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INDEX TO HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—University Club of Savannah.
Ari'ler.t Landmark Lodge No. 231. F. A
A. M.: Savannah Lodge No. IS, B. P. O.
Elks; Oglethorpe Lolge No. 1, I. O. O. F.
Special No'lets—Little Things Wheelmen
Need, R. D. & Wm. Lattimore; Tetley's
Teas, A. M. A C. W. West; Notice, C. A.
Drayton Grocery Company; Going In A
Rush, Shearouse, Hutchinson & Cos.
Business Notice*—E. A W. Laundry.
Proposals for Supplies for Revenue Ves
sels—John H. Deveaux, Collector.
Adjustable Perfection Awnings—Lindsay
& Morgan.
Past Records Sent Glimmering—The
Metropolitan Clothing Company.
Amusements— "Woman vs. Woman." At
Theater at Matinee, and "New Orleans by
Gaslight" at Night.
Steamship Schedule—Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company.
Postum Cereal Coffee—Poetum Cereal
Company.
Crab Orchard Water—Crab Orchard
Water Company.
Medical—Hood's Sarsaparilla; Castorla ;
Ayer's Hair Vigor; Alligator Liniment;
Dr. Slocum's Treatment for Consumption;
Bradfle'.d'a Female Regulator; Cultcura.
Remedies; S. 3. S.; Warner s Safe Cure;
World's Dispensary Preparations.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent,
Per Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
"Some good Western man” Is again a
campaign cry. It has been raised by the
Ch.tago papers. In the matter of the sue
csesorshlp to ex-Sjeaker Reed.
Gov. Johnston of Alabama is afraid that
If "gold men" were permitted to sit In the
proposed constitutional convention, it
would be a ''partisan'" body and write a
"'partisan” constitution. Apparently what
the Governor understands to be a non
partisan convention is one In which all of
the delegates shall be of hts way of think
ing.
The Mobile Register has polled the
press of Alabama en Gov. Johnston's call
for an extrd session of the legislature to
repeal the act calling a constitutional con
vention. It finds that the Governor ts op
posed by eighty-thre© Democratic papers,
while he Is supported by seven Democrat
ic, three Republican and two Populist
newspapers. If the newspapers correctly
reflect public opinion, the convention will
be held, despite the Governor’s tardy op
position.
It appears that tn Chicago, also, there
•re street cars without fenders; and on
Thursday last two little children were kill
ed by them, while on the day before one
Ittfle chin suffered death In a similar
manner. Naturally there is considerable
agitation in Chicago to force the company
owning the fenderless cars to provide those
reasonable and proper safeguards to llfo
and limb. There should be such agita
tion In Savannah, and It should not cease
or let up until every car In service is
provided with a satisfactory fender.
Mrs. Fayne Strahan Moore ts billed to
make her theatrical debut In New York
this week. She will not be an attraction
at one of the leading theaters, but will
pose In a second-class place as a figure
•round which will be performed a bur
lesque of the recent adventures which got
her into JaU and her husband -Into state's
prison. The understanding |s that she will
go on the road with a company after a
time; but she cannot play In Chicago. The
legislature of Illinois a short time ago
passed an act making it unlawful for any
person who has gained notoriety through
a criminal act to appear in theatricals in
that state.
The grave and reverend commissioners
of the District of Columbia have, after
mature deliberation, decided that it is not
In good form for families residing in the
f i.enable pans of the city of Washing
ton to hang their weekly wash In the front
yards to dry; in short that the stringing
of anii is, and socks, and nighties, and
other things, in the front yard is a nuis
ance and must be slopped. It appeals
from the evidences that Congressman J,
I! Show alter, of the Twenty-fifth district
of Pennsylvania, was the originator of the
practi c -or at least. It originated at hi*
liouse. Whether these exhibitions led to
any contests in the display of fine linen
is not known, but it can be umkratood
very readl.v mat the portabilities of the
olothrsdnc in that direction arc gieat.
ANOTHER LTHCHItG.
We were not surprised at the announce
ment that the negro preacher. Strickland,
had been lynched nor at the report that
another negro, named Sewell, had been
put to death by those who participated
In the barbarous act of burning the r.egro
Same Hose to death. It would not he
surpr ?ing indeed if there should be othtsr
lynching* soon, in the se tion of the stat*
in which the terrlb.e affairs of Sunday
ar.d Sunday night occurred. The condi
tion of the public mind there is such that
an peculation appears to be *ll that is
necessary to bring about a lynching. If
such was not the case the negro preacher
Strickland would not have been lynched
and horribly mutilated. It may be that
he was guilty of the era* with which
Sam Hose charged him Just before the
ta'ier was burned to death, but the
chances are that Hose was so terrified
lhat he did no; know what he said. It is
certain, as far as the public knows, thit
i her- was not satisfactory evidence against
Strickland. A part of the mob realized
this ar.d tried to have S.rkkland turned
over - o the authorities for trial.
