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In the early days of our grandmothers,
says Harper’s Bazar, gentlemen’s watches
were usually ponderous affairs, having a
heavy silver case, In which the timepiece
Itself was for safety carefully clasped.
A circular piece of rice paper, cut to fit
exactly the lower half of this case, and
on it carefully painted a wreath of buds
and leaves, or it might be a single flower,
was deemed a very appropriate present
from a maiden to her lover. Not every
one, however, had at command this dain
ty handicraft, and in many New England
villages there were persons who, "for a
consideration,” held themselves ready for
orders. The language of flowers was stu
died in reference to the depth of feeling
to be expressed. Sometimes the all-im
portant sentiment was detailed with In
dian ink and a very fine camel’s hair
brush. It was a tedious process, demand
ing great skill, to work upon so fragile a
paper.
The debutantes at' last Wednesday’s
drawing room, says a Indianapolis dis
patch to the New York Sun, had a good
deal to try their temper. The queen shirked
her work, with the result that the Prin
cess of Wales had to take it in hand al
most at the last moment, and, although
presentations to her royal highness were
by the royal command, considered equiva
lent to presentation to the queen her
self, there was much grumbling among
young women who had spent days In
practising how to bend low and kiss the
monarch's hand with the minimum
amount of awkwardness. Then, follow
ing upon a week of warm, summer-like
weather, drawing room day was cold and
cheerless, with a high wind which drove
dust through the most carefully closed
carriage windows, spoiled dresses, ruined
complexions, and caused an amount of
untimely sneezing that was distressing
to witness except to brutal, scoffing spec
tators.
The number of presentations was com
paratively small, but the Princess was
ten minutes late and there were several
waits and hitches which, had the queen
been present, would have got the court
officials into serious trouble. The general
verdict was thtU the Marchioness of Lon
donderry, who presented the Dowager
Duchess of Marlborough on her remar
riage, wore the finest diamonds, and that
one of the most striking dresses was that
of Lady Jane Lindsay, the material of
which had been sent all the way to China
to be embroidered with sprays of strange
flowers.
The Springtime Girl—lfrom the Cincin
nati Tribune—
She comes with her beau-catching graces,
Like a dream of empuradised bowers;
In a flutter of ribbons and laces
She blooms with the earliest flowers;
And the lover is no longer pensive
On the crust of society’s whirl,
For sweet, though a wee bit expensive,
Is the modern style Springtime Girt.
A huntress of hearts, like Diana,
The shafts of her quiver fly true,
And her silvery laugh will ba manna
Until she doth bld ua adieu;
With a swarm of adorers about her
She shines like an Orient pearl;
Ah, tho world would be lonely without her,
The elegant Springtime Girl.
There’s pleasure wherever she mingles,
HeF’Wlt hath an edge that |s keen,
And the cheek of the dude often tingles
At her bits of sarcasm, 1 ween;
So welcome, the ribbons and laces
Which round her the deft breezes whirl,
For they frame in their delicate graced
Earth’s fairy, the Springtime Girl.
—T. C. Harbaugh.
Finger-bowls have grown smaller, says
the New York Times. The latest are made
of tlnteti Bohemian glass, ami have a
fopted bowl, which rests on a plate to
mutch. If possible the finger-bowl should
carry out the color scheme of the table.
Tho most correct champagne glasses have
the melon-shaped bowl. After-dinner cof
fee cups are now large enough to be
used for afternoon tea. They come in tho
long, low caldron shape. The latest glass
for serving sorbet or punch is known as
the violet cup shape. It resembles some
what a largo violet, and is made of vio
let glass. The tulip is a favorite sorbet
glass, and Is usually seen tn shades of yel
low. Punch or sorbet is also served in
the heart of a full-blown pink rose, made
of the new pink Bohemian glass. All
these flower-glasses rest on a naturally
shaped green leaf, which is of glass, and
used for the saucer.
All Improper marriages, says Demor
est’* Magazine for June, should be de
nounced; but international marriages are
not necessarily improper. Merely the In
ternational feature ought not to affect
the moral character of the marriage. All
depends ui»on the facts in each case.
Whether marriage are international or
not. where tho motive, on the one side,
is plainly to secure wealth, and on the
other, a real or supposed prominent social
position, the marriage falls fur below the
proper standard. Where differences in
religion, in education, in taste, and in
social relations, are very marked, the
propriety of the marriage is certainly open
to question. Hut it ought constantly to
be borne in mind that the mere interna
tional feature Is, per se, neither commend
able nor objectionable. All depends upon
other considerations. It is to be hoped
that the time is near at hand when Amer
ican women will feel there is no higher
honor than to be the wives of brave, true
and patriotic American men, and the
mothers of patriotic American sons and
daughters. The present tendency does
noa reflect much credit on certain classes
of American women, however much it
may conduce to the financial ambitions of
certain foreigners.
“Little Mr. Push has undoubtedly got
on wonderfully well,” admitted Mrs.
Caustic, who considers herself one of the
elect. "But her methods are certainly
amusing. I happened to see her at several
different places tho other day, and I was
vastly Interested in observing her tactics.
Our first rencontre was at the A. wedding,
where both of us chanced to be near Mrs.
Z., a cousin of the bride, in the crush at
the door.
"•Come with me, Mrs. Caustic,• called
out ths latter. ‘I expect they will give me
I ought to have one.
if those snobbish young ushers look after
the friends of tho family, instead of giving
their own particular intimates and the
smart people, whom they wish to oblige,
the best places, as they generally do.’
LHtle Mrs. Push turned around immedi
ately.
