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FIRST EALE BROUGHT 12 CTS.
SOLD FOR NEARLY TWICE LAST
YEAR'S FIRST DALE,
C. Slieamon the Bnyfr—Claaalflon
tion Committee of Cotton Es
rlimiK*' Reported tlie Cotton Dry
and Well Ginned—Was Received
by E. \. Cults From (ieorg;iu Cot
ton Company nt Albany.
The first hale of new cotton was receiv
ed at the Cotton Exchange yesterday by
Mr. E. A. Cutes from the Georgia Cotton
Company of Albany. As is usually the
case the new bale attracted general atten
tion on the Bay. and was closely examined
by cot ion men, many of whom took sam
ples from it.
Superintendent J. P. Merrihew mikes a
good au tioneer once every yctr, and this
year was no exception to the rule. After
the bale had ben examined it was put un
der the hammer. There were several bid
ders. starting with a bid of ten cents. The
bale was knocked down to Mr. C. A.
Shearson at twelve cents. This was con
sidered a good price.
The first bale last year was received at
the Cotton Exchange on the same date as
this year’s. It was sold to LeHardy &
Cos., at 7 cents u pound. The first bale
for the season of IS9S-1899 was received by
P. D. Daffln & Son, and brought 7 cents.
The first bale for the season of 1897-1808
brought 10 cents at auction, middling be
ing then quoted at 7 a i cents.
The Classification Committee of the Cot
ton Exchange reported that it found this
year's bale to be of this season’s growth,
and remarkably dry and well ginned for
so early in the season. The bale weighed
359 pounds. It was left on exhibition at
ihe Exchange.
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LOCAL* PERSONAE.
Miss Leslia Floyd has returned home
from iS.vlvania.
Mr. Dan Picard of Atlanta is the guest
of the Pulaski.
Mr. M. C. Talbot of Atlanta Is regis
tered at the Pulaski.
Miss Cleo Beard of Sylvanla is the guest
of Miss Leslia Floyd.
Mr. D. G. McAlister of Columbia is
registered at the Pulaski.
Dr. Richard Reach left to-day for a two
week’s pleasure trip East.
Mr. John W. Parker is making a busi
ness trip through Alabama.
Mrs. C. Kuck and Miss Martha Kuck
are at Hendersonville, N. C.
Mr. Cecil Gabbctt will Rave for New
York to-day via ihe Southern.
Mr. W. G. I*. Mills and sister of Lind
sey arc the guests of the Pulaski.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion \V. Harris of Ma
con are the guests of the De Soto.
Messrs. E. T. Riley and J. L. Riley of
Atlanta are the guests of ihe De Soto.
Mr. M. S. Corbe.tl of Macon was among
the ariivals at th De Soto yesterday.
Mr. W. A. Bisbee returned to the city
yesterday after a visit to Jacksonville.
Ml~s A. L. Smith and Miss Bessie Smith
of Coidele are the guests of the De Soto. ;
Mrs. J. E. Prather left to-day for an
extended visit to friends in North Geor
gia.
Miss Julia Enright will leave soon for
Macon where she w ill spend s veral weeks
with friends.
Miss Roberta Prather who has teen vis
iting th* family of Mr. J. E. Prather has
ie*urned home.
Deputy Collector of Customs J. P. John
son has returned from hie annual vaca
tion at Griffin.
Miss Mary Wylds of Augusta is spend- j
ing a few weeks with her sister, Mrs.
C. A. Fleming.
Miss Josie Schell has returned to Macon,
after a delightful week with her friends,
the Misses Zink.
Col. an 1 Mr.. A. R. Law’ton will be
among ih passengers via the Southern
to-day for New York.
Mr. Moritz Hirsch, Mrs M. M. Hirsch
and Miss Lilli? Hirsch of Columbus are
the guests of tlie Pulaski.
Miss Ammle Beckett leaves Friday
next for Atlanta, where she will be the
guest of Miss Edith Bradley.
Miss Jpssie Kehy. a charming young
lady of Charleston is the guest of Dr. and
Mrs. Morrison on Henry street.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Player entertained
their guest, Mr. L. D. Morrison, of New
York, at Bannon Lodge on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Stonewall J. Williams of
Hoeky Ford were among the passengers
of the Tallahassee yesterday for New
York.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Williams of 1310
West Broad street, have returned from
a pleasant visit to their former home in
Valdosta.
Mrs. John Scarborough who has be<*n
spending several w*eks in Savannah, ac
companied by her daughters, Misses Stella
and L ila have returned to her home in
A meric us.