The?e lynching* are deplorable from
whatever point they may be viewed. The
lynchgrs say that they must protect the
women of the South and probab.y some
of them think that that Is what they are
•loing in taking the law into their own
hands, but the real motive of a lynch
ing mob is a desire for vengeance. If it
could be shown that such barbarous a (<■
is marked the lynching of Hose and
Strickland had the effect of checKing the
crime for which iym h:ngs are the most
common there would be some excuse for
them, but that cannot be shown. We are
confident lhat punishment In accordance
with the law has a far greater effect in
preventing crime than punishment me ed
out by a mob. Mob law begets a spirit
that finds expression in the commission
of crime. That this is so ts shown by
the increase in the number of lvnehlngs.
The mistrial In the lake City IS. C.)
case seemed to Justify the opinion that
there is a growing sentiment against
lynch law. Otherwise there would not
have been five members of the jury tn
favor of finding the Lake City lynchers
guilty. The expressions In some quarters
apparently excusing the terrible affair of
Sunday in this state may check that sen
timent. It is to be hoped It will not, be
cause no good can ~rne to this or any
other etate, or to any community, from
such a barbarous and shocking affair as
that at Newnan. It is to the credit of ex-
Gov. Atkinson that he exertc-d himself
io the utmost to prevent It. The mob
knew he was right, but its desire for
vengeance was too strong to he resisted.
What the Governor says about politics
being et the bottom of the lynching* may
have some truth in it, and his advice
to the leaders of the negro race that
they must educate their people against
such crimes as those for which neg Toes
are lynched are all very well, hut If lynch
ing is to be checked in the least he must,
as the chief executive, see no palliation
for mob law—he must throw the whole
weight of his great office against It.
What every good citizen wants is a stop
put to lynchlngs and to the crimes for
wntch negroes are most commonly
lynched. We believe that can be done
the quickest by Insisting upon a vigorous
enforcement of the law against every vio
lator of It.
WILL PRECEDENT BE IGNORED f
Will Senator Quay have sufficient influ
ence when the time comes for the Senate
to act upon his case to get the Republi
can majority to overrule all the preced
ents—precedents which have kept other Re
publicans out of the Senate who were ap
pointed under precisely the same condi
tions under which he was appointed—and
give him the seat he claims? It ts said
by well informed Republican leaders that
it would not be surprising if all preced
ents were swept aside and Quay received
by his brother Republicans in the Senate
with open arms. If that should be done
the country would be Justified In coming
to the conclusion that the Republicans
are willing and ready to sacrifice the best
Interests of society and the country to
promote party ends. The question as to
whether Senator Quay is guilty or not of
the charges which have been made against
him in the courts of hia etato has nothing
to do with the question. The simple ques
tion is whether Senator Quay, because he
is an influential political boss, is to be
granted a concession denied to others who
occupied a position exactly like that
which he nows occupies. If that is to be
done by the highest legislative body in the
counlry there will be ample ground for
despairing of the future of the republic.
The idea is being thrown out that the
Republican leaders sre afraid of him—
afraid that if he is not permlted to have
his way he will throw the state of Penn
sylvania against Ihe Republican party in
the presidential election. It is said that
he is very hostile to the Preside!* be
cause the latter didn't prevent the news
paper controlled by the Postmaster Gen
eral from taking strong sides against him
in his recent trial. There may be some
thing in this talk. If there is the Repub
licans leaders must have very little confi
dence In the Republicanism of the Re
publicans of Pennsylvania.
The evolution of machinery, as pointed
out by a recent technical writer, is towards
simplicity, compactness and lightness.
Take the printing press; the first “type
revolver" of twenty-five years ago was a
huge affair some fifteen feet high, and
about as long. The first web perfecting
presses, printing from a roll, were consid
erably smaller, but as compared with the
presses of to-day they would appear
enormous. And tn mechanism, the new
est presses are simplicity Itself as com
pared w,th the complicated wheels and
gears of the old presses. The sewing ma
chine is another illustration of the sim
plifying process. The modern machine Is
not only lighter and stronger than the old
iy|ie, but it has fewer pieces to get out of
order. The bicycle of the day is also a
result of a great evolution. From slxiy
pounds or more, the high grade wheel has
p.en reduced In weight to very little over
twenty, and the mechanism has been made
*o simple that a child can understand It.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, APRIL 25. 1593.
THE GROWTH OF TREATS.
