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T AMPAJBOO MING.
The Cigar Makers Have Selected It
For Their Home.
Thousands of Dollars Being Spent in
Improvements Contracts For a
Dozen New Factories—Key West
Being Left in the Bear—Thousands
Added to the City’a Population.
Tampa People Happy at the Prosper
ous Outlook.
Tampa. Fla.. April 28.—The building of
numerous cigar factories here in Tampa
marks an epoch in the progress of the
city, and much speculation is indulged in
as to the city's future. Even the hustling
suburban Ybor City is crowded to the ut
most. Ybor City is the first suburb built
to Tampa under the new order of things,
and is located one and a half miles north
east of the court house, with two electric
car lines running between the two places,
and a continuous line of houses the. entire
distance. It has a population of 4,000, but
will have not less than 8,000 in less than
three months.
NEW FACTORIES BEING BUILT.
Seidenburg & Cos., cigar manufacturers,
made a larger quantity of cigars during
last year than any concern in the United
States. This large factory has been re
mo.ved from Key West to this place, and has
gone into temporary quarters in the large
commercial warerooms between the court
house and the Tampa Bay hotel, until
the now factory building is completed in
Ybor City. The building is to be 100 by
150 feet, throe stories high, and will be
finished in the latest style with all the
modern conveniences known to cigar
makers. It will cost f25,000. The com
pany will put on a force of 500 men as soon
as the factory is ready for occupancy.
One can hardly realise what
this factory means to the city of Tampa,
commercially, until it is figured out. It
means 20,000,000 of line Havana cigars per
annum, and for the labor alone there
will be paid out $500,000. The sale of
these cigars will add fI.OOO.IMHJ to the
trade of Tampa, A month ago the firm
of Gonzalez, Mona & Cos., of Chicago,
signed a contract with the Ybor City
Baud and Improvement Company, stipu
lating to work a force of 800 men on
specified conditions. Their large brick
factory, which is 75x150 feet, and three
stories high, is now nearing completion,
and within thirty days will bo open for
business. This building will cost $12,000.
The firm is a strong one, and has every
facility for the manufacture and sale of
fine cigars.
Another large firm recently acquired
by this growing suburb is that of Tru
jillo, Beuemalis &00.. late of Key West,
with a New York connection. The. ele
gant brick building now under construc
tion for the firm is of a beautiful design
and will befurnishod thoroughly through
out. having a floor space of 50 by 150 feet
and will be t iree stories in hight, cost
ing $15,000. rsenor Trujillo will be the
resident member, while Senor Benomaiis
will have charge of the New York branch.
The combined output of the three new
factories will approximate 44,000,000
cigars, and the wages paid operatives will
reach $1,100,000 and the product will
bring $2,200,000 annually.
WEST TAMPA.
Besides these factories the in flux of an
additional population of 4,000 means that
a large number of new buildings must be
erected for residence purposes. Some of
them will necessarily be costly ones,
while many of the others will be built on
a cheaper plan, but the aggregate amount
of money necessary to be spent for this
purpose will not fall short of $150,000.
Looking west from tho dome of the
court house is seen what is familiarly
known as West Tampa, which is rapidly
annexing itself to tho business center of
the city, and one of the new acquisitions
to that portion is Cordeza, Gilliams & Cos.,
a wealthy and extensive cigar firm of
Philadelphia, who have contracted to
work 100 men as soon as their new fac
tory is completed, the building to cost
$5,000 and having a floor space of 45x100
feet and to be three stories in hight. At
present the firm is working seventy-five
men.
On last Wednesday Baranco, Rico &
Cos., of Key West, signed a contract for
tho erection of a fatory building 40x75
feet, 3 stories in hight, costing $3,800, the
building to be ready for occupancy in
ninety days. They havo obligated them
selves to work a force of 100 men. Beside
this building, the I.aHilda firm has its
factory nearly ready to be occupied,
which will cost about $4,500.
The L. Napolis factory will be 30x50
feet, 2 stories in hight, and will cost
$2,500. It will be ready for business about
June 1. It will accommodate forty oper
ators.
J. D. Pompey. another cigar manufac
turer, has opened up a factory in tem
porary quarters until his building can bo
erected, and Ramon Alfonzo has let tho
contract for his factory at $2,500. Ho
will give employment to seventy-five men.
Theodoro, Perey &Cos. will build a very
handsome factory 40 x 100 feet, three
stories in hight, which will cost $4,(00.
This building is now under way, and will
be completed in duly, when it will be
o|>eucd with 150 men at the tables. This
firm is a strong one and has every facility
for handling the trade.
The Ross-Kelllsh factory is also anew
concern that has plenty of push and is
having a comfortable factory building
erected. It will probably work only
about fifteen experts
F. R. Gonzalez will soon havehis 2-story
factory building completed and will at
once put on thirty cigar makers. He has
a number of men already at work
In temporary quarters. On Monday last
the large and wealthy concern of O’Hallo
ran& Go., of Key West, opened out in tem
porary quarters with 140 men. In two
weeks they will put on 300 operators.
Their new factory is 50 x 150 feet, three
stories in hight. It will be completed in
a short while and will cost SIO,OOO. These
gentlemen have plenty of money, and
Will contribute largely to Tampa's com
mercial advantage.
On May 1 the Azmora Cigar Company
will start up with thirty-five men. , Their
Dew- factory is 40 x 75 feet and is three
stories high, costing $3,300. This factory
will employ HKi operatives.
- The Flcitas factory is to be a very
handsome building, and fitted up iu ele
gant style, 40 x 7o feet, three stories high
and costing #4.000. It will give employ
inent to 100 cigar makers.
