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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
LT1RID FLANIFs IN IUBEE.

side of Water street in the town of Lubee
was swept by fire, which broke out at 2
O'Clock this morning and was still burn
ing at o'clock. Eight wharves, 1 store,
IA smoke houses filed with herring, 3 YES
sells, canning factories, dwelling and
boats had been burned UP to that hour.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02

Mapleson's contract with Patti TOR her
Drury Lane season, in London, limits her
fee to 9450 nightly. Nilsson's fee is lin
tied to $3.50 nightly. These are about one
half the figures exacted by the same ar
tists On this side Of the Atlantic.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02

T y All All FORD, CONN, Nov. 1.-Gen. B.
It-.l II. . lJler arrived here at 5 o'clock from
y aeIt=flury, and made an address in the
ti-t t1lA under the auspices Of the local labor
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
ButIer Goe. Home

.,NEW YORK, NOY. 1.-Gen. Butler con-
.,-s.Q ~i,-sleQ MS canvass at POughkeepsie last
49, -,5l., returned to New York, and will de-
Part Tor bis home at once.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A sult Of Ten or Twelve Years stand
ing Compromised for $1,000 AFTER lt
Had Cost Henry County S2,OOO-A
Lecture on Economy from hariy
County
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
FURY OF THE FLAMES.
White Lead Works Laid in Ruins in an
Hour in Pennsylvania.

Hour in Pennsylvania.
PITTsBURG, Nov. 1.-Early this morn
ing the National White Lead Works of
f. w. Geerdes & Co., located in Willow
Grove, three miles from this city, ON the
West Pennsylvania Road, caught fire, and
in less than an hour the extensive works
were in ruins. The loss is $4,000. The
property was amply insured.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02
"TO THE wINDwARD."

with ''to the windward" on it. The bar
section numbered nearly 1000, and came
in for its share of admiration and ap-
plause. The insurance men brought up
the rear of the procession at 7:45 O'Clock.
The enthusiasm displayed during the en-
tire parade, and all along its line was eX-
traordinary. When Gov. Cleveland went
from the grand stand to bis hotel the
crowd raised another shout that lasted
several minutes. The Governor had great
trouble in getting across the street, so
dense was the crowd. A dozen police
men had all they could do TO make room
for him. A careful estimate OF the num-
hon. of rnn., in line is D nAA
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-02

years. properly Dy nre. UnIy Two "a snru5
bv A." go ne lost his dwelling and its contents
hr----' 4t was the result Of a shark from a
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Woman Not Superior to Dress.
rChicapo Herald,

In an interview with Nine. Modjeska last
summer that charming lady said: 81 am not
one of those women who considers herself su-
perior to dress / was never satisfied
with the allowance Of personal attractions
that Mother Nature gave me, but she law
ishes her gifts so begrudgingly that l find
am not alone in my misery. l think all
women handsome when they have youth and
rosy health, but at 40 they are one in physical
destitution-either they become corpulent or
shriveled in form, sallowness and wrinkles
mar the smooth, fresh face, and between the
hair, eyes, teeth and buoyancy of spirit there
seems to be Il dead race to see which can lose
its identity first. :"
She went on to say that the woman who
supposed men to be Indifferent to her per-
sonal appearance was guilty Of a very grave
error in judgment. It is her experience that
a man likes to see his mother or sister be-
comingly dressed, and is proud of the good
appearance made by the woman who Is to be
his life partner But let her lose his admira-
ton of her pretty dress, faultless lingerie,
and neat boots and gloves, and her chances
for retaining his affections are questionable.
A homely woman who knows how to dress is
far more attractive than a pretty one in
slovenly attire or dressed in unsuitable, ILL
fitting garments. For becoming hat, q
quiet suit, made well and accurately fitted to
the figure, win do marvels In the way of
sheitering physical defects. And for woman
of native delicscy Of mind it is sheer mad
ness to neglect her dress, which becomes a
kind Of personal glossary. Costly. the ma
jority of women cannot dress, nor Is ex-
travagance at all necessary to make favor
able impressions, but gaudy, sensational
patterns may be avoided, tawdry decoration
ignored, and a correct fit and appropriate de
sign attained
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Cure for Corpulency.

