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BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH.
Talmage Discourses on Job and Nar
row Escapes.
The Differences of (Opinion About the
Famous Biblical Passage— Thou
sands of Men Make Just as Narrow
Escape for Their Soul—Paul Ex
presses the Same Idea in His "Saved
as by Fire. ’
Brooklyn, July 29.—Rev. Dr. Talmage
has selected as the subject for his sermon
for to-day through the press "Narrow
Escapes," the text being taken from Job
19 30, “I am escaped with the skin of
my teeth.”
Job had it hard. What with boils, and
bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a
fool of a wife, he wished he was dead ;
and Ido not blame him. His flesh was '
gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth
wasted away until nothing but the
enamel seemed left. He cries out, "I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth. "
There has been some differeneemf opin
ion about this passage. St Jerome and
Schultens. and Doctors Good, and Poole,
and Barnes, have all tried their forceps
on Job's teeth. You deny my interpre
tation. and say. "What did Job know
about the enamel of the teeth'” He
knew everything about it. Dental sur
gery is almost as old as the earth. The
mummies of Egypt, thousands of years
old, are found to-day with gold filling in
their teeth. Ovid, and Horace, and Solo
mon, and Moses wrote about these im
portant factors of the body. To other
provoking complaints, Job, i think, has
added an exasperating toothache, and,
putting his hand against tbe inflamed
face, he says. "I am escaped with the
6kin of my teeth . "
Avery nartow escape, you say, for
Job s body and soul; but there are thou
sands of men who make just as narrow
escape for their soul. There was a time
when the partition between them and
ruin was no thicker than a tooth’s ena
mel; but as Job finally escaped, so have
they. Thank God! thank God!
Paul expresses the same idea by a dif
ferent figure when he says that some peo
ple are "saved as by fire." A vessel at
sea is in flames. You go to the stern of
the vessel. The boats have shoved otf.
The flames advance; you can endure the
heat no longer in your face. You slide
down on the side of the vessel, and hold
on with your fingers, until tne forked
tongue of the fire begins to lick the back
of your hand, and you feel that you must
fail, when one of the lifeboats comeback,
and the passengers say they think they
have room for one more. The boat swings
under you—you drop into it—you are
saved Go some men are pursued by
temptation until they are partially con
sumed, 1 but after all get. off—"saved as
by fire." But I like the figuro of Job a
little better than that of Paul, because
the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want
to show, if God will help, that some men
make narrow escape for their souls, and
are saved as "with the skin of their
teeth.”
It is as easy for some people to look to
the cross as for you to look to this pulpit.
Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you ex
pect them to become Christians. You go
over to the store and say, "Grandon
Joined the church yesterday.” Your
business comrades say, "That is just
what might have been expected; he al
ways was of that turn of mind.” In
youth, this person whom I describe was
always good. He never broke things. He
never laughed when it was improper to
laugh At seven, he could sit an hour in
church, perfectly quiet, looking neither
to the right hand nor to the left, but
straight into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whole discus
sion about the eternal degrees. He never
upset things, nor lost them. He floated
into the kingdom of God so gradually
that it is uncertain just when the matter
was decided.
Here is another one, who started in life
with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept
the nursery in an uproar. His mother
found him walking on the edge of the
house roof to see if he could balance him
self. There was no horse he dared not
ride—no tree he could not climb. His
boyhood was a long series of predica
ments; his manhood was reckless; his
midlife very wayward. But now he is
converted, and you go over to the store
and say, "Arkwright joined the church
yesterday.” Your friends say, "It
is not possible! You must be joking!"
You say: "No; I tell you the truth.
He joined the church." Then they
reply: There is hope for any of us
if old Arkwright has become a Chris
tian !”
In other words, we all admit that it is
more difficult for some men to accept the
gospel than for others.
I may be addressing some who have cut
loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sun
days, and who have at present no inten
tion of becoming Christians themselves,
but just to sec what is going on; and yet
you may find yourself escaping, before
you hear the end. as "with the skin of
your teeth." 1 do not expect to waste
this hour. I have seen boats go off from
Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their
nets, and after a while come ashore, pull
ing in the nets without having caught a
single fish. It was not a good day, or
they had not the right kind of a net. But
we expect no such excursion to-day. The
water is full of fish : the wind is in the
right direction; the gospel net is strong.
O, thou, who didst help Simon and An
drew to fish, show us to-day how to cast
the net on the right side of'the ship!
