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BIGGEST YEAR'S BUSINESS.
I \ORMOI S TH WKAfTIOINS IV Al,l,
HRAH HIiS OF TK ADE.
Europe Owfn U the Nit*e l.lttle Itlil
nnee of 573,0tN>.001) on the Month'*
Exohunge*—*tor> of the Iron Man
ufacturer* KAe:nl Ltke A Dream.
Price* Were I.ovrer Than in IMIS,
Indlenllng an Eniirmonaly In
erenseil Volume ol Trail*.
New York. Dec. 23.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade will say in to
morrow's issue:
It is a year beyond parallel, and goes
to its close with the biggest volume of
business ever seen. Knormoim transac
tions, at the Stork Exchange make some
dlffeiyme and also heavy railroad earn
ings; but when all the transportation and
speculative interests are eliminated there
is still a much larger lvusiness than in
any other month of the year.
East year ihe exports were in volume
greater than in any previous momh in
the history of the country, but this year
the three Weeks report shows an increase
of 25 per cent, against 9 per cent, in im
ports, which would Indicate much more
than $70,000,000 excess of exports this
month.
The payments through clearing houses
have been for tire week 26.5 per cent,
greater than last year, and 12.4 per cent,
greater than in 1892, and for the month 17.8
per cent, larger than in 1892. Until now no
greater volume of business has ever been
done in the history of this country than
in the closing month of this year.
Good Wheat Shipment*.
Shipments of wheat Jiave been 3,285,704
bushels, flour included, at Atlantic ports,
against 3,688,321 last year, although Wes-,
tern receipts for three weeks have been
25,088,581 bushels, against 10,309,923 last
year, a fact which the believers in a smail
crop may well consider.
From Pacific ports the shipments have
been for the week 1,316,019 bushels, against
956,000, bushels last year. Considering the
enormous exports from July 1 to date, ex
ceeding last year's, one can only wonder
that the outgo this year has been so large
and the price has risen during the week
a cent and a half.
Corn exports also have been 3,824,836
bushels, against 4,540.613 last year, and
for the month thus far 11,012,138, against
10,867,407 last year. The price has advanc
ed about 2% cents, but the continued for
eign demand is astonishing.
If the cotton manufacturer takes a
leading place this year, it Is not merely
because cotton Is an eighth lower thaii a
year ago, nor because prospects for buy
ers are also good.
The manufacture has been much expand
ed by increased demand, so that prices of
nearly all the goods quoted In our report
have advanced more or less; and there is
a feeling that with unreasonable accumu
lation of print cloths out of the way, there
is a brighter prospect for all goods. Sales
of wool have been large, 27,366,109 pounds,
against 23,115,200 pounds last year, and 21.-
580,200 pounds In the same weeks of 1892,
with small as well as large -manufacturers
buying very freely, which indicates a gen
eral improvement in the demand for goods,
although not enough as yet to lift prices.
A Drenin In Iron.
The story oi the iron manufacture is like
a dream. With 25,000 tons Bessemer pig
sold at Pittsburg for $10.60, and grey for
age at $9.40, and Chicago safes limited only
by the capacity of Ihe works, and eastern
sales so numerous and so large as to rise
Ihe price 25 cents, there Is a demand for
finished products which Includes at Phila
delphia 4,000 tons of plates for export to
6outh America; 3,000 tons at Chicago where
works are crowded; 80,000 tons steel rails
l>y the Maryland Steel Company for Asiatic
Russia, 85,000 tons for Australia, against
British bids at Pittsburg and about 10,000
toils domestic at the East, 6,000 tons struc
tural work at Chicago and Pittsburg, and
8,000 tons for car builders at Chicago, all
the works there being crowded, with heavy
buying of sheets and wire rods, and sharp
competition at the South In cotton ties,
a pending contract for 20.000 tons cast
pipe for Yokohama and sales of smaller
quantities In each class tee numerous to
mention. Prices of Iron and steel products
have not materially changed, although the
price Is everywhere stronger, and for wire
nails quotations have been advanced to $l3O
at Pittsburg. But this country Is beating
the world In this industry.
Al Priee* Bovver, Too.
All this business is done with full belief
thaV the next year’s demand will be greater
than ever before, and it Is creditable, es
pecially in the iron and steel business that
so iltile advance in the prices of finished
products has been made. The range of
prices ie nearly 20 per cent, lower than in
18#, indicating an astonishing inereise in
the quantity of products exchanged. How
Europe will be able to pay more than $75.-
000,000 due on merchandise account for the
month of December, besides the former’s
balance due for November and previous
months, is a question which the country
can afford to consider at Its leisure and
with comfort.
Failures for the week have been 268,
against 292 in the United States last year,
end 31 in Canada, against 33 last year.
An Indian t arn Legend.
From the Journal of American Folk-Lore.
A fine young man lived on a small hill,
and being here alone he wished to marry.
He had flowing robes, and wore long arid
nodding plumes, so that he was very beau
tiful to behold. Every morning and even
ing he came out of his quiet house, and
three tlmeß he sang. “Che hen, che hen.