Jennie June.
A desire to know how much of quackery
there might be in the treatment and some
thing of the modus operandi prompted a call
upon the physician in question: / found a
bright, intelligent woman. who would not
impress any one as quack. Her success she
attributed to the fact that she had satisfied
herself that super1uous flesh was disease;
had studied 1t, and worked out cure for it,
a cure which she claims to be permanent and
lasts life time In regard to the treatment
she was naturally somewhat reticent, partic-
ularly as it varies with difference In constitu-
tion and habits, and what is true of one case,
therefore, might not be true of another. OF
forty cases upon her books no two were treat
ed exactly alike, but she exhibited her books,
in which was kept careful record of the reduc-
ton of weight which had followed the treat
ment from week to week, and of the final re-
turn to normal conditions
1t was freely stated, however, that the prin-
ciple of cure was largely based upon diet,
which was at first nitrogenous but variable,
afterward farinaceous and absolute. The
liver is attacked and brought into line by a
safe and special remedy; hot water is used;
hot medicated foot-baths, and the number OF
meals at once reduced. It is found that very
feshy people are usually fond Of sugar and
sweets, and these are tabooed strictly The
reduction of flesh is to the normal standard,
to what would be considered the proper
weight for the height of the individual, but
the cure is not considered complete when this
result is attained.
The diet must be prolonged for cure, and
when this effected the appetite for un-
wholesome sweets and pastries, and highly
stimulating viands has departed. 1t is per
fectly natural cure, it is said, and one quite
in harmony with the laws OF the constitution
of the patients and, if SO, it is not difficult to
see how widely it must differ from the ordin-
ary system of medical practice.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
A Thrilling Ride fora jug OF Liquor


One night Carolina judge had been out |:
very late and on his return, after stabling
his horse, he kept vigil even later with some
sympathetic friends. On rising in the morn.
ing and descending to the breakfast room, his
throat very dry, what was his surprise to find
the demijohn that stood on the table in .
similar arid condition.
ssSambo.m
ssY-yes, sah.1
take this jock-saddle the mare, and ride
downto the Corners and get it filed as quickly
as you know how. Do you hearn
"Y-yes, sah.n
His order given, and the slow and stutter.
ing Sambo from the room, the thirsty son o.
Bacchus and Minerva sat himself down.
watch in hand, to await the committing OF
his commission. 1.-TWO minutes he muir
INJURED, brokenly, gasping as chickens do
when their porridge is too dry--ssthe mare Is
bridled- Sambo is on her back.
Now he is down the path, out the gate on the
highway. Good old Bessyi How she fies.
alongl Now they are by the willow tree. Now
they are crossing the brook--now- and now
the two miles are finished and they are at
the store. Two minutes for the boy to finish
waiting ON the customers already tbere-two
minutes to draw the--f0r Sambo and It is on
its way. Here it comes Over the brook and
by the tree-along the road-along the lane
through the gate-up the path--and here il
is with Samboln
81 say, m-massa, c-can't find that ere bri.
die anywhal Why, h-h-here Il is, nlassa, be-
hind your chairl Guess you must hs' bringed
it in last nightln
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16

fers it in that wayq' she asked herself, and
she did not get very definite reply; but
when she turned, as every wife should, to the
acknowledged head Of the house, she was at
once enlightened. OF course the child would
prefer the sweets first, and bis appetite for
the more nourishing and substantial part OF
the meal would be diminished. This Il thu
reason why even cookie little while be
fore dinner is net conducive to health. After
more thought the mother arrived at the con
clusion that the pretty theory must be given
up. and she instituted rule that never be-
tween meals should one Of the children have
anything, unless he or she were hungry
enough to demand bread and butter without
sugar.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
children at the Dinner Table.
rSt Paul Pioneer Press