Mrs. G. B. Whatley and Miss Bessie
Whatley left by the Tallahassee yester
day for New York. Miss Whatley goes
to take a second summer course at itie
New* York College of Music.
Miss Minnie Schley Nichols and Mrs.
Frank T. Nichols and children will leave
via the P ant ?ys em to-night for Mor
gan City, La, wrheie th y will be the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis.
Miss Ammie Beckett planned a bicycle j
party Friday evening in honor of her j
guests. Miss Edith Bradley of Atlanta j
and >nss Longsiaff of Saratoga, As the |
rain prevented the ride, the guests en- 1
Joyed a watermelon cutting.
Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer entertained a
few friends Wednesday evening at their
residence on Anderson street, east, eom
plimetary to Mrs. J. E. Dow of Mont
gomery. Ala. Music and singing W’ere
the principal features of the evening.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John
Meyer, .Mr. and Mrs Ward J. Shiver?,
Mrs. T. C. Madison, Mrs. J. F. Revels,
Mieses Annie Meyer, Dora Meyer, Ban
nah Revels, Clara Revels, Fannie Mad
ison. Josie Madison, Mamie Beckett,
Messrs. Matthew’s, H. Meyer, E. Bethel,
A. Bethel.
CITY UHEVITIGS.
The retail clerks’ picnic at Tyhee was a
success in every way. A large crowd
went down to the island with the boys and
the day was an enjoyable one to all. It
was the first annual picnic of the new as
sociation. It has enrolled upward of 100
rm-mbors and is becoming popular. Mr.
Richard baughn la president of the asso
ciation.
a • j
Tettersne In tlie Name of It
If you have any skin disease such as
eczema, salt rheum, ringworm, or tetter,
nothing will cure you so quickly or thor
oughly as Tetter.ne. It has cured thous
onds and will cure vou. Numerous teall.
menials f. r the asking. Accept no substi
tute. J. T. Uhup'iltts, M&nuf r., Savan
nah, (la., will tend yc.u a box postpaid for
60c. In stamps if your druggist doesn't
keep It.—ad.
—The Missing Word.—Dimley: The
books are very helpful to children, in my
opinion.
Thnrpe: First steps to composition, so
to speak?
Dimley: Kactly; they leave out Import -
nti! words for the children to supply, thus:
“Father says u la hoi to-day."-
Brooklyn Life.
IN SOCIETY.
Continued from Page Twelve.
Fd th Lockhart, left yesterday for Indian
Springs and Asheville.
Miss Mayme*Payne has returned to
home in Savannah, after a visit with
Mrs. J. M. Fesperman.
Miss Morrison of North Carolina, is
visiting her si6ter, Mrs. George N. Mor
ton.
Miss Georgia Waldron and Mr. J. E.
Bryant, who were married by Judge B.
Sweat Sunday afternoon, are spending
the honey moon at the home of the
groom’s father, Mr. R. S. Bryant, near
Traders’ Hill.
Miss Mamie Strickland, who was ra.tr.
rled Sunday to Mr. J. D. Strickland at
Stillson, was well known, and very pop
ular in this city, where she lived for
some time.
Solicitor General Bennett and family
are enjoying an outing at St. Simon’s.
Mrs. E. Eshe, after a pleasant visit
with her sister, Mrs. J. R. Knight. las
returned to her home in Jacksonville.
After the big fish fry out on the -Satilla,
near Jamestown Sat unlay, Mr. Brad
James gave the young people a delight
ful social party.
Mrs. J. Weichselbaum has returned to
her homo in Savannah, after a visit with
her daughter, Mrs. C. Hohenstein.
Mrs. Sallie Murphy of Eastman, is vis
iting old friends in Waycross.
Misses Bessie and Ora will spend
n month at Asheville, N. C.
Miss Lillie Weichselbaum has returned
to Savannah.
Mrs. E. M. Whiting came home last week
from Fortson, but will probably return
there in a few days to spend ihe remainder
of the summer.
Mr. J. D. Gould has returned from a
visit of a week to Ash burn. He is 87
years of age. but is hale and hearty and
bids fair to live years yet.
Mrs. J. W. Ferris of Ocala, Fla., # is visit
ing at the home, of Mr. T. H. Morton.
Miss Lily Thigpen spent Tuesday in the
city.
Mrs. R. C. Hawkins of Thomasville was
among the visitors to old friends and ac
quaintances last week.
Mrs. G. R. Moore and three children
;tvere in town with friends Tuesday.
Mrs. Hofner was in Waycross last week
from Evansville, Ind.
