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have faith to believe that those which are
■till in prosecution will come to as fav_ Ta
ble a conclusion. The great systems or er
ror ar • falling b fore these discoveries,
which have only demonstrated the trutri of
the Bible, and so re-enforced Christianity.
Mohammedanism and paganism in their ten
thousand forms have been proved false,
and bv great natural laws shown to
be impositions. Buried cities have
been exhumed, and the truth of Godfound
written on their coffin-il ls. Bartlett. Rob
inson, and Layard have been not more the
apostles of science tnan the apostles of reli
gion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have
opened to preach the gospel. Expeditions
have been fitted out for Palestine, and ex
plorers have come back to say that they
have found among mountains, and among
ruins, and on the shore of waters. Using
and 'undying evidences of our glorious
Christianity. ,
Men who have gone to Palestine infidels
have come back Christians. They who were
blind and deaf to the truth at home have
seemed to see Christ again preaching upon
Olivet, and have beheld in vivid imagina
tion the Son of Rod again walking the
hills about Jerusalem. Caviglia once re
jected the truth, but afterward said: “I
came to Egypt, and the scriptures and the
Syramids converted me.*’ When 1 was in
levrout, Syria, last December, our beloved
American missionary, Rev. Dr. Jessup,
toid me of his friend who met a skeptic at
Joppa, the seaport of Jerusalem, and the
unbeliever said to his friend: “I am going
into the holy laud to show up the
follv of the Christian religion. I am
going to visit all the so-called ‘sacred
places, and write them up, and show the
world that the New Testament Is an impo
sition upon the world's credulity.” Months
after, Dr. Jessup’s friend met the skeptic at
Beyrout, after be had completed his jour
ney through the Holy Land. “Well, how
is it r said the aforesaid gentleman to the
skeptic. The answer was: “I have seen it
all. and I tell you the Bible is true! Yos, it
is all true!” The man who went to destroy
came back to defend. After what I myself
saw during my recent absence, X con
clude that anyone who can go
through the Holy Land and remain
an unbeliever, is either a bud
man or an imbecile. God employed men to
write the Bible, but he took many of the
same truths which they recorded and with
his own almighty hand he gouged them into
the rocks and drove them down into dismal
depths and, as documents are put in the
corner-stone of a temple, so in the very
foundation of the earth he folded up and
placed the raoords of heavenly truth. The
earth's corner-stoue was laid, like that of
other sacred edifices, in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghist. The author of revelation, standing
among the great strata, looked upon Moses
and said, “Let us record for future ages
the world’s history; you write it there on
papyrus; I will write it here on the bould
ers.”
Again, nature offers an invaluable contri
bution to Christianity by the illustration
she makes of divine truth. The inspired
writers sized upon the advantages offered
by the natural world. Trees and rivers
and elands and rocks broke forth into holy
and enthusiastic utterances. Would Christ
set forth tbe strength of faith, he points to
tbe sycamore, whose roots spread out, and
strike down and clinch themselves amid
great depths of earth, and he said that faith
was strong enough to tear that up by the
roots.
At Hawarden, England, Mr. Gladstone,
while showing me his trees during a pro
longed walk through his mag lficent park,
pointed out a sycamore, and with a wave
of the hand said. “In your visit to the Holy
Land did you see any sycamore more im
pressive than that!' I confessed that I had
not. It branches were not more remark
able than its roots. It was to such a
t ee as that Jars* pointed when he would
illustrate Hoe power of faith. “Ye
wifte i*T rsasa tbe sycamore tree. 'Be thou
pirn- Lai tip by lie rc*: and be tbou oast in
ti tie sag tut it w-nod c4ey you.” Ore
rtnmoL why Ohrißi has fasotesAea tbe world
■a no cither teacher,, a tiecante instead of
using Btwßre a' gumaui be was a. wav* teil
.tne Lev komeLbiug m the sr.L-'-tuai world
vac like unto something in the natural
Ot these vcaiAerfnl “Lies' cif our
laori 1 .ike u grab c 4 mustard seed' Lika
a treasure 113 m a fiaii Ld.ee a mercua t
seek}ng "o: r -ioata. Like m.o a net that
was cast inti tbe sea. Like onto a hoose
holder
Would Car s; teach the precision with
•which he >• its after you, he says he counts
the hairs ivo ir head. Well, that is a long
and tedious count if the b ad have the
average e dowm r.t. It has been found
that if the hairs of the head be black there
are about L&MJOO, or if they be flaxen there
are about 140,000. Bat God knows the
exae number: "The hairs of your head
are all numbered.” Would Christ impress
us with the divine watchfulness and care,
he speaks of the sparrows that were a
nuisance ia those times. They
were caught by the thousands in the
net. They were thin and scrawny, and
had comparatively no meat on their
bocies. They seemed almost valueless,
whether living or dead. Now, argues
Christ, if my father takes care of them will
be not take care of you? Christ would have
tbe Christian despondent over his slowness
of religious devel jpmont go to his corn field
for a lesson. He watches first the green
shoot pressing up through the clods, grad
ually strengthening into a stalk, and last of
all the husk swelling out with the pressure
of the corn: “First the blade, then the ear,
after that the full corn iu the ear.”
Would David set forth the freshness and
beauty of geuuine Christian character—he
sees an eagle starting from its nest just
after the moulting season, its old feathers
ehed and its wings and breast decked with
sew down and plumes, its body as finely
feathered as that of her young ones just be
ginning to try the speed of their wings.
