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INDEX TO m ADWtBTISmHII
Matting— Branch No. 464, Irish National
Xrague
Special Notices —Notice. S. V. Stiles; The
Harmonic Orchestra; To Owners of Real Estate,
The Title Guarantee and Loan Company; The
Davis Music Company; Dr. M. Schwab & Son's
Return; Desirable Property for Rent. S. Guek
enbenner & Sons;Special, R. H. Jones; Notice,
R. H. Jones; Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company; Special Notice. Schroeder A Cassen's
■Bottling Works; Stern's Two Cigar Stores; As to
Craw of Norwegian Bark Elora; Store and Dwell
ing for Rent, E. F Bryan; Prof. Franr Hubner;
Btore for Rent; To Our Friends, Savannah Brew
ing Company; Tinning, etc., E. C. Pacetti;
Thanks, C. P. Rossignol; Falk Clothing Com
pany ; Salooa. J. P. Long; Minstrel Performance
by Savannah Theatrical Club Tuesday Night;
Business Literature, The Robinson Steam Print
line Company; The Faust Beer; Homeseekers,
W. K. Wilkinson, Real Estate Dealer; Sayan
nab Savings Bank; Empire Steam I-a unary;
Compounding Prescriptions, H. V, Nottingham
& Cos.
True "Blanket" Sale Continues — At Eck
stein's.
Change— D. Hogan.
Stoves—Jas. Douglass.
Momaja Coffee - Engel A Rothschild.
School Suits Suit School— B H. Levy A
Bro.
. Opr Store the Encyclopaedia -A. R. Alt
mayer A Cos.
F all Display— At the Globe Shoe Store.
Some Doctors— The Savannah Carriage and
Wagon Company.
Bath Tubs— Savannah Plumbing Company.
Deep Water Cut—C. Uray A Son.
Insurance Card— New York Life Insurance
Company.
Educational School for boys, H. A.
Crowther, Principal, Home School for Young
Ladies, Athens, Ga.
New Fall Dress Goods—Crohan A Dooner,
119— What Does This Mean f—D. B. Lester
Grocery Company.
Cheap Columns A dvertiskments Help
Wanted, Employment wanted, for Rent, for
Bale, Lost, Personal, Miscellaneous.
The promised mass mooting iu this city on
the liquor question will not be helpful to the
liquor interests. But the liquor men seem
anxious to have the question discussed. If,
therefore, the result should be the strength
ening of the anti-liquor sentiment they will
have only themselves to blame.
Since the present legislature has been in
•ession the value of stocks and bonds of rail
roads of this state has deolined many millions
'of dollars. If it maintains its threatening
attitude toward the railroads and con
tinues in session muoh longer the bottom
will drop completely out of railroad securi
ties.
The young colored man Alexander Hardy,
the slayer of Harmon Murray, is good deal
of a hero in the neighborhood of Gainesville,
Fla., where he lives. He showed an amount
of courage that few men possess, and no
one begrudges him the fd,ooo reward he
earned by ridding the state of the des
perado.
It is annouuoed that the world s fair com
mittee that is traveling in Europe has se
cured for the fair “a wax works representa
tion of a sick and sore ward in a hospital.”
This announcement has not created a pro
found sensation in this country, but it shows
that the oommittee is not idle, though it is
believed to be somewhat overfed.
The anxiety of some of the members cf
the legislature to have a joint debate on the
railroad question between Congressman
Watson and Col. Livingston is difficult to
comprehend. Neither of them has any in
formation respecting railroads that is
valuable, and what they would say would,
in all probability, still further weaken
confidence in railroad property.
The killing of Harmon Murray gave great
satisfaction to the people of a wide section
of country in Florida, and with very good
reason. He was a desperado of the worst
sort. His crimes were many. He had no
regard whatever for human life. It will
never be known,probably,exactly how many
murd.-rs, besides leaser crimes, he committed,
but it would be difficult to match bis record
in the criminal history of Florida. And be
does not appear to have had any redeeming
qualities. He was a monster of wickedness.
Prepara for 1892. <
It is the duty of democrats m all parts of
the state to begin to make preparations for
the campaign of 1822 by organizes clubs
and disseminating political literature in
which the doctrines of the Democrat. c Party
ore clearly enunciated and explained- No
one can predict what that campaign will
bring forth. Georgia is overwhelmingly
democratic now, and from present indica
tions will remain so. but there is a chance
that the People’s party movement will be
ootno much stronger than it is, and that
the leaders of it will endeavor to gain a
foothold for it in this state.
The talk that there are very few peop.e
in this state who couid he induced to sup
port the People’s party ia idle. There are
I a great many, and their number, under cer
tain conditions, might be greatly increased.
At many of the great political meetings
which bare been held ia the different coun
ties within the iaat few months, quite a
strong sentiment in favor of a third party
has cropped out. Indeed, tbero are men in
the legislature, if we ore not mistaken, who
j frankly say that if the Democratic party
does not indorse ail of the planks of the
Ocala platform they will transfer their ai
legien eto a third party. And declarations
of this sort are not confined to members of
the legislature.
Only the other day in Washington Con
gresaman Simpson asserted, if he was re
ported correctly, that the south was ready
to go to the support of a third party, and,
although he pretends to be a democrat,
there is no reason to doubt that he is indi
rectly using ail his influence to break the
lines of the Democratic party with the view
of huilding up a third party.
