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WOMAN’S WORLD.
A Few Things of Interest to the Fair
Sex.
Origin of the King’s Daughters—How
To Drape Curtains—Points About
Ghost Parties Homeless Women.
Facts From Old Family Records.
Effect of the Presence of a Guest.
Life at Kissenßen—Home for Friend
less Girls Other Points Worth
Noting:.
The demand for aluminum cooking
utensils, says the New York Tribune, has
finally been met, and several houses at
the east and at the far west are making
kettles and kitchen utensils of every kind
of aluminum. As a conductor of heat,
this metal is equal to copper. It resem
bles in weight thin china. It possesses
the remarkable advantage above all
metals of being practically non-corrosive.
Only a few of the most powerful acids,
which are never used in the domestic
kitchen, affect it. It seems to be an ideal
material in which to cook fruits, acid
vegetables for pickling, sharp sauces, and
all other dishes which have heretofore
required a porcelain-lined pot. ♦
The only consideration left is the dura
bility of the material, and time and use
only'can- solve this. These utensils are
somewhat liable to injury from denting,
but they are so light that they are not
apt to receive hard enough usage to pro
duce much injury in this way. They are
practically unbreakable, and there is no
more need of scouring them than of
scouring a porcelain cup. So far alumi
num certainly seems to be the ideal metal
. of the kitchen, bound to supersede in a
measure iron, tin, copper and porce
lain-lined utensils. The price of alumi
num is now something less than that of
copper, and it will doubtless be consider
aoly reduced, so that in time it may even
compare in price with tinware.
Mrs. Alice N. Lincoln thus describes
her feelings while watching a cremation:
“As we stood in silence, watching the
rosy glow which played over the white
surface of the retort, a feeling came to
us of awe, certainly, but also of peace and
rest. There was something so spiritual,
so elevating, in the absolute purity of the
intense heat that it seemed to all of uk
who stood there far less appalling than
the blackness of an open grave.”
Some one has discovered the real rftason
why Mme. Patti chose the neighborhood
of Craig-y-Nos for her residence The
natives there live to an extreme old age.
There is something in the atmosphere
which prolongs existence to the century
limit, and the diva’s opportunities for
farewell tours are likely to be greatly
increased by living in this salubrious
region.
It is the instinct of a true woman, says
the New York Tribune, to be, in all her
belongings, just what she wishes to seem
to others. Company manners, company
clothes and company housekeeping, when
put on for effect, /ire repugnant to her
ideas of self-respect. Although a good
housekeeper will, it is true, get out her
best china for an “occasion,” and a home
toilet is necessarily less costly and elabor
ate than a dinner gown, the same care
and thought and good taste should be
given to both, and the smiles and courtesy
invariably* bestowed upon guests should
be equally obligatory to the family table?
Why is it that the presence of a guest
makes such a wonderful change in the
home circle? The father of the family
ceases to be grumpy and fault-finding
and becomes the courtous gentleman he
should always be; the children stop their
wrangling instinctively, and grow sud
denly quiet and well-bebaved; while the
hoiisemistress banishes her usual wor
ried, querulous expression and beams
with smiles and good humor—and all for
a stranger?
It is much more comfortable, says the
New York Mail and Express, to consider
the mote in your brother’s eye than the
beam in your own.
I heard some patriotic American women
congratulating themselves that, with all
its fashionable follies and fads, “swell
life” in this country never did, and it was
not likely it ever could, approach that in
England.
And then one of them told that damag
inglittle story about the young Countess
of Roslyn losing her diamondi,studded cig
arette case in a fashionable restaurant,
the case having been' presented to her by
no less a personage than the Princess of
Wales.
Naughty Countess of Roslyn, to smoke
her cigarettes in a public restaurant?
After all, Spartan virtue is the best sort
to hold fast by. The crime consists
not in the commission, but in the dis
covery. Now, if she had only smoked
at home! I wondered if either
of those two good American dames
had ever been to Saratoga during the
racing season. I doubt if their strong
convictionsof America’s virtuous suprem
acy could stand the shock likely io be
administered there. One does not like to
read about the universality of betting go
ing on there among women, not fast,
blase woman alone, but all sorts and con
ditions, young and old. gray-haired
women, to whom you would think etern
ity was appealing as an imminent call,
young girls flinging aside text-books for
betting-books. Rich and poor, the mania
has seized upon therfc all, and a pool room
is at their disposal, where they can empty
their purses and display their lack of
horse sense, with the recklessness char
acteristic of women, who having stepped
outside the barriers that mark the line of
safety, care little how far tdey wander
from the safety of beaten paths.
“Did you ever think,” asked of the
Chicago Tribune, a woman who is making
her own way, "how many homeless
women there are in Chicago? Women who
never know what it is to sit down and ex
pect a visit, or hang up a picture, or fix a
screen, or arrange a corner, the same as
other women whose lives are surrounded
by home? Women who have to turn out
so early and so hastily in the mqrning
that they have no time to arrange their
room before going to the shop? Who have
no one to say as they leave for the day's
trials: 'Good-by! Take care of yourself?’
Who go back to these same rooms at night
and find them dark, and often still as
they were left in the morning? Who,
when Sunday comes, have to utilize the
day for mending and stitching and fixing
up the rents and the pinned up places of
the week? Who have to work Sunday
nights on the 'only decent gown,’ which
they laugh at when it is fixed, for they
wonder when they can wear it and
where?
