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centered in this mockery of war. A few
days later, by regrettable accident, q man
was killed; it was felt at once the thing had
gone too far, and the quarrel was instantly
patched up. But the more serious wars were
prosecuted in similar spirit; gift of pigs
and feast made their inevitable end; the
killing of single man was a great victory,
and the murder of defenceless solitaries
counted heroic deed.
The foot Of the cliffs, about all these
islands, is the place Of fishing. Between
Taahauku and Atuona we saw men, but
chiefly women, some nearly naked, some in
thin white or crimson dresses, perched in
little surf-beat promontories-the brown
precipice overhanging them, and the convol-
vulus overhanging that, as if to cut them off
the more completely from assistance. There
they would angle much OF the morning, and
as fast as they caught any fish, eat them, raw
and living, where they stood.
1t was such helpless ones that the war
riors from the opposite island Of Tauata
slew, and carried home and ate, and were
thereupon accounted mighty men of valor.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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mans land, 1t was the more readily ceded
to stranger. The stranger was Captain
John Hart-Ima Haiti, "broken arm" the
natives called him, because when he first
visited the island his arm was in a sling.
Captain Hart, q man of English birth but
an American subject, had conceived the
idea OF cotton culture in the Marquesas dur
ing the American war, and was at first re-
warded with success. His plantation at
Anaho was highly productive; island cotton
fetched high price, and the natives used
to debate which was the stronger power, lima
Hiatt, or the French; deciding in favor of
the Captain, because, though the French
had the most ships, he had the more money.
He marked Taahauku for q suitable site.
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drew. and victory. on some occul. principle.
vss seored to Moipu


Perhaps, in consequence, there came
day whem Moiqu made feast, and a party
Haamau came under safe conduct to eat of
it. These passed early by Taahauku, and
some of Moipu's young men were there to
be guard of honor. They were not long
gone before there came down from Haamau
a man, his wife and girl of u, their
daughter. bringing fungus Several Atuona
lads were hanging round the store, but the
day being one of truce, none apprebended
danger. The fungus was weighed and paid
for; the man of Baamau proposed he should
have bis az ground in the bargain and Mr..
Stewart demurring at the trouble, some of
the Atuona lads offered to grind it for him,
and set it on the wheel.
While the ak was grinding, friendly
native whispered Mr., Stewart to have a care
of himself, for there was trouble in hand;
and, all at once, the man of Haamau was
seized, and his head and arm stricken from
his body, the head at one sweep of his own
newly sharpened AZ. In the first alert, the
girl escspsd among the cotton; and Mr..
Stewart, having thrust the wife into the
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periencedi here is convenient beach, deep
soil, good water, and yet nowhere any pae-
paes, nowhere any trace of island habita-
tion.
1t is but few years since this valley was
q place choked with jungle, the debatab1e
land and battle ground of cannibals. Two
clans laid claim to it-neither could sub
stantiate the claim; and the roads Law
desert, or were only visited by men in arms.
It Became No Mans Land,
II is for this very reason that 1t wears now
20 smiling an appearancej cleared, planted,
built upon, supplied with railways, boat
hsuass and bath houses. For, being no
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acquired it, and offered the superintendence
to Mr.. Robert Stewart, Fifeshire man, al
ready some time in the islands, who had just
been ruined by a war on Tauata. Mr.. Stew
art was somewhat adverse to the adventure,
having some acquaintance with Atuona and
its notorious cbieGtain, Moipu.
Initiated in the Horrors of Csnnibslism.
He bad once landed there, be told me,
about dusk, and found the remains of a man
and woman partly eaten. On his starting
and sickening at the sight, one of Moipu's
young men picked up a human foot, and
provocatively staring at the stranger,
grinned and nibbled at the heel. None need
be surprised if Mr.. Stewart fed inconti-
nently to the bush, lay there all night in
great horror of mind, and got off to sea
again by daylight on the morrow.
"It was always a bad place, Atuona."
commented Mr.. Stewart, in his homely
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house and locked her.in from the outside,
supposed the affair was over. But the busi-
ness had not passed without noise, and it
reached the ears of an older girl who had
loitered by the way, and who now came
hastily down the valley, crying as she came
for her father. Her. too, they seized and be-
headed; know not what they had done
with the ak, it was blunt knife that served
their butcherly turn upon the girl; and the
blood spurted in fountains and painted them
from head to foot.
Took Refuge With the Missionaries.
Thus horrible from crime, the party re-
turned to Atuona, carrying the heads to
Moipu. 1t may be fancied how the feast
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NYE ON AIR SHIPS.
An Annual Pass From the Penning-
ton Company Starts His Thinker.
FLYING MACHINES OF THE PAST.
The Fall of Man Seems to Be About as
Severe Now as Ever Before.
MEANS OF INITIATING STOCKHOLDERS
rwsrrTEN FOB TIE p1sPArcH.l

