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i;IV VOKK SOI IIIEH> SOCIETY.
Tnetftk Annual Dinner anil the
Toast*.
K, w York, Feb. 22.—The twelfth an
,l dinner of the New Y'ork Southern
**. ~,y was given to-night at the Hotel
j,, dent Hugh S. Thompson presided,
t ,l introduced Dr. A. V. Vraymond,
p ., -i.lent of Union College, who responded
|0 , toast, “Washington.”
Tl]. next speaker was Senator William
, „,;. a y of Kentucky, who responded to
r , toast, “The South, Her Duties and
j'.-,,onslbilities.”
i -ident C. F. Woodward of the South
(■ irolina College, who followed, spoke to
~ ist, “The South, Her Traditions and
I'rir. :->les.”
tor Lindsay, In the course of his
~..■ !i. referred to the Do Lome episode
g„d ihe Maine disaster, saying that no
p horn representative had up to the
),tesont intervened to prevent an amicable
.eiijoment in a peaceful way of the great
il l vital questions involved; but all were
ready.as were the people of the South, for
j,, ml u action when action became a ne
4e!>ity.
1 trust,” said he, “that American hon
or in the present emergney will be saved
„ nout having recourse to force. The
r- tht rn people sympathize with the suf
patriots in Cuba, but have stayed
iheu- hands and said to the administration,
~ ve the great problem.’ ”
Senator Lindsay, In concluding, said:
"Fci thirty years the South has consented
to hit pt a secondary place in the gov
ernment of this country; but the time has
e, me when the South must assert itsedf
f, the preservation of Americanism, in
rvhieh the North seems to be last. The
linn too, has come when the South must
also assert Itself within the council cham
txr. as it haS always done, that the dig
nity of this nation must be maintained,
,i:>il if the call to anus is sounded from
nowhere will the response come more
il kiy than from the South.”
B tTTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG.
t Memorial Park Association Organ
ized on tlie Scene.
Fredericksburg, Va„ Feb. 22.—The Fred,
trieksburg and adjacent battlefield Memo
rail Park Association was organized here
to-day.
The association organized with Gen. Ho
ratio C. King’ of New York as chairman,
and Col. Walter H. Taylor, adjutant gen
iral on the staff of Gen. R. E. Lee, vtce
chairman,
i m motion, a committee of fifteen, with
Gwi. James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania as
chairman, were appointed to prepare ana
present resolutions. •
Among those present were Gen. Long
sin ret, Congressmen Jones, Rixey and
Lamb of Virginia; Gen. 'Beaver of Penn
sylvania. Gen. H. V. Boynton of Washing
ion. Gen. Clay of West Virginia. Gen. E.
A. farmer of Washington. Corpl. Tanner
and Col. S. D. Bates of Connecticut.
The banquet to-night was a success. At
a meeting the incorporators held after
the banquet a committee of fifteen was
named to memorialize Congress to make
the necessary appropriations to carry out
the otijects of the association. *
W V \KEYED OX THE GIBBET.
Murderer lias t*fle Held Up in Order
to He Executed.
Hattiesburg, Miss., Feb. 22.—Lem Shows
wtts executed here this afternoon for the
murder of Harriet Murphy. His neck was
broken by the drop, and he was pronounc
ed dead in twelve minutes.
When the sheriff announced to Shows
that his time had come, the condemned ap
t-red to lx- almost dead from fright. A
deputy sheriff on each side helped him to
Ids feet, and led him to the gallows.
At the scaffold he was as helpless as a
child, and had to be supported while the
noose was being adjusted. Not a word es
caped his lips and he was apparently more
dead than alive when the drop fell.
POPULISTS OF INDIANA.
State Ticket Nominated After
fmißling For Fifteen Hours.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 22.—The State
l’opullst Convention, which closed at mid
night after quarreling fifteen hours, selec
ted a state ticket, three national commit
teemen, and adopted a platform against
fusion and government by injunction, and
for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, fe
male suffrage, and prohibition.
The anti-fusion plank wtas carried by a
close vote and after a fight tasting all day,
the resuit causing intense feeling and
threats that the action will disrupt the
party.
xo CHARGE AGAINST AVAHREN.
Seiisntional Knights of Pythias Story
Denied.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 22.—When asked about
the sensational special sent from Savan
nah to the Atlanta Journal to-day sayiqg
• l it Grand Chancellor Charles R. Warren
" r the Knights of Pythias o’f Georgia
would be the defendant In impeachment
proceedings brought by Grand Lodge of-
charging him with failing to at
lo llut y. Past Grand Chancellor W.
'• Shatzman of Macon said: “The state
-1 '* nt is absolutely untrue and no such
■ barges have been preferred. If they had
been I would have known about it."
Striker* Gain n Point.
Ben wood. W. Va., Feb. 22.-The
ike of the employes of the
' a and steel works ended here
" day with a settlement.which The ern-
I eyes consider a victory. In short, it
* ves 'hem what they asked for. Th<
'" rks wifi resume to-morrow with full
•■Tees.
' XI USERV OF THE SEA.