A SUMMARY.
The future of Tampa seems now to be
assured, as will bo seen by figures based
on facts, contracts having already been
signed:
Total number of new operatives 2,155
Total increase in population 8.920
Total amount being expended for im
provements $521,000
Total annual output of eigars 230,524,500
Total amount annual wages paid
new men . $5,703,112
Total addition to the trade of the
eitj ■ $11,520,221
That many more new factories will bo
located in Tampa in a short time is confi
dently expected.
A PROTECTIONIST KINDERGAR
TEN.
Secretary Morton’a Comment on the
Coxey Movement.
From the New York Post.
Washington, April 20.—Secretary Mor
ton of the department of agriculture,
speaking of the Coxey movement to-day,
said: “So far I have heard of no farmer
leaving his home for the purpose of walk
ing to Washington in the ranks of the
‘Coxev army,' and ! doubt whether there
is a single owner of either a rural or a
suhurban home in the entire multitude
However, workingmen for thirty years
have observed that protection pilgrims
ham been constantly invading Washing
ton for the purpose of securing legislative
aid in their business enterprises. The
protectionists during these years have
taught the wage-earners of the United
States that the object of the protection
ists in formulating legislation was inva
riably so to adjust the laws as to compel
them (that is, the protectionists—the
manufacturers; to pay higher wages to
their employes, and at the same time
force them to sell the products of the
labor of those employes at smaller prices
and lesser profits. The Coxey expedition
to Washington seems to me to be a very
logical sequence of the protection pilgrim
ages which wo have had heretofore.
‘‘The difference between the wage
earner and the protectionist manufac
turer is that the former comes out openly
and asks direct government aid for a
class, whiie the latter has always come in
Pullman cars and asked aid under the
pretence and disguise of seeking philan
thropic ally to help the wage-earners.
The Coxey army is simply a large kinder
garten class in protection. After years
of McKtrleyism, they have adopted the
methods of protectionists and asked sup
port from the government. Their de
mands are patterned after those of the
protectionist*. Their method osenforcing
them differs in directness, from the
methods of those who have exercised the
taxing power by levying tributes, under
the guise of patriotism, upon all of us to
enrich a few of us.”
A LETTER TO TIIE GREAT FATHER.
An interesting satirical letter upon the
populistic tendencies of the day was re
ceived by Secretary Morton yesterday.
It was written by a prominent westerner
and summarizes the current demands of
the paternalists in a small compass. The
epistle follows:
To the Great Father at Washington. From
His Loving hildren, the Railroads: It Isa
source of great comfort, and of that feeling of
security which makes home happy, to know
that our interests are guarded and protected
by your ever watchful cars and benevolence.
It will give us great pleasure to bo good un
der such conditions, We shall act in concert
with Coxey, Kelley Cos., and do everything
possible for the general welfare.
Railroads are constructed wholly for the
benelit of those who hav e no part or Interest
in their ownership, and they ought to work
for nothing, or at "bare cost,” whenever re
quested to do so by anybody. It is particu
larly important also that the present genera
tion should do everything there is to be done,
so that, generations .vet to come shall be free
from the necessity of work. If possible.
The Improvement of tho highways IS es
pecially Important, on account of the bicycle
interests, which aro large and growing. The
building of local country roads is not a mat
ter of local concern, but is national in its
character, and we think if the people of any
locality are unable or unwilling to buildthe
roads they really need for their own use, the
railroad coroporations ought to do It.
POKEK TRICKS.
Why Unsophisticated Card Players
Lose in a Game With Gamblers.
From the St. Poul Pioneer Press.
There are men who think themselves
good poker players. In fact they pride
themselves on their ability to play the
game, and occasionally boast of their
winnings. It must be truthfully said
that some of these men do know how to
play draw poker—that is, as far as play
ing a square game is concerned but
their money would not be worth 2 cents
on tho dollar gambling with a profes
sional gambler.
Professional gamblers are continually
traveling. They go from place to place,
always looking for a game. They gener
ally travel in pairs, under the guise of
legitimate business agents or of wealthy
pleasure seekers. They have letters of
introduction from prominent people, and
as a result they are introduced into the
fashionable clubs, and subsequently into
the game. They will try to hide their
winnings as much as possible, so as to
avoid suspicion, and very often they will
claim to be losers, when, in reality, they
have won many dollars.
Some are kuown as "paper man,” other
as "hold outs,” while more are called
"second dealers."
They all, of course, have a general
knowledge of the various methods of
cheating, but they excel, as a rule, in some
of these systems.
In conversation the other evening with
a retired gambler, who in his time was
the most skilied "second dealer” in the
country, he said:
“It took me over four years of hard
practice to learn how to deal seconds
properly. A‘second dealer’ is a man who
cau deal cards from any part of the pack
without detection, so that, previous to
the players drawing cards, he skilfully
slips his thumb along the bottom of the
pack and catches a glimpse of the cards
to be dealt, if he sees anything he needs
he can deal it to Jhimself as easily as it it
were on the top of the deck. If he has a
partner lie will know by signs just ex
actly what lie wants, and if lie can’t
give It to him he will motion him to stay
out.
“If his partner has a pair he will look
through the deck, and if he observes the
other pair of the same there he will make
a sign to the partner, who will thereupon
raise the price to draw cards. Asa rule,
partners sit together when they play, so
that one can cut to the others liking, and
this itself is a science, for tho man cut
ting the cards will do it to the satisfac
tion of the whole board, as he apparently!
mixes thorn up, while in reality he does
not disturbs his partner’s arrauged
cards.
