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JAGS THAT MAKE MANIACS.
OOD ALCOHOL A DRINK POPFLAR
IN PENNSYLVANIA WOODS.
It Is Meaner in Its Effect* Thnn Con
necticut Hard Cider—Chinese Said
Slrong and Maddening—Palqae and
Bay Rnm Drunks— A Cinnamon
Drunk Said to Be the Worst.
From the New York Sun.
The difference between civilized and
uncivilised man,” said the Major; looking
lovingly into his glass, ”is seen nowhere
more clearly than in the matter of
drinks. The follower of civilization
drinks for the flavor, as an offering to his
refined sense of taste, and the effect is
a side issue, a very undesirable side is
e, I may say, occasionally. The man
V ho is beyond the confines of civilization
(Finks for the effect purely and drinks
savagely until he gets it.”
How does that distinction work in the
case of the confirmed inebriate?" asked
the lawyer. “He isn’t likely to care much
what he swallows provided he can get
properly drunk on it.”
Proves my point,” replied the Major.
•'A confirmed inebriate isn't within the
pale of civilization; hardly within the
pale of humanity, in fact. The noble red
man of the plains, with whom I have had
some experience,” here the Major rubbed
an arm which has never been quite so
good as new since a Sioux arrow broke
against the bone, "is a confirmed inebri
ate by nature and also in practice when
ever he can get hold of the material to
confirm himself. Like an ex-civilized dip
somaniac in the last stages, he would pre
fer a pint of cheap, raw new whisky to
the choicest vintages to be found in the
cellars of this club.”
And he would probably make less trou
ble end fuss by the quicker process of
his Cheap whisky.” suggested the doctor,
who has had opportunities to study the
liquor habit,
“Well, he misses the intermediate
stages, of course,” said (he Major. "Still,
a big buck with hie skin full of alco
holic poison isn’t as pleasant a man to
meet as a friend who is looking for you
to pay up his last night's losses.”
“I agree with the doctor's general
proposition," put in the railroad man.
"The longer it takes a man to accumulate I
a hard case of jag, the worse it is for
those around him. The meanest jags I
have over seen, are those acquired on hard
cider, and I’ve seen plenty of them up in
Connecticut, where they don’t drink much
nf anything else. You never can tell Just
what notion a hard cider case is going
to take into his head, but on general prin- I
ciples it’s safe to assume that he’s go
ing to try to murder somebody before
he’s through. It’s a slow jag and a mean
one.”
“If it’s any meaner than a cheap alcohol
performance I don’t want to see it,” seid
a young broker who had strolled into the
circle. "I ran into that experience last
fall up In the wilds of Canada where I
fell in with a camp of Frenchmen who
were getting logs down the river. One
of them came back from the nearest town
with a bottle of raw alcohol, and he and
his pal diluted i! with water and filled
up on it. They were both lit tie men, but
they cleaned out the camp in a shake
end for five minutes they did a devil’s
dance around the place I wouldn't care to
see repeated.. Then both of them col
lapsed in o heap and it was a job to
save their lives."
Must be something like wood alcohol,”
remarked the lawyer. "That'S the great
drink in the Pennsylvania woodland dis
tricts where they have the acid factories.
One good-sized drink of wood alcohol
would, I suppose, lay out any of us cold.”
The doctor nodded. "Those fellows down
there go on regular bats on that poison,
and they get so that regular whisk isn't
atrong enough for them. A wood alcohol
drunk Is a pretty dubious proposition.
He's likely to be weeping on your neck
ar.d telling you his troubles one minute,
snd the next he'll have a knife between
vonr ribs. It's rather a slow process for
those felolws who are pickled in the stuff,
and you can always tell a man who has
the habit by a curious shiny appearance
of the skin about the eyes and a drawn
expression of the face as if his ektn were
too tight for him.”
It kills in time." said the doctor.
"Methyl alcohol isn't good for the -human
Interior. I've seen much the same symp
toms In my practice here, though from a
different variety of stimulant. That's bay
rum.”
“Come, come,” exclaimed the Major,
"you don’t mean to tell us that any sane
person drinks bay rum?”
"I wouldn’t swear to the sane part of
It,” answered the doctor. ”It depends
what your definition of sanity is; but I've
had more patients than I can stop to
reckon up here, who had the hay rum
habii. All women, and all refin-d wo
men. It isn’t a pleasant feature of my
practice,” added the physician with a wry
face.
"I saw a man go under one from this
Chinese staff, saki,” said the man-about
town. “He had a curiosity to try it, and
as he had a copper-lined stomach and a
bre-proof head, he was sure that he could
keep pace with the Chinamen who were
hitting it up in the Mott street restaurant
where he went. After about three
whacks at it my friend decided that he
was Joss and tried to do a ceremonial
dance with one of the big dragons paint
ed on the wall. The Chinamen, who had
drunk three to his one, very kindly help
ed me to get him out of the place, and
strongly advised me against running him
up against that variety of rum again.