Discovery of tlic Winter HeMtnt of
Stilt Water Fishes.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Beaufort, N. C., Feb. 3.—The most im-
I rtant discovery in coast fishing so far
1 been made by the fishermen offshori
I ’ r o, and there is reason to believe that
1 re will be far-reaching results .obtaln
' I in the future through Improved meth
ls of deep-sea seining. In the two wln
! months of January and February all
our littoral species of fish disappear al-
II ' t entirely from the waters off our
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coast and fishermen are compelled to fold
up their seines and wait until spring for
the reappearance of their favorite game.
Avery few daring and adventurous spirits
go far out to sea with long lines and suc
ceed in catching a few each day to supply
the markets; hut as a rule the catches
have been comparatively small and insig
nificant.
Scientists have concluded that the fishes
go to some unknown region or depths of
the ocean to breed during these two cold
months, and upon their return in the
spring they are accompanied by innumer
able hosts of young fry. The discovery
offshore here is nothing less than that of
a winter nursery of our littoral species of
fish. From six lo fathoms below
the surface of the water the fish have
been found to be literally swarming in
countless numbers, and hooks find seines
let down to that depth invariably bring up
rich hauls. No amount of coaxing and
temptation can induce the fish to leave
their warm winter habitat far below the
surface, and the fishermen have to adopt
new methods of catching them.
The discovery is imporiaftt in modifying
our prevailing methods of catching mar
ketable food fish and in cheapening the
supply in winter and in furnishing the
needy workers with employment at an off
season when poverty and hardship often
press most severely upon them. Natural
ists have believed for some time that most
of our sea-food fishes migrated to warmer
climates in winter, as our birds do, and
returned in the spring; hut now it seems
that they merely swim offshore some dis
tance and drop down into deep corruga
tions, and remain happy and contented
until spring returns.
The fish are found off Beaufort and
Moreliead City in deep holes or corruga
tions. In the summer time they come in
shore further, and swarm around the oys
ter beds and the bays and inlets. A great
variety of food ffsh is found in this win
ter nursery, such as the red drum, gray
trout or weakfish, spotted sea trout, blue
flslj, cronkers and many others. Last
winter the fishermen, with deep-sea lines
managed to make big hquls over these
winter pasture fields. They let down lines
! from five to ten fathoms and brought up
big game. But this was soon considered
too slow work, and special deep-sea nets
were manufactured for the purpose. These
nets were heaviiy weighted, and when
sunk to the proper depth they brought up
enormous hauls .of fish.
This winter the fishing has been better
than ever. Improvements have been made
upon the nets, and the fishermen have
been scoring wonderful successes. In the
first five days of February 153,000 pounds
of trout and 125,000 cronkers were caught
in this manner about two and a half miles
off shore from Fort Macon, near the sea
buoy, where the depth averages six fath
oms. The fishing has been so good in
places that the men have made as high
as S7O etch in one day. Men all along shore
out of employment are flocking to the
place to take part in the fishing. A mah
provided with a deep-sea line and hooks,
who is willing to endure the hardships,
can make a good living in this way. But
it is no easy work to operate a line six
to eight fathoms in length, with several
pounds of lead and a five-pound fish on
the ottvr end. Some of the line fishermen
come in at night with a boat load of fish,
but their hands are so cut and mutilated
that they are unfit for work the next day.
Thick buckskin gloves on the hands are
necessary for the proper protection of the
skin.
Anew sort of seine has been used here
this winter for the first time. It is de
signed just for this deep-water fishing. It
closes up in the shape of a long, narrow
eel pot with a heavy weight at the lower
end. It dangles over the side of the fish
ing smack by several ropes, which are
manipulated eiilier by the men or a
tackle. When the lead reaches the bot
tom the seine is allowed to rest there fot
some time while the men spread it open.
This is done by means of ropes. Four row
boats leave the smack, and each one pulls
a rope attached to a corner of the seine.
Thus it is spread out on the bottom of the
sea directly under the flocks of sea fish.
Then it is gradually hauled up. A deep
pocket in the bottom of the seine is quick
ly filled with so many fish that they
threaten to break through the meshes by
(heir very weight. In each haul the fish
ermen bring up at least 500 poundsjof fish
Tlie numbers of fish seem inexhaustible.
When one hiding piace is pretty well clean
ed out the fishermen hunt around for an
other. The bottom of the sea off the coast
here Is undulating, forming deep hollows
or holes, in which the sea fish hide. They
ore never found on the ridges of the !x>t
tom, but always in the hollows. Conse
quently the fishermen carry' sounding leads
with them when in search of anew hid
ing place or winter nursery. When the
water is six or eight fathoms deep they
drop the net and leave it there for a short
time before hauling it up. If they strike
it rich, they haul it up and let it down un
til their boat is loaded.
The fact being established that the fish
merely sink to a good depth off our coast
in winter i/istead of migrating to some
tropical sea, the question of discovering the
hiding place of other species becomes in
teresting. It is thought that the same
sort of fishing may lie applied to the cod
fish off the Newfoundland banks and to
the red snappers off the Florida coast.
If the winter habitat of these fishes is
not too deep, they may be caught right
through Jhe cold weather with properly
constructed seines. It is believed now
countless millions of shad, salmon, herring
striped bass and other anadromops fish
me hidden away in the fields of the ocean
a short distance off our coast, and (hat
only a small per cent, of them enter our
rivers to spawn in a given season. In
fact, if one-liundredth of ail that are in the
ocean should make a simultaneous move
ment ill this direction, they would com
pletely choke up every river in the coun
try. Hence it is quite important that their
winter hiding piace should he discovered.