II e Pennington
Air Ship Company,
of Chicago, will
please q Q e p t
thanks for annual
pass over its lines,
good for self and
family, Tor one
year. had wanted
one very severely,
but I had feared
that the company
might not feel that
I was eminent
enough to be placed
on the eleemosyn-
ary list.
The conditions on
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methods of propulsion, and artificial flying
becomes extremely difficult.
For Working the Stockholders.

In the middle of the present century bill
was introduced into the House of Comm ons
by Mr.. Roeouck to incorporate a company
for the purpose of working gigantic flying
machine, also the stockholders.
ut comprised horizontal plane made OF
wire and hollow wooden bars, arranged on
the principle of trussed girder and covered
with silk,
presume the motto of the company was
the same as that on the silver dollar-"1n
God We Trussed"
This plane was furnished with propeller
driven by steam engine. A tail capable
of being brought to any desired angle-ac-
cording to whether the owner felt elated or
depressed, I presume-was arranged $50
that when the power acts to propel the
machine by inclining the tail upward the
resistance offered by the air will cause the
machine to rise, and when the tail is re-
versed the machine is propelled downward
and passes through plane more or less in
clined to the horizon, as the inclination of
the tail is greater or less"
The Tail Inclined Downward.
The inclination of the tail, however, was
intensely downward-an inclination in
which the stockholders shared. The ma
chine was designed for carrying freight, pas
sengers and mail, but so far most all ship
pers are sending merchandise and mail by
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a DUCHESS IN UNIFORM.

How 'Yictoria's Third Daughter-in-Law
Looks in Her Soldier Clothes.
This is the way the Duchess Of Connaught,
Queen Victoria's third daughter-in-law,
looked the other day when she donned her
Uniform as Chief Of the Eighth Branden-
burg Regiment of Infantry. She was the
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Ealing Of Church Peopls.

Boston Traveller.l
An old churchgoer remarked the other
day: "There are some people who go to
church and clasp their hands SO tight in
prayer that they can't get them apart when
the contribution box comes around"
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Wild Western Justice.

Milwaukee Sentinel.1
Western Judge-Did you give your enemy
a trial before jury of his peers?
Justice of the Peace-Yes, sir-before g
iury of his enemies
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waiting for him. But be never could get
over his sorrow and disappointment that he
could not rise from the stubble when flushed
by dog or shooed by one of his family. He
died ut the close OF the seventeenth century,
and on his tomb are carved, in French, the
lines:
Come. birdie. come,
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FANTASTIC TALE INTRODUCING HYPNOTIC rHEoR1Ea
BY F. MARION CRAWFORD,

author of "Mr Iaac Dr Cs0u1iU 81 Roman Singer" and
Many Other Stories Taken
Standard Literature
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In this young wood of Taahauku all these
hues and combinations were exampled and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
CRAWFORD FOR CALL.