Some of you, in coming to God, will
have to run against sceptical notions. It
is useless for people to say sharp and
cutting things to those who reject the
Christian religion I cannot say such
things. By what process of temptation,
or trial, or betrayal you have come to
your present state, 1 know not. There
are two gates to your nature: the gate of
the head and the gate of the heart. The
gate of your head is locked with bolts
and bars that an archanged could not
break, but the gate of your heart swings
easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your
body with weapons you would meet me
with weapons, and it would be sword
stroke for sword-stroke, and wound for
wound, and blood for blood; but if I come
and knock at the door of your house, you
open it, and give me the best seat in your
parlor. If I should come at you to-day
with an argument, you would answer me
with an argument; if with sarcasm, you
would answer me with sarcasm; blow for
b)ow. stroke for stroke; but when 1 come
and knock at the door of your heart, you
open it aad say, "Come in, my brother,
and tell me all you know about Christ
and heaven.”
Listen to two or three questions: Are
you as happy as you used to be when you
believed in trie truth of the Christian re
ligion? Would you like to have your chil
dren travel in the road in which you are,
now traveling ’ You had a relative who
professed to be a Christian, ami was
thoroughly consistent, living and dying in
the faith of the gospel. Would you not
like to live the same quiet life, and die
the same peaieful death; 1 received a let
ter. sent me by one who has rejected the
Christian religion. It says I am old
enough to know that the
Hd pleasures of life are
evanescent, and to realize the fact that It
must be i omtortable In old age to believe
1 mg i* lati. !■ to the future, and
to have a faith in some system that pro
po;e to save I urn free to confess that J
would be happier if 1 could exercise the
simple amt Uautifol la'.lb that is pos
sessed by many whom J know I am not
willingly out of tiny church or out of the
fsith My state of urn ertuioty is one of
wrest bojuiiunc's J doubt tn> immortal
itv and look upon the deathbed as the
i closing scene, after which there is noth
; ing. What shall I do-tbat 1 have notdone'"
Ah ! skepticism is a dark and doleful lapd.
Del me say that this Bible is either true
,or false. If it be false, we are as well off
; as you; if it be true, then which of us is
; safer?
Let me also ask whether your trouble
has not been that you confounded Chris
tianity with the inconsistentcharacter of
1 some who profess it. \ou are a lawyer,
i In your profession there are mean "and
| dishonest inen. Is that anything against
the law : You are a doctor. There are
! unskilled and contemptible men in your
j prafession. Is that anything against
medicine' You are a merchant There
are thieves and defrauders in your busi
ness. Is that anything against mer
chandise? Behold, then, the unfairness
of charging upon Christianity the wicked
ness of its disciples We admit some of
| the charges against those who profess
religion. Some of the most gigantic
swindles of the present day have been
‘ carried on by members of the
! church. There are men in the
| churches who would not be trusted
for five dollars without good collat
eral security. They leave their business
dishonesties in the vestibule of thechurch
as they go in and sit at the communion.
Having concluded the sacrament, they
get up. wipe the wine from their lips, go
out. and take up their sins where they
left off. To serve the devil is their regu
lar work; to serve God a sort of play
spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect
to wipe off from their busines slate all the
past week’s inconsistencies You have
no more right to take such a man’s life as
a specimen of religion than you have to
take the twisted irons and spiit timbers
that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a
specimen of an American ship It is time
that we drew a line between religion and
the frailties of those xvho profess it.
Do you not feel that the Bible, take it
all in all, is about the best book that the
world has ever seen! Do you know any
book that has as much in it? Do you not
think, upon the whole, that its influence
has been beneficent! I come to you with
both hands extended toward you. In one
hand I have the Bible, and in the other I
have nothing. This Bible in one hand I
will surrender forever just as soon as in
my other hand you can put a book that is
better.