Thus rejuvenated and replumed is the
Christian’s faith and hope by every season
of communion with God. “Thy youth is
renewed like the eagle’s.” Would Solomon
represent the annoyance of a contentious
woman's tongue, he points to the leakage in
the top of his house or tent, where, through
out the stormy day, the water comes
through, falling upon the floor—drip! drip!
drip! And he says: “A continual
dripping in a very rainy day and a conten
tious woman are alike.” Would Christ set
forth the character of those who make great
profession of piety, but have no fruit, he
compares them to barren fig trees, which
have very large and showy leaves, and
nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate
deceitful friendships, be speaks of brooks in
those climes, th ;t wind about iu different
directions, and dry up when you drink out
of them: “My brethren have dealt deceit
fully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks
they pass away.” David, when he would
impress us with the despondency into
which he had sunk, compares it to a quag
mire of those regions, through which he
had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but
sunk in up to his neck, and he cried, “I
sink in deep mire where there
is no standing.” Would Habakkuk
set forth the capacity which
God give.s the good man to walk safely
amid the wildest perils, he points to the
wild animal called the hind walking over
slippery rocks, and leaping from wild crag
to wild crag, by the peculiar make of its
hoofs able calmly to sustain itself in the
most dangerous places. “The Lord God is
my strength, and he will make my feet like
hind’s feet.”
Job makes all natural objects’pay tribute
to the royalty of his book. As you go
through some chapters of Job you feel as if
it were a bright spring morning, and, as
you see the glittering drops from the grass
under vour feet, you say with that patri
ut'ch, “V ho hath begotten the drops of the
dee ?” And now, as you read on, you seem
in the silent midnight to” behold
the waving of a great light upon your
path, and you look un to find it the
aurora liorealis, wh ch Job described so
long ago as “the bright light in the clouds
and the splendor that eometh out of the
nortL. As you read on, there is darkness
hur img in the heavens, aud the showers
break loose till the birds fly for hiding
pnace and the mouniaia t Treats in red fury
foam over tbe rocky shelving; and with the
same poet, you exclaim, “Who can number
the clouds in wisdom, or who can stay the
bottles of heaven?” As you read on, you
feel yourself coming la frosty climes, and,
in fancy, wading through the snow, you
say, with that same inspired writer: “Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the
snow*” And while the sharp sleet drives in
your face, and the hail stings vour cheek,
you quote him again: “Hast thou seen the
treasures of the hail?” In the Psalm
ist’s writings I hear the voices of the sea:
“Deep calletb unto deep;” and the roar of
the forests: “The Lord shaketh the wilder
ness of Kadesband the loud peel of the
black tempest: “The God of glory thunder
eth;” and the rustle of the long silk on the
well filled husks: “The valleys are covered
with corn;” and the cry of wild beasts:
“The young lions roar after their prey;”
the hum <f palm tress and cedars: “The
righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon;” the
sough of wings and the swirl of flns:
“Dominion over the fowl of the air and the
fish of the sea.”
The truths of the gospel might have been
preseuted in technical terms, and by the
means of dry definitions, but under thee
the world would not have listened or felt.
How could the safety of trusting upon
Christ have been presented, were it not for
the rock? How could the gladdening effect
of the gospel have been set forth, had not
Zachanas thought of the dawn of the
morning, exclaiming, “The day-spring from
on high hath visited ua to give light to them
that sit in darkness.” How could the soul’s
intense longing for Christ have been pre
sented so well as by the emblem of natural
hunger and natural thirst? As the lake
gathers into its bosom the shadow of hills
around and the gleam of stars above, so, in
these great deeps of divine truth, all
objects in nature are grandly reflected.
We walk forth in the spring-time, and
everything breathes of the resurrection.
Bright blossom and springing grass speak
to us of the coming up of those whom we
have loved, when in the white robes of
their joy and coronation they shall appear.
And when in the autumn of the year na
ture preaches thousands of funeral sermons
from the text, “We all do fade as a leaf,”
and scatters her elegies in our pat h, wo can
not help but think of sickness and the tomb.
Eveu winter, “being dead, vet speaketb.”
The world will not bo argued into the right.
It will be teuderly illustrated into the right.
Tell them what religion is like. When the
mother tried to tell her dying child what
heaven was, she compared it to light. “But
that hurts my eyes,” said the dying girl.
Then the mother compared heaven to music.
“But any sound hurts me; I am so weak,”
said the dyiug child. Then she was told
that heaven wnj like mother’s arms. “O,
take me there!” she said. “If it is like
mother’s arms, take me there!” The appro
priate simile bad been found at last.
Another contribution which the natural
world is making to the kingdom of Christ is
the defense and aid which the elements are
compelled to give to the Christian person
ally. There is no law in nature but is
sworn for the Christian’s defense. In Job
this thought is presented as a bargain made
between the iuanimate creation and the
righteous man: “Thou shalt be in league
with the stones of the field.” What a grand
thought that the lightnings, and the
tempests, and the hail, and tbe frosts,which
are the enomies of unrighteousness, are all
marshaled as the Christian’s body
guard. They fight for him. They
strike with an arm of fire or
clutch with their fingers of ice. Everlast
ing peace is declared between the fiercest
elements of nature and the good man. They
may in their fury seem to be indiscrimi
nate, smiting down the righteous with the
wicked, yet they cannot damage the Chris
tian’s soul, although they may shrivel his
body. The wintry blast that howls about
your dwelling you may call your brother,
and the south wind coming up on a June
day by way of a flower garden you may
call your sister. Though so mighty iu cir
cumference and diameter, the sun and the
mooa have a special charge concerning
you. “Tbe sun shall not smite thee by day,
isor tbe moon by night.”
