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8 WOMAN’S WORLD. A Few Things of Interest to the Fair Sex. A Girl’s First Fancy—A Fashion Note From Paris—Women Who Help Their Husbands A Debutante’s First Dinner—Old Friends Meet Again. Some Observations of Ward McAl lister’s—A Pen Portrait of Two Ladies of Note—Some Other Matters That are Well Worth Beading. We all recognize, says Ward McAllis ter, in the New York World, the prince of Wales as the first gentleman of the world from a social standpoint. He is, therefore, a most interesting subject for’ study. I devoted two evenings to taking* in his personality. At the opera he sat in the club box, with his left hand covering that portion of his face exposed to the audience. I could see at a glance that he had previously taken in the whole house, and was then absorbed in Melba and her charming voice. Having at Cowes bee' surfeited with Americans (as I heard 1 m his friends) when he reached Homburg all the efforts of our pretty American women failed to attract his attention. By feeing the head waiter liberally they had secured the tables surrounding him at breakfast at Ritter's Park hotel, and at dinner on the terrace at the Kurhaus. Years ago this little game was successful, for he then took up many of our young American women, gave. them his indorsement, which secured for them an entree into Londoh society. But all this is now a thing of the past. The eagerness of our American women, some of whom move in our best society, to attract his attention, 1 regret to say, was annoying to many of us, for, to say the least, it made us ridiculous and laid us open to criticism. Failing in their at tempts to capture the prince, they did • not stop there, but frantically made ef forts to catch any scion of nobility, no matter how notorious, broken down or impecunious he might be. We heard of individual instances of young married American women having been introduced to a sprig of nobility in the morning, rush ing at him in the evening with an invita tion to dine with (them. If the invitation was accepted they announced the fact triumphantly to a number of prominent people, and asked many of them to meet at dinner the same day their new, noble acq lisition, and thus rendered themselves the laughing stock of the place. If Amer icans can associate with foreigners as their peers, let them do so; but in the language of our great Webster, if they • cannot soar socially, let them disdain to crawl. When our country women,’ by some accident, were thrown in company with tilted people the last summer, they seemed to fail to recognize their own country people, feeling as it were a social elevation. As I said before, for heaven’s sake do not let Americans blush at their own nationality. The summer at Hom burg has developed some of the worst cases of toadying and cringing by Ameri can ladies to foreigners that we have ever seen, and they have caused Europeans to sneer at us. To all this there were, however, noble exceptions. “I must confess,” said one of the 400 to a New York Tribune writer, ‘-to having had quite a shock in meeting Mrs. X. last winter—Mrs. X., who used to be the beautiful Miss B. in my young days, and who had lived abroad ever since her mar riage—and in realizing how I, too, must have changed in the lapse of years. She was followed by a tall young girl whom sLe introduced as her daughter, and after the first very effusive greetings, which 1 was vain enough to ascribe to personal reasons, were over, the real motive of her eagerness to attract my attention be came apparent. ‘Oh, Mr. A.,’ she exclaimed, persuasively, ‘Olive has no partner for the german. With so old a friend I thought 1 might ask—you know every one—can’t you find her one?” Well, I managed to oblige her, although the task was not exactly in my line, and then sat down beside her, expecting a pleasant half-hour, for in the old days she was most amusing. But I got scant gratitude and small attention. She was completely absorbed in the young men who were dancing with her fledgeling. ‘What is the name of the tall young manf’ ‘Who is the short one?’ "Who is speaking to my daughter now?’ ‘ls that Mr. So-and-So who has just taken her out?’ and so on, ad nauseum, until I re tired in disgust, realizing more than ever that my day was over and that a new tren. eration occupied the old familiar places.” When I was in Paris in July the French modistes were preparing models for the United States, and one of the best known said that only Americans would take draped skirts, writes Emma M. Hopper in tne October Ladies’ Home Journal. Surely this is bint enough to warn us not to ac cept what Paris avoids. During my late visit to this center 1 found the universal and handsomest’skirts were of the godet shape, having smoo h sidesand front, and the fullness at the back confined to a width of three inches, and lined with grass cloth or crinoline all the way up to give a graceful, sweeping appearance, while the remainder was faced with the same to fully half of the depth. The skirts were cut to touch at the back, but this odoes ’ not seem so much out of place in Faris, where the streets are the cleanliest ot all known and there are but few handsomely dressed women that do not drive. The neatest skirls are made with every seam bound with silk tape, and the top corded in place of a belt. All rich materials, like silk, moire, ladles cloth., etc., have the skirts untrimmed; thinner goods may have a tiny cluster of three two-inch bias overlapping ruffles, a style that never goes out in Paris. Serge, cheviot and such goods have from three to five rows of stitching above the velveteen binding as a trimming. The bias seam up the back is worn. