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2 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 Your Liver Win be roueed to Its natural duties and your blllousiu-ss, headache and constipation be Hired It you take Hood's Pills Sold by all druggists. 36 cents THE JOYS OF VIGOROUS MANHOOD. 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 ranee and folly, S fe. os most others ,f arc, simply a stimulant, which , h * \ sway’s trent- J.Newton Hathaway,M.D. ( V e \Vr weakened por- 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 JL Saratoga I Arosidaekn •% Water B This tecdlnff water of famous raM Saratoga cures Kidnoy Troubles, EjfiS Dy s pepsic. I ndl.-cstlon.N crvotZS* BKIH n0,,, c a<l Liver Trouble:. R| For?Ve; y .J.-arjlsta end n—c:rr, (9B ct Hotels, ricotaiirtniia ciLbc. t ° Scud fo: patuybieS. r *teet— sujo err—, I' Bull <i Clikfiton aL..gavsnnan, US. 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 MORNING NEWS, Savannah, 0- IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAL and work, order your lithographed printed stationery and blank book* Croat Morning Nw, Bftvaim*t>, Ga*