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7 HE TBAIN DISPATCHERS MISTAKE
How me Accident Affected One of the
Men About Whom Little la Heard.
From the Sew York Evening Sun.
For fire minutes th 9 train dispatchers’
office at X had been painfully quiet.
It was shortly after midnight and all the
wires on the eastern and western divisions
were momentarily stilled. A depressed
feeling had freighted the atmosphere in
the office all the evening. It had affected
every ono. Even the wires appeared to suf
fer from it. IVhen the sounders began to
rattle off * *os, os. os,” which prepared the
dispatchers for the report of some train
passing a far-away station, they sounded
frightfully loud. Several times bespatcher
de Forest had shuddered and screwed down
the armature of his instrument so that it
would not make so much noise.
At 12:15 o’clock the deep stillness of the
room, only broken by the slo w monotonous
ticking of the clock by which the watches of
ail the employes of the road were regulated
once a day, echoed with the words of the
telegraph." The operator at F reported
to Dispatcher de Forest that Conductor
McGill of extra 100, loaded with fresh beef
bound east, wanted to know if he could
have ten minutes on the time of Mo. 1, the
west-bound night express, to make J .
“Old 19 just needs a little shaking up, Mc-
Gill says, to take the kinks out of its joiuts,”
the operator added.
De Forest cast his eye down upon his
train 6heet, which told him at a glance
where every train upon the road was. Thou
he looked at the clock. J was fifteen
miles from F . If be did not allow Mc-
Gill to use ten minutes of the express train’s
time the meat train would surely be delayed
ror an hour or more. All the dispatchers
bad orders from the superintendent to give
the meat traius as much show as possible,
the road being bound by contract to get
them through in a specified time. So De
Forest sent the the following official order:
To Conductor and Engineer Extra 100.’
East-bound extra No. one hundred U 00) has
until twelve fifty (12:30) a. m. to make J
against west bound No. one (1).
Supt.
Conductor McGill sigued tho order and
the operator at F repeated it back ac
cording to the oustom. Dispatcher de
Forest “0 K’d” it. A minute or two later
the operator at F said “Os” three times
to attract De Forest’s attention, and then
reported that extra 100 arrived at 12:10 a.
m. and departed at 12:15.
The dispatcher jotted down the time
upon the train sheet and then began calling
the operator at T . three stations east of
J , whore the extra freight had orders to
run. He wanted to send the duplicate of
the order to the express tram so that it
would wait at J for the freight. The
operator at T did not answer, and after
a moment or more of steady calling De
Forest stopped. Dispatcher St. John, who
worked the second trick from 3 o’clock p.
m. to 11 o’clock p. m. was ill, and his work
bad fallen upon his two colleagues. And
then, to make matters worse. Dispatcher
Thatcher had been taken suddenly ill early
in the forenoon and De Forest was got out
of bed to keep the road from get
ting clogged up. There were three
other dispatchers in the office, but
they kept the western division of the road
in operation. They were not familiar with
the eastern division, and consequently were
of no use. This necessitated De Forest's
turning out. Ho had sat at the desk since
early in the morning, and with the terrible
strain of the position was in no condition
for duty that night. So when he
failed to raise the dispatcher at
T he dropped his head and stared at
the train sheet ou the desks before
him. Ho was not asleep, but there was a
temporary lapse in his mind. The night ex
press hud passed D , and tho operator
there had reported it. This made it abso
lutely necessary to get the orders to T
before it ran that Btation, as there was no
other telegraph office between that point
and J— —, where the freight was to meet it,
open at night.
Dispatcher de Forest sat motionless at
his desk, while the big clock ticked off the
seconds loudly. Finally the eastern wire
opened.
“Os, os, os. No. 1 passed on time T
said the sounder slowly.
De Forest straightened up in his chair,
his face wearing an expression startling and
wild. He reached for the key of the instru
ment, and his fingers played upon it as he
asked the operator at T to repeat the
report. There bad been no mistake. Do
Forest jumped from his chair with a cry.
I’p and down the office he walked, wring
ing his hands and sobbing:
“My God, what have I done, what have I
done!”
Intuition gave every one else in the office
an idea of what had happened, i< one of
them asked him. They merely gathered
around the table and glanced at the train
sheet and then at the book which contained
copies of the train orders. One look told
the story. De Forest continued to pace the
room, crying as if his heart would break,
and glancing at the big clock at each turn.
The night waa thick and black. It was
perfectly plain that only a miracle could
prevent the heavy meat train, running on
fast time, and the flying night express from
clashing together. If the operator at F
had reported McGill’s departure correctly,
the others in the room hoard De Forest ar
guing out loud, the two trains would meet
on the flats several miles west of J . The
engineers might catch a glimpse of the ap
pearing headlights, which upon a single
track are indicative of danger, in time to
prevent a frightful accident.
But the chances were that McGill had not
pulled out of F for fl 7e or ten minutes
after he was reported. That was a common
thing when the operators and trainmen
were on friendly terms. It was called
“stealing time.” While the officials knew
that it existed, they could never charge it,
because the trainmen protected the oper
ators if they failed to make their runs
quickly enough. In such an event as that
the conductor would report to the dis
patcher that he had been detained by a hot
box, or some other imaginary trouble.
If McGill had stolen any time De Forest
knew that the town trains would meet on
the curve a few miles west without a mo
ment’s warning. Nothing could save them
in such an event.
Dispatcher de Forest continued to pace
up anil down the office, his eyes fixed upon
the clock and his mind upon the accident
that he felt must happen. He did not pay
the slightest attention to his colleagues in
the room. Ho talked to himself, tracing
the two trains rushing on to their doom in
the darkness.
“ There goes McGill,” he said, in toneo that
made the others shiver; “there goes McGill
To wn t ie grade on this side of Calico Junc-
Bill Brown's got old 19 wide open.
iii.’ l ' * low * le ’B sail across the flats!”
DeForest glanced at the clock again. It
: to ‘ Be sighed heavily ana continued:
Took at No. 1 sailing through J .
'hy, should stop I But it won’t
■natter. Everybody knows enough to keep
out of her way. M
- Tea the poor fellow subsided for a mo
ment. It was only for a moment, however.
