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Babbath by Sabbath, sharpen yoor wits
as keen as scimitars, and then take them
Into this holy war. I* Is a very short
bridge between a smile and a tear, a sus
pensi on bridge from eye to lip. and it is
noon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes
just as sacred as a tear. There is as much
religion, and 1 think a little more, in a
spring morning than in a starless midnight.
Religious work without anv humor or wit
In it is a banquet with a side of beef, and
that raw, and no condimenta and no dee
sert succeeding. People will not sit down
at such a banquet. By all means remove
nil frivolity and all patboa and all light
ness and all vulgarity—strain them out
through the sieve of holy discrimination;
but, on the other band, beware of that
monster which overshadows the Christian
church to-day, conventionality, coming up
from the Great Sahara (desert of ecrlesias
ticism, having on its back a hump of sancti
monious gloom—and vehemently refute to
swallow that camel.
O, how particular a great many people
are about the infinitesimals while they are
Suite reckless about the multitudes. Wnat
id Christ say t Did he not ex oriate the
people in his time who were so careful to
wash their bands befor a meal but did not i
wash their hearts? It is a tad thing to have
Unclean hands; it is a worse thing to have
an unclean heart. How many people there
are in our time who are very anxious that
after their death they shall be buried with
their feet toward the east, and not at all
anxious that during their whole life they
should faoe in the right direction so that
they shall oome up in tbs resurrection of the
jus* whichever way they are buried. How
many there are chiefly anxious that a min
ister of the gospel shall come In the line of
apostollo succession, not caring so much
whether be comes from Apostle Paul or
Aoosile Judas. They have a way of meas
uring a gnat until it is larger than a camel.
• Again: My subject photographs all those
who are abhorrent of small sins while t ov
are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts.
You will find many a merchant who, while
be is so careful that be would not take a
yard of doth or a spool of cotton from the
counter without psying for it, and who if
a bank cashier should make a mistake and
send in a roll of bills five dollars too much
would dispatch a messenger In hot baste to
return the surplus, yet who will go into a
■took company in which after a while he
gets oontrol of the stock, and then waters
Che stock and make one hundred thousand
dollars appear like two hundred thousand
dollars. He only stole one hundred thou
sand dollars by the operation. Many of tha
men of fortune made their wealth in that
way. One of these men, engaged in such
unrighteous acts, that evening, the evening
of the very day be watered the stock, will
Bud a wharf rat stealing an evening
newspaper from the basement doorway,
and will go out and catch the urchin by
the collar, a id twist the collar so tightly
the poor fellow cannot say that it was thirst
for knowledge that led him to the dishonest
act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter,
aaying, " I have been looking for you a long
while; you stole ray paper four or five
times, haven't you! you miserable wretch."
And then the old stock gambler, with a
voioe they can hear three blocks, will ory
out: “ Police, polioo!" That same man,
he evening of the day in which he watered
the stock, will kneel with bis family in
prayer and thank God for the prosperity of
the day, then ktss his children good night
with an air which seems to nay, “I hope
you will all grow up to be ai good aa your
lather!” Prison* for kina msec lie in size,
but palaoee far crimes dromedarian. No
mercy lor sins animalcule in proportion,
bnt great leniency for mastodon iniquity.
It is time that we learn in Amerioa that
Bln is not excusable in proportion aa it de
clares large dividends and baa outriders in
equipage. Many a man it riding to perdi
tion postilion ahead and lacitey behind. To
steal a dollar it a gnat; to steal many thou
sands of dollars is a camel. There is mauy
a fruit dealer who would notooneent to steal
a basket of peaches from a neighbor’s stall,
but who would not scruple to depress the
fruit market; and as long as I can remem
ber we have heard every summer the peach
crop of Maryland it a failure, and by the
time crop comes in the misrepresentation
makes a difference of millions of dollars.
A man who would not steal one
peach basket steals fifty thousand
peach baskets. Any summer go down
Into the Mercantile library, in
the reading rooms, and see tbe newspaper
reports of the crop* from all parts of the
country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
them, methodically and infamously carry
ing out the huge lying about the grain crop
from year to year and for a score of years.
After a while there is a “corner’’ in the
wheat market, and men who had a contempt
for a petty tbett will burglarize the wheat
bin of a nation aud commit larceny upon
tbe American corn crib. And men will sit
in churches and in reformatory institutions
trying to strain out the small gnats of
scoundrelism, while in their grain elevators
and in their stofe bouses they are fattening
huge camels which they expect after a while
to swallow. Society has to be entirely re
constructed on this subject. We are to find
that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it
is great
I know hi our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say: “O, what a class of frauds you
have in the church of God In this day," and
when an elder of a church, or a deacon, or a
minister of the gospel,or a superintendent of
a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter,what
display beads are in many of the news
papers. Great primer type. Five line pica.
“Another Saint Absconded,” “Clerical
SoonDdreUsm,” “Religion at a Discount,’’
“Shame on the Churches,’’ while there are
m thousand scoundrels outside the church to
where there is one inside the church, and
tbe misbehavior of those who never see the
inside of a church is so great it is enough to
tempt a man to beoome a Christian to get
out of their company. But in all circles, re
ligious and irreligious, the tendency is to
excuse sin in proportion as it it mammoth.
Even John Milton iu “Paradise Dost,” while
be condemns Satan, gives suob a grand de
scription of him, you have hard work to
suppress your admiration. O, this strain
ing out of small sins like gnats, and this
gulping down great iniquities like camels.