Bone ke kwah no wah ho ten ah you ke
neah. Say it, say it. Someone I will
marry;” and he thought he cared not at all
who it might be. For a long time he kept
this up, every morning and night, and still
he was a lonesome young man.
At last a tall young woman came, with
long hair neatly braided behind, as is the
Indian style. Her beads shone like drops
of dew, and her flowing green mantle was
adorned with large golden bells. The
young man ceased to sing, and she said,
“I am the one for whom you have been
looking so long, and I am come to marry
you.” But he looked at her and said, "No,
you are not the one. You wander so
much from home, and run over the ground
so fast, that I cannot keep by your side.
I cannot have you.” So the pumpkin
maiden went away, and the young man
was still alone, but kepi on singing morn
ing- and night, hoping his bride would
come.
One day there eppiared a slender young
soman, of graceful form and fair of face,
Her beautiful manilc was spotted her--
and there with lovely clusters of Hotv-rs,
snd groups of tonglrs hung upon it. gbe
heard the, song and drew near the sing* r.
Then she said she could love dearly one
so manly, and would marry him if he
would love her in lurn. The song ceased;
he looked at her and was pleased, ami
said she was just the one lie wished. . i.d
for wlmm lie had waited go long. They
met with a loving embrace, and t ier sin
the slender I*an twine* closely around
the corn, tie supporting her amj she t her
iahing him. Ferhups it might be added
wttiat they ure not divided |„ death for
Bteana make a part of Indian com bread
For Constipation
a*' 4 * and *
YOU GET THE
GENUINE
TO-DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST.
Forecast for Savannah and vicinity until
midnight, Dec. 24, 1898.—Partly cloudy
weather; colder.
Washington Forecast for Saturday—
For Georgia and South CaroliniC Partly
cloudy weather; fresh northwesterly lo
north winds; colder in southeast portions.
For Eastern Florida: Generally fair;
colder; light to fresh northwesterly winds
For Western Florida: Generally fair;
colder; light northerly- winds.
General Conditions: Clear skies are noted
over the northeastern states, most of Flor
ida, the Ohio valley and Tennessee, the
Northwesi and the Central West.
Partly cloudy to cloudy weather prevails
over all oilier sections with rain falling at
Jupiter, Fla.
It is colder over the Upper Mississippi
valley, Oklahoma, Ihe lakes. Western
Pennsylvania, the Centra! Gulf coast,
Georgia, the Carol’nas and Virginia.
Light to brisk westerly' lo northerly
winds prevail along the Atlantic coast.
Yesterday's weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature 3 p. m. 69 degrees
Minimum temperature 8 p. m... 54 degrees
Mean temperalure 62 degrees
Normal temperature 54 degrees
Excess of temperature 8 degrees
Accumulabd deficiency since
Dec. 1 45 degrees
Accumulated excess since
Jan, 1 299 degrees
Rainfall Trace
Normal 11 inch
Deficiency since Dee. 1 30 loch
Excess since Jan. 1 9.02 indie's
The hight of the Savannah river at Au
gusta at 8 a. m. yesterday was 10.2 feet, a
fair of 0.6 foot during the post tweniy
four hours.
Observations taken Dec. 23, 1898, 8 p.
m., 75th meridian time, at the same mo
ment of time at all stations, for the Morn
ing News:
“Stations- | -|-T. | *vTi Rain
ilo-ston, clear | 40 j 10 | .Oi
New York city, dear | 42 | 22 j .00
Philadelphia, clear | 42 | 6 | .00
Washington city, clear...| 40 | L | .00
Norfolk, ptly cldy | 48 | L | .00
Hatteras, cloudy | 50 | 12 | .00
Wilmington, dear | 52 | L | .00
Charlotte, cloudy- j 46 | L | .00
Raleigh, cloudy | 46 | L | .00
Charles'on, ptly cldy | 58 | 10 | .00
Atlanta, ptly ddy | 44 | 10 | .ft)
Augusta, cloudy | 50 | L | .00
Savannah, ptly ddy.| 54 | 8 | .no
Jacksonville, clear | 64 | L j .00
Jupiter, raining | 70 | L | .06
Key West, dear j 74 | I, ] .00
Tampa, dear | 66 j L* | .00
Pensacola, clear | 50 | 10 | .00
Montgomery, cloudy | 50 | I, | .00
Vicksburg, cloudy | 50 | L | .00
New Orleans, ptly cldy...| 50 | 8 | .00
Galveston, cloudy | 50 | 10 | .00
Corpus Christ!, ptly cldy.j 52 | 14 | .00
Palestine, ptly cldy | 48 | L | .00
Memphis, dear | 48 | 6 | .00
Cincinnati clear | 44 | 8 j .00
Pittsburg, clear | 40 | 6 | !ft>
Buffalo, cloudy | 36 | 20 i T
Detroit, cloudy | 34 | 8 | .00
Chicago, rloudy j 28 | 21 ! T
Marquette, dear 14 | 10 j T
St. Paul, clear | 16 | 10 .04
Davenport, cloudy j 26 | 22* | T
St. Louis, ptly ddy j 38 | 14 .00
Kansas City, clear | 32 | L | .00
Oklahoma, clear | 34 | 6 | .00
Dodge City, clear | 26 j 8 | .00
North Platte, clear | 24 | 10 j .00
-|-T, temperature; *V. velocity ..f wind.”
