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gave him a (tone. Christ. like every other
Denefartcr of the world, was better
appreciated after he was dead.
Westminster Abbey and monumental
Greenwood are to a certain extent the
world's attempts by mortuary honors to
atone for neglects to the living. Poets’
corner in Westminster Abbey an attempt
fro pay for the sufferings of Grub Street. I
go into that poets' corner of Westminster
Abbey and there I find the grave of Handel,
the musician from whose music we hear to
day, as it goes down reverberating through
the ages. While I stand at the costly tomb
of Handel, 1 cannot forget the fact that his
fellow-musicians tried to destroy him with
their disc rds. Igo a little'further in the
Poes’ Corner of Westminster Abliey
and 1 find the grave of John Dry
den, the great poet Costly monu
ment, great mortuary tonors, but I can
not forget the fact that at 70 years of
age he wrote alout the oppresiions of mis
fortune and that he made a c ntraot for a
thousand verses at sixpence a line. Igo a
little further on in the Poets' Corner and I
find the grave of Samuel Butler, the author
of “Hudibras.” Wondorful monument,
costly m rtuary honors. Where did he die f
In a garret I move further on in the
Poet’s Corner, and 1 find the grave of a
poet of whom Waller wrote: “An old
schoolmaster by the name of John Milton
has written a tedious volume on the fall of
man. If its leugtn be no virtue, it has
none.” I go a little further on in tbe
Poets’ Corner and I find tbe grave > t Sheri
dan. Alas! for Sheridan. Poor Sheridan!
Magnificent mortuary honors. What a
pity it was he could not have discounted
that monument for a mouthful of some
thing to eat! O, unfilia! children, give yur
old parent! less tombstone and mAre
blankets, less funeral and more bed-room.
Five per cent, of the money now expended
at Burns' banquets would have made the
great Scotch poet comfortable and kept him
from being almost harried to death by tbe
drudgery of an exciseman. Horace Gree
ley—outrageously abused while he lived—
going out to his tomb, was followed by the
President of the United States and the lead
lag men of the army and the navy. Some
people could not say bitter enough things
about him while he lived; all the world
rose up to do him honor when he died.
Massachusetts, at the tomb of Charles Sum
per, tried to atone for tbe ignominious
resolutions with whiob her legislature
denounced tbe living senator. It was t£o
late. The costly monument at Springfield,
liL, cannot pay for Booth’s bullet Costly
mortuary honors on the banks of Lake
Erie —honors that cost between $300,000 and
$300,000 —cannot pay for the assassination of
James A. Garfield. Do justice to theli vine.
All the justice you do you will have to do
this side tbe gates of the necropolis. The
dead cannot wake up to count tbe number
of carriages in the proceasion, or see the
polish on tbe Aberdeen granite, or to read
tbe words of epltapbal commemoration.
Costly mausoleum of the gentleman in the
suburbs of Jerusalem cannot atone for
Bethlehem’s manger and Calvarean cross
and Pilate’s ruffian judiciary.
Agaiu, s anding in this place where the
Lord lay, I am impressed with tbe fact that
floral and sculptural ornamentation are ap
propriate for the places of the dead. We
are ell glad that in the short time of the
Bavior’s inhumation be lay amid flowers
and sculpture. I cannot quite understand
what I see in tne newspapers, where, amid
the announcements of obsequies, the friends
request, “Send no flowers.” Why, there is
no place so appropriate for flowers as the
casket of the departed. If your means
allow—l repeat, if your means allow—let
there be flowers on the casket, flowers on
the hearse, flowers on the grave. Put them
on the brow; it means coronation.
Put them in the baud; it
means victory. Christ was buried in a
parterre. Christ was buiied in a garden.
Flowers are types of resurrection. Death
is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory
and arboretum do all they nan in the way of
alleviation. Your little girl loved flowers
while she was alive. Put them in her hands,
now that she cannot go forth and pluck
flowers for herself. On sunshiny days twist
a garland for her still heart. Brooklyn has
no grander glory tnan her Greenwood, nor
Boston than her Mount Auburn, nor Pnila
delphia than her Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati
than her Spring Grove, nor San Francisco
than t.er Lone Mountain. What shall I sav
of those country graveyards where the vines
have fallen down std tbe slab is aslant and
the mound is caved in, and the grass
is the pasture-ground for the
sexton s cattle. Are your father and mother
of so little account you have no more re
spect than that tor their bones! Some day
gather together and straighten up tbe fence
and lift the slab, and bank up the mound,
and tear out the weeds and plant the
shrubs. After awhile, you yourself will
vi ant to lie down to the last slumber. If
you have no regard for the bones of your
ancestors, your children will have
no ueference for your bones. Do you say
these relics are of no importance! You will
see of how much importance they are
when tbe archangel takes out bis trumpet.
Turn all your graveyards into gardens.
Standing in this place where the Lord lay,
I am also impressed with the dignity of un
pretending obsequies. Joseph that day was
mourner, sexton, liveryman—had the entire
charge of all the occasion. Four people only
at the burial of the King of the universe.
Let this be consolatory to those who through
small means, or lack of large acquaintance,
have but little demonstration of grief at the
?;rave of their dead. It is not necessary.
/ong line of glittering equipages, two rows
of silver handles, casket of costly wood, pall
bearers scarfed and gloved are not necessary.