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REFRAIN. Daughters, daughters. What shall we do with our daughters? Why do men tarry? Why don’t they marry? Aud give the poor darlings a chance. And the answer might be found in the advice of old Nokomis to Hiawatha: “Bring not here an idle maiden. Bring not here a useless woman. Hands unskilled, feet unwilling; Bring a wife, with nimble fingers. Heart and hands that move together, Feet that run on willing strands.” And one might add: "A form of beauty undefined, A loveliness without a name Not of degree, but more of kind.” —New Orleans Picayune. “The first dinner of a debutante is al moat as much of an ordeal as her first ball, and a much greater test ot her capa bilities,” remarked a woman of the world j who had launched several daughters sue- I cessfuUy, to the New A ork Tribune. “ ‘Keen on talking,* I used to tell my girls, ‘even if you talk about nothing. Its bet- | ter to be thought silly than stupid, and very young girls are bound to be either the one or the other, as a rule. It is a fatal mistake to sit speechless at the first few dinners. Hostesses resent a dull looking guest and avoid asking dead i weights a second lime if they can help it. It really does not matter what you say. Recite ‘Mother Goose,' if you like: people rarely listen to you anyway, and you must practice on somebody. “ •Gradually the faeon de parier will ! come to you, and you can cheerfully join in the talk of the day' without difficulty: but a habit of silence once acquired, ana a reputation for stiffness once fastened upon a girl; and society votes her heavy and uninteresting, how ever prett.y, accomplished and really well informed she may be. All that may be utilized later on. and will come admirably into play after she has acquired the arc of talking; but in the beginning anything will do. A well-known no . elist has said that by usage only can you attain the art of society talk. Gradually, if you practice the system assiduously,you will be able to walk alone. Your unconscious phrases will become exactly like those of your neighbors. You will then only need to open your mouth, stretch the vocal chorjds and supply the necessary breath, and ad mirably constructed inanities will roll out without effort.”’ Tolstoi, until recently, says the New York Sun, had no audience in his wife. She did not anprove the course he took to antagonize the Russian rulers, and begged him to desist and write the stories at which he is so apt and which pay him so handsomely. After a time, though, she, too, was converted to the severe style of thinking followed by her husband, and now callers see the couple evenings bend ing over a plain wooden table, while the count reads aloud his written pages with the day’s ink fresh upon them. John Stuart Mill had the most appre ciative wife a writer ever had. In one of his books he has a dedication inscribed to her, declaring that, but for her “bright, clear light,” be could never have penned a line worth reading. To her criticism he attributed all his success. Rebecca Harding Davis, herself a fam ous tale writer, is responsible for the career of two others well known in liter ature. Her son, Richard Harding Davis, thanks her for his literary career, which she encouraged by getting all his first good stories in print, and destroying others that would not add to her son’s reputation. This she did until he could “go alone,” as one says of a child. Then there is her husband, Clarke Davis of Philadelphia, one of the first editors of the country, and one who thanks his wife for her advice on all knotty editorial points and questions of literary judgment. Mrs. Gladstone is not an intellectual woman, yet her husband says she has “helped” him very materially in his speeches and writings. And she has “as sisted” more by what she has not done than by her actual deeds. For one thing—and she' herself boasts of this— she has not bothered him when he was getting out a new speech or writing some thing on the vast number of subjects he has treated in the last sixty years; and she has kept the children quiet too. Not always has he read his writtea documents to her, because they were often on topics which she did not clearly apprehend. Yet to her Mr. Gladstone gives all the praise showered upon himself. Once she bad a carriage door slammed upon her hand as she was getting in on her way to hear her husband speak. And she did not tell him until afterward, lest it keep him from do ing himself justice in his speech. Charles Dickens did not have this kind of a wife. When the truth is told, after time has softened its hard outlines, it will be learned how difficult it was for the great novelist to work at home until he and his wife “agreed to disagree” in the way they did. Both are now at rest. Thackeray had a terrible time with his wife. She neither would listen to his writings, nor allow him to continue to work with his pen. Finally it was dis covered that the poor lady was hopelessly insane. And for years the great-hearted man supported her in luxury in a private asylum, while he brought up his bright children the best he could. Mrs. Thackeray died only last spring, having outlived her husband thirty years. Many living writers have wives that are true helpmates. Among these help ing wives are the beautiful Mrs. Eugene Field, Mrs. Robert Louis Stephenson, who herself writes well, arid Mrs. Julien Hawthorne. George Parsons Lathrop has an authoress wife; Mr. Peary, writer and explorer, has a wife, who, in scrip tural