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LYCEUM TO BE ORGANIZED.
- VVASSAHIAJiS TAKING AN INTER
EST IN THE MOVEMENT.
Its Success In Other Cities Justifies
Its I uilertHkiuu Here—Other Mut
ters Diseusscil On the Street—North
tieurginns Who Will Spend u Day
at Tyitee and On the Fishing
Banks.
“There Is no good reason why Savan
nah should not be one of the principal
cities of the circuit of the Southern Ly
ceum Association,* said Rev. C. H.
Strong, rector of the St. John's church.
“This association is for the purpose of
establishing a system of lectures through
out the southern states, and the lectures
are to be given by some of the most promi
nent speakers we have in this country.
“it has been determined to have a
branch of the Southern Lyceum Associa
tion in thirty-six of the largest cities of
the south. In some of these cities the
system has already been tried and found
to be all that was expected. Augusta and
Atlanta have tried it and found that it is
all that could be desired, the average cost
to the members of the lyceum being only
16 2-3 cents per entertainment.
“I believe that Savannah is a better city
for lectures of a high class than any other
city of the southern states, and I am
firmly of the opinion that there ought to
be such an institution here. We are go
ing to do our best to establish it. We
have had a system of lectures here in
seasons gone by and they were successful,
not alone for the good that they accom
plished, but likewise for the financial end
in view, the members having made a suc
cess of the entertainments, and having
cash in hand after the lectures were
given.
“We need some such system in Savan
nah. The people here are an intellectual
people, who would much prefer to spend
an evening at a lecture where mental
culture is to be had than at some other
sort of an amusement where there was
nothing but momentary entertainment to
be enjoyed.
“The lyceum has been tried, as said, in
Augusta and Atlanta with admirable re
sults, and we hope that we can have it
established here. There will be a meet
ing of the committee of twenty at the
office of the superintendent of public
schools, Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
and we hope that all of the members of
the committee will be present. This com
mittee is composed of some of the best
men of the city, and their names ought
to add much to the Importance and slgnif
icence of the meeting that is to be held
to arrange for the programme that we
intend to carry out this winter. Other
cities are falling in line and Savannah
ought not to be left out.”
“But for the breeze that has been blow
ing to-day the heat would be insuffera
ble.” remarked a citizen on Bay street
yesterday. “But it is the breeze that is
the salvation of Savannah. Other cities
are hotter than this in point of the real
suffering from heat, but Savannah catch
es the breeze, and thus lays the other
cities out.”
Mr. Waiter Crosby, who is directing the
government work on the new fortifications
on Tybee Island, will be host to-morrow
for a congenial and convivial party of
friends from Atlanta. The party will con
sist of Mr. Clark Howell, editor of the
Constitution; Mr. Charles Hill, solicitor
general of the Atlanta circuit; Mr. George
Brown, one of the leading insurance men
of the capitol city; Mr. F. H. Richard
son, editor of the Atlanta Journal: Mr.
Arnold Broyles, a prominent member of
the aldermanlc board of Atlanta; Mr. J.
P. Leach, superintendent of the Pullman
Car Company; Mr. Sam Webb, agent in
Atlanta for the Central railroad; Mr. Hen
ry Wakefield, editor of the American
I'resß Association for the south; Mr. Tom
Gentry, superintendent of the Atlanta tel
ephone exchange; Messrs. Die Clarke,
George May and others.
Mr. Crosby, who is a prince at enter
taining, has arranged a delightful pro
gramme for the visitors. He will char
ter a tug boat, which will leave Savan
nah after breakfast Sunday morning for
a trip to the black fish banks, and will
spend the entire day on the water with
his friends from the interior. He will then
bring them back to Tybee, unless It be the
wish of some to return to Atlanta that
night, in which case he will have the boat
return to the city.
Mr. Crosby 1s himself an Atlanta man,
and he will take-especial delight in show
ing his friends over the work that is be
ing done on the coast of Georgia for the
government by passing near the work in
the boat as they speed out on their trip
through Tybee roads.
The colored .Masons in Savannah were
much interested yesterday in the reports
from Rome, Ga., of the elections in the
grand lodge for the state of Georgia, the
annual communication having been in
progress there for the past two or three
•lays. The attendance was large, there
being more than 400 delegates in attend
ance, which shows the advance of the
colored Masonic order in the state. The
officers elected for the next term, accord
ing to the advices received by some of the
local officers, were as follows: W. K. Ter
ry of Co.umbus, grand master; William
Goodman of Atlanta, senior grand warden;
J. H. Covington of Americus, junior grand
warden; L. H. Burdell of Macon, grand
treasurer, and Sol C. Johnson of Savan
nah, grand secretary. The grand lodge
will adjourn to-night, and the delegates
from the various cities will return to their
homes.