One reason for the great Increase In ’he
number of trusts is the difficulty experi
enced in finding .nvestments which pay a
fair rate of interest—that is, investments
which are considered gi.t-edged. Firs;
class securities do not pay more than three
per cent, and government bonds do not
pay that much. Toe promoters of trusts,
knowing that there Is a vast amount of
money seeking investment, and feeiing
certain that they can dispose of an almost
unlimited amount of shares of trusts by
prom.stng high rates of interest, are busy
making combinations of all kinds of busi
nesses and Industries.
No doubt seta; of these trusts will pay
a good return on the money invested in
them, but it is certain that there are num
bers of them that will not be.ause they are
overcapitalized. A few days ago the Secre
tary’ of the Treasury and Senator Depew
took occasion in public addresses to cau
tion the people against trusts which are
overcapitalized, or, rather, against the
overcapit -Illation of trusts. What they
had .n mind was that a day- of reckoning
would come for the trusts which rest upon
a fraudulent or dishonest basis. Those
who have put their money in such trusts
wifi 1 >se it sooner or later, a n f the banks
which loan money on the shares of such
concerns trill suffer lors.
It ought no' to to a difficult matter for
the public to determine which are theover
a[-..- I z- and tru.-is and whic . are the trusts
w.c, ft l ave kept within safe bounds in
Issu.ng shares. The truth about each of
t. " trusts is pretty well known in well in
formed financial circles. A person who is
not In a position to find out all about
trusts ought to steer clear of thera.i
It is certain that the times for trusts
will not always be as good as they are
now, A little depression in business will
be ail that is necessary to force some of
them Into bankruptcy. Such a depression
may come suddenly. The wise thing to
do therefore Is to give all trust? which arc
not known to be able to weather a finan
cial storm a wide berth. Attorney General
Grigg* said the other day ft f tn
more dangerous to those who put their
money in them than to tne public. It
would not be at ail surprising if time
shouid demonstrate the truth of this re
mark. Some of the most persistent ene
mies of trusts now are those who have
failed to get tn on the ground floor. When
the trust bubble bursts the greatest ene
mies of trusts will be those who have lost
their money In them.
“PRIVATE JOHN" mg SENATOR.
The Mississippi senatorial election will
not be held for more than eight months
yet—the legislature meets In January;
nevertheless a lively campaign for the seat
is in progress. Private John Alien is on
tiie firing line down in the low-grounds,
and is making things warm for Gov.
“Anse" McLaurln, the head of the famous
clan McLaurin which has of recent years
come pretty near to owning Mississippi
politically. The Governor wants to be
senator. He has had a taste of sen
atorial i*fe,. he likes it, a rd wants more
of it. He served a short unexpired term,
of about a year, and has ever since been
laying pipe to get back to Washington.
Having pretty nearly the control of the
political machine in Mississippi, it looked
as though he wou'd have something of a
walk-over, until Private John, who had
concluded that he would like to try life at
the Senate end of the eapltol at Wash
ington for a spell, appeared upon the scene
as a candidate.
Gov. McLaurin claims that he ought
to have the senatorship as a vindication o{
his administration. I.ately his administra
tion has not had the support which he
could wish for It, hence he wants the
people of Mississippi—or rather the legis
lature of Mississippi—to. send him to the
Senate by way of an indorsement of his
acts as Governor. The Governor having
made his administration the issue, Private
JdTlh sailed in upon its record and began
tearing it into ribbons. It seems that he
has an abundance of material to work on,
and, with his wit and wisdom and readi
ness of repartee to aid in an attractive pre
sentation of his facts, he quickly had the
Governor on the defensive.
And then it was that the Governor dis
covered that he was being made the vic
tim of what he conceives to be a mon
strous conspiracy. He is now said to be
telling the Mlssissippians about it. “It's
the gold-bug gang,” he says, “the bad
gold bugs, that's back of John Allen and
trying to beat me. The aristocrats don't
like me because I was for silver; and they
say that because I once drove oxen and
split rails, and because I eat my greens
with a knife, I ain't fit to be senator for
Mississippi.’ 1 It is understood that the
Governor expects a heap from this state
ment. He .is sure that it will create a
fellow feeling for him in the breasts of all
of the ox-drivers who manipulate their
greens in the same manner, and convince
other persons of his democratic simplicity,
in contrast w.th the aristocratic gastro
nomic feats of John Alien. For it is pretty
well known that Private John is as fond
of good eating as he Is of a good story;
that he frequents some of the sweilest
eating places In Washington, and often
stretches his legs under the mahogany of
rich and influential men. And the Gov
ernor wishes to Impress it upon his hear
ers and their friends that that sort of
thing is altogether wicked, gold-buggy and
reprehensible.