“Now, in this instance, the man who
cuts the cards cleverly is dealing, so that
his partner is the one to draw first. Now,
it is rather difllcult to pull two card from
different parts of the pack, and then ail
eyes are watching the dealer when he is
giving out the first cards, so that while
holding the pack in his left had, just be
fore starting to deal to those drawing, ho
will find some pretense for reaching his
right hand across tho table, and in this
maimer lie will hide the deck. He will in
that instant skilfully shift with his fin
gers one of the cards his partner needs to
the top of the deck. He will repeat this
movement the same as before, and bring
the other card on top. His partner will
draw three cards, aud will, of course,
hold four of a kind. They will continue
this system of playing, and will undoubt
edly got the money.”
He then showed how ho could bring
cards from tho center to tho top of the
pack. Holding the pack in his left hand
as if about to deal, ho would shovp his
forefinger between the deck and right
above the card he was to bring on top.
He would then raise his forefinger, there
by lifting tho cards above it, and with his
middle iiinger ho would slide the wanted
card out about half an inch toward his
fingers Then he would press down on
the edga of tne eard, and in this manner
raise it ouside the pack. Ho would then
remove his forefinger, there allowing the
cards to fall back again. The needed
card would be standing on its side along
side the pack, and it would then be an
easy matter to shift it on top. Ho did
this slowly several times, aud it appeared
easy enough until tried, and then it was
fouud diiiicult.
Won.
Her lips quivered, says the Detroit Trlbuue,
and her breath came m labored gasps, but
she did not speak.
“Do you not love mo?” he anxiously de
manded. seizing her shrinking hand.
"I—l don't know. ' she faltered.
Gently he insinuated his arm about her.
"Darling." he murmured, - would you like
to have me as* your mamma first:-"
With a sudden cry of terror she grasped his
arm.
"No. no, no." sho shrieked, convulsively.
"She is a widow-. I want you myself."
she clung tohimuutilhe solemnly promised
that he would say nothing to the old lady for
tho present.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRTT. 20.' 1804.
HEED'S NEW JERUSALEM.
The Founder of “Koresh'’ and His
Plan For a Florida Community.
Homes For Eight Millions —Plan of the
New City Near the Everglades in
Which New Doctrines Are to Be
Practiced by His Followers.
From the Philadelphia Press.
In tho pleasant suburb of Chicago an
UDder-sized, smooth-shaven man of 54,
whose brown, restless eyes glow and
burn like live coals, is day after day
seated in a cozy study, from which he di
rects the destinies of a “new race of
men,” the "sons of God.” This man is
I)r. Cyrus R. Teed, the "Koresh”—foun
der of anew religion and of a whole soci
ological and philosophical system. He
purposes to launch out on a grand scale,
to build the New Jerusalem and to gather
there—on the southwestern coast of Flor
ida—the army of his followers and the
legions of new converts he has made.
His converts in Chicago and vicinity
and throughout the rest of the United
States number now some 4,000, and an
other thousand or two have been suffi
ciently influenced by his writings and
words to be reckoned among his sympa
thizers and supporters. It is on record
that not long ago this man went out to
California, called a public meeting, made
an impassioned address setting forth his
scheme, and within an hour secured sub
scriptions of SOO,OOO. A number of sen
sational lawsuits have been begun against
him, for alienating the affection of sun
dry wives and mothers and some of these
are sfill pending. A man of such unusual
persuasive powers, of such tremendous
energies is well worth studying.
THE MAN’S DOCTRINES.
A word as to his personal claims. He
is convinced, or at least says that he is,
of being the reincarnation of the deity—
the second Christ; that he is flawless, sin
less; that he has found the second revela
tion, taking the place of the first, Chris
tianity; that acceptation of his new
dogma and scrupulous living up to it be
gets immortality, not only of soul, bur of
body as well; that the state of physical
and moral perfection to which his system
—the Koreshan system—must lead, will—
to nse his own words—"unfold a-new
race of men,” entirely free of ail sexual
passion and yet procreating the human
kind in a mysterious process out pf their
own selves; that the sexes, in fact, will
disappear among the whole of humanity,
and each human being will be of the new,
the “blune” type, a Junction or amalga
mation of the two sexes in one. Much of
the inner and more mysterious kernel of
his weird and unnatural doctrine cannot
be repeated, but the points, summarized,
will show what the substance of it is, at
least the theological side.
Dr. Teed, himself, as the ideal “Man
God.” the "Thooanthropos" of las own
mind, as the Christ became flesh once
more, and as the founder and head of the
new church and tho dispenser of the new
dispensation, deems himself, of course,
above criticism, and has a calm convic
tion of the supreme truth of his teach
ings.
TEED'9 LATEST SCHEME.
He is undoubtedly sinoere and not a
humbug in tho common acceptation of
that word. He has read a great deal, re
flected a deal more, and then has evolved
his system. How firmly convinced he is
of tne ultimate triumph of his new doc
trine and of his own Christ nature is
shown by the fact that he has started a
new era -the present year being A. K.
(moaning Anno Koresh) 54. For, as the
Moslem date their era from the liegira
and Christians from the birth of the
Saviour, so do the Koresh and the Kore
shans date their new era from his birth,
fifty-four years ago. Koresh, by the way,
is Hebrew for Cyrus, the great Persian
king.
Cyrus R. Teed was born in 1839, in
Walton, Delaware county, New York, but
was educated in Utica, and when a youth
studp and medicine in an eclectic college at
New York city, where he graduated.