■ e was standing beside his desk with his
l 1 ? e T es upon the train Bheet. Suddenly
■ became possessed of bis mental faculties
, m and sank into bis chair all a-trem
, § and with sweat standing upon bis
■dr-cead.
V c°yP' V )0 ' f > Boys!" he moaned. “There’s
. flying around the curve just beyond
flats from the west and No. 1 from the
Don’t you sea them? My God. don’t
'■ksm? They should have met at
, A moment later he shouted: "Did you
Y 1 at crash? Do you see the fire?"
-■ was 12:50 by the clock. De Forest was
• n a heap in his chair. He was laughing
“c-ically. It was the laugh of a maniac.
r '* ' olll panioaß were motionless. None
interrupt him for fear of violence,
t “’-“lions had been calling De Forest
firm e ™ er ® * or other trains, but for a few
iirV.ni 3 ttle B °under made no impression
j.mm. But when the day operator at
th s 0 ?, .’ De Forest pulled his chair to
'Perm 6 * D6tau ßy and answers! The
it rat w *ts exceedingly nervous,
tu kft 8 easy to By the way he handled
e T. Themesmge was this:
Extra east bound freight No. too collided with
| west-bound express No. 1 on the curve just west
j of the big Hats about 12:to. Both trains in tte
ditch and uu tire At least a dozen killed out
right and many badly injured. Track com
pletely blocked. McGill.
De Fcreat took the message without a
break. He was as firm as a rock, and net a
r.erve in his body so much as quivered. He
was the De Forest of old again, lu a mo
ment the wire was hummiug with orders.
Wrecking crews were ordered out from til
near-by stations, and orders were issued to
the wrecking trains stationed at either end
of the division to proceed to the scene of the
wreck. Physicians and surgeons were sum
moned, and a special train was made up and
Varied for the wreck, with orders to piok
up the wrecking crews and assistance as it
passed the various stations.
Sandwiched in between all those numer
ous orders came additional details from the
scene of the disaster. Message after
message came to De Forest, giving par
ticulars, and each one increased the num
ber of killed until they footed up an even
twenty. Then the names of the viotims,
so far as could be learned, began to come
in, and later a description of the unidenti
fied dead. It wa3 plain, however, that the
despatcher did not pay any attention to tho
names of the killed and injured. He re
ceived them mechanically. ’ •
De Forest remained all night with his
band upon the key to the telegraph instru
ment. From the time the official news of
the accident came to him over the wires
from J he never looked up from his
desk, never spoke a word to his colleagues.
He appeared to be totally oblivious to the
presence of any one.
At exactly 7 o’clock in the morning Dis
patcher Thatcher arrived to take bis regu
lar trick. The track had been cleared suf
ficiently to let trains by, and everything
was running on time. De Forest arose
when Thatcher entered and put on his over
coat. The wild look returned to his eyes.
He glanced at the clock and passed out of
the office.
He was never seen again, and not a word
was ever heard of him.
OKLAHOMA HBROINES.
How Mary Simpson Held Her Claim
Against a Frontier Desperado.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The opening of Oklahoma has Jgiven the
venturesome women an opportunity to show
what manner of spirit was in them. Iu tho
rush for olaims April 20, 1890, and for lots
in the Cherokee town last fall women were
fully as active and brave as the men.
At the original opening a Missouri girl
rode from Arkansas City to Guthrie on
horseback, fairly flying over the ground.
She was on the edge of Oklahoma wheu the
rush came and tore ahead of the men into
the town. She pounced on one of the host
lots, near the government office, and stood
her ground. Twice attempts were made to
oust her from her position, but she had a
revolver clenched in her right hand and the
interlopers did not venture. For two davs
she remained on the lot. Then they told her
the lot was in the middle of the street, but
she did not give up, uud got the land regis
tered. It turned out to bo in the proper
place and Is now one of the most valuable
iota in Guthrie. She has leased it for twen
ty years at a sum wliioh will support her in
comfort for that time.
The women who were called on to take
part in the rush as assistants of fathers or
husbands showed themselves also possessed
of courage not to be expected from their
doss of claim-hunters. In hundreds of in
stances it was their ready wit and support
ing courage that enabled men to keep the
claims they acquired, and often the women
guarded the place while the men went to
the distant town for provisions. The
bravery that fights poverty and trouble is
perhaps as glorious as that which handles
revolvers, and the patient, hopeful wives
in the “prairie sohooners,” keeping up the
strength of weary ohildren and their own
weary hearts by the mere force of their in
domitable will, deserve a credit as lasting
and loud-sounding as any of the prairie
heroines.
One other case in whioh more than man
like bravery was shown was that of Mary
Simpson, the captor Of “Ireland, ’asanoted
frontiersman was called. He was the ters
ror of Southwestern Nebraska, and for
months bis deeds rang from settlement to
settlement, creating consternation every
where. Fire, pillage and even murder fol
lowed his movements, and many a settler's
home was turned to mourning because of
his deeds. At last public opinion could
stand no more, and when a littie baby was
injured in the struggle that took place when
the desperado attempted to piltsgo a house
along the Platte, there was a general turn
ing out of the neighbors to capture the vil
lain. He was run into a piece of woods,
and the forest was surrounded by the en
raged settlers. Not all the man-huuters
were men, however, for a number of
women were present to see the fray, and if
necessary, take a part in it.
Among these was Mrs. Simpson, who was,
with her husband, somewhat separated from
the remaiuder of the party. Suddenly they
saw a bearded man leap from the under
brush and start ns if running for his life for
the opposite side of' the little clearing in
which they stood.
Mr. Simpson was some distance from tho
horse he had ridden and his wife leaped into
the saddle and followed the man, who was
fast escaping. It was well that she bad not
waited for her husband to come up, for oaoe
on the other side of the oleariug Ireland
found a horse which had been left there by
one of his aides, and in an istant he, too,
was in the saddle and the race commenced.
It so happened that Ireland must keep due
north in order to keep out of tho range of a
tangle of trees and underbrush. Mrs. riimp
son, who was to the west, lashed her horse
on a slanting course and drew constantly
nearer. Once the man fired a ball at her.
