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CHINESE BILL OF FARE.
It ICE IS THE STAFF OF LIFE 1> THE
FLOWER A UMPIRE.
Outtor nml ( hresf \hhorml—Tbo
Celestials Can Stoninrli Many
Thills AA p Could Not Eat. lint Dis
like Some of Onr Article* of Diet.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A Chinaman will eat anything that he
can bite. He turns up his nose at noth
ing. although he- is not so fond of rats,
mice and puppies as we are Inclined to
think. In fact, authorities agree in saying
that as far as their experiences go, they
have never seen either of these animals
exposed for sale in the market except at
Canton. Of (burse, the very poor, those
who cannot get anything else, will eat
what necessity compels, which in all prob- ,
ability will be a large, sleek rodent. Such j
anima.s, carefully fed for the purpose on
lice and such food, are no doubt to be |
found if you know where to look for them, j
but to say that these creatures form the
common articles of food for the millions
in China is no more truthful than It would
be to say that the American dines on
horseflesh.
Rice is the staff of life in China. That
Is, in the southern part, hut in the north
ern regions millet takes its place as the
mainstay of the people. Both of these
grains are consumed in enormous quan
tities.. One, according to the part of china
in which you are, appears on the table
twice a day, for that is as often a- a Chi
naman is supposed to eat. in the homes
of the rich and poor alike, thougn he gen
erally etows away a few things between
meals. The difference between the tables
of the rich and the poor is to be found in
the relishes or side dishes which accom
pany this staple diet.
The Laborer’s Diet.
The laborer Is content to find on his
table his bowl of rice and a vegetable or
two Sometimes a piece of pork or a fowl
is addded; fish are greatly prized, and are
eaten In all manner of ways. None are
too small to be thrown away, none so large
but what they can be devoured. Sharks’
fins are considered a great luxury, and are
not found exe'ept on the tables of the rich
Neither are the fishes’ mnws despised, but
rather considered as \ dainty. Small fishes
of a variety somew hat like the sardine are
eaten alive, and the evident enjoyment
which the Celestial derives from feeling
them wriggle their way down affords a
sight nearly as amusing as it is disgust
ing. •
This is not the least of the articles of
food considered as great delicacies by the
Chinese which are rather nauseous to us.
Hundreds >4 greenish-brown worms, fresh
from the rice field*, are offered for sale
by peddlers, while salted and pickled eggs
having for their recommendation their old
age, are greatly prized. There are, how
ever, certain things at which a Chinese
stomach rebels. Our fondness for butter
and cheese.for example,is utterly incompre
hensible to the Celestial. Cows’ milk is
lather tolerated than liked, while women's
milk is sold on the streets, being consid
ered very healthy for the aged and in
firm
Snake Eaters In Amoy.
Snakes are eaten by the poor people In
®ome parts of China; for instance, in the
neighborhood of Amoy. In some districts
of the Canton province they are also eaten,
but many other varieties of the reptile
specie, as the eel, are undoubtedly included
in the term. One authority on the subject
says that he saw a man in Swatow hawk
ing along brown snakes in a basket for
food. “There were three or four of them.”
he say*, “tied with strings around the
neck, the strings being fastened to* the
top of the basket to prevent their escape.
They are rather an expensive article of
diet, costing about 70 cents each," which
is a great deal in a country where a man’s
wages are from 3 to 5 cents.
A Famous Soup
The famous birds’ nest soup is made
from birds’ nests brought all the way from
Ceylon and Malaya, where they are gath
ered at great risk from the edves on the
aeashore. These ne*ts are not at all like
the ordinary birds’ nests of which we are
accustomed to think, cotniosed of Job lots
of twigs and sticks and hay and grass,
but they are made almost entirely of a
gelatinous substance similar to Irish moss.
The best quality, those free from twigs,
etc., command 120 to S3O per pound, while
none of the poorest fall below s;{. Here
is a recipe for preparing birds’ nestsoup,
tranalated from the Chinese:
“Take clean white birds’ nests shreds,
or birds' nests, and soak thoroughly. Pick
out all the feathers. 801 lln soup or wa
ter till tender and of the color of Jade
stone. Place pigeons’ eggs below* and add
some ham shreds on top. Boil again slow
ly with little fluid. If required sweet, then
boil in clear water till tender, add sugar
candy and then eat. This is a most clear
and pure article, and thick or oily sub
stances should not be added. It should
be boiled for a long time for If not boiled
till tender, it will cause diarrhoea.’’
Hnnntn Rarely I wed.
The manner of preparing food in China
Is totally different than with us. Roasts
are seldom indulged in, nearly all kinds
of food being boiled, as the Chinese re
gard roasted foods as very unhealthy.
Meat, instead of being the staple food,
is the relish. The meat, when eaten at
all. is to relish the rice or the vegetables,
and not the vegetables to relish the meat.
Although nominally taking but two meals
a day, the first at about 8 to 10 and the
other at f> or H. nearly every one knocks
off at noon for a bite between meals. These
lunches are procured at any one of the
numerous restaurants and generally con
sist of a bowl of fish congee or some other
tasty soup or dish. Peanut oil and soy
are added to all of the made-up dishes
which form the food of the people. Tea
is drunken universally. Hard-toiling la
borers are allowed five good meals a day.
