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GEMS of rare value.
A Chicago Lapidary Gives Some Inter
esting Facts.
A Diamond Worth S4OO Per Carat and
Rubies of Great Price—Difference
Between Bare and Common Precious
Stones—Jewels of Chicago Women.
From the Chicago Herald
In a single little office on State street,
with no other furniture than a table and
a big safe, are to be found two gentlemen,
Germans, who have a wonderful
fund of information on what is always an
interesting topic—precious stones. One
of these two gentlemen is a native of Idar,
Germany, and son of one of the most dis
tinguished German lapidaries in all
Europe. The father has a world-wide
reputation as a cutter of diamonds, and
his son is almost equally skilled in the
lapidary's art.
The other occupant of this little room
is a gentleman who keeps thoroughly
in touch with the diamond market,
whose chief characteristic seems to
he sublime confidence in human
nature, which he shows by scatter
ing diamonds and rubies around for the
inspection of strangers without the least
apprehension of their loss. The trade in
dutmondsand other precious stones is just
now at a standstill in the United Stales.
As the merchant says with an air of dis
gust "We don't sell enough stones now
to pay the rent.” This is of course due to
the hard times, and yet prices do not
come down. Diamonds have a standard
value which is not affected by anything
but the law of supply and demand.
A representative of the Herald, who
went the other day to get some informa
tion about diamonds and the diamond
market was informed that, while the sup
ply of diamonds was greater now than
ever before, there wa3 never a time
when precious stones were so univers
al owned and prized. Said the ex
pert "The Kimberly diamond fields in
t-uuth Africa have thrown upon the
world enormous amount of good stones,
but the world has absorbed them as
rapidly as they have been produced, nor
has the price diminished in any appreci
able degree, although it is stated to the
contrary. A good stone is always worth
its full old-time value. Of course, stones
of an inferior quality, or with imperfec
tions, which may have, will only bring
what would-be purchasers choose to pay,
but a perfect white stone of pure brilli
ancy has its fixed value, like a S2O gold
piece.”
The merchant went to his safe, took
out two stones, each about two carats in
weight. He laid them side by side on a
piece of black velvet, and asked his visi
tor to state what he thought was the re
spective value of the two. To the inex
perienced eye there was not the slightest
difference in the appearance of the two
stones. They seemed to be of equal
purity; they were of the same size, and
were both free from flaws or other imper
fections. The Herald man said he did
not believe there was any material differ
ence in the value of the two.
"That shows what some newspaper men
know about diamonds.” was the reply.
“One of these stones is worth S4OO a carat;
the other is worth about S7O a carat. That
is to say, one stone is worth about SBOO,
and the other about $140.” And then
with a pair of nippers he picked up the
SBOO stone and showed wherein its value
lay. It was absolutely as pure as a drop
of water, and in the light of day had the
faintest blue tinge—]ust perceptible.
Then he turned on an incandescent lieht
aud held the stoue in its glare. It shone
like a iittle ball of fire. The other stone
submitted to the same test appeared like
an every-day diamond, such as are worn
by aldermen, bookmakers and saloon
keepers.
• There are very few diamonds in
America like that I first showed you: in
fact, there are not so very many in the
world. That stone never came from
South Africa. That is an East India
diamond or from Brazil.
WORN BT MARIE ANTOINETTE.
“Now, let me show you something.”
The gentleman went to the safe, pulled
out a roll of cotton batting, slowly un
wound it and spread out before the visit
or s gaze a jeweled gir.lle said to have
been worn by Marie Antoinette, and cer
tamly known to have been in the posses
sion of the Empress Eugenie, for the belt
was purchased atthe saleheld afew years
ago of the crown jewels of France. The belt
contains four double buckles, connected
by a link, one large stomacher buckle and
two slides, one _ with a pendant of five
links, which is intended to support a fan.