Elements and forces hidden in the earth
are dc w harnessed and at work in producing
for you food and clothing. Some grain
field that you never saw presented you this
day with your morning meal. The great
earth and the heavens are the busy loom at
work for you; and shooting light, and
silvery stream, and sharp lightning are the
only woven threads in the great loom, with
God’s foot on the shuttle. The same spirit
that converted your soul has also converted
the elements from enmity toward you into
inviolable friendship, and furthest star and
deepest cavern, regions of everlasting cold
as well as climes of eternal summer, all have
a mission of good, direct or indirect, for
your spirit.
Now I infer from this that the study of
natural objects will increase our religious
knowledge. If David and Job and John
and Paul could not afford to let go without
observing one passing cloud, or rif of snow,
or spring blossom, you cannot afford to let
them go without study. Men and women
of God mo3t emineot in all aijes f .r faith
and zeal, indulged in such observations—
Payson and Baxter and Doddridge and
Hannah More. That man is not worthy
the name of Christian who saunters
listlessly among these magnificent
disclosures of divine power around,
beneath, and above us, stupid and uniu
structed. They are not worthy to live in a
desert, for that has its fountains and palm
trees; nor in regions of everlasting ice, for
even there the stars kindle their lights, aud
auroras flash, and huge icebergs shiver in
the morning light, and God’s power sits
upon them as upon a great white throne.
Yet there are Christians in the church who
look upon ail such tendencies of mind and
heart as soft sentimentalities, and because
they believe this printed revelation of God
are content to be infidels in regard to all
that has been written in this great book of
the universe, written in letters of stars, in
paragraphs of constellations, aud illustrated
with sun-set and thunder-cloud and spring
morning.
I infer, also, the transcendent importance
of Christ’s religion. Nothing is so far
down, and nothing is so high up, and
nothing so far out, but God makes it pay
tax to the Christian religion. If snow and
tempest and dragou are expected to praise
God, suppose you he expects no homage
from j’our soul? When God has written his
truth upon everything around you, suppose
you he did not meau you to open your eyes
and read it?
Finally, I learn from this subject what
an honorable position the Christian occu
pies when nothing is so great and glorious
in nature but it is made to edify, defend
and instruct him. Hold up your heads,
sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty,
that I may see how you bear your honors.
Though now you may think yourself .unbe
friended, this’spring’s soft wind, and next
summer’s harvest of barley, and next au
tumn’s glowing fruits, and next winter’s
storms, all seasons, all elements, zephyr
and euroclydon, rose’s breath and thunder
cloud, gleaming light and thick darkuess,
are sworn to defend you, aud cohorts < j
angels would fly to deliver you from peril,
and the groat God would unsheathe his
sword and arm the universe in your cause
rather than that harm should touch you
with one of its lightest fingers. “As the
mountains around about Jerusalem, sj the
Lord is around about his pe pie from this
time forth forever more.”
O, for more sympathy with the natural
world, and then we should always have a
Bible open before us. and we could take a
los-on from the most fleeting circumstances,
as when a storm came down upon England
Charles Wesley sat iu a room watching it
through an open window, and, frightened
by the lightning and thunder, a little bird
flew in and nestled in the bosom of the
sacred poet, and he gently stroked it and
felt the wild beating of its heart; he turned
to his desk and wrote that hyinn which will
be sung while the world lasts:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly.
While the billows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high)
Hide me, O my savior, hide.
Till the storm of life b * past,
Safe into the heaven guid-,
O receive my soul at last.
THE MORXIXQ. NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1890.
GREAT MEN IN TUBS.
THS CAPITAL'3 LUXURIOUS BATH
ROOMS FOR CONGRESSMAN.
One is Fitted Up as a Lounging Room,
and Here the Only Real Executive
Session in Washington la held
“Uncle Sam” Pays for the Towels,
Soap, Etc., but He Draws the Line
at Cologne—He Throws in a Chiro
podist, However.
From the Commercial Advertiser.
Washington’, April 19.—Saturday is
wash day in the House, that is, it is the day
when all the members take their baths.
Some there may be who bathe oftener than
once a week, but they all bathe on Satur
day. When they come out of the marble
tubs, get into the sweat room and are
rubbed down, they 'aro sprayed with
cologne without cost, and come out as fine
as a fiddle.
The bath rooms of the House have been
greatly enlarged. They are situated down
in the sub-basement, where steam-heating
apparatus keeps the atmosphere at an even
temperature. Soft carpets are laid along
the stained floor, and on either side of the
narrow corridor are nine bath rooms, most
of which are as large as an ordinary bed
room, lighted by electricity, carpeted and
furnished with suitable toilet articles.
Mo3t of the tubs are of very large size,
cut out of solid blocks .of marble, and a
shower-bath arrangement is attached to
each tub. Irately, two or three old-fashioned
tubs have been replaced by modern ones,
and one room has been fitted up with chairs,'
table and lounges where members may
smoke or dream away half an hour after
the bath.
This little room is so arranzed as to be as
cozy as possible, and its subterranean lo
cation, its privacy and comfort have made
it a favorable resort for members who want
to hold conferences or exchange secrets
which it will not do to whisper above
ground. No voice could ever penetrate
from this place to the upper air, and no one
could ever find these gentlemen, hid so far
under the ground.