Perhaps, my fair readers, you would
like to try a Genni duck. This is how it
is done:
“Take a fat duck. Open and clean. Take
two mace of salt and rub over It both
outside and in Put into an earthen dish
and take of fan spirits one cup, and put
the cup with the spirits inside the duck.
Do not let the spirits fall into the duck;
only the vapor of the spirits is wanted
Steam over water till quite* tender. Lift
out the wine cup Into the bowl Done in
this way there Is no need of minor vege
tables.’’
The Chinaman is a native cook, young
John Chinaman cooking as readily and
neatly as his mother.
TO SEND A TBAW TO SAVANNAH.
Americas Light Infantry to Study
Rifle Practice.
Amerlcus, Ga.. Aug. 19.—MaJ. .R. 1..
Wylly, commandlrg the Second battalion
of the Fourth Regiment, will be h*re
Tueolay for the purpose of Instructing
the Armrleus Light Infantry in rifle prac
tice. Thin c mpany will enter a line team
in the state cotit st at Savannah. An ex
cellent range has le*n provided here and
the team will do some good work before
gii ig upon the Avonda e range
Furlow & Jonrs, the n w lessees of the
theater, have booked a fire line of at
traction* for the season, which opens in
September, and look forward to good bus
iness
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Astounding >accers of Dr. Hathaway In
Restoring the Shattered Nerves of Men
to Their Original Healthy Condition.
His Treatments for Other VFeak
uesne* of Men
Dr. Hut ha wav’? treatment for that terri
ble condition of mental and bodily weak
ness, brought about by youthful igno
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S fe. os most others
,f arc, simply a
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The Longest Established n o n of the
Specialist in the South, body. It builds
up nerve, tissue nd muscular
strength, and revitalizes the whole body.
The hit herb* miserable victim becomes
fitted for a husband and a father.
This is what Dr. Hathaway's treatment
does, and it doe: it invariably in every
case, never mind how serious the condi
tion of th- petient.
Dr. Hathaway also treats, with the
same guarantee of success. Varicocele
without operation. Stricture (by a pain
less home treatment). Specific Blood Pois
oning and other chronic disease* of men,
including all Urinary and Sexual disor
ders.
Absolutely private and confidential con
sultation without any tost can be had
in Dr Hathaway’s office. If you live out
of town, or cannot for any reason visit the
office, he will send you free his latest
book Mid self-examination blanks.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.,
Dr. Hathaway A Cos.,
25A Bryan street. Savannah, Ga.
Office Hours—9 to 12 m. . 2 to 5 and 7 to 9
p. m. Sundays, 10 a. m to 1 p. m.
MANILA A HOT-BED OF VICE.
*
Scandal Tlint Will tlrllpfip Cuba's
Drenlnß Over There.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Chicago, 111., Aug. 17.—VV. E. Johnson,
editor of the New York Voice, just return,
ed from six months in the Philippines,
makes a number of sensational charges.
He says: “There is soon to be an out
break in Manila in the line of the recent
Cuban scandal. There are several firms of
custom house agents in Manila; but one
Arm is practically dominant. Those who
go to any other firm have endless trouble
and expense in getting their goods ashore.
The reason lies in the fact that this par
ticular firm is none other than the coclee
tor of the port
Oue Inspector'll Luecions Plum.
“An acquaintance of mine who is em
ployed in the custom house as inspector,
told me he expected to make SIOO,OOO in
graft.' The charges for extra-purposes
above the regular tariff are enormous. It
is a notorious fact among the merchants
that if this particular firm is employed
many of these extra charges need not be
paid.
"The American Commercial Company
is the trust that controls 150 or 200 beer
canteens scattered among the army posts
Friends of the canteen declare they keep
the soldiers from the saloon; and on the
same pirneiple with equal force those in
charge in Manila declare the social evil
is a necessity. The same system prevails
in the Sulu archipelago that caused such a
scandal in London when it was discovered
the British had adopted it in the army in
India.
I'lißiliMin. Rare* nml Opinni.
"The Americans have introduced prize
fighting. About two or three times a j
month a prize fight is arranged in Manila.
The Americans have also- inaugurated l
Sunday races tinder the auspices of the
Country Club.
"The Spanish let out an opium monopo
ly for SIO,OOO, payable monthly to the
Spanish government. When the Americans
took the islands this monopoly was hold
by a Chinese millionaire, r>on Carlos Pa
lanca. Arrangements were made by whleh
Falanca paid duty that amounted to the
same sum. Every man who runs an opium
resort pays a certain sum into Palanca's
coffers.”
COTTON GOING TO a KM 10 9.
Hot Weather Cutting Down the Crop.
Other News.
Amerieus, Ga., Aug. 19.—The drought
and intensely hot weather is causing cot
ton to open rapidly and the big bales are
pouring into Amerieus at a lively rate.
Already about 350 bales have been re
ceived here, yesterday receipts being 153
bales. Nine cents is the average prUe
paid and nearly all cotton marketed h,as
been sold. Farmers assert that the yield
will be reduced a third to one-half by the
drought, os there has not been a general
rain In more than three weeks, and the
crop has suffered greatly.
P. B. Odum died last night of typhoid
fever. There has been much sickness
from typhoid here this summer.
IXK-ol sportsmen are after the doves
with a vengeance and find the birds plen
t'ful. At a dove roost yesterday more
than 300 were killed, while parties that
went elsewhere to shoot reported great
success.
