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W orqat/s W otld.
Woman's Answer- ,
If love and the world were on the scales
And a woman were asked to choose.
Do you think perchance it would be the
world
She would reel most content to lose?
“Ah, no!" and he sighed a restless High,
For his lands were worth much a year;
But he valued the smiles on one woman’s
lipa
More than all his treasures dear.
"If she will not wed me," he sadly
said,
“1 would rather be lying cold and dead."
So lie went to her door in grand attire
And he pleaded his cause straightway,
“I have" castles and land and gold,” he
said,
“And jewels and fine array—
My name is as old as an ancient duke’s,
And I offer thee all, to-day.”
She stood like a queen In her faded gown
And heard all he had to say,
Then lifted her eyes, her stately head,
"But a woman wants more," was all she
said.
The years went by and castles and land
Were lost In misfortune’s tide;
Friends deserted him—poverty came,
And humbled low was his pride.
But he went once more in a grim despair,
To ask her to be his wife!
"O, love!" he cried, “I can give naught
else
But the love—all the love of my life!"
Low fell the blue eyes—the beautiful
head—
‘"Tis enough for a woman's heart,” she
said.
—New York Advertiser.
“Talk of Spartan fortitude!" exclaimed
Miss Fin de Steele, to the New York
Tribune. "Women endure trials that are
far worse than physical torture. Only
last night, for Instance, we had some peo
ple for dinner, and Mrs. Casual forgot her
handkerchief, as usual, and asked me if I
wouldn’t lend her one. Now I had given
my maid orders always to select some old
thing that I did not care for in case arty
one borrowed sucn an article. So I said
to the footman: ‘Ask Rosalie to give you
a handkerchief for Mrs. Casual.’ My
dear, he brought down one of my perfect
dearsa-one of a set of twelve treasures
that I had just imported from Paris, and
which cost $25 apiece.
"Os course, I could not say anything,
but to see that woman walk off with it
was a trial, for I knew there was not one
chance in fifty that I would ever see it
again. It is only an example of what we
suffer; but things like this, which try
one's soul, are happening constantly.”
Some one, says the New York Times,
recently met the Marquis of Lome at a
celebrated German spa. He was traveling
without his royal wife, and what a good
time he waa having! For once in away
he had to stand aside for no one, nor had
he to attend to any punctilious ceremony
of precedence and respect. His meals were
served in tne common dining room and
waw gay affairs, where he jested and
laugh'd with his attending friends, and
Was not above eying the pretty girls at
the neighboring tables, nor trying the ef
fect of sweet smiles and glances upon
them. The Marquis has been comtempt
uously styled "a red headed, Insignificant
little Scotchman," but there he has been
maligned. He is tall and stalwart, with
flaxen hair and art attractive face, while
his appearance at this partlc.ulr time was
rendered engagingly quaint by the kilts
he wore, and wore so well that even his
burl? knees and the abrupt little skirt
could not altogether detract from his dig
nity of bearing.
I have been convinced this week, says
Clara Belle, in a New York letter to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, that a physician
needs to have all the diplomacy of an am
bassador in his make-up. It may not al
wrvjh be so, but I'm sure that diplomacy
will curry a young medldo farther than
will his knowledge of diseases. 1 have
come to believe this from the case of a
woman who had been married only about
a year, but had fallen into melancholia so
badlv that for six months she had posi
tively refused to leave the house. Os
course, her young husband was in great
distress and employed one of the cleverest
anil most popular physicians, But medi
cine availed nothing—the sad lady would
not be cheered. She said she had lost in
terest in everything and could not be in
duced to even think of going out. At last
the doctor softened her heart enough to
make hoc consent to sit by the open win
dow and “pretend," just to please him.
She was wrapped in a light shawl, and
seated by the open window.
"But.” said the doctor, "you should,
have a hat on."
The woman objected that she had not
worn a hat for more than six months, but
yielded, and the maid .brought her one
from its bandbox. It was adjusted and
the. doctor looked at it curiously. Then
he appeared to suppress a smile.
"What's the matter with It?” questioned
the sick woman.
"How long since you have worn a hat?”
the doctor asked, still seeming to sup
press h smile. The patient replied irri
tably that it was more thar» six months.
"Dear me," marvelled the wily doctor,
"J had no idea fashions changed so rap
idlj, and how odd a hat does look, doesn’t
it? when it is out of fashion.