“Os course, there are many of the shop
women of the city who live at home, and
their mothers and sisters tend to the lit
tle wants. But the majority of them
have no homes except the little hall room
or the back room on the top floor. And
when they wash out a handkerchief in
their room the landlady glares at them if
she knows it, and she is apt to, and they
dare not speak. As they are tired out
after their day's work they have no
time for company in the evening, and if
they had, they have no place to receive
such company except in the parlor in the
boarding house, and any woman who has
ever tried that knows what it is.”
“Os course you have been asked to one
or two of Mrs. A.'s ghost parties ?” said,
according to the New York Tribune, a
clever woman of the world to one of the
acknowledged social leaders at a vnell
kuowu watering place. .
“I have been asked there to dine once
or twice,” answered the great lady, “but
never heard of any spiritual manifes
tations at her house. What do you
mean?”
“But did you go thereat all?” persisted
the other.
“No; it so happened I was engaged both
times she asked me,” returned Mrs. ,
rather surprised at the catechism.
“Well, no one else has been there either,
although she has asked every one of note
in the place.” exclaimed her interlocutor,
triumphantly, “and that is why I call
her functions ‘ghost parties,’ as they are
only the shadows of the substance, the
dinner itself being purely imaginary.
Why, that woman has gained the reputa
tion for entertaining, and has received no
end of dinner invitations on absolutely
nothing at all. I have suspected her tac
tics for some time, and now I am quite
sure that what I assert is quite true
that in nine cases out of ten her dinners
are purely imaginary. She has a clever
way of finding out who is engaged, to
whom, and then she asks people whom
she knows cannot come to her house
and so scores to her social account, with
no other outlay than her crested paper
and dainty seal. And I fancy she is not
the only one either who has discovered
this very economical way of returning or
compelling social obligations.”
THE SIGNS OF AGE.— X
Think you ’tls years that mark us with old
age?
Ah, no! my friend. It is the pangs that
dart
From disappointed hopes, and wars that
wage
And cause the wounds that scar the broken
heart.
We change with time, scarce feel life slowly
wane;
Youthful desire gradually subdues;
The ear attunes to far celestial strain
That woos us where eterpal youth renews.
Age may Impair the vigorous and strong;
May turn the dark tresses silver white;
May numb the ear to sound, or sweetest
song.
And cloud the vision in the darkest night.
But If thy heart has known no care or woe;
Or discoid ne'er thy human nerves un
strang;
Or hast escaped griefs—few escape, I know—
Thou wilt then everlastingly be young!
For youth is full of hope, of love, of trust,
And sentiments of gentle touch that thrill,
Content with • pleasures simple; and thou
must
Be young, if these continue with thee still.
Though time, they say, has lightly scored on
me
Its signs of age—alas! full many a scar
Upon my heart is left with cruelty—
And I am old, with wounds from pangs and
war.
Josephine Hasam.
New Orleans, July, 1891.
Many interesting genealogical facts,
says the New York Tribune, have been
brought to light through the hunting up
of old family records invoved in proving
eligibility to the recently organized socie
ties of the Colonial Dames and Daughters
of the Revolution. An amusing story is told
of Mrs. A., who has suddenly and unex
pectedly discovered a most desirable an
cestor, and who is so proud of her new
acquisition that she,has bad his portrait
painted, his biography written and
printed, and has made his name a house
hold word in her family. On searching
her pedigree she found, to her great sur
prise, that her mother’s people, quiet
country folk whom she had always con
sidered as humble connections of the
family, had really the best American an
cestry, and that it was the farmer s
daughter, a direct descendant of one of
the old colonial governors, who had made
a misalliance when she accepted what the
world considered a great match, and mar
ried Mrs. A.’s millionaire father.
At the recent meeting of the National
Colonial Dames very curious relationships
wore discovered, and it was interesting
to see old ladies from the north and the
south, who had never met, and had
hitherto been unaware of the other’s ex
istence, claim kinship through some com
mon ancestor, equally reverenced in both
families.
The question of how to drape cur
tains, says the New York Times, is an
important one. One artist said: ''Every
thing snould hang straight at the sides,”
another favored festoons and ends, or, in
technical parlance, “swaysand tails,”and
a third favored “draped lambrequins.”
However the artistic eye may design a
particular drapery, there is one great,
important fact, too slightingly treated by
many housekeepers. That is, perfection
in hanging. A draper is just as exact in
measuring and placing the curtain as the
carpenter is in hanging his door. A little
out of plumb means any amount of
trouble. An uneven folding means
crooked, unsightly hanging to the
drapery and sagging or “shew”
to the very best part of the room’s
decoration. For are not windows open
pictures? Are they net the eyes of a
room, and therefore in need of careful
treatment? The poorest stuff requires
quite as much, if not more, care in hang
ing than very rich, heavy goods. A pro
fessional curtain banger confesses that
he dreads having to hang curtains once
placed by untrained hands. Ho knows
now he will find them, stretched, crooked
and out of shape.
Every measurement should be perfectly
true, and when once put in place no pains
should be spared to keep the folds hang
ing as they were meant to hang. A por
tiere which is swished back and forth,
pushed here, pulled there, by children or
elders either, soon becomes a blemish,
rather than a decoration in a room, un
less it has been firmly hung and is fre
quently arranged.