This subject does not give tbe picture of
one or two persons, but is a gallerv in which
thousands of people may see their likenesses.
For instance, all those people who, while
they would not rob their neighbors of a
farthing, appropriate the money and the
treasure of the put die. A man has a bouse
to sell, aud he tells his oustomer it is worth
twenty thousand dollars. Next day the as
sess >r comes around and the owner says it is
woi th fifteen thousand dollars. The gov
ernment of the United States took off the
tax from personal income, among other rea
sons because so few people would tell the
truth, and many' a man with an inoome
of hundreds of dollars a day made state
ments which seemed to imply he was about
to be handed over to the overseer of the
rx>r. Careful to pay their passage from
iverpool to New York, yet smuggling in
their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from
Paris and a half dozen watches from Ge
neva, Switzerland, telling the custom hou-e
officer on the wharf, “There is nothing in
that trunk but wearing apparel ,” and put
ting a five dollar gold pieoe in his hand to
punctuate the statement.
.Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law of
grammar, and who want all their lan
guage an elegant specimen of syntax,strain
jog out all the inaccuracies of speech with
a fine sieve of literary criticism, while
through their conversation go slander aud
Innuendo and profanity and falsehood
larger than a whole caravan of o-itnela
when they might better fraoture every law
of the languago and shook their Intellectual
taste, and better let every verb seek in vain
for It* noruiontive, and every noun for Its
government, and every preposition lose Its
way in the sentence,and adjectives and par
ticiples and pronouu* get Into a grand riot
worthy of tbe Fourth ward oo election
day. than to commit a moral inaccuracy.
Batter swallow a thousand gnat* than one
can,el.
Huob person# are also described in the
text who are very inuob alarmed about the
small fault* of others, and l ave no alarm
tbout thsir own great lrai.rgfiiious. Them
are in every community and in every
1 church, watch dogs who feel sailed upon to
keep their eves on others and growl. They
are full of suspiei ina. They wonder if that
man is not dishonest, if that man is not an
clean, if there is not something wrong about
the other mao. They are always the first to
hear of anything wrong. Vultures ere
! always the first to smell oarrira They are
i self-appointed detectives. I lay this down
as a rule without any exception, that
[ these people who htve tha most
faults themselves ore most merci
less In their watching of others. Prom scalp
of bead to sole of foot they are full of
jealousies and bypercriUclsms. They spend
their lite iu hunting for muskrats and mud
turtles instead of hunting for Rooky moun
tain eagles, always for something mean in
stead of something grand. They look at
tbelr neighbors' imperfections through a
microscope, and look at their own imperfec
tions through a telescope upside down.
Twenty faults of their own do not hurt
them half so much ss ona fault of some
bodv else. Tbelr neighbors’ imperfections
are like gnats and they strain them out;
their own imperfections are like camels and
they swallow them.
But lest any might think they escape the
scrutiny of the text, I nave to tell you that
we all come under the divine satire when
we make the question of time more promi
nent than the questions of eternity. Come
now, let us all go into the confess! nal.
Are not all tempted to make the question,
Where shall I live now I greater than the
question. Where shall I live forever! How
shall I get more dollars here? greater than
the question. How shall I lay up treasures
in heaven? the question, How shall I pay
my debts * i man? greater than the question.
How shall I meet my obligations to' God!
the question, How shall 1 gain the world?
greater than the question, What if I
lose ray soul? the question. Why did
God let sin come into the world? greater
than the question. How shall I get it ex
tirpated from my nature? the question.
What shall I do with the twenty or forty
or seventy years of my sublunar existence!
greater than the question. What shall I do
with the millions of cycles of my post-ter
restrial existence? Time, how small it is!
Eternity, how vast it is! The former more
insignificant in comparison with the latter
than a gnat is insignificant when compared
with a camel. We dodged the text. We
said; “That doesn’t mean me, and that
doesn’t mean me,” and with a ruinous be
nevolenoe we are giving the whole sermon
away.
But let us alt surrender to the obargs.
What an ado about things here. What
poor preparation for a great eternity. As
though a minnow were larger than a be-,
hemotb, as though a swallow took a wider
circuit than an albatross, as though a net
tle were taller than a Lebanon oedar, as
though a gnat were greater than a oamel,
as though a minute were longer than a
ceDtury, as though time were higher,
deeper, broader than eternity. So the text
which flashed with lightning of wit as
Christ uttered it, is followed by the crash
ing thunders of awful oatastropbs to those
who make the questions of time greater
than the questions of the future, the on
ooinicg, overshadowing future. O Eter
nity! Eternity! Eternity 1
DARIEN NEWS DOTS.
Application to Give Bail for a Man
Charged With Arson.
Darien.Ga., March 27. —Application has
been made to Judge Falligant for a bond in
the anon cose of Rentz Young, The ac
cused is a lad of about 14 years and a ton of
a well known and reliable drayman. Tbe
boy has always borne a good character and
assisted his father with his business up to
the time of this charge against him.
The Messrs. Richardson are erecting a
turpentine still on Sapelo Island, where
they have a large turpentine farm.
The other day the Messrs. Cromley. who
live at the light bouse, went out hunting
rattlesnakes on Sapelo Island, and secured
eight large ones from two holes, measuring
from 4to 6J>4 feet. It Is really wonderful
how these young men catch them, lassoing,
tying them to a limb of a tree oud skin
them while alive. They make a business of
capturing them for their skins and their oil.