To-day I invite you back into the good,
old-fashioned religion of your fathers—to
the God whom they worshipped, to the
Bible they read, to the promiseson which
they leaned, to the cross on which they
hung their eternal expectations. You
have not been happy a day since you
swung off: you will not be happyaminute
until you swing hack
Again There may be some of you who,
in the attempt after a Christian life, will
have to run against powerful passions and
appetites. Terhaps it is a disposition to
anger that you have to contend against;
and perhaps, while in a very serious
mood, you hear of something that makes
you feel that you must swear or die. I
know of a Christian man who was once
so exasperated that he said to a mean cus
tomer, "I cannot swear at you myself, for
I am a member of the church , but if you
will go down stairs my partner in business
will swear at you.” All your good resolu
tions heretofore have been torn to tatters
by explosions of temper. Now there is
no harm in getting mad if you only get
mad at sin. You need to bridle and sad
dle these liot-breathed passions, and with
them ride down injustice and wrong. There
are a thousand tilings in the world that
we ought to be inad at. There is no harm
in getting red hot if you only bring to the
forge that which needs hammering. A
man who has no power of righteous indig
nation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a
righteous indignation, and not a petu
lancy that blurs, and unravels, and de
pletes the soul.
There is a large class of persons in mid
life who have still in them appetites that
were aroused in early manhood, at a time
when they prided themselves on being a
"little fast,” "high livers,” “free and
easy.” "hail fellows well met." They are
now paying in compound interest for trou
bles they collected twenty years ago.
Some of you are trying to escape, and you
will—vet very narrowly, "as with the
skin of your teeth.” God and your own
soul only know what the struggle is.
Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a
soul that was deeper in the mire than you
are. They line the beach of heaven—the
multitude whom God has rescued from
the thraxl of suicidal habits. If you this
day turn your back on the wrong and
start anew God will help you. Oh, the
weakness of human help’ Men will sym
pathize for awhile, and then turn you off.
if you ask for their pardon they will give
it, and say they will try you again ; but
falling awa.v again under the power of
temptation they cast vou off forever. But
God forgives seventy times seven: yea,
seven hundred times; yea, though this be
the ten thousandth time he is more ear
nest, more sympathetic, more helpful this
la# time than when you took your first
misstep.
If, with all the influences favorable
for a right life, men make so many mis
takes, how much harder it is when, for
instance, some appetite thrusts its iron
grapple into the roots of the tongue, and
pulls a man down with hands of destruc
tion ! If under such circumstances, he
break away, there will be no sport in the
undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a
struggle in which tae wrestlers move
from side to side, and bend, and twist,
aud watch for an opportunity to get in a
heavier stroke, until with one final effort,
in which the muscles are distended, and
the veins stand out and the blood starts,
the swarthv habit falls under the knee of
the victor—escaped at last as with the
skin of his teeth.
The ship "Emma,” bound from Gotten
burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when
the man on the lookout saw something
that he pronounced a vessel bottom up.
There was something on it that looked
like a sea-gull, but was afterward found
to be a waving handkerchief. In the
small boat the crew pushed out to the
wreck, and found that it was a capsized
vessel and that three men had been digging
their way out through the bottom of the
ship. When the vessel capsized they had
no means of escape. The captain took
his penknife and dug away through the
planks until his knife broke. Then an old
nail was found, with which they attempted
to scrape their way out of the darkness,
each one working until his hand was well
nigh paralyzed, aud he sank back faint
aud sick. After clong and tedious work,
the light broke through the bottom of the
ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help
came. They were taken on board the
vessel and saved. Did ever men come so
near a watery grave without dropping
into it? How narrowly they escaped
escaped only "With the skin of their
teeth ”
There are men who have been capsized
of evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean,
and they are a thousand miles away from
any shore of help. They have for years
j been trying to dig their way out. They
i have been digging away, and digging
away, but they can never be delivered un
j less now they will hoist some signal of
I distress. However weak and feeble it
I may be. Christ will see it. and bear down
| ujion the helpless craft, and lake them on
j hoard; and it will be known on earth and
in heaven how narrowly they escaped—
"esi ajied as with the skin of their teeth.”
There arvothers who. in attempting to
come to God, must run between a great
j many business perplexities. If a man go
over to business at ten o'clock in the
afternoon, he has some time for religion,
hut how shall you find time for religious
I contemplation when you are driven from
1 sunrise until sunset and have been for
i live j ears going behind in business, and
are frequently dunned by creditors whom
j you cannot pay, abd when from Monday
morning uutii Saturday night, you are
! dodging hills that you cannot meet' You
walk day h.v day In uncertainties that
i have kepi your brain on fire lor the past
I three years, home, with less business
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894.
troubles than you, have gone crazy The
clerk has heard a noise in the back couut
ing-rootn, and gone in. and •found the
chief man of the firm a raving maniac:
or the wife has heard the bang of
a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in.
