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PART TWO. In Time of Peace Prepare for War WAIT NOT UNTIL THE ENEMY IS UPON YOU. Prepare NOW for the Wintry Jack Frost* even If the Thermometer does indulge in aerial acrobatics. BLANKET SAUUasam But the Slaughter prices at which they are offered will make every citizen of Savannah brave the present heat and anticipate the wintry blasts |of November. IS MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. All best workmanship and high grade materials. We have often quoted low prices, but never before any thing to equal the values mentioned to-dav. Come to this sale for the biggest bargains ever offered. The surplus production of a noted Muslin Underwear ma ker bought for less than he paid for the laces, embroi deries and muslins. On sale on 2d floor. At enormous saving. GOWNS AT 98c—JUST HALF PRICE-Over 50 styles. Made of fine ft ft Cambric, empire end yoke effects, trimmed with Valenciennes. Medlcls and V? <4 Ciariy laces; tucks, embroidreies and insertions. Price uUw SKIRTS AT $1.25, WORTH UP TO *3.00. Monday only. Extra fine Cam brlc Skirts, wide Cambric flounce, with double rows two-inch Valenci I Or enr.es Inserting and lace. Extraordinary bargain. Worth $3.00— Monday I # n only •' MUSLIN UMBRELLA DRAWERS Dace trimmed flounce; all sizes Cft epen or closed. Monday 1 J Jlj LADIES’ GOWNS, made of good quality Muslin, with tuck yoke and 00 A Hamburg inserting; worth 75c Monday only H|IL LADIES’ CORSET COVERS; LADIES'SKIRTS; LADIES' DRAW J 8 Q ers, 10 style* of each; Ladies’ Chemises, all worth 75c. Monday only 1 U. J jj . BIG LOT LADIES' SHIRT WAlSTS—white lawn, worth up to $1.50 "J r _ Colored lawns, fancy percales, this season's styles. Monday I PAINT DAY SKIRTS, double-faced golf cloth, tailor-made, heavy P Afl it. (thing at bottom; worth $6.73. Monday jj 1111 *20.00 LADIES' TAILOR-MADE SUITS less than half price. Choice tofl Mft “• 0.40 WALKING HATS for FALL. We are showing the swellest line Trimmed Felt Walking Hats in the city in all the new shades of Pearl, Castor, Royal, Brown and Black, Aa a jFi SI 50, $2,00 and S2ITU luATIONAL CAPITAL GOSSIP. 1)1! IJOHIAI, SERVICES FOR THE LATE KING HUMBERT. 6ft*nes and Incident* of the Visit of I < nltan Teneher* in AVnahineton. Sninp Prominent Men Who Have 'l'heir Donlile*—An Interesting Story Told of a Naval Officer—'The ATeddiug That I* to Take Place nt the White House—Other Matters ot Ucnernl Interest. Washington. D. C.. Aug. 24.-Amid scor.es of impressive solemnity and in the r> irce of the President of the United St nos and his cabinet, officers of the army at 1 navy, the nmbaseedora and ministers ' ’ foreign countries, and a vast concourse of people from the higher walks of civil life, memorial services for the late King H mbert of Italy, tvere held at St. Mat ' lew's Catholic Church in this city. The ; diplomatic representatives of every civil- I country in the world were in the full ili sol their respective ranks, in honor • ' tiic flood monarch, while the sombre ' k of the President and his cabinet v i relieved by the 'brilliant uniforms of th American army and navy. It was orig k dly planned to hold the services on A ig. 9. simultaneously with the inter rn rt of Humbert I, in the Pantheon at k"tre; but it was found that Cardinal ' bums could not attend on that date, aid President McKinley would also he may; so the affair was postponed. Ad-, hi -sion to the church was by card only: 1 t in spite of thirty policemen detailed lo keep out the uninvited, the great edi h c was packed to suffocation, while crowds blocked the adjacent streets and • ngered throughout the entire service, i vhlch lasted an hour and a half. The ' lurch was beautifully decorated with Palms and cut flowers, maseed in the cor i ers and banking the altars. Immediate ly in front of the altar was a raised bier, typefying the catafalque of the dead ’ It was draped with sombre black. ‘ IfP'd with hot-house flowers, and along the renter lay two long crossed palms, tied together with the national colors of Ilah red, green ond white. A tall braes candelabrum, carrying ten burning tapers, etu i at (be head, and another Just like it B 1 1 "* foot. Close behind the bier were scats orved for the President, the cab inet tito ambassadors and other distin guished guest*, who were met In the chur, h vestibule by Baron Kava, the Italian minister, and eecortad to their placet. -pb* Baron, In the full uniform °f t diplomatic rank, aa etiquette de mand#, wor * utwn brpaet the decora- Ilori conferred on him only a few weeks n *° l,)- bis friend and royal master, the King The Baroness Kava and the mem bers pf (be Italian Rmhaesy, all In deep meurnlng, occupied a front pew. With '' em wra the Prince sud Prlneea* Brau • iccio, ‘ Vaunt Romsna and Signor Carl seuL. The iqmneae. wloi a in* formerly Jfcuittfl Miss Field of New York, ie a lady-in-wait- I ing to Queen Margherita; and being in this country with her husband on a visit, they came over to Washington to be pres ent at this service. Among the first and most conspicuous arrivals was Mr. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, in bright Oriental silks and scarlet turban, accompanied by several members of his staff, all rustling in rich brocade. Minis ter Takahira of Japan, with his staff, was also present, in the queer toggery of his country, with a scarf of vivid gregivacross his breast and sweeping white plumes in his chapeau; Duke lVAroos of Spain, in gorgeous uniform of black and gold; Baron Iternberg of Germany, Count Tar nowski of Austro-Hungary, and other titled personages altogether too numerous to mention. The three Italian fraternal societies of the District of Columbia, at tended in a body. They are the “Society Garibaldi,” the “So ciety Italiana Vittorla Emanuel II,” and the “Society Fratellanza Italiana.” King Humbert was much beloved by every one of them, and there was a tone of genuine mourning in their presence which was singularly impressive. All the exorcises were conducted in Latin. Black and white robed acolytes led the procession of priests to the altar; then in the solemn hush of the great building, they chanted the ma jestic requiem for the report of the dead King's soul. The mighty pealing of the organ in the loft, the flowing robes of the priests, the odor of burning Incense, and above all the reverent attention of the vast congregation, made it a ceremony long to be remembered. Interspersed with the mass and the requiem was a special program rendered by a choir of forty voices—the "Kyrie,” "Sanctus,” “Agnus Dei,” "Gounod's “Gloria,” “Credo,” and the offertory “Requiem Aeternum" from Verdi’s mass. Near the close of the ser vice. while absolution was being given, the full choral body of fch. Matthew's gave the Gregorian chant, “Libra Me;” and after the benediction, sixteen male voices r ang a Gregorian “Benedictus." Aside irom the occasion of honor to a murdered mon arch, it was a musical treat of the high est order. • ••••••* That the shirt-waist craze has at last struck Cuba, there is no longer any doubt ing, for every blessed woman of the party of fourteen hundred school teachers who visited us a few days ago, wore her little shirtwaist—white or blue or green or yel low; and lr> nearly every case, as too of ten seen among ourselves, waist and skirt seemed hardly on speaking terms with one another, but hyked apart, showing ugly brass safety-pins, where safety-pins have no business to be. One peculiarity is very strong among all the ladle* of Kpanish- Amerlra. and those of Cuba are no excep tion to the rule, viz.—a general aiouchlness of appearance, especially about the neck gear, the corsetless bust, and the skirt rearing up at (he shoe tops in front though dragging untidily In the rear. But they weie a good-natured and happy lot, though very tired, and their delight at beholding Washington, their Mecca In America, was good to see. Th# telegraph has already told you all that wa did for them. I am glad to teatlfy that the White House wa# aa elaborately decorated for the reception of these working men an I women from the neighboring island, as it ever baa been for the moel distinguished guaals. Mrs. McKinley wa# charmingly cordial and lit* I'realdont aliook hand# SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1900. B L A n K E I S B L A N K E T S 818. UK. ME MBS.. 18. **-4 WHITE ENGLISH FLEECE BLANKETS, * 0 Regular $2.00 *O-4 WHITE WOOL BLANKETS, & i Q £ Regular $2.50 SJU **-4 WHITE WOOL BL ANKETS, Qfi QQ Regular $4.00 U£*uo * *-4 WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, QQ Regular $6.00 yTiUu *2-4 WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, 00 Regular $B.OO iJJi U 0 *2-4 WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, Q 7 R Q Regular $lO.OO ‘4O *2-4 WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, OO Regular $20.00 Wl4 l v U CRIB BLANKETS. LAMBS’ WOOL CRIB BLANKETS, tfl Q 0 Regular price $2.50 wlsui) LAMBS’WOOL CRIB BLANKETS, CO QQ Regular price $4.00, w/iuU LAMBS’ WOOL CRIB BLANKETS, 0Q Regular price $5.00 Ju mrr bet ian hit me: & bull sis* heartily with each member of the party. It was