The City Council has begun upon the
work of grading and curbing with gran
ite the principal residence stree s. and wi.l
thus expend a large sum on intprove
nien's. Several streets have been complet
ed already, anti College and Lee streets
will be the next to r. c-ive at entl n.
Tne Republicans of the Third district
have wisely decid'd not to put up a can
didate for Congress, and Hen. E. B. Le w
is. the Democratic nominee, will have no
opposition.
CHICAGO, at NEW YORK, 1.
New Yorkers Were l noble to Con.
nect With Garvin.
Chicago, Aug. 19.—The vidtots outha'tel
Chlcjgo to-day, but were unable io con
nect with Garvin with m n on bases The
pitcher surprised everybody by working a
char hit in the fourth, scoring what
P oved to be the w innit g run. Attendance
3 209. The score: R.H.E.
Chicago 1 0 0 1 0 0 # 0 x—2 3 1
New York —0 0010000 o—l 9 2
Batteries—Garvin ind Chance; Carrie It
and Grady.
9t. I.onls Was lienten.
St. tenuis, Aug. 19— Listless fl lding in
the early part of the game was responsi
ble for St. Ixmis' defeat. Powell was hit
hard. Attendance 8 300. The Score:
R.H.E.
St. Louis 1 9 0 0 9 0 0 2 2—5 11 j
Cincinnati ...30121010 o—g 12 l
Bath rice—Powell and Robinson, S olt
and Peiiz.
Other Games.
At Detroit—Deirolt. t; Cleveland, I.
TEUBAI RESIGNED.
He Gave Ip the Mnimircnient of the
St. Louis Team.
St. Louis, Aug. 19.—Oliver ("Pat”) Te
beau, manager of the 81. latuls National
I-rague Baseball Club, tendered his resig
nation to President Frank Robinson to
day. Mr. Robinson immediately nppointe 1
John Mc-Graw to succeed Tebeau. Tebeau
has been connected with the old Cleveland,
now the St. Louis team, for eleven years.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 20. 1900.
t ItIISESE PARADOX.
Fearless of Death and let Afraid In
Untile.
From the London Saturday Review.
The peculiarities of the Chinese char
acter, so far as strangers can judge of
them, have always excited the puzzled
wonder of Europeans; and at the present
moment this feeling has been naturally
stimulated anew, it is indeed difficult to
exaggerate the condition of grotesque p. r
plexity produced in the mind of an Eng
lishman. Frenchman or American by the
thought of n nation,who,on the one hand,
are possessed of the most modern artil
lery, and are themselves capable of manu
facturing ammunition for it. and who are
yet, as a nation, in a slate of such abject
superstition as to think that the most ap
palling calamity that could possibly befall
their country wouli he to dig up the
bodies of the ruling family’s ancestors.
But a yet more puzzling, or. at all events,
a better known peculiarity of the Chi
nese character is to be lound in the sin
guisi fact that it is possible in China for
a criminal condemned to death to buy a
substitute who shall suffer the supreme
penalty in his place. The devotion of t!:>-
Chtnese to their families, and thftr view?
.3 to xi future stat-, may supply us with
n logical explanation of conduct which
r<n;s so paradoxical. This aspect of the
question it is not our purpose to discuss.
But such conduct, whatever Its logical ex
pl cation may be. shows at all events
that t> e Chinese, generally fear death
much less than the Western nations. Nev
erth.ut ss—and here is the |g>!nt on which
we desire especially to insist—the Chines,-
are ?'d to be by no means exceptionally
courageous.
That such should he the case seems to
many people inexplicable. If death seems
to a man so little Cos be dreaded that he
will sell his life, in cool blood, in order
that the price of it may go to his rela
tions. we may reasonably ask why he
should not be absolutely reckless in bat
tle. We nitty ask how the Idea of danger
can have any possible meaning for him
And In asking this, we shall he justified
by the conduct of certain other nations.
The Mohammedan idea that death In bat
tle against the infidel is a sure passport
to an eternal Cremorne or Mabllie, where
tho-e i„ no satiety and nothing whatever
to pay. does as a fact produce amongst
the soldiery of the prophet the precise ef
fect which in logical fitness it ought to do.
It invests them with the courage "that
arises from a true indifference to death.
Why, then, do not the Chinese, to whom
death in itself is not more formidable,
exhihit courage of the same spontaneous
kind.' To many minds this question ap
pears unanswerable. We venture to think
that it is not as mysterious as it seems,
or, at any rate, the fact to which it re
fers, If mysterious at all, is not peculiar
to the Chinese. It is merely an example
somewhat bizarre in its details—of a cer
tain paradoxical trait common to human
nature. It is an example of the fact that,
although, in the great majority of in
stances, action is governed by conscious
or unconscious belief, just as one piece
of machinery may be governed by another
piece to which it is geared, yet there
are many in. rairtant kinds of conduct, ac
tion or behavior with regard to which this
gearing breaks down or becomes discon
nected.
That such is the case with regard to
ethical conduct is attested by authorities
as different as Ovid anrl St. Paul; and
they both take note, of the fact in almost
the same language. Rut the. phenomenon
is not confined to the sphere of what is
commonly called ethics. It is equally ob
servabl* in the sphere of self-interest and
common sense. Many pr achers. dwell
ing solemnly on the fair last things, tell
us that it would be Imposs ble for t'hris
ti--ns to continue in habitual sin if they
only believed, with a living belief, in hell.
