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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS^
Meetings—Of Property Owners in Col
linsville; Zerubbabt l ijoiige No. 15, F. and
A. M.
Special Notices—Ship Notice, Wilder &
Cos., Agents; Contracts to Furnish Sup
plies, L. J. Lamar, Superintendent Georgia
State Sanitarium; Ship Notices, Georgia
Export and import Company; Special No
tice on Account of Military Review, Leo
pold Adler.
Business Notices—Kennedy's Crackers
and Cakes, Henry Solomon & Son, Dis
tributing Agents.
Legal Notice —Citation From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of! Chatham
County.
$3.50, That’s All—Byck Bros.
The Celebrated Insurance Y'apor Stove,
Etc.—Lindsay & Morgan.
Amusements—Big Minstrel Festival Mat
inee and Night, Dec. 7, at Theater.
Our Store Will Be Closed To-morrow
Afternoon From 2 to 5 o’clock—Leopold
Adler.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Merchants and Miners' Trans
portation Company.
Medical—Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral; Johann
Hoffs Genuine Malt Extract; Hood's Pills;
Castoria; Alligator Liniment.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Keeley motor was not a dead fail
ure, after ail. It kept the inventor running
for more than twenty-five years, and en
abled him to leave an estate valued at $lO,-
OOu.
Notwithstanding Spain is going to have
peace, she will not be able to reduce her
army to a peace basis. She must maintain
it on a war footing, for fear of the Carllsts.
However, we haven’t much room to criti
cise Spain, seeing that although we, also,
are going to have peace, we have cot to
maintain an army four times as big as
Ihe one we had before our scrap with the
dons.
There is no room for doubting that
Savannah was an absolutely "dry” town
yesterday. The Sunday closing law was
scrupulously, absolutely observed. The
promptness of Judge Norwood of the City
Court in imposing severe tines in cases
recently brought before him contributed
In no small degree to the good result.
Would-be violators of the law were put
upon notice that cases against them
■would be vigorously prosecuted and heavy
penalties inflicted in the event of convic
tion. Judge Norwood will receive the sup
port and the thanks of the community for
bis action In the matter.
In West Virginia the Democrats have a
majority of seven in the House of Repre
sentatives, while the Republicans have a
majority of six in the Senate. On Joint
ballot, therefore, under present circum
stances the Democrats would have a ma
jority of one. But that Is far from mean
ing that the Democrats will be able to
elect a United States senaior to succeed
Faulkner. The Republicans are going to
try to overcome the majority of the Dem
ocrats In joint ballot by unseating Demo
crats In the Senate, and the Democrats are
going to try to prevent them from accom
plishing th?ir purpose by unseating Re
publicans in the House. Which party will
win the senatorshlp, therefore, is merely
a question of which can unseat the most
numbers of the legislature.
And so the steamer Lobelia went
aground in Charleston’s channel to the
a yesterday drawing only 19 feet of
water! Yet Charleston wants to be a port
o!>gmbarkaLion for troops destined for Cu
ba! Well, we shall neither send a com
mittee to Washington to make the point
that Charleston is not a suitable port
ft oin which to embark troops to Cuba,
nor shall we publish lengthy editorials to
prove that Charleston has not the depth
of water her people claim for it. We trust
we are not so ungenerous as that. We
prefer to accept the explanation of the af
that is offered. At the same time it
occurs to us to remark that the govern
ment knew what It was about when It se
lected Savannah as the port of embarka
tion for troojm intended for Cuba and
Porto Rico—a port which accommodates
eiuli tioop transports as the Chester,
which went to sea from Savannah's
wharves last week druwing 25 feet of wa
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A PERM tXKNT WlYTf.il CAMP.
The war department would do well to
consider the advisability of establishing a
permanent winter encampment of troops
at Savannah.
Within a few days one division of Gen.
Lee’s corps will have embarked for Cuba.
The understanding is that the division
will not carry its tents, but that new
tents will be supplied by the department.
Thus there will be left vacant an already
established and excellent camp sufficient
for the accommodation of six regiments.
As other troops of the Seventh <Y>ri*> are
moved to Cuba other equally well estab
lished and excellent camping grounds will
ite left unoccupied.
It is settled that Savannah will remain
the port of embarkation and disembarka
tion of troops passing between Cuba and
Porto Rico and the United States. This
is so for three of the very best reasons
in the world, all of which have had the at
tention of the government. The first is
that Savannah has the best transporta
tion and terminal facilities in the South
Atlantic section. The second is that Sa
vannah has 26 feet of water from the city
to-the sea, making it possible for such
monster transports as the Chester, the
Minr.ewaska and others to come up to the
wharves and take their cargoes and de
part. It is not necessary for them to an
chor at sea, several miles off the bar, and
have their freights carried to them on
lighters.