Christ looks out from heaven at a buri tl
where there are six in attendance and re
members there are two mors than
he had at his obsequies. Not rec
ognizing this idea, bow many small proper
ties are scattered in the funeral i ltes, and
widowhood aud orphanage go out to the
cold charity of tbe word. The departed
left enough property to have kept the
family together until they could take care
of themselves, but it is all absorbed in the
funeral rites. That went for crere which
ought to have gone for bread. A man of
small means can hardly afford to die in one
of our great cities! Funeral pageantry is
not necessary. No one was ever more
lovingly and tenderly put into the grave
than Christ, but there were only four in the
procession.
Again, standing in this place where the
Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that
you cannot keep the dead down. The seal
of the Sanhedrim, a regiment of soldiers
from the tower of Ai tomo to stand guard,
floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock’
niche of rock, cannot keep Christ in the
crypt. Come out and come up he must.
Came out and came up he did. Prefigu a
tion. The first fruits cf them that sleep.
J ust as certainly as vou and I go down into
the grave, just so certainly wo will come
up again. Though you pile up on the top
of us all the boulders of the mountains,
you cannot keep us dowu. Though wo
be buried under the coral of the
deepest cavern of the Atlantic ocean, we
will rise to the surface. Ah! my friends,
death and the grave are not what thev used
to be to us, for now, walking around the
spot where the Lord lay, we find vines and
flowers covering up the tomb, and that
which we called a place of skulls has be
come a beiutiful garden. Yea, now there
are four gardens instead of one: Garden of
Eden, Garden of tne World’s Sepulcher,
Garden of Earth’s Regeneration, Garden of
Heaven.
Various scriptural accounts say that the
work of grave-breaking will begin with the
blast of trumpets and shouting; whence I
take it that tne first intimation of the day
will be a sound from heaven such as has
never before been heard. It may not be so
very loud, but it will bo peuetrat'ing. There
are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed
silence basslept tnere ever since the day
when the sleepers were left in them. Tbe
great noise shall strike through them.
Am>mg the corals of the sea, miles deep,
w here the shipwrecked rest, the sound will
strike. No one will mistake it for thunder,
or tbe blast cf earthly minstrelsy. There
w ill be heard the voice of the uncounted
millions of the dead, who
come rushing out of the
gates of eternity, flying toward the tomb,
crying, “Make way! O, grave, give us
back our body! We gave it to you in cor-
suri-wador it now in inoomiption. ’’
Thousands of spirits arising from the field
of Sedan, and from among tbe rocks of
Gettysburg, and from among tbe passes of
South mountain. A hundred thousand are
crowding Greenwood. On this grave three
spirits meet, for there were three bodies in
that tomb! over that family vault t wenty
9>irits hover, for there were twenty bodies
rom New York to Liverpool, at every few
miles on ihe sea route, a group of bundnsis
of spirits coming down to the water to meet
their bodies. See that multitude! —that is
where the Central America sank. And yon
der multitude!—that it where the Pacific
went down. Found at last! That is where
the City of Boston sank. And yonder the
President went down. A solitary spirit
alights on y. aider prairie—that is where a
traveler perished io the snow. The whole
air is full of spirits —spirits flying north,
spirits flying south, spiri s flying east,
spirits flying west. Crash! goes Westmin
ster Abbey, as all its dead kings and orators,
and poets g-t up. Strange com idngiing of
spirits seai chiug among the ruins. William
Wi.berforce, the good, and (Jueeu Eliza
beth, the bad. Crash 1 go the Pyra
mids, and tbe monarebs of Egypt
rise out of the heart of the de-ert.
Snapt go the iron gates of the modern
vaults. Tbe country graveyard will look
like a rough plowed field as the mounds
break open. All the kings of the earth; all
tjie senators; all the great men: all the beg
gars; all the armies—victors and van
quished; all the ages—barbaric aud civil
ized; all those who were ch pped by guillo
tine, or simmered in the fire, or rotted in
dungeons; all the infants of a day; all tbe
octogenarians—all! all! Not one straggler
left behind. All! all! And now the air is
darkened with the fragments of. bodies that
are coming together from tbe opposite cor
ners of the earth. Lost limbs finding their
mate —boue to bone, sinew ti sinew—until
every joint is reconstructed, and every arm
finds its socket, and the amputated limb of
the surgeon’s table shall be set again at the
point from which it was severed. A surgeon
told me that after the battle of Bull Run he
amputated limbs, throwing them out of the
window, until the pile reached up to the
window-sill. All those fragments will have
to take their places. Those who were born
blind shall have eyes divinely kindled; those
who were lameshall have a limb substituted.
In all the hoets of the resurrected not one
eye missing; notone foot clogged; not one
arm palsied; not one tongue dumb; not one
ear deaf.
Wane up, my friends, this day, this glo
rious Easter morning, with all these con
gratulations. If I understand this day, it
means peace toward Hetven and peace
toward earth. Great wealth of flowers 1
Bring more flowers. Wreath them around
the brazen throat of tbe cannon, plant
them in the desert until it shall blossom
like tbe rose, braid them into tbe mane of
the war charger as he comes back. No
more red dahlias of human blood. Give us
white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth
with Easter garlands, for the
resurrection we celebrate this morning
implies all kinds of resurrection, a
score of resurrections. Resurrection from
death and sin to tbe life of the gospeL Res
urrection of apostolic faith. R surrectioa
of commercial integrity. Resurrection of
international good will. Resurrection of
art. Resurrection of literature. Resur
rection of everything that is good and
kind and generous and just and holy and
be utiful. Nothing to stay down, to stay
buried, but sin and darkness and pain aud
disease and revenge and death. Let those
tarry in the grave forever. “Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will
to men.”
Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Hons of men and augels -ay.
Raise your son js and triumphs high.
Sing, yn heavens, and earto r ply.
Love’s re leeming work is done,
Fought the flgnt, the battle won.
Lo! the sun's eclipse is o’er:
Lo! be seta in blood no more.
CLEWS ON FINANCES.
Wall Street Not Alarmed by the Ship
ment of Gild Abroad.
New York, March 29. —Banker Henry
Clews, in his review of financial affairs of
the past week, says: The effort to create
uneasiuess in the matter of gold shipments
was too transparent to be of long duration.
The official statement of Jan. 1, issued by
the treasury, showed that the stook of coin
and bullion held by the department was
$293,000,000. and on March 1 was $3,378,374
additional. There is in the hands of the
public at least $350,000,000 of gold, so that
the shipments o( $3,750,0001a5t wees, which
was not much more than one-haif the
amount drawn from London during the
November and December money disturb
ance here, was not in itself of vital import
ance, nor should it be significant of a pro
longed drain of the precious metal from
this oenter. It is not unusual to make ship
ments of gold at this period of the year, as
there is usually but little else left in the way
of our products that Europe has need of,their
wants having been suuplied. Our exports
of meiohaudise during the twelve months
to date over imports—while I have not the
figures at my hand at the moment—l am
quite sure will show a very large balance in
our favor. It is not unlikely, however,
that the return of American securities to
this side will necessitate more gold going
forward during the early spring. This
certainly will be the case unless u change
comes in favor of buying back some of tbe
stocks that have been sold for London ac
count. This is not at all unlikely, as the
condition of all the money markets of
Europe are reported as being stagnant and
without any particular or unusual demand.
It must be remembered, also, that the ex
ports of silver for the past year have only
been about $2,509,000, as against nearly
$22,000,000 the previous year.
The week started with an easier sterling
exchange market, somewhat contrary to
what was expected. It is due vo this fact
that no gold has been taken out for export
thus far this week, nor has any been talked
of as likely to go forward. Tbe gold export
scare, therefore, bas evidently passed over,
for the time being, at any rate, and in the
event of shipments being revived, as may
be the case next week or the following one,
it will not be likely to send a shock through
Wall street, as did the last shipment.
A PARK FO.-i OR-AN JO.
A Movement to Buy the Block West of
the Court House.
Orlando, Fla., March 29.—The people
of this city are considering the advisability
of having a publie park. Au attempt will
be made to obtain the help of tbe county to
buy the block west of the court house and
join it to the court house grounds by clos
ing Oak street and the end of Court street.
The new court house, winch will be a flue
building, will t.e erected In the center, and
leave ample grounds ou either side which
may be set in shade trees and planted with
Bermuda grass. Tbe city and Mr. Pell-
Clark own the property north of the pro
posed park, and Mr. Pell-Clark has said
that he will make no objection to Ouk
street being closed.
A BtAVB LITTLE GIRL.
She Captures a Snake and Drags It
Home Alive.
Baxley, Ga., March 29.—Mis3 Leonora
Dedge, aged 13 years, daughter of Capt. J.
G. Dedge, a woll known farmer of Appling
county, rode out to the woods the other
day to drive up the cattle and came upon a
very large rattlesnake. She dismounted
from her saddle, hitehed her horse and
! chased the snake to a root trying to kill him,
but the snake succeeded in reaching a den
under the root. She then remounted and
galloped her horse home, but soeu returned
with implements sufficient to force the,
snake from its den. Then she put a rope
round his neck and dragged it home, where
she now has it a cage. The rattlesnake is
I dangerous and is very numerous in that
I part of the country. Few women would
I even attempt to kill one.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1891.
FLORIDA’S CAPITAL CITY.
Value of Crops—Report of the State
Treasurer.
Tallahassee, Fla., March 29.—The
following are corrected total valuations of
Florida crops for 1889, compiled from the
tax doolu aid published by the department
of agriculture:
Table
No. I— Field crops $ 7.K52.42S 30
No. 2—Vegetable crops 880.M5 82
No. 3—Fruiter-ops 3.1 hi, j 25 29
No. 4—Livestock 5.2 7,313 00
No. s—Poultry 616,935 00
No. 6— Dairy 1,768.551 00
No. 7— Miscellaneous 172,961 17
$19,7::2,786 58
Similar statistics for 1890 are now being
taken by assessors.
THE TREASURER’S REPORT.
The state treasurer’s report for last year
has been published. From the insurance
table we get the following data for the year
ending Dec. 31,1889:
Twenty-six fire companies tooktrisks to
the amount of $22,145,036. Their losses
were $242,230 54 and their receipts $379,-
610 22.
During the same period five life som
pauies carried $4,568,134 in risks, paid
$129,499 61 losses, and received $299,234 08.
For the year’s business the fire companies
have a surplus of $137,379 68 and the life
companies $169,284 47.
Three new fire companies entered the
state in 1890.
One fire and one life company sustained
no loss.
The annual reports of Florida’s financial
officers Bbow the states’ finances to be in a
very healthy condition. The total amount
of bonds in the hands of individuals is
$359,000.
