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SHOT FOR TRESPASSING.
A HUNTER'S ARM SHATTKRED AND
HIS BIDS SIDLED WITH BHOT.
G, W, FerrlU Murderously Attacked
by Farmer Bourctuin —Hla Wounds
Likely to Prove Fatal—ln a Critical
Condition at Midnight—Bourquin to
Be Arrested To-day If H 6 Hasn’t
Fled.
G. W. FerrlU, proprietor of a general
store at the 5-mile post on the Louisville
road, was shot yesterday afternoon and
probably fatally wounded. The shooting,
Ferriil alleges, was done by a man named
Bourquin, on whose land he
was banting. A double-barreled
shotgun was the weapon used and
Ferriil s right arm was so terribly mangled
that amputation will be necessary. He
also has several dangerous wounds in bis
Bide.
Ferriil was sitting under a tree at the
time calling his hounds with a horn, and
the shooting was done from behind. The
unfortunate man said he turned around
after receiving his wounds and saw Bour
quin waiting off with a gun in his bands.
Dr. Norton went out and, with the assist
ance of two Pooler physicians, temporarily
dressed Ferrill’s wounds. If he is alive to
dey he will be brought into the city to the
hospital, where the amputation of his arm
will take plaoe.
The case was not reported to the authori
ties until late last night and therefore no
arrests were made. An attempt to appre
hend Bourquin will be made to-day.
Shortly before midnight Ferrill’s condi
tion was reported as extremely critical.
ME?.' WADLBY DIDN’T WRITS IT.
SuDt. Jett© Explains the Letts# That
Has Created so Much Fuss.
The sensational reports sent out from
Macon Friday afternoon of Judge Speer’s
action in forbidding the newspapers to print
a certain letter said to have been written by
Bupt Wadley.ordering the discharge of engi
neers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, < appears to have been almost
pure fiction. *
Supt. Jette of the Savannah terminals re
turned from Macon yesterday. He was
present in court when the episode, of which
so much was made, oocurred, and talked
freely of the matter when seen by a Morn
ing News reporter.
“l he reports are absurd,” said Mr. Jette,
“Supt. Wadley did not write the letter
which has been so widely advertised. I
wrote it myself iu Mr. Wadley’s absence.
The letter was purely upon private busi
ness of the road concerning the operators’
strike and made no reference to the en
gineers.”
The letter was surreptitiously obtained
by the operators and they had no business
with it. Judge Speer properly hold that a
corporation, like a private citizen, has some
rights which the rest of the world is bound
to respect.
“Any reports that the Central railroad Is
making preparations to discharge all engi
neers who a' e members of the brotherhood
ere false and witnout the least foundation.
Neither do we anticipate any trouble with
the engineers in March.”
“The majority of the Central's engineers,”
continued Sir. Jette, "are settled men, who
Lave been with the road for a number of
f ears and who have its interests at heart.
t is not the polioy of the management to
drive away soon a set of men, nor do they
on their part desire to do anything to injure
the road.”
Mr. Jette said Judge Speer’s decision in
the operators’cases was only very slightly
In the latter’s favor. Judge Speer stmpiy
held that striking in the manner they did
was not contempt of the court, lie' sug
gested to tbo officials of the road that if tns
Btrike should bo declared off no discrimina
tion be made against the operators w ho had
struck in considering applications for posi
tions stiil vacant.
Mr. Jette saidthatso far as he know there
were only five good positions on the road
still vacant, as a good many of the smaller
offices had been closed on account of the
strike, the offices not being of auy'particular
advantage to the road, but having been
kept open for the convenience of the pe pie
at those points. Everytnir.g is now moving
nicely on the road, Mr. Jette said, and tho
telegraphers’ strike is getting to be a matter
of ancient history.
WHAT JANUARY MAY BE.
The Weather Buresu Tells What it
Has Been for Twenty-two Years.
The weather bureau has made up its
monthly statement of weather averages for
January at Savannah, from which may be
calculated pretty closoly what the weather
will be next month. The calculations are
based upon the reoords of the weather
bureau for twenty-two years.
The average mean temperature for Janu
ary during the last twenty-two years is 52°.
The wannest January was that of 1890, with
an average of 59.8°. The coldest January
was that of 1872. with an average of 45.5 s .
The highest temperature during any Jan
uary was SO", on the 29th, 1879. The low
est temperature during any Januarv was
12", on the 12th, 1886.
The average rainfall for the month is 3.35
Inches. The greatest monthly rainfall was
8.84 inches, 1875. The least was 0.44 luches,
in 1890. Toe greatest amount recorded in
any twenty-four oonsooutive hours was 3.48
inches, on Jan. 18, 1883.
The average number of clear days is 9. The
average number of partly cloudy days, 11,
and the average number of cloudy days, 11.
The prevailing winds are from the north
west, and the highest velocity during any
January was 32 miles an hour in 1380, lsß2,
188(5and in 1890 and 1892. There was a
slight snowfall in January, 1885 and 1887
and again in 1889 and 1890.'
CHBISTMAS FIRES.
Two Blazes Frcm Fireworks Early
This Morning.
There were two fires in the southeastern
section of the city this morning before 1
o’clock. The first broke out in a cabinet
maker’s shop cn Wayne street, between
Lincoln and Habersham streets. An alarm
was turned in from box 29, and the
tho firemen responded and easily extin
guished the blaze. The tire was confined to
the trash and woodwork of the shop and
the damage " as small.
The firemen had hardly returned to their
on art rs when another alarm oame in from
the same box. This tiro was found to be in
a oouple of 1-story wooden bouses occupied
by negroes ou Gordon street, between East
Broad and Briae streets. The fire made
quite a blaze, but was extinguished in short
order. Tho r.oft of the bouws were burned.
Christmas fireworks are supposed to be re
sponsible for the fires.
Colored Masons’ Officers.
Eureka Lodge No. 1, A. F. and A. M., at
Its last meeting elected the following officers
for the ensuing Mascmc year.
IV. M.—Sol C. Johnson.
8. W.—Richard Waring,
J. W.—William Darden.
Treasurer— P. M. James Andrews.
Secretary—John F. Andrews.
The following were appointed:
8. D.—K. G. Adame.
J. D.—J. R. Gedson.
stewards—R. A. Bauson and T. J. San
ders.
Marshal—iS. Kennedy.
Tyler—E. VV. Green.