H. B. Boyer, Observer.
HEARD THE BAGPIPES.
St. Andrews Society Has a Special
Musical Meeting.
St. Andrew's Society held a special meet
ing last night at St. Andrews hall, at
which tho Scotchmen heard the bag-pipes
played, and whiled away the merry times
with highland music and a "wee drap-i
oet.” The musiclah was John Fraser
Davis, who came here on one of the
transports, and who Is on his way to
Cuba, accompanied by Donald Baronetson,
Both are native born Scotchmen. After
the meeting the Scotchmen were enter
tained by Mr. Henry D. Stevens at his
home on Gaston street, whither they
marched, headed by the bag-piper and the
ex-presidents of the society.
THE MODERN DEBRSLAYER.
His Record W ith Deer and Experi
ences With Wild Hog*.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Capt. W. H. Owens of Austin, Tex., has
probably killed more deer than any man
in the world. He did not begin keeping a
count of deer he killed until eight years
ago. Sint-e then he has ki 1 led 723. He
never hunled deer for the market in his
life, and he indulges In the sport purely
for amusement. Sportsmen who have been
on hunting trips with 'him say that he is
a natural-born hunter. He can trail a deer
lietter than an 'lndian, and one shot from
his rifle is certain death to animal with
in range of tlie gun. Capt. Owens is at
present quartermaster of the Texas Bang
ers. He lived on the Western plains of the
state for many years, and in the days of
the bulTalo he killed hundreds of thosi
animals. He has just returned from Ki
hunting trip to Kncinnl county, where he
added a numltcr of deer to tils long list oi
victims. On his recent trip he was accom
panied by Adjt. Gen. A. P. VYozoncraft,
lid Meyers, Ed Houston, and J. R. Mobley.
The party left the raiirond at Enclnal sta
tion, and proceeded to the Callaghan
lanch, twenty-five miles distant. There
are thousands of javellnes or wild hogs, in
that pait Ol the state, and Ed Meyer had
an exciting experience wilp these animals.
They are very vicious, ami It Is dangerous
for a man to meet a drovo of them. They
have even Ixen known to attack a man
wlieu on horseback, k.fling both horse and
man. -Mr. Mey. r had never seen a JaveUc.e,
und when cautioned by Capt. Owens- to
avoid coming into contact with any of the
animals. Mr Meyer laughed, and replied
that he would like lo meet a whole drove
of llam.
“You must Ink- me lor a ‘flail,' you don I
suppose that I’m aft aid of wild huge, do
you?" Mr. M-y*r said
Capt Owens said ii v more, but h* was
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 189S.
not surprised at the subsequent experience
of Mr, Meyer. The latter started out
early one morning with a view of killing
a deer before breakfast. He had tramped
several miles from camp, when he heard
the contented grunting of a number of
hogs in a clump of prickly pear bushes
near by.
"Here is an opportunity of killing some
of those javellnes," thought Mr. Meyer.
He picked his way into the thicket cau
tiously, and came upon a drove of about
forty of the wild animals. They were
quietly feeding when he first saw them,
but a moment later a big boar In the
drove caught sight of him and with, a ter
rific snarl he showed his long tusks and
made a rush for Mr. Meyer. The latter
was so surprised at the attack that he let
go both barrels of the shotgun which he
carried. The buckshot struck the boar
on the shoulder, but apparently had no ef
fect. It is said that it takes five pounds
of lead to kill one javeline and Mr. Meyer
believes the truth of the saying. He
dropped his gun and fled for the nearest
mesquite tree. It happened that one was
within easy reach, and he climbed into it
with the agility of a boy. The whole
drove of javellnes were in close pursuit,
and he had hardly reached a safe dis
tance from tho ground when the animals
were surrounding the tree, snarling and
showing their tusks in the most frightful
manner. Mr. Meyer supposed that the
javellnes would leave In a few minutes,
but in this he was mistaken. The wild
boar made several ineffective efforts -to
climb the tree and then lay down directly
underneath the limb upon which Mr. Mey
er was seated. The whole drove remain
ed with the boar, and they lay under the
tree hour after hour.
Mr. Meyer tried every conceivable way
of frightening the javelines, but they
would not scare a particle. Mr. Meyer
was growing desperate. He halloed until
his voice grew weak in the hope that hts
companions would hear him and come to
his rescue. But no help came. He was
contemplating strapping himself to the
tree with Is shirt to await the final out
come, whatever it might be, when he ob
served that the javelines were getting onto
their feet. A few minutes later the big
boar took the lead, and the entire drove
trotted off Into the brush. Mr. Meyer
looked at his watch. The time was sp.
m. He had been In the tree for eleven
hours. He waited a half hour longer,
and then climbed down to the ground. He
had no sooner struck mother earth than
he heard the distant grunt of a javeline.