AU of these buckles are attached to a
heavy leather belt, which seems like an
incongruity, but which is not when the
treasurer is in actual use. The leather
Deit is, of course, for purposes of safety,
"i.en the wearer puts it in use, she
covers the leather portion of the belt with
silk of the same color of the dress over
, be worn The merchant
said that the belt contained 1,600 dia
monds of various sizes and values, and
iort.v Hungarian opals, which are the
nnest opais to be found in the world. The
oeit was bought at the saleof the French
o. Il'u, 1 J e ' ve ? s f° r 45,000 francs, or about
IT 1 - “ s w °rth a great deal more
niimey, but in Order to realize upon it it
ill probably be necessary to break the
, u *’- - 0r customers willing to put
mat amount of money in that character
aa ornament are not very plentiful.
i>\ the way,” continued the merchant,
e had a young lady visitor the other
j" 10 "; as quite pretty and engaging,
nr, ‘ s , 3 * !a PPened to have a black
he- n‘r!?i Se htting, I thought I would give
nu a little surprise; so I got out the belt
a”’ ‘ ~s :l ’fd it around her waist. Then I
trh ~ ?. curtam a ud turned on the elee
, 1 ‘’.'A a,lt * I thought that girl would
■ , wlt V surprise and eestacy. She
s < .n,,] encircled in a girdle of fire, and as
. {poked at herself in the mirror her
• s lair ‘.v popped out of her head.”
the tariff on diamonds.
■ How do our tariff laws affect the cost
j.imonds in America?” was awked.
a- ‘ r- e 7 ery little was the
,® r ; t-uder the McKinley act dia-
Kr s arp on'y subjected to a duty of 10
ti , ,-i , ? at is not enough to effect
inn of them on this side of the At
o a matter of fact, and in spite
. ; “ fcWomal opinion to the con
diamonds in the United States are
i , ”' ap ’ , !f not cheaper, than thoy arc in
c .A Ir> F aot ’ there arc houses in Lon
,', . aris at which a person will pav
" . deal moro for a first-class stone
u .ii, be wom,) at ._ B . Tiffany's, in New
s,■ o ,!" ur P''°Pleare beginning to under
di- J, nat tset, and hence there is little
, ; tlQ u to buy abroad in the hope of
ti J 1 the revenue. 1 know a gentlo
' hicago who goes to Europe nearly
r , ear ;. Hf buys a great many dia
l.i aad , ether precious stones, and
• ■ 'ree-fourths of them in this coun
ty Won i know how it will be if the
, ..son biil bocomgg a lgw To satisfy
mjersal clamor that the luxuries of
ti ir‘i bp ta * od - 'ho Wilson bill raises
, yin on diamonds to 30 per cent,
r," ! S * ~l,* take. It will not add to the
1 3 u the government, nor will It
■ ~ "* , lhe ' o, t of the goods in this
i ~ V ,or 1110 simple reason that anv-
M "'vs sll >ugglnd as precious
a, , W 1 1 hud plenty of unprincipled
m .T . will bring them into the
i , ' y that way If it be found profitable
a 'e have had all sorts of tariff
ii . 100I 00 Precious stones, hut never has
1 of these goods ts>en affected to
•| ‘‘Pj'rwlabie xu-nt by the tariff.
U . ''emaiutc* might better
hfl the tariff at Its present rate.
On a 10 per cent, rate there is very little
smuggling; increase that 200 per cent,
and then you put a temptation in the way j
of dealers and agents to evade the reve- i
nue laws.”
“ But perhaps you are tired of talking
about diamonds. You must not forget
that there are other precious stones in
the world besides diamonds that are just
as interesting to talk about. You may
not know that a perfect ruby of pigeon
blood tinsre is, according to its size, far
more valuable than a diamond of equal
size. Here is a ruby, a perfect Burmese
stone, which is worth $450 a carat. It
weighs about a carat and an eighth. Let
me hold it under the light for you. Do
you see that peculiarly brilliant shade?