Chaplain—J. 1L Grant.
Tha officers will be installed Tuesday
night at the lodge room at Bay and Einooln
Street*, at which time all the colored Meson
of tbe city will nteot and have a Masonic
jollification.
MBSMkRISM AT THK THEATER.
Prof. Carpenter to Begin His Engage-
To-morrow.
Prof. A. E. Carpenter of Boston, the king
of mesmerists, opens a five nights’ engage
ment at the theater to-morrow afternoon
with a Christmas matinee. Th 9 sale of
seats will begin in the morning. Owing to
the fact that to-morrow will be a general
holiday the theater will doubtless be
packed, and those who go are assured
most laughable and at the same time
instructive entertainments. No burlesque
is half so amusing as the voluntary panto
mime of a mesmerist’s subject, 'and no
dramatic representation is more real than
the performances of those under his in
fluence.
The Columbia IS. C.l State said yesterday
relative to the entertainment which Prof
Carpenter gave there Friday night: “The
exhibition, while deeply interesting from
the standpoint of scientific inquiry, was
made excruciatingly amusing; in fact,
tna spectators were kept in a con
tinuous stale of laugnter over the
painfully ludicrous antics and actions
of two of the suhjeots, at least; as, for in
stance, when one young fellow was made to
dance with a broom, thinking it was his
best girl, others to laugh and then to follow
a cane to all parts of the stage, and another
to mistake a chair for his coat and attempt
to put it on. Then ail of a sudden one of
the subjects began to itch to such an extent
that he came near scratching his coat off
and mighty near demolishing some of the
scenery in scratching himself ‘cow fash
ion.’
“Everybody laughed themselves liter
ally tired and were glad for a ehanoe to rest
at the close of the performance. It was
better than a dozen minstrel shows com
bined, and if you want to laugh as you
have never laughed before you ought to go
to the opera house either this afternoon or
to-night and see what this great apostle of
hypnotism—Prof. Carpenter—can do. You
will never regret it. There were numbers
of antics that the subjects went through,
besides those above mentioned, ail of which
were as wonderful as they ware amusing.”
A BOND JUMPER CAUGHT.
The Negro Who Robbed H. C. Mor
gan's Barn in Jail.
Detective Morgan arrested the negro
Anderson who was ooncertt6d in the rob
bery of H. C. Morgan’s barn, south of Bat
tery park, shortly before it was burned, at
the 7-mile post on the Ogeeehee road, yes
terday and lodged him in jail.
Anderson was arrested shortly after the
robbery and gave bond before Justice
McLeod King. He skipped his bond
and has been buuted ever since by bis
bondsman, a colored man in the neighbor
hood where he lived. He confessed the
robbery at the time of his arrest of a set of
harness, a part of which was recovered in
a pawn shop.
_ While Detective Morgan and Justice
King were driving out the Ogeeehee
road yesterday they passed Anderson,
ilr. King recognized him at once. Mr.
Morgan took Constable Billy Johnson of
Justice King’s oourt in his buggy and
started back toward the city. Andersvi
dtd not know the detectives and he was
oaptured without dlfHcultv. He again con
fessed the robbery and will be held to await
bis trial.
LOCAL PERSONAU
Mrs. W. H. Hodgson of Athens, daughter
of Capt. J. S. Kenuard, is visiting her
brother at No. 54 Broughton street.
Miss Annie Powell and Miss Ida Baldwin
are spending the holidays with their parents.
They are attending college in Richmond, Va.
Prof. Thomas Walsh of Scriven county
is stopping at the Pulaski. He reports that
the third party is dying out rapidly in his
county.
Rev. Dr. William Royal!, Mrs. Thomas
E. Holding and Master Rob Dowell of
Wake Forest College, North Carolina, are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Powell.
Timothy C. Hickey left last night for
Macon, his former home, to spend the holi
days with his wife and friends. He will be
absent from the oity until after Jan. I.
Miss Fannie I,oyle sa:id Miss Laura-Belle
Griffin are in tbe city spending the holidays
with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cheatham, at No.
92 Duffy street.
W. B. McKee, assistant to the vice presi
dent of the Plant system, arrived from New
York yesterday morning in Vice President
Haines’ private car, and will spend the holi
days with his relatives and friends in this
city.
Messrs. Louis Camak, a son of Dr. Camak
of Athens, and S. B. Y'ow of Avalon,
students of the University of Georgia, are
spending the holidays with their friend and
college mate, Mr. George VV. Beckett. This
is the first visit of the-e young gentlemen to
the low country. Among ths pleasures
provided for them is a fishing excursion
along the coast in the yacht Marie.
Capt. Thompson of the wrecked brig
Annie Batcholder sailed last night on the
Alleghany Ur Baltimore. Capt. Thompson
takes with him the b6st wishes of a host of
friends which he has made in this city during
tha several years in which he has traded
here, and it Is to be hoped that he will goon
be in command of anew vessel. He wai
formerly in command of the bark New
Light, running between this port and Bal
timore. and has made the fastest trips ever
made out of Baltimore.
OITY BSSVITItSa.
Palestine Commandery No. 7, Knights
Templar, will celebrate Christmas day.
The sir knights are summoned to appear
at their asyium Monday, Dec. 26, at II
o’clock.
Tha entertainment under the auspices of
the ladies’aid of the 8 ivannah Volunteer
Guards, which was to have been Dec. 28,
has been postponed nntil some time in Jan
uary on account of unavoidable circum
stances. Notice will be given of tha new
date.
The congregation of Betb-Eden church,
which held a fair last week to raise money
for the new church house they purpose
building, did so well that they will continue
the fair during A portion of this week.
They have received a good deal of help
from their white friends.
There were no new developments yester
day in the mystery surrounding Dr. Miilun’s
murder. Several.detectives are hard at
work on tbe case, however. Tbe expected
arrests have not yet taken place as Iho of
ficers are waiting for further evidence
against the parties suspected.
RIVER AND HARBOR.
A. Minis’ Sons cleared yesterday the Nor
wegian bark Camilla for London with 1,043
barrels rosir, weighing >13,245 pounls, val
ued at #2,043, ad 1.713 barrels spirits tur
pentine, in?asuring 89,254 gallons, valued at
§23,968; total valuation of cargo, #26,011,
Cargo by James Farie, Jr.
