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PART THREE.
CHAMBER SUITS.
Our 3-Piece Solid Oak \ The Same Com-")
ArtlatlcHlly Carved Suite Uftß f'/L l||| pleto with Four Oak ' rnnV7|| (|||
with 24*30 Beveled Flat lUtl .J\ ✓. I II chairs,One Oak Koeker MUl>|Ai|||
ed Mirror - - - ) ISAWONOtit Ona Oak Crnter Table 1 UJUU.UU
Is a bargain that you cannot afford to m!sa. We do not
hesitate to say that we have on our floors the most Hand
some display of Suits In this city. Vou should see them
Some of them are perfect modelsof the designer's art. They are
In Oak, Walnut,
Mahogany and Birch.
The prices are right. Come and toe convinced.
FANCY ROCKERS.
We have on display a beautiful line
suitable for Christmas Presents.
1 Our Solid Oak Piu.h Seat Rocker, $2,75,
naiiiiViiiiflf Our Highly Polished Embossed
MiUISS? Sole Leather Cototoler Seat Rocker 29Q
And our Big Rattan Rocker ... 1- 7rn
This IS a *‘ ne stuns competition
and makes the cu tomer laugh.
BRASS 2 IRON BEDS
We have a large assort
ment of these goods in
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Our Cribs for t’*e little
fellows are beauties.
GAMBLE AND PROUD OF IT.
IN THE “FVIt WEST” GAMBLERS
MOVE IN GOOD SOCIETY.
IMstol* anil Knl\e Not Isc-il Now—ln
New Mexico Almost Everybody
Plays for Money—Mysteries of
Staking and ‘‘Macing.”
From the New York Press
Espanola, N. M„ Nov. 29.—1 t is only in
the far west, on the outskirts of civiliza
tion, that one meets the true gambler.
There are gamblers and gamblers, and
plenty of the first variety of the kind in
the east and in larger cities throughout
the middle western states, such as Chica
go, St. L/Ouls, Denver and the like. And
in New York there are gamblers of the
same sort, but the true gambler, true
blue disciple of the coppered ace and the
big ship, is only to be found in the far,
far west. New Mexico can boast of hav
ing a few of them. *
The city gambler is the man who has
generally some occupation, and who gam
bles for the fun of it, and for the excite
ment. He generally console* himself for
his losing by considering that the money
would have gone any way, for theaters
or dinner parties. The real gambler is
proud of his profession. He looks upon it
as an honorable way of making a living,
and an easy way. His reputation is sa
cred to him, and he thinks himself as
good as any man. His children associate
with decent families in the small town
in which he happens to live, and his wife
bolds her head as high as anybody. He
takes his "ups” as calmly and com
placently as his "downs,” and never plays
for the "fun in It,” which, he claims, is
a waste of time and the greatest proof
of the old saying about a fool and his
money.
As a rule, the western gamblers are
Quite decent fellows. The times are past
when they had to wear a couple of six
shooters and a bowie knife. The good
old days when the faro dealer had to be
a dead shot are no more. The sinecure
the “watcher" at a game once had not,
he now has, although It is rarely now
that one sees a “watcher.” His glory
has departed, and his raised chair empty,
the dealer is a quiet, gentlemanly fel
low, who will drink with you and talk
politics with you until you generally find
"Ut he knows more about the subject than
vou do. The bouncer's day is past, and
questions of "chips” are left to the arbi
tration committee dealing the cards.
Men don't bet on the turn of a card
any more. Twenty-five-cent chips ure the
rule of the day. and 10-cent chips pre
dominate at the wheel. Young fellows
trom the east are not drugged and robbed
■toy more, either. In fact, gambling has
mown to be decent, and the men who
follow It for a living have become cor
■••s|>ondlngly decent. A drunken cowboy
°r a quarrelsome “hobo" finds a warm
irception In the gambling room, apd the
decent gamblers are with the bartender
hen It comes to firing the dlsagre.
man out Into the arms of the constab
ulary.
It costs money to run a "club” In this
turnory, A ikons* costs f 2SM a year aud
' JlaMng ffcjtai
TELEPHONE
430.
the dealers get |o a day for their services.