That is the genuine pigeon blood. It is to
be found only in the oriental ruby. Those
stones have always been rare and are
each year becoming more scarce and more
valuable. What is known in the world of
precious stones as the oriental ruby comes
from but just one little spot on the
earth's surface, that is Burnish,
in the East Indies. People are familar
with the fact that the oriental potentates
set far more store upon their rubies than
they did upon their diamonds. The pro
duction of the ruby from the earth is
practically at an end! Some ten or twelve
years ago. when the Burinan empire re
belled against the British government,
and British troops ivaded their territory,
and reduced them to subjection, the ra
jahs and other oriental rulers took re
venge by filling up the ruby mines Ruby
mines are like American silver mines,
worked at great depths. To fill them up,
therefore, meant the utter extinction of
their product. Since that time a syndi
cate of Holland and English capitalists
have been working by the aid of costly
machinery to reopen some of these
ruby mines, but I cannot hear
that they have met with any
success. The world’s supply of rubies
is now replenished mostly from the pos
sessions of dethroned and bankrupt India
rulers, and it will readily be seen that
each year the supply must become less.
Already it has become so that nobody but
royal courts, museums and people of
enormous wealth feel justified in paying
the prices that must be demanded lor
oriental rubies of any commanding size.
A five-carat ruby? Well, 1 would not
know where to find one, and if I did 1
don't believe I could raise money enough
to pay for it unless I was certain of a cus
tomer. It is well known that diamonds
increase in value with their size
almost ten fold, but a gen
uine oriental ruby would in
crease in such proportion that a stone of
any great size would be worth a king’s
ransom. There are two lower grades of
rubies which are of far less value. Next
to the oriental ruby is the spinel rubv.
That also is an East India stone, but has
not the pigeon blood shade nor the bril
liancy of its retral brother. It is worth
about half as much per carat. Then as
a member of the ruby family we have
the Almandiq ruby. Some people call
these California rubies. They are a good
imitation of a ruby and are natural stones.
In fact they constitute five-sixths of the
rubies which we see on the hands of
the people. They are worth from $2 to
S2O a carat.
SAPPHIRES BECOMING SCARCER.
“Here are some pretty sapphires. Sap
phires likewise come from the East In
dies, and they are worth all the way from
*5 to $65 a carat. These, too, are becom
ing scarcer, and the cost of them must
necessarily be on the increase. Unlike
the oriental ruby, there is nothing in
cheaper goods to take the place of the
sapphire. The demand for these stones,
however, is uot great, for indulgence in
them is a matter of tase, and the same
may be said of emeralts. Emeralds are
not worn nearly as much as they were ten
years ago. Most of the emeralds in the
world’s supply come from the Central
American states. They are mined very
much like the ruby, at great depths, but
the great difficulty with them is that the
moment they are exposed to the air and
light they are liable to crack and splinter
in all directions. It is, therefore, very
difficult to find an emerald of any sixe
that is perfect, and when you do find one
it is worth about S7O a carat.”
The only stone that can be classed
among the precious stones that are found
in America in any quantity is turquoise.
Last year the turquoise product of New
Mexico, the only place they are to be
found, amounted to $170,000. The Amer
ican turquoise is, however, inferior to
that produced in Persia. The latter is
darker and of a more durable hue. Amer
ican turqoise is pale and is very apt to
change color under the influence of heat
and light. The American turquoise is
worth about $2 a carat, while the Per
sian article ranees from $4 to $lO.
So many stories aro afloat in the news
papers and so many exaggerated tales of
the fabulous values of individual precious
stone collections in the United States
have gone abroad that it might be inter
esting to know what these diamond ex
perts have to say on that topic. When
asked what lady in America he thought
had the most valuable collection of pre
cious stones the merchant reflected seve
ral moments.
“I thins I may say without danger of
error that Mrs. William Astor has the
finest private collection, not only in
America but in the world. I mean by
private collection a collection distinct
from those of European governments and
crowns. If I were asked to put a value
upon what I know Mrs. Astor has 1
would say that $3,000,000 was a fair esti
mate. I saw the lady one night at a pa
triarchs’ ball in New York and I tell you
it was a sight for a lapidary artist. I
think she wore on that occasion alone
jewels to the value of not less than sl,-
000,000. Of course there are other mem
bers of the Astor family who own very
valuable collections, but nothing that
will begin to equal Mrs. William Astor’s.
