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fishing for turtles.
A GOOD CATIH DESCRIBED BY A
CALKFUL* 03SEBVE3.
gv'njimn* straight to Death—The
Vessel and Outfit, Methods and Re
sults— One of the Very Singular In
dustr.es That Engage the Bahama
Island era
From the Philadelphia Press.
Ho* it is done where most 'Us done— that
ie tny theme.
The inhabitants of the Bahama Islands,
rated Conchos, are mostly negroes, and
very ignorant, their whole education being
ju wrecking, turtling and fishing.
\s wrecking occurs but seldom turtling
is "the” occupation.
The vessels used are small schooners, from
ten to twonty tons, carrying an average
crew of eleven all told, and small boats for
every two men. A trip lasts from five to
six weeks, and all hands share in the profits.
The owner of the vessel gets one third of the
profits, and the crew two-thirds. The cap
tain has two shares, mate one and one-half
and orew one share each.
The owner provisions the vessel and de
ducts the amount of same from profits be
fore a division is made with the erew. All
trips, however, are not profitable, and if no
money is made the owner stands the less.
Much depends upon the weather, for, like
sponging, clear water is necessary for suc
cessful turtling, and clearness of water in
these latitudes depends upon the weather.
While some turtles are found on the sur
face. many more are caught on the button in
eight or ten fathoms of water.
I'be small boat outfit consists of the water
glass, the Bpear, the bally and the grapnel.
Of course this is in addition to the scuilmg
car and such articles as are found m all
small boats.
The water glass is usually an ordinary
bucket with the bottom knocked out and
window glass inserted in place of the bot
tom. By means of this glass the bottom
can easily be seen in these waters from
twelve to fifteen fathoms iu clear weather.
ibe spear consists of a pole about six feet
long, with an Iron point to it, and on this
point is fitted an iron plug with line at
tached. This is for s rface worn. When
the spear is driven into the turtle the plug
is detached from the spear, leaving the tur
tle fast by plug ami line.
The “bully” or net used for dropping'
over the turtle on the bottom when clear of
all rocks is not unlike the ordinary crab
net, but much larger. It consists of "au iron
hcop or ring about five feet in diameter,
covered by u net of largo mesb, having a
line attached to the middle er apex, for it is
shaped not unlike a cone.
The grapnel, used for dragging on the
bottom, is made of five king fish hooks
lashed together, points out, with line at
tached to the shanks. By- dragging this
on tue bottom the turtle is sometimes
caught under the neck and hauled to the
surface.
There is one more method—by diving.
This I will speak of later on.
There are three kinds of turtle—hawk
bill, logger-bead and green turtle. The
latter, no doubt, your readers are familiar
with, for it is he, poor fellow, who decorates
the front of many restaurants in our large
cities. The green turtle is used for food
only, his shell being worthless. He is kept
alive until market is reached and much
longer, too. He will live with care six
mouths, and at times longer. The head
must not be allowed to hang, and the eyes
must bo sponged with salt water once each
dav. The turtle never eats except in water.
Che green turtle grows to the largest size,
some weighing as much as 500 pounds. In
the Nassau market they bring 8 cents per
pound.
she hawk-bill is the most valuable; the
shell, the tortoise shell, of which many
fancy articles are made, is taken to
Na-sau and from there shipped to France
and England. The shells weigh from one to
six pounds and sell for from (H to $1:1 per
pound, accordiug to quality. So it is
readily seen what a good batch of hawk
hills means to the turtlo fisher. The moat
is either used on board or salted down and
sent to market.
The logger-head shell is not very valua
ble. It sells for -5 cents per pound. Its
meat, while not as good as oither the green
or hawk-bill, is salted a >d sold in market.
Now having described quite fully - ho ves
sels and boats aud the turtle, it will bo in
ord- rto catch a few—so we taka passage in
the Champion of Nassau, Cap\ J-mes.
After a pleasant trip we arrive iff Ginger
bread Key, said to beoneof the best urtling
grounds around lhe liaiiuma*. Being a
good, clear day, all is propitious for a hue
day's sport. Sail is reduced and all beats
i ail 'd away, a; and vessel left in charge of the
cock. Five boats are sent off, two men in
each boat, one to scull and the other in the
bow. Captain and crew work alike. Asa
special i avor, lam allowed to go in the
boat with the captain,with the proviso that
I keep quiet.
