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Newspaper Page Text2 the soul, when the waves of trial dah dear over the hurricane den-, and the decks are crowded with piratical disaster- —O, what would you do then without Christ in the *hipi Take God for your portion. Hod for your guide, God for your help; then all is well; all is well for time, all shall t>e well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall never be con founded. But niv subject also impresses mo with the far: that whan people start to follow Christ thev must not expect smooth silling. Those disciples got into the s.nall boats, and I have no doubt they said: “What a beautiful day this is! What u snwo h s-a! What a bright sky this is! How delightful Is sailing in this boat! And as for the waves under the keel of the boat, why they oniv mak the motion if our li.tle boat the more delightful.” But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found teat following Christ was not smooth .sailing. So you have found it; so I have found it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would sav, if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth departure, then those men, tho disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St James lost his head. St Philip was hung to d-ath on a pillar. St. Matthew had his life dashed out with a hal bert St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten (o death with a fuller’s club. St. Thomas ■was struck through with a spear. They did not find following Chris; amooth Bailing. Oh, how they wore all tossed ill the tempest: John Hus in the fire; Hugh McKaihn the hour of martyrdom; the Alhigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters—did they find it mnooth sail ing? But why go into history when we can draw from our own memory illustrations of the truth of what I say? Some young man in a store trying to serve God, while his nznployer scoffs at Christianity; the young nen in the tamo store, antagonistic to the Christian religion, teasing him, tormenting him about his religion, trying to get him *iiad. They succeed in galling him mad, saving, “You’re a pretty Christiau!” Does that young man find it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Or you remem ber a Christian girl. Her father despises the christiau religion; her mother despises the Christian religion; her brothers and niters scoff at the Christian religion: she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her prayers. Did she find it smooth Bailing wheu she tried to follow Jesus Christ? O, no! All who would live the life of the Christian religion must ■uffer persecution; if you do not find it in one way, you will get it in another Wav. The question was asked: “Who are those nearest the throne?” And the answer came back; “These are they who came up out of great tribulation—great flailing, as the original has it; great flailing, great pounding —and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the lamb.” O do not be dishoartenod! Take courage. You are in glorious companionship. God will see you through all trials and he will de liver you. My subject alio impresses me with the fact that good people sometimes get very much fnghtoned. In the tones of these disciples as they rushed into the back part of the boat, I find they are frightened almost to death. They say: “Master, carest thou not that we per ish f’ They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in the boat. I suppose if we had been there we would have been just as much affrighted. Perhaps more. lu all ages very good people get very much affrighted. It is often so in our day, and men say: “Why, look at the bad lect ures; look at the various errors going over tho church of God; we are going to founder; the church is going to perish; she is going down.” O how many good people ore affrighted by iniquity in i ur day, and think tho church of Jesus Christ is going to be overthrown, and are just as much affrighted as wet e the disciples of my text. Don’t worry, don’t fret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggy inane covering the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the cavern and say, “We have captured him.” Gossamer thread after gossamer thread, until the whole front of the cavern is cov ered with the spider’s web, and the spiders ay; “The lion is done; the lion is fast.” After a while the lion has got through sleeping; lie rouses himself, ho shakes his mane, be walks out into the sunlight; ho does not even know the spider’s web is ppun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain. So men come spinning their sophistries and skepticism about Jesus Christ; he seems to be sleeping. They say: “We have captured the Lord; he will never come forth again upon tue nation; Christ is captured foi ever. His religion will never make any conquest among men.” But alter awhile the lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse himself and come forth to shak’e mightily the nations. What’s a spider s web to the aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair grapple, and truth will come off ▼ictor. But there are a great many good people •who get affrighted in other respects; they are affrighted in our day about revivals. They say: “O this is a stroug religious gale; we are afraid the church of God is going to be upset, and there are going to lie a great many people brought into the church that are going to be of no use to it;” and they are affrighted whenever they see a revival taking hold of the churches. As though a ship cap tain, with five thousand bushels of wheat for a cargo, should say some day, coming upon deck: ‘‘Throw overboard all the cargo;” and the sailors should say: “Why, ca tain, wnatdo you meau? Throw over all the cargo!” “O,” says the captain, “we have a peck of chaff that has got into this five thousand bushels of wheat, and the only way to get rid of the chaff is to throw all the wheat overboard.” Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw over board all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the sub jects of revivals. Throw all over board llocalise thoy are brought into the kingdom of God through great re vivals, because there is a pec* of chaff, a quart of chaff, a pint of chaff! I say, let them stay until the last day; the Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat. Do not be afraid of a great revival. O, that eucb gales from heaven night sweep through all our churches! O, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England, and Robert McChevne saw in Dundee! O, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton! I have often heard my father tell of the fact that in the early part of this century a revival broke out at Somerville, N. J., aud some people were very much agi tated about it. They said: “O, you are going to bring too many people into the church at once;” and they sent down to New Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop the revival. Well, there was no bel ter soul in all the world than John Liv ingston. He went and looked at the re vival; they wanted him to stop it. lie stood hi the pulpit oil the Sabbath, and looked over the solemn auditory, and he said: “This, brethren, is in reality the work of God; beware how you try to stop it.” And he was an old man, leaning heavily on his staff—a very old man. And he lifted that staff, aud took hold of the small end of the staff, and began to let it fall slowly through between the finger and the thumb, and he said: “O, thou im penitent., thou art falling now—falling from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that ca le is falling through my hand —falling certainly, though perhaps falling slowly 1” And the cane kept on falling through John Living ston's hand. The religious emotion iu the audience was ovorjxjwering, and men saw u type of their doom, as the cane kept falling and falling, until tl:o knob of the c uie struck Mr. Living, to,,’a hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said: “But the grace of God can stop you as 1 stopped that pane, and then there was gladness ail through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. “Well,” said t>>e peo ple a-ter the service, “1 guuss you had better send Livingston home; he is making the revival wor-e,” O for gales from heaven to sweep all the continents! The danger of the church of God is not in revivals. Again, my subject impressed me with the fact that Jesus was lied and man in the same being. Here he is in the back part of the boat. O, how| tired he looks; what sad dreams he must bir! Look at his counte nance; he must bo thinking of the cros to come. Look at him; ha is a man —h me of our bone, fl9h of -.ur flwh. Tired, ho falls asleep: he is a man. But then 1 find Christ at the prow of the boat; l hear him say: "Peace, bo still;" and I ses the storm kneel ing at his feet, and the tempests folding thir wings in his presence; he is Go-1. If I have sorrow and trouble, and want sympathy, I g > and kneel down at the hack part of the boat and say: “O, Christ! weary one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all mr sorrows, man of Nazareth, man of the cross.” A man, a man. But if I want to conquer my spiritual foes, if I want to get the victory over sin, death, and hell, 1 come to the front of the boat, and I kneel down, and Isay: “O, Lord Jesus Curist, thou who dost hush tho tempost, hush all my grief, hush all my temptation, hush all my sin!” A man, a man; a God, a God. I learn once more from this subject that Christ can bush a tompest. It did seem as if everything must goto ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; *the crew were en tirely demoralized: yet Christ rises, and he puts his foot on the storm, and it crouches at his feet. O, yes! Christ can hush the tempest. You have bad trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you —the sweetest child of the household, the one who asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the spade cut down through your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an only son, and your heart has ever since been like a desolated castle, the owls of the night hooting among tho fallen arches and the crumbling stairways. Per haps it was an aged mother. You always went to her with your troubles. tSho was in your home to welcome your children into life, and when they died she was there to pity you; that old hand will do you no more kindness; that white lock of iiair you put away in the casket or in the locket didn’t look as it usually did whan she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in tho home circle or in the country church. Or your property gone, you said: “I have so much bank stock, I have so many government securities, I have so many houses, so many farms—all gone, all gone.” Why, sir, all tho storms that over trnmpied with their thunders, all the shipwrecks, have not beon worse thuu this to you. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? Christ says: "I have that little one in my keeping. 1 can care for him as well as you can, better than you can. O bereaved mother!” Hush ing the tempest. IV lien your property want away, God said: “There are treasures in heaven, in banks that never break.” Josus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which wo will all have to run. The moment when we let go of this world and try to take hold of the next, we will want all the grace possible. Yonder I see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of death; all tho powers of darkness seem let out against that sou!—the swirling wave, the thunder of the sky, the shriek of the wind,all seem to unite together; but that soui is not troubled; there is no signing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, but he wenpsno tears—calm, satisfied and peaceful; all is well. By the flash of the storm you can see the harbor just ahead, and you are making for that harbor. All shall bo well, Jesus being our guide. Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; We’re home at last, home at last. Softly wo drift on the bright, silv’ry tide, We’re home at last. Glory to God! all our dangers are o’er. We stand secure on the glorified shore; Glory to God! we will shout evermore. Worn home at last. ON THE DEFENSIVE. Civil Service Reform Friends Arouned by Attacks of Congressmen and Sen ators. Washington, Dec. 14.