'No plitty good for Mellcan man,’ they
said, and I guess they were right.’’
Foreign concoctions are the deuce and
til for a white man.” agreed the globe
trotter. "I tackled pulque once down in
•Mexico, and though I didn’t take as much
as the average Greaser would consider a
fair starter for a day's work, it put me
out of business for nearly a week. Asa
friend ihat eticketh faster than a brother,
'hut stuff heats anything I know of. But
after all, for pure frenzy there's nothing
like the religious drunk of the Mohamme
-1 'an In India. I don’t know what liquor
they mix their religion with, but it seems
to he something mighty powerful and
when a batch of them breaks loose and
heads for paradise, any stranger within
their gates wants to climb a tree and
Veil for the police. In the course of
my wanderings I’ve seen pretty much
• verything in that line, but the fanatical
l a S Is by far the worst I’ve seen yet, and
1 guess I’ve encountered at least one case
of every kind there is going, except the
doctor's hay rum.”
"Did any one of you ever happrn to run
a ‘ i ?s a cinnamon drunk?" asked a young
'nil engineer who had been listening to
■he talk.
p tn't say I ever did.” replied the globe
mwet, suspiciously. "Must be something
',* * orgy, isn’t It?”
Not just exactly," said the civil engl
ser. "It's „ ot mild as it sounds,
it has this peculiarity, that a man
' er gets drunk on cinnamon more than
one®,**
Ms ta*t* f (>r itr* askel the Major.
yes. In .1 replied the oth
' and for *i*e. There’s al
vavs a funeral after a JnnAinon drunk.
J J* s n mild drunk only iv* celebrartors
a,v hurled; quite often, howevtw om* of
r "tr friend* aro planted with tIK-n.”
Somebody ha* been putting up a K-mo
0,1 you,” ald the doctor. “A man can l
P*t drunk on cinnamon.”
he?” said the civil engineer qulet
. you call h drunk if you
f|,,r ‘ t want to. Perhaps It’s *i form of ma
* ’: hut the elnar.mon is the agency. No
.'"‘ v but up a game on me. because T
'bpened to see a case of it myself laet
summer and it wasn’t by any means an
fx?r aordlnery case either. I was doing
* u keying down In the forest region
Virginia and had gx>t out of my
reckoning when I ran across a bridle path
that took me to a lumber camp. It was
the Fourth of July and nobody was work
ing, but I could eee the minute I got there
that something was wrong and everybody
was worried. The superintendent of the
camp told me I was very welcome if I
wanted to stay, but that there was likely
to be trouble before the day was over, be
cause the camp store had been broken in
to the night before and the supply of cin
namon extract had ben stolen. Nothing
else had been taken* so they knew that
some of the hoys were out for a cinnamon
drunk. Two of the biggest and best lum
bermen in camp were missing and when
they came back it would be a case of look
out.
“ ‘I can’t get in into my head what they
do it for.' said the superintendent. We've
had a dozen cases in this region in a
couple of years, and the men know it's
sure death, but every now and then some
of 'em break lose. Jed and Horace are sure
to be back by evening and I’d advise you
to go down to the river and fish till then.
There's mighty good bass fishing there
and if you *tay here, you’re liable to see
things that’ll make you sorry you came.’
“I’d heard about the cinnamon drunk
before, and I made up my mind that as
long as there was one on I’d see it. Be
sides from having to be so much in the
wilds I’d learned a little about medical
practice, and I thought I might be of
some use. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
when the thermometer might have been
somewhere about 100. there was a roaring
from back of the camp, and everybody
said, ‘Here they come.' A couple of min
utes later two of the most terrific crea
tures I ever laid eyes on burst out of ihe
underbrush. Both were big men. over six
feet tall, and both were stark naked end
bleeding from hundreds of scratches
where they bad plunged through
wild blackberry patches. One of them
bradished an ax and the other
had a small log which he handled
as if it were a feather. As they
came into the clearing they let out anoth
er roar, and I give you my word there was
nothing human In it. Those lumbermen are
pretty tough specimens, and it isn’t easy
to scare them, but the whole crowd broke
and ran for the thickest of the cover
when those madmen hove into view-, ex
cept the superintendent and myself. I sup
pose the reason I stood my ground wis
that I was too amazed and paralyzed to
start. The superintendent felt that ns cap
tain of the outfit he had to stay; so he
Just drew his revolver and waited. The
man with the axe made straight for me.
I thought was murder, sure and I
Jumped for a tree to dodge around it, but
the man never changed his course, and
then I saw* that his eyes were set and he
probably didn't notice me or anything
else. Have any of you ever seen a rabid
dog run? Well, this man ran just like a
rabid dog. He wasn’t after anything In
particuolr, but if anything got in his way
it all day with it. Three times he
rushed around that clearing bellowing
and then w’ent down in a heap.