utterance, “holds up both his hands toward heaven:” Thomas Nelson Pago has a wife, who, though not long married to him, is intensely interested in every written word, and Will Carleton has a home and appreciative household second to none other iu the world. It is always to be regretted; I think, when love comes to a girl before she has attained her moral and intellectual ma jority, writes Mrs. Burton Kingsland in October Ladies’ Home Journal. The man whom she would love at sixteen is often quite different from one to whom she could give her more mature affections, and there is rlways the danger of seeing him at a disadvantage, when larger ex perience of other men will lead her to make comparisons. There are some things to wnich time is the only guiae, and in so momentous a step as the choice of the companion of a lifetime, “the un reasoning madness of love” can, in ex treme youth, rarely be trusted. A young girl has so many illusions, so little knowl edge of human nature, so slight an ac quaintance with her own heart, as to make the x-isk always a serious one. The attention of the visitors at St. Moritz, says the Boston Transcript, is at pres nt concentrated on the two morning glories of the place -her Royal Highness the Duchess of York and her mother, the Duchess of Teck. both of whom go about as freely and with as little form as the very natives themselves. There are a few young people in attendance, it is true, but the hotel register alone betrays that. In the morning the Duchess of York walks about with a friend of her own age and seems to be very jolly and having a thoroughly good time, though it con sists of nothing more than walking about to the different springs, occasionally stopping to listen to one of the many bands, and looking in the jewelers’ win dows with as much interest as if she had never seen any of the bucket.uls of jew els all her own packed up at tst. James's palace awaiting her return! It is surprising there is never a crowd following or surrounding her; per haps because it is difficult for a stranger to distinguish her among the throngs of Engligh girls about; she, like the rest, in variably dresses in serge skirt and coat with sailor hat. You have all read so much about her that I hardly need de scribe to you a girl taller than the aver age with heavy awkward figure, her face strongly of the German type, with very small blue eyes, retrousse nose, and large lips so red as to suggest rouge, but withal a thoroughly good-natured expres sion. The Duchess of, Teck is so stout that walking is no easy matter, but, nev ertheless, she strolls about among the shops receiving a very cordial welcome from all, for she is an old habitue of the place and it is said more generously in cliued than her august cousin Victoria. A London paper prints this remarkable bit of news; “Even if English society hesitates be fore adopting the colored coats for even ing dress. America has decided to take the step. At some of the most fashion able gatherings, coats of claret-colored and navy blue, with plush knee breeches fastened with three button, black silk stockings and shoes with black buckles have been seen. So far Mr. Ward Mc- Allister has not been tempted to desert the conventional, but he is believed to be favorably disposed toward the innova tion.” While on the topic of men’s fashions it might be well to add that the Court Jour nal says there is “a fad coming on rather strongly” among English swells of the sterner sex “for submitting the arm to the process of tattooing” as “an indelible device to affirm indelible love.” The writer adds: “But it will be there as an accusing evidence, perhaps, in many cases, of a THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1894. past and no longer existing affection. It would be much more intelligent if the hero of a true love were to have a gold bracelet riveted round his wrist. It it is a foreign custom which is being largely patronized in England by some men. Moreover, it may be considered as a voucher for being the possessor of a little superfluity ot' gold—and even some rainy, unforeseen day may come in useful when tiled off.” “Please scan me closely,” asked, says the New York Times, a tan-cheeked dame of a morning feminine coterie in a boudoir, “and tell me what symptoms 1 exhibit of being a person worthy of confidence. “I am not a woman who can keep a secret—on the contrary I am conversa tional to an extreme, and therefore tell everything I know. Nevertheless, every summer, when I take my outing, I am confided in by other women, and told secrets—secrets sentimental, literary, po litical, domestic and religious—until my brain is almost dangerously fatigued. This summer, at the seashore, many entire strangers made me the unwilling depos itory of their profound interests. “Mothers told me of daughters who would not marry to please them, and of sons .’ho were going to ruin; girls con fided jo me their numerous love affairs, happy or happy; literary aspirants held me down with heavy volumes and read their poems to me, and even dowagers in vested me with dangerous information concerning their final disposition of their worldly wealth. Are we a nation of women who cannot keep their own secrets, or am I fatally gifted in evoking confi dences? I really would like to know.” The new scheme, called usually “old maid insurance,” which has been intro duced in England seems to depend upon the vanity of women for its chief gain. It provides that any single woman may insure for a lump sum, or an annuity, to be paid if she remains unmarried up to a certain age. The taole of expectation of marriage, which