The third reason, and a very important
one, Is that excepting Savannah there is
no South Atlantic port having anywhere
near an equal depth of chunnel that has
an adequate fresh water supply. Too
much stress cannot be laid upon this point.
Fresh water, for drinking and culinary
purposes, is an absolute necessity for the
!>ort of embarkation. Fresh water in
abundance is indispensable for men and
horses. Not only is it needed in port, but
it is absolutely necessary that a plentiful
supply shall be taken aboard ship. And
not only do men.and horses need fresh
water, but steam boilers need it also, for
reasons which every engineer and steam
boat man perfectly understands. Savan
nah has a fresh water supply adequate to
all demands which may be made upon It.
Its drinking water, of which the supply
can be run to upwards of 10,000,000 gallons
a day, comes pure, sparkling and sweet
from deep artfesian wells. And the steam
er that wants fresh water for its boilers
has only to pump it from the river.
The water supply of Charleston, even
if Charleston had terminal facilities and
depth of channel adequate to the needs
of the government for the embarkation
of troops, would be unequal to the de
mands that would tie made upon It. As
a matter of fact. Charleston's water sup
ply js not sufficient for the city’s own
needs, Only a few weeks ago the Charles
ton Evening Post, a newspaper with the
courage to look an unpleasant fact square
ly in the face, expressed the fear
of a water famine during the ap
proaching contention of the Con
federate veterans. The Post has repeatedly
and pointedly called attention to Charles
ton's deficiency in fresh water.
But If Charleston's water supply were
five times as large as it is, from the same
source, It would still not do for the pur
poses of the army. The water
is strongly impregnated with soda.
It cannot be used In cooking. It
cannot be used in steam boilers. It cannot
be stored for future use except in hermet
ically sealed vessels. The people of
Charleston do not depend upon It to any
great extent for drinking, and not at all
for cooking. They draw their supply for
these puriioses from cisterns. The
vessels that visit Charleston harbor are
forced to purchase by the gallon their
drinking and cooking water from harbor
boats which make it a business to peddle
the fluid.
The foregoing makes it clear why Sa
vannah must be the port of departure and
entry for the troops; now to revert to why
it should be made a permanent winter
camp: As to the excellence of the site and
the grounds, there are 15,000 ready and
willing witnesses in Fitzhugh Lee's corps.
Officers and men, every soldier of the lot
would, we are sure, say a word of praise
for the “Camp Onward” grounds, and for
the city. Water mains have been laid to
all of the camps, the drainage and sani
tary arrangements have been perfected,
the grounds leveled, and all incidentals at
tended to. In short, It ia a model camp.
It is risking nothing to say that It Is the
finest ever occupied by any body of United
States troops, without any qualification or
exception whatever.
The salubrity of the climate and ihe
healthfulness of the situation are attested
by the condition of the men in Camp On
ward. There is less sickness in the corps
now than there has been before since It
became a corps. The cheeks of the sol
diers are glowing with health, and the sur
geons come near to enjoying a sinecure. ■
Considering the facts stated, together
with the further facts that the great army
hospital Is being erected here, that the
supply depot machinery has been perfect
ed, that the troops could march from
camp to transport or from transport to
camp in less than an hour, that there
would have to be no waiting by troops for
ships or by ships for troops when a move
ment was ordered, is there not good and
sufficient reason why Savannah should be
made a permanent winter camp? We
think there is.
The Globe Iron Works Company of
Cleveland, 0., a ship building concern, is
said to be looking for a site on the At
lantic coast to which to remove its works
from Cleveland. It wishes to compete for
government contracts for warships. The
Globe company should not overlook the
port of Savannah during its investigations.
There Is no port on the Atlantic coast
which offers botti r inducements fer a large
shipbuilding plant. It has the best trans
portation facilities In this section of the
country, an ample harbor, excellent sites,
a large and increasing commerce, and en
ergetic and enterprising business men.
With a ship building plant here, the gov
ernment would probably construct a dry
dock at this port, and Savannah would t*--
come the headquarters for the naval
squadi on which It will be necessary to
keep In Southern waters for years to come.
THE MOHNIMJ NEWS: ’'MONDAY. DECEMBER 5, 180S.
lit SIYESS BKIYCIPI.es JY THE I’EY.
SIOY BUSINESS.