‘‘Meantime the- other man was pursuing
an entirely different course. With his club
held up he went sneaking along by the
big shack where the men slept, as. if he
were looking for something. All of a sud
den he swung the great piece of wood
back, rushed toward the front wall and
let the thing go like a battering ram. It
went clear through the wall, as if the
house were built of paper. Then the cin
namon drunk turned and rushed back
across the clearing with the speed of an
express train. Both the superintendent and
I yelled at him. for we saw what was go
ing to happen, but you might as well have
called to a mad bull. He went headfore
most into a big oak tree and fell dead. I
suppose his neck was broken. I went over
to attend to the first man. who was lying
face downward and breathing heavily. His
face was streaked and blotched with pur
ple and red. and you oould hardly see his
eye*. I started in ’to do what I could,
while the superintendent blew the horn to
let the other men know’ it was all over.
" ‘There’s no use you’re trying to help
him.’ said he. 'He'll be dead in on hour.*
“And he was. He died with his eyes
open, rigid, like a man in convulsions.
Thera were other details just before the
end that I have since been industriously
trying to forget—they were such that some
of the men lay down and cried, and others
begged the superintendent to shoot the
sufferer and put him out of h!s agony.
When I got biuk to the nearest city, some
forty miles away, I saw a paragraph in
j the local paper headed. ‘‘Two More Dead
:of Cinnamon.’ If any skeptic.” he conrlu
! .led, lookin'* at the doctor, “doubts the
factr* I have got the clipping with some
I other clippings on the same subject at
I home.”
1 “It is up to me," admitted the doctor.
“GkntiemM), in ordering kindly confine
yourselves to the beverages of clviliza
| don.”
JI STIC K bOXG DELAYED.
A Thief Who, Djing, lUflrhted a Great
Wrong.
From the Washington Star.
“The wind-up of as queer a piece of
work as ever I heard of came a couple
of weeks ago In my town, when ft well
known crook was accidentally shot by an
officer, w'ho was resisting a crowd of street
car strikers, and died in the hospital, aft
er telling his story.” said a St. Louis de
tective who was in Washington on a still
hunt last week. “The Job began eight
years ago. and it got a perfectly innocent
woman into two years of that .sort of
trouble which consists in wearing a gray
(Whs the shape of a gunnysack and of
£Ol. T |Q <*ieepnt night behind iwo-lnch Iron
bars. rn have to take you to the be
-1 ginning o; *.♦ to give you the connection.
| “One summer ufirrnoon. about eight
j year* ago, a truck *rove up in front of a
j swell St. Louis hou** t not far from
Rhaw's Gardens, and one %f the three men
in the truck walked up the steps and
pulled the bell. The only person who
hapepned to be In the house, was tu maid
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JULY 1900.
of the lady of the. house. It was an aft
ernoon off for the other servants, and
the mistress of the household was down
town on a shopping expedition.
“ Here’s that sofa,’ said the man who
pulled the door bell.
“ ‘My mistress didn’t tell me she was ex
pecting any sofe,’ said the young woman
to the man. in some surprise.
” ‘Well, it must ha’ been ordered—here’s
the name and address,’ said the man oil
the steps, producing a card. The card was
all right, and it showed that the sofa, or
rather, the box-couch, as it proved to be,
had been ordered from a well-known St.
Louis furniture establishment.
"The maid was in a quandary as to
tvhere she should have the couch placed,
the establishment being already pretty
well stocked with articles of furniture
of that sort, but she finally directed the
three men to carry it to the second floor
and place it in one of the bedrooms. The
men deposited the box-couch according to
the mold s directions, and went their way.
The maid went to her room on the third
floor to do some sewing for herself, and
a couple of hours later the mistress of
the establishment returned. The mistress
of the establishment hadn’t been in hep
room two minutes before she discovered
that she was out Just $6,000 worth of dia
monds. The jewels had been left by her
in a jewel box in a bureau drawer, where
she had seer, them only a few moments
before leaving Ihe hpus-e on her shopping
expedition, but when she opened the bu
reau drawer upon her return the hox
was gone. The mistress of the establish
ment made careful search of the room,
and of the adjoining room, before she
summoned the maid. Then she rang for
the maid and cross-examined her with
reference to her visitors during the af
ternoon. The maid told the mistress that
the three men with the box-couch had
been the only visitors, and showed her
mistress the box-couch. The mistress at
once said that she hadn’t ordered any
box-couch, and accused her maid of be
ing in cahoots with the three men who
had brought it. declaring that the maid
had arranged for them to bring the couch
in order to divert suspicion from herself.