characteristically Cuban, however, to take advantage of the occasion of hos pitality, when the President, as host, could hardly refuse anything, to present a peti tion for the rescinding of S certain order lately Issued by Gen. Wood in Cuba, dis missing a number of superfluous educators in the island; in order to reduce expenses. The teachers selected the two prettiest girls in their ranks—Senorltas Carlota Pu jades de Treseras and America Andrician, both of Matanzas, to present the petition and make their little speeches in broken English. The President did not under stand a word of the latter, except that he was requested to read the paper; aud he smilingly promised that he would do so, without committing himseif as to the main question. That chronic old kicker, Salvador Cisneros, at one time Marquis of Sanita Lucia, who called himseif “ex- President of the old provisional govern ment of Cuba,” (a thing that never exist ed). together with several Cuban generals, were also on hand to seize thy opportu nity of general good-will for preferring their own not overly modest requests, it seems that about all they now ask of Uncle Samuel—since he has liberated Cuba from the clutch of Spain- and kept its peo ple from stravatlon during their darkest days—is to withdraw his army and all semblance of control or. ownership in Cuba leaving plenty of money behind for the Cubans io use as they see tit in governing them selves. Soon as the day arr.ves when t üba shall find herse f absolutely inde pendent, it will be the same old story o.er again, so oitcn repeated in all the Spanlsh-American republics, so-called, of rovolutim after revolution, until the isl and is much wi rse oft than she ever was under the rule of Spain. • , • •• ••• A good story is toll at the Army and Navy Club of ihe capital, on a prominent retired naval officer wt.o once In a while forgets his exact capacity and takes aboard a greater quantity of stimulants than he can carry. He is su< h an all around good fellow, wit hall, that every body loves and excuses him—though laughing at the story behind his broad and substantial back and keeping out of his way when he Is "half seas over.” One night, or rather early one morning, he left the club, loaded to the gunwale, so to speak, and til U to ste r for his home, which Is locate i nearby. After several unarp encounters with the pavement, ad jacent tree-box.* and other obstructions, a good .“umarltan who chan el to tie t asslng to k pity on the officer and with considerable difficulty meer. and him safely into port. Just betore reaching home, th" retirid officer said to his cam anion “Me' fren’. wlias you name?'* “Oh, ti.at s all rig lit." icplied the gentleman, who didn' t care to give his name “call me St. Faul. "Saint Paul. Saint Paul,” ruminated the officer, balancing hlmse If precariously on hi* heel*. “Sen.# to me I’ve heard of you btfere, You're 'he fellow that 'kicked against ti e prick*.' ain't you!” Th* tint kicker, so to say." , . ~ After yetting the officer Ins de hla own door, the gentleman said good night and •part'd away He had not goo* far, how* # r, bsfoie th* officer, 1* Pl>< 4 out of the dootway and yelled "*'■ Paul! Oh. Ht. Paul! tome back her.." The gentleman returned, ard the offluar holding on to ilia door-knob, said In a thick tone, “Bt. Paul, I’ve always been puzzled about a | little matter that perhaps you ran clear up for me. I suppose ihe oth*r St. Paul, the Bib!© fellow, you know—wa** a j-:ort 1 • f relative of yours, wasn’t ho? Then per- I haps you can tell me—did he ever get an answer to that beastly long letter he wrote to the Ephesians?" The cub habitues now call the officer “S.. Paul" when he isn’t around. • * • There are many well-known cases in Washington of prominent men who have th<Ar doubles. Garfield had two or three— the mest pronounced bing Mr. E. V. Smalley, the veteran author ond editor who recently died in Minnesota. A man died in Washington the. o her day who was so much like Mr. Cleveland that he was const an ly being taken—or mis-taken for Iho cx-President, even by those who knew both getlermn well. The latest to come to the f. re in that line is Senator 1 Hanna's and ub e, wh) looks enough Ike him to f)ol his mod lmlma'e friend*;. The double Is a well-known ton .so rial ar tist, and lie isn’t a bit proud of the re. semblance, being ve y much on the other side of the political fence. By the way. it is not among the impossib llties that any day may hr ng news of Senator Han na's sudden death—unless that trouble some heart of his behaves itself letter. His ju.