Even so radical a Republican newspr
l>er as the New York Press has come to
the conclusion apparently that the pension
business has been overdone. It doesn't say
that the pension rolls are plentifully sprin
kled with fraudulent pensioners or that
there are thousands of men and women
drawing pensions who should never have
had a pension, but It might as well have
said that, because what it does say
amounts practically to that. It says that
in future the "pension business must be
conducted on business principles.” That
is as much as saying that up to this time
the pension business has not been con
ducted on business principles. Asa mat
ter of fact it has been conducted mainly
with the view of controlling the soldier
vote. The politicians—chiefly the politic
ians of the Republican party—have used
the treasury, by means of pensions, to get
into Congress and keep themselves there,
and to get control of the government for
their party.
The Republican paper quoted above now
says that all this must change, and why?
Because it sees that if the pension law of
1891 remains in force every one of those en
listed for the war with Spain will ulti
mately lie entitled to a pension. In other
words, that the pension charge is likely to
become greaterthan the country can bear.
The Press says that the reason that it did
not take this position before was that
it was believed that the country would
never have another war, and therefore it
was thought advisable to treat the Union
veterans of the civil war with great gener
osity. But now that we have another war
on our hands, and are likely to have still
other wars, we must deal with our dis
abled soldiers as other nations deal with
their disabled soldiers.
This sort of talk will strike the Grand
Army of the Republic like a wintry blast.
If it should become the sentiment of the
Republican party the probability is that
the Grand Army would declare war against
that party or any other party that should
assume that the pension business should
be conducted on business principles. If
there is anything in the resolutions it
adopted at Cincinnati it hasn't got all the
pension legislation it wants yet. But the
Press Is right. If the pension business is
not speedily placed on a business basis
the country, rich as It Is, will be bank
rupted. It can’t stand a much greater drain
for pensions than that to which it is now
being subjected.
A SENSATIONAL TRIAL.
It is expected that the trial of Senator
Quay will be a sensational one. It was
hoped by some of the friends of the sen
ator that the Indictments against him
would be quashed, the points made in the
demurrers to them being considered par
ticularly strong. The demurrers, however,
have been ovetruled and the trial of the
defendant ordered. The principal point
made in the demurrers was that as the
state's money became the bank's money
when deposited in bank. It could not be
said that the senator had used the state’s
money to speculate with when he used,
without security, money of the bank In
which the state’s money was deposited.
The case against the senator rests large
ly on letters and dispatches sent by him
to Cashier Hopkins of the People’s Bank of
Philadelphia. In that bank the state was
a'large depositor. The cashier committed
suicide and the bank went into the hands
of a receiver. The letters and dispatches
from the senator to this cashier showed
that under the senator's Instructions the
cashier bought and sold large amounts of
stock for the senator’s account with the
bank's money. The claim is that the sen
ator furnished no security to the bank,
but was allowed to use the bank’s money
for buying and selling stocks because he
Influenced the state treasurer to keep on
deposit with the bank a very large sum of
the state’s money.
The chances are that the senator will
find a way out of his troubles. Either the
state wiil not be able to make out a case
or else there will be a failure to convict
because of some technicality. In the mean
time, the senator is getting alarmed about
his chances for re-election to the Senate.
It was published a few days ago that Jiis
friends were trying to pledge representa
tives from the different counties to vote
for him, and were much surprised to find
that the rural districts were very strong
ly prejudiced against him. For the feeling
against him among the farmers he has
Mr. Wanamaker to blame. Mr. Wana
maker made an extraordinary campaign
against him, and it may appear that it
was a successful one.
The Chattanooga Times says that Geor
gia, "though larger and more populous,
and passing as being mueh richer than
Tennessee, spends $500,000 a year less on
the people’s schools.” We wish the Times
had quoted some figures of Tennessee’s ex
penditures for public school purposes in
making the comparison. We have not at
hand the figures for that state, but .we
feel sure that our contemporary is mis
taken. The state of Georgia for the cur
rent year will spend $1,650,000 for public
schools, $1,000,000 of which is raised by
direct taxation. We do not believe lha!
Tennessee is spending $2,150,000 on her
schools this year. Should the recommenda
tion of the Governor of Georgia, that the
school appropriation be reduced by SIOO,OOO,
be adopted, Georgia would next year pay
out for common school purposes about
$1,250,000.
Late advices indicate that, after all,
there ts danger that the lion. William M.
Stewart of Nevada will succeed himself
in the Senate. It Is a very good thing
for Uncle Sam that he does not pay space
rales to contributors to the Congressional
Record, or Stewart would bankrupt the
treasury in a few months.
Students of Princeton University the
other day held a mass meeting and voted
to abolish haxing. The effect will proba.
My be to put the faculty off guard and
k*ep them from watching the next time
a freshman is souked under the pump.
The Mad Fakir of Swat had better get
his best trick ready for instant use. Two
British brigades have been ordered to the
Swat vailey with instructions to make him
quit his foolishness.