And whatever may be said to the con
trary by c rtaln superficial philosophers,
there is no doubt that the fear of future
punishment has had -an Irrm nse effect on
the conduct of 'he Chris'bm world. It is,
however, equally true that great as this
effect has been it ought on logical
grounds to have been very much greater;
and that though the rffiacy of this fear,
within certain limits, is indubitable, the
extent to which it has failed to be ef
ficient is of all facts connected with it the
most remarkable. It deters some men
from this forbidden cotirs” without de
terring him from that. This irregularity
of act'on no doubt in part depends on
the differ nt degrees of bed f in different
nten. or in the same man at different
times. This explanation, however, is only
partial. It may easily be shown that in
the efficacy of a belief in hell the vivid
ness of the belief is by no means the
n'o'n and termining factor Th - he'ief Is
constantly disregarded by those who have
no doubt of Its truth', whilst It constantly
influences others who by no means con
sider it as a certainty.
Should any reader he inclined to receive
this statement with incredulity, we may
convince him of his error most easily, by
asking him to direct his attention to anal
ogous examples of the influence of he
lief in action, taken from the sphere of
ordinary thought and conduct. Let us
begin with a man's expenditure on his
establishment, or on hi? personal pleas
ures. If men, when they hired houses,
engaged servants and ordered furniture,
food, wine, carriages, clothes and so forth,
were not influenced to some extent by
the knowledge that they would have to
pay for them, or would, if (hey failed to
pay for them, he what is called "ruined.'"
every householder would try to live like
a millionaire; everybody, tradesmen In
cluded, excepting millionaires, would he
bankrupt; and society, under existing con
ditions, couid no longer hold together
And yet, obvious as this fact is, it Is
equally notorious that individual men are
constantly living in a way which must
in a few years, reduce them to complete
beggary. They know that this result must
ensue—they believe it to he absolutely in
evitable. as vividly as any Christian in
:he medieval age of faith believed (list
hell would be the portion of those who
deliberately lived in sin. Yet their knowl
edge, founded as It is on Intellect, on
common sense, on their personal obser
vations of the retribution that Is daily
overtaking others, has on their own con
duct no restraining influence.
There Is another set of examples even
more forcible than this—those offered by
the conduct of many men in respect of
their own diet. Nothing Is commoner
than to see intelligent persons who fol
low, in many respects, the dictates of
reason Ignoro reaeon altogether In its
bearing on what they eat and drink. On
a hot day In summer they may
know that a draught is pleasant
to them; but they will forego the
momentary pleasure if they know that it
will be followed by rheumatism. They
moy feel II strong Inclination to recom
mend themselves to some married lady;
but a wholesome fear of the divorce court
will do what religion cannot, and keep
them true to the practice, if not to the
principles, of virtue. But these same men
may know with atwolute certainty that
the drinking of some wine, or the eating
of some diet overnight, will insure for
the next day all the tortures of gout or
dyspepsia; and yet they will eat and
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drink of the forbidden things, Juer aa
recklessly as if no such knowledge exist
ed. We have spoken of gout and dys
pepsia; but we need not end with these.
Men will constantly eat and drink (A
what is forbidden to them both by their
doctor and by their own conviction as
certain not only to make hcm ill, but to
kill them ;it no distant date. It is not
that they <loub that delith will be the
result of their Indulgence. Still leas is
it that they do nor fear to die. The
class of man who dares death for the sake
of his port or his pudding is precisely the
man to whom death, when it does occur,
is most terrifying. If then the dictate*
of common prudence, based as they are
on the certainties of the commonest
knowledge and exj>erience, fall so often
to produce their logical result on action,
we need not be surprised if the certi
tudes of religious faith fail similarly with
an equal or even with a greater fre
quency.
The foregoing observations have been
made with reference to individuals, but
the same sort of phenomenon which we
wbne-ss in men and women individually
we witness in masses of individuals, of
races, or of nations, collectively. The
units, or at all event.* the vast majority
of them, which make up these several
aggregates, are distinguished in each case
by common racial peculiarities, wfcich in
some respect or other interfere wdth the
logical action of certain of their faiths
or convictions on their behavior in ordin
ary life. Is there anything more myste
rious in the fact that a Chinaman, who
will sell himself for execution in times of
peace, should flinch from death on the
bartlefield than there is in the fact tha
many an enlightened European, who sur
rounds himself with doctors in order to
keep death at a distance, should delib
erately brave it for the sake of an orto
lan or a fresh truffle? The true explana
tion of this, as of all similar paradoxes,
is to be sought in a trait of human na
ture which is in itself neither more nor
less explicable than any other of the fun
damental facts of life. We refer to the
effect upon conduct of what we common
ly call temperament, as distinguished
from immediate inclination or appettie on
the one hand, and belief and reason on
the other. What temperament is is so
large and complicated a question that
we can hut indicate the answer to it In
the briefest and the most general way;
but even such an answer as this may
net be wkhout suggestiveness.