“In 1870," ho said, “while pursuing a
chemical and electric investigation in my
laboratory I made the discovery, probably
aided by research and study in my profes
sion, of the Taw of transmutation,’ a
law underlying all chemical processes, by
which elements entering into chemical
combinations were interconvertible—gold
could be changed into silver, mercury into
copper, etc. i further discovered that tho
basis of what has been denominated chem
istry is not chemistry but alchemy, the
mystical science of old. I discovered
through repeated investigations that any
atom of matter could be converted into
corresponding energy, as zinc into zinc es
sence or zinc electricity, and by dint of the
correlation of matter, gold into gold elec
tricity, copper into copper electricity, etc.,
a process well known in alchemy. By sub
mitting myself to tests of different kinds
of electricity I could distinguish
them,- even when blindfolded, by
the taste of the current, could tell
whether it was gold electricity or silver
electricity, etc. I recognized this law of
transmution and its correlation with the
law of energy as a scientific fact, and I
found that matter could be transmuted
into energy, and energy into spirit. This
important new truth became the basis of
my whole system, religious, scientific and
sociological. And the law of transmuta
tion is what will produce anew race of
men.”
BUILDS ON KHHOR9.
He has abolished the solar system and
all the rest of astronomy. The earth, ac
cording to him, is concave, plate-shaped,
stationary. Up aloft in the ether, a dis
tance of exactly 4,000 miles, is suspended
the luminous and half solidified body of
the sun. The stars are mere specks of
light, reflected back into space, but not
celestial bodies nor moving orbs.
And he and the rest of the
Koreshan luminaries pride themselves
vastly on this discovery. In Dr. Teed's
paper, the Flaming Sword, Alice Fox
Miller, of Chicago, writes an essay which
puts the ordinary science and astronomy
in juxtaposition with the Koreshan article
and says of the latter: “After the weari-
some and futile stretch of the imagina
tion that was necessary in grappling with
the old theory it is restful from its very
definiteness.” Restful, indeed!
"immortality,” according to Dr. Teed,
“is a science.” By overcoming the sexual
instinct men will become immortal, and
for the present generation or two they
will attnin such longevity as that spoken
of in the Bible, become as old as Enoch,
Methuselah, and tho rest of them. The
ten tribes of Israel, Dr. Teed teaches, who
were led into captivity among the Mo
dians, Persians, and Assyrians, intermin
gled with these nations, and the product
was the forefathers of the Teutonic race,
including the Anglo-Saxons.
After Dr. Tecu had made that "great”
discovery of the “law of transmutation”
and of chemistry being really alchemy, in
1370, he began to expound the doctrine in
Utica and to further elaborate and
develop it during many midnight vigils,
Ho says that from that hour on his per
secutions commenced. He finally struck
Chicago. That was in the fall'of ISSt).
Here for the first time he began to make
a public presentation of his new
“science” and religion, and at 2 and 4
College place on the South Side he first
started his “heaven.” Sinco that time ho
has harbored about 150 persons—mostly
women—in the different abodes managed
by him under tho appellation of “The
Heaven,” a name, however, which he
now disclaims. z\.t College Place he ran
the “College of Life” for a time, and his
peculiar Views or some of them at least
-btgun to attract notoriety, but still
the proselyting busiuess Hugged and-
languished and a couple of lawsuits in
which he became the defendant, due to
the inability of several matter-of-fact
husbands to see things quite in the same
light as Dr. Teed, did not make matters
much better.
Two rears ago the whole "ueaven” was
moved out to Washington Higlits A
tract of fine land and residences, compris
ing eight and one-half acres, was put up
at the disposal of himself and the miuor
saints and angels. It is a fine projierty.
Dr. Tweed, or “Koresh," resides in the
"Mansion," a spacious, well-built old
homestead, formerly the property of a
wealthy family, surrounded by broad,
shady verandas and magnificent grounds,
thickly studded with old trees and made
attractive by grass idols and flower beds.
With him, in the same fine building, live
some of the prominent angels There are
seven cottages besides, in which other
members of the Koreshan community
live, and one office building—formerly a
huge barn—in which is the printing office.
This printing office yields the mam reve
nue. In it are printed the Flaming Sword,
a_ weekly paper, which is kept by every
Koreshan and by several thousand who
read it from curiosity or because of a
half-hearted sympathy.
IN THE PRESENT HEAVEN.
There are at present some 110 living in
the home at Washington Hights, of
whom twenty aro rosy-cheeked children,
said to have all been adopted by the unity,
who are instructed and taught the rudi
ments of an education in a school room or
the upper floor of the mansion. Tho ma
jority—about three to one—of the inmates
are women. Those that could be seen
were, without exception, unattractive in
looks, rather pale and unhealthy it would
seem, and wore a cowed and timid ex
pression in their faces. Tho sexes load a
separate existence, even their meals are
served separately. There is, according
to Dr. Teed, community of goods. All
the money goes to the treasury of the
Koreshan Unity. There is a trusteeship
of twenty-five, this body being
called the concilium, and its offi
cers are Mrs. Annie G. Ordway, presi
dent; Miss Macomber, treasurer, and
Mrs. Virginia Andrews, secretary. The
board again is subdivided into three
"chambers of the unity. " having charge
of different matters. Dr. Teed himself
holds no official position in this manage
ment, the glory of being high priest,
Koresh, the second Christ, and the rein
carnation of tho deity being deemed enough
for him. Nevertheless in this community
7~or “unity”—Dr. Teed is the absolute,
irresponsible, immaculate and inviolate
high muek-a-muck, if there ever was one.