There is some expectation that the Demo
cratic party in this and other southern
states will indorse the (>rala platform. It
may be that those who favor that platform
will be strong enough in the state conven
tions of the p>arty to force an indorsement
of it, but what will that amount to 1 If the
state convention of the Democratic party
of Georgia should indorse that platform the
principles of it would not become
tbe principles of the Demccratio party
unless they were approved by the convention
of the national Democratic party.
And does anybody believe that the na-
tioaal democratic convention will indorse
the Ocala platform—a platform that was
originally framed by republicans I Of
coarse not Those, therefore, who in this
apd other sou hern states are hoping to
gain something by compelling the Demo
cratic party of those states to accept that
platform will suffer a very great disap
pointment.
But it would be a stupendous mistake for
the democrats of Georgia to permit them
selves to be placed in the position of ap
proving all of the Ocala doctrines. Indeed,
there are those who would not submit to be
ing placed in that position, and a very un
satisfactory condition oi affairs would be
the result
In order to avoid anything of that sort,
and to keep the Democratic party of the
state in harmony with the national de
mocracy and in touch with its doctrines and
traditions, democrats in all parts of the
state lhould perfect organizations pledged
to stand true to tbe party which ha3 done
so much for the country, and whioh has
been such a steadfast friend of the south.
There should be nothing seoret about them.
They should be open to the public, and
their object should be clearly understood.
The Democratic party has nothing to con
ceal, and has no ends to gain whioh are not
tor the benefit of the whole people.
A Perplexed Assignee.
Benjamin Einstein, the assignee of Abra
ham Backer, declares that though he has
had much to do with bankrupt estates, be
has never had anything to do with any
other one that puzzled him so much as this
one at Backer. And be has been compelled
to ask the court to grant him more time in
which to become better acquainted with
Backer’s affairs.
It does seem strange that the assignee has
been able to find so little of the vast estate
Backer was supposed to have. Backer failed
for $4,000,000, aud yet the assignee lias found
only $250,000. More than $3,000,000 has gone
somewhere, but where? That is the ques
tion that is puzzling the assignee and
Backer’s creditors. And the queerest fact
of the whole business is that Backer can
give no account of the vast amount of
property that ought to be in his hands. At
least he says he cannot, but it is hard to
oonvinoe people that his iguoranoe is gen
uine.
The banks were wonderfully deceived in
Backer. A month or so before his failure
he could have obtained almost any amount
from tßem without other security than his
own indorsement. According to the show
ing which the assignee makes, however, he
mußt have been insolvent (or years,
jjliiit if Backer is really au honest man
his books ought to show what has become
of the property ho ought to have. Their
failure to do sa ought to be pretty good evi
dence that there has been crooked work
somewhere.
A man who fails honestly has no difficulty
in showing what has become of his capital,
and how he became involved. Those whose
books are unintelligible are open to suspi
cion.
Same of Backer’s creditors thought that
he would be able to pay 50 cent on the dollar,
and they were inolined to question the
wisdom of Judge Harden’s course in having
him arrested on a criminal charge. But if
the reported statement of the assignee,
Einstein, Is correct there is no probability
that he will pay more than 5 oeats on the
dollar. If Backer nas concealed any money
aud securities it is probable that he would
go to jail before giving them up.
A Great Will Contest.
When Mrs. Hopkins-Searies dfed a little
more than a month ago at Methuen, Mass.,
leaving her vast estate, amounting ta more
than $30,000,000, to her husbaud, Edward
F. Searies, it was predicted that there would
be another great will contest. And the pre
diction has come true. llr. Timothy Hop
kins, an adopted son of the late Mrs.
kins-Searles, is now in New York with his
lawyers for the purpose of beginning a con
test. They will go to Methuen next Tues
day. the day on whioh the will is to be offered
for probate, and formally begin the contest,
unless in the meantime there should be a
compromise, of which at present there does
appear to be any probability. The ground
upon which the contest is to be made is
that the testatrix was unduly inlluenced by
her husband, Mr. Searies. Each side has
employed emiuent counsel, and the indica
tions are that the contest will be a long and
notable one. It may be years before it is
ended, as a vast amount of testimony will
have to be collected—testimony that will
touch the most sacred relations of private
life.
Timothy Hopkins, who makes the con
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test, is about 40 years of age, and is the
•on of a man who was the garderner of Mr.
Mark Hopkins in San Francisco. Mr.
Hopkins was Mrs. Hopkins-Searles’ first
husband, and at his death he left all of bis
possessions to her.
Several years before his death Timothy
had been taken into his family and
treated as a son, and after his death Mrs,
Hopkins formally adopted him, and he took
the family name. Mrs. Hopkins made him
a rich man and placed him in trusted posi
tions in the Southern Paciflo railroad.
They agreed in everything until Mrs. Hop
kins married Mr. Searies in 1887. The
adopted son did not approve the marriage
and made disagreeable remarks about it
And for his lack of discretion he did not get
a dollar by the will.
It seems to be the impression that the
leading man in the Southern Pacific rail
road will take part in the will contest Mr.