In the nets off Beaufort
■ local striped bass, bluefish, srlmoW, her
ring and shad have been caught, deman
strating that they are aground somewhere
in the deep corrugations of the ocean's
bottom. The man who discovers their win
ter hiding place will open up anew in
dustry of tremendous Importance to the
country.
—S. E. Francis, a mulatto living in Bos
ton. has considerable ability as a linguist,
and has a curious system of naming his
•hildren by drafting syllables from lan
guages. H s youngest child will stag
ger throifgh fife burdened as follows:
Charles Henry Edward Menes Slda And
ohohntaugatenafiafy Tscm.unupitsotranja
rivon Akarohuza Chlnka Chula Ham.idoc
Francis. Tills Is a mixture of English.
Russian, Hebrew. Japanese, Magyar and
Turkish. -r, riit
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY *2:\ IS9S.
ENJOYED PLAYING POKER.
THE PASTIME OF CONKI.IXG. SHER
MAN AND SHERIDAN.
llow They Would Meet at Chamber
lin’* Wlifn Congress Was in Ses
sion to Find Relaxation From
the Cares of Public Life in t urd
Flaying;—Quick Flashes of Wit
anil Good-Natured Gibing When
ever They Crossed Cards—Hon
Sheridan Opened a Fot on a Foul
Hand and Humorously ItrKKi'tl tlie
Others Not to Expose Him.
From the Washington Star.
“Roseoe Conkiing was as fond as the
next man of a little game of draw, ’ said
an elderly Washington clubman, who for
a generation has been on terms of social
intimacy with famous men at the capital.
~and he was as chaining a poker antag
onist as ever tried to fill an in-the-middle
straight or bobbed to a flush. Conkiing
was unquestionably a man of great nat
ural hauteur, yet I have always believed
and maintained that the somewhat airev
gant and domineering manner that he
exhibited in public, and that often caused
him to be so thoroughly misunderstood,
was more or less of a pose. The news
paper writers set him down and paraded
him as an Ajax from the very beginning
of his service here, .and it suited Conk
ling's fancy, when he perceived that it
would be quite impossible for him. to
clear himself of this reputation, to study
the part that he had preforce to accept,
and to portray it with consistence and
elaboration throughout tils public career.
But in social life, in daily intercourse
with men that he knew and liked, Conk
iing was a prince, and as gracious, gen
erous and accomplished a prince, too, as
ever gained the affectionate esteem and
admiration of his friends.
“He liked, I say, to play poker, mid
during the last four or five years of his
senatorial life he would drop in at .John
Chamberlin’s oecasionallj while Congress
was in session, to sit into a game mere
with friends, all of them prominent public
men, who liked the mental stimulus aftd
excitement of drawing cards, and who
were always more than willing to engage
in a game in which Conkiing was one of
the players—for the cultured intellect
and well-stored mind of the New Y’ork
senator never shone more brightly nor
more variously than during these memo
rable sessions at cards with his friends.
Quite often those among us who were
not fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to
be swirlers in the vortex of public life
would be Invited to take a hand at these
delightful poker seances; and I, for one,
possess no more valued recollections than
those that often recur to my mind of the
dozen or so occasions on which I played
draw poker with Roseoe Conkiing sitting
opposite to me.
“General Phil Sheridan was often one
of the players at these meetings, and
when General Sherman was living in
Washington, he, too, would occasionally
happen around when the game at Cham
berlin’s was in progress and take a hand.
With Conkiing and Sherman in the game,
the talk at the poker table was a good
deal more interesting to some of us than
the game itself, for both men would con
stantly exchange witty dabs at 'each
other, and the oral sparring between
these two remarkable men was briliianj
and entertaining in the extreme. Their
pokes at each other were always per
fectly good-natured’and harmless. Dif
ferent as they were in profession and
temperament. Conkiing and Sherman
were about evenly matched, in wit, and
their mastery of repartee, and both nun
seemed to find huge pleasure in prac
ticing on each other in their hours of te
laxation, especially at these card melt
ings.
“Conkiing.” said Sherman one night to
the New Y’ork senator, when the game
was in progress, “that Hyperion curl of
yours may now assume an added twist
the effect of woe. and that Hercules
chest prepare to array itseif in o tunic
of penitential sackeioth—for I’ve got you
licked. Full house, jacks up on eights.’
and Sherman spread his hand out on the
table.
“ ‘Sherman,’ said Conkiing, a beatific
smile flickering at the corners of his
mouth, ’when you marched to the sea at
that exceedingly theatrical period of your
'career, and readied the sea, had it not
been better for you had you kept right
on marching, even to the point of com
plete and final submersion, thus to nave
spared yourself the mortification of being
thrashed right out of your boots at this
epoch of your history by a mere civilian?
Four sevens,’ and Conkiing raked in the
pot with a flourish, grizzled ‘Old Tectimp’
■chewirg the butt of his cigar thought
fully.
“But Conkiing played his hardest
against General Sheridan. The two men
were great chums and confidants, but
when they got into a poker game to
gether it was, of course, in good-natund
sort of way, give and take, and no quarter.