—The opon con tempt many members of tho Senate and House exhibit toward the reform civil service system, now in its infancy, is having the effect to arouse many eminent and influ ential citizens, who are not politicians, in support of the established service, and they are taking active stops to prevent any repeal or modification of the law, in so far as individual effort and protest can do. The recent utterances of Senators Farwell, Ingalls aud Harris have done more by their bitter opposition to prevent any backward step than ativ arguments of Roosevelt, Lyman and Thompson could do, by thor oughly stirring up the advocates of reform. Henry Strong, one of the most prominent residents of the district, is among the fore most advocates of the reform, and is in a quiet way delivering some teliing blows upon the senators, all of whom are his per- sonal triends. In conversation on this sub ject to-day Mr. Strong said: “Senator Ingalls’ dread of an aristocracy of clerks is about as amusing as anything that eloquent and witty senator has over said. If someone were to propose to the large mercantile house of John V. Farwell At Cos. of Chicago that they should change every four years their immense staff of salesmen, bookkeejxirs and clerks, my friend, the senatorial member of that firm, would regard the suggestion as simply fool ish and unworthy of notice. “I don’t care to say anything further, except that, in mv opinion, no innn who shall openly proclaim, as rightly applicable to modern civil government, that most pernicious and corrupting, barbarous mili tary maxim, "To the victors belong the spoils,” can ever again be President of tho United States, or sttould be elevated by any constituency to any place of political honor and power demanding the self-forgetful intelligence of a statesman.” SUSPENDED ANIMATION. A Horrible Case of Premature Burial Reported From Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., Dec. 14.—A sad case of premature burial has just developed here. About a month ago diphtheria appeared in the home of a prominent family. A young domestio was terribly frightened, and desired to go to her home in the country, but the attending physician would not per mit this. A young child died of tho dread disease, and this, with the horror of the disease, caused the girl to take to her bed, and sho apparently hied in a few hours, and was at once buried by the authorities. A few days ago her parents obtained permission to re move the body to the country, and upon opening tho casket they were "horrified to discover that the body was lying on its face, the hair wronolied from the hoad, and the flesh literally torn from the lace and hands. Boiled to Death In Molasses. Birmingham,Ala., Dec. 15.—Near Union Springs, Friday night, Hardy Walters and his 19-year-old son were boiling syrup to make molasses. The boy foil iu the kettle and was scalded to death. A Negro Shooting Scrape. Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 15.—There a was a negro shooting scrape in town last night. The combatants were drunk. No arrests wore made. The two notable inter African explorers of modern times, 11. M. Stanley and Commander Cameron, are physically small men. They are, lu fact, what are called little. But both are very square about the shoulders and of elastic movement. Stanley's most striking feature is bis eye. The mau's power over his fellows is in bis glance. The st-adiness of his eye is quite imaited by the setting of the mouth or the brow. It fixes you, and bespeaks the character of its owner. When S’anley “found Living stone” hfs hair was browu and curly; when he set out to relieve Emin Pasha it was while scanty, and straight as bristles. So much for fever. TRE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1889. OUR FIRE-SWKI’T C ITIES. I A FIRE CHIEF TELLB WHT THEY WERE DEVASTATED. Wooden Buildings. Poorly Equipped Fire Departments and Inadequate Water Supply the Universal Causes. New York’s Danger—How a Fire De partment Should be Equipped-False Economy Deprecated Hints That Other Cities May Profit Ey. ( Copyright.) Ntctv York, Dec. 14.—1n the large cities of the United States, serious conflagra tions have been most frequent and destruct ive visitors. This naturally follows from the fact that ours is a comparatively new ly-settled country, and that in the marvel ous speed n ith which towns have sprung into existence, as if by magic, and then in creased in extent and population, a building material, which here is among tho cheapest, most available and most intlammable— namely, wood—has of necessity entered very largely into their development. The stories of Chicago, Boston, Galves ton, Seattle, Lynn and other American cities, vreli serve to emphasize the correct ness of these statements. Those charged with the protection of life and property from fire in New York ors fully awake to the situation which they fare, and while, with good reason, they hope that great vigilance and promptness will continue to avert an uncontrollable conflagration, they still realize that under an unfortuuate com bination of circumstances, such a calamity is by no means impossible. The old adage tells us that “An ounce of prevention is bettor than a pound of cure,” and certainly there can be no stronger proof of the thorough efficiency of a fire department than when it furnishes daily evidence that it is capable of reaching and extinguishing fires in their incipiency; for the worst fire, like all other things, must have had a small beginning, and if caught at tho opportune time a few gallons of water will be followed by a result which perhaps some minutes later whole squadrons of men and apparatus will bo unat.le to attain. The most effect ive agency for the prevention or extinguish ment of serious conflagrations is a thor oughly efficient fire department with au ample supply of water ready at hand. it would take considerable space and perhaps be entering upon a somewhat tedious subject to e nunci ate the details of organization and equipment