A large flow of water has been secured at
Thomas Hilton’s place at the Ridge from
Mr. Hilton’s artesian well, the water rising
to the hight of 80 foot.
Bishop Nelson will preach at the Ridge
churoh on Friday night, April 1, and at
HL Andrew’s, in the city, the next morning
at 11 o’olock. Quito a large class will be
confirmed at this first visit of the new
bishop.
The postoffloe will be moved in a few
days from the Bailey buildiug down to one
of the new Donnelly offices, near the
Gazette office.
The rain Friday night was a great bless
ing to the planters of this section.
Three young business men of this place
are booked to be married next month. Long
life and happiness we bespeak for them.
A FUGITIVE CAPTURED.
An Escaped Murderer Again in the
Hands of the Law.
Baxley, Ga., March 27.—Sheriff Ellis
has placed John Lewis and John Hogans in
jail. At the March term of court last year
Lewis was tried for murder, ooavicted and
sentenced to imprisonment for life. Before
he was taken to the convict camps he, with
several other prisoners, broke jail and has
been at large ever since.
The charge against Hogans, and for which
he it now in jail, is harboring and maintain
ing towis. Lewis made a desperate effort
to resist arrest, swearing that he would
either kill or be killed rather than be arrest
ed. He made several attempts to shoot the
sheriff, and only submitted after he had
been shot at twice. The second time the
sheriff shot at him his mother ran between
them and received the ball in her shoulder,
making quite a serious though not fatal flesh
wound. Dr. Hedge was promptly summoned,
who will administer all needed attention in
the way of medical skill.
Sheriff Ellis expects to take Lewis to
Brunswiok jail this evening for safe keeping.
BAXLEY BRIHF3.
Farmers Turning to Diversified Crops.
Judge Atkinson’s Candidacy.
Baxley, Ga., March 37.—More rain fell
here last week than for some time. Far
mers have turned their attention earnestly
to dividing the acreage of their farms so
as to meet the demands of home supplies
the next year.
Tho aoreage in cotton this rear, comt>ared
with last, will be diminished at least one
third. The quantity of fertilizer# bought
this year will probably not exceed hall the
amount of last year.
Examination seems to indicate that the
reoent freeze did not destroy all the young
peaches In this section, which, when supple
mented with the crop of LaConte pears,
which never entirely fail, will doubtless be
a sufficient supply of fruit far the local de
mand.
Maj. G. J. Holton is an applicant fer the
judgeship of this circuit, made vacant by
ihe resignation of Judge Atkinson, who is
a candidate for the nomination for con
gress. Many of Judge Atkinson’s warmest
supporters and friends in this section think
he has very much weakened his obaneos for
congress by his recent utterances relativo
to bl adoption of tbs Ocala platform.
A Negro Blows Out His Brains.
Am RHICUS, Ga., March 27. Arkie
Hawkes, a colored man of this city, com
mitted suicide at ids home at 2 o’clock this
morning by shooting himself through the
bead with a pistol. There is something
mysterious about the shootiug. hut the
coroner’s jury decided that ho killed him
self. Domestic trout,les probably prompted
(be deed, lie had been married only n
year. Hli wife is white enough to pass for
a white woman.
First Boston Girl— Did you hosr the now
Chicago elocutionist?
Second Boston Girl -I did I never knew be
fore that hyron wrotedialejt verse —lndiana;,
out Journal.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1892.
CLEWS' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen Prom
Wall Street.
>'iw York, March 26.—There were too
many uncertainties this week to permit any
aggressive movement oa part of the bulls.
, The sliver question, the Bering sea diffi
culty, the legality of tbs Heading deal, the
break in Northern Pacific and the approach
of April settlements all contributed to re
strict operations. Investors, too, were
somewhat discouraged by the fancy prices
at which some of the good dividend payers
are hsld. On Friday there was an upward
spurt on the strength of the anti
silver developments at Washington ;
but the silver advocates are not yet t.eaten
by anv means, and they may be expected to
renew the baitle at the earlieet opportunity.
Nevertheless, 'Wall street is not seriously
alarmed in this respect, having full cond
der.ee in the presidential veto. The under
tone of the market is unquestionably strong;
and stocks, being in strong hands, would no
doubt readily respond to favorable condi
tions. The industrials havs exhibited con
siderable activity, but this I oan hardly
deem a satisfactory feature in selecting them
at leaders iu view of their heretofore erratic
character.
The monopoly issues have Introduced an
element of uncertainty into the stock mar
ket which calls for s;cial caution on tha
part of investors and speculators, if not for
specific precaution on the part of the ex
change itself in admitting indiscriminately
so called securities to its list. Public opin',
ion is beoomiug more and more decidedly
hostile to whatever form of organization
conspires to defeat free competition. Con
gress and the state legislatures find it nec
essary to respect this determined attitude of
the people, and at no distant time the laws
will be so framed that nowhere in this coun
try will any form of corporation which
aims to exercise the powers of a monopoly
be able to exist under the tegis of
the law. The attempts of the trusts to
evade the penalties of their ille
gality by organizing under the
loosest form of legalization to be fonnd un
der state laws will become futile. The pro
curement of control of a system of com
peting railroads, under such expedients as
have been adopted by the Philadelphia and
Heading, will be declared illegal, because
contrary to publlo policy. The law will be
constructed with a simple purpose of pre
venting the defeat of competition by mo
nopolies ; and that form of prohibition will
be made to apply to any and every form of
organization. Of this there can be no rea
sonable doubt; for the present drift toward
monopoly is so widespread, so utterly rev
olutionary in every sense in its character,
and so threatening to vast interests that to
suppose it can be muob farther tolerated
would be to assume that American citizens
had lost their regard for freedom and their
reuse of self-respect.
