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v ould take another and another, and you
would ride along hour aft* r hour. aDd day
•'ter day. Great host, in regiments, in
brigades. Great armies of them. And then
If you had voice stentorian enough to make
them all hear, and you could give the com
mand, “Forward, march!” their first tramp
would make the earth tremble. I do not
care which way you look >n the community
tc-day, the evil is increasing.
I call attention to the fact that there are
thousands of people born with a t .irst for
strong drink—a fact often ignored. Along
torn ancestral lines there runs the river r.f
temptation. There are chiliren whose
swadJl ling-clothes are torn off the sbr* nd
of death. Many a father has made a will of
this s rt: “In the name of God, amen. I
bequeath to my children my houses and
lands and estate-; share and share shall
they alike. Hereto I affix my hand and seal
in the presence of wi:nee-es.” And yet per
ba;e that very man has made another will
that the people have never read, and that
has not b -en proved in the courts. That
will put in writing wonld read something
like this: “In the name of disease and
appetite and death, amen. I bequeath to
iny children my evil habits, my tankards
shall be their*, my wine cup shall be theirs,
my destroyed reputation shall be theirs.
Bbare and share alike shall they in the in
famy. Hereto I affix my band and seal in
the presence of all the applauding harpies
of hell.”
From the multitude of those who have
the evil habit born with them this army is
being augmented. And lam sorry to say
that a great many of the drug stores are
abetting this evil, and alcohol is so and uader
the name of bitters. It is bitters for this,
and bitters for that, and bitters for some
other thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thrald m of alcoholism
coming from that source, are going down,
and B'ime day a man ait* with tue bottle of
black bittei s on his table, and the cork flies
out, and after it flies a fiend and clutches
the man by hie throat and says: “Aha! I
have been after you for ten years. I have
got you now. Down with you! down with
you!” Bitters! Ah! yes. They make a
sears family bitter, and his home bitter,
and his disposition bitter, and his dea h
bitter, and his hell bit:er. Bitters! A vast
army, all the time increasing.
It seems to me it is about time for the
17,000,0dtl professors of religion in America
to tana side*. It is g >ing to be an out-and
out battle with dru ken ness aud sobriety,
between heaven and hell, betwoen God and
the devil. Take sides before there is any
further national decadence; take sides be
fore your sons are sacrificed and the new
home of your daughter goes down under
the alcoholism of an imbruted husband.
Take sides while your voice, your pen, y* ur
prayer, your vote may have any influence
In arresting the despoliation of this nation.
If the 17,000,000 professors of religion should
take sides on this subject it would not l>e
very long before the destiny of this nation
would be decided in the right direction.
Is drunkenness a state or national evil ?
Does it belong to the north, or does it be
long to the South? Does it belong to the
east, or does it belong to the west? Ah !
there is not an American river into which
its tears have not fallen and into which its
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantation?—every field a
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
the most affluent supporters of summer
watering places. What threw that New
England farm Into decay and turned the
roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of
the Green mountains into the pallor of
despair? What has smitten every street of
every village, town and city of this conti
nent with a moral pestileuoe! Strong
drink.
To prove that this is a national evil I call
up two states in opposite directions—Maine
and Ueorgia. Let them testify in regard to
this. State of Maino says: “It is so great
an svil up here we have anathematized it
as a state.” State of Georgia says: “It is
so great an evil down here that ninety
counties of this state have made the sale of
intoxicating drink a criminality.” So the
wurl come- up from all parts of the land.
Either drunkenness will be destroyed in
this country or the American government
vi Ibe destroyed. Drunkenness and free
institutions are coming into a death
grapple.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years, and I will build for every
workingman a house, and lay out for him a
garden aid clothe lus sons in broadcloth and
his daughters in silks, and stand at his front
door a prancing span t sorrels or bays, aud
secure him a policy of life insurance so that
the present home may be well maintained
after he is dead. The most persistent, most
overpowering enemy of the working classes
is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist
of centuries, and has boycotted and is now
boyoottiag the body ana mind and soul of
American labor. It annually swindles
industry out of a large percentage of
its earnings. It holds out its blasting
solicitations to the mechanic or operative
on his way to work, and at the noon-spell,
aud on his way home at eventide. On Sat
urday, when the wages are paid, it snatches
a large part of the money that
might come to his family and
sacrifices it among the saloon
keepers. Stand the saloons of this country
side by side, and it is carefully estimated
that they would reach from New York to
Chicago.
Thu evil is pouring its vitriolic and damn
able liquors down the throats of hundreds
of thousands of laborers, and while the or
dinary strikes are ruinous both to employers
and employes, I proolaim a universal strike
against strong drink, which strike, if kept
up, will be the relief of the laboring classes
acid the salvation of the nation. I will un
dertake to say thatjthere is not a healthy
laborer in the United States who, within
the next twenty years, if he will refuse all
intoxicating beverages and be swing, may
not become a capitalist on a small scale.
01 bow many are waiting to see if s >rne
thing cannot be done for the stopping of in
temperance 1 Thousands of drunkards wait
ing who cannot go ten minutes in any di
rection without having the temptation glar
ing before their eyes or appealing to their
nostrils, they fighting against it with en
feebled will and diseased appetite, conquer
ing, then surrendering again, and crying
“How long, O Lord! how long before the*!
infamous solicitations shall be gone.” And
how many mothers are waiting to see if tms
national curs-cannot lift! O! is that the
boy who had the honest breath who comes
home ■with breath vitiated or disguised?