stumbling over the dead body of her hus
band-a suicide. There are in this house
to-day three hundred men pursued,
harassed, trodden down and scalped of
business perplexities, and which way to
turn next they do not know. Now, God
will not be hard on you. He knows what
obstacles are in the way of your being a
Christian, and your first effort in the
right direction he will crown with suc
cess. Do not let satan. with cotton bales,
and kegs, and hogsheads, and .counters,
and stocks of unsalable goods, block up
your way to heaven. Gather yp all your
energies. Tighten the girdle about your
loins Take an agonizing look into the
face of God, and then say, "Here goes,
one grand effort for life eternal,” and
then bound away for heaven, escaping |
"as with the skin of your teeth.”
in the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went up
incorrupt from the contaminations and
perplexities of Wall street, Water street,
Pearl street. Broad street. State street.
Third street, Lombard street and the
bourse. On earth they were called
brokers, or stock-jobbers, or retailers, or
importers; but in heaven Christian he
roes. No fagots were heaped about their
feet: no inquisition demanded from them
recantation ; no soldier aimed a spike at
their heart; but they had mental tor
tures. compared with which all physical
consuming is as the breath of a spring
morning.
1 find in the community a large class of
men who have been so cheated, so lied
about, so outrageously wronged, that they
have lost faith iu everything. In a world
where everything seems so topsv-turvy,
they do not see how there can be any God
They are confounded and frenzied, and
misanthropic. Elaborate argument to
prove to them the truth of Christian
ity. or the truth of anything else, touches
them nowhere. Hear me, all such men.
I preach to you no rounded periods, no or
namental discourse; but I put my hand on
your shoulder, and invite you into the
peace of the gospel. Here is a
rock" on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these troubles
of the world. As long as the world stuck
to God. God stuck to the world; but the
earth seceded from his government, and
hence all these outrages and all these
woes. God is good. For many hundreds
of years he has been coaxing the world to
come back to him : but the more he has
coaxed, the more violent have men been
in their resistence, and they have stepped
hack and stepped back until they have' 1
dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you. Try
him. and see if he will not help. Try him,
and see if he will not save. The flowers
of spring have uo bloom so sweet as the
flowering of Christ's affections. The sun
hath no warmth compared with the glow
of his heart. The waters have no refresh
ment like the fountain that will slake the
thirst of thy soul. At the moment the
reindeer stands with his lip and nostril
thrust into the cool mountain torrent, the
hunter may be coming through the
thicket. Without crackling a stick under
his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims
his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor
thing rears in its death-agony , and falls
backward, its antlers crashing on the
rocks ; but the panting heart that drinks
from the water-brooks of God's promise
shall never be fatally wounded and shall
never die.
This world is a poor portion for your
soul,oh huslnessiman.JAn eastern king had
graven upon his tomb two fingers, repre
sented as sounding upon each other witn
a snap, and under them the motto, "All
is not worth that.” Apicius Coelius
hanged himself because his steward in
formed him that he had only eighty thou
sand pounds sterling left. All of this
world’s riches make but a small inheri
tance for a soul. Robespierre attempted
to win the applause of the world; but
when he was dying, a woman camo rush
ing through the crowd, crying to him.
“Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell
covered with the curses of every mother
in Prance!” Many who have expected
the plaudits of the world have died under
its Anathema Maranatha.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make one
strong pull for heaven. No half-wav
work will do it. There sometimes comes
a time on ship-board when everything
must be sacrificed to save the passengers.
The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing.
The captain puts the trumpet to his lip
and shouts, "Cut away the mast!” Some
of you have been tossed and driven, and
you have, in your effort to keep the world,
well-nigh lost your soul. Until you have
decided this matter, let everything else
go. Overboard with all those other anx
ieties and burdens 1 You will "have
to drop the sails of your pride,
and cut away the mast! With one earn
est cry for help, put your cause into
the band of him who helped Paul
out of the breakers of Melita, and who,
above the shrill blast of the wrathiest
tempest that ever blackened the sky or
shook the ocean, can hear the faintest
imploration for mercy. I shall conclude,
feeling that some of you, who have con
sidered your case hopeless, will take
heart again, and that with blood-red
earnestness, such as you have never ex
perienced before, you will start for the
good land of the Gospel—at last to look
back, saying, "What a great risk I ran 1
Almost lost, but saved! Just got through,
and no more! Escaped by the skin of my
teeth.”
