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YOU MUST DISCRIMINATE.
SOME MEN AES CRUEL TO ANIMALS
AND SOME ARE NOT.
A Little Incident at tho Bareli Society’s
Rooms—AJPeep at the Torture Muse
um—Burr Bits, Clubs, Pitchforks and
Other Sweet Mementoes.
(Covyriqht )
New York, Sapt. s.—The corner of
Twenty-third street and Broadway is go
much the center of the city that the specta
cle of a big crowd of people in that neigh
borhood seldom excites remarks, but when I
turned into Madisoa Square the other day
and saw about a thousand people in a fan
tastic procession trailing down toward East
river, I knew something was up, and
promptly became the th usan i aud first.
Presently we turned down Fourth avenue
and stopped in front of the office of the
Berg as society. A man in a light truck led
the procession, and an excited citizen on the
sidewalk was gesticulating with all bis
might and talking loudly to an officer of
the society about the truck man’s “brutal
ity.” The truckman carried in his hand a
light whip, broken toward the end. His
horse appeared fat, well fed and contonted.
Now the officer, the truokman and the
excited citizen went into Supt. Hankinson's
office, aud I followed, scenting trouble.
Within, the excited man kept on talking
about the truckman's brutality, as he
termed it.
“Did you bit the horse?”said Mr. Ilankin
•on.
“Yes, sir,” replied the truokman readily,
“I hit him four or five tunes with this whip;
it is a light 25 cent one, you see. It was
broken before.”
“i don’t think wo can do anything about
that,” said Mr. Hankiusoa. “If we should
take a case lice that into court the judgo
would laugh at us. There are no wales on
the horse, are there!”
“No, sir,” said the cffioer.
1 ‘You can go,” said Mr. Hankinson to the
driver, who went, leaving his whip behind
him, followed by the complainant in a high
state or fury.
- “Just look at that whip; it wouldn’t hurt
a ’ child very] much, to say nothing of u
horse,” said Mr. Haukinson, examining the
whip ouriously. It was indeed a most
harmless affair.
“Do you often have cases like that,” I
asked.
“Oh, yes, people are running here with
stories about cruelty to animals that won’t
bear examination all the time. I have seen
a driver acting with exemplary forbearance
to a balky horse in a block on Broadway,
and an old lady on the sidewalk abusing
him like a pickpocket for maltreating the
poor thing. We have to bo pretty careful
about such eases or w are liable to be led
into doing serious injustice. But there are
plenty of cases of real cruelty. That muse
um tells its own story. Here’s the latest
addition.
The superintendent disappeared Into his
inner office, while I stared up at several big
glass cases on the wall, filled with clubs
and knives and spears and prodes and goads
which have been used to gash and cut ar.d
maim poor animals, and which the society
preserves as reojrds of men’s cruelty.
Out came the superintendent again, lug
ging a huge wooden bar from a piano dray,
about five feet in length ami weighiug fully
twenty pounds with its iron tip. He ttood
the bar up against one of the museum coses,
aud I read upon it the label which set form
in the briefest terms that Jobu Frazer, the
driver of an ice cart, had killed with it a
horse valued at $.500, for which he was pun
ished with a flue of SSO.
The bar is as heavy and strong as a crow
bar. It doe 6 not seem possible that any hu
man being could strike with it any animal
of value.
But folks do queer things sometimes.
Within the year and iu the state of New
York aloue, four men have been punished
for biting off the heads of small animals or
birds, usually ou a wager. One of these
men, who afterward went to jail for along
term, was elaborate ia his strange deed. He
bit the heads off two ducks, put the heads
in a glass of lager beer aud drank the lager.
Another man had u balky horse. He
opened Its mouth, tied a rope about its
vOQgue. hitched the other end to a wagoo
just ahead, aud whoa the forward wagon
was started up, of course the horse’s tongue
came off. Perhaps it wasn’t balky; per
haps it had too big a load. I don’t remem
ber just what the label d;d say, but the
tongue is in a jar of alcohol m Berch’a
museiira, along with the cat’s paw cut off
by Hod Sing, a Chinaman, the fork which
a Jersey farmer thrust into a cow’s ribs un
til its tines were bent double, a number of
horses hoofs rotted off ny salt put on the
snow by railroad people, aud two or three
original bits, fantastic m their possibilities
Of oruelty. One of these is probably un;q jo.
•It has a long flat plate designed to press up
on this horsu’s tongue. When it was cap
tured the tongue of the poor beast which
wore it was rotted off. Why the ingonlous
inventor devised this bit is a puzzle, so is
another which bas two prongs devised to
close upon the horse's jaws whea the hit is
P— 1 . “ ut tllera see hanging around the
offloo dozens of bit burrs, which tell their
own story of cruelty. These a. e flat, round
disks of leather filled full of sharpened tacks
on the side next to the horse’s chook Put
one of these on each of your horses—on the
inside, so that Bergh’s men won’t see—and
the frantic prancing of yoursteeds willcon
viuce everybody that they are “high spir-
There is in this museum a bU. hanging
surrounded by game cocks’ spurs and box
lug gloves, which has a funny history. It
was rigged up before the door of a cockpit
down on the water front one lino evening
two give warning if the officers should come!
