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A KING IN THE PACIFIC.
AN EX-SAVANNAHIAN A RICH
RULER AItONO THE MALAYS.
The Fortunes of the World That Made
Patrick O'Keeffe Monarch of the
Island of Nyph -The Story of
O’Keefe’s Life Here, His Departure,
and the Career That Has Given Him
Wealth end Fower.
Fortune is a queer thing, and has peculiar
trays at times of singling oat obscure indi
viduals ani raising them to places of fame.
Twenty years ago Patrick O’Keeffe was a
comparatively poor man, making his living
as a sailor on small vessels ooasting between
Savannah and neighboring ports. To-day
be is a king. He is the owner and absolute
ruler cf the island of Nyph, in the Austral
ian groups of the Pacific, almost in the
heart of the tropics
He would probably be still a resident of
Savannah and a poor man but for two trag
edies in which be figured as one of the prin
cipals. In 1867, as the story is told b y aQ
old-timer, he was mate of the schooner
Annie Sims, which plied between this city
and Darien.
A TRAQJtPV ON SHIPBOARD.
On the schooner was a young Irish sailor
named Sullivan. He and O’Keeffe were ap
parently good friends. hile near Darien
loading lumber, the mate was building a
cabin on the schooner and he asked Sullivan
what he thought of it. The sailor made a
joking reply, which angered O’Keeffe and a
light resulted. Sullivan got the best of it
and O'Keeffe went to his quarters, and, se
curing a pistol, returned and began firing
at tbo sailor. The latter dodged behind the
new cabin several times, and fiually got up
and remarked to O’Keeffe that he couldn't
shoot any body. But ho was mistaken, for
tho next bullet struck him and he died in a
short while. Tho mate was brought to
Savannah, and after a long confinement in
jail was tried and acquitted in the United
States court.
Afterward, while an officer of a small
steamer, he had trouble with one of the
deck hands and ran him into the river,
where he was drowned.
LEFT FOR EUROPE.
These troubles seemed to worry O'Keeffe,
and he determined to leave the “states," as
he termed it. In 1871 he saiie 1 away from
Savannah as second mate of an American
vessel bound for Liverpool, and when he
bade his friends good-by on the wharf he told
them that he would never return to Savan
nah unless he came in his own ship.
From Liverpool he shipped to the East
Indies and from there to Hong Kong. He
had saved a little money by this time and
began a small fruit and lumber business
between the Pacific islands and Hong Kong.
He was successful and after a few years
secured the island of Nyph from the na
tives by a trade of some eor’ Tho island
abounds in teakwood and fro t,a 1 O’Keeffo
bought a schooner and and started
business on a big scale. His vessels ran to
Hong Kong and ho soon built up an exten
sive trade, whioi has steadily increased
until now he is reckoned as a very wealthy
man.
A WIFE AND DAUGHTER HERE.
O’Keeffe left behind him when ho sailed
away from Savannah a wife and u baby
daughter, who is now a young woman.
For years nothing was heard of his where
abouts. After he began to prosper in his
far-away home, however, he wrote a letter,
and sent money to his wife. He tried to
persuade her and his daughter to go to him,
butf they wouldn’t do it. Regularly twice a
year since be sends remittances for their
support, and keeps up a correspondence
with them. Mrs. O’Keeffe and her daughter
live on Liberty street, near East Broad, and
bavo an oil painting of the brig of the
“King of Nyph" banging In their parlor.
■*A ROYAL LIVER IN HONG KONG.
Capt. Keane of tbo American brig I. XV.
Parker, which is now here loading lumber
for Pernambuco, told a Morning News re
porter that ho saw King O’Keeffe in Hong
Kong several months ago. He was board
ing at tho finest hotel in tho city and was
living in the bight of elegance, having a
fine driving turnout and every luxury
which money could obtain. He spends a
great portion of li s timo in Hong Kong,
where he deposits his money, and i • favora
bly known to all the residents of that city.
He said he intended coming to America to
atteud the world’s fair.
Beside being n trader of wealth and posi
tion O’Keeffo is the ruler of a large colony,
made up mostly of Malays who swear by
him. Tills story will lie a revelation t >
many of Savannah’s old residents, who bad
long since forgotten ‘ ’Capt.” Pat O’Keeffo
and thought him doud.
PRESENTED A. GOLD WATCH.
CaDt. Murray of the Crescont City
Handsomely Remembered.
Capt. Charles E. Murray cf the steamer
Crescent City was presented a baDdsome
gold watcb, appropri itely iuscribod, at
Warsaw yesterday afternoon by his friends,
who have been the recipients of his courte
sies during the time he has been in corn
mac and of the steamer.
Tbe presentation was made at dinner in
the pavilion by Justice Sam Reynolds, with
very complimentary allusion to Capt.
Murray as un officer aud Uis uniform court
esy to the passengers. Capt. Murray re
sponded briefly, thanking h.s friends for
their generous and unexpected tribute.
The watch is a heavy gold hunting-cased
Waltham movement. In the case is the
inscription:
Cap:. Charles E. Murray.
Str. Crescent I’ity.
From Many Friends hi Savannah,
September, 1891.