correspond to those of expectation of life in other insurance companies, are very interesting and very catching. The younger and prettier the woman the higher the rate of premium, and what woman will decline to pay a heavy premium on her own eligibility? Said an observing shoemaker recently: “It is a positive fact that women’s feet are decidedly larger than a few years ago 1 can‘recall when a woman who asked for size 4 in her shoes almost invariably apologized in manner or words: now 5s are almost the average size, and 6s are in great demand. The physical culture craze is responsible for this. Young women who tramp, play tennis, and now golf, simply cannot do it in narrow tight boots any longer. As to the French heel, only actresses and women who ape their modes wear them in the street any more. The really fashionable women use them still for dress shoes, but never for walking boots. The Land of Pretty Soon. I know of a land where the streets are paved • With the things which we meant to achi sve. It is walled with the money we meant to have saved. And the pleasures for which we grieve. The kind words unspoken, the promises broken. And many a coveted boon Are stowed away there in that land some w Fi • The land of the “Pretty Soon.” There are uncut jewels of possible fame Lying about in the dust, And many a noble and lofty aim 1 Covered with mold and rust, And O! this place, while it seems so near, Is further away than the moon. Though our purpose is fair, yet we never get there— The land of “Pretty Soon.” The road that leads to that mystic land Is strewn with pitiful wrecks, And the ships that have sailed for its shining strand Bear skeletons on their decks. It Is further at noon than It wus at dawn. And further a( night than at noon; O! let us beware of that land down there— The land of “Pretty Soon.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox. —Cincinnati Commercial. 1 ItistheNew England housewife who understands the art of making brown bread in all its perfection—light, savory, delicious. This excellent article of food is apt to be at its best in the rural districts be cause it is always possible there to get the best rye meal fresh at the moment of need. In the large cities it is difficult often to get it; grocers do not keep it as a rule, and feed stores are the best souths of supply. In the farming dis tricts 10 cents will buy a good-sized bag ful. The real New England brown bread is thus made: To a pint and a half of rye meal add a pint and a half of corn meal and a teaspOonful of salt; mix thoroughly dry; then add a cup of molasses and a heaping teaspoonful of baking soda, wet in a little warm water. Add enough sour milk to make a soft batter. Put the mix ture into a buttered mold, with tight cover, and steam four hours. When done take out, cut into medium thick slices, and serve on a platter. It can be Oaten with butter alone, or for a company dish at tea serve it with thidk cream poured over each slice, in which setting it is a most toothsome compound. Miss Edith Rockefeller, says the New York Sun, has a fancy lot pianos. There are five in her home. 4 West Fifty-fourth street. She likes them in wood to match her boudoir, or in rosewood like the draw ing room. She plays beautifully, and is rich enough to indulge the fancy to her heart’s desire. Miss Pauline "Whitney loves to write French poetry, and does so very well in deed. She has contributed to all the leading 1- rench periodicals, and is much amused when a French paper refers to her as “the daughter of one of the ex emperors of America.” Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, while rich enough to abound in fads, really has very few. She loves flowers, though, and has them everywhere about her. The walls of her little boudoir are covered with them: and her mirrors, of which every side of the wall has one. are entwined with garlands painted upon the wall by the most celebrated artists of America. She loves white flowers more than all. JCer flower-trimmed window seats look over the Lowery ana green expanse of Central park. Miss Virginia Fars has a fad for fans. She owns the largest and most expensive private collection hereabouts. They are all for use, too, and match her costumes, of which she has hundreds every year. Miss Fair did not set out with the idea of making a collection of fans, but the number has increase until sue has come to'have a justifiable pride in them. Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin,who until recently was the most celebrated so. iety girl of her state, has long had a fondness for candlesticks, She has every conceivable sort, and ber tables and mantels are cov ered with them. There are jeweled sticks and just the plain, pretty ones that come in so many diuerent kinds ot china now adays. Her collection would stock a bric a-brac shop nicely with that variety of ornament. Mrs. Frederick Gebbard, when she was Miss Lulu Morris, had a wonderful fancy for sipall dogs. She owned many of them and used to get the newest importations to add to her list of pets. She named them all, too. and knew them by their own titles even as they knew her? Helen Gould has a fad. You have heard of it. It is for bowling. Last winter she formed a private class in bowling, wMch met on Monday nights at the Berkeley Ladies Club for practice. There were oniy about a dozen in the class, and, un fortunately for Miss Gould, she was either ill or out of town nearly every night dur ing the season. She hired two alleys for her friends, so that the Dins could be set up in one while the sport was going on in the other. Miss Gould is strong