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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 'Special Texas 'Rainralfßeport—Brcnham~ Who opened (hoi kv f * bottle of HIRES g, Root beer? T£e popping of a /*' jV I cork from a 1 >ottle of \ W Hires is a signal of \ good health nnd plea sure. A sound the old folks like to hear —the children can't p resist it I ■ * HIRES M Rootbeer ? ; Is compostd of the *. • ftT very Ingredient* the /Jr system require*. Aiding the digestion, soothing the nerves, purifying |rt < the blood. A temper- T/Hb/JUa sues drink for temper- WeWB ance people. Nm.mltsr -stir n. Cn.rtM * mbs C*., rstlfc | Mr M-'-e !•• x I A I #rfffL % JWP j THE MORNING NEWS; SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1897. 111111 I I I I I I | stomach, torpid liver, WM fePl rm tr/i ftPI or constipation can be readily cured by a pleasant draught of arrant s Seltzer Apen f ■ en t taken before break- .Z _.. fast and on retiring at 50c. andsi. All Drofglsts. • , , ° TARRAHT & CO., Chemists, Hew York. nigm. .01; Beeville, TANARUS; Columbia, TANARUS; Kerrville, TANARUS; Luling, T. | 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 At the Big Store, SATURDAY, JUNE 26. 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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. g ■ .. a 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. , 3