Vl' hat a change! How quickly those habits of
early coming home have beeu exchanged
for the rattling of the night-key iu the door
long after the last watchman has gone by
and tried to see that everything was clewed
up for the night! O! what a cha ge for
that young man wlio we had hoped would
do so.i ethiDg iu merchandise, or in ar Isan
thip, or in a profession that would do honor
to the family name long after mother’s
wrinkled hands are folded fromtue last toil!
All that exchanged for sta: tied look when
the door-bell ri g-, lest something has hap
pened; and the wish that the scnrlet fever
twenty years ago had been fatal, for then
he would have gone directly to the bosom
of the Swior. But alas! poor old soul, she
has lived to experience what So! monsaid:
“A foolish son is a heaviness to his mother.”
O! what a funeral it will be wuen that
boy is brought home dead! And hew
mother will si: there and say: “Is this my
boy that I used to fondle and that I walked
the floor with in the night when he was
sick* Is this the boy that I held to the
baptismal font for baptism? Is this the
boy for whom I toiled until the blood burst
from the tips of my fingers, th it he might
have a good start and ago -d home? Lord,
why hast thou let me live to see
this? Can it be that these
swollen hands are the ones that
used to wan ler over my face when rocking
him to sleep? Can it be ihat this swollen
brow is that I o:.ce so rapturously kissed?
Poor boy ! bow tiled he does look. I wonder
who struck him that blow across the
temples* I wonder if he uttered a dying
prayer? Wake up, mv son ; don’t you hear
me? Wake Jup! O, he can’t hear
me. Dead! dead! dead! ‘O, Absalom,
my son, my sou. Would God that I had died
for thee. O, Absalom, my son, iny son! ’ ”
I am not much of a mathematician, and I
cannot estimate it, but is there any one here
quick enough at figure* to estimate how
many mothers them are waiting for some
thing to be done? Ay, t iers are many
wives waiting ftt domestic rescue. He
promised something different from that
when, after the long acq .ainlance a id the
careful scrutiny of character, tDe hand and
the heart were offered and accepted. What
a hell on earth a woman lives in who has a
j drunken husband! O death, how lovely
thou art to her, and how soft and warm
1 thy skeleton hanl! The sepulcher
l at midnight in winter is a king's
drawing-room e mpa ed ■ itb that woman’s
home. It is not so much the blow on the
head that hurts as the blow on the heart.
Tne rum fiend came to the door of that
beautiful h* me, and opened the door aud
stood there, and said: “I curse this dwel
ling with an unrelenting curse. I curse tuat
father into a maniac. I curse that mother
into a pauper. I curss tho-e sons into vaga
bonds. I curse those daughters into pr fl
igacy. Cursed be Ureal tray aud cradle.
Cursed be couch and chair, and family
Bible with reco and of marriages and nirtns
and deaths. Curse up*in curse.” O! bow
many wives are there waiting to
§<*e if sometbiug cannot he done to s lake
these frosts of the second death on the or
ange blossoms! Yea, God is waning, the
Go*l who works through human instru
mentalities, waiting P* see whether this
nation is going to over hrow this evil; ad
if it refuses to do s i, God will wipe out the
nation as he diu Phoenicia, as be did Rome,
as be did Thebe-, as he did Babylon. Ay,
he is waiting to see what the church of
God will do. If the church does
not do its work, then he will wipe
it out as be did the church of
Ephesus, church of Thyatira, eburen
of Sardis. The Protestautiand Roman
Catholic churches to-dav sand side by
side wnn an impotent look, gazing on this
evil, which costs this country more than a
billion dollars a year to take care of the
800,000 paupers, and the 315,000 criminals,
and the 30,000 idiots, and to bury the 75,000
drunkards. Protagoras boasted that out of
the sixty years of his life, forty years he
had spent in ruining youth; but this evil
may make the more infamous boast that
all its life it has been rui ling the bodies,
minds and souls of the h unan race.
Put on your spectacles and take a candle
and examine the platforms of ihe two lend
ing political parties of this country, and
see what thev are doing for the arrest of
this evil and for the overthrow of this
abomination. Resolutions—ol yes, reso
lutions about Mormonism! It is safe to at
tack that orga ized nastme s two thousand
miles away. But not one resolution against
drunkenness, whioh would turn this entire
nation into one bestial Salt Lake City.
Resolutions agaiust political corruption,
hut n *t one word about drunkenness which
w. uld rot the nation from scalp to heel.
Resolutions about protection agaiust com
petiti m with foreign industries, but not
one word about protection of family and
church and nation against the Bcalditig,
bias ing, all-oonsuming, damning tariff of
strong drink put upon every fin me.al, in
dividual, spiritual, moral, national interest.
I look in another direction. The Church
of God is the grandest and most glorious
institution on e irtb. What has it in solid
phalanx accomplish"d for the overthrow of
drunkenness? Havoits forces ever been mar
shaled? No, not in this direction. Not
long ago a great ecclesiastical court assem
bled in New York, aud resolutions
ariaigning strong drink were offe; ed, and
clergymen with stroug drink on their tables
and strong drink in their cellars defeated
the resolutions by threatening sueeches.