She was not hit, however, and tho race con
tinued. History records that the woman
had practised considerably throwing the
lariat, and now her experience came in good
play. Loosening her husband’s lasso from
the ring of the saddle, she wuiriod it in long
curves around her head. At last, just as
Ireland had reached the open prairie and
would be safe, the noose went sailing out
after him. Down it settled, steadily and
and surely, until it came taut with a deadly
jerk about his neck. The captor had
stopped her horse, and the man was dragged
to the ground and soon was in the hands of
those ho had wronged. Many compliments
were spoken and written for this action,
and the name of Mary Simpson was for a
time Jamiliar throughout the western part
of the state.
Physical Education.
The Earl of Meath .in the Youth's Companion
I believe that if parents took more care
to exercise and strengthen the bodies of
their children, and especially of their girls,
there would be less illness in the family, tho
children would be happier and less trouble
some, there would be less fault finding and
fewer punishments, aud in after life the
men and women would he stronger and
healthier and consequently more useful to
their country.
It is my earnest hope that thoss parents
of Great Britain and America who have
hitherto neglected the physical education of
their ohildren may peroeive how easily and
with what slight cost bodily exercises can
be encouraged In the family, and how im
portant would be the beueflts which would
accrue to their respective nations were the
practice of gymnastics to become the rule
instead of the exception in English and
American families.
Stbangkk—Where’s Arlington street!
Policeman—Faith I dunno.
Stranger (surprised)—You don t know.
Policeman— Thai's pfn hat 1 said—move on.
Harvard b.impoon. ;
A day for toil,
An hour for sport,
Carlsbad Sprudel Salt in the
morning.
And your life will not be
short.
Tin: MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1892.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Continued from Seventh Page.
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order notify Moore ft Cos, order notify K O Cas
sells .4 Son, order notify A O Hannan. J O’Brien
T .1 O'Brien, Order Perrin Bros, S Paulsen & Cos
G W Parish, tyuiut & Pro, A R -mhambauer.
Rosin Fertlz Cos, C E Stults & Cos, Specialty Cos,
J T Shuptrme Jt Bro. S Selig. Geo Schroeder,
Savannah Steam Bakery. Savannah Soap Wks,
J S Silva, Savannah Furniture Cos, S. F A W Rv
W D Simkins, Savannah Guano Cos. H Trkub,
Teeple A Cos, T West A Cos, J P Williams & Cos.
JDvveed&Oo. A MA C W West, Warnock A
W, Savannah Grocery Co,G W Tiedeman A Bro,
Southern Rz Cos, H Solomon A Son,
Per steamship Citv of Macon from Boston-
Byes Bros, F S R.vck A Cos, MSAD.I Bvck.
Butler A M, M Boley A Son, Collat Bros, E Cal.
J S Collins A Cos, GEckstein A Cos, J R Einstein,
I Epateln A Bro. Kretweli A N. Frank A Cos, W P
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Mohr Bros, New Home S M Cos, J R< urk- A Son
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Alpha, Southern Ex Cos, J H Schwindberg.
BATTLING WITH A BABOON.
Terrific Hand-to-Hand Encounter With
a South African Monster.
A writer in the Oraff-Ueinet Advertiser
tells the following exciting adventure: I
was walking through my lands and had my
gun with me, aud the baboons were scream
ing on the top of the rocky precipice that
overhangs my homestead. The dogs in the
farm yard, on hearing the . noise
the baboons were making, rushed up
to the mountain and were soon en
gaged in a deadly fight. I took up my gun
and climbed up the mountain for the pur
pose of assisting the dogs and in the hope of
saving them from being torn to pieces.
When I roachod the summit of the krantz
a number of baboons lied. I tired aud
wounded one In the shoulder, he was im
mediately pursued and tackled by the only
dog left, the others having been torn to
pioces. The struggle for life or death was
taking place between the wounded baboon
aud the dog ou the very brink of a preci
pice. I had not another cartridge for my
gun, so I put it down and picked up a couple
of large stones and walked to within a few
yards of the spot.
I was just in the act of hurling one of
them at the baboon, when suddenly a
tremendous male baboon, Hie largest I have
scon, came straight at me in a bold nud de
fiant maimer, his eyes gleaming with anger
and his huge jaws working together as if in
anticipation of the crunching that was In
store for me. I just had time to hurl the
stone in my now upraised hand at him,
when he was upon me. He seized me by the
leg first, and bit me with such violence that
I thought every bone in my leg was smashed
to atoms. I kicked with all my might, 1
tried to get hold of a stone, I attempted to
seize him by the threat, dealt him several
blows with my fist, but it was all useless;
the strength of the enraged African man
dril overpowered me completely.
After he had finished with my leg he
raised himsolf on his hind legs, put his arm
around me and seized hold of me on the
ohest with his powerful jaws. IVhat could
I do? Every now and then he let go his
hold of my breast and snapped at my throat.
I seized him by the throat with inv right
hand and clinched my fingers, but he would
not yield his grasp for a single moment.
Every time I moved he dragged me nearer
to the edge of the precipice, and we were
now within three feet of the brink and the
ground sloping down to it. I that
if I for a moment lost my foot
ing down we should go into the chasm bo
low. The wounded baboon and the dog,
that were responsible for the awful pre
dicament in which I now found mvsalf.
had just rolled over into the abyss. We had
been at it nearly an hour, and, as the
baboon showed no signs of releasing me, I
felt I should not be able to hold out much
longer, as I am au old man, considerably
over 60.
At this stage I bethought myself of a pen
knife I had in my waistcoat pocket. If I
could only get it out, I might ward him off
by stabbing him in the faoe. I gradually
got the knife out, the brute scratching and
tearing my face with his hands all the
whiie. Igotittoiny mouth aud held It
there till I had an opportunity of opening it
with my left hand. I then began stabbing
and prodding him, but the knife was
not large enough to do him much
damage. I drew blood, however, the
sight of which only made him more Vicious
•till. By this time I bad scarcely a vestige
of clothing left, and my lacerated body
bore tokens of what a South African baboon
can do when he chooses to tackle and fight
an unarmed man.
