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20 Musbvf IN AMERICA. OS FOOT ' FOR ~t!"\VunT) \U I S TO MUH.tHMK- •- ' .mm&f&r' *‘ n,< ' *j RowimrfciTble Stoiry of Hm. M. T^Krep. York Woman Wlio Ilrilevett ftv** iti-liwjfon f the Prophet Sujie -4 ?**' to / )irtKtlunity->I > <MN‘ Muslim ( 4V>i lril>illii K KrreJ,y to the Ord -11 ml Moyeindllr- \ Itn.lnon River ( iflin'lr.vMioiKit ThaYWio Until for j* Mosque. - F IS, by the Aulhqr.) London, Doc. 16.—1n * few months—just bow mjn> .will dopeiW on clrcumsUnc s the •iniil.il styts will.be taken In a Vigo - oos'fkpd renotule attempt to win the TJoit- away, from Christianity and In duce it to accept Mohammedanism into. ad. A a-aknts terf'owoit4.f the lat.er creed In Aro<{|- .i has’ offered fifty antes of land . purpose of colonising Musi.ms *'tpT'e and few wpcfcs more will see au kAmfrlean woman, herself a convert to th? tflarqjctfaith, touring Mohammedan noun '* tries an# appealing Jur funds to enahje ho * to retucrfto her native country and there .expound the theories of the religion which 1 atjains'a*drunkenness and poly gamy. This is simply another, twit great er. branch of a Mohammedan plan to con vert the English people which hits foun I V* trestfiofl ,in a popular subscription among the faithful abroad for the ptu- of establishing a 150,009 mosque in Ixmdon if la undertaken in precisely the same spirit in which benevolent persons irj the tivo great Englieh-.-p aking < oun -1 tries send missionaries to China and to Africa. But whbn as missionary socit ifc-swtri American ami in England, too. are wonf'tg complain of a lack of enthusiasm among their financial supporters, hut the humblest Islam is eager to contribute his mite—ami has contributed it before t -d ty ( —in aid of "foreign missions." Although most of thost- who have this new move ment in charge are more or less reserved on the subject to outsiders as yet, I have kueceeded In having a long c-.nveisaiion with Mrs, M- T. Keep, o quiet liilie wo man. formerly of New York, and happy In her hom< lift , who left America in pursui. o£ the religion that had captivaed her, and Is now to teturn as Its accredited and trusted evangelist. Site it Is who has jilqued curiosity as to her iicniiiy for bo long, while worshiping at the temporal y mosque which H.tdjie Mohammed Itoulie, the Mohammedan teacher, has establish ed In the Elision Road here in London, and this is the first interview which she has granted, although net a few at rerops have been made to find out who sloe was. how she came to adopt the faith of Mohammed, and, moreover. Jf she intend ed doing anything in the prophet's behalf. Thoroughly In Earnest. Mrs. Keep, who once lived on Fifty-first street, Now York, and later on found a home in an Egyptian harem, lodges in West Kensington. London. I found iter at home, in a neat little room, with two wax candles burning on the table. In her youth Mrs. Keep must have been on at tractive girl: she is now a mlld-looklng, elderly woman, probably a bit past 50, white-capped, gray-haired and dressed in n plain black gown. She is not at nil wild-eyed, but there is no doubt that she is thoroughly In earnest regarding the work which she has undertaken. She sat down behind one of the candies and talked Iwiskly, shading the light from her eyes with one lyand and leaning to ward the interviewer its she spoke. “I was a widow and a good way pud the prime of life before 1 knew' any tiling of Mohammedanism," she said. "1 was at tracted to it through reading in the news papers about the congress of religions at Chicago. I was interested specially in the position of Mohammedan women, for It was easy to see that under that relig ion alone does our sex know the real meaning of woman's rights, in which 1 have a)\*ay believed, i found that, ac cording lo the Mohammedan law', n wo man's possessions are absolutely unaffect ed toy marriage, and that among the Is lamic people such a thing as the moral degradation of women Is unknown. When I learned these facts 1 was a reporter on the staff of a New r York tuisr. but I had some means and determined to know all there was to know about this faith. I got the 'Mohammedan Hed&ya—printed In four bulky volumes—and read it. What I found there determined me to go to In dia and to study, and so ! came to Eng land, Intend.n.; fater to continue eastward. My means failed, however, and I remained here writing for some of the London pa pers. and for some that a r e published in India—the latter I am writing for still." Mrs. Keep told an Interesting story of a lone woman's fight against big odds In London, and said that she had once been employed by an American agency. While she was working there, two Egyptians— men—reached London, both unable to speak English, but conversing fluently in German. They wanted a guide about the city, and Mrs. Keep volunteered for the service, and. as she cxnressed It. ‘Vhap eroued" them during their stay. Thpy were brothers-ln-law and held the re spective ranks of pasha and bey. She told them of her inclination towards Mo hammedanism, and when they returned to Egypt, they promised to do what they could In the way of giving her oppor tunities of studying iheir religion. Ac cordingly. correspondence ensued as to the practicability