" e are now busy scanning the surface
ai-d soon sight a large turtle asleep on the
water. Away we speed, os fav as possible,
yet with as little noise as possible. The
captain is in tbo bow standing erect, with
rpear in hand and line all clear for running.
’• e are near the monster, the strong right
R ' m ' s drawn back, the spear steadiod by
the left hand, the sculling ceases, out flies
the spear and crushes through the shell of
(he turtle, the staff is pulled out and the
turtle, now fully awake, sinks rapidlv to
the bottom, but Is fast by the line and plug.
After a short while he allows himself to be
pulled to the surface. Being too large to
handle in the smell biat wo sigual tha
schooner, which comes alongside, hooks on
the turt e and we have him ou deck and on
his back in short order. Our first catch
turns out to be a large logger-head.
Sometimes ft is impossible to get near the
Rn “ ;^e B PBar is thrown as far a3
fifty feet with remarkable accuracy.
lime is precious; i\e are off again. Not
feeing any turtle on the surface, the captain
is on his knees in the bottom of the boat,
leaning over the side, eagerly scanning the
ottem through the water glass. After
awmle his hand is up, directing the sculler
to turn this way or that w ay. . He sees a
turtle. The “bully” is all ready, line all
clear, and, as the boat .comes over the turtle,
it is dropped over him ou the bottom. As
soon as he finds himself under the net he at
tempts to free himself, and iu so doing be
comes hopelessly entangled in the meshes
He is hauled up and taken into the boat,
being a small bawk-bi 1.
n i° w ' as *' s to ° late to d° a °y tnore work,
hll boats are recalled. We find we have had
the moet success, but two turtles being
caught by the other four boats. After n
hearty supper all hands turn in ready f< ran
early call in the morning. Again we are in
luck, for the second day is bright and
smooth. After an early breakfast we are
on again. After a long search and a tire
tome louk through the water glass a turtlo
7 seen on the bottom, partially hidden un
der a rock. The bully, or grapnel, is use
less; so, without hesitation, the man in the
b°w makes a line fast to his right
wrist and down he dives, the mau
*o ths boat keeping the line in
hit hand. ’The diver catches hold of
the collar-bone of the tut tie with right
hand and with left catches hold of tail end
shell, pulls him out from under rock,
points his head up, the turtle swims to the
surface, the man in boat pulling in line at
the same time. The diver, as t,o uoars the
surface,depresses the turtle's head so he
(the diver) can have first breath, or blow
first, as he terniß it. As soon ns possible
the man in the boat catches bold of the
•orflue and hauls the turtle into the bont.
Had the diver allowed the turtle to blow
first, he would have lost all control of him
*nd host him. This is a very dangerous
Proceeding, as sharks swarm in these waters
■ha a little blood makes them savage. It
tear seem somewhat Incredible for a man
to do so much under, wa er, but these peo
ple are trai ed from childhood.
. No more turtles ore caught this day. Be
lnK stormy, it is necessary to make a safe
anchor for the night, Naxt day still being
stormy, the day is taken up iu car nz for
the green turtles, killing fcawk-hiiis and
loqger-iiials, clenasog tuesteiis and curing
the meat.
The turtles are put in the hold on their
backs. It behooves one to mind bow he
trods around in the dark, eso-o-.aUy if he is
iu hi* bar.* feet, as a logger-head snap* at
everything, and, once having a hold on you
th? only way to make him -on his mouth
is by pushi ig your fingers in his eyes.
So the work continues until we have been
out fi ■ e weeks. \\ e have a good catch.
AU sail l* made for Nassau. We reach
there in time for a good market. The trip
turns out well, each of the crew having
made $35 as his snare. Thanking Capt.
Jo ies and his crew tor their kin Iness, I
hurry away to once more enjoy a g >od
comfortable meal and quarters, for. while
interesting, turtle fishing is not all sun
shine
“MONEY, OR YODR LIFE.”
A Brigand's Autobiography or Villain
ous Deed?.
Prom the St. James' Guzette.
It was once my privilege to become per
sonally acquainted with a brigand in Tur
key. I almost missed knowing him by rea
son of an accident that had befalloa him
a while before. It happened iu this wise;
Mr. O’Donovan of ilervi had
taken a run up to Sofia to call on his friend,
Mr. Schuver (it was his birthday), and the
two had ridden across the mountains
toward Sammakoff.