With this prospect before our monopolies,
wfcat is the market status of their immense
issues? Many of them are already illegal,
and the others are destined to become so.
When that result comes, the profits they are
dow making out of an exclusive control of
prices will diasappear. The stooks Issued
by these organizations have been “watered"
to the extent of many times over the true
value of tbelr assets; what then will be
their market valuation when the law has
deprived the organizations of the power to
artificially inflate prices? It requires little
foresight to discover that these issues con
stitute a most formidable danger In the fut
ure of the stock market. Any day, anew
law or a decision of the supreme court of
the United States may within twenty-four
hours wipe out tent of millions of the mar
ket value of thfs illegitimate scrip with
consequences of the most far-reaching
character. The action of the Standard
Oil In dissolving its trust arrangements
is a significant warning. Spite of its
enormous wealth and solidity and its un
questioned power of resistance, its saga
cious managers deem it imprudent to face
the omnipotence oi the ooming assertion of
the public will, and the trust is forearming
itself by puttiug its great interests nnder
some more normal form of management.
In striking contrast to this prudence, the
sugar monopoly, withnoeboioe between
early failure and a more complete grasp
upon the entire industry, is making another
enormous issue of stock at an enormously
exaggerated inflation of its true value.
The flooding of the stock market with such
vast issues of scrip that has no true and
permanent basis of value cannot be re
garded as anything short of a standing
grave menace to Wall street Interests. Op
erators and investors should be warned
that the chief aim of the promoters of
these schemes is to transfer their scrip into
other bauds at the Highest possible prices
and then maybe leave the disorganized con
cerns to their fate.
THE DSAYtOU-BOSBOWE AFFAIR.
Some Additional Points in the
Scandal.
Since the arrival of J. Coleman Drayton,
he has kept s imewhat seclu led, says a New
York dispatch to the Philadelphia Press,
and excepting a consultation with his law
yers, and with two or three of his intimate
friends, be has declined to speak of the affair
which has made so much notoriety for him
self and the Astor family. Mr. Drayton’s
dignity of oonduot at this most embarra ss
iug time, is exactly what his friends ex
pected of him. On the other hand, the
comment in all the fashionable clubs is that
the conduot of Mr. Borrows is so reprehen
sible that it is sure to cost him whatever
friendships he had in social oircles before
the scandal became published.
A gentleman who spent two or three hours
with Mr. Drayton, and who has perhaps the
widest acquaintance among club men of any
man of his years in New York, told me
briefly what the exact situation is, at least
as Mr. Drayton and his friends look upon it.
Of course this geutleman did not care to
have his name quoted, not because he was
afraid of anythiug he might say, but on
account of the natural repugnance of a man
of refinement to be connected at all in the
newspapers with such an affair.
MRS. *DR AYTON IRRESPONSIBLE.
Raid he, “Of course the family has known
of this unfortunate matter for some years,
but there has been nothing but pity in view
of Mrs. Drayton’s state or mind and health;
she has been for some years an irresponsible’
woman, suffering from neuralgia aud hys
teria; she resorted at times to morphine,
and the condition of mind and health in
which the poor woman lived for years was
a sufficient explanation to the family of the
various stories which came to their oars.
Her father and mother both suggested to
Mr. Drayton that he treat her not as a de
praved person, but as he would a child who
was ill, and with that understanding they
went to Europe. That is all that ought to
be said perhaps of that phase of the matter.
It is sufficient.
* 'Now as to the money matter, Ido not
know exactly what the money arrange
ments were. Of course, nil of Coleman’s
man’s friends know that itisab-urd to think
that he could have made any bargain of a
pecuniary nature, such as was suggested iu
tho correspondence published. Colemao has
an ample iuco.ue; ha is going to inherit a
great f Ttune, and if he is in ueo 1 of money
lie c uld easily obtain all wanted from
bis aunt.
“Mrs. Drayton, however, became ex
travagant, she was reckless; I will say
trankiy, frightfully reokl. es in her expen
ditures, and this was due to her irresponsi
bility. If was suggested that in order to
prevent the less of her entire fortuuo by
reason of these extravagances that she en
trust her lucome, not for Mr. Drayton’s
benefit, but for the benefit of the children.
That was done, and all there is iu tuis tale
about money arises from the faot that Coie
tnau, and Mr. and Mrs. Astor as veil, in
sisted that Mra. Drayton’s property be pro
tected iu the interest of the children.
BORROWK’S SOCIAL NTANPIKq.
“Now, there is Just one thlug more; this
young fellow Borrows never had any eoeial
standing; his father is a very nice gentle
man, but the family has never been rvc >g
utz and in a social si In the oltjr. It B r
rowe was himself a gaiiUeman. possibly ha
might Love obtaiued roqog.. llion. Uu
charm -ter is beet illustrated by the fact that
hie own accond unquestionably gave oat for
publication tue story of ttua scandal and
the correspondence.
“Now, Mr. Borrows save that be is sur
prised that the correspondence was made
public. That is no way for him to talk.