Capt. Murray has been in Savannah two
seasons on the Crescent City aud is a popu
lar officer. He will leave to-morrow for
Jacksonville, where the boat will prepare
for its winter service on the route between
Jackson vibe and Crescent City. Yesterday
closed the steamer’s excursion season in Sa
vannah. '
EPISCOPALIANS TAKING HOPE.
A Probability Now That Bishop Tal
bot May Oome to Georgia.
Episcopalians are taking fresh hope that
Bishop Talbot will accept the bishopric of
Georgia. The Atlanta Herald learns that
the chances for his acceptance are
growing more favoidable. It says:
•‘lt will be remembered that Bishop Talbot
decided to leave the matter partially in the
ha- ds of the House of Bishops of the church
and the standing diocesan committees. It
is learned from I)r. Tupper, rector of St.
Philip’s, that many of tee diocesan stand
ing cotnmittees have already given their
consent to Dr. Talbot'S making the change,
and that a number of the bishops have also
expressed their views favorably to the
chauge, so it looks very much as tsough he
will soou he at the head of the Episcopal
church iu Oeorgla. It is expected that the
matter will be decided next week.”
Irish National League Delegate.
At a special meeting of the Savannah
branch -of the Irish National League of
Amerioa, held at Catholio Library hall on
yesterday, M. A. O’Byrne was elected dele
gate to the uational convention in Chicago
Oct. 1 and 2. E. J. Kennedy was
selected as alternate.
The Old Horse sale of over-freight and
baggage of the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad will be hold this day at 11
o’clock by Messrs. L D. Lußoche & Son,
auctioneers. —Ad.
HERMAN L. SCHREINER DEAD.
He Died at His Old Home in Gera, Ger
many. Saturday-
Herman L. Schreiner died in Gera, near
Leipzig, Germany, day b tore yesterday.
His death was announced by a cablegram
‘to bis brother, Sigmund Schreiner, yester
day morning. .
Mr. Schreiner left Savannah June 13 and
sailed from Baltimore for Germany a
few*da vs later. The trip across was a
rough one. and on the pass ige be caught a
wvere cold. He went direct to his old home
iu Ger., where bis children are, and after
ward to Carlsbad for the benefit of the
! waters. The waters pulled him down
greatly but be was supposed to have re
cuperated, though nothing was heard from
him until the announcement of his death.
He was buried in Gera yesterday.
Mr. Schreiner wai proprietor of
Schreiner s Music House in this city, and
was one of Savannah’s best known business
men. He was born in 1932 at Hildburg-
hausen, Thuringia. He was educated at
the gymnasium of bis native place, and
later at t. e realschule at Aieini igen. His
early tendencies for niusio were so marked
that bo became a pupil of such well known
teachers as Laugerc for tho piano and
B >eubardt for organ. •
In 1549 Mr. Schreiner, who had developed
into an artist of first-class talent, decided
to emigrate to the United States. Ho came
over with letters of introduction to Charles
Grope, the composer, who was then teach
ing iu Wilmington, Del. Receiving an ex
cellent offer to go south Mr. Schreiner
settled in Wilmington, N. C., where he
taught music, many of his pupils being the
members of the most prominent families
there.
He afterward removed with his parents,
who arrived in this oountry in 1858, to Ma
con, in this state. The Schreiners estab
lished a musio store there. Iu 18C2 the
firm of John C. Schreiner & Son purchased
the music store of W. D. Zogbaum & Cos.
of this city, where Mr. H. L. Schreiner de
cided to locate, while his father, tho senior
member of the firm, remained iu Macon.
During the war all musical supplies from
the north wore cut off, and Mr. Schreiner
ran the blockade, crossing the Blue Ridge
mountains on foot to Nashville, Tenn.,
thence by rail to Cincinnati, where he pur
chased a font of music type, which ho safely
brought back to Macon. His grit and de
termination wore two of his chief qualities,
and this incident was one of the evidences
of these characteristics.
The Macon house of John C. Schreiner &
Son was afterward the only regular music
publishing House in the Southern Confed
eracy.
When the war was over both tho Macon
and Savannah branches of the firm were
continued until the death of Mr. John C.
Schroiner in 1870, when tho Macon house
was discontinued, the entire business being
transferred to Savannah.
Mr. Schreiner sold his first Steinway
piano in the early years of the “fifties,”
when that firm was in Water street, Now
York. Ho had a fund of reminiscences of
his experience during the war. He was the
composer of a number of well-known works
and was a recognized ortist in all musical
circles. Two years ago Mr. Schreiner re
married, bis first wife, a daughter of the
!ato Goorgo Ch. Gemundon, having died a
number of years ago. His second mar
riage bad a thread of romance
in it. His bride, who was
on her way from Germany was a pas
senger on tbo steamer Danmark, which was
given up for lost, but which finally arrived
safe. During tho time tho vessel was sup
posed to have been lost Mr. Schreiner was
in New York, anxiously seeking any nows
of the ship, und watohing for its arrival
and for his bride. Mrs. Schreiner was
with her husband at bis death.
AT RUST UNDER THE OAKS.
Impressive Funeral of the Late J. H.
Reid Stewart.