Brigands have their runs of HI luck, like
everybody else, and it wa* the climax of
this particular bandit’s misfortunes that lie
should have selected the two war corre
spondents as victims. He went blithely to’
bis fate, however, and attacked them with
four of his young men, with the result that
in about half a minute two of the young
men were stretched on the ground with sev
eral bullets in them. The other two thought
they would not play any more, and were
rolling down the mountain side fa-tor than
was good for their clothe*, while the leader,
wi h a cracked skull aud a broken collar
bone, was staggering blindly by the road
side, lookiug for some hole into which he
could creep.
They caught him and tied him on to the
pack horse and took him on to Sammakoff
to be hanged. But by the way he groaned
and bled so freely that Schuver's compos
siou was aroused so that he bound up his
wounds and put bun on his own horse and
walked beside him. And when they reached
Sammakoff he forebore to have him
haDgeil, but to k him to his owu inn and
tended him carefully. At fill of which the
brigand si greatly marveled that when he
recovered he vowed he would never leave
his new-found friend as long as he lived.
A VOLUNTARY SLAVE,
He kept his vow. Brigands have this
queer failing of truthfulness. He became
Schuver’s henchman, accompanied him ou
all his travels, saw spirits with
him on Mount Ararat, was
lost with him in the snows of
Erzinghian, had fever with him at Gondar
and the Bagdad button nt Basrah, startled
quiet Amsterdam at times—his mas er’s
native town—by bis quaint kilted dress and
multifarious weapons, aid finally perished
at his side in that Liiuka village on the
Bahr-el-Ghazal when Schuver was mur
dered.
It was in tho early days of his voluntary
servitude that i first knew Stepkam.
Though not in the first fight, be had a well
marked reputation for steady, plodding
ruffiauisai.
A email roan, with a ho- k pose and a
bright, keen eye. lie was a very quiet man
—full of resources in difficulties, full of
camping dodges, aud of knowledge on many
points on which we were wholly ignorant.
Full of quaint supers itions, too. He wore
an eixon in his bosom, charms blessed by a
priest on his arms, blue beads on his horse’s
frontal, ngainst the evil one, and a shred of
rope by which an old friend was hanged in
bis pistol belt, and he would over make a
motiou of expectoration and murmur: “I—
tb, T—th Scortho” (Rornnio for garlic), to
avert ill-fortune when rash werds had been
spoken.
At night, in our hut or around the camp
fire, he would talk. He was full of anecdote,
of scenes he had witnessed, of vicissitudes
be had undergone, of horrors in which he
had taken part. He would give depreca
tory hints as to the fearful oaths—he never
divulged them—that linked the members of
a Klepht fraternity, and bound them to
fulfill their compact, bo it what it might.
In default of ransom, he said, there wa* no
help for a prisoner—nothing could save
him. He had known fights, [.itched battles,
among members of the band, many of them
rebelled against tho murder of some poor
wretch whose ransom had not come: but
always tne decree had been carried out.
TALES OF VILLAXY.
He pointed out to us one day, ns we rode
together down a mountain path, a deep
ravine, whoso iron stone wall ran sheer
down 150 feet beside the roadway, a horri
ble place. “Here,” he said gloomily, “I
executed a sentence. He was a Greek, but
Ryah (Turkish subject); wo would have let
hnn go, hut ha had killed one of us. His
ransom was fixed at 2UO Turkish pouuds.
It never came. Ho eras wfith us for a
mouth. V.’o liked him. He nursed rne
when I had fever, and he was always pleas
ant, but alwavs anxious about his ransom,
knowing it would not come. At last we
mimed a day, and then the governor of
Filibe sent roops after us. So we drew lots
and n foil on me. IVe rode along the path,
all of us—ue aud I together, side by side,
behind tha rest. When we got there 1 snot
his horse in the head. It leapod into the
air. He gave one cry: ‘Ah, Stephani!
Then he went over.”
He told me another story one winter’s
night. They captured two children, twins,
7 years of age. A ramoni of 400 Turkish
pounds was asked for the children, who,
meanwhile, were well cared for. At length
came a heart-rending letter from the un
happy father, saying that he had sold all ho
had in the world and borrowed all he could
obtain, and even then all he was able to
offer was 200 pounds.