A man two blocks away held the string
One of the officer, captured the man, and
the rest followed the clue to the pit, wheie
they made a tine Haul, capturing among
other things a fine pair of cockspurs, for
which the owner .aid he wouldn’t have
taken sl,°oo They had never lost L.m a
battle.he said. They were lucky Cock
fighters are very apt to be superstitious.
One of the queerest sights of this museum
of torture is a low of white, chalky locking
stones. These were taken from the stomachs
of dead horses. Where does the cruelty
oome in? On. some enterprising horse feed
men mixed talc and other mineral substances
with the tneal they sold, and this was the
interesting result.
For that matter, it wouldn’t be strange if
some of us human beings were carrying
round talc stones in our stomachs by next
spring.- Ground talo looks exactly like
flour, and wheat is very high this year.
There is a big mine of this talc up in
G raveneur, N. Y.. and tons upon tons aro
taken out. It has no known honest use, the
least objectionable being to adulterate
heavy, smooth writing paper. What be
comes of it all ?
There has been a great improvement in
the treatment of animals since the society
began work, in spite of tne head biting
jokers, and the burr bit men, and tho talc
men, and the clue wielders of tbe present
da}’. Before the society was founded it was
customary to cart live calves along the
streets of New Y'ork piled up like cord wo id,
with their bonds hanging over the edges of
the cart Now they stand up on their feet
in roomy, slatted boxes, and would bs com
fortable enough if they only could rely upon
getting water to drink os often os they
need it.
In the old, anti-Bergh days men could
beat their horses upon tha street anywhere,
with clubs, shovels—anything. Now when
a good-natured driver bits his horse a clip
or two with a 25 cent whip, be does it with
fear aud trembling lest be may be seen by
someone and reported to “the society”—
drivers never use the rest of its name. ,
The society’s museum of torture imple
ments isn’t finished yet. Ne w addition; are
being made to it every month. But things
are improving. Owen Lanudon.
General Butler's wife was a finished
elocutionist and could read in a manner
charming enough to have won a fortune on
tne stage, hal her lot called upon her to sacri
fice home comforts for pub.ic life.
TALE OF MISADVENTURE.
Tho Colorado Mat’s Queer Journey
to New York.
New York, Sept. s.—Half an hour ago a
man left tho city, whose story is like a chap
ter of Bret Harte, with an intermingling of
Ragged Dick.
He was bom in New England and
promptly chased out of it by consumption.
Ho went to Colorado where the wife of his
youth died. Two young children he sent
back to bis father’s bouss, and dug and dug
and dug at the mountaiu side till the un
responsive rock grew ashamed of its flinty
heart and opened to his view a vein of rioh
ore, assaying $lO6 to the ton, or to the
ounce or something or other, I don’t just
remember which. Then a company was
formed,capital being ready to assist in tbs
development of his "find.” Gold, silver,
copper, even tin, are ia the neighborhood,
but the greatest of these is silver. Aud so
be started east to buy machinery.
On coming down out of the high altitudes
ho was promptly taken ill and was carried
from tho cars to a railway hotel, where he
lay two weeks at the point of death. He
got up, finally, thin and cadaverous looking,
but eager to press on. The last night of his
stay a man walked into bis room and made
away with all his money except $1 30 in
change. He borrowed a little money of the
landlord, who had to borrow it himself—
but westerners have hearts—left his luggage
as security against his host's protest, aud
came to Bitteburg, where he had a friend.
The friend was out of town! Then he tele
graphed to the president of bis company for
funds to be sent to New York and came
hither himself to find them. But his mine
was twenty miles from railroad or tele
graph. Without so much as a change of
clothing he stayed in Now York three days,
sleeping in Bowery lodging bouses and liv
ing on the air. Thon, in despair of delayed
remittances, he appealod again to a stranger
and was promptly provided for the journey
to his father’s home in the country.
Misfortunes did not cease. Tha stranger
who loaned tho Colorado man money hsd
been obliged to make it up partly in silver,
being a little short Uinuelf. The miner had
had no breakfast, nor dinner, nor supper,
and as bs tried to board a moving street cur
bound for the station, he stumbled and fell
in very weakneis. The money was clutched
tight in his nervous hand, and as he foil the
dimes and quarters rolled in every direction.
He recovered the hills easily, but they woro
short of the required amount, aud no
amount of searching would reveul tho
dins.
There was nothing to do but to stay
another night at a cheap lodging house, lie
had no wa oh to pawn, the robber had re
lieved him of that. In the morning,
ashamed again to face the man from whom
he had Inst borrowed money, be sent him
a district messenger with an abject note of
explanation. Five dollars was promptly
returned to him aud he scarcely breathed
again until he was on the train bound for
home.
This story is absolutely true in every de
tail. Funny scrape for the part owner of a
rich silver mine, wasn’t it!
TUE STORY OF A CLOCK.
Inspired by tho laudable wish to do a
kinduceß to one of his blood, a venerable
citizen, giving bis affairs a deathbed settle
ment, added to bis last will and tea ament
this clause:
And to my beloved granddaughter, Laura,
my sitting room clock.
A littlo after ho was gathered to his
fathers and now sleeps the sleep of the just.