There is another American lady who is
reputed ro have au enormous collection,
and that is Mrs. Stanford, of California.
It is a large collection, but It Is not nearly
as valuable, as popular opinion has it,
nor is it a well-chosen one. I know that
Mrs. Stanford has many- pieces and speci
mens for which she paid twice their real
value.”
"How about Chicago's possessions?”
“There are few valuable collections in
Chicago,” was the answer, -‘whichis not
unnatural. To collect a store of precious
stones of real and undisputed value is not
tme work of weeks or months, but of
years. The Chicago people of wealth,
while they are liberal buyers, do not
throw money away in any large quanti
ties. There are two or three good collec
tions here. The finest by far is owned by
Mrs. Potter Palmer. I would not dare to
give you an estimate of what her collec
tion is worth, for I do not know, but it is
away bey ond that of any lady in the city,
nor wouid I undertake to say who ranks
next to her. It may he Mrs. Marshall
Field, or Mrs. Henry O. Stone, or Mrs. C.
T. Yerkes, or Mrs. Pullman, all of whom
have very valuable stores of jewels, but,
as I said before, it takes time, it takes
years to gather together anything like a
collection creditable to the owner’s taste
and means."
And then the merchant snapped the
doors of his safe, set his time lock, ad
justed his police call, his automatic
alarm bell and all his other protective a|>-
piiances against thieves and went to
dinner.
Ask Your Friends
Who have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla
what they think of it, and the replies will
tie positive in its favor. Simply what
Hood'sSarsapurilla does, that tells the
story of its merit. One has been cured of
indigestion or dyspepsia, another finds it'a
indispensable for sick headache or biilious
nces. while others report remarkable
cure* of scrofula, catarrh, rheumatism,
salt rheum, etc..
Hood's pills are purely vegetable.—ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 18!U.
LOST LIMBS REPLACED.
Secrets CoarM by Hikers o( Artili
cial tins and Legs.
Appliances That Are Almost as Good
as Nature’s Own Means of Locomo
tion—A Surgical Hint From a Limb
Factory—Doctors Often Hake a Mis
take in Leaving Too Long a Stump.
Restored Cripples Generally Em
ployed to Show Goods to Customers.
Railroads the Great Maimers.
From the Chicago Times.
“The trouble with the doctors is they
don't want to amputate an inch more
than they have to,” said the man who
was twisting cord. “They mean well,
but they don’t understand. Now, you
take a man’s foot off just above the ankle
and it’s a sight harder to fit than if it was
about four inches shorter. There ain’t no
room for the spring to work. You’ve got
to have a little room—it increases the
leverage.”
And the old soldier, who had come to
get his second leg in ten years, assented.
The government allows its pensioners a
new leg or anew arm every five years.
But if the pensioner choose he may keep
the $75 and make the old leg do.
“I reckon that’s so,” he said. “Now,
mine was taken off three inches below
the knee, and that’s a mighty convenient
place. When I sit down in a car or any
thing, you don’t see my foot sticking out
rigid iu front, tripping folks up, likely.
No, sir. 1 can bend my knee just as good
as anyone. And I can sit straddle on a
chair and kind o’ curl my feet back of the
rounds, as natural as you’d want to see.”
"You were in luck,” agreed the cord
twister cheerfully. “Now, mine was a
thigh amputation.” He got up as he
spoke and laid his cord by tne side of an
other workman in a linen duster, who
was blocking out part of a wooden foot
held in a vise. As he moved he threw
the whole right leg with a movement from
the hip. “Yes, sir, right leg gone and
left loot. Pretty badly smashed up I was
that time, but I'm worth a dozen dead
men yet, and 1 got $14,000 out of the com
pany. Sued 'em for $25,000, but glad to
compromise on $14,000. They could carry
it up into the other courts, you know, and
wear a poor man out.”
