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A VISIT TO TAKU, CHINA. <pT . CHIDLEY’S DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN. I nntlruoli' <• Situation mid Dro. loir Surroundings— Evidences of ( hint-M* Oinclal Corruption—Clay ( artrldgvs a ,,, l Wooden Cannon. Hotf Vessel* Cos Into Mud Quiir ,,rg for the Winter—Pitiable Ig norance o( the Native Soldiers, utrjherita A Harrira, in New York Post. The town of Taku, which has Just been aptureci by the allied civilized nations, is military settlement ra'lier than a city. , ; s t ,a:ed at the mouth of the Peh-ho, he chief river In the province of Chi-Li. t was originally a lishing village, and a ivorite rendezvous of pirates and smug trs Even before the first war of t'nina Ith England it was fortttied in the ar.ti lated style so dear to the Chinese heart. L o ]d lort is still in existence, nnd is Indered at and laughed over by the few ho visit the place. The walls are made • brick and earth and are reinforced by nud banks made from ihe oozy soil of the eighborhood. Originally It was armed rith smooth-bore, muzzle-loading thiriy wo and sixty-four pounders. It was a itronghold according to the standards of he last century, but under modern condi jons practically worthless. It was neatly leseribed to a party of friends by the late :apt. Gridley of the Olympia as "the nost satisfactory cattle-pen on the Chi lfse coast." During the war between stance and China in ISS4-1885 the old fort was greatly strengthened by earthwork jatteries on both sides of the river, rtid >y a number of Krupp and Armstrong pms. It was the intention of the Chinese fommander-ln-chief to use Armstrongs exclusively, but the British agent refused to pay any commission to the Chinese officials or to give receipts for amounts larger than those he received. Negotiations were therefore broken off with him, end the remainder of the armament supplied through Chinese intermediaries, who fur- E nished Krupp guns at figures satisfactory f to j-ieir.seives and the purchasers. "Quaker" Cartridge* for Wooden i Gun*. The corruption which marked this of -ial business was illustrated scon after is breaking out of the war betw<Mi Ihlnn and Japan, when over or.e ;hon ied cartridges in stock mrned out to be av neatly moulded, silvered, an) ja mmed. so as to be almost iridist ngu -ti tle from the real article. Two of these quaker" cartridges were exhibited in okohama among other relies of the in ■rnational contest. It is said by old res ents of Tien Teln that at least two of hat seemed to he the largest-sized rupp guns were mad 1 of wood, pa mod, Kered. and carved so as to be perfect nages of the steel and ,ron weapons of he famous German ironmaster. There is no harbor to Taku. it being pen the low ccast of the Hoang-hai or ellow sea. The settlement ccn.-is s of bracks, officers' quarters, a small cus m-house, and a lot. of poor Chinese mses or hovels. The land is a part cf le delta of the Peh-ho. This river, though mall, brings down an enormous amount f silt, and is steadily shoaling up the II a beyond. Although the Yellow sea is ■ather turbulent, the fierce river is raov ng the bar cut steadily. The charts show his movement very clearly. Those- of the sarly part of the century make the bar about three miles from the shore, in 1850 It was about four and a half miles, and o-day it is six miles. At this distance Vom the land there is cr.ly twelve feet at ow title excepting in the four channels. The bottom Is mud. eo soft and so free ■from recks that the coasting captains who rply that part of the Chinese waters think E little of running aground in this n- igh f borhood. For many years enterprising merchants have kept powerful steam tugs at Tien Tsin, ar.d they make a handsome profit in towing vessels up ar.d down the Peh-ho, and in pulling luckless ships off the numberless shoals within the bar. A Desolate Landscape. Taku is exceedingly desolate. Though the soil is very rich and vegetation grows with rapidity, yet the poverty of the peo ple compels them to utilize the smallest pieces of vegetable matter. In the fail the writer has noticed the natives gath ering all the dead leaves, and just before the first frost they dug up all the roots, even the grass roots, dried them, and put them by for fuel. From October until April, therefore, the ground is as bare as a newly ploughed field, and the endless expanse of clay, sand, and silt forms .is lugubrious a background as the eye could rest upon. So thorough is this robbery of green things that the land birds go to more favorable districts, and even such winged creatures as the wild ducks make but a short stay in their long flight to warmer climes. The natives of Taku belong to the same type as those of other towns in Chi-Li an l Shan-Tung. They