PER9O Y A L.
—Three newly elected members of the
Massachusetts legislature slipped in by
the narrow margins, respectively, of one,
two and three votes.
—Miss Jennie Revert, who has a stock
farm on Long Island, has invaded anew
field for women by graduating from 'he
Veterinary School in Alfort, France.
—Rev. Everett Beau of Portland, Me.,
is a member of the local football tea.n.
The captain of the Hallowell, Me., foot
hall team is the Universalist pastor of the
city. These gentlemen pound the ball cn
wtek days and expound the Bible on Sun
days.
—A new Kniepp has arisen in the per
son of Pastor Feike, who has a parish in
Repc’cn, Rhenish Prussia. The numlier
of his paiients already runs up Into the
thousands, and -early next year an insti
tution will be erected for their better
tieatment.
—Judge J. G. Gordon of the common
pleas court in Philadelphia was elevated
to the bench when he was only 30 years
old. After thirteen years’ judicial experi
ence he has resigned because the salary
is so small that he has been unable to
save any money.
—The small bouquet which the late Em
press of Austria held in her hand as she
lay on her deathbed at Geneva was taken
to Vienna and given to the Emperor, who
had it desiccated by anew method in
vented by Rodeck, put into a frame and
placed above his writing desk.
—There is living in Rochelle, 111., an old
woman, Mrs. Harriet Hyde Heath, who
acted as a nurse to William McKinley
flfly-three years ago. She was a school
teacher in Niles, 0., and "Doarded round”
among her pupil's parents. While at ihe
McKinleys’ the mother of the future presi
dent was taken ill, and Mrs. Heath for
several days took charge of the 2-year-old
boy.
BRIGHT BITS.
—"The sheriff out our way has the sine
cure,” said Texas Ted. "How is that?”
"The mob jinirally does his work for him.”
—Philadelphia North American.
—Cohensteln—"l wonder vy voiks say dot
peezness vos peezness?”
Mrs. Cohensteln—Veil, nin’d i<l?
Cohenstein—No; Peezness vos bleasurei—
Puck.
—A Mere Tyro—She—Have you ever had
any experience on the links?
He—Well, no, not exactly. I used to work
in a sausage factory, but merely as a
bookkeeper.—Chicago News.
—Fortune Teller—Your future husband
will be tall, have dark complexion, and be
very wealthy.
The Culler—Now, tel! me another thing.
How can I get rid of my present hus
band?—Truth.
—Assistant—Here is a testimonial which
might be worth publishing.
-Patent-Medicine Man—What is it?
Assistant (reads)—Before taking your
valuable specific, I was afflicted with weak
lungs, but to-day I am a Populist ora
tor—Truth.
—Ancient and Modern —“The hall is a
most interesting structure. There is a
wing which dates back to the year the
first earl landed an army from Denmark.)’
"Yes?” “Yes, and another wing which
dates back -to the year the thirty-seventh
earl landed an heiress from New York.—
Detroit Journal.
—Miss Cutting—Did you witness the foot
ball game last week, Mr. Softleigh?
Softlelgh—"Yaws; and the excitement
was so gwate for a that I aw—actu
ally lost me head, doncher know.
Miss Cutting—“ Really! I'm at a loss to
understand how you happened to miss It.
—Chicago News.
Cl BREST COMMENT.
Not a Good Augury,
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
The records of the republics of Central
America are riot good auguries for the suc
cess of the republic of Cuba, if the Cubans
are left to their own course. The United
States, in assuming the position of guatd
ian of Cuba until she is able to manage
her own affairs will not have an enviable
position, though it may be a most gener
ous one.
Gov. Tanner’s Indictment.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.).
That the Governor of Illinois does not
appear concerned at the action of the
grand jury is not at all surprising, as
technical points are very apt to be brought
up which may lead to the abandonment
of any prosecution of the chief executive
of the commonwealth. Prosecutions of high
state officials in this way are very apt
to be abandoned before they come to trial;
but. whatever may be the result, -it must
be conceded that Tanner’s action was in
direct violation of the laws of the state,
and that he was responsible, in no small
measure, for the bloody work at Virden.
Ylore Expansion!
From the New York Commercial (Ind.).
There is just one way by which the
Canadians may be permitted to enjoy un
restricted trade facilities with the United
g va tes—Just one way—under one flag.
England, as a nation, would be vastly
more benefited with Canada a part of the
United States than she can ever be with it
as a colony, although the Canadians flat
ter themselves that they are now "a na
tion.” Of course, England does not see
it in that way.
Open Door In the Philippines.
From the Chicago Chronicle (Dem.).
