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the COMINI. WEEKS PL AYS. l sight at the Circus and Richard, The Lion-Hearted. jjejlie McHenry to Make Her Bow to S ivannah Theater-Goers Tuesday jj ;) jht- Robert Downing- and Eugenie Blair to be Here Thursday Night in Richard Cceur de Lion The New Edition of the Devil’s Auction Next Week. Tuesday night, Nellie McHenry in -‘A jjjjrlit at the Circus.” I : ursday night, Robert Downing in ••Richard the Lion-Hearted.” These are the coming week's attractions g . the theater. Miss McHenry is anew attraction here. a" .Night at the Circus is a mixture of so '-, dance and fun in the usual way, in fit ion to a grotesque side view of life J.ujj the performers in the white tents. Tii.-rc is more of the play itself by H. Grattan Donnelly than is usual in the vehicles of variety specialties, and for Miss McHenry is provided the double character of twins, one of whom is a de- E .in quakeressand theothera frolicsome c-ir.-us rider. During the first two acts 11,equestrienne makes fun by taking the plan'of her sister as governess to four demure but roguish girls. The last act is i.ia\ed in the tent dressing room of the •■Greatest Show on Earth,” with Miss- McHenry in the guise of Mile. Electra, the queen of the arena. It is full of saw Must. spangles, lioop-la and band-wagon flavor. The play opens in a lav office and closes in a dressing tent of the great imperial dirctfs. The droadful office boy is on hand, and so is the pretty typewriter, whom the patrons embrace in a way to send the chills down the backs of the suspicious wives. Both members of this firm have wives. It transpires that a visiting governess is to be engaged by one of the wives and that Mile Electra. queen of the arena, stands in need of legal advice against a cruel manager. In the second act the people all rendezvous at a summer hotel. The demure little governess who, of course, is only a dashing queen of the arena in dis guise, proceeds to get everybody by the ears. There are plenty of songs and dances above buffoonery, constituting an entertainment which a visitor can come away from without self reproach for having laughed at it. Mr. Downing comes to Savannah this season with a company of extraordinary strength, associated as he. is with the sup port of his beautiful wife, known to the stare as Eugenie Blair, making perhaps two of the most conspicuous peo ple now before the public engaged in the presentation of plays belonging to the legitimate drama, in the company are also Edmund <.‘oilier, Thomas A. Hall. William Frederic, Rose Osborne and May I/indley, actors of recog nized ability who stand well throughout the whole country, all of whom have sup ported some of the best players known to the American stage. Mr. Downing prom ises this year a most complete staging and costuming of all his plays. It is doubtful if Booth and Barrett, when they were playing jointly, exercised more taste and historic correctness in the use of costumes than is this year being accomplished by Mr. Downing. ‘‘Richard, the I .ion hearted’’ had its first production at Chicago less than a year ago. Everywhere it has been presented it has been received with favor. It is tflmssic in its construction. The best dra matic critics in the country have been l high in its praise. It is a play rich with | historic lore. It gives a graphic idea of f the reign of Richard I. Those who have read Macaulay or Hume are by no means unfamiliar with the intense dramatic career of Richard Our delylonl. Vale's new edition of tho ‘‘Devil's Auc tion" will he litre Tuesday aud Wednes day nights. Sept. 19 and ‘JO. It will be the next attraction following Robert Downing. The Manola-Mason Company in “Friend Fritz," opened the new Macauley theater in Louisville, K.v., last Monday evening, and played to over six thousand dollars ou the week, an indication that the hard times have not affected theaters in that part of the country. Manager Robert .B. Monroe will at an early date give a production in this city of-ruder the City Lamps,” by Leander Richardson, a critic of plays and players for many years. The play was produced a few weeks at the close of last season and was a hit. PLENTY OF COUNTERFEITS. A Bogus Five-dollar Silver Certifi cate in Circulation. Agents of the United States secret ser vice of the treasury, say that anew counterfeit $5 silver certificate of the scries of 18S6, containing the portrait of General Grant, a small carmine seal in tin* right-hand corner, check letter H, with small figures 13 to the right of. the Mter B (indicating the plate number), is m circulation. 'fhe counterfeit is of the issue with five shver dollars represented on the back. I he portrait of General Grant is dark and scratchy, the numbering irregular, aiei the hack a dark bottle green ; whereas, the genuine is more yellowish green in co ' or - Most of the notes seen have been creased to represent the parallel silk threads. Since 1891 the genuine of this issue hus. like all other notes, been printed on the new fiber paper, and anew design used for the back, in which there is a "■hue space at each end, showing dashes °i red and blue fiber. INVITED TO JACKSONVILLE. Savannah Cyclers Given a Chance to Win Prizes Thera. 