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CONFEDERATE MEN AND TIMES.
c -l. Charles H. Olmstead's Address
the Veterans' Association.
r n iudss— ln a re P° rt ma,le by Capt. Edward
ot [lie Fourth artillery to the inspector
T -ral if the army upon the eacampiaem of
*nr -is volunteer* at
uses the following language.
iiiTSt sinking characteristic of tbe.Qeor
,, , al iis is the quality of the msterial. Ido
, T £iw .if any state in which the tluwer of its
moth is so largely represented in the rank ana
i‘„ id company officers, while the higher oltl-
Jers are generally prominent and often emm
”aal < Pt- Fi * lJ been describing the soldiery
I rgia and of her sister tout hern states at
•he opening of the late war, bis language needed
■Tt to have been changed in the s.ightest par
ocular It is doubtful whether there was ever
Msembled a body of men who could more prop-
J!jvhave been spoken of as ‘the dower of the
uod’ tnan those who rushed to arms at the
% ,’,f the Southern Confederacy in ISSI. Intel-
P-ent high spirited, daring, accustomed to
command, and therefore knowing how to obey,
loving honor more than life, and believing in
~e r inmost souls that their cause was iust,
,hei- were men whose -quality" made itself felt
UP in every battle field, from Manassas to Appo
nisttox: men who, although final defeat was
tbeir portion.stamoed their impress upon the age
smi will be remembered so long as courage, faith
tu.nesi- and devotion are recognized and valued
on tnis earth. ...
History, poetry and painting have all
j one their part in holding up to our
simitstion the deeds of the peasantry of France
when, in the days of the first republic, the blood
of freedom drst ci ursed in their veins, and Car
n ,,t "organized victory.” We love to read of
their sturdy front against embattled kings, of
their quick adaptability to the changed condi
tions ui their lives, of their readiness to lay
dean tnose lives for the fair land they loved so
we ,i. f the marvelous military instinct that
sprang up among them, like the prophet's
gourd, in a single night, making of innkeep
rr, * ns, and stable boys, and herdsmen, and
tillers of the soil, strategists and tacticians
worthy to hold place with the great soldiers of
every age. Their story is a wonderful one; it
stirs the pulse and quickens the heart bears
Hut it has been matched, and more than
matched, by the records of our
oau people. The French peaaaut of
the revolution had but just brokeD the
bonds of a social and political slavery that had
lasted for centuries, and had been almost abso
lute in its character; he warrrd with the
turengtbof a newly awakened giant against all
kings and alh aristocracy as against natural
foes hut it was with a blind and indiscriminate
rage at tirst. noble in its utter fearlessness,
yet lacking in the one essential
feature of full knowledge of the
obstacles that confronted him. Theconfederate
a'tnies were composed of men who were born
sci nurtured in political freedom: the great
questions which were finally brought to the
arbitrament of the sword had been household
word- with them from boyhood up. They sent
into the contest with keen appreciation of the
enormous difference Between the resources of
the two sections, but with determinatidn to ac
cept this known hazard rather than yield where
they believed themselves to be rignt. To have
acceded to the views of the north without a
contest would have impaired the personal
liber y of no man, and it is certain beyond any
peradventure that in such case the
south would not have sustained a tithe of the
material losses that were hers when
“Cropped from her nerveless grasp the shat
tered spear. ’’
But, fearful as was the prioe paid, honor was
preserved, self-respect was preserved, the right
lo say to the world "we did our best for what
we thought to be just," was still ours. And
surely the children who come after us will not
complain that the choice was made as It was.
And these men were not dragged unwillingly
into the course they adopted; tliov were not
blindfolded or cajoled by artful leaders into
ways which their deliberate judgment would
hare repudiated. What they did was with their
eyes wide open, and he falsely interprets
the history of that stirring time who
does not recognize that there was
the spontaneous uprising of an entire people.
Thesouth had her leaders in council chamber
and in the held, leaders whose memory we are
now proud to honor, and in whom any land
might have gloried, but the decision to resist
was the decision of the whole people for which
no leader was responsible. The knowledge of
this it was that gave peculiar grace to the
tribute paid by thesouth to the first and last
president of the Confederate States, when, in his
old age after years of privacy and retirement,
■t wag permitted him to pass from state to state
a defeated and broken man, yet as one who
* * * * "bore
The trophies of a conqueror.*'
Every true heart in a lithe vast cro w.l who wel
comed him realized that Jefferson Davi shad, as
it were, suffered In his Slead, and so there went
out to the old chieftain such a wave of love and
gratitude as comes to but few men on earth.