It is said that some of the majority mem
bers of the wavs and means committee have
held their tariff conferences in this apart
ment. Tne only way to reach it from the
House is by means of the elevator. A sen
ator who says that he has tried all the baths
in Europe and America pronounces this the
best of all. Tbe member takes his place in
one of the ma Lie tubs and an attendant
adjusts the temperature of the room and
tempers the water to suit his pleasure.
Then, with delicate and scented soaps, the
statesman is lathered and scrubbed and
rolled and tumbled, put into a marble
tub and left to soak with his head just above
water until all the fumes of tobacco and
the recollection of tbe last night’s dinner
are soaked out of him; then he is rubbed
down with crash towels, and, if he desires,
he can get into the steam bath. Afterward
he can go to the lounging room and stretch
himself upon the soft upholstered couch, to
smoke or drowse, forgetful of all the great
affairs of state that weigh upon his brain.
Congress provides all this for its own com
fort. It has paid for these rooms and has
fitted them up. Two men are employed as
keepers of the bath, and all the towels and
soaps are bought by “Uncle Sam.” Bay
rum used to be furnished for bath purposes
at government expense, but this is no longer
done. The watch dogs of the treasury
suiffed at the scent of bay rum and that ex
travagance was cut off, ’and now the more
expensive and delicate cologne is used. The
whole place is sweeter with its scent, but
the government does not pay for it. The
keeper of the bath, who gets a salary of
$720 a year, buys this cologne himself, and
the members pay him for it or not accord
ing to their liberality. If some fail to give
him the tip, others overpay, so that the
balance at the end of the month is not
against him, and the supply of perfume is
not cut off.
Members not only get their baths free of
charge but they have a chiropodist. By his
delicate skill he keeps the feet of congress
free from pain, and the footprints left in
the sands of time may bear witness of his
skill.
YOUNG M'ALLISTER’S PLAN.
A Society Pet to Become a Wine
Seller.
Froni the New Fork Star.
Ward McAllister, Jr., son of Ward
McAllister, the so-called leader of the
famous “Four Hundred,” is negotiating
with W. H. Fearing to form with him a
partnership in the wholesale wine and liquor
business. Nearly all the arrangements, it
is said, have been completed, and in a little
while they propose to open at No. 24 Broad
street.
The friends of the Doncher-understand
Doncher-know McAllister were inclined to
think that such a step on the part of his son
will c&use his retirement from the ranks of
“society.” Some of the Four Hundred who
were seen thought so, too. To them the
news was like the shattering of some great
idol. He, the leader of cotillions and who in
his management of balls had no equal, to be
the father of an ordinary everyday wine
and liquor merchant. They shuddered as
they discussed it, and wearily admitted t hat
a “grave mistake” had been made, and that
never again could he be the great “I am” in
their “set.”
Mr. Fearing was found at his home, No.
7 East Forty-third street, by a Star re
porter last evening. He was asked as to
the truth of the story that young McAllister
was about to become his partner in the
wine and liquor business.
“I have nothing to say,” he said “bevond
this. Nothiug has yet been done. W'hat
may happen in the future I cannot say.
You had better see Mr. McAllister. It is a
business and personal matter, aud I do not
care to discuss it.”
The leader of the 400 lives at No. 16 West
Thirtv-sixth street, and his son is living
with him. Young Mr. McAllister was not
at home, but his father was iu. He saw the
reporter, and, in answer to a question as to
the matter, said: “It is my son’s business.
I am not connected with it.”
“Mr. Fearing intimates that negotiations
with that end in view are pending,” he was
told.
“He did, eh?” and the leader of cotillons
looked thoughtful for a moment. Then he
said: “Yes, it is true, negotiations of this
character have been carried on with Mr.
Fearing. But the matter has not been
settled yet. I cannot tell when it will be
settled, or whether such arrangement will
at all be made. It is my sou’s business
purely. Good night, sir; I have nothing
more to say.”
Bismarck's Boots.
Stories about Bismarck are in order now,
and here is one which goes back to the days
when he was a student in the university.
He was invited to an evening party, whero
there was a chance to dance with the pret
tiest girls of the town. He ordered a pair
of patent leather boots for the occasion,
and gave the shoemaker to understand that
they should be promptly done. The latter
was very busy, and, although bo promised,
like all sons of Crispin be intended to refer
the j bto a future period. The evening
before the party Bismarck came to him.
“Well, how about my boots?” said he.
“Can’l pos-iblv have them done, sir,” wns
the answer. “Ab, by thunder, I have
something to say about that,” roared Bis
marck, and he left the shop. Iu about half
an hour he roturned with two enormous
dogs. “Do vou see these dogs?” he aiked.
“Ye3, sir.”
“Well, I swear now that if you haven’t
my boots ready to-morrow evening I’ll
make them tear you to pieces.”
Every hour afterward a hired messenger
came to the bootmaker and warned him to
have the boo s done, telling him that his
life was really in danger because tbe student
was crazy, aud would surely set the dogs on
him if be failed.
Bis narck got his boots.
COUNTING A QUORUM.
Salty Comments on Speaker Reed’s
Questionable Methods.
