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Lent is a beautiful season in which to
devote one's time, energy and skill to
charity, and to benevolent endeavors gen
erally. The whole year through is a good
time for the same purpose, but slumber
ing society leaves Lent free to be devoted
to church and church work, and now
some effective work is being done all
through the city and by all denomina
t ons. Benefits are being given, and the
human heart seems overflowing with
love for humanity. One of the best
movements on foot is the fund being
raised for the family of the late J. C.
Neve, policeman. The more the amount
increases the better it speaks for the
recognition of Justieoand generosity in the
hearts of the Savannah people. This is
only one of the many instances of the
readiness Savannah people have always
shown to lend a helping hand when
it is needed.
The birthday party at the parsonage
of the Independent Presbyterian church
last Friuav was a novel and
pieasant way of raising the
lunds lor the new Sunday school build
in'. The ladi’s of the church have been
indefatigable in their labors to erect this
building, and they are naturally impa
tient to see its completion. Invitations
wen; out in [>oetry to attend the part v,
and accompanying the invitations were
small bags to contain the pennies corre
sponding to the age of the giver. The in
vitations read like this:
“A birthday party is to be given, and we will
explain the r a, on why:
Never mind how few or many, we all know
how the years do fly;
For each me of the blessed years of your life
the thought h is been suggested—
A penny for each oncealed in this bag, that
is what is requested. ,
The pennies must be counted together, so we
hope you will have no fear.
For we assure you that secret is yours that
we do not wish to share.
The object we Know is a good ono that ap
peals to us one and all;
We want the Sunday school finished surely
by next Fall. ’'
The spacious and hospitable rooms of
the parsonage were filled from 7 to 10
o’clock with the guests, and the evening
was a social success as well us a triumph
pe ur.iarily. The amount taken in 'was
over S2OO, by contributions. The supper
was dainty and inviting, and the table
lovely with iced cakes, maiden hair ferns
and flowers. The supper was donated
and was more than sufficient for the
guests. The large and comfortable rooms
were filled with happy chattering chil
dren from 4 to 6 o'clock, and songs and
trames amused the young ones aDd so
passed two happy hours. From 7to 10
o'clock the guests filled the rooms to over
flowing, and even the stairway was occu
pied by couples, conversationally inclined.
Dr. and Mrs. Drippg received their guests,
most cordially and the evening was as
charming socially as it was successfully
financial.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Solomon compli
mented Kev. Dr. Calisoh with a fish
breakfast at Thunderbolt last Thursday
morning. The other guests were: Mr.
and Mrs. A. Berg, Mr. and Mrs. H. Solo
mon, Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Haas.
Concerts, lectures, holidays, and a few
dinners and entertainments have filled
the week, and society in general, has been
quiet this week. The theater was the
central point of attraction.
Invitations are out to the party of little
Miss Alice N. Coilat to-morrow evening
from ■ to 9 o’clock. The invitations are
dainty, and on one corner in gilt letters
the words “You arc invited to my party’’
will prove irresistible to the young people
who know what a good thing is always
expected at the hospitable home of Air.
and Mrs. Louis Coilat.
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Baldwin took a
party on the Dixie last Thursday to War
saw and a charming day was spent out of
town. "J he guests were Mrs. Huger, Miss
ii e Pi Maud Thomas. Miss Lily
Hill. Mr. H. C. Cunningham, Mr. A. 11.
Lawton, Jr.. Mr. C. A. L. Mussie, and Mr.
ihomas Boggs, of Athens.
i Hauers entertained at dinner
fast hriday evening. The guests were
ivir. YV. C. Charlton, Mr. Robert F’alli
gant, Mr. H. M. Comer, Mr. Edward
Karow, Mr. A. R. Lawton, Jr., Mr. J. B.
Duckworth, Mr. W. H. Daniel, Mr. Will
iams. Air. j. F. Wheaton, Mr. L. T.
Turner.
-Miss Myers and Miss Goodman, who
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy
f.' .T 3 ’. on t ;as, on street, left yesterday
tor their home in Richmond. Va.
Air. F. G. Bell is in New York.
Mr, and Mrs. P. Williams, Mrs. Edith
ida ° r anC * ss Julia Smith, are inFlor
. A I i lon P flm guests at the reception given
m ‘ Hsi’dinund l#inizy to Mr. and
Vv Ke ■"’H'itn. in Athens last week,
were Mr. and Mrs. P. A.'Stovall.