They o >u!d not bear to give up their own
lusts. I tell this audionce what many of you
may never have thought of, that to-day—
not in the millennium, but to day
—the church holds the bal
ance of power in America; and If Christian
people—tue men aid the women who pro
fess to lore the Lord Jesus Christ ana to
love purity and to be the sworn enemies of
ail uucleanness and debauchery and sin—lf
all such would march side by side and
shoulder to shoulder, this evil would soon
be overthrown, Think of three hundred
thousand churohe9 and Sunday schools in
Christendom marching shoulder to shoul
der! How very short a time it would take
them to put down this evil, if all the
churches of God, trans-Atlantic and cis-
AtlantiC, were armed on this subject!
Youug men of America, pass over into
the army of teetotal ism. Whisky, good to
preserve corpses, ought never to turn you
into a corpse, lens of thousands of young
men have been dragged out of respect
ability, and out of purity, nnd out of good
character, and into darkness by this in
fernal stuff called strong drink. Do not
touch it 1 Do not touch it!
Iu the front door of our church in Brook
lyn, a few Bummers ago. this scene oc
curred: Babbatb morning a young man
was entering for divine worship. A friend
passing along the street said: “Joe, come
along with me; I am going down to Coney
Island, and we’ll have a gay Sunday.”
“No,” replied Joe; “I have started to go
here to church, and I am going to
attend service here.” "0, Joe,” his friend
said, “you cau go to church any time I The
day is bright and we’ll go to Coney Island,
and we’ll have a splendid time." The temp
tation was too groat, and the twain went to
the beach, spent the day in drunkenness aud
riot. The evening tram started up from
Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe,
in his intoxication, when the train was in
full speed, tried to pass around from one
seat to another, aud fell and was crushed.
Undor the lantern, as Joe lay bleed
ing his life away on the grass, he
sani to his comrade: “John, that was
a bad business, your taSting me away
from church; it was a , very bad
business. You ought not to have done that,
John, I want you to tell the boys to-mor
row when you see them that rum and Bab
bath-breaking did this for me. And, John,
while you are telling them, I will be in hell,
and it will he your fault.” Is it not time
for me to pull out from the great organ of
God’s Word, with mmy banks of keys, tbe
tremolo stop? “Look not upon the wine
when it is red, when it moveth itself aright
in the cup, for at last it biteth like a serpent
and stlngeth like an adder.”
But this evil will be arrested. Blucber
came up just before night and saved the
day at Waterloo. At 4 o’c.ock iu the after
noon it looked very badly for the English.
Gens. Ponsonby and Picton f lie 1. Sabers
broken, flags surrendered. Soots Grays
annihilated. Only forty-two men left out
of the German brigade. The Engl sh army
falling back and falling back. Napoleou
rubbed his hands together an 1 said: “Aha!
aha! we’ll teach that little Eng isbman a
lesson. Ninety chaucos out of a
hundred are in our favor. Mag
nificent! Magnificent!” He even sent mes
sages to Paris to say that he had won the
day'. But before sundown Blucber came
up, and he who had been the conqueror of
Austerlin becamo the victim of Waterloo.
Tnat Paine which had shaken nil Europe
and filled even America with apprehension,
that name went down, and Napoleon, mud
dy and hatless aud crazed with iiis disasters,
was found feeling for the stirrup of a horse,
that he might mount and resume tbe oou
flict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial,
and it is a conqueror, aud there are good
people who say the night of uational over
throw is coming, a id that it is almost night.
But before sundown the conqueror of earth
and heaven will ride iu on the white horse,
and alcoholism, which has had its Austerlitz
of trium h, shall have its Waterloo of de
feat. Alcoholism having Is: its crown, the
grizzly and cruel breaker of human hearts,
erased with the disaster, will be found feel
ing in vain for the stirrup ou which to ro
raou it its foaming c larger. “So, 0 Lord,
let thine enemies perish.”
Water Ruins a Mill.
Watertown’, N. Y. t March I.—-The
largest pulp mill of the Remington paper
co.npauv, about two miles below this city,
was almost totally destroyed lust night by
high water, causing damages requiring
about $54,000 to repair, and killing John
Murphy, au employe, age 1 68 years.
Capt. CHRisToir :rs of the steamer Aller
lately compietd his 100th trip from Bremen to
New York an Iba k. In li morof the event the
emp.-ror decorate I him with the Order of the
Crown of t-e four U class.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1891.
THE C -TTOV PLANT.
How All Parts of It are Utilized—
Something About the Stalk.
Fernandina, Fla., March I.—Cotton is
well known. King Cotton rules a large
■pace in the financ al world. Every posib.e
: thing tr.at can modify the estimate of the
I coming crop of cotton is thoroughly
scanned, and we have monthly, weekly,
aud even daily bulletins, picking up every
fact that has any bearing on the coming
output of cotton.
Equally carefully do these bulletins pre
set t the visible cott in. All of this not nlv
indicates the value of oort n in fine oe, but
its value to the manufacturer and con
sumer of manufacture 1 goods. It even goes
further than this. Vsn us other occupa
tions are directly and indirectly affected by
the yearly output or cotton.