" ‘Oh! may I come, too?* she asked, ap
pealingly. ‘I do so want to hear what
j'ou two clever people say about every
one." And Mrs. Z.. says the New York
tribune, pleased with the flattery, smiled
assent. The ushers, as Mrs. Z. predicted,
tried to look over our heads, and suggested
the aWe aisle; but Mrs. Z., who is nothing
if not determined, held her own splendid
ly, and wa succeeded finally in getting
very good places half way up the middle
aisle. For aeveral minutes Mrs. Push ap
peared satisfied, but us one smart person
age uftev another passed us on the arm
of an obsequious usher, she began to get
restless. *Oh, excuse, me,' she exclaimed,
suddenly, 'but there is Mrs. Van Duwsen.
1 positively must speak to her about eome
thlng,* and. squeezing past us. she joined
a«»rua ultra fashionable ueuole. who were
a few pews ahead of us. And that was the
last we saw of Mrs. Push, who had seemed
so anxious for our society. Oddly enough,
however, that evening, rather to my dis
gust, I encountered our social climber
again at a large dinner. At the table, of
course, her place was assigned to her, and
she had no opportunity to exercise her pe
culiar talents; but as soon as the ladies
formed in different groups in the draw
ing room, I noticed, to my secret amuse
ment, that Mrs. Push lingered over some
magazines at a table. ‘She is waiting to
see what group it w’ould be best to join,’ I
said to myself, for I saw her attention
was not on the books, and that she kept
glancing from side to side. Finally, she
made her selection, and picking up a pho
tograph as a subject to begin with, she
sauntered up to a coterie of Intimates, and
managed so cleverly that in five minutes
she appeared to be one of the set—which,
needless to say, was a very smart one.
That evening was the night of Mrs. B.’s
ball, which was one of the most exclusive
affairs of the winter.
“ ‘Now, at least, I shall get rid of that
little snob,’ I soliloquized, ‘for I am quite
sure she is not Invited; I heard Mrs. B.
say sometime ago that she was quite in
sufferable.’ But the very first person I
saw in the dressing room was Mrs. Push.
‘However did she manage that?’ I ex
claimed to a friend, but it was not until
the other day that I heard the explanation
from Mrs. B. herself. It was the bicycle
that did it! Mrs. Push is a beautiful rider,
‘and she was so kind and so helpful and
so ready to go out with me for practice,’
said Mrs. 8., ‘that she quite won me over,
and of course I could not do less than ask
her to my ball.’ ”
It has been interesting, says the New
York Times, to watch the gradual way
in which woman’s dress has "lived up”
to the big sleeve, whose advent two years
ago was a startling Innovation.
Capes promptly succeeded jackets w’hen
the fashion became pronounced, modistes
and arbiters realizing that it was asking
too much of the average jacket sleeve to
be responsible for the hiding of such a
mass of dress sleeve.
The skirts were the next part of the
costume to adapt themselves to width and
voluminousness, a necessary concession,
as the bell skirt, with the balloon sleeves,
was little short of grotesque.
Bonnets then doffed their hight, and took
unto themselves width, preserving the
equilibrium of the outfit, and the crush
collars and belts added "ears” and
“wings” to their effect.
Shoes have remained pointed, though
they should have flared, but parasols have
grown fluffy and flat to partake of the
general trend of belongings.
Finally the motif has entered bouquets.
The very newest thing at the florists’ are
the butterfly bouquets, Vxde, shallow af
fairs, with spreading bows or wings of
lilies, or what you will, and a center of
some other flower.
Loops of ribbon fall from the center of
these butterfly bunches, which bld fair to,
temporarily, at least, dethrone the popular
shower bouquet.
"The American girl, wherever she goes,
Is immediately covered by the lorgnon of
foreign curiosity,” writes Mrs. Burton
Harrison in the Ladles' Home Journal.
She can neither move nor have her being
without being discussed as a type of her
now famous class. No doubt her success
socially, wherever she is known, has much
|o do with it. Other women, old and
young—English women pre-eminently—
are on the lookout for her every departure
from good form. From her chance, trif
ling laps ■ at table d’hote in speech or ac
tion from their accepted tenets they judge
her kind. This may not seem amiable,
but it is strictly true. One can’t make
the round of half a dozen countries of
Southern Europe in the traveling season
and not have It borne in upon one’s Inner
consciousness. The chaperons of other
countries say to each other. "Ah, these
American girls, they arc sad poachers on
our preserves,” and consider it their duty
to condemn our maiden upon the small
est pretext. As for their passing criti
cisms upon her speech, that is a matter
of course, and to steer clear of them she
might almost feel tempted to hold her
tongue altogether in foreign company.
The art of pleasing, says Harper’s Bazar,
which used to be considered quite enough
of a profession to satisfy the soul of
any woman, seems to-day in the reaction
against such an extreme view in some
danger of being thrust into a place dishon
orable.
True, it takes time to acquire this gentle
nfld valuable art, and true, it takes money
Indiret tly, for time is coin for the modern
woman, whose work is worth its hire. But
no amount of direct money earned or in
herited can buy the genuine art to please.
It is tiorn with some women, as intangible
as a gossamer web. seemingly a nothing
until it clings about the face in a forest
walk, not to be lightly brushed aside. To
deliberately acquire and weave so delicate
a fiber takes not coin, but heart and hand
labor.
"Now.” asks the modern woman," is it
to be demanded of me to keep up my
public career, my home life, my social
duties, my lower to dress well, and culti
vate also the art of pleasing?”