1 lie race committee of the Jacksonville Atlil, i,. ail( i Bicycle Club has invited tl" 1 Savannah” to Jackson 'n i next Thursday to participate in the v iub s races there, postponed from Friday on account of the rain. Ail tiie open races, throe miles. ", 1 mile, quarter. novice and ■"'two boys’ races, will be re-opeued and entries can be sent in till Wednesday u-iu at li o’clock. The official handi r j Ol . |,'i or j t | a j s oul 0 f tiie state, vuv it n°t for that fact the handicaps "ciml fie reopened. race (oaimittc”, in extending the „ / nvitation to Savannah riders, says: j," •'(K'ksonvllle riders greatly appreciate 1 many kindnesses received at the c is (li ifie elub there and desire to mby rev j_ .'o ate. GAVE HIMSELF UP. bi At an Watlo’s Partner Surrenders to the Solicitor. M. Burke, who was one of tin l men in ' '* by the grand jury of the city court '■ beeping a policy lottery, went to the < lie of the soiicilor general yesterday il: ; 1 surrendered himself. ake was one of tne men who worked a the old negro El ward Wade. Ho jl "is shop near the Charleston wheel • {"CTesa aregt, lane b •twcu Drayton “ ul ‘- Hisfcoul was fixed at S3OU h i’ ,ou Ch Lord Roberts is one of the bravest 1; ■';! !ini * va’rtainly the best general in the U ,7/' arm vV- h 1 has a horror of cuts, and uu °t it In a room with one. THE WEEK AT POOLER Personal and Social Gossip In the Lit tle Village. Miss Tilley Picket is u guest at the home of li. J Herb. Rev. (i. 1. Reverie will hold services at the Methodist church to day. Miss Louisa Zink visited at the home of Mr. George Schroder last Sunday. Mrs. McConnell has returned home af- j ter an extended visit to Walthourville. Mrs. C. C. Hill is speuding a few days with her mother. Mrs. A. Sheftall. Mrs. Stunt and daughter are visitors at tlie home of Mrs. J. Symons, ou Rogers street. Miss Leila Hurst, of Egypt, is spending a month's vacation with her sister, Mrs. W. Moray. Rev. R. W. McConnell left for Atlanta Thursday to spend his vacation. He will be absent until Oetoher. The Pooler Rifle Club will hold its reg ular monthly meeting at the home of G. E. Bovans Thursday evening. Mrs. Solomon Shoftall is visiting at the home of Mrs. Thompson, on Newton street, and expects to make Pooler her future home. , A hop was'given at Patterson Hall, last week.-by the young men of Pooler, com plimentary to the visiting ladies. Dancing was indulged in to the early hours and all had a most enjoyable time. Miss Emma Zink entertained the mem bers of the Pooler Broom Cadets at the home of Mr. George Schroder Monday evening. After partaking of the hospi tality of Mrs. Schroder, dancing was in dulged in. Miss Virginia Sheftall has been elected sergeant of the Pooler Broom Cadets in place of Miss Agnes Blackwell, who has moved to Savannah. The ladies are pro gressing rapidly in their drill and expect to give an exhibition at an early date. Miss Annie E. Green gave a birthday party to her juvenile friends at the home of her aunt, Mrs. E. Hussey, on Skinner avenue, last week. After partaking of the good things and indulging in juvenile games, the little ones returned home highly pleased. The Pooler base ball club defeated the Nancy Hanks last week, by a score of 15 to 2. The feature of the game was George Richardson’s playing on first for the Nancy Hanks. Mr. E. L. Patterson umpired the game and it looked at times that he would never umpire another game. The batteries were Brown and Patterson for the Poolers, and Ham aud Bourne for the Nancy Hanks. A meeting of the citizens of Pooler was held at the Baptist church Tuesday even ing, when G. E. Bevans, D. C. Newton and Dr. W. X. Bleakney were appointed a committee to lay before the school board the necessity of Pooler having a school house built. Tim petition of W. H. Bourne for principal of the school was unanimously indorsed. The meeting ad journed until next Tuesday evening to receive the report of committee. THE CHESS CLUB’S MEDAL. It Goes to Maj. A. L. Hartridge as Champion. The Savannah Chess Club has become one of the social institutions of Savannah. The interest that has been taken in it has resulted in building up an influential membership. The club has just awarded its last medal. Secretary Thomas Dykes, in presenting the medal to Maj. A. L. Hartridge, says in his letter of presenta tion : “I take pleasure in presenting you With the club’s championship medal for session ending Aug. 31,1893. “In doing so. I desire to notice the sig nificant feature of the tournament as hav ing been one intensely interesting and eminently marked with bright playing. All the games have been most keenly and closely contested, which reflect and testi fy much to your ability as a player of the noble game. “The admiration of the club is due, and you unquestionably have it; it is proud of the now present holder of its medal. The members wish me to . express their con gratulations.” Maj. Hartridge replied, thanking the members of the club for their friendly ex pressions. HE WAS A SLICK THIEF, But Detective Morgan Was Too Much For Him and He Was Caught in -a Trap. Henry I .ark, an experieneed negro crook, thief, shoplifter and criminal of various other pursuits, was very neatly captured while working one of his dodges last night, by Detective Morgan, who has been on the lookout for him for some time. Lark is just out of the penitentiary, having served a six-year term there for burglary. Detective Morgan thinks he is also an escaped convict and that he has been sentenced on another charge since his discharge front the penitentiary. Lark had a way of going around to va rious stores Saturday night and helping himself to various articles while the pro prietor was not looking. He has been suspected of this for sometime. He