The British steamship Ortyga arrived
here yesterday from Fernandlna for Rotter
dam. She has on board 1,820 tons of Florida !
phosphate rook. Hhe will fill up the bal- j
aaee of room with ootton.
Tbe Spanish steamship Gra * was trans
ferred to Gordon’s wharf yesterday at noon,
and at 2:30 o’clock the stevedores eom
meuced breaking out the damaged cargo
from the after bold.
RAIL AND CROSSTIB.
Mr. T. E. Youmans, noting Savannah
freight agent of the Savannah. Florida and
Western railway, has been appointed Ba
venuab freight agent. Tbe appointment
will take effect Jan. 1.
Brotherhood, Ball.
Its Brotherhood of Machinery Moulders
will have a New Year’s ball at Odd Fellows’
hall on Jau. 2. Arrangements have been
made to give thos® who may attend a pleas
ant time, as tho oommittea are using ovory
effort to tbt end.
TITL MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1892— TWELVE PAGES.
A CARD
Correspondence Between Mr. B. A.
Denmark and Dr. L. A. Fallig tnt-
Savawnah, Ga.. Dec. 2*.—Editor Morn
•nt7 News: I ask that you publish the fol
lowing correspondence between Dr. Faili
gant and myself:
„ r J Savannah, Ga. Dec. 22,1892.
D*- L* -d- Fallioont % Saxxtnnah, Ga.:
Sir-Iso* from the M >rnisg News of fchfs
date that you made a speech last nl*ht in which
you referred to my conduct touching the ea.o
of certain lands by the city of Savannah to the
South Bound Railroad Company
I wish to know whether or not In aaid speech,
o** any other speech, you u*ed the language
stated in the Nirwsor any language similar to
it; and whether or not you intended to convey
to your hearers ti e idea that my conduct in that
mat ter was in any way improper. Yours re
spectfully. S. A. DkXHzsK.
~ „ . Sxvakkxh.Ga., Deo. 2S, 1832.
Mr. B % A Denmark:
Dear Sir—ln response to yours of thi date,
I have t say that what I said at Odd Fellows'
hall was in substance that when the deed of cer
tnm lota in the Springfield plantation to the
South Bound railroad was under consideration
I learned “that it included several lots claimed
by i mate parti *s as their private property for
which they hai paid the city and claimed to
have the deed*. That upon this information
acknowledged as correct I stated in cau
cus that if the deed, as finally drawn, included
taeae lots l would not sign it; and I did not sign
it for that reason.'*
As I have no memoranda, I can onlv recall in
a general way that in reference to yourself I
s v.d “that you had stated to council that thev
could properly 6isrn tne deed as it was. since
the deed, so far as the lots affected were con
cerned, would have no binding effect if the
prior titles were good," but that I did not think
the mayor and aldermen ought to sign second
deeds to n-'w parties where prior deeds to other
parties had already been given.
1 did not question then, nor have I questioned
at any time, that your advice was in accordance
with iaw; and l am sure that I di 1 not say that
it was improper. I simply differed with It.
Respectfully yours, Louis A. Faluoakt.
Permit me to say, upon Dr. Falligant's
own statement concerning the sale of the
lands to the South Bound Railroad Com
pany, it is likely that no one but himself
will ever know why he referred to the mat
ter at all.
The deed to the lands in question was
made in pursuance of an ordinance, of
which public notice was given. The ordi
nance aud deed were prepared by the oity
attorney, who advised council in the whole
matter. Nothing was concealed or hidden,
so far as I know or believe.
The fact that three lots of the lands re
ferred to appeared to have t>een previously
granted to other parties was discovered by
the attorney who examined the titles for
th 6 railroad company, and was reported to
the city attorney and by him to council.
The city*B deed was without warranty, and
council was advised that no recourse"could
he bad on the city for failure of title, and
that the signing of the deed could not, in
any way, affect the right or title of those
to whom the three lota had been previously
granted, or their assigns. In this opinion I
did and do now coucur. My impression
now is that when the deed was signed it
was unknown whether or not the ttiree lots
in question had bean reconveyed to the city.
Dr. Palligant refused to sign the deed, which
he had a right to do, but the other members
of council saw no objection to it.
B. A. Denmark.
AT THE COURTS.
A Curious Cane of States Rights Be
fore Judge Falligant.
A rather complicated case began in the
superior court yesterday. The bottom of
the issue may be put down in three words:
“Georgia for Georgians.” The case is the
Workingmen’s Union Association, the col
ored longshoremen’s society, against John
Williams and other gang bosses
for violating a rule of the organi
zation. Not long ago the working
men's association adopted a rule providing
that not more than two South Carolinian*
could be employed in a gaug of flvo, but
W iliiatns and other bosses refused to abide
by it, on the ground that such a law was
unjust discrimination. For this the associa
tion brings them into court for the purpose
of compelling an obedience to its rules and
regulations. Garrard, Meldrim & Wewman,
Saussy & Haussy and Erwin, dußignon &
Chisholm represent the plaintiff, aud R. R.
Hi, birds and Charlton & Muckall the de
fendants. The case will be argued before
Judge Falligant to-morrow.
Moses L. Steinfeld, a subject of the Em
peror of Austria, was yesterday madeaoiti
zen t y Judge Falligant.
John M. Cardie, a subject of the Queen
of Great Britain and Ireland, took the
oath of allegiance before Judge MacDonell
yesterday.
Judge MeoDonell yesterday gave a batch
of prisoners rathsr an unwelcome Christ
mas present in the shape of various terms
on the chain-gang. They will eat their
Christinas dinner in the camps to-day.
Heipio Bpnd was given twelve months
for stealing a pair of trousers from 8.
Kromkoff.
W. H. Henderson and William Simon got
A year each for defrauding the Central rail
road by impersonating its laborers.
Robert Nelson, for forging the name of
S. B. Morse to an order was given six
months.
James Jones went up for five months for
stealing fifty pounds of pork from John
Myers’ store.
Janies Proctor got six months for steal
ing a coat from 8. White.
Philip Jenkins, for stealing brass from
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way, was given six months.
John T. Wood wns sentenced to a month
on tbe gang, and Wiiliam Sharky to six
months for vagrancy.
Louis Jarrego went to jail for a week,
under a convlotion of as-ault and battery
tor beating Wong Lee with a stiok, because
tbe Chinaman shook his boy.
Sights for Shoppers Yesterday.