Some days after the funeral, some mem
bers of the family sent the clock to Laura’s
father at his office, not deeming any formal
ity necessary about so small a matter. The
cloc t was an ordinary machine made affair,
worth when new $3. it had been iu use
about a dozen years.
Laura’s father hired a boy to carry the
olook to his home in the suburbs, at the total
expense of about a dollar and a half, in
cluding car fare. That was the beginning
of the trouble.
It teems there was something very irregu
lar in carrying off a legacy before the will
had been probated, and the beloved grand
daughter was cited to eppear by a guardian
specially appointed for the occasion aud to
assist at the proving. Tho summons came
just as the poor man was getting his busi
ness to shape to start for u week’s trip to
the Catskills. Accompanying the paper
was some sort of an affidavit form which be
was expected to fill out, make oath to be
fore a notary and return. The day sot for
the probate eame just in the middle of the
suffering father’s mountain week. Of
course he ought to have stayed at home,
qualified as hjs daughter’s guardian, at
tended the probate and accounted for his
clock somehow or other. But his wife was
waiting for him at the station. Catching
up what he supposed was the affidavit
blank he heat a hasty exit. In a minute or
two a boy came running back with this
hastily scribbled note:
Find that d—d clock affidavit and send It to
ine and call up the lawyer by 'phone and fix
things somehow.
Evidently the guardian and father of the
girl who got the clock, who is not usually
profane, was getting excited and had lost
his affidavit. But it was nowhere to be
found on his desk until some hours later.
Meanwhile, the oflioe boy Dad spent half an
hour at the telephone, which was working
very badly, tryiDg to call up the dead man’s
supposed lawyer, only to find cut that he
had nothing to do with the case and didn’t
know who had.
Now the suffering hero of this tale fully
expects to be arrested for contempt of court,
but ho swears he won’t go near the probate
ocurt about that old clock: no, not if they
put bim in prison. He is doae with it.
MSN MILLINERS.
Nobody would havo supposed that tho
men dressmaker* of New York would stop
at the tailor-made gown; and they haven’t.
That was merely an auspicious beginning,
but from being a lady’s tailor to becoming a
lady’s dressmaker is not so very long a step.
Plenty of men have taken it, and there are
now in this American Paris a small host of
would-be imitators of Worth aud Felix. A
queer eight it is to see a great chap big
enough to kill oxen, bolding up a dainty
film of lace aad silk in bis hand and strug
gling hard to make it appear that the
French phrases he so liberally uses are in his
native tougue, despite his potato mouth.
Tbe most famous of tbe lady’s tailors is
unquestionably the one who proudly boasts
that he iB honored by tho patronage of
Queen Victoria, but he has plenty of rivals.
One of these men recently overheard some
one asking if one of bis patrons bad not
ordered her summer wardrobe from Paris.
This lady declares that the drossaiakor is
now so proud of the implied compliment
that he is as imperious as tbe czar and puts
on the airs of a Napoleon.
It s a queer world. Women blacksmiths
and dentists and barbers anil men mantua
| makers would nave astonished our great
grandmothers.
A HONEYMOON GUEST.
John Burroughs, on those rare occasions
when he comiw out of his shell and visits bis
fellow mortals, is the most genial and kind
ly of literati. If it were any one else than
ho. this story would be surprising.
A wedding in whicn literary New Y'ork
takes a keen interest will tuko place in about
ten days and will unite ono of the cleverest
of women writers and editors to a man edi
tor equally clever, and the happy honey
moon will be spent at a cottage in the
mountains, with John Burroughs os a
gueet.
A third partv at a honeymoon! It is un
heard of! But even so. The lady in the
case has met Mr. Burroughs in tho moun •
tains and his kindly eyes and hair, gray
with tho snows of sixty years, and his talk
of birds and beasts has made her wish to see
more of him, a wish which her sxpectant
husband shares. And as literacy people
laugh conventionality to scorn, why not?
I think a honeymoon oould he spent to v
pleasantly haring John Burroughs talk
about squirrels in his own beloved moun
tains.
THE MORNING- NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
A BUOOKLYX MAECENAS.
Joseph F. Knapp, whose fatal illness in
Pans has lieon announced, has been known
for years as a self-made man, wbo was ex
ceptional in retaining a keen interest in
those less fortunate or less persistent. Per
haps he held in peculiarly kindly regard
artists of all kinds. His own business was
lithograpbv, the photographer pointer,
Saronv, having been at one time bis part
ner. His home in Brooklyn is, in spite of
its plain exterior, one of the most attractive
in the country. Pictures of merit line the
walls and there is fine frescoing and detail
work everywhere. The crowning glory of
tho plact is the mu-io room, which was
Dulit some dozens of years ago, during Mrs.
Knapp’s absence in Europe, and awaited
her os a comolete surprise upon her return.
The room is in the form cf an octagon,
with high ceiling and columned frescoed
sides. A fine pics organ, a grand piano and
ail manner of smaller musical instruments
are here gathered. Mrs. Knapp is a com
pos rof merit and has taken the keenest
delight in the room. Here, too, have como,
from tims to time, statesman and soldier*
like Grant, Cleveland, Sheridan and Slocum,
singers like Emma Thursby, artists, eoulp
tors, musicians almost, without number.
The shadow over this home darkens a
pretty wide area in Brooklyn and New
fork.