An outburst of affection that spoke eloquently
of the steadfast loyally of the souls from which
it came, and that threw a golden glory about
the old man’s declining yoars, filling his heart
with peace and joy. I have spoken of those as
stirring times, us Indeed they were. There
comes to me a question asked once by our
venerated comrade, Gen. A. R. Lawton, in
an address at the presentation of a dag to the
First regiment. Those years, he said, were
years of toil, of hardship, of danger and priva
tion, yet which one of us is there who
would willingly lose the memory of them
out of his life, who would not hold
longest to those four years in
vhicii his manhood had borne the rudest
tests and in which he learned that the material
things of life are secondary? 1 do not pretend
tu reproduce* Oen. Lawton's eloquent words ex
•edy, but that was their spirit, and as he spoke
my own heart echoed a loud amen. 1 doubt
n t. comrades,that in these latter days when all
the faculties seem concentrated upon the
problem of making both ends met, when there
seems nothing more important than the up
building of a bank account or advancing the
prosperity of our business affairs, I doubt not
but that tnere comes back to us all glimpses of
that old time in which seif was forgotten, when
hazarded life and fortune for principle,
wtien the men who stood upon our right
hana and upon our left were there to die with us
an i for us if the occasion demanded, when
brotherhood in arms meant all that It implied,
an t there was upon us all tne glorious exalta
tion that ever attends the spirit of sacriiice.
£or wi re the physical pleasures that we then
knew to bo despised; the possession of a ruddy
health that laughed at privation of a diges
tion that was proof against the vilest efforts of
the cooking brigade, and that hoped to give
tne light-hearted gayety with which every dan
ger was faced, every hardship endured. Will
anything in life ever be sweeter to us
than the rest around the camp fire
ft w eary day's march, when song and jest
ana story were the order of the night; when
generals were criticised and the most intricate
J” ntß of the campaign were explained and
omrnented upon by the youngest soldiers?
now sound the deep slumber that followed the
nwSu tired limbs upon the bosom of
■3isserer5 er eart,b ’ and when the morning dawned
u from every hill top and every valley, far
•tt < Li near ; the bu S les sang the reveille, now
f u i ♦ * ~n trumpet tones, now’ dying away in
amt ©olian echoes, with what elastic vigor
j Qv e we ready to take up the burden of another
C \ ftre ess wbat it might have in store, tut
v u .r ,?PP- V confidence always hoping for the
r i,i Alas! alas: for the days that have been
mini. J °. arß that have flown H And yet, w’hy
ainiy repine? We cannot call them back, but
ir memory shall be fresh and green; dear to
yur Dearts so long as they throb with life. That
our one possession that no adverse fortune
wn,,i? eprivo 1,8 °* wealth that we
conda DOt exchan^e for every jewel of Gol
called upon to name the
•nSJ 1 ri T ,ng peculiarity of the confederate
f. * should say that it was bis
m He was not simplyone of
to.!?, 1 rjtorchangeable parts of a great
m ifi De * i* t a,B ° a man a J ,art rom others in
. , e 3 ust as truly as in the civil voca
trv i,^Si ch * aid down a t the cali of hiscoun
clianinVw * „^ be lawyer, tVo merchant, the me
hahit ij armap * carr *cd into service the same
to*.* 0 , 1 thought, the an me readi
thi it . rvßour c©, the same confidence in his
cvcrcome all obstacles that had
(! In him in Private life. He did not lay
ci f h, 8 oWn P er ®°nHty when he ranged hiru
bn t L leatb banners of the confederacy.
fc^;J;? ather , consecrated it to the cause, and
i w t iUs to the standard of southern
b-nn’. *5 ”P° n a Plan© as high as tlat of any
t'lmt . ut; l er ,bo sun. The humble garb of a
q ier r > so * a i er covered many a man whoe elo
%,listcr •' toucbed swayed the minds of
li*,. senates;" many a divine whose pure
v ' r igh long years had ‘‘allured to other
cian- ' ? nd led tb ® wa y;” many a ‘good physi
in r P . ri j S *' w “Ole career had been one unfail
a rufir r<lof help toothers; many
111 commercial life whose broad and
t tK. i 8 Vieu ’S had contributed in large degree
whipii Prosperity of the community in
r '*'t*nri d ' velt * These, and such as these, rep
t, v . f'* y vcry profession and calling, were
, ma de the southern armies what they
I Kave them a name that will not die.