The fact is that Private John is a free
silver man. a strict adherent of the Chi
cago platform, notwithstanding he does
not eat his greens with a knife, and often
enjoys a hot bird “with trimmings.'' The
congressman is a brilliant stump speaker,
which Ihe Governor is not. and the Gov
ernor ts a remarkably shrewd practical
politician, which the congressman is not',
hence ihe contest is likely to be Interesting
until it is finished. If Private John's wit
wins agamst the machine, he will have
earned his promotion.
To secure French wives for Frenchmen
in the colonies, the ministry of the colonies
Is to open at Paris an office where all wo
men suitable for colonial marriage will be
supplied with wedding outfits costing ICO,
with CM pocket money, and a pass to the
colony selected.
The mystery of the disappearance of
Lieut. Gilmore ar.d hi* men. of the York
town, at Baler, is no nearer solution cow
than it was on the day of the occurrence,
as far a* the information which has
reached this country goes Gilmore and
fourteen men. It will oe r-membered, went
in a boat, armed ar. t having a machine
gun. to relieve the Spanish garrison at
Ba er. A few rifle shots and a bugle call
were heard by Lieut Standley, who was
on the shore recocnonering. The machine
gur was not heard Standley tried to as
certain what the shooting ar.d bugle call
meant, but could see nothing of his com
rades or anyone else. 9 nee that time all
investigation has been fruitless. No signs
of a bloody conflict have been found; no
signs a struggle, such as it is certain
the fifteen hardy Americans would have
made even if urpri-ed by natives. The
boat and the men have disappeared as
if the earth had opened and swallowed
them up. It is to be hoped that the dis
patches of the next f--w days will contain
something positive respecting their fate.
The best is to be hoped for, hut the worst
expected.
Those Philadelphia counterfeiter* who
were captured by tr.e fed ral secret ser
vice men the other day were art sts .n
crime as well as in engraving and prim
ing. It appears that ' was actually the.r
purpose to make Ur, 1 Sam c irculate their
bonus notes. The p'.ar. was ’hat some SlO.-
-o, ,/i bogus rr.- -' - ould be prime 1
and pt:Y up In r • fit l" 1 ® those
usi lin the. tlte'-ur- Then sfme trusted
official of the trea’ ry fas to d* cor
rupted, and by his aid the counterfeits
were to be piaced i”. the treasury vaults
in the place of good money, which was to
be divided among the schemers. Just
how the transfer be’ween the den of the
counterfeiters ar.d he treasury vaults
was to be made is not quite clear, but
pre?umab!c the tru?' and official who was
to be corrupted would have been depend
ed on to make lhat ea-; .. Had the scheme
been consummated. :t would have been
one of the most sensational robberies in
criminal history; but the secret service
detectives were too smart for the counter
feiters.
The bears tn the stock markets do not
hesitate to turn to tneir own account
every fact, rumor or possibility that they
can. Marconi has succeeded in telegraph
ing across the Strait of Dover without
wires. Presumably, therefore, wireles*
telegraphy will be put to commercial uses
before a great while, to the great detri
ment of the volume of business transacted
by the cable companies In London the
other day this argument was used by the
bears to beat down the price of cable
stocks, with some degree of success.
PERSON A Li.
—Frank Bray, the Englishman who is
said to be the brains of the Filipino Junta
at Hong Kong, has spent most of his
life in the Far East. He speaks many
of the Filipino dialects fluently and knows
the Malay of Borneo as well as the Malay
of the Philippines. He says we will never
conquer the insurgents, and that "ail the
wealth the Yankees get out of the Isl
ands will not maintain the necessary hos
pitals.”
—lt ts said that Sir Thomas Lipton, the
buiider of the challenger for the America's
cup, Is being to a certain extent ignored
by the members of the Royal Yacnt
Squadron, who are more or less incensed
that a tradesman and a man not a mem
ber of the yacht club should presume to
take such a prominent position in the in
ternational contest. This is g.ven as the
reason that the leading English sporting
papers are paying less attention to the
coming struggle than might have been ex
pected.
—Capt. George W. Streeter's schooner
was thrown upon the beach of Lake Mich
igan at Chicago years ago, and there was
washed up arousd it a quantity of sand,
which is now land and comprises 186 acres,
to which the captain has successfully es
tablished his claim. It is known as the
' District of Lake Michigan," is said to be
worth several millions of dollars and to
he no part of the state of Illinois or of the
United States. A memorial is to be pre
sented to the next Congress asking for the
annexation of this land to the United
States.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Commenting on the acquittal of ihe
Lake City lynchers, the Charleston News
and Courier (Dem.) says: “All the evi
dence was one way, and against the de
fendants, but the evidence had nothing to
do with the failure of the jury to act.
That was influenced by considerations
apart from the testimony in Ihe case. No
one expected that the jury would find a
verdict of guilty, it would not have been
surprising had the jury found a verdict
of not guilty, its failure to agree to a
verdict must be regarded as a distinct
advance in public thought and conscience.