NEWSPAPER BRIBES.
J. G. Holland, in one of his novels, drew
a caricature of a newspaper man who, after
intervie ring a r.ch rascal, eooly pocketed
s‘2o as the price of writing him up favora
bly. Asa caricature such a man might do
very well, but too many might be inclined
to take him for a type. There are such
newspaper men: fewor now than ten years
ago, but they are very scarce.
There is folly as well as knavery in offer
ing money to a reporter. Even supposing
him a scamp—which ho Isn’t— be hkin’o tha
power to alter tho policy of the paper. He
hasn’t oven the power to suppress news
without running the risk of dismissal for
getting “beaten” by other papers.
Yet the folly is committed. A physician
of some repjt) oneo endeavored to slip a
crisp bill into the hand of a reporter whom
I know.
“Give my paper a good show, can’t you?’
be whi-perod. It was at a medical conven
tion.
The reporter held up his bond with the bill
upon it In tho sight of all, then slowly tilted
it till the bill slid off to the floor, when he
remarked with a Uhesterfieldian air, “Sir,
my profession has a coda of ethics, if yours
has not.”
I have known a man caught in some nasty
scrape, who tried to buy off the managing
editor of a big daily to refrain from pub
lishing tbe affair by the munificent offer of
$2. ihnvo known a deacon who always
offered $.5 to everybody who came to report
his minister’s sermons.
Newspaper men expect to have some queer
experiences.
WHY NOT NEW YORK!
It is said by politicians that both parties
will make a slrenuous effort to get the na
tional conventions of lbffl called in New
York.
This city has in the past always been
handicapped by its lack of any ball suffi
ciently big to hold tuo ‘noise of a political
convention. Tho lack has been filled. Mad
ison Square Garden is one of the most beau
tiful amusement buildings ia the world, aud
the main hall is a noble room where 10,000
delegates and spectators can roar to their
hearts’ content when the “favorite sons” are
named.
Tbe New York boom will be aided by two
or three powerful clrcnms’aiices. Chicago
has had more than her there of big political
conventions lately, and having the world’s
fair, will more gracefully resign ner claims
to the conventions. Betides, talk as they
will of democratic gains in t‘ e west anil
republican gains in the south, shrewd ob
servers still look upon New York as a piv
otal state. So it’s not unlikely the spell
binders and windjammers will swarm iu
New York next year. And ready, though
its location isn’t exactly central, it is other
wise convenient enough.
A BUFFER FOR KICKERS.
I mot a man in a life insurance company
who looked tired. He told me he had great
difficulty about sleeping at night, and was
pretty nearly broken up. Wonder ceased
when he went on:
“You kuow what a host of members we
have. Of course n fair proportion of them
kick occasionally about something. Every
kick comes to me to be straightened our. I
dictate sixty letters a day to kickers. I must
thoroughly understand every case in order
to consider it intelligently. Tnero is no
business iu tho world quite so complicated
as the life insurance business. Tho mental
strain of such a task is something enor
mous.”
“Why do you stay there?" I asked.
“My dear boy,” tne life insurance man re
plied, “I was never so near to a lot of mill
ions before in rav life, and I’m going to
stay right where I am. Who knows wnat
might happen. There’s a big chance of pro
motion iu such an office.”
AN AUGUST DISGUISE.
Upon the elevated platform 1 saw a lady
rather plainly clad in a brown sateen dress,
her features thickly veiled. The vail is un
usual, worn s > as to partly conceal the fea
tures, and I glanced at her perhars more
curiously than I ought. Some peculiarity of
gesture, person or movement presently be
trayed in her a lady whose house on Fifth
avenue is as elegant as it Is costly, whose
receptions rise to the dignity of a salon, and
whose costumes are f res adorable, in the
language of W orth.
Now, why should such a woman as that
fce ashamed of being iu town in August? Is
it a crime? Owen Lang don.
Telling Time by the Bag© Brush.
From Minneapolis Journal.
Harous P. Hoyne teturued yesterday
morning from a throe weeks’ trip through
tho Koontenai country.
“The vegetation in the Koontenai coun
try is very sparse," said he to-day, "and
you can travel for miles without finding
water. The sage brush, which is the only
liviug thing in the oountry whose growth is
not stunted, grows to an enormous hight in
a single dav, and dies in just thirty-six
hours. It is nourished bv tbe alkali springs
which flow beneath the surface of the
ground, but it is fed so abnormally that it
dies in an incomparably short time. Well,
the natives in that d.strict have got the
thing down so fine that they oiiu teilby
looking at a piece of sage brush just what
time ol day it is, so if you pull a watch on
’em they’ll know that you're a tenderfoot.”
"Well, bow can they tell the time by
looking at the sage?”
“Well, you see, they know that the sage
lives but thirty-six hours, and they are so
accustomed to it that tnev oau tel! at a
glance to a minute just bow far growth has
advanced."
“Yes, but they don’t know what time of
day or night the sago began to grow, so how
can they estimate the time?”
“Oh, they tell that by the number of
branches, and the branohes never sprout till
sundown, aud then one sprouts every six
hours.”
Aberdeen, O , July Cl, 1891.
