The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, April 02, 1893, Page 15, Image 15
0 OLD CRONE’S CURSE. (SB QYPSY’d MALUDIOTION BROUGHT BAD LUCK. penied the Alma Bhe Demanded the Romany Hag Cursed the People, gervants and Home—Death, Illness, Lose of Fortune, Insanity and Ruin Followed on Each Other's Heals. Spooks Played About the Deserted Mansion Within a Year—Only Fire Broke the Spell. From the. Chicago Time*. A month ago I read an Item in an In diana paper to the effect that "the old John Harsh house” bad Anally been wiped out by fire, and that there was great rejoicing among the residents of the town of V . After the Are some boys went poking about among the ruins and found the half-oon lumed body of a supposed tramp, and also a ateleton which was believed to have been walled up in the house for years. The ‘‘old John Marsh house” stood at the bead of a street half a mile south of the town hall in the town of V . John jlarsb, when I went to read law with him, was acknowledged to be the lending lawyer of tbe county. Indeed, he bad a state repu tation. He was then 47 years old, a wid ower and about to be married again. Asa lawyer be took advantage of every circum stance to get the better of the other side, but as a citizen he was frank and open and free-handed. He had a son of JO, who was at college studying med icine, and a daughter of 17, who was the tbe belle of the town. His maiden sister was bis housekeeper, and as I lived in the family I can truthfully say that no home was ever more pleasant, rion,daughter and sister seemed to be entirely reconciled to the idea of another marriage, and the widow to whom Mr. Marsh was engaged was handsome, accomplished and a general favorite in society. I bad teen in the family eight months, and on a dozen different occasions I had known of the lawyer giving aims to tramps wbo came along, when one evening about 8 o'olock a queer-looking old woman called at the back door and asked for food. The housekeeper was suffering with toothache arid petulantly refused the inendiwant’s re quest. The old woman broke out with a tirade of abuse, and her voice called the rest of us into tbe kitoheu. She was ragged and dirty and old, but by no means feeble. The lawyer was just ready to go out, and therefore had an excuse for being brusque. The old woman did not solicit charity, but de manded it, and her manner was so offensive that he ordered her off tbe grounds. She stood in the kitchen door, which was Aung wide open, and with the darkness of night as a background she pointed a long, skinny arm at the lawyer and said: AS OLD HAG’S CURSE. ‘‘l give you an old woman’s curse! May you and yours he accursed forever and for ever. Aye, may tbe curse rest upon your house and grounds after your bones have become dust!” VVe stood staring at her when the coach man came in from the barn. The lawyer motioned to him aud he took the old hag by the arm and walked her to tbe gate and put her out. She did not struggle against it, nor did she utter a word until she had been thrust out. Those of us in tbe house had meanwhile pajsed frond the kitoheu to tho front door, and so we plainly heard what she said to Robert, the coachman, although she did not raise her voice. She said: “And a curse on you as well! You shall die within a month 1” All of us laughed at the woman’s words. I don’t believe any one bad them in mind a quarter of an hour. VVe looked upon her as some poor and dissipated old wreok living on the outskirts of the town who wanted money to buy liquor, aud whose words were the natural result of her disappointment. It didn’t occur to ns that she was a stranger, and she certainly did’t resemble a gypsy in the slightest. Not a word was said about her next day, and nothing happened to recall her words for a fortnight. Then Robert was found dead in the barn. While harnessing the horses he had been kicked in the head by one of them. I don’t know that we would have thought of the old woman then but for the sister. While she hadn’t said any one she had still been greatlv worried over “the curse,” and she now declared her belief that Robert’s death was the beginning (if a series of calamities. I propose to relate things as they oc curred and leave you to draw your own conclusions. For several years the lawyer bad had a very important case banging fire in the higher courts. He firmly believed he had justice and equity on his side, and that he would win. I may tell you that it was a suit to establish the validity of a claim of a poor man to over 8800,000 worth of real estate in Cincinnati. The case had doubt less been taken “on shares,” although law yers seldom admit such self-interest. That case came up two weeks after the coachman’s death, aud the lawyer lost it. I know to a. certainty that he was several thousand