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haughty and impious. You might have
guessed that from their children. Walter
Scott's mother was fond of poetry. Was:.-
ington's mother was patriotic. Samuel
Budget’s mother was a thorough Christian.
St. Bernard’s mother was noble-minded.
So you might have guessed from their
children. (Good men always have good
mothers. There may. once in ten or twenty
years, be an exception to the rule, but it is
only au exception. Benjamin Wests
mother kissed him after she had seen his
first wonderful sketch with the pencil.
Benjamin West afterward said: ’ That kiss
made me a painter.”
A young man received a furlough to re
turn from the army to his fath- rs house.
Afterward betook the furlough hack to the
officer, saying: **l would like to |ostf)one
my visit for two weeks. At the end of the
two weeks he came and got the furl ugh.
He was asked why he waited. " Well, 'he
replied, “wb.-n i left home I told my
mother I would he a Christian in the army,
and 1 was resolved not to go home until 1
could answer her iirst question.” O the
aim st omnipotent power of the mother!
But if both ihe father and the mother he
right, then the children ore almost sure to
be right. The young people may make a
wide curve from the straight path but they
are almost sure to come back to the right
road. It may not be until the death of uno
of the parents. How often it is that we
hear someone say: ‘‘O! he was a wild
young man, but since his father’s death he
has been different!” The fact
ts that the father’s coffin, or the mother’s
coffiu, is often the altar of repentance for
the child. U! that was a stupendous day,
the day of father’s burial. It was not the
officiating clergyman who made the chief
Impression, nor the sympathizing mourners;
it was the father asleep in the casket. The
hands that had toiled for that household so
long, folded. The brain cooled off after
twenty or forty years of anxiety about how
to put that family in right position. The
lips closed after so many years of good ad
vice. There are more tears falling in
mother's grave than in father's grave; but
over the father’s tomb I think there is a
kind of awe. It is at that marble pillar
many a young man has been revolutionized.
O. young man with cheek flushed with
dissipation! how long is it since you have
been out to your father’s grave? Will you
not go this week? Perhaps the Btorms of
the last few days may have bent the head
ttone until it leans far over. You had bet
ter go out and Bee whether the gate of the
lot is closed. You had better go and see if
you cannot find a sermon In the springing
grass. O young man! go out this week and
ee your fatner’s grave. Religion did so
muoh for our Christian ancestry, are we
not ready this morning to be willing to re
ceive it in our own households? If we do
not receive it, let it corns through the front
door, not through the back door. In other
■words, do not let us smuggle it in. There
are a great many families who want to be
religious, but they do not want anybody
outside to know it. They would be morti
fied to death if you caught them at family
prayers. They' would not sing in the wor
ship for fear their neighbors would hear
them. They do not have prayers when they
have company!
They do not know much about the nobil
ity of the western trapper. A traveler go
ing along was overtaken by night ami a
storm, and he entered a cabin. There were
firearms hung up around the cabin. He was
alarmed. He had a large amount of money
with him, but he did not dare to venture
out into the night in the storm. He did
not like the looks of the household. After
awhile the father, the western trapper,
came in, gun on shoulder, and when the
traveler looked at him he was still more af
frighted. After awhile the family were
whispering together in one corner of the
roon.anl the traveler thought to himself:
“CM now my time has oou.e; i wish I was
out in the storm and in the night rather
than here.” Hut the swarthy man came up
to him and said: “Sir, we are a rough peo
ple; wo get onr living by hunting, and we
are very tired when night Conies; but be
fore going to bed we always have a habit of
reading a little out of the Bible and having
prayers, and 1 think we will have our usual
custom to-night, and if you don't believe in
that kind of thing if you will just step out
side of the door for a little while I will bo
much obliged to you.”
Ol there are many Christian parents who
have not half the courage of that western
trapper. They do not want their religion
projecting too conspicuously. They would
like to have it near by so as to call on it in
case of a funeral; but as to having it domi
nant in the household from the erst of Jan
uary, seven o'clock a. in., to the thirty-first
of December, ten o’clock p. m., they do not
want it. They would rather die, aud have
their families perish with them, than to cry
out in the bold words of the soldier of inv
text: “As for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord.”
There was, in my ancestral line, an inci
dent so strangely impressive that it seems
more like romanoe than reality. It has
sometimes been so iuaccurately put forth
that I now give you the true incident. My
grandfather and grandmother, living at
Bomerville, New Jersey, went to Basktng
ridge to witness a revival under the minis
try of the Rev. Dr. Finley. They came
home so impressed with what they had
seen that they resolved on the salvation of
their children.
The young people of the house were to
go off for an evening party, and my grand
mother said:
“Now, when you are all ready for the
party, come to my room, for 1 have some
thing very important to tell you." All
ready for departure, they came to her room,
and she said to them: “Now, I want you to
remember, while you are away this even
ing, that I am all the time in this room
praying for your salvation, and I shall not
cease praying until you get back.” The
young people went to the party, but ami
the loudest hilarities of the night they cou
not forget that their mother was prayin
for them. The evening passed and the night
passed.