When Sheridan was in the game Conkiing
simply devoted all of his study and skill
to the task of Ijeating the hero of Win
chester, and, on the other hand, ‘Little
Phil’ would pay hardly any attention at
all to the other players, he was so inger
to roost his friend Conkiing. Very often
the rest of us would, at a sort of tacitly
understood signal, drop out, even when we
had gped, playing hands, just for the
fun of. seeing Conkiing and Sheridan at
each other's throats.
“ 'Phil,' said Conkiing one night when
he thought his hand was Invincible, ‘be
advised, I have your interest at heart.
Wo ail admire your historical and present
rashness, but. Phil, be advised. Consider
your natural aversion to a pi|>e; if you
proceed with me on this, you'll bo com
pelled to smoke a pipe practically until
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your retirement. This time you are not
alone twenty miles away; you are 20,000,
20,001,000, miles in the distance, and you
really can’t traverse the ground. Call me.'
“ ‘Conkiing,’ replied ‘Little Phil,’ ‘with
those two red fighting spots of his burning
brightly on his cheekbones, ‘you’re a stu-
IKndous bluffer, and I’ll see you dangling
from that sour apple tree of your’s first.
I raise you the limit.’
“ ‘ln that ease.’ said Conkiing, stuffing
his hand into the desk, 'the pot’s yours—
not that I haven't got you beat, of course,
but—'
“And Conkiing, caught red-handed in
one of his Brobdignagian bluffs, took with
the greatest good nature the long laugh
that we all gave him.
“I was in the game one night during the
winter of ’79. when boUt Conkiing and
Sheridan were players. w lt was a four
handed game, and John Chamberlin was
tho other player. The game at Chamber
lin’s was always for $5 limit at first, v ith
tho understanding that along toward
morning, after a couple of hours of wann
ing up, anybody cduld suggest the removal
of 'the limit if he wanted to. The way
Conkiing and Sheridan bluffed each other
that night was a caution. Both men seem
ed to strike out luck altogether as an ele
ment in their good-natured play against
each otner, and as both of them caught
fine hands occasionally when engaged In
this tug-of-war of bluffing, neither o>f them
coutd get an exact line on the other, and it
was better t'han a play to study their faces
at the show-downs. Conkiing was hav
ing all of the success during the latter part
of the night, and it was fun to hear ‘Little
Phil, softly utter dark and woolly things
under his bjreath when time after time
Conkiing would show a hand consisting of
nothing at all after having scared Sheri
dan out, or produce a gorgeous set of
fours or a full hjtnd at such times as
Sheridan, deciding that tho senator was
bluffing, would call him.
” ‘Bite him. Sheridan,’ Chamberlin
would say, amusedly, on these occasions,
and Sheridan would tell Chamberlin to
go to the dickens, and call for another
deck of cards.
“VY’o started the last round of jackpots
with anew deck. Sheridan dealt the first
mess himself, and alter it had gone around
and none oij the three of us could open it,
Sheridan opened it himself. Neither
Chamberlin or I had any right to stay
on our hands, and so it was left between
Sheridan and Conkiing, who stayed.
Conkiing took three cards and turned his
little pair into threes. Sheridan dished
himself out three cards, ond bit his cigar
hard when he saw his hand. He made a
$5 bet to draw Conkiing out, and the sen
ator raised him $25 1 It passed between
them with these $25 bets until there was
nearly S3OO in the pot. both men scrutiniz
ing each other pretty carefully at each
bet.
“ ‘I don’t know so much about you this
time,’ said f'onkling, finally, 'and I think
I’ll just call you for safety.’
“Both laid their hands down at the
same time. Conkiing had three nines, and
lie looked at Sheridan strangely when he
saw the color of Sheridan's three acts.
Both Chamberlin and myself also saw
what was wrong at the some instant, hut
we only smiled and let the two men Ita'e
it out. Sheridan had a broad grin on his
face, and was just about to rnke In the
pot. Conkiing was gazing at the little
man of iron with a puzzled look in his
eyes.
“ 'Oh, I say, there, Phil, just wait a
minute.' said he. Do you really think
that pot belongs to you?’
“ ‘Belongs to me?’ said Sheridan. ‘Well,
it does if the nose on my fao* belong* to
me ’ and again he reached over to hoe
in the pot.
“Conkiing ran his hand through his hair
and again stopped Sheridan with a ges
ture.
” ‘f don’t remember ever having seen
that sort of thing before,' he said. Did
you. t’hil?'
“•See what sort of thing before?’ said
Sheridan. ‘Lvhat Jn blazes are you talk
ing about. Conkiing?’
“For reply Conkiing put one finger upon
one of Sheridan’s aces and then pointed to
another one of the aces.
” ‘X never saw a jackpot won with three
aces, two of which happen to be acts
of diamonds,' sail smiling.
“Sheridan looked at his hand, lying
face up upon the table before him, and nis
face became fiery red. The consternation
on his countenance was really funny.
" ‘Why,’ said he,,after 0 minute, ‘blamed
if I’don't believe I’m nothing better than
an Involuntary swindler. That other ace
you see, Is a club. I opened the pot on a
pair of rod aces, anil they were, of course,
these aces of diamonds. Chamberlin
turning to the amused bonifacc, ‘turn me
out of door* as a fraud and a short-card
player, wiil you?'