All that was mortal of J. H. Reid Stewart
was laid to rest in Bonaventuro yesterday
beneath a wealth of flowers contributed by
sorrowing hearts and arranged by loving
baud?. The funeral was in the afternoon.
Services were held at tho home of the fam
ily, the residence of Maj. James T.
Stewart, father of tho deceased, and
they were very impressive. Tho
funeral was largely attended. Al
most every member of tbe cotton ex
change in the city was present and an
unusually large number of the business
men ou tho Bar, besides a number of other
well-known citizens.
The services were conducted at the house
by Kev. Dr. Baker, at present in charge
of the Independent Presbyterian church. A
Quartette composed of Julian Walker, P. H.
Ward, J. C. Posted find F. E. Keilbach sang
“Just as I Am” and “Thy Will be Done” in
a very beautiful manner at tho house.
There wore many handsome floral decora
tions.
The pallbearers were J. Fioranee Minis,
E. M. Green, Capt. Thomas Screven, George
Coaocs, Houston Thomas, Fred W. Haber
sham and Charles Shearson.
The hearse was followed to the cemetery
by a long line of carriages.
O’LEtRY-DOYLE.
Tha Qroom 70 and tba Bride 67
Treated to a Charivari.
St. Patrick’s church was the scene day
before yesterday of a unique wedding—
unique from the fact that the contracting
parties are both olosing up to the three
quarters of a century milepost. Daniel
O’Leary, a well-known employe of the
city’s street force, over 70 years of age, was
the blushing and bashful groom and Miss
Mary Doyle, a coy maiden of 67,
was the bride. Martin F. Dug
gan, tha heavyweight sexton of
St. Patrick’s, did the honors of best man
for the groom. Rev. William Quinlan per
formed the ceremony, which was witnessed
Dy only a few of tha intimate friends of the
old but happy couplo.
It was Intended to have the the marriage
yesterdav m rning between the masses, but
Mr. O'Leary changed the date to avoid the
crowd which nicst certainly would have
been present bad the marriage been cele
brated at the time first agreed upon. As It
was, many people, not knowing that the
lovers had stolen a march, went bank to
the church yesterday, and were disap
pointed.
f After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. O’Leary
held a short reception at their residence,
No. 6 Olive street.
The small boys gathered all tbe old tins,
cow-bells, tin horns aud every other ear
splitting instrument thev oould lay their
hands upon and treated tbe newly married
couple to a charivari, which lasted until
daylight yesterday morning.
THE TRICK MATCH CRAZE.
It la at Its Hight Now—What It ia.
Tha match fiend is abroad. This is not
the fiend who is always asking for a match,
but the $e id who politely hands one and
smilingly awaits the shook which always
comes.
The match is an ordinary looking affair,
just like any other match, only there is a
littie spot about a quarter of an inch from
the bead that looks os if the wood hod been
scorched in the manufacture.
The unsuspecting victim draws it across
the heel of bis shoe or the seat of his panta
loons, and, just osshe goes to light his cigar,
and has taken about one puff, the minia
ture infernal machine goes off with a bang
that starllei him half out of his wits, espe
cially if he is a nervous man. By tbe time
he discovers that the match has exploded in
his hands, and that he is the victim of a
practical joke, the joker is arouud the cor
ner oo the lookout for another victim.
Smukers wcuid he.ter carry their own
matches until the craze is over.
HORSFORD’S ACID PHO3PHATE
For the Tired Brain
from over-exertion. Try it.—Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1891.
TWO CDT WITH RAZORS.
An Uncle Does Up His Niece, and a
Nephew His Uncle.
Night before lest was a lively one for cut
ting scrapes. Josephine Matthews was
badly slashed with a razor by her uncle,
Bink Washington, and J. H. Houston was
used up with a similar weapon by Hamilton
Pounder, his nephew. All the parties are
colored. There was a singular coincidence
between the two affrays all the way through.
The first occurred in a house on Gwinnett
street, near Habersham, and the other in
a house on Gwinnett street, near West
Broad.
The Matthews woman and her uncle
quarreled about a trifling affair and then
undertook to fight it out. The womn,
however, was the better pugulist of the two,
and when Washington found that his nleci
was getting the upper hand of him he pulled
out a razor and gave her a slash across the
throat and a deep cut in the shoulder. The
wounded woman screamed aud Washington
ran out of the house aud made bis escape.
Dr. Go ram dressed her wounds. She will
be laid up for some time, but there is no
danger of fatality.
The other affray was much more serious,
and Houston is badly wounded. He and
his nephew. Pounder, have been living iu
the same house for some time. The young
man has not been behaving himself in a
proper manner, and Saturday night his
uncle undertook to read him a lecture about
his conduct. The nephew didn’t take
kindly to the advice, and started
for his uncle with a razor.
Houston’s wife oailed out to him to
look out, aud be turned to get a vase
from the mantel to defend himself. The
moment ho turned his back Pounder cut
him across the back, severing several
muscles and making a wound about
four inches deep. Next he cut
for Houston's throat, but succeeded only in
inflicting n long, deep wound in his shoul
der. The wounded man turned to escape
and received another cut in his left side be
tween the ribs. Pounder was evidently
determined ou murder, and made a slush at
bis uncle’s breast. Houston threw up his
right baud ts ward off the blow, and got
another deep cut on bis wrist. Then be fell
to the floor, and Pounder jumped out of the
window and escaped.