He Refuses to Aff1x the Seal to
Davidson's Commission.
PENSACOLA, FLA, Sept 26.-The Pensa-
cola Ddiiy Nel1S will publish tomorrow
morninga special from Tallahassee giving
another complication in the senatorial situa..
tion. Secretary of State Crawford refuses
TO attest the commission Of ex-Congressman
Davidson, who was appointed by Coy.
Fleming to succeed Senator Call. Secretary
Crawford is an old-line WING and says the
great seal of the state, of which he is the
custodian shall never adorn any certificate
for Senator Calls successor without it is
Senator Call himself. The Florida supreme
court will convene Oct. Is. The
governor will apply for man.
danus compelling compliance with the
constitutional requirement providing
that the secretary of state shall attest all
commissions issued by the executive Many
people in Tallahassee believes that Secre-
tary Crawford will 60 to Jail rather than
obey the mandate if issused by the supreme
court, and the anti-Call men seem confident
of forcing the secretary to attest Mr.. David
sons appointment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
SPECIAL NOTICES.
A CARD OF THANKS.

Mr.. EDIToR-Please elbow me a little space In
your valuable paper in which to earnestly
thank the brave chief, bis assistant and the
heroic flremen who work under his command.
All honor and praise are due those men who.
at the sound of bell, rush madly on where re-
lentless duty calls them to face dangers which
makes the stoutest heart feel appalled, at the
scene to see men rushing here and there, plac-
ing ladders against walls that fairly tremble
with the weight of one human form, and with
fire raging, seething and roaring beneath them.
and volume upon volume OF smoke curling
heavenward and millions OF sparks flying in
every direction about them. | think there are
no drawer men on the face of the earth than
these men who leave their homes and little
ones and seem to forget every other earthly
care 10 their superhuman endeavor to save the
property OF the public that is intrusted to their
care and yield up their lives to their Maker, il
necessary, to the cause they are fighting The
people In this city may well feel secure in the
knowledge that they have as brave a set of fire
men as was ever commanded by fearless chief
10 protect the lives and property of a people in
the hour OF their greatest peril. 1 know every
one in the city feels regret at the loss OF the
magnificent building, that was the pride OF the
Bay-a building that was long months in being
erected TO its former stately grandeur, but re-
duced to wreck and ruin in one short. fleeting
hour. Now in the fullness Of my heart. wish to
thank the chief and his assistant and f1remen
for stemming the mad rush of the flames as in
my humble opinion, 1 thought the entire block
would be swept away. Respectfully,
JOHN SCHWARZ,
General Manager Savannah Steam Bakery
Company.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
SESSION OF THE HOUSE.

The Charge That Members offered
Their Votes for Sale Disproven.
ATLANTA. GA, Sept. 26.-The House had
an hours session to-day. The railroad
commissioners bill. introduced by Mr..
Harris of Catoosa, which was defeated yes
terday, was reconsidered to-day.
The committee to investigate the charges
that certain members offered their votes
for sale in the senatorial race submitted
their report after a thorough examina-
tion," it reads, "of all the witnesses,
we find no evidence that convicts
any members of the legislature of the charge
of selling or offering for sale their votes in
the senatorial election, or that casts any
suspicion upon the members. We ask that
800 copies of the evidence be printed for the
use of the House and Senate" That's all
there is of it.
Among the bills signed by the governor
to-day was that to reapportion the state into
congressional districts.
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GRORGIA's RRGIMEN Ts.

A Declaration That They Are in Viola
ton of the Constitution.
ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 26.-During the
third week of the encampment at Chicka-
manga the Ninth regiment was in camp
Trouble arose between the Clark Rifles and
the Conyers Volunteers. Capt. Owens OF
the Rifles preferred charges against Capt.
Weaver of the Guards, and Col. Jones re.
ferred the matter to the headquarters of
the military. He also ordered regimental
court-martial. Capt. Weaver was adjudged
guilty Of conduct unbecoming an
officer. An appeal was made from this
decision and Judge Advocate John s.
Candlor selected to pass upon it. He has
submitted his written opinion to the
governor, and in it he makes some state.
ments that are decidedly military sensa-
tions. He declares the court-martiel null
and void, that is was illegal aud that the
regjmental formation of military troops in
Georgia is in violation of the constitution
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
BRUNswICK's WIRE BUDGET.
A Woman Shot by Mantle Grave
Robbery Story