He is addressed with awe and trembling.
Before any one ventures to disturb him in
Ills study, or any other room, he must
knock at the door and receive audible per
mission to enter. Neither his acts nor his
motives aro inquired into and his word is
law—the only law.
But as. to his latest plan. Some time
ago an elderly German, Gustav Damkoeh
ler, a convert to the Koreshan faith and a
man of some wealth, ceded to tho Kore
slian Unity a tract of 240 acres of land at
Estero, Bee county, Fla., lying along the
Estero creek and two miles from Estero
bay, on the southwestern coast of Flor
ida, under the 20th degree of latitude.
Other members of the sect furnished
enough money to buy up ajacent lands to
make an even 1,000 acres. His ultimate
project is to buy up a tract six miles
square, or thirty-six square miles all told,
on which he means to have a city of 8,-
000,000 faithful Koreshans. Asa modest
starter he went out last fall to survey the
tract, and ho found everything lovely.
He stayed there three months, and since
then the first nucleus of the col
ony. some thirty in all, has been
dispatched there. These have erected
a cottage or two and put up a
few tents, and there they are labor
ing and toiling to lay the foundations of
tho New Jerusalem, carpenters, survey
ors. mechanics and others. The tract lies
in the Caloosaliatcheo valley, and just
now the climate is fine—Bo° in the shade.
How it will be in summer is a different
question. Among tho Koreshans out
there now are Dr. Baldwin, a physician,
and Prof. E’Amereaux, of one of the col
leges in Wheaton, 111., and letters from
them have lately arrived, mentioning an
abundance of mosquitos, alligators, and
sharks, but also of tarpons, Jack fish, oys
ters and deer, ns well as fine fruit and
wild flowers. The Estero is a creek which
is. in spots, fifty to sixty feet wide, and
which empties into a bay that is de
scribed as picturesque and full of fish and
oysters.
THK FLORIDA NEW JERUSALEM,
The shape of the city is to be octagon.
In its center is to rise the most magnifi
cent temple the world has ever seen—the
great fame of the Koreshans. Around
this temple Is to run in a circle a placid
sheet of water (an arm of tho Fisteroi,
and around that the arcadium, a com
plex of structures wherein schools, gym
nasiums, etc., are to be housed. Two
principal streets, each 400 feet wide, are
to intersect the whole city, while two
diagonal streets, each 200 feet wide, are
to cross. The diameter of the octagon
from side to side is to be exactly one-half
of a mile, and within the inner space is to
be a fine park, with the Triumphia Octa
gonia near it. Placed at equal distances,
near the circumference, are to be twenty
four distributing centers or stores.
To carry out his project will not re
quire much—only $200,000,000 or so. That
is a fair estimate made by Dr. Teed. For
that amount he would guarantee to put
up. brand now, this whole city of 8,000,000
souls. But yet even Dr. Teed feels that
a word in here expected as to how he
proposes to raise this trifle. This is how
he puts it: "We are on the verge of the
end of the old dispensation. The world
is ripening up for the change that is com
ing. I propose to be on hand and tal<e ad
vantage of whatever conditions may de
velop out of that impending upheaval. I
tako it that we are now undergoing
tho three woes predicted in Revela
tion, consequent on the tree curses spoken
of in Genesis. Those three woes—com
mercial wisdom (curse of the serpent),
destruction of the church (its disintegra
tion is now very visible, think of modern
philosophy, the salvation army, theosophy
etc., etc., all signs of the timesl and the
conflict between capital and labor (the
worship of the three) are now upon us,
and the great cataclysm is sure to come
soon. How’ll I raise the money? The
money will be forthcoming as I need it.
It will be subscribed, donated, and I’ll
have only to go out and stir people up to
obtain it.”
At sl4 a Day.
From tho Washington Post.
There are ten lounges on the floor of
the House. Yesterday eight members
wore stretched out upon eight of these
lounges, fast asleep. They made a hand
some picture as they lay stretched out full
length, with their faces and their toes
turned toward the galleries.
Some of them had newspapers spread
across their faces. Whethor this was to
keep off tho flies or to prevent identifica
tion from the galleries was an unanswered
problem.
The Post could give the names of at
least five of these gentlemen who
thus slumbered while tho Houso was
in session, but it will not. It for
gives them this time, but if it happens
again, then—.
She—Would you go through fire for me. Al
gernon’-
lie—Ya as. If I was dwessed for it.—Har
per's Bazar.
Willie Wilt lam afraid you flatter
Miss Perte.
Miss Perte—Could you be flattered, Mr.
Wilt;—Truth
The young American bicyclist, Frank G.
Lent. who lias 1 een traversing Asia from east
to west, has arrived at Jusk, m Eastern
Persia.
HER HAIR TURNED WHITE.
Thrilling Adventure of a Sea Cap
tain's Wife.
A Terrible Sc=ne of Disaster in the
English Channel—A Collision in a
Fog and the Personal Incidents of a
Remarkable Character Connected
Therewith.
From the San Francisco Call.
Bast week the attention of the people
passing down Market street was at
tracted by the contrast between the
youthful face and the snowy hair of a
sweet-faced lady, who for several days
was seen on that thoroughfare. Judging
by her face she could not be more than 30
years of age at the most, but if you
formed your opinion of her from the hair
which crowned her with a thickly waving,
snow-white mass of curs and coils, she
might be at least twice that number of
years. Her complexion was as fresh as
that of a girl in her teens. No wrinkles
marred the fair surface of brow, cheek,
or neck, and envious time had not touched
in his telltale lines at the corners of her
eyes.
