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A ROMANCE OF NAMES.
BY F. H. SWEET. •
(Copyright, 1901, by Authors' Syndicate.)
Curiously enough it had never come
home to Elizabeth Dunning that she
was an old maid until this morning.
She had been trimming the unruly
arms of a climbing rose, when pretty
Susie Wrenn came tripping by on her
way for the mail.
•'Oh. Miss Dunnin',” the girl had
called, slacking her pace a little as
she neared the gate, "ma wants to
know if she can borrow your cake tins
this mornin'. We re expectin' com
pany. an" we've only got one.”
“Why, certainly. Susie; you can
have them and welcome. Stop on
your way back from the mail."
“Thank you." moving on a little,
and then lingering as though wishing
to say more, but hardly knew how to
proceed, "them's awful nice roses
you've got.'’
“Yes, they are nice," assented Miss
Dunning clipping off a handful and
offering them across the fence. "You
come in some morning and look at my
bed of teas, and at my hedge of
jacks." Then she smiled encourag
ingly into the blushing, upturned face.
“Now what Is it, Susie?" she asked.
“You have something else to tell me."
"Oh. it's nothin’ much.” protested
the girl bashfully, but with eyes and
cheeks which belied her words. "You
see, I've only told ma so far. an' now
it seems I must tell you next.'
"Of course,” with affected indigna
tion. “Did I not know you as a baby
in long clothes, and have I not. been
your Sunday-school teacher more than
ten years? Certainly you must tell
me.”
But still the girl hesitated, looking
at her feet and down the street and
across the fence to the pretty cottage
whose verandas were embowered with
clambering roses and honeysuckles. At
length she broke into a frank, merry
laugh.
“What a fool I am, Miss Durmin’,"
she cried. "It's only that I'm goin' to
be married. I'll stop for the tins corn
in’ back," and she ran lightly down
the sidewalk, only pausing for a mo
ment to glance back over her shoul
der.
“It’s Mr. Alfred Gray," she called,
with something.that was almost exult
ant in her voice, "an' he's real nice,
even if I do say it.”
Miss Dunning's face had been full
of the kindliest interest, and its ex
pression did not change now as she
watched the girl speed buoyantly down
the street. But her long, taper fingers
trembled slightly they left the pal
ing and returned to the rose clipping.
Long years ago—she did not care to
remember how many—she had tripped
down the sidewalk like that, and had
been pretty and vivacious and hopeful.
And with her in those days it had also
been Mr. Alfred Gray, and she, too, had
thought him real nice.
Snip, snip, snip, went the pruning
shears, and from a branch of the
great elm overhead came down the
mellow love song of an oriole to his,
mate in a swaying nest nearby. But
terflies chased each other in bewilder
ing circles above the flower beds, and
a gray squirrel whisked down the
trunk of the elm and up the gray gar
den skirt to the shoulder of Miss Dun- I
ning. She stopped her (dipping a mo- 1
ment to stroke the soft fur and look
Into the bright eyes that were asking
so obviously for recognition. They,
too, were friends of long standing.
Had she chosen for the best? She
thought so unflinchingly, even while
her heartstrings were crying for re
dress. He had succeeded, wonderfully. ,
as he could not possibly have done had
there been a weight to clog his flight.
Yes, there had been no other way.
She stroked the squirrel tremulously,
and he wakened enough to play with
her finger for a moment, and then was
again lost in sleep. The house dog came
down from the veranda and took a po
sition beside her. not to sleep, but to
wag his tail and gaze up into her face
with a satisfied love in his big brown
eyes. Other birds beside the oriole were
singing about her, the odors of many
flowers came from various points of
the garden, and the deep, vine-covered
verandas looked very inviting and
home-like. Yes, she had chosen for the
best.
She was glad to remember that she
had impetuously told him to go. with
unflinching eyes and lips, and she was
glad to remember, also, that he had
looked at her with expostulation and
entreaty, and that he had flatly refused
to consider so cold-blooded a thing, and
then had flamed out and declared she
did not love him as he did her. and that
he would follow her command and
make ambition the rule of his life She
had not faltered, even when he left her
in anger and did not communicate with
her through long years of struggle and
success. His work was perhaps even
dearer to her than to him and it was
her determination that had rendered it
possible Had she hesitated in the least
he would not have gone, and with her
his success could only have been the
moderate success of other men. Now
he was coming home again. She had
seen a, note of it in one of the papers.
And—and Susie had told her the rest.
As she walked resolutely toward the
house, forgetting alike the squirrel and
dog and pruning shears, there was for
the first time a hard, bitter pain at her
heart. She could spare him to greater
usefulness, to a noble ambition; but
this—ah. this was different.