The girl cried and protested and went or.
her knees, but the mistress of the es
tablishment was convinced that the maid
was the thief, or at least the accomplice
of the thieves, and she locked the doors
and declared that when her husband re
turned from his office she would have the
girl arrested. She did summon a couple
of men from the St. Louis Central office
when her husband returned from busi
ness and announced his belief, too, that
the girl was either crooked herself or
In league with crooks, and the detectives
gathered the girl in. They investigated
her, and they found that she had a
first cousin who was a weii-known
sretk ihief. They fail'd to find that the
girl had ever had anything to do with the
crook, but the mere fact that she had
such a relative was enough, and when
the girl was tried for the theft of the
jewels it was the biggest point against
h-r. The chief tried to put Ihe girl
through the third degree, but she stuck to
her assertion that she was innocent, in
the face of all suts of premises of lighter
punlshmtnt if ?he would own up and
make seme sort of a statement that would
give a line as to where the jewels could
be recovered. The nerve with which she
stuck to her assertion that ehe was inno
cent got a lot of her questioners going,
but she was convi-ted of grand larceny,
anyhow, and sent away for two years.
“The girl didn't get any good time for
good behavior, for she became thoroughly
hardened over what she railed the injus
tice cf her conviction, and she cut up so'
in prison that she had to do her entire
two years. She came out of prison a pretty
sore woman, and a pretty hard one. and
for a couple of . years she went a pretty
craggy course—the central office people
bad thetr eyes on her all the time. She
didn't do anything to get herself behind
the fa's again, for all that she was often
preity close to It. Well, some good women
of St. Louis came along and took an in
terest In ihe girl, who had a lot of good
traits that they saw, and the built her
up. They look care of her while she was
studying to be a trained nurse, and a cou
ple of years ago they go; a fine position
for her as <ne of the trained nurses in a
leading St. Louis hospital.
“Well, a couple of week ago a sneak
thief well known to the, S. Louis po
lice happened to get mixed up with a
bunch of street car strikers who were at
tacking a car, and when one of the offi
cers on the car blazed away into the
crowd this crook got a bullet In his stom
ach. He was taken to the hospital in
this young woman I'm telling you
about* was a trained nurse, and as soon
as the surgeons looked him over they told
him he was a goner. The man was per
fectly conscious and pretty debonair at
that for a chap so near the hlg divide,
and when the consultation of doctors
around his bunk was over and he saw a
white-capped nurse sitting by his side, he
gave a bit of a start when ho examined
her features. Ho looked at her Intently
for a while and then he asked her to bend
close to him. fey his voice wasn’t partic
ularly strong. He (hen asked her If she
hadn't done her little two-year bit on the
charge of lifting. She frankly told him
that she had, and then he said to her:
" 'Well, I'm glad I’ve run Into you be
fore going into the discard. I got you
those two years, and I always meant
to square you some time, but they’ve
watched me so clftse that I never had a
show It was me that made you do the
lime.’
"Then he told her how the Job had
been cooked up, and how he was Inside
ihe box couch on the afternoon when
it was deposited in the bedroom on the
second floor of her mistress' establishment
—how nir holes hnd been duly bored In the
thing so that he wouldn’t smother—and
l how, when the young woman had gone
up stairs to do her sewing, he had lifted
the lid of the box couch, done his little
56.000 worth of rummaging and tiptoed
down stairs and out the basement door.
The nurse called the superintendent of
the hospital, who knew ber slocy, to Itst-
an to the crook'* statement and take It
down when the man repeated ft with hf
dying breath. A copy of the dying crook’*
confession has been filed with the papers
in connection with the yoimg wotnan'e
trial and conviction, and any time #he
wants a home and the beat roing with
the mistress who helped to swear her
Into state prison on circumstantial evi
dence. all she has to do 1* to say the
word.”
OFFICERS ARE WELL PAID.
I’ncle Slam I* One of the Afont Liberal
of Paymaster*.
From the Pittsburg Poet.
The movement on foot to increase the
President's salary bring* to lig*ht the fact
that, though he undoubtedly needs more
money, he is one of the best paid of all
the executives in the world, sensational
rumors to the contrary notwithstanding.
The salary was purposely made small in
George Washington s time at the
tion of the revered father of his country,
for Washington felt that the. money ought
not to be sufficient to make the office a
desirable one from a moneyed standpoint;
so he took particular care to see that Lie
sum was placed so low that no desirable
man would forsake a position of high
standing for that of tho executive office.
Now tt is $50,000 a year, and that sum for
four year® sound* very fine. And fine it
would be if the President could spend it
in his own way or save it et will. Could
President McKinley live in his little house
in Canton and receive his pay as President
of nearly SI,OOO a week he would soon find
himself able to amass a fortune in a short
time. If he were frugally inclined he
could live on $1 000 a year and save $40,000.
the remainder.