This contrast between face and hair it
was, which drew sojnany curious eyes
after her. and many and varied were the
suggested reasons for the strange
anomaly. It was as if a drift of winter
snow should lie cold and chill above the
crimson rose bloom of June.
Illness, sudden fright, terrible sorrow,
and half a dozen other causes were sug
gested for the untimely bleaching of the
abundant tresses. Terrible fear it was
which had, not in a night, but within the
short space of one month, turned the
once dark locks to premature whiteness.
The lady was the wife of one of the
most popular captains that ever com
manded a ship out of an eastern port.
Ten years ago he was captain of one of
the finest ships sailing out of Boston. He
had been in the same employ since boy
hood, growing up under the eye of the
owner and builder of the vessel, had
passed from boy to man, from forecastle
into the cabin; had been promoted from
sailor to second mate, then to first mate,
aud now was, at the early age of 22,
placed in command of the fine, new ship
just off the ways. The Fox was one of
the best ships built in that famous yard
of McKays in. East Bolton. She was
1,200 tons burthen, audit was quite a
feather in the cup of the young man that
his employer should offer her to him for
her first voyage.
He had been for two years engaged to a
young girl who had been his earliest com
panion, who bad grown up by his side
until the time came when he left home
for the sea, his chosen place of lifework.
On each return to the little Down East
village he had found her dearer, and they
had been waiting for him to get command
of a vessel, then they would marry.
But nothing like the wonderful luck
which had eotne had they dared to hope
for.
Now there was noting to stand between
them. They could rmary at once, anil
make their bridal trip to England on the
vessel, which they fondly hoped might be
their home for long years to come. So
they had married, and when the ship
sailed majestically down the Boston light
and away, away across the wide stretch
of the stormy Atlantic, she carried within
her stanch sides about the happiest pair
in the world. Storm and calm, fog or sun
shine—all had come to meet them and all
had been safely left behind.
They had reached the English channel
safely. Another day and they would be
at the end of their voyage. '
The night was cold and foggy. Morn
ing broke and still the fog hung dense and
low. Breakfast was on the table and the
captain and his wife were about to sit
down to what they fondly hoped would
be their last meal at sea for sometime
when a sudden shout from the deck/fol
lowed by loud calls, and the sound of hur
ried, rushing footsteps, told that some
sudden danger was upon them. They
both hurried toward the companion way,
intending to rush up on deck, but a shock
sent them both staggering back. The
screams from the deck were redoubled,
and again came that terrible blow, min
gled now with oaths and ories of rage or
fear.
Both rushed to the deck. A terrible
scene of disaster was before them. The
side of the vessel, only a moment ago so
stanch and strong, was now nothing but
a shattered, splintered, yawning hole,
through wnich the water was rushing
into the vessel like a millstream. A little
way off was the steamer which had
crushed into them in the dense fog. Her
iron forefoot had cut them down, right
to water's edge. She, herself, was prac
tically unhurt, and was coming about
to see what damage she had inflicted
upon her opponent)
The Fox was slowly sinking, the water
rushing so rapidly through tho shattered
side was filling her. and she already, not
15 minutes after the collision, was
settled deeply into the water. Only a
short time remained before she would
sink, carrying with her all within her
reach to the depths below.
The steamer rapidly lowered her boats
to assist the unfortunates on board the
doomed vessel, and Capt. King had col
lected his wits and was having his own
boats cut loose from their lashings and
lowered in tho water. As the first boat
reached the water he hurried his wife to
the side of the ship, now only a few feet
above the surface of the sea, and hur
riedly told the mate to put her into tho
boat and with four of the sailors to shove
off from tho vessel, while he would make
an attempt to save his papers and the
ship’s instrument and chronometer.
Mrs. King was just about to step into
the boat when she remembered that a
heavy sack of gold and all her jewelry
were where she could lay her hand on
them in an instant. She determined to
save them, as it would take but a moment,
as they lay iu the corner of a drawer just
inside her cabin door. Rushing back to
the cabin sho pushed open the door of her
cabin and attempted Cos pull out the
drawer in which her valuables were
lying. The door ooened back against the
drawer, and sho was obliged to close it
before she could open the drawer.
Pushing it shut he pulled open the
drawer, and grabbed the sack of gold and
the case which held her valuables. She
pushed at the drawer to close it again,
that she might open tho door and escape
from the sinking vessel.
The drawer stuck. Again and again
she threw herself frantically against it
with all of her weight. Not an inch
could she stir it. The vessel had strained
and twisted as tho weight of water had
pulled her downward, and in straining
had caused a change in the position of
thecasing of the drawer. At last it
yielded to her efforts and sho pushed it
close and sprang to tho door.
To her horror she could move the door
no more than if it had been a part of the
solid wall. The same strain which had
bound the drawer held fast the door, and
sho was shut up like a rat in a trap
within the narrow limits of her little
cabin.
With wild eyes she looked around at
the little room which had but an hour be
fore seemed so cozy and comfortable- she
looked upon the little tokens of love and
friendship which decorated the tiny
apartment to which she had come with
so many happy anticipations of future
jo.v, nnd tho sight of those lokeus of love
added another shade of horror to the fate
which menaced her.
Again and again she dashed at the door
striving with all her strength to force it
open, but in vain.
The tender hands were cut and torn
the nails broken and bleeding, aud still
the door remained fast, not an inch could
she move it. The cabin was in the stern
of tho vessel and the only windows were
round portholes, which were screwed
fast, and could be opened at the best of
times only by an effort of strength of
which she was incapable. But desper
ation nerved her to renewed efforts, and
she strove with all her might to turn the
iron handle which locked the covers, but
in vain.