“Two things I especially enjoy here at
Kissingen,” writes a woman from the
Germah spa. “One is the baths, which
are delightful; the water is so impreg
nated with carbonic acid gas that it is
like bathing in champagne, and the ex
hilaration afterward completes the asso
ciation of a possible result from a plunge
into a tub of extra dry; the other is the
little maid who cares for our rooms.
Every night she comes in and opens the
beds, spreads out the night clothes, and
then turns to each of us with a broken,
musical, ‘sleep well, dream sweet,’ back
ing out of the room as she does so ”
"The whole life here is delightful,” she
goes on. "Our rooms open on a balcony
over the 'Garten,’ where at 6 o'clock in
the morning the orchestra begins to play
a devotional hymn. Its strains lioa"t
through the open windows with a cadence
like the breath of a prayer. This begins
the day. In a few minutes the Garten is
transformed, filled with persons walking’
sitting, drinking the waters, listening to
the music which alternates lovely waltzes
with lender airs from “Lohengrin’’ or
some other opera. The flower stands
have sprung up since last night and are
largely patronized—all is gayety and
brightness and pleasant bustle, and not
yet 7 o’clock!”
A company of Benedictine nuns, says
the New York Times, have opened at
Bristow, Prince William County, Vir
ginia. an institution where they propose
to educate helpless and friendless girls
for housework and other domestic ser
vice. The girls are to have a fairly good
common education, and are then to be
trained for whatever position thev seem
most competent to fill. It is a fact, un
derstood by most housekeepers of ex
perience, that the maids trained in the
convents and orphan asylums by the Sis
ters are, as a rule, well trained. Thev are
taught respectful obedience, and beyond
the one requirement of attention to their
religious duties, they are not encouraged
in any unreasonable complaints against
their mistresses. The girls visit the con
vent constantly, and the Sisters usually
continue to exercise an excellent influence
over them so long as they remain in their
neighborhood.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK:) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894.
Prince Isenberg-Birstein, who, says the
Chicago Herald, according to cable dis
patches from London, will soon become
the son-in-law of George M. Pullman, in
spite of Mr. Pullman’s denials, is well
known in Chicago. He came here early
in the exposition season, some time in
June, and remained about Chicago until
fall. During tne summer he made fre
quent fishing excursions to northern lakes
and toward fall did some shooting in
northwestern forests. The prince stayed
a few weeks at the Vendome Club, bixty
first street and Oglesby avenue, then
moved to the Lakota, on Michigan boule
vard, and finally had his baggage sent
farther down town, to the Lexington.
He always had a line suite of rooms, but
kept a small number of servants for a
genuine prince.
Prince Isenberg-Birstein was one of the
last of>the titled foreigners to leave
Chicago. He remained long after others
had departed. While here his attentions
to Miss Pullman were assiduous. After
leaving Chicago 'he lingered for some
weeks about New York, and the first re
port of his engagement to Miss Pullman
was telegraphed from that city. Mr.
Pullman denied it with a great deal of
earnestness, but before the prince sailed
away the report was circulated again.
Prince Isenberg-Birstein is not of dis
tinguished appearance. He is short,
rather fat, with the thick lips of the
Hapsburgs, and eyes that are not expres
sive. He wears "dark brown whiskers,
cropped close to his jowls, but his chin is
clean shaven. The prince is considered
rather stupid by those who know him.
In conversation he is scarcely interesting.
He is 28 years old.
It was generally remarked last summer
that Prince Isenberg-Birstein’s expenses
to America were paid by a Vienna mar
riage broker. The prince, like his father,
Charles, has a very small income, an’d be
ing desirous of traveling in the style be
fitting his station, as well as improving
his chances of capturing an heiress, it is
ssid, he entered into a contract with a
marriage broker, who furnished the
funds for his trip with the understanding
that he should receive a large increase on
the investment should the prince make a
profitable alliance. His protracted so
journ in this country was cited as con
firmation of the agreement, the explana
tion being frequently offered that the
Vienna marriage broker had made such a
heavy investment in his matrimonial pros
pects that they'.were unwilling to bring
him home until he had formed an alliance
with an American heiress.
During his entire sojourn in Chicago
the prince was accompanied by a sharp
featured young man with piercing eyes,
who appeared to discharge the duties of
private secretary, but who in fact occu
pied a far more responsible position in the
retinue. He was the prince’s paymaster,
and represented the money brokers, who
were paying all the bills. This young
man kept the prince in funds, and with
out his consent the nobleman could
neither ride in a hack nor invite a
party of friends to dinner. His
American trip is said to »bave cost his
brokers about 8200,000. The prince gave
a number of elaborate dinners during the
exposition, and it was remarked at the
time that he wasted few favors on dis
tinguished Europeans then in Chicago.
His guests were generally millionaires
with marriageable daughters, who were
supposed to be partial to sons-in-law with
titles. On alLoccasions, however, bis pay
master conducted himself with the hu
mility becoming a faithful private secre
tary, and few persons who met the young
man imagined that he was in reality the
banker of a prince.
It is commonly supposed that Prince
Isenberg-Birstein is a member of the
royal family, but that is a mistake. He
can claim no closer relationship with
Emperor Franz Josef than that of second
cousin, which does not count for much
with a ruler who is surrounded by a host
of pauper relatives, all bearing preten
tious titles. Isenberg-Birstein’s relation
ship to the emperor comes through his
mother, the Duchess of Tuscans, herself
a cousin of Franz Josef. The relationship
was brought a trifle closer by the mar
riage of her nephew, Archduke Salvator,
to the emperor’s daughter, but the best
Prince Isenberg-Birstein can claim is
second cousin to Emperor Franz Josef.