r n a k' a* individuality that manifested itself
t ivfldd.H in keeping organizations up
r P' a ces &f<er their leaders had been
o• 1 aw ay by the storm of battlo. How
r,„ s w * rH regiments, battalions, squad
th,. * b|, ought from the field under
e rL .„ r [ ,nan d of subalterns, companies under
tl>r* w* or . corporals. In every emergency
rea-ty t a * a ' Wa >s some brave, intelligent, spirit
auu ori ? forward to catch the symbol of
Ihou/KiT fr " ni dying hands, and wield it m
°y u to command.
/ of u* will remember a picture that hung
for a long time in the mayor's office in this city: I
it was a photographic copy of a piloting by an
eminent artist of Virginia of the “Battle ot the
’ at tue supreme moment
when Mabone s men were making the splendid
charge that re-established the confederate line.
In the forefront of tha battle a color-bearer who j
has reeeivt a his dea h wound reels backward, j
but is caught by the left arm of a mere lad.
whooe right hand grappa the falling colors and
upon whose face, lit by the fire of war, we see j
the birth of leadership. We Lear his ringing i
shout of encouragement, our frames tingle with
responsive sympathy to the nervous energy of j
his slight figure, and without redaction we feel
instinctively that at such a moment we would
follow such a boy to the butar end.
And how many such there were arnoQg us,
can you not recall ttiem * does there not rise up
before your mind's eye the portrait of one and
another and another of them." There he goes
with that elastic lope of his along tue dusty
road, the visor of his old kepi
cocked over hjs. brow, his faded
old uniform, atoned, weatherbeaten
and ecorched.his blsnlfrt in along roll festooned
from the right shoulder to the left fcip, his
trousers stuffed into tba Lgs of the stout, knit
stockings that are thus made to do the duty of
leggings, his “tear bag" plethoric with three
days’rations of cora dodgers and bacon, and
perchance with other supplies of which the
commissary department knows nothing, but of
which some farmer along tne line of march
calling the roll of Ulapoultry yard might have a
faint conception, his canteen occcuion&Uu
dripping with water from the lost ‘ brauch”
that was crossed, but uiore frequently sticky
with iorQtium and omd ww* distributing on
the circumambient air the faint order of apple
jack or “stingaree." Tnere is hiscartri igebox,
filled with the regulation forty round-* and, at the
“right shoulder shift,'* in ala/v, careless route
step sort of a fashion, the trusty Enfield always
ready lor service. I see his form.erect,wiry and
supple, without an ounce of superfluous flesh;
his face thin, lacking the delicate oval that be
longs to youth, and with cheeks a little inclined
to hollowness, yet aglow with health, while the
eyes dash aod sparkle with every arying emo
tion. Fun. mischief, daring and dash are all
there. A straggling cavalryman, like a lish out
of watfir. tries to run the gauntlet of the in
fantrycolumn, and there comes with a shout
from our hero ibe acornful order, “flutter
milks to the rear." For which, by the way. he
is sure to receive as good as h© sent, lie throws
a kiss to a group of country girls who stand
by the roadside in a half-frightened way
to wntoh the passing troops—the tread of she
company begins to h*nvy with fatigue, aud
his cheery young oks breaks into rhythmic
song aud rbe column oteps out with renewed
strength and rigor. Ids quick eye defects that a
comrade, perhaps hi* file leader, is weak or idl
ing and in an instant the lad is carrying two
muskets.
The night draws He see in the distance
the fringe of oo is following some watercourse
which experience tells him will probably be
selected by ibe inspectors for the bivouac and
by an instinct, bred of long habit, he takes the
bearings .if e'er y farm yard, orchard or other
foraging ground within the radius of a mile or
tv% o. so that be the darkness of the night what
it may he may make his course thither true as
the needle to the poit). Tb© camp is reached,
the arm* a-e stacked, perhaps in driving storm
or rain, and then the fullness of his resources
becomes apparent.
While a civilian would still be lamenting the
hard fate that consigned him to such surround
i: gs our yung old soldier las made him
self comfortable and Jolly in a manner that
would have rejoiced the heart of Mark Tapley.