gen erally had an accomplice with him who carried a basket into which various art icles were hidden away. Last night Detective Morgan put a man on his track. Lark went to several shops and stole a number of articles. He was not caught in the ret, however, until he went into L. Bluestein’s store on Bryan street, when the man whom Detective Morgan had put to watch him saw him take a pair of pants and throw them into the basket which was carried by another party. The detective was soon on hand and Lark was at once given a ceil in the barracks. CITY BREVITIES. Two people were injured yesterday on the Electric railway by being struck by the gates to the market bridge. The Jewish New Year begins to-night at sunset. Special services will be held at the synagogues. To-morrow will be a holiday among the Hebrew people. The walks in the Para extension are very much washed out and badly torn up as a result of the recent rains, and they need attention. Especially is this true from Bolton street out to New Houston. The water will be shut off at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning on liiver (or Bay street extended) from East Broad street to Hart<§n's wharf for the purpose of putting in hydrant, and will be oft sev eral hours. Miss Nellie Walsh and Miss Emma Meyer have returned, after an extended business trip north. They have visited all the different art palaces, and have purchased a feast in this line for the la ities of Savannah. They will also carry a pr.'try line of dress trimmings and gloves this fall. C. L. Giover, P. S. Glover, Itawls Moody and Leon Stewart, who were committed to jail some days ago on a charge of forging the natn : of Mr. Milton Orr to an order which was presented to IV. E. Stokes, the boarding house keeper on West Broad street, were discharged from custody yesterday after a brief pre liminary hearing, as Mr. Stokes decided not to prosecute the -ase. Other Markets. New York, Sent. 10, l p. m.—Cotton quiet; middling uplands She middling Orleans middlings ales 381 bales. Futures closed stead 1 with sales of L.1.1.X) tales, as follows: September delivery 7 c. October delivery - ■ c, November delivery s ’,(.'. December delivery - c January de livery -. • February delivery * ice, March delivery 8 AL, April delivery 8 71c, May ueliv ev>i sue. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, IS9T ALL RELIGIONS Tl) MEET. The Grtal Piiliincii al the World's Fair This Keek An Urique Assemblage of All Beliefs. Two Days Set Apart for Theosophy, During Which the Principles of the New Faith Will be Presented- Mrs. Annie Besant’s Life Work--Bud dhists. Brahmins and Christians on a Common Basiß. One of the features of this week at tho world's fair will be the parliament of re ligions. Two days have been set apart for the exclusive presentation of the principles of theosophy .and the thousands of people who attend will, for the first time, find out definitely what theosophy is. The Theosophieal Society, though in existenc eonl.v eighteen years,has grown to such proportions that the management of the fair granted it two days at the par liament. The Theosophieal Society was founded in New York by Mme. Blavatsky in 1t75, and it now lias branches in evein part of the world. In America there are 75, in Europe 50, and in India 150, besides which a dozen or more are scattered in out of the way places like Peru and the west. IX UNIQUE GATHERING. The parliament of religions will be the most unique that has ever been held, since never before in history have reli gionists from all over the world met for the purpose of comparing their respective doctrines. Theosophy includes all reli gions, so from the theosophieal platform all religions will be expounded. Buddhist theosophists will tell of Buddhism, Brah min theosophists will talk on Brahmin ism, Hebrew theosophists on Judaism, Catholic theosophists on Catholicism, Protestant theosophists on their particu lar creeds. All will meet harmoniously, since this doctrine of brotherhood is the one thing fn theosophy that all who would join must subscribe to. THE THEOSOPHISTS' BELIEF. Theosophists may believe what they please, but they must regard all men as sons of one God, and all religion as rivu lets flowing from a common source—the ocean of Truth. Thus a Christian is at liberty to believe his religion better than that of the Buddhist, but lie is no theosopliist if he claims that his religion is the only true one. The great mass of theosophists believe that Buddha, Jesus, Confucius and all other great religious teachers are men who have evolved to perfection through having lived many lives on earth, and that they constitute a secret brotherhood from which mem bers are sent now and then to toach humanity. According to this* view for example, Jesus, who taught Christianity, might have been the incarnation of Gautama, who taught Buddhism. Not only do the va rious delegates tolerate each other's reli gion, but most of them agree that the doc trine of reincarnation is taught in their respective religions. In America and Eu rope, although nearly all the theosophists are either Christians or Hebrews, thedoc trine is almost as fully accepted as by the Asiatics. Probably the most widely known of the delegates is Mrs. Annie Besant, of Lon don, famous as a lecturer, friend of the working girl, thinker and theosopnist. MRS. BESANT’S BISTORT. Mrs. Besant’s life history is a stirring one. She married early, taking as a hus band the Rev. Besant, a brother of Walter