dollars out of pocket. If the case was not a good one, how did it come about in after years that the people in possession, with a decision in their favor, bought the heir off for 8100,000 ? The lawyer was knocked off bis feet by the deolsion, and from that time on I think he feared “the curse.” He asked me to look about and find the old woman, and then another queer feature was developed. She could not be found. She bad never lived in the town, and it turned outthas noons had seen her except the four of us. I made a eirouit of twenty-five miles around our town, tint i positively failed to any one who had set eyes on her. MORE TROUBT-.lt FOLLOWS. The thiug had an uncanny look tome, and I was sure it troubled the lawyer more than he would admit. It was Sept. 19 when the old woman uttered hor curse. The lawyer was to be married Nov. 90. his birthday. On Not. 10 the daughter was stric -jn with malignant diphtheria and died four days later. When first taken, and before the physician was sure of the case, she declared her belief in the “curse.” The sad affliction of course caused a postponement of the wedding. The bride-elect had made all preparations, and I had every reason to believe it was a love match. After the funeral and post ponement of the wedding the lawyer em ployed a detective to hunt for the old woman. I knew what was going on aud I have always believed that his idea was to find and propitiate her. She could not be found. I know for fact that over $2,000 was paid out before the search was abandoned, hut no trace of her was hah The daughter died in November. One day in the early part of January a boy brought a note to the office ot the lawyer. It was a dull, stormy day arid we were alone. He read the epistle and fell in a heap on the floor His prom ised Made bad written bim that her ieelings bad undergone a change and that see wanted to be released from the engagement. Rhe wrote so strongly that Mr. Marsh never made an attempt to see her. She went away in a few days and in the 8; ring was married to a man in ludianapolis and is living there to-day. In April l went away to college. The dar after 1 left V the son Charles re turned home unexpectedly. He was rather a wild boy, and hai takeu part In some dis graceful affair at college, for which he had been expelled. What happened between him ami his father may he guessed from the fact that within a week he committed suicide. I have in an old scrapbook the finding of the coroner’s jury as printed in oue of the newspapers. It gives’•despond ence” as the causa of his bauging himself in his own bedroom. The father seemed to take ou ten years in a month, and eve y body said bi mind was affected. He soon ceased to do business, and shut himself up from the world like a hermit. It was the anniversary of the daughter’s death before anything else important oo- currel. Then Aunt Hattie, as I bad always called the sister, wrote me such a strauge letter that I was suro her mind was affected, and I hastened home to And that she bad disappeared. The lawyer was little tetter than daft, not being able to keep bis mind for five minutes at a time and spending most of his hours in the garret of the house de livering imaginary addresses to imaginary courts. It was generally believed that the woman had drowned herself, though the body was not found. At this time a brother of the lawyer came from Burlingtou, la., and bad him adjudged of unsound mind and took him away to a Chicago asylum. He had not. been an Inmate of the plane two months when he threw himself from a win dow and was killed. What I have told you up to this time was common talk, published iu three or four different papers, and I may add that nine tenths of the people believed in the old crone’s curse. The house was Arst rented to a grocer, who was known to everybody as a hard-headed man and a man with plenty of nerve, and yet after six weeks’ residence in the house he moved out. He had leased it for a year. I do not know what he may have told others, but be in formed me, under promise of secrecy, that he believed the house to be haunted. It was no use to ridicule his statements for he was serious and earnest. The fact of his moving out proved that. He, however, made suoh reasonable excuses to others that he Anally subleased to a stone yard man named Applegate. The latter lived there only three weeks. Neither he nor his wife would offer on ex cuse beyond that the place was rather lone some, but a daughter 20 years old said they had heard footfalls passing through the house until all were half scared to death. On several occasions, she said, the kitchen door had been found open when all were positive that it had been looked. A NIGHT IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE. It was a year before any one else took