"One thing has grown out of the recent
celebrations in Savannah in honor of the
Queen of England, which will bear great
results," said a rominent Savannahlan
yesterday. “I refer to the fact that the
Englishmen have come to be better ac
quainted themselves, and ths Scotchmen
and the Englishmen have met together and
they will know in future better than they
knew before what a conspicuous place is
being held by their fellow countrymen
here. More than this, the general public
has been taught by these meetings—the
personel—that we have more native born
Englishmen than we knew we had, and
that they are id the front ranks of prog
ress.
' Savannah has always seemed to take
most Interest In the English visitors with
in her gates than most of the cities of
the United States. No flag Is welcomed
/I , our harbors with more genuine cor
diality. This It natural. It could not
be otherwise than that English ports and
Savannah should be In close and friendly
communion over the seas. Was not the
first steamboat that over crossed the At
lantic ocean a boat Bent by Bavannah cap
italists direct to Liverpool?”
The Intareat In the proposed yacht
“ l Th underbolt for the Fourth of
c °ntlnue, and It la aafe to
'.V W the plana of the promoter*
• “hf* .****• *he racea will be very exclt
; * •"‘i ‘ he l‘ of entries large. The
nil wL.f* f ? r . tho half-ratere, which means
•li boate of twenty feet or under.
In company with bla
fni’. - lUrrow - has been spend
a he., r. *. maro °nlng expedition In
to b fuL?.T un ~ J 1 '® co *‘ Savannah
wtl| H ?iT r , Th ' ,,, ,eft l *" t Monday and
Kv is to-morrow, Mr. Burrows fam
the famUy ** Bape,o> thu —borne of
BUCKIIA LTEK\S GEOGRAPHY.
The Land the Proposed Canal will
Drain and Where tile Uueklialter
Road Runs.
Editor Morning News: In your “Lesson
in Local Geography” this morning you say
tru.y “there are, no doubt, a great many
readers of the Morning News—local read
ers—who have no very definite idea with
regard to the whereabouts of Buckhalter
road, Buckhalter swamp and ’Dutchtown’
road.” Indeed, that section is so sparsely
inhabited and the roads so little traveled
that there are many persons who have
lived in Savannah all their lives—l may
say a large majority of the city’s popula
tion—never even heard of that locality un
til recently and could not teil now, if ask.
ed, whether that swamp and those roads
lie north, south, east or west of this place.
Perhaps they may better comprehend
the subject if they will oonsult Plattin’s
map of the county. On this map they will
see that the "Atlantic and Gulf” railroad
(S., F. and W.) crosses the Little Ogee
chee river about nine miles out. About
three-quarters of an inch below the cross
ing—say, a half a mile—they will see a
creek coming into the river through the
plantations named on the map as “Cher
burg and Rockingham” (now better known
as Mr. Dale’s land). This creek is the out
let of the Buckhalter swamp drainage and
its mouth is, as a writer said in your paper
last week “fully eight and a half miles
in an air line from the city.” Its drain
age territory is, we are told, about 6,000
acres, more than a third of
which, probably, lies in the aforesaid
Rockingham and Cherburg and the ad
joining plantations. Cass, Regan and St.
Ann’s. We are also told that the main
canal will be “abut six miles long.” From
the map it then appears that about one
half of its length—the lower and most ex
pensive part of the work, will be on the
above named plantations, the most remote
part of that drainage territory from the
city.
Consulting the map further, it will he
seen that about two miles
to the east of the swamp
is the “old highway which mean
ders northward to the city from “Dutch
town.” Now, this latter place is not a
“town” and no Dutchmen live there, as
the writer “knows of," but the place is
“just called so.”
The Buckhalter road is not shown on the
map, probably because the time it was
drained that road was not regarded of the
importance it now seems to be. But it
leaves the White Bluff road just opposite
the Montgomery cross road about five and
three-quarter mvjps out and runs westward
through "Munnerlyn,” “Moreland” (see
map) along or near the northern boundary
of St. Ann's or thereabouts. Passing
through the Buckhalter swamp It crosses
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way, about six and one-quarter miles out
and thence “meanders” through Parker's,
near Cherburg and Rockingham and
through Oakland to the Ogeechee road,
between the six and seven mile stones.
To the people who know these localities
it is a question whether the wisdom of
the commissioners in determining upon
the immediate prosecution of the drainage
and road work there is influenced more
by exigency or the exiquity of the knowl
edge of most of them of that section.
Savannah, June 25. Bojum.
TO-DAY’S WEATHER FORECAST
Forecast for Savannah and vicinity un
til midnight, June 25, 1897: Light showers,
followed by fair Saturday afternoon;
cooler.
Weather from Washington:
For Georgian-Light showers, fair Sat
urday afternoon; cooler, northerly winds.
