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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19

He stood six feet two inches in his
stockings and turned the beam of a
true and trusted Fairbanks at two hun
dred and ten pounds avoirdupois.
He was the acknowledged leader of
his party in our town and his party
was in the ascendant
The major was not quarrelsomc, but
=. was erinienated and unvieldieg: He
was too big man to quarrel and too
conscious of his own powers to yield o
point in anything.
Maj. Sparhawk had lived bachelor
TO the age of forty. At length, how
ever, the erotic dart touched his heart,
and he offered to take wife and make
her mistress OF the wifes appropriate
department of his house.
Sylvia Aspen was a small, delicate
woman, pretty and accomplished.
For several years she had taught the
primary department OF our common
school, and the experimenting commit
tee was forced to acknowledge that by
no other teacher had the scholars ever
been so thoroughly governed
She had seen thirty years of life and
for reasons best known to herself she
had refused all offers of marriage.
And now Maj Hannibal Sparhawls
offered her his hand and his heart.
"Miss Aspe NJ he said, in his blunt,
dictatorial way, "you have known Inc
long enough and well enough to know
something of the home ] can provide.
If you take me you will take rough,
blunt man who must be his own master
through life.
II have my own peculiar views of the
true marriage relation. The man is
the head Of the household. can love
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
THESE MAY HELP YOU OUT.


A TrIpIet of Riddles In Verse and Their
The next time you are asked to tell
riddle, the others among the company
having told one, give this one. The
answer is postage-stamp.
or various colors, both small and square,
You're certain to meet with me everywhere.
Travelling farther than birds on the wing.
You are gladdened or saddcned by that which
bring.
If the company, having guessed or
given up this one, insists that you must
tell another" here are two more. IL
you can not readily commit one of them
to memory, perhaps the other will como
to your tongue more easily. The an
swer of the first one is bed, and OF
the second broom.
They made me today, and yesterday too,
They will make me again tomorrow:
The poor sometimes sell me, It's all they can do.
And then tis cause for sorrow.
Yet think for moment, and you will declare,
Though unwilling to part with me so,
| II told you must keep me six months or year,
You would find that a reason for woe.
With bushy head and body thin
Each welkept house dwell within
In "scrimmages" I'm piled with ease
(But not in well-bred familiesl.
DutcEman used me once to show
How Holland banished every foe;
With me aloft he sailed the main,
But nevermore came home again.
-Harper's Young People.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
PITH AND POINT.

mo people ever mude any money
swapping grunts.-Dallas News,
"A kind word can be made to strike
harder than cannon ball. - Rams
Horn.
--Cass (annoyed)-"Don't you know
that fool can ask qucstiohs2" Bass
~ had heard SO; now know it."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
-"They say history repeats ITSELF
"Humph! History must be working or
several Of the comic papers just now
buffalo Courier
---Frank-"Were you actually sur
prised, as you said, when l proposed2"
May-"Yes, indeed; really had nll but
given you up!'-vogue,
Guessed His Mission. First Pedes-
tfiaIi-"0ut walking for your health9"
Second Pedestrian-"Yes: I'm going
for the doctor. Truth.
--May-'What did you marry that
wreck forP" Maud (haughtily)-"To
save him." May-"H'm! How much wai
the salvage?"-The Club.
-He-"Can I do anything to break
you of saying sarcastic things?" She
"Yes." He-"What?" She-"Keep out
of my sight."--N. Y. World.
Every wife occasionally wishes she
could yindicate herself by letting some
woman her husband praises have him
for few eks.-Atchison Globe.
-"Life," exclaimed the man who en-.
joys being misanthrope, "is nothing
but one long hustle for chunk of ice
or lump of coal. Washington Star.
To appear helpless is womans way
Of flattering man. 1t is because she
allows man to look down upon her
that man looks up to her.-Boston
Transcript.
So far it's proof of the recupera-
tive value of vacation that as a matter
Of weight man carries his pocketbook
back more lightly than on going away.
Philadelphia Times.
"A Mean Retort. & Brad.
ley are going to bring out my five
novels in uniform STYLE" said Dullby,
the novelist. "You mean in fatigue
uniform style, l suppose?" said Cyni-
cus.--Puck
-"They say that fortunes are swept
away in breath nowadays" said Mrs.
Harris, and Mrs. Sozzle sadly replied:
'If you had ever smelled the colonel's
breath, mum, you would believe it,
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
-"Slithersby is way up in bottle
French" 'Inwhat?" Bottle French
When he was in Paris he wanted to see
the mint, so he asked his guide to take
him to the 'menthe.' Got it off creme
de menthe bottle. "-Harper's Bazar.
All the wedding party were assem-.
bled at the registrars. The bridegroom
alone was missing. At last he put in a
belated appearance. He was hale old
gentleman of seventy. Another time"
said the registrar, "come bit earlier. ="
-Sonntagsblatt.
-Literature-Scene. store near
highland Light A lounging tourist,
looking Mt copy for sale of Thoreau's
Cape Cod: "Ahl Thoreaul He was q
great writer, he was! He wrote many
Of his works ia Latin, down there in
Concord, he did. Why, Col Higgin-
son, who looked over his writings
after he died, said it would take man
who was well posted to translate
| them.n
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
Sea Lace and Sea Moss.