THE RAILROADS MAKE MOST CRIPPLES.
“Put an end to your railroading,
though!” said the customer.
“Well, yes. There’s lots of wooden
legged conductors, though; yes, and fire
tenders and brakemen. They keep on in
the business just the same.”
“Them railroad fellers is our best cus
tomers,” spoke the man in the brown
duster. “Uncle Sam sends us a few, aud
there’s some lose their limbs from disease,
but the cars do most of it.”
Any women?”
“Oh, yes. Not so many as men,of courso.
Women don't go into such risky businesses
but sickness and accidents catches ’em
once in awhile. They are fussy, too, and
nervous about getting fitted. I don’t
know as they're getting any worse than
the men though. We had one German
woman here the other day, a big, healthy
old lady, and I tell you that just as she
got her leg on she marched off like a sol
dier. Didn't have no trouble about get
ting down stairs nor nothing. Said she
was going to see how good she could
walk. She wrote to us ndxt day that she
had gone twelve miles and wasn’t a bit
tired.”
“Well, she was a corker,” said the old
soldier. “Firstly, I had to take off now
and then to rest me. ’Twasn’t till I’d
worn one a year that I felt real comfort
ble with one.”
THE ARTIFICIAL HAS ITS ADVANTAGES.
As he spoke he warmed his hands at
the stove in the center of the work room.
“You and me don’t never to warm our
feet, do we?” he joked, wagging his head
at the cord twister.
•‘Nor we don’t suffer from corns,
neither,” answered the workman. “No,
sonney. we don’t want no chewing gum,
nor yet no fruit.” This to a boy who
limped in carrying a basket. “That kid
never misses a day,” he added. “I guess
he’d like to be a customer; wouldn’t you,
hey 1”
The lad, who was a cripple, smiled un
certainly as he picked his way out on his
old-fashioned peg leg. Not for news
boys hurt by cable cars are the
glories of improved pneumatic limbs.
He looked about wistfully as ho
went out. You or I might not find
the shop enticing, but to him no
Christmas toy store offered such al
luring wares. Along the walls hung
an array of tools partaking of the nature
of both shoemakers’ and carpenters’ im
plements. There were shelves laden
with sections of rough-hewn wooden
members; there were brushes and bottles
of coloring matter, there were screws
and springs, balls and sockets, leather
hands that laced up, and a tall glass case
full of the most beautiful smooth
pink legs and arms, jointed like
Paris dolls. The hands were mostly
gloved, and some of the feet were decked
in striped socks and patent leather
pumps.
AMONG MAKERS OF WOODEN LIMBS.
Among the queer businesses carried on
by the inhabitants of our lofty business
buildings—“the cliff dwellers,” as Henry
George called them—one which strikes
the person who has a sufficiency of mem
bers—a quorum, as it were—as at once
pitiful and ludicrous, is the manufacture
of artificial limbs. Beholding these pic
tured on a tin sign in the hall or unblush
ingly displaying their pink nakedness in
a window will lure upstairs any person
who has properly cultivated efte spirit of
laudable inquiry. Sometimes that enter
prising spirit leads one into queer predic
aments, but it will not in this c ase. It
merely penetrates into a humble work
shop like the one just described, or per
haps into a more pretentious establish
ment. Here the actual manufacture
is a mystery not to be profaned
by the layman’s eye. You will be
shown only a sort of fitting room for
the halt and the maimed and the office
proper, where the points of the models in
the showcase will be explained to you.
These are many. In no country has the
business of artificial limb making pro
gressed as in America. Our civil war
and the action of the government in pro
vidings tnese helps to all the crippled
soldiers and sailors is in part the cause
of this, and this natural spirit of inven
tion counts for something. London does
excellent work in this line, but the
French and the Oerman appliances are
heavly and uncomfortable. Consequently
artificial limbs are not imported articles.
On the contrary, there is a small export
trade carried on by a firm in New York.