Meun. Lippnan Urot., Savannah. Oa:
I)kau Siks—l bought a bottle of your P. P. P.
at Hot Springs, Ark., and it has done mo more
good than three months’ treatment at the Ilot
Springs.
Have you no agent in this part of the country,
or let me know how much It will cost to get
three or six bottles from your city by express.
Respectfully Yours,
Jax. M. Nbwtox,
— Ad. Aberdeen, Brown County, O.
Artists’ Materials, all kinds, at M. T. Tay
lor IX Yorx street.—Ad.
WOMAN’S FINERIES.
•BAB*’ DISCUSSES THE DRESS RS
form movement.
My Lady’s Pretty Venus Figure—
Cranky Women Exploiting Under
wear—Woman Trotters—How “Oui
<T>” and tha “Dutchess” Portray
"Women in Thalr Novels—Namby
pamby Young Nestlers—Almond
Meal, My Dew, Makes Satin
.flecks.
(Copyright 1901 .)
New Yob;:, Sept. A —lf tha things in
tbe shop windows are any indication of
what the women iu New York are buying,
one would have to aafllude that all tbelr
d-ujats were spent In getting what is eom
moiily known as “underwear,” but more
elegantly as "lingerie.” Whether it is
that the dress reform movement has brought
abominably shaped garments to the fore, or
whether it is that the shopkeepers feel that
tbera is going to be a reaction set in and
they had better get rid of the old stuff, no
body knows, but this is quite true, the white
garments that our grandmothers knew are
being sold at one-lbird the cost of making
to a publio that doesn't seem to yearn for
thorn. It may be regarded as due entirely
to the influence of man—lovely man, faith
ful man, athletic man—ho ha3 talked and
preached, and he has had pictures printed
in the newspaper of what a woman should
wear under her dress, and the pictures re
presented nine of the most diabolical gar
ments upon which eveu the eye of the print
er’s devil ever rested. Now, I am a re
former, but in tue ojurse of a long and
varied experience I have never met any
women who wore nice pieos of underwear
at one time. The ref ormers are a little off
there, or else it wasn’t the woman they
meant, it was the bargain counter.
~ CHAUTAUQUA DRESS REFORMERS.
Like everyb !y e!se, I have a littlo theory
of my,iQwo, atni I think it will be the one
that;Hili get ahead of the ladies at Chau
tauqua, who are so vary kind as to instruct
us as to what we shell wo.or, and how we
shall put it on. Starting with the fact that
one’s skirt has a (inn foundation, Q3 Arm as
ITymeuqh Rock, and much hotter shaped,
the average woma 1 who is in g o 1 health
needs oijiy to assume the somewhat long
siik tinlorvest, u perfectly well-fltting pair
of i;atiu stays, matching tho silk vest in
color, a long pair of stockings, and the
proper kind of shees. When I say proper,
I me iu proper to the hour of the day. lam
not going about advocating the flat heels
and broad ehoes, because, personally, I am
addicted to the vies of wearing narrow
ones with high heels. I have but one ques
tion to ask of my brother min, and that is
this: Can any dress reformer in tbe world
put fewer, prettier, or mere useful under
wear on a woman than that and have de
scribed? It is what half the wornau of any
sense wear during the summer, and it is
commended not only by the women them
selves, blit by the dootors who are not
cranks. A woman walks well and easily
whsu she hasn’t got i lit of starch stuck
about her, aud tho ii..e that the Chautau
qua people are so fond of talking about
shows to much better advantage than when
she is uncomfortable in muslin, has striugs
c itting her because she has no stays on, and
is altogether flurried and flat-looking.
THE HUMAN" FORM DIVINE,
especially the feminine edition of it, came
in for so much discussion. They talk about
the line of a woman’s figure with the
unction of Dumas, and they print the
picture of the Venu3, aud call on every
woman to look like that. I think the first
one that looked lute that on the streets of
New York would be run into the station to
spend the uigbt there. Fancy weariux sunh
rape res! Why, you would have to put
heavy iron weights ih them, and then thsy
would bang hgalust your knee*, and you
would sit on them, and you would wish
that Venus hod stayed down in the sea aod
been comfortable. Then, too, isn’t It a lit
tle queer for peoob who are supposed to
cultivate the mind, or tho eml,or the brain,
or whatever the thinking part of people—
sometimes it is the stomach—to take up
such a question as this? Would you or
your husband go there and let a lot of
cranky women exploit underwear unto
them? No, of course you wouldn’t. Its
much safer to let him go out and look into
the shop windows, because then you can go
along and tell him what really is aud really
is not pretty, a:.d you cun educate him by
adding to the dry-goods bill.
INFATUATED WITH DEI.SARTIt.
Apropos of not being hampered when
walking, between wearing the proper sort
of lingerie and being drunk with Delsarte,
it is possible that during the next wimer
New York will exceed New Orleans in the
walk of its Women. Just now, the New
York woman is a little too emphatic—she
places her foot on the ground as if she
owned it,and she has a nasty way cf planting
her heel first, But, when she is thoroughly
decomposed, after Delsarte, not after the
undertaker’s idea of it, she will walk like a
goddess. In the first place, she is bigger
aud better developed than the men, for
New York,-while it has a few great big,
flue-looking men, runs rather to the other
extreme, and If women want to see big ineu,
they have to seek them in the south or west,
or else go over tho ocoau blue aud find them
iu merrie England. Decomposition, you
must know, is the ability to become sud
denly limp, aud then to use whatever part
of your body you wish la the most grace
ful way. Vii's. Russell, one of tho very best
Delsarrt teachers, says she can toll a south
ern woman as soon as ;sho comes in the
room and Bits down, for she sits naturally,
and her arms and legs fall in easy poses.