-:t the "full habit’’ and high pressure made of life, combined wilt cam paign excitement and a heart that cuts up cap*rs wi h increasing frequency, to shuffe off this mortal coll without much warning. • • • • • • • • St. Louis exposition’ boomers are al ready beginning to rrake therm-elves heard in Wash ngton. A prominent Mls souricn, who -stopp'd over on I.ls way leie from the Pars t-xpositijn.^eaid: "If St. Louis doesn't make the French show look l.ke thirty cents, th*re will cease to be a town of that name on the banks of the Mississippi. The Paris Expo sition is as far behind the old one at Chicago a* the Chicago a bow was ahead of all previous efforts. And St. Louis will outdo Chicago. So you can figure out w'hat kind of an entertainment we are going to have." * • • • • • •• During the recent absence of the Mc- Kinleys, the WhMe House has been cleaned from garret to cellar, nnd is now as spick nnd span as scrubbing and painting, fresh carpets and clean curtains can make it. Mrs. McKinley is beloved by all the employes, from the policeman nt the door to the scullion in the kitchen, as much for her comparative helpless ness, as for her invariable klndnes* and sweetness of disposition. Bho will go with the Presider* to Chicago the latter part of this wr©k, to be absent until the mid dle of Beptember. The greaer portion of the time will be spent at flomerset, Pa., ot the summer home of the President* brother, Abner McKinley, whose daugh ter, Mabel Is to be married there on tember 12th to Dr. Hermann* Baer. Bo the young lady will not ba a "White House Bride" after all, as announced last spring Mias Mabel herself Is responsible for the change, she very sensibly prefer ring to have (he most aacred event of life celebrated more quietly than would be poaeible under the headlight glare of White House publicity. Her grand-father will perform the ceremony; and perliapa jt Is honor enough io bavo the President of the United States attend one’s wed ding. Miss Gra/*e McKinley, another of th© young nieces who has spent much time in the Whit© House, Is about to be come a teacher at Holyoke, Uolloge, from which she was graduated last spring. She is a very pretty girl, of th© blonde type, not yet twenty-one years old, but of sin gular dignity and poise for one so young. Her father, James McKinley, died very suddenly several yenrs ago, stricken in (ho prime of life and leaving his family not well provided for. Miss Grace hits ever since lived in Canton with her Grandmother McKinley un(il the latter’s death. Of course, several homes among her relatives are open to -the young lady, but wishing to be independent she has chosen th© career of a teacher. The Mc- Kinleys are r. school-teaching family from away back. All the brothers, includ ing th© illustrious William himself, began life ns pedagogues, and their sister, Miss Anna McKinley, was for many years a teacher in th© public schools of Canton. To this day hundreds of men anil women who were her pupils long ago, speak of he.r with respect and affection. WIDOW CAST ll\ JAIL FOR DEBT. Connection# Officers Drug Her From Kick Child’s Side. From the New Yoik Journal. Ansonia, Conn., Aug. 22.—Under th© chivalrous laws cf Connecticut, a poor woman, a widow with four children, was dragged fom the beds and > of a child in the delirium of typhoid fever, and cast Into the county Jail at N* w* Haven. Her only crime was debt. Mrs Margaret Bcylan, of this city, is the first known case of a woman being s nt to the poor debtors’ prison. She is a hard working woman, who has done her best, her neighbors sjy, to keep the wolf from the door and furnish a home lo the four helpless children left on her hands by death. But things have gone 111 with Mrs. Boy lan of late. Her bill for groceries at the control department more grw r and grew. Th© ehlldnn had healthy appetites. Th© sum she owed reached th*- first of the menth One of h* r little boys was down wi h typhoid fever. She had no money to pay the bill. The syndicate which runs the store tried vainly to collect, then placed th© hi I In the hands of a lawyer. A judgment wis secured and an <x • uiion granted. The sh< riff's officers reported that they fund nothing to at ach, so Judge Tucker ln*truc*d City Bheriff O’Donnell to t -ta h her body if she still refused to py. "In Ihe name of God do not drag me away from rny sick boy," walled the wl low. But the officers showed no mercy. They raw thdr duty and they • |d It with out flinching Away from the ediide cf th' child aha .oved, totalrg In tta nwful delirium of th* favar, th*y dr egged her to jail. It was tha old. old atory cf tha Marshals* i toll again with modern Connect’cut tr m mng • Neighbor* of tie poor w tn.n Lave ak en up a collection Th* y are trying to ia s* tha iuokty isasd and lo iccur* bar liberty* i ■ A N K E I S B L A N K E T S DIAMOND VALUES. 