The Christmas scenes on the principal
streets during the past week have been no
exception to tbe general rule. The stores
have done a lively business, especially yes
terday and last night. Tnere have been very
attractive displays In tha windows of the
prominent establishments.
One of the most attractive exhibits is at tbe
L“dden & Bates Music House,where the min
gling of overgreens aud musical instruments
make a picture which is charming to tbe
view. The arrangement evince* the exquis
ite taste of the deorator and reflects great
credit upon the enterprising music bouee in
displaying such a stock of high class goods.
The window* of S. Krousk ft attracted
the attention of the many Christmas
shoppers. In one window was exhibited a
lot or the latest, styles iu red bats, bonnets
and riboons, while the other window was
crowd >d with one of the finest exhibit* of
babies’ bonnets that bas ever been dis
played in this city.
Great crowds have been stopping at ths
corner of Whitaker and Broughton streets
to see the very picturesque window of Jack
son, Metzger & Cos. Here has been repre
sented tbe old and popular story of ’’The
House that Jock Built.” In every detail the
representation of the house and tbe notable
characters are portrayed in a most perfect
feot manner. Messrs. Jackson. Metzger &
Cos. have endeavored to please the public
with their usual attractive exnibit, and
have also presented to their customers a
lovely calendar for 1893 and a unique and
useful glove and shoe buttoner.
Appel & Hchaui, the One Price Clothiers,
bavo also made a splendid exhibit of their
good*. Tho great rush for the neckwear at
their establishment hasbten unprecedented.
The windows at this popular bouse have
beeD viewed by hundreds of customers dur
ing tbe cast week. Tbe pool table, which
they will give away to the boy who receives
tbe largest number of votes, formed a con
spicuous part of the window decoration.
Docgljl* McCrae of Toronto, while in Chi
cazo tne othi-r day, said: “ltd were a betting
man I should be prspared to lava waver that
wheu Queen Victoria dies the ties between the
dominion and the mother country will be out
asunder.”
WOMAN’S WO ELI).
A FEW MATTFRB OF INTEREST TO
THE FAIR BEX.
A Few Brief Stories of a GoaslDy
Nature— An Item or Two About the
Latest Fashion Wrinkles— fcugges
tiona That May Ee Found Amuslnsr.
A woman whose boms for several years
▼ears was in Zanzibar, where, as wtfs of a
United States consul, she enjoyed special
privileges, say* the New York Times, told
-at a luncheon the other day of her visit to
the chief sultana of the late sultan t house
hold. His family included 14) sultanas,
with one, a full-blooded Arab, leading all
tbe others and invested with special privi
leges To her the consul's wife was per
mitted to pay a visit, being the second white
woman in many years, if cot in all time, to
do so.
“I really felt,” said the woman relating
the incident, “a little nervous about pen
etrating this closely guarded palace, even on
invitation, and begged tbe sultan, who was
always on frieudly terms with my husband,
to permit the wife of tbe German consul to
be my companion. This request was
graciously granted, and with full evening
dres9 and decked with all the jewels we
owned we paid tbe visit. 1 wore a beautiful
but most ‘savage’ necklace which tbe eultau
had seut me long before- a necklet of gold,
from which depended to my waist a fringe
of tine gold chains, sloped to fit over the
shoulders, priceless, but, as I have said,
barbario to a degree.
“VV hen we reached the palace, our hus
bands had, of course, to leave us, and alone
we entered except for the four servants who
preceded us and a second four who followed.
At every few steps a servant of
the palace stepped out end poured a drop or
two of attar of roses on our handkerchiefs;
before we got into thesultaoa’s presence mine
was saturated witb tbe heavy perfume aud I
was almost overwhelmed with its, to me,
sickening fragrance.
“The sultana was seated in the middle of
an almost interminable row of children,
which flanked her on each side. These
were not her’*, but tbe sultan’s by other
wives, she being childless. As he is very
proud of hi* children they were thus dis
played, and it spoke well for the good dis
position of the chief favorite that she was
willing to show these jewels of her rivals.
She sat iu a large, rather bare room, with
many windows on every side. In every
window was at least one head, in some
more, which belonged to the other sultanas,
who thus assisted at tbe Interview. This
array of repulsive savage countenances,
though intended to be friendly, made me
doubly glad that I hod not gone alone.
“Tbe sultana received us as graciously as
her oode of politeness permitted, hut it was
easy to see that greedy curiosity was the
only feeling which animated the poor crea
ture. This related chiefly to our clothes,
upon which she was woman enough t ■
pounce at once. I really thought I should
not get out with all of mine on, so aggressive
was her desire to study every garment. Our
appearance pleased her, so we were in
formed through tbe iuterparter, and that
was about all there was to the Interview,
except that the eager interest the chief sul
tana was able to appease by handling and
examining shoue without such amelioration
from tbe ardent faces at the window. These
leaned forward fairly hungry to get closer
to this pair of ourious ‘white sultanas.”
Some girls elide their hands into yours in
a slow, coniidiug way, says Clara Belle in
tha New Orleans Times-Democrai. That is
the girl a man likes at oucs. Home girl* let
their hand lie iu yours and theu slip nut
when you let go. That is tho sort of girl a
mail is apt to puzzle about booner or later,
and make a fool of himself over. Some
girle grab a man’s hand, and grip it in a
gentlemanly way. That is the sort of girl
a man is scared of at once, because be
knows, like as not. If the puts her mind to it
she will marry him. Home girls give you
their hand in no particular way, and yet
you feel as if you, all ot a sudden, had a
kind of understanding of [hem. They are
apt to look up suddeuly, as if you had
spoken; and when that happens to a man he
had better get to courting at once, because
he bas found the right girl.
I said to a young friend; “So you and
Jack are engaged?”
“Yes.” was the reply.
“Do you love him?”
“Dear me, no."
“Why, you horrid thing. What did you
get engaged for?”
“So’s to learn how, when Ido love some
bod y.”
“Well, that is one way to look at it. But
it is bard on Jack. Then again, maybe, it
isn’t."
An engaged gtrl said to her sweetheart:
“Tom, dear,” and her lip quivered, "it
eem* so strange that you do not give me
an engagement ring. All the engaged girls
I know have one. Why, thero is Polly
Flip—she ha* one, eveu though her engage
ment is broxen off.”