For Eastern Floridar-Light showers,
fair; variable winds.
For Western Florida—Light showers;
probably fair Saturday afternoon; varia
ble winds.
For South Carolina—Showers; slightly
cooler on the coast; variable winds.
General Conditions: Cool weather is no
ted Ln the northwestern states and in the
lake region; elsewhere high temperatures
are still reported. The highest recorded
being at Savannah, 100 degrees.
Light showers were general in the Car
olinas, Eastern Georgia and along the
Gulf coast, and scattered showers were
noted over the Middle Atlantic states;
from all other sections generally fair
weather was reported.
Light to fresh west winds are reported
off the New England and Middle Atlantic
coast, and variable winds along the South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Yesterday's Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature 5 pm.... 100 degrees
Minimum temperature 6:30 am.. 78 degrees
Mean temperature 89 degrees
’Normal temperature 82 degrees
Excess of temperature 7 degrees
Accum’lated excess since June 1 51 degrees
Accumulated excess since Jan. 1 71 degrees
Rainfall 00 inch
Normal 22 inch
Deficiency since June 1 1.62 Inches
Excess since Jan. 1 81 Inch
River Report.—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta at 8 a. m., 75th me
ridian time, yesterday, was 6.0 feet, a fall
of 0.1 foot during the preceding twenty
four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin. Savannah. Ga.,
for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 a.
m., 7cth meridian time, June 25, 1897:
Stations of |Max.lMln. |Rain
Savannah District. |Tem.|Tem.| fall.
Albany, Ga., clear 96 76 | .00“
Alapaha, clear 97 77 j .00
Amerious, dear 99 76 | .00
Bainbridge, clear 99 77 | .00
Cordele, clear 98 75 | .00
Eastman, pt. cloudy 93 69 j .08
Fort Gaines, clear 95 67 | .00
Gainesville, Fla., clear ..101 73 | .00
Mlllen, Oa., clear 97 70 j .06
Quitman, clear 100 76 | .00
Savannah, clear 93 78 | .00
Thomasville, clear ....... 94 76 | .00
Waycross, clear 94 74 | .00
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| No. | bis. Averages.
Central Station. | Sta-'Max.'Min. |Rnin
|tions|Tem.|Tem.| fall.
Atlanta 7| 9“f~94“] 72 TlT'
Augusta | 11 | 96 1 70 .12
Charleston j 5 j 94 | 70 .01
Galveston |26j92 j 78 T
Little Rock | 11 ; 91 | 74 01
Memphis j 13 | 96 j 68 .14
Mobile | 10 | 98 | 74 .06
Montgomery | 8 j96j 76 T
New Orleans | 14 | 96 j 74 .10
Savannah | 13 j 97 | 74 .01
Vicksburg | 7 | 96 j 74 .02
Wilmington | 9 | 96 | 72 .18
Remarks—Warm, showery weather is re
ported from all cotton states.
Observations taken June 25, 1897, 8 p. m.
(75th meridian time) at the same moment
of time at all stations for the Morning
News:
Name of Station | -|-T.| *V. |Raln
Boston, cloudy | 78 | 8 .02“
New York city, p'tly el’dy 82 L .00
Philadelphia, cloudy 74 L .34
Washington city, pt el’dy 84 L .00
Norfolk, clear 84 6 .00
Hatteras, clear 76 6 .00
Wilmington, p’tly cl’dy.. 84 | L .04
Charlotte, raining 70 | 6 .16
Atlanta, partly cloudy*.. 88 6 .00
Savannah, cloudy 88 8 .00
Jacksonville, p'tly cl’tly .. 84 12 .00
Jupiter, cloudy | 82 6 .00
Key West, raining jBO L .34
Tampa, cloudy j 74 L | T
Pensacola, p'tly cloudy 84 12 i .00
Montgomery, p’tly cloudy| 80, 8 j .86
Vicksburg, cloudy jBB 6j T
New Orleans, p'tly cl’dy.| 84 | L | .24
Galveston, cloudy | 82 | 6 | T
Corpus Christi, raining..| So | 14 | .20
Palestine, cloudy | 74 | 6 | .22
Memphis, partly cloudy .. 84 L j .00
Cincinnati, p’tly cloudy.. 80 6 | .00
Pittsburg, clear 74 8 .00
Buffalo, clear 66 8 .00
Detroit, clear 68 L .00
Chicago, partly cloudy ..60 12 .00
Marquette, clear 50 L .00
St. Paul, partly cloudy ..66 L .00
Davenport, cloudy 68 6 T
St. Louis, clear 78 L .00
Kansas City, p'tly cl'dy. 76 L .08
North Platte, cloudy 68 16 | .00
Dodge City, cloudy 76 14 | .00
-|-T, temperature; *V, velocity of wind.
J. M. Sherier,
Observer Weather Bureau.