He thought that the drove were returning
to their vigil, and he started out for camp
at break-neek speed. He ran every foot
of the way, and when he reached camp
he was completely exhausted.
SPANISH HI,(TO DLOODS.
How They Live and the Petty Posi
tions to Which They Aspire,
Dr. Field in the Evangelist.
How is a higher class so numerous as
that in Spain to be supported? Some
may become officers in the army or navy,
but for the larger part there is little hope
of anything “fit for a gentleman” except
to get some employment under the gov
ernment; and to obtain that, however,
humble the position and petty the pay,
is the ambition of many a man in whose
veins flows the blue blood of the proudest
families of old Spain.
A Spaniard would rather die than nob
lo keep up appearances, if he aspires
to u position in society he will try to ap
pear rich, or at least independent, while
in reality he may be desperately poor. To
this end there are two things which are
more important to him than food snd
drink—a carriage and'a box at the opera!
To show himself in the Prado at a cer
tain hour of the day and in the opera at
night satisfies his ambition. For the rest,
how- he lives, nobody knows and nobody
tares. He need not have a dinner; indeed,
he may not have a dinner to give, or even
to eat himself. When he comes back from
his daily drive and alights at his door he
ntay retire into the recesses of his cham
ber, and there partake of the meanest
food to satisfy the cravings of hunger,
and nobody be the wiser. The Spaniards
have a convenient proverb that "the
stomach has no windows!” What a man
wears on his back is exposed to the gaze
of all men; but what he eats nobody sees.
Or if, indeed, he does not eat at all, no
body can see that his stomach ts very
lean and hungry when he muffles his
cloak about him anti sallies forth to meet
the worltl with an unruffled countenance.
Some of the stories which were told me
in Madrid of the petty economies lo which
gentlemen in good society were reduced
were quite equal to anything in the shifts
of Don Quixote.
But the Spanish cavalier is not yet at
the eind of his resources or the attain
ment of his highest felicity. There is one
more prize to be gained, and his happi
ness will be complete; it is to get a pen
sion—a hope which would lie chimerical
in a country where such rewards were be
stowed only for distinguished public ser
vices. But they do these things d.fCercntly
In Spain. Here pensions are given for
all sorts of services, or for none. The
most trifling claim is recognized by the
assurance of a certain sum from the gov
ernment. It may be very, very small; but
no matter for that—it is fixed; and so long
as it secures the recipient from absolute
want, it is enough. From that moment
he will set up as a gentleman, and not do
another stroke of work to the end of his
days.
Thus it is that the pension roll of Spain
has become so great. Every new admin
istration that comes in has a fresh army
of favorites to be rewarded for devotion
to their political leaders, and the number
swills larger and larger from year to
year. All this Is a burden which the
state has to carry, and as it takes the
labor of two able-bodied men lo support
a third idle one, the drain upon its re
sources Is enormous.
But what cures the happy pensioner?
For him life's woes are ended, snd its
Joys are but Just begun. Every day he
will spend his morning at the rafe, where
lie will sip his coffee, read his Journal,
and twirl his cigarette; tip- afternoon he
will take Ills rhle*ur drive (exeept Mun
da>a, when lie will go lo lbs bull ring),
and the evening he will spend si the the
u*“r or lip- opera. When life flows on
wlili tltl* smooth ami even current, in a
I pel is tusl tound of tnuueeiheiiis. who tun
w- aider lli.it Ills Hpsniatd Is perfe-tly m.
Is it* '1 with Inins* If slid Ills totiniry? AA’hy
1 should lu< not is ? Is nvi Ins country il.r
I grss'ost 4n lit* workl?
CRISTOBAL COLON'S CAT.
lIF \TII OF THE FAWOI S FELINE
SPANISH SAILOR.
n< ittnrknltle Citrcrr of the Hpnnlsh
t ruiaer'* Mascot—lll tin* Fight ami
Stayed Twenty-Six Day* on the
Wreck— Stuck to the Maria Teresa
W ln'ii She \\ n* Abandoned and
Made tat Isluiid Safely—Now In
New York,
From the Chicago Tim*--Herald.
Benton Harbor, Mich., Dec. 17.—The
Spanish eat Cristobal Toion died from ;.n
unknown disease at the home of Capt.
Lloyd Clark of the lighthouse supply sta
tion last night. Capt. Clark feels very
sorry over hia loss and will have the re
mains placed in the hands of a taxidermist
for mourn mg.
The cat arrived home two days ago from
the Chicago cat show, where she won n
special medal.
The eat was sent to Capf. Charles Clark
of the Oregon last September by members
of his crew, who took her from the Span
ish cruiser Cristobal C on. Admiral (Jer
vera’s flagship, a'fier the battle of July 3.
From the New York Sun.