Besant, the novelist. There was no per sonal love in the union. She was impelled by love of Christ, thinking she could bet ter serve Him by joining her life to that of a minister of the gospel. Mrs. Besant had strong views on the subject of right and wrong, and it was not long before she discovered qualities in her husband that seemed to her very "unlike the ideals of Christ. She obtained a divorce on the ground of cruelty, but an English blue law gave the husband the guardianship of the children. Then came a terrible internal struggle. Should she abandon her chil dren or her convictions ? She renounced Christianity and became an infidel. When her children came of age, both of them left their father and re turned to their mother. Meanwhile Mrs. Besant became a member of the secular society, gnd. associating herself with Charles Bradlaugh, M. P., together they made war on dogmatism. A CHAMPION OP THE POOR. Mrs. Besant then discovered the awful condition of the laboring classes of Lon don. and from that time on she became their champion. She exposed the abuses to which the poor match girls of London were subjected, aud in public lectures day and night made piteous appeals for re form. Her eloquence stirred up parlia ment and many reforms were legislated. It was due mainly to her agitation that Burns was given a seat in parliament as a representative of the labor ing classes. Mrs. Besant’s efforts resuit'ed in awakening the working men and girls to their rights, and under their guidance they organized. She was a socialist almost before she new it, and one night found her in Trafalgar square at the head of the column of an army of workingmen, with a regiment of soldiers charging down upon her with fixed bayonets. But she stood her ground, and her bravery won for her the admiration of all England. A CONVERT TO THE NEW FAITH. Mrs. Besant then becanle the pupil of Huxley and under his tutorship proceeded to educate herself aiong the lines of science and philosophy. One day at the office of the Review of Reviews there came a book called the “Secret Doctrine.” It was by Mine. Blavatsky. Editor William T. Stead tried to review the work, and giving up he sent for Mrs. Besant and asked her to undertake it. Mrs. Besant was at once im pressed with the mine of original thought contained therein, and she sought Mme. Blavatsky for an interview. A friend ship sprung up b‘Btw een the two, which not even death severed, and tho rarfe phe nomenon of oue great woman acknowledg ing herself small in the presence pf an other, content to be a disciple, was exhib ited to the world. It took months to digest enough of the work before a review could be attempted, and at the expiration of that time Mrs. Besant was a convert to theosophy. One of her acts of philan thropy was the founding of a club for the working girls of Lon don three years ago with $5,000. TUT FIRST THEOSOPHIST IIEHE. William Q. Judge is the most promi nent of the theosophists in America. He is president of the Aryan'Theosophieal Society in New York, general secretary of the american section of the theoso phica! society, arid vice president of the t licosophical society'all over the world. He is a lawyer, author and thinker, and it was through him that the first theoso phical society in America was estab lished. At one time, about eighteen j ears ago, he was the only tlieosophist in New- York, in fact he was almost tno only man in the metropolis who knew that a philosophy of that name existed. SACRIFICED HIS CASTE. Prof. Ganendra Nath Chakravarti, a high caste Brahmin, will be considera ble of a curiosity in the parliament. A high Brahmin cannot cross the seas away from his native country without sacrific ing his c aste, and as the rank of a Brah min is supposed to be higher than that even ot the native kings it is very sel dom. indeed, that a Brahmin comes to America. The professor thinks less of his rank than he does of theosophy, how- ever, and he has •aoritnx'd it. So he came to this ixiuntr.v n plain Hindoo Al though a delegate only to the the '••pineal convention Prof Chakravarti has been asked by the theological board of the fair to represent theosophy at the parliu ment of religions. The youngest repre sentative of a great religious s> stem will , be Mr. H. Dharmapala, who represents the millions of Buddhists who form the creed known as the Southern Buddhist church, Although chosen by the Bud dhists to represent them Mr Pharmu pala is a tlieosophist as well as being a Buddhist, and it is expected that lie will take part in the theosophieal convention. Heison the programme tospeakon theos ophy as underlying all religions. Mr. Dharmapala is only about 30 yours old and he is highly esteemed in his native country for his enthusiastic devotion anu purity of life. He is one of the chief officers of the Maha Bod hi Society of India. WARSAW IN A BAD" FIX. The Town Can Levy a Tine But Can not Enforce Us Payment. The Supreme Court May Be Asked to Construe Warsaw’s Charter as Judge Falligant Has Decided That The Town Commissioners Cannot Have a Man Imprisoned for the Non- Payment of a Fine—Cases That Will Go to the Supreme Court. The town of Warsaw is a corporation which has a power without the means of enforcing it. In other words the marshal of the town can make an arrest for a violation of its ordinances and the judge of the police court can levy a fine, but if the guilty par ty refuses to pay the fine the town au thorities have no means of compelling him to do it under their