ANCIENT WEALTH.
The Enormous Sams Accumulated
and Spent by Early Potentates.
From the London Standard.
It would be polite fiction to assert that
everybody who looks upon the great mon
uments of antiquity, the pyramids or the
coliseum, for example, thinks of the cost,
and wonders where tlxj money came from.
But when, by chance, a learned person
suggests the inquiry, only an idiot fails
to be struck for a moment. It is so curi
ous that while modern states, with all the
accumulated wealth of the antique world
at their back, and the treasures of Mexi
co, California, Australia, the Transvaal in
addition, have to consider ways and means
with anxious care before building a gov
ernment office, the early monarchs raised
palaces and temples by the hundred at
will. The thoughtless have a ready ex
planation-slave labor did it all. But in
the first place, the Slaves had to be pro
cured somehow—by war or purchase—and
either means was expensive. There is a
reply to that objection equally facile—the
war paid its own cost in loot. The loot
must have been enormous, and where did
it come from? In the second place, those
slaves had to be fed, and however cheap
their rations, the sum total must have
been immense when such vast numbers
were employed.
But captives of war could only do rough
work. They might build the coliseum or
the pyramids, directed by an army of
skilled craftsmen. But the sculpture of
Assyrian palaces, the painting of Egyptian
temples and tombs, must have been effect
ed r>y artists, probably free, or, if gla :ea,
trained at great expense. When we read
that the city of Dur-Sargunu was created
on an empty plain, by order of the king,
in eight years, standing on a mound of
brick 700 acres in area, Its walls sixty feet
high, broad enough for seven chariots to
run abreast, ami faced with stone, ail the
evidence Is needed to make us credit the
story; but the marvel becomes far greater
when we observe the miles of sculptured
stone that decorated Sargon’s palace with
colossal bulls on each side of every door
way. No unpractised hand carved those
reliefs. They are the work of artists, not
made for sale when wanted, but to order,
each slab telling Its fragment of the royal
annals. Were all the sculptors of the em
pire summoned to this task, to be finished
In eight years? But the tombs of private
Individuals in Egypt must have been
painted at the cost of the family by mas
ters of the craft; animals and birds show
a skill not to be surpassed. We may be
quite sure that work llko this was highly
paid—by comparison, that Is, with slave
labor.
So the question recurs, how much gold
and sliver did these ancients possess? In
the Roman time men appear to have been
struck with the evidence of vast wealth
displayed by their predecessors, such as
the Caesar* rould not equal. But they
escaped the difficulty with ease, by grant
ing them riches liberally beyond the
dreams of avarice. Dr. Arhuthnot, for ex
ample, has patiently reckoned up the
amount of treasure heaped upon the ptle
of Sardanapalus by Alhenaeus, and he
finds that It came to {16,953,120.060 tn our
money at the least; for. If a computation
which Alhenaeus himself suggests be ad
mitted, the total would be about twice us
large. After this, the statement of Di
odorus—that the Pharaohs counted upon
a revenue of i133.000.000 annually from gold
mines in the Btsharl desert, and drew an
equal sum by taxation—is very moderate.
But when the same most valuable writer
—who talked nonsense only when he re
peated the words of other men—comes to
deal with Babylon, he lets himself go.
There was a gold statue of Zeus—the
Greek assigned his own gods to Babylon
as usual—forty feet high; of Rhea equally
tall, with a lion of gold at each knee, and
silver serpents to correspond ;Juno weighed
500 talents; In front of her was a golden
table. Goo talents, upon which stood two
cups, 300 talents each, and three bowls,
1,200, 600, and 600 talents. These orna
ments of a single temple represented about
ti 1.000,000. and the building was covered
with gold plates. It has beer, calculated
that the statue of Nebuchadnezzar men
tioned in Daniel would be worth three and
a half millions sterling; that the treasure
left by David amounted to a hundred and
fifty millions in gold, two hundred millions
in silver; but the value of the Hebrew tal
ent is doubtful. We are told that Pytheus,
seemingly a private gentleman of Phrygea,
enter:ained Xerxes and all hUr army— “with
most sumptuous feasts,” too —and then had
£1,770,000 left,or, as some compute £3,600,000.
The tale of Alexander’s loot is most won
derful of all, and that is historic; if we en
tertain doubts, it is futile to express them
when the statements are so clear and the
means of disproving them absent. Jn the
Persian camp then.and at Babylon. Alexa
nder, secured something like 170,000,000; at
Persepolis, *180,000,000; at Pasagurda, a
trifle of £9,0tX),000; at Ecbatanu, £270,(8X1,000;
say i350,000,000. And Darius carried off
i9,000’000 which his murderers seized.
Wc come to the prosaic facts which have
been collected by several patient inquir
ers from a note or a hint here and there.