Floridians are looking forward to the
meeting of the interstate commission at
Jacksonville this week with considerable
interest. The commissioners oome to
Florida at the instance of our railroad
oimuiission to investigate interstate rates
on oranges, vegetables and strawberries,
but they will consider other complaints
during their services in Florida.
THE COFFEE WEED.
It really seems that tbe seed of the pestif
erous coffee weed is to enter the list of com
mercial products. A New Yorker writes to
Col. Womb well, commissioner of agricul
ture: “Tbe seed in question has not consti
tuted an article of commerce up to this
present date, but 1 have discovered a large
use for it, and I propose to deal ex
tensively with it and to have it
introduced into the public consumption.”
To which Col. Wombwell replies: “The
coffee weed is the plant you are seeking,and
if you can establish for it a permanent
value as an article of commerce the supply
can be made inexhaustible and its produc -
tion a profitable industry.” Mr. Jos. de
Susini inquires the price of the 6eed In lots
of from 100 to sjo hags of 100 pounds each,
and adds: “I think that an acre of la dof
43,560 square feet can easily bear 21,780
shrubs in their full growth and develop
ment (2 square feet per plant), which, at
ounces on the average, on dried grain each,
ought to yield 3,400 pounds—say 1 7-10 t jns
of seed.”
A DEPOSIT OF PHOSPHATE.
John B. Davids has found a rich and ex
tensive deposit of phosphate on the planta
tion of George H. McGinniss, 2V; miles west
of this city and near the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad.
Grand developments in phosphate inter
ests may be looked for in the Tallahassee
country soou.
More than 100 hands are throwing dirt
and cutting right of way on the Gainesville,
Tallahassee and Western railroad.
It is reported that the construction of the
Tallahassee Northern railway will be begun
soon.
A chalybeate spring on the plantation of
N. J. R jss, three miles east of Tallahassee,
is attracting much attention on account of
the medicinal properties of the water.
RAIDERS OF TBE NIGHT.
A Daring Band of Burglars and Safe
Crackers Getting in Their Work.
Willacoochke, Coffee County, Ga.,
March 29.—A daring bund of burglars has
for some time been plying its nefarious
trade at various points upon the line of the
Brunswick and Western railroad. The
railroad depot at Willingham, a station
near the city of Albany, was recently
broken into and robbed of a considerable
amount, as also several dwelling houses and
stores at Enigma and Elmo. It is thought
that the burglars are wending their way to
Waycross, wnere they have accomplices,
and where their stolen treasure is disposed
of. The citizens of Wiliacoochee, having
been warned of the approach of these light
fingered rogues, and of their probable visita
tion, were upon the alert, vigilantly watch
ing their advent. On Sunday evening last a
suspicious-looking fellow carrying an En
field rifle and an unusually largo bundle put
in appearance and was immediately spotted.
Upon being questioned he soon became
confused, and realizing that ho had fallen
into the hands of determined men, and not
reeming to fancy his surroundings, he made
a sudden effort to escape, holding on to his
Enfield rifle and bundle. He was followed
aud hotly pursued for nearly four miles, be
ing several times shot at and supposed to
have been wounded, causing him to drop
his bundle, which, on examination, was
found to contain valuable articles of mer
chandise, which were identified and restored
t > the proper owners. He was unquestion
ably a “representative man” of the band,
making his way to Waycross. Owing to
the darkness of the night he managed to
escape, but the citizens of Wiliacoochee are
determined to break up the gang if possible.
’lhomasville Topics.
Thomasvillk, Ga., March 29.—Dr.
Mayo, the distinguished Boston educator,
gave au instructive and entertaining lecture
to a select audience at the court house last
night. The doctor is engaged in the laud
ablo work of enlisting additional interest in
the important busiues3 of free general
educa'ion.
F. F. Whiteman of Chicago, general
manager of the Chicago and Northwestern,
is in the city. He with his wife aud J. M.
Whiteman arrived in his special car, and
will remain some time for his health,
A Farmer Found Dead.
Wkstfarm, Fla., March 29.—Josiah
Dixon was found dead near the ac .demy at
this place Friday. He left his work Thurs
day evening shortly before night to go
home. He did not arrive and search was
made for him with above results. The
cause of his death is unknown, as no marks
of violence were fouud upon his person.
Mr. Dixon was au honest and industrious
man, and made a valiant soldier during the
late war, as many of bis old comrades of the
confederacy will remember. He leaves a
wife and four children.
Bohemians Tain of 111 Treatment,
New York, March 29.—The Bohemian
workingmen of this city held au indigna
tion meeting to-day to protest against the
brutal treatment of their fellow-country
men at Purcell Camp, W. Va. The speakers
rated severely the ill treatment of sixty
Bohemian immigrants who worked on the
Norfolk and 'Western railroad extension.
The district attorney was called on to in
vestigate the case.
A Negro Found Dead.
Milledgevillk, Ga., March 29.—Coro
ner Cause was notified to-day by a postal
card that Dan Hall, a negro living north of
this city, had been found dead in his house.
Before the coroner reached the scene he re
•ceived a message that the negro had been
buried. It is not known what caused his
death, but his body will be exhumed to
morrow, aud an investigation will be made.
Easter at Milledgeville.
Millkdqeville, Ga., March 29.—To
day was the prettiest day of tho year and
all the churches were prettily decorated,
large congregations were at all the
churches.
MR. PRATT’S INVESTMENT.
A MANY MILLIONAIRE WITH A
PHILANTHROPIC HOBBY.
