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B. H. LEVY & BRO. For Elegantly Fashioned This Season's Spring and Summer $12.00, $13.50 and $15.00 —Men’s Suits — Is a quick descent from the sublime to the ridiculous, FROM A VALUE STANDPOINT. Just reflect for one moment on the enormity of the crime, for it’s little short of criminal recklessness selling a fashionable $15.00 Suit for $8.90 “The Die Is Cast, Let the Galled Jade Wince.” We Have Other Purse Emptiers. STRAW HATS, UNDERWEAR, BATHING SUITS, BELTS, NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, INigHt Robes, Pajamas. Come in, make your selection AND SEE YOUR $ $ $ GROW. A FURRY HYPOCRITE. A Story of the Backsliding of the Only Praying Bear in Pike County BY EIWVTY WEBSTER. “It almost broke the minister’s heart when be found his pet black bear, that he had pointed with honest pride as the only praying - bear In Pike county, was loading a double life,” said Deacon Tod gers, sorrowfully. ‘Praying and prize fighting don't go together, even in black bears, “the good man told me.’ The bear that pretends he can combine them Is a hypocrite and a furry deceiver. A viper that I’ve cherished in my bosom, . . . <— the SIGHT THAT MKT HTS EYES KILLED THE GOOD MAN'S SOL'L WITH WOE AND BITTERNESS. _ >u- to have him hand me out n bunch of uppercuts, as the worldly say. "I never heard of even a worldly viper who was strong on uppercuts, but I didn't Wan to intrude on the good minister's Self; so i |f g 0 a t that. T’he minister had caught his pet when tv." it ( . U h arw j had brought him up as t' the family. When the cub began to a; l ive nt years of hear discretion, the t Hl '• man always had him In to family players. 'Train up a cub in the way he should go and he may be a missionary r .' the minister used to say. 'Who knows but that cub of mine has a call to t-how the beauties of holiness to be nighted hears sitting in damp caves and darkness? The ptous expression on my tarry p P f n face, when I am expounding t""-'on. shows that he understands what 1 f lng a good de and batter than some ' v Used sinner. l - who fall asleep un der my Influence.' ** it may have been only Ills faculty for Ini! a,| on. hut the actions of that deceit ful hear would have misled sharper men than the good minister. At family pray •*' Uic bear would waddle over to a chair and kneel down, the same as the rest of the family. When the minister came to the end of his prayer, the bear would let out a solemn little grunt, which the min ister described at a ‘heartfelt, bear amen.’ When they sang from the hymn book, the bear would wave his black body from side to side, keeping exact time to the music, and grunting a sort of low*, deep-toned bear accompaniment. That bear was the pride and admiration of re ligious people all around these parts. But in the end he showed himself in his true colors as a black reprobate, who cared more for worldly excitement and the gla mour of the prize ring than he did for grace. “When the minister’s pet was nearly full grown the good man noticed that he used to get restless in the night and want to wander up and down the valley. But the minister wasn't worried at this. " 'That’s a good bear, and honest bear,' he used to say, 'an animal that X can trust to wander over the hills and dales of J'ike county, and feel sure ho won't fall Into temptation. Even If he should meet other bears they wll be all the better for their acquaintance with my spiritually-minded pet. I wouldn't wonder a bit if ihoae night excursions of his were really mis sionary trips for the purpose or rescuing the souls of riotous and sinful black bears who hnva never enjoyed the precious privi lege of nightly attending family prayers." "One evening the bear wandered down to Tom Wilson's tavern. All the boys knew the hear by sight, being accustomed lo peeing him follow the minister to church, for. while the bear didn't go In side, he never missed accompanying the minister as far as the church door. Bo none of the boys were afraid of the bear and' they started to haw aome fun with him Some of the crowd had been boxing and Tom Wilson, heedless of the fact that he was starting a pious bear on the down- THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JULY 29, 1900. ward path, put on the gloves and began giving the bear a few eoft punches, more in fun than in anything else. The good bear stood it for a minute, then he let out suddenly with his left paw\ caught Torn on the side of the head and the bear had scor ed the first knock down. When Tom pick ed himself up he looked at the bear with increased respect.” 44 ‘Properly trained,’ said Tom In sort of an admiring way, ‘that bear would de velop more accomplishments than grunt ing soulful amens to prayers or the cho ruses to gospel hymns. Any creature, bear or man, who can cross-counter with the suddenness the minister's pet did is too swift an article to biush unseen in the iw pacity of a missionary toother Pike coun ty bears. With proper tuition and a few lessons in the manly art of self-defense that animal could hold tho black bear Same as” the Rest of the Family. middle-weight championship against all comers.’ "Tom fed the bear honey end raw meat and petted him so that the poor deluded animal would come back the next nei night. Sure enough, the following evening, about 9 o'clock, the bear showed up. Tom had been busy all day fixing up a pal? of bear boxing gloves with which to give the bear his first lesson in a life of vice. The bear showed that under a pious exterior he concealed a sinful heart for he took to the boxing game faster than he had to family prayers. Tom would land on the bear's head, purposely leaving an opening and there wasn't any thing slow about the manner in which the minister's pet would drive his big gloves In. After a little Tom began to give the bear lessons In sclentliic self-defense. The tieur used to tome to the tavern every evening, and it wasn t long before a man had to be an artist with the gloves to get in a blow on the renegade, but ac tive bear. Then Tom taught the bear other details of the 'fighting game, side stepping, crosa-countering, left and right hooks, and other devices which wicked men say are of service In the square Eng. Th'- hi nr never was much good at aida ft>uil g. or straight jabs, hut his swings and hook were enough 10 make a per scri's heart dance with delight—lf It hadn't been for the slnfulln ss of the bru tal and degrading spectacle. "The minister never suspected anything, and the bearwent on leading his deceitful To Sum Up. The SUITS Are NOT Twins. The BUYERS May Not be Twins. Come to Think, We Are Not Twins. The Wondrous g—— a Bargains concern= ed, are the iest TWIN MONEY GIVERS Ever launched be= fore the Fortunate People of Savan= nah. We might say, “HEAVENLY TWINS.” I double life; attending family prayers from 7 to 7.50 o’c'ock every evening, loafing about the minister's yard with a pious expression for about an hour, and then hiking oil to ihe tavern as scon as it was dark, there to delight a select au dience with a display of the art of self defense. Once in a while the bear would miss prayers, but he never missed the boxing exhibition. All the boys took turns standing up before him, but while the bear received some stiff punches, it was all up with the other fellow when one of the pious bear's right or left swinge came sliding in. “One day the minister attended a con ference on the other side of the county, and, late at night, he came driving back past Tom Wilson's tavern. There seemed to be a good many people out in Tom’s barn, and the minister stopped and list ened, for they were making a lot of noise. Pretty soon the good man heard cries of 'Soak him on the Jaw,’ ‘Lead for his wind,’ ‘Wasn’t that a peach of a left hook?’ ‘l’ll bet ten to one on the bear,’ ‘Jim will be carrying colored lamps after that one,’ and other disgusting remarks which would indicate a prize fight was in progress. ‘‘Now, the minister regarded prize fight- A SHORT CHAIN AND VIRTUE. lng as one of Salon's worst wiles, and had done more than any other person to drive the game from the peaceful pre cincts of Tike county. He made up his mind that he would break In suddenly on the violators of the law. get their names and hold them up to public condemnation. So he stole softly to the barn door and swung It open. The sight thot met his eyes filled the good man's soul with woe and bitterness. There on the floor of the barn with a pair of boxing gloves on his hands was Tom WJlson. In front of him stood the minister's own pet, the pious bear, who for years had grunted 'amen' at family prayers and shambled solemnly to church after the minister. Even as the minister looked on the finish untie, Tom led too fur with his right, the tear feint ed with his left, and then hooked his right hard to Tom's jaw r . Tom dropited in a heap. But the jar he got wasn't any thing to the one the bear received when he looked around and saw the man of God standing In the doorway, liis jaw fell, ho Ultra-Stylish in Fabrics, Designs, Patterns and Finish, built by EXPERT MEN TAILORS and made to sell readily, and have sold at from $12,00 to $10.50, Certainly cry out for vengeance when offered at —•* SB.QO. It's a serious matter to us. Should be a joyful time -for appreciative and shrewd Ladies. “Twas not always Mhus.” Neat Littie Trades Are riotous in other lines, notably BLACK AND WHITE LAWN WAISTS, MISSES' WAISTS. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, WRAPPERS, PARASOLS, UNDERSKIRTS, Etc. Boys’ Wash and Light Weight Suits Can be seized on most any trivial PRICE PRETEXT, : = EIGHT-90 B. H. LEVY & BRO. dropped down on his four feet, and acted like a bear that wanted to crawl off and hide himself, bujt was hindered by a pair of big boxing gloves on his front paws. The minister was fairly sputtering with rage. 44 Tbu’t it enough,’ he shouted at Tom Wilson, 'that you should train men with minds of their own to beat each other into bunches of insensibility, but you must corrupt my prized and once pious pet and turn him into a brutal prize-fighting bear? .As for you, you furry reprobate,’ contin ued the worthy minister, turning to the penitent bear, ‘strip the insignia of Satan from your front paws and hurry home. A short chain and virtue will be your portion In the future.’ “Tom Wilson tried 10 argue with the minister, but Tom’s worldly manner of expressing himself only seemed to anger the good man the more. 44 ‘That’s a furry, but not a reprobate Lear,’ said Tom in a remonstrating sort of a way. ‘At heart he ain't a bad bear. But you can s e yourself from the scien tific manner in which he puts up his paws that the bear is b ttrr fitted for prize fighting than piety. Instead of be ing angry, you ought tobe proud of the way in which your pet has combined the two. If you will sell that 1 will give you your own price for him ’ “The minister wouldn’t listen to this. 44 Sf 1 that deluded animal back into a life of sin?’ he replied in a shocked man n*. r. Abandon my once prayerful and pious pet to the devices of the devil? Not for his we ght In god or silver, anyhow! Short rations and rermons will be the fate of that bear until he shows signs of spiritual regon* ration. 4 44 He's more likely to show signs of short temper under that treatment/ an swered Torn. “The minister didn’t make a%y reply to this, hut hurrbd home. He found the bear there ahead of him. The bear was feeling mighty ashamed and tried to show It. The m nlster didn’t pay any at tention to his pet’s attempts to prove his penitence, but chained the bear up in the back yard, where he could ruminate on his evil actions. The next day Tom Wil son. after another unsuccessful attempt to buy the brar, began a lawsuit, alleging that he had a claim on the b*ar for un paid boxing lessors. The minister almost had a lit in his rage at Tom’s demand. But while Tom and the minister were sMU at ouds over their respective claims, the Ixar settled the matter by breaking his chain and piking oft to the w ods. Neither Tran nor the minister were mulshed at this settlement of the dispute. ‘‘‘The best boxing b- ar ev< r seen In J Ike coun jr,’ said Tom sorrowfully, ’a bear with a glorious future before him. And now he has broken training forever. In a yejr tha* bear won’t know un up percut fre m a left hook. 4 “And tte m wasr.’t any better pleased than Tom. “ A b* ar who m‘ght have be n a pion eer as a missionary among his fellow Lears,’ moaned the good man. ‘But he honey and the praises of the wicked to th* reward of an approving con science He'll probably be led astray by n< me furry Deldah and bring up a brood of worldly minded cub boxei>.’ ” —James 8 Barker of Miw.-*ourl, is tie sole survivor of the expedition of 1847 f'r the relief of Gen. Zachary Taylor in the City of Mexico. He rode on horseback from Missouri to Austin, Tex., to enllat in Col. Hayem’ rtgimenw LI It L VISITORS OM WARSHIPS. Even Hard Tack Dianppenri Ileforo the IJeinnnt! for Souvenirs of the Vlsit. From the Washington Star. American men-o-war's men of the ward room, as well as of the fo-c’sle, like to en tertain their young women friends aboard ship on the home stations. If they hap pen to be “aft” girls, the temporary guests and prizes of the ward-room officers, they are generully prcat*e<l to remain aboard for a bit of luncheon. A good many young women bulk at this proposition—not that they nee the allghteat Impropriety in It, but because it is an ordeal even for very bright girls, this luncheon aboard an / i\m*r lcan man-of-war. American girls who have done their bit of ship visiting unite in saying that they wish American naval officers hadn’t fallen Into the strange, ern barassing habit of considering their coun trywomen all as brilliant angels right down from above that they have 10 be on their mettle every Instant to keep from falling from the standard. Neither officers nor men of a man-of-war expect to have much left in the way of email gear after a visit from feminine friends. The girls never ask for these things, of course, but they never fall to go ashore with enough to stock a burnboat. Anyihing that an American girl sets on board an American man-of-war and likes, she gets. If she could carry 6-inch rifles the officers aft would probably give her a few. The bluejackets are Just as g* n erous. Kvery American warship in com mission carries about ten times the num ber of cap ribbons ever likely to be re quired for the use of the changing crews. Those extra cap ribbons arc for the girls. , They are rot officially made for the girls, but it is an understood thing that the girls are to get them. They cost the officer or bluejacket who draws them from the pay master’s s-iore* 15 cents each, but If they cost the officer or bluejacket sls each, the girls would get them Just the tame. Petty officers in our navy are always thy on rating