Ultimately ne received word to pay what
he could and his children, he was told,
would be found nt ths nead of the valley,
two miles from his house.
When ho got there, one child, in new
clothes, clean, healthy and happy, ran to
meet him. Her sister, she said, was close
by, “ with the mao.”
She led him to the place—she had but
then left it.
There sat the little girl alone, on a ledge
of fock. She, 100, wa* dressed in new
clothes. She had an oiken round her need:
and held a bouquet in her lap. Rut her
throat was cut from ear to oar, and she was
already dead.
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Spoons and Fores,
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THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1891.
THE ORIGIN OF COAI, OIL
SQDBE2ED FROM PREHISTORIC AN
IMALS A *D VEGETiTION
By the Convuls ona of Nature-Un
covered Petrified Forests Furnish a
Clew to the Mystery—Plante of a
Million Years Ago.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
What was the origin of the oil that exists
in the earth in such vast quantities t This
is the question that the thoughtful observer
asks himself as he surveys a score or more
of linmeuse wells at McDonald, oat of
which in the aggregate fully 9J,(X)O barrels
of oil are discharged daily. Tniuit of it—
a vast river of petroleum rushing out of the
eartn. Truly this question is one that is
sufficient to set us to thinking. How are
we to account for this oleaginous wonder
that comes up fron 1.6J0 feet or more be
low the level of the hills! How easy _for
some to put the question off with the re
mark that it is not for us to nnswer—that it
is one of the mysteries of the world that
God did not intend that man should ever
understand. But the thinker is not to be
satisfied wi -J any such evasion of a question
the nature of wbioh demands au explana
tion.
Down deep in the earth he knows that
there is a vast deposit of oil. Call it lake or
river or what you will, it is there, and.
judging trom the amount that rushes up
through a six-i ich casing ia a second of
time, one is inclined to think that it is very
tired of imprisonment and has long been
wanting to get out.
CONSIDERED BY THE SCIENTISTS.
The scientific man, ever ready to wrestle
with any vexatious problem, is the only in
dividual that undertakes to give us any
light ou the subject He admits that it Is a
profound subject in every sense of the word,
and wishes that he had some kiud of a sub
terranean telescope that would enable him
to study the rocks from w lence this great
volume of petroleum come* ns the astr mo
mere study the stars. The distance that in
tervenes shuts out an investigation as com
pletely as if the source of (he oil was far
beyond the north pole.
But ihe drill and the sand pump that go
down into the earth, what do they reveal*
Look at tjio sand aud pebbles that are
brought up just before the oil is struck, and
what do they mdioate? Solid rook. Yas.
rocks such as are exposed in railway cuts
and quarries, and which in such places are
found to bs devoid of oil as any other thing,
unless it be a few fossil plants or shells.
These surface rocks are not to be com
pared to th se oil-producing sand rocks, for
we are positive that the latter are as full of
oil as a sponge throw i into a river is of
water. They are indeed so full of petroleum
that it acts as a barrier against a tremen
dous pressure of natural ga*. and it is tni*
p essure that lifts a solid column of oil six
Inches in diameter and 1,700 feet or more iu
hight, together with thousands of pounds
of steel tools, out of the casing with appar
ently no effort.
is of vegetable and mineral origin.
To be plain, and to avoid bewildering
technicalities, we will state that so far as
chemistry has been able to ascertain the oil
appears to be of animal and vegetable ori
gin. Trere are exceptions to this finding
of chemistry, of course, and theories that
deal with the spontaneous generation of
petroleum from other sources are common,
ami some of them very plausible, but we
believe that we are justified in asserting
that the majority of scientists are of the
opinion that this petroleum bad its origin in
the abundant fouua and flora of prehistoric
geological ages.
In connection with this statement allow
me to say that this word prehistoric is not a
fit term to use in referring to the fauna and
flora of the Devonian ago. In speaking of
some old ruins that may be seen on the
t arth’s surface, such us the walls of Casa
Grande on the Gila desert, or tho ruins of
Yucatan, we may with propriety use the
word, but in speaking of remote geological
ages it has no bearing whatever mid is out
of place. Are we then to understand that
this oil was produced from the remains of
ancient animal and vegetable life. Is it
pos ible to conceive of the necessary mate
rials in such enormous quantities as would
justify such a belief!