The woman was so manifestly out of
temper that he hastened to add that the
hat. was becoming, charmingly becoming,
that it only looked odd because people hi
funeral wore wearing a shape quite dlf
erent of another kind of color, and so on.
"What are they she asked,
crossly, at which the doctor professed an
inability to describe. He saiu there were
so many in the windows it was impossible
to tell of them. He ventured to think,
however, that most of them were quite
large, and he thought there were a good
many Howers. The l\at his patient had on
her head was a little turban trimmed
with ribbon only.
"Doctor!” she cried, “do you think I
uni well enough to go down town?"
The doctor seemed much alarmed, and
declared on no account must she risk it.
Then she began to cry. She said »he»knew
she needed the air, and that even if it
was dangerous for her to go out it would
do her less harm, she knew, than to stay
home and worry. She only wanted to go
out for a little while, anyhow, just to gel
down town an hour or so. Before long,
the doctor allowed himself to be over
ruled, but urged that she must stop in
at his downtown office that he might ad
minister restoratives if necessary, and the
time w-«s set at 3. The next day at 3 In
walked the once sad woman, radiant in a
new hat. very wide, and all over flowers,
and the pure was complete.
I heard, says the Washington corre
spondent of the New York Morning Jour
nal. a very funny story the other day
about the wife of u particularly high
and mighty offiejtl—a lady whose name
Is forever tn the “society notes" of the
newspapers. From all I can hear I fancy
that her social aspirations—all the more
ardent from having been long suppressed
and thwarted—are very greatly in ex
ceas> of her Income. She wants to lead
the giddy farundole, but finds the paca
just a trifle breathless. Last winter, it
appears, the wife of another high and
mighty official in the same set confided
to her that she was looking for a house,
whereupon our friend told her of a very
desirable establishment tn her own im
medlatv iiilgnbortiood, one that she had
visited a good deal and with the interior
arrangements of which she was familiar.
Bo the high and mighty lady No. 2 went
down to see the agent, and, after scaling
him down about 12 per cent, on the rent,
she took the house. You can imagine
that agent’s feelings when, a few days
later, he got a note from nigh and mighty
No. l. informing him that she had ne
gotiated the deal for him and asking
•• for as her commission. He replied
very courteously thho hod made anv
th.ng but a profitable arrangement with
No. 2, having consented to her terms
only because of the long lease, and that,
even at that, he was not sure he had
done a* wall as he might have dune
by waiting. At all events, he said, he
was not authorised to pay any commis
jmo-iis niUMt, with the dtH'pvst rvspect.
dccUho*
What do you think of this story? I
ani assuiml by a responsible person that
It la literally true.
, t\> be athletic in the summer time, says
tiura, Bfllo in a letter from New York
to the Cincinnati Enquirer, and to wear
sweaters, let your corsets out, swim, and
all that, but it comes hard on the girls
when they try to get into their winter
rigs. Only yesterday a lovely girl, brown
as a berry and splendid to look at, faint
ed dead away on Broadway. She was
only a week back from the shore. She
had sent her order ahead, and her dress
maker had a street gown ready for her.
It was made to the "usual measure,”
and the girl had gained two inches in
hip, waist and chest girth during the
athletics bf the summer. She didn’t mind
the chest. She could “fill in with an
Antoniette ruche,” but she was day and
night six days getting into the rest of
the dress. It would be nonsense to sub
mit to that two inches when all her
winter clothes were ordered. So, on the
sixth day she was triumphant, and
sailed down Broadway, a picture in a
butter-brown cloth all braided, and, al
though she couldn’t pull a good breath,
she didn’t mind, because everybody
looked in such complete admiration.
Then, opposite Madison Square she
fainted. I am a little late with the ad
vice, but girls ought to get into their war
corsets at least two weeks before com
ing back to town.
There are fashionable antipathies, says
the New York Tribune, as well as fash
ionable enthusiasms. We may see the
latter exemplified In the sudden crazes
for some particular animal or Insect.
The pug has his day, and disappears
from milady’s drawing room, to give
place to. the “caniche,” or black poodle.