In most clubs there are four tallies—a
roulette wheel, a monte table, a faro out
fit and a crap table. In some places they
have, in addition to these tables, a keno
outfit. The expenses, therefore, are SSO a
day for service alone, the places remain
ing open all night so that both (lay and
night men are necessary. Then the ren
tal is always high, for the best locations
are sought for, and the real estate men
put the rent up pretty high, and gener
ally get what they ask. The license for
each table is {250, and four or five times
that amount paid out each year is no
inconsiderable item. Still, despite all the
expense, the owners of the shops or
"clubs” manage to get along and very few
of them ever go bankrupt.
A few failures of club owners are re
corded, and the wreckage is seen occa
sionally ulong the edge of the desert.
There was Abe Kimball for instance. Abe
started a game down in Cerlllos. After
paying his license he had a roll of ISO. A
young Englishman, with mining inter
ests in that part of the country, came in
almost immediately after Abe had open
ed up for tho first night. He was known
as Lord H. Lord H. had four bits in his
pocket when he started, and in an hour
he had Abe’s roll of 180. Ab© was "bust
ed, clean broke,’’ and closed the game.
Lord H. went across the street and won
1400 oft Abe’s SBO. Then he went next
door to the place where Abe stood with
his hands in his pockets looking fondly at
his last two bits in exchange for which
he had Just called for a drink and a cigar,
and dropped every red cent of the $430
within an hour and a half. Somebody
came in and told Abe about it. A moment
later Lord H. entered the place.
"Lord H.,” said Abe. "that’s what I
call mean. That was every cent I
had in the world.”
"If I’d known that, Abe, I’d never have
won it from you.”
Abe looked at him for a moment.
“Thanks,” he said, "you’re kind. But I
haven’t got that S4OO. If you’d dropped
that to me I’d be fixed.
In New Mexico pretty nearly everybody
gambles. The Mexicans are born gam
blers, and follow the example of their
Chinese friends and play every cent they
have. The favorte game with the Mexi
cans is monte. It is. next to craps, about
the most fascinating game known to
the gambling fraternity. Everybody plays
craps out here and everybody goes broke
on it.
Faro is the ’gentleman’s game,” and
that is the game the gambler encounters
when he feels he’s lucky, fsually he is
not, but occasionally some pretty heavy
winnings are made. The true gambler
neves worries about manana ttd-mor
row) He lets it take care of Itself. Some
thing is bound to turn up before then.
Somebody will come in ana "stake” him,
and then he is bound to win.
In the west "staking” is a great in
stitution. It is recognized as perfectly
legitimate. A gambler asks you to stake
him to $lO. If he wins you get your $lO
and half the winnings. If he loses that’s
the last of your $lO. An entirely differ
ent institution from staking is "macing.
A man who "maces” another in a club
bouse is thrown out. A man practices
"macing” when he tries to negotiate a
loan from a drunken man or from a
stranger.
The only gambling disturbance that the
writer has seen during the time he has
been in this part of the universe arose
out of a game in Santa Fe. A Mexican
had words with an American gambler and
pulled out a long revolver and put It
under the latter's nose, crying out at the
same tlms that he was going to kill him
"Kill me," said the American with great
nerve as he put his hands behind him
sad leaded back, os the bar. '*Jull dial
SAVANNAH. GA.. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1895.
W - E - WIMPY,
138 BROUGHTON STREET.
why you coward, you’re afraid to shoot
that thing.”
The Mexican's arm quivered, then drop
ped to his side, and he turned on ills
heel Just in time to catch a sound kick
that the American administered to him.
The Mexican sneaked out of the door like
a whipped cur.
EVOLITION OF TROUSERS.
Man Has Had lie for Them Ever
Since Adam.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
It is not definitely known when man
began to wear trousers, though it is
certain that they were in vogue at a very
early period. The first mention made
of them in history is in a description by
a Greek writer of the astonishing cos
tume worn by a tribe of conquering bar
barians. This costume, it seems, consist
ed of a tunic reaching to a point midway
between the hips and the knees, and of
two curious tubes or cylinders that in
cased the legs, giving the wearer, so the
writer says, an odd and ludicrous ap
pearance. These were the first trousers
of which the Greeks had knowledge,
though, as they became more acquaint
ed with the people of Asia Minor, sev
eral other varieties were made known,
particularly bfr Xenophon.