And yet when she came from her
room later there was no sign of dis
quiet in her brown eyes, or trace of
agitation on the delicate flush of her
cheeks. The rest of the unruly
branches were cut away or trained to
ward usefulness, and she was standing
with her head tipped slightly to one
side in contemplation of her work,
when again came the familiar tap, tap.
tap. down the sidewalk, ending with
the sharp click of her gate latch
“Here I am again. Miss Dunnin'.” a
blithe voice sailed, "beggin' for roses
this time. The cows have eaten our off
clean, an' we must have a good spread
for our company. I don't know what,
the place would do without, your rose
garden an' lilies an' strawberry bed—
or we girls for that matter —without
you.” catching a hand and raising it
KNOCKED DOWN AND KILLED.
Jamee D. Mef.rntli a Trolley Cor Vic
tim.
Atlanta, Sept. B.— James D. McGrath
of Oakland City, a Confederate vete
ran. was knocked down by a car of the
Atlanta Railway and Power Company
last night at Oakland City, and receiv
ed injuries from which he died to-day.
McGrath was walking on the track
near Fort McPherson when a car ap
proached He stepped from the track
when he heard the car approaching,
but when the car stopped at the bar
racks he stepped on to the track again
| to her lips with a pretty, graceful ca
ress that caused the older woman to
throw an arm across the young girl's
shoulders in sudden tenderness. "We
often speak together about our Miss
Dunnin', just as if you really an' truly
belonged to us.”
A cluster of freshly opened roses
caught her attention, and she ran for
ward to smell of them, and then en
gaged in a romp of tag with the squir
rel. At length she came back with
flushed face and sparkling eyes.
"Oh. I forgot to tell you. Miss Dun
nin', ' she cried, roguishly, "he's come '
Miss Dunning's hand closed a little
more closely upon the pruning shears,
but her face was calm, even smiling.
' I thought he was not expected till
next week." she observed, "at least,
that is what the paper said."
"Oh. I don't know.” doubtfully, "we
don't have any paper. But I think
Charlie was expectin' him before next
week—Charlie's my brother-in-law, you
know, an' owns that pretty house next
the river. Mr. Gray's goin' to stay with
him. They used to know each other.
But there! I’d better get the roses an’
be goin". They’re all cornin’ up this
evenin', an' ma said for me to hurry
back an' get through with my fixin’
an' fussin'. An’, say Miss Dunnin', if
you don't mind. I'd like to bring him
up to see you fore he goes?”
"Of course," the strained lips forced
themselves to say: "you must bring
him, by all means."
One day. a week later, as Miss Dun
ning sat on the veranda with the squir
rel in her lap, a firm, eager step came
up the sidewalk. But she did not no
tice until her latch clicked. Then she
turned inquiringly.
She knew him in an Instant, for the
years had brought a stronger step and
nobler carriage, with perhaps a too
liberal sprinkling of gray hair, which
she could discern even from the ve
randa. She was conscious of a. curious
thrill of awe and tenderness as she
rose from her chair, for even in that
brief instant she remembered that
there was not a single gray intruder
among her own soft hair, and his she
associated with the work which had
conquered obstacles and adversity.
There was no reserve or ceremony in
her movements, and by the time he
had closed the gate she was half way
down the walk. But it was as an old
er sister greeting her brother hero, or,
rather, as one who had sent her best
thoughts out to conquer the world and
was now eager to wreathe them with
the laurel of victory.
"Alfred," she said, as she went for
ward with extended had.
"Elizabeth," and then he bent for
ward and touched his lips to her fore
head. And she received the kiss with
her eyes looking straight into his and
with only the faintest possible color
stealing into her cheeks. It was not
a wrong to her girlish admirer, nor
an act of presumption or breach of
faith on his part. It was merely a
seal of the success of their parting
twenty yeasr before.
“Come up to the veranda, Alfred,”
she said, with her eyes full of frank
welcome. "I want to hear all about it.
Of course I know, in a fragmentary
way; but It will seem new and more
real from your lips.”
And he told her. sitting in his old
place behind the honeysuckle, with the
swaying sprays sending alternate lines
of sunlight and shade across his face
in the same old way: and she listened
with eyes full and lips half parted, and
with her head nodding commendation
or sympathy from time to time. It was
to story of heroism and triumph, told
in a straightforward, matter-of-fact
way, without egotism or self-deprecia
tion. knowing it was her rght to have
It entire, even as he had lved it.
"But it is good to be home again,
Elizabeth.” he concluded, with a satis
fied sigh, as he leaned back in his chair
and surveyed the veranda and rose
garden beyond. "The memory of these
flowers and their owner has been with
me through all the twenty years, and
many times have I been at the point
of giving up and returning. And. in
deed. I might have done so but for
what you said. I knew I could only
return to the sentence of a deserter
who had forsaken his colors."
"But—but you never wrote, Alfred.”
She was looking at him in a wonder
ing, startled way now, with the color
coming softly into her face.
"Yes. twice. But I learned after
ward that one of the mail steamers
was iost in mid-ocean. Perhaps the
other letter met with some accident,
also.”
"I never received it." Then: "But
you have been in the place a week, Al
fred, and only Just called.”
He looked puzzled.
"I came in on the train an hour ago.