“Yes, I know it,", Tom responded, “I
esu’t seem to eet it out of her, darling;
some girls have no oonsoionce. But I do
hate to buy another."
And then she broke with him, too. That
made bim all the gladder that he hadn’t
bought another. Home men have no con
science.
A New York girl went to Washington for
a visit, and the second day she said, “ H hat
a horrid city. It is so dean. There is no
food wearing a train in the street at aIL”
bat is one way of looking at it—if you
have bought a different petticoat for each
dress. People wh > revile trains think they
were made to drag in tbe dust. They
weren’t. They were made to lift out of tbe
mud and show tbe pretty petticoat uuder
neatb.
“ I think Mr. A. is so clever and origi
nal,” said a young hostess to a New York
Tribune man, who was dining with berths
other day. “Do not you?" “Well, be is a
good fellow enough, but 1 should hardly
call him that,” was the answer. “But he
really says such very good thiugs,” she in
sisted. “For instance, yesterday afternoon
at Mrs. B.’s he made such a clever remark
about tea; I torgot what it was, but it was
something about the cup cheering one up.”
“Hardly the cup which cheers but not
inebriates.” suggested her neighbor, grin
ning. “ Why,’ sho exclaimed, innocently.
“That was just what it was; were you
there f"
Gertrude Atherton Is a bright woman,
says the New York Recorder.
Hhe is also an industrious ono.
Bbe has written, during the past year,
two novels, nine short stories and unnum
bered magazine articles.
One story, of 60,000 word*, she wrote in
flve weeks, Bhe had intended to spend a
year on it, but a cry from Macedonia In
the shape of a demand from the publishers
came, and she turned out the novel in a
little over a month. Generally Mrs. Ather
ton aroes over her proofs “about twenty
times,” to repeat her own statement. And
always she ha* tbe dictionary, P.ogel’s
Thesaurus, and Richard Grant White’s
“Words: Their Use and Abuse,” at her
elbow. This time, however, the revision
was more hurried, and Mrs. Atherton has
had a good deal of fun at her own expense
over some thing* that crept into the line*.
Fur instance, in one place is the startling
statement:
“Mozar* and Beethoven were on the
piano."
“Of course,” says the author, “every one
will know wnat is meant, but think of tbe
Picture which that sentence conjures up!”
Mrs. Atherton is a bright conversational
ist. Hhe can “hit off” a person’s peculiari
ties and general appearance in half a dozen
brief and delicious tenteuott. Hpeaklug of
a certain popular authoress, -he said
“Mrs. ’s work is so thin that I some
times fsnov tha mutt be dead and her gal
vanized ghost is driving tbe pen.”
An experiment, for wbtoh there is no ex-
Blanatlon, is the ability of five parsons to
ft acd.tutpend in ths air at arm’* length
tbe body of a man weighiug from 150 to 200
pounds upon tbe tips of their ringer*. I oan
only offer the rules of procedure.
One of the company lies upon a table or
couch. Those trying the experiment of lift
ing him arrange themselves as follows: One
places a finger under each shoulder of the
reclining figure. Two on eacn side place
the fingers under tbe figure between the
shoulder aod hips, under hips, thighs and
calves of the legs. The one at the bead
oounts 1,2, 8, when all. including the one
to be lifted, simultaneously inhale
to the fullest capacity of the lungs;
repeat this three times, and as you
inhale for the third time lift. Ths
body wit! rise and remain poised iu the air
upon the tips of the lifters’ fingers as long
as all hold their breaths. The surprising
feature of this experiment is the buoyancy
of the figure, the exertl in by the lifters be
ing scarcely felt. It is imperative that all
shall act iu perfect unison to produce suc
cessful results. The sensations of the one
being lifted are of floating in space unas
sisted Thie phenomenon, up t > tbe present
writing, has been unaccounted for by
scientists. Should any one exhale while the
body is suspended upon the tips of the
fingers it returns to its normal heaviness,
and bas a tendaucy to gravitate suddenly
back to earth.
The greatest latitude is allowed to indi
vidual taste just now in matters of dress,
says the New York Tribune, and fair dames
may be ioug-waisted or short-woi*ted, may
w ear sheath skirts of gathered skirts, affect
influiteeimal “capotes,'’ or the veritable
poke bonnets of their great-grandmothers,
all as their fancy dictates. “Everything is
really chaotic yet," said a social autocrat
the other day. “One may wear whatever
suits her best just now, but we roust all
make up our minds to full skirts gathered
in at the wain eventually. They will bo so
heavy and cumbrous that we will finally
have to adopt crinoline to support them;
and what a pity it is to be sure. Just as we
have evolved the lightest and most graceful
of skirts we must needs have tbe voluminous
petticoats aud heavy gathered gowns forced
upon us again.”
Although there Is no fixed iaw as yet as to
what shall or shall not be worn, it seems to
be the tendency to relegate the empire style
to evening gowns. This stylo u by no means
an eiact copy as its name would deaote,
and it seems, moreover, to oover several
styles; for some of tbene picturesque gowns
are made with scanty skirts attached to a
waist that comes just below tbe armpits,
and which is trimmed with a drapery of
silk velvet or crepe, while other so-called
empire styles have closely fitting, long
wa.sted uederdressei of satin or silk, with a
gauze or lace overskirt which alone is gath
ered just below the arms. This latter clever
adaptation of the short-waisted style is
really a compromise, as It shows the entire
shape of the figure ttnough the diaphanous
material.
A pretty throat is far more beautiful
when its curves are relieved by the slender
lines of a gold chain, now so much in vogue.
Tbs fashion prevails of adding pendants of
jewels at the front of such necklaces. Or.e
of the prettiest jhnt was recently shown
had a double row of clear faceted jewels,
one row longer than the other, pendant from
the front of ths customary slender chain.
There was no particular harmony as to
color in tbe arrangement of the stones;
they were put together in a hit-or-miss
manner, but the effect was happy in the ex
treme. Small seed pearls hung in bunches
are very satisfactory pendants, also
For tbe throats of young girls who are
restricted in their choice of jewtlry the
circlets of turquoises, with pearls, are es
pecially liked; sometimes violets or mar
guerites are worn.
Nothing could be prettier than the peridot
for the older sisters, who ore no longer buds,
but genuine roses. This stone is known as
the olivine and as the ohrysoliue; it is a
pieerc do Jan tattle and oomes from India
and Egypt. It has lovely yell >w lights and
19 beautiful when combined with clear white
diamonds. The most charming of the lace
pins woru now are set with these two stones.