Many children have gone to the sea-
shore in the summer, and they must
have seen funny sea-weed called 'sca
lace" 1t loves 10 fasten itself on
rocks and stones.
This little sea-weed is like cord,
and sometimes there are many of them
fixed together. They might be used
for shoestrings when they are dry,
they are so strong Fishermen do
often use them for lines.
In England they call this sea lace
dead mans rope" because when peo-
pie are swimming it winds around
them, and holds them so tightly that
they can not get away.
In great masses it sometimes even
stops vessels Some of these cords are
forty feet long.
The sea moss is the Irish moss
which, when dry, is used in making tho
nice iellies and blanc-mabge you are so
fond of.
am sure youhave often seen it when
you have been on the beach. IL grows
in clusters, with little fringed edges,
tar above where the waves come In
Sometimes It bleaches out almos.
white. - Mrs q, Haii, in Our Iittls
Ones
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
KNEE pgsp,n

49,.
4"o' 80 calling "Kncc dcenlr ,,,noo aoo,,,,.
~. ph'snt IN the marsh below.
e'V"h oy she bank where thu ranl, hrl,usho.
anu 'Aiamus grow
'", ,nnu nov INC anyils ring as tho silver ham
~ "cehlme Of that old rhyme, All the golden
summer night. 80 '"0 e''''"
o'os sne swampy forgc the sparks o, tsc Are.
w anaaows the maiden lilies lean with
~, 'anKuorous sghs
W.. ,o'cr tho whippoor will who Is
~. watched by The nufrv owl "'' .
"niie the nlgh,-hawk shuf1,es nv. n non,, o., =
velvet cowl ''o''" III .
ana Inc bat wcaves inkv w,ft ,hro,sn ,,o
wni'e star beams that pccp
s'o"n through the cypress bouvhs ,vhoro ,,.
= frogs all sing 'Knee deep"
man like mo. 'o"o"
10y" - snc pygona years and the scenes that
when this world was feooca ,,o,, r,o
,, one rose hedge md through
fhat bourne The blcsssd angels looked and
.asphodc odors blow
30 listening to the llt OF tho minstre,s a,,o,r
the reels, '''o"o
"y SOU leaps out of its human husls, into tho
clover mcads. 'N'
anu ! SEQ the stormkins ride the summer
clouds in state,
WIN chariot whip OF livid flame, and thunder
billingsgates
Anu watch the tawny tide, mid the lush sword
gtasses creep
"h'ic tne irightod frogs all cling 10 the willows
and sing: Knee dcepn
n"ce ucep wado in the ripped creek, with
buttercup bloom o'crblown
neaVihs IKE gold on beauty's breast its sheen
hall hid, half shown;
Anco auep in the saffron marigolds that prank
TIE meadows fair,
'.'Re school OF Saxon children, blue.eyctl and
with yellow hair:
Ahee deep In the whortle.berrlcs on the upland
slope stand,
WIN torn straw hat half full, and quail's mes,
In my hand;
Anec uecp In amethyst autumn leaves, rustic
toward the place
"nere mo pert and upright rabnk sits and
washes her innocent face.
song OF tho quivcring culms and osiers! l an
wading again, in truth,
Nnee oeep IN the stream Of memory, that flows
from ihc land OF youth
--'fooert Mcintyre, in Colorado Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
QUALITIES WORTH HAVING.
Facts Concerning a Man Who Succeeded
In Rusiness