ore much larger, heav ier. and stronger than those of the south, who give us 99 per cent, of our Chinese population, and they are of much lighter complexion, many of them having gray or hazei eyes, brown and even dark red hair. They are proud and more independ ent and often more unruly than their col leagues in the south. In size and stature they compare well with the average American. Through this district is found a strain of very tail and powerful men, who, according to their own legends, are descendants of a famous Mongolian horde that came from the North several thous and years ago. It is this breed which produced Chang, the star giant of Bar num’s moral show in the years long gone by, and Chang's sister, a colossal maiden eight feet four inches in hlght. The climate of Taku cannot be recom mended from any point of view'. In winter it is bitterly cold, and all communication 1* shut oft by a wall or great rampart of Ice at sea and drifts of snow on land. For three months the place is thus buried alive. During the spring rains the ter ritory Is a miasmatic marsh, and during the rest of the year it is hot, dusty, in sect-ridden and uncomfortable. From Taku an excellent military road runs to Tien Tsin. It owes its existence and fine condition to Li Hung Chatjg, who, during bis long official residence there as Vice roy, bestowed more care and labor upon the thoroughfares of Ills Jurisdiction than any other While the road is not equal to the Imperial post road, which runs through the empire, it Is much bet ter than the average Chinese road, which goes up and down hil! with no regard to safety or comfort. It seems to have been flagged in the beginning of history and not to have been repaired since. Any good points about it are due -to the mil lions of feet, brute and human, which have traversed its surface and the rain and wind which have brought dust and debris to fill up Its Inequalities. The Peh-ho Is a stream which resembles some* of the rivers flowing Into the Gulf °f Mexico. It twists and winds like a ser pent and changes its channel with regu larity and dispatch. It Is always navi gable to light-draught boats, and during the spring, to steamers of twenty and twent-one feet drailght. There is a river population as upon every stream in ihe t'elestlal Empire, but on account of the bjtter winters and the spring freshets Ha habits are very different from those which Prevail on the Yang-lse and the Si-Kiang. In 1h early fall the junkmen draw their clumsy craft* high up on the banks and build around them walls of mud. I re quently the wall will be higher than the gunwales. The first frost changes (lie tnud to crystalline hardness, malting it a > apltal defense against cold and rtorm. This practice has been copied by civilized bailor.*, and many are the men-of- var, English and American, which hate gor.e into mud quarters during the winter at T ten Tsin station. Our own people have I si ■ ft Has Happened More than once that a child has been earned off by an eagle. When such a thing does happen the press rings with the story. There's not a line given by die press to the babies car ried off daily bv disease. It isn’t the fact of the child being taken away tnat is startling or interesting, it's only when the method of taking off is novel that it excites interest. How many children die who might have been saved if the mother who bore them had been able to give them strength and vitality. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes healthy mothers and healthy mothers have healthy.children, strong enough to resist disease if they are attacked. Mrs. Axel Kjer. of Gordonville, Cape Gir ardeau Cos., Mo .writes: "When I look at mr iitt'.r hoy I feel it rav duty to write to you. This is my fifth child and the only one who came to maturity the others having died from lack of nourishment—so the doctor said This time I just thought I would try your • Prescription ’ 1 took nine bottles and to iy surprise it carried rae through and gave us as fine a little boy as ever wti Weighed teu and one-half pounda. He ia now five months old. has never been sick a day, anti is so strong that everybody who aces him wonders at him.’' Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets keep the bowels healthy and regular. developed the Chinese practice Into a science and have won the admiration rf the Mongolians. One winter the Palos, which was a light-draught gunboat, ran on a mud flat at high tide. A tnud wall, eight feet high and ten feet wide, was built all around it. Between the walls and ihe boat ihe sailors put straw, and on the straw a coating of mud eight Inches thick. From the port and starboard gang ways they ran out wooden platforms to the top of the wall and thence a light bridge to the land. Over the deck they built a barnlike structure containing win dows, and covered all the Joints with pa per. While building the deck-cover the *arly frost converted the mud into ada mant, and so gave them an outside wall lo their craft which was proof against cold, rats, and thieves. They next made a skating pond along the wall, and there during the winter they held high carnival. Junk Trade Crashes Uy Steam. At one time there was a large Junk trade on the Peh-ho. especially of big freight junks bringing rice, beans, bean cako, bean-oil, and foreign goods to Tien Tsin, This was almost wholly destroyed by the coasting steamers. At the present time two Chinese, four Japanese, eix Eng lish and one German line of steamers call regularly at Tien Tsin, and at least two tramp steamers visit it every week. Asa s.ngle schooner will bring from ten to fifty times as much cargo as a Junk, the de cadence of the junk trade is easily under stood. The junkmen, who even to-day are a powerful element in the working class es, are very bitter against the foreign de vil and his vessels, and even more bitter against the Chinese merchants, who are now so largely interested in steam navi gation. It must be remembered that these coasters are manned by Chinese clews chiefly Swatow men with Malay quarter masters. The Swatow men speak a lan guage utterly unintelligible to the people of Chl-Li, who regard them as foreigners of a worse type than those who have red heads, i. e., English or Luzon men (Span iards), or Flower-flag men, that is, Ameri cans. A Chinese steamship sailor receive* gold a month, while Ihe junkman, even in his palmy days, got but $1 or $1.50. To the resentment occasioned by the destruc tion of the business is added the jealousy produced by Seeing a rival receive what is to him a princely salary. This may ac count iVi some measure for the fact that most of the disturbances of the present insurrection have thus far taken place on the great internal waterways, which have been so profoundly affected tbmmercially in the past decade. The native soldiers at Taku are no bet ter and no worse than those of other ports. At one time when Li Hung Chang was in power in Chi Li they were well drilled, and were thoroughly familiar with modern weapons, but during the war with Japan his famous army corps was broken up, and when he was dis placed and degraded the efficient organi zation which he bad created at Tien Tsin and Taku was utterly demolished by his conservative rivals. Only one regiment and a brass band remain at Tien Tsin to tell the story of their former great ness. For the last five years the Taku garrison has consisted of poorly dressed, poorly fed and poorly drilled raw levies, with their pay generally six months in arrears, nnd with no medical attendance excepting that which they could secure from a medical missionary. Many of them have never fired a rifle nor handled i cartridge. So far as is known, thei have never used the big guns, the only firing they have done being the salute from a light fieldpiece whenever a man of-war passed the forts en route to Tien Tsin The present officers are on a par with the men. Under the conservative administration of the Empress Dowager, all the foreign drillmasters have been discharged from the imperial service, and their places filled with graduates of the Manchurian Military College at Peking. This school, its system and graduates, would be ridiculously funny If they were not so pitiable. Their chief text book upon military science is a literan’ classic more than l.nno years old. It abounds in su-h extraordinary recommendations as ,h "T wi=e general plays sweet music he fore going into battle in order to lull his enemies into a deep sleep.” ■•A good commander should Insist upon hi men practicing with the bow to shoot backwards as they ride on their horses, ami should ai times lead in the exercise hl "vo general should go to war without taking with him an extra red umbrella and an extra umbrella-bearer. These graduates are supposed to have mnsiered horsemanship, bow *nd arrow, the spear, the sword, and martial music. !£ese being even to-day the chief features cf the Manchurian curriculum. The Taku garrison Is supposed to con ict of 5 000 soldiers command*! ny a ti tri rtr major general. If Taku is like m ost of the garrison cities of Chinn, the .-,000 soldiers existed only npon paper, excepting SO far as drawing their salaries from the national treasury ed. and are represented by . M or I.MO poor wretches no more entitled to_he name of soldier than the little Kjw York bo vs who parade up and down the street with wooden guns and paper hats. _"No Harrv. I am sure we could not he happy together; you know I always want * A „. n , V ;iv in everything. dar lTn y g. you could go.on wanting it after we were married.' -Brooklyn Life. -The death of th" Grand V!