Jin the vast deposits of tho upper and
lower Silurian formations there are more
than 10,000 feet of limestone made entirely
of mo Husks. These immense beds of lime
stone are of vast extent and everywhere
they are amazingly fossiliferous. Take
400,000 square miles of limestone 10,000 feat
in thickness and entirely made up of the re
mains of animal life; aid to this a similar
extent of Devouiau formations crowded
with the remains of fishes,mollusks and crus
taceans, and then add to that 8,000 feet or
more of carboniferous rocks packed with
the abundant remains of a tropical vegeta
tion, and what have you got?
It is easy to conceive of an ocean of oil
coming from all these things, providing
they were well squeezed like apples in some
immense cider pre-s ad the juices pre
served. And what better evidence of a
pressure sufficient to accomplish this is
wanted than that which i* obtained by
studying the gigantic upheavals aud inward
lateral crashing convulsions that are sug
gested by the Appalachian and Fvocky
mountain rauges.
THE JUICES WERE SQUTSK ZED OUT.
Here then, were the materials and there
were the forces sufficient to account for this
immense deposit of oil that has been re
leased by artificial perforation of the rocks
at Me Jonald mid other place*.
To came a little nearer home ia an effort
to show the enormous quantity of vegetable
matter that must have been burled by in
undation and subsequent elevat ons of the
surface of the earth, let us go to Mansfield,
niue miles from Pittsburg ou the Pan Han
dle, where, iu cutting down an immense
hill, the workmen have discovered a va-t
aud wonderful dep wit of fo*sil pla its.
There, packed iu tbe6olid blue and black
shales, are the abuudant re nains of the
vegetation of the c irboniferou* age. Per
fect casts of beautiful aborescent ferns and
calarnitt s, rushes of gigantic length, and
curiouslv carved trunks of the lepidoden*
dron and sigiloria are all heaped and peut
in one inseparable mass. Even the un
learned Italian laborers are amazed at the
sight. On ever* - block of shale are a thou
sand perfect casts of plants and a hundred
different varieties. There are enough speci
mens here to stock a million cabinet*. A
roadbed for the third track of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad
Is being graded with the remains of one of
the forests of the ancient world. Look
where you will, go where you will In the
vicinity of this cut and everywhere you
tread upon the perfect cast of plants that
gre v in some old carboniferous lagoon per
haps 10,000,000 years ago
Here, then, was the 'origin of our great
deposits of coal, and it may, in conjunction
with the other fossils a ove mentioned,
have helped to produce th great deposit or
golden oil which is just now the wonder of
the world.
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and thus prevent the appearance of age,
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on every S2O you spend you will save
$5; in other words, what you can buy of
The Famous tor S2O will cost you $25 iu
any other store. 148 Broughton street,—
Ad.
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& Co.’s two stores.— Ad.
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Undressed and finished. All oolora, at
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THE GREAT LAKES Fi -LIN3.
Natural Cauaaa Ihr raten T.eir Exist
ence as Inla id Ssas
Flo’ll the Few York Tim.'.
Ottawa, Oxt., Oct. 2fk— f-'eriou, com
plaint* ore being made by M< utreal ship
pers that their boats are being delayed in
transit through the carials owing to the
lowness of water, and that tbs 1 or ness is
owing to the falling of the level of the
lakes. It is said t! at the water level in tne
lakes has sunk gradually for many years,
aud that if ha* now i each—l a level w: o. t 1 o
government must do something to remedy
it or undertake such woiks as shall rerure
a constant and steady sut ply of water in
the canal*. The rhang< in the 1 wer lakes
were first noticed in 1838. Bince then a
great change has been observed, the
draught of water steadily, though slowly,
decreasing. Prof. Selwyn being inter
viewed, said:
“There is no doubt that the lakes are fi 1-
ing up, very gradually perhaps, and it may
be millions of yean belore any se ious
change may take p ace in the larger lakes,
but in the shallowest. Lake Erie, which ia
only 120 feet average depth, the effect
might be much more serious at an earlier
date. Theieaso i of the lak- filling up is
quite obvious. When first 1 went up into
the es: in 1873, I found that the pr ces* of
filling up had commenoed, and in my report
1 drew the attention of the government to
the fact. In mv interviews with tue In
dians I fou; and that their legendary lore con
tained traces of their knowledge of the fact
tuat tho lakes were filling up, aud not only
so, but 1 found, going b\ck into their leg
ends to time immemorial, that some time or
other, perhaps many generations ago, some
of our great valleys were lake*, which have
been filled up. In this legendary story I
have every reason to believe, as mv own
geological researches lend to confirm it,
and iu my own personal experience I have
kn >wn mauy large water holts completely
filled up.