The "open door” means that Spain will
have the same rights in the bay of Ma
nila that America, has. Spain will be free
from any of the tumult and disorder of in
surrection in the Philippines; it will have
no responsibility for the peace and good
order of the islands; it wi.l be at no cost
whatever in relation to them, and it will
have not only Ihe same right for twelve
years in the bay of Manila that Ameri
cana have, but a great advantage over
Americans, inasmuch as that Its porta lie
thousands of miles nearer to Manila, and
ocean freight carriage will, therefore, be
materially to lip advantage. It will have
another advantage in Manila bay over
Americans in that the commercial lan
guage of the urehipe.ago is Spanish.
Spain's pri.!e Is hurt, but Spain gets rid
of a grevlous responsibility at a handsome
profit 10 itself, both present and prospec
tive.
The (in'nlinl of Glutton*.
Apicius, the greatest of all gluttons,
wrote a long and elaborate work on culin
ary science, which is filled with descrip
tions of extraordinary dishes and sauces.
His sole ambition in life was to discover
novelties in food, and to this pursuit he
devoted ali his energy and most of his
wealth. Shrimps were at one time bis
hobby; and because the marshes of Min
turnae produced shrimps of an enormous
size, he set up a magnificent establishment
in that seaport, and made himself happy
with his favorite luxury untii he heard, by
chance, that still larger shellfish of the
same sort could be found in Africa. In
stantly he bought a ship and set sail for
the blissful region. He was nearly drown
ed on the voyage, but that old not worry
him. His single thought was of the de
licious monsters awaiting him. But 'vnen
the fishermen he employed could show him
nothing bigger than he had eaten at home,
he flew into a rage and straightway start
ed across the Mediterranean again, de
claring that the whole continent of Africa
was worthless compared- with his private
shrimp bed at Miniurnae. Well, Apicius
spent so much of his fortune on feasting
that one day, on looking over his accounts,
he found he had only a few millions left.
Then the strange Idea came into his nead
that he was going to die of starvation.
And what do you think he did?”
"Cut down his expenses."
"Turned miser, perhaps.”
"He committed suiciu- 1 ; just hanged him
self,out of sheer terror lest the time should
come when he could not get enough to eat,
though in fact he was rolling in wealth.”
One of the Greek historians says that the
regular price of a meal at a Roman hotel
was about one quarter of a cent. That was
a little before the time of the emperors;
but we know that in Trajan’s reign, two
cents a day were considered ample for the
support and education of a boy. On this
basis, at a rough calculation, the money
paid for Caligula’s supper might have
supplied a dinner for one hundred and
fifty millions of people, if so many could
have been brought together.
"I call it wickedness," said Amy; “down
right wickedness,”
"That was the opinion of quite a num
ber, even then, my dear. Lucullus was
often taken to task for his prodigality,
and several years later a great writer
named Juvenal spoke his mind freely
enough on the subject, He gave dinners,
too; but from one of his bills of fare,
drawn up with his own hand, we can find
what he considered ample for hiipself ;r.J
friend. His principal dish was a young
kid, after which he offered chickens, new
laid eggs, and vegetables; and for des
sert, grapes, pears, and apples."
“He was no glutton," tjaid* Percy ap
provingly.
“No, nor was Lucullus, in the lowest
sense, though he seemed determined to
make himkelf out worse than he really
was. He always pretended that he gave
his huge banquets for u purely selfish pur
pose. He Invited a party of Greek trav
elers so often, and at such reckless ex
pense, that they finally protested, and
declared themselves unwilling to accept
any more; but he told them they should
not set it all down to their account, for,
though a part of the display was for their
sake, more of it was for hi* own.
"Don't you think,” ’asked Percy, "that
he said that in kindness, to make them,
feel at ease?”
“I like to think it, and am glad when
other persons do the same; for I have a
fondness for Lucullus, in spite of his
faults, as you will have when you come
to know all about him. There is no rea
son for classing him with the vu.gar gor
mandizers of his age, like V-ltellius of
Commodus, or, I may say, the majority
of the Emperors, most of whom took more
pleasure in managing kitchens than in
ruling kingdoms. Domitian, the last of the
twelve Caesars, considered problems of
cookery so far above questions of state
that on one occasion he called the Roman
Senate together to consult with him as
to how a turbot should be prepared for
the , table. He looked upon the Senator
Montanus as a miracle of wisdom, for no
belter reason, apparently, than that this
cultivated epicure could tell, by the first
bite he gave an oysier, whether it came
from England or from the Mediterranean,
It is. Juvenal, again, who tells us of the
delicate taste for which Montanus was
renowned. I think, however, that the
faculty of distinguishing Br.tish oysters
does not count for much. *A good many
Americans could do that quickly enough
with their eyes shut; though not, perhaps,
if the oysters had sugar on them, which
was one of the ways they were eaten in
ancient Rome,”
Two Lessons in Spanish.