Mrs. Gardner complimented Aliss Ha
fner.-. augh, of Philadelphia, with a yellow
;, <a “ ls t Wednesday afternoon. The
towers were in profusion and the accesso
ries were in tasteful blending.
Miss Marion Blorkie. of Chicago, is
visiting Miss Fioren oOlmstead ouGwin-
JJfA street. Miss Bio kie is a favorite in
> avannah, and her large mini her of
inends will be pleased to hear of her re
turn to the city.
, Ml ' Haygood Sams, of Bluffton, S. C.,
Was the guest last week of Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis W. Haskell.
Mr. H. 1). Stevens and son, 11. D.
nt'yens Jr . are spending a few days in
‘ '-“'fiiwcst Georgia, visiting Mr. Stevens'
sister.
Air. Rhydon C. Mays, of Augusta, is
now a resident of this city, and will bo an
acquisition to society, as he is a favorite
wherever he goes, and iiis pleasant face
iiini a liable manners have gained lor
him hosts of friends. This is what
the Augusta Evening News says: "Au
g ista must surivudur ono of her
prominent young men. Mr. Kbyilon G.
.*lu\s. who holds a rrapensih e poaltlou
on l nele Ham's coast survey department.
ijeen transferred to Savannah, and
left Thursday to lake up his abode In the
To rest City. The many fri; tula of Mr,
Mays will regret to learn that he must
leave Angus a. as this ujmg gentleman
b.v nis genial and hail fellow well-mat
vats, Its* male iiims.'lf*xlremaly popte
m, not omy With the sU tmr, but the
fairer sex as weU. Decidedly, Augusta's
loss will be Sataunah's gain.
Miss Josephine Wicks, who has been the
guest of Miss Annie Lynah, has returned
to her home in Baltimore.
Mrs. Marie Antoinette Summers, of
New York, who has been the guest of the
Misses Brigham, returned north last
Friday.
Mrs. J. J. Wilder and Miss Page Wilder
are at Suwannde Springs, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Rosenbaum came
up from Florida last Wednesday and
spent a lew days at the De Soto, and left
yesterday for their home in Richmond,
Va.
Aliss Lucy Boyd entertained last Thurs
day evening, and very novel and inter
esting features of the evening were the
prizes. The girl's first prize, a china
plate, on which was painted the birth
place of George Washington, was won by
Miss Fannie Meidrim; the second prize, a
box of Huyier's ws won by Miss Annie
Haines. The boy’s first prize, a gold
hatchet scarf-pin, was won by John Ham
mond: the second a silver hatchet scarf
pin, was won by Frank Heyward. Others
present were Misses Albert and Missie
Hull, Alisses Lina and Emma
Huger. Miss Carrie Lou Mei
drim. Miss Clair Johnson, Miss Hettie
; Goodwin, Miss Eliza Chisholm, Miss Mary
; Haines, Miss Georgia Kdmunstone, Miss
1 Corinue Mackall, Miss Frances Walter,
1 Miss Elsio Barnard, Aliss Annie Butler.
Miss Flewellen Strong, Miss Wayne, Aliss
Julia Hartridge, Aliss Ellinor Shotter,
Masters Tom Wa.vne, Drury Wood, Julian
Chisholm, Tyrel Morgan, Henry Purse,
Charles Mackall, Dan Hull, and Edward
Maclean.
The interesting lecture of the Rev. Dr.
Caliseh last Wednesday evening, at the
Masonic temple, was followed by a ban
quet given by the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association in compliment to Dr. Caliseh.
The guests attended in full dress, ami
later, danced to the strain of Cobb's or
chestra until a late hour. The ball was
the scene of rhythmic beauty, and the
toilet of the young ladies particularly
handsomeand becoming.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wilcox are
guests at the De Soto and will be in the
city some time longer. Mr. Wilcox has
many friends in the city and south, who'
are glad to meet and welcome his charm
ing wife.
Mr. E. A. Partridge leaves to-day for
New York.