I am so often asked to tell the first
thought I had of the sisterhood that re
sulted in the Order of the King’s Daugh
ters, writes Mrs. Bottome, the president
of the order, in the September Ladies’
Home Journal. I was crossing the Atlan
tic ocean. I had met on deck some young
fellows that,had been tramping through
Switzerland, and learned they were from
some theological seminary. One morning
I was startled at hearing of the death of
one of these young men. He bad been ill
only a few days, and I learned that
through his sickness, while delirious,
he had constantly called for his
mother. As I paced the deck in the
days that followed, ana looked up at the
bout that swung day after day with his
body in it, if I had only been in a sister
hood wearing a badge that would have
denoted service to humanity, they might
have asked me if I would not like to see
the young man who called for his mother,
for 1 learned that no woman had seen the
youth during his illness, and I pictured
to myself how glad the mother would
have been if I could have written to her
and told her I had seen her boy. At that
hour I wished for a sisterhood that should
not be known by any distinct dress but by
some kind of a badge. I did not speak of
this thought to any one.
A few months passed and Dr. Edward
Everett Hale called to see me on business.
As he was passing out he said, "Mrs. Bot
tome, I wonder you do not found a sister
hood.” And the word sisterhood took
my thoughts back to the steamer. Not
many days after I invited four friends of
mine who had been associated with me
and they came to my home, and we de
cided each to invite some friend, a con
secrated woman, and to meet the week
following, and there would then be ten of
us, and I felt sure Dr. Hale would lend us
his idea of "ten times one is ten.” When
later I wrote to him about it he answered.
"You are welcome, Mrs. Bottome, to any
idea of mine that you can use.”
The lovely woman, Mrs. Theodore Irv
ing, who suggested the name for the new
sisterhood of service, "The King’s
Daughters,” has passed into the beauti
ful beyond.
I was made president of that first ten,
not because I was better fitted to be
president than some of the others present,
but simply because the forming of such a
ten was my suggestion, and later, as you
know, the word "tens” was dropped and
tho word "circles” substituted. In all the
circles there is a president, a secretary
and a treasurer.
The yolks of two fresh eggs, two table
spoonfuls of tincture of benzoin and rose
water to perfume. Beat well together.
Keep tightly corked. Paint the insides of
old kid gloves with the mixture every
night. This will make the hands remark
ably smooth and white.
BITTEN BY A COBRA.
One Who Thinks He Knows Tells How
the Hapless Victim Feels.
From the Detroit Free Press.
“I wonder what sort of a sensation it is
to be bitten by a cobra and know that one
must die in a half hour or so,” drawled
Capt. Gordon as he puffed lazily at his
cheroot on the veranda of the One Hun
dred and Ninth Hussars’ mess at Fyabad.
It was after tne mess dinner, and the
regimental band had bagged their instru
ments and gone silently away into the hot,
stifling night. Half a dozen officers were
reclining in “long-sleeved chairs.” their
feet upon the arms and “pegs,” with
plenty of ice, standing in long glasses like
grim sentries, to keep the demon thirst
away.
“Well, I know exactly how it feels,”
chipped in Bings—Bings, "the stoic,” as
he was called—withan earnestness that
fairly took away Gordon’s breath.
“Yes,” added the new speaker, “I have
‘been there,’ as they say. but language
cannot convey the full horror of the feel
ing. It was years ago. when I. first came
out to join, and we were stationed atßur
mah. 1 was on special duty out in the
jungle, and where we were located was
the snakes’ paradise. Hardly a daj' passed
that we did not kill one or more either in
or about the bungalow. It was a contin
ual cry of‘Samp hai. sahib!’ (a snake,
sir), with a regular clearing out of all the
servants.
“It really seemed that all the poisonous
snakes in India had agents doing business
in that part. Immense boas, sleepy,
devilish karaites, vicious asps and ad
ders, and now and then a cobra, chock
full of fight. No man thought of putting
on his boots without giving ' them a good
shake first, and even clothes were in
spected at arms’ length.
“One hot, sweltering night I was lying
in a state half sleep and half heat stupor
when I suddenly became aware that a
dark, flat object, in which gleamed two
spots of malignant light, was moving up
along my right leg—just between it and
the moujerie (mosquito curtain). I could
just see it over my limb, and the blood in
my veins simply froze with horror as I re
alized that it must be either a cobra or a
karaite. The body of the serpent was
evidently in the bed and the head elevated
just enough to watch my faoe. A queer
constrictive sort of feelijig shot up and
down my scalp, and the hair stood out
straight, I am sure.
"There are no words in which I can
convey the slightest idea of the full meas
ure of loathsome horror which took pos
session of me and turned me sick with
the intensity of its dreadfulness when I
recognized that I was shut up in that cur
tain with and completely at the mercy of
one of those death-dealing fiends. I
dared not move a muscle —to call out
meant death, for were he roused, either
by fetlr or anger, be would deal out death
to the nearest living object with the
rapidity of lightning. Mj t hand was ly
ing down beside my thigh, and already I
could feel his cold, slimy body moving
over it. If ‘my blood was frozen before,
this chilled the very marrow in my bones.