Robert Collyer once, when lecturing to a
country audience, eontrasted the strictness Of
the old days and the laxty Of the present
time, and, while commencing the latter,
made this remark: sLet the children begin
at which end of the dinner they please A
young mother, who hung on his words Of
wisdom, treasured this particular saying, and
a few days after proceeded to put it In prac-
tice. but somehow it did not seem so sensible
at midday, and she was herself reminded of
Mr.. Browning's line that ''colors seen by
candle-ight are not the same by day" but
with the mild persistence of her sex, she
would not abandon the stand she hal taken
without good deal Of argument.
Where Is the harm in giving the chiid his
piece Of pie or dish OF pudding first II he pre-
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Ellen Terry.

1t is never possible to decide whether Ellen
Terry is beautiful or whether she is a great
artist and there is a sort of intangibility
about her which eludes fixed laws and iron
clad opinions. You only know that you
would not have her anything else but what
she is, and that whatever she does is
right. It is the same about her acting. You
are carried away by her Portia. Its winning
charm, its gracious dignity, its sweet per-
suasiveness, its one little scene where she re-
ceives Bassanio's friends, is lesson to any
lady in exquisite manners and worth volumes
of twaddle about etiquette. Yet you know
half dozen little American actresses who
could 'srise superior in declaiming Portals
famous lines in regard to the quality of mercy.
Her dress is as elusive as her appearance.
Worth would never be able to do any
thing with her. She is very tall, yet does not
appear SO. She has the Oriental feeling for
color; her dress always seems to have grown
upon her, never to have been made. cut
twisted or tortured by any ordinary dress
maker. Could any one who saw her ever for
get her appearance as Gamma in the temple
of Artemis--the slow expansion of the gray,
mist-like veil that enveloped her with every
motion of her arm? Nor did I thank the
friend who told me that this weird impress
tissue to the bracelet upon her wrist like
to be strongly impressed myself. and do not
care to know much in regard to the mechan-
ism of the means. that produce the result
Certainly Miss Ellen Terry is alone in her at
mospheric relation to the dramatic world /;
she is as much herself as Mr.. Irving is him.
self, and if she has not genius, one would say
it is because she is genius herself.
Women In the Long Ago.
In the essay on Women in the Fourteenth
Century, we read some things which, in
view of the omission of the word ''obey" re-
Gently from the marriage service of the Meth
odist church, may be read with interest
Speaking of 'Book for Women by one
Geoffrey de La Tour Landry in the early
period referred to, Prof Wheeler says:
Wifely obedience is pushed to extreme (in
the book. Three merchants laid wager
that each had the most dutiful wife, The
test should be sleping' into basin of water.
Then they went to their homes, one after an
other. The first wife refused to leap, and
her husband up with his fust, and gave her
two or three graf strokes in the presence of
the other merchants. The second wife also
refused, and her lord beat her with staff.
The third lady misunderstood an order to
bring salt for command to leap upon the
table where they were all feasting, and, be-
ing better bred than the other wives, obeyed
the order as she understood it, ,leaped upon
the table, and brought it down with a crash.
| The wager was declared won, without appeal
| to the basin experiment. "And SO ought
every good woman do the commandment OF
her husband, be it evil or well, for yef he
bidde her thing that she ought not to do it Is
| his shame.n
Good doctrine for those times; but how
are the mighty husbands, fallen.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
An Eastern shore Anecaote.

The negro invariably addressed each pei
SON they met as +" Captain and asked him:
Is dis de right road to DentonF' and was
always informed In reply that it was. When
the place Of their destination was reached the
old lady asked the negro why he addressed
everybody as g captain, when he made the
following intelligent and appropriate reply
" Cause the land is so poor hereabouts,
thought they could not make Evin' widout
dey followed de water
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
The s.Sweefest" New Hat.
TParis Notes.

