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The Faster and llis Surroundings.
What the Doctor Was—His Present Condition
It will be five weeks this noon since
a robust, compactly built man strode
sturdily up the steps of Clarendon
Hall, and with a quietly confident
smile submitted himself to the in¬
spection of the physicians who await¬
ed him. Those who were yet igno¬
rant speedily leaned the little there
was to know about him—that he was
born in Tunbridge Wells, England, in
1881, seventeen, caime to this country at the age
of and going to Wisconsin]
soon began the study of medicine, af¬
terward removing to Minneapolis,
Minn., and practising there as an
electio the physician. Thoy knew, too,
that stranger, whom many of
them then saw for the first time, was a
firm believer in the virtues of absti
nence from food as tending to health
and the curing of disease, and also
held that life could be prolonged with¬
out food for a longer period than had
ever come under the direct observa
tion of physiologists. Moreover, the
doctors had read or been told that the
man before them claimed to have sub¬
stantiated his views by an experiment
upon himself; that he claimed to have
fasted for forty-two days at Minneap¬
olis in July and August, 1877, under
the partial supervision of Dr. A.
Meyer,and bad thereby cured rheuma¬
tism of the heart and inflammation of
the stomach, with which he had pre¬
viously been affected. Understanding
this, the doctors knew too, that the
Minnesota doctor had offered himself
as the that subject of an experiment to
prove his former statements wore
true, and to do publicly something of
which no authenticated record has
been handed down from the past.
Naturally the assembled doctors
watched this man with interest and
curiosity, though probably none of them
believed he would accomplish tho task
he had voluntarily undertaken. Thoy
saw a man whose hair had been
whitened by the passage of forty-nine
years, but whose body was almost, that
of an athlete. About medium height,
with broad square shoulders, deep full
chest and still elastic step, his appear¬
ance gave a color to his boast that he
could have gained athletic renown had
he chosen that field of dictinction. llis
weight, 157i pounds, came from hard
and solid flesh. When stripped it was
seen that, though possessing no un¬
usual muscularity, his body was fully
aud harmoniously developed.
Hie face was the index of his charac¬
ter. His heavy brow overhuug deep
set, determined eyes. From the sides
of bis straight, large nose slight lines
ran down to the corners of his mouth,
whose thiu lips were set in a look of
determination. Powerful jaws and a
square, llis heavily moulded chin, gave to
tsce an aspect of strength and in¬
domitable resolution. His high cheek
boqoer were fairly covered with flesh,
Light though the face was not verv full.
side whiskers lent him something
head ot an English aspect, and his square
.well-rounded yvas uprightly neck. poised on a still
When his clothes
were temoved and the doctors crowded
nearer, they found his flesh solid, the
very iat seeming firm instead of being !
soft and flabby.
WHAT DR. TANNER IS.
lay A shapeless heap muffled in blaukets
on a cot in the sooth gallery of |
Clarendon Hall yesterday afternoon.
From a little distance a few gray hairs
standing Showed stitfly cut were all that
that anything except blauketa
were on the cot. Presently the heap
moved uneasily, and a face appeared
at one end of the bed—a face in which
there was something intent, fierce and
wolfish as the man suddenly awakened
and feebly raised himself on his arm.
Then he seated himself on the edge of
the cot, and a film seemed to come over
the sunken eyes, that lost their lustre
and became half closed, as if weighed
down by a remorseless weariness. As
the face, still showing a dull color,
settled into repose, it seemed to be
drawn into a series of lines converging
to the point of the nose. Three deep
wrinkles in the middle of the brow
gave an aspect of anxiety and suffering
to the face. Rigid lines extended to
the corners of the mouth. Heavy
shadows were visible under the cavern¬
ous eyes, and the skin was forehead tightly
drawn over the bones of the
and cheeks. A slightly tremulous mo¬
tion was visible in the once firmly set
lips, only tightly closed now when the
owner becomes excited or aroused.
As the man sat on the cot his head
wearily sank forward, as if his shrunk¬
en neck were powerless to support hands—no it.
He buried his face in his
longer white, but of an almost purplish
hue. His beDt back, drooping head
and nerveless hands told of a moment
of despondency, and presented a pic¬
ture of intense but silent misery.
Then the man slowly rose, wavering
a little at first, and half reaching out
as if for seme support. His head was
still bent forward ; his rounded shoul¬
ders made his chest seem flat, and his
loosely hanging clothing easily brought
belief in the fact that he had lost 31
pounds in 34 days. A few steps were
taken, the slippered feet shuffling hea¬
vily along the bare floor, and the weak
limbs trembling a little underneath the
weight they almost failed to support.