From the Pittsburg Post
Heretofore Speaker Reed’s rule of count
ing in a quorum has been mainly applied to
the rascally business of stealing seats of dem
ocratic representatives, but a few days ago
be used it to consummate probably the most
important act of goverment, so far as the
Hi use is concerned. That is the admission of a
new state into the union. The Idaho bill only
received 129 votes, or 27 less than the quo
rum the constitution calls for. It is well un
derstood a number of republican rep
resantives refrained from voting for this
caucus measure because of their opposition to
some of the un-American features of the
Idaho constitution. If the bill becomes a
law as passed by the House last week it will
be tested in the courts, and a judicial deter
mination had, if the question can be reached,
as to the constitutionality of the speaker's
autocratic assumption of power never be
fore held to be in the hands of one man in
the American congress. Here are 50,000
people, a few more or less, given represen
tation in the Senate, fbr a partisan purpose,
the sa un as Pennsylvania with its 5,000,000,
or New York with its 6,01)0,000. And in
Idaho some 20,000 of the population are dis
franchised and held to be ineligible for hold
ing office or jury duty because of their af
finity to the Mormon church,and not because
they are themselves polygamists, for all ac
counts agree that very few of the Idaho
Mormons are. This is the constitutional
point involved in the acceptance by congress
of the Idaho constitution, which will be
c msummated.if at all.by the speaker voting
29 members as present to make a quorum
—a proceeding he has himself denounced as
unconstitutional.lawiess and revolutionary,
with Speaker Blaine,President Garfield,Sen
ator Hawley, and the whole body of tbe re
publicans in congress on the record as hold
ing to the same opinion.
Ilia republican plan for the retention
of power involves the admission of six new
states, with twelve senators representing
a population by the last census not more
than half that of Allegheny county. The
next step is the placing of the congressional
elections under federal co.itrol; the agents
to be rascals of the Quay, Dudley and Ma
hone caliber and morality. Then comes the
bill to make republican gerrymanders of
states permanent, or at least beyond the
power of the people of a state to modify for
ten years. Add to these damnable usurpa
tions the creation of a pretorian guard, by
pension plunder and other schemes of extrav
agance, and we have wnat is already fully
developed. We believe there are In some of
these measures elements that may event
uate in civil war, for they involve the con
trol of elections at the north in opposition
to the will of the people of these states, and
cap this by banding southern states over
to carpet-bag and negro domination.
And all tuis is to be done by Speaker
Reed’s patent plan of “counting in a quo
rum,” and passing laws on his individual
say so. It seems to us this is a very danger
ous business. There is no telling where it will
end. The supreme court may find a remedy,
or the people may protest at the coming
elections with a force and emphasis that will
call a halt. But the devilish villainy
may be consummated before the elections,
and the usurpation maintained by the
power of a fraudulently constituted Senate
against the protest of the people in the elec
tion of a democratic House of Representa
tives in 1890, or a Democratic President in
1892. There is trouble ahead. TheQuay-Ma
hone-Dudley-Reed crowd, north and south,
that are managing tbe Republican party are
riding for big game, like b ggars on horse
back, or for a fall that will annihilate them.
They will get the fall. The people of
America are not ready to accept the plans
of Louis Napoleon, backed, as his were, by
perjury, fraud and violence.
Facts About False Teeth.
From the Boston Herald
“Howlong do false teeth wear?” an ex
perienced dentist was asked the other day.
“You might as well say ‘How long does a
suit of clothes wear?’ ” was the reply. “It all
depends upon the quality of the teeth and
the care of the person who uses them. If
a woman bites thread withfcer artificial mo
lars, they are likely to be ruined in a week.
On the other band, I know persons who
have worn the same sets for twenty years,
and have never been compelled to have
them repaired. Sets made of the best ma
terial and in the best manner should last a
lifetime with proper care.”
“What is the proper caroof false teeth?’
“Both the plates and the crowns should be
removed from the mouth and cleansed every
night and morning.”
“Do artificial teeth decay?”
“No. They are all made of porcelain,
which is not suject to decay as the natural
bone is. But at the same time porcelain is
more brittle t.ian bone, and hence an arti!
ficial tooth will not stand many hard
knocks.”
Wnat is the difference in the durability of
high priced and cheap teeth?”
“That is a difficult question. Cheap teeth
are made of a material that bears the same
relation to that of tne best teeth that a com
mon stone china plate does to a Sevres vase.
Cheap teeth look like glazed china, and that
is about all that some of them are. Now, so
long as the glaze lasts the teeth are as strong
as those made of the costliest material, and
I have known a set costing next to nothing
to perform service for many yoars. They
are not quit so brittle, in tact, as those made
of the finest porcelain. But the chief su
perio ity of the latter lies in their shape and
appearance and in the exactitude with which
they are fitted to the gums.”
“ What is the best kind of platei”
“One made of gold. But black rubber is
just about as durable, only it is harder to
keep perfectly clean.”
“Are complete sets of artificial teeth not
uncommon?”
“Partial sets are more frequently seen,
but complete sets are by no means unusal.”
“Who wear the most falsa teeth—men or
women?”
“Women, by long odds. I don’t think the
result is due alone to vanity, however, al
though that may have something to do with
it. The chief: reason is that the natural
teeth of women are not as good and strong
as those of men, and, therefore, h ive to be
more frequently replaced by artificial teeth.”
MEDICAL.
SCROFULA
Is that impurity of the blood which produces
unsightly lumps or swellings in the neck;
which causes running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which develops ulcers In the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can
cerous growths, or “humors;” which,fasten
ing upon the lungs, causes consumption and
death. It is the most ancient of all diseases,
and very few persons are entirely free from it.