The United States steamship Vulcan on
returning from her recent expedition to in
spect the wreck of the Maria Teresa,
brought to the United States a Spanish
prisoner that has seen more trouble In
proportion to his size than any individual
engaged In the late war, from Admiral
down to coal passer. He is the cat Cer
vera, who belonged to the crew of the
Cristobal Colon. Cervera is a black and
white animal of medium size, fierce of as
pect, but to his friends gentle in manner.
He has exceeding dignity und no less ap
petite and power.
When Admiral Oervera's squadron de
parted from the coast of Spain last sum
mer, this cat received a volunteer commis
sion as rat destroyer and mascot of the
Colon. He served faithfully and well in
both capacities, it is to be presumed, until
the morrttng of July 3, when his sphere of
usefulness became much diminished by
the desertion of the prophetic rodents
from the ill-fated ship. In the absence
of the rats, he turned his undivided atten
tion to the mascot business, but not with
the most satisfactory results. In fact, he
proved a dismal failure, though through
no fault of hia own. Whether terror at
the soqnd of the American guns, which
is improbable, or lack of confidence in the
efficiency of his auiarior officers deprived
him of his influence with the fates is not.
known. Possibly he did not know the
charm which enables Old World pride
'and incompetence to triumph over Yankee
valor, and it may be that Yankee gunnery
is too much for any mascot, however cap
able, to contend with. At any rate, on
that morning so fatal to the hopes of the
Spanish navy, misfortune folded not her
grimy pinions until securely perched upon
the Colon's signal yard, whence the in
cantations and occult operations of
Tomas Cervera availed naught to dislodge
her. From the moment the winches be
gan to creak in the preparation for the
final dash out of the Santiago bottle, Cer
vera’s services appeared, more In the na
ture of rank Jonahlsm than anything
else.
The events of that day need not be re
counted. It will never be forgotten that
out past Smith Cay, the sunken Merri
mac, the frowning Morro, and into the
hell that awaited it outside the harbor,
sailed the Spanish squadron. Westward
along the Cuban coast steamed the Cris
tobal Colon at highest speed, running the
gauntlet of the Ahierican guns in a vain
effort to escape destruction. After n
chase of sixty miles, finally defeated by
the superior skill of the Yankees, she
turned her bow toward the shore. Pierced
through and through by the shells from
the American ships, disabled beyond hope,
she was grounded a short distance from
the beach. Every being aboard who was
able to do so plunged into the sea with the
hope of escaping the dreaded vengeance,
excepting Cervera, the eat. He alone re
mained, hidden to avoid capture.
When a vessel belonging to the Merritt
& Chapman Wrecking Company visited the
Colon on July 29, twenty-six days later,
he was still there and was taken in charge
by the crew as a prisoner of war, after
such spirited resistance as he was able to
make. Neither tooth nor claw was dull
ed, as his captors can testify, nor did his
eye shine with diminished lustre. What
the animal subsisted upon during the
twenty-six days he was with the hulk It
is perhaps best not to inquire. As dead
men tell no tales, it ts not possible to learn
with certainty the nature of his diet. Cer
vera was cared for until Oct. 27 by the
wrecking company's crew, with whom he
became a great favorite. In honor of his
bravery, they gave him the name he now
bears.
In the meantime Lieut. Hobson, like
Columbus at the court of Spain, had nub
mitted his project to the powers and had
received permission to bring the Maria
Teresa to the United States as a trophy
of victory. He applied himself to the
work with such effect that on Oet. 27 she
was ready for her Northern voyage. Tem
porary repairs were made in her hull,
leaks were sufficiently stopped, rough
superstructures were erected to take the
place o-f those which were destroyed by
lire the day she was beached, and the
disabled engines were made to revolve
again. Hobson’s triumph was complete,
though brief. It was an unfortunate cir
cumstance that part of the work of pre
paring the Teresa for the sea was placed
In the hands of Irresponsible Cubans, a
fact which, some naval officers say, prob
ably contributed something toward her
ultimate loss.
Upon her departure from Cuba the cat
was transferred to the Teresa to !*e
brought to the United States. Misfortune
whose services were no longer required
on the Cristobal Colon, now little more
useful than a scrap-heap of steel and iron
followed Cervera over the gangplank and
again cast the shadow of her wings over
that unhappy tomcat. On Nov. 1, the
second day of the Teresa's voyage, as she
was being towed nortward by the Vulcan
and the tug S. J- Merritt, a hurricane
broke over the consorts. Cervera’s vo
cal powers were again challenged, this
time by the raging elements. The howling
of the tempest awoke the demon within
him, and he gave voice to such a series
of moans, howls and shrieks as only a
flend-poMeMfd he-oat Is capable of pro
ducing. He rent the air with remon
strance and protestation, but the fury of
the gale abated not. In tones ns awful
to human ears as ihey were ineomp.e-
ALL PAINS
ON
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Wholesale Agents tor flgvm.ngb, Ua.
A Grand Christmas
Climax Sale Greeting;
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I highly appreciate their patronage of the past.