From some remote corner of the haversack, are
produced a lew pieces of dry wood, picsed up
in all probability, early in the day and “toted”
until now with a view to just this emergency. A
comrade suppliesa chunk of fire that his been
gathered from some hearth by the waysido
and kept alive for the Jast two or three miles of
the inarch—the leave* and wot earth are
scraped away from ibe underside of a recum
bent log and a little b aze is started there. The
members ot the mess all are busy in finding aud
heaping on additional fuel, und in a moment as
it w er,*, there is a roaring, cracking flame that
warms the body clear through and all around—
and that comforts aid cheers beyond expres
sion. With deft bands the frame work of a
shelter is formed from the nearest rail fence or
from saplings bent down an i twisted together
rubber blankets or old pieces of tent hies are
spread over these—and then it makes but litil?
difference whether it storms or not. The half
of an old canteen serves well for a frying pan
for government bacon, and is sputtering on
the coals side by side with an old tomato can
filled to the brim and bubbliug over with tliat
delectable compound known as Ou* I *, ia dish
that we were all familiar with but which, I am
quite willing to make my affidavit, n<>ne of us
have stuck to as an article of diet.) Then the
pipes are brought out. and precious bits of to
bacco, mixed very likely witn sand and crumbs
of com bread, are fished up from the bottom of
pockets—and then—elysium.
nut to see our soldier at his best we must watch
him in acti n. whether m the rifle piti
out ou the picket line, or In the trenches pre
paring for the comlug of the enemy, or in the
mad rush of attach when with tire in his heart
and blood in his eye he bore him like a demi
god. There let us leave him, there where his
valor, determination and constancy won for him
the respect and admiration of brave im-u wher
ever the story of the confederacy is told. Those
lads of ’til to *OS are the men upon whose stout
shoulders has rested since toe war the burden of
rebuilding the waste places of the south. And
was erer such work accomplished in so short a
time? Look at this dear land of Dixie as it is to
day and reflect upon our condition when Lee
and Johnston laid down their arms; the enor
mous aggregation of capital represented by the
institution of slavery, swept out ot' existence as
property—the entire system of ban sing, upon
which all trade rests, absolutely gone—the rail
roads. with scarcely an exception, wrecked aud
ruined—their rolling stock run down to worth
lessness, their roadbeds torn up—bridges, fac
tories, colleges and public buildings of all kinds
destroyed by hundreds— the stock of hors s,
cattle and s.ieep reduced to a minimum—the
land without a circulating medium, so thAt in
interior places the people were reduced to
a system of barter —on every hand ruin and
desolation, where to-day is peace, pros
perity and happiness—blessings on the bravo
hearts that knew not what it was to yield to
despa.r but have fought a good fight to this
glorious end.
I doubt if any feature of the composition of
our armies will more readily attract ihe Atten
tion of the historian than the large number of
officers who, without previous military knowl
edge or experience, filled so creditably, with
honor to themselves and with glory to the flag,
every rank from lieutenant general down to
second lieutenant junior. It will not be < laimed
that they were all they should have been, or
that, us a class, they possessed that accurate
knowledge of detail in the art of war that comes
from long study alone, and which we expect as
a matter of course in the professional soldier.
But what was lacking in the art soon was made
up In the practice of war.
Company offic -rs soon learned how to manage
their commands upon the skirmish line, field
officers, to deploy regiments and battalions
under fire aud to hold them to a point that was
ordered to be kept, with a grim tenacity of pur
pose that West Pointers could not surpass. And
generals to take that broader view of field* that
enabled them to place brigades and diviMons
where they wero wanted and with a view to the
carrying out of the plan of battle.
Here and there would lie found one in whom
the genius for war was a positive instinct. A
notable instance of this was Lieut. (Jen. N.
B. Forrest, the distinguished cavalry leader.
An officer who served on his staff throughout
the war told me that in every fight he s-emed
to have the faculty of divining at once the weak
point of his ecetny and then of haminering
away at it withoutintermisaton with everything
he had until it broke, it was in this way that
he won the battle of Tishamtngo in Northern
Mississippi, which, though on a comparatively
umall scale, was one of the most complete
victories of the war.