Facts Concerning Man who Succeeded
In business
He was industrious in youth.
He entered business life when ut tho
age of seventeen.
He had no place in his thoughts for
dishonorable deeds.
He endeared himself to his father.
He did his duty, no matter what men
said.
He had composure under trying in
dignities.
lie spent his nights in thought and
his days in labor.
He had undue advantages taken OF
him.
He was willing to begin in menial
position.
He could stand the closest kind OF
scrutiny.
He soon discovered to others that he
had high character.
He strove to please and was conse-
quently trusted.
He grew into place of commanding
responsibility.
lie was good natured and evenly bal.
anced.
He placed a high premium upon his
honor.
He knew what it was to have re-
verses.
He could win his way into favor with
any man.
He was executive in his very make up.
lie had prime characteristic, that of
faithfulness
He aimed to enlarge the affairs un-
der his charge.
He sympathized with men in their
business difficulties.
He knew how to unravel business
tangles.
He thought of himself last when
helping Others
He found men ungrateful for help
given them.
He was needed finally for place no
one else could fill.
He was not afraid to pass examina-
tions on required capabilities
He outlined far-reaching business
policy.
He impressed men that he possessed
rare merit
He became secretary of finance in one
of the renowned nations.
He enjoyed great public favor and
preferment for eighty years.
He helped those related to him out Of
financial troubles.
He never returned evil for evil TO his
worst enemies
He died a peaceful death, aged one
hundred and ten years.
There are many just like the Joseph
described in the thirty-seventh, thirty
ninth, forty-irst, forty-ninth and
fiftieth chapters of Genesis. Young
Mems Era.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19

and provide and protect; but l must be
master. As j am offer myself. You
will not be deceived"
Sylvia smiled one of her sweet, cleo
tr;e smiles, and. with her small white
hand resting confdingly upon the
ma aior's arm, she told him she had ac-
ccpted the situation.
s.You are sure?" he queried.
.J am sure of this" she said, looking
an into his face with candid fervcr, 81
love YOU well enough to marry you' and
ms for domestic government the result
must be as the result is the world over
the weak must depend upon the
strong ..,-
Hannibal sparhawlx kissed the little
woman and assured her that he would
never be tyrannical or unjust and the
dav for the wedding was fixed.
People wondered, when 1t was pub
,lshed. that Sylvia Aspen was to be-
como the wife of Maj. sparhawk- :.
uShe will be slave and drudgeF
was the general opinion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
LIMITATIONS OF OUR SENSES.
These Place Perfect knowledge at an In
finite Remove from Us.


finite Remove from Us.
We gain our experience of the world
through our senses Man is born with
intellect, and through the senses the
intellect is trained. The newborn baby
possesses already some knowledge of
touch acquired before birth, and this
knowledge he afterward rapidly ex-
pands by constantly feeling his body
over and over, as if in exploration of
unknown territory. Later he acquires
the faculties of hearing and seeing,
and likewise of tasting and smelling.
Now, these senses, five IN number, are
they which train the intellect. They
are all very imperfect. Sight; but the
greater part Of the solar spectrum is
invisible-that is to say, more rays
which come to us from the sun are in
visible than those which our eye can
see: Hearing: but there are sounds so
low and sounds SO high that they are
inaudible. Taste and smell: very i'm
perfect. Touch; but there are millions
of PARTICLES of dust to the square inch
of the hand which we can not feel.
Yet, even with these imperfect means
of education, many men have reached
the conclusion satisfactory to them
selves that they are clever; but the
wisest man knows nothing in compari.
son with perfect wisdom.
The whole of the known universe
consists of matter in motion. All sen.
sutton, everything we know of the out.
side world, comes to MS through mo.
tion. The motion sets up movement
in the nerve ending, on the skin, on the
retina of the eye, or wherever the prop
er ending capable of receiving the par
ticular motion may be situated. This
motion is carried from the nerve end
ing along the nerve to the special CEN
tral organ of the brain where it is in
terpreted. Light, sound, touch, taste
and smell are the only forms of motion
we are capable of approaching, because
for each of these forms of motion we
have special apparatus which can re-
ceive, transmit and interpret. There
are other forms of motion which we
can not appreciate-magnetisln, for ex-
ample-and this simply because we
have no nervous mechanism which re.
spends to that kind Of motion. In like
manner there can exist around us
forbes in infinite variety of which we
have absolutely no knowledge what.
ever-Prof Graham Lush, in Popular
Science Monthly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
AN ACID DIET.
There Are Various Reasons why 1t Is Ad.
yisable.