charter. At least so Judge Falligant decided yester day. SENT TO JAIL. The case was that of B. Wilson and of W. H. Merritt of Thunderbot, who were arrested for a violation of the town ordi nances, and fined for their offenses. They refused to pay the line, and were im prisoned in the Chatham county jail. They brought a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Falligant, claiming that the town authorities had no jurisdiction under the charter to pursue the alternative punishment of imprisoning them in the jail. Judge Falligant decided in their favor, and ordered that the two men he discharged from custody. NO POWER TO IMPRISON. He heard argument on the case some time ago, but postponed his decision until yesterday in order to give the town com missioners time to bring up some other points that they asked to be allowed to present. He said in his decision that the acts of 1878-90 only authorized the estab lishment of a police barracks, and that was the express authority in the charter, but that they had no jurisdiction to pur sue the alternative punishment of impris onment in cases where fines wfere not paid. He did not think that payment could be enforced in this manner, and he ordered tho prisoners discharged from custody. A Final ‘Decree Taken. A final decree was taken yesterday in the case of A. Minis and others, including D. H. Baldwin & Cos., intervenors, and the fund before the court for distribution was $2,728.75. An order was granted giv ing all the parties to the suit the amount due them with the exception of Mr. John Schwarz and 1). H. Baldwin & Cos. They were paid only in part and given judg ments against Kei&ling for the balance. George MacFarlane, formerly one of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s subjects, who came to this country in 1877, was made a citizen of of the United States by Judge Falligant yesterday. A similar honor was conferred upon Charles Gut man, formerly a subject of the Emperor of Austria, wljo came over in 1888. Walter F. Hogan, of the Germania Bank, applied for appointment as a notary public. CASES FOR SUPREME COURT. Twelve From the City Court and Four From the Superior Court. Tho clerks of tho city and superior courts have been busy for the past few days preparing briefs of evidence and bills of exceptions, records and other papers, in cases which are to go up to the supreme court at the October term. The last of the records in tho cases from the city court were completed yesterday aud forwarded to Atlanta. They were the cases of: Benjamin Ficklin vs. the Savannah Street railroad, in which the plaintiff got a verdict for SSOO. Jake Beasley vs. the Savannah, Thun erbolt and Isle of Hope railroad, in which theuilaintiff got a verdict for SIOO, and Henry*Bryan vs. the Savannah Thun derbolt and Isleof Hope railroad in which the plaintiff was also given SIOO. The other cases which have gone up to the supreme court from the city court are: The state vs. James McGarr, charged with cheating and swindling, who was given twelve months on the cnain-gang. Cheney vs. tho Ocean Steamship Company which was non-suited by JudgeMacDonell. Demere vs. the Merchants’ National Bauk, and Guilmartin vs. the Merchants’ National Bank, in both of which cases verdicts were rendered in favor of the plaintiff. Wm. Dußose vs. the Savannah, Florida and Western railway, in which a verdict of SI,OOO was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. M. J. Falve.v vs. the Savannah, Florida and Weftern railway, in which case the plaintiff got a verdict for $2,370. The Navassa Guano Company vs. the Commercial Guano Company in which a verdict was rendered in favor of the de fendant, and Julia McGrath vs. the City and Suburban railway and Alexander Gardner vs. the same,both of which cases were non-suited. This is the largest docket that has gone to the supreme court from the city court in a long time. Judge MacDonell has not met, up to this time, a reversal at the hands of the higher court, but twelve is quite a large number for them to look for flaws in. The superior court has but comparative ly few cases to send up from this term. The most important of these, and the one involving the largest amount, is the case of Freeman and others vs. Prendergast and others, which, it will be remembered, was decided in favor of the defendants. The other cases which are to go up from the superior court are: The Bowker Fertilizer Company and others vs. Cliffton, administrator, which was decided in favor of the defendant. F. I-*. Cook and others vs. Benjamin Gammon, which was decided in favor of the defendant,. The Ambrose Harris habeas corpus case, in which the habeas corpus was de nied. arid the case of-M. L Jones vs. J. D. Glover, receiver. This is small docket, but as a good many of the cases were contined the chances are that there will be a larger number to go up from the De cember term. ALONG THE RIVER FRONT. Items Gathered Here and There Among the Shipping. The American bark Mary S. Ames, which has been at this port for three weeks, has been chartered by J. F. Minis A Cos She will take a carp'of naval stores to Java. Tilts is the first Ameri can vessel in a numl>er of years chartered to carry naval stores to the East Indies. Captain Knowles, who has been in the Ames for several years and makes con tracts for her freight, prefers to take a deep water trip to accepting the very low rates offered for freight along the coast. The Kansas City arrived yesterday. She riqiorts September 