Of Egypt, indeed, nothing profitable can
be said until the age of the Ptolemies,
and little even then. The Pharaohs cer
tainly drew a considerable revenue from
their gold mines, and a multitude of in
scriptions show them receiving tribute of
the precious metal from Ethiopia and
Syria in the days of their supremacy. Be
fore and afterwards the people were great
manufacturers and traders. Ptolemy
Philadelphus left £50,(100,000 at least in his
treasury. Herodotus tells us the revenue
of the Persian empire, under Darius Hys
taspes, and the moderation of the sum
in assurance that he obtained his figures
from a competent authority—lt was about
£3,260,000; but this was cash alone. Solo
mon’s revenue is said to have been far
greater-over £7,000,000 in gold, and as
much in silver; but it has been
mentioned that Hebrew talents cannot be
computed with certainty. That with such
an income tihe Persian monarchs could
contrive to hoard the amazing treasures
captured by Alexander has often been
questioned; but we may suppose that the
revenue had increased vastly since Hero
dotus wrote, and that the laxes in kind
and the tribute yielded far more than the
returns in cash; and the plunder of Egypt,
northern India, Syria, and countless na
tions must be added. We are told, in
deed, that the Macedonian loot represent
ed the accumulation of ages. But It is a
relief, as ever in such cases, to get to
Rome, where dry facts prevail. Pliny re
marks that the treasury had contained
over £70,000,000 more than once. This is a
reasonable figure. When Augustus had
organized the public service, and ascer
tained precisely what the receipts and ex
penses of the empire might be, he found
that the annual income was about £40,000,-
000, and he declared that It left a very
small balance “to the good.” But Caesar
had private resources for any extrava
gance he migot fancy.
Augustus was no tyrant, but people
reckoned that during his lifetime ho re
ceived no less than £32,000,000 by legacy
from friends. The savings of Tiberius
amounted to £21,500,000, which again is
reasonable. Caligula spent all this in a
twelvemonth. Some private fortunes may
be given: Crassus had about £1,600,000 in
cash and lands to the same value; Seneca,
£2,430,000; Lentulus, the Augur, £3,250,000.
When the villa of Marcus Bcaurus was
burned, they said that he lost over £BOO,OOO.
Julius Caesar declared after the expenses
of the praetorship that he was worth
£2,200,000 "less than nothing”—owing that
sum with no assets. Upon the other hand,
the latest authority who has pondered
this interesting question, M. Obreschkoff,
concludes that all the money in use at
the beginning of our era was but £300,000,-
000 in gold and £546,<XJ0,000 in Bllver. At
that rate Darius Codomanus must have
had two-thirds of it In his own hands.
This is not so grossly improbable as it
seems. His predecessor had Bucked all
the universe worth sucking. And curious
evidence might be given of the excessive
rarity of gold In Greece.
INSECT-BEARING PLANTS.
CroW In Venee.ucla, snil the Smitli
aoniun Is to Have One.
From the New York Sun.
In a day or two the Smithsonian Insti
tution in Washington will receive what
its donor believes to be the most remark
able specimen of plant life, or of plant
and Insect life, in existence. This speci
men is, to ail appearances, an Insect-bear
ing plant. It comes from Venezuela, and
the natives there say that it la not un
common. So far as is known, none of the
plants have been brought here before. Un
fortunately, both plant and Insect are
dead, but they are well preserved, having
been carefully packed for transportation.
The specimen was brought up here by
Capt. Chambers of. the Red I) line steam
ship Philadelphia, which arrived yester
day. and It will be sent on to Washington
to-day.
G. T. McMillan, superintendent of the
Venezuelan Great Western railroad, Is
the man who send this gift to the Smith
sonian. When Capt. Chambers saw him
on this trip to Venezuela, he said to the
captain:
"I've got something that I want you to
take to the Smithsonian Institution for
me."
"What is it?” asked the captain, who
has had other experience of this sort. "A
three-tailed monkey or a conversational
parrot? Will you warrant It not to bite?”
"I will," Mr. McMillan said. "It’s dead.
It's a hug growing upon a plant.”
Thereupon Capt. Chambers broke into
derisive mirth and asked his friends If he,
the captain, looked particularly simple.
“All right," retorted the suiierintendent.
"Walt till you see it. I’ve been hearing
about this thing from the natives for some
yeats, and have always regarded it as a
fairy lale, but having found and picked
the plant myself, I've had to chahge my
mind. I tell you this Is the most won
derful thing in the plant line that ever
grew."
He produced the plant, which was dead
and dried, for capt. Chamber's examina
tion. The captain said he would be very
glad to bring it here and fonsrurd It to
Washington. Thus it became a part of his
personal cargo. This Capt. Chambers told
a Sun reporter In his cabin yesterday.