C. P. Huntington has been able to maintain
his ascendency in the Southern Pacific Hall
way Company by the assistance of the
great block of the company’s stock which
now belongs to the Hopkias-Searles estate.
The Crockers and Leland Stanford would
like to have control of enough of this stock
to give them the ascendency in the manage
ment of the company. It is supposed that
they will lend assistance to Timothy Hop
kins in his effort to break the will, and
that Mr. Huntington will support Mr.
Searies. If this is tbs situation the contest
may be extended through years, and the
lawyers engaged in it will have royal pick
ings.
But have not things come to a rather
pretty pass when almost every will by
which a great estate is devised is attacked,
and. that too, with a fair prospect of suc
cess* Mr. Tildea has been dead several
years, and it is not settled yet whether or
not his will is to stand. The success which
attends the contesting of wills, like tbesuc
ct s which attends the efforts to rob express
cars, is making the attacking of wills a
matter of very common occurrence. Un
less the legislating power comes to the aid
of testators their property will seldom go to
those to whom they devise it.
Drunkards Discussed by Doctors.
A question discusssd by Dr. W. A. Ham
mond, Dr. T. N. Crothers, Dr. E. N. Car
penter and Dr. Cyrus Edson in the Septem
ber number of the Xor'h .4 Review
is the following: Is Drunkenness Curable?
They all answer the question in the affirm
ative, but Dr. Edsou it not so sanguine
about curing it as the others. He says that
"recovery from habitual drunkenness is not
the rule; it is the exception. The peculiar
mental conditions with which the drunkard
starts on his career are so overwhelmingly
acted upon by alcohol and synergistic drugs
combined with it that his case is almost
hopeless from the start” Dr. Crothers,
however, appears to be more sanguine
about curing drunkenness than any of tbe
othere. He does not believe ia the
use of drugs. Indeed, none of
the others believes that drugs are
helpful iu the disease under consideration —
and all of them regard drunkenness as a
disease—but each of them recommends pre
ventive and restraining treatmenL In illus
tration of the beneficial effects of the treat
ment adopted lu asylums for inebriates
Dr. Crothers says: “The first statistical
study was made at Binghamton in 1873.
Inquiries were made of the friends of 1.5J0
patients, who had been treated five years
before at the asylum. Of 1,100 replies, 61
and a fraotion per cent, were still temperate
and well after a period of five years. It
was a reasonable inference that if 61 per
cent, were still restored after this interval,
a large percentage would continue so
through their remaining lives. Another
study of 2,000 cases was made at Fort
Hamilton, N. Y., which revealed the fact
that 38 per cent, of these cases remained
temperate and sober after an interval of
from seven to ton years from the time of
treatmenL In the returns of 3,000 cases
studied at the Wasfiingtonlan house at
Boston, Mars. , 35 per cent, of all the living
persons who had been under treatment
from eight to twelve years before were
temperate aud well.”
The foregoing is a pretty fair showing.
It appears that when properly treated the
proportion of drunkards treated in asylums
who recover is larger than that of insane peo
ple who aro sent to such institutions. And,like
insanity,the sooner the treatment of drunk
enness is begun after it becomes clearly re
cognized the greater the probability that a
cure will be effected.
There are many specifics for drunkennees,
and there are phvsicians who assert that by
means of them they are generally suooeesful
In effecting cures. There are reasons for
thinking, however, that very little reliance
is to placed upon them. There are certain
drugs whioh, perhaps, may be used with
benefit while the patient is under that treat
ment which keeps all alooholic liquors from
him, aud builds him up with nutritious
food, but there is no drug that, of itself,
will effect a cure. In his article Dr.
Hammond says: "As to the speefle in
fluence of the nitrate of strychnia, which
has had its day, and the double chloride of
gold and sodium, which is now being palmed
off on the public as a certain cure for drunk
enness, I have only to say that their use iu
such a connection is most irrational, un
scientific and delusive.”
A suggestion that crops out in the articles
under review is that drunkenness cannot be
cured by punishing the drunkards. The
police court records of the largo cities show
beyond a doubt that the punishment in
flicted upon drunkards does them no good.
They are no sooner released from prison
than they drink themselves again into insen
sibility. and are soon back into prison. And
it is not strange that it is so. Drunkennees
being a disease, either inherited or acquired,
punishment in the shape of a fine or im
prisonment does not cure it. And it is
rather a startling fact that over6o per cenL
of all inebriates inherit the disease, which
shows itself even in the third and fourth
generations. If young men and women
could be made to realize this a much larger
proportion of them would turn aside from
tbe path that leads to drunkenness
It is a question whether the stats should
not deal with drunkards just as it does with
imbeciles and insane people. A drunkard is
certainly not capable of taking oare of his
own affairs, and frequently he is not ip a
condition to be responsible for bis acts.
And this is the underlying reason, perhaps,
that legislators are gradually increasing tbe
restrictions upon the liquor traffic. Educa
tion aud moral suasion have some effect in
limiting drunkenness, but not much. The
putting of drunkards in asylums to cure tbe
disease and tbe prohibiting tbe sale of alco
holic liquors to prevent the disease are the
two ways to get rid of drunkenness.
Missouri hat no more popular men than her
senators. Vest and Cockrell, who are known
and respected throughout the leDgth and
breadth of the state, quite a much for their
personal worth as for their political leadership.