The seemd and the principal are one and
the same, and what the second does the
pr.neipal must accept or else must denounce
the second ee a traitor and sail him oat.
Now It Borrows repudiates this publication
there is only ooe thing for him to do, he
must denounce that one of his friends who
gave it to the press; otherwise Borrows
must accept the responsibility for the pub
licity.
“From what my friends say at the club
there is a suspicion that Borrows in this
affair acted with the discretion which, if
not the better, is at least the safer part of
valor. Coleman is a dead shot with the
revolver. Frank Lord bim-elf has not a
more expert oommnnd of the pistol than
Coleman. I have seen him shoot a quarter
of a dollar held up between tha thumb and
finger at a distance of fistean paces. He
can pierce an apple thrown in the air as It
descends. He is probably the finest marks
man with tha exception of Lord in New
York.
“Whether Borrows knew this or not I do
not kaow, but Mr. Fox, Borrowe’s seoond,
certainly knew it, and must have been
aware that if Borrows stood iu front of
Coleman on the field tbe chances were that
be would receive Coleman’s bullet in his
heart. Now the seconds in Franoe and
in England arrange duels so that lives are
not to be lost but caved Instead, and there
is not tbe ellgbtest doubt in my opinion
that it was Coleman’s deadly marksman
ship which oatised all this correspondence
and evasion of a meeting on technicalities.
“There will be no shooting now, I think,
unless Borrows himself Insists upon a meet
ing. If lam not mistaken be will find him
self cut by every man in New York who is
worth knowing, and I don’t see how his life
can fail to be miserable. I don’t believe,
either, that Coleman would be justified in
meeting him now on the field. The oppor
tunity for that son of satisfaction wos
thrown away by Borrows himself and his
second.” Holland.
SPBECKBLS RETIRES.
He Yields His Refinery to the Trust
and Will Go to California.
Philadelphia, March 27. —Claus Spreck
els’ sugar refinery was formally turned over
yesterday to the sugar trust in consideration
of $7,000,000 in trust certificates.
Mr. Sprecke’a will leave here for Ban
Francisco this week, with all of his family
except his son Adolph, who will stay here
to attend to such Sprockets interests
as will remain here. His departure will be
permanent. He and bis family will make
the journey In a private car, specially fitted
up for their accommodation and that of
their servants.
By the absorption of the Sprockets re
finery a deal of the most gigantlo magni
tude has been consummated, involving an
expenditure of $35,000,000 in this city and
Boston. There were about $19,000,000 of it
spent here and as this was the point on
which the whole transaction hinged the
matter was engineered with a great deal of
caution. Every day or so some authentic
report would be denied by the trust people,
which with other methods of tbe same
kind, aided them in bringing about tbe
ends desired by them. Sprockets’ plant is
equipped with all the most approved pat
terns of moderu machinery, but he oould
not run it profitably agaiost the great com
bination of sugar companies that has en
deavored for tbe past uiue months to get
him in the trust.
“CELESTIAL MARRIAGE."
Mormon Elders Describe the Differ
ence Between Tbis and Polygamy.
Salt Lake Oitt, Utah, March 27.
An examination has been going on here for
over a week to establish tbe rightful suc
cessor of the Mormon ohurch at Nauvoo,
and tbe legal ownership of Temple block at
Independence, Mo.
Many witnesses have testified to practic
ing polygamy at Nauvoo, and that Joseph
Smith was a polygamist there. One of
Smith's plural wives testified to their mar
riage there.
Elder John Bates Noble swore that the
brethren then were “playing for women aud
got ’em;” that the principle was taught
privately. When asked about the law he
said; “Joseph was the law.”
Elders Wheelock and Richards testified
in regard to the celestial wife system that
he w.,s not a polygamist, which is an en
tirely different thing, being in fact the
very opposite; for polygamy allows women
to have more than one husband; oelestial
marriage forbids this, but allows more than
one wife to men of approved standing in
the church.
HE WILL GO OVER NIAGARA.
Why a Foolhardy Australian Is Com
ing to America.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
William J. Davis, a well-known swimmer,
of Sidney, New South Wales, who has been
visiting Great Britain for the past few
weeks, left Euston on Saturday for Liver
pool. en route for New York. His sole ob
ject in visiting the United States is to at
tempt the feat by which Capt. Webb lost
his life. Mr. Davis intends to swim Niagara
wearing nothing but an ordinary pair of
swimming drawers, and will probably
make the attempt from the Canadian side.
He is a fine, powerful fellow, about 34 years
of age and unmarried.
MEDICAL
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint, “ all gone’’ feeling, bad taste, coated
—. tongue, and Irregularity of
Distress the bowels. Dyspepsiadoes
After not get well of itself. It
- requires careful attention,
bating and a remedy like Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- Sic*k
petite, banishes headache,
and refreshes the mind. HGatlaCnO
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart-i distressed me, or did me
n ( ~ Url little good. After eating I
DUrn would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last Sour
spring I took Hood’s Sar- oour
saparilla, which did me an Stomach
Immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
tho craving I had previously experienced.”
George A. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggist!. £1 ; six for f5. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD St CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Masa.
__I9SL f? °ses One Pol lar
liKMDK BVV Hill.
Imported and Domestic,
la ounce up to quart bottles. We are making a
run on thia, and will sell it cheap.
SOUTH SIDE PH ARMACY.