“On my son’s term in the west there wa*
a pond, with n stream running tbr. ugh it,
of several acres, which, In ISSI, was some
three feet deep, and off which this year he
took a magnificent crop of faav. This fill
ing in is increasing rapidly, and while much
more rapid now than in former yen's, will
ooutinue to increase more rapidly yet. You
ask the reason of this. It is self-evident
that whilo the mas* of the territory drained
by the myriad streams of the west, all run
ning into these ponds and lakes, was thickly
wooded, tho trees served not only to hold
the water, but to prevent the washing sway
ot tho soil by means of their numerous
roots. As the country becomes cleared, so
these safeguards ura removed, and after
heavy rains the waters pour down un
checked off those lands and, percolating
through them as well a* running over them,
carry with the streams immense and ever
increasing volumes of silt or soil. As long
as this is borne along by the velocity of the
streams it has no chance to Settle, but when
the rivers fall into the deep still lakes the
law of gravitation makes the silt sink to
the bottom and gather there. The same
thing has been seen in mauy parts of
Europe, where rapid and impeiuou*streams
run into the sea, aud thus dome the curious
natural phenomena which iJfo now affecting
our lakes. When you take the thousands
of miles of watershed drained by countless
streams, all coming into the great lakes,
you can form some small idea of what the
proportion of silt, increasing yearly with
increased cultivation, being deposited in
these lakes must be.”
BB ES GRAFT A RARE APPLE.
Boney-Gatherers Make a Russet-P.p
pia by Mixing Blossoms.
From the Philadelphia Kecord.
Chambzrsburg, Pa., Nov. 1. Horti
culturists who have seen it say that an
apple which was picked the other day in E.
B. George s orchard, New Franklin, could
only have been produced by a peculiar
grafting done by the t;es in the apple-blos
som season. Exactly one-half of too apple
is golden russet, like the apples that grew on
the tree, and the other hair is l(right green
pippin, such a variety as grew on trees 109
yards distant. In blossoming time a boo
must have transplanted a part of a distant
pippin’s blossom into the nutali of the rus
set’s flower. Dr. A. B. Grove has preserved
this unique fruit iu alcohol.
Mrs. Mucbboy— John, what are we going to
do about Willie's trousers? He goes through a
new pair al nost every week.
Mr. Muchboy— G t the nest ones at a hard
wear store.— Boston P s'.
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v and all troubled with Con- S
% ifWp jVoK stljistinn or Sick Headache 5
% { 4 p-zLan will find a prom pt, safe and J
J VyU I economical cure in a dose ©f J
l Mbeecham’s
j PILLS, i
5 A specific for all Billons and \eirons Dfs- s
% orders* nrUfns from Impaired Digestion, J
% Constipation, Disordered Lher, etc, J
i Of all druggists. Price 5S cents a box. J
J New York Depot, 365 Canal St. £
JA j|^
A guaranteed Cure for Piles of whatever
kind or degree—External, Internal, Blind or
Bleeding, Itching, Chronic, Recent or Heredi
tary. 81.00 a box; 6 boxes, $5.00. Sent by
mall, prepaid, on receipt of price. We guar
antee to cure any case of Hies. Guaranteed
and sold only by
THE HEIDT DRUG GO.. Savannah. Go.
CHIN A WARE.
SOUDFACTS
We guarantee to sell French or
German China Dinner and Tea
Ware, Royal Worcester, Elite Ware,
Hungarian, Teplitz, Crown Milano,
Crown Derby, Royal Flemish, and
all kinds of Fancy Pottery and Fancy
Bric-a-Brac, as cheap as any eastern
city. We do not publish prices, but
solicit a call to demonstrate these
facts.
WEST'S CHINA PALACE.
133 BROUGHTON ST.
MEDICAL.
Quit Everything Else.
S. S. S., is the only permanent cure for contagious blood
taint. Old chronic cases that physicians declare incur
able are cured in every instance where S. S. S., has had
a fair trial.