"You will think it's a fake, too,” he
•aid; "so I will show you the thing and
let you judge for yourself."
Undoing a small cardboard box packed
with bran, he carefully took out the ex
hibit. It appears to be Just what he had
•aid. There wax a dead steam shout six
or seven inches long, with a little branch,
and a small bunch of roots. On the end
of the main stem was a perfect Insect an
Inch long, body, legs, head, and eye com
plete. Punt and Insect were joined at Ihe
middle of the Insect’s head. The brittle
shell of the head had not been pierced by
the stem, and the Insect seemed to have
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A new line of CRASH SUITS, better than ever, at *4.so—less 10 per cent.
Better ones at *6, less 10 per cent.
CRASH HATS, the best in town.
NEGLIGEE SHIRTS.
A new invoice for this day's business.
60 dozen PERCALE, fast colors, 39 cents,
100 dozen PERCALE, ECLIPSE make, 73 rents.
■ 85 dozen WOVEN MADRAS, zephyr weight, *I.OO.
MANHATTAN *1.50 SHIRTS to-day *1.25.
STRAW HATS, STRAW HATS.
Special prices to-day as follows:
•
50-cent Hats at 35 cents
75-cent Hats at 50 cents
SI.OO Hats at 75 cents
1.50 Plats at SI.OO
2-00 Hats at 1.25
CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT.
Good Washable Suits 35 cents
A little better suit 50 cents
A good Serviceable Suit 75 cents
The best in town SI.OO
Knee Pants 25, 35 and 50 cents
Boys’ Shirt Waists 25, 45 and 75 cents
HATS and CAPS at all prices.
Lots of BOYS' COATS from 8 to 18 years in Alpaca, Seersucker, Black
and Blue Serge, from 60 cents to J 3.50.
LADIES’ WAISTS, SKIRTS, HOSE, BELTS and NECKWEAR. One of
the latest, LA ROSE—double bow front and back. Also new shades in LA
DIES' CLUB TIES.
LADIES’ UNDERWEAR In great bargains.
Come In, plenty of polite help and plenty of electric fans to keep you cool.
B.H.L&VY&BRO.
been growing there as naturally as a
flower.
"There you have It,” said Capt. Cham
bers. "It’s a plain combination of plant
life and Insect life. All that I know about
the thing Is what Mr. McMillan told me.
lie found It In the woods at New Site, Tu
cacas. Venezuela, about forty miles from
Porto Cabello. The plant, lie says. Is a
wild wood flower, growing to a hight of a
foot. It bears from two to four flowers,
of a blue color, and in shape much like
the bowl of a clay pipe, but a little larger.
As the flower expands the Insect, which
is the fruit of the plant begins to form,
and with the falling of the petals Is full
grown. It puts forth wings, separates
from its parent stem and files away; but
first It leaves a seed which falls to tho
ground and produces another plant. The
full-fledged Insect Is somewhat bigger
than a bumble bee, with guuzy wings, and
a bottle-blue body except near the head,
where there is a broad band of pale yel
low. What becomes of the Insect after
it flics away I do not know; nor do I know
whether the strange combination was
alive when found, though I understand
that Mr. McMillan found It growing."
A number of gentlemen saw the speci
men yesterday, one of whom Is something
of an entomologist. Ho was particularly
interested In It, and examined It with
great care.
“It Is a most curious phenomenon,” he
said, "and extremely Interesting, from a
scientific point of view, but I can say
with asstiranoe that the apparent combi
nation of vegetable and animal life Is
nothing more than the result of chance or
accident. An accident, I should guess, In
which the unfortunate insect lost its life.
It Is so well preserved that there will be
little difficulty, with a good magnifying
glass. In determining its exact species,
and, even without that aid, I feel pretty
confident in saying that this is the pupa
of a speoles of cicada, allied to our dog
day harvest fly and so-called seventeen
year locust. The cicada comes up out of
the ground In the form In which you see
this specimen, a wingless grub covered
with a horny shell.
It is extremely destructive, and will eat
nearly anything In the line of vegetatlion
that It can reach. Presently the shell
spill* up the back and the full-fledged
cicada emerges, spreads his gaudy wings,
and seeks the top of a tree, where, cling.
Ing to some branch, he beats his long,
whirring heat-tattoo.
“My guess as to this particular specimen
Is that If preserves an Insect tragedy. Our
locust emerges from the ground at the
foot of a tree upon the roots of which
she. as a grub, has been feeding. I say
'she,' because the male locust In his final
form Is unprovided with an appetite. Up
she come* from ths ground, possessed
of a powerful hunger. Near her nods
this blue flower on It* supple stem. The
stem bends and away* under the weight
as she climbs, but she keeps on until pres
ently she is ensconced In the soft call*,
eating away at Its heart. Now comes
the flower's revenge. From the lacerated
stem exudes a sticky sap. Before the
voracious Invader knows it she Is bemlr
ed. Struggle as she will she can get
no foothold to pull away from her vic
tim, now become her executioner. The
plant sways nnd trembles under her strug
gles; then becomes still. Presently the
petals drop away.and where the blue flow
er bloomed Is disclosed Ihe skeleton of
the destroyer,”
"How do you account for tho common
ness of the combination If It le an acci
dent?" asked Ihe captain.