BANKER CLEWS’ VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.
New York, July 28.-—We have to report
another week of unbroken dullness in
Wall street affairs. The market is en
tirely in the hands of a few professionals,
who seek nothing beyond fractional
"turns,” enough to pay for the day’s
salt.
Naturally, the strange conflict at
Washington over the duty on sugar cre
| ates some interest in sugar trust stock;
I but, even in that, the transactions are
i comparatively nominal. The attitude of
the sugar trust interest has subjected
the whole "tariff reform” ques
tion to uncertainty; and to
that extent hopes based on the
prospect of the passage of the tariff bill
have been thrown into confusion. In
some measure, this is a disappointment
of "bull” expectations. It seems inevita
ble, however, that some solution of the
present legislative deadlock will be found
within a few days, it is incredible that
the conflict on this single item should be
allowed to involve the defeat of the
whole tariff. There might be a great
deal of political virtue in such an upshot,
hut there would be no statemansbip; and
we have not yet seen the evidence that in
congress morality carries more lorce than
politics. Each day will help to cool off
heated feeling at the capitol; the
imperative pressure of public opinion for
i putting an end to this tariff suspense and
for freeing trade from ns paralysis will
compel respect in both bouses; the sugar
trust may deem it prudent to show some
consideration for the country and may in
struct its supporters to grant concessions :
and. in the worst event, the House would
tie likely to yield, leaving remedy to be
sought in a subsequent effort to modify
the terms temporarily conceded With
all these possibilities within easy reach,
the last thing to tie expected is
the •ompietc defeat of the tariff
hill and the result most probable i
t au early settlement which will |
set the new duties in operation not later
Ilian Sept. 1, while possibly leaving the
sugar duty subject to further change.
This course is so manifestly the most
eligible on grounds of party policy, and
so clearly the best wav out' of the extra
ordinary complications that it seems en
tirely probable that a few more day3 will
bring this struggle within sight of its end.
It therefore seems safe to recard this
hitch in tariff legislation as only tempor
ary and to calculate upon the new tariff
taking effect at a comparatively early
day. with the effects that have heretolore
been expected as likely to attend the new
state of things.
Theoneithing the country now impa
tiently waits for, as a condition prece
dent to a more complete restoration of
confidence, is the adjournment of con
gress. The continued persistence of the
outward flow of gold, however, suggests
one measure of protection to the public
finances which should by all means re
ceive attention before ad.ournmenl The
treasury gold reserve is uow close upon
$150,000,000, which is but 12 per cent, of
its note obligations. How much further
tbe drain may be carried it 'is impossible
to say; nor is there any assurance how
far the banks may be disposed to help the
government under these circumstances.
The really serious fact is that the govern
ment has virtually ceased to receive
any gold through its customs revenue.
All outgo and no income is the
present condition, and such a situation
should not be tolerated one day longer
than is absolutely inevitable. Neglect of
taking proper action is all the more culp
able because the dancer is easy of rem
edy. Congress has the power to decree
that a fixed portion of the customs duties
shall be paid in gold, leaving the remain
der to be paid in that metal or in the pa
per money now legally available for that
purpose. Should a law be passed requir
ing 75 per cent, of the duties to be liqui
dated in gold, the treasury would receive
100 mills per annum more gold revenue
than it is now getting, which would at
once build up the gold reserve and enable
the government to meet the export de
mand without difficulty. It does seem
that a remedy so simple and so entirely
unobjectionable should be brought to the
attention of congress by the Secretary of
the Treasury and urged for immediate
adoption.
ON NORTHERN DIAMONDS.
Results of the Day's Games in the
National League Cities.
Washington, July 29.—Games of base
ball were played to-day with the follow
ing results;
ST. LOUIS BEATS LOUISVILLE.
At St. Louis—First game— r h e
St. Lvuis 00601042 *—l3 16 1
Louisville 10 1 0 000 06- 2 6 2
Batteries—Breitenstein, Miller and Twyn
ham: Menifee and Weaver.
LOUISVILLE TURNS THE TABLES.
Second game— r h e
St. Louis 00002000 0- 2 10 7
Louisville 100001 5 20—9 9 0
Batteries—Hawley, Miller and Twynham,
Knell and Grim. *
CHICAGO WINS AT CINCINNATI.
At Cincinnati — r h e
Cincinnati ..100140030—9 14 6
Chicago 42310024 o—l 6 16 2
Batteries—Parrott. Flynn and Murphy;
Griffith and Schriver.