The afternoon reception given by the
Band of the Willing Workers will be held
at the residence of Mrs. S. Einstein on
Liberty street to-morrow afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Vetsburg enter
tained delightfully at cards last Tuesday
evening at the De Soto. Euchre was
played, and the first prize, a cut-glass
dish, was won by Mrs. Lee Roy Mvers.
The second prize, a silver bonbon iere,
was won by Mrs. C. Guggen
heimer. The boohy, a feather
duster, was won by Aliss
Ham'ourgbcr. The first prize for gentle
men was won by Air. H. H. Gainsburgh,
it being a silver hat brush, The second
prize, a silver koy ring, was won by Mr.
L. Ka.yton, and the booby, a toy gun.
was won by Mr. Oscar Kulman; others
among the guests wore: Mr. and Mrs. L.
Ka.yton, Mr. and Airs. Leopold Adler, Mr.
and Mrs. D. Stern. Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Grouse, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Myers,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lippman, Mr.
and Mrs. Emile Newman, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Lippman, Mrs. Henry Gainsburgh,
Mrs. John Gainsburgh, -Airs. Charles
Quggenheimer, Miss Adele Rosenbaum,
Miss Ruthie Kayton, Miss Ada Schwab,
Miss Nellie Sternberger, Miss Birdie
Kayton, Miss Jean Alyers, Mr. Davo
Rosenheim, Mr. Mose Guckenheimer
and others.
Miss Kansford, of Atlanta, is stopping
with Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ransford, 72
Liberty street.
Miss Juliet Charlton Johnson, who has
been visiting Mayor and Mrs. McDon
ough. leaves for her home in New York
next Tuesday evening. Miss Johnson has
made many friends in the city, who
regret her departure.
Mrs. Ben George chaperoned a party to
White Bluff last Thursday. Among the
party were Miss Ruby George. Miss
Florence Righton, Miss Emmie Barnwell,
Alisses Madge and Florence Stewart,
Misses Mamie and Julia Levy, Misses
Amy and Etta Oliver. Miss Ethel Snokz;
Messrs. Hampton Miscally, Willie Right
on. George Jones, Robert Burnham,
Cecil Pacotti, George Wright, Marvin
Alingledorff, C. C. Connors, Herman and
Frank Oliver.
Miss Emma Hazlehurst leaves this week
for Pensacola, Fla.
Miss Henrietta Coburn is visiting friends
in Herndon, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. ,T. A. Bates entertained
a few frieuds last Wednesday evening,
after the concert, in compliment to Dr.
and Airs. Palmer: others present were
Mrs. Marie Antoinette Summers. Mrs.
Launcelot Haynes, Miss Emma Coburn.
Miss Kate Brigham, Col. Olmstead and
Mr. Julian Walker.
THE FASTEST STEAM LAUNCH.
She i3 the Torpedo Boat Cushing, of
Our Navy.
From the Washington Post.
The Cushing is to an ordinary boat
what a Swiss repeater watch is to a
Waterbury, and it has to receive a corres
ponding amount of care. * During all the
past season tbe little boat was cruising
about the torpedo station at Newport and
up and down tbe sound, and now she has
come back to the yard for her winter
overhauling. Her crew of twenty men,
with the exception of the officers, are
quartered on the old receiving ship Dale
win o tlie i Ashing Is being turned wrong
side out and shaken, so to speak.
looking at tins strange little boat as
she lies on the wa vs, ono wonder# where
there is room to put twenty men aboard
o' her ami c arry forty tons of coal, be
sides the boilers and engines. She looks
like a big green cucumoer, except she is
sharp (jointed us a knife. Two men can
almost 'pin hands across the widest part
of the deck, and as to length, she is com
plrUu.v lost in the bigshiphonse Hut she
is as and. eplivo aa the Irishman * pig. who
was “little, but he In Id well Ip under
conning low or at tbe fore there <
THE WEEKLY NEWS: SATE If DAY. MARCH 9. 1594.
is a tiny stairway that leads down to the
crasvs quarters, where twelve bunks are
packed in like cigars in a box. Aft are
four more bunks in the officers’ quarters,
two men are slungup forward in ham
mocks, and the cook sleeps on the stove
in the galley, while the steward stows
himself away ou top of the ice chest.