In fhe winter of 1954-'65 it was my lot to
serve for a time under Gen. Forrest, and possi
oiy a few’ details about him may not prove un
interesting Our brigade was in front of Nash
ville with Hood’s anny. when order* came to
march toward the town of Murfreesboro and
report to Gen. Forrest near that place. The
weather was bitterly cold, the roads covered
with snow, sleet and ice, so, as many of the men
were bare footed, r, Wie march was not rapid,
and approaching nfcht found us still two miles
or more from where 1 ! expected to halt. At a
point where the road passed through a dense
thicket of cedar, with a running stream close at
hand and hundreds of cords of wood that had
been cut for a railroad near by, a staff officer
met me to say that the general wished me to
put the command into camp there for the
night, because the men could be more sheltered
and comfortable lust there than anywhere else
iu the vicinity. He also instructed me to report
in person at headquarters on the following
morning. The morning brought with it one
of the severest sleet storms I have ever seen,
and riding in the face of it, soon so encased me
in ice that on reaching the headquarters I was
unable to dismount and scarcely able to talk.
The general, a tall man of commanding figure,
with black hair and hashing eyes, and with a
resolute, yet kind face, was standing alone by
a large log fire, while at a little distance were
several staff officers, orderlies and courier*. He
saw my conditiou aud sent two men to help mo
down; stepping himself to a tent and returning
with a flask of brandy, from which he insisted
upon my drinking before ho would bear a word
from me. It may be said in passing, that I was
too good a soldier to let my general urge me
twice. The first questions ho put to me
were: “Whole your commissary?" and “Dees
he do his duty to your roeu?” 1 gave him the
name of Capt. Edward Drummond, and s{>oka
of that excellent < ’fleer as he deserved. In the
whole Interview his anxiety to provide for the
welfare and comfort of the command was most
marked, "hoc to it, Colonel, that your men are
TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 4,. 1892.
well fed." he said. “Men cannot fight on empty
stomachs," etc. Before our service with hitn
ended we were called upon to make a forced
march of about fifty-four miles in thirty six
hours, und r the most depressing circumstances.
Hood had been defeated at Nashville and driven
back to Columbia, where he made a stand
for Forrest’s fores to join him. To make the
junction we had to cross the country by the
most wretched roads, making wide detours to
avoid the left of the federal army. The suffer
mgs of the men Here terrible. N’oneo. them
were sufficiently clad; many were ia rags, from
the knee down, and I saw scores of poor fellows
with nothing between their bare feet and the
frozen stony ground, limping most painfully
a:ong. Their condition roused Gen. Forrest to
the keenest sympathy. He gave his own horse
repeatedly to sick and disabled men, and re
quired the same sacrifice of the members of his
staff. And a9 he trudged along on foot thr ugh
the neow every man within range of his voice re
ceived some word of cheerful encouragement.
I am the more glad to bear this testimony to his
humanity and kindly consideration for other*,
as those qualities came immediately under my
own observation, because it is the fashion with
some northern writers, while giving him credit
for being a thunderbolt in battle, to describe
him as almost* monster in cruelty. One thing
is very sure, that the gentlemen of his military
family, several of whom had been with him
from the beginning of the war were devoted to
him and followed him with an ardor that was
nowhere surpassed.
Another most eminent officer who sprang
from civil life, though I believed he served
when a young man as a private m
the British army, was Maj. Gen.
Pat Cleburne. He was certaiuly one of the
hardest fighters in the western army, as well as
one of the piost successful. 1 have always
thought that the great secret of his success was
the close personal attention that he gave to
every detail of his division, and ray opportunity
for .judging came from several months of serv
ice under his command.
At the close of a day’s march, when most
generals would becootented with allowing their
staff officers to place the troops in bivouac, he
sat on his horse until the last brigade had filed
off the road, and when his own quarters were
sought lie knew for himself the location for the
uight of every regiment under him. Were we
in an intrenched position and it became neces
sary io establish a line of rifle pits out in the
front he wont himself with the engineer officer
aud did not rest until the line was sufficiently
strong and well placed to defy anything short
of a line of battle. If we halted anywhere fora
week lie personally inspected every man and
eery musket, and he knew to a nicety the ex
act state of rverything upon which the welfare
of his division depended—its quartermaster,
commissary, hospital and ordnance supplies.
Add to ull ttiis a character that impressed all
who approached him as absolutely fearleas, and
it will rea lily be understood why every com
mander of that army aiways leaned on Pat
CJeburue as on a rock.