essential to the proper make-up of a truly efficient fire de partment. As to organization, while much is in cluded under this term, nothing is more im portant ttian that the chief officer of tho uniformed force should be an experienced, trustworthy, intelligent, cool and fearless commander, chosen solely on his merits, and one who exemplifies in his own person the strictest discipline, and at the same time possesses the power of enforcing perfect obedience and respect from his subordinates. As to equipment, the apparatus, hose, ladders, and other implements, which ex perience has shown to be the best, should be secured, even where the articles are patented and high-priced, as is often the case; because while firemen may be ever so well disciplined, ever so prompt in their response to alarms, ever so intrepid in their work, if, on exacting occasions, they have not at hand the very best instruments which inge nuity has devised, together with every necessary accompaniment for using them effectively, they will surely fall short of accomplishing the highest results. It is needless to say that too much stress cannot be placed upon the telegraph ser vice being maintained at a point as near to perfection as possible. Fire departments of good repute aro usually treated generously by local authorities, but in almost every city there are on record glaring instances of greut loss resultant upon the false economy which denies to faithful public ser vants the very best means of performing well their difficult and hazardous duty. Up to date water, whether salt or fresh, to be thrown upon a conflagration in the largest possible streams, remains the best known means for its extinguishment. It is true that there aro certain chemicals which, properly prepared and applied, will quench fire more quickly than water, but the diffi culties in the way of generating them speedily enough and furnishing tnem in sufficient quantities, together with other palpable objections, have thus far, at least, told strongly against their use. The present water supply of New York, considered in its relation to great confla grations, occurring under unfavorable con ditions, is by no means what it should be, and in all likelihood, under existing plans, much time must elapse before tho situation can be remedied. The richest portion of the city stands upon a long and narrow island which is completely surrounded by an in exhaustible supply of salt water, and there is good reason to beliexe that, within the boundaries of the island it self, there are several plenteous natural sources of fresh water, well suited for Are extinguishing purposes. Under these circumstances it would seem that it were neither a very difficult nor a very expensive work to furnish Manhattan Island with such an abundant high pres sure water supply as would render it com paratively safe from the fate which has overtaken other places. The same remark might possi ly apply with equal force to cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and others with extensive water fronts. Somo years; ago, when the press was arousing the public to tne danger from fire which confronted New York city, owing to the inadequacy of the water supply, an ex periment was made by the fire department which demonstrated that, even under un favorable conditions, it was quite possible, within loss than an hour, to so arrange as to utilize the water of the rivers at a distance inland of nearly one mile. Should a devastating conflagration attack the city, this experiment might prove fruit ful of good results. Henry D. Pcrroy. Why Mrs. Potter W ent on the Btage. From the Philadelphia Press. As Mrs. James Brown Potter is about to go to Australia, very likely to remain there a year or two, and as there is very great doubt whether she will act again in this country, at least for a long time, an expla nation of her somewhat peculiar career for the last three or four years may now be made, without any suggestion that it is done for advertising purposes. Mrs. Potter’s father, Mr. Urquart, has just re turned from a visit to his daughter in England, and his manner and his conversation indicate that he is wholly sat isfied with his daughter’s determination and her pecuniary prospects. He has reason to be, because more than any other he is un derstood to have profited by her career upon thestage. Mr. Urquart was for many years a wealthv banker of New Orleans, who be came afterward involve 1 financially. Almost everything that he owned was swept away. The family was not only em barrassed, but subjected to peculiar morti fication on account of their previous social standing. Mrs. Potter then proposed to her father that she become a professional actress and thereby furnish him the m ans to rebuild his fortunes. This suggestion, her friends say, was at first opposed, and by no one more strongly than Mr. James Brown Potter, t ut the husband was in no position to come to the relief of his father-in-law, for aside from a sufficient income he had no other property than that which was to tie found in his expectations of inheriting a share of his father’s wealth. Mrs. Potter persisted and obtained an unwilling con sent from her husband. The authority from which I get this piece of news is a gentieman of high character and of abundant opportunity to know what he is talking about. He says that Mrs. Potter’s ventures thus far have resulted in hand some and substantial aid for her father, and that she believes after a career in Australia sho will have earned euougb to put him soundly upon his feet. TRICKS OF HOBSS ThADBkS. How They Play Upon the Vanity of Customers. From the Keu> York Times. One would imagine that a thorough knowledge of horse flesh would be the prime necessity for a horse dealer, bnt a knowl edge of human nature is far more essential. It is far easier to find a horse for a pur chaser than a purchaser for a horse. Grooms are often heard to say: “The party which belongs to the boy, *or chest nut horse,” and there is more force in the expression than might be supposed. The man who has bought a horse .which he is afraid te ride lest lie