The next day my grandparents heard an
outcry iu an adjoining room, and they wont
in and found their daughter imploring the
salvation of the gOßpel. The daughter told
them that her brothers were at the barn
and the wagon house under powerful con
viction of sin. They went to the barn.
They found my Uncle Jehiah, who after
ward became a minister of the gospel, cry
ing to God for mercy. They went to the
wagon house. They found their son David,
who afterward became my father, implor
ing God’s pardon aud meroy. Before a
great while the whole family were saved,
and David went and told the story to a
young woman to whom he was affianced,
who, as a result of the story, became a
Christian, and from hor own lips—my
mother’s—l have received the incideut.
The story of that converted household
ran through all the neighborhood, from
family to family, until the whole region
was whelmed with religious awakening,
and at the next communion in the village
eburoh at iSomerville over two hundred
souls stood up to profess the faith of tbe
gospel My mother, carrying the memory
of this scene from early womanhood into
further life, in after years was resolv.
upon the salvution of her ohildren, and f
mauy years every week she tuet three oth
Christian mothers to pray for tbe salvatio
o. their families. I think tbatalltbe mem
bers of those families were saved—myeei.
the youngest and the last.
The; e were twelve of us children. I trac<
the whole line of mercy bank to that honi
when my Christian grandmother sat in h r
room imploring tbe blessing of God upon
her childien. Nine of her descendants be
came preachers of the gospel. Mauy of hoi
descendants are in heuveu, many of them
still iu tbe Christian conflict. Did it pay
for hor to spend the whole evening iu
prayer for hor household! Ask her befor
the throne of God, surrounded by her chil
dren. In tbe pi-ogeuue of the Christia;
cu.iioh to-day I make this record of anoes
tral piety. O, there is a beauty, aud a ten
derness, aud a sublimity in family religion
There ore but four or five pictures in tb
old family Bible that I inherited, but Doit
never illustrated a Bible as that book r
illustrated to my eye?. Through it I can set
lut i marriages ami burials, jnvs and scr
im's, meetings aud partings. Thanksgivl g
dayoa and Christmas festivals, cradles and
death-beds. Old, old book! speak out and
tell of ihe sorrows comforted, and of the
dying hours irradiated. Old, old book!
the hands that held thee are ashes, the eyes
that perused thee are closed. What a pil
low thou wouldst make for a dying head!
I salute all the memories of the past when I
press it to my heart, and when I press it to
I my lips.
O, that family Bible! The New Testa
ment in small type is not worthy of being
called by that name. Have a whole Bible
in large type, with the family record of mar
riages and births and deaths. What if the
curious should turn over the leave* to see
how old you are? You are younger now
than you will over be again. Thecuilous
will fl: and out from those with wn m you
have played in your ohildhood how old you
are. Have a family Bible. Itwillgodown
from generation to generation, full of holy
memories. A hundred years after you are
dead it will be a benediction to those who
come after you. Other books, worn out, or
fallen apart, will be flu gto the garret or
the cellar: but this will be inviolate, and it
will be your protest for centuries against
iniquity and in behalf of righteousness.
O! when we see wbat family religion did
for our father’s household, do we not wont
it to come into the dining room to break
(be bread, into the nursery to bless the
young, into the pari r to purify the social
ities, into the library to control the reading,
into the bedroom to hallow the slumber,
into tbe hall to watch our going out and our
coming in? Aye, there are hundreds of
voices in this house ready to cry out: “Yes!
Yes! As for me and my house we will
serve the Lord.”
There are two arms to this subject. The
one arm puts its baud on all parents. It
says to them: ‘‘Don’t interfere with your
children’s welfare, don’t interfere with their
eternal happiness, don’t you, by anything
you do, put out your foot and trip them into
ruin. Start them under the shelter, tbe in
surance, the everlasting help of Christian
parentage. Catechisms will not save them,
though catechisms are good. The rod will
not save them, though the rod may be nec
essary. Lessons of virtue will not save
them, though they are very important.
Becoming a through and through, up and
down, out and out Christian yourself will
make them Christians.”
The other arms of this subject puts its
hand upon those who had a pious bringing
up. but who as yet have disappointed the
expectations excited in regard to them. I
said that children brought up in Christian
households, though they may make a wide
curve, were very apt to come back to the
straight path. Have you not been curving
out long enough! and is it not most time for
you to begin to curve in ?
“O,” you say, ‘‘they were too rigid.”
Well now, my brother, I think you have a
pretty good character considering what you
say your parents were. Do not
boast too much about the style in which
your parents brought you up. Might
it not be possible that you would beau ex
ception to the general rule laid down, and
that you might spend your eternity in a
different world from that in which your
parents are spending theirs?
I feel anx ous about you; you feel anxi
ous about yourself. O! crossover into the
right path. If your parents prayed for
you twice a day, each of them twioe a day
for twenty years, that would make 29,000
prayers for you. Think of them!