There are some persons who hold that
the origin of trousers was earlier than
that of the flowing robes of the Ureeks
and Romans, though there 1b no proof to
back the assertion. The first clothing
worn by Adam and Eve consisted of tig
leaves, is well known from the Bible
and from numerous authentic pictures
and other work* of art. Some time after
the apple episode in the Garden of Eden
this style of garment was laid aside in
favor of something that would more ef
fectually conceal the person, for the
apron of fig leave* sown together must
have proved Inadequate. But it is a
shock to the aesthetic sense to suppose
that Adam substituted for his fig leaf a
pair of trousers and Eve a pair of
bloomers. It is far more likely that they
fashioned skins or single robes of somd
natural material and wore them thrown
about the shoulders, loosely covering the
lower parts of the body. This was the
first real costume, the most simple and,
for that reason, the most beautiful.
The Greeks have taught us that there
is no beauty without simplicity. They
build their temples of a few simple col
umns, covered by gently sloping roofs.
There was no filigree work, no fancy cor
nices, no terracotta, no fixings. And
whenever a modern architect wishes to
design something rt-afly handsome he
conceives a Greek building, if he can.
Nearly all of the buildings of the world’s
fair were designed on the Greek principle
of arc hitecture.
Similarly, there is nothing more taste
ful in the matter of man's garments
than a simple, enveloping robe, or some
modification thereof. This fact was rec
ognized by the Greeks themselves. It
was and Is recognised by the Japanese, a
most tasteful people. It was appreciated
by the sturdy Roman, the picturesque
Arab and the slothful Turk. The style
was worn by both men and women, and
was not only graceful, but completely ef
fectual in concealing the person, so ef
fectually, in fact, that the Spartans,
alarmed at the unwllllngnes of the young
men to enter Into matrimony, (>ase<l a
law requiring ail young women in Sparta
to have their robes slashed open down one
side. The law having been complied with
their were more marriages
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THE
HOLIDAYS
Are fast approaching and at the request of our pa
trons we have put in a Select Assortment of Holiday
Goods for their special benefit, and the delight of
the little ones.
We have a full line of Velocipedes, Tricycles,
Doll Carriages, Rocking Horses, Wheelbarrows,
Goat Carts, Wagons, etc. We invite your inspec
tion of these goods and guarantee the prices. Do
not wait until the last moment, but come and buy
early and avoid the rush.
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A few more of those Solid Oak. Pollahed
Finished Sideboards, with 18x80 Beveled
Plate Mirror—-
$17.50.
Put In your orderearly. Don’t get left.
We have a beautiful line of Mldeboards of
the latest designs. Come and get our fig
ures.
evolution of trousers from the tunic of
the ancients, but the attempt must he un
successful, for the two garments are ab
solutely distinct In kind. Miss Celia Lo
gan holds that the fig leaf developed suc
cessively into the bearskin, tunic, tights,
knee breeches and trousers. The truth is
that trousers probably were first intro
duced as a brilliant discovery by some
ancient. In fact, it is almost certain that
trousers were first worn as a special form
of costume by persons who rode horse
back. When they got off their horses they
resumed their flowing robes. It was soon
found that trousers were better adapted
than togas for quick movements of the
legs, and when the barbarians overran
Rome their legs were encased In trous
ers. In the pictures by Roman artists
of these conquerera (in which there Is
probably no effort at flattery the trousers
are represented as most unbecoming gar
ments, being very wide about the knees
and gathering at the ankles. The rest of
their clothing was also ungainly, and con
sisted of shirts, easy bots and perhaps
a scanty mantle on the shoulders. It is
difficult to understand why such a hid
eous costume was worn. Even that of
Robinson Crusoe, whose oporttmlties for
making himself beautiful were limited,
was elegant in comparison. His clothing
consisted almost entirely of furs—fur coat,
trousers and cap.
The trousers used by the ancients for
horseback riding probably closely resem
bled the divided skirts that women now
aspire to wear when riding on horseback
or on a bicycle. But with the advance of
civilization the circumfernce of the trou
sers legs diminshed steadily, until a few
years ago it was the fashion for men to
wear two cylinders so tight that they
could only be put on with the assistance
of a second person. For this reason they
were worn only by young men who could
afford valets. Since then the style has
eased up a bit, and a man may now be
fashionable without the aid of valet.
Men have tried over and over again
to make trousers beautiful, but always
without success. Large legs or small legs,
creases or no creases, stripes of every
size and hue, all these devices have been
equally ineffectual. Trousers aro irre
trievably unbeautlful.
One chief objection Is the fact that they
insist on bagging at the knees. Men have
tried to avoid tnls by employing contriv
ances designed to keep the trousers
stretched when not in use, but this reme
dy was only a partial one, for It may be
laid down as an axiom regarding trousers
that once bagged always bagged. Men
have also tried to prevent bagging by
hitching their trousers up when they sit
down, or by not sitting down at all, but,
excellent as these methods may have been
in theory, their practice was defeated in
each Instance by forgetfulness.