The lizard, beetle and butterfly are each
in its turn worn universally as orna
ments; and seem to go entirely out of
existence as a decoration.,
A curidus antipathy which seems to
be on the increase tn the fashionable world
Is a real, fancied or affected terror of
cats, many of our mondaines declaring
that they can feel the presence of the
obnoxious animals in the room before
they know of its vicinity by actual sight,
and fairly shrieking with horror if Tabby
comes near. *
“It's curious,l said one old lady whose
prosperously married niece had taken up
fashionable proclivities, ‘*how Mary Jane
acts with cats. When she was a little
girl visiting at my house she’d have the
old Maltese and her kittens cuddled up
to her all the time: and now all at once
she screeches and carries on if there’s a
kitten in the room. I’m afraid that there
Is something wrong with her mind,” Con
cluded the pimple old aunt, who never
for one moment imagined that any sensi
ble person would cultivate such a silly
affectation.
“Mrs. B. succeeded in making a sen
sation at the A.’s last evening—which I
suppose was her object,” commented an
uncharitable old bachelor who could not
see why a cat should Inspire horror any
more than any other animal. “I was sit
ting talking with her when I suddenly
saw her eyes begin to wander, and a
frightened expression came over her
face. ‘I am sure there Is a cat in the
room,’ she whispered tragically. 'I feel
it instinctively.’
" ‘Of course,’ I answered, very much
amused by this sudden inspiration. ‘Mrs.
A.’s pretty Angora has Just entered the
door/
“ ‘I knew it,’ exclaimed Mrs. 8., ‘I felt
a strange horror come over me while I
was talking with you, although I never
saw the creature.’
" ‘Come, Mrs. 8., that won’t do,’ I
said to myself, ‘J happened to see you
look In that direction as pussy came in—
but outwardly I expressed amazement.
" ‘Yes,’ continued the impressionable
creature, ‘I have the most pronounced
terror and aversion to cats. Oh, what
shall I do!' she exclaimed as the beautiful
animal emerged from a group of admirers
and began walking toward us. ‘I shall
scream; I shall faint! Oh, please take
it away!’ And as the cat, with agile
jump, landed on the sofa beside he?,
she gave a little shriek that attracted
the attention of every one in the immediate
neighborhood.
“ ‘Please, please take It away.’ she reit
erated. ‘Oh, I cannot bear ItL Pray don’t
think me foolish, but I shall die unless
some one takes it away,’ she cried, shud
dering violently.
"By this time a group had gathered
around thr excited woman, and the poor
unoffending eat was hustled out of the
room. ‘Do you feci better, dear?’ said
one of her sympathizing friends, who
had rushed up to her.
“ ’Yes.’ answered the other languidly,
‘the feeling Is passing off; but, oh, what
a shock!'
Whether it is an affectation or not, cat
antipathy seems to be on the increase.
"Why is it,” said a London landlord to a
customer tne other day, "that American
ladies hate cats so Intensely We have
hud to banish every one from the prem
ises, and In consequence we are overrun
with mice. It seems to be an American
characteristic: our laates do 'not mind
them.” Nor would our women probably
It for some absurd reason the fear of them
had not become a fashionable fad.
Well, says the Springfield Union, why
shouldn’t farmer’s girls study agriculture?
Is there any good reason why the state
should provide for the education of the
farmers’ boys and allow the girls to get
their training wherever they can?
Wouldn’t it be a good thing to introduce
cp-education at the Massachusetts Agri
cultural 'College? These questions may
have been raised before now, but we cib
not think that they have been adequately
discussed. Perhaps there has not been
sufficient demand ort the part of the coun
try girls for an agricultural education, it
may be that they are too desirous to leave
the farm to think of preparing themselves
for woman’s work on the farm.
Minnesota has a girls’ school of agri
culture, said to be the only one in the
country. It has been established for many
years, and the results are mentioned witn
great pride by the Minnesota papers. The
students receive instruction in cooking,
canning, dairying, fruit and flower cul
ture. household chemistry, entomology
and sewing, and the farmer who gets one
of these well-trained girls for a wife' Is
veiy fortunate. Anyone can see how a
woman educated in agricultural pursuits
to which she is adapted may make herself
very useful and very contented on the
farm.