Maj. R. P. Bird is improving and will
soon be out.
Miss Allie Hughes, who has been visit
ing the Misses Folsom, rear the city, will
return to her home in Liberty county. She
will be accompanied by Miss Jeanette Fol
som, who will spend some time in that
county with relatives and friends.
A party of prominent people from Ir
winville were in Waycross Tuesday. They
were J. B. Clements and wife. Marcus
Luke, T. J. Luke, Miss Bessie Luke and
Miss Kate Whiddon.
Waycross’ military boys are in high
glee over their encampment at Gaskin
Spring the second week in August. The
Rifles are the crack military company in
South Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Lott expect to go to
Gaskin Spring for a few days next week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Williams are among
the Waycross people at Indian Spring.
Waycross is pretty well represented at
all the summer resorts and watering
places. There have been forty to fifty at
Indian Spring, probably that many at St.
Simon, a number at Cumberland, quite a
party nt White Sulphur Springs, and a
good delegation at Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. L E. Faison of Moultrie is expect
ed this week to visit her mother.
Mrs. W. R. Mallon anticipates a visit
of some length to White Sulphur Springs.
Mrs. J. H. Lalinaer and Mrs. Brinson
have returned home from Hazlehurst.
WILL PLAY JULIUS CAESAR.
Colored Actors Appear at the The
ater To-morrow ftlirht.
"Julius Caesar” will be pulled oft at
the Theater to-morrow night. The Sa
vannah Dramatic Association, a colored
organization, will put on the play, and the
posters that advertise it announce that
something very smooth in the Shakespe
rean line may be expected.
In language that, though a bit mysti
fying. has all the empressment of three
or-four syllabled words, the promise of
a fine performance is given. Here is
what the posters say: "This association
is composed of some of the very best
colored talent in the South along the dra
matical line, with shining and costly cos
tumes in compliance with parts assigned,
togt<her with the qualification that the
players possess In all the Arts of Trage
dy, will distribute complacency to the
most astute critic.”
For several weeks the company has
been engaged in rehearsal, and lusty
voices have floated out from the old
Ford's Theater in the enactment of the
parts played in the great tragedy by Cas
suis, Brutus and the rest. Such an am
bitious undertaking Is unusual for col
ored Thespians, but they seem to believe
they can put up something very merito
rious in the way of acting. After the
success they expect to achieve to-morrow
night, they will turn their attention to
“Damon and Pythias," which they will
also put on. "Othello” is also in the rep
ertoire.
Following is the cast:
Casca J. H. Baldin
Trebonius W. L. Jones
Decius C. A Miles
Soothsayer J. W. Roberts
Uinna J. H. Hopkins
Pindarusand Popilius A. W. Gibbs
Metellus T. J. Hopkins
I.uoius and Servius ..Master E. T. Lewis
Beading Plebeians Gibbs and Bryan
Flavius and Varro Alonzo Davis
Julius Caesar and Titiniu?
John F. Andrews
Octavus Caesar J. F. Ixvvett
Stark Antony G. M. Brown
Cassius B. H. Godfrey
Brutus R. x. Rutledge
Caiphurnia Nellie Sheckeils
r*ortin Anna B. Tweedy
Soldiers, plebeians, attendants, etc.
Sny Prosecution Ills Only Remedy.
Savannah, July 2S, 1900—Editor Savan
nah Morning News: The quotation in
the Morning News of one of he jurymen
in the Brooks case, tried In the Superior
Court, this week to the effect that it
was a crying shame that the prosecution
had ever been brought. In view of the
facts, does me a great Injustice. The
facts of the case, as they really exist are
that there was no partnership whatever
between the defendant, E. B. Brooks, and
his deceased brother, B. B. Brooks, in ref
erence to tire dead man's general busi
ness. This debt was contracted between
Dr. Cowart and 1.. B. Brocks individual
ly. The money order sent In payment of
the same was sent in the name of B. B.
Brooks individually. E. B. Brooks re
ceived, signed B. B. Brooks' name and
collected the money after B. B. Brooks
was dead, and though often demanded
ol hint, he has persistently refused to re
turn the money to me, B. It. Brooks' ad
ministrator. lam not familiar with the
rules governing the admission of evi
dence. The books of the business of 1.,
B. Brooks were ruled out of evidence by
the court, and we were not permitted to
introduce them. Whether the court was
right or wrong. I cannot say, but I do
know that if the books had been Intro
duced they would have shown that
E. B. Brooks never had any interest
In the business of B. B. Brooks, about
which this debt was contracted. This
prosecution was not brought by me
through any spite. As the defendant.