of her going to Cairo and taking up her residence ,n tbelr home. In the course of their correspondence, the pasha’s wife, her future hostess, wan Invariably mentioned as “a great lady." and the pasha as "the husband of the great lady.” It was, in fact, one of the most influential Muslims households in Cairo, "the great lady" being a princess In her own right, it was finally decided that Mrs. Keep should enter the estab lishment. assisting the pasha's son in his study of English and herself wrestling with Arabic and delving Into the tenets of Mohammedanism under the instruction of the ‘‘hoja.” or professor, one such be ing attached to the staff of every well regulated Muslim household. Here she resided for considerably over a year. Unrein Life. Mrs. Keep says a great deal of non sense has been written about the Muslim harem and the ea ibre of its inmates, the very secrecy in which it is maintained having, doubtless, stimulated the Imag inations of the uninitiated. She dismisses as absurd the many tales of horrors com mitted In the “harem," and says that the popular impression that Muslim women are exceptionally laiy folk is t.\. wrong. She says, too, the: these women of the orient feel no less commiseration for the pitiful state of their occidental sisters than is inspired in the virtuous bosom- of proper Anglo-Saxon dames by descrip tions of harem life. The absolute sacred rues of the harem, however, has not, she says, been exaggerated. This seclusion does not by any means Imply that wo men are regarded tt* nonentities, for it seems the Influence of the gentler sex among Muslims Is often very great, ex tending even Into poit'l's. In this way the mother of tbs Sudan of Turkey .•• I copies mueh the same p.M of authority as did Gilbert's Mikado's "daughter-in- Is .v-e'eet," lid as the Kueprers ftow Alter of I’tflna is now reputed to bold. The j> nedivs mother and Kbtdlva wife also wosrien •! much Inflmi.i'e 111 both ■nicy and Egypt, and there ~r. several Who (night run lr inaptly dr- I as "parly testers course, grest ceremony is Utvarin- I Southern Railway. i Trains Arrive and Dhpar* Savannah on 90ih Meridian Time—One Hour Slower Than City Time. „ Schedules In Effect Sunday, Dec. 10, 1899. HEAD DOWN. tf "TO TH ErjgtAS T. fj READ UP. No. 11- No. 54 1 No. Mil ‘ )| No.'SoT No. 93 | No. 31 £ t I • ! Il l (Central Time) || )~ s -12 15pm 12 05am! <UV Savannah Aril 5 15am: 329 pm • jrj J *? I ! | (Enaterr, Time) f| | ~ i ! |Lv Aliandale Lvj| 3 48am| 1 52pm g * 2? I 4 17pmI I lSamjlAr Blackvlile Lv|| 3 pjarnt 1 12pm 'EZ 5 a j 5 55pm! 5 56dm, Ar Columbia Lvl| f'3oamjll 35am jr 3 5? | 9 30pm| 9 tO.iniljAr Charlotte Lv|'|lo (r>pm' 8.15 am ® - ~ JH Bpm 12 23pmjjAr Greensboro Lvi| T Fqmi| 6 48am) fj % S 1 - ">1 |iAr No,'folk T..... 1.. -pmj x “ 1 13 slam| f 38pm||Ar Danville Lv|| 5 48pm| 4 38am[ ce> •C c ) 6 Uoam| ti 25pmj]Ar ........... Richmond t,v||l2 Olpmjll 00pm| 3 S . 4 40am v> Lynchburg Lvj3~62pm 2 50im| ifxi A 35am 5 45pm| Ar Charlo: teavllle Lv j 2 Ofipm 12 54im _ o y - 7 35am 8 60tim| Ar Washington Lv 11 loami 9 50pm 5 , 5. 'l® it Jfiam 11 35pmI >r Bdlimore Lv | 6 22am' 8 27pm £ f 11 35am! 2 56am Ar Phi idelphta Lv 350 am: 6 95.. m hi . ! ! 03pm! 6 23am|! Ar N' w York Lv |l2 lOami 325 pm tl -„ s . 3<>l : nl l 3 WpmljAr Boston Lv|| 5 00pm 10 Omm =3 I s ' o - Mil TO THE NORTH AND WEST. || No . 35 II * (Central Time) ji ' 12 05am Lv Savannah Arl| 5 15am (Eastern Time) 1 8 30am| jLv Columbia jl,v 1 30am 11 25am!: Ar Spartanburg Lv, S 15pm * .A Hot Springs Lv 11 45am l “l"" A r Knoxville Lv 8 25 am 6 10am(!Ar LvIllO 30pm 7am.,Ar Cincinnati I.v 8 OOom 7 Mam Ar Ixouis vllle Lv] 7 45pm _6 00pm|!Ar Bt. Louis v ..". \Z\\ g All trains arrive and depart from the Plant System Station. THROUGH CAR SERVICE, ETC TRAINS 33 AND 34. THE NEW YORK AND FLORIDA EXPRESS vesttbuled limited trains, with Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between Savannah and New York. Pullman Sleeping Cars between Charlotte and Richmond and Charlotta and Norfolk. Dining cars serve ill meals between Savannah and Washington TRAINS 85 AND 36. THE UNITED STATES FAST MAIL vestihuled limited trains, carrying Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between Savannah and New York. Dining car* serve all meals between Savannah and Washington Also Pull man Drawing Room Sleeping Cera between Savannah and Cincinnati throuah Ah" vllle and "The Land of the Sky." 8 Asne- TRAINS 31 AND 32, THE FAMOUS NEW YORK AND FLORIDA LIMITED solid Vestibuled Pullman trains between New York and St. Augustine via Savano-Th and Jacksonville, will be inaugurated about Jan. 16. 1900. ’ ' 1 For complete information as to rates, schedules, etc., apply to JAMES FREEMAN. C. T. A., 141 Bull street. Telephone No 850 O. GROOVER. T. A.. Plant System St otlon. RANDALL CLIFTON. District Piss.ti per Agent. No.