President’* Expenses Heavy.
Unfortunately, however, from the stand
point of his pocket, the President can do
nothing of the Fort. He must live in
Washington; and he must reside in the
mansion which the government provides
for him. Some money is given to him for
such necessary servants as are daily used
in the interests of the government, but
this is little. It must be remembered that
the White Houoe is also the President's
official place oi business, and here the
offices must he maintained and the tick
ers telephones nnd messengers may be
used at all hours of the day and ntgnt.
It is asserted by those who hav*> been
in the Pr s'dent's hoots that it takes every
cent j aid by the government to maintain
the 6tyle necessary for ihe White House.
The calls and dinners of state and court
esy, outside of the diplomatic d’nners, are
so numerous and of such importance that
the Presi J ent's income melts away Ike
wine before the corkscrew’. The mere mat
ter of providing the diplomats wdfh drink,
worthy of their taste. Is a serious one;
not to more thzn hint at a great number
of foreign visitors who must be entertain
ed. Fancy the calls upon the President's
purse in social and other ways, and then
you can get some faint idea of the ex
penditure to which he Is compelled to go
Besides this point there is another that
is even more w’orthy of consld ration. It
is seldom that a retiring Pres'dent has
money enough to live upon; and th*> na
tion is treated to the spectacle of an ex-
Pr®s!drnt hard at work in an office, when
honor fhould seem to demand that he be
kept In comfort tl e rest of his life.
Other !\ationn Pny Metier.
Yet fxeciitives of ether countries are
not so very well paid. An exhaustive ex
amination has been made of the political
i ay rolls of the civilized world, with ihe
following interesting results:
So far as payment in hard cash go, the
brawny burghers of the Tiansvaa.l are
decidedly the bert off. Quite recently the
Boer Parliament increased the salaries
of its members to JG.CtK) a year for each
individual, as they can very easily afford
to do, when one' remembers the Mg tax
rolls which the unfranchlsed uitland*rs
are compelled to pay. But in actual emol
uments the United States Senator proba
bly receives a better reward. He Is allow
*l m leage and nunv rous minor fees and
privileges wh ch swell his annaul income
materially over Its nominal $o.O 0.
Grebt Britain, as every student knows
gives her members of f’ariiement no sal
ary, although the government officials for
the time being are royally paid. The first
lord of the ireaeury receives $25,000, as
also do the foreign, home, colonial, Indian
and war secretaries. The lord chancellor
receives $50,000 per annum. But for he
M. P. who does not hold office there Is
naught save honor. Even the old privi
leges of not being liable to arreat for debt
while on M. P. has been nhollshed.
The British colonies, however, do not
follow the example of the mother coun
try. New* South Wales and Victoria allow’
their M. P.'s $1,500 per annum, Canada
and South Australia SI,OOO, with an addi
tional mileage rate for the former, and
Queensland $750, with mileage. New Zea
land representatives get $1,200.
France gives it* senators and deputies
H.SOn, but there is a “string” to this sal
ary. which might be tied elsewhere—ln Vl
enn.d. for instance, with good effects. Any
member who is twice called to order dur
ing a sitting forfeits half his salary for
two weeks. Cases exist whore certain
fiery French deputies have lost their en
tire year’s allowance in this manner.
Some Niggardly A I limn nee*.
Belgium, while It grants members of
the representatives’ chamber SBOO a year
ancF passes on the railroads, curiously
enough makes its senaiors work for noth
ing and pay their own traveling expenses.
In the realms of the little Queen of Hol
land members of the upper house are paid
a sum equal to about $4 per diem for eacn
session, but since they only meet on thir
ty or thirty-two days of the year they
can scarcely be said to clear much. Jn
the s cond chamber SB3O pr annum, with
a travel ng grant of Just over a shilling
for every hour spent on the railroad, are
the allowance. Absentee Dutch law-giv
ers forfeit their salary, whether their ab
sence was caused by illness or not.
The new Japanese parliamentary consti
tution compels each and every number of
the national parliament o draw annually
from the treasury about $175. All member*
of the aristocratic clashes refusing to ac
cept this salary, through pride or other
reasons. Is subject to fine and dismissal,
by the parliamentary rules of IKK).
Por ugal is niggardly with Its represen
tatives. giving them only $320, and Norway
pays members from $350 to S4OO, according
to the length of the session.
In Sweden numbers of the u: p"*r house
*rve absolutely for patriotism, wh le the
lower chamber members are given only
$335. Moreover, $2.65 Is deducted for non
attendance. Even the unpaid house
is fined for absenteeism, although Its
members get. nothing—not even train
fares.
The Greek law-giver is a ?3f.0 yer annum
man, with additions for overtime work
(*uch as in the recent war). It was re
renily suggested that these salaries
should be slightly “docked,” so as to help
pay ihe Turkish indemnity, but the
was promptly condemned. Switzerland
gives her councilors something less than
$5 a w'e*k, with about 40 cents a day for
traveling expenses.