Now that we are bearing so much about
the old colonial days, says the New York
Times, and there is to be a society of tile
children of the revolution—the story of
what a ilttle < cdpnlal Quaker girl did
al ould be of Interest. M hen the revolu
tionary war broke out Nanny Marten
was 11 years old. She was left alone in
her country home with her old grana
muther one day when her father and
brothers went to town. Some rough En
glish soldiers came to the house looking
for money, Tin y searched evert where
but could not find any. Then they toln
Nanny she must go down to the barn ana
tell them where It was. One of the mun
took her roughly by the shoulder, hut
she turned bravely and faced him. “I will
go with thee,” she said, "but thee must
not touch me.” The men stepped back
and she followed him to the barn. The
officer said: “Come, girl, tell me where
th- money is hidden.” "I do not know -
answered Nanny firmly. They led her
under a beam from which a rope was
hanging. “Tell me where the money is
or I’ll hang you.” Unmoved, she an
swered: "I have told the truth; I do net
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know." The officer told one of the men
to slip the noose over her head. She turn
ed and looked bravely in his face. "Thee
must not touch me,” and he did nor.
The officer said: "Come, tell me quickly,
or I will hang you.” "If I cannot teh
while living, 1 surely cannot tell if I am
dead.” Then turning to the officer, sne
said: "Thee knows I have spoken th<-
truth, and, furthermore, if I did know, 1
would not tell.” The men saw they coula
net frighten the brave girl, so they
went away. Nanny Marten lived to b«-
an old woman, and her children and
grandchildren always loved to near how
mother and grandmother was brave
enough to face a British officer, and could
not be frightened by his threats.”
With curious inconsistency,says the New
York Tribune, Dame Fashion now decrees
that real lace only should be used, while
at the same time she permits such a glar
ing sham as imitation jewelrv. To be
sure it Is an unwritten law that the false
stones shall be worn simply as trimmings
or hat pins; but the familiar every-day
use of the glittering baubles and the-won
derful perfection to which they have been
brought have proven a temptation too
great to be resisted, and many an extra
string of pearls or cordon of diamonds has
been added to the original necklace, with
out detection by the world at large.
Even jewelers are sometimes deceived by
the wonderfully close imitations. A lady
some time ago bought a large imitation
turquoise in Paris for twenty francs, aud
had it mounted with a setting of small
but real brilliants as a ring. Not long
since, while making some purchases at
a well-known house, she took off the ring
which she was wearing, and, handing it
to the clerk, asked him what would be
the value of a stone like that. He exam
ined it closely, then again with a magni
fying glass and finally returned It to her
saying, "That is a very valuable stone,
Madame. I should say it was worth at
least $3fX) or $600.”
Oddly enough, while It is considered bad
form to wear immitatlon diamonds, rubies,
etc., as bona fide jewels, a string, or
strings, of Imitation pearls may be allow
ed, and may be worn by a debutante, pro
viding the clasp is real.
Another new field, says the New York
Times, is opening for the cooking school
graduate, as shown by the following let
ter. It would be possible for an energetic
woman to take charge of the marketing
for several families where the style of
life was less pretentious than that here
described. Surely many residents of su
burban towns would be glad to avail
themselves of the services of a trained
woman, who would make regular trips
to town to secure eatables/not easily ob
tained in local markets. Occasional les
sons to Cooks in their own kitchen, with
the utensils to which they are accustom
ed, might be combined with the marketing
and give a comfortable income to a wo
man fitted for such work:
"A wealthy lady whom I knew only by
reputation wished me to relieve her of the
care of providing for her own and her ser
vants’ table, do the marketing, and look
after the bills, but to have no other re
sponsibility, and to live elsewhere. I had
some misgivings about being able to please
her, but concluded to try it, so I have been
there every week day morning about 9
to see what was on hand. Then I plan the
next six meals, the servants having separ
ate meals at different hours, make out
my marketing list, and go to market, the
whole occupying three or four hours. Then
1 go home, unless there is a swell dinner
or luncheon on hand, when 1 see it
through. My afternoons are left for
something else and I have had enough to
keep me busy.”
“Behold, those who wear purple and
fine linen are in king’s houses.” This in
ference of what is suitable should certain
ly apply r to velvet, for although it is a
most regal and beautiful material, it must
be carefully handled. If properly worn
and cared for a velvet gown should last
a life time.
“Fancy my consternation,” said a fash
ionable woman the other day, “on enter
ing the dining room at the A’s last night
in my best velvet gown, to see that the
chairsvyvere all cane bottomed! I am rather
heavy, and I knew that my dress would
be ruined, and yet there was nothing to be
done! I felt a wild impulse to lift it up
and sit in my petticoats, but I had not
the courage; so down I settled myself,
feeling with missery that every one of
those horrid little holes would be dis
tinctly marked and pressed into the rich
Lyons velvet. And so they were, and I
will never be able to match the color to
replace what was spoiled.”