9 at 8 a m , Capo Romaim- bearing W S. distance about thirty miles, passing a large vessel’s hull, bottom up, in eleven fathoms of water: copper purtly stripped oil. Also passed a large lot of wreckage, logs, lumber, etc , from Frying Fan to Tybee. The steamer Alpha was hauled up on Willink’s marine railway yesterday to ,he overhauled and repaired. The damage done by the storm, whieh forced hemp on a mud bank near Bluffton. was not very great, and she will be off the ways in a few days, and will resume her regular trips to Beaufort and way landings. THE LAST PIRATE S MILLIONS. An Arkansas Man Claims to Know Where They Are on the Florida Coast. From the St. Louis Globe. Democrat. There is $2,000,000 in gold buried down on the Florida coast, aud St. Louis mer chants have been asked to help recover it. The exact location of the treasure is known, and all that is needed to get it is the requisite nerve and energy and the paltry sum of SIO,OOO to fit out an expedi tion. The directors of the Merchants’ Ex change have it under their thumb,and are jealously guarding it lest an enterprising private citizen grab the good tbiugoffered and secure the golden booty. The story of the treasure reads like one of Robert Louis Stevenson's romances, hut is vouched for by the best of authorties. Part of it is told in a letter that George H. Morgan, Secretary of the Exchange, has secure locked up in a burglar-proof safe. The letter was received yesterday, and it was directed to the Board of Di rectors. After being discussed by the Board it was committed to tho care of Secretary Morgan, who allowed several members to peruse it without seeing the name. Then, when inquiries began to he made about it and the interest to increase the secretary concluded to place the precious communication under lock and key and await developments. To all en treaties after that he was deaf, and the only information that could be gleaned was from parties who had been favored with the privilege of perusal. The letter is from a prominent Arkan sas merchant. It consumes four large sheets of paper, closely written, and makes a number of very bold assertions. The merchant starts out by telling the “president and'board of directors” of the exchange that he needs their aid to tho tune of SIO,OOO. If he did not need it he would go ahead and get the gold himself. Upon his marriage recently, he says, lie came into possession of a chart, a map, and comprehensive guide to a portion of the Florida coast where the money is hid den. His wife received the data from a New Orleans physician several years ago, just previous to his death. Years before this the physician, sitting at the death bed of a poor patient, had been given tho secret as pay for his services. Twenty years before this deathbed scene the pa tient had been intrusted with the papers by another dying man in New Orleans. This man was the last survivor of tho party that had buried the gold. The history bf the whole survivor’s ef forts to regain possession of the treasure he had helped bury was a pathetic one. Worn out with fatigue he had landed in New Orleans about tho close of the cen tury. The frightful hardships he had un dergone proved too much for pven his frame of iron, and he was taken from his sailor's lodging house to the hospital more dead than alive. He still kept the pre cious chart and map, however, deter mined to return to the Florida coast as soon as convalescent. His sickness lasted nearly two years, and when he was finally turned out of the hospital he was a physi cal wreck. With dogged perseverance, however, ho set out to prepare for his ex pedition after the gold His appearance was against him, though, and men to whom he told his story regarded him as a maniac. He all but succeeded several times, but as each scheme seemed about to develop, soino untoward event shat tered his plans. The war of 1812 coming on defeated what promised to be his greatest expedition, and after that he had not the energy to try again. Ho kept tho papers until bis death, and only then did he resign all hope of securing the fortune. Dying, he left them to his nearest friend, with the promise that the treasure would be searched for and found. The same fate, however, that had pur sued the unfortunate pirate seemed to follow the second owner of the papers. Try as he might, all his plans went by the board, and he died as penniless and as far from the treasure as the man from whom he got them. Business and family interests prevented the physician from searching for the gold, though he had al ways intended to make the hunt before he died. The writer of the letter to the Ex change grows quite melo-dramatlc when he describes the events leading up to the burial of the treasure. It was in the troublesome days of the close of thceight teenth century, he says, when the Gulf of Mexico was still a terror to owners of merchant vessels from the presence of the pirates who infested its roads of travel and tree-grown isles. Foremost among these marauders was the “Skipper of Sawyer’s Key,” named from the coral island ui>on which he pitched his rendez vous, and to which he usually brought his booty. His craft La Mort (Death), was more dreaded than the cholera or yellow fever, for the skipper knew no mercy. For years his black flag waved over scenes of carnage too horrible for pen to picture, and the very atmosphere of the South western Florida coast was shunned by all vessels that did not bear regiments of soldiers and double rows of