I was wondering how all this was going
to end, when one of the dogs that had been
wounded in the fight and had recovered
sufficiently to make his way to where we
were seized the animal from behind. I felt
the brute wished to get at the dog. He
threw himself from mo upon the dog; they
had one rough-and-tumble and then the
baboon walked sullenly away along the
ridge of the precipice, looking back from
time to time, as if undecided whether he
should renew the attack. It was some time
before I could rocover sufficient strength to
desoend the mountain. I got home, how
ever, and the dog, too, after on encounter
such as I shall never forget, and the like of
which I hope never to experience again.
DOOLITTLE’S STRANGE STORY,
Wandering for Seven Years With
Only One Flash of Consciousness.
From the Sew Yotk Sun.
Forest City, Pa., Feb. 7.—Seven years
ago William Doolittle, a sober and indus
trious lumberman, in the employ of Frank
Hollenback, lived happily with his wife and
two children, near this place. Ono morning
he left his house as usual. He stopped at a
butcher shop and ordered some meat
his wife had asked him to order.
The meat was sent home by the
butcher. Doolittle did not return home
for dinner. He did not appear at supper
time, and had not returned next morning.
His wife became alarmed and went out to
seek some explanation of his absence. He
had not been to work. The butcher was
the last person who had van him. No trace
of the missing man could be found, although
he was searched for far and near for
months. He had disappeared as completely
as though he had never lived.
Mrs. Doolittle believed, for no reason that
she could give, that her husband had been
murdered, and she mourned him long and
sincerely. She moved to Carbondale, where
she has supported herself and children ever
since. Last Saturday a man who seemed
confused and dazed, was among the puseen
gers who got off the Saratoga express train
on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany’s railroad at this station. He attracted
the attention of all who were at the station,
and finally a lumberman who was among
the loungers believed he recognized the man.
"Isn’t this Bill Doolittle?" the lumberman
said, addressing this stranger. The latter’s
face brightened for a moment. Then ho
scorned dazed again. Finally be replied to
the lumberman’s question. “I thick I must
be,” he said. “Is this Forest City?”
He was told that it was, and he asked in a
hesitating manner:
"How long has Bill Doolittle been
away t"
When he was told seven years, ha looked
around in amazement. Teen he asked if
Mrs. Doolittle lived here yet. Upon being
told that she lived in Carbondale, he started
rapidly in that direction, without stopping
to ask any more questions or make any ex
planation. The stranger arrived in Carbon
dale on foot, and hunted up Mrs. Doolittle.
She recognized him j but his roturn awoke
in her a sense that she had been deeply
wronged by him, and she received him not
only coldly, but would not permit him to
be seated lu her house until he had made a
satisfactory explanation of his disappear
ance and lo.ig a 1 sonca.
“I am sure I am William Doolittle now!”
he exclaimed., in apparent delight, and
added, much to the amazement and uneasi
ness of his wile; “I haven’t been certain of
it long at a time for seven years. From the
time I left the butcher shop m Forest City
ail was blank to me until one day 1 came
to myself iu a big town and nas told tnat l
bad been there three years driving teams
under the name of Hallo way. I thought 1
was in a dream. 1 knew that I had lived
in Forest City and that my name was Doo
little, and so insisted out there. No ono
knew anything about Forest City and they
thought I had gone crazy. I was iu Omaha,
they told me, end I started at onoe to get
back east and home without delay. I re
member leaving Omaha. lVhere 1 have
been aud what I have bees doing in the
four years since then, if it is true that four
years have passed, as they tell me; 1 do not
know. How I came to get to Forest City
to-day I can’t tell, but wheu I found my
self there everything began to come back to
me again. I saw several people at the station
that 1 thought 1 knew, but I wasn’t sure.
That Is all I can tell about my disappear
ance. I can’t I can’t account for it, but it is
all true, strange and mysterious at it
may be.”
The return of Doolittle and the remark
able story he tells have created a sensation
hereabouts. Opinion is divided as to the
truth of his narrative, but his wife bolieves
him, as do tho most of his old friends and
neighbors.
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
An Electrical Apparatus Designed to
Stop Runaway Horses.
From Electricity,
The invention of A. B. Wilson of Chicago
consists of a dry hqttery iuclosed in a small
hardwood box, which may bo very con
veniently placed under the driver's seat of
the carriage. From the battery two flexible
wires run by means of the reins to the
bridles, to which are attached two small
metal balls that are placed in the horse’s
nostrils. The wires are connected to two
push buttons, by means of which the circuit
can be closed. One of these is placed with
in easy reach of the coachman and the
other inside the carriage for the use of those
riding In it. The application of tho appa
ratus is so extremely simple that it needs
little explanation. In case a span of horses
become unmanageable, and, as is usually
tho case when frightened,start to run away,
the drivel cau, by simply pressing the but
ton, give them au electrio shock through
the small balls in their nostrils.
If, as sometimes happens, the driver
should not be on his seat and tho horses
start while the carriage is occupied by any
person, the push button placed there within
the occupant’s reach can be used to bring
the horses to a halt. It can be seen from
the description given that the apparatus is
only noticeable when in position ou a
horse’s head after very close inspection. It
is also claimed by the promoters that whou
properly adjusted no ohafing or scratching
can result from the use of the apparatus on
a horse.
Numerous successful trials have proved
that the apparatus is instantaneous and
certain iu its action and results.
The Latest Styles In Rings.
From Harper's bazar.
One of the most interesting things in this
modern life of ours is the decadence of
many superstitions that have long been
hold to. It wss but a few years ago that
the opal was regarded os a moßt unlucky
stone, while to-day the fashionable jeweler
has all ho can Eo to supply the great de
mand for them. Public sentiment has en
tirely changed, and to-day the opal is bo
lieved to he lucky, and fashion has adopted
it. Opal rings are just tho thing now and
for beauty and display they can hardly be
excelled. An opal set in a small
circle of diamonds or pearls makes a most
beautiful ring, aud they are worn now
in all styles, it being the stone itsetf that is
fashionable. If one can get rid of the mere
supersition of ill luck, and wear an opal
ring, the very latest idea of fashion aud
modern thought are complied with. Another
fad in jewels in the wearing of W isconsin
pearls in rings. These pearls are from
Sugar river, Wisconsin, but they rival tho
oriental pearls in many ways. We should
feel proud of this native product that
has beooino so fashionable, and they
are worth of all admiration. They
are of all rare colors, pink, black,
and bronze—tints not possessed by the Ori
ental pearls, and altogether they form a
most beautiful setting. They are set to
gether in pairs and threes, sometimes five
small ones in a row, and again they are en
circled with small diamonds, which act ad
mirably to set off the natural tints of the
poarl. These rings may be purchased in all
styles at prices ranging from SSO for the
single pearls to ten times as much for the
more elaborate styles.