*ifi Bull street. bly preserved In all matters, and the re sponse to an introduction may be ac counted amo A the graces which inspired the phrase “oriental, politeness.” Intro duced, a woman bows low, so low that her right hand nearly touches the carper, then tossing her figure to ereotnees, she touches her bosom, lips and brow with her finger tips, signifying “I bow to your dignity, I cherish you in my heart, I speak your name wfth honor, I remember >ou with fidelity.” Before sitting down lo table, each of the women, except the ore of highest rank, is served by slaves with the requisites for toilet making, but the women most highly placed makes her ablutions at the table. ‘Mrs. Keep observed in the course of her residence among Mohammedans, she had seen only two drunken women, and they were Knglish. She spoke of the veil and Hs significance, of the respect which it was invariably accorded. She said that girls receive the veil at 7 years of age, and that the daughter of the poorest peasants, going our for the most menial service, goes veiled, and no man dare raise the veil to see her face. Never Was a Church Member, Mrs. Keep said she never ha 1 Jolnel any of the religious organizations In t! e United States, simply for the reason that she could find none that satisfied her. Her patents died when she was young, and she entered the family of her uncle, in the members of which several creeds wee r p resented—represented not much to their ad vantage, either, according to her, for she examined each of them and found it want ing. She says that when at lust influence was brought to bear with the Idea of In ducing her to join a church, the reasons given her for taking the step werd world ly ones—woeia!considerations and the like— till she would have none of it. Site tried the Swendenborgian Church in her hum for a faith which satisfied, but turned away from it. too. It was after her hus band died that she took 10 newspaper work. By nature Mrs. Keep is poetic, and her speech is filled with quotations and rhetorical flights. She said, “So many times have a sown and seen others reap my harvest, that now. should the Bord put a sickle into nrv hand and bid me reap, 1 should hardly know how to Improve my opportunity!” The Hedava, of which Mrs. Ke p speaks, is, of course, the series of com mentaries on the Koran—aimed to shed light upon the teachings of that somewhat confused record. As for the Koyan Itself, this advocate of the Islamic doctrine re cites somewhat eloquently the oil rtory of the boy Mohammed, a child, so true and holy that he was known as “the Faithful,“ but. withal illiterate and una ble to read or write; nrd of his intercourse with the angel Gabriel, whose revelations he, in turn, revealed to his more learned associates, who wrote ttum on palm leaves, on skins and bn the shouler bladea of animals, tumbling a 1 these rec ords into one sacred cheat from which they were not removed until n generation had passed away. Of how they were flna ly brought to light b,v Hanifa, Mohamm* d\i descendant, and do’od out to scribe's f* r transcription by the noble's b autlful and cultivated wife, so that at last they were gathered into a volume which, by the pun ishment which It specifies for certain is the meet truthful picture which we pos sess of the time in whkh Mohammed liv ed. and of Its customs. The Hedaya came long afterward, a mammoth collect on of remarks on the sacred words of the prophet. first translated into Knglish by order of the then governor general of Ih n- Fttl by ChaiK-.*, Hamil on cf London, an l dedicated to Warren Hasdngs, his patron. Ur*. Keep's Muslim Enemy. But al’.. It seems, is not as well ns coufd Is* wished in the Mohammedan camp. Mrs. Keep hinted darkly at Influences which worked against her when first eho came to England, and she said that when she went <0 Egypt it was reported in England and in Egypt that she had died and been burled ot sea, and that sooner or later, her rival threatened, should she dabble too much in Mohammedan lore, she would be dumped Into the Bosphorus. She whispered that her mysterious antag onist was a woman, "one very high, yet very low," she put it. ami that there Is still war between them. She said also that the only reason there Is the least difficulty in raising money among 'Mohammedans for m:ss on work In pagan America and England was because they hate so often been deceived wlih specious tales of what was soon to be accomplished, and gave lavishly to the author of the tales —only 10 find out Inter on. that iheir money was us-d for the private enrichment of their evangelists. Mrs. Keep said that no' a thousand miles from New York stands a magnificent coun try house built from the doles of the Mo hammedan !or. under the Impression tnat that eonntry house was a mosque to be devoted to the worship of Allah It was illness that ''rot' her from Eg)pi. for the cholera visited the district 111 which rh. W..S living, and she ..at tracted the ilia. . —. and 011 V escaped eue eiini'dng to It by ie urning to England Here she renewed her 1 irußgl- for exist- writings for of her va|N*rtMcv In Egypt. Hhe malt oeinlr. and U > there that ght m> 1 I Ha ij.e Duulle. and that l Hey Joints! loft tut THE MORNING -NEWS: SUNDAY-; DECEMBER 31. 189'A r 4n r 4S ea a n ",V" Am<irlc - as well as “fflclaiS in" 1 , 6 ,!'!’!*'* h Maham " ..e is Zlf'l ’ .rKreonX returns f , a,,h ' an<l from I *nris Ihe (•turns to Egypt, 10 Bwing 'round the cir work S ?n he rW iT f 1 U ,!