I honestly believe that S. S. S. saved
my life. I was afflicted with the very*
worst type of contagious blood poison
and w- . almost a solid sore from head
to foot. The physicians declared my
case hopeless. I quit everything else
and commenced taking S. S. S. After
taking a few bottles I was cured sound
and well.
Th° s - R. Yeager, Elizabethtown, Ky.
CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children.
“Castorla Is *o well orlapted to children t hat
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me." H. A. Archer, M. D.,
11l So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The use of *Castoria' is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach ”
Carlos Martyr, D. D„
New York City.
I-ate Pastor Bloomlngdale Reformed Church.
DRESSMAKING.
Sanoah Dressnakiog aid llrj Ms
COMPANY.
GRAND BARGAIN SALE OF DRESS GOODS.
Our Imported I>re?H Robes at. Si 9.
Our S2O Imported I>ress Rolies at sls.
Our 5) Imported Dress It rims at SIH.
Our $1 > Impcrbed Dress Robes at sll 75.
A genuine cut In prices to reduce stock.
$1 25 Silk Faille, a I colors, i*ic yard $1 Whip (’oral Silks 75c yard.
Our $i -15 Novelty Dress Fabrics flown to 98c yard.
Our $1 Novelty Dross Fabric< down to yard.
Our 75c Novelty Dress Fabric* down to (Vic yard.
Our 50c Novel y Dress Fabrics down to 37Uc yard.
A POSITIVE REDUCTION. ALL GOODS VS ADVERTISED.
10c Suitings at K’Vfcc double fold Serges at 10.? yard: 15c double old, Pinids, Stripes and
Figured Serges yard; Cheviots at 15c yard; 50 aud 35c double width Cheviots, for this sale,
25c yard.
Our Drossmaking Department upstairs is in charge of MME. MILLER, formerly designer aud
cutter for Arnold & Constable, New York, and we are fully prepared to take orders for Cloaks,
Dresses, Tailor Suits and “Jenness-Miller Costumes.”
Satisfaction Guaranteed in Every Particular.
SAVANNAH DRESSMAKING AND DRY GOODS COMPANY.
11. A.. DUMAS, MANAGER,
33 Whitaker Street, Near Postoffice.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS.
IRON and BRASS CASTINGS,
ENGINES, BOILERS and MACHINERY.
■|mb| reduction
ffijim&aßmßKlmffl -tckhoe s iron
IN PRICES OF WORKS” is cast on
ES W all our Mills and Pans.
SUGAR MILLS and DAN'S.
All of our 2 and 3-Roller Sugar Mills have heavy Steel Shafts, and are of the larest and most
approved designs. Our Sugar Pan* are cant with bottoms down, are smooth, uniform in thick
ness, and far huperior to those made iu the usual way. Write for Circulars and Prices. Sole
agents for the RELIANCE SAFETY WATER COLUMN. No boiler should be without one.
WM. KEHOE & CO.
BROUGHTON ST. FROM REYNOLDS TO RANDOLPH STS.,
SAVANNAH, OA. Tr.LKPHQNFi SOS).
J>K Y GOODS.
G L TMAN’S,
Kid Gloves is one of the necessary articles every Lady must have. Some
Gloves make the hands look large while, others the fingers are to long; the
celebrated Centemerie Kid Gloves, which can only be had of us. is the
ONLY GLOVE made that makes a large hand look small, and at the price
has NO equal.
Try our 4-button Gloves at 98c., io black and colors.
Try our 4 button Glovas at $1 25, ii black and colors.
Try our 4-button Suede Gloves at #l, In black aud colon.
Try our 4-button Susda Gloves at $1 25, ia black aud colors.
Try our 6-button Suede Mousouotaire Oloves at $1 50, in black and colors.
Try our 10 button Sutde Mousquetaire Gloves at #3. in black and colors.
Try our 10-button Dres-ed Mousquetaire Gloves at $3lO, in black aud color*.
Try our 16-button Suede Mousquetaire Gloves in all colors for evening wear.
All of the above Gloves, if tried on at our counter, are guaranteed. If
you want a good Bearitz Glove come to
Cd TJTM A .N‘B,
SHOES.
$3 Germania $3
JUST I IS" a.vd just out.
We have lust received them into the store and
have just commenced selling them out to the
public. W - mean our
Germania S3 OO Shoe.