Amidships tbe boilers and engines take
up the who’ewidth and dopthof the boat,
with bunkers for forty tons of coal. The
wonderful feature of the boat here comes
in. At her maximum speed, say twenty
four or twenty-five miles an hour,
though the little greyhound has made
twenty-seven miles, this coal supply will
last her but twenty-four hours. But un
der economical pressure, that is ten knots
an hour, she can go for fifteen days and
steam across the ocean.
Although almost every one knows that
the Cushing is the greatest torpedo
boat of this, or any other country, there
is a great lack of knowledge as to what
she really is, many thinking her to be
an armored fighting boat, and others sup
posing her to be fitted for submarine
work.
She is neither one nor the other, but
simply the fastest steam launch that the
great Hereshoff firm has ever built. She
was turned over to the government four
years ago. She shows scarcely anything
above the water when she is in fighting
trim, and goes like an express train ; but
she is a veritable paper shell, in places
only five-sixty-fourths of an inch thick,
and would be externally punctured by the
lightest shot from a big cruiser, that is,
if the cruiser caught sight of her before
the Cushing had let off a torpedo under
her bottom, or if the cruiser could hit the
ghost lioat after she had her in sight.
It is this problem offimaking the Cush
ing invisible that accounts for the coat of
bottle-green paint under which she is now
masquerading. When she went to New
port this year she made her headquar
ters at the torpedo station, on Goat
Island, just inside the harbor; but tbe
practice grounds were out about Sag
Harbor and Peaconnet Bay. Every few
days she would run over to Newport to
coal up and take on fresh classes of offi
cers for instruction, and at such times
Lieut. Frank Fletcher, who commanded
the little craft, would telegraph the sta
tion that he would be in the harbor by
9:fio at night.
The San Francisco and the Miantono
moh would accordingly get their search
lights to working, and, aided by the. big
light at-the station, would swoep the
entrance to the harbor.
She was caught the first three times
she endeavored to enter the harbor, but
after trying several colors of paint it was
found that the dull green coat was prac
tically invisible, and after the third at
tempt she was never detected, though
there was only an arc of about 3<P to
be watched by the three big lights.
On several occasions the little boat ran
up within a few yards of the big cruisers
without being detected, and once steamed
into the harbor in the face of the big
light at the station and twice around the
island before she was seen. Tho green
paint seemed to tako the color of old
moss-covered rocks, and the only points
where the light was reflected was where
tho salt spray crusted above the water
line. Further experiments will be made
to get an absolutely dead paint, with no
gloss in it; but green has been accepted
as the best color.
The paint experiments were only an
incident of the season’s work. The main
business of the Cushiufz was to test the
first Whitehead torpedoes that were de
livered to the povernmeut and to find
under what conditions they could be used
with the greatest effect. The Whitehead
torpedo is one of the most remarkable
engines of marire warfare. It is a fish
like steel casing divided into several cross
sections. In the head is the fighting
charge of high epxlosive, just back of
that an flask where the compressed air
to propel the torpedo is held. Still back
of that is the “secret chamber,” where
the automatic steering and adjusting ap
paratus is kept, the mechanism of which
was so long kept a secret by the torpedo
makers, nnd finally in the tail of the fish
are the engines that run a pair of speed
propellers working in opposite directions
to keep the torpedo on an even keel.
The Cushiug has three torpedo tubes
from which these projectiles are launched
with a five-ounce charge of powder, just
enough to make them clear the side of
the boat. On striking the .vater the tor
pedo sinks to whatever depth the gunner
desires, and tears along at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, which the govern
ment contract stipulates shall be kept up
for 800 yards. But in reality the effective
flight is a good 1.000 yards. The results
of the torpedo target practice were very
gratifying. Tbe projectiles were fired
from the boat at varying angles, and
while going at varying rates of speed, up
to thirteen or fourteen knots. The aver
age range was4ooyards, and at this dis
tance. a fraction over four out of five
shots took effect on the target, which
was the size of an ordinary cruiser.
Another satisfactory feature of the
work was that out of over a hundred
shots not one torpedo was lost, a very un
usual occurrence apd a very gratifying
oue, as these little sub-marine spitfires
cost $2,500 each. The recovery of the tor
pedoes in the case of the Whiteheads is
facilitated by tbo wake of the bubbles
rising from the exhaust of the pneumatic
engine, and when tbe projectile has run
the length of its flight it rises to the sur
face, owing to the stopping of the ma
chinery.