PERSONAL.
Secretary Pro-roa has given $5,000 to en
dow a free bed in the Mary Fletcher Hospital in
Burlington, Vt.
Frederick H. Seward, son of the late Will,
iam H. Seward, has just completed the biogra
phy of hs father, upon which he has been for
some time laboriously engaged
Is • photograph taken just before his deal h,
the Crown Prince Rudolph is represented in the
umform of an Austrian general, with his hands
ciasping a pair of glove, ani around the left
n is seen a chi n bracelet tartly hidden
from view, widen was erideatly the gift of the
nntarrtiuiate Mar. Yetsera.
The breach between the King and Queen of
Rourpaoia is becoming more serious. The
queen is now In Yenici, an l recently received
word of the arrival of the Prince of Wied, her
brother, who had been sent iw his majesty; but
sheflMly refuse’, to see "Vacaresco * enemy,”
asske designate.: me prtnae.
Sir Henry Pottinger has just leased in Nor
way what is perhaps the largest sporting estati
to Europe, the area being about the size of
Yorixlrtre, and tt. game ' arying from the elk
to the rhyper. wrile salmon and trout are in
abundance. Ibis -am -use tract includes veld,
fiord, moorland an i river, but is very thinly
peopled.
The Crown Princess of Denmark, only daugh
ter of King Charles XV. of Sweden, is a superb
woman in every sense of the word. Her wit
and Intelligence have won for her the friend
ship of many brilliant men, while her striking
beauty is the adnoratiooor Denmark. She and
the Queen of Krtugal are the two tallest
prmoesses in Eur: pe.
The mtws of Mme. Sardou's illness brings out
the story of her romantic courtship. She met
the famous drams; ic author for the first time
at breakfast one morning at her own home,
where he had come to c- nsnit her father, M.
Soulie, directoF of the Palace of Versailles. It
was a case of love at first sight, and before
Sardou left the house she had given him her
heart.
Jay Cook*, the famous Philadelphia banker,
left Philadelphia Tuesday for his first trip over
the Northern Pacific railroad. Although the
organizer and one of the earliest projectors of
this great eaterpri-e, he has never been much
fartaer west than St. Paul. He is accompanied
by Jay Cooke, Jr., and wife, and Mr ana Mrs.
Jay Cooke, third. his ffr*ndson and grand
daughter.
At BABtcrTH the an amusing inci
dent took place. M. Van Dyck, the tenor, was
playing Parsifal to Madame Materna'a Kundry,
and in trying to escape from her wiles, being
overcome with enthusiasm, he seized his hair
with both hands, forgetting the presence of a
wig. The ludicrous scene may be imagined,
and poor Van Dyck wasooliged to return to the
wiegs for a mirror
Baxojc Nathan ds Rothschild's hobby is
photography. He fcaa been staying this summer,
as usual, in a charming little place near the
Italian frontier. As eirly as 6in the morning
he goes oht with his camera. The baron rides
on horseback, accompanied by two servants on
horseback, and a led horse to carry the tacrfle.
Pity the sorrows of a ricn man! The poor baron
cannot c ontent himself with tne hotel fare, but
only eats that which is sant daily from Vienna
by tram.
Davte Rosskttt used to tell a story of Tenny
son, with whom he was walking,one sultry sum
mer nieht. though High Holburn. They passed
a building brilliancy lighted up. and from
wh en issued the sounds of joyous music. “What
is that placet ' asked the bard. “It is called, '
replied Rossetti. • the Holburn Casino.” “I
should like to look in.” pursued the bard, “only
I should be at once irrounded by a crew of
groundlings who would mob and pester and
jostle me.” “My dear sir,” quietly remarked
Dante, “if you ware to get on one of the tables,
announce your oame, and recite three of your
poetic masterpieces into the bargain, probably
net 2 per cent, of the audience would have the
slightest idea of who you are”'
BRIGHT BITS.
“I sze Jack and Mnllle have mode up again.
Why was the engagement ever brukenr"
“They had a quarrel as to which loved the
other the most. ’ ’— Lite.
Everorbxn—l wonder why Lieut. Mars pays
so much attention to Miss Waluietgh?
Brightly—l suppo-e because he likes a good
revolver.— PMUiaetuhia Press.
Mary has a tilde pug.
But not as you suppose
Because it's not of the canine breed.
The pug is to her nose.
—Philadelphia Times.
I. N. Ehriate—! want a vratch.
Jeweler—Key wind or stem wind?
I. N. Ebriate—Stem wind (hie), course. I
couldn't find <bic) keyhole in a barndoor.—
Jewelers' Weekly.
Sub editor—A dispatch from the peniten
tiary says the convicts nave struck, and refuse
to work unless they can have pie twice a day.
Great Editor (busily)—Counsel moderation
aud arbitration. —Sew York Weekly.
“Lavoh and the world laughs with you”
is a mixim that doesn't apply
When a dismal here tells a story old;
Then he laughs, while his hearers sigh.
—Chicago Times.
“I like that young Hicks," said Ethel's
father. “He s the kind of man that doesn't
know more than I do.”
•’Yes.'' returned Ethel's mother. "But do
you think a young man who knows as little as
that will get on in this world?”—Harper *
Bazar.