the house, and it was then vacated for good. The story got around that it was haunted, and though it was offered rent free to poor people, no one would move into it. When It was put up at auction sale there was only one bid, aud so no sale was effected. While ready to admit that I half believed in "the curse,” I can truthfully declare that the stories reaching me from time to time regarding the house excited my oontempt. For several months bsfore the opportunity came 1 was anxious to pass a night there and Bee what would occur. House ana grounds had long teen abandoned to tramps, but yet on certain occasions these tramps had made queer statements about what had happened there. The windows had been broken, the doors torn away, and the once fine old mansion was a had wreck when I inspected It one afternoon. The only two doors left intact were tho sliding doors separating the parlors. The others had been used for fuel in the Areplaees. I told no one of my intentions, but at 10 o'clock that night, armed with a revolver, candle aud matches, I returned to tbe house and sat down on the Aoor in a corner of the back parlor. There was a doorway between this room and tbe dining room and one be tween that and tbe kitchen. It was a warm night in summer, with never a breath of wind. It was as quiet as a graveyard in the house and about the grounds. You must not think me boastful when 1 teil you that I was not even shaky, I was somewhat ex cited, but not at all nervous. Iu the Arst place, I believed that all the stories had been grossly exaggerated, and in the next I was of the opinion that some practical joker had a band in the business if there was anything in it. From 10 to 1 o’clock nothing happered— nothing but my going to sleep. I heard the town clock strike 12, and I heard the Arst quarter chime. I didn’t feel sleepy, aud yet I dropped off, and about a minute after I awoke the clock struck 1. The sounds of footsteps awoke me. Someone came up the graveled walk from the gate, passed around to the kitohen door, and en tered. It was a shuttling, dragging step. It passed aoross the kitchen, passed across the dining room, aud I firmly expected to tee a person in the doorway. It was not so dark but I could have made out even a rat. No one ap peared. I crept on hands and knees to tho doorway. No one could be seen. While I orouohed there the step went away from me across the room and into the kitoheu to the back door. I followed on tiptoe clear to the hack door. I stood in the doorway while the footsteps passed down the gravel walk and were lost at tbe gate. Whose footsteps? You tell! I returned to the parlor and sat down. In about ten minutes someone slowly descended the front stairs. There were no frontdoors. I rose up, tiptoed into tbe front parlor, and thence into the hallway. Nothing was to be seen. After a minute the footfall echoed down tbe ball leading to the dining room. I followed after. I seemed to be almost over them. Had there been a person there 1 should have bumped aguinst him. Down the hall, through the dining room, aoros-i the kitchen, and down the graveled walk to the gate. Thus I followed tha footfalls and saw nothing hut the gloom of the night. Feople had told of hearing women weep, of sighs and groans and curses, of sudden drafts of cold air and the sounds of blows. I heard nothing hut the footfalls. I went away not because I was afraid, but beoause I had found out all I could. In a year or two more a part of the roof fell In, aud the house was a sort of ruin, wherein tramps skulked away when hard pressed for lodg ings. After years and years one of them started a conflagration and perished in the flames. Whose skeleton did they find? I believe it was “Aunt Hattie’s.” I believe the half-crazed lawyer killed her and hid the body somewhere in the walls. That’s all. You oan smile in derision or speculate on it as a mystery. RICH CONGRESSMEN. THE NEW SENATE POORER THAN THAT BODY USED TO BE. From the Washington Star. The only very rich man among the new sena tors is A. C. Beckwith of Wyoming. His wealth is estimated all the way from $500,000 to sl,- OOO.iWO, derived from coal mines and banking. Next to him in point of means comes Murphy of New York, who has accumulate 1 at least $:53,000 in the brewing business. Notwith standing the acquisition of these fortunes, the upper house as a body is not half so well off in money as It was during Mr. Cleveland's first ad ministration. Three of the greatest capitalists in the world have dropped out of it since then. Hearse of California, who died two years ago, was worth $2 >,000.000. When Stanford first escorted him down the middle aisle < f the Senate to be sworn in it was remarked that those two individuals could buy out all the rest of the Senate if they wanted to. Payne of (ihio, the .Standard oil magnate, has retired with his $15,0(K OCO from service, and the term of Uncle I j hilotus Sawyer of Oskosh, VVis . came to an end March 4of this year Thebegtnuingof the I SC3,OA),i>X) which he has got togeth-r was SI,OOO lent him by his brother when he wa. a youngster. Having rolled this small nucleus into a hugh financial enow ball by investments in timber lands he paid back the loan with $4 interest for every $1 borrowed. Two other men of millions—Farwell of Illi nois and Palmer of Michigan—have left the Sen ate Since Clevelan l’s first term. The only great fortunes which have came into it meanwhile are those of Calvin S. Brice, who has made about i S5 0C0.