One of the students of the University of
Chicago went to a restaurant on Jackson
street a few days ago wkh two friends
who had fought with the First Regiment
at Santiago, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Naturally, they talked over the war, and,
although the student showed considerable
knowledge of the campaign, his pronun
ciation of Spanish proper names was bad.
Invariably he gave the Spanish "J" its
English sound.
His companions, who were better posted
on the Cast; ian tongue, stood it as long
as they could, and finally one of them said:
"See her, if you want to talk war with
us you must pronounce those Spanish
words as they should be. Say ‘San Huan’
and 'Monteho,' and remember that ‘Hunta’
is proper. Don’t give the words the ‘J‘
sound. There is no 'J.' It's pronounced
■H' always.”
“Oh, is it?” returned the student with a
sneer of sarcasm, for he was getting an
gry. “Then I suppose your name is ‘Hohn,’
not ‘John.” as it used to be before you
went to Cuba; and perhaps you want me
to tell you that thia restaurant is on
‘Haekson' street.” ,
The derisive laugh that followed so an
gered the student that he leaped to his
feet.
"I want you to understand,” he shouted,
"that I am a hentleman! Hump onto me,
you hackasses and I’ll show you this is no
hoking matter. By the humping Hcrusa
lem, you haven’t any more sense than a
hackrabbit. If you insinuate that I’m a
country hake. I’ll break your haw. By
Himmlny. I’m going.”
And the indignant student put on his hal
and stalked out.
An Imp Criticises an Angel.
Little Florence, the pet of the house
hold, is naughty sometimes, and when
she docs anything partieu’arly bad her
mother and sisters tell her there is an
angel that watches over her. and that
she makes this angel very sorry, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Well, one day
Flossie was as naughty as she could be,
and when her staler Kate put her to bed
that night she told Flossie that she had
made her mamma and everybody else feel
so badly, and that site had made the dear
angel so very, very sorry, because he saw
her when she was naughty, as he always
saw everything she did.
Flossie grew sober at this and looked
up at Kate, and Kate thought she was
going to be penitent, but Kate was wrong.
The little m.eehief inquiringly said;
"Does the angel see everything I do,
Kate?”
’•yes,” said her sister.
And then to her horror the child re
marked:
"Well, 1 do wish he'd quit a rubber-
ITEMs OF INTEREST.
—After a litigation lasting fourteen years
the will disposing of a San Francisco es
tate once worth $75,000 has just been sus
tained and litigation suspend'd, because
the estate has been exhausted in paying
legal fees.
—A postal service has already been es
tablished in connection with Khartoum,
and letters are finding their way to London
from that place in seventeen days. Anew
stamp lias been introduced for the Soudan,
bearing the name "Khartoum” and the
superscription “Soudan Postage” in Eng
lish.
—The fire tug Illinois has been launched
from the yards pf her builders, the Chicago
Shipbuilding Company, on the Calumet
river. The Illinois is the first steel fire
boat built in the West, and has a capacity
of twenty-four streams of water, which
can be thrown 200 feet high, the largest to
be five inches in diameter. She measures
118 feet over all.
Persons who rely upon domestic filters
to purify water for household use will be
interested to iearn that, on the authority
of the state board of health of Maryland,
such filters may steadily lose efficiency un
til they become first-rate culture beds for
bacieria, says the Sanitarian. An example
cited is that in the case of a man in
Baltimore who sends the whote water sup
ply of his house through a large Alter,
and subsequently puts his drinking water
through one of the small domestic filters
common in the A test showed tnat
on a day when the city taps were running
510 bacteria to the cubic centimeter, the
large fi.ter was delivering 9010 bacteria in
the same quantity of water.
—We are often told, says a medical
journal, that in making tea, the water
should be poured on at the moment of be
ginning to boil, if the vivacity of the in
fusion is to be preserved. The reason is
that every moment of boiling disengages
the fixed air in the water, in every bubble
that rises and bursts on the surface, un
til the residum is devoid of the inspiriiing
element, free oxygen, as well as of the
useful element, nitrogen. An exchange
says: The proof of this may easily be seen.
If fresh cold water be used, the first time
it will lift the iid of the kettle and con
duct itself in an uproarious manner, boil
ing over, trying to put the fire out. It is
when in this state that it is good for mak
ing tea. If you put it on the fire again,
you will find you cannot gel it to boil over,
a second time, stil! less a third.