Itfut it is high time that these desultory ram
bling* were b ought to a close. I have written,
comrades, with a view to eliciting from some of
you a continuA. :on in the same lino. There are
men iu our membership from every branch of
the confederate service, and from every field ou
which the southern cross fluttered in the smoke
of battle. We want to hear from you, one and
all.
Tell us, you men of Manassas, hiw Bartow
died. Vou who rode with the gallant Stuart,
that knightliest of men, let us hear the story of
his deeds from your own lips. Let the men of
Gettysburg, and Sharpsburg, aid Chancellors
ville, and Chic ca nauga, and Charleston, and
Olustee, and Mobile bay, ana of a hundred other
fit Ids, recall the days of tbeir glory aud give us
all the benefit of the newly awakened memories.
Tell us of Lee, the spotless gentleman and
grand soldier; of Jackson, the meteor of the
volley, whose simple natur i was not ashamed
to attribute the splendid strategy that gave him
an immortal name to the overruling providence
of the Gid whom he with faithfulness;
or Johnston the dauntless; of the glorious
“man of the 12th of May,” oartiwn Gordon;
and of him whose quiet, unobtrusive life here
in our midst sine*' the thunders of war have
erased mattes it difficult at times for ns to real
ize w at he was in those days of storm and
bloodshed—tell of that hard fighter, our honored
president, Lafayette McLaws.
The outside world may have lost its interest
in the tale, but here you may bes ire ther * will
be deep and abiding sympathy and attention.
Every incident you may relate will touch a re
sponsive chord in a brother’s heart, and we
snail be drawn closer and closer togetner iu the
bonds of love. Brothers, indeed, for we have
suffered and bled for the same loved mother—
our own dear native, land.
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Where Science ends and Common
Sense should rule. Persons of sedentary
habits are liable to indigestion or dyspep
sia. These, in turn, will bring on nerv
ous disorders, kidney complaints, consti
pation, etc. This is especially the case
with merchants, students and scientists.
They will give you the exact dimensions
of Jupiter, the distance from Saturn to
the sun, to a foot, but they cannot or
will not tell themselves what will cure
this train of disorders.
For ailments resulting from sedentary
habits—inactivity of the liver, habitual
constipation, etc. —the entire medical
fraternity of Europe and America al
most unanimously recommend the genu
ine Carlsbad Sprudel Salt and the Waters
of Carlsbad. *
Eisner & Mendelson Cos., Sole Agents,
6 Barclay street, New York.
XTIKRISRUIG GOUDA.
DUNLAP’S
toDcrlfls
Spring, 1892,
Beautiful New Shape
NOW READY AT f
LaFAR’S,
Sole Agent for Savannah,
27 BULL STREET.
PUBLICATION^.
IBAYUWG
jtetei
( #1 JOHN C.I|nHAfNGs<o“P
Hi”?/ Boston Mass.
1-aim i n-,.
Broughton Bros.,
DEALERS IN'
Paints, Oils,Varniahes. Brushes,
'Class, Etc.
At-ents for F. \Y. DEVpE’S READY-MIXED
PAINTS, House. and Decorative paint
ing, Wall Paper aud interior Decorations.
42 and 44 Barnard Street.
TELEPHONE NO, 188.
CARRIAGE WORKS.
ill STILLAT IT.
' I
AND EXPECT TO KEEP AT IT.
Building, Repairin?, Trirntntu? and Painting
Carriazos. Buggies, Trucks Wagons and ( arts
at prices to s lit tunes. You ought to aend your
lv rses and mules aud have them shod by trie. I
guaranteo satisfaction. The shop with the 7b
loot wheel on top.
T. A. WARD, Proprietor
Forest Citj- Wheelwright Work*
PLUMBER.'
FINE L.IiXK OK >
GAS FIXTURES AM GLOBES
L, A. MCCARTHY’S,
DRAYTON PT*
iJHbiva.it'>.
F. C. WYLLY,
STOCK, BOND AND REAL ESTATE
BROKKR.
Strict Attention Uivea to All Orders.
Investment Securities always on hand.
Correspondence Solicited.
LEATHER GOODs. “
NEIDLINGER & RABUN,
DEALERS IN
RUBBER AND LEATiIEIi BELTING,
Sea Lion W rapping. Saddles, Harness. Leather
Savannah. Ga.
COFFER.
MOCHA AID JAVA
COFFEE.
For sals by C. M. GILBERT & CO
INSURANCE..