■VUIVm HKeTALKANr,
HO and IIS BRYAN STREET.
WOODCOCK. SNIPE, QUAIL, DOVES. TEAL,
SUMMER and ENGLISH DUCKS,
POMl* A NOS AND SPANISH
MACKEREL
Families supplied. Tclsphons 343.
I LOCKS.
LooH for gV
Tbi? A\arl(l_r
! It is to be found on the bolts of the YALE
locks; and it means that the reputation,
skill, strength and security of the world
famous “ Y ALE ” is in and back of every
lock on which it appears. YALE locks
have steadily grown better and better,
while the imitations have grown worse
and worse. Whatever is worth locking
at all, is worth locking with a “ Yale.’’
Sold wherever locks sell.
funeral invitations!
FOWLER— Tbe relatives and friends of Mr.
J. W. Fowler and of Mrs. M. Flanerty and
family are respectfully Invite! to attend tue
funeral of Ha. J. W. Fowleo, from hi late
residence. Broughton and hast Broad streets,
THIS MORNT.NO at 9:30 o’clock.
SCHRODER—The relatives, friends and
acquaintance of Mrs. and Mr. F. W. Schroder
and of Mra. Agnes Kemef are respectfully re
?iueeted to attend the funeral of the former,
rotn her late residence. Waif burg and Bur
roughs streets, MONDAY MORNING at 10
o’clock.
BTEUAL NOTICto.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of ail advertising in the Morntno Nrws
will be sgate, or at the rate of $1 40 an inch for
the first insertion. No Special Notice inserted
for leas than $1 00.
A VERY ATTRACTIVE' HOME
AT
AUCTION.
lam directed to sell at the Court House on
TUESDAY, APRIL STH next, a Brick Resi
dence, which was built by the present owner,
with special reference to solidity and comfort,
to wit: The Residence, No. 18 Elbert ward,
fronting Elbert square on Hull and Montgomery
streets. The parlors have Italian Marble Man
tels, ceilings frescoed and walls painted. The
halls are very wide, and the walls present the
prettiest Job of marbling to be found in the citv.
All of tbe walls in the house are painted.
There are two parlors, three bedrooms, bath
room, store room and pantry, stationary wash
basin, wash tuha, stable, carriage house, coal
house, etc. The house is heated by a furnace,
which will be removed if tbe buyer does not
wish it.
The terms are made easy to suit the times:
$2,000 cash; balance in one, two and three
years, with Interest at 7 per cent, per annum.
C. H. DORSETT,
Auctioneer,
FOR SALE.
Eight or nine large
mare mules.
Apply to DENIS J. MURPHY,
fi Drayton Street,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
TO CONTRACTORS:
Estimates will be received until APRIL 4th,
Inclusive, for the entire construction or parts
of the work and material required in the erection
end oompletlon of a four- tory brick building
(face brick, stone, terracotta, plate glass, etc.,)
for the Provident Savings Life Assurance
Society of New York in this city.
Plans end specifications oan be seen at the
office of HENRY URBAN, Architect, by MON
DAY. March 28th, Bond will be required. All
estimates to be directed to the architect's
office.
notice!
I take pleasure in announcing that I am now
located with Messrs. BOLOMQNB A CO. at
their BULL STREET BRANCH STORE, where
I will be glad to serve my friends
JAMES M. KREEQER.
A NEW CPTICAL DEPOT.
I have secured exclusive control of the famous
"PERFECTED CRYSTAL LENSES" SPEC
TACLES and EYE GLASSES for Savannah and
vicinity. These are tbe finest glasses made
and they are celebrated for their clearness and
brilliancy of vision. Call and be fitted. No
charge for testing the eye.
R. C. MoCALL, Druggist,
Corner Congress and Whitaker Streets.
Chloro-Naptholeum warranted to kill bed
bugs and all other vermltj—2sc to $1 50.
EXQUISITE PERFUMERY!
DELETTREZ FINE EXTRACTS
THE FINEST PERFUMERY
Ever Imported Into this city; also an assort
ment of bis Soaps.
SOLOMONS A CO„
163 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street.
SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK.
We will offer as a special Inducement a line of
Children's Suita and Shirt Waists at just about
one-half the price you can buy them elsewhere.
The above goods are alias bought late last sum
mer and carried over. Of course the price we
bought them at justified our carrying them;
prices ranging from $2 75 to $6 00. Everyone
worth double. Amongst them a fine line of
Jersey knit goods.
SHIRT WAISTS.
We will also show a line of extra fine laundered
Mothers' Friend Shirt Waists at 60 cents; our
usual price 90 and $1 00.
You must see for yourselves to appreciate
this sale. B. H. LEVY A BRO.,
6PECIAL NOTICE.
REDUCED
—IN—
PRICE, BUT NOT IN QUALITY,
ARNAUD’S BONBONS.
One pound boxes 80c.
Half pound boxes 40c.
CHOCOLATES.
One pound boxes 80c,
Half pound boxes 400.
—AT—
LIVINGSTON'S PHARMACY.
Try a bottle of Butler’s F. C. Cologne.
A STARTLING FACT !
That very few persons have perfect eyes. It
must be evident that it requires both knowledge
and skid to know what the eye- need and to fit
them properly with glasses. Those who trust
this work to unlnstructed dealers are criminally
careless of the most valuable of all tbe senses,
tbeir sight. In addition to graduating in Ger
many and my,thirty years practical experience,
I have taken a eouree and graduated in a
school of optica in New York and learned the
latest end best methods of ascertaining tbe differ
ant defects of the eyes and their proper correc
tion, so that 1 can lit you properly with glasses
that will strengthen end improve your eyesight
Instead of rapidly ruining ft. as poorly fitted
glosses wifi always do. No charge for ex
amination.