—A meeting of scientific-men, notes the
Scientific American, has just concluded its
labors at Bristol, Eng., in connection with
the British association for the advance
ment of science. The body was composed
of leading authorities on the study of ter
restrial magnetism and included some of
world-wide reputation. Magnetic surveys
of the United Slates are by law intrusted
to the coast and goedetic survey, so that
the United Stales was represented by
Charles A. Schott of the survey. The ques
tions for deliberation before this body
concerned the preparation of a plan for a
systematic magnetic survey of the entire
globe, and the deliberation of the confer
ence resulted in a general recommendation
for that purpose. The principal work of
the conference centered in the wider ques
tions involving magnetic observations;
their, at present, unsatisfactory distribu
tion over the globe, and their inadequacy
| as regards numbers. The United States is
i in a position to take a most important 6tep
in the advancement of our knowledge of
| lerrestria! magnetism by establishing and
; maintaining a well-equipped magnetic ob
servatory on one of the Hawaiian islands.
I Their position is unique, being central to
a vast unexplored or rather magnetically
unknown region and well adapted for the
special study of the modifications which
the diurnal and secular variations of the
magnetic needle are supposed to undergo
in consequence of a surrounding ocean ns
i contrasting with a continental surface.
1 —A contributor to Forest and Stream
discusses the subject of the circulation of
sap in trees in an interesting way. He
says: “Probably nearly 9 out of every 10
| believe that sap ascends in the spring and
returns in the fall. Although I have
never been able to find anything to the
contrary in any book I have ever seen,
I know from long and careful observation
that this is not so. The sap never de
scends. It fulfils its office in causing the
growth of the leaves and adding another
to the rings, which indicate the annual
growth of the tree. So soon as the leaves
fall the sap begins to reascend. This can
be proved in various ways. Any farmer
who has cut a pile of hardwood in No
vember has noticed the sap flies gathering
around the ends of the sticks on warm
days. They are attracted by the sap,
which can be seen issuing from the ends
of the sticks, which sap had already be
gun to ascend before the sticks were cut.
, Any hunter who has set a line of log
traps for sable has noticed the sap flow
j ing from maple sticks in warm days in
November. Partridges begin to bud in
November, and find something besides dry
twigs, or they would noi bud. But a still
more convincing proof is that in some
warm falls I have known maple syrup
to be made and sold in quantities of sev
eral gallons at a time. Pussy willows,
where growing in wet places, often blooift
in warm November and December. One
| can see that the buds on the horse chest
; nuts are swelling in January. The sap
t which is proved to be present in all these
j cases is not the sap which went up in the
spring descending, but new sap, which
is going up.
—There is quite a touch of romance, says
the New York Sun, in the long account
recently published in the London Times
' of a fresh discovery of that rare New
| Zealand bird, the Notornls Mantelli. In
! 1817 Sir Richard Owen found among a
' colleciion of bones sent to England by
: William Mantell some portion of a large
| bird’s skull, which, with that positive
! genius he had for classification, he de
| cided must have belonged to an unknown
member of the Rallidae, or rails, the
class which includes such water birds as
the moorhen and coot. Two years later
a live specimen of the bird, which every
one supposed to be as extinct as the moa,
was caught and killed by pome sealers in
Dusky bay. Three years later still the
Maoris on Secretary Island killed a sec
ond specimen, and were much excited
because it confirmed an old tradition that
their ancestors had known such a bird.
It was twenty-seven years before a third
specimen turned up, and again It was wan
tonly killed, this time by a rabbiter who
inhabited the deserted wilderness near
Lake Te Anau. A Mr. Connor, seeing the
body slung up to a ridge-pole, recognized
it. cleaned the skin and skeleton, and for
warded them to England, where they were
sold by auction for £llO, the purchaser be
ing the Dresden Museum. The skins of
the two previous finds are both in the
South Kensington Museum. Only one olh
er trace of Notoruis has come to light up
to the present day, and that consisted of
an incomplete skeleton, found near Te
Anau, which reposses in the museum at
Dunedin. The present announcement is
that Dr. Young of Invereargill has come
upon a fresh specimen of the bird, which
it is hoped may be alive. There is some
thing pathetic In the thought of this old
world creature, which has seen a geologi
cal epoch go by. still drifting on into an
age winch knows no better than to wring
its neck at sight and put U into a glass
case.
BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS.
We make prices so inviting. This is a
reason when roAm is needed, and in or l. r
to gain it we are willing to cut ihe ,
closer and help yon as well as ours. ,
You know how desirable the HOGa.N'
stock is. Nothing couiii be more atir i
live, and go where you will you cannot imj
finer or more stylish goods. In a war 1
this store i3 up to the highest standard a'n.J
here are things correct, worthy and mu
saving.