*ier. Fir Muk of'VTz" l* atypical Moorish government official in character as well as by dscn • THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 1,1900. WILL DE OPPOSITION. Republican State and District C*s mttteea • Meet This Week. Chairman Walter H. Johnson of the Re publican State Central Committee has Is sued a call for a meeting of the commit tee to be held tn Atlanta next Thureday. for the purpose of placing in nomination a ticket for Governor and Slat* House officers. It looks from thla as If the Re publicans Intended to give Gov. Candler end hie ticket a light this fall. Collector J. H. Deveaux, who wae one of the delegates from this district to the Republican Convention at Philadelphia, returned yesterday. Col. Deveaux ex pressed himself as very much pleased with the convention and as confident of the success of the ticket. A call would be is sued some time soon, he said, for a meet ing of the District Republican Committee for the purpoee of placing in nomination a candidate for Congress. Col. Deveaux said that a candidate would certainly be put in the field, but who the candidate would be he was not reedy to say. SIXTEEN RACK PROM THE HOME. Twelve Mere Children Will Be Take* te Tybee To-morrow. Eleven of the sixteen children who spent last week at the Home, returned to the city yesterdey afternoon. Twelve more will be taken down on th eeerly train to morrow. which with the five already at ihe Home, will be as many aa can be accommodated. Applications for the trip continue to come to the ladles In charge of the home In undiminished numbers, and the out look is that the Home will be filled each week until the end of the seasrfn. The following dona i lone were received by the Fresh Air Home during the week: Mrs. John Heard Hunter s children, ti, the Zorayda Archery Club, 113.30; cash, $1; Mr. James M. Dixon, one barrel of flour. LAWTON CADETS* NON-COMS. The Appointments of Officers An nounced. At the last meeting of the Lawton Ca dets the following officers were appointed: Quartermaster sergeant, William B. Adams; sergeants. John Kiefer, Charles Martin. Lawton Tyson. Walter Elton ard Emmett Robinson, and corporals, Willie Bythewood, James Craft, Peak, and Gar rard Haines. CITY BREVITIES. DeKalb Lodge No. 9, Golden Rule No. 12 and Ruth Rebecca No. 3 will hold a public Installation of officer* In Odd Fel lows Hall next Friday night. Mrs. Clay won the candy donated by Conlda in the guessing contest at Isle of Hope Friday night. Her gue* was 155, the correct number of people on the pavilion. G. W. Tiedeman donates a box of Gen. Worth cigars for the gentlemen s contest Tuesday night. The Picnic Committee of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will meet at th* hall of the society, Abereorn and Bay street*, to-day at 11 o'clock for the pur pose of settling on plans for a picnic, which it Is proposed to have at an early date. It Is likely that Tybe* will be the place selected for It. The pupils of Miss Lillie Sellg achieved a record last season, of which she can well be proud. Mr. W. J. Lindsay, at the Porter Military Academy. Charleston. Mr Walker Cutts, at the Here Institute. Petersburg. Va, and Mr. Herman Lang, at the Savannah Academy, each received the medal for decamation; while at the Washington College, Washington. D. C.. which maintains a separate department of elocution. Mis* Birdie Muhlberg barred all competition. Jasper Greene* Pirate. The Irish Jasper Greens will give their annual picnic at Warsaw Wednesday. July 11. The committee in charge is com posed of Capt. P. F. Gleason. Sergt. D. J. Charlton, Quartermaster Sergeant M. J. O'Leary, Corpl. J. D. Robinson, Jr., and Private* W. P. Conner*. T. G. Philpot, J. J. Stafford. Th* ste*mer Santee will leave the wharf at the foot of Abercorn street at 8:30 a. m. Has Watch and Ring. Detective Stark ha* recovered from a crook under arrest by the police a hand some gold watch and diamond ring. The man from whom the valuables were re covered refuses to make any disclosures and the detective Is dependent, therefore, upon the owner. If the owner will call at the barracks and Identify the watch and ring he will recover them. Last Day ta Pay l'. 