The newest and sweetest thing in hats is
decidedly the Marie Antoinette, copied from
q picture In the Louvre of that unfortu-
nate queen. The full soft crown and broad
slightly curving brim are in rife-grsen vel
vet Around the crown is torsade of palest
pink silk crepe, on the left side a large
pacache of pale pink and coral feathers, with
high aigrette. Given pretty face beneath
this elegant hat. and broken hearts viii be
numberless!
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Importing skuIls.

ITOpuIHT bcleHcs NEWS
The thrifty German mind is equal to emer.
gencies A half dozen human skulls wera
lately bought in London for the cabinet Of
anatomy at Heidelberg. As old bones, these
would be admitted into Germany free from
duty; and the custom-house officials there.
fore taxed them as ''worn effects.n
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
A Mothers Kiss.
TPost-Disr,afch I


There is first the infant kiss The tiny lips
and little, passionless face is nodded into
smiles by kiss-the first lesson in the lam
guage of life-and as 1t rests in the arms that
are made of tenderness, and pillowed on
mothers bosom, who shall fathom tie deep,
earnest love and proud hope of mothers
kissl And when, too pure for earth, the lit
tie spirit wings its way to the somewhere un-
known land, does it not seem as if her very
life would go out with the last sad kiss to the
pulseless clay? Should the infant be spared to
be her stay in the decline of life mothers last
kiss" will be spell to keep the schoo1-boy in
the right path when other home influences
are forgotten or fed. And in later years
mothers last kiss may prove the salvation
Of many man whose lips have long been
sullied and defiled by impurity. Though its
influence may slumber, it can never be eff
faced, and through good or i'll the memory of
that kiss viii continue until he sleeps to wake
no more
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16

slow and some are quick It is not the smart
est child that makes the smartest man or
woman. It is powerful strain ON some OF
'en to keep up, and the dull ones oughtn't to be
crowded until they hate books and dread the
time of going TO school Some folks send
their children to school to get rid Of 'em, but
my opinion Is the parents ought to help the
teacher every night. It shows the children
how much interest they feel in their educa-
ton. 1t Is sign Of good teacher when the
children get ambitious to keep up and get
head marks, and bring their books home at
night and want to go to school If it Is raining
little Wrap 'em up and let 'em go.
There is nothing that demoralizes a school
boy like staying at home every few days and
getting behind the class. We used to walk
three miles to school, and we never minded
it at all. It was a frolic all the way there
and all the way back and we did have the
best dinner in the world. Delmonico never
haa as good things as our mother used to fix
upfor us 1t seems to me 60 now. A child's
life is full of romance and fun-the best sort
Of fun. A child's dreams are splendid, but
we don't dream now, hardly ever. used to
read Robinson Crusoe and dream it all over
again. How did long to be ship wrecked
on an island and raise monkeys and goats
and parrots.
Slow children are generally sure children,
but they don't show off much. Daniel Web
ster was most always foot in his class, but
when he learned anything he never forgot
it. Some boys are wild and restless and have
no love for books, but they oughtn't to be
given up or hacked or abused continually.
If they have good parents they will come 10
themselves after awhile.
It is astonishing how humiliation will fol-
low boy. One time boy stole quarter OF
dollar from another boy at school, and that
followed him to his grave He got to be
great man and was thirty years in congress
and was senator, and one day when ne
made a bitter speech against the corruption
of the opposite party and denounced their
stealing and plundering by wholesale, one OF
his opponents replied by saying he would re-
mind the gentleman that preachers of moral
1 ity should come into the pulpit with clean
hands-that Ben Franklin said, He that
would steal pin would steal bigger thing, :
and he asked no quarter from the gentleman
on that score.
| So, boys remember and keep your hands
! clean Folks will forgive mischief and
heap of other things, but they won't forgive
! meanness.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16