DArtnr.Tr— I This comb has a history. It is an
heirloom in our family. My grandfather found
it on tbe floor of the Emperor Napoleon's ba
rouche after Waterloo.
Cnttlng—Jeve'. How interesting! I suppose
you would hate to part with it?
Daggett—Not at ail. lam very prosaic about
such things I part With it every day,—A’eto
York Telegram.
The i*hr(eulogist ran his hands rapidly
over the boy's head, reflected a moment, and
tried it again, but more slowly. "Well, pro
fessor,” said the boy’s father, “what catling do
you find him beet fitted for?"
“Judging fcomhta cranial development.'’ re
plied the phrenologist, breaking it as gently as
he could, "1 think he would make a good para -
chute jumper, ” —Chicago Tribune.
Encopracivg Her—“ Don’t you think my beau
very handsome?"
’ I do, dear, aud I congratulate you.”
"Ah: Litre's many a wlip, you know, and I
sometimes fear that somebody will take him
away trom me.”
“Don’t trouble yourself about that. dear.
The homely men always get the haudsome
women, yon know, and the rule works thd
same the other way.”—.Veto York Press.
Sad Mistake.—" Buckle my shoe, Egbert,"
said a Chicago belle to ber near sighted fiance.
Egbert went down on his knee like a true knight,
but, as he had lost his eyeglasses his vision was
a little uncertain.
■‘ls this your foot, darling?" he inquired.
“Yes.” ‘
“Aw, beg pardon—l—thought it was the
lounge.”
Egbert is now disengaged Texas Siftings.
CURRENT COMMENT. v>
One Fruit of McKlnleyism.
From fke 7. tsysviUe Courier-Journal (Dem).
The next time rresident Harrison goes out
to talk politics let him not omit to mention tbe
rapid grows iof the shoddy business under the
McKinley law.
Good for Savannah.
From the Charleston Xews and Courier.
We congratulate the Savannah Morning News
upon the admirable Review which it published
yesterday of the trade and commerce of our
sister city.
It show s that the trade of Savannah during
the last year increased dearly $20,000,000 over
the trade of 1890.
W r e shall not attempt to-day to analyze the
report of our contemporary. We simply wish
to express our most sincere and cordial con
gratulations in view of .{he good fortune which
has attraded the commcftciaT operations of our
neighbors, and to say that very auen of Savan
nah's prosperity is due to the Morning News.
Prom the Brunpiriek 10a.) Times.
The big trade issue of the Savannah Morning
News of Sept. 4 is a revelation of the great
business and commercial progress of that pro.i
lierous city during the past year. The News
has covered the ground well, and has given a
full exposition of the trade of the port
and city in every department. In
making a comparative statement of the
trade of 1890 and 13M ft gives figures which
show that there has been au aggregate
iDcreaec in the trade af 1891 over lS9oof Ji9, •
750.000. placiug the amount of business done in
1890 at SIX3,-00,000 aud that of 1591 at $153.-
SSu.ttk). This is a Showing which many cities
much larger than Savannah might bs proud of.
From ?7ir Tribune of Rome.
Savannah wants deep water. Savannah
ought to have it. She is the finest
seiport between Baltimore and the Rio Grande
and lo increase her shipping facilities is to in
crease tbe prosperity or the entire stale North
Georgia IA for Savannah in her fight for deepen
ing her chancel to the ocean.
Famous for an Hour.
! A young gentleman from a Western town
who was a guest at the Auditorium recently
was made the victim of a practical joke, says
the Chicago Post, which he will not soon forget.
This young man has a number of friends in
Chicago, among them aoouple of former school
mate of his—young men about his own ag**.
They it was who. to have some fun, place-1 him
in a most embarrassing situation. A dav or so
after his arrival these jokers called on bun at
the hotel. The question of how to the
evening was brought up and he suggested that
the tno attend tne performance of **Sindbad”
at the Chicago opera house. This was agree
able. and tne visitor insisted on being the host
for the occasion. Having some peremptory en
gagement for that afterteraoon, the young man
from the west handed one his friends a $lO note
with a request to secure the necessary seats at
the theater, and an appointment to men at
the hotel was suggested and approved.
At 8 o'clock that evening a mes* nger brought
a note to the young man at the hotel, where he
w as waiting for his friends, who seemed to have
forgotten tne engagement The note informed
him that his friends were delayed, but that they
would meet him at the theater, and enclosed
was his ticket. To the theater he went. The
usher conducted him, much to nis surprise,
aiong the aisle next to the wall. “Where are
you taking me!” he demanded
“To your box, sir.* replied tne usher.
“But I bought no box ticket,” protested the
young man.
“That's whatjtbis Is, sir,” insisted the usher,
and perforce the young man found fcimseif in
the front chair proscenium box Looking over
the house he soon saw his two friends occupy
ing orenestra seats. They aid not respond to
his slight nod of recognition in their direction,
but at the first entr’acte they leveled a pair of
what seemed to him to l>e big field glasses at
him Presently one of them whispered to the
man next him. Then the other whispered to
his neighbor, and in a moment two more opera
glasses were focussed on the now uncomfort
able young man in the box. The whimpering
spread, and now whole rows of lorgnettes were
directed at him.