enough to be an expert bowler. An alley recently built on her Tarrvtown premises cost $lO,- 000, and is as beautifully equipped as the bowling alley at Biltmore, George Van derbilt’s North Carolina home. Miss Sylvia Green has a fad which is hers by inheritance. It is for money. But, unlike her mother, Mrs. Hetty Green, it is not for tbe making of money, but for saving it. She is constantly in fear of the poorhouse, and is afraid to spend a cent. She has three millions in her own right from her grandfather, but spends nothing. She is most agreeable to live with, being quiet, amiable, and ac commodating, though not so cheerful as she might be. She is not stingy to the household, but will not spend anything on herself. She has devised almost every imaginable kind of bank for saving her spare “change,” and is always looking ahead into the future, with her money hidden in her hand for safe keeping. Her friends say that this is the result of early training, and will be eradicated if she ever comes into the fifty or so mil lions which her mother will leave her. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willy K.. has a fondness for bracelets. Mrs. ’ Willy has brought up her family well and has not ovei indulged them in luxuries, but this daughter, who will make her debut in about two years, owns a very large col lection of these ornaments. Miss Anna Gould, that ever-discussed heiress, has a fad for horses. At Furlough Lodge, her brother’s place in the Adiron dack mountains, she keeps a magnificent team for her own driving, ana she has, besides, several saddle horses there and a stableful of young horses, yet to be broken, for she will doubtless establish a small sized stock farm there, where there is so much room. Her fad for horses dates from the day when her father bought a little pony cart for herself and her sister Helen at Saratoga, years ago when her mother was living. Miss Winnie Davis has a fad, so it is said. It is for getting her photograph taken. She has been photographed so oiten that she has grown to enjoy it, and several times a year she poses. The de mand for her picture is very great, as in the south she is known as “the daughter of the confederacy,” and north she has many friends. Miss Davis has several hundred of her own photographs. She is beautiful enough to have many more taken. Miss Julia Dent Grant, thought not yet in society, knows a great deal about the etiquette of Austria, England and Amer ica. and speaks many languages. She now enjoys learning them, and since the day when her cultured mother insisted upon having German spoken as the lan guage of the household she has mastered several tongues. In the Austrian court, when her father was foreign minister, it was not an unusual thing to hear Miss Grant speaking German, French, Italian and Spanish all in one breath, then En glish again, without a second’s hesitation in any of the tongues. OHIO REPUBLICANS. They Turn Out in Force to Hear Gov. McKinley Open -the Campaign. Findlay, 0., Sept. 27.—Gov. William McKinley this afternoon inaugurated the fall campaign of the Republican party of Ohio, and the event was signalized by one of the greatest outpouring of the rank and file that Northwestern Ohio has ever witnessed. Arrangements had been made for special excursion trains from Colum bus,Toledo, Sandusky, Kenton, Lima, Fos toria and numerous other towns within a radious of a hundred miles at rates as low as a quarter of a dollar for the round trip, and as a result the republican co horts flocked in by droves. Findlay itself, irrespective of party, kept holiday in honor of the day and swathed itself in in gay colors. OUTWITTED HIS OAPTORB. A Negro Desperado Fires His Prison and Escapes. Waycross, Ga., Sept. 27.—Last night a desperate negro murderer was brought here by a detective and put in the city jail. This morning at daybreak the jail was discovered on fire. The negro had set fire to his prison early after midnight and effected his escape. He had left several hours before his flight was dis covered. Detective Bough and Chief Sweat went in search of the fugitive but could make no progress. The negro had outwitted his captors. Much of the in terior of the jail was destroyed but the damage was not great. MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS. Negroes Want Their Children Re ceived in White Schools. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27.—Mandamus proceedings were begun here to-day to compel the school board to permit the colored child of Bcnjimin Thornton to attend the school in Thornton’s district. The officials have expelled the child and are attempting to force her to attend a colored school some distance away. This is the first time that the color line has been drawn here, and the colored popula tion are indignant. The case will be bit terly fought. ACCIDENT TO A DRUMMER. He Was Thrown From a Train and Thought to Be Killed. Wheeling, W. Va. Sept. 27.—A Balti more and Ohio train when approaching Messerly yesterday struck a curve, and Albert Messerly, a Wheeling drummer, was thrown off the platform on which he was standing and went over an embank ment. He was picked up unconscious. A doctor pronounced him dead, and his supposed remains were turned over to an undertaker for shipment home. While the undertaker was preparing the corpse Messerly opened his eyes, saw- what was going on, and, after proving himself still alive, was taken home. He will re cover. SANK IN A GALE. All of the Crew of Seven Drowned Ex cept One, Who Floated Ashore. Manistique, Mich., Sept. 27.