A Woman Shot by Mantle Grave
Robbery Story.
BRUNSWICK, GA. Sept. IS. Robert Nc
Allister and Kate Ash became involved in a
dispute near Buffalo swamps to-day, during
which Robert shot Kate twice, but escaped
arrest. Kate's recovery is doubtful
Bsunswick's cemetery mystery deepens
and Investigations fail to en-
tighten the subject, except to
confirm the special in yesterdays
paper by additional proof of the supposed
grave robbery as reported. John Green
field, a reliable white man, who lives the
nearest Of any one to the cemetery, SAYS,
positively, that two men, one white and the
other colored, drove to the gate Thursday
night, the negro bearing a pick and
shovel and returned with the
white man. carefully bearing
some burden which was placed at the bot-
tom of their vehicle and then driven off.
Others saw the parties, and it is a true tale
beyond doubt.
Joseph Branch, who murdered the mar
shall of Baxley and was captured last week
in Texas. was brought here tonight for
safe keeping.
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TRAVELLERS AND TIE TERMINAL
The Atlanta Branch Lying Low TO
Await Developments.

The Atlanta Branch Lying Low tc
] Await Developments
ATLANTA, GA, Sept 26-The Atlanta
branch of the Southern Travellers Associa-
ton Is holding off TO see what terms the
! Richmond Terminal will offer on their
| 5000 mile book scheme before taxing action
on the Georgia Southern and Florida boy
colt. At meeting held tonight letter
from President Townsend. urging the assocl-
alton to take decisive action, cOndemnlng
the boycott and sustaining the Georgia
Southern and Florida, was read just now
the travellers want their 5,OOO-mlie DOCKS
worse than anything else. The proposition
to issue such books at 2-cent rate is now
being considered by the Terminal company,
and an answer is to be given the association
at next Saturday nights meeting.
ALL DEPENDS ON THE ANSWER.
II the answer is favorable then the South
ern Travellers Association and the Rich
mond Terminal will be friends, but if it is
not then the travellers will take up the
Ratchet. They do not want to put them
selves in fighting attitude, however. before
the pending negotiations on the 5,OOO~mile
book are completed, and therefore Presi-
dent Townssnd's recommendations that the
body take decisive action sustaining the
Georgia Southern and Florida was laid on
the table to wait developments. 1t is un-
derstood that the associations course
will be to use its influence to have the mer-
chants Of Chattanooga, Rome, Atlanta,
Macon and other places order all their good 5
shipped over the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Macon and Birmingham, At
lanta and Florida, and Western and
Atlantic, these latter roads not taking part
in the boycott.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
TRIBUTE OF REsPECTs

Alta regular meeting of Myrtle Division No.
256. B. of L. T., held Sunday afternoon, Sept.
20, the following resolutions were adopted:
InaSmuch as it has pleased Almighty God to
remove from our midst our muchloved brother
T. r LENOIR; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Lenoir
the S, +. and w. railway has lost a highly re-
specLed and efficient engineer the Brother
hood an honored member. and his family a
devoted husband and father
Resolved further. That we tender our heart
felt sympathy to his bereaved wife and chill
dren, and direct them for consolation to Him
who has promised to be a husband TO the widow
and father TO the fatherless.
Resolved. That copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family, published in the SUNDAY
News and spread on page in our minute book.
and that our charter be draped in mourning for
a space of thirty days.
II. NJ URQUHART,
g. W. POLLARD,
NJ H. GRAY
CommItkae-
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FUNERAL INVITATIONS.