It would, of course, be impossible to
represent or describe In a small compass
every variety of trousers that have been
worn by mankind. Enough has been said
to give the reader to understand that
fickleness In respect la not confined to
women.
—The following process for stopping hic
coughs, devised by M. I-auzat, can be
done by any one. It consists in pressing
the thumb against the little finger of the
same hand, which pressure should be en
ergetic and on both hands at the same
time. If recourse is had to this process
at the first signs of hiccoughing, the au
thor claim* that the attack can be almost
oertaJnly stopped, but if It is only used
later on the result is less rapid and more
uncertain. The pressure must then be
k-pi up for some time, and as the effort
is diaagrreeable It cannot be prolonged suf-
Ut.it.uUj to oUaiu Uts dcsinKl rwuiL
PICTURES TEASELS
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T We have them In all
S ©otylen and deign*.
FRICKS ARE JUST RIGHT.
THE ORANGE SUPPLY.
California nail Foreign Countries
Will Keep the Market Fall.
From the New York World.
Oranges will be fairly plentiful this sea
son in spite of the failure of the Florida
crop. America uses 8,000,000 to 9,000,U00
boxes of the yellow fruit annually, one
half of this demand being supplied, as a
usual thing, by the Florida orange grow
ers. But now that it is known that Flor
ida can only send about a twenty-fifth of
her usual quantity, at the most, fruit is
beginning to pour in from the West In
dies and the Mediterranean. The Cali
fornia crop, now beginning to be moved
is larger than ever before.
The failure of the Florida crop will
make really little difference to consumers.
The oranges that come from Jamaica and
two or three other ports in the West in
dies are very nearly as fine as those
usually grown In Florida and people who
are not orange experts will like them Just
as well.
From the West Indies something like
150,000 barrels, equal in quantity to about
300,000 boxes, have already arrived. At the
same time ships are arriving constantly
from the Mediterranean ports. Oranges
from Catania, Messina and Palermo, in
Sicily, and Valencia, in Spain, are already
on the market, and fruit from Naples and
other ports will soon come in. In prev
ious years, when Florida oranges have
been plentiful, comparatively few boxes or
barrels were forwarded from ports abroad,
but in a season like this the United States
is the best market these growers can have,
and advantage is being taken of this.
If anything, the market is likely to be
glutted, rather than otherwise, and prices
will quite probably continue low. In
fact, the orange merchants say there is
no money in the business nowadays.
A few days ago the largest orange sale
that has ever taken place in New York
occurred, breaking two records. The sec
ond record was In the time It took to
complete the sale, seventy minutes. There
were sold 6,590 barrels and boxes of fruit
from Jamaica, together with a small
quantity of grape fruit, tangerines and
shaddocks. Very nearly $30,000 was real
ized from this cargo, and although the
prices obtained were not remarkable, the
bidding was active.
The best estimates of the Florida crop
figure it at something like 200,000 boxes.
Some good, heavy trades in "Floridan''
have already been mad*. Last winter’s
frost, which set In in December, a year
ago. Just escaped injuring the crop then,
and it has not only done for this year’s
yield, but the production for several
years to coma The grove* have been
so seriously damaged that it will be three
years at least, probably four or five, be
fore Florida fruit becomes again an active
factor in the orange market.
All eye* Just now are turned upon
California. It will be California's greatest
orange year. Her crop in all likelihood
will come to nearly 2,UUU,W boxes, or about
610 carloads, there being 309 lox< to a
ear. The fruit Is packed carefully and
sent out from the Pacific slope In refrig
erator cars. Already, though the Califor
nia groves have Just started In to pro
due* fine orange* to any extent, the slope
fruit has absorbed nearly all the orange
trade west of the Mississippi
These orange* come from Southern
California The specialty raised is the
navei orange, which is s handsome fruit.
With a curious indentation at the top,
and la Julcy aud rWU Without being either
TRUNKS! TRUNKS! TRUNKS!
Of .11 the Latest Styles end Patterns. Among them
are the WALL TRUNKS, Patent Se If-Lift In K Tray
Trunk, and Others. Price Is no object. They must go,
Come and see them.
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W/e Have a beautiful as
sortment In
BRASS “'onyx Topi
Birdseye Maple,
Mahogany.
Curly Birch,
Walnut and Quartered Oak.