badges for their watch arms aft er theirshlphas been Invaded by the girls. The girl innocently remarks that the an chor or pair of crossed guns or exploding shell or silver wheel in the |**tty officer’# arm is pretty. She doesn't have to sny anything else. The petty officer make* for bis ditty box for his scissors and cuts the rating badge off his arm before the gill’s eyes for her. Then he has to draw on the faymaKter for another rating badge. The chief petty officers, who wear brass-but toned uniforms, often go button less for a day or so after the girls have been aboard. They lop the buttons off their bionics for the girls, and then have to stand by for more buttons at the paymaster's office. The bluejackets will give Ihe girls anything they happen to possess, or don’t happen to possess, for that matter. There was sn equipment yeoman on board a ship that visited the Ban Diego flowrer fiesta a few years ago, who fitted out the girls he escorted around his ahlp with peculiar souvenirs. In his storeroom h* had a couple of hundred old-fushion'd wrist Irons that had done a lot of duty In squelching the fractiousness of I s.tiloi>. A board of survey had been held on these Irons, which were out of dat \ and they had been condemned. It w ts the yeornan’B business to turn them In nt a, ravy yard storeroom at tho first oppor tunity, 90 that they could U officially; thrown on thr- dump. Ho made better L. V Klv ‘ ns thom h'Khly appro wnV/'L V ,° U " <r Womc ". who honored him wl h their company on visits about the ship Hie girls, tied little ribbon bowa 10 the wrist irons-, and valued them highly as Implements that had been used for tha toriure of poor allofmen. The skipper had the yeoman at the mast for his nervy dis position of government property, but the man was not punished for his offence, re lieved as It was by such amiable gallantry. Officers aft hang on to the anchors and other silver and gold devices attached to the dollars of their blouses as lone as possible, but most of them, sooner or latsr, tip them off and hand them over to younx women who like the workmanship of the devices. The cleverness of Ameri can ftjris In thus hypnotizing sailors of ull nations Is remarkable. A splendid Rus sian battleship steamed Into New York harbor o few yearn ago, and when her gangways were spread for visitors tha New York girls went alioard the Russian man-of-war In droves. Part of the uni form equipment of every Russian naval officer is a dagger. The daggers are beau tifully devised affairs, the hilts of them ti uvily wrought In gold. There wasn't a dagger on that great Russian sitilp of war two days after tha New York girls began to visit the Czar's vessel, but there were many score* of Rushlhu naval daggers hanging by little chains in the boudoirs of the New York girl#, on n ship-visiting Hay In an American port a barrel of round hordtack, standing of><n in a man-o’-war alleyway, is a sight tiic young women can't, very well resist. The navy hardtack is circular in simp* “ n d a*>ut four Inches In diameter. Tha girls all get a handful each of the bisouit and carry them ashore to paint ahlpa and sea soap* s on their rough surfaces. An other article of uniform that the bluejack ets of our navy cannot hang on to when tho glrW get aboard their ships la the neckerchief. The United State# bluejack ets neckerchief is a handsomely woven affair of the finest black silk. It costa ths bluejacket Ulose to $1.50. Nevertheless, there la a general unloosening of necker chiefs when the young women are aboard, and the skipper, when lie inspects hl neckerchiefless crew at quarters on the following morning before the men have had tim<- to draw neckerchiefs from the paymaster, doesn’t punish the men for be ing out of uniform, but mutters something about the power of beauty. There is a saying in the navy nowadays that “if you want a jackknife ask a coalheaver for the loan of his.” There’s a lot of truth In the saying. The deckhands among the blue jackets resign their huge knives to young women visitor# time ufter time In course of a cruise. The coal heavers, being sta tioned down below, are Immune from plundering by the girls. A deck bluejacket Just about finishes a fine knife lanyard for himself that he ha* been plaiting and weaving for several months to wear with his mustering uniform for shore visiting, when a girl from ashore comes along and “looks it away” from him. That is the way the sailors express it—“looks it away from me,” the Idea being that when a girl gets her eye on any article In the make-up of the cimn-o 4 -war’s man ihe con verts it to her own use by that process. When a bluejacket hasn’t much left in the way of small gear to dish out to the young women visitors lie races aft and gets a pound plug of iobocV> from tho pay yeoman for her. The girl like* to get these big bricks of tobacco, which they Ik*ribbon and preserve, for tho navy to iscoo. of rock-like hardness, is an endur ing souvenir* 7