Unless you do all this and more, mad
ame or mademoiselle, you are not a typi
cal modern woman. The blown feminine
flower of this decade must have the broad
ening influence of a public career, the
sweetening of home life, the power which
social influence undoubtedly gives, and the
arts of dressing well and of pleasing must
bo included under the general heading
"womanly.”
A New York woman, wandering among
Parts art treasures. Is thus Impressed:
“The memory of one woman's smile,” she
writes, "has set a whole world in tune.
For no picture known, perhaps, has
touched so many heart? as that bit of
dull, dusky canvas out of which the ‘Mona
Lisa’ of Leonardo da Vinci smiles at you.
The first feeling when you look at her is
one of disappointment. Her smile mocks
you. But go a little to the right, and, oh.
how sad the smile is, or stand at the left,
and it has become the joyous smile of
childhood, dimpling the corners of her
mouth, while, if you look her straight in
the face, her mood has changed again.
You know then that she has solved this
mystery which we call life and can still
smile. Now, as you turn away you And
that she bewitched you; her languid eyes
and slow smile follow you, drawing again
and again your seeking gaze. You for
get the divine message of the ‘lmmacu
late Conception,’ the face of Vandyke’s
'Charles the First,’ the sorrow’ful note of
Titian’s ’Entombment/ the gentle ’Ma
donna* of Raphael, the brilliant phrasing
of Rubens, the insistance of Paul Vero
nese. For you only one picture in this
famous room of a famous gallery Ilves.
What matters that the canvas is old and
small, the colors faded, the flesh gray?
The spirit that lies imprisoned in the Mona
Lisa's smile will never grow old; and be
cause a woman’s smile was, as it has il
lumined the work of one man's hands,
placing him on the bights in the vast
world of art.”
There has actually been found a new field
for expert invasion. The Boston Tran
script thinks we do not know how to
sleep, and suggests that some one making
a specialty of this culture should an
nounce himself "teacher of sleep," and
predicts for this pioneer, be it man or wo
man. a largo fortune. How not to sleep
is also explained. Anna Payson Call tells
It in her book. "Power Through RetXMte.*'
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, MAY 27, 1895.
Don’t adopt any habitual attitude when
you go to sleep. As you are when you
drop away in the arms of Morpheus, you
are likely to say for sometime, and, if you
tie yourself up in hard knots, before they
are untied by the soothing power of slum
ber, they will leave their impress. Round
shoulders, uneven hips, protruding collar
bones, to say nothing of the horrid
wrinkles from squeezing the eyes shut and
knitting the face into lines and furrows,
are a few of the evils which result from
not knowing how to go to sleep. Even
young women are to listen and take warn
ing, for the bad work is soon done, and it
is hard to undo. Lie flat on the back on a
mattress which is not too soft, the head on
a small pillow; the room must be cool, and
the clothing warm but light. The eyes
should be lightly closed and the hands
left easily at the sides. Don’t draw the
corners of your mouth down, w’hich will
make those ugly creases from the nose
down toward the chin. It is easy to cul
tivate this sense of relaxation. Learn to
imagine yourself heavy, as if you couldn’t
help letting a ton's weight down on the
mattress. Take a lesson from the baby;
he sleeps in utter physical abandonment.
That is why he falls out of bed, and why,
as he grows older and begins to keep the
tension of waking hours through slumber
time, he stops falling out of bed. Watch
to-night and see how ydu are managing
it, and if you are on your arms, are cross
ing your knees, putting your hands above
you on the pillar, crowding your toes in
between the mattress and footboard, tuck
ing your hand under your cheek, curving
yourself around like a paranthesis mark
stop all or any such practices right away,
and try simple, relaxed repose.
A small girl, says the New York Times,
whose home is in the aristocratic shadow'
of the Empire State’s capitol,, has a bach
elor uncle who never fails to honor at
sight all her pocket money demands upon
him. Playing in the park the other day
she saw approaching a gentleman whom
she took to be her walking bank account,
and she hastened joyfully toward him.
“Oh, Uncle Jack!” she cried, as she
neared him. "How do you do? I’ve got
to have 50 cents right away.”
"Oh, you have,” saH the man ad
dressed, amused. "And what have you got.
to have 50 cents for, pray'?”
"Why,” replied the Child, surprised,
“you never asked me that before;” then
as she took a second look her face fell; “I
don’t believe you are my Uncle Jack, at
all.”
"I don’t believe I am,” her listener con
fessed, with a smile, and the next moment
the llttld miss saw away out of her di
lemma.
“Do you know my uncle, Mr. Jack ?”
she asked, with a funny assumption of
primness.
"Yes, I do.”
Then at once all her joyousness came
back. "Oh, it’s all right, then; you just
give me the 50 cents, and the first time
you see him ask him to pay you back.”
She got her money with great prompt
ness, and somewhat later Mr. Jack
was surprised to be soberly dunned by his
intimate friend and fellow-club member
for half a dollar, value expended. <
The evils of the corset, says the New
York Times, are strongly painted by a
writer on “Hygenlc Dress.” She calls the
corset an "immense bandage of splints.”
"Suppose,” she says, "you splint your arm
for six or eight weeks; what would be
come of its muscles? A heavily boned cor
set would do very well to wrap around
a broken arm or leg until it heals, but it
is a crime to wear it over the soft ab
dominal walls which encase the most won
derful system of organs, which only' in
their full development can give us a
worthy race. Even with the splints pulled
out, this garment would be hot and de
bilitating, and, tightly worn, it interferes
with the secretions and execretions of the
skin. If bones must be in the waist, they
should not run the wrong way of the
body, but in conformity with nature’s lines
“Out of the harmonious lines with the
ribs, they grow a great many muscles
out of use, interfering with the natural
breathing, the powerful intercostal mus
cles beneath the corset become shrivelled
and partially paralyized; it becomes im
possible to properly distend the diaphragm
and, therefore, the proper amount of life
giving oxygen is not inhaled.
