No. Os,” she said, in answer to the polite clerk'b query §s to the size shoe she wanted. The price asked her was evidently en couraging, for sh** ventured furt her. She bought two pairs of stockings for sister. She had promised Willie a brand new pair of pants, and she got them. Her money seemed to bold out so well iu this wonderful store, she bought a necktie for her ewn dear Tom, a shoulder cape for grandmother, uuderclothes for Lucy, and a dozen other nick-nacks too numerous to men. tion. She counted her change and found she had fully enough to purchase a bonnet for her self. “So I can accompany Tom to church on Christmas,” she said. She started in the direction of the milinerv department, when she thought of Bubba, poor litt.e chubby-faced Bubba She bad said to him that pr'aps •'Santa Claus” might con e with his reindeer steeds and bring little Bubba his heart's desire, a drum, a real dium, just like the “BoomalalUes” had on parad* day. And he, poor little fellew. bad added in tiis evening pravers for weeks past that “Bod” would pleese be sure to tell Munty Claws to leave a drum for him when he can** down the chiinblee. She purchased the dr nn. also the bonnet. She bought numerous artl< I*a in toys for the little ones, and still h r money was not all gone. “Thank God. I came hers,'” she muttered as she passed out, her arms filled wit n bundles. “The butcher’s paid, the gi ocv's paid, and my darlings at home will Indeed have a taapoy Christmas, and to Altmayer A <|o I owe it all.” • Our offerings to-morrow will consist of a general slaughter in the prices ot all HOLIDAY GOODS! Basement. At figures which we have marked down our entire stock of TOYS, DOLLS and Holiday Goods of every description we believe that with purchasers it will be a game 6f grab as to whom will get the Bargain Plums. CATCH ON TO THIS A good Man * Silk Tl* for Stic. However, If A BAD MAN comes along we will let him have it for the same price. Our stock of Gents' Fixings surpaMCM by far anything seen in Savannah. A. MTJinT. Not a base ball muff. A real fur ons,considered a bargain at |B. We're selling 'em at 50c. A Little Whirl in Our Shoe De partment Ladies' $5 Hand-sewed Button Boots this we# >k 82 2d IkSdien' $4 French Kid Button Boots this week %2 90. Toilet Slipj>ers. Genu' Fine Vdvet Fmbroidered Everetts and Operas, 08c. and upward. Boys' and Youths' Velvet Toilet Slippers, sizes 12V| aud 8-5, 75c. HANDKERCHIEFS The most compete and lowest priced line ever gathered together under one root. Bee us on the handkerchief question. BASEMENT! Keep in mind the Baement, for in that section will tne greatest bargains be seen You can have any article in the Basement MONDAY at any reasonable figure. mm CARPETS, DRY GOODS, ETC. Carpels! fijffl Without Exception the Best Value Yet Superfine Ingrain at 50c. per yard; worth flOe. All-Wool Ingrain at 75c. per yard; worth 85c. 8-Tly Ingrain at 79c. per yard; worth 90c. 8-Ply All-Wool ibeat made) at 90c. per yard; worth Si. Tapestry Brussels at 85c. per yard; worth 75c. Tapestry Brussels at 75c. per yard; worth 85c. Body Brussels at $1 05 per yard; worth $1 25. Boys’ Suits. Boys’ Suita that were $3, This week's price $1 50. Boys’ Suits that were $1 75, This week's price $1 85. Boys' Suita that were $2 25, This week's price $1 75. Boys' Suits that were $2 50, This week’s prioe $2. Boys’ Suits that were SB, This week's price 92 50. Boys’ Suits that were $8 75, Tins week's price SB. Boys' Suita that were $4 50 and $5, This week's price $3 75 and $4 25. SPECIAL PRICES FOR THIS WEEK LINEN'GOODS. 48 inch White Damask Kotted Fringe Towels, 25c.; regular price 4<>e. 43-inch Loom Damask Towels, 20o.; regular prio* 85c. 46 inch Huck Towels, 25c.; regular price 45c. Full Size All-Linen Towels at 10c.; worth 15c. Special Bargains in WHITE and COLORED TABLE DAMASK; also, in FANCY IMPORTED. EMBROIDERED and JUTE COVERS. DOY LIES. TRAY CLOTHS; NAPKINS from 85c. per dozen upward in exteuslve variety. DANIEL HOGAN’S Blanket Emporium. SAVE 25 PER CENT. BY BUYING YOUR BLANKETS EARLY. D. HOGAN. PUBLICATIONS. PLUTOCRACY^ OR, AMERICAN WHITE SLAVERY. A POLITICO-SOCIAL NOVEL. By Hon. Thomas M. Norwood prick, $i so. FOR SALE AT—. ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT, NO. 21W BULL STREET. Mailed to any address on receipt of price. Address all orders to WILLIAM EBTILL, Bavammax, ChL CHRISTMAS PICTORIALS AT ESTILL'S NEWS DEPOT, 21 1-2 BULL STREET. Christmas Number London Illustrated Hewn $ 75 Christmas Number London Graphic 75 Christinas Number Yule Tide 75 Christmas Number Chatterbox 75 i hristmas Number Pioto tal World 75 < tiriHt asNumlterLe Figaro Illuatre. .r.. 1 00 Christmas Numlier Illustrated Paper 25 Christmas Number Life 80 Christmas Number Judge 80 Christmas Number Puck 80 Christmas Numtier M rror 80 Christmas Number Horseman.. 15 Chri t mu* Number Gulden Argosy. 1.4 Christmas Number spirit of the Times 29 Christmas Number Frank Leslie's Illus trated Newspaper 20 Address all orders to WILLIAM EBTILL, Savannah, Go. I'KLNTKK AMD BOOK BIN DUB. ORDERS FOR RULING, PRINTING, BINDING, OR BLANK BOOKS. Will always have careful attention. GEO. N. NICHOLS. PRINTER AND BINDER, NS Bay Street. STOVES. Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1888. Mr turn. Thomas, Robert , Stevenson tf Cos.: (i ENT*—The Gauze Door Range you put up in my school room a month ago, has done its work beautifully. For baking pastry 1 have never seen its equal. Cakes aim bread require little, or no attention, and in ats roast quickly with very Hr tie loss in weight. For the size of the range the small amount of coal used is marvelous. In fact, I think it too good not to be thoroughly known. Yours truly, Sarah T. Koser, Principal Philadelphia Cooking BchooL FOR SALK BY Cornwell & Chipman, 167 BROUGHTON ST, omciAL.^ ORDINANCE." A s Ordinance to permit the Noodle woman’• Friend Society of Savannah to erect and use an aw ning in front of the building of the society. Section 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and alderman of the city of Savannah in council assembled, that the Needlewoman's Friend Koe*ty. a charitable institution of the city of Savanna*!, is hereby permitted and authorized to erect and use lu frout ot its depot, on the corner of Drayton street and Chariton street lane, on the west side of Drayton street, in th city of Savannah an iron frame for use as an awning, to b covered with wood, tt*at shall be tinned, or to be covered with corrugated iron, provided that the right shall be reserved in th mayor and aldermen of the city of Savannah tc cause the removal of the said awning and framt in the event it shall at any time bixoma gen ms or unsafe too. 2. Beit further ordained, that all ordl nances and parts of ordinances iu conflict with this ordinance sre hereby repealed. Ordinance passed in Council Nov. 28, 1888. BUFUH E. LLSTEK Mayor. Attest: Fuanx fc. Krsareh, Clerk of Council 5