Elizabeth, and would have been here
before but for a complication over a
telegram. It seems there is another
man of the same name in town."
"But Susie?"
“Never mind Susie. I have gone
through my probation, and have done
my work with all the strength that
God gave me. Now I have come 10,000
miles for my reward—for you. If
there is more work, bid me do if. but
for charity's sake do not refuse your
companionship In the labor."
She was not looking at him now.
Her heart was too full for speech, al
most for thought. The squirrel ran
down a. pillar of the veranda and
sought her lap. and the oriole lifted up
his voice in a suden ecstasy of song.
She stroked the one tremulously and
looked at the other with the new ten
derness of the great joy that had come
to her.
Then the gate clicked, and she
roused herself with an effort. A young
man whom she did not know stood be
fore her. and with him was Susie.
"I've brought him at last, Miss Dun
nin'." the girl cried, merrily; “but I
just had to drag him. he's so bashful
Mr. Gray, this is the Sunday-school
teacher I've told you about.” Then,
disregarding further formality, and
with bubbling gladness in her voice:
"An', oh say. Miss Dunnin'. we've
coaxed him to stay with us for good
an' ail. He's goin' to open a grocery
next to the postoffice.” Here she
caught sight of the gray-haired, sol
dierly figure in the background, and
stopped in sudden confusion.
"This is Mr. Gray. too. Susie.” Miss
Dunning said, with something In her
voice which the girl could 1 not under
stand, "and we, too. are going to be
married.”
and was knocked off when the ear re
sumed the run to East Point Mc-
Grath was about 65 years old and
leaves a wife and four children.
PHOSPHATE SHEDS BURNED.
Fire Does Destructive Work at
Beaufort.
Beaufort. S. C.. Sept. B.— Three dry
sheds of the Beaufort Phosphate Com
pany were destroyed by fire at 2 a. m.
Sunday. The loss was $2,000.
The contents of the sheds were un
injured. It is supposed that the loss Is
fully covered by insurance. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
THE MOKNING NEWS: MON DAY. SEPTEMBER 9,190 E
MURDERED PRESIDENTS.
THE ASSASSINATIONS OF LIXCOLX
AND GARFIELD.
Details of Their Taking OH—Some ot
the Most Notable of the Old-World
Crimes Committed ly Anurehist*
Against Rnlers.
From the Philadelphia Record.
President McKinley is the third Ex
ecuitve of the Federal government to
fall under the htUlet of the assassin.
Both Abraham Lincoln and James A.
Garfield died from their dastardly in
flicted wounds, and have their names
inscribed upon the national calendar
of martyrs. The sad details of the
fatal shooting of each of these rulers
of the country have been vividly re
called by the terrible crime at Buffalo,
and it may be worth while to narrate
again the main facts concerning those
past Presidential assassinations.
The shooting of Lincoln by John
Wilkes Booth was the more sensation
al, in view of the troubled state of the
government at Washington, and was
highly dramatic in manner of accom
plishment. The additional feature that
Booth was the head of a sort of con
spiracy gave to the martyrdom of Lin
coln a peculiar political significance
which most assassinations of modern
history have lacked. When Lincoln
went to Washington to take the oath
of office as President the air was rife
with fears of an attempted assassina
tion of the negro's friend." But
"Honest Abe” passed through the grim
ordeal of the Civil War without an at
tempt on his life, and fell a victim to
the assassin in the very hour of seem
ing triumph and restored peace. On
April 14. 1865, General Anderson had
raised over Fort Sumter the tattered
flag he had hauled down just four
years before. The North was rejoicing
that the war was over, when suddenly,
the news flashed throughout the land
that Lincoln had been murdered.
When Lincoln Was Stricken.
On the night of that same April 14
the wearied President had sought a
slight diversion from the burdens of his
office in attending Ford's Theater, on
Tenth street, Washington, accompanied
by Mrs. Lincoln and two friends—Ma
jor Henry Rathbone and a daughter of
Senator Ira Harris. The bill was "Our
American Cousin," with Laura Keene
in the cast. Miss Keene was awaiting
one of her cues in the sidq-wing and
the audience was eagerly watching the
play, when the report of a pi6tol star
tled everybody. A man was seen to
leap from the President's box to the
stage. brandishing a dagger. and
shouting “Sic semper tyrannis! The
South is avenged!” His fobt caught in
the folds of a flag, and he fell, break
ing his leg. but regaining his feet he
managed to escape to a side alley,
where he leaped upen a horse that had
been kept saddled there, and fled from
the city. The audience was seized with
panic. Laura Keene, running into the
Presidents box, held Lincoln's bleeding
head on her lap, and the robes of com
edy were becrimsoned with the blood of
this terrible tragedy.
Booth’M Attempt to Escape.