"Sever give way in trifes, cause
there's no tellin' how soon you might
be called on t give way in matters o.
importance
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Woman's Work Among the Sick.
IOliver Wendell Holmes.1

Little things mean great deal III the SICK
room. viii you have an orange or hg!
said DR.. James Jackson to fine little boy
now grown up to goodly stature, and whom
may be fortunate enough to recognize among
my audience of to-day. "A fg,' answered
Master Theodore with alacrity. No fever
therer said the good doctor, or he would
certainly have said an orange"
| Now, it is in just these little unimportant,
allimportant matters that good nurse is OF
incalculable aid to the physician. And the
growing conviction of the Importance of
thorough training of young women as nurses
is one of the most hopeful signs OF medical
advancement So much has been done and
isedoing that the days of the Sairy Camps
and Betsy Priggs are numbered. What is
there in tie hour of anguish like the gentle
presence, the quiet voice, the thoroughly
trained and skillful hand of the woman who
was meant by nature and has been taught by
careful discipline to render those services
which money tries to reward, but only graf
itude can repay? l have always felt that
this was rather the vocation of women than
general medical and especially surgical,
practice.
have often wished that disease could be
hunted by its professional antagonists In
couples-a doctor and q doctors quick
witted wife making joint visit and attack
ing the patient-I mean the patients malady,
of course-with their united capacities For
| am quite sure that there is a natural clair
voyance in a woman which would make hel
as much the superior Of man in some particu
lars of diagnosis as she certainly is In distin
gushing shades of color. Many suicide
would have been prevented If the doctor's
wife had visited the victim the day before il
happened. She would have seen in the mer
chants face his impending bankruptcy while
her stupid husband was prescribing for dys
pepsia and. indorsing his note; she would
| recognize the lovelorn maiden by an ill-ad
iusted ribbon-a line in the features-a droeE
| in the attitude, tone in the voice-whicf
means nothing to him, and SO the brook mus'
he dragged Tomorrow
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
Be Mighty Patient with Children.
rRiIl Arm

Parents and teachers ought to be mighty pa
tient with children. Some have mora ca
pacity and some more memory. Some are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-14
PERSONAL.

Professor r. X. Raymond will deliver course Of
readings from Shakespeare on April 30 and May 2,
at Lasell Seminary. The works selected are The
Merchant of Venice Much Ado About NOthIng,n
and 4" A Midsummer Nights Dream
Lord Randolph ChurchiIrs great Teat-great-
grandmother. Elizabeth, Duchess of Marlborough.
was niece of Robert Trevor, ViscOunt HamDden,
who was a grandson of Ruth, Lady Trevor, daugh-
ter of the famous patriot John Hampden, slain in
Ch2lgrOye held.'
The late Sinor Sella was not afraid 70 speak
plainly even to his King In 500 he told Victor
Emmanuel that a radical reform was needed in the
civil list. whereupOn the King replied angrilyi
Perhaps. then. ought to take tutorp Real
ly," retOTted Sella, unhestatingly, your Majesty
might need OneW
Dr. DudgeOn the famous homeopathic physician
of London recalls the fdct-apropos Of Kochs in'
vestigations into the nature of the cholera GERM
that IIahnemann in 1881 suggested that the con-
tagious matter of cholera consisted of excessively
minute invisible living creatures" and accordingly
advised the free use of camphOr, which he held to
be potent cholera bacIlllcde-to the efficacy OF
which treatment. adds DIR. DudgeOn, the statistics
of every epidemic in Europe testify.
Bismarck one evening attended a gathering Of
prominent men at the house of Russian nObleman.
During all the conversation he was particularly
sarcastic, cutting friends and opponents unsparng-
ly. When he to take his leave, and walked
down stairs the host called pet dog that was
frisking about and led him to side. - Are you
afraid the dog will bite meT asked Bismarck.
"Oh, no." replied the host; Pm afraid you'll bltd
the dog And the Chancellor was in such grim
mood that he took this as compliment aud wene
away smiling,