“ ’And have the army lire a volley over
the ruins of my house?’ replied Chamber
lin. ‘Hardly. Anyhow, I’d rather see
you and Conkiing engage in a rough-ami
tumble fight over the thing. Go ahead
the pair of you. We'll see fair play,' turn
ing to me.
"Of course, the extra ace of diamonds
had slipped Into the deck accidentally be
fore it had left the manufacturer's bauds;
but Sher'.dah, when he had in a measure
recovered from the surprise of the revela
tion. made a humorous pretension that he
had known the whole thing all along, and
convulsed the three of us by feelingly ap
pealing to Conkiing to refrain from expos
ing him to tlie world, for the sake of his
family, and nil that kind of thifrg. The
hand being foul, the pot was. of' course,
divided.
"Conkiing was a peculiarly generous
pokir player. One night, when Senator
Each Chandler was one. of the players,
Conkling was the beneficiary of a miracle
that does not often happen to a man even
once in a lifetime. Chandler dealt aim a
Pat royal flush. It was a jackpot. Ned her
Wade Hampton, who was the otner
player, nor my@elf caught anything mat
would justify us in drawing cards, and so
the thing was between Conkling and th.
senator from Michigan. Conkling. of
course, stood pat, and Chandler, drawing
two cards, filled, and had four tens on
which he began his betting, lie bet ?)00.
“ 'Pat or no pat, Conkling.' said u*. in
making the bet, 'l’ve got that miserable
skinflint straight of yours wolloped this
time—even if you’ve got it. Come at me.'
“Conkling folded up his hand and look
ed Chandler In the eye.
" 'You're a pretty rich man, Zuch, are
you not?’ said he.
‘Middling rich,’ said Chandler
“ 'And you’ve got a pretty good hand—
eh, Zach?'
“ 'Worth a couple of years of my pay
as a toga wearer, supposing I'Ve got a
good game mo.n to back against.’
“ ‘Unbeatable, Zacli?'
“ ‘Practically.’
“ ''Well. Chandler,' said Conkling, 'you
may be pretty well fixed in that hand, but
I’ve got one here that I'm convinced r.o
gentleman ever ought to play,' and lie
spread out his pat royal (lush.
“Chandler looked at the hand for a mo
ment In silence.
“ 'Conkling,' said lie finally® ‘you’re a
queer mixture of Don Quixote and Prince
Charlie—which means, or ought to mean,
that you’re a blamed good fellow.' "
FINICAL ENGLISH.
This Is the Charge Lodged tgninsl
Talkers la Tills Country.
From Harper's Bazar.
There Is between England and America,
both as to grammar and pronunciation,
another difference, which goes deeper
than mere language. Ever since the time
of Noah Webster there has been in this
community a desire to make the English
language consistent wilhitself, and em
ploy it accordingly. There is a tendency
to speak and write It on a theory, whereas
in England it is spokgti and written ac
cording to usage. Is this usage meant, as
in France, that decided and imposed by
a learned body, it would be very different;
but in England the usage recognized is
not even that of Oxford and Cambridge,
but of “society”—this being the vague
name of a wholly Indeterminate class,
culminating in a series of princes and
princesses whose parentage was not even
wholly English, but half German.
There is a tradition In France that the
reason why the word corrosse -(carriage)
is masculine Instead of feminine, as an
alogy would require, is because a little
Bourbon Prince, wishing to go out for a
drive, once called for mon carrosse. There
Is no reason to think there has been any
such direct royal influence in England,
but there is no doubt that what is called
English societpl which is the recognize 1
standard of speech in Its own country, Is
responsible for inelegances and inaccura
cies of speech which, if they had originat
ed here, would very possibly have been re
pudiated and condemned.
To say “it is him” and “different to” is
as inaccurate as to say "I don’t know as"
or "he played some," the difference being
that while a thousand teachers In our own
country are trying to eradicate these last
improprieties, there is probably no sehoo.
In England where "different to" and “it
is him" are not reeogn zed as perfectly
legitimate, because somebody in good so
ciety is supposed to use them. And so
of pronunciation, one constantly hears
well-bred English people transform “Oh"
into "Aouw" and “when" into "wen'’—
the latter being simply a more refined form
of that aversion to the "h” wit ch Is seen
at its extreme in Mrs. 'Kory ‘Awkins.
Tt> sum it all up. the beseiting sin ot
Americans lies in hold ng a too (laical and
pedantic mode of speech and paying too
little regard to mere usage; while to Eng
lish people usage—meaning social or fash
ionab.e usage—ls everything, and the con
sistency of the language nothing.
The Unird al \\ nn h i up. <on's Tomb.
From the Washington Slur.
Edward Parker, the little old colored
man who occupies the sentry box at th
tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon
lives in Washington. That is, his family
lives here,, and he comes over by special
permit of the organization which has con
trol of the old home of the first President
of the United States.
For years the tomb of Washington has
been constantly before this old colored
man’s vision. He has never missed a day
from that dingy sentry box since Mount
Vernon passed into the charge of the
women, and before that, dating from 1841,
he had lived on the place. He wait a slave
of John Washington, and is the last of
the old servants now living.
Kvery other Saturday Parker comes over
to Washington, always carrying with him
an old-fashioned carpet bag, so common in
the days of recoils, ruction. The following
Monday morning he may always he seen a
half hour at least before the first train
starts for Mount Vernon watting around
the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Thirteenth street. He has never missed
tile first train since the electric cars began
running to Mount Vernon. Before that,
the first boat to Mount Vernon on alter
nating Monday mornings always found
him a passenger.