The result of all the practice firing was
watched very closely, and curves and ad
justments of all sorts calculated to guide
the gunners in the use of these compara
tively unknown weapons when the larger
vessels of the white squadrou are
equipped with them.
The great problem, however, that con
fronts the torpedo fighters is the torpedo
nets thatare hung out by the big cruisers
for their own protection. These nets go
twenty feet or more below tho water and
extend the same distance out from the
sides of the ship. They effectually stop
a Whitehead and bring it to the surface,
but it was found that by the submarine
gun of tbe Destroyer, which was prac
ticing in the sound at the same time with
the Cushing, the nets could be pene
trated at 200 yards. The sale of tho sub
marine boat to the Brazilian government,
however, puts an end to these experi
ments, and the virtures of anew metal
net that was on trial in the sound have
not vet been fully determined.
After the season's hard work the little
Cushing has been subjected to a thorough
overhauling. Her boilers, with their 940
tubes, have been taken out, her ashpans
removed to bo replaced by new ones, and
nil of her engines and machinery made
over thoroughly. She will be undergoing
inspection, repairs and painting until
about the middle of April. By May she
will be in the water again as clean and
bright as a gunbarrel, and will be ready
to go north to Newport, where the same
line of experiments and instruction will
be carried out throughout the summer.
1 he first of a course of lectures on locomo
tion and fixation in plants and animals was
dollvered at the hoyal Institution by Prof.
Stewart. Fullerian professor of physiology
says the Westminister i .azette The torturer
said locomotion was necessary, whether in
p ants or animals, at some period of their
lives, to prevent Injurious overcrowding, aim
to enable tbe one or the other to obtain su. h
ne.essarles of life, as food an<l air Loeomo
lion was in aoltds In water and In air. The
first head was Hiii divlded Into Croeping
the greater part of the hotly usually in cor.
tact with Its support, walking and running
the !od being supported on and uiovu 1 t y
apodal parts; jumping tb" body being pro
Jected suddenly fromltn support or position
of rest, climbing, or prehension for he on
(ton by proxy- the organism as end in i aver
U ul or overhanging support, or liecoimng at
la bed to somo moving objsd. burrowln <
digging, lairing reu. sorption of hard par ►
Illation Lotomotlon In water was aun
divided Into floating ami swimming, and that
In air a* also subdivided Into passive, a
tlve flying iho ismainler of 'he loettir
wo* dvvouel to tho subject ot eraepuig.
FORTUNES HURT BY BOOTS.
As Wfll as One’s Healll, Color
anil Disposition.
Woman Who Once Wore 3’s Now
Ask for “6, Double A, Pointed
Toes’’—The Growth of Love An
alyzed and Stated in Terms of—
Shoes.
I- rom the New York lteeordor.
Mind you. there isn't a man living. I
don't care liow eloquent he is, but what I
can spoil all his eloquen e and make him
as dull as a bottle if be will wear some
shoes that I will make for him. I'll bet
you a hat that if I could shoe congress,
auk put hoots on all tho democrats there,
I can give the Republican party the full
swing.’’
That is what a veteran shoemaker said.
“Some people say,” he went on, “that
tho best thing that can befall a man is to be
born lucky, but I say it is better to have
good footwear; then he has got to be
lucky, it don’t make any difference how
ho is born.
“Everybody known a man’s brain can't
work when the circulation is impeded,
and nothing will stop the circulation of
the blood like tight boots. If I wanted to
do an enemy an ill turn I would oblige
him to wear a pair of boots I selected,
and I would make him stupid, thick
brained and silly.
• Say, did you notice how all the men
who came back from the world’s fair felt
better and thought the trip had benefited
them,while nine out of every ten women
came back worn out, and had to rest
and recuperate for twojor tlireo weeks;’’
“Of course.”
“It's all simple enough when one looks
at it from the shoemaker's point of view.
Woman s weak spot is her foot, Shtigoes
out shopping or sight-seeing, as at thefair,
and soon finds herself deadly tired.
“Women don’t stop to analyze how they
are fatigued. If they did they would find
it was just their feet, and that a reflex ac
tion, as the athletes say, makes them.
TIIINK THEMSELVES TIRED
from crown to solo.
“If 1 were to tell you that an innocent
looking stylish pair of walking boots
could spoil a woman's fortune and
standing in life you would say I was an
extremist, but I can prove my words.