I have won favors strictly on merit —by strict business methods, by
promptness in all matters, and the uniform regularity and reliability of the
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To attest my appreciation in a substantial way that will interest all
who want to save money, I will to-day offer the most remarkable values in
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas,
Pajamas, Fancy Suspenders, Fancy Shirts, White
Shirts, Newest Neckwear, Cloves, and many other
things.
M. S. BROWN,
“YOUR CLOTHIER,”
123 Broughton Street, West.
hensible to the soul of man he pronounced
•a ponderous curse against the spirit of
the storm, which caused the ship to trem
ble from stem to stern. Many of those
aboard believed that something: had gone
wrong in the engine room, but every *rue
jacky in the fo’castle knew (hat it was
Cervera denouncing the hurricane.
The force of the gale increased to such
an extent that the situation of the vessels
became perilous. The buffeting of the
waves, or the evil genius of the cat, caused
the Teresa's seams to loosen, and the
water "began to come in faster than it
could be pumped out. Coal from the
bunkers and the small rubbish which the
lazy Cubans had not properly cleaned from
the vessels’ bilge clogged the pumps, so
that they could not perform their func
tions. It was thought that she was in a
sinking condition, and as the violence of
the storm showed no signs of abating the
order was given to abandon ship. First
the men, then the officers, got into the
small boats, not without difficulty, but
with no loss of life. They were taken on
board the Merritt, the Teresa’s towline
was cast off, and she became a derelict
upon the surface of the Atlantic.
Cervera was not numbered among the
survivors. His loss was sincerely mourn
ed by the many men and officers who
knew him and his remarkable history, and
it was with deep regret that they learned
he had been forgotten in the hurry of
abandoning the sinking Teresq^
When the cat, however, saw every one
tumbling into the boats, he easily guessed
the cause of the excitement, but decided
(hat so far as he was concerned the Te
resa would not be forsaken. He believed
she would float, and lived up to his con
victions by remaining aboard. Encouraged
by the discovery that the leakage no long
er gained, he assumed command of the
ship, and very naturally headed her for
Cat Island, -where he arrived Nov. 3, two
days later, grounding her on the windward
coast about a mile from the shore.
The Vulcan, after the abandonment
of the Spanish cruiser, continued on her
homeward course in the full belief that
the latter had foundered at sea. Arriving
at Norfolk, she was met with the news
that the Teresa had been sighted aground
at Cat Island, and returned at once to
(he Bahamas, conveying a board of sur
vey to examine and report upon the con
dition of the wreck. The Teresa was
found w.iere Cervera, assisted by the
trade winds, had guided her, fast upon a
coral reef, a hopeless ruin, with great
holes, through which the sea rushes in and
cut, torn in her bottom by the sharp
coral. The devastation which war, fire,
tempest and rock failed to accomplish has
been completed by the islanders, who
have plundered her of all her woodwork
and removable fittings, leaving her the
picture of desolation.
She now lies on the eastern side of the
island, with nothing but the broad Atlan
tic between her and the country she was
built to defend. If the contention is true
that Columbus landed at Cat Island, In
stead of San Salvador, as Is generally sup
posed, the Maria Teresa’s last resting
place Is nearly within sight of Ihe spot
where, in 1452, the Santa Mqria first cast
anchor in the waters of the new world.
The once magnificent cruiser is now a
most melancholy spectacle. Her soul has
taken flight. Nothing but skin and skele
ton remains. The seas break over her
decks and assault her unprotected side,
causing her beams and joints to groan dis
mally. Continudy from deep within her
hold come sounds of wailing, as if the
ghost of the faithful cat, still loath to
desert, mourned for the loss of the gal
lant craft, while the whistling of the wind
through her framework lends a<ldltloual
force to the uncanny Impression. These
depressing sounds, however, proceed from
natural causes and not from the ghost
of Cervera, for ho Is still alive and en
joying the nei>ose to which his unusual ex
jieriences entitle him. The following item
is clipped from the Bahnma News of
Nassau, printed under date of Nov. 15:
"It was the master of the Sea Hound
who told us about the cat. He says It
was the only living thing aboard the ship,
and the last thing he saw of It was When
it was tied up and carried ashore by some
Cat Island man.
The cot wa then, of course, merely re
garded ns a castaway, his identity not be
ing known to the master of the Sea
Hound, the correspondent of the Bahama
News or the Cat Island man who brought
him ashore.
The tug Potomac, which arrived at the
scene of the wreck before the Vulcan did,
learned of Cervera'* capture by the Isl
ander and gave the information to the
officer* of the latter vessrl, who hud sup
posed he perished in the storm. Word
was immediately sent to the beach that it
was desired to purchase the animal.
The news rapidly spread throughout the
vicinity that the Yankees were buying
eats. The duties of Ihe day were set
aside by the natives In favor of seat hunt,
which was pros*-etiled with such success
that in a very short space of time some
twenty cat* of assorted t*e and charac
ter# were gathered together at the Wit.
n r'# edge. Glasses on the deck of the
YuU*u revested a considerable assemblage
of |**>p . engage dln trying to keep mesa
twenty cats ft out scrambling u oi of a
smalt rowboat utitli It could b launched
through the breakers. Ensign McNeely,
suggested that so many cat’s paws com
ing over the water looked like a coming
squall. The significance of his remark
was fully appreciated when the expostu
lations of the cargo struck the ear as the
small boat drew alongside. The craft
contained all the varieties of cats in Cat
Island, with the addition of Cervera, who
was promptly identified by the officers
and ransomed for 75 cents.