A Murderer Still at Large.
Douglas, Ga., July 29.--The negro who
in cold blood killed another at Ashley’s
still on July 25 is still at large. Colored
Detective Frank Evans has just got back,
and says he has every reason to know
that the murderer is at Sessoms, but that
he is being assisted to keep clear of the
officers. It does seem that those whose
business it is to use every effort to cap
ture this red-handed murderer are very
tardy—so much so, that it is causing gen
eral comment of dissatisfaction. If no
more effort is made than in this case,
murderers and cut throats will do as they
please without fear of the consequences.
John Sutton, a young white man of Ber
rien county, was put in jail here to-day
under a charge of assault with intent to
murder.
Our primary came off yesterday. Mr.
Fussell as yet has no opposition in the
democratic ranks,
BAD BOYS OF BUG ALLEY.
How They Spoiled a Pleasant Little
Social Evsut in Louisville.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal
It was all intended for a joke, for the
young men who live and loaf in Bug Alley
were not accustomed to seeing women
taking a bath in the canal, but the truth
of it was that the women came very near
not finding their clothes, and if they had
not three women and a man would have
had to remain iu the cool water of the
canal all night.
Dr. Thomas McAboy lives with his
family on Twelfth street, between Gray
son and Walnut. He is a good, honest
man, and one of the most widely known
spiritualists in the city, and a large prop
erty owner. Wednesday evening the
weather was sultry, and Dr. McAboy and
his family sat about the house in the
sweltering heat wondering how they
could get cool. Finally it was proposed
to take a bath in the canal. The plan met
with favor at once, and it was not long be
fore several discarded wrappers and
other articles of wearing apparel were
found. Then Dr. McAboy, his daughter
and two other young women started for
the canal. Between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets was selected, and they disrobed in
the darkness. This was about 8:30o'elock.
The street clothes which the party had
worn to the canal were placed in a heap
in the high weeds which grow at this
point.
Then there was much splashing and a
genera! good time in the water. Ali the
young women wanted to learn how to
swim. The water was cool and invigor
ating, and bathing in the canal was a de
cided novelty. In about an hour it was
time to go home, for all were thoroughly
cooled off. When the spot where the
clothes had been left was reached it was
seen that they were gone. At that time
all were clothed in bewilderment and
were wearing anything but pleasant
smiles. It bad turned cooler, too, for tbe
wind which swept up the river sent a chill
through the tliiu wrappers and thinner
trousers. There seemed to be little help
for it The clothes were gone, that was a
certaiuty. How to recover them was the
thing Finally they concluded that there
must be some mistake: that they were
mistaken about the spot where the clothes
were left. Then all began searching vig
orously. In about au hour, or about the
time that a fire would have been a luxury,
the pile of clothing was found, and it is
needless to say that it was put on as soon
as possible. It is said that the clothes
were never moved at all; that Dr. Mc-
Aboy and his relatives only forgot where
they had placed them. But had Dr. Mc-
Aboy listened closely he would have
heard various chuckling and much sup
pressed laughter from some adjacent
high weeds. As already staled, the
young men who live in the neighborhood
wen* not familiar with women bathers.
Jt was a novelty to them.
ACQUIRED TASTES
American Diplomats Bring Home
Foreign Accents and Appetites.
From the Washington Post
When ex-United Sates Senator Palmer
of Michigan, who went over to Spain to
serve for a brief period at Lisbon in a
ministerial capacity, returned to Wash
ington, after an absence of a very few
moons, he wittily asked some of bis for
mtr associates in tbe Senate chamber to
excuse his foreign accent Tbe future
president of the world's fair commission
Lad really brought back nothing but bis
l'anxee dialect: yet nearly ai 1 of ('ncle
Baib UiploiAisU <MUH> hvim with * -mu
habit acquired in foreign lands. Minister
Denby. for instance, who has resided con
tinuously in China for sbe past ten years,
will pine during his present stay in the
land of his nativity for certain dishes
dear to the palate of Mongolian epicures.
Consul General Mors, in his year's so
journ in Pans, bias learned to love the se
ductive cigarette. "Very few Euro
peans,” said he to a Post reporter,
"smoke cigars. In London the short
stemmed pipe is universal, but in Paris
all lo\ers of the weed indulge in cigar
ettes. the thick, fat sort that are incased
in fine white paper, and are filled with to
bacco of quite a different flavor from that
in this country. Not one man in a thou
sand smokes a cigar. 1 suppose, for the
reason that good cigars are rather dear on
the other side."