“When a man looks around for a woman
to marry, he has got to begin by admiring
her first: love doesn’t strike a fellow like
the cramps or being hit by a locomotive;
it creeps along, and gets its innings on the
sly.
“A man sees a girl, in the street maybe;
lio admires her lor the way she carries
herself; he doesn’t look to see the size of
herlioot; he sees she has a fine wav of
walking—and there is not one woman in a
thousand who does walk well— so that is
the beginning of his admiration.
“She bad on a loose, properiy made pair
of boots, or she couldn't have attracted
his attention. See the point;
‘ All right. The next time he happens
to meet her he sees she has a marvelous
complexion, clear, bright enticing.
“How did she get it? From hor shoes.
A good complexion comes wholly from
perfect digestion, comes from exercise,
and my girl I’m telling you about couldn’t
have a sluggish stomach with all the out
door walking she does and she couldn't
walk in poor boots.
"So you see, her complexion comes from
where 1 said it did.
“Then the man who is now paying par
ticular attcntßm to aid the good poiuts of
thiS’fliM seessflefsamngfiiffobutlvformed
woman. With the physique of a'troddoss,
and 1 know how she got that; it was the
good shoes she had worn all her life that
gave it to her.
“When she was a little girl she was
rightly shod; she could run and climb,
scale fences, scramble up tree3. and her
development was not in any way im
peded, and her grace was then established,
a thing which, if a child possesses,
SHE KEEPS as A WOMAN.
“By the time a fellow has taken in all
this about a young woman he wants to be
introduced to her: if ho is lucky enough
to meet her, her disposition, he finds,
equals all her other charming points, and
he is her slave.
“Of course, I needn’t tell you it is her
shoos that make her position good, for
good digestion, outdoor exercise, freedom
from pain of corns, ingrowing nails, etc,
would give any one a good disposition.
“I know a prominent society woman
right in this city, the wife of colonel of
one ofNew York’s swell regiments, whose
husband married her for her walk
“It happened this way: One morning
be was walking down the avenue and
right ahead of him was a girl with a walk
that would tickle a military man most to
death. She swung along, hands at sides,
shoulders squared, stopped well on the
balls of her feet, chin in and moving free
and easy, with a gait like clock work, and
the colonel says now that he
used to- watch for that girl every
day and he fell in love with
her walk first and finally married hor.
“i have shod that girl from four years
old up to the present time.”
“Did you know,” continued the old
shoemaker, “that there are very few
people whoso feet match? It’s so. Tho
loft foot is always a trifle larger. This
is because people are so booted that they
have to fsvor the feet.
"It is usual for people as they start to
walk to put out tho right foot first; the
sho ‘ hurts them somewhere, and they
try to step lightly on it and favor it, and
then they come down heavier on the left
one and continue to walk so, and this.
MAKES A ONE-SIDED WALK
“It’s sad and surprising to see the old
shoes people leave off. About nine in
every 40 pairs aro worn down at the heel.
That tells a big story to tbe ones who
know. Why, any instructor in a gymna
sium would know to look, at those shoes,
that tho wearers were iu a bad way, going
toward invalidism.
“The one thing trainers and gymnasts
teach is this: Stand on the balls of your
feet. If you will not they
will not accept you as a
pupil. For to do it is to throw out the
chest, square the shoulders, draw In tho
abdomen, strengthen the whole muscular
system and fill the lungs with deep breath
ing.
"And yet the shoes of few people ever
show much wear on the soles, but show
iiow tbo wearer has sagged and slouched
back on his heels
“i can remember,’’ said the narrator,
“When you could hardly buy a puir of
boots or shoos in the United States.”
“Why?”
“They all had to be made to order,
There were shoemakers then who went
from house to house making up the shoes
for the familv. The manof the house killed
a cow or a calf, ofteuer both, and saved
the hides. These he would take to tho
tauners and have tunned and curried and
sent home.
“Then tho shoemaker would come for a
week or moro; tb • man. would havo lasts
of several sizes which he always kept in
the house, anil from these models the cob
bler would work, using tbe calfskin for
tlie shoes for the women and children and
lor the : os; wear of tbe in u, and the cow
hide leather for common boots and shoes.