I could see very little by the light of the
flickering lamp which hung in the ver
anda opposite my room door, beyond that
fiat, swaying head, set like a fiend’s toy
with those devil gleaming eyes.
"I felt that I could not stand it much
longer. I should become a raving ma
niac if something did not happen soon. I
almost wished that he would strike and
end the dreadful suspense. I knew that
he would not voluntarily leave the bed
all night, and would most probably coil
himself up on my chest and remain there.
One year, two years, ten years, I lay
thus, with the brute drawing his interm
inable length over my hand—yes, ten
years! for next day I was ten years older,
and my hair, which was black when I
went to bed, was as gray as it is now.
“Then I must have moved my hand, for
the fiend struck—without warning, and
with such devilish rapidity that I saw
nothing, only felt the. sharp, lance-like
thrust in my thigh. With a rush my
blood, which had been standing still in
my veins, I think, went tearing through
my body again, and before my horrified
cry had ceased to ring through the bung
alow, I was standing on the floor clear of
the wrecked moujerie. As I sprang
from the bed when he struck, I felt his
body go hurtling over my head up against
the pillow, as I threw up the arm he had
been lying on.
“Brown—'Bangle Brown’ as he was
called then, because he used to wear a
silver bangle on his left wrist that some
girl had given him—was calling from the
next room. 'Who is there? who is there?’
and the whole bungalow was soon in a
turmoil. Cold drops of perspiration rolled
down my forehead, and my face, was like
the face of a dead man, Brown said, when
I went into his room, where he had a
light.
‘“Have you seen a ghost?’ he asked.
“ ‘Worse than that,’ I replied, ‘I have
been bitten by a cobra.’
“ ‘Nonsense, man,’ he ejaculated, ‘you
have been dreaming,’ but his face was
ashj' pale now, too.
“ 'Here are the marks of his fangs,’ I
said, as I bared my thigh; and there, sure
enough, were two tiny punctures and a
drop of blood oozing from one.
“There could be no doubtaboutitnow—
his light had swept away the last vestige
of hope. All that remained to do was to
make a futile effort to stay the deadly
poison. Already I could feel a peculiar
twitching sensation where the lines run
from the nose down past the corners of
the mouth, and there was a dull, tugging
sort of pain in my heart; a feeling as
though the blood were being forced
through it at an increased pressure. My
head was dizzy and my eyes hot and
blurred. It was with the greatest diffl
culy that I could keep my mind from
wandering. I could hardly articulate a
word, and when I did manage to speak,
I would say what I did’ not mean—using
the wrong word. It was evident that the
poison was beginning to paralyze my
brain; and already I felt an almost un
conquerable desire to lie down and sleep.
“By this time Brown and the others
were thoroughly awake to the serious
ness of the case and had started in to do
all in their power to save me. Brown
was a sort of amateur surgeon and always
carried a small apothecary establishment
with him. I saw him whip out a lancet
and look at me in a questioning way. I
nodded, and in an instant he had the
surrounding the bite out and his
lips applied to the gaping wound.
“Here, gentlemen, is tho scar,” and
Bings displayed an ugly looking cicatrice
that bore unmistakable testimony to the
heroic course of treatment Brown had
adopted.
“Young Balston brought me a peg. in
desperation, that would have made one of
those Bengalie Baboos, who punish a bot
tle of bazaar brandy at a single sitting,
yell with anguish. He admitted to me
afterward that Baloo, the bearer, had
told him to give me a strong dose of red
pepper and whisky, for it had cured a
brother of his once. He had tasted it
himself, and it was simply liquid fire di
luted «vith whisky, but to me it was only
as water.
"Giving me a dose of permanganate of
potassium. Brown placed me in the hands
of two Sepoy orderlies, with strict orders
to keep me going, swearing that he would
shoot the first man that let me stop—for
to rest for an instant meant certain
death.
“ ‘Now, lads, let’s kill the devil,’ he
said, when he had done ail he could to
save me;'we shall find him coiled up in
the bed waiting for another victim.’
“Grabbing the lamp and a stout stick I
rushed into my room, followed rather cau
tiously by the others. I flashed the light
on the bed. holding the stick poised aloft
for a quick, strong blow, but there was
no object there to vent my fury upon.
Then I remembered that 1' had ’ thrown
him up over my head when I jumped from
the bed. Telling Brown to throw the
pillow over with a quick movement, I
held the lamp in my- left hand and stood
ready to give his cobraship his quietus
with a powerful blow.
"Quick as a flash the pillow was jerked
to the other end of the bed, and there
was a rush of a dark brown body, with
the devilish eyes gleaming like two bale
ful sparks. The stick dropped from my
nerveless grasp, and I tumbled to the
floor in a heap. It was only a rat!
“The perspiration broke out all over my
body, and I was as limp as a rag. The
nerves strug up to the tension that they
had been, suddenly gave way, and I could
onlj'sob out hysterically: ‘Let him go
don’t kill him. please!’
"I could hear Brown’s deep-drawn
‘thank God!’and in she genera) sense of
relief the rat was allowed to escape.
"That is how it feels to be bitten by a
cobra,” concluded Bings, “as near as I
can describe it.”
SOUTHERN-DEVELOPMENT.
First Day’s Session of the Convention
of Business Men.
Preliminary Organization and. Ad
dresses of Welcome to the Delegates.