Diamonds are always fashionable, and
rubies and sapphires come next in popular
taste. These gems have a permanent hold,
and styles change very little regarding
them. It is safe to say that young ladles
prefer a solitaire, aud it is likely that for
engagement rings it will always be popular,
but after that the two-stone rings are most
fashionable. The choioe of the jewels is
left to the taste of the wearer, but one of
the stones is generally a diamond.
Sometimes where two diamonds
are worn, the stones differ 6ligbtly in
color, so that one serves to set off the beauty
of the other. A diamond with ruby or sap
phire makes a beautiful combination, and
where the diamond is the center stone of the
three, the effect is very good. Anew stylo
In engagement rings is one which wiil prob
ably not meet with general favor. The ring
does not form a complete cirole, but the two
ends overlap one another, and each end is
set with a diamond, which brings the two
jewels up and down. It is morethau likely,
however, that the solitaire will continue
the favorite as suggested. The English
wedding ring, which is a narrow band, but
very thick, is still most popular; the so
called American ring being a wide and
altogether too prominent band.
Snake rings are also in favor, being com
posed of two or three coils. Sometimes
jewels are set in for eyes, and again the ring
is made of plain gold. Coil rings, or rope
rings, made of two or three twisted wires,
are also worn. These rings are all gold, or
else of gold and platina alternating. Another
curious rlug is the rheumatism ring, which
is composed of iron, filled in with some other
metal. The ring is supposed to be a pre
ventive against rheumatism, but it will
not appeal to many people on account of its
beauty. Thesieudor marquise ring is always
a favorite, with a central stone surrojutidod
with small pearls or diamonds. “Pinky”
riugs are still much affected by young
ladies, who select with the gem appropriate
to the month of their birth.
MEDICAL.
#f Called baele
to health —
every tired,
ailing nervous
woman. The
medicine to
bring her back
is Dr. Pierce’s
Favorite I’re
she’s weak, run
down, and overworked, that builds her
up; if she suffers from any of the dis
tressing derangements and diseases that
afflict her sex, it corrects and cures.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic,
a soothiqg and strengthening nervine,
and tho only guaranteed remedy for the
ilk and ailments that beset a woman. It
regulates and promotes all the proper
functions, improves digestion, enriches
the blood, dispels aches and pains, brings
refreshing sleep, and restores health and
strength.
AII “female complaints” and weak
nesses are positively aud permanently
'cured with the “ Favorite Prescription.”
It’s the only medicine for them that can
be, and is, guaranteed. If it doesn’t
benefit or cure, in every case, you have
your money hack,
TO COUNTY OFFICERS.—Books and Blanks
required by county officers for the use c t
the courts, or for office use. supplied to ortor taw
the MORNING NEWS PWNTLW4I ROCWkS
whitaker street, BavanaaA
AFTER THE GRIPPE.
The Grip Responsible for More Deaths After
Recovery Than During lu Course— How
to Avoid the Danger. ,
Grippe in itself is bad enough, debilitating
enough, but it is the after effects, the slowness
of recovery that gives it is great danger. In
most cases thejperson did not hare sufficient
vitality to rally after the disease Itself bad
rassed. The forces of nature were too weak to
contend with the debility which the Grip had
left.
It is sad to think how many people have died
who might have been saved If nature had been
properly assisted aud fortified aftsr the Grip
had been driven from the system. Many physi
cians realized this fact, an.l assisted their pa
tients over the dangerous after-effects by
bracing up and stimulating their systems. This
was and can be done in but one way, and that
is by the steady and moderate use of some pure,
yet powerful, stimulant. There Is but one ab
solutely pure aud medicinal stimulant known
to the profession and to the public, and that Is
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. The most promi
nent scientists aud physicians of the land Indorse
its purity and value. It Is not anew whiskey, it
has been before the public for years. It is not
a cheap decoction, but a pure distillation. It
imparts a tone to the system possible in no
other manner, and semis the blood coursing
through the veins with renewed vigor. It la
superior In every respect, and however much
any unscrupulous druggist or grocer may seek
to lead you to believe to the contrary, do not be
deceived.
Local Record for the Morning News.
Local foreoast for Savannah and violnity
to-day: Fair, colder; d-isk to high north
west winds.
Official forecast from Washing
riio ton for Georgia; Northwest
lmu winds and fair, oolder and fair
Saturday.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nab. Go.. Feb. It, 1822, and the mean of the
same lay for nineteen years.
I Departure |
Mran TssPERATUttB from the Departure
1 normal j Since
for !Cyears| Feb. 11 Sk I -j- or jjau. 1,1802.
56 j 'op | -1-| | -in
Comptruiverunfiil statfu-nt:
Departure
Amount for Amount from the Departure
19 /ears. for normal Since
Fob. 11 *2 -I- or— Jan. 1,130&
Maximumtarnparacurs, 88’, minimum tern
perature. 5 i°.
The bight of the river at Augusta at 7:83
o’clock a. tn. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 12.4 feet, a fall of 2.7! foot .during the
past twenty-four hours.
Obsirvations taken at tho same moment of
tlmeat all stations for the Morning) Nhws.
Savannah. Feb. 11, 7:89 p. u.. oity time.
Rainfall
x Velocity I
Direction... |
Temperature...
Nazes
or
Stations.
Boston 82.NWH2; .68 Snowing.
New York city.... S(i SW|lB .12 Cloudy,
Philadelphia 86 NW|22 .06 Cloudless.
Washington city... S6NW;I2 .02 Cloudless.
Norfolk 46 NW 20 .00 Cloudless.
Charlotte 62 NW 12 .00 Cloudless.
Hatteras 48 NW 6 .00 Pt’ly cloudy
Wilmington 61 W 8 .00 Pt’ly cloudy
Charleston. 58 W 14 .00 Cloudless.
Augusta 60 NW 12 .00 Cloudless.
Savannah 58i W 6 .00 Cloudless.