"If It happened half a dozen times in
many yeara that would be enough lo set
the legend going among the Ignorant na
tives. However, my theory may be wrong
In part, though I cling to It In the main
points. It may be that the locust climbs
Into the caiix, which then shuts up on It
and holds It captive. In that way, possi
bly, Ihe slothful Insect might slowly eat
along until the petals dropped. In the
meantime splitting Us shell and develop.
Ing ita wings. A native sees the flower
fall to pleee* and the winged ereature
fly out. and presto! the legend Is horn.
For myself, however, I believe that in
every case the insect will be found (load
and glued to the plant by the exuding
Juice.”
Another man suggested the theory of
Insect-eating plants, but these are differ
ent in construction from this plant, anil
their prey Is small insects.
MISCELLANEOUS.
”TiEU(7RE^YO^IMJY W CHrSEnrTIU^
erty, consult Robert H. Tatem. real es
tate dealer, No. 7 Weal York street, near
Dull street.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDI
TORS.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY—No
tice is hereby given to all persons hav
ing demands against Michael Roach, late
of saod county, deceased, to present them
to me properly made out, within the time
prescribed by law. so as to show their
character and amount; and all persons In
debted to said deceased are required to
make Immediate payment to me.
JAMES P. KENNEDY,
Executor Will of Michael Roach, De
ceased.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREdI
ITOR9.
GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNTY.—
Notice is hereby given to all persons hav
ing demands against William W. Hussey,
Jr., late of said county, deceased, to pre
sent them to me, properly made out, with
in the time prescribed by law, so as to
show their character and amount; and sil
persons Indebted to said deceased arc re
qulred to make Immediate payment to me.
DAVID KRAUS.
Administrator Estate of William W. Bus
sey, Jr.
FLY, RAT, ROACH
TRAPS.
Step Ladders,
Carden Tools,
Fluting Machines.
FOH SALE BY
EDWARD LOVELL'S SONS
Our Own Cow Feed.
The best milk producer emtaul.
MICA CRYSTAL GHIT
for poultry. Aids digestion.
■OOP HACKING.
WII.Bt R’M SEED MEAL.
HAY, GRAIN, COTTON SEED MEAL.
HOCK a ALT, ETC .
T- J. DAVIS,
‘Fhone 2XI. IIN Hay at reel, west.
and work, order your lithographed sad
printed stationery and blank books from
Morning Ntwa. Savannah. Ga.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
RELIQIOIS NOTICES.
first Tresbyterian church,
Monterey Square, Rev. A. J. Smith, pas
tor—No services on Sabbath, as the pas
tor Is out of the city; regular services the
following Sunday, by the pastor. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 8:30.
I'll itxo3.iL,
"COLORED SPECTACLES" FOR PRO
iectlng eyes from intense heat and excesa
of refracted light, 25c and 50c per pair;
my 69c lramelesH eyeglasses, patent nose
guard, are the same sold by traveling
Doc. . . . s for *2 and *1 per pair. Fe
geas, the reliable Jeweler, 28 East Brougn
ton, the place for spectacle repairing
while viiiting.
ALL CARPETS TOR NED OVER TO
the District Messenger Company are clean
ed within twenty-four hours from the time
they are taken up, thus giving the moths no
time to get in their work.
’ LADIES! A FRIEND IN NEED IS ONO
Indeed. Our Pennyroyal and Tansy pills
are such. Are never failing as a cure
of female irregularities. By mail *2.
Specialty Cos., Staunton, Va.
SPA RH TIIH HOUSEWIFE BY GIV-
Ing the District Messenger and Delivery
Company your carpets to take up, clean,
disinfect und store for the summer.
They are making this a specialty.
INGROWING NAII.B—I CAN CURB
Ingrowing toe-nails, never mind how long
they have been troubling you, or In what
condition they are In. I have hundreds
of testimonials from the best pooplo In
Savannah. Charges moderate. Office 105
President strict, east. Office hours 6 to
9 a. m., I to 3 p. m., and 6 to 8 p. m. Lem
Davis, Surgeon Chiropodist.
“SPECIAL SALE OF CASH REGlS
ters, typewriters, hikes, Iron safes, cash
drawers, show cases, desks, buggies,
wagons, scales, and variety of glassware,
etc., at I*. J. Finn’s commission room.