The board of survey having completed
its investigation, the Vulcan again steamed
northward, entering the Virginia capes
on Thanksgiving day. The Spanish
prisoner was incarcerated in a soap box
with slats nailed over the top, and con
signed by express to the home of Assist
ant Surgeon W. S. Thomas in New York
city, where he is now enjoying a much
needed rest. Cervera’s controlling desire
being to run away, he is compelled to oc
cupy the subterranean apartments of the
family stronghold in company with an
other cat and two dogs, all of whom have
repeatedly acknowledged his superiority
as an officer and a master of his weapons.
His jailer has twice prevented him from
committing suicide by jumping into a fur
nace when it was opened for coaling pur
poses. But he is becoming reconciled to
his confinement, and only occasionally
now do his lamentations resound through
the house in the midnight hours. Re
gretting that better fortune has not at
tended his efforts as a mascot, he has re
tired from the profession. Asa hoodoo
he would undoubtedly have been a howl
ing success.
It was the intention of Cervera’s cap
tors to present him to the zoo in Central
Park, but the authorities there, having no
facilities for taking care of the smaller
members of the cat family, refused him
admittance. He will probably be sent to
Ensign G. L. Holslnger's home in Kan
sas, where he can complete his years in
pastoral peace, with nothing more than
an occasional cyclone to disturb the se
renity of his existence and awaken recol
lections of his eventful past.
' SAYIXGS AXD WHO SAID THEM.
Expressions That Find Favor—Tlie
Author Often Forgotten.
From the New York Post.
The every-day sayings which are on
everybody’s tongue sometimes have a far
off origin, and it ts interesting to learn
when and by whom they were first said.
The country editor could ill describe a
local festivity without the aid of "the wee
sma’ hour ayont the twal,” which is found
In Burns’ poem, “Death and Doctor Horn
brook.’’ Dancing is never dancing, but peo
ple “trip the light, fantastic toe," for
which personage than John Milton. “Con
spicuous by his absence” was used by Lord
John Russell, wlio quoted it from Taci
tus. “And echo answers where’ ’is from
Lord Byron’s “Bribe of “lt beg
gars description" is found in “Antony* and
Cfeopatra.” “Where ignorance is bliss ’tis
folly to be wise” was said by Gray in his
"Ode to Eton College.’’ "Well begun is
half done” may be traced back to Hor
ace. “According to her garment she cut
her cloth" was said by Dryden in “The
cook and Fox.” Sir John Holt, in
“Sir William Morris’ Case,” said,
“The better the day the better the
deed.” ‘Out of sight, out of mind," dates
back to 1563. and is found in Googe's “Epy
taphes, Eglogs, and Sonnettes.” “And
there, though fast, not least,” is from
Skelton's “Colin Clout,’’ and “Through
thick and thin” from the “Faery Queen.”
“Rare” Ben Jonson gives the advice to
"laugh and be.fat.” One of Bishop Horne’s
sermons is the source of “it is better to
wear out than to rust out.’’ George With
er in a “Poem on Christmas” gives the
warning that “Care will kill a cat,” and a
couplet from John Wolcot’s “Expostulary
Odes’’ contains the same sentiment:
“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry,draws one ont.’’
“Nothing venture, nothing have," is
found in "Five Hundred Points of Hus
bandry,” by Thonaas Tusser. Churchill
In "The Ghost,” said, “The more haste
the less speed." “To go in one car and
out at the other*’ probably had Us origin
In Chaucer’s “Oone eare is heard at the
other it went out."
Prior, in his “Epilogue to Lucius,” gave
us an adage which is In use every day.
“The gray mare will prove the better
horse.” "My dear, my better half,’’ was
said by Sir Phillip Sidney, in "Arcadia.”
“Sauce for the goose is sauce for - lie gan
der" is from "The New Maxims of Tom
Brown,” and another proverb often exemp
lified ts frotn a fable by Gay.
“In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agre.”
lien Johnson. In “The Devil Is an ass ”
say* that "A burnt child dreads the lire!"
” ’Tts good to look before you leap," tomes
from Martin Parker's 'Excellent New-
Medley.* Goldsmith tells us that “man
wanta but little here below. ” “Coming
event* cast their shadows before" is found
tu “Igiehlei'a Warning,” by Campbell
”Discretion ta th better part of valor”
occur* in Beaumont ami Fletcher's "a
King and no King ” and Maliepea tv use*
almost the same word* in “Henry IV”—
”The better pt< x vakir it discretion In
which better part I have saved my life.’*
Many other sayings have been used with
slight variations by several authors. “Com
parisons are odious” is found in Burton a
'Anatomy of Melancholy,’ in Heyward’a
‘A Wonian Killed by Kindness,’ in Donne,
and in George Herbert. In ’Don Quixote!
we read that “Comparisons are offensive.”