Charles f. rrknderqast
(.Successor to K H. Footman <£ C 0.,)
mi, mm and storm insurance,
106 BAY STREET,
[Next West of the Cotton Exchanged
Tslephoae Call N0.4. 3 Savannah. 9a,
NURSERY.
KIESLING’S NURSERY.
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
TJLANTS. Bouquets, Deiigns, Cut Flowers
1 furnished to order. Leave orders at Davis
Bros., cox. Bull and York ms. The Belt Railway
passes through the nursery. Telephone 2;0.
pAI>T
TT\ A TTkTfTI Averil Faint outwears
F/ A 3 i\l I others. Best and
/ \ I I 1 I least expensive in the
JL IV X ill end; handsomest, too.
No other paint nas a lustre so beautiful. Sam
ple card free. W. D. Thomas, & Drayton street.
Savannah.
.■MI!! 1
r CENTS gets the Sunday issue of the Mots
t) mo Nsws. Be sure and read It. For sale
at MUI.LKYNE’S DRUU STORE, Wsst llroad
and Waldburg streets.
Through some mistake in the advertise
ment of the
COUNTY DOWN MANUFACTURING CO.
In yesterday’s issue of the Morning News
The Price of the Unlaundered Shirt
WAS GIVEN AS
75 CENTS.
THE PRICE OF THE SHIRT IS
50—C E N TIS—SO
It is without doubt the very
best Shirt offered for the money.
FALK CLOTHING CO.
Pa P* Pimples
PRICKLY ASH, POKE ROOT Blotches :
AND POTASSIUM ——
Makes
“ , „ Old Sores
Marvelous Cures inl
1 —“ Prickly Aeh, Toke Root and Potassium,
the greatest blood purifier on earth.
l\| J (I.!-Boils, ere-y pel a.*, syphilis, rheum a
m Kifinri r niQim Hsm, scrofula. blo>*l poiscm, mercurial
111 UIUUU IU IQ Ull potaon, and all other impurities of the
Randall Pope, the retlreddniggiStof
ea. a • Madisou, Fla. says : P. P. P. isuie best
UnniimaiflfaM alterative and blood medicine on the
fillßllllSdllhlll market. He being a druggist and haV
BIIIUEdIIIIUIItFIII ing hold all kinds Iff medicine, his un- I
■ ii solicited testimonial is of k reat impor
tance to the sick and suffering.
fSnr! SfToffils
UllU vwl vBUIU great pleasure in testifying to the efll-
cient qualities of the popular remedy
for eruptions of the skin known M
P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and
P. P. P. purifies the blood, builds up Potassium.) I suffered for several
the weakanddebllltated.glvesKtrength years with an unsightly and disagree
to weakened nerves, expels diseoeea, cable eruption on my rnce. and tried
giving tho patient health and happiness various remedies to rotnovelt, none of
where sickness, gloomy feelings and which accomplished the object, until
lassitude first prevailed. this valuable preparation Was resoftod
In blood poison, mercurial poison, *°- After tvking three bottles, in ao
mnlaria, dyspepsia and in all blood ami cordonce with directions, lam now eo
skiu diseases, like blotches, pimples, tirely cured. J, D. JOHNSTON,
old chronic ulcers, tetter, scaldhead,
we may say without fear of contra- Bavanntui, Ga.
diction that P. P. F. is the beet blood n Winter, Superintendent of the
purifier iuthe world. Savannah Brewery, says : he has bad
Ladies whoso systems are poisoned rheumatism of the heart for several
and whoso blood is in an impure con- year©, often unable to \mikhlspaln was
dition, due to menstrual irregularities, so inffonse: ho had proMsorsin Phila
are peculiarly benefited by tt’ie won- dolphiakut received no relief until ho
derful tonic ond blood cleansing pro- earn© to Siwr*unah aud tried P. 1\ I*.
per*!©* of P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke Two bottles made him a well nan and
Hoot and Potassium. he renders thanks to P. P. P.
All drugffista noil it.
LIPPMAN BROS., Proprietors,
Lippman’a 13lock, Savannah, Ga.
’’ ——yjiVtELitJttii 4 alt’s Ah'A'iiiMjaS-ukAX.M contains no opium or other anodvnc, but
Orstroys the Specific Asthma Poison in the Blood.
| i |CI ■ Z 11Ji W *¥free
Msfflthat yon need not neelect your hasineta usutiuiai ■..