should fafl off, afraid not to ride lest he should be called a coward, and afraid to sell lest lie should be a loser, is literary the slave and not the master of the beast. It is he that belongs to the horse, and not the horse to him. During; the next month or two there will be many visits to horse dealers’ establish ments with a view to winter equipment id horseflesh. Dealers have now in their stables a stock of horses of various dispositions and aflicted with a variety of infirmities, and it is a dealer’s business to find a customer for every horse. Like the clerical tailor who told the voung curate that in a certain coat he would be able to hold any views he pleased, a dealer has generally one or two horses which would suit any rider or driver, but they are kept as a last resource. The horse dealer’s theory is that every man and horse has his little peculiar alitioj. Not only does he try to fit particvlar men to particular horses, but a shrewd dealer varies his treatment of his customers accord ing to their different dis positions. If a nervous man comes to him to buy a nice, quiet saddler he takes him to some far-away street, far from the elevated roads and noisy vehicles. The horse is given some soothing medicine, and the customer thinks him a paragon of virtue—a horse with whom he believe? hecau “live happily with forever after." He anxiously pur chases him at the price of equine perfection, for he could not have asked a fairer trial and he requires no conditions. A general smash-up soon follows, and the “sold” buyer eagerly looks around among his dear friends to find a purchaser for his prize. If the customer happens to be a recently graduated collegian, who wants to buy a nice, quiet hunter, the dealer takes him to a convenient farm in Westchester. Two or three steady horses are taken thither, and the collegian, anxious to go with the Meadowbrooks or Essox county hunt, to be in the fashionable swim, is given free per mission to try them over any fence he pleases. He may break all their hocks or their backs, if he pleases. Comforted by this suggestion, he perhaps rides them nervously over two or three gaps. Mild as is the ordeal, he has had what is technically known as a “liberal trial,” and he cannot afterward complain if the horse turus out a worthless hunter. If he refuses to “lark” the horse himself, and re quests that one of his men do it in stead, the dealer is tetter pleased. A lad is in readiness, whose special business it is to attend to this duty, in his hands the horses go over fences like machines. As tnedealer himself expresses it, “the manners of each are perfection.” At last the boy mounts a venerable screw, and throwing the reins loosely on its neck, he puts his hands in his pockets and rides over a small fence. With some practice this is not by any means an impossible feat on a quiet horse, and it has an immense influence on the timid buyer. The horse is satisfactory, and he asks for no conditions. Can he afterward grumble when the horse is lame three-fourths of the time, refuses to jump water, proves danger ous at timber, and drops its hind leg into blind ditches? The dealer’s method of dealing with a hard-ruling customer is quite different. He makes no suggestion about going to West chester or Long Island to him. The horses are only shown in a walled paddock. They are good-looking and unquestionably sound, and they are galloped round and round the paddock, or street, to demonstrate the ex cellence of their wind. The purchaser is much complimented upon his reputation as a horseman, and the dealer decares that it is absolutely necessary to supply so hard a rider with horses that aro not only per fectly saund, but also exceptionally strong and hardly in constitution. The customer finally buys three very good-looking horses, with great bone and power combined, and plenty of breed ing. It turns out that they are all as sound as horses ever are, but one is a ter rific puller, with a one-sided mouth and a tendency to swerve at fences. Another is a confirmed refuser, and the third, although an exceptionable hunter, is an incurable kicker at both horses and hounds. It is im possible to have a pleasant day’s hunting with either of them. But when the pur chaser complains to the vender he is asked if his nerve is quite as good as it used to be, and whether the dealer shall ask Mr. Gris- wold of the Rockaways, or Mr. E. D. Morgan, or Elliot Zborowski, or, perhaps, George Work, all fashionable men of the world, who would be able to make them go, if they would like to purchase them. Feel ing his honor to be at stase the unhappy owner of the brutes professes himself satis fied with them and endures his misery as best he may. Like other people, horse dealers occasion ally make mistakes. Asa rule, however, dealors are not very fond of female horse customers. The latter expect perfection, and fancy they have been cheated unless they get it. They buy very readily, hut they return in a few days, and, unless the dealers will take them back and refund the money, they tell everybody they have been treated infamously. If, on the con trary. the dealer takes them back, they give the horses such a bad character t hat their future sale is ruiued, or at least materially injured. When a lady has bought a horse she asks her gentleman friends their opinion of her purchase. Each finds somo fault, and the lady concludes that she has been terribly taken in. She persuades the friend who knows the least about horse trading to ne gotiate a retrade with the dealer, and a great deal of trouble follows. At first the champion is said by the lady to be “so very kind in this matter.” Ali she wants is to find a comfortable home for her ;pet, and she hopes that if you buy it you will be kind to it. It ends in this friend purchas ing it, often without a trial, only to find himself the possessor of the most perfect horse, according to his mistress’ account, that has existed since the original pair came out of the ark. Of course the lady warrants the horse to be sound, in every respect, but before long the accommodating friend discovers other wise. Ho grins