Five white men out of twelve in South
Carolina holding to the end for'
the administraiion of justice, according to
the evidence, ts a triumph for order and
a promise of better things in the future.
Justice will not be done until the Lake
City lynchers are punished.”
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.)
says: “The action of Quay’S" Governor,
Stone, in "appointing” him United States
senator on the day after the adjournment
of the legislature without an election, is a
flagrant defiance of all the rights and
proprieties of the case. It is an impudent
impertinence to the United States Senate
and cannot fail to be so regarded by that
body. It disregards a provision of the
state constitution which requires the Gov
ernor to summon the legislature to meet
and elect whenever a vacancy has hap
pened. It is a revolutionary, unscrupulous
proceeding, and a Governor should be im
peached for such conduct.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.)
says: “The decision of a circuit judge
that the law against vagrancy is uncon
stitutional on the ground that slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime, is abolished, assumes
that vagrancy is not a crime. Now crimes
are divided into felonies and misdemean
ors. and the statute against vagrancy
makes It "a high misdemeanor." At the
rarne time it must be owned that the man
who buys a vagrant generally gets the
worst of it.”
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.)
says: “The volunteers at Manila desire
to be mustered out there, thua receiving
travel pay for 1.1,000 miles. Instead of
transportation, and enabling them to make
the grand lour of Europe, and come home
as cabin passengers,"
V Jumping Toothache.
“It was a toothache,” said the veteran,
according to the Cincinnati Inquirer, "that
won me a reputation for daring at the
battle of Bull Run. That was the only
fight I was ever in where I didn't wish I
could find a ho.e to crawl into. All this
talk about coolness oo the eve of battle is
nonsense, invented by people who have
never been there or o.d soldiers whose
tongues get away with their memories.
Our men and officers were as brave as
any in the war. and made good records,
but they all had the ague and longed for
sick leave Just about the time the bullets
began to fiy. But I had the toothache
for two days before that battle and if
there is an aggravation on earth that will
make a man want to bat his best tr end
in the face that is it.
“On the night before the fight I did not
sleep a walk. The old tooth got to jump
ing like a goat, and I eouldn t have suf
fered more from an amputa ed leg. I
was also furiously tr,3d. I felt that Id
either got to boH for the rear in search
of relief or encourage some Cor,fed. to pot
a ball through my head.
“We'd been waiting in battle line for
an hour, aid the boys had grown white
and were all choked up. I had been en
tirely occupied with the old tooth, and
the first thing I knew the fight was on
We were hokl.ng them in caeck, but that
didn't suffice me. As I got hold of my
gun ard pulled the handkerchief off my
jaw I yelled out for the boys 10 foi w.
ard we struck a whole brigade ar.d whirl
ed it around and sc-r.t it back half a mile
I felt that I could lick the whole of Lee s
army for an hour or two! They told me
that I yelled and cheered and dodged death
a thousand times, but I remember roth
ing but the jumps of that tooth. When
they stopped, or for what particular rea
son. I could never say, but after a couple
of hours i camo to myself, as It were,
and was being complimented on all sides
and the Jumped had ceased.'
Wrong Place to Stutter.
It was In one of the elevators of a Nas
sau street sky scraper, says the New York
Sun. As the elevator shot toward the
zenith, a little, stout man, with a mourn
ing badge on his siik hat, began to sput
ter. His face assumed the complexion of
a lobster that had passed away in boil
ing water.
“Bub-but. rt—st—st—b'r'r’r," he said, as
the veins stcod out upon his neck.
“Guess he'll have a stroke,” muttered
a passenger to the elevator man, while
the latter gazed anxiously at the man
who was sputtering like a lamp going out.
At the twenty-third story the stout
man's eyes were nearly starting from his
head, perspiration sought its watersheds
on the map of his countenance, and as he
grasped the arm of the elevator man ihe
latter nervously pulled the lever and the
lift started for the bottom at a terrific
rate. The solitary passenger danced
about, gurgling spasmodically, and it
se med as if the threatened stroke would
get hirn before the ground floor was
reached.
As the car struck bottom, however, he
rushed through the door and up to an im
portant individual whose cap bore the
screed "Starter.”
“3-s-s-say,'' he sputtered, "t-t-this Is
the th-th-third trip I-I-I-I've t-t-t-taken
in the d-d-d elevator, 'n I-I-I-I
w-w-wanter g-g-g-get off at the sev-sev
seventh fl-fl-fl-floor. Before I-I-I c-c-c-can
say sev-sev-seven I-I-I-I'm up to the t-t
--top, 'n be-be-before I-I-I can cat-cat-catch
my br-br-breth. I-I-I-I'm down h-h-here
again, 'n I-I-I-I’m In a h-h-h-hell of
h-h-h-hurry."