Blue Days la Art —He Qave Up a
$25,000 Job—A Tale of a Tall Hat-
Tie Bachelor’s Room And Yet
More New Papers.
ICopyriqht.l
New York, March 28.—A densely packed
throng of well dreseed people stood shiver
ing before tbe door of au immense brick
building in Brooklyn the other evening.
From time to time tbe door opened and
forty or fifty were admitted, when it would
be closed again until there was room inside
for more. Hurrying along the street came
a rather short man, neither thickset nor
thin, with keen gray eyes, a shrewd and
kindly face, beardless except for a
short “chinner.” He seized the situation
at a glance.
“Come this way,” he shouted to those on
the outskirts of the throng. “I’ll let you in
at the back door.” Then he started at a
dug trot down an alley at the side of the big
building, followed bv a hundred or so
people.
Tne man with the gray eyes was Charles
Pratt, and the building, of course, the in
dustrial institute which he founded and
which is bis pride and pet. Lit up in every
window, looming huge through the dark
ness, it was an imprest. e monument to tbe
sagacity which has made Mr. Pratt one of
the richest men in tbe coumry and the
generosity with which he usee his wealth,
as the waiting people at the doer testified to
his unerring judgment in gauging a “long
felt waut” which would appeal to public
interest.
Within, the halls and passages were
crowded to suffocation. AU the processes
of instruction were going on. There were
thousands of students, tnousauds of visitors.
There were boys and young men laying
bricks, doing carpenter work, sketching,
paintiug, plumbing, wood carving. There
were women and girls doing most of these
things and cooking, dressmaking and hat
trimming besides. There were rooms full of
splendid casts, books,collections of minerals,
curiosities, fabrics, art objects, samples of
student workmanship in every branch on
exhibition.
Two great buildings, one behind the
other, are already in use. Another larger
than either is soon to be built. AU the
classes are full to overflowing. The best
experts obtainable are teaching them. The
completed plant will cover not lota but
acres and extend six stories into the air.
Yet it is only three or four years since
ground was broken for the first buildiDg.
blue days in art.
These are blue days in art; not because
pictures are a drug in the market, for that
is a plaint that has been heard before.
William M. Chase is not the first splendid
painter whose works have been sold fora
song.
Tne blueness is altogether a matter of
paint. Take a look at tbe studios and see
what a prevailing blue tone they show.
There’s the clever newcomer, Aug.
Cranzen. Nearly every picture of a dozen
he is showing is blue, mostly light blue. In
one the central note is a laborer with new
blue over alls and an old, faded blue blouse,
from which all tbe other tints are shaded
down. Leonard Ochtrrian has a land and
waterscape in which everything, trees, sky,
grass, water, is of a deep, dark color, re
calling tho bine dye tub of a New England
farm woodshed. George H. Bogert
effects a pale greenish blue. Fred Kost
has a round balf-dozen of blue pict
ures. Chase paints in blues when ha
feels like it, apparently, but that is not
often. His specialty is t.ie bright and vivid
greeu of young, closely cropped grass and
freshly sprung, sunlighted foliage. Craziest
of all the blue men, tnojgb, is J. H. Twucht
tnau, who has been show.ug a whole room
full of oil paintings and pastel in the weak
est, palest, thinnest, most watery blue, in
which everything is so hazy and indistinct
that it’s hard to tell a tree from a good in
tention without a scale diagram. Twacht
man is a very clever artist, though, and his
blue pictures are only a case of Simon says
thumbs up. Being in the prevailing tone,
they hava been much admired.
The older men, who have an acquired re
putation to sustain, are above such'afft-cta
tions. It’s a pleasure, after a surfeit of
light blue and dark blue to see one of In
ness’ splendid sunsets, rich in poetio effeot,
or a careful figure bit by Winslow Homer
or a De Haas sea piece.
THE BACHELOR’S ROOM.
The multiplication of bachelors’ apart
ment houses is responsible for tbe bachelor’s
room, which you will find nowadays as
often out of the.apartment houses as in it.
The bachelor’sTcom i3 not a hall bed-room
or a three-story back. XtU a fine, spacious
apartment which is supposed not only to
show at a glance that its occupant is a man,
but to give some evidence of the trend of
his tastes. If he is artistic the fact is ex
pected to declare itself in the fine virility of
the choice of proof etchings he has made;
water colors are he’d in more favor by
women. If he is musical his fiddle and
banjo, piano and flute proclaim it.
Oftener tbau either, however, one sees
au arrangement like this: Above the
mantel cros ed foils with a pair of fencers’
masks; upon the mantel, two pairs of box
ing gloves. On a long, unbroken side, a
panel of oars or puddles, fish neti and rods
witn mounted deers’ heads as climaxes;
upon the door a rawhide Navajo shield,
hand painted by some copper colored
impressionist with a wliitowash brush and
a pot of red ochre; upon another wall an
arrangement of guns of all nations, swords
and pistols; a bronze of tho Louvre gladia
tor ; a lariat in coil; a lacrosse or tennis
racket; minor trifles of a sportive hue; no
pictures, except possibly some old line en
gravings of bunting scenes.
The effect ot all this is rather confusing at
best; it becomes comical when dthe bachelor
occupant is a soft-handed swell who couldn’t
shoot a barn door at ten rods and never
pulled a stroke oar in his life.
A LIVELY SCOTCHMAN. .