DR. M SCHWAB A SON,
GRADUATED orTICIANS,
25 Bull Street .
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ANNUAL REPORT ~ '
or THE
Loeisa Porter Home for the Friendless.
March Ist, 1892.
Our seventeenth anniversary brings with It
the duty of presenting to our numerous friends
and co-workers the rec jrd of the work of the
Louise Porter Home during the past year.
The work of this charity is steadily increasing
from year to year In the general depression
of business during the year our city has largely
shared, and the result has been the suspension
from employment and reducing to dependence
many who have hitherto been self-supporting.
Our institution has been taxed to its
utmost capacity, and our means have
fallen far short of the amount needed to relieve
tbe destitution and want that we have en
countered. Our monthly committees have
w. .rked energetically aud faithfully, and. we feel
confident, have brightened many cheerless
homes by the relief afforded. At the door of
our home, too. our worthy untiring matron has
been busily engaged in supplying the needy,
hungry ones, who. in larger numbers than ever
before, have come to ask for bread. But farts
and figures speak louder than words of the work
accomplished. These will be given.
We are thankful to have bad it in our power
to afford relief and comfort to many whose
prospects were dark and discouraging.
Tue clergy of our city, realizing the unusual
•mount of want amoog the poor of their sev
eral congregations, were led to a conference,
with our board, relative to the work of the
Louisa Porter Home among toe poor, and wheu
we dee ded to send a statement of facts to tbe
“County Commissioners''showing tbe increased
demand for help to such an extent that we felt
we could not meet satisfactorily, the clergy
kindly indorsed our statement. Our commu
nication was duly Bent to tbe "Commissioners,”
but thus far we have had no reply.
Our home continues to be patronized by the
young working girls and women of our city
who are struggling to maintain themselves
honestly end upr gtitly, end whose daily lives
are mode easier and happier by tbe surround
ings of a comfortable Christian home at a rate
of board so moderate that they caa realize
some profit from their work.
We have at present thirteen young girls and
children who are given the advantages of the
public schools and are doing themselves credit,
os their reports testify. They are also instruct
ed in general housework. No friendless woman
is turned from our door unaided. They are
temporarily sheltered, and. if possible, employ
ment found for them; or. If strangers, aid Is
given to return to their homes. These cases
have been more numerous than usual during
the past year.
Gut nursery work has continued uninterrupt
edly during the year, and numerous little ones
have been sheltered and tenderly cared for,
while the mothers have found employment. At
present we have nine children in the nursery.
Our great desire has been to build a more suita
ble home for this much needed charity, realiz
ing fully that our surroundings in these small
buildings are entirely unsuitable for the work;
but in this desire we have been hindered for
lack of means, and the present pressures and
uncertainties of business matters. Our
worthy matron of the nursery has been
true and faithful to her trust, and
tenderly watchful of the little ones committed
to her care. The health of the many who have
found shelter during the year has been gener
ally cool, and the lives of all committed to us
have been mercifully spared, for whioh bless
ing we are profoundly grateful.
We do wish that our subscription list In
cluded every citizen in Savannah.
We do not wish to resort to entertainments
for this work, but would have It the Christian
charity of our community.
“He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is
he."
Our subscription Is moderate—two dollars per
year—but small as It is a ready response to our
call from the many who are not on our list
would give us material aid and lift many bur
dens and cares from many hearts.
To the many friends who have glvsn us aid
during the year we desire to express our grate
ful acknowledgments.
To our worthy and esteemed treasurer our
sincere and united thanks are due for his long
continued faithful services and interest in ail
tl.at pertains to the work and well-doing of our
society.
To the “County Commisslorers," for the con
tinuance of their fund foVthe relief of the city
poor. We have endeavored faithfully to dis
tribute this trust. Grists and meal are given
out weekly to hundreds of beneficiaries. Wood,
clothing, shoes and money have been distrib
uted during the winter months to the extent
of the supply.
To Dr. Charlton we are deeply indebted for
faithful and untiring attendance on every case
of sickness, both at the borne and nursery.
Di s. Aiken and Page have also kindly given
us valuable aid in special cases. To Hon. J. J.
McDouough we would express cur thanks for
a ready response to numerous calls for aid
especially wnen strangers In our midst were
found in distressing circumstances.
To Messrs. Lawton & Cunningham for lsgal
advice.
Ft r reduced rates on fare and freight from
Central railroad, also from Charleston and
Savannah railroad, Savannah, Florida and
Western railway and South Bound road
To Messrs. Solomons & Cos. for yearly supply
of medicines.
To all mechants for reduction on goods and
shoes.
To Mr. Luke Carson and Mr. A. Harmon for
use of carriages when needed.
To Mr. Hirsch for use of telephone and other
favors.
To "Bt. John Rectory Society" for repeated
remembrances, and to all who have In any way
aided the good work of our institution.
Sir. Fox for gift of ballot box to the board of
managers.
Mr. Kebarer for city map.
Mr. Dillon for duplex city directory.
Mrs. Julia Maclkod,
President.
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE LOUISA PORTER HOME
FOR THE FRIENDLESS, FOR PUBLICATION.