Prices from 50c up.
JOHN LYONS
BLOCK.
hard or pulpy. This is a grafted orange,
which the growers- have been working
over for a number ‘of years. With their
"seedlings” (the oranges which grow di
rect from the seeds and are not grafted),
the Californians have not had quite such
good luck. Hut the quality even of these
is steadily improving.
Every year about 2,025,000,000 oranges
are eaten by Americans. Each box con
tains, roughly speaking, about 225 oran
ges, The smaller ones pack 300 In a box.
The large and especially lino ones run
only 90 to a box.
Anil They Came Down.
■ ———
Sambo— Dey's roostin' high show
•nough, but dis coon didn’ learn to trim
•tree* for nuttin. No Indeed, chile; no In
deed. Come down yer dis m!nnlt! i I call
me talkin’?
MENAGERIE IN THE HANKS.
1 queer Incident at the Kisrsallos
of Vera Crus.
From the Kansas City Journal.
"There were some amusing sights at
Vera Crux when the French and Belgian
troops were evacuating that city and
leaving Mexico for their foieign home
after the collapse of the attempt to place
J&a*iiiilu ou Um> throne," paid Clou. Jpg
PAGES 17 TO 20.
ODD
A big line of “ Him
these good. [JX
In numerous U
designs. We have bureaus
from 43.50 up. and Bed
steads from 4kl. 7HI up.
These (goods must be seen
to be appreciated.
WARDROBES.
U/e have Solid Oak
Double Door Wardrobe for
#6.00
A Regular Competition'
Exterminator
FK handsome line on exhi
bition In our show room■
Come and wee them,
Rhelby, the ex-confederate. "During
their campaigns In Mexico these troortf
had been pretty nearly all over the in*
terestlng portions of that wonderful conn,
try. and ns they continually saw &*w won*
ders they were continually selecting nov*
elties to carry back home with them.
They had collected specimens of pretty
nearly everything animate and Inanimate
that was in the country, and every com
pany was loaded with them. They had
young mountain Ilona, ant eaters, arma*
dilloes, bird* of rare plumage, little anl*
mals and big ones and curios galore,
quite enough to load many wagons. Thd
officers never intended that the spboU
mens should be carried away by the men.
but they had hesitated to order them t<*
dispose of their collections during thelp
marching for fear there would ba trou*
ble.
"But when they were ready to embarM
and leave Mexican shores the brigaded
were marched down to the wharf. TtlM
were lined up and ordered to ground
arms. Then eame the second order to
release all animals held captive by tho
men. They were lined up undr the mug*
zle* of the frowning cannon from tho
fort, and were unarmed, and there was
nothing to be done but to obey the or
der, and the animals were released, and
such a collection as went skipping off
was a surprise to the officer* who waro
In command.
The men had the smaller animals con
cealed beneath their capes and coats,
perched on their shoulders, and hidden
in every other manner imaginable, and
the whole collection resembled the march
of Noah's collection in the ark. The men
grumbled at the order, which thdy de
clared was useless and unreasonable, but
they obeyed and went away without their
pets. There were loads of curiosities left
lying in a promiscuous heap on the wharf
after the men left. It was one of the
most novel sights I ever saw.”
RED TABBY CATS IN LONDON.
Ileserlheil by a Milwaukee Lady Who
Saw Them.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Milwaukee lady who haa recently re
turned from abroad says that one of tho
most Interesting exhibits which she saw
in Europe was the National Cat Show of
England, which was held at the Crystal
palace, London, in which about seven hun
dred cats were shown. “The decided fea
ture of the exhibition." she said, “was
the number of superb red tabbies, togeth
er with a fine assortment of pure blacks,
smoke-colored cats, and cats with that
peculiar tone of glossy coat known as cat
blue. The efforts of the English cat breed
ers this past year have been blue and
black effts. In the opinion of many ex
ports, a black cat without any markings
whatever of white is the most perfect va
riety that is known, and it is proof of the
appreciation of this that certain dtshoneot
people pluck the white hairs out of a cat,
one by one. It haa been noticed that the
classes that are open to workingmen In
this national exhibition are particularly
strong in fine black cat*. Jiiue-eyed,
white-costed cats are getting to be high
ly valued In England now, and one of
these bore off th<- other day a substantial
money prise that waa offered by Louis
Main, the great cat artist. Another prize
winm-t of the show was a brown tabby
tom. rihamplon Xenophon, which Us own
i r values at (MM.”