(i00 oy speculation in railway and oil i stock, and Thomas C. Power of Montana The I latter is worth at least $1,500,000. He owns railways and steamship lines, as well as trading houses all along the Montana border. The Thomas C. Power cattle Company is one of tue biggebt enterprises of that kind in trie west. POORER THAN IT USED TO BE. All things considered, the upper house is much poorer than it uso l to be, tbouth there are still a number of millionaires In it. Stanford of California, though he ias given $1,000.0 10 to ids pet university, mu.t have at least $;5,U00,- 000 Don Cameron may b • set down at $-, J 0.- 000 His money was inherited. Eugene Hale of Maine has $2,000,000. He got most of it with hit Wife John Sherman’s means are not ote ostimated at $1,000,000. He has been very fortu nate u laud speculations, and he has Invented largely ill real estate in YVasuington. William K Chan 11 r <.f New Hampshire has accumu lated *750,00 I by manufacturing wool and by lucky sacculation. Carey of Wyoming and Teller of Colorado each possess about sdoe.ooo. k.nes of Nevada is a very picturesque figure financially, having made and lost more fortunes THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. MEDICAL Ft. 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He still owns one-t wehth of tbe great Comstock lode and is probably worth $1,500,000 to-day. Mining: speculations are extra hazardous. Senator Jones' colleague, Stewart, had $3,000,- 000 at one time. It was then that he built that monstrosity of architecture called Scewart castle, on Dupont circle, now occupied by the Chinese legation. Probably his wealth amounts to no more than a small fraction of that amount now. Washburn, the Minnesota miller, has been a great gawoler in land. Two years ago he was reduced to comparative pov erty; at present he is probably worth $750,000. The richest member of the House of Repre sentatives is John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin. His possessions will foot up at least $1,000,000, most of which he inherited from his father, who was tbe great financier and railway organizer of that pa; tof toe country a generation ago. The son is president of a gas company aud of a bank in Milwaukee. NOT MANY REPRESENTATIVES RICH. Not many of the representatives in congress are r.ch men. Thomas B. Reed is very well off. though he always “talks poor.'* Before he wag chosen speaker he kept house, but since that he has lived at Levi P. Morton’s great hostlery on Fifteenth 6treet, the •‘Shoreham.” Speaker Crisp puts up at the Metropolitan hotel Mr. Carlisle has until recently lived at one hotel or another since he first took up his residence in Washington. The late Samuel J. Randall dwelt iu a little bouse which his wife owned on (J street southeast. Chairman Springer of the ways and means committee, occupies a small rented house on B street noitheqst These lo cations, though conveniently near the capilol, are very unfashionable, Dingley and Boutelle of Maine ana Burrows of Michigan board at hotels. Four-fifths of the representative* board. Much that is paid about the difficulty which congressmen find in living hereon their salaries of $5,000 a year is not well founded in fact. A score of representatives could be mentioned off hand each oi whom saves from $2,000 to $3,000 annualiy out of his pay. Jerry Simjsouof Kansas aud the ec eatnc Martin of Texas, who is alleged to have blown out the gas at a hotel when ue first come to Washington, have been among the most economical among recent members of the House Many of them occu *. y single bedrooms, dress shabbily aud live iu no respect better than the average department clerk. There are plenty of boarding houses here where meals aud lxigiugs can be got at low prices, from $lB to $35 a month. This city has been widely advertised as a very expensive place to dwell in. It is not so at all, if oue chooses to be saving. For S7OO a year one cau rent a nice little house near the capitol; a serv ant cau be got for $lO a month, an the markets are not hub. If a congressman must have a fine house in the fashionable ouarter