—Mrs. C. J. Armstrong of Pklsburg,
witnessed the McOovern-Erne fight at
Madison Square Gnrden. She was ac*
'•ompaniod by her huaband and wore a
suit of his clothes, consisting of striped
trousers, black diagonal double4brea*tef|
coat, outing hat and patent leather boots.
Her hair waa done up high on the top c f
her head.
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LADIES’ FURNISHINGS.
Something Worth Talking About
Our Shirt Waist Sals!
And w*> are going to back this talk up with facts this week. i, ! f
White Lawn Shirt Waists, with inserting, 50 cent*. ,j i ♦IHjiU..
This season’s Waists, our $1.50 waist*, going at 50 cents. jjjjl
Good value in White Pique, 15 cents.
The latest, noveliies in Ladies’ Collar*
One lot of Ribbons, 9 to 22 Inches, 9c per yard.
NOUNS LIKE IT!
There is nothing on earth to equal “Infants’
Friend Powder.” Where it has been tried it has
taken the place of all other preparations for the
face, prickly heat, and a thousand and one uses to
which ladies put it. The baby needs nothing else.
Try nothing else for it.
READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS
Rowllnski, Pharmacist,
Broughton and Drayton Sts.,
Savannah, Ga.
July 5, 1900.
Columbia Drug Cos.,
Savannah, Ga:
Dear Sirs—Please send me half
gross Infants’ Friend Powder. I have
sold It for tome years and it has
been a good seller-give wntisfaction;
package unique, and from personal
use I can recommend It highly for
chafing and prickly heat. Youre
truly,
ROBT. A. ROWLINSKI.
This Is unsolicited.
FIRE PROOF SAFES.
We carry the only line of Fire Proof Safes that are
for sale in the State. We have a stock of all sizes and
a visit to our establishment is cordially invited. To be
prepared in time of peace is our motto. Get a good
Fire Proof Safe and you will never regret the invest
ment. Do not buy a second-hand safe unless you know it
has never been in a fire. We will sell you Iron Safes as
low as the factory will, with freight added.
LI PPM AN BROTHERS,
Wholesale Drngffists and Wholesale Agents
Fire Proof Safes.
COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER.
A Phyalclan’a Way of Taking a Hath
by Which He KcFpa Cool.
From the New York Sun.
A* wton an the hot- weather begins toget
in its serious work people of all degrees
of competence and incompetence to speak
on the question proceed to formulate and
communicate recipes for the avoidance of
sunstroke. So numerous are those recipes
that if a man attempted to follow out one
tenth of them he wouldn’t have time to do
anything else. Ail the efforts of these
altruistic adviaers feem. however, to te
late to the saving of life; none of them
considers the subject of comfort, without
which life ooon ceases to be worth living.
For the benefit of such persona as greatly
desire to keep cool—and this category In
cludes! probably an overwhelming majority
of the adult population—a well-known
physician, who Is himself a man of ex
jtenalvo adiposity and therefore subject to
suffering from high temperatures, has for
mulated a simple plan which is within the
reach of any person having access to a
bathtub.
“This is a method that I have been try
ing on myself with great success for three
yearn now." he says. "It begins In the
bathtub and ends in the bathtub. There's
nothing else to It except a towel. A great
many persons advocate tepid baths in hot
weather on the ground that a cold bath
produce* a reaction that heats one up
rapidly afterward. Well, I've got noth
ing to say against the tepid bath treat
ment. For a person who has a weak
heart or who is not constitutionally sound
it s an excellent thing, but for a robust
man the cold hath I* better when taken
in the right way.
“The popular shower hath la a fallacy
so far as he-lplng one to keep cool is con
cerned, for five minutes after you are dry
your skin Is in a glow. The thing to do Is
to fill your bathtub up with cold water,
get Into it, and lie perfectly still for ev
erol minutes. To with, three or four
minutes will he as long a* you will want
to stay; later you will find yourslt re.
malnlng for eight or ten minutes.
“When you are thoroughly chilled
through and your skin la cool all over It
is time to get out. Now come* the Import
ant part. Most people think they must
ecrub themselves furiously dry with a
crash towel. That Is all wrong, it sim
ply sets up action of the pores, and there
you ere perspiring again. The proper way
Is to press off the drops that adher- and
do the rest by fanning yourself with the
towel. Then get Into your clothes In a
leisurely manner, and you will find that
for three or four hours thereafter you will
be cool and comfortable though all ceallon
around you Is melting its collar. ,
“Take a bath like this Just before brealp
fast, and if you pomdbly can, another ,n
The Constitution.
Atlanta, Ga.
Woman's Department,
Mrs Wm. King, Editor.