Then some one spoke, and the man
seemed to realize that every motion
was closely watched. His bead went
up, the iron jaws settled firmly to¬
gether, and a new light came into the
clouded eyes. With a trace of his old
time vigor the feeble walker inoreased
bis pace, taking long strides, although
his feet still shuffled along the floor.
Soon the steps grew slower—the body
made its claims felt even against the
imperious domination of the will—and
turning to his chair the weary man sank
into it with a half-uttered sigh of relief.
He looked vacantly around for a mo¬
ment, then feeling that the necessity
for exertion was past, his head again
drooped forward, and he looked asleep
busied in dismal thoughts of him¬
Such was and such is Dr. Tanner.
His careworn face and unnatural eyes
show plainly the emaciation, anxiety
and Yet suffering that he has undergone.
the old spirit seems to animate
him, although feebly, and his condi¬
tion, wonderfully good for one who
has performed his task, is no more
strange than the occasional fits of ner
vous energy which carry him through
what would seem to be impossible ex¬
ertion.
Sow in Them. —A Maryland farmer
is making money out of an enormous
crop of potato bugs. Being opposed
to the use of Paris green, he rigged
up a large wash boiler in his field, and
hiriug six men, collected the bugs, and
soused them in boiling water. About
two gallons were collected, and by
accident a piece of sheepskin leather,
used for lining shoes, went into the
mess. After the cooking had been
going on for half an hour he was
astonished to find that the leather had
changed its color to the richest dark
crimson. This arousing his curiosity,
he inserted other materials, and ascer¬
tained another peculiarity of the
liquid. The material placed in it
changed first to a dark brown, then a
greenish hue, then pure yellow, then
light blue, changing to dark blue;
then light red.Iterminating in the bril¬
liant scarlet, which was the permanent
color. Consequence: formation of
stock company to make dyeing mix¬
tures from patato bugs.
Exhalations.
From the matter that creates mala¬
rial fevers—yellow fever and its kin¬
dred ailments, ave not cognizable with
the senses, but imperceptibly locate in
the blood, poison it, and originate the
diseases Darned. Warner’s Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure, used in connection
with Warner’s Safe Pills, is the only
blood purifier known.
n ' There are nine corset factories in
Haven, Conn., operated upon a
capital of §750,000. There are but
such factories iiv^68^^canTtafol in the United
with an *
Excess 1 in dress ______ was restrained *Edward by
in England under IV.,
and 1574*. a-'ain in the rei^n ° of Eliza- !
‘
There —— be doubt that the j
cau no man
whom Mi*s Vanderbilt will rnarrv is a 1
genuine lord. His debts amount
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1880.
Negro Oratory,
An Impassioned Sermon at the Colored Camp
Meeting in Westchester County.
"When Christ was born in Bethle¬
hem,” said the Rev. Henry Dumpsen
at the colored camp meeting near
Mount Vernon, Westchester county,
Sunday, “there was a great fuss made.
It didn’t please Herod. Thar was noth¬
ing ’bout Christ dat Herod liked. He
didn’t like his birth; he didn’t like bis
fadder nor bis modder. He didn’t
beliebe Christ was de Son of God aod
dat he hab de power to save. But
Christ built up a house of God better’n
any of de bouses at Coney Island, cr
Long Branch, or Rockaway. But no
sinner can enter that house, ’cause
Jesus ’s a etandin’ at de do’ to keep
dem out ’cept dey repent. If dey re¬
pent Christ be able to sabe de Jew,
de Gentile, de barbarian and all de
rest ob de sinners what cast his name
to one side. But, my frien’s, we’s all
got to be sabed; we’s all goin’ to enter
de do’; we’s goin’ to have a public
wendue and be sold out clean of ebbery
thing dat don’t please God; we’s goin’
in dat do’ clean washed wid de blood
ob Jesus, clar down to de roots ob our
har.
"He tries his uttermost to sabe ; he
goes clar down to de bottom ob our
hearts and He tu$ns up de black devil
hidden dar, and the man he feel emal
ler’n your thumb ; but when Jesus gets
in dat man be is able to thrash a moun¬
tain and level everything down smooth
like shirt bosoms. Christ’s infinite effi¬
cacy ob ability to sabe are within
Hiself without no aid from any outsid¬
er. He can make everything as white
as snow. De dying thief and de dying
buccaneer beliebe in Christ, and war
sabed even under a kiver of darkness.