of the town a r and enter tain liberally $5,000 will not go very far. The same proposition would apply anywhere else. One trouble with the new member is that be does not know whether he is going to remain here two years or twenty. For furnished dwell ings an absurdly high rental is demanded. Many legislators for the nation save by leaving then families at home. Out of Bio-odd mem bers and delegates in the House during the iast session ouly 90 had wives with them. It was n iticeable that of the 10 members whose names begin with the letter O not one was accompa nied by bis wife. Out of the 16 P's only 1 had his wife with him in Washington, aud of 21 M's but 3 enjoyed the companionship of their spouses. Is it possible that men whose nan.es begin with those letters are commonly less in clined to be uxorious than thoso whose initials are found elsewhere in the alphabet? On the other hand, more than naif of the senators were* accompanied by their wives, an l they had twenty-seven daughters with them in addition. WHAT IT COSTS TO BE IN SOCIETY. Some of the finest places in this city of beau ttf ul houses are occupied by congressmen A senator, whoso wife is fond of society, cau easily spend $20,000 a year iu entertaining with out making much of a splurge. The Brices are particularly lavish with flowers, the table et their dinner parties being always fairly c >vered with c stly roses aud other blooms. This item alone must cost them several hundred dollars for every evening of such festivity. Living on such a scale a very moderate reckoning of a congressman's expenditures in Washington would teas follows: Rent of furnished house $12,000 Entertaining 20,000 Housekeeping and servants 10.000 Equipages 5.000 Two daughters ... 8.0-0 One son 5,000 Summer outing 10,000 Other expenses 10,000 Total 000 The total might easily run up to SIOO,OOO. In the legislative halls a congressman who lives on such a scale may sit choek-by-jowl with a colleague who spends $7 a v ok for his meals and a small bedroom in a third rate boarding house. The contrast is very striking. One reasou why there are so many millionaires in the Senate is that when a man has at tained great wealth there Is nothing better for him to adopt as the final ambition ot his life than a senatorship, which may be considered the most agreeable aud dignified position 11 which any body can attain. Washington, too, is a very delighttul plac& to livelu. ADVANTAGES OF BEING A CONGRESSMAN. Certain advantages a congressman enjoys which ordinary people do not share. Forex ample. let it be supposed taat a senator feels fatigued at the close of an afternoon session. He desc -nds to the basement of the oapitol and has a w arm bath drawn for him in a superb tub of white marble. If be prefers be can make it a Turkish bath, for which all the appurtenauc s are at l aud. There ure negro attendants skilled in massage who will thump and slap him to his heart's content. For ail this he is not required to pay a cent Perchance a favorite corn has annoyed him during the day. He summon* the official chiropodist, a salaried expert in govern ment employ, who operates free of charge. If he expects to spend the evening outlie may want a snave and haircut, which are readily obtained at the hands ot deft-fingered barbers, likewise in the servic: ot Uncle Sam The hair tome applied to his locks, the “brilliantine'’ for his mustache and the cologne bestowed upon hit countenance through an atomizer are all purchased out of the contingent fund of the S-uat • Finally, a gratuitous "shine" is put on his boots by a stipeodary shoeblack. Among other things which the contingent fund pavsfor are castor oil, of which any Sen ator can get a dose for nothing, quinine pills, ‘ pond lily wash" and c urt plaster. Then; are but a few of hundreds of such queer things which are enumerated in the accounts Of tiie secretary of the Senate, together with ginger ale by the case and lemons oy the box, as being required at government expense for the com fort of t int aligns body. The representatives at the other on lof the capiti l have their bar ber shop a! o. but they pay for their shaves and haircut- ’ ' some reason which has never been saii-b.ctoriiy explained, a senator is sup posed to li ivo -ed of many more luxuries than arp granted tn a mem tier of the House. He is allowed a clerk at $2.0)3 a year, while only lately for the first time lias it been decided that a representative may bo granted a clerk, so Ion,: as the salary of sunh an assistant does not exceed $10) a mouth. PRIVILEGES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAV. geveral useful privileges which congressmen formerly tad tney no longer enjoy. They abused the right of franking to Buch an exteat, _ LEOPOLD ADLKR. LEOPOLD IDLER, Successor to A. R. ALTIVIAYER & CO. Our Prices are Proof Against Needless Expense. It's only natural, expected, consistent with our progress, that our Spring Stock should be GRANDER, GREATER, MIGHTIER than ever before. Cash and quan tity make prices. We get the lowest price, and always will sell at the lowest price. Why Not Economically Supply Your Wants Here? COME DOWN ANY DAY THIS WEEK. WE HAVE MADE PRICES TO STAMP IT AS A MOST DECIDED BARGAIN WEEK LADIES’ Mnslin Underwear. 