Ho uß C e n CURED
By taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures It has accomplished,
has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. If you suffer from
scrofula, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
“ Every spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, my little boy,
three years old, being a terrible sufferer.
Last spring he was one mass of sores from
head to feet. We all took Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
and all havo been cured of the scrofula. My
little boy is entirely free from sores, and all
four of my children look bright and healthy.”
W. B. Athebton, Passaic City, N. J.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggist*. ; six forgs. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
FrVKRAL INVITATIONS.
ARDEN.—The relatives and friends of Mr. W.
W. A udex and family, and of D. D. Arden and
family, are requested to attend the funeral
services of the former, at Laurel Grove ceme
tery TO-DAY at 5 o'clock p. h.
HENRY.—The relatives and friends of Mar
garet E. Henry, and Capt. Isaac Henry, and
Capt. W. W. Henry and Mrs. R. Hargraves and
families, are invited to attend tbe funeral of
Makoabet EL Henry, from her residence, 34
State street, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON.
MEETINGS.
CLINTON LODGE NO 54 F. A A M.
A special communication of this lodge will be
held at Masonic Temple THIS (Monday)
EVENING, April 28th, at 8 o’clock. The
E. A. degree will be conferred. Members of
sister lodges and visiting brethren are cordially
invited to meet with us.
FRANK H. MORSE, W. M.
Waring Russell, Jr., Secretary.
MAGNOLIA ENCAMPMENT NO. 10, I.
O. F.
Regular meeting x.
will be held THIS
(Monday) EVENING . n p
at 8 o'clock, in hall of •* •
Trinity Methodist
church building, cor sfjperf |
ner of President and "
Jefferson streets.
Geo. G. WILSON, C. P.
A. N. Manccy, Scribe.
DeKALB LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock, sun time. Metropolitan
Hall, corner Whitaker and President Streets.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brotners
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of J. D. GOODMAN, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
CALANTHE LODGE NO. 28, K. OF P.
The regular meeting of the Lodge will
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at /vSfX
8 o'clock. ISI&jA
Punctual attendance is desired. tSjEpt&j
J. W. DANIEL. C. C. \2gW
J. E. Freeman, K. of R. and S.
MILITARY' ORDERS.
GEORGIA HUSSARS.
Headquarters Georgia Hussars, (
Savannah, Ga., April 27, 1890. J
Oeneral Order No. 22'
The company is hereby or- >. -
dered to assemble at their hall \i nk
MONDAY, April 28, at 3:15
o'clock p. m., mounted, armed O'!yX v-r _
and equipped Ibluo helmets with ‘
plumes) to take part in a joint 0
parade of the Savannah military' f
in honor of the Southern Travel
ers’ Association. The presence < -v-* 1 rv-ff
of every uniformed member is expected upon
this occasion. By order of.
G. B. PRITCHARD.
Captain Commanding.
J. T. Shuptrine. Acting First Sergeant.
SAVANNAH CADETS.
Headquarters Savannah Cadets, )
Savannah, Ga., April 28,1890. (
General Order No. 15.
I. The company will assemble on MONDAY,
28th inst., at 3:10 p. M. sharp, for parade.
U. In compliauc ■ with General Order No. 8,
from Regimental Headquarters, the uniform to
be worn will be the gray blouse and pants, hel
met with spikes, instead of the full uniform, as
previously ordered J. F. BROOKS.
Captain Commanding.
SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER GUARDS
Headquarters Battalion, 1
Savannah Volunteer Guards, n
Savannah, Ga., April 23, 1890. )
Order No. 23.
The corps is ordered to assemble at the ar
mory on MONDAY', 28th inst., at 3:30 o’clock
p. M., fully uniformed (with h -lmets), armed and
equipped for parade. By order of
LIEUT. COL. GARRARD.
Wm. P. Hunter. Adjutant.
IRISH JASPER GREENS.
The corps will assemble at the armory THIS
(Monday) AFTERNOON at 3 o’clock, in undress
uniform (sack coats and gray pants), instead of
“in dress uniform," as called for in Company
Orders No. 12. extended 24th inst,
JOHN FLANNERY. Capt. Com’d’g.
John T. McMahon, First Sergeant.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising in the Morning
News will be agate, or at the rate of $1 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
HEADQUARTERS MER C H ANTsTwEEK
Travelers’ Exchange.
Members of the General Committee, Execu
tive Board, and various sub-committees con
nected with the management of Merchants’
Week, can obtain their “Committee” Badges
upon application at headquarters TO-DAY' and
TO-MORROW. By order,
H. W. PALMER,
Chairman Executive Board.
SPECIAL AOTICE.
TRADES DISPLAY.
All parties who intend to take part in the
Trades Display on TUESDAY next, 29th inst.,
must have their Floats at East Broad and Lib
erty streets at 9 o’clock (city time), to be as
signed their positions in the line, which will
move promptly at 10 o'clock a. m.
J. C. SHAW,
Chairman Trades Display Committee.
G. B. Pritchard. Grand Marshal.
TO THE PUBLIC.
A military parade will take place on MON
DAY AFTERNOON, 28th inst., as one of tbe
attractive features of Merchants’ May week. To
make this event a success corporations and
business men, in whose employment are mem
bers of the invited commands, should not only
permit such employes to take their places in
ranks, but should insist on their doing so.
This is for the benefit of Savannah and her
material interests. The undersigned appeal to
the employers, to do their duty in the premises,
otherwise the parade will be a failure.
PETER REILLY,
Lieut. Col. Com'd’g Ist Vov. Reg’t.