15c Men’s Working Shirts, good ones, worth 35c any time. 4c for Men's Half Hose. Fast Black. 4c for Dailies' and Misses' Hose. Black and Tan. lie for Radies' Jersey Ribbed Striped Vests. 5c for Ladles’ Black Silk Belts. Sold up to 25c. I!. 1 for Men's Pongee Finish Fancy Handkerchiefs. 25c for Men’s Silk-Front Shirts. Slightly soiled. 19c for Full Size Crochet Bed Spreads, worth 75c. 2flc for Half Bleached Linen Table Damask, M-lnches wide. 10c for Linen Huck Towels. Hem stitched, fancy border, size 38x18, would be cheap at 15e, 18c for 51-Inch Fancy Table Damask. Assorted colorings. A bargain at 35c. 34c for Bleached Twill Crash. Value at sc. 7%e for Scotch Ginghams, Good styles that are worth 12VaC. 15c I'Or No. 40 Silk Taffeta Ribbons. Pure silk, all colors. Sold regu lar at 25c. $ll.OB for Men's Tan, Vic! and Calf Bals. double and sing'.a soles, worth $3.50. N. B.==only a few more left of those $2O Tailor-made Ladies’ Suits. Pick one out! $8.48. SILKS—— If you buy at the closing prices and lav these Silks away until next Spring, !llie Investment will earn you SO per cent. It is hardly possible that Silks will |ever again be so low. ! 3,010 yards Short Lengths of Fancy Taffetas and Foulards—full range of charm ling colorings, designs and favored effects—not a Silk loom In the world can p A ‘produce a yard of these goods under‘7sc, yet Monday choice Is yotfrs for *llll* LOVELY LADY <’LABOR BO YE* An American Hell© nnd Bcnoty Who Will lie h Mart'll lon ess. Of all the fair American peeresses adorning the British realm none surpasses in physical loveliness the now Countess of Clandeboye, who, as Miss Flora Davis, w;ia a eonsplcuous New York bell© aotne years ago. She married some years ago a younger son of the then Karl of Dpff'r- Lady Claudcboye and Her Little Daughter. In, with no very strong prospect of ev?r j comlnr Into the title which sine© ht** un- . ion has b©u raised to a rnarquisate. In fact, hers was a very genuine love match, Tor Lord Terrence was poor and perforce bard working r!*h n::rjly hl food con nections nnd Irish charm of manner to commend him io the rich Yankee beauty. * The marriage was a success never!hel*M end with her two baby girls Lady Terrence found ilfe guy and agreeable on the oth er elde. Nor was she ever quite willing to give up her American friends, aa many | of her country women have done afhr tour tying into the English aristocracy, end PAGES 11 TO 20. Men's Bleached Jeans Drawers, worth 39c, only ten dozen left, won't last long 100 Ladles’ Corset Covers. Made of good muslin, each 120 Ladles' Lawn Aprons. Hera stitched, full size, each lOc $1.50 Children's Pique Reofers. A positive bargain 75c Odds and Ends Baby Caps to close out a’ ll*o Ladies’ White and Blue Duck and White Pique Coat Suits, worth up to $2.50 to close at per suit Soo 750 Ladles' Night Gowns. Trimmed, good quality Mus lin 3Sc Glace Skirt Linings. AII oolora. Sold up to 19c Oo Remnants Kid Cambric to close.. 8o 75c 20-Inch Umbrellas for Men or Women, each 29c 50c Men's Straw Hats to get rid of them Stic Patent Leather Belts. One Inch and shaped. Positively worth 50c. Take your pick 850 Ladles' Black Lace Lisle Hose. Fast black. Sell the world over at 890 Take them at 250 Black utid Tan Tennis Shoes, the 60c kind 33a $2.00 and $1.75 Ladles' Fine Vlcl Kid Oxfords. Too many on hand 1.2 returning to her old home, New York so ciety found Its former belle as attractive a a ever. When the late Earl of Ava was killed in South Africa the whole outlook changed for Lady Blackwood. From occupying a very Inconspicuous place as to rank she was raised at one© not only to th? dignity of a eour less, but with the prospset of being a marchioness in the future, next bst to strawberry leaves and a dukedom. Instead of accepting the title of Avg borne by the lit I© Earl, Lord Terrence revived C'lnndcboye, an old Irish family name, which Is graced by one of the pret tier' women Uncle Bam ever gave to Eng land. "Qraybrard la a family medicine with us." ad a prcmlnent bushiest man yes terday. "My wife takes It, and I notice •h> Is enjoying better hialth than for years. The children keep well by taking It." Orayb'ard may be obtain-d at all d.-vg ■lores or writs to ua for It. Krapeaa Drug Cos., sole prvps., •avanngb, tie. - ad.