There Is Merit
Fn flood'* Sarsaparilla. I was in bad
condition with Sour Stomach, Heart
John R, Lochary, Roxburyy Ohio.
Palpitation, Hot Flashes. Since tak
ing Hood’s Sarsaparilla I am as well as ever.
I give Hood’s Sarsaparilla all the credit.
I took no other medicine. John R, Loch
aby, Roxbury, Ohio. Remember.
Hood’s X Cures
Hood’s Pills are taking the lead. 25c.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
WANTED,
About 7C0.000 feet of bridge timber, to be first
class North Carolina or Georgia heart long
leaf pine, aud to stand prime Inspection of
Southern Lumber and Timber Association as
adopted Feb 14, 1893 The price to be made
for prompt cash F. O. B. cars at any point on
line of this road, or over rail of vessel at
West Norfolk, delivery to be commenced
w’thin 2) days after awarding contract, and
be completed within 45 days .Reasonable se
curity will be required for fjkhful perform
ance of contract. Sizes and wll particulars
will be given on application. Parties who
have odd quantities and odd sixes suitable
for bridge and wharf material may offer same,
stating lowest prices. Address
ATLANTIC AND DANVILLE R’Y CO.,
Portsmouth, Va.
THE CHEW IS THE THING.
Bnt it must be a good chew.
It Is
GOLDEN APPLE TOBACCO
we refer to.
The chewers will be supplied by
WILLIAM DIEKB,
Corner Liberty and West Broad Streets.
FOR SALE,
That new eight-room residence located on
the White Bluff road about three miles from
Savannah. Ten acres land, suitable tor truck
purposes, the same being part of the Chip
pewa farm. A rare opportunity to secure a
desirable suburban home at a nominal cost.
GF.ORGIA STATE BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION,
30 Bull Street.
PEACHES.
Choice Peaches, per can, 12V$o.
Anderson's Preserves (fresh).
Sweet and Sour Pickles.
Fine Assortment Fresh Cakes.
Grapes and Pears.
Finest Creamery Butter.
Fine Line Toilet Soaps Cheap.
Fine Sardines.
AT
WM. G. COOPER'S,
28 Whitaker Street.
DON’T GRIND
In the old rut forever this is the progressive
age. be up and doing. All your life now you
have bought a soap powder that is packed in
an ordinary paper cartoon, which when once
opened gets damp and hardens to a solid cake
or else one half of it is spilled on account of
a poor package. All of this can be obviated
hy the use of a powder made right here at
home, called Diamond Dust Soap Powder.
Not alone is it two ounces heavier than other
powders, but the package has a metal screw
top which prevents waste. All grocers.
SEASONABLE ARTICLES.
Salt Water Soap, Indispensible to seaside
bathers. Borated Talcum aad Boraclne for
prickle heat. Imported and Domestic Bay
Kum. Cupid's Almor.a Cream for sun burns.
Melderma instantly dispels the disagreeable
odor arising from perapirauon.
SOLOMONS A 00..
Congress street and Bull street branch.
ON AND AFTER AUGUST 1
Rate* at Hotel Tybee
will be reduced.
Board, Ter Week, *lO 00 to *12.00.
•2.50 Per Day.
Supper and Breakfast, 50 Cent*.
Dinner. 75 Cent*.
BOHAN t COWAN.
ONE OF THE FINEST
Drug store* in the South i located under the
Giixtds' new armory, corner of Bull and
t'harltoo street* and the stock therein U In
keeping with the surroundings One glume
at the cigar case will ion vine a you of ibi*
fart, tot iu it you wLI find all xizcs of the
celt f,rated Infants Kills!la ( igara. equal to
imported, and the wonderful little cigar
know nat L* Ptiiia Ituy in on your way
down this montag or e your way < ptblt
afternoon and try tbe above named rural*
• ■‘jUj a CO . i'J ueg-sts
__ JHJ Nfc ON S .
BOUCHARD —Frank Jette Bouchard,
aged 3 months son of Mr. and Mrs. E L.
Bouchard, died Sunday evening at 6 o'clock.
Funeral THIS AFTERNOON a* 4 o'clock
from the family residence. No. 202 Waldburg
street.