This is beyond all question the prettiest, most
stylish, finest finish' and and best fitting $3 OO Shoe
that can he had. it Is altogether lovely. SHE
THEM.
G-e±l &c Q-u_±:cll>
31 BARNARD STREET.
Cantoria cures Colic, Constipation.
Bour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
Ellis Worms, gives sloop, aud promotes di
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
“ For several years I have recommended
your * Castoria, ’ and shall alwavs continue to
do so as It has invariably produced beneficial
results.”
Edwin F. Pardes. M. D.,
‘•The Winthrop," 185th Street and 7th Ave.,
New York City.
Tub Ckntack Coupant, 77 Muhray Stbeet, New York.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
Sim’s Answer!
READ IT
IN THIS ISSUE.
Also la issue, of MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
ana FRIDAY.
Send fer our
new book on
constitutional
or Blood
Diseases,
mailed free.
The Swift
Specific Cos.,
Atlanta, Ga.
PUBLIC ATIOXh.
Sfipt®
* -
| 1 Cor the Home.
Qhoice and Popular Alto Songs
Thirty-three Choice Sonrs for the Alto
Voice. I.arce sheet Music Size. Paper.
$!; boards. $1 85; Cloth (lilt. SB.
No better collection f songs for contralto
voice has ever been prepare! it is the one vol
ume of ail others needed by a 1 singers whoa*
voices require tow pitched keys.
Qollege Songs for Girls.
Compiled by Florence Leonard. Smith
College, ’BB. Handsomely boun tia
Heavy Paper, with Lithographed Cov
ers. sl,
The first and only book of College Songs for
girls ever published. It will be popular and
widely used.
Eureka Instruction
Books.
For the Violin, Guitar. Banjo, and Man
dolin. Price or each Book. 75 cents.
These books do for you just what a teaoher
would do. With the Winner Instruction Boole
you can learn to play any e*-y. simple piece of
music on any instrument. B> sides the instruc
tion pages, each book contains nearly a hun
dred pi. ces for that instrument.
§ongs and Games for
Little Ones.
By Gertrude Walker and Harriet 8.
.tanks. l&> pa 'ns, otavj size, handsome
ly bound in cloth. $8
The brightest aud most enjoyable book for
little children
Quixotic Quakers.
By Allan Dixmyth. Prioe SO cents post
paid.
An entertainment, brimful of humor and
bright mimic. Eight young ladies and two
young gentlemen are needed in the cast.
Oliver Dit son Cos.;
453-463 Washington Street, Boston,
a H. DITSON & CO., 867 Broadway, N. Y.
J. E. DITrtON A CO., 1889 Chestnut st., Phils.
PRINTING.
bonds;
STOCK CERTIFICATES,
Letter Heads, Note Heads,
AND EVERYTHING IN THE
lipiliii
OH.
Piifil Line
EXECUTED AT THE
MORNING NEWS
PRINTING HOUSE,
3 Whitaker Street, - Savannah.
We compete successfully with northern,
eastern and western houses, In class of work
and fair prices.
KEEP YOlll MONEY AT HOME AND
HELP BUILD IP HOME INDCSTRIEB.
UAltllWAKt.
LEATHEH - BELTING”'
RUBBER BELTING,
ROBBER : BACKING,
Hemp Packing, Soap Stone
Packing, Asbestos Packing,
Empire Packing, Eureka Pack
ing, Usudurian Packing, Gar
lock’s Spiral Packing, Tuxt
Itubber Back Packing, Raw
Hide Laco Leather.
'ahrllriiicCs.
grain and provisions.
STRAW! STRAW!
STEAWI
Four huadred tons cior clean, bright straw In
small bale i
Texas R. P. Oats, Seed Rye. Hay.
Corn and Oats, Our Own Cow
Feed, Cotton Seed MeaL
T. J. DAVIS,
15G Bay Stret.
Solo Agent for Orsno Manhattan Food.
JTCKSERY.
KIESLINGr’S NURSERY,
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
T)I-ANTS, Bouquets, Designs, Cut Flower,
I furnished to order. Leave orders at DAVIS
BROS.', oor. Bull and York su. The Belt Ball
way passes through the nursery. Teel phone 340
OLD N’EWSPAPKRS-:M0 for 25 oents—*t
Business Office Morning News.
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