It seemed to her that hours had passed
since she closed that door behind her, the
door which had proved a death-trap to
her. The vessel was now rofling each
moment more heavily, the water had
risen so high in the hold that the deck
was but a little above the surface. Only
a few moments more remained and she
would be carried down, down into tho
depths, drowned in the little room in
which she had passed so many happy
hours.
She gavq up the struggle. Death was
coming fast. Nothing she could do would
retard his march by even one moment.
For long hours, it seemed to her, she
sat while the roll of the vessel became
more and more sluggish, the water rose
higher and higher across the windows.
It began to trickle in through the closed
port. She wondered stupidly whether it
would reach tho cabin in sufficient quan
tity to drown her at once or whether she
would live for hours while the water came
in slowly but surely through the close
shut dhor and the locked porthole.
Then the present faded away and she
was again the merry schoolgirl playing
about with the boy who had even at that
early day’ been more to her than any
other of her playmates. Bittle they
thought in those early days of this terri
ble thing which had come upon her.
Then she remembered the happy days
when she knew of his love, knew that
sooner or later she and he might be to
gether at sea far away from the rest of
the world, but not once had they thought
of being separated in the hour of death.
Could it be that death stood, cold and
dread, by her side? That she was here,
shut in to drown, while he, her lover, her
husband, was in safety without?
Again she sprang up aud strove with
all her puny might to tear open the cruel
door, but it moved not.
She threw herself face downward upon
the floor and in dumb dispair waited for
the end. She thought that night must
be at hand, for surely it had been many
hours since she had entered the little
cabin.
Suddenly she heard a strange sound
above the rush and rustle of the entering
water. Was the end at hand? That
crash on deck must be the fall of a mast or
the sound of a disastrous accident which
would end all in a short moment more.
But life and strength came back to her
with a rush, for above tho rattle and
crash she heard her husband's voice call
ing her name in accents of terror.
Shriek after shriek broke from her
stiffened lips, and then came a rush of
feet to the door. Blow after blow fell
upon its surface’ and as it fell in she was
caught in her husband’s arms and borne
faiuting to the deck, where she found
several of the crew.
Quickly she was lowered into a boat
lying by the side of the ship, and strong
arms pulled frantically at tho oars to
force the boat beyond the reach of tho
suction which must come with irresistible
jxnver when the ship, now trembling for
its last plunge, should be drawn down
into the blue depth. Before the boat had
crossed half the short distance between
the foundering ship and the waiting
steamer there came a low cry from the
sailors, and looking hack slio saw the
craft, which had been her home, sink
slondy down, down beneath the waves.
Tnat was the last she knew for days.
When reason returned she found that she
had been taken to a hotel, and had been
lying in a stupor for days. It was more
than a week since the wreck of tho Fox.
When able to talk and to listen she
learned that when she left the side of the
mate he had supposed she had decided to
wait for the captain, and had therefore
left the ship with his boat. The captain
supposed that she was safe in the first
boat and had not learned his mistake un
til both men had stood upon the deck of
the steamer. Then a rush had been made
for the sinking ship aud she had been
rescued just in time. Five minutes more
and not only she, but tlioso who had hur
ried to her aid would have been carried
down with the doomed ship.
At longest she had been alone no more
than half an hour, and probably not that
length of time. She could scarcely be
lieve it when she remembered the weary
hours she had passed alone there, but at
last they convinced her of the truth.
When she left her cabin on that fateful
morning her hair was dark, glossy brown.
When she rose from her bod a week later
it was thickly streaked with white, and
in a little more than a month she wore a
crown of snow. It did not change in a
night, but fright surely did change its
hue. One month had changed her thick
hair from dark to snow white. For a
time she was annoyed by the curiosity
she excited, but in time she had become
used to the stares of surprise which follow
her, and now she hardly notices the in
terest she attracts.
She has got over the nervous effects of
her terrible experience, but has never lost
the sign which the awful fright set upon
her to mark her out from the rest of the
world. i
Mistress Who Opens Servants’ Let
ters.
From the London Telegraph.
There is a certain awkwardness in the
situation when a mistress opens —of
course by mistake—a letter addressed to
one of her servants, and finds herself
therein described as an “old cat,” with
an added remark that “tho old beast
wants skinning.” Mrs. Scott, a lady re
siding at Cambridge Gate, Hyde Park
when sho discovered that her
keeper had a correspondent who indulged
in such bloodthirsty sentiments, promptly
confiscated the letter. This was bold,
but it was hardly heroic to give up the
document when threatened with an ac
tion. or to wait for the same occurrence
before paying wages that were claimed.
The cook-housekeeper complained of
her food’and her bed—the latter was not
clean, while the former was “saturated
with Cayenne popper and Worcester
sauce.” It seems.obvious that the pepper
must have been intended for the bed, to
keep moths out, and had got into the food
by mistake. The jury, however, thought
that these latter prrievanres were more or
less imaginary, and that the sum of 5
shillings paid into court in respect of tho
detention of tho letter was sufficient.
The mistress, therefore, came off victo
rious. but lias been given no compen
sation lor being likened to an aged
grimalkin on tho road to the furrier’s .
perhaps becauso no compensation that
might be offered for such outrageous iu
sin nations could possibly bo adequate.
MEDICAL
“Mothers’ m^Tl s d
Friend”
Colvin, la., Dec. 2,1886.—My
wife used “Mothers’
before her third confinement, and
says site would not be without it
for hundreds of dollars.—DOCK
Mills.