—The schooner William Home, consort of the steamer F. R. Buell, sank off Seul Choix Point, Tuesday night during the heavy southeast gale. All of the crew of seven, except one man, were drowned. There was one woman drowned. The only sur vivor—Antonio Mingo—floated ashore un conscious on a piece of boat. Verdict Against the Liquor Traffic. Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 27.—The com plete returns on the liquor license question in the recent state election have been certified to bj- the secretary of stale. The vote stands: For license 47.662, against license 45,495; a majority against the continuation of liquor traffic of 1,933 Change of Postal Arrangement*. Washington, Sept. 27.—The postmaster at Savannah. Ga., has been instructed to uispatch through registered pouches for Brunswick. Ga., daily, except Monday, instead of daily, except Sunday, as at present. Fine Crops in Oglethorpe County. Lexington, Ga., Sent. 27.—A. O. Bacon and L. F. Livingston spoke here yester day to a large crowd. The populists seem to be missing in this county. Crops are tine in this section. IN THE WAKE OF THE GALE The Ground in Florida Strewn With Oranges—Damage Elsewhere. Bice Crop of the Carolinas Probably Severely Injured—Damage by Flood at Charleston and Casualties to Ship ping Coastwise Atlantic Vessels Beport Encountering Heavy Hurri canes—No Loss of Life as Yet Ascer tained. New York, Sept. 37.—Steamer Eldo rado, Capt. Percy, of the Morgan line, from New Orleans, arrived at quaratine just after sundown to-night, 13 hours late. She rounded the Florida Keys on Sunday, Sept. 34, and the hurricane ac companied her to port. Capt. Percy’s log shows that he encountered a gale from the southeast just after passing Key West, which, instead of dying out as usual, increased in velocity and effect until be neared Cape Hatteras, on Sept. 35, when it moderated somewhat and cantered to the eastward. Day before yesterday morniiig the wind again increased, until it had attained a speed of fifty to sixty miles per hour. Later in the day it moderated slightly, and yesterday commenced veering to the northeast. Capt. Percy says the hurricane was one of the most severe he had ever met, and that he had a hard tussle with it. He had a raging sea for three days and nights, but the Eldorado is a staunch ves sel and weathered tbe storm without re ceiving any but trivial damage. Outgoing steamers for the West Indies and coast points south are unsettled as to the advisability of facing the storm, which is reported to be coming north along tbe coast. The steamer Aivena, for the West In dies, passed out at the Hook early in the afternoon, but returned after having gone but a few miles. NACOOCHEE IN GRAVESEND BAY. The Cienfuegos, bound for the West Indies, was reported by the Sanay Hook observer as clear of the bar at 5 o’clock, but ten minutes later he reported her re turning, headed for the bav. The York town, for Norfolk and Newport News, went out late in the afternoon, and the Nacoochee, for Savannah, anchored in Gravesend bay. The outward bound steamer Vigilancia of the Ward line, after delaying twenty four hours in Gravesend bay, decided to face the storm and heaved anchor at 1 o’clock p. m. The Lampasas of the Mal lory line also went out this evening. GROUND COVERED WITH ORANGES. Ocala, Fla., Sept. 37.—The storm of Tuesday night and Wednesday was the worst experienced in this section for twelve years. Trees were blown down in every direction. Over 200 were counted blown across tbe road leading from An thony to Ocala. The mail route through the fiat woods country leading from An thony to Fort McCoy was impassable, over 100 trees being thrown across it and all bridges washed away. The rain was a young waterspout. Drains became foaming creeks, branches rose to rivers and were temporarily im passable. The Ocklswaha rose so rapidly that it submerged Howard and Gibson’s causewaj’ and made it impossible to reach Grahamville. The storm was so fierce, and Drees fell so numerously, that Col. Hart’s Palatka and Silver Springs boat Okeehumpkee, Capt. Thompson commanding, was com pelled to tie-up at Eureka and remain that day and night. Several large trees came near falling on her on the way from Silver Springs. The storm did great damage to orange trees. Much fruit was blown dowuj and the ground is literally covered with oranges. In groves where forest trees were standing, many were blown down, and numerous orange trees were crushed in their fall. Henry Dunn, in this way, lost fifteen trees. Other grove owners lost similarly. The Philadelphia grove, west of Millwood, suffered much damage from the storm. Ocala was not hurt much. Many trees were blown down, one falling on P. B. Dukes’stable, crushingit, but from which he had just taken his horse. Few farm ers are in town to-day; busy putting up wrecked fences. Sea gulls were found on the streets of Ocala Wednesday morning, having been blown in from the Atlantic ocean. Old residents testify that it was the worst storm since the famous hurricane of 1871. SOUTH FLORIDA CUT OFF. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 37.—Storm news is very meager. Jacksonville is still cut off from communication with South Florida, and since Tuesday not a word has been been received from east coast points, where the storm is sup posed to have been most severe. All the wires leading to the south are down, i and no trains from that section have come in since Tuesday. Nothing has been | heard from St. Augustine since Tuesday, > and there are rumors Jhat the “Ancient | City” has suffered greatly. The railroad and Western Union officials are repairing the damage to their lines andcommunica- J 1 i When my little girl was one month old, she had a scab form on her face. 