I do not kuow any one who enjoys life
more than Andrew" Carnegie. His lively
demeanor is an exception to the pomposity
usual among seif-mide millionaires. His
well-wrinkled face, with its frame of gray
hair and whiskers and its twinkling eyes, is
as cheery as a hoy’s, aud his wiry little b dv
seems to know no fatigue. He thinks noth
ing cf crossing the Atlantic in nrdwinter to
keep an appointment in Now York, Pitts
burg or Edinburgh. To the three cities he
has made gifts aggregating millions of dol
lars. The new music hall In New York
which was built for young Damrosch’s con
certs mainly by Carnegie’s money is one of
the most splendid buildings of the sort in
the world. Mrs. Carnegie, a splendid, tail,
well-rounded woman, with plenty of brains
and common sense but no pretensions to
beauty, is his constant companion upon his
travels, and their fine pride in each other
reminds one irresistibly of the romantic story
of their unsuspected wooing and the wed
ding which was a surprise to every one.
A TALE OF A TALL HAT.
“Doctor,Tsaid Ito a skillful physician,
whose reputation has traveled a good wav
out of New York, “why do youalways wear
a tall hat? It isn’t becoming to you.”
“I know it,” said the doctor, “but I’ll tell
you how it was. A few years ago, when I
was younger than I am now, I attended the
sick child of a garrulous daughter of the
Emerald Isle down upon the east side. The
child recovered and I presented mv bill upon
the lust visit. ‘So much as that!’ said the
mother, as l named a sum about one-quarter
of my usal fee. ‘Howly saints, hear till tbe
mou! Why, for that monev I cud ’a’ had a
doctor with a plug hat.’ When I went home
I took off my slouch hat and I have never
worn one since, except at Grand Army
parades.”
HE GAVE UP A $25,000 JOB.
Here is a man who gave up a salary
of $25,000 a year and an boQoraUe and
influent,ail poet because be didn't want
to he bothered with the work. He is a boat
five feet two or three inches high, stout
rather than fat of build, energetic in move
ment. His bead is large and well developed;
his close cropped hair is gray, his eye, seen,
twinkling and blue, his face unwrinkied
and inn<cent of beard except for a small
Bard well Slote chin tuft Thu is Alfred
C. Cheney, until recently president of the
Nicaragua Canal Construction Company,
with the control of the expenditure of
J 100,000,000 in prospect. He resigned t e
place because, as president of the Garfield
National Bank, be had enough to do already,
whioh is a very good reason.
Mr. Warner Miller, the preeent president,
by the way, assured me on the day he
started on his Nicaraguan exploration tour
that the canal could be finished in six years.
AJfD YET MORE SEW PAPERS.
Two new daily papers for New York are
not enough, it seems. CoL William Blessed
be-tbe-Peacemakers Brown, who acted as
referee when Cleveland and Hill shook
bands, wants to run a morning edition of
the Evening Sews, which enjoyed a tre
mendous circulation before the Evening Sun
and World were started. And still a fourth
new paper expected to be not two weeks be
hind Col. Brown’s. Can the city support
them all? Owen Lanqdon.
GIRLS* INDUSTRIAL SOHCOU
The Presidency stlli Undecided—Work
on the Building.
Millkdgkville, Ga., March 29.— The
question that has most thoroughly agitated
the mind of the average citizen here is
“Who will be the president of the Girls’ in
dustrial School?" and that question seems
as far from solution to-day as it was the
day the corner-stone of the building was
laid. The trustees have had three mee in gs
for the purpose of electing a president, but
as they failed to do so the supposition is that
they have not yet received the right appli
cation. The last meeting here was a full
representation of the members of the board,
but they adj >urned without reaching the
specific work intended. The members were
a little reticent in stating what was done,
and nothing from that meeting is known
beyond its adjournment until its next meet
ing in Atlanta subject to the call of the
chairman.
The building is rapidly nearing comple
tion, and now presents a splendid appear
ance from every point of view. It is sit
uated in the heart of the city, on a twenty
acre square that tapers off" easily toward
the four surrounding streets. It is beauti
fully graded, and, when it is sodded and
decorated with flowers,etc., as will be done,
it will be one of the prettiest places in the
south.
The trustees are determined to get the
bast man for president that can be gotten
for the money. The salary will be $2,500
per ainium, and, if a good Georgian cannot
be obtained for that, they will take the best
outsider they can get, though they prefer a
native Georgian. The school will open
Sept. 1, and the people here will give it
unstinted support until it becomes the first
institution of the kind in the country, and
the pride of every Georgian.
A HOARD OP GOLD.
Digging for an Immense Treasure
Buried by an Indian Chieftain.
Middletown, N. Y., March 29.—Five
miles down the Delaware river from Port
Jervis, and on the farm of Joseph Bosler of
Montague township, N. J., there is a party
of men at work digging for a supposed
hoard of virgin gold of the value of several
million dollars. An old and decrepit woman,
who claims to have clairvoyant powers, is
directing the digglug. She toid the diggers
that deep in the earth where they are now
at work is a cave, in which, ages ago. a
great Indian chief stored immense golden
treasures, which have never been disturbed,
and as a sure indication that they were dig
ging in the right spot they would come upon
the old chieftain’s skeleton a few feet below
the surface.
Sure enough, it is said, the diggers did
uuearth a skeleton near the place indi
cated; but immediately afterward they
struck a barrier of solid • rock, througn
which they are now slowly and laboriously
blasting their way with giant powder. It
is a curious faot that the story of such a
buried treasury has been banded down as a
tradition from the earliest settlement of the
valley, and many people living in the region
are "watching the progress of the diggers
with excited interest.