We believe it will not be inaccurate to
siv that temperament c. n-slsts of those
elements in the human eharae/er which
are due to idosyncrasles of the nerves, the
o>ans and the constituents of the body
generally, as distinguished from
brain, which is the organ cf thought and
consciousness. Not only does kn>wledge
afcd all the mat er on which thought ex
ercises itself coiner 10 the brain through
the nerves and the organs of sense, and
not only do brdies, differently constitut
ed, give to the brain con iderably varying
records of the relative values of the pleas
ure and pain of life, but the body as dis
tinguished from the brain is full of ap
petites-, impulses and aversions, which
lead to action, or at all event* tend to
lead to it. without the intervention of any
logical process at all. Now though all
tnen s brains in a logical sense, think
alike and though tlvy all remember alike
the bodies and nerves of all men are very
far from feeling alike; and thes-* appe
tites. inclinations, tendencies, impulses
and aversions, which constitute in some
Individuals from what they are in others;
and there are analogous, though more
gene al, differences be*we n the temper
aments of various race 3 . Hence s the
conduct of all men, and of all races will,
in certain respects be inconsistent with
their logic aid their he iefs; nor is there
any hing in the contradictory attitudes of
ihe Chinese with regard to death more
mysteiious than many similar anomalies
which are dally observable among our
selves.
A rOKER STORY.
Hard Rub Ret ween Two Royal Flash
Hands.
From the New’ York Commercial.
"That was a good poker play by John
VV. Gates that you people told about the
other day,” remarked C. Fred Kimball,
the Chicago carriage manufacturer, as lie
sat in the smoker of the Holland House
recently. "But for a rather unique com
bination of circumstances and outcome in
an eight-handed game, commend me to a
jack-poi Incident in Washington that a
friend of mine witnessed. The scene was
‘the den’ in the residence of a well-known
cabinet officef, and in the game were
United States Senator Jim Smith of New
Jersey, Speaker Reed. Tom Lowery of
Minnesota, Gordon Weld of Boston, a
well-known coal operator of that day, fa
miliarly addressed as ‘Gordy;' Congress
man Dougherty of Florida, Tom Enos of
New York, a nephew and namesake of
the famous Dr. Thomas W. Evans of
Paris, of whose immense estate the New
Y’ork heirs will get about $1,000,000, under
the recent compromise; the cabinet offi
cer host, and another player whom I
don’t recall at the moment—it doesn’t
matter. It was an eight-handed game,
not by choice exactly, but because one
after another dropping into the house had
been invited to 'sit in' and had accepted.
“The ante was 50 cents, the limit $lO.
A pot had been jacked, and, of course,
had just $4 in it. You will note that,
with eight players, there were only twelve
cards left after each deal—often not
enough for the draw all aroaind—and the
discnr ls had to be reshuffled to complete
the draw. It was Enos' deal. Weld sat
on his left and opened the pot for $5.
Everybody stayed in, which made $44 In
the pot. Weld drew one card, and ns
he did so. said: 'I want to call every
body’s attention to my discard—The king
of spades'—and he faced the card up on
the pile. Now. this wasn't exactly ao
c ording to Schenck, but it was permissi
ble by unanimous consent of the party.
"The draw proceeded. ‘Help the gentle
men!' was Reed's response, with a gen
erous wave of the hand, to the dealer's
inquiry, and he fondled with ill-concealed
satisfaction what appeared, of ctourse, to
be a pat hand. Before the draw was com
pleted the discards had to be shuffled, and
when it came Enos’ turn to draw he took
only one card. ‘l'm pained,' remarked
Gordy, ‘io take good money from you,
gentlemen, but really I must bet the lim
it'—and up went a crisp $lO sheet. Dough
erty stayed. Heed drawled: ‘You'll be
pained still more before you get through
with me, Gordy. Ten better!' 'While I'm
unalterably opposed to Inflation of the cur
rency.' said Lotvery. I must whoop that
up a bit’—and he put S3O into the center.
The next three dropped out. but Tom Enos
remarked, with the soft lisp of the Evans
es: ‘Only ten more. I wish there was no
limit.’ Gordy raised it ten. Dougherty
thought this was getting too rich for his
Cracker blood and dropped out. The
Siieoker hit i! up ten. Lowery fell by the
wayside, and Enos set the Speaker back
another ten. Gordy raised It up to the
limit again. 'Goodby, sweetheart, good
by!' was the fat Speaker's parting salute
as he t'ai'ed a small red flush on the table
and stood up In his place to see Tom and
Gordy light it out.
"Each had drawn only one card, and,
of course, to that extent it was 'even Ste
phen' with them. But Gordy must have
had openers to start with. Well, those
two Just sat there and bucked hack and
forth $lO a lick. Gordy at one time ob
serving that, if Tom wanted to go up into
■fultirts' drafts cn the Evans estate
would lie accepted readily by him. Fi
nally. when there must have been about
TI.OOO in the port. Gordy called, simply
because, as he explained, 'll wasn't hard
ly fair to the others to delay the game
so long.' Enos exposed a royal flush—the
ace. king, queen, Jack and len of spades.
Gordy's hand was a royal flush, too—dia
mond?, with 1 lie king at the top—and Tom
swept the winnings Into his lap. Gordy
had spilt his openers—a pair of kings—
ill order to draw to a four-slraight flush,
and had caught the nine of diamonds, as
he had hoped to do, hut his discarded king
of Tides exposed was Just wimi Tom
needed to fill his four-straight flush, and
the chances were good to get it, for his
draw was the last, ajui must tome from
the discards in this instance. Gordy af
terward admitted that he had seen a dia
mond (yeposed on the top of the pock and
couldn’t resist the temptation to split his
openers and take it, ‘but,’ he added, ’that
act was my undoing. It was my own king
of spades that downed me for yielding \o
that temptation.’
“Then the Speaker made the following
order: 'We'll play strictly by rule after
this —and they did. It never pays to get
too good-natured and lax in a game of
poker.’’