Couneoted with the cotton plant are other
interests perhaps not as well known. Take,
for instance, the c< tton seed. Cotton seed
oil ha- become known as a very va liable
and almost indispensable article of com-
merce. It even la ge*y superse les olive oil
ana lard as an article of food. The o iar-er
grades are invaluable as the bases of soaps
and for other u-es. In producing tnese ar
ticles from the seeds, till very lately the
seed hulls have been allowed to rot or have
beon burned. Thousands of tons have thus
been w*tea annually.
Wit nn a few years,however, these seed
hulls have been found to contain a valuable
fibre, and now this raw material is fully
utilized an l the finest grade* of paoer are
made from it. This output amounts to
thousand of tons annually.
We may say then teat the cotton, the
lint and the seeds are all fully utilized, but
this is a small par of tho pla it
What of the cotton stalk, which, to say
the least, constitutes seven-eighths of the
plant ?
Is there a fiber in it of any value?
The fact that the cotton stalk contains a
large q antity of ve y valuable fiber has
been fullv proven for considerable time.
Various devices have been planned to ex
tract this fiber profitably, but so far none
have become practically effective.
There are several almost insuperable diffi
culties to overcome.
First, from the time the ootton is pickod
till frost appears there intervenes but a few
weeks, and the crop must be handled in that
period. Frantically, then, if a plant is made
to handle the crop It must remain idle a
large portion of the year.
The second difficulty to overcome is
cartage.
Take any given territory and in it make
a cottou stalk fi *er plant. Avery careful
observation will di-close tho fact tha within
a radius of four or five miles there is not a
sufficient quantity of cotton stalks to make
the plant pay, a id more than this, when the
haul is over five miles the cost of raw ma
te ial will consume all the pr fits. A rail
road will not avoid the difficuly. Tide
water rivers may, in a very few localitiee.
overcome this objeoiion. These few excep
tions, however, are of no consequence.
What we must have is a plan to utilize
the whole crop of cotton stalks.
In this field of invention aro now quite a
number of workers, and it would bo assum
ing too much to bring forward what might
prove to be half developed plans.
Other minor difficulties appear, but I have
stated the practical ones.
It now appears pretty well established
that King Cotton is not as valuable as the
remaining part of the plant.
Silas L. Loomis.
ST. AUGUSTINE SIFTINGS.
Burglars Crack a Safe Handsome
Presents—Faving Contracts.
St. Augustine, Fla., March I.—Burg
lars forced open Myers & Co.’g safe during
last night and stole <75 in change. They
entered the store by forcing the rear win
dow. There is no clue to their identity.
A magnificent rnantl clock of fire gilt,
mounted in a massive bed of Italian onyx,
supported by six columns, seen here to-day,
bears this inscription: “To Joseph A.
McDonald, from H. M. F., Fonce de Leon,
1891 —Alcazar.” A beautiful cigar cabinet
of ebaste design, wrought in silver,
is marked: “To James A. McGuire, from
H. M. F., Ponce de Leon, 1891—
Alcazar.” Messrs. McGuire & McDonald
are the builders of Mr. Flagler’s famous
hotels, the Memorial Presoyterisn and
Grace M. E. churches, the city hall, beauti
ful streets and all of his improvements
here.
SMITH APOLOGIZES.
G. Stuart Smith has made a written
apology for his Herald article uncompli
mentary to the St. Augustine Gun Club,
which indorses James Kent Mason’s attack
on Mr. Smith. The tennis tournament for
the championship of the United States
comes off here March 9-14.
Henry M. Flagler has given a contract to
pave with cypress blocks Malaga street
from the Union depot to Orange avenue.
The work Logins to-morrow. The paving
ot most of the streets is to follow.
WAYLAID AND MORDEIED.
A Prominent Citizen of Biker County,
Florida, Killed.
Macclenny, Fla., Maroli I.—Hon. W.
H. Congleton, one of the most prominent
aud wealthy citizens of the county, was
waylaid and murdored within a few feet of
his residence at Sanderson, ten miles west
of here, last night. His body was then
placed acro-s the rails, presumably In the
hope that the east-bound mail train, then
nearly due, would crush him and remove
the evidences of murder. Ho was s ruck
five times with a railroad coupling-pin and
his skull crushed. His brains protruded
in several plaoes. No motive for the crime
is known, and there is no taugible clew to
his assassins. Mr. Congleton was an old
resident a .and universally esteemed.
Mlnneola Mention.
Minneola, Fla.. Marchl.—Minneolaand
Clermont are full of visitors.
A negro named Douglass was crushed be
tween two cars ou t’ue T. and G. railroad
Friday morning, and died Saturday.
Commission men say there will be more
tomat es shipped tds season from Ml i
neola and Cier uont than all the rest of the
state combined.
A FIGHT FOR A WIFE.
Habeas Corpus Proc edtnga Instituted
at : y vania.
Syi.vania, Ga., March I.—Judge Potter,
ordinary, tried an interesting habeas corpus
case Wednesday. Alfred Johnson, a man
of about 34, persuaded Diana Ruffin, apod
about 14, to get iu his road cart and go with
him to a colored prescher and be married.
About three hours after the mother and two
big brothers of Diana went to the
bouso of the groom and ordered
Diana back home. She went, whereupon
the husband t ok out a writ of hab as
corpus for his wife against the mother an 1
brothers. A large nu nber of witnesses
were sworn on both sides, but as
nothing definite could be sworn to about
the wife's age the ordinary decided she was
over 14, and gave her back to her husband.