The Marie Antoinette furor is bringing
powdered heada very much to the lore.
The bal poudre'has been a very popular
form of entertainment at the various wa
tering places the past summer, while in
France the craze is carried to a much
greater extent, several very fashionable
"grandes elegantes" appearing with pow
dered locks at some of the smartest gar
den parties. This, of course, necessitates
rouge and a general making up; so that
it almost looks as If we would have an
era of paint and powder again.
Both the English and French fashionable
women now use rouge and hair dye with
the qtmost frankness, so that powdered
hair would not seem an exaggeration
in fact, it would not be as harmful as the
reddish dye, which Is the fashionable color
at present. This, they say, is more or less
poisonous. The powder certainly’ does not
look so meretricious as the dye, so if we
must have theatrical effects, the brilliant
and picturesque makeup of Louis XVI
would seem the most attractive.
Topeka, Kan., has a young womaif, aged
17, Adele Pollock by name, who for amuse
ment learned to turn a horseshoe In her
father's blacksmith shop. At a recent en
tertainment for the benefit of a church
Miss Adele appeared in a match against
two of the most expert blacksmiths in
the city. Three portable forges were plac
ed upon the stage. Each of the contes
tants were allowed a helper to blow the
bellows. She appeared in a very work
manlike garb—a corduroy skirt and leather
apron. Her competitors smiled indulgent
ly at her when time was called, but became
anxious, then alarmed, and finally dis
comfited when she turned and cast a per
fect horseshoe before the judges in less
than four minutes. The curtain dropped
on the pretty picture of the flaming forge
and a few minutes later Miss Pollock ap
peared among her friends daintily clad
in white, and charmed all by her graceful
manner.
The woman who is not watchful of ex
penses In the househld and a constant
enemy to waste, says thd New York
Times, is not womanly at all. But, never
theless, economy, like most virtues,
needs a curb bit when it is ridden as a
hobby.
The writer once heard a society girl
exclaim boastfully: "I never save pen
nies. 1 always throw them away." fr» a
land overflowing with maimed beggars
and half-starved newsboys this seems
incredible. Yet it is true.
However, the society girl’s speech has
been retailed merely as a companion to
the other extreme. A man of exact busi
ness habits told a boarding house parlorful
of the usual free-and-easy-going American
folk that in footing up the* expenses of
his recent wedding journey there was 1
cent expended for which he could not
account. A few days after he cried glee
fully on entering the crowded dining
room: “I’ve found it!”
"Found what?" demanded an eager cho
rus.
“The cdtit!” was the grave reply.
In a family composed of four members
and three servants a young woman said,
as if she were looking for commendation
that she managed to save greatly in the
Washing of sheets by a method of her
own; when fresh ones were due. she
merely turned about those already in use
and "began over again" with them for
a second week. In this way she declared
that half the ordinary amount of bed-linen
washing might be spared, while her lis
teners were busy wondering if her head
had no objections to lying where her
feet had been.
One of our best short-story writers
once gave a few domestic hints in a house
keeping journal which graphically illus
trated what Is here meant by the danger
in unbridled economy. Her remarks hap
pened to be upon the theme of using up
remnants. She seriously advised the gen
eral housewife to do aa she did—make
periodical incursions upon the refriger
ator. and. whatever was found there,
whether fish, fowl or vegetable, to mix
together in some commodious compound to
make croquettes.” as if hash would not
be too polite a name for such a mess. A
little later on, the author mentions cas
ually that her family are all dyspeptics.
The only wonder is that they are not
corpses.
In another household an elderly lady
inured to small saving? at first from
some degree of necessity, and subsequent
ly from haoit, checked her newly made
daughter-in-law with a quick cry of dis
tress from throwing a spent match into
the fire. "Stop, stop'” said she; “I al-
ways save burned matphes for kindling."
The mean side erf frugality has been
pointed out here alone as a warning. There
is assuredly a safe, decent cotirse that
should run through every well-regulated
home, but it must be, how’ever, a middle
pathway between throwing away pennies
and giving up whole, valuable hours to
tracking) a stray one.
A VANDERBILT DUCHESS.
Miss Consuelo and the Duke of Marl
borough Will Be Married This Year.
From the New York Herald.
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, will before
the end of the year become the Duchess
of Marlborough.