They do say, Bays Clara Belle in the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, that women who aro
rushed to death with Christmas shopping
arc more and moro in the habit of taking
"something bot” to braco them up end
make them feel better, r, nd what is the
something hot? Usually w at In the la>t
generation was called a ’ ‘toddy,” whisky
aud wator, and perhaps a little lemon, and
of oourse a little sugar, and all bot. It is a
harmless drink enough at first, but oh girls
look out. It is whisky, nod just whisky that
gives the droopy, dull look to the eyes of s>
raauy women. I know men who say they
can pick a whisky drinker out among
women at once. Of course those women
don’t consider themselves whisky drinkers.
Tho name would probably induce a reform
at once. But they are. And just you look
out. Luster of eyes and hair and skin are
surely burned awuy by a steady addictiou
to the pernicious “something hot.” lam
not talking morals. I am no. talking health.
Hut I am talking real imp- riant considera
tion*. Hair, eyes, complexion. In a word
—beauty.
“Do you believe in lotting a man kiss
you?” one girl asked. Tbe otner girl flushed
indignantly. "No, indeed!” she cried. Then
she added thoughtfully: “I believe in a
man who kisee* you without being let. Why
do you ask<”
"O, nothing much. I was only thinking
that the Cbristmns gift John would like
l>est. and that I’d be glad to give bim,
would be a kiss. But I cau’t see how to
deliver it.”
Bonnets and bats aro worn sometimes in
tbe house by bostosses, when giving a luwn
party or any country fete, who expect to
mingle with their guests out of doo!. after
receiving them within, writes Mrs. Burton
Harrison in the second of her series of de
lightful papers on “The Well-bred Girl In
Society,” in the December Ladies' Home
Journal. But there is neither reason nor
apology for the freakish fashion adopted
recently by the hoste-s of a woman’s lunch
eon in town, who elected to wear her bon
net iu tab own drawing room. Nor
does excuse present itself any more
readily for the lack of taste in the woman
who arrives in street costume and bonnet
at an evening of readings, lecture or debate
for whatever purpose in a private house. To
omit the bonnet is a slight concession to
conventionality, that is little to accord to the
giver of the drawing room, whether tickets
to enter it be sold for charity, or cards are
font out in compliment. At evening con
certs, art exhibitions, loan colleotious, as at
theatres, the American custom of wearing
bonnets has not yet given way to the iudi>-
putably foreign one of omitting them.
The question of when to wear low
cut gowns can have but one answer:
“Never in daylight,” writes Mrs. Burton
Harrison in the third of her delightful and
helpful articles on the “ Well Bre l Girl in
Hcciety,’’in tne December Ladies' /fame
Journal. Tbe rule that obtains for tbo as
sumption of men’s evening dres*— "from
dusk to dawn”—is adjustable to both. For
every function of society held from tnidday
to a late dinner hour, a girl’s dress should
be worn bigh, with long sleeves. If on any
gala ooca*ln It be desirable to relax the
stringency of this ordinance, it should bo
only to cut tbe dress open a little below tbe
throat, and to wear elbow sleeves, a pretty
girlish fashion, in which ber youthful
beauty loses naueht. There is nowadays to be
had such a variety of soft-bued, crapy, cling
ing stuffs, than which Dot hi tig can better en
hance round oontour* uud fine Hues of nat
ure, that a young woman neo 1 not sigh for
the additional attraction of neck and shoul
ders revealed to au ardflcial light in the
afternoon. A few yearsagi the experiment
was made of hostesses receiving at large
afternoon teas in lowout dresses, but tbe
contrast between them and their guests
iu every variety of outdoor garb, including
tailor-made gowns, toon brought the fesbion
to an end. At dinners, evening parties and
ball* it is so universal a modern custom to
•quip young girls in decollete gowns that
tears can only be the question of individual
judgment in the matter to combat it. Tbs
cut of such dresses is, bowsver, always
modest.
Till! ENCHANTED
ASH BARREL.
from the Baltimore .Yetcs.
The fairy Finntkin was a good, well
meaning little thing, but the didn't know
her business.
Ever uce her Queen had mode her the
presiding genius of Thankless Tenement. in
the town of Tufluk, tbe tender-hearted, rest
less tfcumbling had burned with an eager
ambition to do something for the towns
folk. That is to say, something “ big.”
Conferring wishes in joblots of three; out
witting and thwarting wicked magicians,
guests and ogres; changing people and
things that were not and bail no right to be;
giving handsome aud enterprising young
persons ca;>s of invisibility, armor of in
vulnerability, titles of nobility aud flabby
princesses of no ability whatever —these
were mere ccmmonplaeea in the eyes of the
fairy Fiuuikin. who pooh-poohed them as
•ueh.
V. hat she most longed to do wns to create
a eeusation and get herself talked about aud
salary raised.
She waa too new for anything; that's all
there is about it.
The other fairies in her set said eo. and
they ought to know, you know.
“O, what’s the use! ’ she petulantly would
say to her Queen whenever she was permit
ted to come home to tne Fairy Ring on
Sundays and holidays. “I can’t do any
thing Wbi th my while there in Thankless
Tenement.
“What do they want with 7-leogue
boots aud invisible clothing I've ex
hausted upon them all the fairy-tale gifts
that X could find reeommouded by Ander
sen. the Bro:hers Grimm. Laboulaye. Car
ry il or any of the old authorities, but it’s all
of no use. They don’t want ’em."
‘‘You might try something else, then,”
the Queen would mildly suggest on these
occasions—“a wishing-cap, ora flying-carpet
or something of that sort."
“0! pshaw!” fairy Finnikin would re
ply, “you don’t understand tbo situation at
all. Why, 1 have repeatedly offeied these
Thankless Tenementers everything of the
kind I have in stock, but it dou’tdoany
good. ‘To Hoboken with your 99-ceut
“Fantasma” properties!’ they yell. Give us
something practical! We can’t swallow
your five-bladed sword* i.or eat your oxi
dized genii rings!’”
“They might pawn them, though,” the
Queen would say, thoughtfully.
“And so i want you either to give me the
power to do something worth while—some
t hiug that these merooriary mechanics and
day laborers oan appreciate,” the fairy
would run on, not hooding her sovereign’s
interruption, “or else put me on the Dew
drop aud Rainbow circuit. I’m too good
for common missionary work iu these oue
night stands, anyway!”