Some Carious Automata.
From Lectures Pour Tous.
Of all the inventor? of mechanical cu
riosities, Jacques Yaucanson was certain
ly the king. In the ingenuity of his mind
he equalled, if he did not surpass, the
most skilful of men. In the first book of
the Odes of Horace we read that Arcky
tas manufactured a wooden pigeon, which,
actuated by aj mechanical movement, flew
from place to pkue. This, however, was
nothing as compared with the automatic
fly manufactured by John Muller, and
which flew around the table during a
dinner, and alighted upon the hand of
its owner and manufacturer, to the great
astonishment of his guests. Ehilippe Ca
mus describes an extraordinary automatic
group which was specially constructed for
the amusement of Louis XIV. It was a
minute coach, to which were harnessed
several horses, and which rolled over
the table. Upon starting the coadhman
cracked his whip, and the horses began
to prance and then became quiet and
started off on a trot. The coach stopped
in front of the King, and the lackey jump
ed from his seat and. opening the door,
handed out a handsomely dressed lady,
who walked toward His Majesty, saluted
him ceremoniously, presented a petition
to him. and then re-entered the coach.
The lackey closed the door and jumped
upon hi* box. the whip snapped and the
horses galloped off.
Vaucanson did better still. His auto
matic duck was, to connoisseur*, an ob
ject of admiration. The bird waddled off
in search of food, and picked up and
swallowed the seeds that it met with
These seeds says an article in the” Bto
graphie Unlverselle, passed into the
stomach through a series of triturations
that facilitated the introduction of them
into the intestines and caused them to ac
complish all the phases of digestion. It
was impossible to distinguish this duck
from a living one. It splashed about in
the water and quacked at pleasure. Vau
canson’s mechanical flute player also was
a marvel. It was a lifesize figure, cloth
ed in the fashion of the period, and stand
ing alongside of a broken column, upon
which it slightly leaned. It was capable
of placing a dozen different airs with
remnrkable ease. To effect this result,
there was a system of weights that ac
tuated a bellows placed in the interior
of the automaton, and, through an in
visible tube, forced air to the flute, where
it acted in the usual way upon the stopple
of the opening. In order to obtain the
modulations, and. consequently, a com
plete air, the fingers of the automaton*
were movable and closed the holes of the
flute hermetically when at rest, and also
rose and replaced one another through
the traction exerted by wires and cords
that were tautened and relaxed by the
play of a toothed cylinder.
About sixty years ago a jeweler of
Boulogne constructed a wonderful auto
matic prestldigitateur. This figure, cor
rectly dressed in black, performed vari
ous sleight of hand tricks with remarka
ble dexterity, and, when It was applauded,
gracefully saluted the spectators to the
right and loft. One of Its tricks was
the following: It struck a table several
times and made an sgg come out of It
It then blew upon the latter, when out
of it came a bird that flapped Its wings
and sang and afterward entered the egg
again. This trick finished the exhibition.
—The principal cotton mills in China
are those of Shanghai. They now num
ber eight, and have 273,000 spindles and
3,450 looms. At Ntngpo there Is one mill
at work with 11,000 spindles, and at Han
kow there are two with 30,000 and 50,000
spindles, respectively. The proportion of
workers in these mills in every 100 is 51
women. 24 men and 25 children, and the
average wages all around are $2.50 a
month.
Tlie Best Prescription for Malaria,
Chilis and Fever. Is a bottle of Grove's
Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron
and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure
—no pay. Price 50c.—ad.
DEATHS.
JUDSON—Died, Aug. 19, at 10 p. m..
Thomas Wells Judson, Jr., infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Judsan, aged 17
months, at their residence, 124 Whbaker
street. Funeral notice later.
Augusta papers please copy.
ri'NEKAL INVITATION!.
ANDERSON.—The relatives and friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Anderson are
Invited to attend the funeral of the lat
ter from No. 539 York street, east, at 6
o'clock this afternoon.
ifbcial notices.
TEvTvjr^rTBLEniTHOTE^DIN^ERsr
50c—DINNER—50c.
Dinner 1 to 3 and 6 to 9. Monday, Aug. 20.
Claret Wine.
SOUP.
Mulligatawney.
FISH.
Mackinaw ala Hollandaise.
Potatoes ala Monaco.
Sliced Tomatoes, with French Dressing.
Queen Olives, Chow Chow, Mixed Pickles.
BOILED.
Gold Band Ham and Cabbage.
ROASTED.
Ribs of New Y'ork Beef, Dish Gravy.
ENTREES.
Fricasee of Lamb ala Parisienne.
Boston Baked Beans.
VEGETABLES.
Mashed Potatoes, Green Peas, Rice.
Stewed Tomatoes. Boiled Okra.
PASTRY AND DESBERT.
Pineapple Custard Pie. Assorted Cakes.
Cheese (“’rackets, Fruits.
Cabinet Pudding, Wine Sauce.
French Coffee.
LEVANS CAFE AND RESTAURANT,
111 Congress street, west.
NOTICE.
Neither the master nor consignees of
the British steamship Grangewood, A
Soltau, master, will be responsible for any
debts contracted by crew of' said vessel
J. F MINIS * CO.. Consignees.
BONDS EXECUTED
By the American Bonding and Trust Com
pany of Baltimore. We are authorized to
execute locally (immediately upon appli
cation), all bonds in Judicial proceedings
In either the state or United States
courts. and of administrators and
guardians.