"The corset wearer makes her own rec
ord in the misshape of her body, in her
inability to breathe correctly, and in de
frauding the system of oxygen. It is
needless to say that the blood becomes
impre, and that functional action of im
portant organs interfered with. Digestion
and circulation are ruined, and the com
plexion declares the folly and the sin as
plainly as Cain bore the mark of murder
on his forehead.
"What is true as to tight dressing of
the feet and waist is as absolute truth
for the neck and the whole body. Every
thing should be so loosely worn that a
perfect circulation of air, feeding the
system on its surface, could go on at all
times betw’een the body and the clothing.’*
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Considered! the Best in Quality and
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Convince yourselves by sending me an
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Best quality 1-year-old rye whisky, $1.50
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Best quality 2-year-old rye whisky, $2
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Best quality 3-year-old rye whisky, 33
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Best quality 4-year-old rye whisky, 34
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Best quality 1-year-old gin, 31.50 oer
gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old gin, $2 per gal
lon.
Best quality 3-year-old gin. 33 per gal
lon.
Beat quality 1-year-old corn whisky
>1.50 per gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old corn whisky, 33
per gallon.
Best quality domestic port wine, JI per i
gallon.
Best quality domestic Catawba wine, 31
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imported Port wine, 32, 33 and 34 per
gallon.
Imported Sherry wine, 32, 33 and 34 per
gallon.
Without charge for package.
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—ad. 19 Barnard street, Savannah
LIBERIA'S IMMIGRANTS.
The Government Will Have to Pro
vide For Them.
Washington, May 23.—Beverly F.
Payne, vice consul at Monrovia, Libe
ria, reports to the state department, under
date of April 11. that the Danish steamer
Horsa arrived at Monrovia on April 7,
after a voyage of eighteen days from Sa
vannah, Ga., with 197 colored emigrants ;
from different parts of the United States
The Horsa was chartered by the Interna
tional Immigration Society of Birmtng- 1
ham, Ala. The vice consul says the gov- j
eminent of Liberia will have to provide
for them.
_—
Milestones on the Road
That leads to health are marked in the I
memory of those who, at regular stages !
and persistently, have been conveyed '
thither by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, ’
a potent auxiliary of nature in her ef
forts to throw off the ’ yoke of disease
Malarial, kidney, rheumatic and bilious
trouble, constipation and nervousness
take their departure when this benignant
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•fnn —ail ■
MEMPHIS’ SOUND MONEY MEN.
Continued from Sixth Page.
tries. . Talt,n K the large gobi standard
countries and the large silver standard
countries, it appears that in 1894 the stock
. mon ®y in the United States was over
J? er ln th e United Kingdom
nearly S2O, and in Germany nearly sl9,
while in Mexico the per capita was $4.71,
“J .>? us^L a and Finland $8.32, and in China
»3.2 b. lhe gold standard countries use
larger amounts of silver as money, but
the silver standard countries use no gold
as money, and cannot do so for the rea
sons I have already endeavored to explain.
" u t> gentlemen, for the reasons already
stated, the commercial nations of the
world do not now require the same pro
portion of metallic money in the transac
tion of their business that they required a
few centuries ago, or even one century
ago. Credit has been vastly extended
and the use of paper in the form of notes,
checks, and bills has almost entirely dis
placed metallic money in the daily busi
ness of the people, and as long as these
forms of credit are kept equal in value to
the metallic standard, the effect upon the
prices of commodities is precisely the
same as if the whole volume of circulation
consisted of standard coin, for, as long
as equality in their value can be main
tained, the paper representatives of the
dollar perform exactly the same office
in tne exchange of commodities that gold
dollars themselves would perform; but if
this equality is destroyed, the paper is dis
credited, its purchasing power is diminish
ed, and the people have no longer a stable
measure of value.
One or the most effective arguments
made by the advocates of free coinage,
in some parts of the country at least, is
that the people are in debt, and that it is
the duty of the government to relieve
them by such legislation as will enable
them to procure cheap money for the pur
pose of discharging their obligations, and
in support of this argument the most ex
aggerated statements are made as to the
depressed and suffering condition of our
farmers, wage earners, and other produc
ing classes. This argument concedes that
under the proposed system of free coin
age at the ratio of 16 to 1 all the various
kinds pf currency in use by the people,
including the silver dollar itself, would be
worth less than it is now, for, of course,
if this is not to be the result money would
be no cheaper than it is now. To
assert that the people are in
debt, is simply to say that they
have traded w'ith each other on credit,
that one part of our fellow-citizens, rely
ing upon the integrity and financial stand
ing of their neighbors and acquaintances,
have lent them money on time and sola
property to them without demanding im
mediate payment in cash, and that in this
way they have ena'bled many people to
carry on a useful business and live in com
fortable homes who otherwise could not
have done so. If it is a crime to lend
money to a man who Wants to borrow it,
or to sell property on credit to a man who
w'ants to purchase it, and has no ready
money to pay for it, let the perpetrators
be properly punished, but let us not involve
the w'hole country in confusion and disas
ter and immolate the innocent and guilty
alike in order to punish the real offend
ers. If our people are in debt they owe
each other, and, consequenty, about as
many would be actually injured as would
be apparently benefited by scaling the ob
ligations down to a silver standard. The
indebtedness of the farmers, mechanics
and other laboring classes of our people,
although large in the aggregate, is quite
small in comparison with the whole in
debtedness of the great railroad and man
ufacturing corporations, the national and
state banks, savings institutions, trust
companies, insurance companies, building
associations, and other organizations en
gaged in financial and commercial enter
prises. These various organizations are
indebted to the people to the extent of
many billions of dollars, and while it is
true that many of the people are also in
debted to them, their debtors and credit
ors are not the same persons, and, there
fore, the debts cannot be set off against
egch other and extinguished in that way.