Tho police ambulance was seat out to the
scene of the cutting and Houston was taken
to the Georgia infirmary, where he now is in
a serious condition. Dr. Woiohsaibaum
doesn’t think that the wounds will prove
fatal.
About I o’clock yesterday a colored man
reported at the barracks that Pounder was
hiding in a house at Zubly and Farm
streets. Officers Christian and Procdible
were sent t ere, and succeeded in capturing
tho would-be murderer. He made no re
sistance, and ,vai taken to the barracks and
locked up .
THE W EATHffR ST LL UNCERTAIN.
Rain During the Day and Thick Fog
at Night.
The weather is little more settled now
than it was iu August. Yesterday morn
ing opened with prospects for a clear day,
but before noon it began showering and
nearly half an inch of rain fell during the
day.
Last night a heavy fog settled over the
city and river and shut up everything
in its density. It was thick
on the river and tho steamer
Chattahoochee, which came up at 1 o’clock
this morning, had to feel her way from
below the Havannah, Florida and Western
wharves to her dock. The fog was tho first
heavy fog of the season.
KITCHEN B3UDY TO Dl®.
Says Ho Has Made Peace With God
aud Believes He Will Be Saved.
Albert Morea-Kitchen, the wife-mur
derer, has but twelve days more to live and
repent for his crimes. He is to be hanged
Friday, Sept. 18, betwaen 10 and 4 o’clock iu
the hauging cell of the jail. He has pro
fessed the Baptist faith and is attended
daily by Rev. Alexander Harris, who gives
him spiritual consolation.
Kitchen spends most of his time in read
ing the Bibio and a hymn book. Ho says
he has made his pence with God, forgiven
his enemies and is ready to die, feeling that
he will be saved.
Kitchen has not yet confessed the murder
of his wife in Capt. Brooks’ house, but it is
thought that he will before tho day for his
hanging arrives.
local personal.
E. W. Gould of Atlanta is at the De
Soto.
E. H. Gaynor of Fernandina is at tho Pu
laski.
M. P. Brogan of Atlanta is stopping at the
Puioski.
C. I. Groover of Quitman is registered at
the Pulaski.
Detective Si Basch has returned from
New York.
M. W. Monahan of Atlanta is registered
at tho De Soto.
T. W. Harris of the Ocala Daily Capitol
is at the Pulaski.
W. 8. TLon returned home from tho
north yesterday.
Dr. A. G. Bouton and bride have re
turned from the north.
Master John Merchant left last night to
take a course of study in Belmont (N. C.)
college.
M. Rhenauer, Charles Peyser, and George
TV. Brown, of Ociia, Fia., are guests of the
De Soto.
Miss Clifford Mallette. daughter of Mrs.
F. A Mallette, left last nigat for Washing
ton, Ga., to attend school.
Misses Nina Warren and Nina Goodwin
leave on the Kansas City to-day for New
Y'ork city, where they will spend several
weeks.
Quite a number of boys left on the Cen
tral train last night for St. Mary’s college,
Belmont, N. C. Among the number were
the two Hartloge brothers, Carl and Henry,
of this city. Several of the boys wore from
Brunswick, Ga.
A Saratoga exchange says: Mrs. Jake’
Lippman o' Savannah looked very stylish
at the Grand Union bail in a handsome
white Canton silk, elaborately band em
broidered in gold floral designs
(we heard it was executed by
one of those artistic embroiderers
connected with the "Turkish Compassion
ate Fund Cos.”), rare point lace and dia
monds. She watched tenderly over her
four neices, Helen Milius, a pretty blonde,
with golden hair and mild blue eyes; she
1 oked almost divine in a cloud of pure
white, impersonating “snowflake.” As
“pretty ns a picturo,”m a real Valenciennes
frock, was little Dorris Lippman as
“Daisy,” while Eunice and Gladys were
perfectly lovely as “Goldenrod.”
Weather Forecast.
1 Special forecast for Georgia:
DilM Showers near the coast; fair in
n/wn the interior; ncrtherly winds; sta
The Tortures of the inquisition
Inflicted by the dread Torquema la have abom
inable prototypes in the shape of chronic rheu
matism and neuralgia. Attack these agonizing
complaints betore they reach the chronic stage
with the supero blooJ depureut. Hostetter’e
Stomach Bitters, which will assuredly expel
their virus from the life stream To procrasti -
nate is to encourage tho growth of incipient
rheumatism, which ra. idly tighten! its grip
upon the system. It is the very octopus of dis
eases, and painful indeed is the clasp of its
dreadful tentacles. Be prompt, therefore, take
time l>y the forelock, always remembering that
both rheumatism and gout, close relatives, are
dangerous as well as painful. Debility, chills
and fever, bilious, remittent, dyspepsia, consti
pation, liver complaint, nervousness and kidney
disease succumb to the Bitters Appetite and
the ability to sloep veil are improved by it,— Ad.
STILL TALKING ABOUT IT.
. GI3LAT3RS NOT LIKELY TO FOR
GET THEIR S iVANNAH TRIP.