The starter put him on a car, closed the
door, said “Seven," and the car started.
The Gaamltes.
Krom the Baltimore American.
We're the sixty-seven citizens of Guam,
And we do not care a tough old tinker's
caramba
For the blooming world around us,
’Cause great happiness has found us,
And we emulate the unresisting clam.
We are dark but peaceful sons of Uncle
Sam,
(Sixty-seven of us here in lovely Guam'.)
And we ll have no insurrection;
No; for even an election
Would be fraught with naught except a
happy calm.
We dwell together here In peace and love,
And when Capt. Peter Leary comes as
Gov.
We shall hasten down to meet him.
And with cocings sweet we’ll greet him.
Which the same we learn from dodo bird
and dove.
There's trouble In the tousled Philippines,
Bi.t we cjuamites never know what trou
ble means;
Happier folks there Isn't any,
And we haven't got a penny,
’Cause we never had a pocket in our jeans.
We're the sixty-seven citizens of Guam,
And we do not care a most emphatic
(bass drum!)
Just who knows it, but we’re happy,
And we never win be scrappy
’Cause we like our new relation. Uncle
Sam!
Americans In Bndnpest.
Ever since the Wild West 6how appear
ed in Budapest the citizens believe that
every American is in the habit of carry
ing a revolver. “A few nights before my
arrival,” writes a correspondent of the
Chicago Record, “an American traveler
and his friends had been silting at a ta
ble in a music hall ordering such refresh
ments as may be obtained at that kind of
a place. When the American called for
his check, the waiter performed a feat in
mathematics and learned that three times
three made seventeen. The American
found fault with this system of multipli
cation and stood up to protest. The young
womati who sold programmes threw her
self in front of him and seized his arm.
'Please don't,’ she said; ‘he is a poor man.
He has a wife and family.' The manager
came running. ‘Wait, wait!' he entreated,
‘Please do not make any trouble. I ask
you that you should not shoot!’ Yielding
to these entreaties the American spared the
life of the trembling waiter, who had
made a run for the stairway. There was
another computation, and it was decided
that three times three made nine.”
Churchmen as Ranters.
The author of ‘‘Kings of the Hunting
Field" says that at a certain English
church many years ago, while the clergy
man was reading prayers, a man walked
In, shouted "I’ve got ’un!” and imme
diately withdrew. He had sounded a well
known call. Every farmer and laborer
who possessed a gun soon followed him.
and in an hour or two brought to the vil
lage inn the fox they had shot.
Spirituality was In those days at a very
low ebb. and some clergymen cared more
for sport than for the example they set
to their flocks. Bishops tried to discoun
tenance hunting as a clerical pastime, but
the law did not enable them to remove the
offenders from their livings. Dr. Phill
potls. Bishop of Exeter, who called to ac
count several sporting clergymen in his
diocese, met one of them at a friends
house.
"I am told, my lord, that you object to
my hunting," said the clergyman.
"Dear me. who couid have told you so?”
answered the bishop. "What I object to
1* that you should ever do anything else.”
PIMPLES
Blotches, blackheads, red, rouen, and oily
•km, red, rough hands with shapeless nails,
dry, thin, and falling hair, and simple baby
rasb-s prerented by Ccticcra Soap, greatest
of skin pnrifying and beautifying soaps, as
j well as purest and sweetest for toilet, bath,
, and nursery, because tbe only preventive of
inflammation and clogging of the Pores, the
cause of most minor affections of the skin 9
j ecalp, and hair.
liSiolifWiei'iaie
j S.x days more of extra values. Splendid
, opportunity to get the best goods for little
' money. Last week was not the most
pleasant for summer goods shopping, and
we have extended this sale to cover all this
week. It will pay you to buy now Linens
and White Goods. The stock is perfect.
| The prices remarkably low.
A LEAD IN TABLE DAMASK.
64-inch Table Damask at 45c; usual price
6c cents.
Avery good Damask only 25c.
72-inch Brown Linen Table Damask 50c;
usual price 65c.
A REMARKABLE VALUE.
Our regular sl.3u Damask, 72-inch wide,
tli*.
TCWELS.
Nothing better in the city. Towels that
do their work witn a zeal. Water takers,
quick in action.
10x36 Linen Huck Towels only $1.25;
regu* r $1.50.
Lii i Hemstitched Towels only $1.50:
regular $1.75.
NOVELTIES in Damask Towels, in
white and colored borders, in great va-
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
Novelties, white checks and striped
Nainsook in endless assortment, 10c; reg
ular price 15c.
White India Linens 10c; regular
White India Linens regular 18c.
White India Linens regular 25c.
Our regular Linen Cambrics reduced in
all prices, 25c and upwards.