St. Louis and Lou'svllle papers please copy.
ERNST.—The relatives and friends of Mr.
and Mrs. George Ernst are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral of the latter, from
her late residence, corner of West Broad and
Zubly streets, at 10 o'clock THIS MORNING.
O CONNOR.—The relatives and friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis O'L'ONNOfi and Mr. and
Mrs John Lyons are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral of the former, from his
late residence. No. 15 Lincoln street, at 4
o'clock THIS AFTERNOON.
DE KALB LODGE No. 9,1. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will beheld
THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock, in Odd Fellows’
Hall.
Visiting brothers are invited to meet with
us. O. T. SHAFFER, N. G
,Tno. W. Smith, Secretary.
¥ IUTArToRDERsT
IRISH JASPER GREENS.
Appear at your armory, in full uniform.
THIS (Monday) AFTERNOON at 3:20
o’clock, to pay the last tribute of respect to
our late brother, Pay Member Dennis
O'Connor.
JOHN FLANNERY.
Captain
SPECIAL NOfjCEsT^
P. H. KIERNAN,
Plumber and Tinner.
Roofs tinned and repaired. Water Closets.
Bath Tubs and Pipes Btted In with best ma
terial and workmanship.
Telephone ICO. 30(4 Whitaker street.
EASTER LILY BCLB9-NEW CROP.
Direct from Bermuda, in store and ready
to plant.
Protect yourself by getting a Waterproof
W agon or Dray Cover from
J. GARDNER,
118 Broughton Street.
BANKS.
THE GEORGIA'STATE
Building and Loan Association
OF SAVANNAH, CA.
STATE
TREASURER’S
ENDORSEMENT,
STATE OF GEORGIA, |
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. V
Atlanta, Ga.. June 15th, 1894. (
=jHIS IS TO CERTIFY That the
Georgia State Building & Loan Ass’n,
OF SAVANNAH, GA.,
A corporation chartered under the laws of
this State, has on deposit with me. as State
Treasurer ($185.000i, over 75 per cent, of its
securities, as provided by the laws of this
State governing Building and Loan Associa
tions. and by making said deposit and other
wise complying with the law governing such
associations, it is authorized to do business
in this State.
Its Fourth Annual Statement shows a divi
dend of 18 per cent, passed to the credit of
Stockholders out of the net profits for the
fiscal year ending the 3Uth of April, 1894. while
the average rate of earning for the four years
of its existence has been over
TWENTY-FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM
I cheerfully endorse the plan of the Associa
tion as prudent and equitable.
With the wise and economical administra
tion of Its affairs that is assured by its Direc
tory. composed of leading and conservative
business men of Savannah. I consider the in
vestment both safe and profitable and unhesi
tatingly recommend it to the public at large
R. U. HARDEMAN,
State Treasurer.
WE GUARANTEE
8%
Per annum on deposits of 8100 and over
for one year and longer.
Interest paid semi-annually In cash,
C. H. OLMSTEAD, Pres.
GEO. W TIEDEMAN, Vice Pres.
LESTER HUBBELL, Treas.
Office. 30 Bull Street.
SAVANNAH HANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH, GA. -
INTEREST AT
4%
ON DEPOSITS IX SAVINGS DEPART.
MENT.
Collections on Savannah and all sooth*
ern points, we handle on the most favora
ble terms and remit at lowest exchange
ra.es on day of payment. Correspond*
. ence solicited.
JOSEPH D* WEED, President.
JOIIJN €. UO WLAN D, Vice Preside**
JIA Iff H. IGKTUt. Gshhisr.
Savannah Savings Bank,
PA Y 8
ON DEPOSITS.
Issues 6 Per Cent. Certificates of Deposit.
Send or write for our
literature.
W. K. WILKINSON. President.
UOCKWKLIL, Treasurer.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF savannah.
Capital $600,000.
Tr.nu.cts a general banking t.uslneu.
Maintains a (savings Department and at
low. ISTKRLST Af 4 PER CKNT.,co“!-
. pounded quarterly.
The account, of Individuals, firms, banks
and corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspond
ents In GE ORGIA, ALA HAMA,FLORIDA
and SOUTH CAROLINA, wc are prepared
to handle collections on the most favora
ble terms.
Correspondence Invited.
BKANTLLV A. DENMARK. President.
M. It. LANK, Vice President.
_G KOKGF, c. FREEMAN, ashler.
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