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In Jacksonville the damage? which amounts to about 575,000, is being rapidly repaired. The wreck of the new union depot, in process of construction, was the most serious loss. SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN. Washington, D. C.. Sept. 27.—At 1 p. m. the weather bureau issued the follow ing special bulletin regarding the West India hurricane: The tropical hurricane, announced in the weather bureau bulle tin of Wednesday as southeast of Jack sonville, has moved slowly north-north east tq north of Charleston, which sta tion was within nearly the calm center at Ba. m. to-day with a pressure of 29.30 and wind of 12 miles south. Later re ports show that the pressure has risen one six-hundredth in three hours at Charleston and fallen the same amount, at Norfolk, which indicates a very slow movement to north-northeast. Present indications are that the storm will con tinue to move slowly until midnight, probably diminishing in intensity. Dan gerous gales will be experienced on the South and Middle Atlantic and South New England coasts and moderate winds in the interior of the Atlantic coast states.'' THE WIND AT NORFOLK. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 27.—Weather bu reau here at noon to-dpy states that owing to the area of high pressure to northeast of Hatteras, storm center will be forced to west of Norfolk; that the mountain range will head it off and start it on a more direct course for the New England coast, and that it will pass just east of Washington and over New York. At 12m. here, the wind thirty-two miles from east and still increasing. At Cape Henry at Ba. m., wind thirty-eight miles from northeast, with heavy sea; coast wires down since 8 a. m. SLOWLY MOVING NORTHWARD; New York, Sept. 27.—Reports received by the United States weather bureau this morning show that the hurricane now prevailing in the south is increasing in force, and slowly, but surely, moving northward. It is believed that it will reach this vicinity either to-night or to morrow morning. The storm center to day is along the coast of the Carolinas, the lowest barometer being at Charles ton. It extends over an area with a radius of almost 1,000 miles, and is mov ing northeast. Its travel, however, is slow, the center being changed but little during the past twelve hours. The velocity of the wind in the region of the hurricane varies from 40 to 70 miles an hour, and is accompanied with rain. A large number of ships lying at anchor about Liberty statue and down in the lower bay are awaiting the passage of the storm before sailing. The violence of the gale is so great that skippers fear to risk their vessels out at sea. It is be lieved .that ocean steamships going east from here yesterday would escape, but that those sailing from European ports at the same time for this side would run into it. DAMAGE TO CROPS REPORTED. Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27. —Specials to the News and Courier from various points in the middle and coast region regarding the West India cyclone, report consider able damage to corn and cotton, very seri ous damage to rice, but no loss of life. At Georgetown the damage to the rice crop was very great, and it is difficult yet to estimate the loss, though many put it at 33 per cent. A large portion of April planting, either in stubble or stacked in fields, floated off with the tide, and June rice is, no doubt, badly injured, for the water was salt for some distance up the rivers. A LIGHT SHIP MISSING. Charleston, Sept, 27.—Clyde steamship Iroquois arrived here from Jacksonville to-night, reports that Martin’s industry light ship off Savannah, Ga., is missing. AT THE Presidential Proclamation—Ths Del aware Bridge—Other Matters. Whashington, Sept. 27.—The President has issued a proclamation granting full amnesty and freedom to all persons who have violated the Edmunds act against polygamy. Commodore Matthews, chief of the bu reau of yards and docks, to-day received a telegram from the superintendent of the Port Royal, S. C., new drv dock, stating that the dock remained uninjured and that the severest part of the storm had passed off to the eastward without touching Port Royal. This indicates that the sea islands, where such havoc was wrought by the storm last year, probably have escaped this time. The United Stales has not signified its intentions with regard to the pan-Ameri can monetary conference proposed by Mexico, and this, with the delay of other governments to send answers to the invi tations, will cause the postponement of the meeting which was set for next month. It is probable that this govern ment will decline the invitation. The plans submitted for the gigantic railway bridge across the Delaware river, to connect Philadelphia with Camden, N. J., have been approved by the war de partment, the only change required being in the location of the draw. The bridge is to be built by the Pennsylvania Rail road Company, whose chief engineer, Mr. Brpwn, prepared the plans. It will be high enough to permit the passage of ferryboats at any point. The draw will accommodate ships with the tallest masts. This bridge will give through rail connection to the seashore and New Jersey towns. Work will com mence within a year. For the first time in several months all the prominent officials from Secretary Carlisle down are -on duty” in the treas ury department. The changes incident to the reorganization, which goes into elect Oct. 1, is engaging most of the time of Secretary Carlisle at this time. Important Husband—Come on, dear. You don’t want to hang around the store all day l Wife (sweeilyt—Pretty Boon, darling! I've only got a quarter left.