Parker is Indeed a character. He assist
ed in burying the last person consigned to
Ihe Vault In Washington's tomb. Alter
that Ihe key to the vault was thrown Into
Ihe Potomac. This was In the early 'Do’s.
Plant System
lrniu* operated liyOoib lleradiun Time—One hour >iivrr than City Tim*.
LEAD DOWN. TIMECARD: j| BEAD UP
•J® i ii si an i it# t
• 1 i tn Effect Feb. 12, 1393. j; | | | Fla. 1
|t>pec'l| Daily Dally Da. i> ; |;Daliy|Daily|DallyjSpccT|
j 1 -‘t' u _"i 1 15a i 00,. ,bv ....Savannah Ar|| 8 15a| 1 Doa| 7 3Dp[ 9 01a
* 11 ’‘l i |Ar Augusta I.,v|| | | 1 55p|
-
• I * *'l 7 ISpj Aooaj;Ar ..’...Richmond.... Evil 730 p 9 05a| jIOOOp..
I 1 ’ 'M* H Sap 7 4ia Ar ...Washington.... Ev|' 3 46p| 4 30ai | 6 20p -
j ' “’ I 1 03.i 9 ii.ta Ar Baltimore Lvjj 2 25p 2 60a| j 5 lOp
• I o -iSp 6 53a; 2 03p Ar ..New York Lv|| 9 30a| 9 00p| |l2 30p|
JJ | 21 |23 35 || ’ jr~f 7* "j~24 |23 |3 '
J pj- | | ! 11 I Ii I I Fla.
f** n,ilv 1 *•'!•>• Daily Diiily|| |;i tally|Dally|Dally|Dally JSpecT
.*/!!; 1 { lO 1 515 {* 2"" s r.a Ev .TsavannahT..:.. Ar||t2 43p| 1 20a| 8 20a|U <iOp| 7 22p
~ 1 l,l ' 3 47a ,11 Ola Ar J. sup Evjlll 21a|U 42p| 27a| 9 2*p| 6 Sip
1 V l ',' " "-'l' I 50;i la .Via A Waycross EvdlO 12a 10 3op 5 15a! 8 3>pl 5 02p
t etlp; I .tap lit 2.1,, t 30|, Ar ....Brunswick Evl| 8 00u| 8 oup| | '
1 r 2 "'a | Ar Ultany Ev|| 1 | 1 30a I 30p
I 5 2°P 5 40a | • Ar Columbus ....Ev t | |lO 10p|10 06a|
1 l? I '' 1 , *’ i ' 10 lr 'i* " :*i ' 00,a Ar ... J I Iksonviile... Ev|| R 20nJ S OOpj 4 40p| 3Up
?, r, s !rt .i 2 2U|>, Ar ..St. Augustine... Evjj 7 00a | 6 3Sp| | 2 05p
■■' 12 y'l’i 5 51.;. Ar ....Gain, rvilie.... Lv|' 3 15a 4 20p| I
j! •:" l> J ; "'l’ ■■■■l I ' l>| 5 Ar Ocala Ev|| 1 30a 2 25p|
r. I' 1 ' • !M "' 1 7 55,. Ar Tninpii Ev|| 7 37p 10 55a| 8 10a * 10*
’•' |l ' ■ '•' :l 6 l.*.|,| 8 or.p Ar ..Tam B. Hotel.. Lv|| 7 25p 10 40a| 8 00a| S 00a
H 1 ’ 1 12 l:,rt ' I 1 2a,> |Ar Valdosta Lv||.... ~ 3 13a | 6 21p|T7.T^
- ••••*• 1 : •■> 2 35|> Ar ..Thnm.iaville.... Lv 2 05a 5 lOp
I”' 1 9 3ap'S2aa | 9 SO,. Ar ...Montgomery... Lv|| 7 46p|10 iOa
‘ 1 ‘ ' *'•' * la,' l | 7 Itta Ar ...New Orleans... Lv ! 7 55a, 7 45p|
■ 1 I ' Ar ~..N;.sitville Ev|| l3a| I 34aj
’ ■ Ar .. ..'in dnnatl Lt| | 11 .op 4 06p|
N. B.—Nos. .>. and -IS are tlte New York and Florida Speqjpl, a solid vestibule
(r un, . .insisting of i'aliman's finest sleeping, parlor, observation and dining cars.
Steam healed electric lighted Huns solid between New Ymk and Jacksonville.
, dAl.ies t Jacksonville, part going to St. Augustine and part to Tampa. No. 37
v"su i W rk e\pt Sunday. Leaves Savannah dally except Monday.
• <>. I'.ivts l .unpu daily; leaves Augustine, Jacksonville and Savannah daily
except Sunday.
Alltrains exc. pt Nos. 23, 32, 35, 37, 38 and 78 make nil local stops.
l'uliinnii Buffet .Sleeping und I'arlor Cars, anil I’laiit System Parlor Cars ars
operated as follows;
No 35. sleepers, New York and Jacksonville; New York and Port Tampa via
West .'oast; Waycross wul Cincinnati vi* Montgomery. I’arlor car Waycross and
Brunswick.