T b llev and was insolvent, the only remedy
I had for th widow and chi! Iren of the
deetased was to bring a prosecution
agu ihi him. Respectfully.
C. M. Roberts,
Administrator Est. of L. B. Brooke.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1900.
THEATER SEASON NEARBY.
I SAVANNAH THEATER WILL OPEN
IN ADOPT THREE WEEKS.
Manager Weis Says the Season Will
He a Brilliant One—Some of the
Largest Attraetlons on the Stuge
Hooked for Savannah—Presiden
tial Years Will Send Ylany’ Attrac
tions South—A Few of the Ills:
Stars That Will He Here.
The fall theatrical season will open in
.about three weeks. The opening play at
the Savannah Theater will be on Aug.
24. The new manager, Mr. Fred A.
Weis, is expected to arrive here in a few
days, nnd will at once put the Theater
in readiness for the season. There will
be no changes, it is understood, in the
Theater staff, the same employes as last
year being retained. Manager Weis of
the Greenw’ald Theatrical Circuit Com
pany writes from New York that the
coming season will be a brilliant one in
Savannah in point of attractions. Some
of the largest of the great stage
attractions will be here. There will
the season and until October the attrac
tions will be mostly of a lighter class. The
amusement managers are already sending
out their prospectuses. One of the lead
ing attractions booked for Savannah is
Louis James and Kathryn Kidder in “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Modjeska
in a revival of “King John.” Mr. James
and Miss Kidder were seen here last year
with Mr. Hanford in “A Winter’s Tale,”
and gave one of the finest performances
even seen in the theater. Wagenhals &
Kemper, who will continue their manage
ment of James and Kidder in ”A Midsum
mer Night’s Dream,” will also direct a
farewell tour of Modjeska. ‘‘King John”
has not bet?n given on the American stage
in many years, but was recently revived
in London by Beerbohm Tree with great
success. Modjeska will be seen as “Con
stance,” a role she has much desired to
play for many years. The “King John,” it
Is promised, will be played by one of the
best legitimate actors in this country, nnd
the “Prince Arthur” by a distinguished
woman. The version of “King John” to
be used by Modjeska for this tour has
been especially arranged for her by the
distinguished Shakespearean scholar. Mr.
William Winter, dramatic editor of the
New York Tribune. The production will be
on a par with (he revival of ‘‘The Winter’s
Tale,” made for James and Kidder by
Wagenhals & Kemper last season. As
this will be Modjeska’s farewell tour, an
effort will be made to make it memorable.
A significant circumstance in onnecticn
w.ih the.UMial speculation indulged in
reference to the coming season, is the al
most entire absence of allusion to the
fact that ihis Is “presidential year.” Four
years ago managers figured cn this event
as quite a factor; this ysar it seems to
have little or no influence on their plans.
Managers who held back their attra t ons
four years ago until after the election,
are sending them out early this year. Klaw
& Erlarger launch two of their strongest
companies in September and October,
Joseph Brooks sends out two new and
untried stars in September and Frank
McKee presents Mary Mannering as a
star Oc*. 1, and Peter F. Dailey and the
Agoust family in September. Theatrical
managers are very weather-wise gentle
men end do not figure superficially on
events that are lik ly to affect their busi
ness, the most susceptible of all to ex
traneous influences. The fact that they
seem to have thrown this presidential
year out of their calculations is a point
w’orthy of the consideration of the politic
ians.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Sunday and Monday—
Georgia: Local rains Sunday. .Monday
partly cloudy; light to fresh northeasterly
winds.
Eastern Florida and Western Florida:
Local rains Sunday and Monday; light to
fresh southeasterly winds.
South Carolina: Generally fair Sunday
and Monday; light to fresh northeasterly
winds.
Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature 3 p. m.. 90 degrees
Minimum temperature 5:30 a.m. 72 degrees
M-an temperature 81 degrees
Normal temperature 82 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 1 degree
Accumulated excess since
July 1 7 degree-s
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 179 degrees
Rainfall 06 inch
Normal 21 inch
Deficiency since July 1 3.76 inch
Deficiency since Jan. 1 3.28 inches
River Report—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th mer
idian timt) yesteiday, was 10.6 fee , a rise
of 2.7 feet during the preceding twenty
feur hours.
Cotton region bulletin, Savannah, Ga.,
, for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 a.
m., 75th meridian time. July 28, 1900.