John Wilkes Booth's bullet had en
tered one of Lincoln's temples. After
shooting the President, the half-de
mented actor had stabbed Maj. Rath
bone. The dying President was carried
to a small house opposite the theater,
where, surrounded by his family and
the principal officials of the govern
ment. he breathed his last at 7 o'clock
on the morning of April 15, in the third
month of his 57th year. They joy over
the return of peace was eclipsed every
where by this bloody event. The body
lay in state at the Capitol on April
20, and was viewed by a grand con
course of mourning people. The next
day the funeral train set out for Spring
field, 111. The cortege halted at all the
principal cities on the way, and was
greeted everywhere with extraordinary
demonstrations of grief for the dead
leader. The remains were finally laid
to rest at Oak Ridge, near Springfield,
on May 4. and a white harble monu
ment (by the sculptor. Larkin G. Mead)
now marks the consecrated ground.
The expressions of sorrow and condol
ence that were sent to the federal gov
ernment from all over the world were
afterward published by the State De
partment in a quarto volume of near
ly a thousand pages, called "The Trib
ute of the Nations to Abraham Lin
coln.”
John Wilkes Booth, the assassinator,
succeeded in eluding capture for twelve
days after his crime. Fleeing on horse
back to a farm about 35 miles from
Washington, he lay for six days in the
woods. Then he secretly crossed both
the Potomac and the Rappahannock,
and took refuge in a barn on a farm
near Bowling Green. To this hiding
place a squadron of United States
troops tracked him. The barn was set
on fire and Booth, while resisting ar
rest. was shot dead by a soldier named
Boston Corbett. Thus miserably per
ished the murderer of Lincoln, who was
a son of the noted actor, Junius Brutus
Booth, and whose gifts had seemed to
destine him to a noble career. He had
been born at Bel Air. Md., in 1838. and
was only 27 years old. His last appear
ance as an actor had been at a bene
fiet for John McCullough The deed
brought for a time an unmerited public
contempt for the actor's profession His
own corpse was secretly buried under
the flagstones of the arsenal ware
house at Washington. Two years later,
however, his brother, Edwin Booth, had
the remains reinterred in the family
plot in the cemetery at Baltimore.
Booth's Hallucination.
Booth undoubtedly labored under
the hallucination that he was reveng
ing Southern wrongs and sufferings in
slaying Lincoln. The actor was at the
head of a small conspiracy, and on tho
same evening that he shot the Presi
dent a fellow-conspirator gained access
to the home of Secretary of State Wil
liam Henry Seward, where Seward lay
on a couch with a fractured arm and
jaw, and stabbed the secretary several
times in the face and neck. Seward's
son was also struck down. After se
vere sufferings both of the attacked
men recovered from their knife wounds.
Later the conspiracy was unearthed;
four of the conspirators were hanged,
three were imprisoned for life, and one
was sentenced for a term of years.
Andrew Johnson succeeded to the pres
idency and to the tremendous problem
of Federal reconstruction, which he so
signally failed to cope with In the mas
terly style of a Lincoln.
The assassination of President Gar
i field had no such peculiar significance
as that of Lincoln. Garfield was laid
low by the bullet of a hare-brained tn
! dividual, who had come to Washing-
I ton for a political office and who had
! been disappointed. To be sure, the di
vision of the Republican camp into
"Stalwarts" and "Half-Breeds” may
THIN PEOPLE
should try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Loss of flesh means that your food is
not being properly digested. The blood
becomes impure and the result is indi
gestion, constipation, dyspepsa. flatu
lency, inactive liver and weak kidneys.
The cause lies in the stomach. Hoatet
ter's Stomach Bitters will reach It and
cure It. Be sure to give it a trial.
HEALTH HOSTETTER’S
FOLLOWS STOMACH
ITS USE. BITTERS
have contributed to inspire Charles
Jubes Guiteau with the desire of kill
ing the President whom Roscoe Conk
ling had so savagely denounced as a
party traitor.
President Garfield's Fate.
It was on July 2, ISSI. only four
months after his inauguration as Pres
ident. that Garfield left the White
House to attend commencement at his
alma mater, Williams College. He had
just entered the Pennsylvania station
in Washington, when he was shot in
the back by Guiteau Guiteau was
promptly captured, and for a time
there was hope of Garfield's recovery.
But, after enduring great suffering
with notable fortitude, Garfield passed
away at Elberon, N. J.. on Sept. 19.
eighty days after the shooting. He was
in his fiftieth year. His public career
had not been without political scan
dals. and he had even been accused
of selling John Sherman in his own in
terest at the convention of June. 1880.
which so unexpectedly nominated him
as the Republican candidate. But the
manner of his martyrdom moved all
citizens, irrespective of party or opin
ion, to genuine grief, and his brave
battle with pain and death won him,
the hearts of his countrymen. The re-;
mains of this brilliant, Gambetta-like
statesman were placed in the rotunda
of the Capitol, where an immense
wreath of white rosebuds stood at the
loot of his coffin, with the inscription;
"Queen Victoria to the memory of the
late President Garfield. An expression
of her sorrow and sympathy with Mrs.
Garfield and the American nation.”