When the curtain fell on the second act an
usher carrying a big basket flowers entered
the box, and, getting to & point where every
one in the house could see him, handed the
mass of fragrant color to the man from the
west Theigier retired an l the opera-glass
battery in front received additional re-enforce
ments. By chance the now overwhelmed occu
pant of the box looked toward the foyer. He
saw the usher who brought him the dowers
telling, with much gesture in the direction of
the box, some informa ion to the other ushers.
Then the usher seemed to melt away into the
audience and the opera glasses pointed at him
were more numerous than ever. The entire
audience seemed suddenly to have acquired an
extraordinary interest in the modest young
man. H* could endure no longer aud stepped
back where he could net be seen from the
front While wondering what it all meant he
noticed a large card attached to the basket of
flowers Lifting it he saw ivritten thereon m
letters so large that he who ran might read:
“Mr. Russell Harrison.”
His friends had conceived and carried out the
idea of getting him a box at the theater and
sending the flowers w ith the name of the Presi
dent’s son on the card attached, calculating
correctly that the usher would read the name
and spread among the audience the identity of
the distinguished occupant of the box The
scheme worked so well that at the close of the
performance several to the box.
and, addressing the young man as Mr. Harri
son, claimed to have met him on previous occa
sions. He is now lying awake nights thinking
up a plan to get even.
A Ludicrous Incident.
Archduke William of Austria who has just
been directing some remakable military opera
tions in connection with the mimic siege of the
important fortress of Komorn, in Hungary, is
the most genial, cheery and jovial member of
the imperial family of Austria, says the New
York Recorder. Notwithstanding his vows of
celibacy as grand master of the arc ©at half
military, half-relifcious Teutonic order, he has
been the hero of innumerable adventures in
which the fair sex have been concerned, and the
mere mention of his name is sufficient to recall
to mind do: ©as of amusing stones about him.
One of the most laughable ones occurred a
few days ago. The archduke was calling upon
a lady of rank, but of somewhat questionable
repute, and with a view of avoiding public
recognition he had dispensed with hts carriage
and liveried servants in favor of what they call
in Vienna an uonumenerter, a private cab
which he was wont to use for expeditions of
this nature. At 10 o'clock the janitor was
about to close the doors of the house for the
night when he caught sight of the cab in the
court yard. He immediately called upon the
driver to go and take up his station outside in
the street. This the cabby absolutely refused
to do. A violent altercation ensued between
the two men, and the janitor was on the point
of summoning the police to help him eject the
cab from the premises when the driver, in de
spafr, caught hold of oim by the coat tail and
whispered in his ear: •
“It is tne Archduke William who is upstairs,
and I have to wait for him right here.”
“Hi mmol! you don’t say so!” exclaimed the
janitor in awestricken tones. “The archduke:
Why the devil didn't you *ay so at ones? Of
course it’s all nght. Don't you stir! I will sit
up to open the doors for you when ho gets ready
to go.”
Unable, however, to keep so important a
secret locked up in his breast, and elated beyond
description at the uonor conferred upon the
house by the presence of so illustrious a visitor,
the janitor called sevoral of his friends from a
nelgnboring cafe and informed them that the
archduke was upstairs. The news quickly
spread in the whole block, and when his im
perial highness left the house a little after mid
night he found the street almost blocked by a
dense crowd, who cried “Hoeh!” most lustily,
aud greeted him with demonstrations of the
greatest and most exuberant lojalty As he
drove away they struck up the national anthem.
* The Baby’s Shos.
From the Mail and Express,
Up in the garret I found to-day—
Carefully laid in a box away.
Tied with a ribbon of faded blue—
A tiny worn little baby shoe.
Worn in holes at the turned-up toe*
W here the little foot rubbed to and fro.
Worn on the sole, grown brown with age,
Of the shade time leaves on a vellum page.
Creased into many a tiny fold
By the dimpled foot that it used to hold—
Creased aud shabby, but O, how dear
Is this shoe that my darling used to wear!
The days that I thought were passed and gone
Come cleirly back to me. one by one,
As memory wakens, strong and true,
At the magic touch of the baby’s shoe.
1 hear again, as I used to hear.
The baby laughter, sweet and clear.
And the chubby hands, so soft and weak,
Steal gently up to caress my cheek.
And the dewy lips to my own are pressed,
And the dear head nestles against mv breast;
And I hold him close, with a throb of joy—
My precious, beautiftr baby boy!
But, alas’ I am dreaming of days and yean
That time has blotted with bitter tears;
And I wake with a sob and a weary start,
With empty arms and a weary heart
And the little shoe I lay away
With the sweet, sweet love of a long passed
day.
And I kiss the nibbon of faded blue
That so long hath guarded the baby shoe.
Maud Kalbvleisch.
Dullness of Colleare Bred Wita
A freshman in Harvard college, says the
Youth's Companion, was anxious to mail a let
ter. Having been told to drop it into the red
box at the corner, h* hurried out of the build
ing and ran down the street.
He saw a red box, but could And no opening
in which to put his letter. He searched for any
possible direction on the box, and noticed in
large letters “Ring twice.”
He rang twic and waited to see what would
happen, expecting a door to flv open into which
he could drop the letter. Suddenly an open
buggy dashed up, and a man in blue uniform
jumped out.
“Where is it!” he demanded.
“Here it is, tbank you,” said the freshman
“Please mail it ones.”