Fruit In Floyd.
Rome, Ga.. March I.—Prominent fruit
growors in Floyd county sav that the out
look is very flattering this year for a good
fruit crop. Although the weather has been
uuusunlly warm, the trees are very late in
bu dding.
Said a prominent fruit grower Saturday:
“The very cold days, yesterday and to-day.
will set the fruit trees back so late that
there will bo very little danger of any
killing by frost.”
A Negress Murdered.
Avgusta, Ga., March I.—Lizzie Cloah,
an old negro woman, was found murdered
in her heu e in Harrisburg this afternoon.
Sue was kuocked in the head wit.i a ham
mer, which was found near the body. No
clew as to the murderer has been dis
covered.
‘’BAB’ SEES BERNTIAKDT.
SHE SKETCHES HER AS ACTRESS
AND AS WOMAN.
How She Impr*-ase the New York GirL
Her W n ierful Eyes—vow Is Sarah?
—Different Poop e at the Theater
The Ma cullne Nuisance-The Femi
nine Theater Fiend -i enten Sewing
Clashes - The New Easter Bonnets—
Some Self-Denials During Lent-Gos
sip o; the Metr polls in the Social
Season’s Off Time.
{Copyright.)
Nkw York, Feb. 28. —It has come with
Lent th sy t ar. The charming little debut
ante, who looks a dream as she g es off to
early church in her gray gown with a de
mure little gray hat, a prayer-book bound
In gray kid, and the primest of gray gloves
on her bands is thinking not so much of the
salvation of her soul as whst she saw Mine.
Sarah do last night. She is wondering if
the five fingers of her pretty hand could ever
gesticulate in such an expressive way, and
if she could ever get her eyes to set as do
those of the French actress.
Sarah Bernhardt’s eyes.
These are marvelous eyes, these eves of
Bar h’s. Just wit h t iera in the scene
where Tosca discovers the knife which she
uses to kill Scarpia. Bhe is holding in her
hand a glass of ns.tr —ner lips are burning
with fever and she is wild with anguish.
Suddenly straight through the glass,
straight through the clear water she see*
this knife that is to kill the man who wishes
to dishonor her, and she finds in it her refuge
and her lover’s saivation. The eyee close,
close until they seem merely a line of dark
acroaa the face; then they opened alowly,
surely, until they aie two burning
orbs gloa ing wi h delight on that
sharp bit of steel. You would swear tbea
that they were black, and yet when
you saw her looking in the face of her lover,
happy and gay, you believed they were
heavenly blue. When she was studying
her music, just before she is to sing before
the queen, they looked like the eyes of a
student, and were gray. Ido not believe
any woman ever lived who had such mag
nificent control over these windows of the
soul as has Madame Harab, and there are
timet when you confess to yourself tnat be
fore she was a woman she was an exqui
sietly beautiful panther.and that she still re
tains her litheness aud these wonderful eyes
to let tho world guess occasionally at what
she used to be.
Somebody asked,
HOW OLD IS SARAH?
She has no age. Who asks how old was
Lillith or Cleopatra, or Theodora or Kath
erine Borgia, or Mary Queen of Boott, or
any of the women who appear once in a
century or two and rule the world? For
my own part. I have a little belief that it is
always the same woman, that it isonly Lil
lith reappearing aud reappearing; that
sometimes she may take the form of a
queen and rule nations, sometimes she may
take the form of a circus rider and become
a queen of men, and again she may take
the form of a genius and rule not men or
nations, but the whole world, and that’s
the form she has chosen to take in Sarah.
There is another queer thing about her
that proves my theory.
Qu.te irrespective of the wonderful
genius, the woman holds you, and you
wonder why.
she’s not pretty, not beautiful
—these wonderful women never are—but
fascinating, une charmtuse. That’s it,
that’s the only way you can desonbe it.
Individual, capricious, talented, and yet a
woman, and iu that lies her str*ingest and
greatest power. If Sarah were put in that
abomination of abominations, the ordinary
di es* oiothes worn by men to-day,the would
still look a woman. She would impress you
as being a woman who was doing this for a
frolic, and to save your soul you couldn’t
think of her in a’oy other way. That’s
another charm. My friend*, don’t you won
der that women with this power sometimes
do not choose to blow up tue world or some
portion of it? They could do it, and it’s
more than kind of them nit to. The little
maiden goi g to church thinks out all this
in her own way. and then she wonders why
SHE CAN’T ANALYZE SARAH’S ACTING.
You cau’t analyze what is any more than
you can grasp the sunbeam or hold the rain
bow. It’s there, and w hen she corns* on the
stage as "Floria Tosca,” when she runs the
whole gamut of love-making as only a
woman can, it isn’t the aotressor the genius
you think of or see—it’s “Tosca” herself.
The people about you have faded away; if
there is music you hear it in the distance,
and all that you know is that you are wit
nessing a life story. Trained at the Francais?
Mv dear child, all the training in the world
will never make a Sarah—such women are
born, not made. You can pluck in the
African forest an orchid that is a marvel
ous expression of beauty in color and shape.
You can bring it to your home and the or
chid cultivator may take such care of the
flower that it grows more aud more beauti
ful, but it is always the orchid as it first was
plucked; improved, male deeper in color,
stronger in perfume, it was yet an orchid to
begin witn, and that is the way to work out
the story of the training of a genius.