This sort of thing wont on for some time,
until, one day, jfist a month before Christ
mas, the Queeu got miffed and spoke out in
meeting:
“Now just see here, Finnikin,” said she,
“I want you to understand one thing right
here. I’ve always tried to teaoh tuy people
that It’s the little things, not the big ones,
that give us the most happimss in this life,
and so, if you really wished to work for the
best iuterests of those around you instead
of selfishly trying to make a hit for your
self—which 1 fear le your strongest motive
—you would begin at the foot of the ladder
and aid these Thankless Tenementers in the
practical way they desire by first removing
small obstaolos from their path.
“You sav they don’t want the usual fairy
gifts. Good! They are about threadbare,
anyway. I notice that Stockton and the
other modern fairy historians aro not re
commending them any more. Now, sup
pose you increase your own power and
popularity, bit by bit, in other wavs
"Let me see; I’m not very practical ray
self— few fairies are—but, if this were sum
mertime, I should advise that you Login by
shooting off the fliee and mosquitoes that
settle on the babies’ ir sos while their
mothers aro cooking the dinner. As you
remark, however, it is not summertime.
Well, then, suppose you select your own oc
cupation, the humbler the better, but mind
that it is useful and practical, and that its
ultimate object shall be io permanently
benefit the inhabitant* of Tufluk generally
and the Thankless Tenementers In partic
ular. i’ll give you just one week to pink
your job. Coma, tie off! Mizzle!
Vamoose!” And with an imperious wave
of her wand she dismissed the fairy Finui
kln from her presence.
“0, these amateurs, these amateurs?
They'll drive mo distracted with thoir ever
lasting kicking!" she sighed. Then, to quiet
her nerves, she took a turn through the art
department where the Vandyke Brownies
wero mixing paint with which to decorate
tbe w ings of Che next season’s butte: flies.
But Finnikin flew back to Tufluk full of
violet wine and good intentions.
Hbe didn’t mean any harm, poor little
thing! Kbe just didn't know her business.
All that night and half of tbe next day
ebe thought. It was hard work f r her and
she whs glad when tbe noon hour struck
and she knocked off for lunch.
The words of her dear royal mistress rang
in her cockle shell-like ears—for, like the
i’irates of Be- zance, with nil her faults she
lovod her Queen—aud between bites of her
blue grass sandwich seasoned with
timothy, she kept repeating over aud over
to herself: „
“Suppose you lelect your own occupa
tion, the humbler the better, but mind that
it i* useful and practical, and that its ulti
mate object shali be to permanently bene
fit tbe inhabitants of Tufluk generally end
the Thankless Tenementers in particular.”
“Tbe humbler the better!” sue muttered;
“useful and practical—permanently bone
fit.” Ah i that was just it. Hhe would be
gin at once, but bow? “
Now, here is where the ash-barrel comes
iu. Like all the go and thincs of this earth,
it has been slow of materialization.
Kinnikm was sitting pn tbe edge of it as
she masticated her sandwich. Tne barrel
stood in one corner of the courtyard around
which Thankless Tenement was built In the
form of a hollo v square. The barrel was
full of ashes aud traib.
As the fairy munched and mused, and
munched again. Two Tiny Tots approached
the barrel. Then they stopped and peeped iu.
Now. the fairy Finnikin had always been
fond of children, principally because she
never bad any of her own, and so when she
caught sight of the toddlers, she ceased to
ruminate, grew interested and forgot to eat.
“What’s ’oor popper doin’ to div’ ’oo fo’
Tristmas, Dimmief” queried the youngest
tot, a bright, tow-headed, blue-eyed, smeary
faced little midget of 4os she clung to tbe
rim of the barrel by her elbows and kicked
her ill-shod toes against it in time to the
faint music of a piuuo-o'gan, which was
plink-plutikmg away off somewhere in ths
distance.
“Nawtbin’ us I knows on,” replied the
other tot, a stringy, scrawny, baggard-eyed
little chap of 5, w th a hungry look, half of
an old cotton shirt aud a shapeless felt hat
full of ventilation holes. “ Wot’* yer daddy
a-going ter give you, Cissy?”
“Nulfio, I specs," came tbo reply, which
wav part choke and part sniff. Theu silence.
Cissy's father was a broken down gambler
and drank for a living, while her mother
worked out by the day scrubbing floors for
a consideration. The child bad no brothers
or sisters, and, being left almost entirely to
her own resource*, bad made Jimmie her
boon companion and constant playmate.
Jimmie's mother was dead and his father
wi- a lost soul and the poorest rnuu iu all
Tufluk.
Ho was the editor of the local paper.
“Tell yer wot. Cissy.” said Jimmie, after
a long and painful pause, “of we don’t give
ourselves Christmas presents this year no
body else is gotn’ to. Dal’s wot !” Than
the Two Tiny Tots slipped off tbe edge of
the barrel and sifted off through the dirty
court yard to some other familiar and more
attractive haunt.
Fairy Finnikin bad been so deeply inter
ested in their conversation that she had
completely neglected her sandwich. Hho
even gave herself up to tbe unaccustomed
task of thinking, and finally she arrived at
the—for her—most unheard of goal of a
genuine conclusion.
This was it:
She reflected that these two precocic
and altogether interesting infant* must be
in tbe habit of visiting the ash barrel oa
which she vat.every day about the plebeian
dinner hour, in order to look in and enter
tain themselves by noting the internal
changes which bad token in the barrel sip os
the day before.
This was evidently one of the point* of
interest in tbe flaily route of the Two TinT
Tots, and a* tbe barrel was about the mot*
humble feature of Thankless Tenement, the
best thing she could do was to devote her
self >o its diurnal dec ration as a practical
way to the hearts of the tenants.
“For what.” thought she. "could be more
practical than the entertainment of one'*
children
You see, she had never tad any of her
own.
O: she was a g od, well-meaning little
thing, but she didn’t know hard business.
This w,u Monday. Well, every day dur
ing that week the Fairy Finnikin strove tf
devote her entire energies to the decoration
of the 6*ll barrel. On Tuesdays when the
children looked in at noontide, she changed
btra. lf to Cis.-y's pet kitten, which bad been
lost the week before. Ou Wednesday she
changed her face, on Thursday her religion
and on Friday her politic!. She even wen*
so far as to ohange her mind, which woe
wonderful—for a woman—and a fairy a*
that.