By the memory of the cradle in which
your childhood was rocked with the foot
that long ago ceased to move, by the crib
in which your own children slumber night
by night under God’s protecting care, by
the two grave* in which sleep those two old
hearts that beat with love so long for your
welfare, and by the two graves in which
you, now the living father and mother, will
find your last repose, I urge you to the dis
charge of your duty.
Though parents may in convenant be,
And have their heaven in view;
They are not happy till they see
Their children nappy too.
O! you departed Christian ancestry,
fathers and mothers in glory, bend from the
skies to-day and give new emphasis to what
you told us on earth with many tears and
anxieties. Keep a place for us by your bliss
ful side, for to-day, in the presence of earth
and heaven and hell, and by the help of the
cross, and amid overwhelming and gracious
memories, we resolve, each one for himself,
“As for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord.”
A Flour Mill Burned.
Minneapolis, Minn.. March 19.—A
special from Jordan, MiDn., says: “The
city flour mill was burned this ' morning.
The mill was erected in 1879 and had a
oapacity of f>BU barrels daily. Nothing wan
saved except some flour from the grinding
floor. The elevator connecced was saved.
The mill was valued at from $120,000 to
$140,000, and was probably insured for
$56,000.”
True to Life.
The Springfield Union tells a story of one of
the best known American poets. Some people
were calling on him and his wife, and after
awhile he said to his little girl, who was playing
about the room: “Go upstairs and tell your
mamma Mr. and Mrs. are here.” The child
went, aud after awhile returned, resuming her
play, “bid you tell your mamma?” asked the
poet. “O, yes.” “And what did e!ie say?”
The little girl shrugged up her shoulders, twisted
her face into an expression of unspeakable eu
nui and exclaimed: “She said—well, she said,
’O, dear!”’ Tableau.
Simmons— l declare 1 can’t understand how
you farce-comedy writers succeed so well, con
sidering that you get most of your wit from the
newspapers.
Timmins— My dear boy, the people who sup
port farce comedy don’t read the newspapers.
Indianapolis Journal.
MEDICAL.
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stronger and hrtjar I do not feel like the same
person at Abner, Augusta, Ky.
Hood’s Piiisact easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on iko liver and bowels. 25c.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1893.
A RIVER’S BED CHANGED.
How the Southern Pacific Will Run a
Stream Above Its Tracks.
Wo m the San Francisco Examiner.
Railway construction in California that
necessitates forty miles of snow sheds across
the Sierra Nevada mountains, tbe famous
loop over the Tehacbapi pass and the novel
piece of engineering in the shape of a switch
back to overcome the great grade between
the head of the Sacramento river canyon
and Strawberry valley, at the foot of Mount
Shasta, is to be supplemented by diverting
the course of a mountain stream in tbe Santa
Cruz mountains so that it will run over in
stead of under the railroad track.
This unique bit of engineering work is
now being considered by the Southern Pa
cific company, and when it is completed tbe
stream will run over a stone arch, beneath
which will be the track, and the water will
fall from the arch on the other side of the
track to a distance that will without doubt
make It tbe largest and prettiest artificial
waterfall in tbe world.
The wont will he undertaken in the vicin
ity of Wright’s station on the Southern Pa
cific Coast road. As is known, the road has
been closed for a number of weeks on ao
count of a heavy landslide that caved in tbe
northern end of the longest tunnel on the
read and covered the track for a consider
able distance farther along. The tunnel is
about I*4 miles in length, and so great was
the force of the slide that it caved in fully
150 feet of the north end of the tunnel and
piled a mountain of dirt along 100 feet more
of tbe track.
CHANGED THE TOPOGRAPHY.
The slide completely changed the topog
raphy of the locality, making formidable
bills where formerly there were canyons,
diverting the course of streams iu some
places and raisiug their beds several feet at
other places. About 100 feet from the old
mouth of the tunnel a small mountain
stream that formerly ran under the track
now runs over it. It Is probably four or
five feet higher than the track now, while
before it was three or four feet below it.
At this point the 200 men at work removing
the slide have taken out over 500 carloads
of dirt. Much more remains t> be taken
ou , and when they have practically cleared
the track at this point the stream running
across it and the pile of dirt on one side of
the road and on both sides of the stream will
be a continual rnenaoe to its safety.
In the same way the track exposed be
tween that point and the new mouth of the
tunnel made by the caving in of 150 feet of
it a distance of 250 feet will be similarly ex
posed, and if the plans now being consid
ered are carried out the tunnel will virtu
ally be extended north 250 feet in the con
struction of a solid, gigantic, stone arch com
pletely inclosing the track and putting the
tunnel in a better condition than it has
ever been. At the point where the stream
now crosses the track the arch will be made
the thickest, and the water will flow over it
and down on the other side in a pretty
waterfall.
AN EXPENSIVE ARCH.