DEARINO A HULL, Agents
Telephone 324. Provident Bulking.
TUB WAX TO CLEAN CAHPETs. ~
The only nay to get your carpets prop,
•rly taken up, cleaned end taken cars of
lor the summer is to turn the Job over la
the District Messenger and Delivery Cot.
telephone 2. or csll st 32 Montgomery
street, and they will make you an esti
mate oe the cost of the work. Prtcas
reasonable. They else pack, move and
Store furniture end pianos.
C. B. MEDIsOCK. BupC art Mgr.
amusements.
gAVANNAH THEATER.
Theater Coded With Iced Air.
TC-NIGHT,
The Petite Soubrette,
UNA CLAYTON,
and her superb company, presenting Mon
day night the comedy-drama in three
acts, entitled
“MISS ROARER.”
Ladies’ Symphony Orchestra. New
specialties. Five tons of scenery.
Popular Pricey—loc, 20c and 30c. Ladles
free if accompanied by one paid s)c ticket.
Dally matinees, commencing Tuesday.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
Show Cases.
ry kina and quality
can be had at
Henry Solomon & Son's,
Bay and Jefferson streets.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ONE CORNER LEFT.
All of the corners from Third to Seventh
streets on Barnard, inclusive, have been
sold to parties who will build handsome
homes upon them.
I have only one corner. Second and Bar
nard, unsold. This is 30 (or 60 feet) by 117.
with a lane in the rear.
There are yet some very c hoice inside
lot* unsold, all having lanes in the rear,
with the new system of house drainage
sewers and water mains.
Some very fine corners on Jefferson, from
Second to Sixth, are unsold. These aie
thirty-five and a half feet front, with
depths 112. 117 and 122 feet.
We are keeping up the reputation of this
as the choice residential locality of the
southern section. One price only is ask
ed, nothing added, except interest, if
cash is not paid.
Having superior facilities, assistance can
be rendered to those who want to build at
once. C. H. DORSETT.
r.tl LiJIM. OF LONG ISLAND CELE
BRATED PirriN APPLE CIDER.
This pure cider im served on steamers on
the American line, and ai tne Waldorf-As
toria and lead.ng family grocers in New
Yoik city.
Paulding s Pippin cider is made from
the pure juice ot hand picked apples from
his own mill on the premises. It is abso
lutely pure apple juice, and all the effer
vtsccnce is natural, and we guarantee it
to be the choicest cider in the world.
Leading physicians in New York and
Brooklyn recommend this cider to their
pmrients Its perfect purity is guaranteed.
In Paulding's Pippin cider, only Long Is
land Newton’s Pippins aie used. The ap
ples are left on the trees until late in Oc
tober when they are hand picked and
placed in a dry room to ripen.
Paulding says “the apples are thorough
ly crushed in his own mill and the juice
pressed out and run into ?w r eet clean
casks.” The difference between crushing
and grinding apples is very great.
You will Know the difference between
crushed app es and ground apples if you
take some stems and chew them, you will
find that bitter taste which is not with
Paulding’s crushed apples. This cider has
not the extreme sweetness of the Russet
cider, and everyone will find the Pauld
ing’s Pippin cider just right to take with
dinner. LIPPMAN BROS..
Sols Agents in Savannah,
Mr. Andrew Hanley:
yiy Dear Sir—l have returned home
from Savannah, where we stopped for
three weeks, and from St. Augustine
three weeks, after being at the Suwanee
Springs Hotel, and while in those places
and now at home drank and am now con
tinuing to drink the Suwanee Spring
water, having it sent to me through your
esteemed agents, the Kallsh Pharmacy,
in New York, end as a result I want to
say that I have been greatly benefited,
and I believe will be entirely cured of the
painful bladder trouble from which 1
have suffered since last August. I con
gratulate you upon the c*uratlve value of
the Suwanee Springs water, and hope it
will be e God-send to others as it has
been to me. Respectfully yoprs.
JAMES C. BROWER,
President of the German-American Bank.
808 Quincy street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
All you can drink for 5c at Livingston's.
MOSQUITOES
will siot trouble you it you use
NHOOMI SKEKT. It Is s pleasant
perfume.
MEI, DERMA
la a toilet powder that Instantly dis
pels the disagreeable odors arising
from perspiration.
OLD STYLE COLD CREAM
gives quick relief for enn burns and
• kin troobies.
SOLOMONS CO.
TIIE TIME OF Al l, TIMES.
Have renovated at once your mattresses,
feather beds, etc., by our steam medica
ted process. (The only plant in Savan
nah) that overcomes all impurities,
whether contagious or otherwise. Have
reduced renovation of feathers for Au
gust as follows: Feather beds from $5.00
to $3.50, bolsters from $1.50 to SI.OO. Pillows
from 75c to 50c. Cotton, moss and
hair mattresses made to order. Will save
you money. Work guaranteed.
NATIONAL MATTRESS AND RENO
VATING CO.,
Bell phone 1136. 331 Drayton street.
#23,000.
One of our clients has placed In our
hands $25,000 to loan on good Savannah
real estate et reasonable rates of Interest
BECKETT Si BECKETT.
** President street, east
FANCY AND RE-PRESSED BRICK.
We manufacture and sell all kinds of
fancy and le-pressed brick, paving and
building bricks. Our common brick are
the best for building purposes, being larger
than other kilns make, end cheaper. See
samples and prices.