The fire captain looked at the letter and then
at the retreating student's figure. Then he
dropped tbe letter into the box across the street,
reported the alarm false, and went back to the
station.
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
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Flavoring
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NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS.
t&nllla -’l O f perfect purity.
Lemon >- Of great strength.
Almond I ’ Economy In their use
Rose etC.7 Flavor as delicately
and deliciously as the fresh fruit.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Weighing machines and scales of some kind
were in use 1800 B. C., for It is said that
Abraham at that time "weighed out" 400
shekels of silver, current money with the mer
chant, to Ephron, the Hittite, as payment for a
piece of land, including the cave and ail the
standing timber "in the field and in the fence."
This i> said to be the earliest transfer of land
of which any record survives, and that the pay
ment was made in the presence of witnesses.
According to the Denver tCol.) News, there is
in that city a man nearly 150 years old. His
name is said to be J<>na Carpenter, a native of
Virginia. "The family Bible gives the date of his
birth as 1752, but at that t ime, he states, he was
driving an ox team in Oen. Braddock'a army
during the Indian wars of that period. He has
an old *4O continental bill which he received
during the war for services as a teamster, and
he has kept it ever since." He is said to be in
first rate health.
Tbe San Francisco Argonaut says that people
on the Pacific coast are not altogether pleased
with tbe extreme reserve manifested hy Mr.
Searles, his attorneys and C. P. Huntington in
regard to their plans for meeting a contest of
Mrs. Sear'e’s will by Timothy Hopkins It is af
firmed by that newspaper that the contest will
bo stopped, and satisfaction with Massachusetts
as the battle ground is evinced. "If," says the
Argonaut , "Mrs. Hopkins was unduly influ
enced or overreached by fraud in disposing of
h**r estate or disinheriting her son. these facts
will be made to appear and the will be set
aside. Incur judgment there can be no better
Elace to contest an unfair will, where wrong
as been perpetrated, than in the state of Mas
sachusetts. If this contest comes to an exhi
bition of bad blood we shall expect
startling disc.osures that will not be
creditable to the measures resorted
to by Mr. Searles for the acquisition of the
estate."
A queer story comes from Evanston, 111.
Some Methodists, desiring to form anew con
gregation, purchased an edifice vacated by an
Episcopal congregation. On taking possession
the pastor announced that there would be no
dedication of the building, inasmuch as their
Episcopal brethren had already dedicated it to
sacred purposes. This was entir-lv satisfactory
to everybody. But at the end of six months it
was learned in some way that the bishop of tbe
Episcopal diocese of C hicago, unknown to the
Methodist purchasers, had formally deconse
crated the building. On hearing this, some of
the Methodists waxed wroth at what they called
a piece of petty Episcopal arrogance, and
others inquired joc soly whether the act of
deconsecmtin: a church is anything like the
process of demagnetizing a watch, while others
still maintained that not even a high church
bishop can extract the sacredness out of a
building so long as it continues to be used for
sacred purposes.
Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow of Pennsyl
vania. with whom I was chatting during the
week, is an old time republican, who is no
longer counted among the active politicians of
the day, but who keeps his eyes and ears ©pen
to what is going on, and has an intelligent
opinion to express at times as to the drift qf
affairs. says a writer in tho Washington Pott.
Mr Grow, up to two years ago. was engaged
heavily in mining coal, but he toil* me he has
sold all bis coal mines, and has settled down as
a plain farmer with a hobby for Jersey cattle.
Concerning national politics, he said: "I pre
sume mv judgment is that of the general
public when I say that I think either
Mr. Harrison or Sir. Blaine will be the
repnblican nominee next year. We will elect
our nominee, whoever he may be. Neither
Cleveland nor Hill, in my estimation, will be
nominated bv the democrats. If it is a New
York man it is more apt to be Whitney, but I
am of the opinion they will go west for a candi
date. The elections this fall will cut down some
of their mushroom governors and so destroy
some presidential timber. Gov Pattison would
make them a good candidate, if they only
knew it. He would stand some show of carry
ing Pennsylvania-—small, it is true -but he
would have just as fair a chance to carry New
York as any of their leaders."
The Cossackh of the Russian army are di
vided according to the territories assigned for
their dwelling on the Don in Astrakba. Oren
burg, Terek, Kuban, Siberia and Semiretchinsk.
1 In those territories they live as peasants on
government lands and have to send only acer
tain number of their men annually to do active
military service. Every Cossack territory Oor
station— stanitsa) is divided into khootors or
corropors. Their administrative authorities
aDd justices of the peace are elected by a pop
ular vote. Their military commanders, called
atamans, are appointed by the government.
Unlike the regular military men, they
do their drilling at home iu their
respective khootors, and their general
military deportment is superintended by
the ataman of the district or tbe Stanitza.
When they arc called out for active service they
are perfect soldiers and n ‘cd o special drilling
or training. With the beginning of 1892 anew
order of civil government will be introduced in
tbe Cossack territories. Hitherto they elected
their administrative olfleors independent of tbe
military authorities From the new year tbe
military ataman of the district is to be also the
principal civil officer and the chairman of the
district assemblies. In the boroughs, too, at
the election of justices of the peac? and other
admini<trat!v officers, preference will be given
to men according to their military positions or
according to tbe honors they have gained in ac
tive military service.