Capt. Purse's Warm Reception at the
Capitol Last Weak—Hia Spaech on
the Eerner Bill—How Mayor Mc-
Donough Is Regarded in Atlanta and
Elsewhere—Hia Enforcement of the
Sunday Laws Applauded.
Maj. G. M. Ryais spent yesterday in Sa
vannah and returned to Atlanta last night.
Tho members of the legislature are Dot yet
done talking about their trip to Savannah,
he says.
“They mention it every day and a hun
dred times a day, said the major.
“And they can't say too much
about it. They havn’t ceased
praising Savannah’s hospitality aud talk
ing about de. i water yet, aud I think it
will be a long time bsfore they forget us, if
they ever do. They gave Capt. Purse a
regular ovation when he was there Friday.
He tried to slip in quietly to speak to me,
but Sibley of Cobb spied him at the door
and moved that the courtesies of the house
be extended him. The motion went through
with a rush and then all the members
on the floor made a rush for Capt. Purse.
Tney overwhelmed him with their welcome,
and it was bo sudden and hearty that I think
it almost scared him. As Boon as tho news
spread that he was on the floor all the mem
bers in the capitol came rushing in to shake
hands. They ail remembered Purse, and
they didn’t mean to leave any doubt of it
on his mind.’’
CAPT. PURSE’S SPEECH.
“What about Capt. Purse’s speech before
the committee on the Berner bill?’’ Maj.
Ryais was asked,
“Ilis speech was listened to with marked
attention, and evidently made a good im
pression. He treated tho question pure ly
from a business standpoint and made a
strong exposition of tne subject. I am
satisfied that his speech did a great deal of
good. Ths Berner bill is in the hands of the
committee. It will be bitterly fought ou
both sides, and it is hnr i to say what the
end will be.
* ‘The members of ths legislature and the
people of Atlanta generally were very sorry
that Mayer McDonough did not come up to
Atlanta with Capt. Purse,” continued Maj.
Ryais. “They were anxious to see him. lie
is the best-known mayor In the south to
day and the most talked of, and his enforce
ment of the Sunday liquor laws has made
him so. Hia course is generally Indorsed.
People come to me almost every day, not
from Georgia alone, but from other states,
asking about Savannah's mayor and com
plimenting his course. They are the very
best oeople, too, the representatives of the
best element of society everywhere.
THE LIQUOR DEALgas’ INTERESTS.
"I can tell you another thing, too, that is
not generally understood hero. Mayor Mc-
Donough’s course has been of more real
benefit to the liquor men than anything
they oould have done themsolves. This may
be news to them, but it is a fact. There is a
Bpirit abroad, especially strong in the legis
lature, to wipe tho whole business
out of existenoe. Mayor McDonough’s
enforcement of the Sunday laws
has, in a large degree, quieted
the prohibitionists, who are demanding this
very thing. They are satisfied if the laws
are enforced. The best thing the liquor
dealers can do is to strictly observe the Jaws
for the regulation of the liquor traffic and
keep as quiet as possible.”
THE NEW JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
Maj. Ryais is interested iu the formation
of the now judicial circuit in this section.
Two of the counties for tho new circuit,
Liberty and Mclntosh, will be taken
from this judicial circuit, leaving only
Chatham, Effingham and Bryan, iu this
circuit, Holifißjr General Fraser, the mem
bers cf the Savannah bar generally and
Chatham's representatives are opposed to
the taking of any of the counties from this
circuit, but it does not appear possible to
avoid it. It is proposed to construct tho
new circuit of Liberty, Mclntosh, Coffee,
Appling. Telfair, Montgomery and Tattnall
counties. It will be knowu as the Altamaha
circuit.
THE COUNTY TREASURER’S SALARY.
Maj. Ryais’ bill to limit the salary of
county treasurers to *3,000 annually has
come back from the Senate with a slight
amendment, which provides that the excess
over the amount named shall simply be
covered into the county treasury and not
go to the county school fund, as provided in
too original bill. The reason for this change
is that it was held to be unconstitutional to
make an appropriation in the same act
which enacted a law.
Maj. Ryais doesn’t think the uniform
text book law will be heard from again.
A substitute wi’l be offered to the road
law bill, miking the use of the convicts
upon the roads optional with the counties.
Maj. Ryais said that he is satisfied with
his position upon the oyster legisla ion, and
that he acted for the best interests of all
concerned.
AFTER YEARS OF SEPARATION,
And Now “Whoa Shall We Three
Meet Again?”
Editor Horning News: During the Pea
t ody institute recently held in Wayeros3,
Ga., we witnessed a meetiog such a9 is
rarely 6een. This was between State School
Commissioner Capt. Bradwell, Prof. A. Q.
Moody of Boston, Ga., and Capt. R, P.
Bird of Way cross, Ga. These gentlemen
were all born and reared in old Liberty
county, and had spent their bovbood days
together. Cape. Bradwell and Capt. Bird
had not met in sixteen years. Prof. Moody
and Capt. Bird, though old schoolmates in
the ante-bellum days, had not met in
tneaty-sevou years. Then they were under
Sherman’s guns at Atlanta. It is unneces
sary to sav that an introduction aud set
speeches were in order. Then we witnessed
a regular love feast, and such greetings and
hand-shakings as did the old soldiers good,
aud made them feel like they were boys
again. All three are and have’been promi
nent instructors in the high schools of Geor
gia. May they live long and enjoy many
such meetings. Old Teacher.