3,C00 pieces fine Cambric or Muslin GOWNS, SKIRTS, DRAWERS, CHEMISE. CORSET COVERS, elegantly made, trim med and finished, same as sold at previous sales for 59c and 75c, will go on sale this week at 23c and 49c- SECOND FLOOR EMBROIDERIES Cotton, Cambric, Nainsook and Colored EDGIISGS and EMBROIDERIES, usual 10c, 15c and 25c qualities, at sc, 10c and 19c Yard. MAIN FLOOR. REAR FLOUNCING!). Every piece of Ladies’ Hemstitched and Embroidered FLOUNCING in the house, 45 inches deep, suitable for dresses or aprons, Isc Yard. Misses’ Swiss Flouncings, 27 inches deep, 10c Yard. MAIN FLOOR. REAR Gfloves. One lot of KID GLOVES, 500 pairs, all kinds, all sorts, all sizes, 85c Pair. MAIN FLOOR, CENTER using it to obtain free transportation for all sorts of packages and bundles, that it has been restricted. At present they are only allowed to frank public documents and official litters. Koch senator or representative has an annual allowance of (125 worth of stationery. This is drawn upon by requisition for anything that is wanted from the big stationers’ shops at either end of the capitol. Until recently these shops kept such things in stock as penknives, opera glasses, clocks, etc., the consequence being that ninny legislators bought their Christmas pres ents at cost prices out of their allowances. This was put a stop to finally. Railway passes are no longer so readily obtained as before tue inter state commerce law came into force, but it is believed that most congressmen get them just the same. Congressmen are allowed 10 cents for every mile traveled in going one round trip from home to Washington and back during each con gress. A member from California would draw S3OO on his account. In the early days of the national legislature senators and representa tives were paid at the rate of $8 for everyday of actual service The roll call thus served as a salary list. There being no railways then, in stead of 10 cents a mile, one day’s pay was drawn for each 20 miles traveled. Twenty miles waw considered a fair day’s journey on horse back or by stage. Nearly every congressman has a book of tranks for telegrams, supplied by the Western Union company. Such a book contain* 100 detachable stamps and the holder, when he wants to send a message, simply tears one out and sticks it upon the telegraph blank These nlankg are biing used to a considerable extent at present for telegrams which have re lation to appointments to offloes. The possessor is not supposed to employ them for business purposes, but only on private matter:. Representatives in congress use l to be al lowed to draw on their salaries In advance from the sergeant-at arms of the House. When the lamous Kllcott defalcation occured a number of members were found to have got money ahead of their salaries Tie sergeant-at arms did a largo business in lending money to mem bers and shaving their notes at a high rate of interest. He would make loans which were se cured by the member’s salary and by a life in surance policy guaranteeing the latter’s sur vival. He could only lose in case the member resigned, which did happen on two or three occasions. In one instance he lent a man $lO, 000- the entire amnuut of his salary for two years of service ahead. This sort of thing was put a stop to when Bilcott's theft occurred, and now no representative is permitted to draw a penny in advance. He can only get his $415 a month as it comes due. Convinced t)y an Oriental Adept. From the Washington Hews. “The stories of the remarkable power of the oriental adepts to bury themselves for months have not been exaggerated in the least,” said Archibald C. Lewellyn, a Rritoulan, whose ruddy tan and sturdy irsme bespoke the exposure and trials of many lands. “When I first went to India some years ago, like every other white man I was abso lutely incredulous as to the ability of any man on earth to be hermetically sealed in a box and burled underground for six months, or six hours, for that matter. “One day my dhmga told me of the fakir who bad just come into the little village, who, he said, could perform the feut. After a great deal of ceremony and by dint of a liberal bribe, we set about to bury the yel low-skinned old ra cal. He was not a very lovable object, and I would have about as little trouble on my conscience , of killing blra as any human being I ever saw, but 