Every day the Two Tiny Tots climbed up
on tbe ash barrel and peeked in to see what
new wonder lay in store for them there, and
clapped their dirty little hflpds with glee at
eacn rew surprise.
At last the probationary week was up
and the fairy Finnikin flew home to Ths
Green to toll her mistress how it all hap
pened. The Queen chuckled over the suc
cess of her plan for awhile. Then she went
aud told the Vandyke Brownies all about i*.
By the time Chr:*tmae Eve arrived tbe
Iwo Tiny Tots had become accustomed to
look to the Enchanted Ash Barrel for their
rorreation, that they hai forgotten that
any other pleasures bevoad its attraction
existed f< r them In the town of Tufluk.
They had even ceased to paster tbe other
inhabitants of Thankless Tenement for their
accustomed rations of bread and butter and
sugar, for which beatiflo tnison alt the im
pecunious females ta the block astonished
themselves and broke their records by offer
ing up thanks.
Nor was this ali.
The worthless parents of Jimmie aud
Cissy so far forgot that they were living
that during these three weeks the fathers of
both eloped with a couple of unscrupulous
typewriters who occupied adjoiaiag rooms
iu Thankless Tenement.
Tbits wera the collectors for tha neighbor
ing Installment House relieved at once of
the four most troublesome cases on their
route, and the Fairy Queen waa so much
pleased with Finnikin’* efforts that she
created her off hand General Nuisance Re
mover and Nonsensical Necromancer the
verv first time she came home on furlough.
Christmas Dav rolled ’round apace.
This is a habit not alone peculiar to Christ*
mas Day.
Those who hold no railroad nor gas stock
will notice that rent day also has a habit of
turnin ' up once in a while.
The Two Tiny Tot* grew more and more
enthusiastic as tbe day grew nearer.
“ What’s wo doin’ ter find Tristmas, Di ra
mie !" was a queition which was so often ou
Cissy’s lips that even Jimmie's abnormal
powers of invention, hightened and inten
sified as they were by a long and intimate
knowledge of street resources failed, at last,
to thoroughly satisfy the inquiring mind of
his little playmate.
At length Christmas morn arrived, and
with it the children at the jugged briuk of
their favorite ash-barrel.
Here an unaccustomed sight met their
childish eyes. The barrel bad been striped
alternately red and white While they slept.
They climbed up, as usual, and peeked in.
The interior had been scraped and scoured
uutil it whs so clean that one could eet from
it it no more inviting table were forthcom
ing- The ashes hud been hidden from view
by a layer of soft, green moss, from tb*
center of which sprang a verdant Christmas
tree laden with glittering trifles peculiar to
ths season.
On the tree hung Christmae presents is
the way of eatnbles, wearables and other
“able*” too numerous to enumerate. They
were all labeled "Jimmie,” or "Cissy," who
could only say, as each took his or her
property from the manic tree, “O-o-o-o-b,
mv! This is just what 1 warned!”
And for each of tbe other inhabitants of
Thankless Tenement, too, there was “some
thing practical."
But everybody in Tufluk except the Tw®
Tiny Tots gave tbe credit of it all to tha
Vandyko Brownies.
A Pathetic Incident.
A commercial traveler tells the following
•True story" in the Boston Transcript: “My
wife and 5 year-old daughter were witH me
■ nee i q u trip, and on a Sun lay we took adrive
an 1 got Into a cemetery. Naturally our con
versatlon dilfted to a little daughter we lost e
year ago. Ono of the first thine* to attract our
attention after we entered the remeterv was aa
open grave, dug for a child. We walked up t*
it an l stood for somo moment* looking at It.
The memories it evoked were painful Indeed, 1
and my wife broke down and cried bitterly.!
Tittle May took me by the hand anu led me ou*'
of ear shut of her mother, then *he said, while!
her chin quivered and her eye* filled with tears:,
‘l’apa, why don’t you put me in, cover me up
and lake mamma home'’ f wot astounded, t
b-ut down to kiss her. and she whi*[iered. ‘Tell i
mamma good-by for me; I can't doit.’ The
child actually tuought we had come to the cem
etery to bury her. and that she was standing be
side her op* n grave, it was the most mag
nificat exhibition of nervu I have ever wit
nessed.” ,
Ho Wan Forgetful. ■
“My husband is tbe most forgetful man I eve
taw,” said the lady to her visitor, “and he was
that way before I married him. Indeed, if it
hadn't b—n for that I don't think I should bay*
had him."
Natura ly the visitor asked for the story, spy*
the Detroit free Press.
“It was this way," resumed the lady. "While
wo were engaged I asked him to do something
for me, and he forgot it; he forgot it so manr
times tlint at last we quarreled about it ami T
became very angry.
“ 'Our engagement ends right here,' I said to
him, ‘and 1 never want to see you again. Go
away aud forgot me entirely. I want you to
forget me utterly.’ I repeated for emphasis.
“ ‘Very well,’ lie said, ‘I will if I don’t forget
it,’ and the earnest way he said it made toe
smile iu spite of myself, and. of course, when a
woman smiles ou such au occasion her case is
lost, aud our engagement dtdn t end,”
CsbAyi.e once begged Tennyson to translate
Bophoclea, “He'sa wonderful man for dove
tailin : words together." he said afterward ia
speaking regretfully of this entreaty, "but A!
fred wouldn't bite.”
AMIM'MiA i®7
SAVANNAH THEATER."
Five nights, with usual matinee, commencing
with
Xmas Matinee,
Monday, Dec. 26,
PROF.fi. E. CARPENTER
OF BOSTON,
King of Mesmerists.
AMUSING! INSTRUCTIVE! ENTERTAINING!
TRIOF.S: Night performances IBc.. 40c. and
25c. Matinees .’oc.
heat* at Livingston's Dec. 23. Next at
traction, HELDS’ MINSTRELS Dec. 20.
NEW YEAR’S HOP
OF THE
Brotherhood of Machinery Moilden, No. 78
AT ODD FELLOWS' HALL,
MONDAY EVENING. JAN. 2.1593. Ticket* $1
supper included. Committee: T. Baliaotyne,
chairman; W. E. Bradley, M. O USTS, John
Kuhuraau. Joseph Craig.
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