and bears his loss, but per haps a chance remark about the investment may reach her ears, and then she will say he “behaved in a most ungentlemanly man ner.” According to the seller’s account there must be very many fine horses in the world. The past history of tho horse about to be sold, is one of unvaried lustre; his present perfections foam the subject of a poetical panegyric, and his future pros pects are dwelt upon with affectionate an ticipation; the virtues and good works of his sire, da n, grandam, brethren, and half brethren are lovingly narrated. No human beiug ever oujoyed such untarnished repu tation. Indeed, tho accounts of salable horses sur pass the lives of the saints. There are, however, horse dealers who avoid fulsome flattery of their wares. When they do con descend to speak of them, they speak confi dentially, and as if the admission of their perfections had been extorted unwillingly. They are careful to point out disqualifica tions in horses which they do not want you to buy, and when they come to tho particu lar beast they intend you to purchase they rather hint at than describe his merits. You are, however, completely assured of their opiuion of the horse by the very high price they ask for it. They converse much about irrelevant topics, and apparently feel more interest in showing you their houses than their horses. When at last a move is reluctantly made to the stables, the business is treated as a somewhat unwelcome but unavoidable duty. They seem to feel [that this also is vanity, aud leave the buyer with the impression that they sou and infinitely prefer reading the Bible with you in the back parlor. Yet, somehow or other, the buyer seldom find* himself mtrh better after the deal with a sanctimonious horse dealer. SEE SAW A BULL. FIGHT. A Baltimore Girl Telia How the Spec tacle Impressed Her. From the Baltimore Sun. A Baltimore girl, who faints at the sight of a caterpillar, turns green at the flow of blood, and is in every way of a most gentle and kindly nature, thus writes homo about her visit to a bull fight—the occasion being the farewell to Paris of the prince of mata dors, Louis Mazzautini: “At last I have sean mv first bull fight, and, I trust, my last. You could not have borne it five minutes, and I scarcely know how I did. “Imagine an immense arena, with 22,000 people packed in circles, while above inno cent little white clouds floated over an intensely blue sky. At times the tender hearted clouds shut the sky entirely off from all view of what was going on be neath in the arena, while frequent short April-like showers of tears (0 foil from them, and it is to be hoped soothed the wounds of the six enraged bulls that suc ceeded each ot er to death. The occasion was Mazzantlnt’B farewell to the Parisian public, which has made such a hero of him. Not only had fatted calves been killed in his honor in appreciation of the fatted bulls which Mazzautini had killed with such glory, but hats and handker chiefs waved, presents of gold, of silver, and jewels were thrown to him after his little speech of farewell, and flowers, iu forms of wreaths, bouquets, and hearts, soon covered the gore-stained ground. Of all these gifts the only one the Spanish grandee noticed at all was a simple bunch of violets. This he stooped to pick up, and kissed in the direction of the fair daine w ho had thrown it. His two valets raised the more valuable gifts from the dust, while Mazzantlni himself never deigned to even glance at the flch jewels scattered at his feet. "It was a wonderful sight, exciting past belief. I am glad to have seen it, for I learned something, but the one lesson com pletes the course. I’ll see no more fights. Hje orchestra played the music of ‘Car men’ as we came out, and I stopped to study the faces of the audience that but a few minutes before were in such extremes of ex citement, shouting and hissing when the poor bull, terrified and smarting, tried to save himself instead of showing the proper amount of fight, and I remembered that I too, at the moment had risen to my feet and rejoiced when a well-planted lance, which I thought was costing the picador his life, as he stood directly In front of the bull’s horns, pierced the bull’s shoulder just as he lowered his head to strike. Then the marvelous Mazzautini leaped over the head and stood quietly waiting until the now maddened creature turned on hiin with sufficient ferocity to satisfv the most exacting hisser. “Nothing can express to you the intense artistic aspect of the performance. One has to see it to understand the science of those superb men. They walk with the dignity that princss are supposed to have, in and out of the jaws of death —a leap not any higher or less calm than just enough to keep them this side of eternity. The little scarlet cloak, their only defensive weapon, and with this alone, they lead the inturia ted animal to the exact spot where they wish to kill him, and then kill him, not at any haphazard moment to save their own lives, but only at the signal given by the president. Iu Paris they do not kill the bull in the arena, but when the signal to kill is given, the matador’s personal danger is all the greater for not killing, as he must touch the bull in the vital spot above the head be tween the shoulders, just as the bull lowers bis head to gore him, thus going through the form, after which the bull is taken out by oxen and killed out of sight. Each bull, which is of a very high breed, belongs to some well-known Spanish seuor, and is worth a good many hundred dollars. But they say it cannot fight twice, as it must be put an end to; the honor of the family to whom it belongs is at stake by the way it fights. "A wonderful sight, and always shall it live in my memory how the artistic super seded the human side of it in my eyes. I had to grasp the smelling salts in one hand, for you know how I turn sick at the sight of blood, and to see those poor blindfolded horses raised on the horns of the maddened bulls made me turn faint for the moment, while the next I was fascinated by a won derful silence that turned life into a play thing. The costumes and all the tnise en scene are the most picturesque things im aginable. In fact everything is done to make it endurable. Fierce feelings that I never imagined I had rose up and took pos session of me, and I could scarcely realize my own lack of heart. For once and the la3t time I have seen this relic of a past barbarism, and I am glad to have had the experience.” The Pullet and the Lynx.