Not long since I bought a meerschaum pipe,
says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. When
I was taking it away the salesman told me not
to smoke it too much or I would bum the wax
and ruin the thing I smoked it very little for
the first few weeks and saw no indications that
the thing was ever going to change. I want
into the place where I bought it and told the
fellow who had sold it to me about my progress.
He said, after I had told him how much 1 had
smoked, that I had not smoked it enough. I
smoked it for several weeks after and saw no
perceptible change. I again went in and made
a mechanical complaint The young man said
he guessed I kept it in the case too much, and
that he had forgotten to warn me
against that. He said it kept
the pipe too warm to keep it in
the case too much. Soon after I went into the
place again. The man looked at it, and then
said he guessed I handled it too much; that I
ought not to take it out of the case too fre
quently, as it made splotches on it to handle It
too often. Then we had a talk all around on
meerschaum pipes. I found out that the meer
schaum is a great pipe, and will g.ve satisfac
tion if you observe the following rules: Don't
smoke it too much; don't smoke it too little;
don't take it out of the case too often; don’t
leave it in the case too much; don’t lay it down
to cool off after you have smoked it. for in that
case it will crack; don't carry it in your pocket,
for then it will not cool fast enough. I have re
turned to the cigar.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY SOM.
DEEP WATER lUL
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All our 50c and 60c Col
ored All-Wool 40-inch Dress
Goods, Warranted Perfect
and Prime. All Shades for
the Fall will be put on our
front center Counter, and sold
at 25c per yard
THIS WEEK
Come early and avoid the
rush. Doors open at 6:30
and gTand rush for them ends
at 6:30 p. m.
C. Gray & St
GROCERIES.
119.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?
It means the average of
human life should be one hun.
dred and nineteen years. How
can this be accomplished ?
Don’t worry! It is worry and
not work that kills people.
Keep a good Trams of mind by
using nice fresh groceries
bought from D. B. Lester Gro
cery Cos., where you can buy
fine goods at low prices. A
trial order solicited.
D. B. LESTER GROCERY CO.,
21 Whitaker Street.
EDUCATION A L.
SCHOOL FOB-:- BOYS.
The next session of this school will bej-ln on
MONDAY, Oct. 6th, with the following corps
of teachers:
J. A CROWTHER—Mathematics, Natural Phi.
losophy and Chemistry.
J. R. BaYLOR, Jr., B. A., B. Let., UnL of Va
Ancient and Modern Languages.
D ARCY PAUL PARHAM. M. A.. Randolph
Macon Coilge, (Pace English Prise M edalist)—
English.
WALTER S. LAWRANCE, L. I„ Peabody Nor
mal College, B So.. Uni. of Nashville—Pri
mary Department and Bookkeeping.
With the teaching force indicated above, with
the careful and accurate work which has ever
been made a feature of this school, and under
rhetr combined management, the prinolpaia
feel justified in believing toat parents need look
no further for a school where their sons may be
thoroughly prepared for college or for business.
Catalogue on application,
J. A. CROWTHER, Principal
■I. R. BAYLOR, Jr., Associate Principal.
BOME SCHOOL FOR YODNG LADIES;
ATHENS. ®A.
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPALS
MADAME S. SOSNOWSKL
MISS C. SOSNOWSKI.
Exercises resumed SEPT. 22. 1891.
For information apply to Principals.
MevEngßcinsimtorr
Founded by Dr. E. Toijrjeb.
CARL FAELTEN, Director.
SVZUSIC Instruction in Piano Organ. Vojce,
tit **— - * Vielm. eoiieggm. Harmony, Etc.
Class Turnon, ao lesson,. SIO to MO Privatelessona
pven. Recitals. Lectures, COB? IT n> a l *
.’LL'i: 5 ’ r, l ■ "s c.— pupil*.
ELOCUTION -Oratory, Dramatis and Lyre
Action. Kllje Arts. Languages, l iterature. Piano
and Organ Timing. A eom(,,rtnh|e ga
tor Lady Students. Calendar free nUlnti
Fnll Term Regina Slept, to, lftitl.
FRANK W. HALE, Conernl Manager,
Franklin Square, Boston, Maas-
St. Mary’s School,
RALEIGH, N. C.
The Advent Term Begins Sept. 24.
Mt. Pleasant Military Academy,
SING SING, NEW YORK
TheSlth year of this well-known school be
gins on SEPTEMBER 18. AU supplies pro
vided, a beautiful home and every facility for
an excellent education.
address: J. HOWE ALLEN. Principal.
SHOES.
truth!
We offer our entire stock of Gents' $3 Low
Qusrters at $2 50. These are made of fine Tan
nery Calf, and are welted shoes. Every pair
stamped “Geil & Quint’s $3 Shoe. Warranted.' 1
This is positively no dodge. The real $3 Shos
goes for $2 50. Must have room for fall goods.
GEIL & QTJITMT,
FINK FOOTWEAR. 21 BARNARD ST_
fNaUKANCR.
CHARLES T. PRXNDEBGAST and
ibucceaaor to K. H. Fooritur A OoJ
FIRE, MARINE AND STORM INSURANCE
106 BAY STREET,
[Next West of the Cotton Exchanged
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