WILLIAM GARRARD,
Dent. Col. 3d Ga. Battalion.
G. B. PRITCHARD,
Captain Georgia Hussars.
R. F. HARMON,
lRt Lieut. Com’d'g Chatnam Artillery.
I heartily indorse and join in the above
appeal. H. W. PALMER,
Chairman Ex. Com. Merchants' May Week.
AN “OPEN HOUSE”
Of our own, at our Depot on Whitaker, Bar
nard, President and York streets.
The ceiebration is only one week, but we
keep “Open Welcome” always and we keep an
immense line of all materials for the building
and furnishing trade, which it will pay the citi
zens as well as
STRANGERS
To examine and make purchase from. We
meet and undersell competition, estimate on
any sized order, and guarantee prices on Doors,
Sashe3, Blinds, Mantels, Paints, Oils, Wall
Paper and Builders’ Hardware.
A. HANLEY.
BUILDERS’ SUPPLF DEPOT.
MAY WEEK
SPECIAL PRICES AT HEIDT’S.
Ten cents pound for Gum Drops; 48c. pound
for Crystallized Fruits: 21c. bottle for Hoyt's
| Cologne; 50c. bottle for Florida Water; 80c.
pound for insect Powder; 10c. and 15c. for Tooth
Brushes; 10c. to 90c, for Hair Brushes, and 25c.
! for our superior 350. Mix and Candy. Call in aud
j see. Corner Congress and Whitaker streets.
HOI’THKRN TRAVELERS’ASSOCIATION
Savannah, Ga., April 25, 1890.
All active and associate members are hereby
notified that badges will be ready for distribu
tion MONDAY, -Bth inst., 8 am., at Travelers'
Exchange, IS. KULMAN,
Chairman Open House Committee.
SPECIAL NOTICES. _
I PILSEN BEER
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMP ANT
Beg to inform the public that on and after
MONDAY, 20th inst.,
ALL LEADING GROCERS AND DEALERS
Of this city will attend to and promptly fill all
orders for family use of the Savannah Brewing
Company's
EXTRA PILSEN BEER,
MUNCHENER HOFBRAU BEER,
A pure and unadulterated brand of choicest
Bavarian Hops of our own importation.
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY
Will discontinue the direct delivery from that
date.
TO THE MERCHANTS AND CITIZENS
GENERALLY.
Headquarters Merchants’ Week. )
Savannah, Ga., April, 25, 1890. f
Twenty thousand (30,000) strangers will no
doubt visit the city next week. Savannah bids
them welcome, and will evidence its hospitality
by a plentiful display of gala attire.
Savannahians point wit h pardonable pride to
the success of all their celebrations, ana expect
this one to surpass all heretofore given. Prep
arations should therefore at once be made to
decorate all buildings and residences. Put the
city in holiday attire, tne occasion is worthy
the effort, and results will amply repay.
THURSDAY, May Ist, “Tybee Day,” is in
tended to be observed as far as practicable as a
general holi lay, and tmsiuess will, to a great
extent be suspended. Merchants are requested
to co-operate with the committee in this re
gard. H. W. PALMER,
Chairman Executive Board.
Asa measure for the general welfare of the
city and its merchants, I heartily indorse the
above appeal, and trust the citizens will lend
their aid to arrive at the desired results.
JOHN SCHWARZ,
Mayor City Savannah.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
The partnership heretofore existing as DONO
VAN, PERKINS & CO., with mills located at
Pinetucky, and the partnership as existing
under name and style W. O. DONOVAN & CO.,
with mills located at Ohoopee Mills. General
Siw-mill and Lumber business, has this day been
dissolved by the retiring of Mr. WILLIAM
DONOVAN by mutual consent.
Tbe business in future will be conducted by
the other partners, who have associated them
selves into and with the SOUTHERN LUMBER
COMPANY, with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.,
who will be responsible for the liabilities of the
old firms, and are also authorized to collect all
accounts due the firms.
WILLIAM DONOVAN.
THOMAMS J. JAMES.
STIRING B- PERKINS.
WILLIAM Q. DONOVAN.
Wadlet, Ga., April 25, 1890.
TO THE PUBLIC.
In retiring from the partnerships of DONO
VAN, PERKINS & CO. and W. O. DONOVAN &
CO., I desire to return my thanks to the public
for their very liberal patronage so long be
stowed on us, and respectfully solicit for the
new organization a continuance of the favors,
which will always be appreciated.
WILLIAM DONOVAN.
April 25, 1890.
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF GROUND
RENT TITLES.
City Treasurer’s Office, )
Savannah. Ga., April, 24, 1890. j
Holders of Ground Rent Titles, who con
template taking advantage of the discount of
30 per cent, by making their lots fee simvlc on
or before the Ist day of May, are requested not
to postpone payment until the last moment.
Ci S. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
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.
TURKISH SALES '
OF OTTA OF ROSES
By Pear’s Soap manufacturers have been enor
mous. The genuine Otta of Rose Soap, Glycer
ine, Unscented Shaving Sticks, and Fuller's
Earth received direct at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress Streets.
WANTED.
Two hundred active, live newsboys to sell
pamphlets containing full description of Car
nival Floats, Order of Line. Line of March, etc.,
etc. This will be the official Programme, and
the only one issued. Will be placed on sale on
WEDNESDAY, April 30, at 5:30 o’clock A. m.
Register your name at once at my store, 21 %
Bull street. Pamphlets can only be secured
from me. WILLIAM ESTILL.