CITY BREVITIES.
The base hall team of the Bartow Light
Infantry, which won the game against tbe
team of the Busch Zouaves Saturday after
nooD by a score of 19 to 13, will hold a meet
ing Thursday night to turn over the gate
receipts, about SSO. to the Davis monument
fund.
For Over Fifty Year#
Mrs. Winslow'S Soothing Syp.up has
t>oen used for over fifty years by millions
mothers for their children while teeth
ing, with perfect success. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays ail pain,
cures wind colio and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little
sufferer immediately. Sold by druggists in
every part of tbe country. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for “Mrs.
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,” and take no
other kind.— Ad.
For neuralgia,headaches Quickstep never
fails to euro in from fifteen to thirty min
utes; warranted, at Soiomons <& Cos., whole
sale druggists.— Ad.
Many Person are broken
<3cvn from overwork or household cares.
Brown’s Iron Bitters Rebuilds the
sv cm. aids digestion, removes excess of biia
X , cures malaria. Get the genuine.
Old newspapers—AW for Jj cents at
business office. Morning News.—.4d.
The only harmless cure for siok head
acbos is called Quickstop, and sells for 35
cents, at Solomons & Cos., druggists. Ad.
BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—-U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 18S9.
Ml Bswdcr
• ABSOLUTELY PURE
RAIL AND CROS3II£.
The Atlantic Coast Line fa9t mail from
ths north, due at 6 o’clocb yesterday morn
ing, did not reach Savannah until noon.
Ths delay was caused by a washout between
Washington aud Richmond.
The Georgia Southern and Florida road,
which is a competitor of the East Tennes
see, will shortly adopt a J-cent rate to
southern points. The rate for the first 50
miles will be 3 cents, for the second 50.
cents; for the third 50 miles, cents; for
the fourth 50 miles, 2,*/ cents, for the fifth
50 miles, 2 cents.
Oct. 1 the Central railroad passenger
agency and office in Montgomery (Ala.) will
be abolished, or rather it will be con
solidated with the Richmond and Danville
office and agency. The closing of the Cen
tral’s Montgomery office is wbat is being
done with nearly all, if not all, of the Cen
tral railroad offices atpointa where the Cen
tral and Richmond and Danville had
separate offices.
The interstate commerce commission bos
entered an important decision at St. Louis
regarding the separate coach laws of Texas
and Arkansas. The decision is given in the
case of a negro purchasing a chair oar
ticket ia Louisiana to Texas, and who was
transferred to the separate ooach when ho
reached Texas. He claimed that the federal
law had been violated, and the commission
sustains him, saying that the Texas law
affects local state transportation only.
E. T. Chirlton, well known as the re
cent general passenger ageut of the Central
railroad, and W. P. Dawson, a popular
division passenger agent of the Central at
Maoon, have formed a co-partnership for
the purpose of carrying ou a merchandise
brokerage and commission business at
Macon. Both gentlemen are well known
to tho business men of Maoon and Savannah
aud the state generally, and it is expected
that tho new firm will do a large business.
They have many friends who wish them
success in their venture.
A matter that has been on the minds of
Maconlles for several days is the meeting
of the Macon and Atlantio people in New
York lost Wednesday. A few days ago tho
Telegraph gave the predictions of several
large subscribers to the Macon and Atlantic
bonds as to the probable outcome of this
meeting. These predictions have caused an
uneasy feeling among interested parties
here, and all effort has been made to
learn the result of that meeting, which,
strangely it seemed, no one was abl.i to
find out. Asa matter of fact the mooting
was never held, but is yet to be. It is
learned that there were not enough sub
scribers represented on last Wednesday,
and the meeting was postponed until Thurs
day, Sept. 8, at the same place and hour.
CoL H. J. Lamar aud Mr. W. B. Sparks
are still north, and will, in all probability,
be In attendanoe ou the meeting. In con
nection with Maoon and Atlantic
matters, which are still occupying
the minds of many in Macon, several
point* of interest have been learned by the
Telegraph. It is stated by the Macon and
Atlantic people that the contractors are
still hard at work with a large force of
Bands dressing up the portion already
graded, and that the line from Macon to
r withln four miles of Guyton is about ready
for the track, and in almost perfect condi
tion. Bridges aud trestles nre in, and all
the contractors have now 1 1 do is to begin
laying track at the rate of 1% miles
a day. With the thirteen miles of track
already laid it is estimated that track can
be placed from Macon to Guyton and trains
running within eight weeks. The road
from Guyton to Savannah has yet to be
graded and track laid, but as it is only a
short distance and little grading to be done,
the work can be finished in a very few
weeks’ time. Head officials give the assur
ance that work will go ahead without auj
tnore delays, and think after next Tuesday's
meeting of the board of subscribers things
will be given anew impetus.