Garfield's memorial monument stands
at Cleveland, O.
Ulatne Was With Him.
Secretary of State James G. Blaine
was walking arm-in-arm with Garfield
when Guiteau fired his deadly shot.
Guiteau was one of a small group of
people, standing near the door to the
ladies' room in the railroad station. As
the President and Secretary passed, the
assassin turned, made a step in their
dilection, and, drawing a heavy re
volver from his pocket, aimed it care
fully and fired deliberately. Garfield
turned in excited surprise. Blaine
sprang to one side. Guiteau then re
cocked his revolver and calmly fired
again at the President, who this time
fell to the floor, covered with blood.
Guiteau fled, dropping his pistol as he
ran, but he was quickly caught.
Garfield was driven to the executive
mansion, where his condition was de
cided to be so critical that it would
be highly dangerous to probe for the
bullet. The medical judgment In this
case has been declared to have been
at fault. Later the wounded Presi
dent was removed to Elberon to bene
fit by the sea breeze; but the hope
proved vain. The bullet lodged in his
back caused blood poisoning. It had
pierced the tissues by a long, crooked
course, leaving a wound that could
not be properly drained.
Guiteau'* Career.
Garfield’s assassin. Guiteau, had been
by spells a politician, a lawyer, lec
turer, theologian and evangelist. He
pretended to have been inspired by
Deity with the thought that the re
moval of Garfield was necesasry for
the unity of the Republican party and
for the salvation of the country. He
is said to have exclaimed on being ar
rested; "ATI right: I did it. and will
go to jail for it. lam a stalwart, and
Arthur will be President." This trial
began in November and lasted over
two months. The defense was insan
ity, but the prosecution sought to show
that the murderer had long been "an
lunprineipled adventurer. greedy fot
notoriety." The public rage against
him was intense. Sergt. Mason, a
soldier set to guard him. actually fired
a bullet into Guiteau's cell. For this
unsuccessful deed the sergeant received
a sentence of eight years in the Alba
ny penitentiary. Two months later a
mysterious horseman, dashing- past
Guiteau. as the assassin was being led
from jail to court, grazed the prisoner's
wrist with a bullet. During trial
Guiteau acted in most disorderly style
and indulged in scurrilous interrup
tions. He was found guilty in Jan
uary. 1882, and was executed at Wash
ington on June 30 following. As the
last juror signified his assent to the
death verdict Guiteau shrieked out:
“My blood will be on the heads of that
jury! Don’t you forget it! God will
avenge this outrage!” But the autop
sy revealed no disease of the brain.
Guiteau's skeleton is now in the Army
Medical Museum.
Rnler* Killed in Other Countries.
Our sister republic of France has
also been called upon to mourn for an
assassinated President. Sadl-Carnot
was stabbed to death by Cesario San
to on June 24. 1894. The great French
statesman and President was visiting
the Lyons Exposition, and was going
from the Palais de Commerce, where a
banquet had been held in his honor, to
the Grand Theater, when Santo jumped
on the footstep of Carnot’s carriage
and stabbed him in the liver.
Spain's Prime Minister, Senor Cano
vas del Castillo, also met his fate at
the hand of an Italian anarchist. While
at the bathe, at Santa Equeda, Spain,
on Aug. S, 1597, he was shot by Ri
naldi. The premier fell dying at the
feet of his horrified wife.
King Humbert of Italy has been the
latest victim of the Old World slayers
of crowned heads. He fell a victim to
the bullet of Gaetano Bresci, on July
29, 1900. The illustrious monarch was
shot through the heart while entering
his carriage near Monza, Italy’, and
he died within a few minutes. An
archy was at the bottom of this crime,
as of almost every European assas
sination.
Perhaps the most brutal of all the as
sassinations of recent times was the
murder of Elizabeth, the Empress of
Austria, by Luigi Luccheni. on Sept.
10, IS9S. For this crime Luccheni was
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Emperor Alexander II of Russia was
killed by the Nihilists on March 13, 1881.
The imperial carriage was returning"
from a review of the Marine Corps,
when a bomb was thrown that wound
ed some of his escort. The Emperor
descended from his carriage and was
mortally wounded by a second explod
ing bomb. His assassination thus oc
curred only a few weeks before that
of Garfield.
Nasr-el-Dtn. Shah of Persia, was as
sassinated May 1. 1896: Gen. Borcla,
President of Uruguay. Aug. 26. 1897.
and Gen. Barrios of Guatemala. Feb.
9, 1898.
PLAYERS WILL BE BOUNCED.
In Case They Refn*e to Keep the
Contracts They Make.
New York. Sept. B.— A meeting of
the Players Protective Association
was held here to-day. the delegatee
present being all National League
players as those In the American
League are all out West and could not
get to New York and back without in
terfering with their respective clubs.
The question of the punishment of
players who jump their contracts was
the principal topic discussed. It was
unanimously decided that in the fu
ture any player who after signing one
contract, jumps to another club, shall
be expelled summarily by the associa
tion.