SPECIALS FOR THIS WEES,
BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE.
Black Satin Duohessp, all silk, g ro ,
grain, biack and colored Taffeta, figuuq
gros grain, figured Cljina, this week 59,
CHINA SILKS.
27-inch Black China All Silk this We .. k
49 cents.
SUPERIOR FINISH SATIN DUCHESSE
24-inch Black Satin Duchesse, superior
finish, this week sl.lO.
COLORED SILKS.
50(> ymds Colored Silks, some very de
sirable patterns for waists and trim
mings, this week tißc.
CREPONS.
50-inch Biack Wool Crepons, in all ihe
latest patterns, this week 75c.
SERGES.
50-inch Black Cheviot Serges, such as i 3
used for tailor-made suits and skirts, this
week 59c.
VENETIAN CLOTHS.
54-inch Venetian Cloths, in all the leading
shades, military blue, castor and garner
this week 98c.
BLANKETS AND COMFORTS
This week at special prices.
11-4 Superior Wool Blankets only $495
11-4 Superfine California Blankets this
woek $6.
COMFORTS.
Large sized, well made, from 75c to $2 50
DOWN COMFORTS.
At greatly reduced figures for this week
SILK PETTICOATS.
All the newest creations in these popu
lar garments. The new shades are all
here and the prices are exceptionally close
for such handsome and perfectly made
petticoats. These are the most desirable
articles for holiday gifts.
OUR LINE OF LADIES'
EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEFS
Is ready for examination. It embraces
every possible conceit in the handkerchief
world, and the prices are very low. An
early examination is requested, in view
of the near approach of the holidays,
CARPETS AT GIVE AWAY FIGURES.
The balance of our 10-wlre Tapestry
Carpets, some lengths suitable for small
rooms, this week 50c.
JACKETS AND CAPES.
For the next two weeks we will sell ev
ery Jacket and Cape in the house at a
sacrifice. Our garments are all well made,
and up to date in style and finish. The
little folks can be well fitted in Reefers
and Coats. These goods range from $1.98
to $12.00. •
LADIES' DRESS SKIRTS.
Ladies’ Dress Skirts from 98c to SIO.OO.
All well made, tailor finish.
DOLLS AND FANCY GOODS.
Our regular Xmas display is ready. We
have made it more attractive than ever.
We request you to select now and let us
deliver later.
DANIEL HOGAN,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sta
PROPOSALS WASTED.
PROPOSALS for oats, hay and straw.
Office Depot Quartermaster, Savannah,
Ga.. Dec. 4, 1898.—Sealed proposals, in
triplicate, subject to the usual conditions,
will be received at this office until 2
o'clock p. m„ Thursday, Dec. 15, 1898, at
which time and place they will be opened
in the presence of bidders, for furnishing
hay, oats and straw, in such quantities
(not less than cargo lots), and at such
times as may be required during the bal
ance of the fiscal year, for troops in Cuba
and Porto Rico. Hay, to be No 1. Timo
thy, clean, sweet and dry, put up in bales
of not less than 100 pounds. Straw, to
be of o-.t or wheat, clean and bright, fit
for bedding, and put up in bales of not
less than 100 pounds. Oats, to be No. 2,
mixed, clean and weighing not less than
32 pounds to the bushel (proposals for
No. 1 mixed oats will also be entertained).
Bidders will state prices per 100 pounds
for hay, oats and straw, for delivery on
wharf at northern and southern ports in
Cuba, at San Juan and Ponce, in Porto
Rico, and will state the time required for
delivery after receipt of order. Tonnage
dues, if any, will be paid by the govern
ment; and when vessels cannot go to
wharf, the government will provide light
ers. The United States reserves the right
to reject any or all bids, or any parts
thereof. Blank forms for proposals and
other information dan be obtained upon
application at this office. Proposals must
be signed by the bidder, marked “Pro
posals for Forage, to be opened Dec. 15,
1898,” and addressed to J. B. Bellinger,
Lieutenant Colonel and Depot Quarter
master.
I—PAINT—I
Removes all Corns, L/iinioirs and Warts,
without pain, speedily and permanently
* 4P Dn; *sri*ts sell Abbott’ a *
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THE MARSHALL HOUSE,
Broughton and Drayton sts.
Under new management. Thoroughly
renovated and refurnished. Electric lights
throughout. Hot and cold water on each
flopr. Table cuisine unexcelled. Rates $3
to $2.50. Cars pass the door.
BOYCE' & CATHARINE,
Proprietors.
SCOTT & DAVIS,
MI IBS
And Fancy Grocers.
The best the auarLei uUoriL sl<
ways In ilocL.
Perusal atirsllu circa to all ew
fen.
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