Aberdeen, O , July 31, 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Qa:
Dejlß Sirs— l bought a bottle of your P. P. P.
at Hot Springs, Ark., and it has done me more
good than three months’ treatment at the Hot
Springs.
Have you no agent in this Dart 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,
■Tas. 51. Newton,
—Ai. Aberdeen, Brown County, 0.
Artists’ Materials, all kinds, at M. T. Tay
lo’r 135 York street. — Ad.
An Autumn Sonnet.
Soon the leaves will
Turn yellow and drop.
And soon Sternberg’s
Fine fall display
Of Jewelry, Ornaments,
And Preoious stones
W ill be opened.
In the meantime
Our remaining Fanoy Goods
On second floor must be
Moved, and prices
Really no object.
Ladies Call and Select
What you want at
Prices you won’t meet
Soon again.
—Ad. Sternberg's.
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The ‘‘one cent a word” column of the
Morning News places advertising within
the reach of every one who has anything to
sell or wants anythin?. Advertising shows
thrift and enterprise, and for the small sum
of 15 cents you can demonstrate that vou
are possessed of t nose very necessary requi
sites to success in life. The Morning News
circulates everywhere, reaches everybody,
is read by rich and poor alike. has thousands
of readers who never look at any otter
newspaper.
It will print your advertisement, if 7.f
words or less, for 15 cents, and charge you
one cent for each added word. There is no
trouble to calculate what your advertise
ment will cost you. If you have an adver
tising acoount with the Morning News
you can telephone your advertisement, if
you do so before 10 p. m. Business office
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IT WAS A COLD DAY.
But Bertram Biddlewax of Boston
Showed How Little That Fact Af
fected Him.
Erom the Evening Bun.
It is bitter cold on the outskirts of Boston
and the cruel, icy gale whistles with freez
ing savagery as it stings ths shivering form
of Bertram Biddlewax to his heart’s core
and stiffens the icicles that glitter in his
tawny beard.
He draws his great cost more closely
about him and hurrios along the barreu
country road and in tho teeth of tho chill
blast, while the groat drifts of feathery
snow swirl about his head and cut into his
face as if the spirit of ths cold was hurling
orystal needles through the air.
“How numb lam getting,” he mutters,
working his fingers convulsively lest they
freeze, even in the depths of his wool-lined
pockets. “It behooves mo to make baste or
I will never reach tho spot by the break of
day, and if the sun be born but half an boor
ere tbo deed is done then will I have staked
my all in vain. But that must not be. No,
Bertram Biddlewax, thy word has been
passed, and thy vow must be kept even if
the richest, warmest blood that course
through tby veins congeal and pause,
trapped aud paralyzed.”
Saying these brava words the young
man struggled on against the whirling
whiplash of tho snowstorm, pausing only
to stamp with might and main to restore
the circulation in his feet and legs, and then
hurrying forward again with all the speed
the gale would admit of. It was a lonely
bat'.le and he fought it out olono —alone
save once when he met a figure ooroing
through the blinding smother of maddened
snow, and stopped to answer to the strang
er’s gruff, "Good morning,”
“Good morning,” he said in reply, and
then, noting something in the other’s blue
face that betokened suffering, he added with
a sneer; “Coukl you lead me afa il”
The other staggered in the spasm of as
tonishment that this request brought on and
sunk moaning to the ground. “Coward I”
he feebly cried, looking up. “Coward, to
strike so unexpected a blow. Dark as it is
there is yet light enough for you to see that
I have loft my hot temper at home lest it be
spoiled ou such a morning, and therefore
you felt safe in saying what you did.”
There was a oonvulsive shiver, aud he said
no more. Bertram looked down at tho
rigid figure, cold in death, and his stiffened
upper lip cracked in an attempt to curl.
“Poor fool,” he said, “I did not think he
would have taken my merry little jest so
coolly." Aud ho passed on, leaving his vic
tim prone on the frozen earth.
And now he came to the brow of a long
bill, and glancing across tho wide stretch of
spotless wnite to where tho clump of trees
stood at the foot of the rocky knoll, he saw
a group of four men, a carriage and a
brougham. Five minutes brought him to
the spot.
“Gentlemen, I am here,” he said, “and
vour sister, sir?” addressing a voting man
heavily muffled up. “She is there,” replied
the other, pointing to tho brougham.
"Come, time presses, and the air nips at our
very vitals. Here is jour suit, there the
never-freezing cold spring. Oar carriage is
at your disposal and I beg you, for my sis
ter’s sake, if not for ours, to make good
your boast or fail in the attempt that we
may hurry back.”
Bertram merely smiled, and taking the
package the young mini held out to him
entered ihe carriage. A few minutes later
he emerged arrayed in a sleeveless knitted
swimming suit and bowed to the four men.
"lam ready now,” he said, “let the lady
judge if I am what I claimed to be.”
The door of the carriage was opened and
a tall, classic beauty, with clear, gray eyes
and a face as 1 eautifuily pink and white os
If chiseled from tho roseioaf marble of
southern Greeca. etepped forth. She
acknowledged Bertram’s presonce by a
slight nod. “Make haste," she said, “for
the atmosphere is so entangled with tho ex
tremely low temperature my predomi
nating sensation is one of marked discom
fort.”