TABLE NAPKINS.
Special figures in Napkins this week.
Our regular $1.35 Napkins this week 05c.
Our regular 3-4 Napkins $1.75, this week
$1.40.
All other sizes and qualities at the
same reduction.
SILKS.
26- Black China Silk S9e; regular
price $l.OO.
27- Black China Silk for this week
59c: regular price *sc.
Figured China Silks and Foulards, sult
ahl* for dresses. fSc: regular price 55c.
Black Figured China 69c; regular price
All Silk Grenadines, in stripes ar.d fig
ures, for this week S9c: regular price $1.55.
GINGHAMS FROM ACROSS
THE SEA.
All our Imported Ginghams, covering
every desirable item, we offer this week
at reduction of 25 per cent.
LADIES’ HOSIERY.
Ladies' Lisle Hose, Richelieu ribbed, at
24c, instead of 35c.
Ladies’ Lisle Hose at 33c, instead of 50c.
Ladies’ Fancy Hose at 39c, inetead of
50c.
Men’s Hose at 10c. Instead of 19c.
Men’s Fancy Half Hose at 19c, instead
of 50 cents.
Men’s Half Hose, Maco foot, 24c, instead
of 35 cents.
SPECIAL LOW PRICES.
Children's Hose, Maco foot, at 23c.
Ladies’ Hose, Maco foot, at 24c.
We have just received a superb line of
matched sets in fine Nainsook embroid
ered.
We are selling beautiful Organdies this
week at 19c that were 40c.
Tissue de Soie at 63c; were $l.OO.
SKIRTS.
Ladies’ Pique Skirts at $1.73, $2 and $2 50
Crash Skirts at 98c.
Ladies’ White Shirt Waists at 83c SI
$1.48 and *2.on. T
Bicycle Skirts at $2.00
DANIEL HOGAN,
The corner Broughton and Barnard 9ts.
I DE BOTO HOTEL.
First-class accommodstlons for 500 guests
! Among the Improvements the past summer 80
new bath rooms were added. Tourists And
Savannah ihe most Interesting city In tha
Booth. An ideal winter rsort. Special rates
lor families remaining week or more.
PULASKI HOUSE.
Rates, $2.50 Per Day.
Chas. F. Graham,
Proprietor.
■II PLANTERS HOTEL
CLMUALLV LOCATED.
Street cars from all depots to hotel.
Rates Sl.co and $2 per day. Hot and
cold water on each door. Electric lights
throughout the house. Clean rooms, good
cooking, and polite attention to all guaau.
Meal tickets reduced.
ÜBO. W. LYONS, Manager.
HOTEL AMERICAS-AOELPHI,
finest location in
SARATOGA SPRINGS
Near Springs end Baths.
Open June to November.
Rooms en suite with bathe.
GEO. A. F AHNHAiI, Proprietor.
PORTLAND CEMENT
FOR BALE BY
C. M. GILBERT tic CO,
'IMPORTERS.
LEGAL SALES.
"~CHATHAM^ SALK
UNDER an.l by virtue of a Judgm.-.
fl. fa. Issued out of Chatham Sup,.., .
Court in favor of T. D. Fitzgerald v ’ n
F. Ulmer. I have levied upon the f 0)
ing described property of the defends-,"
to-wit:
All that lot or parcel of land situav,.
Chatham county and state of ’
known upon a survey made by John*o'
Tebeau, and recorded on page "
4 H of the records of said county ~1 f*
number sixteen (16). said lot contain, ,,
five and six-tenth (5 0-10) acres, mo-. 4
less, and bounded north by Stalev
east by lot number fifteen (15) of eai.l 3; '
vey, south by lands formerly owned t
W Pollard, and west by lot number *,• /
teen (ID of said survey. And I will 0 * T
the said above described property of
defendant, B. F. Ulmer,' for sale at puh
11c outcry, before the court house door , •
Chatham county, in the city of Sava,
during the legal hours of sale, on the .; r ,.
Tuesday in May, 1899, being the s.
day of said month, to satisfy sai l j„ ,
ment ti. fa. Terms cash; purchaser pa ,
ing for titles. JOHN T. RONAN.
Sher.fT Chatham County
LEGAL NOTICES.
STATE OF GEORGIA. CHATHvi
COUNTY, CITY OF SAVANNAH-
Whereas, James McGuire has apt, oi rj
the Court of Ordinary of said count. ; jr
letters dismissory as administrator of >
estate of Catherine Cosgrove, deo-a-ri
(late of said city and formerly of County
Wexford, Ireland), and for an order
tablishing the heirs-at-law of said e- at*
and directing the distribution thereof.