8. Taxes. Merchant* and others doing business re quiring the payment of special license taxes to the government, should remem br that to-morrow 1* the last day for pay ment. The taxes can be paid either to Deputy Collector Theodore Basch, or Stamp Clerk H. E. Wilson at Savannah, or to the internal revenue collector at At lanta. THE HAND-ORGAN MAN'S MONKEY. The South America* Ringtail the bloat Tractable of the Tribe. From the New York Sun. - A large share of the monkeys brought into this climate dlen of lung treble, and the greatest care must be exercised in guarding them against sudden change* of temperature and protecting them during the cold weather. The . South American ringtail monkey stand* this climate bet ter than the African or Asiatic monkey does; and Is, as a reault, the chosen alave of the hand-organ man- No other monkey could stand being dragged about the coun try, In rain, cold and aleet, heat and cold; and even the ringtails are likaly to die of the exposure.. Theorgan-gr.lnderordlnartly kills from five to ten monkeys before he finds one that pan stand the life, but when that one is found, nothing but an ax or dynamite could faze It. Another reason why the South American monkey stars with hand-organs Is that it is the only one of its race that can be trained well. It learns tricks readily and is willing to show them, while the Asiatic or African monkey ha* a propen sity for stubborn and Incorrigible sulk*. Then, too, these animal*, if confronted with anything new that Marti** or irri tates them, may drop Ihetrveneerof civili zation and slip back into savage wtldne** and vioiouanes*. while the ringtail always doe* credit to his training and maintains his serenity. His virtues Are his undoing, and he leads the hardest life of any of his tribe. The ringtail* ar brought directly to this port, in vessels running between New York and South American ports, but the importation is usually an Irregi4ar and de sultory one. carried on by the captains and mates of the boats. If they have an opportunity to pick up a few monkeys at a low price, they bring them on the home voyage and well them to the dealers; but they seldom bring many of the animals at one time. By Ihe time the boat reaches thla port, the monkeys have been l handled by the sailors until they are comparative ly tame and reconciled to captivity. The African and Asiatic monkeys are even tamer when they reach here; for they have passed through more hands, and heve been longer on the way. They are usually bought for the American trade In Hamburg, Germany, and com* over In consignments of from fifty to two hun dred, in charge of a buyer, who looks out for their health and comfort. Many of them reach Hamburg, in'the same way that the ringtail* reach N'ey ' York, Wear Metropolitan Clothing ' and Keep Cool in the Sun. Does your business or your Inclination kec, you In the inn three sweltering; dajw! If it does, don't yon cure. Wherever you arc you eon keep cool nnd comfortable in oar —-SERGE SUITS AT $7.50 to $18.00.^-^ Yon should see them. Ilut look at the out—look at the way the collar llts, the hnttou hole*, the irnlng, the %\uy the lining; is put in and the vray the house that sella the clothes atnuda hook of its promises. The Bargain Suits are still here in flue, nliuobt unbroken, naaortiuent In Fancy W orsteds, Cnssimeres, Cheviots, etc. It's a rare opportunity. Inoh splendid values are offered nowhere else for so little money— s 5.62 for Suits worth $ 7.50 $13.50 for Suits worth SIB.OO 9.00 “ “ “ 12.00 16.87 “ “ “ 22.50 11.25 “ “ “ 15.00 18.75 “ “ “ 25.00 Llflrht and dork colors, perfect-fitting;, splendidly made Suits, gunrnnteed pure wool or worsted—nnd your money lmek If you'd rnther have it. MBS'.! TIIOCSERS In Worsteds, Cheviots autl Caaqlmcrcs. a very fine lot. An extra pair of trousers is always a desirable adjunct to a. man's wardrobe, no matter how complete. We offer a splendid choice of all desirable patterns and coloring* at n REDI’CTIOX OF 250 OFF ON THi DOLLAR. I m^mm V Yachting Caps at 25c, 50c to $1.50. 1 BOYS' WASH SUITS. fW ' sum mi MEN'S LINEN COLLARS, If you want grood wash suits at I .a^, fair price., here', the place o bay. 1 / TWO-KOR-A-QI ARTER. If yoa want era.h ..It. that will ■ 7 / High 1.nn.1. arc the m.t .en.lbl* fake and tear and rip. bar tha.c fl / / /RI r Ljy 1 —m.ner collar.. Few people arc a boat town for SOc and BOc. Oar. fl X JMf RIGHT ' 0 " ' i •"• j are When wc Had good | / < I clathe. for le*.’we’ll .ell them. fl JOXJP*' 7 Mwit WnC-A I DP IC PC fl ggrgro btdai., uato I W/ • MEN'S NEGLIGEE SHIRTS. MEN S STRAW HATS I W/ MM 1 w* at Sse off on the dollar. It's about Si Jgsf ( VHKII H . . . , .... . gf fl fAllll ■mill TO wee shirt business. What we have ■[ time now for your second straw hat, 53 f Ii ‘A Ml *Tnr a il ..... . * u 1 \A ji I 9 not ©• and what we have at $1 to and look at the saving;. It will poy ■ Mflfl J. nL’AWIJ 9 M __ ... . fi I* will surprise the most fastidious you to examine our's before your H ’sk. V \ ' % n , | >4rs M EJ dresser. The stock Is complete and *** W e \ 7 y I never prettier. New ones are con- Japnnese 511 k Underwear in Flain 8 \ / v fl stnntly arriving. Imported and do- Tllue, Fink and Salmon, full fash- Bj \j I mestle, the Minr Shirt, at 91*00 re tailed and regular made, fast colors. H uj mains unrivalled for the