THE DUKE WAS IN PAR'S.
Confirmation of tb© Stories of His
Latest Escapade at the Capital.
London, March 29.—There is now little
doubt but that the Duo d’Orleans was in
Paris last week, as asserted by Le Matin and
Vlntransigent, in spite of the feeble de
nials of the French official press. The story
published in the Times, to the effect that
the prince is in Tiflis, is entirely with
out foundation. In coming to Paris in
cognito, however, he has only imitated
Prince Victor Napoleon, who boasts of
his frequent visits to the French capital in
disguise. It is now admitted that M.
Boncher, the faithful tutor who has so long
been in charge of the erratic prince, re
signed because he found that he could no
longer control the latter’s movements. The
same conviction has forced itself upon the
various agents of the Comte de Paris, who
is himself at the present moment quite in
the dark as to his son’s whereabouts. The
youth’s escapades, however, have not in
jured him with the French people, who
rather admire his spirit of adventure.
MADE MONEY OUT OF TRAMPS.
A Jail Janitor Feeds Nine Thousand
Men at a Profit.
Jamaica, L. 1., March 29.—During the
past ten months 9,000 tramps have found a
harbor of refuge in the town hall here. The
grand jury finds that the county allows 30
cents a night for lodging and feeding each
tramp, and that this allowance has been
made a big source of profit, tramps remain
ing about for weeks at a time. Ont of the
30 cents, it is believed that the janitor re
ceived 15 cents for bread and coffee, the
overseer of the poor 5 cents and the town
10 cen’s. It is said that the janitor made
12 cents clear on each tramp.
Mrs. McKee’s Trial.
Rome, Ga.. March 29.—Mrs. McKee’s
trial begins to-morrow. Everybody is full
of eagerness for the great trial to begin.
Many people have come from a distance to
attend it. Rumors are afloat to-day of
almost every nature about developments
that will be brought out in the progress of
the case. Both sides will announce ready
at 10 o’clook in the morning.
Blaine and the Jews.
Washington, March 29 .—1 t appears now
that while Secretary Blaine used his in
fluence to prevent a public meeting at the
capital of the United States to express the
sympathy of Americans with the oppressed
Jews of Russia, he has made some sort of
promise to call the attention of the govern
ment of the czar to the complaints made.
A Wealthy Packer Dsad.
Milwaukee, Wia, March £9.—John
Plankinton. Milwaukee’s foremost citizen,
died to-night. He built up a great fortune
in the packing business, in which no was
long associated with Mr. Armour of Chi
cago.
An Fx-Congassman Dead.
Birmingham, Ala., March 29.—ex-
Congressman Peer M. Dox is reported dy
ing at his borne in Huntsviiie. He formerly
represented the Eighth Alabama district.
Died From Her Wound.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 29.—Miss
Jennie Staley, sister of County Judge
Whiteside, who accidentally shot herself
Thursday, died to-day.
Arrested for Murder.
Trenton, Ga.. March 39.—Sheriff Byrd
arrested Alonso Gray at New E ngland City
Friday, on a requisition from the governor
of Alabama. He is wanted at Ceatre for
the murder of his brother-in-law and
for bigamy. He has ben working at New
England City for a year under the name of
Thompson. He is now in jail awaiting the
arrival of the Alabama authorities.
M-KDICAL.
igooryf
COyPOUND EXTRACTyV^V
''W\
The importance of purifying the blood can
not be overestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is worthy
your confidence. It is peculiar in that it
strengthens and builds up the system, creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
iOO Doses One Dollar
MEETINGS.
SOLOVIOVS LODGE NO.LF. A
An etxra communication of this A
lodge will be held at Masonic Temple
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock.
The E A degree will be conferred. ' '
Members of sister lodges and transient breth
ren are fraternally invited to meet us.
By order of Will. B. SPANN, W. M.
Fred W. Clarke, Secretary.
SPECIAL N OTICKS.
On and after Feb. 1, 1880, the batie of meas
urement af aVL advertising ta the Morxijkj
Nsws will be agate, or at the rate of gl 40 aa
inch for the first insertion.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT WATER.
TAKERS.
Orders have been issued to the Turncock to
shutoff the supply of water from all premises
in arrears for water rent, due and payable in
advance for six months, from Jan. Ist.
To avoid the penalty payment should be
made at once.
C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
March 23, 1891.
FOR SALE,
Ten large Draft Mules and Horses, with seven
teen head to select from. Apply Denis J. Mur
phy's coal docks, Houston to Price streets, river
front, or 5 Drayton street.
DENIS J. MURPHY.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
CHRIST CHURCH.
The annual Easter election for wardens and
vestrymen of Christ church parish will be held
in the basement of the church edifice on MON
DAY, the 80th March, 1891.
By the Vestry.
FUEID A HICKS,
DELMONICOS OF THE SOUTH.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
NOS. 9, 11, 13 MARKET.
POLAND SPRINGS.
Just received direct, a shipment of thiscele
brated water.
FIFTY CASES HATHORN WATER.
TWENTY-FIVE CASES BUFFALO WATER.
CLYSMIC AND BETHESDA WATERS.
AT
BUTLER'S PHARMACY.
“DO YU NEAO KASH!”