It is unnecessary to say that after sho told
me this, I hla-hed. But, at the same time
I credited it to my natural indolence rather
thttu my southern blood. The great trouble
with a woman of to-day, according to Mrs.
Russell, is that she hurries; every move
ment express-* her haste, and there is no
time for grace. You know you can get to a
place just as quickly by walking well aud
evenly as by trotting and stumbling. The
inclination of the New York woman is to
trot, but she is going to reform next winter,
and she is going to walk so well, that it
really wlli amount to more than having the
world’s fair hero.
THE DEAR ATHI.ETIC TOUNO WOMAN.
The athletlo young creature who, accord
ing to novels, simply "strides" across the
lawn to meet the young man whom she has
condescended to knock out in one round
with tho tennis racket, go-*s out with the
first day of September, aud the charmiug
creature who tins been locking after her
form all summer and who can decompose
in the sixteenth cf a second,’will "undulate"
or “dpiXt’’ toward you, jrjyse nor eyas up
and look at you aud you will think vou
new saw a woman walk well before. It is
rather funny how the novel of the day
affects the hearing of the women. At the
time that Henry James’ novels were bs
lieved, by Some people, tb have a eertain
amount of Interest ai the women were
"standing around.” He Wade them stand
and stand, that is his heroines, unttl they
fell into matrimony beoau-o they were so
tired. Ouida very eompldoently and very
kindly,: too, let her heroines rest among
piles n I fashions and be at their ease, and
Miss Braddon has rather an Inclination that
way, too, though hers occasionally get up
and walk across the room ami serve some
body with tea. The Dutchess first makes all
her young women wav* iarge fans, w hioh
calls for u certain amount of muscular
strength, aud then she lets them "sway’’
wherever they are gotnf. This reads de
iigntfully, hot when you bring it down to
absolute trutn. and it Is just between you
and I and undvr a rose, don't you think
that a swaying young woman would look a
littlsv bit like one who was too full of—en
thusiasm? The namby-pamby young
woman who nestles on somebody's shoulder
ami tasna the stiff nets put of bis collar,
want out of vogue wiieu Thackeray died,
and as for the heroines of the various to
called religious novels, they simply walk
into a room and sit down on the settee. I
have often wondered jwhat a settee was.
Probably it will be like a comfortable
sleeper in a parlor car. I’ll di cover it some
day.
There is a good farce going now in New
York—it is tho one that wa slashed by all
the newspapers after the first performance,
probably because the critics thought it v. as
too amusing; but when I went to see it the
other night l found a packed house, every
body laughing, aud I laughed too. It is
called, sweetly, simply and shortly, "Jane,”
and the said Jane is depicted by Miss John
stone Bennett, one of the very best charac
ter octreeJes among the young women of
to-day, I think I may say tha very best,
for she never minds sacrificing her personal
appearance to her part and she is about as
pretty a little woman as ever
DELIGHTED THE EYES OF MAN
or those of women unselfish enough to see
the charm of another woman. Tne story is
funny. Mis, Bennett ho* an opportunity to
look pretty, and she wears the most beau
tiful led frock you ever saw in your life,
and it fits her; well, my dear friend, if you
ever get a frock to fit you in the back like
that, get down on your knees and give
thanks to the dressmaker who made it.
Red is a most delightful color, aud when it’s
brought out in rice stuffs, mingled with
light tulle, and when you have a glimpse
of a pretty foot in a red silk stocking and a
red satin slipper, there Is something, I don’t
know what it is, or you don’t know what it
is, that makes you think that of all oolors
in the world, red i, toe loveliest and the
most human, and this is the sort of a gown
that Johnstone-Bennett wears. The play
itself is full of go; is well acted, prettily put
on tho stage and just long enougn to amuse
one for the evening, and to allow time
enough for a pleasant supper afterward,
and to throw iu a little beauty sleep by way
of special blessing. “Jane” is of tho day—
she is that much abused phrase, "fiu de
siecie”—she suits tha time and the people,
consequently she is going to be a success.
I am not the seventh daughter of the
seventh daughter, but I car. predict that.
Must of us have l ean away aad come
home. Most of us have taken up the bur
den of life, though if most of us are Ameri
can women, tho burden of life is uiedo toler
ably easy to us. IVe hold on to it because
we want sympathy, but we will see that the
greater part of it is on a man’s shoulder,
if any newspaper would publish it, I would
write column, of praise of the American
man, especially as he i, developed in the
west. Whether it is that women are not
as plentiful out there, or whether it
is he has had a mother who has taught him
to consider women, or whatever it is, I don’t
know. But I want to take my aflidavit
right now that the western man can be too
altogether delightful to women for any
thing in the world. He always treat* her
iu that pretty little way, as if
SH3 WERE A. BIT OF CHINA
and was going to break. I am forced to
confess that 1 don’t know bow ha behaves
to the western women, but I think he is
gentleman enough to treat all women alike.