1 felt like an accessory to a murder as wo lowered bim iuto a trench lu my garden aud heard the plunk of the eartn upon his coffin. He was swathed in bandages from head to foot. He had drawn himself up iDto a bail, bad rolled back Ms tongue into his throat, stuffed his ears and nostrils with s it wadding, aud was apparently (load teu minutes after he began his final prepara tions. ‘1 put a white guard over that grave night and day for six months. At the end of that time, as agreed, the natives gath ered together and I sent for the officers of our mess and we dug him up. If I had seen Moses resurrected, if Julius Cassor were to walk down Fennsylvania avenue, I would not be more astonished than I was when 1 saw that fakir. He was covered with mould, and, while perfeotly Inanimate, had not decayed. “In about three hours he had fully re covered and was chant! og the praises of Buddha.” CHINA SILK DRESSES. Plenty of women make their own dresses, plenty more hire them made, but a greater number of them buy them ready-made. The time is past when to get either the newest style or the exactest fit it is necessary to go to a special dressmaker. Sixty China Silk Dresses in Black and Red, Black and White, and Navy Blue and White Stripes, were previous to to-day sll 98, goon sale MONDAY MORNING at $7 90. * BECOND FLOOR. WRAPPERS. Percale, Woven Cotton Flannelette Wrappers, Mother Hubbard Yoke- Watteau Back, Body Lined, all new Spring Patterns. Another lot Calico, Gingham and Flannelette in neat and pretty designs, prices 89c to $2 25. SECOND FLOOR. SHIRT WAISTS. White Lawn and Percale. Plaited Back and Front Plaited Ruffles Down Front Rolling Collars and High Sleeves; all of them, both the 75c and the 98c kinds—you take your pick from some 70 odd dozen. At 49c. SECOND FLOOR. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. ——A. T I I O ]\l E— — IN THEIR NEW REPOSITORY (Finest in the South), BROUGHTON AND JEFFERSON STREETS, (Formerly M. BOLEY & SON’S Stand.) CORK FACED COLLARS. LIGHT, COOL. ELASTIC. GUARANTEED . NOT : TO : GALL. /ojr Anh: über-Busch Biikwiwj Ass’n. i i&8 gr H St. Lons, Sept. 9. Ikß4 ) We take pleasure in informing you that fIS, is your Cork-Faced Collars havti given ier (j S feet satisfaction, and we declare them to ffimffa- /.a he the best horse collar at present in ex- Mm. Canada fgmk lstence. They are lielit, o >ol, elastic nnd $$ a. ’ir ¥s* durable. Their lightness of weight is a ■■■ H w great comfort to horses aud pro- BMIWm lßia vents sore necks and the elasticity BH.I the cork facing prevents sore ■y | HBMHiatinnidnra A number of our draught an • WS Jaß rry. Mtfjimab. with sore neck, have been com 'pyVTsjl ttr" ‘ BsHfl pietelr cured by the use of your Cork ’JHgpS JHW Faced Collars. We have now a large T&fewA number in use anl propose to re vflwV place all our other collars by Cork-Faced Collars an 1 to use none others hereafter. Mj-SSANHEUSER-BUSCH HB WING ASS'N, * s Geo. Kiilhsuick, Vice l're. _ , _ A . .. ti I "T”r— i— yryt IV. KA X) X' 111 IRON-CLAD GUARANTEE. ofmck b*x'.kt. rolks &. co . i , . i u v CoKTBACTOW. V -Ly Hobokk <a , Jau. 14. IU2. j ••We will replace every bro . II _ xx- U_x l_x A 1. ukh for ti e ptst fifteen yenri, an i bavin* ken steel axle, no matter what I I 'obi/iV-^ 1 metai um.isor; ns. tbmibii Ketn, boiio 11 J It ~S&. I and rou axleo. but b never been able to find the load might weigh or what *'lieei?a > .d t M*fl’a*l< Bt of y-ur Auburn*. Wo havo done away with all other makes an.l use the circumstances under which UMf IVC -w?"n I SKiK it broke, free of charge.” ALbIRN SML-AXiJS mmi ABBIC Jan.22, 189 J. f Mxtal Storm. Savannah Carriage and Kissimmis, Oa.. I IVViflon Cos.: Not. 21,1891. f Dear Sim —I have (//jfi Steel Axle” Wagon for An - TT7 — ——■— slijl used tbre ® ot y° ur ‘Aa- Our No. 3 PIRN WAG9H .i : li.i .. I. .... On.” IlOsr.U INFANTS’ CAPS Mull and Laca—not one among them that has not been sold at from 25c to 50c— cut to 13c. SECOND FLOOR 75 MORE PIECES Everybody knows the value, the useful ness of the French Flannels, which alwaya sold for 65c to 75c a yard. A smart manu facturer on this side has produced the same effects in TUXEDO FLANNELS, beautiful and serviceable designs espec ially adapted tor wrappers and children's dresses While they last you can buy them at 6 1-4 c a Yard. M AIN FLOOR, CENTEK JERSEYS. One odd lot BLACK and COLORED, regular 50c ones, 11c. SECOND FLOOR. Wine Glasses. Three gross of them, Fluted, Plain, Banded and Engraved, at 33c, 49c, 59c and 73c per dozen. 250 dozen GLASS SAUCER EGG CUPS, cost you 89c dozen usually, this week you buy them at 69c for 12. ADLEU'a ECONOMY BASEMENT. EVERYTHING n .-tf-w® W H E E L harness too. AND EVERYTHING OF THE BEST Victorias, Coupes, Surries, Pony Carls, Speeiinx Bag gies, Carls, Sulkies, Rockaways, Carriages, Etc. 15