Jacksonville, 62 W 6 .00 Cloudless.
Tampa. 60 W |L .00 Cloudless.
Pt. Jupiter 68,8 W ( 8 .00 Cloudless.
Titusville 64 ; W L .00 Pt’ly cloudy
Key West 72;Nw! 8 .04 Cloudless.
Atlanta 40 NW|lB .00 Cloudless.
Pensacola 58i W I 8 .00 Cloudless.
Mobile 581NWj 8 .00 Cloudless.
Montgomery 54JJW12 .00 Cloudless.
Vicksburg......... 64; N 10 .00 Cloudless.
New Orleans. 62lNW| 8 .00 Cloudless.
Fort Smite 40 NWIIO .00 Cloudless.
Galveston 60|NEL 00 Cloudy.
Palestine 54; N L .00Cloudless.
Brownsville 60 N E L .00 Cloudy.
Knoxville Jf: IV 8 *T Snowing.
Memphis 42 NW 12 .00 Cloudless.
Nashville 33|N\V10 *T Cloudy.
Indianapolis. 22|NW 12 .02 Cloudy.
Cincinuati 26 NW 10 *T Cloudy.
Pittsburg 80 NWilO .02 Snowing.
Buffalo 2 W 20 06 Snowing.
Detroit 20; W !l6 T Pt’ly cloudy
Marquette BSNW 14 .OCjSnowing.
Chicago 16 NYV 22 *T Cloud less.
St. Paul B|Wjlo .00 Cloudy.
St. Louis 28*NW 22 *T Pt’ly cloudy
Kansas City. 1 23. NW 8 .00 Cloudy.
Omaha | 20|NW L .0) Cloudy.
*T indicates trace of rain or snow.
P. H. Smvth. Observer. Weather Bureau.
Smnll Talk.
From the Botton Courier.
“I do not make calls,” a gentleman said
to the editor recently, “because I have
grown so stupid that 1 am no longer able to
talk. Igo and sit in stupid silence, gazing
at the hostess, as if I had come merely to
pass some minutes in silent admiration of
her charms, and the situation is far too
awkward to bo pleasant for either of us, so
that I have about given It up."
The editor, of course, discoursed wisely
upon the subject, as is his wont.
“It is not in the least a question of stu
pidity,” ho said; "it is partly a matter of
hahit and partly the lack of continuity. To
talk small talk one must keep In practice,
just as one must keep in practice in playing
the piano. You cannot take it up and lay
it down at will. You must keep tho mind
and the tongue limber, and if you really
wish to be an expert I am not sure that it is
not necessary to keep up tho practice aloue
at home.”
He smiled a little at the conoeit, and went
on elaborating tho ideas.
“It might be a good idea,” he said, "to
have a dummy—a sort of lay figure of the
kind that artists have standing lop-iidedly
about their studios—and to take so much
time each day to talk to it. It could come
about as near giving an intelligible answer
as many of the persons to whom one is ex
pected to talk in what is called ‘society,’
and it would accustom one to getting on
without help. At any rate, whether this
seems to be the best method or not, one
must keep his hand in.”
“But 1 have nothing to say,” the other
protested. “I do not feel shy, and Ido not
know that age or disuso has greatly stiffened
my tongue, out I find that there is nothing
in the world that I am inclined to talk
about."
“That, too, is partly the result of a lack
of practice,” the editor went on in his
oracular maimer, “since it is tho result of
being out of the current of small talk.
Small talk is largely made up of the little
nothings of the day, and still more it is
oomposod of the little nothings of ‘society’
aforesaid. There is about it something of
the nature of the dust collected from the
rugs and the carpets by the broom of the
housemaid; it it made up of threads of
different hues brushed from each figure in
the pattern. Small talk is the fuzz brushed
from each figure in the social fabrio. It is
largely made up of scraps of trivial informa
tion, comment or speculation in regard to
the persons who make up a certain set. To
keep up with this is essential to being well
up in small talk.”
• ‘ln other words,” the first speaker said,
"it is largely gossip.”
“That is not at ail what I mean,” the editor
responded. “Of course gossip comes into
ic,but for the meat part it is of a nature too
trivial to bo called gossip. It is the most
ajry and trifling mention of this, that and
the other. What one has said about nothing,
where another has been, how still a third
looked on a given oocasion, the health of a
fourth, and the plans of a fifth. It is not in
the least illnatured, as a rule; it is not even
in the smallest degree Impertinent or over
curious. It is only to the outsider hopelessly
futile and impossible of imitation.”
Giwsuno —lt's all nonsense to say that New
Year s resolutions do no good. 1 swore off my
self last New Year's.
Lounger—You did, eby
Ginallng—yes. eir; and I stuck to it a full
week—saved siW.—Aeui York IVeekfy.
FALK CLOTHING CO.
You ,ti ay not need anew
pair of Pants but if you have
them you will find that
they will come in mighty
handy. Even at the regular
price* anew pair of Pants
would be desirable about
this time of the year, how
much more so when you
can get Pants the values of
whicn range from $3 50 to
$6 for $2 50'
Better not delay but
come around as scon as
possible and take your pick
FALK CLOTHING CO.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENT A WORD.
ADVERTISEMENTS. IS Words or more, in
this column lnoerted for ONE CENT A WORD,
Caah in Advance, eaoh insertion.
Everybody who has any want to supply, any
thing to buy or sell, any business or nroommo
uationn to secure; indeed, any wish to gratify,
should advertise In this column.
FKitSdilAl.
OHOTOGKAPHY: AU styles and sizes from
I stamps to life size; fine cabinets a spe
cialty. Price $8 per dozen Business estab
lished Juno 4,1865. J. N. WILSON, SI Bull
street.
INFORMATION wanted about MARY COLE
MAN (colored), daughter of Tim and Mary
Coleman. Tim Coleman died in I’alarka In
188‘J and his daughter is urged U' call on her
grandfather, BARROW THOMPSON of Ocula
at Laue's, No. 17“ Bryan street, Savannah. ,
fJ'MIE Commercial Guano Company w ould like
1 to see Mr I. FRANKLIN WARD at thoir
office. Bay street.
V LARGE and elegant assontmbnt of the lat
est in valentines at Mas. THONNESEN'H,
York street.