cannon. The last cruise of the pirate was a singularly successful one. It was in the autumn of year, when ships from South America were bearing to England, France and Spain many a rich planter’s profits of a twelve-month. Some of the ships bore ingots of gold and silver mined from tho southern mountains. Many a fine lady, bedecked with costly gems, accompanied her lord to the old world. The same fate that made the harvests rich And the winds fair caused dozens of these vessels to fail into the hands of the skipper aboard La Mort. The planters were re lic ved of their money bags and ingots, and the ladies of their diamonds and rubies. Before the cruise was over the skipper had gathered in over $2,000,000 worth of gold. Finally he started for Sawyer's Key, there to divide the booty and spend a winter in revelry and drunkenness. But ne never reached his port. A storm, the like of which seldom ever visited the Gulf, swept down upon i-a Mort and tcro her shrouds from her masts as though they were hut tissue paper. The helm broke, the masts themselves snap|K-d like pipestems in tho hurricane, and largo waves rolled from stern to stem of the ship, washing away the bulwarks and scores of unfortunate seamen. With all haste the longboat was launched and a few of the crew loaned in the treasure, a few provisions, and a supply of water, and resigned themselves to the mercy of the waves. The storm lasted three days, and at the end only four of the crew lived. The skipiier was among the survivors. and directed that the treasure be buried. A spot was selected near Fonce de Ix-on Bay. where they were washed ashore, aud with great toif ana trouble a hole was dug and the money planted. Oue of the party was a civil engineer, and he made a sketch of the spot and surroundings, being careful to take such markings as could never tie obliterated by time or the elomenWc The little band of four them started toward civilization afoot. From Pouee de I/•on Hav to the habitations of man was a long ami almost hopeless Journey. Swamps impassable barred their way. and their scant auiqily of provisions gave out. To make a long story short, only one man reached New Orleans. His companions died one by one in the morasses. His trials after reaching the Crescent City have already been told. The directors of the exchange are evi dently inclined to look upon the scheme with some favor, chimerical though it may be. The pnqxisition of the merchant is to pilot a searching party to the locality where the treasure is buried, and then, with the assistance of charts and instru ments in the hands of a scientific man, to locate the spot amt unearth the treasure. He does not propose to surrender his claims to the wealth, but, being without tho necessary means to prosecute the search, he will surrender one-half of all that is found in case the merchants, indi vidually or collectively, conclude to fur nish him with iho means necessary to carry out his plans. That the pirates in the early days of the republic concealed along the coast vast sums of money and precious stones of untold value there is hardly a reason to doubt. Florida, at the time referred to, was inhabited by wealthy Spaniards, and the ships that visited the coasts brought with them cargoes of immense value, and carried away to the old world the riches of the purchasers. At St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, the peo ple still talk about the depredations of the pirates, and they firmly believe that t here is treasure of almost fabulous value buried somewhere along the const not far from the city. Of course the directors as a body can not go into the scheme. It must be put to a vote of tin'? exchange. “Money is too tight now to go into a scheme like that,” said one member when interviewed on the subject. Moses Fraley read the let ter and took the trouble to quote it from memory to dozens of members. Mr. Phil Schrimer wanted more information before ho would commit himself either one way or the other. He wanted the letter printed in full and discusser!. Mr. R. F. Annum, the first vice president and acting president of the exchange, was asked to give the letter for publication. He consulted his secretary, Mr. George H. Morgan, and after reversing his decis ion twice, finally ordered the secretary to treat the letter as a private communica tion. WEALTH FROM REFUSE. Talk With a French Contractor Who Collects the Sewage of Paris. From the San Francisco Examiner. Charles Gaston, who has for yours been connected with the famous firm of Souffrice et Cie, who has been winning wealth from the sewers of Paris, is among the guests at the Palace Hotel, San Fran cisco. Mr. Gaston has not oome to San Fran cisco with the idea of suggesting the adoption of the Paris system in connec tion with the sewers here, but, as an ex pert in his line, he lias discovered in a day thut San Francisco's system of the sewerage is at least several degrees short of the Parisian ideal. “The work done "by the Maison Souff rice in Paris,” said Mr. Gaston, yester terday, “could not be carried ou so well in Sau Francisco or in Chicago as in New Ypi'k or Philadelphia or Washing t*u, it-needs a stream, and Paris has the advantage of the Seine, where there is no tide. With the help of the Seine MM. Souffrice have made an immense fortune, and they have won it all from the waste of a great city. All the sewers of Paris, you most know, center in one great sewer, which empties into the Seine just below the bridge of