The cobbler got about 50 cents a day and
his board.
“The time was not more than two or
three year, ago when the average size of
shoes sold to women was No : now It
is A. ihe actual size of women's feet has
not changed, but. you know, it is now
he style to have a very stlm foot, and to
wear narrow, poiuusi-loe boots.
"A woman with an average wide foot
wants it to look the same as the narrow
est footed one over seen. If rt or J-., is
her size, she buys the narrowest, say
double A, No. > boot, stuffs
THE TOE END ALL FULL OF COTTON,
amiout he goes, with a cucumber foot,
anent she doesn't have some holes to darn
in the heols of her stockings I'm a
hoodoo.
“It’s got so now a shoe dealer wants to
sell a big wad of cotton with evory pair
of boots he disposes of.
“There is ono habit of childhood which
never leaves a man, and that is his walk.
His form, his features, his voice, bis
disposition, bis very bone, sinew and
tissue may chauge, but bis walk never
does.
“Dp on Madison avenue lives a
multi million aire. I knew him
in Connecticut when ho was
a child. liis father died and left a
widow with seven children.
••Poor? they were so poverty-stricken
that that |K>or woman had lo put hor '
brood out to anybody who would take
them for what work they would do. The j
one I am telling you of was 7 years old.
He went to a man over near Stonington. j
and he had better died.
‘That man treated the child terribly, j
Ho used to send him three times a ’
week into the village four miles awav to ■
bring home groceries, and all the shoes
tho poor little devil had were the old boots
his master had got through wearing.
“I used to see him hurrying along
winter afternoons with a big Jug of rum
in one hand and a jug of molasses in the
other, with tears running down his
cheeks, and walking so as not to let those
big cowhide boots chafe his feet moro
than he could help, nnd I used
to give him a lift in my team
whenever I met him.
“He lived with that brute three years
and he got that gait-shambling and
drawing his feet along—and he has it just
the same to this day. He savs he has
tried every way to make it different, but
he can’t and it's tho heritage of his
poverty.”
The shoe dealer rose to wait on a lady
customer who called for "No. 5 double A,”
at which he turned knowingly and gave
a sly and most suggestive wink
with his right eye, while the left paid
strict attention to the business in hand.
' COLUMBIA’S WATCHMAN.
He is Both tho City’s Clock and Fire
Alarm System.
A few days ago the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat published tho following some
what fanciful but readable tale by one of
its hotel corridor reporters:
“The strongest voice I ever heard,”
said Col. Marshall, of Charleston, at the
Laclede, “is that {of the town crier of
Columbia, S. C. Columbia is the only
town in the Dntted States that still keeps
up the custom of having a town crier,
and probably the largest in area that any
one man’s voice was expected to reach the
uttermost boundaries of. The erhr
stands upon a high tow.r and
calls the hours, TO o’clock and all is well;’
’ll o clock and all is well;’ ‘l2 o’clock,
fire—fire—fire.’ The voice of tho man
now occupying that iiosition can be heard
anywhere within the city, and it is re
markable how quickly he sees and reports
a fire or general disturbance. I was there
once when at midnight ho cried that a
child was lost, and within live minutes it
seemed as though half of the population
was on the streets, ready to join iu the
search. It was finally found under a bod,
where it had rolled and gone to sleep.
When the crier dies the office will proba
bly be abolished—they certainly can not
find another with such a voice.”
Col. Marshall's little storv is interest
ing. but it is not strictly correct. Tho
city of Columbia does, indeed, employ a
watchman with extraordinary functions,
and he is stationed in a high tower, upon
the opera house building. But he does not
cry the hours, nor does he cry anything.
Ho doesn’t have to. He bus a big bell
and a big hammer in the tower with him,
and he fairly makes the boil howl when
anything is the matter. For the watch
man constitutes the fire alarm system of
the town, as well as the animated clock
that rings the hours. Tho city has not a
paid fire department, and is without the
Gamewell fire alarm system. Nevertheless
it is divided into fire wards, which are
rung upon the big bell by the watchman
in the tower. The opera house is situated
on a hill, and from the tower the watch
man has a bird’s-eye view of the whole
city, if ho sees an unaccustomed patch
of red at night in any quarter of the city
his practiced eye tells him at once what
ward it is in, and he rings the number on
tho big bell, Just as the electric current
does on the lire bells of larger cities. And
when lie lias rung the ward and paused a
moment lie does a “wild alarm” on that
bell that rattles the rocks ou tho hills in
tlie adjoining county.