It asks customers at a distance to have
casts made of the parts for which they
need an appliance, and professes by fitting
these plaster casts to secure satisfactory
results.
“But that is impossible,” said a conser
vative manufacturer scornfully; "that is
a makeshift way of doing business Every
limb ought to be fitted right to the living
stump. Aud the stump itself is sure to
shrink afterward. We have to pad the
limb out awhile until the size is settled,
and then make alterations ”
Those limbs are made of the lightest
willow wood. Over this calfskin is
tightly stretched and euameied tiesn
color The cost of a good one is from s6(l
to SIOO. They have a number of cunning
devices, steel springs, rubber bands,
and the like, to take the place, as
well as msy be, of natural thews
and sinews. Hotuuliuiee aluminium is
used in order to reduce the
weight. Sometimes the feet are made
of rubber, which must give a truly
elastic tread, or perhaps they are jointed
in almost as many places as nature's com
plicated wsrk so as to allow of s great
variety of movements. Indeed, the
variety of these movements and the sim
plicity with which they are brought
acout is astonishing. There seems hardly
a limit to the possibilities of an artificial
limb when added below the elbow joint or
below the knee joint. You hear of a man
who has lost both his legs continuing
none the less in his trade of house car
penter, going up and down ladders, work
ing on scaffoldings, and so on with the
best.
You are shown letters written by a
hand of wood and you are told that these
have little difficulty in the i omrnon
movements of life, holding a book or a
paper, taking off aud putting on a
hat, using a knife and fork,
and so on. There is a man in Hartford
who plays the violin though the right
arm was taken off three inches below the
shoulder. Thus one manufacturer. An
other. a sturdy German, casts doubt upon
these statements. He thinks they are sel
dom as satisfactory as the legs, unless
when the elbow joint has been preserved.
It is true that even those joined beiow the
shoulder can be made to do many things,
but at the cost of such effort and fatigue
to the wearer as to lead him to abandon
them. In a barber shop in this city a
fine, expensive pair of arms may be seen
hanging up. They were made for the
proprietor of the shop, who did not find
them very useful and is drying to make
them ornamental.
A queer thing about these places is that
the man in Chicago is generally himself
fitted out with a pair of wooden legs. He
will tell you how his were carried off by
a cannon ball at Antietam. or crushed in
a railroad accident, or badly frozen on
some wintry wreck if he was a sailorman,
He will roll up his trousers and display
his means of locomotion on the slightest
encouragement, and he will tell you
how he can walk twenty miles or carry
barrels of flour across the street without
fatigue. The manufacturers must make
a point of securing crippled men to show
their wares. And either they are at the
pains of picking out especially healthy
specimens or else what remains of the
man has added to it the strength of the
lost limbs. Anyhow they always look
particularly robust.
FOLLOWING THE BLAZED PATH OF SCRGERT.
You hear a great deal about appliances
suited to Perigoff’s, Syme’s, or Chopart’s
amputation, these being certain much
used “cuts,” to employ a stockyard’s
term, called after the surgeon who origi
nated them. Now, the father of modern
surgery was one Ambroise Pare, a sturdy
old Huguenot of the 16th century. Ho
was special physician to the Valois kings
of Franco. His great skill obliged this
inky and cruel race to overlook his con
scientious adherence to the reformed
faith. Even on the frightful day of St.
Bartholomew, when Paris ran with blood
of his coreligionists, Ambroise Pare was
spared to watch oyer the failing health
of the wretched Charles IX. In the
twelfth chapter of his work on chirurgery
is described by what means arms, legs
and hands may be made by art and placed
instead of the natural arms, legs and
hands that are cut off or lost.