Stations of jMax.j ~Mtn.|Kaiti
Savannah district. ITcmlTem. 1 fIL
•Alapaha, Ga.. cloudy | 91 | 69 | .70
Albany, cloudy | S9 | 73 |1.24
Americus, cloudy | 80 j 71 j .50
Bainbrklge, clear | 89 | 72 | T
Eastman, cloudy | 97 | 70 | .50
Fort Gaines, cloudy | 90 | 73 | .77
•Gainesville, Fla., pt cldy. | 93 | 73 | .91
Millen, Ga.. threatening..; 98 | 70 |1.35
Quitman, clear | 91 j 69 | .30
Savannah, partly cloudy.; 91 | 72 | .10
Thomasville, cloudy | 89 j 72 | .53
Waycross, clear 96 | 71 .1!
•Received too late for telegraphic means.
Special Texas Rainfall Report—Beau
mont, .01; Houston, .36; Lullng. .08; Temple,
trace.
Heavy Rains—Kingstree, S. C., 1.64;
Florence. X. C., 1.88; Natchez, Miss., 2.00.
| iDlst. Averages.
|No. | 1 1
I Sta-!Mnx I Mln.|Ral
Central Btationa. |tlons Tem.|Tero.| fall.
Atlanta |'l2 | 82 | 71 | .20
Augusta | 10 | 86 j 7(1 | .10
Charleston | 6 j 90 | 72 | .58
Galveston | 28 j 90 | 72 | .02
Little Rock. j 12 j 88 j 68 | .00
Memphis | 15 | 81 j 72 | .10
Mobile | 6 ; 86 | 72 | .18
Mooegomery j 8 | 86 | 70 | .46
Net/ Orleans ! 14 j 86 j 72 j .34
Savannah | 12 j 92 j 71 | .58
Vicksburg | 11 | 86 | 70 | ,56
Wilmington | 10 | 82 j 70 | .26
Remarks.—Showers in all districts ex
cept Little Rock; cooler over the Mont
gomery, Wilmington, Atlanta and Au
gusta districts.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at nil stations, July 28, 1901, 8 p. m.,
75th meridian time.
Names of Stations. | T | *V ißaln.
Norfolk, clear j 71 j 6 fax)
HaUeras. partly cloudy 78 | 6 | .00
Wilmington, raining j 71 | 8 | .10
Charlotte, partly cloudy | 76 | L | .CO
Raleigh, cloudy | 76 ; L | .00
Charleston, cloudy | 76 | L | .72
Atlanta, cloudy ; 71 | 8 | .30
Augusta, cloudy | 76 | L ( .08
Savannah, raining | 71 | 6 | .04
Jacksonville, cloudy ; 76 | 8 | ,u}
Jupiter, clear | 78 j 6 | T
Key West, partly cloudy [ 82 | 8 j .00
Tampa, cloudy | 76 | L | .22
Mobile, cloudy | 78 | L 36S
Montgomery, cloudy | 76 | 6 .18
New Orleans, partly cldy 1 78 | I. j T
Galveston, clear ] 82 | L j .00
Corpus Christl. cloudy ...| 84 | 14 | .00
Palestine, cloudy | 86 | L | .00
T. for temperature; V. for velocity,
il. B. Bayer, Weather Bureau.
—Charles J. Hum and his wife of Dc
ttoit, have given to the University of
Michigan a large tract of redwood timber
land in California.
TEMPTATIONS IN HOME DECORA
TIONS.
Fumed Oak In the Last Novelty nnd
Most Attractive Article.
New York, July 27.—Fumed oak with
pewter trimmings is the newest thing in
house decoration. Every woman who is
doing over the bed rooms especially, finds
it a desperate struggle to decide between
the lovely furniture made of wood colored
by a process of artificial staining and
seasoning and the colonial mahogany.
Both are equally good in s.yle. but the
oak is less costly and exceedingly novel
and good in its decorative effects while
genuine old Georgian mahogany is getting
to be as rare as rubies and pretty nearly
as cosily. The situation, therefore, i?
promising for the future of this new
wooden bedroom furniture that is not only
novel in its material and shape, but also
in its decoration.
Fumed oak is never carved, but inlaid
instead, and so beautifully is it dyed,
hardened and polished that it gives
on i(s surface all the rich color and sheen
and grain of the rarest natural woods
known to the cabinet maker. It may bo
had in glowing cedar red, teak browns,
bamboo green, and pine yellow’ and what
is yet more fascinating to the housekeeper
of good taste is the excellent lines on
w’hich it is made. The most severe Jaco
bin and Empire forms have been adopted
to this twentieth century departure in
chair, table and bed making, and instead
of the decoration laid upon the surface,
as in the Napoleonic era, ebony and pew-
NEW OUT-OF-DOOR FURNITURE.
ter are mosaieed into the skin of the oak
in classic and chaste patterns. Very lit
tle brass is ever employed for ornamen
tation, though for certain pieces made
for the Princess of Wales, especially a
settle carved in Norse patterns, the inlay
work was all done in silver contrasted
with the blackest teak.