The engagement was quietly announced
to the families and intimate friends of
tne contracting parties yesterday. It was
confirmed beyond any question last even
ing.
As the engagement is of such recent date
only few details of the approaching mar
riage have yet been arranged. The cere
mony, nowever, will be held in this city
within the next few months. It will be
performed in accordance with the ritual
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, con
forming with that of the Church oi Eng
land. Bishop Potter will probably offi
ciate, and the services, it is thougnt, will
be in open church.
The Duke of Marlborough cabled the
news yesterday morning to the members
of his family and intimate friends in
England and On the continent. Included
among those to whom the information was
conveyed was the Prince of Wales, who
is godfather to the duke. It Is expected
that several of the intimate friends of the
duke will cross the Atlantic to be present
at the wedding.
Intimate friends of the duke last even
ing, in speaking of the engagement, of
which they had full cognizance, said that
the duke regarded the approaching mar
riage as a private affair, and one of
which he was loth to speak publicly. How
ever, since it was now announced, it was
with his authority that such of the details
as are known were given to the Herald.
The acquaintance between the duke and
Miss Vanderbilt was formed in London
about eighteen months ago. During the
last two London seasons and in Paris last
spring they met frequently in society,
and the friendship thus formed led to the
entertainment of Mrs. and Miss Vander
bilt at Blenheim early in the present sum
mer.
It was but natural under the circum
stances that’when the duke reached New
York upon his contemplated tour of the
world that he should have received and
accepted an invitation to visit Marble
House at Newport. The three weeks spent
there gave him a pleasant Insight into
American manners and customs and cul
minated in the engagement.
The duke has said that under any cir
cumstances his best man and several of
his ushers would be his own countrymen,
but that as yet he had been unable to an
nounce their names. The persons who
will form, the bridal party will be of the
first prominence in title, wealth and beau
ty in England and this county. Under
these circumstances the wedding -will be a
most imposing spectacle.
The plans of the Duke of Marlborough
have naturally been changed by the en
gagement and approaching wedding. The
tour of the world will be abandoned, but
he will devote some time in seeing Amer
ica. Within a few days now he will join
Sir Rivers Wilson, the recently' elected
president of the Grand Trunk railway,
and q party, in making a tour of that
road.
Thereafter he w’ill join Mrs. and Miss
Vanderbilt, either in this city or Newport,
and without doubt participate in an ex
tensive round of entertainments given in
his honor and that of his fiancee. This will
make him well acquainted with the friends
of the Vanderbilt family before the date
of the wedding.
Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill
tine ninth Duke of Mariborbugh, who, in
choosing for his wife an i -merican girl, is
following the fashion set by his father and
his uncle, t> late .Lord Randolph
Churchill will be twenty-four years old on
Nov. 13 next. He attained his majority
four days after his father, the late duke
died.
In addition to being Duge of Marlbor
ough, he is the Marquis of Blandford, a.nd
will be until he is the father of a son, who
Will assume •th?! 'title by courtesv. H? is
also Earl of Marlborough, Earl ol Sunder
land, Baron Spencer of Wormleighton-
BarOn Churchill of Sandrige, Prince of the
Holy Roman Empire and Prince of Mindel
heim, in Suapia.
These titles are burdensome, however,
and when, In the last week of August he
arrived in this city, on his first visit to this
country, his valet, who was the ohly per
son to accompany him. inscribed his mas
ter on the register of the Hotel Waldorf as
plain Charles Spencer.
The'young duke is al strong contrast in
appearance to the general run of the
Churchills, although he bears a family re
semblance to the portraits of the first
duke, who was the greatest general of his
age; He inclines more- to the Haffiiitons
his mother having been Lady Alberta
Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Aber
corn. She is still alive. Like his father,
he is somewhat below the average size
and slender, with a sallow complexion a
high forehead, aquiline nose and dark
brown hair. s
His face is without hair with the ex
ception of a light mustache, and his fa
vorite attitude In conversation is to stand
wnth his arms crossed on his breast
and one hand stroking his chin. H-.s
manner tis entirely unassuming, while
the acute observer may occasionally de
tect a look of boredom in his eye or
what might be taken as a cynical curl
on his lip, but thoso who know him say
that his cynicism is only skjn deep.