*•’ JfS wnr sit sap all n Igkt gasping lor breath for fear of suf foe A.
nrJ TAFT <Tns. MEDICINE CO., 142 Stats St.. ROCHESTER, . Y.
A. A. SOLOMONS & ( 0., Wholesale Agents.
FURNITURE AND CAKPBTg.
Lincisay & jMEorgan
a-ieue oust the drive.
For this week we will offer the balance of our stock of
STRAW MATTINGS
At cost, to close out preparatory to getting in our new sup
ply on the first of the month.
WALL PAPER
Stock must also go, for if we can’t sell it we will give it away,
as we must have the room. It i3 going at less than half price.
FURNITURE AND CARPETS
Have been reduced to meet!the stringency of the times and
our prices are now so low that any one can
afford to buy.
BICYCLES AND SKATES.
We have on hand a full supply of Ormondes, Warwicks,
Columbias. No need to wait for wheels when you eun get
them at once, and get better wheels than any one else can
offer you.
KALL AND CEE US.
—. I ,11 A,l -, ■ 111 I.-
.Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla* J
SHIRTS.
MEDICAL.
SHOE*.
WHY IS THE
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE cx„fe&..H
THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY*
It Is a Kpftinlrs.i shoe, with no tacks or wax threadl
to hurt the foots made of the best fine calf, stylUbr
and easy, and because vs make mors those of this,
grade than any other manufacturer. It equals BAq l **
sewed shoes costing from $4.00 to $5.00.
00 ficntilne Ifand-afwed, IhefinestcalC
shoe ever offered for $3.00: equals FrenclM
Imported shoes which cost from SB.OO to SI2DO.
fIC j% 00 Hand-Sewed Well Hhoe. fine ealt
v r Vi stylish, comfortable and durable. The besi
shoe ever ottered at this price : same grade aa ctuM
tom-made shoes costing from $6.00 to $9.00.
CO 30 Police iSlioei Farmers, Railroad Men
VMi and Letter Carriers all wear them; fin©
seamless, smooth inside, heavy three soles, exten
sion edge. One pair will wear a year.
flnocitlfi no better shoe ever offered at
vfci this price; one trial will convince thosa
l mo want a shoe for comfort and service.
KEO nd t‘i.oo Workiaitan , shoe*
are very strong and durable. Those whs
have given them a trial will wear nto other make.
FtflVC* **.<! mid £1.75 school shoes ara
MyJ worn by the boys everywhere; they ■ell
on their merits, as the Increasing aAles show.
I f>HiaC > LOO Ilnud-sewed shoe, best
■■OU IvO I>ongala, very stylish; equals French
Imported shoes cosiliik from $4.) to s6.ot).
l.n.tiiV Z.AO, nod •1.73 ihn for
II l.\nesare tho best fine Uongola. Stylish and durable.
( nution.—See that W. L. Douglas’ name and
price urs stamped ou the bottom of each shoe.
nr TAKE NO HtinNTITUTE.ua
Insist on local advertised dealers supplying ycm. 1
W. I*. DOIKiLAH, llrockton, Maas. Soldo?
BYCK BROS., Whitaker street.
E. 8. BYCK CO., 169 Broughton street.
■ 'i' " 1 1 ~u m
SANITARY PLUMBIMu
Beer Dealers
ATTENTION!
m'Ky.twa -THE
JL-.iiir. CHAMPION
flji Hydraulic
ft .BEER
I 1 - PUMP
Perfectly au
f tomatic In it*
operation.
/ economical in
tbeuseof water'
, i Constructed of
% braee and high
djjSH e> ly polished, It
wr ir-v&SBb 1 v can be placed
mur it.-.•&! fa J on back bar and
Jit* ' will be an orna-
Aft^A < Jy!?T ! *vi. ,r ‘wnt to any
lL*sj3i r*T-F.very one
F guaranteed In
tuLtr every partlcu-
Savannah Plumbing Company,
Sole Agents.
Corner Congross and Drayton Streets.
FLOUR.
Good cooking is
one of the chief
blessings of every
household. To al
ways insure this, use
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR.
MACHINERY.
McUoQODgfi & Maotyo^
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Mohrs and Blacksmiths,
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENOUGH,
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alsrt and Union Injector*, the
simplest and most effective on the markets
Uuilett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Uin, ton
beet in the market.
Ail orders promptly attended to. Bead tot
Prise Lid.
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