In the matter of the signing of play
ers, the association decided to take no
cognizance of the one-year option
clause in the National League con
tracts. Under a resolution passed to
day a player in the future will sign
for one year only. If at the end of
the season he desires to go from one
club to another, or from one organiza
tion to another, he is perfectly at
liberty to do so as far as the players
association Is concerned. i
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
KENNEDY.—The relatives and
friends of Mr. John J. Kennedy and
family and of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Gleason are invited to attend the
funeral of the former from No. 418
President street, west, at 9:30 o’clock
this morning.
SULLIVAN The relatives and
friends of William H. Sullivan are in
vited to attend his funeral from his
late residence. No. 119 Houston street,
at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon.
MEETINGS.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting will be
held this (Monday) evening in K. of
P. Hall at 8:30 o'clock.
A. KESSEL. President.
A. HELLER. Secretary.
ATTENTION VETERANS C. S. A.
Springfield, Ga., Aug. 10, 1901.
You are hereby requested to meet at
this place on Sept. 10, 1901, at 10
o'clock a. m., for a grand reunion. You
are also requested to bring your fami
lies. friends and baskets for a reunion
and to have a good time in general.
There will be a band in attendance
and speaking by the different veterans.
By order of J. J. BREWER,
Capt. Effingham Veterans, C. S. A.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
LEVAN’S CAFE AND RESTAURANT.
111-113 Congress Street, West.
Table d'Hote Dinners—soc.
Sept. 9. 1901.
SOUP.
Mock Turtle.
Sliced Cucumbers Claret Wine.
Sliced Tomatoes
Queen Olives. Chow Chow.
Mixed Pickles.
FISH.
Whiting ala Margate.
St. Jullen Potatoes.
ENTREES.
Irish Stew. Shallot of Apple.
ROASTED.
Ricefield Lamb, with Jelly.
Prime Ribs of Beef.
VEGETABLES.
String Beans. Boiled Roatsing Ears.
Boiled Okra. Mashed Potatoes.
Steamed Rice. Stewed Tomatoes.
PASTRY AND DESSERT.
Peach Pie. Baked Rice Custard.
Assorted Cakes. Cheese. Crackers.
Drip Coffee. Tea.
Sweet Milk. Buttermilk.
Dinner 1 to 3 p. m.—so cents.
Regular breakfast 7 to 9; 30, 35 cents.
Supper 6 to 9 p. m., 35 cents.
Everything first-class. Dining room
up-stairs. All vegetables fresh every
day from my own farm. All cream,
butter and eggs from my own dairy.
SAFETY CORN KNIFE.
This knife is unequaled as a corn
eradlcator.
Pearl and Steel Nall Cleaners and
Nall Clips.
Scissors of the finest make.
Home-made Soda Water by using the
Improved Sparklet.
SOLOMONS CO.
Our Bull Street Store open all night.
LEVY’*
DISCOUNT NOTICE.
TOO WILL SAVE
TEX PER CENT.
By paying your billa on or be
fore Ik* IGtU loot.
B. H. LEVY A BRO.
NOTICE.
I beg to inform the public that my
store will be closed until 2 p. m. Tues
day on account of the death of a mem
ber of my family.
M. S. GARDNER.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Commencing to-day, the Savannah
Yacht Club Bowling Alleys will be
closed for repairs and will be ready for
players Friday evening. Sept. 13.
HOUSE COMMITTEE.
DIVIDEND NO. 1(5.
A dividend of three dollars per share
on the capital stock of the People's
Savings and Loan Company has this
day beep declared by the Board of Di
rectors from the earnings for the past
six months, payable on and after 10th
Instant. E. L. HACKETT.
Treasurer
FOR ORDINARY.
FRANK E. KEILBACH.
FOR RENT,
Store No. 221 Congress street, west.
Possession given Oct. 1. Apply to
DEARING & HULL.
10 Drayton street, Provident Building.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British seamer
Karoon. Freeman, master, must be
presented at our office by noon this
day. Sept. 9. 1901, or payment thereof
will be debarred.
J. F- MINIS &_CO.. Agents.
THE FINEST LINE OF CHOCOLATES
AND BON BOXS IN THE CITY.
Stick Candy 15c per pound. Pure
fruit flavors.
All kinds of Cakes and Pastry fresh
every day.
Headquarters for the best Ice Creams
and Sherbets, made with fresh fruit.
Don’t fail to try our Sunshine Cakes
only 10 or Vanilla. At
THE CANDY STORE,
BELSINGER & GROSS.
Phones 265. 12 Broughton street, west
OELSCHIG. THE FLORIST.
Has Roman hyacinths and trieseas
now for sale. Samples at 12 Brough
ton street, east.
J. GARDNER. Agent.
’Phone 1630.
Nursery Thunderbolt road. Both
’phones 496.
MONEY TO LEND
On improved real estate at 5 per cent.
Loans can be reduced yearly.