No. 212 East Broughton street, near Ab
ereorn.
DO NOT ALLOW ANY ONETto" AT
tempt to clean your carpets on the floor,
but turn them over to the District Mes
senger Company, who will take them up,
thoroughly clean and relay at a reason
able rate.
HELP WANTED—MALES.
"^waiTted^gooiTTieniorXiT^work
man In marble and granite, at once. Th
Geo. W. Clark Cos., Jacksonville, Fla.
SAW YER AND ALL A ROUND MILL
man with family can get steady job; state
experience and pay wanted. Cypress Tank
Cos., Bridgeport, Fla.
HELP W ANTED—FER tLEI. ~
'"wAt?TETri3AUEa~L^
urday slights. Comfort Shoe House, 113
Barnard street.
“WANTED, AT 412 WEST HULL
street, n good nurse, with references; can
obtain a comfortable position.
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AGENTS WANTED.
ers. Do you want to make a fortune? Call
at No. 11l Drayton street, from 9 a. m.,
to 12 m., and 3 to 6 p. m.
“*5.50 PAIR. EXPRESS PAII>r“BEST
'97'h full warranty blrycle tires. Mineral
ized Rubber Cos., New York. Agents
wanted.
AGENT FOR TELEPHONE TABLET!
Wonderful sprinkler, bicycle specialties;
pays *5,000 yearly. Enclose stamp. Vic
tory Mfg. Cos., Cleveland, O.
WANTED AGENTS, *75 I’ER MONTIt
and expenses paid active men If right;
goods aold by satnplo only; samples, also
horse and carriage furnished free. Ad
dress Jobber, Box 5308, Boston, Mass.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED.
WANTED-A COMPETENT, ltKUA
ble printer desires a situation. Addrcsg
A., 6UO Reynolds street, Brunswick, Ga.
■ ■■■—a
ROOMS WANTED.
wanted, quick, flat, moth® r
and son. state price; location, number
rooms. P, O. Box Twenty.
FOR RENT— HOI SEN.
'T’mf'miNTr'HOUfHinHiZ^
street, near Oglethorpe avenue. Twelve
rooms; modern improvements; early pos
session: )X> per month. J. C. Rowland.
'for rent, whole'em partof
house 306 Gwinnett street, east.
'A FINE RESIDENCE, 282 BULL
street, near theater. Inquire at Sternberg
& Co.’s store.
FOR RENT—STORES.
as the "Custom House Shades." Possession
Sept. 1. For terms apply to George W.
Owens, 4 Bryan street, east.
FOR RENT—MIMCELLANEIH .S.
FOR KENT. FOn PER MONTH,
comer Anderson and Oehl street, one sera
of land with good house and out-buildings
and some varied crop on land. Apply lo
Thos. Nugent, 310 Bryan street, west, op
Conrad Schwarz, adjoining tho property
for rent.
FOR SALE—REAL ESTATE.
'for' BATr^rXAßGjr^rßAC^ra^
pentlne lands in South Florida. E. C.
Stuart, Bartow, Fla.
FUR MALE-MIS* KLLANEOIN.
CLOSING SALE OF THE MILLER
Co.'s stock of fine furniture. Having
bought the entire stock from the receiver,
I shall close same out regardless of cost
to save expenses of moving to another
store. Stock consists in part of fine oak
and curly birch bedroom suits, parlor
suits, center tables, leather lounges, ele
gant hall stands, reception chairs, side
boards, china closets, dining tables,
couches, mattresses, xprlng beds, cots,
etc., etc. Prices will be zero. Come and
see for yourself and get first choice. C.
I*. Miller, Agent, 101 Broughton streat,
west.
' To) TEAM ENGINE." ON ; rf
120-horse engine now running and In good
order, displaced by larger engine, will sell
very cheap; delivered on care here. P. O.
Box 80, Troy, Ala.
“FOR BALE, THE TURKISH aNS
Russian baths, lit Drayton street; this Is
a splendid opportunity for a live man to
make money. For partlculara call on or
addreae P. II Klcrnan, lid Whitaker
street, Bavannah, Ga.
~SYPREBB BHINGI.KS AND PILINfIC
We are now selling cypress shingles at the
reduced prices of £.26, 11.75 and 82.26 per
thousand. Special prices on carload lota
Boats can load at the mills. Can also fur
nish cypress plies In any quantity on short
notice. Vale Royal Manufacturing Con
pany.
LOST A VII KOI ND.
LOST. BICYCLE LAMP COMING
from race on Bay street extension. Re
ward. Return to 40 Jefferson street.
MIfctELLAMKOIS.
watcii the roof or touK
house; a summer storm will let you know
that It needs repairing and painting; then
tie sure to see E. C. facetll for good work
at reasonable price*. Ut Whi taker. ,
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