This stream, which runs into the Los
Gatos river, which the road crosses a short
distanoe north of the proposed masonry
work, is virtually dry during the summer
season. For this reason the arch will, in all
probability, be constructed during the
coming summer mouths, so that if the bed
of tbe stream is not now high enough|it
can easily be made flush with the top of the
arch. The work will be of an expensive
character, and, together with the expense
of removing the slide, will represent not
less than $500,000.
The road will probably be in a condition
for trains to run through to Santa Cruz
next week. A good deal of dirt has yet to
be shoveled from the track, but it is thought
it will all be removed within tbe next six
days. Up to yesterday uo less than 3,000
carloads or 45,000 tons of dirt have been re
moved from the 250 feet of the buried tracks.
The work has been slow because of the
difficulty of getting at it. The workmen
could only worn from the northern end of
the tunnel. An attempt was made to send
men through the tunnel so as to get at the
south end of the slide, but the water and
gases in the tunnel prevented them from
doing anything. In fact the gases in the
tunnel meant death to any one who re
mained in it for any length of time.
This is the first tuonel ou the lines of the
Southern Paciflo company that has ever
caved in, and the slide that oaused the cave
was the largest it has ever experienced, ex
cepting that in the Cow creek canyon, in
Oregon, three years ago. In the latter case
the whole mountain side slid down into the
canyon, so completely changing tbe topog
raphy of the locality as to necessitate the
construction of anew roadbed for a distance
of about ten miles.
CHARLIE ROSS DEAD,
Evidences That His Body Was Thrown
Overboard.
From the St. Paul Olobe.
Columns have been written in the papers
on the subjeot of the abduotion of Charlie
Ross from Philadelphia in the year 1874,
aDd the publio is still wondering whether
the boy is now alive or not. Or. H. Ives,
traveling manager for Thiel’s detective
service, who was stopping at tho Ryan
yesterday, is the man who handled the case
from the start, and be is sure that the miss
ing boy is dead, and has beeu dead since a
fow weeks after bis abduotion.
“I was engaged by the ‘Charlie Ross
searching committee,’ of Philadelphia, to
find the boy if possible," he said to a re
porter of the Globe. “I have worked on all
the clews which have ever been discovered,
and it has been my impression from the
start that tbe boy died shortly after he was
taken away from home. Mesher and
Douglass, who stole him, wrote to Mr. Ross
on the following day instructing him to
send his answers to them through the per
sonal columns of the Now York Hera and.
In order to prove that they had the child in
their possession they sent some portions of
the boy’s dress. 1 think they sent home one
of his stockings on one occasion. The
father did not have the $40,000 whioh they
demanded as a ransom, but he tried his
beet to raise it.
“They made all kinds of dates with him,
agreeing to produce the boy as soon as the
money should be paid over. On one occa
sion they were to meet him in the Fifth
Avenue hotel, where he was to register
under an a-sumed name, and they were to
meet him there. They did not come, how.
ever. Then they agreed to meet him on
various walks which he was instructed to
take, but they did not meet him. Then
they wrote him to stand on tbs back plat
form of a car on the New York Central
road and throw off a package containing
the money to a man who would be standing
in a corn field with a white flag. We had
some sharpshooters in the baggage car,
armed with Winchesters, and they were to
pick off the man at the flag pole. But we
saw nothing of them.
“One day he got a letter from them, stat
ing that the boy was sick. It was not gen
erally known that he was suffering from a
kidney trouble, which, if not attended to
promptly, would cause bis death. Tbe de
scription whioh they gave of the boy’s ill
ness left no doubt that the boy was suffer
from the trouble. In a few more days they
wrote again, stating tbat if tbe boy died bis
blood wuuld be on tho head of his father. It
was but a few days afterward tbat Mosher
and Douglass were killed on Btaton Island
while they were trying to rob the house of
Judge Van Brunt. They tried to effect an
entrance to the house, whioh alarmed tbe
son of the judge. He secured a shotgun and
shot both of the men. One of them died in
stantly and the other was too far gone to
give any information. Iheir boat was
ound a short distance away, and in the
cat was the clothing of the boy. He had
undoubtedly died and bis body cast into the
a ater. ”
Biggs—You say your wife always pins a
• lower on your coat before you leave home?
"Yes: she has for a month.” Biggs —Well,
t shows she thinks of you . "No; it’s
because she never can remember to sew on
the button.”— Chicago Inter Ocean.
lUNORANCK ABOUT VAMPIRES.
Confused Stories ADOut the Blood
sucking Bat of South America.
From the .Ye ui York Tribune.
Iye ■ since the South American conti
nent was discovered, especially that
part of it lymg between the Ama
zon aid Orinoco rivers, travelers
have ourna from '.Lera with wonder
ful tales of the vampires, or. as they
call them, blood-sucking bats. Asa fact,
h"'“ is known about these pests.