^* o for hf ' f missionary f 1 n,t€d States, and inspiring iasm f 'over U |), WUh , new VlKor an<l Bhus- T he r,r °l ect of colonization and wholesale conversion in darkest America. _ Marshall Lord. THE DEBUTANTE TYRANT. It Costs More to In (rod nee the Sweet llnd (o Society, Than Build a House. New York. Dec. 29—The debutante daughter 10-day is a tryant and an extrav agance. To such a point of splendor have the introduction teas for young girls ar* rived, that except the most gorgeous wed ding receptions they stand alone for sump tuous beauty and royal liberality of ap- 1 ! ” !' tr . npr !; s ,i As /ar as cost goes there is little to distinguish them from bridal func tions. Every thing that a bride has or needs, with the exception solely of a hus hud )S SUpplle<l ,he swee * but Insatiable in With her trousseau. Down to ■he hist handkerchief and paper of pins It must lie prepared before her tea, for a 'l , r "'i' l Brand entertainment so List and thick do the Invitations fall around her she will have neither time nor energy to stend In shops and dressmakers' estab lishments. The debutante gown is a cos tume as complete and costly as a wedding dress, and lo every one of the girl friends a>ked to receive with her a souvenir gift with bouquets must lie given by the debu tante. The daughter will expect from her father a necklace, a ring or a fan, from her mother a brooch or some ornament that will look well with her white coming out gown, with Jess costly articles from other members of the family. Having toed the mark on all these points the self-respecting relatives must not stint In floral decorations for the drawing rooms, they must have one or two bands of music, and they will be : eternally and unpleasantly talked about in their social round of the ladder if they set forth any less sumptuous refreshments than are regarded as orthodox, for de butante teas and champagne is the one proper beverage to be poured. There is no going behind the rule re garding debutantes’ bouquets, and here we come very often upon a pathetic skeleton In the closet of an ambitious but not too pretty or too popular social bud. Having issued her cards, bought her fine gowns and ordered her delicate wines and vi ands. she and her mother sits with palpi tating heart to watch her bouquets arrive The friends of the family and the young men in the society In which she is enter ing are supposed to send them, ond to ap pear lo proper advantage it is obligatory that she receive with not one or two, but a dozen huge noosegays about her. So obligatory Indeed is this feature of the "coming out” that not one girl in a dozen ever receives from her admirers naif the bouquets she appears with on her reception day. but stands embowered in the posies ordered up from the florist by the diplomatic parents. However so- 1 ciety enjoys its self-deceptions, and to : such an extent has the bouquet fad grown that this 'Winter scores of young girls have slood to receive their friends beside tables heaped with as many as thirty i bunches of the costliest noses and st igger- ; Ing helpless under the burden of posies i in their arms. When the coming out tea is over then the debutante enters really on her but terfly season of brilliancy and power. If she Is to do her family credit, like a high sirung race horse or prims donna her health and spirits must be maintained at concert pltoh. The family carriage is put at her command or she must be given a good margin of credit at the livery sta ble. the freedom of the drawing room, the luxury of breakfast In bed. the comfort and simulus of a masseuse, a manicure and hair dresser and first claim on all the opera, theater and eoneert seats are yield ed up to her. Haying invested n large sum of money in the making of a fashlon ab.e daughter, the wise ixirents give her every opportunity and three months in which to prove the value of their invest ments. Of course this is all very well with par cm- whose incomes will guarantee the enormous expenditure entailed by a com plot, slngli campaign, but ihe extrava gant demands of the ambitious buds to day have forced the merely well-to-do families Into comblnui.or.r for mutual protection against the enormous expenses of the initial tea. Two. three, or even five buds will aigw-ar together at u single reception held In some host's private drawing r oom the r mot her. bearing each a |st lon of the costs ad thus the effect of a thousands!,dlar entertainment U se cured at s third of (hat sum. —"As I understand If," nays Mrs. Gas sum, “by the wireless telegraph system ihe messages go right through the air we breathe" "Yes, that Is correct," 4mvM . ed Mr tlaggam. "Then a pmm wh., lat }ii.i filed a message in the l degraph of n t may swallow hit own jorda uii bis Wray bwOK."—Harper's ilsgtr, Florida Central & ' Peninsular K. R. Central or 90th Meridian Time. TI'ME TABLE EFF ECTIVE NOV. 20, 1899. Ail trains dally except 40, dallJWexcept Sunday. NORTH AND EAST. * NORTH AND NORTHWEST. 1 “ A v r gR STI! % K:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: H Ar Denmark'| 3 00p| 2 42a|10 60p ® P t ri “"!! Urgr * Ar Ashevllie j. 1 40p Ar Leririgton 6 10a Ar Charlottesville 4 35a 5 4P > Ar , Cl f, ve,an<, „ SS Ar Baltimore 9 15a 11 35p Ar Co.wnbfia H Ar New Tor p k la ..;:;;;;;;;i |1 2 1 £*! I !