480 Courtland avenue,
Atlanta. Oa . April 26. 1900.
Columbia Drug Cos.. Savannah, Ga.:
Gentlemen—lt gives me pleasure to
heartily recommend Infants' Friend
Powder, and to give to you a singu
lar little coincident connected with it.
During the Cotton States and In
ternational Exposition I was presen
ted with a little box of this powder,
and was so piaaoed with It that I
was exceedingly anxious to get more,
but on looking at the box I found
nothing but Savannah, Ga., no other
addresa. I have often wtshfd I knew
where to get It. This morning's
mall brought your circular with en
closed sample I immediately re
ferred to my box. and found it was
the Infants’ Friend Fowder. It ts
without doubt the best powder I have
ever used. Respectfully,
MRS WM KING.
the middle of the afternoon, when the
temperature is highest, and you will find
the mtsertee of city life in the heated
spell o mitigated that you will forget all
about them. I first tried this two years
ago. when that terrific hot Hpell hit the
city early In August, and, though I had
to be in the city throughout the heat. I
got through It well and almost comfort
ably. But It must be remembered that this
treatment Isn't for Invalids or people with
weak lungs or hearts. I don't want to be
responalble for deaths hy heart disease
and pneumonia. The safe thing to do Is
to ask your family physician whether you
are hardy enough to stand such a course
before you begin.”
Japan Hat Never Lost n Ship.
From the London Times.
Since Japan's national navy began to be
formed thirty years ago they have not lost
a single ship owing to faulty seamanship.
One vessel, a cruiser built in France, dis
appeared on her way out from Europe,
while still In the hands of Ihe French, and
one, a gunboat, sank by collision with a
foreign steamer In circumstances that did
not convict the Japanese of any fault.
With these exceptions, there has been
complete immunity from serious accident,
a remarkable record when we remember
that. during more than two centuries im
mediately anterior to the Meijt era, tho
law interdicted the construction of sea
going ships and Japanese sailors could
not acquire any knowledge of navigation
beyond what was furnished by coastwise
voyages In small junfcs.
*No edticstion could have been less ser
viceable for the purpose of modern sea
manship, and, when the admiralty In To
klo sent Japanese officers and crews lo
Europe to bring out line-nf-battle ships
and first-class cruiser*, the proceeding
seemed rash, if not reckless, to those who
knew something of the qualities required
for commanding these huge vessels. Nev
ertheless. the results have hitherto fully
justified the Japanese admiralty's confi
dence In Its officers, and the recent naval
maneuvers furnish an additional evidence:
for certainly It stands to the no smaii
credit of the Japanese navy that absolute
freedom from mtshap should have marked
these Intricate evolutions performed by
two squadrons, aggregating fifty ships,
during a space of ns many days. There can
be no doubt aliout Japan's position now as
a maritime power, in the Orient at all
evants. Never before under any flag has
such a fleet aseembled In Eastern waters
as that reviewed by the Mikado on Aon!
n
—Free lectures given under the auspices
of the New York City Department of Ed
ucation show sn Increase In attendance of
18,673 during the last winter and spring,
as compared with the same ocrinri of a
year before.
Ocean Siewiilp Cos.
—FOR—
IMew York, Boston
-AND- j J
THE EAST.
Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All
the comforts of a modern hotel. Electrio
lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets tncluda
meals and bertha aboard ship.
Passenger Fares Jrom Savannah.
TO NEW YORK—FinST CABIN. S2O;
FIRST CABIN ROCND TRIP, $32; IN
TERMEDIATE CABIN, sls; INTERME
DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP. $24.
STKKRAOE, sl9.
TO BOSTON - FIRST CABIN. $22;
FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP. $3. IN
TERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7; INTERME
DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP. UtX>.
STEERAGE, $11.75.
The .xprpss steamrhlps of this !tn are
appointed to sail from Savannah, Centrel
(90th) meridian time, as follow*;
SAVANNAH TO ISKW YORK.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Cpt. Bur*,
FRIDAY, July 27, at 5:00 a. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asktns, SATUR.
DAY. July 2S, at 6:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt.
MONDAY, July 30, at 7:00 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. TUESDAY,
July 31, at 8;00 p. m.
KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, THURS
DAY, Aug. 2, 9 00 a. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg.
SATURDAY, Aug 4. 10:00 p m.
TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, MON
DAY, Aug. 6, 1:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
TUESDAY. Aug. 7, 2:00p, m.
NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith, THURS
DAY. Aur. 9, 3:30 p m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. SATUR.