Asnieres. All the refuse, the greasy and dirty water, the unclean waste of the shops and streets pass into this and out upon tho river again in one form pr another, and it is from this we reap our harvest.” Mr. Gaston said the firm had never asked a sou for scavenging the city and found themselves fully repaid by what they collected in tho streets and on the waters of the Seine. The founder of the firm, as early as 1836, began the study of how all waste material might be utilized, lie afterward associated his sons and then his grandsons with him and early in the 'fids they took the job of keeping Paris clean. They bolt a big factory at Bourget and hud tho chiffoniers bring there all the rags and refuse of the city and they turned it into gold. The next step was the development of a specialty In the utilization of the waste of the butcher shops and shambles. This was all boiled in great vats and tho scum was made into oil and candles and other merchantable commodities. One set of men collected the rags and waste that engineers and machinists used around the factories and machine shops. The grease was extracted from these and purified, the rags were sorted, the woolen stuff re duced to powder for jfertili'.ation pur poses and the cotton turned into paper stock. Mr. Gaston's personal superintendence, when at Paris has been directly in con nection with the collection of things found floating on the water. The firm got permission to construct short piers out into the Seine below the point where the great sewer empties, and on these men stand with huge forks or spoons, lifting out everything that floats along. It is all carted to Bourget and boiled and squeezed and sorted. The grease is treated with lime,and is transformed into soap and glycerine. The wood, hay, stubble, corks and paper, when dry, are used to feed the factory furnaces. “You would probably be surprised,” said Mr. Gaston, “to know how many dead animals are picked up in the Seine in the course of a year. I can give you some figures that will astonish you, but I can assure you they are less than the ac tual records. I have known more than 8,000 dogs to be fished out of the Seine in a single year. Calves, sheep, goats and pigs mine along every day or two. Scarcely a da.v passes without a goose or a duck or a chicken being found, and rats are very plentiful. “Next to the dogs, however, come the rabbits. The i>oor people of Paris all have dogs, and most of them raise rabbits in a backyard or on the roof. The latter breed so fast that many of them are thrown into the sewer, and then they are part of the fish that come to the Souffrice net. Cats come under the same category. All these bodies are treated with chemicals, and the different parts are utilized to the best advantage.” An incident in the industry developed in this connection was referred to Ijy Mr. Gaston as asticots. The eggs of the myr iads of flies that congregate on decayed matter at the Bourget factory produce so many grubs that it was found possible to supply them as bait for the entire fishing contingent of Paris, and it is not unusual for the firm to sell SS.IKK) worth of these grubs during a single fishing season. “Those connected with the Souffrice es tablishment are often told,” said he in conclusion, “that the original idea of this great business was suggested by Victor Hugo’s remark in 'i/cs Miserables’ that ‘Paris throws into tho water every year 25,000 francs.’ ” Robert D. Wrenn, the new tennis champion of the United States is a Harvard man of the class of 'BS. His home is in Chicago. He has been prominent in college athletics ever since he entered, and has been a member of the freshman base ball and foot ball teams. Dr. James McLeod of Albany, who was mentioned favorably a year ago as ihe suc cessor of Dr. Howard Crosby, in the Fourth avenue church. New York, has teen called to the First Presbyterian church of Scranton, Pa. DRY GOODS. i Till MI IIS! I SKIS FOR THIS WEEK. PANIC PRICES PREVAIL! Gents' Unlaundorod Shirts, reinforced linen bosom and bands, good muslin and well made, the regular 50c qualiiy, at 35a, or 3 tor sl. Gents' Plaited Bosom Unlaundered Shirts, open back and front, a very good article, tor 49c; reduced from 75c. One lot Gants’ Night Shirts.fancy trimmed, at 39c and 49c: reduced from 65c and 75c. Closing out balance of Gents’ Negligee Shirts at little over half price. 100 dozen Gents’ Best 4-ply Linen Collars, in all the leading shapes, at 10c each; regu lar price 15c. Gents' Regular Made Half Hose, in tans, slates, unbleached, striped and black, guar anteed seamless, at 15c per pair; grand value for 25c. Odds and ends and broken sizes in Gents’ Hall Hose and Balbrlggan Underwear to close at halt price. Ladies' Muslin Underwear. Ladies’ Torchon Trimmed Night Gowns at 39c and 49c; reduced from 50c and 75c. Ladies’ Handsomely Trimmed Night Gowns at 73c and 98c; reduced from $1 and $1 35. Great bargains in Ladies' Chemise at 21c, 25c, 39c and 49c. Ladies’ Skirts, Drawers and Corset Covers all reduced to actual cost. At Cost! At Cost! The balance ot our stock of Ladies’ and Children’s Shirt Waists reduced to actual cost. Grand drives in broken lots ol Ladies’ and Children's Hose, black and fanoy, at 10c, 15c and 19c; worth 15c, 25c and 35c. AGENTS FUR STANDARD PATTERNS. FOYE & MORRISON. EDUCATIONAL. St. Vincent’s Academy SAVANNAH. CA. Hoarding and duj school for Youn* Ladles, under the charge of the Sisters of Morey. 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