Now, just look down there at Washington.
Didn't Mr. Poster go and give that nice
Mrs. Douglas a position in the t easury be
cause her husband had been a good, kind,
honorable husband, and because the dav
had come when poverty stared her in the
face and she must work to take care of that
invalid husband? Ho is a western man,
Foster is, and he felt just as sorry and was
just as nice about that as ho could be, and
all the nicer because Mrs. Douglas is a lady.
There was no influence. There were no
votes to be gained by it—at least he didn’t
see any—but I think if Mr. Foster were
ever up for an olilpo a good many poople
would remember bis kindness and be would
get there, JCven in politics casting one’s
bread upon the waters isn’t bad policy.
Yes, I am appreciative of the western man.
lam not overly anxious that he should
come from Indiana, however But It’s a
very good thing in this world, especially if
you are a woman, to be appreciative.
Whenever you see great, big, handsome,
agreeable ineu wbo have a vague sort of an
idea that you are an attractive woman, sup
pose you let them know that you appreciate
this thought?
Whenever, if you happen to be a woman,
you meet
THK SWEETEST PAIR OF TWINS
you over saw, appreciate them to the ex ent
of staring at them, but don’t kiss them—
that's forbidden fruit.
Whenever, if you are a woman, you see
something marvelously pretty, appreciate
it, uud pray for it, and you will probably
get it.
Whenever, if you are a woman, you have
an idea tnat your skin isD’t white and
smooth enough, get a box of almond meal,
and appreciate it to the extent of throwing
it in j our bath, so that what is mere ordi
nary water, will seem like milk. There is
no charge made for oommending this treat
ment, but closely followed up, it will make
your skin like satin.
Whenever, if you are a woman, or even
if you are a man, or if you happen to be
long to the noblo army of spooks, and can
say a kind word, or do a kind deed, risk it—
somebody will appreciate It. They will—
they will—sure as my name’s Bab.
“ilred in the Morning.”
This feeling, even after a good night’s
sleep, arises from a disordered stomach. A
little genuine Carlsbad Sprudel Salt will
tone the stomach and drive away this sense
of weariness. Bs sure and secure only the
genuine.— Ad.
CORSETS.
ii m
Listen
to plain facts about the Kabo
corset. You can’t break the
bones-for one thing. If you
do, within a year, you’ll have
/our money back. Soft eye
lets-t'nat’s another thing that
can’t be had with other cor.
sets. And hear how it’s sold:
if you’re not satisfied, after
a few weeks’ wear, you can
return it md or Pf VOMr monpy>
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO
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BEAUFORT AND PORT RoValTsTcT"
STEAMER ALPHA. H A. STROBH in,
Will leave every Tuesday and Thursday, at
II o'olock a. m., return lag every Wednesday
and Friday. No freight received after 10:30 a.
u on sailing day*. Will tj.ch at bluff ton on
Tii-day a >. Knuav.
Special Iripa to BlufTton every Saturday after
noon at 4 o'ciuca, returning leave liiuiltja a e
A. vt M 'ndi y
For further information, apply to
V. H. MEL)LOCK, ..gout. Katie’s wharf.
FOR DARIEN, BRUNSWICK
And Intermediate Points HTR BELLEVUE,
leaving Savannah Tuesday* anti Fridays at 3
r t ; returning, leave Brunswick Wednesday*
and Saturdays S y m ; leave liarien Wednesdays
and haturdaya D u . arrive bavanoali Tiiura
days and Kui.daye 6a, s. For any iaforma
Wharf’*’ **° W * ° loHoy Manager, Ethel s
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Liver, Bowelß, Kidneys. Bladder, Nervous Dis
eases, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Constipa
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all derangements of the Internal Viscera.
PERFECT DIGESTION
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By so doing
SICK HEADACHE,
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nourishing properties for the support of the
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from Disease of the Digestive Organs- Consti
pation, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood In
the Head. Acidity of the Stomach. Nausea,
Heartburn. Disgust of Food, Fullness or Weight
in the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or
Fluttering of the Heart, Choking or SutTocatiag
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Vision, Dots or Webs bofore the Sight, Fever
and Dull Pain in the Head. Deficiency of Per
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Pain in the Side. Chest, I.imhs and Sudden
Flushes of Heat. Burning in the Flesh.
A few doses of ti .‘.DIVA ’S PILLS will free
the system of all the above named disorders.
Price 25c a box. Sold by all druggists, or
mailed by RaDWaY & CO., 32 Warren street,
New York, on receipt of price.
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A guaranteed Cure for Piles of whatever
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antee to cure any case of Plies. Guaranteed
and soltl only by
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SUIiUBBAM BAILVTAYS.
SUN DAY SCHEDULE;
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY
AND
COAST LINE RAILROAD CO.
The 3:45 p. m. train leaves from Second ave
nue and Whitaker street depot. All other
trains leave from Bolton street depot for Bone
venture, Thunderbolt and isle of Hope, Mont
gomery and Beaulieu, city time.
For Bonaventure and Thunderoolt—9:oo,lo 00
11:00 a. m., 2:00, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:00, 7:00 p. m *
For Isle of Hope, Beaulieu and Slontgomerv—
-10:00a. m., *3:45 p. rn. X
11 00 a. m. train and 7:00 p. m. goes to Isle of
Hope via Coast Lino.