DAY, Auk. I], 5:00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Bun*
MONDAY. Aug. 13, 7.00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Aakina, TUES
DAY, Aug. 14. 7:80 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett,
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 9:00 a m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, SATUR
DAY, Aug 18, 11:00 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY,
Aug. 20, 1:00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Cgpt. Burs
TUESDAY, Aug. 21. 2:00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, THURS
DAY, Aug. 23, 3:30 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
SATURDAY, Aug. 25, 5:00 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, MONDAY,
Aug. 27, 6:30 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. FUher, TUES
DAY, Aug. 28, 7.00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Burff,
THURSDAY, Aug. 30, 8:00 a. m.
NEW YORK TO BOSTON.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage. WED
NESDAY. July 25, 12:00 noon.
CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage. MON
DAY, July 30, 12:00 noon.
CITY’. OF MACON, Capt. Savae, FRI
DAY, Aug. 3, 12:00 noon.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED
NESDAY' Aug. 8, 12:00 noon.
CITY OF MACON. Cnpt. Savage, MON
DAY, Aug. 13. 12:00 noon.
CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI
DAY, Aug. 17, 12:00 noon.
CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED
NESDAY. Aug. 22, 12:00 noon.
CITY OF MAGhN, Capt. Savage, MON
DAY', Aug. 27, 12:00 noon.
CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage. FRI
DAY', Aug. 31. 12:00 noon.
This company reserve* the right t
change its sailing., without notice an<t
without liability or accountability there
for.
July nailing* New York for Savannah
daily except Sundays, Mondays anJ
Thuredoye. 5:00 p m
August sailings New York for Savannah
dally except Sundays, Wednesday* an<l
Friday**, 5:00 p. m.
W. O. BREWER, City Ticket and Paeti
enger Agent, 107 Bull ntreef. Savannah.
Gn.
E. W. SMITH, Contracting Fretghff
Agent. Savannah. Ga.
R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Savannah,
Ga.
WALTER HAWKINS. General Agent
Traffic r>e*p’t, 224 W. Bay street, Jack
sonville, Fla.
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager, Sa
vannah, Ga.
P E. LE FEY’RE, Superintendent. Neetl
Pier 25. North River, New York, N Y.
MERCHANTS AND MINERS
TRANSPORTATION CO.
iTEJMiUIP 1.1N*0.8.
SAVANNAH TO 11ALTTJMORK.
Tickets on ealo at company’ office# t
Ihe following points at very low rate!:
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.
BALTIMORE MD. BUFFALO, N. T.
BOSTON. MASS.
CHICAGO. ILL. CLEY7ELAND, <X
ERIE, PA.
HAGERBTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA.
HALIFAX, N. 3.
NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK.
PHILADELPHIA.
PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCH.
ROCHESTER.
TRENTON. WILMINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
Flrst-claa* tickets include meal* and
state room berth. Savannah to BaTlimoro.
Accommodations and cuisine unequaled.
Freight rapacity unlimited; careful han
dling and quick dispatch.
The ctcamah'.pa of thin company are
pointed to Ball from Savannah to Balti
more a follow* (standard ilmei:
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, THURS
DAY, July 26, 4:00 p. m
TEXAS, Capt. Foster, SATURDAY, July
28, 5:00 P on
D. H MILLER. Capt. Petera, TUES
DAY, July 31, 6:00 p. m.
ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, THURSDAY, Aug.
2, 10:00 a. m.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, SATUR
DAY, Aug. 4, 11:00 a. m.
TEXAS, Capt. Foster, TUESDAY, Aug.
7, 1:00 p. m.
D, 11, MILLER, Capt. Petera, THURS
DAY, Aug 9. 2:ff) p. m
And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thur*-
days and Saturdays at 4:00 p. m.
Ticket Office, 39 Bull street.
NEYVCOMB COHIiN, Trav. Agent.
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent,
Savannah, Ga
W. P. TURNER, (5. P. A.
A. D STF.KIiINS. A. T. it.
J. C. WHITNEY. Traffic Manager.
General Offices, Baltimore, Md.
FRENCH LINE.
COMPAGNIE GENEiULE TKAMSAIUNTIiIIL
direct LINE TO HAVRE-PARIS (Frano#)
Sailing every Thursday at 10 a. m.
From Pier No. 42, North River, foot Morton a
LtOhamuairne ,lulv2 La Bretagne.. Aug. 1<
I,'Aquitaine ...Aug. 3 La Lorraine.. Aug. tt
I.a Tourulno Aug 9 IVAquitaine. Aug. 30
i'arle hotel accommodations reserved tor
company's passengers upon application.
General Ageucy, 32 Broadway. New York.
Measrs. Wilder & Cos.
COMFORT
For your elock. The fly aeaaon la now oa
us and the time to ua*
Tough on Flies,
a lotion when applied will prevent youg
lior-es and cattle item being pestered Try*
It and be ronvli ood.
HAY, GRAIN. BRAN, COW FBBtL
CHICKEN FEED, eta
T. J. DAVIS,
?booe 32 Alt Bay street, wet*
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