That there are blood sucking bats which
fe. (1 not only on the blood of man
but also animals is an undoubted
fact, and though the writer himself
has never been bitten by one, he has, while
traveling in the interior of British Ouiana,
seen Indians and ponies that had undoubt
edly been bitten by these bats. In the case
of a man attacked the toe or noße is the
point punctured, while animals are liable to
be bitten any where. How the bat does its
work has not been made clear, for no man
has yet awakened while being operated on
by one of these bats, despite the fact that
considerable blood is extracted and more or
less loss of blood takes place after the
operation. It is probable that the bat hov
ers during the operation rather than rests
on the body. The rapid vibration of the
soft w.ngs probably also has a soothing
ellect on the skiu of the part operated on.
The blood suckers belong to only two or
three species, ani wherever these are found
there are also many thers whose food is
only fruit or insects, or both. The most
natural mistake about the bats which are
Innocent of preying on man or beast is the
common supposition that vampyrus
spectrum is a blood sucker. The stretch of
wings of this bat frequently reaches three
feet, and it has a most ferocious aspect,
with enormously large and pointed canine
teeth. It is perfectly certain that in most
parts of British Guiana this bat is
only a fruit eater and is a serious
pest to fruit growers. Bates and Edwards,
who travel much in that oountrv, vouch for
its harmlessness. and the writer could never
bear of a case where one of these giant bats
was even suspected of being a blood-sucker.
Wallace, however, gives a different ac
count:
“The vampires are especially plentiful in
the Amazon valley. Iheir carnivorous pro
pensities were once discredited, but are too
well authenticated. Horses and cattle are
often bitten, and we found them in the
morning covered with blood, and repeated
attacks weaken and ultimately destroy
them. Some persons are especially subject
to the attaoks of these bats, and as native
huts are never sufficiently close to keep
them out, those unfortunate persons are
obliged to sleep completely muffled up in
order to avoid being made seriously ill or
even losing their lives.”
Wallace, in saying that “the huts are
never sufficiently close to keep them out, 1 ’
evidently uses the word vampire os a gen
erio term and does not mean the vampyrus
spectrum, for that bat would find no space
large enough to let him into even the loosely
built huts of the nativeß. It is this slipshod
way of using the term vampire that brings
trouble to many a useful bat. The writer
has been in a hou.e whsre every precaution
was taken to keep out bats which would
have been a perfect blessing m the rooms,
as they would have caught hundreds of
mosquitoes.
OUSTER AND HIS MEN.
The Greater the Danger the Further
Be Was to the Front.
From the Sioux City Journal.
“Poor Custer!” said one of his men. ”1
followed him through a great part of the
war of the rebellion as a private soldier. I
followed him afterward in various capaci
ties during his warfare on the frontier.
Yes, and to-day if I should see the general
astride his Kentucky thoroughbred, seated
as no man ever sat on horse before or since,
should I catch the glint of the sun on the
mighty sweep of tiiaf saber of his, and nee
the yellow hair flying straight as he dashed
along, 1 could not resist the temptation to
seize a poker or a hatchet or an ax handle,
jump astride that old mare of mine and fol
low him for better or for worse.
“And no soldier of Custer’s ever did more
than follow him. He was a leader of his
men—not a driver—a cavalier general, who
asked no man to go where he dare not take
the lead—and as the danger became greater
Custer was sure to be just so much further
in front of his column. Tacticians have
censured him for that, and perhaps he would
have been with ub to-day had be abandoned
it. But he was a dashing soldier, and would
rather charge upon an enemy outnumbering
him twenty to one than seek vantage ground
or lay seige. He believed it to be his busi
ness to fight, and he let but few opportuni
ties go by, provided he thought the onemy
worth his mettle.
“Custer had the most unbounded faith in
the rank and file of his regiment, but he
never reposed the least confidence in his
subordinate officers. He gave his personal
attention to the minutest details of his com
mand, saw that every trooper bad his full
allowance of rations and clothing, and saw,
too, that the men attended just as carfuilv
to the physical wants of their horses. He
would never take the word of captain or
lieutenant on such matters. For that reason
the subordinate commissioned officers hated
him just as heartily as the men loved him.
He insisted always on being absolute in his
command.
“But how the bovs loved that man!
Their devotion was fittingly demonstrated
in an incident in the genera.’s last battle,
on the Kittle Big Horn. The 200 troopers
of the Seventh cavalry knew they were
hopelessly outnu i bored by an enemy bet
ter armed than themselves. Eight oavalry
mou broke through the IndUn lines and
gained a neighboring bluff. They were
practloally out of danger, for the fine horses
which tne Seventh were then equipped with
could laugh at the best Indian ponies. But
they halted on the bluff, and, looking back,
saw their leader hemmed in on all sides by
the savage enemy.
“One of them said, ‘Boys, we can’t do
this!’ and alighting, he placed his oarbine
against his horse’s head and shot him dead.