Sent by express, charges prepaid, on
receipt of price. *1 50 per bottle. Book
To Mothers ' mailed free, containing vnl
nablo Information. Sold bv all Druggists
MRADriELD Regulator Cos., Atlanta. Ua!
FACIAL JO A P.
fem Corn)
For Sslo Everywhere; 3 Cakes, SI.OO.
ELEGANT
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
AT AUCTION.
C, H, DORSETT, Auctioneer,
Will sell on WEDNESDAY, May 2, at t
Liberty street (next to Whitaker), at 11 a.
m., the entire contents of a beautifully f ur
nlshed residence:
HALL—Handsome Hat Rack. Hall X,igh t
Carpet, Stair Carpet. Rugs. Table, Jar-'
dllnere and Palm. Rubber Plant
PARLORS—VeIvet Carpets, Pedestals and
• Statuettes. Chandeliers. Ebony Cabinet,
Mantel Mirrors. Lace Curtains, Angora
Rugs. Banquet Lamp, Handsome Nun a
& Clarke Piano, Elegant Mantel Orna
ments. Clonk. Whatnot, Very Fine Par.
lor Sets, Wicker Chairs and Rocker
Lambrequins, Portiere.
LIBRARY—Desk and Book Case, Card Table
M usio Box. eto.
DINING ROOM—Handsome Walnut Side
board, Rour.d Cornered Walnut Exten
sion Tal le, Leather Lounge. Bentwood
Chairs, Refrigerator, Rugs, Carpets
Fine China and Silverware.
CHAMBERS—Gas Fixtures, Elegant Mirror
Front Wardrobe, Bed Lounge, Angora
Rugs, Carpets. Cabinets. Portiere.
Handsome Mantel Oraatueuts, Very
Costly Walnut Bedroom Sets, Lambre
quins, Pictures, Singlo Bed, Chiffonier,
Fine Bedding, Mattresses. Springs,
Beautiful Chamber Sets, Single Walnut
Wardrobe.
KlTCHEN—"Perfect” Range. Gas Stove
Safe. Tallies and Kitchen Utensils.
HANDSOME FURNITURE
BY J. MCLAUGHLIN & SON,
On MONDAY, 30th April, 18S4, at 11 o'clock,
at 156 Duffy street, between Whitaker and
and Barnard,
Brussel* Carpet, Parlor Suite (Silk
Plush), Center Table, Fancy Chess Table,
Shades, Hookers, Rochester Lamp, I-arge
Rug, Dining Table, Sideboard, Refrigera
tor, Wardrobe (Antique Oak), Fancy
Chairs, Toilet Set, Bedroom Suite, Carpet,
Rugs, Chess Table, Lounge Bed, Booh
Shelves, Carpets, Gas Stove and Fixtures,
Kitchen Utensils, Halt Carpet, Pictures
and Waler Colors, etc.
Whitaker and Barnard street cars within a
few doors.
EXECUTOR’S SALE
BY J. MCLAUGHLIN & SON,
On TUESDAY, the Ist day of May, 1891, be
fore tho Court House, In the city of Savaa
nah, Chatham county, state of Georgia.
Under and by virtue of the powers vested
ip us as executors of the last will and testa
ment of the late MICHAEL BRYAN, wo will
sell at the above mentioned date and place,
during the legal hours of sale, that tract of
land on the Thunderbolt shell road, contain
ing nine and three-quarters (950 acres, mors
or less, bounded on the north by the land
used as right of way of the Savannah, Thun
derbolt and Isle of Hope Railroad, on the
south by the lands of Andrew McCormick, on
the wost by the Casey canal, and on the east
by the 1 hundertolt shell road, together with
the Improvements thereon, consisting of a
house and store Sold for the purposes of
division amongst the heirs of said Michael
Bryan, deceased.
ANDREW MCCORMICK,
P. F. GLEASON.
Executors of the last will and testament of
Michael Bryan, deceased.
— -i . .JJ3
EDUCATIONAL.
Mi his Hit
7 DRAYTON STREET,
Will remove on May 8 to
Postoffice Building*
THOROUGH INSTRUCTION IN
HUD.
BOOKKEEPING.
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shorthand call and let ns
explain the simple, eligible,
rapid anil non-phonetic sys
tem of shorthand taught by
us.
TUITION, S5 A WIONTH.
HARRISON & OflNflHL.
Hamilton Disston, the great Pennsylvania
developer, talked interestingly at the Arllnß
ton the other evening, with a Washington
Postman, re arding his famous enterpf
le laiming Florida swamp lands, tha. IS 1 ".
nearing completion. The work was !"‘g'm
PM. and has cost its promoters a vabl , ...
of money, but th'vnowsee their waj ■
to realizing a haudsomo protit. In re latl ® „
his project Mr. Disston said: "' VI “
already secured deeds from tho state oi i •
Ida to about !.200.(XW acres of land, ono
soon have title to 2.000.UW acres, the ‘
amount. It Is at the upper end of tne nr.
mee valley, u body of as fertile land as
sun shines on. and thoroughly drained
next move is to settle it up with a -s
class of farmers, andalteaay we have seou
a colony from South Dakota. NegoLM ■
are in progress to bring over some ipdu. ir
European colonists. The land will beg
Into small holdings and sold on very
terms, it will produce magnificent crop
sugar cano. rice, vegetables, unn ir ,
Peaches of this year s growth have n, • -
been taken from that locality la thci
of a few years there will not boa mort p
porous part of the union."