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8 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- TETTER FORI 5 YEARS On Face And Scalp. Physicians Pro scriptions and Remedies Fail. Lost All Hope of Cure. Thought Himsell DISFIGURED FOR LIFE Cuticura Removed Crusts at Once, j Disease Entirely Gone In One Month. Now No Trace. Skin Smooth. For more than fifteen years I was effected with running Tetter on iny face and scalp. Various prescriptions and many remedies were furnished, being afterwards treated by many physicians, and all to no avail. I had lost all nope of ever being cured, and concluded that I was disfigured for life. A friend persuaded mo to give the Cuticura Remedies a trial, which I did in this way: Taking the Cuticura Resol vent two teaspoonfuls after each meal, bathed the effected parts in warm water with Cuticura Soap, and applied the Cuticura freely until tho crusts were all removed. In one month my face and scalp were perfectly smooth. I give this cheerful testimony for the benefit of all who aro thus afflicted. T. J. CABANISS. D. D., Columbiana, Ala. , TETTER ON SCALP AND HAND Used Cuticura Remedies for Tetter on the scalp. They left me sound and weil. My aunt had Eczema of the scalp since girlhood. Cuti cuba Remedies cured her. S. J. BURKHART, Ruthton, Tenn. Had Dry Tetter on my hands. 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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.