No. 25 sleepers Wiiv.tws and Jacksonville, Waycross and Port Tampa via Jack
sotu lije and ,1,. We i Const, Waycross and Cincinnati via Montgomery? Waycros#
and Nashville via Atlanta. Parlor car Waycross and Brunswick.
* No - •‘i.'.'l'ers tiaviinnah and Jacksonville (ear open for passengers at 8 p. m),
Ne w \ ~rk and J.ieksoavnle. Waycross and Jacksonville; Waycross and St. Peters
burg vi Jacksonville, l'alatka, Ocala and Trilby. Parlor car Jacksonville and Port
Tampa via Sanford
No 2!, sleep, r , \\ iveross and St. Lotus via Montgomery; Wnyeross and St.
Louis V I Albany, Columbus, Birmingham and Holly Springs; Waycross and Nash*
\ii:.' via Atlanta. Way. -l oss and Port Tampa via Jacksonville and Sanford.
No. 37 connects al Waycross with sleeper fo Cincinnati via Montgomery; to Port
Tampa via West Coast, and parlor car to Brunswick.
No. 32 sleepers. Jacksonville and New York; Port *Tampa and New York via
West Coast. Parlor ear, Brunswick and Waycross.
No. 7S, sleeper, Jacksonville and Savannah (passengers are allowed to remain In
oar at Savannah until 7 a in.); Jacksonvlle and New York. Parlor car Port Tampa
and Jacksonville via Sanford.
Steamships leave Port Tampa for Key West and Havana 9:00 p. m., Mondays and
Thursdays. For Mobile, 10:00 p. m. Saturdays.
E A A it.M AND, city Passenger and Ticket Agent, De Soto Hotel.
B. W. WKENN, Passenger Traffle Manager.
H. C. MeFADDEN. Assistant Genera! Passenger Agent.
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA RAILWAY.
SAVANNAH SHOUT LINE. /
Passenger Schedules. Effective Dec. 12, 1897.
71 Miles Shortest Operated Line Between Savannah and Montgomery. 28 MUas
Shortest Opened ..me Between Savannah and Columbus.
F. C. &P. 11 A. C. Line. || j] a. c. Line. | Frc. &P.
12 Isam| 4 .iupin iiuopm V'ai.uii l,v ...New York.... Arj| 2 03pm| 6 53am| 8 23am 43pm
3 50am| 6 55pm|12 05 n't 12V9u'n l.v ...Philadelphia. Ar||ll2sam| 3 45am| 2 58am 10 15am
62!am| 92Upm| 23oam| 2 25pm|;Ev .. .liaillrpore.... Ar j 9 05am| 1 ORamjll 35pm 8 00arn
1115,tm|10 43pm| llivitn .: tfiptn l.v ..Washington... Ar j I 7‘4oatn|U 10pm| 9 25pm 6 42am
| | 9l)sam| 7 30,>m||Ev ....Richmond... Ar ll 40uam 7 lßarn|
| |ll 13pm; i> 13am |Ev ...Charleston— Ar;; 6 08pm 6 13am|
10 15pm 9 25am| Lv ...Charlotte Ar|j...-. | 8 50am 8 20pm
12 47am|!l 56.im ! l.v Columbia ... Ar;i | 4 24am 4 Ispm
5 Warn{ 434 pm 1 Warn! 8 15am Ar ....Savannah.... Ev|| 105pm| 1 43am|U 4Qpm|ll 10pm
is ii i If ]| ~ ~'Ti ~ i i> ' i ai>
1 15 p . ; ?25am [Ev ....Savtutnan ... Ar |ii 20pm|... 8 10am
10uiipmi | | 9 3uum Ar Collins Ev; 19 06pm sosam
12 (dam| | |]l3sam||Ar Helena l.v; | 6 40pm 335 pm
12 57am| | |l2 2‘Jpim;Ar. ....Abbeville.... Evj j 5 Gopm 2 40am
*9 15am; | | 6 35|<n||Ar ...Flizgenild.... Lvj |ll 15am 9 20pm
10 00am| | j 7 26prn||Ar 0.-illa Ev |lo2oam 8 00pm
2 16.1 m' | 1 30pm,;Ar Cordelo Ev | 4 45pm 1 35am
3 18am| | | 2 55pm||Ar ...Americas Ev | 2 39pm 12 28am
4 Pnm| I | 3 55|im; Ar ....Richland.... Ev | 2 40pm 1130 pm
1200n'n| | 5 20,>m;| Ar ....Columbus... Ev |loooam 3 OOpm
12 39,,m| | 7 45amj|Ar ....Dawson Lv 7 10am 2 58pm
1 itupml | 8 Upm||Ar Alliany Lv 6 00pm 2 lopm
4 ;i,;j!ii| | 4 17pm||Ar ....Lumpkin.... Ev 217 pm 11 10pm
6 07am | |.5 56pm' Ar ...Hurnboro.... l.v 12 38pm 9 36pm
8 00am' I I 8 00pmLAr ..Montgomery.. Ev |lO 45atri 7 45pm
10 3uumi | |ll3opm||Ar Selma Ev 4 20am 330 pm
12 nipirb I jl2 25 n't \r ..Birmingham... l.v 7 68am 4 00pm
70opm! j 05Oam, Ar ...Nashville l.v| 128 am 9 15am
2 CT.am! 1 12 25 n't Ar ...Louisville Ev; 8 10pm 2 SOarn
7 65a in' ! 4 10pm Ar ..Cincinnati Evj 350 pm 1100 pm
12 40am I U69nnuj|Ar ..Evansville.... l.v; 9 00pm 350 am
85bI ml j 8 17pm| Ar ...Chicago Ev] 1 OOpm 7 55pm
7 20am' 1 7 32pmi!Ar ....St. Louis.... Ev| | 7 58am 8 58pm
345 pm 1 3 osain |Ar Mobile Ev|| |l2 20n't 12 58pm
g iopm! 1 7 40am||Ar . .New Orleans.. Ev||..■ ■, 7 40pm 7 55am
•Daily except Sunday.