thtEc are tuTIOuS heaSOnS NnY IH Aus
visable.
Acid is death to the cholera germ.
With that monster on q neighboring
island down the bay it is advisable to
vary the diet with sour dishes made of
lemon and vinegar. 1t is almost i'm
possible to refrain from drinking raw
water. Every mother knows that the
present supply is unwholesome, but
even in wealthy families it is often in
convenient to have cooked and properly
iced drinks If the raw water is sdrunlx
the danger will be lessened by adding
little lemon juice, not more than a
teaspoonful to glass of water. For
convenience, particularly in the morn
ing when everybody in the family
wants a drink, the lemons might be
quartered and sent to table in COW
cred glass bowl or dish.
People who prefer more lemon Juice
should take the bitter draft through a
straw for the protection of the teeth.
Tea, hot or cold, is better just now
with lemon instead of milk Lemons
ilC tnOdD. anu thC NdtCI
improves, Swinburne island is vacated
aud the cool weather arrives, they
should form part of the decoration of
every dining table and sideboard. Har-
ricot, lettuce, beets, chicory or toma-
toes, with plenty of sharp dressing,
should follow every dinner.
Too much lemon juice and vinegar is
not advisable for children, but they
should have little. Lemon ice will
do them no harm. Housewives who
are in the habit of serving cold meals
will show their wisdom by change of
programme. "Steaming hot food and
drink is the advice given by the health
commissioners of New York until all
danger of the scourge has passed.-N.
Y. World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19

Billy Brushem-I want er bottle O.
alcohol.
Careful Druggist-Is II for mechanic
al purposes?
Billy Brushem-Naw. Artistic. Want
10 mix it wild shoe blaekiu Good
News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
PerfccflY Safe.

"You deposit in spiddlecomb's bankf
never heard of it. Is it safe?" in.
quired the friend.
Everything nrve eot in it is safe
enough" replied the young man under
the Ferris Wheel hat. with yearning,
taraway look in his eye. ''Its one of
-er-ah-collateral loan banks. -
Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19

"A fool is about the only man wha
knows at all times just what he be-
Heves. News
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19
ORCHIDS IN GUIANA.
Picture OF Wonderful Beauty, Variety
and Wild Profusion.

A Picture OF Wonderful Beauty, Variety
and Wild Profusion.
In padding up the smaller rivers Of
Guiana the visitor is struck with the
beauty and variety of the orchids
and other epiphytes perched on every
limb and branch above his head.
Coming from temperate climate,
where only MOSES, lichens, and per-
haps fern or two, can live under such
circumstances, he sees great arums,
with rosettes of leaves six or eight
feet in diameter, crowded groups Of
hard-leaved tillandsias, mistle-toelike
lunches of rhipsalis, orchids, ferns,
and MOSES, all struggling for places
where they can find room to enjoy life
and propagate their species.
In the dense gloom of the forest,
where the branches interlace with each
other, they can not secure enough
light, but wherever the continuity is
broken by river or savannah, the trees
on the borders are decorated with q
wealth of these interesting plants.
From the river nothing but sloping
bank of foliage is visible, but by pad
ding through the outer screen,
which comes down into the water, a
very pretty scene is revealed overhead.
Although the direct rays of the sun are
shut out, there is generally sufficient
light for the epiphytes, and here they
give quite festive appearance to what
would otherwise be tangle of bare
limbs and branches.
Down to the smallest twigs every one
is loaded with upright, dropping, or
hanging plants, some appearing coarse
and aggressive, others handsome in
both foliage and Hover, while delicate
little orchids and ferns among the
MOSES are most pretty and interesting.
When tree leans over the river, or
great branches stretch across creek,
these are covered with epiphytes, the
long, cord-like, aerial roots of some of
them hanging from a height of fifty
feet or more and branching out into
dense broom-like masses of fibers as
they touch the water.
Even the trunks have great clumps OF
orchids wherever there is sufficiency
of light, while here and there plant
has made itself vt home in the midst OF
a tangled mass of bull-ropes.- Long.
mans Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-10-19