Tho city watchman, besides constitut
ing the lire alarm system, is also tho
striking apparatus and all the little
wheels of a most intelligent town clock.
Tho city, as a matter of fact, has no
tower clock, though a stranger would
never detect the fact, so regularly and
accurately are the hours tolled out from
the tower. Tho watchman’s watch gov
erns the time of the city. When the
watch says a certain hour has arrived,
tbe watchman repeats the information to
the city with the aid of his hammer and
the big bell.
Tho two systems, of ringing fire alarms
and the hours of the day, are probably
not precisely what Columbia would like
to have, and what she will have presently.
But they have have been found quite effi
cient. It was the writer’s privilege
to be in the tower with the
watchman about 8 o’clock one morning,
when a fire broke out, and the way the
human alarm system waked tho echoes
and the people was a caution to electric
systems. In three minutes tlie fire force
of the town, consisting of the male resi
dents between the ages of (1 and 00, were
surging through the streets towards tne
scene of the fire in tho various states of
enthusiasm and semi-nudity known only
at early morning fires in volunteer de
partment towns.
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Dr. Motley’s fjernon Elixir is prepared
from the fresh luieo of lemon* combined
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Prepared only by Dr. H, Mozloy, At
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your Ijeinou Elixir, I have never had
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M LL'NERY.
AT KROUSKOFF’S.
The preparations for tha most successful spring open
ing are completed and consignments of Novelties and Mil
linery are received by every steamer from France, Ger
many, Switzerland and England. The coming season open
ing will be equal in elegance to tbe finest that New York
will offer. All our winter millinery we sell at any price.
We also offer at cost our Brocaded Cress Goods, in most
beautiful designs and shading.
The KROUSKOFF Ml LLINERY COMPANY
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CUSTOM MAKES LAW.
LAW MAKES CLOTHING CUSTOM,
AND TAILORS MAKE CUSTOM CLOTHING.
On Hoi made garment* are th© boat
after all. and cheaper too. when wear,
tit and general HatUfaction arc con
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purchased from large muihlUiimrntii
who ran afford to he satisfied with a
* smalt profit.
See me Eieaom line oi spring styles sr.own ey me great cmcago Tailors,
SOLOMON <Sc CO., at
The Mon’s Outfitter.
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FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
EIMIL ft. SCHWARZ’S
125 M 127 BrOHOllton St,
You will find the most complete assortment of
FURNITURE •"•‘CARPETS,
mattings, Linoleums, Oil Cloths,
LACE CURTAINS, WINDOW SHADES,
and all goods pertaining to this line in the city.
We take especial pride in offering Superior
Goods at Moderate Prices, and respectfully in
vite an inspection of our elaborate display of
eight floors of strictly reliable goods. Accom
modating terms arranged with parties desiring
same. We are continually receiving new and
desirable goods at popular prices.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ,
Broughton Street, Next to Corner Bull Street.
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
44 Bull Street. Ezm
Special Drives For This Week
1 IN
French Flowers and Feathers.
AT 75c A YARD,
50 pieces Striped Taffeta and Bengaline Silks; advertised
in the city as drives at 98c.
AT 25c A PAIR,
SCO dozen Ladies’ and Men’s Black and Balbriggan Hose)
other houses would consider special value for 40c.
AT 6ic A YARD,
2 cases Staple and Fancy Cinghams; sold ail over the city
at 10c.
Don’t forget the BON MARCHE is headquarters for
French Chaliies, White Goods, Laces, Embroideries,
French Corsets, Ribbons, Kid Cloves, Fine Umbrellas, Ta
ble Linens, and Lace Curtains at special prices this week.
I. LEVKOWICZ.
CARRIAGES.
HU pnUCN LEADER IN LOW PRICES,
i Hi UUntn, BAY AND MONTGOMERY STS.,
Hmcptd tb agrncy for the celebrated OLD HICKORY TENNESSEE
Turin ViMgoui. Again the betl wagon on earth will L for tale in feavaimah at popu
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Ju*l received, •lx verjr line 8-4 Top Biggie* Call aud examine our Track and
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