“You shall be spared every unnscessary
moment’s exposure,” replied Bertram with
a smile, and be walked into tho SDring until
the icy water covered his shoulders. Two
of the four men turned away, shaking as if
stricken with an ague, and the others of
the group felt their very hearts congeal.
Bertram smilt*. “And now. Miss Beacon
street,” he said, with a laugh, "now the ice
cream, please.”
"I cannot, I really cannot go that far,”
she answered, her eyes filling with tears of
pride, ns she watched him standing in the
freezing spring.
• ’But it must be so or else my oath is un
fulfilled,” ho pleaded.
So they brought her from the brougham
a little silver bowl and a spoon.
"Here,” she said, 6haviug a little of the
frozen delicacy from the pink lump, “that
will do, and I now bid you come forth.”
He did so, and almost as he stood clear of
the pool he was clothed from his throat to
his feet m a suit of icy armor that flashed
back the rays of the newly arisen sun.
“And do you believe me now, Minerva?”
he asked, presuming on his victory to thus
addresiher. “And do you believe mo now
when I say that I am worthy of thy love?”
"I do, Bertram,” she said, giving him a
hand, “and I feel safe in trusting my
future and my cool million to your care for
life. And now I will drive home and will
look for you at breakfast.”
"Till then good-by,” he replied, and turn
ing to tho admiring group, he added, “You
see, gentlemen, [ have kept my vow that
Bertram Biddle wax won’t he left, not even
on a cold day.".
ANCESTORS AND TITLES.
High Birth is Like a Stream That Grows
Shallower as it Flows.
From the Boston Herald.
In regard to aristocracy Daniel Webster
one wrote: “There may be, and there
often is, a regard for ancestry which nour
ishes only a weak pride; and there is also a
care lor posterity, which only disguises
an habitual avarice or bides tho working of
a low and groreiiug. vanity. But there is
also a moral and philosophical regard for
our ancestors which elevates tin; chancer
aud improves the beast.” Aristocratic title)
ore often obtained by dishonorable means,
says Texas Siftings. Many a man becomes
ignoble to become noble.
The confidence of nobility of birth has
rendered men ignoble, just as tho opinion
of wealth makes some men poor. Lord Bac m
has compared those who lived in the higher
spheres to these heavenly bodies in the
firmament which have much admiration
hut little rest. Titles are properly the
insignia cf wise and honest men. The fool
or kuave that wears one is a falsi tier. They
who dilate upon their glorious uucestrv are
foolishly vain of a debt which probably
they wi'l never he aide to pav. It has aiso
been remarked that a river generally be
comes narrower and more in-qg dfleaut as
we ascend to its s&irce. The stream of
ancestry, on the contrary, often vig rou,
pure and powerful at its fountain hea 1,
usually becomes more feeble, shallow aud
corrupt as it flows downward.
TALKS WITE PIANO BUYHR3.
No. 3.
After an experience of nearly
years in handling the pianos made by til
Mathushek Piano Manufacturing Comra*
of New Haven, Conn., we are prepa?£ J
say that they take the palm for g e n er M
populanty. Its friends are stanch aJ„„
thußiastic, and there is always solidsatisft^
meets 10 U 8 68111128 one ot tuc3a io*tn£
The reason for Ihe popularity C f ths
Mathusbek is not far to seek 'Ao n£n
made has more perfect care bestowefunon
f* 0 * < H? U of lta construction.
that skill, money and good management ca?
do t.s done to make the Uattiushek as solid
satisfactory and endlessly durable -T)
sible. The Mathusbek company has im
mense capital, one of the most perfect f£
lories in tho world, and makes even
of its piano except the ivory keys with i.
Us oicn walls. It is one of the very
existing factories which makes every nlrt
of its piano actions. 3
Add to the abovo that it is tho owner nf
several valuable patented improvements
not found in any other instrument, and vrm
will easily see why this piano has no mi
penor in po.nt of solidity, finish and gen’
ernl average high exeolienca.
The immense facilities possessed by r ,
Mathusbek company for making all ths
parts of its pianos in great quantities en
ables it to save money in construction Tim
consequence of this is that wo ore able 4
offer this instrument at a somewhat low 4
pries than other first-class instruments and
this fact is a great element in its popularity
Many remarkable stories are told in re!
gard to the wonderful durability of the
Mathushek, but none more marvelous than
a cose which came within our own exo-ri
ence and for the truth of which we can.
vouch.
About twelve years ago a Mathushek
piano, on its way to a customer, was s-nk
off Fernandina, Fla. After being in ‘the
water several days it was raised, and as it
appeared solid, was sent us for inspection
On examination it was found that theonlv
damage done was tho partial destruction of
the very delieato action with its finesDrimrs
ana felt hammers and the rusting of the
strings. We sent for anew action, cleaned
up the case, put on new strings, and that
piano has “Over since been in active and satis
factory use, and is good for years of service
yer.
Could any better illustration bo asked of
the careful and hone.t construction of a
piano?
Remember, this was a genuine Mathu
shek piano, made by the Mathushek Piano
Manufacturing Company of Now Haven
Conn., whose general southern agency is
ftnd bos been for uioetoou years
Ludden & Bates Southern Music
House.
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