W. M & \V. E CONEY.
24 Bryan, east. ffhones 67.
BUSINESS NOTICKS
r.YES EXAMINED FREE.
If you have any eye troubles consult
us. If you need glasses we want to fit
you. If you need treatment will advise
you. Have you seen our latest machin
ery for lense grinding, it Is the most com
plete plant in the South, and enables us
to compete with any establishment in the
country for fine prescription work. Bring
us your Oculist Ris, and get your glasses
the same day.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
471 Bull Street.
FOR THY
Kidney and Bladder's Sake,
DR. BOUVIER’S
BUGHU GIN
ASK FOR IT.
BEST OF ALL.
Office opposite the De Soto, Bull Street.
Telephone 700.
TRY US FOR AN
ENGINE.
New or second-hand. Any size from
150-horse power to 6-horse, ready for
prompt delivery. Boilers and pumps,
new and second-hand. Special attention
given to repair work. Engines, boilers
and blacksmithing.
MCDONOUGH & BALLANTYNE,
Savannah, Ga.
SPECIAL NOTICED.
GREER'S SCOTCH WHISKEY.
This celebrated famous old vatted
Highland Whiskey is imported di
rect from the distillery by us.
This great Scotch Whiskey Is
guaranteed to be bottled abroad
and is consigned to us from Glas
gow, Scotland, and is in bond in
tho United States Custom House in
this city.
This Grand Old Greer Scotch
Whiskey is beautifully mellow and
miid to a degree and is soft to the
palate as one could possibly wish,
and there is a nuttiness about it
that is especially pleasing.
We are glad to let the public pur
chase as small quantity as they
wish, even one bottle, for the pur
pose of introducing the best brand
of Scotch whiskey extant. 4
LIPPMAN BROS.,
Wholesale Druggists,
Lippman’s Block.
Sole Agents for the Greer Distil
leries, Glasgow, Scotland, and Dub
lin, Ireland, for their Scotch and
Irish Whiskies.
CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE CITY.
We wash your clothes just whits like
enow, eo fair. We use Octagon soap and
the clothes never fade. We give you
satisfaction and guarantee the beat work.
Shirts Bc, New Shirts 10c, Shirt Waists
15c, Undershirts 6c, Drawers sc, Collars
Cuffs 3c, Handkerchiefs lVic, Socks
2cj Pants cleaned 25c, Family clothes,
mixed, a dozen, 50c; Family, all starch,
clothes, a dozen, $1.00; Duck Skirts 20c,
Linen Suits 50c.
Oux delivery wagon will call for linen.
ROBERT & TONG CO.,
First Class Chinese Laundry.
Bell ’Phone 1300. 323 Broughton, east.
BEAUTIFUL FEATURES ARE IN
HERITED.
But a beautiful home can be acquired
by using TAYLOR’S elegant designs of
Paper Hangings. Entirely new color
ings. Call up Ga. phone 877 and it will
be a pleasure to call and show them to
you. Painters' and paper hangers’ sup
plies of all kinds. New designs in house
painting. Ask to see them.
138 and 140 Barnard street.
Knights of Pythias Hall.
BETTER THAN EVER.
At Mrs. Norres, 117 Barnard. You
can get hot meals a-la-carte as well
as cold lunches. Only the choicest
chops and steaks and other meats
served. Everything fried in butter.
Fridays of each week I will serve afi
old fashion Norwegian fish dinner with
imported German potatoes. Also oys
ters served in all styles. Special at
tention given to orders for ladles for
lunch, hot meals, coffee, etc.
P. S.—Best drip coffee in the city
with pure cream, 10c.
CYPRESS SHINGLES
We offer 1.000,000 Cypress Shingles
of all the different grades, from $1.50
to $3.00 per thousand.
Boats can load at our mills.
VALE ROYAL MFO. CO.,
H. P. Smart. I ruideut,
FINANCIAL.
/
Life Insurance policies bought for
cash or loaned on at low rates.
W. T. HOPKINS,
IS Bryan street, east. Telephone 219.
PAINTS AND OILS.
Painters and others should know that
we carry at all times the very high
est grades of Paints and Oils. We
sell at very close figures.
SAVANNAH BUILDING SUPPLY CO.
Corner Congress and Drayton.
Phone 519.
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WALL
PAPER.
Get our price* on the best goods for
your building.
ANDREW HANLEY COMPANY.
THE CHATHAM BANK
SAVANNAH i\i
LEOPOLD ADLER. President.
C. S. KLLJS, Vice
JOHN R. DILI.ON, Cashier eaU
Sons 9 : bankS - assoclaUon and co^-
Liberal favors extended te
lng banks, as our unsurpassed
for collecting Insure proin pt umf 1 “ 19 *
BUYS AND SELLS FOREmw ’
CHANGE, WRITES LETTERS
CREDIT AND ISSUES BANK Wim. '
ORDERS PAYABLE IN ALL
OF EUROPE. p Altra
posits In the "savings q DEPART\IRv 9 '
r Safety Deposit Boxe.