ASH.-The relatives and friends of Mr.. and
Mrs CHARLES ASA are invited to attend the
funeral services of the former frcm his late
residence 10 Habersham street. THIS AFTER
NOON, at 4 o'clock
YEOMANS.-The friends and acquaintance
Of JOHN H YEoMANs, and of David l.. and
Miller and of Mr.. aud Mrs Chisholm Brown and
family are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral of the former from the residence of
David L. Yeomans, No. 81 Waldburg street,
THIS Sunday MORNING at 10 o'clock.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 26 attorney Cen
eral Little filed a Dill in the superior court
to-day making the state Of Georgia party
to the depot injunction. Litigation is now
pending between the lessess of the state
road and the East Tennessee road over the
depot question. The case is set for hear
ing on Oct s.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
Fulton's Tax Rate.

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 26.-The county
commissioners Of Fulton county have
reduced the county rate of taxation. 1t was
done at meeting this morning and a great
deal OF good feeling is prevalent over it.
Heretofore the rate has been IS 4-10 on $780,
IL ia now 80 2-10. Ar estimated increase OF
of the reduction.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
A Roman Shot.

RoMK, GA. Sept. CIV. H. Davis was
shot this afternoon, the ball entering his left
side. The cause Of the shooting was a per-
sonal difficulty between Davis and a young
man, who Is q relative Of his. II Is not
known al this hour whether the wound will
prove fatal. Davis IL well known Ia Rome,
and his friends are hopeful that he viii re-
cover
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Married at charlottesvine. Va

CHARLoTTEsvILLE, VA ..iSept. 26-Miss
Julia Randolph, youngest daughter of W.
c. n. Randolph, rector of the University of
Virginia. and William Porterfield, cashier
of the First National Bank of Florence,
Ala, were married here this afternoon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
HOME PROTECTION LEAGUE.

An adjourned meeting of the defendants in
the MilIen eiectment suits will be held in Char es
F. Prendergast's office. 1O6 Bay street. on
MONDAY EVENING, the 2sth instant. at s
o'clock, to receive and act upon the report of
the Committee on Permanent Organization
Every defendant is urged to attend in person
or be represented by proxy.
CHARLES F. PRENDERGAST,
Chairman.
j. F. Brooks. Secretary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
AEETIN0s.

LIVE OAK LODGE NO. 3, 10 OF.
The members of this lodge are requested to
O'Clock, for the purpose of paying the last
tribute of respect to our deceased brother, P G.
G. B. ASH. Members of sister lodges are invited
to unite with U.s. By order OF
w. o. HAWLEY, N. G.
I HOusTON Secretarv
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
vERoUTEREN DIS CHARGED.
He Proves That BE is Not the Mu
derer Of Gilkenson.

derer of Gilkenson.
GAINESVILLE. FLA, Sept. 25.-The au-
thorities here have discharged A. W.
Verouteren, suspected of being the murderer
of Detective Gilkenson Of Pittsburg. Yer
outeren established mis- identity beyond a
doubt. He has resided near Ocala for over
a year past His resemblance to FItzsim-
mons. the real murderer, is very striking
and il is admitted by the suspected man
himself. who regards his arrest and confine-
ment for twenty-four hours as huge Joke.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
SHIPPING,
BEAUFORT AND PORT ROYAL, S. C.

STEAMER ALPHA. H a STRoBH4R,
VIII leave every Tuesday aud Thursday, 81
II o'clock a. M, returning every "Wednesday
and Friday. No freight received after 1879 A
n on saiAng days Will touch at button Cd
Tues lay aau FRIDAY.
Special trips 70 Bluffton every Saturday after.
noon at 4 O'Clock, returning leave BlufttOn O.
4. n M0nday
For further information. apply 90
9. H. MEDLoCk. agent. ksties wharf
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
MAGNOLIA RNCAMPMENT NO. 4,
10 OF

Members are earnestly requested to meet at
their hall at $50 THIS AFTERNOON for the
purpose of paying the last tribute Of respect to
our deceased brother, Patriarch G. B. ASH.
n Il MrCOX N D