WHEN you nod a superior quality of old
Madeira., Burgundies, Sautkrnes, Ports,
Sherries, Clarets or Brandies, our (took will suit
you. M. LAVIN’S ESTATE.
VALENTINES! VALENTINES. Go to Mrs.
THONNKSEN, York rtruel, far valen
tines.
Wf E have moved Into our new quartors. SO
' Bay street, with an immense stock of all
kluds of wines and liquors which we are anxious
to show and to sell. M. LAVIN'B ESTATE.
IF you are In need of money and want a
liberal loan for any length of time, at lowest
rate of Interest, on diamonds, watohea,
Jewelry, olothtug etc., and If yon want ymir
valuables returned in the same ooudltiou as left,
patronize home enterprise and call at the Old
Reliable Havamiali Lioensed Pawnbroker House,
172 Congress street, K. MUHLBERG, Manager
HELP WAkTBD
YV ANTED, a servant to cook aud do oi
vv work One with but few relativos p
ferred. Apply to 177 Gwinnett, near Jefferson,
/OPPORTUNITY. Any young lady 'with
' f dramatic ability, capable of leading posi
tion, good dresser on and off stage, can
have saute by applying Immediately to “LADY
STAR” of legitimate company, Savannah News.
\\ r ANTED, agents to sell door bells with
tv name plates combined. Address, JAMES
F. MAYS, Baltimore, Md.
VIILO V M ICN 1 W ANTED.
IJOBITION wanted—A young man with ex
perience and good standing desires situation
as dry goods salesman. Willing to work. Sal
ary no object Address 8. 8.. care this office.
TITANTED, situation by planing mill man
Tv Four years’experience in the south. Best
of references given. Address W. A. SHANK,
Blackshear, Oa.
WANTED, bad accounts to collect on com
mission. Address DUNNER, care News
office.
ROOMS WANXSB.
WANTED, a furnished room with southern
exposure; central location. Address F.
YV., care of Morning Nows office.
MUCKLLANKOUi WANTS,
WANTED, to hire good plow horse two weeks
or more. Address, torms, TRUCKER,
News office.
W ANTED, Title Guarantee Stock and Chat
v V ham Real Estate and Improvement
Company s stock in exchange for well located
lots, ranging In prices from $25 to $550, or for
farm lots, at from $!5 to S3O per acre. C. 11,
DORSE I T. 142 Congress.
WANTED, only an opportunity to convince
the most skeptical of our ability to com
pete with all rivals In quality and price. M.
LAVIN S ESTATE, 30 Bay street.
WANTED, tho public to know that for
nearly forty years we have made a
specialty of the wine aud liquor trade. We
import direct and buy from distillers. M.
LAVIN’S ESTATE
ROOMS TO KENT.
IjYOR RENT, three large connecting rooms,
1 with every convenience, 85 Jefferson street.
Inquire 139 Broughton street.
IPOR RENT, upper portion of house 178
1 Brought* ,n street; first * lass location for
boarding house or table boarders. Apply to N.
GILDF.A ou premises.
IpOR RENT, two nicely furnished rooms.
' Tattnall street, second door south of
Liberty street.
NICELY furnished rooms, 78 Bryan street,
one door from Abereorn street.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT
IYOR RENT, a desirable cottage. No. 57 New
Houston street. Apply to R. 8. CLAG
HORN, No. '• Drayton street.
I NOR KENT, dwelling No. 36 Chariton street,
third door west or Price. Apply to G. H.
BEM3HART. 118 Bryan.
FOB RENT, five room houses, well located,
eight and ten dollars per month. Apply
No. 6 Bull street.
I NOR BENT, desirable residence, 100 Taylor
street, between Drayton and Aberoorn;
south front. Apply to 8. GUCKENHKIMER *
SONS.
FUR KENT—MISt KLLAXKOUS. ~
1(K)R KENT, room suitable for a secret society
' or lodge room. Apply to JOHN WO
HANKA, 173 Congress street.
r pURNERB’ HALL for rent for meetings, con
-1 certs, amusements, etc,; recently refitted
and placed In first-class condition. Apply to
JOHN WOHANKA, 173 Congress street.
IjVJR RENT, the cheap columns of the Moan
’ i.no Nsws at “one oent a word” for eoah In
sertion : an excellent mode of advertising.
—— hAJ jr
HORSES— Best business, saddle and draft
horses in the city; also trotting and pacing
road horses. Good Mi-mile running horse. Two
fine stallions—on*- a Morgan, other Clydesdale:
medium and small farm mules, all warranted
sound iu every way and acclimated. J. F.
GUILMARTIN & CO.’S STABLES.
MULES AND HORSES—Lot of cheap stock
arrived and must be sold at once, at
OUILMAKTIN ft CO.’S BTABLES.
/? CENTS per foot for rubber hose; buggy bar
id ness five dollars; canvas covers for drays
and trucks cheap. NKJDLINUER & RABUN.
INOR HALE, 30 head of stock, at A. Me COR
JO lUCfc’S STABLES.
Stats
or
Wrath sr.
FOR 9AI.X.
T'OR Sale. flv* and ten acre farm lots at s!s
I and S3O per acre The stock of certain
loan companies .will be taken in part
or whole payment same. (X H. DORSETT,
142 Congress.
OLD NEWSPAPERS CHEAP —ln clearing
out our file room we nave a lot of old news,
paper, and they wiil be sold at $1 per 1,000
until all are gone. BUSINESS OFFICE, Morn
ing News.
MACHINERY FOR SALE; prompt delivery;
2-150 H. P. tubular boilers; 1-100 H. P.
tubular boiler; 1-50 H. P. tubular boiler; 1-40
H P. tubular boilers; 1-35 H. P. tubular boiler;
1-80 H. P. tubular boilers; 2-25 H. P. tubuiax
boilers; 2 >'H P. tubular boilers; 2-15 H. P.
tubular boilers; 2-12 H P. tubular boilers; 2 12
H P. fire box boilers: 12-5 H P. vertical boilers;
1-8 H. P. vertical boiler; 1-16 H P. stationary
engine; 1 21 H. P. stationary engine; 1-12 11. P.
stationary engine; 1-60 H. P. stationary engine;
140 H. P stationary engine. Add-ewe th*> man
ufacturers, SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS, Ma
con, Ga.