Over the seat of the settle was flung a
very thin cushion covered with scarlet
atolia, a goods very like the heaviest sat
enn which is particularly recommended
for use with fumed oak.
Along with the introduction of this new
wood have come some delightful scientific
and artistic discoveries in the making of
bedroom furniture. For instance, the
treatment given, this oak in preparation
renders it quite impervious to germs, and,
therefore, it is to be as highly recom
mended for beds as the hygienic iron. As
a matter of fact, the fumed oak beds are
built on iron frames with the admirable
spiral spring mattress resting on corru
gated copper wire foundations and then
the head of the ariistic oak bed is not
made tolidly of wood. Instead, a frame
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Wakmobc tr
Oak, TB-. - :—': “Tf
aJt-A.t with ! ‘ 1 i Mi ’ M*
NOVEL AND ART ISTIC FURNITURE.
like that often put at the back of a
washstand, springs up at the head of the
couch and from this hangs a charming
drapery of green or blue or tunic yellow
Ruskin linen, heavily embroidered with a
flight of birds or more attractively still,
with the owner’s coat of arms. Over the
bed, when dressed for the day, is then
flung a counterpane of atolia or linen,
matching in color the drapery at the bed’s
head, and bearing in its tenter the arms
embroidered again but in larger and more
elaborate design.
Even more of a departure from the or
thodox is the very modern fume 1 oak
dressing table which is often In ebony
and polished bone inlaid in domino pat
tern. provided with pewter handles an 1
an eight-sided pivoted mirror. The top of
this type of dressing table is always cov
ehed with a heavy sheet of proven glass
on which hot curling tongs and drops of
cologne have no effect, and beside every
convenience for stowing all the dainty
utensils of the toilet there are one or two
secret drawers to which the mysterious
and most precious agents for beauty can
be confided in perfect security. The wash
stand. quite unlike the common-place
“lavabo,” as the French call it. is topped
and backed with the most beautiful trans
parent tiles of glass, emerald green when
the oak is bamboo color, or ruby red lor
cedar-dyed wood, and according to the
new mode in furniture building, a ward
robe or what is better described as a
clothes cabinet, forms an important item
in a fumed oak set.
It is hardly more than a commonplace
chiffonier, but provided with wings that
serve especially as hanging receptacles
for delicate dress waists. Down the ren
ter of the bone and ebony inlaid pewter
handled clothes cabinet runs a row of
shallow, delightful bow fronted drawers
for holding laces, end gloves, and hand
kerchiefs, and fans, and things, while in
the wings is hanging space for posses
sions too delicate to swing among heavy
skirts, or if shelves are wanted, it is per
fectly easy to slip in a series of the very
highest woven wire traps, that take up
so HUle space that they' add nothing to
the weight of the wardrobe and are ad
mirable inventions for the simple con
version of a press into a hanging closet
iat a moment’s notice. The traps have
locks on their edges along the wall of th**
! press and when the shelves are not in
use they present no difficulties in storage.
While the charms of this entirely mod
! ern discovery in cabinet making are rev
olutionizing the fitting of bedrooms, there
has come into existence a revival on
I lawns of the use of complete sets of
Dutch bowling green furniture. A set of
seven remarkable nnd attractive pieces is
necessary, according to the newest no
tion, for adequately fitting a garden.
These pieces consist of low benches, gar
t den foot stools, dos-a-dos seats and tea
tables, and if you possess a lovely gar
den or a fine lawn they mut be distrib
uted under arbors and trees or beside
fountains, in order to give the out of
doors a thoroughly habited and inviting
expression.
Most of this furniture is made of cy
press or locust wood, and is soaked in a
chemical preparation to make it impervi
ous to dews and rair.s, and then painted
an agreeable green. These ponderous
benches are always arranged in groups of
three to form a half circle about a tea
table and secure a sociable effect, and de
nim cushions and a straining kettle do
; the rest to produce an al fresco air. In
■ the days of Dutch King William they first
| introduced this ponderous open-air furni
ture into England, along with Dutch gar
dens and to-day, for the American ns
well as the English garden, the stout
: seats and tables have been revived and
introduced on a croquet lawn or near a
tennis court. The result striven for is
that produced two centuries ago in Eu
ropean back lawns, when the men col
lected on the half circle of benches,
drank their ale and watched the progress
of a game of bowling on the green.