£ bouth and Florida points. _Ar Boston j 9 00p; 3 30p| | 33 WEST DIVISION AND N. O. 5 ———— Ar Everett j 6 50aj 5 lOp -j I” I * Ar Brunswick | 8 34aj 6 41p Lv Savannah 307 p sfJßa Ar Fernandina I 9 30a| 9 Oap Lv Jacksonville 7 45p 9 20a Ar Jacksonville | 9 loa| 7 40p Ar Lake City 9 3op 11 28a Ar St Augustine |lO 30a| Ar Live Oak 10 30p 12 ISp Ar Waldo 11l 25a|10 41P Ar Madison ii p Ar Gainesville 12 01n| Ar Mont iceUo 320 p A r Cedar Keys 7 sp| Ar Tallahassee 338 p Ar Ocala 1 40p| 1 15a Ar Quincy 4 39p Ar Wildwood 2 32p) 54t Ar River Junction L. 6 25p A r Leesburg 3 10p| 4 30a Ar Pensacola U OOp Ar Orlando 5 00p| 8 3)a Ar Mobile 3 05a Ar Plant City 4 50pi 5 28a Ar New Orleans 7 40a Ar Tampa 6 40p| 6 30a Trains arrive at Savannah from North and East—No. 35, 5 a. m.; No. 33, 2:57 p. m. From Northwest—No. 35, 5 a. m. From Florida points, Brunswick and Da rien—No. 34, 12:27 p, hi-; No. 36, 11:50 p. m. No. 39, from Denmark and local points, 11:45 a. m. Trains 33 and 34 carry Pullman Buftet'*Bleeplng Cars between Columbia and Tampa. Trains 35 and 36 carry Pullman Buffet 9 leeping Cars between Columbia and Jack sonville. For full information apply to WM. BUTLER. JR., T. P. A. I Bull and Bryan streets, opposite Pulaski. VV. P. SCRUGGS, P. &T. A. I r Screven Hotels. D. C. ALLEN, C. T. A.. Bull and Liberty sto-ets. opposite De Sbto Hotel. W. R. McINTYRE. D. T. A.. West Broad and Liberty streets. A. O. MACDONELL, G. P. A.. L. A. SH IPMAN. A. G. P. A., Jacksonville. Trains leave from Union Depot, comer West Broad and Liberty streets. TURKEY' ftIEES OF TEXAS. Slays She Can Readily Clear Twenty- ‘ live Hnndred Dollars a Year. New York, Dec. 29. "I made $2,500 last year raising turkeys,” said (Miss Ar illa Martin, a youtg woman who is known in Texas, her natjve state, as the Turkey Queen. “Because I livelln Texas, however, you must not gall myl place a turkey ranch. It is simply a will-conducted farm, and other things are raised beside turkeys. In deed until five yefirs ago we didn’t raise our own turkeys j even for Thanksgiving and Christmas. , "I began with flve hens and a gobbler. You know. I suppose, that a turkey hen almost invariably) lays thirteen eggs be fore she begins li set. and also that sho lavs two 'litters bf eggs’ a year. Well, that first year, o the 125 eggs set in the spring, all hatched excepting flve, and I raised 117 birds. I "In the autuml, when my hens laid again, I followed my original plan of buy ing extra eggs, ijut was neither so suc cessful in the hitching nor the raising, bringing up on) | seventy-nine. Yet 79 and 117 makes 66, so when I tell you that I sold ihos*' turkeys at an average price of 67 cents, ycu will see (hat 1 had a snug little sqm tot my trouble. As that was my first year Ihe food had cost me personally nothing. My father having told me at the beginnii g to go ahead and raise all the turkeys I wished to. “However, when the second year began, although I started out with the r ime six birds, 1 determined to put myself bn a business basis with the rest of my family. s<4 1 used a iurga part of my earnings of the year before in buying food as wed as building fowl houses and yards. Then I followed the*plati of the previous sea son in every particular, excepting that X added flve Bramah chickens —hens, of course—to my tiock. These I set on tur key eggs about thi same time that I did my turkeys and when they hatched out I gave all the little ones to the chicken hens to mother and turned the turkey hen out into the pasture to lay another litter of eggs. Tds they will generally do in the spring when, not allowed to raise the first brood. That spring I raised 300 turkeys and in Ihe autumn 234 more. This time I did not sell all. Instead, I in creased my stock o fifty. "From that flock of fifty I sold 1,400, rifter increasing mv Hock to 100 and fur nishing the table with as many turkeys as the family cared to eat. “Of course my methods have changed very much since tae flock has increased from five to one hundred stock birds. I no longer use hong to hatch the eggs, but incubators. I buy the food by the quantity and plant acres and acres of small grain to give them green food. I plant whole fields of snallots and peppers as well as corn and I employ two women and sev eral boys to attend <0 them, yet, in spite of all these expenses, last year I cleared more than twenty-five hundred dollars. “The greatest trouble about raising tur keys is with dews and rains when they are young. Young turkeys should be hous ed at night In a house or covered yard and not allowed to run into weL grass. As food for the birds I usu bread of unsifted, un salted corn meal, into which a good quan tity of ted peppt r Is mixed. As green foo I for them until they are old enough to look out for themselves, 1 feed them the tier tops of shallots, chopped fine. After rhey pass helr fourth month I treat them pntty much as sheep feeding them twice a day, morning and night. "My birds meet with ready sale and al ways fetch good prices. 