Prospective Benefits of the Move
ment Outlined—Personnel of the
Gathering—Valuable Papers Read.
Hamilton Disston’s Views of South
ern Sugar Culture.
Washington, Aug. 80.—Business men
from the southern states met in conven
tion this morning at Willard’s hall
to devise methods for the investigation
and development of southern invest
ments and resources. One of its objects
is to secure the establishment of a per
manent exhibit of southern resources in
Washington with an auxiliary bureau
in which the various investments likely
to secure capital may be recorded with
all particulars, and thus establish a
reliable medium between northern capi
tal and the rich fields for development in
the south. With a view to making the
convention a success, many of the com
mercial bodies in southern cities have
appointed delegates to represent them.
The convention was called to order at
10:80 o’clock by Hon. Samuel Blackwell
of Alabama. The third auditor of the
treasury, who was chairman of the re
ception committee, made a brief opening
speech.
After Rev. E. Bagely had prayed ap
propriately, Hon. John W. Ross, presi
dent of the board of commissioners of the
District of Columbia, delivered an ad
dress of welcome. He said that the dis
trict commissioners were much interested
in the movement, and spoke of the min
eral and other resources of the “new
south.” He had often wondered why it
was that the ambitious young fellows of
the New England and middle states did
not seek their futures in the
south instead of in the west with its
many disadvantages. The project for a
permanent exhibit of southern resources
in Washington had been, he said, recently
brought to the attention of the commis
sioners by Senator Walsh of Georgia.
His mention of Senator Walsh’s name
caused prolonged applause, and there
was another outburst when Ross sug
gested that it would be better and would
meet with more general approbation from
congressmen to work for an exhibit in
Washington of the resources of the whole
country.
In replying to Commissioner Ross, Mr.
Blackwell made reference to the report
that northern commercial bodies were an
tagonizing the convention, “but we need
just that sort of opposition,” he said, “to
make our project a success.” Loud ap
plause followed this sentiment. The
movement was one of immense possibili
ties. He said it was like the immense
wealth that lay hidden in the mountains
of his native Alabama. It needed
to be brought to the surface. Mr,
Blackwell was elected temporary chair
man ana L. T. Barrett of West Vir
ginia temporary secretary. W. S. White
of Fredericksburg offered a resolution
providing for the appointment of a com
mittee, consisting of one member from
each southern state, to be known
as committee on business, which shall
have power to provide for the
organization of a permanent association
for the development of the industrial
resources of the south. This resolution
unanimously. On motion of
Mr. Yancy of Florida a committee on
credentials, consisting of one member
from each southern state and the District
of Columbia, was appointed as l follows:
E. C. Campbell. Alabama; J. K. Jones,
Jr., Arkansas; M. P. Couper, Florida; G.
F. Thomas, Jr., Georgia; A. B. Howard,
Jr., Maryland; Wallace McLaurin. Mis
sissippi; E. A. Everett. North Carolina;
F. D. Yates, South Carolina; D. M. Lou
vielle, Tennessee; J. R. Hamilton of
Texas; F. W. Buckley of Virginia; J. L.
Barrett, West Virginia; W. E. Rogers of
the District of Columbia. Letters of re
gret in not being able to attend were read
from Vice President Stevenson, Secretary
Herbert and others. A letter from B. H.
Warner, president of the Board of Trade
of Washington, D. C., was interrupted by
Mr. Irvine of Alabama, who claimed
that Mr. Warner’s reference to "Loud
mouthed populists” who were injuring
the south was out of order, as was any
political criticism. The chairman
promptly ruled that Mr. Irvine's point
was well taken, but another delegate
thought the convention had no right to
suppress anything in any letter. The
chairman insisted, however, that politi
cal references might cause discord, and
reaffirmed Lis decision. The report of
the committee on cred ntials admitting
as delegates from the south those who
were present was adopted withan amend
ment providing that representatives of
northern, eastern and western bodies to
whom invitations had been extended
should be admitted to the floor but with
out the right to vote. Vice presidents
were selected by the state delegations as
follows: Alabama. J. F. Johnston; Arkan
sas, W. G. Vincenhetter; Florida, D. H.
Yancy; Georgia. Levi Ballard; Mary-
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land, J. M. Carter, Jr.; Louisiana, W. H. I
Wise; Mississippi, S. D. Lee: Missouri, D.
B. Burns; North Carolina, E. A. Everett;
South Carolina, T. S. Farrer; Tennessee,
A. A. Arthur; Texas, E. P. Marshall;
Virginia, W. B. Gay; West Virginia, J.
L. Berry, and the District of Columbia,
S. S. Yoder. Afterward a committee on
plan and scope was appointed to arrange
plans for a permanent organization and
the establishment of a permanent south
ern exhibit in Washington. The conven
tion then took a recess until 3 o’clock.
. THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 3 o’clock the convention met to hear
papers on appropriate topics. A letter
from Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia
on the development of the sugar industry
in the south was read by one of the sec
retaries. Mr. Disston predicted that it
was a question of but a short time before
the south would supply the entire home
demand for sugar. One of the secretaries
read a paper prepared in behalf of Geor
gia by Col. Isaac W. Avery.
The next paper read was that of Capt.
Hugh Colquitt on Florida phosphates.
Mr. L. C. Irwine, representing the com
mercial club of Mobile, made an interest
ing speech on the subject of commercial
organizationsand how to make them suc
cessful.