These are, therefore, to cite and adm r.
ish all whom'it may concern to be i-,j
appear frefore said court to make obje.
tlons (if any they have) and establish th- .
claims as heirs-at-law of said esta-e a
or before the FIRST MONDAY IN Jt'N'3
next, otherwise said letters will be gram,
ed as prayed.
Witness the Hon. Hampton L. Ferrill
Ordinary of Chatham county. State
Georgia, this 3d day of April. 1899.
FRANK E. KEILBACH.
Clerk Court of Ordinary. Chatham Coin.
ty, Savannah, Ga.
IN Chatham Superior Court, June Term,
1899, Susie Phillipson vs. Louis Phillips.:,n,
libel for divorce. To Louis Phiilipsor.*
You are hereby required, personally p r by
attorney, to be and appear at the next
Superior Court to be held in and for sail
county, on the first Monday, the same be
ing the FIFTH DAY OF JUNE. 1899, then
and there to answer the plaintiff on tha
merits of the above case, the same being
a libel for a total divorce, as in default
of such appearance the said court will
proceed as to justice may appertain
Witness the Honorable Robert Falligar.t,
Judge of said court, this oth day of Apr,!
1899. JAMES K. P. CARR.
Clerk S. C., C. C.. Ga
O'CONNOR, O'BYRNE & HARTRIDGS,
Attorneys for Libellant.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
PROPOSALS for Fresh Beef and Mut.
ton.—Office Chief Commissary, Atlanta,
Georgia,March 27,1899.5ea1ed proposals will
be received here until 11 o'clock, a. m.,
April 26. 1899, and opened, for furnishing
and delivering fresh beef and mutton call
ed for by commissar.es at Forts Biiss,
Brown, Clark, Mclntosh, Point, Ringgoid,
Sam Houston, and Camp at Eagle Pass,
Tex.; Jackson Barracks, Fort St. Ph;,ip,
La.; Fort Barrancas, Key West Barracks,
and St. Francis Barracks, Fla.; Augusta
Arsenal, Fort McPherson and Tybee Is
land, Ga.; Fort Morgan. A fa.; Sullivans
Island. I.ar.ds End and Hlltonhead, S. C.,
during six months commencing July L
1899. Proposals received and opened satns
hour by commissaries of those posts—each
receiving proposals for his own post only.
Proposals will aiso be received stating
prices at which bidder will deliver fresh
beef and multon of temperature not great
er than 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Information
furnished on application. Envelopes con
taining proposals should be indorsed "Pro
posals for Fresh Beef and Mutton," and
addressed to undersigned or to commissary
at post bid for. Edwaid E, Dravo, Major,
Chief Cem’y.
PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTION;
Office of Chief Quartermaster, Atlanta,
Ga.. March 27, 1899.—Sealed proposals, in
triplicate, will be received here until 11
o'clock a. m„ April 27, 1899, and then open
ed, for construction at Tybee Island, Ga,
of a sewer system, according to plans
and specifications to be seen at this of
fice, and at the office of the quartermas
ter at the post; U. S. reserves
right to accept or reject any or all pro
posals or any part thereof; envelopes
should be marked, “Proposals for sewer
at Tybee Island, Ga.,” and addressed io
the undersigned; specifications, general
instructions to bidders, and blank forms
of proposals will be furnished on applica
tion. John Simpson, D. Q. M. G., U. 3-
A.. C. Q. M.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Savannah, Ga.. Col
lector's Office, April 24, 1899.—Supplies for
Revenue Vessels.—Sealed proposals for
supplying ship chandlery, rations and coal
to vessels of the United States revenue
cutter service In this collection district
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 19V
will be received at this office until 2 o’clock
p. m. of Tuesday, May 9, 1899, at which
time they w-ill 1 publicly opened. Tha
coal furnished to be anthracite or bitum
inous of best quality, uniform in charac
ter; to weigh 2,240 pounds to the ton; to
be delivered on board the vessels at si ii
times and in such quantities as may he
required, at localities readily accessible
to said vessels, and to be subject to In
spection as to-quality and weight. Bidders
will name the prices for both steaming
and stove coal, and also their facilities for
furnishing the vessels with fresh water,
and their charges therefor. The right is
reserved to reject any or all bids. Blank
forms of proposals for ship chandlery and
rations, w r ith schedules attached, may be
had upon application to this office. Sep
arate bids will be received at the sane
time and place for lubricating and ilium
mating oils. JOHN H. DEVEAUX.
a Collector.
A
GOOD
HORSE
A good horse should have
a goof"get of harness. I ran
please you in the materiel
and the price. I keep nothin*
but standard goods. Agent
for Boston Belting Compsny.
E. 1. NEIDLIHGER, Agent.
Font 651 106 Congress. West.
H Morphine aaa Whiskey Mb
its treated wubaat eats o*
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