Agent for Carnival Committee.
IMPORTANT TO TYBEE SHIPPERS.
All shippers of freight to Tybse in car lots are
notified that no freight will be received after
4:20 o'clock p. st., April 29, until 7 o'clock am.,
May 2. No freight of any description will be
transported on May Ist.
H. H. WOODRUFF, General Agent
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST,—
149 Broughton Street.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN tio7.IL
It is a broad assertion, but nevertheless true,
that Ulmer’s “Liver Corrector,” a faultless
family medicine, is worth its weight in gold.
Prominent medical men indorse it, and thou
sands of citizens who have used it bear willing
and cheerful testimony to the above assertion.
Silver medal and diploma awarded over com
petitors. Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist,
Savannah. Ga
Price, One Dollar Per Bottle.
If you cannot obtain the “Corrector” from
your druggist, send your orders direct and it
will be forwarded by express, freight paid.
FINE HORSE® AND MULES.
Two pair Blacks, two. pair Grays, one pair
Bays. Best combination horse in the city.
Number of nice drivers, work horses, and all
kinds of mules.
GUILMARTIN & MEHRTENS,
Boarding and Sale Stables.
PAINTS AND 01A.3.
JOHN Gr. BUTLER,
\yiUTE LEADS, COLORS. OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH. ETC.; READY MIXED
PAINTS: RAILROAD. STEAMER AND MILL
SUPPLIES: SASHES, DOORS, BUNDS AND
Bl II.DERS’ HARDWAP.E. Sole Ag nt for
LADD UME, CALCINED BLASTER CEMENT,
HAIR AND LAND PLASTER
140 Congress street and 189 St. Julian street,
Savannah, Georgia.
AMU SEME VTS.
SAVANNAH
TWO NIGHTS ONLY.
MONDAY and TUESDAY, April 28 and 29.
GEO. WILSON,
MAMMOTH MINSTRELS
Led by the All-Time Minstrel Emperor,
MR. GEORGE WILSON.
A SUPERB PRODUCTION OP MAGNIFICENT
MODERN MINSTRELSY.
Also the Big KIRMEaS DANCE, the Sensation
of the Nineteenth Century, and the Great
DERBY DAY FIRST PART.
Seats at Butler's April 2 ■,9 a. m.
Next Attraction—LacCollin Opera Com Dan v
April 30. May 1, 2 and 3.
SAVANNAH THEATER
FOUR NIGHTS COMMENCING
Wednesday, April 30.
Nlatineo Saturday.
Special Engagement of the Famous
MAC COLLIN OPERA 00.
In a Brilliant Repertoire of Opera Successes.
Wed nesday—F ALKA.
Thursday-THE MASCOTTE.
Friday—THE BEGGAR STUDENT.
Saturday Matinee—THE KING'S MUSKET
EEKS.
Saturday Night—BOHEMI AN GIRL.
Doors open at 9 o'clock. Prices $!, 59c., 25c
Seats on sale at Butler’s Drug Store, April’ 28th
MERCHANTS’ WETk
Eaces! Eaces!
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY,
AT
THUNDERBOLT DRIVING -PARK,
Trotting and Running.
POOLS on the Races will be sold TO-NIGHT
at Chas. H. Levan’s, corner Drayton and
Broughton streets, at 8 O’clock, by W. T. Birch
JOE F. DOYLE.
Chairman Committee.
EXCURSION'S.
GRAND EXCURSIONS
EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.
The Beautiful Steamer Crescent City
TO
Tybee and Bell Buoy
Monday and Tuesday, April 28 & 29.
LEAVING WHARF FOOT OF ABERCORN
STREET AT 3 P. M. PRECISELY'.
WEDNESDAY, excursion to the lovely Island
of Warsaw. Leave same wharf at 9a. m. and
Thunderbolt at 10:30 a. m. Fare on alt Excur
sions, 50c. round trip.
—GRAND EXCURSION—
TO
THE OCEAN!
Passing Fort Oglethorpe, Fort
Pulaski and Tybee,
TUESDAY, APRIL 29
By Steamer Bellevue.
Leaving wharf foot Drayton street 3 o’clock
sharp.
Fare 60 cents for the round trip. -—-
BANKS.
■SAVINGS BANK. I
SAVANNAH BANK & TRUST CO.
4°\o
Deposits of $1 and Upward Receded.
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
YOUR BLANK BOOKS ’ J)
ONE BETTER THAN THOSE MADE BY
HE HAS THE BEST PAPERS J
JN STOCK, AND YOU
QAN MAKE YOURSELF AND HIM 'J' 1
JJAPPY IF YOU WILL J
QNLYGIVEHIM AN ORDER FOR A SET.
of BANKS and BUSINESS HOUSES Q.
CEND TO HIM FOR THEIR BOOKS. 93
O BAY ST
COTTON FACTORS.
Thomas F. Stubbs, William S. Tisox.
STUBBSTISOX,
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
HARDWARE.
P A T MTi'P
HARDWARE COMPANY
HAVE A FULL STOCK OF
Builders’ Hardware,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
CLARK’S CUTAWAY HARROWS,
RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING.
CARPENTERS’ TOOLS OF' ALL KINDS
FISHING TACKLE, RODS AND REELS.
RAILROAD AND MILL SUPPLIES,
GUNS, RIFLES AND AMMUNITION,
Tinware, Wooden ware, etc
Price* as low as any house in the South.
Savannah, Georgia,