“The Resources of Missouri” was the
subject of an address by Hon. C. H. Man
sur, second controller of the treasury and
an ex-congressman. He told of Missouri’s
minerals and farming lands, and her va
rious industries. While her iron mines
were not extensive, they had sufficient
output to cause the operation of an iron
ore reduction furnace at Carondelet,
near St. Louis. This industry ran
three years and then closed
down because, so it was popularly
believed, eastern capitalists had bought
it up to prevent the development of mines
in the southwest. [Applause.]
Mr. Mansur says that if the question
whether there should be slavery again
were left to the people of Missouri and
the people of all the southern states, it
would be voted down 20 to 1.
Maj. M. M. Marks, who described him
self as a Florida “cracker,” made the
closing address of the day, which was ex
temporaneous. He described in glowing
terms the climate and resources of bis
state. Florida wanted men with small
capital, who would buy fruit farms and
get rich. She had resources enough to
buy up all the mines of Alabama and all
the wheat in Missuri, and he wanted
everybody to come. The convention then
took a recess until 8 p. m.
TIMBER RESOURCES.
There was a fair attendance at the
evening session, which opened with an
address by Dr. B. G. Fernow, chief of the
forestry division of the agricultural de
partment, on the timber resources of the
south. He said the south had a better
class of timber than any other part of the
United States. Although the Pacific coast
had a greater area of timber, the southern
forests were nearer to the great markets.
The south has been wasteful with regard
to its timber. Its forests have been
culled of their best timber, thus prevent
ing its spread and leaving only the poorer
kind. Forests have also been allowed to
burn, th us not only destroying valuable
timber but the fertility of the soil. Dr.
Fernow urges that the convention tell
the truth about the south, and to have
the southern legislatures pass laws for
the obetter protections from forest fires.
Mr. Yancy of Florida indorsed Dr. Fer
now’s remarks, and a reference he made
to the late Henry Grady caused prolonged
applause.
Something about the manufacture of
lumber in the northwest was told tne con
vention by M. H. Moore of the Dubuque
(la.) board of trade. He had machinery
for manufacturing lumber to send to an
available place in the south. The timber
resources of the northern section on
which he depended were becoming ex
hausted and he was obliged to turn to the
south. But the south wanted new blood;
that was caused the north to be so
en tcrprisNfc;
A tWfENSE OF THE SOUTH.
Mr. Gigsby Thomas of Columbus, Gn.,
defended the south from the statement
about lynchings and burnings. He said
he told a Scotchman who had questioned
him about it he would bring over 10,000.-
000 negroes from the south and march
them through England, and if they did
not put the working classes there to
shame for industry, prosperity and happy
disposition he would pay their fares back
to America. The trouble between the
north and the south, said Mr. Thomas,
was that each was ignorant of the other.
The south treated the negro well, if he
acted well.
Mr. Thomas said he did not believe in
these northern people who came south
and said: “Get a move on you.” He
contended that the new south would
never equal the greatness and the glory
of the old south, and this sentiment was
applauded loudly.
Dr. M. Souviglle an ex-surgeon of the
French army residing in Chattanooga,
old of the resources of Tennessee and
.he opportunities for investment there.
Ahen he concluded the convention ad
journed till to-morrow.
A GREAT CORN CROP.
A Sad Accident at St. Joseph’s
Orphanage.
Washington, Ga., Aug. 30.—The death
of Miss Lalla Jordan, which occurred
here Saturday, was a very sad event. She
aad held the position of teacher of art in
.he Lutheran Semlnarj’ at Staunton, Va.,
for the past two years.
A very sad accident occurred at St.
loseph’s Orphanage last Monday. A
young noy, about 15 years of age, named
Broderick, an inmate of the orphanage,
had climed to the roof of the second story '
veranda after some pigeons which were
testing there, when he lost his footing
and fall to the ground. He was fatally
hurt and died in a few hours.
, The populists announce that Judge
Hines will speak in this place Sept. 12.
Hon. F. H. Colley has been appointed
by Gov. Northen a representative to the |
irrigation congress, which meets in Den- j
ver, Col., next week.
Such crops of corn as will be made by ;
the farmers in this section have never
been known before.
Rev. J. S. Jenkins of Los Angeles, Cal.,
has been sent by the conference to fill out
the year in place of Rev. W’. W. Wads- 1
w orth, who has gone on a tour around the
world. . ■
BAN FOR THEIR LIVES.
Prisoners Turned Loose to Save Them
Prom Lynchers.
Huntington, W. Va., Aug. 30.—Theau- 1
thorities of Lincoln county last evening
arrested John Peyton, his son, Elisha,
and Milton Gross on the charge of assas
sinating Albert Ke.vser on Saturday
night. While the prisoners were under
guard at the house of Constable Millard
Atkins a mob appeared to lynch them.
The three men were turned loose and ran
for their lives into the mountains,
escaping the mob. or they would have
been strung up. The greatest excitement
i prevails there.
A BODY IN A BOXCAR.
A Brakeman’s Ghastly Discovery at
Mobile.
Attracted by the Frightful Stench He
Broke the Car Seals and Found, on
Some Blood-Soaked Grain, the Body
of a Murdered Man—The Seal Num
ber May Furnish a Clew to the Mur
derer, Who is Thought to Be a Rail
road Employe.