perfection Rrgalnr price SI.OO. Other makes, flsv..., smzk* Tt l -■UlLfiUft.l l * l 'of fit nnd style. Ulg; and roomy Boys’ and Children’s Straw hats at L^n^nssißn^mi^umßmßmni One f-tt-- a ' n Price piewcs * —SAVANNAH— & through the captains and mates of trading vessels, who Import them as a private speculation. The Germans, however, also carry on a definite and systematic trade in monkeys, and men are sent to Asia nnd Africa every year to oolleci the animals Some of ihe dealers have arrangements with the natives by which the monkeys are captured and held for them, and ihe byer make* only a comparatively' short trip, to inspect the animals and take them to Germany. One specie* of monkey,the African man drill, ha. won immunity from captivity by consistent and Incorrigible viciousness and Intractability. Thousands of the tribe fought, bled and died in the cause, and like the old guard, they died but never surrendered. There should be a monu ment to those mandrills who male way for liberty in Winkelfried style, i.nd showed the big grasping baboons and the Irlghtened chimpanzees and the smaller Asiatic hordes that the tailless irivaders might capture their bodies, but couldn’t subdue their proud spirit. Now. as a re sult of ancestral heroism, innumerable mandrills are sportively swinlng by their tails in African forests, serenely sure that they will not he disturbed. "They're A bad lot, the mandrills. It don’t pay to bother with them," say the dealers; but the Banderlogs know that the mandrills are heroes. The baboons and chimpanzees are fero cious and hard to handle, but bring good prices and there is always a demand for them. The opening of new zoological gar dens throughout the United States has in creased the trade in monkeys, but the American circus has always offset ihe greater number of zoos in Erope and lias made this country a good monkey market. The clown end the monkeys are the two indispensable circus adjuncts. The rest of the outfit may be thin spread and unsat isfactory, but if the monkey and the clown are in good workln order,the children at least will get their money's worth. So the mapager of even the smallest traveling circus keeps his monkey cages full, and, as the exposure kills off the animals rap idly, he has to be constantly replenishing the stock. It is hard on the monkey*, but the making of the dealers. THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE. Loot* Philippe'* Dashing, Popular, Mischievous son. From the New York Times. Francois d’Orleans, Prince de Joinvltle, whose death occurred a week ago, was famous not only as a fighting sailor. Dur ing the reign of King Louis Philippe, his father, he was the most dashing and pop ular of the young princes. He was also the most mischievous, and kept his moth er and th* court of the Tuileries in a Mate of constant terror; for although he held the King in some awe and was passionate ly devoted to the Queen, as ehe was to him. he made her the victim of many practical joke*. Victor Hugo, who was on Intimate term* with Louis Philippe and a frequent vis itor to the court, alludes in his "Memoirs” to the Prince's pranks, and gives good Idea of his character. In a memorandum dated 1*47 he says; "At the Tuilerie* the Prince de Jolnvill* passes his time doing all sorls of wild things. One day he turned on oil the taps and flooded the apartments. Another day he. cut all the bell ropes—a sign that ha Is bored and does not know what to do with himself.” Hugo adds "And what bores these princes most is to receive and talk to peo ple ceremoniously. They call It—for princes have their slang—'performing the function.' The Due de Mompenoier Is the only one who performs it gracefully. One day the Duchesse d'Orleans asked him the reason. He replied; 'lt amuses me.' He Is 20 yeasr old; he Is beginning.” Later the poet has ibis to say about the Prince; \ "The Prince de Jolnvllle * deafness m creases. Sometimes It saddens him; some times h" makes light of it. On* day he said to me: ’Speak louder, I am as deaf as a post.’ On another oocosion he bent toward me and said with a laugh: " 'J'abaisse le pavilion de I’orellle.' •' 'H is the only one your Highness will ever lower,’ I replied. "M. de Jolnvllle is of eomewhst queer disposition. Now he is Joyous to the point of folly, anon gloomy as a hypochon driac. He Is silent for three days at time, or hi* burn? of laughter are heard tn the very attics of the Tuilerie*. "When h* is on a voyage he rise* at 4 o'clock in the morning, wakes everybody up, and performs hi* duties as a sailor conscientiously. He acts as though he • had to win his epaulets. "Ho loves France and feels all that touches her. This explains his file of moodiness. Since he cannot talk as he wants to he keeps his thoughts to himself, and this sours him. He has spoken more than once, however, and bravely. He wu not listened to and he was not heeded. ‘They needn't talk about me.' he said to me one day. 