Yure “Unkel Adam" kin borrow yu the
“Geld" on yure Dimonds; yallar or wite Time
keepers, Kloding, Tules, &c. Open from 7
A. u. to 9 p. m., Saturdays to 11 p. m.
NEW YORK LOAN OFFICE,
ADAM STRAUSS, -Manager.
30 Jefferson street, cor. Congress street lane.
SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
About Ulmer’s Liver Corrector.
I have used ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR
in my famdy with the most gratifying results
where other remedies have failed. It has been
found to be just what is required. I look upon
it as a valuable medicine.
DAVID HESTON,
Proprietor United States Label Printing Estab
lishment, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.
I consider ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR a
most valuable medicine, and shall take pleasure
in recommending it. It was prescribed for me
by my physician. G. F. ANDERSON,
President of the Seevers & Anderson Milling
Company, Baltimore, Md.
I consider ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR
invaluable as a family medicine.
DAVID WELLS,
Ex-Alderman City Savannah, Ga.
THE ARTESIAN SWIMMING POOL
On Liberty street is being much improved. Will
be leased on favorable terms to responsible par
ties. Apply to.
WALTHOUR & RIVERS,
No. 103 St. Julian Street.
GLYCERINE SOAP, lO CENTS A BAR.
This Soap is usually sold at double the above
price. Supply is limited.
ROWLINSKI, Pharmacist,
Broughton and Drayton Sts.
Telephone 465.
118. >l. SCHW AB A HOV,
GRADUATE OPTICIANS,
No. 23 Bull Street, Savannah, Ga.
If your eyes are not properly fitted with eye
glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity
of fitting them with glasses which will correct
any visual imperfection ttiat 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. Bucklin’s
School of Optics, New York. We are practical
opticians, and make our own goods. New lenses
put in old frames while you wait. Oculists'
prescriptions a specialty, and carefully filled.
No charge for examination.
NOTICE.
Neither the captain nor consignees of the
Spanish bark SANTIAGO. Garau Master, will
be responsible for any debts contracted by the
crew. CHARLES GREEN’S SON & CO.,
Consignees.
AATTSEMENTS.
Young Men’s Christian Association
Gymnasium Hall.
MR. C. E. BOLTON,
WILL LECTURE ON
Wednesday Ev’ng, April 1,
AT 8:15 O’CLOCK,
Reunited Germany and Heroic Loaise.
Thursday Ev’ng, April 2,
AT 8:15 O'CLOCK,
LANDS OF TOE MIDNIGHT SCI
Admission 50c. Reserved Seats 65c.
Rapidity of movement is apt to be ac
companied by a sacrifice of dignity, es
pecially if you happen to have a vicious
dog at your heels. It would be stretch
ing a point to say that our spring suits
have any dignity, because the term is
not usually applied to inanimate objects,
but if they have no dignity of their
owd, they at least impart dignity to
the wearer, who, in turn, may be said
to invest them with with a sort of per
sonal animation. If there Is anything
in this life that is positively depressing,
it is the unfortunate who is condemned
to wear an unbecoming suit of clothes.
He may try to appear unconscious of
the attention he attracts, but he is a vie
tim of inward embarrassment, even
though he gives no outward evidence of
it. You will have no cause for embar
rassment if you buy your Spring Suit
for yourself or your boys of “THE
FAMOUS,” where you will find just
what you want to suit your person as
well as your pocket. Straw Hats, Ele
gant Neckwear, Etc.
“IIMMS’’
CLOTHING HOUSE,
148 Broughton St.
BENNETT HYMES, Proprietor.
HARDWARE.
TO MECHANICS
A full line of Carpenters’
Tools of all kinds always in
stock. Bailey’s Patent Planes
and Tools; Disston’s Hand and
Panel Saws; Jennings Auger
Bits and Braces, and every
article required by mechanics.
Machinists’ Tools, all kinds.
Wiley & Russell Stocks and
Dies. Blacksmiths’ Drills and
Ratchets. Forges, Bellows,
Blowers, Vises. Merse’s Twist
and Taper Drills. Mill Sup
plies. Planters’ Tools.
FOR SALE BY
PalierMimCo.
148 and 150 Congress Street.
BANKS.
JOTi. b. WEED. 'JtnA. ÜbMW.aSU
President. Vice President.
JAB. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK 4 TRUST CD
Savings Dep t
ALLOWS 4%
Deposits of $1 and Upward Rewivod.
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Wkbd, of J. D. Weed St Cta.
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Reitzk, Exchange andlnsurance.
John L. Hardee, Capitalist.
K. G. Erwin, of Chisholm, Erwin & dußignon.
Edward Karow. of Strauss & Cos.
Isaac G. Haas. General Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. 4 D. L Maclntyre.
John Lyons, of John Lyons 4 00.
Walter Ooney. of Paterson, Downing 4 00.
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
1890-falTmT wim-wat
PRINTING AND BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished with all
necessary TOOLS and MACHINERY,
FAFERS and MATERIALS. Comps,
tent Workmen. Established Reput*,
tion for Good Work. Additional or>
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
93X BAY STREET.
GEO. N NICHOLS.
GRAIN AND FRO VISIONS.
Eastern Hay From Maine!
1,350 Bales
CHOICE - MAINE - HAY
Just landed from schooner Cassie
Jemison.
CY~For sale in lots to suit purchaser*.
T. J. DAVIS,
156 Bay Street.
TEA.
Tea. TOO Half k Quarter Chests Tea
FOR SALE BY
C. M. Gilbert & Cos.,
Bay and West Broad Streets.