Then he Quietly released his revolvers from
the saddle, and, thrusting them into his
belt, started dow.: the slope. The remain
ing seven followed suit, aDd the little tand
was annihilated in an attempt to gain their
leader’s side on foot. All but one were
killed, and he, being a half-Dreed, the
second son of Theopbile Brugier of this
county by bis first wife, the daughter of
War Eagle, escaped slaughter, the infuri
ated Sioux paving no attention to any but
pale faces. Brugier and I wero friend*, and
he told me the incident the second day after
the fight.”
MEDICAL.
J
BILIOUSNESS
I* an affection of the Liver and can be
thoroughly cured by that grand
regulator of the Liver and
biliary organa,
Simmons Liver Regulator,
PREPARED BY
J. 11. ZEII.IM dr I O , Philadelphia. Pa.
"I was effected for several years with disor
dered Liver. I had good medical attendance
but to no purpose, whereupon 1 was induced to
try Simmons Liver Regulator. I found imme
diate benefit from its use, an 1 it ultimatelv re
stored me to the full enjoyment of health.*’—A.
11. Shirley, Richmond, Ky.
ONLY GENUINE has the Z trade-mark on
wrapper. J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Bole Proprietor*
A REMARKABLE LETTER
A Prominent Professional Man’s Ex
traordinary Statement Hi* Out
spoken Letter to the Press.
(.V. Y. Sun.)
To the Editor —Sir: As my name and
face have appeared in your paper and the
public prints, and as many of my profes
sional brethren are wondering at it, I feel it
only just that I should make au explana
tion. The statement published over my
Dame was made ten years ago, after long
and mature investigation, and I have never
changed my mind as to the facts then
stated. At that time I said as a physician
that 1 believed Warner’s Safe Cure was the
best of all known preparations for the
troubles it was advocated to cure, and I
say so still. 1 know it is considered the
proper thing for the medical pro
fession to decry proprietary and
other advertised articles; but why should
they do so? As the late Dr. J. G. Hollaed,
writing over bis own name in Scribner's
Monthly , said:
“It is a fact that many of the best pro
priotary medicines of the day are more suc
cessful than many physicians, and most of
them were first discovered or used in actual
medical practice; when, however anv per
son knowing tbeir virtue and foreseeing
their popularity secures and advertises
them, in the opinion of the bigoted all
virtue went out of them.”
Dr. Holland was an educated physician,
an unprejudiced observer, and he spoke
from a broad and unusual experience. Pro
prietary medicines should not be decried.
The evidences of their value are overwhelm
ing. I have seen patients recover from
gruvel, inflammation of the bladder and
Bright’s disease after using Warner’s Safe
Cure, even when alt other treatment has
failed.
I make thia frank and outspoken state
ment in the interest of humanity and be
cause I know it to he true. I trust for the
same reason you will give it to the public.
Respectfully. K. A. Gunn.
No. 124 West Forty-seventh Street, New
York.
SPECIAL NOTICKA
IIID VOL NOTICE
THE TERMS ON THAT RESIDENCE ?
I mean on that home No. 213 Whitaker street
which is to be sold at public outcry at 4 r. m. '
ON THURSDAY, 23d INST.
The terms are astonishingly easy. Which
means that we are terribly in earnest.
Tbe home must be sold and any one who has
three thousand dollars can buy it.
Five years is given in which to pay the bal
ance of the purchase money.
If there is any one so unreasonable as to wont
easier terms. I would like to confer with him.
Remember the day and the hour.
REORGANIZATION OF THE CENTRAL
railroad and banking company
OF GEORGIA AND ITS ALLIED LINES.
The Mercantile Trust Company,on I o l ia!f of the
committee charged with the above reorganiza
tion. Invites the prompt deposit of the securities
embraced therein under tne plan adopted by
the committee, aud of which copies can he had
upon application.
Foreclosure proceedings having been institu
ted against the main lme of the system, it is im
portant tnat securities be deposited no t latet
than April Ist, after which date securities will
only be receive J, ifatall, upon such terms as
the committee may determine.
LOUIS FITZGERALD.
President.
New York, March 20, 1893.
OPEN FOR INSPECTION
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
from 8:30 a. m. to ti:3J p. h.
THAT ELEGANT RESIDENCE,
No. 213 Whitaker street, fronting on Park ex
tension, will be open for the Inspection of the
public as above.
The auctioneer indulges the hope that no one
will hesitate to walk through and examine the
premises thoroughly, whether prospective buy
ers or not.
O. H DORSETT, Auctioneer.
City op Savannah, Office City Engineer, )
March bth, 1833. j
PROPOSALS
Will be received until 12 m (city time) TUES
DAY. March 28th, 1898. at the office of Frank
E. Rcbarer, Esq , Clera of Council, for furnish
ing the city of Savannah with 50,900 granite
blocks. For further information specifications
and terms of delivery apply at the office of the
City Engineer. W. J. WINN.
. City Engineer.
HOUSEKEEPERS. -
Paxton's Bed Bug Poison will keep your bed
steads free from the annoying pests.