THE MCBCULINE THEATER NUISANCE.
It’s queer how different people behave at
the theater. It’s curious to see how abso
lutely selfish most of them are. The woman
who doesn’t hesitate to wear a bonnet with
a rose that stands up a quarter of a yard
from it and bobs to and fro, making you
see at intervals the head of the principal
actress entirely gone aud a rose in its place,
is not, after all, the worst offender.
O, no! the worst offender is a man.
H;s types are several, blit one of the most
objectionable is the one who sits in front of
you and wears a heavy t p coat. Now, iu
stead of checking this, or making a bundle
of it and putting it under the seat, he elects,
when be takes it off, to throw it over the
bacK of the chair, and you have the pleas
ure!?) of holding it in your lap the greater
part of the evening. Then he has another
way. He is rather large, and, instead of
getting a corner seat, he gets an inside
one, and rests not only on the arms of ins
own chair, but partially over on your arm.
Then, too, he has a more or less pleas.ng
way of coming in after he has had a drink
of ice water and forcing you to come out in
the aisle just at the moment that the curtain
has gone up and all the audienoe, including
yourself, are deeply interested in seeing the
heroine make her entree. But the man with
the overcoat is about the worst, and really
the usher of any respectable theater ought
to have aa order to oust him.
THE FEMININE THEATER FIEND.
The feminine nuiiance is given to hum
ming the tunes that she bears between the
acts, or else she is so overcome by the play
and the performers that all she can say,
though she says this on an average of every
three minutes, is, “How grand!” Now you
are not denying this, but you rather she
would ma > e one statement of the fact and
after that hold her pesce. Another lady
whom you would willingly see put in tor
ture it the one who has read a synopsis of
the play, and who keeps her friends in
formed as to how things are going to turn
out; for her I should recommend the
thumb-screw. Then another female
fiend is the one who gives the private
histories of the actors and actresses
to her neighbor in a voice calculated to
reach for quite a distance around, aud who
looks happy and proud beciuse she has
heard all the latest scandals, and who seems
thiuk that she is doing the world at largo a
service in disseminating them. Heroic
treatment should be given her. Hei mouth
should be washed withs apsuds made with
kitchen soap—it’s an homoeopathic princi
ple, lye will cure lie. Of course, there are
orue nice people—thank goodness for that 1
—but the theater fiend is a horror that is
always witn us, and one that is a thousand
times worse even than the poor in my miud.
LENTEN SEWING CLASSES.
Have you joined a sewing class? Have you
gotten out lest Last’s thimble and arranged
a chatelaine with a pincu-blon and a pair of
scissors, and a si vr-mmated emery b<g,
ad a *tlver-back“d nerdie-h ok a* an ev d
eime of v-mr industry f i h-best sewing class
i in New York ia toe one that. U held in the
•ve.iing; the men oonie -o thread the needles
! and the sewers are only asked to baste, the
stitching being afterward given to women
who are weil paid for it The money for
I tins oomes from the dues paid not only
by the girls, but by the men who
are invited, and, as ti.ey are tolerably
heavy, there ia u-uallv a amall aum left
i over, which ia divided among the women
who have do e the work in proportion to
t 1 eir need for it. The matrimor.ialy boom
generally riaea during Lent, when a man
has an opportunity to see a girl sew. She
mayn’t sew well—indeed, she may sew very
badly, hut the eharp-,-oi:ited needle is a
favorite weapon of Cupid’s, and more times
than he can count it has pierced a heart and
blinded eyee to all cha ms save those of one
woman. So you sea the smart girl fully
understands the value of the aewing circle,
and as it u the rule, in the best ones, not to
permit auy gossip, the nasty, ill-uatuied lit
tle th.ngs that women are so prone to say
are not beard, and the average man thinks
the girl of his heart a crea ure most too
bright and good for anything else except to
belong to him.
THIS TEAR'S EASTER BONNETS.
The quaintest of little hats are being
shown for Easter day. They are small and
flat, have a wreath of flowers under the
brim, are tied on in a pretty fashion, and
altogether make the wearer of them look as
if she bad stepped oit of the very old fash
ion plats. A remarkably pretty one is to
be worn with a black cloth gown, over
which is a Marquise coat of black brocaded
with gold and trimmed with gold braid and
gold lace. This hat is of fins black straw
and has nothing on top except a few hoops
of black velvet ribb >n, but underneath,
resting on the hair, is a thick wreath of
yellow cowslips; black velvet ribbons tie
this under the chi 1.
OVER PRETTY WOMAN’S HANDS.
Speaking of the fashions, the continued
announcement that one-button glove* are
to be worn is again announced. They are
not in vogue except for one style of sleeve,
and that is the one which shapes in very
close to the arm beiow the elbow, fits very
close at the wrist, and cornea down in a
long point over the hand, reaching quite to
the knuckles. The one-button glove worn
wit i this is, however, a longer one than the
one-button glove of olden times, and though
it is short, yet does not permit the line of
flesh to show any place. With a short
sleeve that would permit a glove going up
u der it, such a faux pas as wearing a one
button glove would simply stamp one as
being very ignorant.
HOME SELF-DENIALS DURING LENT.
TV hat are you going to deny yourself dur
ing Lent? Are you going to give up evil
rpeaking and evil thinking? That’s a good
resolve.