1 d ® n Y that there is any such thing as a
distinct ‘debtor class” in this country,
for, while nearly every one owes some
debts, large or small, nearly every one has
also some debts owing to him; in other
words, he is debtor and creditor. The
laboring people; as a general rule, owe
very littu at any one time, while their em
ployers are always Indebted to them, be
cause wages are not paid in advance; and,
besides, many of them have small depos
its in savings and other banks, in trust
companies, in building associations, and
large numbers of them have their lives
nSPpd tor th® benefit of their wives and
children, and consequehtly they are cred
itors of the banks and Insurance compa
nies. The savings-bank depositors In this
country last year numbered 4,777,687, and
the wives and children of the depositors
who depended upon these accumulated
earnings for future support doubtess num
bered 10,000,000 more. There were 1,925,340
depositors in the national banks last year,
and 1,724,077 of them had deposits of less
than SI,OOO each, while state and private
banks and loan and trust companies held
deposits for 1.436,638 people. Our life in
surance companies, to say nothing of
companies insuring property against loss
by fire and otherwise, had 7,505,870 policies
outstanding last year, upon which the pre
miums had been paid, or w'ere being paid,
by the people, and the mutual benefit and
assessment companies had 3,478,000 mem
bers. The building and loan associations
had nearly 2,000,000 members, all of whom
ha.d paid their money in as required by the
rules of the body to which thev belonged.
Here, then, are about 21,000,000 of our peo
ple, generally poor, or at least people of
moderate means, who have given credit to
these great corporations and companies,
and. in my opinion, it would be a griev
ous wrong to adopt any policy which would
deprive them of the legal right to demand
and receive just as good money as they
parted with when they made the deposits
in the banks or paid the premiums on
their insurance policies. The hard-earned
savings of the poor ought not to be sacri
ficed to the avarice of the
wealthy mine-owners or the am
bition of aspiring politicians, and if
the people who have a substantial inter
est in the welfare of the country and a
Just appreciation of their responsibilities
as citizens will exert their proper influ
ence in public affairs this great wrong
can never be perpetrated.
Mr. President, but little remains for me
to say before bringing these remarks to a
conclusion. We have an abundance of
money in this country for all the pur
poses of trade, and the disturbances and
hard times of 1893 and 1894 were not caused
by a scarcity or contraction of the cur
rency, but by a contraction of credit re
sulting from a loss of confidence in the
stability and value of our currency. So
far as the mere volume of our currency is
concerned, we had then and have now an
ample supply for all necessary purposes,
but under tne existing system it is not
properly distributed and is not sufficiently
elastic to meet all the changing require
ments of business at different periods of
the year. The United States should go
entirely out of the banking business by
the withdrawal of its arbitrary and com
pulsory issues of notes and afford the
people an opportunity to supply their own
currency based upon their own means and
credit, thus enabling every community to
utilize its own resources w’hen necessary
and adjust the circulation from time to
time to the actual demands of legitimate
commerce. In what way this shall be ac
complished is a question which has al
ready engaged the serious attention of the
people and public authorities, and it will
no doubt continue to be investigated and
discussed until a plan is formulated
which, if not perfect, will at least have the
merit of being a great improvement upon
the existing system. In the meantime our
highest duty is'to preserve the present
standard of value, maintain the parity of
the two metals, and keep all the money in
circulation among the people, whether It
be gold and silver coins, or paper based
upon them, equal in purchasing power, so
that no discrimination will or can be made
between those who receive silver or paper
and those who receive gold. A great gov
ernment should do nothing to discredit its
own obligations or diminish the value of
the money in the hands of its citizens, nor
should the people of a great country ever
consent to the adoption of a policy,
through experimental financial legislation
or otherwise, which would vitiate the ob
ligations of their contracts, interrupt the
regular course of their business and de
stroy the foundations upon which their
industrial and commercial systems have
been constructed.
A Dwelling Horned.
Odum, Ga., May 23.—D. H. Moody’s
dwelling house at Brentwood, Ga„ was
destroyed by fire last night, together with
all of his furniture, wearing apparel, etc.
The loss is about $6.<»60 or $7,000. with in
surance of $4,000; $2,009 each in the Phoe
nix and Liverpool. London and Globe.
The. origin of the fire is not known
FOLLOWERS OF DIXIE'S FLAG.
BAD WEATHER FAILS TO DAMPEN
THEIR ARDOR.
'i’lie Constitution Formulated. at
Jackson Readopted—lt Continues
in Force the Committee on History
Dissolved by tile Constitution
Adopted at Birmingham The
Movement to Have a Simultaneous
Celebration of Memorial Day De
feated—Report of the Committee on
Credentials.
Houston, Tex., May 23.—Another day of
stirring cheers, of martial strains and
touching scenes has passed and only one
more day of the great reunion remains.