Maurer's Roach Poison will rid your premises
of these insects.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Congress Street, and Bull Street Branch.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Contractors and builders will find It to their
advantage to call on us before buying building
material.
A. 8. BACON A SONS,
Offlee Bryan and Whitaker Streets.
NOTICE.
Office Board or Sanitary Commissioners, I
February 3d, IS9S. f
Whereas, Scarlet fever and diphtheria have
made their appearance in the city, this board
deem it expedient that every case of suoh dis
eases be isolated; therefore be it
hesolved. That every house In whioh there is
a case of scarlet fever or diphtheria be quaran
tined and no inmate of such a house be allowed
to leave It and no person be allowed to enter it
except at the discretion of the Board of Sani
tay Commissioners,
JOHN J. McDONOUUH, Chairman.
W. F. Brunner, M. D., Secretary
~~K OTICK.
My wife, Mrs. KATE FORD, having left my
bed and board without my consent and without
just cause, I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by her.
March 13, 1693. THOMAS C. FORD.
FT' VP RAT. INVITATIONS.
ALDRIDGE—The friends and acquaintance
of Mr and Mrs. George Aldridge are respect
fully inv.ted to attend the funeral of Mr.ti2or.rE
Aldridge, at St. Pnilip's A-M E. church, THIS
AFTERNOON at 3 o’clock.
MKETINGs.
CLINTON LODGE NO. 54, F. AND A. M.
A special communication of this lodge A
will be held at Masonic Temple THIS -.yV_
(Mondayi EVENING, March 20, at 8
o clock. The E. A. Degree will be con- ~ '
ferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to meet with us.
„ MOSES PRAGER, W. M.
Waring Russell. Jr., Secretary
DE KALB LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this lodge will be held
THIS EVENING at 8 o’clock.
Tne Initiatory degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with us.
J. D. LANIER, N. G.
John \V. Smith, fecretary.
SPECIAL MEETING KNIGHTS OF PYTH
IAS TYBEE CLUB.
A special meeting of the stockholders of tbe
Club will be held THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock
in the committee room. Business of impor
tance. R. F HARMON, President.
C. E. Broiohton. Secretary.
Savannah, Ga., March 20, 1893,
MAY WEEK.
IMPORTANT MEETING TO-NIGHT.
Those gentlemen appointed upon committees
will please attend Important meeting at 8:30
TO-NIGHT, DE SOTO HOTEL,
The time has been set. in older to Insure
punctual attendance of every member and to
map out at once the necessary work for the
celebration.
By order,
D. G. PURSE, President.
B. H. Levy, Chairman.
MILITARY ORDERS.
Headquarters Savannah Cadets, I
Savannah, Ga., March 20, 1893, i
Order So. 7.
The company will assemble at their quarters
TO-NIGHT for drill instead of TUESDAY
NIGHT of this week.
J. F. BROOKS,
Captain Savannah Cadets.
SPECIAL SUXiLA. _
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, tbe basis of meas
urement of all advertising In tbe Morning Naws
will be agate, or at tbe rate of (1 40 an lnoh for
tbe first Insertion. No Special Notice inserted
for leas than 21 XL
TO THE BONDHOLDERS OF THE SAVAN
NAH, A MLR ILLS AND MONT.
UOMERY RAILWAY.
A majority of the First Mortgage Bonds of
the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Rail
way bavin ; been deposited to the order of the
Bondholders’ Committee, notice is hereby given
to those who have not as yet deposited their
bonds that additional deposits wdl be received
by the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company
of Baltimore until March 30th, 1893, after which
dote the committee will exercise its right to re
fuse further deposits or to receive them upon
different terms.
Baltimore, March 15th, 1893.
By the order of the committee.
C. R. SPENCE. Secretary.
TO HOLDERS OF AMERICUS, PRESTON
AND LUMPKIN RAILROAD BONDS.
The undersigned committee of First Mort
gage Bondholders of tbe Savannah, Americus
and Montgorr ery Railway invite a deposit of
your bonds with the Mercantile Trust and De
posit Company of laltimore under an agree
rnent formulated this day, by the terms of
which your existing priorities will be protected.
We earnestly invite your co-operation as the
most effective way of protecting your inter
ests. Copies of tbe ogreement can be had on
application to either the committee or Trust
Company.
JOHN GILT., j
WILLIAM A. FISHER.
FRANK S. HAMBLETON, ! Laitimore
P,. B. SPERRY,
JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS.
Richmond, Va,,
Committee of Bondholders.
C. R. Spence, Secretary.
NOTICE TO WATER TAKERS.
Office Watf.r Works, I
Savannah, Ga., Marcn 19, 1893. (
The water will be shut off at nine t 9) o’clock
THIS (Monday) MORNING in the dis
trict between Broughton and Bay and
Abercorn and East Broad streets; and also
on Bay street from Whitaker east to Gordon
wharves, for the purpose of putting in valves,
and will be off several hours.