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BED MOTIONS PROPOSED. Carnegie Company Announce, Its In ability to Pay the Present Scale. Pittsburg, Sept. 27.—The Carnegie Steel Company, limited, to-day gave no tice to its 5,000 workmen employed at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works and fur naces at Braddock, of a desire to ter minate its sliding wage scale contract with them. A new scale is proposed, which, it is said, will make reductions on all classes of work except common laborers. The posted notices contain the information that the company will be ready to present the new scale for the consideration of the men by Nov. 15. It is to go into effect Jan. 1, 1895. The reasons given for the proposed wage reduction is that the company can not continue to pay the present rate of wages owing to the depression brought about by the tariff uncertainty. The no- J tices were a* disagreeable surprise to the workmen. GtASSWORKERS THREATEN TO STRIKE. The wage difficulty at the Chambers & McKee window glass factory at Jeanetta is still unsettled and unless settled to morrow, will probably develop a strike by Saturday. Trouble among the un skilled workmen is also threatened at D. O. Cunningham’s factory, South Pitts burg, and also at the Shenango Glass Company and Lawrence Glass Company, at N ew Castle. TIN PLATE WORKS CLOSE. Bridgeport, la., Sept. 27.—The tin plate mill department of the Etna Standard, mill, employing eighty men, shut down last night because the employes refused to accept a 25 per cent, reduction de manded by the management. .Fifteen hundred coal miners, along the line of the Cleveland, Loraine and Wheeling rail road, were laid off to-day, because of the inability of the road to furnish cars to handle the output, which amounts to about 500 cars per day. TWO NEBRASKA TICKETS. Administration Men Bolt the Conven tion and Name a Ticket. Omaha, Neb. Sept. 27.—The following nominations were made by the state dem ocratic convention after midnight. For governor, Silas A. Holcomb. The populist candidate was nominated by a large ma jority on the first ballot. The balance of the ticket is as follows: Lieutenant gov ernor. J. N. Gaffins; secretary of state, F. J. Ellick; treasurer, G. A. Linkhart; au ditor, H. J. Dahlman; superintendent of public instruction, W. L. Jones; commis sioner of grounds and buildings, S. J. Kent. With the exception of Ellick, Liukhart and Dahlman the nominees are the ones put up by the populists. The state democratic convention, after a turbulent session, split at midnight over the fusion question. When Judge . Holcomb, the populist candidate, was named for governor, the administration men bolted. The bolters numbered 104, and they at once organized into a separate convention and began the work of select ing a straight democratic ticket. The following state ticket was nominated by the bolters, including the delegates of six counties: Governor, P. D. Sturde vant; lieutenant governor, R. E. Dumphy; secretary of state, D. T. Rolf; auditor, Otto Bauman; treasurer, Luke Driden thal; attorney general, John H. Ames; commissioner of public lands and build ings, Jacob Bigler; superin tendentof pub lic instruction, Milton Doolittle. The bolters’ convention then adjourned, after adopting the same platform, with the ex ception that it fa\ors a gold basis. Before the bolt the convention showed, by its upanimous indorsement of William Jennings Bryan for the Senate, that he was a favorite son. THE CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 27.—A certificate sworn to by Euclid Martin, as chairman, and S. M. Snyder, as secretary, of “the democratic state convention,” was filed with the secretary of state this morning. It contains the names of the . men put in nomination by the seceders from the democratic state convention at Omaha last night. Secretary of State Allen says that as the certificate comes to him from representatives of the Demo cratic party he will accept it to be what it purports. When asked if another certificate should be filed by the officers of the regular democratic convention what he would do with that, the secre tary said he would have to take advice as he could not say off-hand what his course would be. He intimated that any con test as to the right to the name of the democratic ticket would have to be de termined by the courts. ACQUITTED OF MURDER. Second Trial of Edward J. Fuller Re sults In a Favorable Verdict. Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 27.—A special to the Star says: -‘The trial of Edward J. Fuller, which has been progressing at Rockingham, Richmond county, nearly six days, ended to-day with a verdict of acquittal. “Fuller was charged with the murder of B. C. Parker at Fayetteville, N. C., and was tried there last March, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. “The case was taken to the supreme court, which| granted a new atrial. A change of venue was then made to Rich mond county, and the second trial re sulted in prompt acquittal. “The case has attracted much attention throughout the state.” INDICTMENT QUASHED. Other Indictments, However, are Pending Against Hardwick. Atlanta, Sept. 27.—The indictment against J. O. Hardwick, ex-cashier of the First National Bank of Cedartown, Ga., was quashed to-day. Another indictment for forgery is pend ing against Hardwick. He demanded a trial on that indictment but the prosecu tion secured a postponement.