It has been rich in the incidents which in
after years cling in the memory of men
like a “flower in the crannied wall” and
as the scattered remnants of the Army of
the Confederacy diminish with the pass
ing years, those w’ho survive will recall
this fifth reunion with increasing pride.
The business of the convention has
been of the greatest interest and impor
tance; the gracious Daughter of the Con
federacy has been the recipient of a suc
cessive ovation which must have made
the veins that flowed with the blood of
Jefferson Davis thrill with a rapture such
as no other woman could know; while the
aged veterans, W'ith hair as gray as the
uniforms they wore have gathered about
their respective leaders with husky voices
and swelling hearts and recalled the stir
ring scenes through which they passed
together.
The Virginia delegation are the happi
est people in Houston to-night, and every
three times three for the south and her
cause, concludes with "Here’s to the Old
Dominion, drink it down.”
No wonder they are happy, for they have
achieved the end toward which they
struggled so long and so laboriously, and
to-night the fact that Richmond will be
the place of the next reunion will visit
their tranquil dreams and trace a smile
upon their sleeping lips. Her sixty-four
delegates, together with their friends,
came 1,400 miles to be present on this occa
sion and work for Richmond as the place
of the next reunion. They did not come
in vain, and of course are delighted with
their success.
Another gratifying fact in the develop
ments of the day is the fact that nearly
SIO,OOO W'as subscribed to the Jefferson Da
vis monument to be erected at Richmond,
for which $30,000 is already on hand, and
when the veterans go to Richmond next
spring they will witness the laying of the
corner-stone of the memorial to the con
federate president.
Chaplain J. William Jones opened the
convention with prayer at 11 o’clock, and
the delegates immediately proceeded to
business. The vast auditorium was again
crowded to its utmost capacity, but, in
striking contrast with the deliberations of
yesterday, good order prevailed through
out.
The first business of the convention was
to hear the report of the committee on
constitution and by-laws. It was read by
the chairman, Stephen D. Lee. It was
practically the old Jackson constitution
restored, and provides for the committee
on history, which the Birmingham con
stitution abolished. It divides
the United Confederate Veterans'
Association into the following
departments: The department of the
North; the department of the Army of
Virginia, consisting of Virginia, Mary
land, North Carolina, South Carolina arid
Kentucky; the department of the Army of
Tennessee, consisting of the states of
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississip
pi, Louisiana and Florida;; the trans-Mis
sissippi department, comprising all the
states west of the Mississippi except
Louisiana. It provides that no state shall
have more than one division except Tex
as, which shall have five. So strong has
been the sentiment in favor of concen
trating the five divisions of Texas into
one, that after the reading of the report
Gen. John M. Claiborne objected to the
five divisions. He wanted Texas to be
like the other states, all in one division,
and he wanted at the head of it Maj. Gen.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross. He said the
numerous divisions were made for polit
ical purposes.
Gen. Lee explained that Texas was not
arranged differently from the other states,
that Gen. Ross was now the Only major
general, while the commanders of the sub
divisions were only brevet generals.
Gen. Claiborne renewed his motion to
make Texas only one division, but a mo
tion to table this measure was offered and
carried, so the five sub-divisions of Texas
continue.
The constitution was then adopted. The
committee on credentials then reported
the number of delegates as follow’s:
Louisiana, 176; Tennessee, 89; Florida, 36;
Alabama, 191; Mississippi, 123; Texas, 654;
South Carolina, 86; Indian Territory, 15;
Missouri, 67; Kentucky, 67; Arkansas, 57;
Washington. D. C., 11; Evansville, Ind.,
2; Virginia, 64; North Carolina, 21; Georgia,
76; Maryland, 2; Oklahoma, 2; West Vir
ginia, 2; New York, 1. Total, 1,602.
The report of the committee was then
adopted as read.
The special order for 11 o’clock this
morning was the report of the Jefferson
Davis monument committee. It was noon,
however, when the matter was reached.
Chairman Cabell of the committee from
the veterans made a speech reporting
progress and introduced Chairman J.
Taylor Ellyson of the Richmond commit
tee, whose report was embodied as part of
the veterans committee report. Col. El
lyson made a stirring speech and said that
on President Davis’ birthday. June 3, it
w’as the desire to make a collection for the
monument from tho w’hole country. The
indications are, he said, that the responses
would be generous. He thought there
would be enough funds on hand by next
spring to build the monument and n was
expected to make the laying of the corner
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atone an occasion of great magnificence,
at which he hoped all the veterans woujd
be present.
In seconding the motion to adopt the re
port, Chaplain J. William Jones made an
eloquent speech, saying that Jefferson
Davis needed no monument to perpetuate
his name in the hearts of his countrymen,
but we owe it to ourselves. The man
who bore his country’s flag on the battle*
fields of Mexico; who sat in the United
States Senate when it was a body of
giants; who was the peer of Webster, Clay
and Calhoun needs no shaft to keep his
memory green.
“We owe this monument to ourselves,”
he said, "because Jefferson Davis was the
embodiment of southern principles. We
thought we were right, and wc know it
now. 1 am nt> rebel, and I am not going to
make a rebel speech. I never made a rebel
speech in my life; we were never rebels. I
will shout for old glory as loud and as long
as any man and I remember that the star
spangled banner was written by a south
ern man on southern soil. True there was a
right smart difference between us and old
glorv in the dark days of the sixties. That
was‘before old glory was being waved for
other purposes than it was intended for.”
He paid a high tribute to Gen. Gordon
which was greeted with loud applause, and
which was continued for some time.