Connecting at Savannah by nil trainß, with eteamehips lines for Baltimore, Phil
fide.phia, New York and Boston; With Plant system, ond Florida Central and Pen
insular; Atlantic Coast Line for jxjints north; with Savannah and Atlantia Kail
way for Tybee*
At Collins wilh Collins nnd Heidsvllie railroad and HUllmore Air Line.
At |i,!ena with Southern railway for all points thereon.
At Corde]* with Georgia Southern and Florldu for Macon and beyond; also with
Albany and Northern railwny for Albany.
At. Richland with Columbus division for Columbus, Dawson and Albany.
At Montgomery with Louisville and Nashville railroad for all points west and
northwest- _ . mat.
Train# 17 and 18 carry Georgia an<l Alabama railway new and magnificent buf.
fet parlor c-ars- /
Trains 19 and 20 carry Pullman Palace sleeping cars between Savannah and
M Tk'ket“ s'idd to all points and sleeping car berths secured at ticket office, corner
rtnll and Lryan streets, or at West Bread street passenger station.
CECIL GABBETT, First Vice President and General Manager
A POPE. General Pas •'tiger Agent. C. C. MARTIN, Agent
J I, RECK. Soliciting Agent.
CHAS. N. RIGHT. Asslsant General Passenger Agent.
A M. MARTIN. Ticket Agent, corner Bull and Bryan streets.
Central of Georgia Railway Company
SCHEDULES IN EFFECT FEB, 13, 1898.
GOING Vi 7.hi ; READ DOWNjj ~ [MiOINCj; READ U^.
■RoTs No. 7 I No. 6 j No. 1 N Central . || No 7 2 No. 4~Na *T,No. 19
except • xcept | daily. | dally. || or 90th I dully. daily. |except |except
Sund'y Kund'yi | II Meridian time. | |Sund'y|Sund'y
Twpta 6 'Vipni, 9tn.' x'43'im| Lv ..Savannah.. ~Ar| 6 00pm i.OtomTlun 4 #|Mi
305 pm 7 04pm| 10 03pm! 9 59am |Ar ...Guyton.... Lv COOpm 4 51am 6 48am 345 pm
... 7 35pm! lo 3<ipm| 10 20atn Ar Oliver.... Ev 4 3i))im 4 20am 6 13am
|il 00pm; lo32am| Ar ....Dover.... Lv 4(Mpm 358 am ””
a i Ar ..Rocky Ford Lv 350 pm 342 am
j 1 52am| 1 56pm, Ar ...Tenniile... Ev; 137 pm 1 30am !"
i I 15pm B.s"l'in Ar .Mllledgevllle Ev ,t 6 3Uamlf 3 45iim "j
m 1 .
! Ar ...Madison... Lvj... 4 13pm
1 20pmj I Ar ...Athens. .. Ev| 3 OOpm
I |i 1 05pm| I Ar .Carrollton.. Evj f 2 iOtsn .’
i | 8 soani| 8 40pm Ar .Fort Valley Ev | 6 39am | 6 27pm| I
| 142pm| 10 01pm |Ar .Amerlcue... Ev 5 18am; 128 pm ’
| 4 29pm "Ar ...Eufaula.. Ev, 10 40am
' 7 2.5 pm | I Ar Troy Lv| 7 55am..::
j .... 11 Isaini 11 Ar .. .Columbds. Evj 4 00pm|
I i 12 Oopm! |(Ar ...Opelika.... Evl 2 45pm[.
BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND TYBEeT~ "V
Eastern VirTity time used between IM'nd'yl nSfiET.
Savannah and Tybee. • _ | only | Dally |exM*dy
Going: 15am! 330 pm) Hi 00am
Returning, le ivi; lybec ; 7 20amj 6 00pm|ll Ooana
Trilins marked t run daily, except Sunday.
Tirm- shown is 90th meridian, one hour slower than Savannah city time, except
that between Savannah and Tybee city, or 75th meridian time. Is shown,
golid trains between Savannah nnd Macon nnd Atlanta.
Sleeping cars on night trains between Savannah and Augusta. Savannah and
Ma-on. Savannah and Atlanta. I’arlor cars between Macon and Atlanta.
Passengers arriving Mncon at 3:55 a. m. can remain in sleeper until 7 a. m.
For farther information and for eeh-idules to all points beyond our line, apply
to W. G. BREWER, city Ticket and Passenger Agent, 39 Buli street.
J. C. HAILE, General Passenger Agent, Savannah. Ga.
TITEO. D. KLINE, Gen. Superintendent. E. H. HINTON. Traffio Manage*,
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