SOUTHERN BUNK
or me ataie oi Geou....
Capital
Surplus and undivided profits g2' &0I!
DEPOSITORY OF THE STa'tm ' M
GEORGIA. Xa
Superior facilities for transacting a
r .. General laankiniTTnislne.,
Collections maae on au points
- acce ssible through hlTik.Gn.t bankers.
and C nth tS of , B “ nks - Bankers, Merchant,
for 1 rent EOllcited ' Sa£a Deposit Boxes
quarterly” 6 "* Savlnff ’ ,ntere Wahl,
EXChan * e
d ° :N ' President.
HORACE A. CRANE, Vice President
JAMES SULLIVAN, Cashier.
directors
E A w L ™ NERY - £ M ' W GORDON,
■fcs- A. WEJL. W. (ViPnDM
H. A. CRANE. JOHN M '
LEE ROY MYERS. JOSEPH FERBT
H_H SMART. CHARLES ELLIS
EDW ARD KELLY. JOHN J. KIRBY
The Citizens Balk
OF SAVANNAH.
CAPITAL $500,000.
rraiuacts a General Baukiug
Baaanewti.
Solicits Accounts of Individuals,
Merchants, Banks and Corpo
rations.
Collections handled with salety,
economy and dispatch.
Interest, compounded quarterly,
allowed on deposits In our Savings
Department.
Safe Deposit Boxes and Storage
Vaults.
MILLS B. LANE, President.
JOHN H. HUNTER, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
GORDON L. GROOVER. Asst. Cashier.
No. 1640. Chartered 1366.
—THE—
urns in hi
OF SAVANNAH.
CAPITAL, $500,000. SURPLUS SIOO,OOO
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.
J. A. G. CArtou.N, President.
BEIRNE GORDON, Vice President.
W. M DAVANT, Cashier.
Accounts of banks and bankers, mer
chants and corporations received upon the
most favorable terms consistent with sale
and conservative banking.
THE GERMANIA BANK
SAVANNAH, GA.
Capital $900,000
Undivided profits SBI,OOO
This bank offers Its eervices to corpo
rations. merchants and individuals.
Has authority to act as executor, ad
ministrator, guardian, etc.
Issues drafts on the principal cities in
Great Britain and Ireland and on tns
Continent.
Interest paid or compounded quarterly
on deposits in the Savings Department.
Safety boxes for rent.
HENRY BLUN, President.
GEO. VV. TIEDEMAN Vice President
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
WALTER E TTOOiNT a
THE GEORGIA STATE
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
• 15 YORK STREET, WEST.
r PER CENT, per annum allowed oo
vf deposits, withdrawable on demand.
Interest credited quarterly.
6 PER CENT, per annum allowed on
deposits of even hundreds, with
drawable at annual periods.
GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, President.
B. H. LEVY, Vice President.
E. W. BELL Secretary.
C. G. ANDERSON. JR.. Treasurer.
THE CHATHAM
Real Estate and ImprovementCo
A MUTUAL LOAN AND BUILDING
COMPANY. INSTALLMENT PLAN.
No loans made outside of Chatham
county.
Homes built on monthly payment plau
OFFICE. 14 BRYAN STREET, EAST.
Savannah.
J. H. ESTILL. President.
C. H. DORSETT. Vice President.
M. J. SOLOMONS. Sec’y. end Treaa.
F. W. GARDEN. Asst. Sec. and Treaa-
DIRECTORS—WiiIiam Kehoe, Lee Roy
Myers, H. C. Cunningham, H. P. Smart.
C. S. Connerat.
lo Kemper Piil
For sale, a Forsaith Newspaper Folder,
will fold sheet 27x42. It le in good order.
Price SIOO. It coat originally $l,lOO, hut
we have no use for it and want tho room
it occupies.
It will be an Invaluable adjunct to any
newspaper office.
Address
MORNING NEWS,
Savannah. G
SPECIAL NOTICES.
BECKMAN’S CAKE,
112-114 Whitaker Street.
Cooling and refreshing beverages
carefully prepared. Alao lunches of
all kinds at short notice. Imported
Wurzburger Beer always fresh
draught and bottles. Phone 710.
WHERE DOES IT PAY
To buy a fine suit of clothes, and
It gets soiled, to send it to a house tnac
is not reliable, and will only pr* ss ;‘\ r
dirt In? Then send them to the m-
YORK DYERS AND CLEANER*-
Whitaker and State. Born in the bus>-
ness. Lace curtains and straw£ na
felt hats done up in style. Phone 94J
THE WAY TO CLEAN CARPETS.
The only way to get your carpet* P r °P'
erly taken up. cleaned and taken cat*
for the summer, Is to (urn ihe Job over
the District Messenger and Delivery •
telephone 2. or call at 32 Montgomery
street, and they will make you an _f. s . M
mate on the cos of the work. P 1
reasonable. They also pack, move
•tore furniture and pianos.
C H. MEDLOCK, Bupt. and