Receipts—
To Balance from last Tear 8 300 49
To County commissioners 2,326 40
To Donations and subscriptions 459 90
To Boarders st Home 999 55
To C. R. R. debentures and interest... 905 1> 6
To Meal tickets 13 50
To Charity ball. 439 90
Total $5,445 80
Disbursements—
By Salaries $ 240 00
By Home expenses 1,996 45
By Nursery expenses 673 44
By City peor 8,858 43
By Advertising 13 00
By Insurance 3015
By Balance cash 138 83
T0ta1....'. $5,448 30
P. M. Dougan, Treasurer.
matron's report.
Present number inmates . 28
Boarders 38
Beneficiaries 22
Outside beneficiaries 252
Grists and meal given out qts 4,701
Meals g.ven ai the door 990
Clotb given out (yards) 4,768)4
Wood (cords). 290
Shoes (pairs). 100
Money given out $620 00
No deaths.
Misa M. E. Lewis, Matron.
matron's report—nursert.
Children received : 4S
M others received who found work out.. 7
Meals given out 25
No deaths.
Miss Ida Floyd, Matron.
PRESCRIPTIONS OF
BUTLER’S PHARMACY
ARE ONLY REFILLED BT
ROWLIN3KI, PHARMACIST.
Broughton and Drayton Sts. Telephone 465.
NOTICE.
City and Suburban Railway, 1
Savannah, March 25, 1892. 1
The coupons of tbe first mortgage bonds of
this company, in default February Ist last, will
bo paid on and after MON DAY. 28th i st., as
usual, at the Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany. E. SCHMITT,
Treasurer.
Jllliiii
CLOTHING.
WE ARE DAlLY~rlcelving “
NEW NOVELTIES
FROM OUR RESIDENT BUYER.
MR. CHAS. APPEL
Medium Price Suitings.
We are not endeavoring to sell cbeto viwi.
GGOD. WELL-MAD? and PERFECT-FIT*
TING GARMENTS at POPULAR PRICES Our
Children’s and Boys’ Suits
Are being added to almost daily, and stands
second to none In tbe city. M
APPEL 4 scan
ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS, HATTERS AND
MEN’S FURNISHERS, 0
159 Broughton Street.
~ AMUSEMENTS. ‘ 3
S A V ANN AH~THE ATER7
TWO PERFORMANCES.
WEDNESDAY MATINEE AND WEDNESDAY
night, march 30.
That sparkling and gifted soubrette
KATIE EMMETT
Under the management of Mr. Harry Willia’™.
in an elaborate production of ™’
Tiis rVuifs of New to
Supported by the same excellent oompanr thaa
has contributed so much toward the enormous
success achieved by Misa Emmett in this ular *
A comeuy drama: Brimful of laugh, sensi.
tlon and genuine pathos. New and magnificent
scenery expressly painted for this production.
Stupendous mechanical effects' v action.
GREAT 7-Sl-.NSATIONAL-7 SCENES!
New York illustrated.
Seats at Livingston's dm* store
Aprifi * n j r s ot ‘ oa_mE CITY directory.
BANKS. !
B. A. DENMARK, MILLS B. LANE*
President. vice President
GEO. C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
The Citizen Bail:
—OF ■—
• SAVANNAH,
CAPITAL $500,000,
Will open on Maroh list, 1892, a Savings Depart
ment to be maintained in connection with its
general banking business at its Banking House,
corner of Drayton and Bryan street*, Savannah
Oa.
Deposits of One Dollar and upward will b re
ceived . Interest at 4 per oent. per annum, com
pounded on tbs first day of July, October, Janu
ary and April will be allowed. Deposits mads
within the first flye days of any mouth will
draw Interest from the first day of that month,
and be paid or compounded at the beginning of
the next quarter. Call or send for rules and
regulations on and after March Ist.
DIRECTORS.
B A Denmark, Mills B. Lane,
William Rooers, H. M. Comer.
J. H. Estill, W. G. Cooper.
John R. Yocno. Raymond Judge,
Henry D. Stevxni, Wm. B. Stillwell,
Edward F. Lovell, Andrew Hanley,
T. H. McMillan, C. D. Baldwin.
J. E. Wadley, Cashier South Georgia Bant,
Waycross, Ga.
E. A. Groovrr, Cashier Bank of Quitman,
Quitman, Ga.
A. H. Lane. Cashier Merchant*’ and Traderi*
Bank, Brunswick, Ga
rußitisHiita eooDt,
New SjriDtt flats
AND
SCARFS.
DUNLAP’S
New Shape Derbys.
NASCIMENTO’S
Liglt ffeiglt Fleiiis,
The lightest and most comfortable to wear.
New Crepe Neckwear
In all the New Shapes, and
E. &, WVS
NEW AND STYLISH COLLARS.
t37“Fine Clothing and Shirts made to order.
Fit guaranteed.
LaFAR’S,
27 BULL STREET.
LEATHER GOODS.
W.B.MELL&CO,
DEALERS IN
Sales, Bridles, Harness,
LEATHER COLLARS.
Harness and Traces for Mill
and Turpentine Manufactur
ers.
Baler & Leader Belliag,
RUBBER AND OTHER PACKINGS
TRPNKS, SACHELS, EIC.
PLUMBER.
FINE LINE OB'
GAS FUMES AM GLOBES
L. A. MCCARTHY’S,
4L6 DRAYTON OT.