JAMES MANNING,
Superi n ten den t.
SPECIAL NOTICE
APRIL 8, BICYCLE RACES AT WHEEL
MEN’S PARK.
Last appearance of the World's Champion,
A. A. Zimmerman and H. C. Wheeler. Thir
teen events. Handsome pr;z3s. Entries close
April 1.
ADMISSION 35 CENTS.
For programme of races apply to
W. J. LINDSAY, Savannah. Ga.
PRINTERS AND 800 K.BIN PKKi _
QEO. N. K3CKOLS,
FFSSSSTSB3G,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
9?) Bay St. Savannah.
WEDDING CARDS.
The Mornlnjf News
Printing House 'Job Depart
ments) has added a largo .
stock of Wedding Station- ok*
ery, and prints and Iltho- •
graphs Invitations, Cards,
etc., in the latest styles. c
ipj£bMo
Jmritationa
out* ©arboe
P&rrfc* <*out*miiUU©g taklAg tl.’.s
I Import act gtp m life tar rftipaot
fuiXy solicited to cbl! oa or address
*•, THE HOMING NEWS,
Savannah, Q.
Ball tad Party StaWenery. Vtafitng
On-dr And other ft no work. Hthrr
printed or engravod at the ehortret
notice.
R4KRCHANTB, maauraccverv, mere* an lea
*ll corporations, and all other* in need of
pnutiog, lithographing, and blank books aaa
have their orders promptly Ailed, at stedtnN*
**** namm
SHOES.
* ‘ -• / V>
To-Day, the third trial of
\ctor M. B. Curtis, for murder,
ill open in San Francisco.
Curtis is famous as “Sam’l of
'osen.” Two years ago Police
nan Grant attempted to arrest
Jim during a spree in ’Fri SCO,
tnd was shot in the melee. The
irst jury disagreed; a juror’s
Jeatli made the second trial
abortive. Herculean efforts are
being made to save the great
ar*-~r.
You can save money with
out effort by buying our Men’s
$3 50 Welted Congress, made
the same as handmade goods
at much less money. Byck
Bros , 17 Whitaker street,
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATEIC
The Only Opera Company of the Season
CUN"FC WEEK.
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
Commencing MONDAY, March 20 *
GRAD’S OPERA CO.
Greatest in America at Popular Prices
25, 35 and 50 cents. Reserved seats 25c. extra
Monday Night BOCCACCIO
Tuesday Night., SAID Pasha
Wednesday Matinee.. BOHEMIAN (UP?
Wednesday Night FRADIAVoIo
Tnursday Night MARTHA
Friday Night XLOVF.R
Saturday Matinee FATINITZa
Saturday Night GONDOLIERS
Our Own Orchestra.
Finest Ohorus Ever Heard South!
Seats at Liviogston's Pharmacy, March *.?
9 x. m. *
Next Attraction—CHAßlTY BALL, March 27
CONCERT *££*
Mb Isis Caig'r
MASONIC HALL, J
Monday, March 27.
Admission 75c. Reserved seats 25c. each
Tickets on sale at Dr. L. C. Strong’s. Bex
sheet open at Y. M. C. A. Building, Monday.
March 20.
~banksT
THE CIIINS 611
of savannah.
Capital §500,000
Transacts a general banking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and allows
INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., compounded
quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, firms, banks and
corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspondents in
GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA and SOUTH
CAROLINA, we are prepared to haulls oailso
tio.l6 on the most favorable terms.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A DENMARK.
President.
M. B. LANE,
Vice President.
GEORGE O. FREEMAN,
Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH. GA
INTEREST AT
4%
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Collections on Savannah and all southern
points, we handle on the most favorable ter m
and remit at lowest exchange rates on dayet
payment. Correspondence solicited.
JOSEPH D. WKKD. President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice President
JAMES H. HUNTER. Cashier.
RAILKOADS.
THREE
WAYS
HOMEWARD
FROM SAVANNAH.
ALL by the Richmond and Danville Railroad,
greatest fiouthern ays tom.
Via South Bound Railway and Columbia.
Via Central Railroad Augusta and Aiken.
Via Macon and Atlanta.
To Ashviile, Washington. New York and
the East Pullman Vestibule Limited Train.
W. A. TURK. Gen. Pass. Agt. Washington.D. C.
8. H. HARDWICK, Asst. Gan. Pass. Agt At
lanta, Ga .
QUICK TIME
SAVANNAH TO BRUNSWICK.
DOUBLE DAILY TRAIN SERVICE
VIA JESUP.
Leave Savannah ...4:02 a, m. 55?
Arrive Brunewiclc a. m. l
KIESLING’S NURSERY.
WHITE (BIaUF-EU HOAU
PLANTS,' Bouquets, Designs. Cut /towet*
furnished to order. Leave orders at Savan
nah Piano Cos., cor. Bull and York sts. The
Railway passes through the nursery. lolupbexn
MO.