Dey saw Paradise on de cross, and war
restored to de bosom of de Lamb. Oar
religion aint popalar enough ; it needs
de saving grace. O ! Lord, gib us de
grace.
"Yes, let de grace come from all de
nations of the earth. Let it come from
Africa—from men of low degree—and
let dem whisper de words in de ear of
de sinners. Glory to God ! Afore de
Saviour was crucified he said, ‘Lord,
let de cup go by,’ and when he went
to look for His disciples He found dem
all asleep—all takin’ a rest. Agony
ob de soul! Nqw,.my,Jriend8 l what did
dis breakin’ all cost hebbf&u? de Jewisfi Whjt it came near
up nation. Dan’l
was flung into de lions’ den by order ob
de King because he prayed for dat cup
not to come around. But next mor~
nin’ when de Kmg come around, and
ho came around early, he saw dat
Dan’l not fastened in de lion’s jaws, and
he ^turned pale and said, ‘Oh! Dan’l
are you’re safe?’ And Dan’l said:
—‘Yes, sah, I is.’ Dat was de power
of Christ. He’s more powerful dan King. any
man. He more powerful dan de
Yes, my friends, He more powerful dan
de President.
‘‘A few years ago I was at Long
Branch assistin’ a brother to build a
church. I saw General Grant ridin’
past in his carriage. I said to de
brother :—‘Dar am a rich man. He
am a good Republican, and perhaps
he help you build de church.’ A day
or two after dat I called at de Presi¬
dent’s cottage and dare I found dat
pompous Tom Murphy at de do’. I
said, 'I want to see the President;’ and
he went in and came back a sayin,’
‘Dare am some gentlemen in dare and
he can’t see you. It is not so my
friens, when you call on Jesus.
"When you call on Him He not too
busy to meet you. When de President
go dere he find Jesus not talk like he
talk to me. Christ is not too good to
see anybody, whether he live in a
palace or in de woods among the trees.
He's heah in dese woods; He’s heah to
catch sinners by de har and shake
’em into de Gospel path. I don’t care
what men say ’bout me or what wo¬
men think; I’s happy in de wilderness,
widout a trouble, while Jesus am wid
me. Jesus will, pay for what is done.
It makes no difference what you earn,
you get your pay. N. Y. Herald.
Frog Shooting. — Some Parisian
ladies have taken to frog shooting.
The arm they use is a highly dart ornate | 1
steel cross-bow, from which a may
be discharged with sufficient force to ’
transfix the most corpulent and tough
hided frogs at a range of twenty feet.
By means of a silken cord this missile
is attached to the breech of the cross
bow, a contrivance enabling the sue
cessfnl markswoman to dispense col
services of a retriever for the
lectlon of her game. Having shot a
fro S’ her alle can haul her wriggling duty victim
to very feet, where the of
From “bagging five ~ ’it devolves upon her keeper. |
to six brace constitute a
S ood average bag, and furnish a snccu
dish of those slender hind legs, de
iicately fried ia batter, that find such
favor with Paris gourmets. i
The census office says that the total
of the United States will
over 40,000,000.
From Washington.
Four Ter Cent Eefunding Certificates—-No In'
terest to he Allowed—The Cost of Holding Of
fic-*Public Debt Reduction.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]
SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS SMALL SAV¬
INGS.
Washington, August 2 —There is
considerable dissatisfaction in financial
quarters at the recent announcement
by the Treasury Department that it
will not allow interest to be included
in the conversion of the four percent,
refunding certificates into four per
cent, bonds. At the time these certi¬
ficates were issued, one of the induce¬
ments offered to the people to take
them was that the interest, as well as
the principal might be converted, and
the certificate itself, as well as the law
under which they are issued, reads that
the principal and interest may be con¬
verted into four per cent, bonds. The
action of the department now in refus¬
ing to include interest in the conversion
is looked upon as both arbitrary and
contrary to law. The assigned reason
for not including the interest is that it
would be very inconvenient, and give
the Treasury Department accountants
no end of trouble. There are only $1,-
700,000 of these certificates outstand¬
ing, and it is belioved that most of
them are held in small amounts. I f
any capitalist held any amount and
was disposed to take issue with the
Treasury Department on its recent or¬
der the opinion is entertained that the
latter would promptly back down from
its position and conform to the law,
but unfortunately the people who have
invested their small savings in these
certificates are not able to raise any
issue, and for this reason will have to
submit.
passing ARouiiD THE hat
During the past week the thumb
screw has been applied to the clerks
in many of the departments in the in
tereat of the Republican result Congressional
Committee, and the has been that
a good many thousands of dollars have
been drawn out of the clerks. In one
bureau of the Treasury alone the sixth
auditor s office over $5,o00 were ob
-“'•ned for the committee by passing
thaolerk’s; arorttid a subscription knowing book wink and that giving they
a
had better come dewn with their two
per cent. As there are twenty-two
bureaus in the Treasury Department,
some estimate may be formed from the
above as to how much money the Re¬
publican Committee will be likely to
obtain from one department.