F7V )R SALE, the largest and best assorted
' stock of White Pine Sash, Doors. Blinds,
Moldings, eto.. etc.. In the south. Also all
standard brands of Pure White Leads, colors,
dry and in all Mired Paints, Varnishes, etrx
Mill supplies. Builders’ hardware is mi
specialty. IJme. Plaster and Hair. Direct Ira
portations of Rosendale and Portland Cement.
Sewer. Culvert and Flue Pipe, alt sizes, bi>nd
traps, Ts. eto. Call or write for my prices, and
get, estimates before buying. ANDREW HAN
LEY.
I NOR SALE, champagne; Carte Blanobe, Geo.
I Goulet. Piper Heidseok, Chas Jieldseok an*J
California champagnes. M. LAVIN’S ESTATEa
Telephone 340.
CV)R SALE, ales and beers; the best brands
foreizn and American beers, Iyiwenbrati
beer, Inqierial beor; Bass ale and GuinneM
porter. Read Bros’, bottling; at M. LAVIN’S
ESTATE. 80 Bay street.
LOST.
IOST, bunch of keys. Reward if loft at 54
J Henry street, corner Habersham.
IOST, a blue pasteboard box. containing ts
J hair front piece. A suitable reward will
be paid by leaving it at MASONIC TEMPLE
DRUG STORE.
STRAYED.
STRAYED, from 140 Henry street, whits
pointer dog, liver-colored head; answer*
name “Sheriff.” Liberal reward if returned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PLYMOUTH ROCK PANTS C ).. S3WUt-
I aker street, 11. E. WHALEY, Manager. 1C
will pay you to inspect our goods.
(A UT FLOWERS, plants, lioral designs. Coma
J and see thorn at JNO. 11. PARSONS’;
Florist, 255 Anderson street. Savannah, (la.
\\rATEU PROOF wagon covers and plan!
\\ bod cloth at GARDNER’S.
BEFORE you buy or well property oonauH
ROBERT 11. TATKM. Real ISstsM iteals*
aud Auctioneer.
/ 3 AP.DNER'3 CURIOSITY BAZAR. u!
a X Broughton.
plumbing ami gas fitting by care-
A fill and experienced workmen. P. 11.
KIKRNAN, Whitaker ntroot.
Tourists, -in stock s* PULASKI Housd
Stables, victorias, glass front landaus, Rum
bles. Kensingtons and buggies; the best in the
oity. Noa. lUSaiid 140 llryan street. Telenhons
No. 12. E. C. ULEABON.
IjiLOWKBB—A froeh supply at Strong* drug
A store dally. Floral dnaigtw at short uotloet
GEORGE WAGNER, telephone 4UU.
J2
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ETC.
r%Q ] w Wcar?
■ ■ [want Santee]
¥ U U J Want Value ?
TirrCNT OUR
'Alta Steel Axle’’
Turpentine and Farm Wagons
ARE THE THING.
Guarantee.
We will replace every broken "S-T-E-E-B
A-X L-E,” no matter what tho load might
weigh or what the circumstances under which
it broke.
Free of Charge.
Do you want anything better?
Savannah Carriage and Wagoa Company;
i -v/' Georgia .Made Oak Tanned Harness aud
Collars.
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AUCTION SALE A TO-DAY.
R. H. Tatem, Auctioneer,
Will soli THIS DAY at 191 Congress, between
Jefferson and Montgomery, at 10:30 o'clock.
Thirty TRUNKS of all kinds and sizes, fivs
dozen MEN’S PANTS,two dozen MEN’S COATS
and VESTS, RUBBER GARMENTS, BOYS’
SUITS, LADIES’ CLOAKS.BOYS’ OVERCOATS,
GLOVES, STRAW HATS, NECKTIES, TOP
SHIRTS, LINEN PANTS and COATS. COL.
LARS, WHITE VESTS, and other articles too
numerous to mention. The sale without reserves
good must be sold.
Contents of Retail Store, Etc., Etc.
J. H. OPPENHEIM & SON, Auctioneers
Will sell at 1! o’clock THIS MORNING at 15*
Bryan Streut: Canned Salmon, Potted Hams,
Apples, Milk, Tobacco, Cigars, Hams Buckets,
Lamps, Paper Bags. Wrapping Paper, T wine,
Soap, Crockery, Castor*, Knives and Forks,
Spoons, Lard, Mackerel, Potash, Salt, Cbim
nies. Burners, Clocks, Carpenters Tools, Coffee,
Tea, Spice, Sad Irons, Dry Goods, Notions,
Clothing, Comforts, Suspenders, Hosiery, Flsb
Hooks, Marbles. Whitewash Brushes, Carpet,
Stoves. Tables, Chairs, Sewing Machines, Chil
dren ’s Carriages, Letter Press, and large lot of
Sundries.
j£WsUk.
A. L. DESBOUILLQNS~
THE JEWELER,
CALLS the attention of the public to his mosj
carefully selected stock of GOLD
WATCHES of the best make and quality, also
his selection of Clocks of all patents which ha
sells
AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICE,
Albo his fine line of Sterling Bilverware the be3t
thing for wedding presents.
EVERYTHING WARRANTED,
Repairing of Watches, Clocks aud jewelry dona
with the bed workmanship at
A. L. DESBOUILLONS’,
£sl Bull Street.
SPECIAL MOTICES.
GEORGIA, Chatham County. Whereas,
MARGARET GIEBELHOUSE.has ap
plied to Court of Ordinary for Letters
of Administration on the estate of PHILIP
GIEBELHOUSE, deceased.
Tnose are. therefore, to cite and admonish
all whom it may concern to lie and appear
before said court to make objection (if any
they have: on or before tho FIRST 510NDA Y 1
IN MARCH NEXT, otherwise said letter*
will be granted.
Witness, the Honorable Hampton L. Farrili,
Ordinary for Chatham County, this the 4th day
of February, 1892.
FRANK E. KEILBACH
Clerk C. 0.. C. C.
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(IfERCHANTB, manufacturers, merohanlem
H corporations, and ail others in need ej
printing, lithographing, and bleak books q
have their orders promptly filled, at
N * WB k>UXXLaa
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