1 take orders for birds fattened on fancy foods, such as nuis, etc., which are supposed to flavor the flesh and of course these turkeys bring high prices. I see no reason why other women should not succeed In the work ad "would be only too g'ad to give all as. tistance in my power <0 them. Lafayette W. Laws. A HOY'S IMG I'HEANA NTI4Y. It Is Owned li> Wallace Evans of Chicago. Chicago, Dec 29 —Wallace Evans, n slen der, thirteen-yea:-old lad In knickerbock ers, owns the largest pheasantry in the West, selling WO eggs In a season and hatching n arly as many birds. Such an enterprise conducted by a bay is generally a makeshift, but the Evans pheasantry i* perfect in construction, hav ing about 175 by 2W feet under wire with the lales's Improved httG her and houses, it is divided Into a network of special yards, every gat* closing and locking au lomuticaliy so there Is no danger of Ihe birds escaping. The 110 k of gold pheasant* Is a gorgeous sight wlm their bill.lain yellow heads, <■!• of orange and blu lined with vivid gr in. scgilct holies, burnished wings and long graceful tail, doited with black. They si*,* .1 fad small 4 fanciers and (heir price is In nosing a* they now bring $. a lair Tl.* beautifully pUftoagi and hen lays thirty eggs In a > os*." which are worth lie a do on H has a large nuinta-r of English pheasants furn hiitg 1 One iwntrael lo the gosh beautit*. they lag iM tu 75 eggs, which are readily sold for $5 a set ling. His covey of quails would make a hun ter's heart leap, as they fly to cover wilh a whir of wings and warning cries. The oM | birds were imported from Tennessee where [ thousands of the luckless birds follow a trail of grain leading straight into a wire I enclosed correl and are there shipped to j breeeders. I In the center of each yard is a neatly ■ stacked pile of brush and straw which affords a native retreat for all the birds. Tfie English pheasants are very handy and frolic in the snow and ice like chil dren, but the golden hover in their houses in bitter cold weather. Wallace also raises canaries on a large scale, and this aviary is an ideal place, for the songsters never dream they are Imprisoned. Their breeding cage is a building, 15x20 feet, filled up with branches and boughs, where they build their nests like wild birds and their play cage is 20x30 feet. A red squirrel with a splendid brush Is their sole companion. I Then there are fancy chickens, Golden 1 Polish with dazzling feathers that look as if they had been dipped In, gorgeous dyes and black Polish white crested fowls, whose snowy bonnets are like nodding chrysanthemums. Fear is unknown In the pheasantry, even the timid quad comes at his whistle. He will have a large exhibit at the fourth annual show of the Chicago poultry and pet stock ex hibition in January and expects to add to his fine collection of first prize ribbons. Taken as a whole, the pheasantry re flects unbounded credit on its boyish pro prietor, who. in addition to having the sole care of it, is finishing the eighth grade course in the Oak Park School. Jennie Van Allen. THE FRESH WATER HYDRA. A More Dreadful Crentnre Than Mythology Ever Conceived of. There was once, says mythology, a hy dra which inhabited the marsh of Lerne in Greece and spread terror in all the country around. This frightful creature had seven heads and if some adventurer tried, with a praiseworthy intention, to cut off one, it immediately grew again. Now, there actually exists animals which, considering their small size, are more dreadful than the hydra of the Greeks. It Is a simple sack of some few milli metres in length called the fresh water hydra. Around the orifice of the sack, an orifice which is the mouth of the ani mal, are found dispose,) long arms or ten tacles, armed with poisonous darts. The hydra, very greedy and always In quest of prey, ceaselessly agitating its long arms in the water, and if one of (hem en counters any animalcule, it twines itself round the poor victim, pierces it with its darts, paralyzes it, and so carries it to the mouth of the hydra which swallows and ingests it. There is nothing very extraordinary In all that, but here is where the fantastic begins; cut off one of the arms of the hydra, and at the- end of twenty hours the arm will have grown out again; split the animal lengthwise, in such a way as to separate in two halves, each part folds back on itself, welds its two edges togeth er, and you have two hydra instead of one. Instead of splitting the animal length,- wiF\ cut it across in such a way as to have at the top a depth of sack without tentacles, at the bottom a kind qf rin or tube provided wilh arms, but open at both ends; you will see the upper half pro vide itself very rapidly with arms and the lower part, which already has tentacle-- close itself at the top, in such a way that each half of the original hydra will be come a complete hydra. Cut the hydra in ds many pieces as you may. and each piece will become a perfect hydra, which soon begins to search for food, without having the air of trou bling about the operation which gave it birth One can do better yet; one can if it is done carefully, turn the hydra ln!do out as oie turns the finger of a glove so that the stomach of the animal becomes lis skin and Its skin its stomach. In the first moments the hydra seems to exper ience a certain inconvenience; it does not | seem to bo sure of Itself. Frankly after such an experience, it would be strange If It did. Rit at last, at the end of a few hours, It appears to take its lot phlloeoph , ieally and takes food and digests its with its former skin which become its new stomach. This Is still