Returning, leave Montgomery 7:89 a. m
12:30, 5:40 p. m.
Returning, leave Isle of Hope 8:00 a m 12 10
1:05, 3:10. 6:06 p. m. ’
Returning, leave Thunderbolt 8:20,10 00 a m
12:30, 1:26, 2:80. 4:00. 5:30, 6:23, 8:00 p. tn.
Arrive Savannah ,3:40, 10:20 a. m., 12 50 1-40
2:50, 3:35. 4:20, 5:50, 6:45 , 8:20 p. m.
*Beeoud avenue aud Whitaker street depot.
Trains for city leave Bonaventure cemetery
five minutes alter leaving Thunderbolt
G. W. ALLEY. Supt,
Tybee Schedule.
Richmond and Daarille Railroad Company,
Operating the Central Railroad of Georgia.
TO TAKE EFFECT SEPT 3, 1891.
Leave Savannah (Standard Time) Leave Tybes
*9:39 a in daily *7:10 am daily
2:00 p m daily *11:00 a m daily
6:20 p m daily ex. Sunday, 4:50 pin daily ex.su'n
i :25 p m Sunday only — 6:00 pm Sunday only
Trains marked thus* carry freight.
On family excursion days (Tuesdays and Fri
days) the rate will be for round trip, whole
tickets, 35 cents; half tickets, 20 cents
Passengers are required to purchase tlokets
wbo wish the beaeflt of excursion rates.
J. L TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agt.
S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A.
V. E. McBEK, Gen. Supt.
iLOL’Ii.—
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR
MERITS
THE
POPULARITY
IT
ENJOYS.
■ -"-"-I ( - L
ICE! ICE! ICEP
Tlie Savannah Crystal Ice Comp’y.
Is now manufacturing as pare Ice as one would
desire, uol our factory b lug in me Central
railroad yard m can furnish carload lots lui
cheap as the oheutewt. Write us lor prices be
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Wo are not in any combine, nor do wo pro
f'ose doing so. All we ask is a share of the pub
ic patronage.
Our prices are at the factory, SBc. per hun
dred pounds: SO pounds and upward delivered
to any part of the city, 4Uc. tier hundred pounds
Write for quotation. on carload lots.
Telephone 530.
CHAULEB A. DIUYTON.
Manager. ,
ObD NEWbiWi'CRS -JOO for Jj centa-at
Uuslnass Office Morning News
A. R. ALTMATER <fe CO.
Our ©tore
—THE—
mmm
OF THE
Dry Goods, Millinery,
BOYS’ CLOTHING
—AND-
Shoe Business.
Our [Hiotto: Honors biiitiveness.
See What We Are Offering You
For This Week.
Blazer Suits. Blazer SKirts.
umore
A nobby Block Diagonal Suit (s me as out) at
$9 00 and upward.
A beautiful Nary or Cream Serge Suit (same
as cut) at 30 50 and upward.
Blazer Skirts.
..—.....
Just received, anew line of Blazer Skirts
(similar to cuti, in navy, black and cream. We
will sell them at a great cut during the week.
Blazer Jackets.
Blazer Jackets.
Blazer Jackets.
New arrivals by every steamer. We have them
in solid colors—black, white, cream and fancy
striped.
Kxamino the special line this week that we
are going to run at $1 50,
Examine the $1 90 iot.
Examine the 98 lot.
Kindly examine the §3 50 lot. Some in thU
lot worth $5 00.
Dress Goods.
Dress Goods.
Dress Goods.
New comers in all the new weaves and color
ing arriving daily-..
SPECIAL—Kitty pieces Victoria Cloth Buit
“JjfS m stripes, checks and blocks; nobby goods.
i\ ill let tbem go for one week at At this
price do not think wo will own a yard after
Wednesday.
Boys’ School Suits
We bave mode great preparations to “at the
boys out” this fail in nobby, n at, stylish suits
at lower prices than ever before.
See our 89c. 3uits They are really fine, and
regular wear-resisters.
See ourjl 49 Suits. 3old at regular price for
$2 50. K
See our $2 48 Suits. They cannot be equaled
for le s than gl 00.
Sea the elegant line of Boys' Knickerbocker
Pams, real dandies, for 35c. Think of it. 3Cc.
See the lines of Beys’ Long Pants, which bav.
just arrived. Will fit bov* from 14 to 18 years
of age. Price drift from $1 23 to J'i 00; worth
double that sum.
BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES.
Boys as a general thing are pretty hard on
shoes. We have just received a consignment of
the celebrated ‘ Francis Dale School Shoe,”
and we will guarantee that if you purchase a
pair for your boys you will never ask for any
other shoes. We offer them this week at $1 19.
See the Ladies’ Shoe v.e are selling this week
SiMW la a 6pedal line, aud value for
NOTE—We desire to state that we are dally
expecting a large consignment of Ladle*' Clotu
Top Shoe* for fail wear. They are all the go.
No other shoes have attained one-half the popu
larity that these shoes bave. See announcement
of arrival in daily paper
ALTM AYER’S
STORE CLOSES 6 P. M.
SATURDAYS EXCEPTED.