Thomas a Kempis ays that, “Of two evils
the less is to be chosen,” and in Prior s
‘lmitations of Horace’ we find, “Of two
evils I have chosen.Qhe least.” Words
worth is responsible for the statement
that “The child in father to the man,'*
but in ’Paradise Regained’ Milton had
already said:
“The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.”
The changes have been rung on the ex
pression, “All is not gold that glitters.”
M idle ton gives “AH is not gold that glist
ens.” Spenser, in the “Faery Queene,”
says, “Gold is not all that golden seems.”
Lydgate has “In all that glisters gold,
all is not gold that outward showetb
light.” Dryden's version is “AH, as they
say, that glistens is not gold,’’ and Chau
cer, in the "Canterbury Tales," says tho
same thing, but with more circumlocu
tion:
“But I think that which schineth as tha
gold
Is anught, as that have herd tell.”
“There's luck in odd numbers,” Loves
makes Rory O'Moore say. And in “The
Merry Wives of Windsor” we find, “Good
iuck lies in odd numbers, • • • they say
there is a divinity in odd numbers, either
in nativity, ehanpe, or death.” “Heaven
never helps the man who will not act ”
said Sophocles, and Sir Philip Sidney put
the same idea in smaller eomjass |.. “God
helps those who help themselves.”
“Holy” George Herbert is the author or
compfier of many shrewd sayings, such as
Wouldst thou have thy cake and keep
it, too. The wearer knows wher the
shot pinches,” “Little pitchers have wide
ears, It is poor .sport that is not worth
Mr C “ n cu' ;. !l 0d s niil!s lfrlnd slow - but
fJJ re * Half ,he world knows not how
hnn h er 5f If ,f ,vee ’” “ His ba rk is worse
the flJl c b . " The bUrnt chlld dread
water that • The mm cannot arlnd with
ttater that is past,” “Whose house is glass
must not throw stones at another,” “God
comes to Eee without a bell,” "An ill la
borer quarrels with his tools.” ’To a close-
Tld* n i^ h<H> h ??' RiVeS wlnd bv measure.”
ritis !S probably the origin of the proverb,
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb ”
Sandv " W \ S i Sai<l Dy S,erne in ‘Tristain
fZs ,i r ert 8,80 QUOtes " Mn PTO
b? The™ dlS g? Bes ' Thls was first said
t>> Thomas a Kempis.
.its!! at , Wny of our f°mmon sayings
are taken from Shakespeare. “As dead as
a doornail” and “To give the devll h* 1
is 0 ? ‘' H< ' n l y Ivv " M y cal t ‘s
Shrew “ •% m The Tamin of ‘ b
sticking nl yo,lr cowa *e *° ,h ®
sticking place is found in “Macbeth ”
cr?lUed l ?o at t 1 h nS R fr f >m Shakes Peare are
“Th„V fc * ,he Blole ' a*, for instance
That bourne from which no traveler it!
once'a. we?k^ b> ’ 8 worthy d *aeon
hefthatTV Pra f {r robins. In the be
lL,,,m‘V S 8 Bcr,ptur al quotation.
fof~i m?rh ' tC a hor arP
“Begaars l™ . 1 sayln * s - °uch as
In “T B h? h , W never ** choores," found
If Htfy.” and “One mans
tXn from b r r |x>ison -” which is
ler’s "Hudibras" occur 'To' takelh*" BUt "
**
they're ~ Mr sickens ere
* re hjtch<?d * and “To smell a rat."
IIALLAST AUOVE the M ATER LINE.
New Idea Receiving Attention In Ma
rino t Irclr*— A Successful Test.
From the Manchester Guardian
It is only within the last few years that
sailors have discovered the great advan
tage of carrying ballast on the decks of
empty ships. In sailing ships, of course i
is necessary to have the weight as low
down in the hull as may be, for the object
is to give the vessel “efiffness” and to
counterbalance the pressure of the wind
on her sails. But In steamers the weight
of ballast needed lo prevent the ship
from capsizing is small; most of It is
carried to immerse the propeller and to
reduce rolling, and as a steamer's center
of gravity is nearer to her deck than to
her keel ballast on deck steadies her more
than ballast at the bottom of the hold.
Some captains, It Is true, still refuse to
believe that It can be safe to carry wetght
ho high up. but Ihe number of tramp
steamers that go to sea with rubbish on
im*lr in atcadlly incrouAlng.
The Maneunla, which has Ju*t had her
first experience on the Atlantic, 1* the first
steamer In which provision has been made
for carrying water ballast above the water
line. Her skies are double, and the space
Iw-twecn the inner and outer skins can b
filled or emptied at will, so that there is
no occasion to eumtier her decks with solid
ballast, Hi r captain’s statement that this
voyage in her was by far the most com
fortable of twelve made by him across tits
Atlantic “in liallat,” confirmed as it 1*
by the record of the ship's clinotueltr, Is
certainly rcmsrkaW*.