Fanny Enders.
HOW TO UNDERSTAND HORSES.
Horae Sense la it Donltle-E-dged
Phrase.
You can never even begin to understand
horses until you have watched them at
grass throughout long summer days. The
understanding is more perfect if the
watching begins early—say when the foal
is trotting after his sleek full-uddered
dam, going all the gaits, though he may
be no more than a week old, nipping grass
daintily, or nuzzling in the feed-trough on
the ground, making a pretense of eating
grain the same as his mother. It is only
a pretense until the saucy fellow is a
month old. He is foaled with teeth, but
does not for a w hile learn the use of them.
Men are said to wear their souls in the
pineal gland! if they have souls,
no doubt locate them in the upper lips.
It is a wonderfully efficient lip, soft as
velvet to the touch and sensitive to the
least inequality. A horse sweeps the
manger with it almost the instant he be
gins feeding, and if it touches upon knots
or splinters, keeps ware of them after
ward. Before wallowing, even the dullest
horse puts down his head until the upper
hp touches the ground, and turns slowly
round and round, feeling thus ail the
space upon which he means to fling him
self down and roll with all his force. If
he finds sharp stones, or stubs, or sticks,
he lifts his head and goes in search of an
other place. The lip also tells him when
the ground is mellow enough to make wal
lowing a supreme pleasure. Though
horses wallow in wet weather, sometimes
coming up coated with mud, they do it ap
parently from a sense of duty, with none
of the abandon they display, tossing and
tumbling upon light, sun-warm earth.
Often, indeed, they jump from pasture
into plow land solely for a wallow exact
ly to their minds. The wherefore of wal
lowing is still a mystery. It belongs in
the category of involuntary motions, along
with stretching and yawning.
1 1 Ali ens orcrtulity to hear how far a
horse will thrust h s lip through an open
ing to reach and bring in a coveted tit
bit. Thus he gets apples lying just inside
a fence, first pawing a hole in th© earth
upon his side, then half kneeling to reach
under hit substitute for fingers. Thus,
too, ho brings to mouth lush grass ttpring
ing up beneath the net of a dead brier
clump. A thrust of the lip also flips up
a gate latch, when he wishes to go
through, ns many thrusts. Jarring up and
down, work loose the pin that fastens his
btall door.
Draw bars he learns to take down with
his teeth, catching the bar fast and shak
ing his head sidewise until one end is Jig
gled from the socket. Sometimes, if ex
perience has taught him that a gate is
weak in either latch or hinges, he runs
violently against it. bears it down, and is
ofT. Horses in herd have spells when
Jumping out or in is a necessity. They
may be full fed, have shade and water,
everything Indeed to satisfy a reasonable
animal, not to say a well bred one, yet
out they go. Where there is a big range
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Savannah, Ga.
July 6, 1300.
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that is to say, wide commons—they often
run for ten miles as hard as they can leg:
it, then come trotting back in the most in
nocent fashion to their own proper quar
ters.
It is not only blood horses that race
among themselves, free of girth or rein.
When a storm threatens horses of every
sort grow so full of running needs must
they race and jump. Then in a wide pas
ture you may see sights such as no course
can offer. In every herd there is a leader,
usually a mare, and oftenerthan not a bar
ren one. As the cloud mounts and the
air grows thick and lifeless, she stops
grazing, turns her nose to the wind,
snorts, then falls again to feeding, but
only for a minute. Her snort was a sort
of bugle call. The rest answers it, some
with low whinnies. She whinnies back,
flings up her head and starts off in n trot,
looking over her shoulder to see if she is
followed. The rest come streaming after
—she breaks into a sweeping run. Round,
round, faster, the herd follows. It is a
race for blood, where the best horse al
ways wins. Generally it i* not the leader.
She may even be distanced in the second
round or the third. Sometimes
the pasture's circuit is made
twenty times before stopping. The
best horse gains sometimes a whole round
upon his mates. It is he who ends the
heat. When he has had enough he slacks
up. turns sidewise, lifts his head and tail
and whlnnys shrill triumph. But the tri
umph never goes to his head. After it
he is submissive as ever, coming or go
ing, jumping out or staying meekly at
home, quite as the lead mare ordains.