"When the knightly and chivalrous gener
al on the floor of the United States Senate
pledged the loyal assistance of the south
ern states to put down the Chicago rebel
lion—which was indeed a rebellion—he
voiced our sentiment.”
Dr. Jones proposed that the roll he called
by camps and that each camp would say
how much it would raise for the monu
ment. Before the call could begin there
were several spontaneous offers.
r. S. Lee camp of Richmond pledged SSOO
and J. R. Hubband camp of Baltimore,
only one month old, came to the front with
SIOO.
Gen. Gordon gave SIOO and Gen. Lee and
Gen. Stewart put down SSO each.
The Charleston camp stated, that . a
movement was now on foot in that city by
which SI,OOO would be raised.
The call of the roll was begun, but was
found to be too long, so the camps were
required to send up the amount they
would obligate themselves to give. The
whole amount, when subsequently footed
up, was found to be $9,647.
During this interval there was a burst
of aplause as several historic old battle
flags were brought up. The first was the
Cobb’s Legion colors, borne by Capt. John
C. Hill of Augusta. The second was the
flag of the Third Georgia regiment, borne
by R. W. Bagby. The flag which floated
over fort Sumter all during the war was
also presented. The Third Louisiana flag
was the last of the confederate flags. Each
was greeted with loud applause and the
color bearers were invited to seats on the
stage.
Gen. Gordon next displayed the standard
which waived in the decisive fight of
Buena Vista at the head of Jefferson
Davis’ column. Gen. Gordon paid the flag
an eloquent tribute and evoked a hearty
round of cheers.
The selection of the place of the next
reunion was the next and final business in
order.
Gen. Peyton Wise of Virginia was intro
duced arid in an eloquent speech, which
was frequently interrupted with applause,
he nominated Richmond as the place of
the next reunion. He said the very spirits
of the dead bade the veterans come and be
present at the laying of the corner stone
of the Davis monument
Comrade Pickett seconded the nomi
nation.
Maj. Theodore Barker, Maj. T. Grange
Simmons and J. A. Smythe presented
Charleston's claims. Gen. George H.
Lawse, seconded the nomination of
Charleston from Florida.
Gen. Joe Shelby of Missouri introduced
Mayor Davis to present Kansas City's
claims, and Gen. Leo introduced Gen. C.
A. Evans, who spoke in behalf of At
lanta. Judge Lowndes Calhoun seconded
the nomination.
It was arranged that the major general
of each division should cast the vote for
the state, and a recess of half an hour
was taken in order that the delegates of
the several states might arrange their
vote. When the vote Was taken the re
sult was as follows: Richmond, 780;
Charleston, 444; Atlanta, 208; Kansas City,
40.
Maj. Barker moved that the vote for
Richmond be made unanimous. It was
seconded by Gen. Evans and carried amid
applause. Gen. Wise expressed thanks in
behalf of Richmond.
The convention then adjourned until 10
o'clock to-morrow. From 11 to 1 o’clock
there will be a parade of all the veterans of
the Texas companies now in encampment
here, which will be the event of the week.
Miss Winnie Davis and her maids of
honor held two receptions this afternoon,
one at the Houston Light Guards’ armory
and the other at the Capitol hotel. Thou
sands of people assembled in the streets
and greeted her with tumultuous applause
as the carriages, trimmed with ribbons
and flowers, passed through the streets.
Eight thousand people assembled at the
auditorium to-night to see the sponsors
and their maids of honor in their tableaux.
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HALMA WINS THEDERBY.
The Race Worth *o,72o—Halina Sold
to the Flelehmans.
Latonia, May 23.—The Latonia season
opened most auspiciously to-day. Thir
teen thousand people were present, the
weather delightful and the horses and
track in the pink of condition. Seldom has
there been a more magnificent combina
tion of these requirements to enjoy the
sport. Halma won the Derby, worth $6,-
720, at odds of 9 to 20, with as much ease
as ever a race was won.' From start to
finish there was no time when the race was
not his. Though there has been greater
excitement manifested, still no Derby win
ner was ever more enthusiastically ap
plauded. Thorpe rode Halma well, care
fully measuring the distance and evenly
dividing the time. The Derby distance, 1%
miles, was done in 2:34%.
Halma appeared under the Fleichman '
colors for the first time, Byron McClelland
having sold the horse for $35,000. The
Fleichmans count on winnig the Chicago
Derby, worth $25,000, with Halma.
In the first event, the crowd could see
nothing but Henry of Navarre and he
won easily. Summaries follow;
First Race—One mile. Henry of Na
varre, 117, Perkins, 1 to 10, won, with SellKa
second and Tariff Reform third. Time,
1:41%.
Second Race—Six furlongs. Marion G.,
101, A. Clayton, 8 to 5, won, with Koko
second and Ashland third. Time,
Third Race —Five furlongs. Penury, 107,
Newcom, 4 to 1, won. with Rondo second
and Ishlock third. Time, 1:02.
Fourth Race—Latonia Derby, for 3-year
old colts, one mile and a half. Halma, 125,
Thorpe, 9 to 20, won, with Free Advice, 117,
A. Clayton, 10 to 1, second and Basso, 117,
Martin, 4to 1, third. Time, 2;34%.
Fifth Race —Four and a half furlongs.
Brace Girdle, HQ, Perkins, even, won,
with Fraces second and Henrietta third.
Time, :55%.
Sixth Race—Six furlongs, selling. Cae
sarion, 106, Perkins, 9 to 10, won, with All
Over second and Metropole third. Time,
1:15.
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SULLIES FIRES A FATAL SHOT.
HIE ST. AUGUSTINE ELOPfEMENT
ENDS IN HOMICIDE.