Are you going to give up too much eating
and too much drinking? It’s just as well
not to make a god of your stomach.
Are you going to give up slang and sweet
meats? Neither of them add very muoh to
yourself personally.
Are you going to give up fault-finding
and ugly words? Both of them ruin the
shape of your mouth.
Are you going to give up undesirable
books and undeniable people? Neither of
them are good companions.
Are you going to give up all the mean lit
tle pettinesses of life and look out for the
great and good acts? Well, we will all try
to anyhow, and the trial is the first step
toward sucoess, isn’t it? Bab.
Dr. J. H. Warren Dead.
Atlanta. Ga., Maroh I.—Dr. J. H. War
ren, a prominent physician, died here this
afternoon. About a week ago he was
kicked on tne head by a horse, and has
since teen confined to hl9 bed. His death
resulted froty the injury. Dr. Warren’s
remains will be sent to Griffin, his old home,
for interment.
Death at Eastman.
Eastman, Ga., March I.—Mrs. Mary J.
Horne, mother of Mrs. E. B. Milner and
sister of Judge D. M. Roberts, died here
this morning at 4 o’olock. Mrs. Horne wa*
an estimable lady, and leaves a large num
ber of relatives and friends. The funera 1
will take place at 10 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
MHDiCAu
Dyspepsia
Makes tne ltrea of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint, “ all gone” feeling, bad taste, coated
. tongue, and irregularity of
Distress the bowels. Dyspepsia does
After not B et well of itself. It
requires careful attention,
bating and a remedy like Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which acts gpntly, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- Sick
petite, banishes headache, ®
and refreshes the mind. Headache
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
bad but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart- distressed me, or did me
n ® arc little good. After eating I
bum would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last Sour
spring I took Hood’s Sar- _
saparilla, which did me an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
the craving I had previously experienced.”
George a. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggist*. $1 ; six for jgs. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
iOO Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DON’T GIVB IP IN DESPAIR.
Dyspeptic*, you will find * reliable remedy in
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
It is * faultleas vegetable preparation, end
indorsed by prominent medical men.
Silver medal and diploma awarded over com
petitor*.
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M, D., Pharmacist,
Savannah, Oa.
Priee, 81 per bottle. Bold by all druggists.
DR. M. SCHWAB A SON,
GRADUATE OPTICIANS,
No. 2.1 Bull Street, Savannah, Oa.
If your eyes are cot properly fitted with eve
glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity
of fitting them with glasses which w ill correct
any visual imperfection tnat may exist, or can
b ’ corrected by scientific means As specialists
we have fitted ourselves by a practical course of
study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Buckiin’s
School of Optics, .New York. We are practical
opt clans, and make our own goods. New lenses
put in old frames while yon wait. Oculists’
prescriptions a specialty, a’u 1 carefully filled.
No charge for examination.
KH HAPOO INDIAN REMEDIES.
The sale of Indian Sagwa, Kickapoo Indian
Oil, Salve, Cough Syrup and Worm Killer, will
be continued by
BOWLINSKI, Phabkacist,
Broughton and Drayton Sts.
Telephone 4GS.
MARRIAGES.
WILBUR RAHNKR -Mthried, to~thiTcitj\
on the evening < f Feb. *!. by Rev. c. E. Dow
man, Mr Marion G. WiibtroJ Cr.ar eston. B
C . to M se Carabel Rabner of Augusta. Ga
No cards.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
LYSAUOHT.—The friends and acquaintance
of Po'ieeu an and Mrs. D Lysaught are re
spectfully invited to attend the funeral of their
aau.titer Katie, from No. 2/154 Bay street
THIS AFTERNOON at 3o clock.
Augusta papers please copy.
__ MEETINGS.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY^
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 8 o’clock.
BEIRNE GORDON,
Recording Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1-OU, fAe basis of meas
urement of all a.ive-tuiig m the Moasisa
Nsws unit be agate, or at the rate of Si 40 an
inch for the Arat insertion.
NOTICE lO STOCKHOLDERS' '
Mutual Trading Comp ant, I
Savannah, Ga., Feb *B. 1891. (
The second installment IS DUE and payable
on and after MONDAY. March 2.
Stockholders who have not paid the first In
stallment are required to do so AT ONCE.
Payments may be made at this office or at
the company's store. No. 31 Whitaxer street.
Printed copies of the constitution and by
laws may be obtained at either place.
J. S. TYSON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship
INCHRHONA must be presented at our office
by 12 o'clock, noon, THIS DAY, or payment
thereof will be debarred.
WILDER & CO.,
March 2, 1891. Agents,
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship R. F.
MATTHEWS must be presented at our office
by 12 o'clock, noon, THIS DAY, or payment
thereof will be debarred.
~ WILDER & CO., Agents.
March 2, 1891.
NOTICE.
All bills against the Norwegian bark CARL
BECH, Thos. Nielsen, master, must be pre
sented at our office by 12 o'clock m. THIS DAY,
March 2d, or payment thereof will be debarred.
A. MINIS’ SONS. Consignees.
FOR SPRING PLANTING,
NOVELTIES AND GARDEN SEEDS
OF ALL KINDS,
FLOWER SEEDS.
Heidt's for reliable goods. Low prices.
Prescriptions correctly filled.