Nearly fifty years before Ambroise
Fare’s day there lived a German knight,
Gotz von Berlichingen, famous for reck
less courage and a strange mixture of
cruelty and magnanimity He was gen
erally known as -‘Gotzof the Iron Hand,”
and some of his fiercest fighting was done
with an artificial hand made of steel,
weighing three pounds and so ingen
iously constructed by a mechanic of an
cient Nuremberg as to grasp a sword or a
sftr.ee. Way back three centuries before
the birth of Christ the Romans, who knew
all that we moderns jknow except for a
few trifles, like steam power, elocrricsty,
and the prlntingopress—well, they, too,
had eraftly made artificial limbs. Avery
’ ntat one of bronre and wood was discov
ered in the tomb of a Roman soldier at
Capua. At all events, no Roman dancing
girl ever thought of the curious use of an
artificial leg by which Miss Dorothy Den
ning amused and puzzled the New York
public all last winter with her high kick
ing, and her “splits.” and the like, in de
fiance of the laws of anatomy.
FAMOUS MEN’S ARTIFICIAL FARTS.
This was not the first appearance of
artificial limbs on the stage. Fifty years
at least, before that, a French tenor lost
his arm. Now a tenor who cannot gestic
ulate. slap his hand to his sword, or wave
it to his lady love may as well retire to
private life. M. Roger, that was the sing
er's name, did not wish to retire. He of
fered a sum of money sufficient to stimu
late the energy of inventors, and the re
sult was a jointed arm which could do all
these things with the grace of Mrs. Jar
ley’s wax works. So he was no worse off
than the general run of opera singers.
The arm invented for him remained for a
long time the best known.
One of the curious relics treasured at
Springfield is the wooden leg of Santa
Ana, the adventurous, fierce, intriguing,
cock-fighting, card-playing Mexican gen
eral. After beating him at Cerro Gordo
one of the Illinois regiments brought tHis
trophy back with them—found it in his
tent, it is said, after the general fled.
What did he flee on? How did he manage
to get away so quickly without his wooden
leg? Or did he have several and wear
them turn about?
The muse of history records not such
trifles. Or if she does this humble scribe
is not well enough acquainted with her to
kn„w it. He may have had as many pairs
of legs as bo had pairs of trousers; but, if
he had, on. the authority of the cord
twister, who knew whereof he spake and
who was not a man of complaining dis
position ; “After all, a dozen of them
things ain't as good as one flesh and blood
one.”
WHY DIDN’T HE BIGN HIS NAME ?
That’s the Question Rev. Mr. Harley
Asks the Critic Who Reviewed Judge
Harden’s Book.
15 St. John’s Villas. East Dulwich, S.
E., London. Bth Feb. 1894.—Dear Mr. Har
den: I acknowledge, with pleasure, your
letter of the 24th ult., enclosing a printed
copy of my letter to you. aud also the ar
ticle which attacks your book on “Dog
matic Christianity.” The writer is evi
dently a man of culture, conscientious
ness, and, for a controversialist, of rare
candour. But I must say that if bis long
and labored effusion is the best apology for
dogma in Christianity, and the strongest
assaul t upon your positions, you are to bo
greatly congratulated. Apart from the
questions in dispute, your antagonist
gives himself away in three or four re
spects. First, he is anonymous. A capi
tal D., a dash, and a small s., are no
man’s name. Now if yours is a bad book,
and your opponent’s strictures upon itaro
good, why should not he sign his came in
token that he is not asnamed? There isau
old Latin proverb which says: “Truth
fears nothing but concealment.” Secondly,
your correspondent is abusive, “tgigicor
verbiage,” may beau attractive title, but
it is not in accordance with the biblical
injunction—"Be courteous.” A nd through
out the article, the author (shall I use his
own quotation?) is bold, like a cat, by
his claws. Thirdly, one sentence, nay,
one word out of his owu mouth, will judge
him. He speaks of your “rehash
of what has been claimed and urged
by infidels for ages " I pass by bis sin
ister use of the word “infidel,” for there
are believers in the teachings of Jesus
Christ who do not believe in all which
bears bis brand, and yet are “infidels,”
opurobriuusly so called. Rut if your as
aailant boa minister, did it never occur
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to him that about 100 times a year he
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a dry hash of what the fathers
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