'it is they who are deaf!' "Unlike the Duke d'Orleans, he has no princely coquettishness, which Is such a victorious grace, and has no desire to ap pear agreeable. He rarely seeks to please individuals. He loves the nation, the country, his profession, the sea Hie manner is frank, he has a taste for noisy pleasures, a fine appearance, a handsome face, with a kind heart and few feats of arms to his credit (hat have been exag gerated. he is popular. "The other day there was a masked and costumed ball, but only for the family nnd the Intimate court cir.le—the princesses and ladies of honor. M. de Jolnville ap peared all in rags, in complete 'Chicard* costume. He was extravagantly gay, and danced a thousand unheard of dances. These capers, prohibted elsewhere, ren dered the Queen thoughtful. 'Wherever did he learn ail this?’ she asked, an add ed: ‘What naughty dances! Fie’ Then she murmured, ‘How graceful he is!’ "Mme. de Jolnvllle was dressed as a bargees and affected the manners of a street gamin. She likes (o go to those places that the court delesis Ihe most, the theater and concerts of the boulevards. The other day she greatly shocked Mme. do Hall, Ihe wife of on admiral, who is Prolestant and Puri'an, by asking her; 'Madame, have you seen the "Closer!* des Genets”?’ ” Here is an idea of the way in which he used to torment his mother; "The Prince de Jolnville imagined a nul sande that exasperated the Queen. He pro cured an old barrel organ somewhere and would enter her apartments playing it and singing in a hoarse, grating voice. The Queen laughed nt first. But it lasted a quarter of an hour, half an hour. *' 'Jolnville, stop it!’ "He continued 10 grind away. " ‘Joinville, go away!" "The Prince, driven out of doors, en tered by another with his organ, his songs, and his hoarseness. Finally the Queen fled In the King's apartments.” The Prince was endowed with great strength. At a concert given in his apart ments at the Tuileries by the Duke dw Nemours it was a subject of gossip in con nection with an escapade in which he fig ured as the hero. While he was going to a rendezvous he thought he was being fol lowed, and. turning back, went up to the man he suspected' and struck him heavily. "I shouldn't care 'to receive a slap from him," Hugo overheard a big lackey be hind him say. The events of 1848 deeply affected the Prince. When the royal family had taken refuge in England the Prince de Joinville met the Duke de Motilpensier and greeted him thus: 1 "Ah! here you are. Monsieur; you were not killed; you have not had good luck.” He had not engngrd in athletic* for ten years when the decree expelling the pre lenders ancl their eldest sons from French soil and excluding the other members of their families from all public functions was issued in 1886. * He had been placed In Ihe reserve of the navy, having reached the limii of age. After the law of expulsion was promul gated hi* name ceased io appear even on this list. This was a severe blow to his armour propre. He denounced the action of the Republican government with great bitterness, and to the day of his death never forgave his political enemies for what he called their Ingratitude, in not continuing his name on the roll of the ser vice In which he hod represented his coun try so brilliantly. SPECIAL NOTICES. PARK AVENIE PHARMACY. Prescriptions filled at any hour day or night. The only IB a drug store in south ern section of Savannah. PARK AVENUE PHARMACY, J, L. BRANAN, Proprietor, Corner Park avenue and Barnard St. PLAgTERUHV AND MASONS' LP FLIES. Cement, Lime, Piaster. Hair and River Sand. Prompt delivery. Reasonable price. SAVANNAH BUILDING SUPPLY CO., Corner Dfaj’tou ana Phone (it, SPECIAL NOTICES. I'ALLDING OF LONG ISLAND CELE BRATED PIPPIN APPLE CIDER. Thi* pure cider la served on etsamera on the American line, and at the Waldorf-As toria and lead.ng family grocers in New Yo k city I‘auldlngs Pippin cider is made from the pure Juice ot hand picked apples from his own mill on Ihe premises. It is abso lutely p\ire apple juice, and all the effer vescence is natural, and we guarantee it to be the choicest cider in 'he world. Leading physicians in New l'ork and Brooklyn recommend this cider to their patients 17s perfret putlty is guaranteed. In I’auldlng'e Pippin cider, only Long !s land Newton's Pippins ate used. The ap ples are left on the trees until late In Oc tober when they are hand picked and placed In a dry room to ripen. Paulding says "the applra are thorough ly crushed in h!s own mill and the Juice pressed out and run into sweet clean casks " The difference between crushing and grinding apples Is