Until foals are a week old, they are
not safe in the company of grown-up
horses. Barren mares especially will at
tack the little creatures, biting, kicking
and trampling them to death. That is
not Infallibly the case, but there is al
ways a chance of it, hence horse breeders
are careful to keep brood mares away
from other stock. It is most unusual for
brood mares to harm colt, either their
own or their neighbors*. But cases have
been known of mares still wdth foal at
tempting to steal colts dropped in their
pasture.
In size hardly any other domestic ani
mals is so diverse as the horse. The av
erage weight of a standard Percheron is
near 2,000 pounds; a Shetland, on the other’
hand, may weigh less than 2(b). But ani
mals cross bred between the diverse races
are true horses, not hybrids, such as re
sult from the interbreeding of Asiatic and
South African asses. Thoroughbred stock
all traces back to Arabia, Percherons to
the barbs left behind by the Moors whom
Charlemagne overthrew in battle. Only
the Percheron bulk could have carried
the weight of knlghls in armor. But
it is demonstrab e that.weight for weight,
the thoroughbred is stronger, both in hone
and muscle, than his big, handsome
feather-legged compeer.
A thoroughbred has bone something be
tween ivory and flint for hard, eompact
nfss. Percheron bone Is soft and spongy.
The big beasts pull great loads over
smooth roads, but in mud soon become
leg-weary. A blood cross, otherwise a
thoroughbred one, gives staying power—
endurance—to any sort of stock, and very
often symmetry as well. Pure blood is
pro-potent—that is to say, it impresses it
self consistently upon offspring. By
The Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
Woman’s Department.
Mrs. Wm. King, Editor.
4SO Courtland avenue
Atlanta. Ga.. April 26, Doo’
Columbia Drug Cos.. Savannah. Ga
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thoroughbred blood one means always
running blood. Trotters are in a class
apart. They have been developed by Ju- *
dicious admixture of running blood, with
common road stock, and fixed and per
petuated by careful breeding for trotting
conformation from trotting stock, with
still more crosses of running blood.
The young horse, kind and prankish, '*
the very best play fellow in the world.
At leasi one solitary child found it so.
The child was a sad tom boy. Her black
mammy said, indeed, “she wouldn’t neb
ber git mar’ied—nebber in dis worl’—wid
out she took’n stopped de boy-walk, an’
hoy-ways she had.” But the tom hoy did
not very greatly mind anyth ng so long
as she had Princess—and time to frolic
with her. Princess, was three years old,
a blood bay with black points, gentle as
a dog, full of frolic as a kitten. She pas
tured all summer in a big old field, hut
her mistress was hardly over the fence
of it befere she came prancing and whic
kering to meet her. Th n when the two of
them had pew-wowed, wHen the sugar or
apples had been eaton and the salt basket
hung in a high sapling. Princess stretch
(d herself tili her back was low enough
for her playmato to leap upon it, then
went career.rg off, with her head high,
her tail likewise, rranclrg a li tie as she
ran, and giving the bast small sidewii*
jumps. Sometimes she ran thrice around
•he field, sometimes it was half a doz p n
times. No matter how many, the rider
r> ver got down. Beirg thrown was the
very b f st part of the fun. Princess did
with the nicest care and fe ling it nv,s *
wi h her nose as though she herself mean
to wallow'. Commonly she chose a place
slightly sloping, where the grass wa
thick and short. Once satisfied with
she put her head down, kicked up her
hind fe t, gently but decisively, and sent
her rider over her head, then stood look
ing at her, wagging the head up a
down, and flipping a derisive lip But on e
when in pay the little grl lay iner .
with ou;sir tch* and, motio^l© 5 * arms mr
two or three minutes. Princess caugn
the shoulder of h r frock gently, until *h
opened her eyes, sat up and laughed
AH this before the mare had ever been
bitted She had b>en raided a pet. being
orphan and at little more ihan a monin
old. But when It camo to regular break
ing she and and not belie experience, which is
that a pd colt is the hardesi thing
the world to break properly. The reason
possibly is they hi\e been so indulge
they can hardly be made to believe t
breaker moans w'hai he says.
—Question of the scarcity of fuel in Rus
sia has long occupied the attention of
Russian scientists. Coal is found only In
small quantities, while wood Is by t>°
means sufficiently abundant to warrant e -
tensive consumption. It is proposed
surmount the difficulty by turning
enormous quantities of peat to accoun •
In many districts the turf comprises a
most the staple fuel. Its calorific power
said to be double that of wood. The tun
is compressed into small briqueites' ab
sent to the market. It is estimated t
the cost of manufacturing the turf lov
commercial purposes Is about $6 per o’ l *
which compare* favorably with the P r c
of coal.