Mobile, Ala., Aug. 80.—The body of a
murdered man was found this morning in
car No. 11,450, of the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Memphis railroad, sealed, and
containing grain consigned to Cleveland
Brothers, this city.
The car reached here over the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad via the Birm
ingham and Kansas City road. It was
sealed on both sides with seal No. 182 of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway,
and the seals were covered with blood.
A switchman in the Louisville and Nash
ville yard, attracted by the stench pro
ceeding from the car, broke one seal and
opened the door. The body was found
lying on some grain, and blood had soaked
through the floor of the car. The
coroner examined the body and found
eight wounds in the back and side
of the head, made with a blunt instru
ment. Letters and papers found indi
cate that the dead man’s name waa
Charles A. W. Mason, and his home was
Joplin, Mo. He was about 45 years old,
six feet tall, and the index finger of the
right hand had been cut off at the second
joint. It is thought that the man was
knocked in the head by a railroad em
ploye at the station represented by the
number of the seal, and his body put
into the car and scaled up by the mur
derer.
TURNER INDORSED.
The Eighth Senatorial District In*
dorses Him Strongly,
Thomasville, Ga., Aug. 30. —Resolutions
indorsing Representative Turner for
senator were unanimously adopted at the
senatorial convention for the Eighth dis
trict, held in Bainbridge yesterday.
•‘We. tne representatives of the democratic
party of the Eighth senatorial district, be
lieving it to be our right and privilege to ex
press the choice of the democracy of this
district for United States senator, hereny
declare that in the candidacy of Hon. Henry
Gt. Turner for that high office. South Georgia
presents a man whose record for the past
fourteen years in congress shows him to be
a statesman of eminent ability, and a party
leader in every way worthy of the continence
of the pedple. His record also demonstrates
that he is thoroughly in accord with the
principles of his party on all great questions
that have come before that body.
We point with especial pride to his atti
tude as a party leader in the campaigns of
38W) and lak.’ in this and the Eleventh con
gress onal districts, when the Democratic
party was in imminent danger of being over
whelmed with Ocalaism and so many of our
leaders ia other portions of the state, in their
thirst for political promotion, went astray
after false political gods and gave
their indorsement to “the particular
legislation" devised by the politicians of the
farmers’ alliance and known as “the sub
treasury bill,” the Support of which involved
a surrender of democratic principles. Mr,
Turner had the political sagacity to see that
the principles underlying this measure of re
lief, demanded by the said alliance poli
ticians, were alike opposed to the principles
of the party and the true prosperity of the
farmers. and had the courage
to oppose these wild legislative schemes
and radical departures from democratic
principles from every stump in this congress
ional district. His bold light for principle
saved at least two congressional districts of
Georgia from Ocalaism and populism. There
fore, be it resolved:
1. That the candidate this day nominated
to represent the Eighth senatorial district be,
and he is hereby instructed, to cast his vote in
the general assembly for Hon. Henry G. Tur
ner for the long term in the United States
Senate, beginning March 4,1895. and that he
co operate w«.th other friends of Mr. Turner
in the general assembly in the use of all hon
orable means to secure his election.
2. That we request the publication of this
preamble and resolution by the democratic
press throughout Georgia."
TOO ISUOH RAIN FOR COTTON.
An Attempt of a Number of Prisoners
to Escape.
Douglas, Ga., Aug. 30.—-Late Tuesday
evening Jailer Joe Daughtry espied pris
oners passing the windows in the recep
tion vestibule of the jail. Examination
showed that the three Harris boys and
Davis, all white, awaiting trial under a
charge of assault with intent to murder,
had scratched through the concrete floor
ing of their cells and under the partition
wall. It was their ostensible purpose to
overpower Daughtry when he carried
tbeir supper and escape. When ordered
upstairs into the steel cages they very re
luctantly obeyed.
The populists are quietly making ar
rangements to get Judge Hines to address
them at an early day.
A close canvass with the most prom
inent farmers in this locality shows that
the opinion prevails that there will be
only a half crop of sea island cotton.
Rains yet fall almost daily. This has
caused the bottom crop to rot and the top
crop to throw off its fruit.
AN EVEN THING.
Corker Withdraws His Contest for
the Justice’s Office.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug/ 80.—Counsel for
A. W. Corker to-day withdrew the con
test being made on the recent election for
justice, allowing Radford T. Hitch, the
successful candidate, to receive his com
mission, and later Corker wired Gov.
Northen of such action. The ballot box
was opened this morning, and search for
illegal votes commenced, promising at one
time to cause considerable tediousness
and trouble, but in withdrawing the case
I counsel for Corker stated that
while they believed they could prove
I mapy illegal votes for Hitch, they were
satisfied Hitch’s counsel could prove as
| many illegal votes for Corker, |and they
would drop it.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Incendiaries Bum Valuable Farm
Products Near Albany.
Albany, Ga., Aug. 30. —The stock
ade of H. H. Nelms, an extensive
farmer, living in the western por
tion of the county, was consumed by fire
; at 11 o’clock last night along with its
contents, which consisted of 1,200 bushels
of oats, SCO bushels of corn and other
farm products and utensils. The fire
burned rapidly, and mules and horses con
fined in the stockade were saved with
difficulty. The fire was undoubtedly of
incendiary origjn.
Ship Chandlers Close.
Middletown, Aug. 30. —Wilcox, Critten
den & Co., the largest iron cable and ship
chandlery manufacturers in the state,
closed last night for an indefinite period.