RfimiCtNG THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The large reduction in the public
debt during the month of July was a
great inrnrise to Secretary Sherman,
althou -h ibat gentleman had expected
for some days back considerable re¬
duction. It was piedicted at the
department to-day that the reduc¬
tion during the present month will
be double that of last month, owing to
the probable large falliug off of requi¬
on the treasury from the several
executive departments.
Did Not Want Him. —A colored
Adonis in Virginia City is ia love with
bucksome German woman who
keeps a saloon in the northern part of
town, and has been using every art
and rule laid down in ‘‘Self-Helps to
Courtship” to induce her to reciprocate
his affection. But she is obdurate and
refuses to receive his attentions, and he
is therefore bowed down w’ith woe. On
Monday night he determined to resort
to desperate means to arouse pity in
the fair one’s breast, and posting him
sell in a vacant lot adjoining her resi
dence, awaited her appearance at the
window. The Teutonic beauty soon
appeared and the colored Romeo raised
his pistol, fired, and dropped heavily to
the ground. ‘‘Mein Gott! That fool
haf shot himself,’’ screamed the object
of his affections, and a crowd soon
gathered at the spot. They caught
hold of the inanimate form and drag¬
ged it over the oyster cans, bricks and
resuscitating debris toward the bouse.
“Don’t pring dot thing in here. Take
him to the oondertaker," screamed the
hard-hearted one, whereupon the dis¬
gusted remains got up and lied, leaving
an astonished crowd.
Debts. —The fact has been ciphered
oat. that the world owes about $20,
000,000,000. The European nations
most heavily loaded with debt in 188Q
had no debt of any consequence in
1S00- The astonishing feature of this
business is; that the pow
er to increase debt seems in proportion
to the debt incurred. France owes!
some 14,7^,000,000, the annual
terest on which is $203,000,000; yet, ;
France could add another thousand ]
million to its debt now more easily than
it could have borrowed the amount of
its present interest when it had no in- :
terest to pay. England " 1 ' owes $4,000,
000,000, an j if a threat of war should ,
occasion a demand for a few hundred
millions more the value < tb p
would not be materially
Good Looking Presidents.
The Boston Iraveller, apropos of the
silly season, prints some readable pad¬
ding in regard to the personal appear¬
ance of the various Presidents of the
United States, premising that no one
was ever elected President because of
his good looks. It quotes the Quincys
to prove that Washington was not near
so handsome as Gilbert Stuart’s por¬
trait makes him ; that he was neither
graceful nor elegant, but as Josiah
Quincy said, "He remained one of the
gentlomeu who used to come to Boston
in those days to attend the Franklin General
Court from Hampden or the
county, in the western part of State.
He had the air of a country gentleman
not accustomed to mix much in society,
perfectly polite, but Dot easy in his
address and conversation, and not
graceful in his gait and movements.”
John Adams was short, stoat, burgher¬
like, w ; th a bland forehead and a
twinkling eye. Jefferson was very tall,
very thin, very fair, very flexible in h : s
spine. Madison was small, grave, care¬
worn, with a calm expression and pen¬
etrating blue eyes. His head was bald
his stomach protuberant, aud he had
spindle shanks. Monroe was not im¬
posing, while John Quincy Adams,
though small, was a picture of concen¬
trated studiousuess and resolution.
Jackson was wan and thin, but erect,
and a superb figure on horseback. He
rode like a centaur. Van Buren’s bland
countenance was improved by bis bald¬
ness, and his dapper figure recalled
Tom Moore, the poet. Harrison had
the reputation ot having been hand- -
some once—be had outgrown it when
he became President. Tyler was hand'
some, but Polk was small, dark and
plain in every way. Gen. Taylor had
the face and hand of a farmer used to
guide his own plow. The handsomest
0 f our Presidents, according to the
Iraveller, was Millard Fillmore, a most
striking specimen of masculine beauty,
Abraham Lincoln, by common consent,
wa8 the ugliest. Grant is a plain,
short man, stout and florid, with heavy
jaws, and Mr. Hayes looks like a clever
jy well-to-do country storekeeper, who
j 8 deacon—in-his church and fond of
jr 0 od dinners. Garfield and Hancock
are both men of striking and command
j Dg appearance,
Even Drunken Wives Entitled to
Support.