—A Pullet who had been Roosting high and doing con siderable Thinking on her own Account went to the Fox one day and, with a Blush of Embarrassment mantling her fair Cheek, while a look of Determination was at the same time to be Read in her Eye, thus Observed; “Mr. Fox, I have come to you to Learn ho wto be Sharp and Keen. If you will give me your Rates per Term I will .” “My dear Miss Pullet," replied the Fox, as he wrung her Innocent neck, “you have come to the right party, and my terms will be very low for ca3h on the Nail. The first Advice I snail give you is to keep Away from the Fox.” Moral—lt is very wicked to play Poker, but if you must learn get some Innocent Old Farmer to Teach you .—Detroit Free Press. MEDICAL Catarrh Is a constitutional and not a local and therefore It cannot be cured by local ap plications. It requires a constitutional rem edy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, working through the blood, eradicates the impurity which causes and promotes the disease, aud Catarrh effects a permanent cure. Thousands of people testify to the success of Hood’s Sarsa parilla as a remedy for catarrh when other preparations had failed. Hood's Sarsaparilla also builds up the whole system, and makes you feel renewed in health and strength. Catarrh “ For several years I have been troubled with that terribly disagreeable disease, ca tarrh. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla with the very best results. It cured me of that contin ual dropping in my throat, and stuffed-up feel ing. It has also helped my mother, who has taken it for run down state of health and kid ney trouble.” Mrs. S. D. Heath, Putnam. Ct. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. 01; six for 05. Prepared only by C. I. IIOOD <fc CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. tOO Doses One Dollar SILVERYVARK. rrXEHAL INVITATIONS. FORD —Tee friends and acquaintance of Jin. and Mrs. Isaac Ford and their families are in vited to attend the funeral of the former from the resid-nee, 42 .New street, THIS MORNING, at 10 o'clock. MEETINGS. DeKALB LODGE VO. 9.1. 0.0. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock, sun time. Metropolitan Hall, corner Whitaker and President Streets. A full attendance is deslr and. as the new By- Laws will be submitted for adoption. The iniatory degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of U. H. McLAWS, N. G. Johx Riley. Secretary. CITIZENS’ SANITARY ASSOCIATION. Office Citizens’ Sanitary Association, I Savannah, Ga. Dec. 15,1839. ( A meeting of the Executive Council, Citizens’ Sanitary Association, open to all members, will be held at the office of tne Association. 7 Dray ton street, room 3, first floor. Citizens' Bank building, on MONDAY EVENING, at 8 o’clock. By order of the President. D. J. MURPHY, Secretary. MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. C. R. R. and Banking Cos. of Georgia, I Savannah. Ga., Dec, 4, 1359. ) The annual meeting of Stocknolders of this Company will take place at the Banking House, in Savannah, on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, at 10 o’clock a. >i. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the Company’s road to the meeting from the 16th to the 13th inclusive, and will be passed free returning from the 18th to the 21st, inclusive, on pres mtation of their stock certificates to the conductors. T M. CUNNINGHAM. Cashier. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements inserted under “Special Notices ” ieiU be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. GEORGIA 111 A* \R, DAKAR. The Bazar in aid of the Armory Fund will be opened on TUESDAY EVENING, Dec. 3, at 8 o'clock, and on successive week days at 1 p. u. Lunch will be served from 1 to 3 o'clock p. m. ; Refreshments will be served from 4 to 6 o’clock p. m., and Supper will be served from 8 to 1! o’clock p. m. The public Is oordially invited to attend. Our military friends are requested to appear In uniform. F. P. BLOOD WORTH, Chairman General Bazar Committee. SPECIAL NOTICE. Workingmen's Benevolent Association, and Workingmen’s In ion Association. At a meeting of Council held on the 14th, by a resolution passed in council assembled, you are hereby authorized to resume work on THIS (Monday) MORNING, 16th. By order of R. A. GOLDON. Chairman Council. D. T. Downing, Secretary. SELLING CANDY ASA HOLIDAY AIK VEKTISKMEN'T. Whitman's 60c. Chocolates 40c. 40c. Cream Almonds 300. 50c. Chocolate Nougats ai)c. 40c. Cream Peppermints 30c. 40c. Fine Mixed Candy 25c. 25c. Pure Sugar Mixed Candy 15c! Huyier’s former Superintendent's Candy, Crystallized Fruits, Ginger French Nougats, l’ignolia Squares, Egyptian Paste, Caramels, Pure Gum Drops, Bon Bons. Chocolates, Wafers, and Whitman's Genuine Buttercups. Cali and see fine display at HEIDT’B. TO RENT. THE LARGE, SPACIOUS STORE UNDER THE MARSHALL HOUSE, Recently used as Barber Shop. SPLENDID BUSINESS STAND. RENT MODERATE. FOR HALE. THE LEASE, FURNITURE AND GOOD WILL —OF the — HARNETT HOUSE, Which is conceded to be the best second-class hotel in the south. MONEY TO LOAN. Liberal loans made on Diamonds, Gold and Silver Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Silverware, Guns, Pistols, Clothing, Tools, and on almost anything of value, at the old reliable Pawn broker House, 179 Congress street. E. MUHLBERG, Manager. Highest prices paid for old Gold and Silver. DIVIDEND. C. R. R. and Banking Cos. or Georgia, 1 Savannah. Ga., Dec. 4. 1889. j A dividend of Four Dollars per share from the earnings of this Company and its dependencies has been declared, pay-able on and after the 18th inst., to Stockholders of record this day. The transfer books of the Company will be closed from TO-DAY until Jan. 7th, except from Dec. 19 to 24th, when they will be open. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, Cashier. ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS. Merchants’ National Bank, ( Savannah, Ga., Dec. 14, 1889. j The annual election for directors of this bank will beheld at the banking house on TUESDAY, JAN. 14, 1890, between the hours of 12 and 1 o’clock. THOS. G. GADSDEN, Cashier. TRAINED BUFFALOES. BUFFALO LITHIA WATER, fresh from the springs, in half gallon bottles. Sold by single bottle or case of twelve bottles. Send for cir cular. SARATOGA, CARLSBAD AND VICHY WATERS, UNDERWOOD SPRING WATER, —AT— BUTLER'S PHARMACY', Corner Bull and Congress streets. NOTICE. Neither the Master nor Consignees of the Norwegian bark CARL BECH will be respon sible for any debts contracted by the crew. ’ A. MINIS & SONS. Consignees. ELECTION FOR DIRECTOR*. Central Railroad Bank, | Savannah, Ga., Dec. 6. 1889. f An election for thirteen directors to manage the affairs of this company for the ensuing year will be held at the banking house, in Savannah, MONDAY, the SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY. 1890, between the hours of 10 o’clocc a. m. and t ~ o'clock p. m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the company's road, lo attend the election, from the FOURTH to the SIXTH OF JANUARY' inclusive, and be passed free returning, from the SIXTH to the EIGHTH OF JANUARY inclusive, on presentation of their stock certificates to the conductors. T. M. CUNNINGHAM. Cashier. BURST PEAS AND BEANS. Just arrived and still coming In, large quanti ties Buist Premium Peas, Philadelphia Extra Early, Black Eye, Marrowfat and all other varieties at lowest market price. Call and see me. Yours, E. J. KIEFFER, Corner West Broad and.Stewart Streets. HEAD THE FOLLOWING CERTIFICATE I have used Dr. Ulmer’s Corrector in my family for some time, and can testify to its efficacy as a great family medicine. For ladies I think it unrivaled. GEO. M. KNIGHT, Blandon Springs, Ala. Would not take St,ooo for the good derived from the use of Ulmer's Liver Corrector. H. H. KAYTON, New York. Recommended by prominent physicians, and awarded highest prize over competitors. Ask for ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR, and taka no other. Prepared by B. F. ULMER, M. D.. Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. Price $1 per bottle. If you cannot obtain the “Corrector" from your druggist, send your order direct, and it wifi bo forwarded by ex press, freight paid. SPECIAL NOTICES. SAVANNAH BREWING C’o.\ipV\ vT'“ —ON AND APTER— SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, We shall serve, besides our STANDARD PILSEN BEER, —THE DELICIOUS— MI'JICiIEXER HOFBRAC. PRICE @2 50 NET PER KEG. —THE— SUPERIOR BAVARIAN HOPS Of our own importation give the Beer a do. lightful Havor, and in combination with our CHOICE CANADA MALT, Makes a beverage at once wholesome and nu tricious. For family use in boxes of 2 dozen pints at 82- BAVA.YNAH BREWING COMPANY. Office 11HJ4 Bay Street Telephone 42. A CONSTRUCTIVE PERIOD ; A continual march of progress marks the present era. Homes, dwellings, buildings, edi ficus, from humble to the most imposing? are being erected daily. Substantial materiaTs’ are just as requisite to tne modest as to the most extensive builder. The house owner must watch his architect, architect his contractor, con tractor his laborers. Superficial structures can entail loss of life and property. DOORS SASHES, AND BLINDS are important items’ so is the PAINT, the PLASTER, the everything connected with a building. The moral is plan- Patronize a reliable dealer, get reliable mate rials, The SASH, BLIND, AND DOOR DEPARTMENT OF —a. hanley —- Is a specialty, so are PAINTS AND OILS. IMPORTER PORTLAND AND OTHER CEMENTS, BAY AND WHITAKER. FOR RENT OR SALE. Lot letter D South Oglethorpe ward, being Dwelling House, Grounds and Stable, at present occupied by James E. Moran. Possession MARCH Ist, 1890. Front on New street 208 feet, by a depth rectangular 198 feet. For par ticulars applyto HENRY BLUN. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. Southwestern Railroad Company, 1 Office Macon. Ga.. Dec. 12, 1889. f Dividend No. 72 of Three Dollars and Fifty Cents per share wifi be paid the Stockholders of this company on and after the 18th inst, Stockholders receiving their dividends in Macon wifi be paid at the Central Georgia Bank of this city; those in Savannah at the Central Railroad Bank of that city. W. S. BRANTLY, Secretary and Treasurer. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATER TJURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 19. Return of the universal favorite, the most superb of all spectacular musical extrava ganzas. Greater, grander, more gorge ous than ever. SIXTY STARS. RICE'S BEAUTIFUL E VAN GE LINE! / ’ F.O. K. FORTESQUE. Yolande Wallace, V* Peter Daly, Mae Branson, Jas. F. Maffitt, Ella Rock, W. H. Collins, Sadie Dargeo. Gus Frankel, Helen Smith, Harry Kelly, Ella Hazard, W. H. Mack, Maud Emerson, Jas. Finn, Ada Williams, Fred L. Turner, Robt. Watson, Arthur C. Pell, Conductor, and 40 others. New Faces! Old Favorites! Superb Scenery! Magnificent Costumes! The armor dresses used in the Amazonian march are pronounced the mod dazzling and beautiful ever seen on the Ameri can stage. Calcium Light Effects and Great Star Cast. K.-ats on sale at Butler’s drug sto. e Dec. 17. Next Attraction—Fabio Ratnini, Deo. 21 and 23. "printer and bookbidderT BUSINESS IS OPENING, And Business Men are needing their supplies of Office Station ery. Orders for Blank Books and Printed Blanks of all kinds will have prompt and careful at tention if left with the Old and Reliable Printer and Binder, 93 Bay. GEO. N. NICHOLS. PUBLICATIONS. “The Great Mill Street Mystery” New Novel by the Author of “Jacobi’s Wife.”. The Mornino News has ar ranged for the publi cation of the Forthcoming Original Newspaper Story BY Miss Adeline Serial ENTITLED lie tai Bill Street Mystsrf Weekly Publication Will Commenc® With the New Year and Con tinue Six Months. 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