Mrs. Sullies’ Lover Killed by Her
Husband—He Walks Up Behind Him
and Fires a, Bullet Into Hits Head.
He Also Attempts to Shoot a Com
panion of His Victim—Mrs. Sullies
Denies That She Wins Ever Mar
ried to Sullies.
, Jacksonville, . Fla., May 23.-A homicide
in St. Augustine to-day wound up the
story of an elopement which occurred in
that city a few weeks ago*.
Rudolph Ligon and Mrs. John Sullies dis
appeared a few weeks ago, and it was
supposed that they had eloped. A few days
later Mrs. Sullies returned, but after set
tling up home matters of business, dis
appeared. She and Ligon were afterward
found living together in Alvlne, Tex.
They were brought back to Florida, ar
riving in St. Augustine to-day.
They were carried before a justice of
the peace to have their preliminary hear
ing, when Sullies asked that the hearing be
postponed. It was postponed for one day,
and Ligon and Mrs. Sullies were released
pn their own recognizance.
Later in the day Ligon went to a bar
room near Sullies’ place of business. Sul-
£ an ? e U . P I J’ a ? sed . him and sh °t him in
the: back of the head, the ball coming out
° f ™ s A f % eh^ ad Z Wlt ? L1 S° n at the time
was A. E. Yates, who was supposed to
have assisted Ligon and Mrs. Sullies in
their elopement. After shooting Ligon,
Sullies fired at Yates, but the latter es-.
caped up the stairs of a nearby building?
Sullies followed, but Yates effected his
escape. Later Sullies was arrested and is
now in jail. Mrs. Sullies claims that she
was never married to Sullies, and it is
stated that she and Ligon were married
while in Texas.
WILD EXCttTEMENT IN WHEAT.
The Price Jumps 3 1-2 Cts., in a Mln*
lite n.t New York.
New York, May 23.—The excitement tn
the wheat market on the produce ex
change increased this morning when it
was reported that a large firm at Chi
cago had suspendted, the great rise in
July wheat yesterday having been more
than It could stand. As soon as the gong
sounded to-day the pointer on the big
dial on the exchange, which stood at 80
cents, rapidly spun anound until 83 cents
was reached, the rise taking less than a
minute. The 83% cents was reached al
most in a single jump, an eighth more in
a second, and rapid fluctuations between,
the % and % mark, the quotations at the
end of the first minute being 83% cents.
Five minutes after the opening the price
was still 83% cents, but telegraph mes
sengers began to rush In with fresh or
ders and excitement again reigned. The
price jumped rapidly on extensive pur
chases to B?>% cents, and at the end of
ten minutes’ business the price was 83%
@83% cents. *
The failure of C. D. Towt was an
nounced at the consolidated exchange
this morning. He was short of wheat.
OSCAR WILDE’S TRIAL. '
The Case Not Concluded When Court
Adjourned for the Day,
London, May 23.—The trial of Oscar
Wilde was resumed this morning. Park
er’s servants and several servants of the
Savoy hotel were called to the stand and
repeated their former testimony. Nothing
new was elicited. •
The case for the prosecution was then
closed.
Sir Edward Clarke, on behalf of Wilde,
argued that the part of the indictment
charging Wilde with misconduct with un
known persons was not sustained by cor
roborative evidence.
The judge decided that he would not
withdraw these charges from the jury.
His own impression was that Shelley’s in
tellect was deranged as regarded his ac
cusations against Wilde, but he would
leave it to the jury to decide thereon. The
court adjourned, Wilde being again re
leased over night on his old bail.
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A CYCLONE IN TEXAS. 7
Forty Houses, a Church and a Hotel
Blown Down,
SAn Antonio, Tex., May 23.—At Rockport,
in the southwestern part of the state, the
storm yesterday blew from their founda
tions forty houses. St. Mary’s Catholic
church and the Commercial hotel were
wrecked. Three vessels In the bay drifted
ashore and all the others dragged their
anchors. Rev. Mr. Scarborough, pastor of
the Methodist church, was Internally in
jured.
At Carpus Christi half a dozen boats
were blown ashore.
On the Kerrsville branch of the Aransas
Pass railroad the crops are ruined and
three railroad bridges were washed away.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY’S TRAGEDY.
TJic Sheriff’s Slnyer Reported Killed
by a posse.
Atlanta, Ga., May 23.—The governor to
day offered a reward of S2OO for the arrest
of William Connell for the murder of the
sheriff of Montgomery county. On the
night of the 16th, the sheriff, George W.
Durham, made an attempt to arrest Con
nell for a minor offense. Connell resisted
the efforts of the sheriff and in so doing
shot and killed him. Connell immediately
fled and although a large posse has been
searching for him, he has so far eluded
his pursuers and the reward has been of
fered in the hope of hastening his capture.
A story was printed here this morning
that Connell was shot and killed by a
posse of citizens yesterday morning. It
lacks confirmation, however.
A SHOT AT A DRILL. T
A Pistol Cartridge Slipped Into One
of the Guns.
Albany, Ga., May 23.—While a squad of
the local military company .were under
instruction at their armory last night,
and while going through the loading and
firing feature of the manual of arms, a
gun in the hands of Corpl. J. C. Cassidy
unexpectedly exploded, the ball narrowly
missing a maji named Greenstone, who
was present as an onlooker. On examina
tion the shell of the exploded cartridge
proved to have been a pistol cartridge,
which some raist reant had surrepticious
ly inserted ir®g' he gun. It was a nar
iow escape fauGreenstone.
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