SAVANNAH BUILDING BUFPLY CO.,
Congress end Drayton streets. '
WIIY NOT USE
ORIGINAL ANNISTON LIME?
Highest Grade.
Each barrel contains sufficient quantity
and quality to make It MONEY-SAVING.
A- HANLEY COMPANY", Sole Agents,
Phone 109.
a
hAuba iv Anetluiae; AND
OFFICE
to rent, located hied of Broughioo
street, on West Froad. now oocu
pted by the Bavaanah Carriage and
Wagon COL As (hey will give up
business In tbt cily on June i, i offer
II for rent from that date.
H P SMART.
CHAIII.TIH A (II %It I/I OX.
Attorney! aid Counselors at Law,
Boom# y, Pravldtnt SoUJJng- -
LEOPOLD ADLER, JNO. R. DILLON
President. Cashier ’
C. T. ELLIS. BARRON CARTER
Vice President. Asst. Cashier "
The Chatham Bank
SAVANNAH.
Will be pleased to receive the account,
of Merchants, Firms, Individuals, Bank,
and Corporations.
Liberal favors extended.
Unsurpassed collection facilities, Insur
ing prompt returns.
SEPARATE SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
INTISHEST compounded QUARTER.
Ll' O.Y DEPOSITS.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Vaults fo,
rent. Correspondence solicited.
The Citizens Bank
OF SAVAA.NAH.
CAPITAL $500,000.
I fttUauti. - CctlClMi UUUkiug
UuliBKH,
ftolielU Account* of
Merchant*, Dunks und otfccr Carp*,
rations.
Collections handle* with safety,
economy and dispatch.
Interest compounded quarterly
allowed on deposits in onr Savinas
Department.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Storaas
Vaults.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK. Presld...
MILLS B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN. Cashier.
GORDON L. GROOVER, A sst. Cashles,
SOUTHERN BANK
of the State of Georgia.
apital $500,0G0
Surplus and undivided profits... $4Ol 000
DEPOSITORY OF THE STATU OF
GEORGIA.
Superior facilities tor transacting a
General Banking Buslncs,.
Collect tons made on all points
accessible through banks and bankers.
Accounts ot Banks, Banners, -ueicuanis
and others solicited. Safe Deposit Boxes
tor rent.
Department of Savings, interest payable
quarterly.
Sells Sterling Exchange on London £1
and upwards.
JOHN FLANNERY. President.
HORACE A. CRANE. Vice President.
JAMES SULLIVAN. Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
JNO. FLANNERY. WM. TV GORDON
E. A. WEIL. TV TV. GORDON Jr
H. A CRANE. JOHN M. EGAN
LEE ROY MYERS. JOSEPH FERST
H. P. SMART. CHARLES ELLIS
EDWARD KELLY. JOHN J. KIRBY
Mill MM I
CAPITAL, $350,000.
Account* of banks, merchant*, corpora
tions and individuals solicited.
Savings Department. Interest paid
quarterly.
Safety Boxes and Storage Vaults for
rent.
Collections made on all points at rea
sonable rates.
Drafts ©old on all the chief cities of the
world.
Correspondence invited.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. HOWLAND, Vice President.
W. F. McCAULEY. Cashier.
THE GERMANIA BANK
CA VANN Ail, GA.
Capital $200,9.0
Undivided profits 60.00#
This bank ouers its services vo corpora
tions, merchants and individuals.
Has authority to aot aa executor. sA
ntlnlatrator, guardian, eto.
Issues drafts cn the principal cities la
Great Britain and Ireland and on the
Continent. t
Interest paid or compounded quarterly
on deposits in the Saving Department.
Safety Boxes for rent.
HENRY BLUN. President.
GEO. W TIEDKMAN, Vice President
JOHN M HOGAN. Cashier.
WALTER F. HOGAN. Ass’t Cashier.
No. 164 U, Chartered, ist*
THE
Mntt in It
OF SAVANNAH
CAPITAL, $500,000. SURPLUS. sloß.Out
UNiAiulu oa.-vA'ES aaaaFGSITORY.
J. A. a. CARSON, President.
BEIRNE GORDON, Vice President.
W. M. DAVANT, CAshier.
Acoounte of banka and bankers, mer
chants and corporations received upon
the most favorable terms consistent with
safe and conaervatlvs banking.
THE GEORGIA STATE
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
Assets over SBOO,OOO.
5 PER CENT, per annum allowed on
deposits, withdrawable on demand. Inter
est credited quarterly.
8 PER CENT, per annum allowed on
deposits of even hundreds, withdrawable
at annual periods.
GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, President.
B. H. LEVY, Vice President.
E. W. BELL. Secretary.
C. G. ANDERSON. JR.. Treasurer.
OFFICE, 15 YORK STREET, WEST.
For Rent,
Residence 118 Gaston
street, west.
All conveniences. Can be
rented from Ist August.
Apply to
CHATHAM HEAL ESTATE AND IM
PROVEMENT CO.,
14 Bryan Street, East.
io ftvswtr Piste.
For sale, a Forsalth Newspaper Folder;
will fold sheet Z, x4a. It U In good order.
Price SIOO. It cost originally $l,lOO. but
tvs have no use for It and want tha room
It occupies.
It will be an Invaluabls adjunct IB u ?
newspaper office. j i
Addrese
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