Eyeglasses. Call and see.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The firm of SALAS & WYLLY Is this day
dissolved by limitation. Either partner willsign
in liquidation,
RAFAEL S. SALAS,
T. S. WYLLY, Jr.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
March 1,1891.
The undersigned have this day formed a eo
partnershlp under the firm name of SALAS *
NICOLL, to conduct a GENERAL LUMBER
AND TIMBER BUSINESS.
Office 80 Bay street, heretofore occupied by
SALAS A WYLLY.
RAFAEL S. SALAS,
GEORGE A. NIOOLL.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
British steamship EGLANTINE, Bruce,
master, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by the crew of said vessel.
A. MINIS’ SONS, Consignees.
THE PL'RIM BALL,
EN MASQUE,
AT MASONIC TEMPLE, ON TUESDAY,
MARCH S,
WILL ECLIPSE FORMER ONES.
But few more tickets can be sold.
Applications for floor space should be made
at once to Mr. A. S. GUCKENHEIMER.
THE JAPANESE VILLAGE ORCHESTRA
Will also appear during the evening.
No oalldren or servants will be permitted In hall.
OCEAN 8. 8. CO. OF SAVANNAH.
NOTICE.
Shippers of Fresh Vegetables wishing to pro
cure the benefit of the special contract rates
will call at this office and sign the contract.
C. G. ANDERSON, Agent.
JAPANESE STOVES.
JAPANESE HAND-WARMERS,
Small and compact. Can be carried in a Muff.
REPLACES HOT-WATER BAGS.
See them at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress Streets.
CALL ON “UNCLE ADAM/*
At 20 Jefferson street, corner Congress street
lane, if you want to borrow any money on your
diamonds, jewelry or other "personal'' property
Open 7 a M. to 9p. it. Saturdays to 11 p. h.
N. Y. LOAN OFFICE,
ADAM STRAUSS, Manager.
ALWAYS READY
To serve our Patrons with
THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDK
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
FRIED A HICKS’
restaurant.
USER.
I) RI N K
! D A D n \ 4F&
■mm e r#v h n o
S. GCCKBHSHIMEE * SONS
clothing.
It Aiima
Perhaps you think It is a compTra.
tively easy thing to produce a amt of
clothes that will be attractive to every
body. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. Since the world began
there were never two noses exactly
alike, ad there is just as much dif
ference ia taste as there is in noses.
The successful cl thier constantly has
his fingers on the pulse of popular
taste. It is his business to discover in
what direction the tide of popular
preference is flowi ig. Then and then
only can he hope to be in a position to
offer something that is oartain to at
tract ail hands. Of course, in making
up our Bpring stock we could not have
the pleasure of consulting you person
ally, but you will admit that we have
been successful in anticipating your
desire if you will call and look at our
hue of Clothing, Hats and Gouts’
Furnishing.
“1 MIS”
148 Broughton St.
BENNETT HIMES, Proprie'or.
BAN lis7
josnrwtesD™ WHVfI. rwltkd
President. Vie* President
JAR H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK 4 TRUST CO.
Savings Bep't
ALLOWS 4%
Qfposita of Si and Upward Received.
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
loskpii D. Weed, of J. D. Weed A 00.
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Reitzs, Exchange ana Insurance.
Jobs L. Harder, capitalist.
R. G. Erwin, of Chisiiolra, Erwin A dußignon.
Edward Karo w. of Strauas A 00.
Isaac G. Haas, General Bioker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. A D. L Maolntyre.
John Lyons, of John Lyons A 00.
Walter Const. of Paterson, Downing A 00.
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
18S0 FALL M Sibil 1831
PRINTING AND BINDING.
BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished with nil
necessary TOOLS and MAOHIIVEHY,
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Comp-.,
tent Workmen. Established Repute,
tion for Good Work. Additional or*
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
93J4 BAY STREET.
GEO. N NICHOLS.
MACHINERY.
McDonough <£ Ballantya^
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machines, Bailer Makers and Blacksmiths,
MANUFACTUHEES OF
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
\ GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
XX. simplest and most effective on the market;
Gullett IJght Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
FOR SAW.
FOR SALE.
Steam Saw-mill on St. Johns River, Jackson
ville, Fla. Capacity 40,003 feet per day, Stearns
latest improved maehin ry, Prescoott Steam
Feed, Allis double edger, Live Rolls; complete
in every respect.
One fine 6-room bouse, all necessary out
houses for hands, with about thirteen acres of
land, good wharf, well of artesian water.
Apply to
E. B. HUNTING & CO., 66 Ray street, Sa
vannah, Ga., or to GEO. A. DeCOTTES, Jack
sonville, Fla.
BROKBBs.
R. M. DEMERE,
BROKER,
NO. 6 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
Buys and sells state, municipal and railroad se
curities on commission. Also real estate. Loans
negotiated. Business respectfully solicited.
F. C. WYLLY,
STOCKS, BONDS AND REAL ESTATE
BROKER
Strict Attention Given to All Orders.
Loans Negotiated on Marketable Securities.
Correspondence Solicited.
ESTABLISHED ISM
M. M. Sullivan & Son,
Wholes Fish and Oyster Dealers,
ISO Bryan St. and 152 Bay lane. Savannah, G*.
Fish orders for Punte Grda received Mrs
have prompt attention.