very great You will know the difference between cruehed app es and ground apples If you take some stems and chew them, you will find that bitter taste which is not with Paulding’s crushed apples. This cider has not the extreme sweeiness of the Russet elder, and everyone will find the Pauld <ng's Pippin cld<r Just right to take with dinner. LIFTMAN BROS . Sole Agents in Savannah. A SURE ClfiE." Hite you Indigestion? If you have we will guarantee relief, and If our direction* are followed, will guarantee a cure or no pay. Ask your druggist for a bottle of gloat's Vegetable Bitters at once. Why suffer when yon eon get relleff gloat's Vegetable Bitters will make your children strong and krulthy. TRY RK.D HEART. It is th© b*er to drink. Ask for it and you will be delighted j with it. By Jung Brewing Company. Branch, ' Bull and River atreeta. WM. M. BRICKEN, Manager. Phone 915. fill BENE A CO., I.TB Whitaker. Bint Pictures. New Mouldl Bgi, Wall Pnper. FhotojcritpliN enlarged, (■rudnates. Hare Your Diploma* framed at reanonalile rates. IF IT'S NICE, WE HAVE IT. Try a can of Boston Baked Beans,with Tomato Sauce, >r a can of Vienna Sau sage, with Tomato Bauce, at HARDEE & MARSHALL'S. Phone 955, SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANT, 114 Drayton Street. JOE CHANG, Proprietor. Meals to order. Popular price, 23 cents. Open all iionrt. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENCY. We buy and sell real estate, collect rents and negotiate loans on ame at 6 per cent. Represent ill* Travelers' Insurance Com pany, accident and liability department*. Represent the New York Underwriters Fire Insurance Agency and the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. All business entrusted to us will be ap preciated and will receive prompt and careful attention. No. 27 Day, east. Telephones S4A XT. C. FRiPP & CO. | •FECIAL. >O I ICICV SPECIAL NOTICE. For Ihe next sixty days at Mark Ap ple's repository will be sold a full and complete line of all kinds of vehicles at a reduced price. I ask the public to call and Inspect my stock I am the agent for some of the highest grade Buggies, Car riages. Phaetonß, Stanhope* and Runa bouts. Don t miss this opportunity, for this 1* no humbug. Also a full line of De livery Wagons and Harness. 330 Broughton street, west. Phone 7TS. RYAN’S nrsiNHSS COLLEGE, FROtjDENT BUILDING. DAY AND NIGHT SESSIONS. Stenography (Munaon, Graham or Pit man). Typewriting, English Branches. Bookkeeping, Penmanship. The attention of those desiring thorough and practical preparation for business, la called to the exceptional advantages offered by this college, idiort, thorough, practical course*. Latest and best methods. Each depart ment under the personal supervision of the principal. Special attention given to placing graduates. Special night session for those who are employed during th* day. Send for catalogue. M. E. KYASM, Principal. NATIONAL MATT UEM AND RENO VATING CO. All kinds mattresses made to order. Fins curled hair and moss mattresses a special ty. Our medicated atcam renovating pro cess of hair, ftathers, moss, etc.. IS en dorsed by our local physicians rod being the best germ desticyer In use. Yoiur old mat. tresseß or feather bed* made new at reas onable prices. We carry n full line of tick ings, hair, feathers and moss. Call and in spect our methods. JAS. R. DOONER, Prop., Bell Phone 1136. 331 Drayton street. BONDS EXECUTED By the American Bonding and Trust Com pany of Baltimore. We are authorised to execute locally (immediately upon appli cation), all bonds in Judicial proceedings In either the state or United States courts, and of administrators and guardians DEARINO A HULL. Agent* Telephone 324. Provident Bufkdng. LARGE WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE to rent, located head of Broughton street, on West Hsud, now occu pied by the Savannah Carriage arid Wagon Cos. As they will give up business in the city on June ], I offer It for rent from that date. 923,000. On* of our clients has placed In our hands 326,000 to loan on good Savannah real estate at reasonable rates of Interest. BECKETT A BECKETT. 24 Pree.dent street, east. THE WAV TO CLEAN CARPETS. The only way tc get your carpets prop erly taken up. cleaned and taken care ot for the summer is to turn the Job over t the District Messenger and Delivery Cos., telephone 2. or call at 32 Montgomery street, and they will make you an esti mate on the cost of the work. Prices reasonable. They also pack, move and ■tore furniture and pianoi. C. H. MEDLOCK. Supt. and Mgr. THE .NEATEST, Cleaneit. qulest place In town la Helm ken’a Pafe. One block from De Soto. Phone 6. AT GARDNER’S. Fresh Vegetables and Fruits. Fine Reef. Spring I. a nab. j . M. S. 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