nol all. II Mld thnt wolves will nol eat each other. That is n saying evidently false as concerning the wolves, but rigorously true with regard *-> the hydras. One may take advantage of the gluttony of the animal to make It swallow one of Its kind, but It wl I not delay in finding out the trick played upon It and It Immediately vomits up Its com rade, thus showing singular examtH of fraternity. But wh.re the 'evotion of the hydra becomes abnegation. Is When one prevents the swallowed hydra from •. cap mg ) piercing both of them with , bristle; then the exterior hydra extends Itself In length, wlilie (he Interior hydra get m off, carry lag with li the brlsil which traverses It and which does riot non ~ * ** ** 'tot the fstile of It,, hydra of faSlit- Is considerably auipaxeed by the resit* y. Plant System. M' —— Trains Operated by noth Meridian Time—One Hour Slower Thais City Tims. , READ DOWN" ' j] Effective Dec. 10. llriM.il HEAD UP, * j" 3J |32 ~j '•g, 178 ,|| NORTH and EAST. || 23 |35|37 | 18 | . ' ....... ...... 11 40p 6 s#a'l l lOaliL/v ~ Savannah ... Ar ; 3 15a| 7 2t>a| i 45p 4 :-.Sp lu 30a, •! Ua ,Ar •• Charleston ... Jev 11 loaj 5 Myj b.'p - _ 3 25a 7 25p ;Ar ... Richmond .. Lv;; 9 05a! 6 48p| - 7 oia 11 30p Ar .. WastollrgtOD .. Lv I 4 30a| 3 07p| 8 23a 1 08a! lAr ... Baltimore ... Lv | 2 55a| 1 46p| - luSSa., 3 50,i Ar ..Philadelphia .. Lv 113 20a 111 33a | - 1 03p 6 53a;lAr ..New Yolk ... Lv j 9 00p( 9 - 8 30p...... 3 OOpljAr Boston Lv|| 1 00p|12 n't| ~ IJTaCL ILK ACL |j -SOUTH- lIACLT- fS R. ACL SAL 15 33 35 35 23 || |j 78 jl3 |B4 3. 06 . 5 UOp 3 2op| 7 40al 5 20a 2 sJaji.v ... Savannah ... Ar|| 1 15a|10 25a|12 lOp 12 20p 11 P 8 OOpj 6 50p 9 50b 7 25a 5 00a -Ar .... Waycross .... Lvj|lo 35p( 7 06a| 9 55a 10 05a 9 ,Wp 10 OOpi 7 40p 11 50a 9 25a, 7 30a;[Ar ..Jacksonville- Lvjj 7 4op| 5 00a| 8 00a 8 00a 7 lop 12 47a |l2 47a 2 OOp 11 50a'u 50a jAr Palatka .... Lv|| 5 05p| 2 40a 2 40a 2 40a 5 (Bp 3 52a 3 52a 5 20p 5 20pi lAr ..Winter Park... Lv|| 1 33p|U 29p|U 29p 11 29p 1 33p 4 Ola; 4 Ola 5 30p 6 Sop< |Ar .... Orlando Lvj| 1 24p|1l 20p|U 20p 11 20p 1 2ip 4 34a| 4 34a 6 Olp 6 04p LAr.... Kissimmee.... Lv||l2 49p|10 44*>ilO 44p 10 44p 12 4>p 3 Ssp| 2 25p 2 25p||Ar .. Gainesville.... Lv|| 1 00p| 1 OOp <£sp 310 p 3 l(f• Ar 9Ocala Lv|ll2 15p| , 12 15p | 4 55p i 55p Ar .Leesburg.... Lv : ;l0 25aj * 10 2oa 9 3,'jpj 9 35p 9 35p| Ar Bellealf .... Lvi| 5 55ai 5 55a lO 30p;i0 30p|10 30p Ar .St. Petersburg.. Lv|| 5 ooa| 5 00a 7 00a, 7 00a 8 40p: 9 55p 9 55p|iAr Tampa Lv; 10 10a| 7 35p 7 35p 7 35p 10 10a 7 30aI 7 30a 9 lOp 10 30p'10 30p Ar .. .Port Tampa.. Lv|| 9 40a| 7 OOp 7 OOp 7 OOp 9 40a 3 OOpI 3 OOp 12 40a'12 40a!12 40a 'Ar ..Punta Gorda... Lv| | 335 p 335 p 335 p 1 5 15p'!0 30a ! 10 30n Ar St A in? listing..'Lvll C 20pl 5 iOp NORTH. WEST AN D SOUTHWEST. I 5.R.11 Via Jesup. li fSAL" |AlSIj] Via Montgomery || pOL 15 135 |j II 15 ]_*_ J IS IC6 II II 15 36 5 00p, 5 20a,;Lv. Savannah 7aF|: 10 25a 1 1 59p ! 5 (klp| 7 40a||Lv. Savannah .Ar||lo 25a 11 5p 6 55pj 630a Ar.... Jesup ...Lv I 8 Isa'lo SOp 1 50al 1 50p |Ar Thomasviile Lv|| 2 00a 5 30p 3 00a llopLAr Macon .. .Lv j 1 OOaj 2 30p | 810 a-j 9 30p||Ar M'tgomery Lvj| 7 45p 11 25a 520a| 3Wp Ar.. Atlanta ..Lv 10 15p'12 05p 7 10p| 6 50a||Ar. Nashville .Lv;|9ooa 2 21a 9 45a S4op Ar Chat no .ga Lv ! 5 50pi 6 45a 2 30a|12 25p||Ar. Louisville .Lv|| 2 55a 9 12p 7 30p| 7 45.1 Ar. Cincinnati .Lv | 8 30a; 8 OOp 7 05a| 4 05p||Ar. Cincinnati .Lv||ll OOp 5 45p 7 30pj 7 50a||Ar. Louisville -Lv | 7 45a| 7 lip 7 20a| 716p;|Ar.. St. Louis ..Lvj| 8 55p 8 28* 7 01a| 6 OOp : Ar.. St. Louis ..Lv | 9 15p| 8 08a | || (L. & N.) II 7 15a | 5 lOpllAr.. Chicago ..Lv | 8 30p| 9 00a 732a| [lAr. St. Louis .Lv 8 OOp _ s _ 3oa* 4 iSp.jLv ..Atlanta . Ar 10'35p|U 30 • —J.L taw t 8 06p| 7 15a Ar ~M< mphls. Lv | 8 20a 9 OOp _ 8 09a l 9 lap|)Ar.. Chicago ..LV|| 7 OOp 1 oOp 9 45a | 7 10a i! Ar Kan-asCityLVj; 6 30p| 9 45p 4 12p| 3 05a||Ar... Mobile... Lv||l2 58p|12 20a BRUNSWICK VIA JESUP. "" 8 30p l 7 40a tl A r N. Orleans Lv 7 55a| 7 45p Wp|s 20aI Lv. Savannah ArlllO 250(1159? 8 *>Pj 7 'll Jv. Savannah - ArlilO Halil 39p 4 54p' 6 36a Ar ... Jesup. . Lv|| 8 15a 10 ::0n 7 06a l 2 BOp Ar... Tlfton ...Lv, 115a 5 SOp 6 55p| 8 45a,|Ar Brunswick Lv|| 6 Waj 8 30P * *■} g bo l um"us".Lv| l |'. . ■ !l0 OOa J ackscufv file St * /fugus U nef' and Nm! No. 82 ieave Thomasviile 5:0. am.; a,-' 15 and S. R. 33, between Bartow. Fla., rive Savannah (as No. 32) 12.20 p. m. , and Punta Gorda. Fla., daily except Sun. '*>. THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR SERVICE TO NORTH, EAST AND WEST, AND TO FLORIDA. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINK Mon., Thurs., Sat., UOOpnrjLv Port Tampa Ar| 230 pm. Tues„ Thurs., Sun. Tues., Frl., Sun., SOOpm |Ar.. Key West ..Lv| 930 pm. Mon., Wed., Sat., Tues., Frl., Sun., 900 pm.|Lv.. Key West ..Ar| 730 pm. Mon., Wed., Sat., Wed., Sat., Mon., 600 am.[Ar... Havana ...Lv|l2 30 n'n. Mon., Wed., Sat. H. G. Haycraft. Trav., Pass., Agt., De Soto Hotel. E. A. Armand, City Ticket Agt. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager. Savannah, Ga. Georgia and Alabama Railway. Passenger Schedules effective Dec. 24, 1899. Trains operated by 90th meridian time—one hour slower than City Time. read IT - C) Head DOWN || [L-J 1 ? Nol 19[No.l7|| . ljNo.iBj-No.aO 6 30p| 7 25a II Lv Savannah Ar j | 8 25p 8 40a 7 10p| 8 08ai|Ar Cuyler Lvj| 7 43p 7 57a 10 21 pj 7 4a|;Ar Statesboro Lv|| 5 45p 5 OOa 8 46p| 9 45aj|Ar Collins Lv|| 6 09p 6 35a 10 50p|U 45aj|Ar Helena Lv|| 4 05p . 4 40a 3 05aj 4 ISp.Ar Macon Lv||ll 20a|12 55nc 5 20a 7 35pj Ar Atlanta Lv | 7 50a 10 45p 9 45a| 1 00a| Ar Chattanooga Lv j 3 05a 6 05p I' 12 36p Ar Abbeville Lv , 3 lop 8 OSpj Ar Fitzgerald Lv 12 55p 1 40p Ar Cordeie Lv | 2 lOp 310 p Ar Amerlcus Lv ,12 34p 5 20p Ar Columbus Lv 10 OOa 3 20p| Ar Albany Lv 1 12 OOn 7 55p Ar Montgomery Lv 7 45a 11 35a!12 25nt Ar Birmingham Lv | 4 40p 4 12pl 3 05a; Ar Mobile Lv| 12 20nt| 8 30pi' 7 40aj;Ar New Orleans Lv 7 45p| 7 30pi 4 05p' Ar Cincinnati Lv j 8 30a 7 20a{ 7 16pi|Ar St. Louis Lv | 8 55p All trains run daily. , Magnificent buffet parlor cars on Train s 17 and 18. : t • <_ ■ CONNECTIONS. W AT CUYLER with Savannah and Statesboro Railway. AT COLLINS with Stillmore Air Line, also with Collins and Reidsville Railroai AT HELENA wilh Southern R ilway. AT CORDELE with Georgia Southern and Florida Railway; also with Albany and Northern Railway. AT RICHLAND with Columbus Division. AT MONTGOMERY with Louisville and Nashville and Mobile and Ohio Ra ’ roads. m „ For rates or any other information, call on or address W. P. SCRUGGS. C. P. and T. A., Bull and Bryan streets, WM. BUTLER. JR., T. P. A., Bull and Bryan strets. , - A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. CECIL OABBETT. Vice President and General Manager. MCMILLAN BROS., —Manufacturers of— Seamless Turpentine Stills and Fixtures. PATCHING COPPER AND RIVETS, SHEET AND BOLT COPPER. Repairing through the country a special. y. SAVANNAH, GA. MOBILE, ALA. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. The lllack Walnut. From the Berea Quarterly. The great eize oflen reached by this tree, the richiv'ss of the dark brown wood, the u.itque beauty of the grain sometimes found Ir. burls, knots, feathers, and in the curl of ihe roots, all conspire to make this the most choice and high-priced of .11 our tvttive woods. Twenty-live years ago walnut was ex tensively t.-<ed In the manufacture of fine furniture ;td furnishings in this country, but mnnufts-turers adroitly drew aticn llon to the I cutty of darkly stained quar tered oak. arc’ the use of the rarer wood has greatly ..'t lined. But all this time the search foe line black walnut logs has gone on sysier.x uically, though qui- dy, the trade attract.! little attention, though the volume of I,* liber handl, and has lx • n large. Though f<,und to some extent in the Atlantic stales from Massachusetts southward, the gres, soerte of supply has is. n t hi nlral port Vns of the Misslssi q Valley. The walnut la at home In the rich niluvlal iMiltom land* of the Western streams and in ih>- snny limestone soils of the hills and mountains, and BUrtl lo ulliles the*.,uyers hav U ft few tre-s ur,surveyed. Throuslioui k astern Kansas Missouri and Arka as. as well as the si ties along the ohto nnd ii * irihutarl. < muy l.e seen a f. logs.ui <) - little sta iloti m ear or (Mi at that. h carefully | fiewn set- and painted ends, ready for! U > aj ask white i| ir-itket :# ytni will i mat (be great bu'k f this .n. re ;um- I Is r goes to Eufofir U hi 9 w have twrs |c,j into an -t, i iiusl- ' astle olmutiou for tins oak, e'-t tm 1 wc 0^ "^GEORGIA Schedules Effective Nov. 8. 1899. Trains arrive at and depart from Central Station, West Broad, Foot of Liberty street. 90th .Meridian Time—One hour slower than city time. Leave Arrive Savannah: Savannah: .Macon, Augusta, Atlanta, ' *8 43am|Covington. Milledgevllle *6 OOptn land all intermediate points. (Augusta, Macon, * gomery, Atlanta, Athens, *9 00pm|Columbus, Birmingham, *6 00am ■< lAmericus, Eufaula and |Troy. 46 00pm Dover Acoonunodatloik |t7 48am t 2 00pm| Guyton Dinner Train. |+4 Sbprn •Daily. iMi y except Sunday. “* BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND TYBEE. *sui meridian or Savannah city time. Leave Savannah Sunday, Tueoday, Wed nesday, Friday and Saturday 9:35 a ra.| . Monday and Thursday 6:25 1 m.. daily 3 :05 p. in. Returning, leave Tybee Sunday, Tues day, Wednesday. Friday and Saturday 10;3ti a. m.; Monday and Thursday 7:15 a> m.; daily 5:30 p. m. Connections made at terminal points * with til trains Northwest, Wt and'4 Souths est. 4 Sleep.Hg cars on night train* betweon ’ navamv 111 and Augusta, Macon, Atlanta and Bi.'jnlngrtam. Parlor cars on day traixs between Savannal'. Macon and Atlanta. For complete information, schedtilM, rai*H andf connections lpply to W. G. li iTEWER, city Tlrket and Pas eng.-r Ag. I. ID7 Bull xtroet. W H. MdINTYRE, D-net Ticket Agent. J. C. HAILE. General Passenger Agent. E. i. HINTON. Traffic Manager THKi i I). JvI.INK, Or. Superintendent. JOHN M. LOAN. Vice ITesldint, Savannah. Ga. I cording to thi degree of antiquity it Is rupp ii-d 10 r*ivt nt. our European .-ous •n ban lacn paying fancy prices for th filch black walnut that we have nttowei •o go "out ot fa.k Ion." ‘ Non-l'nloti Tro iMes—“l'd tie willing mX work fifteen hours m day for you dktiltur ® lie ardsntly pleaded, "Ucabt" she hie*Mfl •is she six. pi fret 11 t n room, for hr papS • J wmlkliig itiUl.aAe.— Uvollln bilk ■