Mr. James Smith was before Judge
Briggs, of Philadelphia, in the Sessions,
on Saturday, on a suit to compel him
to support his wife. She has long
been an habitual drunkard, aud some
time ago her husband 89nt her to the
House of Correction, hoping to effect
her reformation. She only drank the
harder after her release, and her hue
band threw her off entirely and she
became a charge on the county. He
refused to obey an order upon him for
her maintenance, and Judge Briggs,
deciding his plea, said:
‘‘There is no ground that will war¬
rant a husband in not defraying the
of a pauper wife, unless her
is such as would entitle him
a divorce. Drunkenness is not. with¬
in the enumerated specifications for a
Notwithstanding that your
is an incurable inebiide, you will
to support her. Drunkenness is
insanity or any other of the phases
inability to perform the marital con-;
short of ilie specification referred}
and as between the taxpayer audi
husband, the law says that the wife
be maintained by the husband.
took her for better or for worse,and
have no right to discharge her and
throw her upon the county for worse.
will have to support Ler until the I
Legislature intervenes by changing the
law, or until you petition that body for
a divorce on the ground named."
Under this decision the respondent
had to pay up all arrearages before he
could depart.
Be Wise and Happy.
If you will stop all your extravagant
and wrong notions in doctoring your
self and families with expensive doctors
or humbug cure-alls, that do harm al¬
ways, and use only nature’s simple
remedies for all your ailments—you
will be wise, well and happy, and save
great expense. The greatest remedy
^is, the great, wise and goodwill
teii y° u > is Hop Bitters rely on it. bee
another co.umn.
A dispatch from Madrid says the
total loss of life by the earthquakes at
Manila, is estimated at o20 including
Chinamen. Almost every family
is houseless.
A deceiving oid Philadelphian, who
had been m jail for several days, aa
tomshed his uruily upon his return by
that he had .. been ......“ attending a
meeting '
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Uciwed States internal revenue
for the fiscal year ended June
?I23,9o3,134.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Business Cards*
JAS. McGINLEY,
CAEPBNTEE,
YORK STREET, second door east of Bull.
furnished Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates
when desired. .leU-(>m
BEEF, VEAL AND LAMB.
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JOS. H. BAKER,
BUTCHER,
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
A LL market other meats rates. In Orders their season promptly at lowest filled
and delivered. Will victual ships throughout.
Give him a trial. ocJI-tf
ANDERSON STREET MARKET
AND ICE house,
J • Produce. F. kinds PHILLIPS, of Meats, Butcher, Fish, Poultry and dealer and In Mar¬ al
ket 4tS- Families supplied at tlieir
residences, and dispatch. ail orders executed with
promptness and Satisfaction guar
anieed. ap6 6m
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C. A. CORTINO,
Bair Gaiiiu, Bair Drew, Carlins and
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
1601 'A Bryan street, epposit# the Market, nn
der Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger
man. and English spokon. selS-tf
W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Llppman’s Drug Store,)
lanlStf SAVANNAH. GA
Plum&ing and Gas Pitting*
~CHAS. E. VVAKEFIELD,
Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting,
No. 48 BARNARD STREET, one door north
ol South Broad treet.
Bath Tuba. Water Closet*, Boilers, Ranges,
JoDDing Promptly attended to.
ebll Also, Agent Of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR,
McELLINN & Me FALL,
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
Na. 46 Whitaker street, corner York el. Lane
N.B. Houses fitted with gas aud water at
short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to
and all work guaranteed, at low prkrtM.
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W. H. COSGROVE,
East aide of Bull street, one door from York,
"Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter,
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
49* Prices to suit the times. mh7tf
Paints, Oils and Glass*
John a bYtler^
Wholesale and Retail Dealer lu
WHITE LEADS COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH, ETC.
Mill Ready Mixed Paints, Railroad. Steamer and
Calcined Supplies. Plaster, Sole Agent for Hair Georgia Lime
Plaster, Cements, aud Land
No. 22 Drayton street,
janlGtf •■SAVANNAH. GA.
ANDREW HANLEY,
—Dealer in—
Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Mouldings
Lime, Plaster, Hair and Cement, .
STEAMBOAT,
RdilPOCUl flflil Mill Supplies,
paints, on. -*, varnishes, glass, &q.
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PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, &c •»
DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, MOULDING
Balusters, Blind Trimminas,
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