The Chinese shave nearly every
day. A queer little razor it is that
they use, too. II is in no respect like
our razor, except in the matter of the
keenness of its edge. 1t is wee bit Of
blade, nicely curved into semicir-
Gle. With this tool the Chinese barber
scrapes the almost hirsuteless face Of
his customer and then shayes MIN
around the ears and down the neck to
the first bone of the spinal column.
The rounded point OF the razor is also
inserted into the celestial ear, and
every ambitious hair that dares to
show itself in the auricular lobe iS
elippsd before it proceeds very hss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-28
financial elections.

OFFICE OF THE NEW ORLEANS 4 NORTHEASTERN
RAILROAD IOMPANh.
Y Office is hereby given that the annual
~ meeting Of tho ckhodcs ~ this company for the
purpose 81 ccting Board Of Directors for the ensuing
yea and fr the uah,ac Ton OF such other BUSHES, "A,
NAV come before the meeting, Will be held AT re Olce
II The company tho city e NewOrlcans. Wednesday,
November lst 1898, at l. o lock. noon.
JOHN GLYNN JR., Secretary.
New.Oreans. La. September both, 1923
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-28
Cesa! Aoiltss.
CIrPREAIE COURT. NETWORK COUNTY

rUPREAIE COURT. NETWORK COUNTY.
- Austin y. ntbce ana william H. hob, ranilIS,
,o,n,t =. uuDDrli Dcffudlnt. summons.
- TO the abovcnansd defendant, iod ,r' hereby sum.
noncd the conIiiEt ~ t~ action and 10 serve
a copy Of your answer Oh tn P'intu- a'tori"N within
twrny after -crirc of mi, Sur0i- cNru-i,r Of
no dav Of service: aud IN ca>c laur, APPEAR
ar answer Judgmc:it VII against you bY d
Tor tho relief demanded ia th" Complaint
DJted New IUIk. september ,ti. itoo.
rilsiH " :" il.'sI A. y -, So, IN.
York ity =, ,, r
10 the abovc-namc, d'icnGant John T. liubrll The
for going sunni IL served uroi 70. rs publicuon
pursuant 10 order of Hon. "a ward Patterson a
Justice OF the Court OF tn Stitr o. New York
dated the 18th da5 October ls:'s ana hl'd WIN "a.
Complaint Ia nf the clerk of ~" CITY 1nd
county Of NcwlorN al tn County Cont lion'e IN the
Of Newly
Dated October ). 1sg?.
STIil>ON s WILLIAMS Plaintiff, Attorneys,
Cnicc and u. ~. Address, No. ,, l.b"rtf street ~ Y
CITY
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-28

MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANY,
No. n broadway. Sev-York. October I. 1899.
n, HE ANNUAL MEETING of the sharehold.
l ers Of the Maahat,an l.awsy Company VIII b. neIi
wav the second "Wednesday OF November next tbcins
the sth day Of laid month";. at IL o'clock noon
A Board ~ Directors Tor the ensuing year Is 10 DO
elected, a three In. p'ctor, Of Ele'fioa.
The directors elected VIII BE- eN-ofcio directors
also OF the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company Tor
tie term .
The tran books will be closed saturday. October
T. IL O'Clock noon. and r,opeled ihnrsdIy No'cm
WI - d. w M'wILLIAMs. Secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-28
financial.
A1CHlS0M, TOPEKA & SANTA FE
RAILROAD CO.
Guarantee Fund Notes.

Tho COUPONS due Nov. /. 1893 Of the Atchson
Topeka Santa Fe Railroad Company's Guarantee Fund
will 10 paid on presentation an after that date
at .le NATIONAL BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, 1876
FEANKLIN-ST., BOSTON.
Holders of the Guarantee Fund Notes, cx-
lending the time of the snme. will receive
check for cash premium. payable Nov. 1
when their notes presented fnr -" d.
sion ut the Compnny's Office, No. % MIX ST.,
Boston. nfter October ~. inst.
j. ". REMNANT, President.
nosfon Oct lR3