Os a family whose every member has
been coaspicuous in one wav or another
one ths greatest soldier of his day, an
other the best talker, still another the
possessor of the handsomest leg, the
young duke, in his matter of fact way
has already shown that he has some of
the family traits strongly developea
He went to Cambridge, where he soon
showed that he had reached his proper
sphere by flooring the boldest examiners
of whom Trinity College could boast
He speedily became a member of the
Pitt, the Athenaeum, the True Blue, the
Carlton, and other organizations of the
students. He played polo and cricket
the latter with great precision and ac
curacy of style. His rooms became no
ted as showing his excellent taste, and
he was well known to the Bond street
dealers 1n antiques. He is a bold horse
man as well, and with these, he was an
excellent student, history being his favor
ite study, whiMrfor mathematics he en
tertained a strong dislike.
After the year of mourning consequent
on bis father’s death the young duke’s
coming of age was commemorated by a
grand fete in historical Blenheim Palace
in which he had passed almost all of
his life. Then he took his seat in the
House of Lords and began to take an
active seat in politics. But he found
some time to devote to literature and
in January of last year he made his de
but as a writer with an article on “Blen
heim and Its Memories.” which was oub
lished in the Pall Mall Magazine F
He gave, in a very interesting way the
history of the well known palace in
Wjwdstoek. Oxfordshire, from the time
wljen Queen Anne, in 1705, in accordance
with an address of the Commons, granted
to the first duke the royal estate, of
which Woodstock was the center, with
False Statement* and Mlareprcien.
Corruption does not exist in politics
alone. The time was when people were
shocked to hear that such conditions pre
vailed in polities, but worse than all else
is the fact that this evil should be carried
into the drug business and the sick be
made to suffer in consequence thereof.
For various reasons dealers allow them
selves to be persuaded to stock up medi
cines of all sorts, to be sold to the sick on
the representation that they are just the
same as Simmons Liver Regulator—a
greater outrage has not been perpetrated
upon the people. This has boon the expe
rience of many who have been duped by
these false statements. Take only The
Old Friend. Simmons Liver Regulator,
with the Red Z on every package, and
you'll get the medicine that did the old
folks so much good m bygone days. It has
been kept up as their inheritance to the
present generation.
Highest of aD. in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
money to build a house. Hojr costly the
building was is apparent from the foot
that the $500,000 voted for the purpose
did not suffice for the completion of the
work.
It was in this palace, about a year and a
half ago, that he entertainea the young
girl who is destineod to become its mis
tress. Named Consuelo, after the Duch
ess of Manchester, who was Miss Yznaga
and an Intimate friend of Mrs. W. K.
Vanderbilt, the young person is just sucn
a girl as might be svmposed to attract a
young man like the Duke.
Now about eighteen years old, she is
strikingly tall, a dark brunette, witn
black hair and eyes, and very rich color
ing. Her face is small, and she is decided
ly japonaise in type. She is very slight,
but carries herself well, and will un
doubtedly be a very handsome woman.
She has unusual sweetness and charm of
manner, and although she has few in
mates, these few say that this sweetness
of manner and disposition make her most
loveable, and they are devoted to her.
She is one of the most thoughtful of
hostesses, and at all the entertainments
at Marble house, in Newport this sum
mer, her attentions to the wants of her
own and her mother’s guests has been
constantly remarked. In a word, she is
yet a thoroughly simple, sweet and Un
spoiled girl, and if she can carry througn
her future life, with its heavy responsi
bilities, the same characteristics of man
ner and temperament which she now pos
sesses, she will surely be a notable wom
an. in her day.
She dresses verV simply, generally in
white, of crepon or muslin, and her only
ornament is usually a red rose or carna
tion in hes black hair.At the recent Marble
house ball she wore a fillet of red carna
tions, which was wonderfully becoming
to her. She has been educated at home
by a private governess, who is still a
member of the family. She is well-reaa,
and while not possessing any particular
accomplishment, is said to be unusually
cultivated. She is the eldest child, but
is not yet too old to enjoy a game ot
romps with her brothers, William K., Jr.,
who is now about 15 years old, and Har
old, who is about 10.
On the north wall of the ball room tn the
New'port house there hangs a full length
portrait of Miss Vanderbilt by Carolus
Duran, which is one of the most success
ful works of that painter. Not only is the
portrait a “speaking” likeness, but its
simplicity and artistic grace give it the
greatest charm.
Miss Vanderbilt is depicted standing on
the marble steps of some great house on
a summer morning, wearing a simple
white gown, and leaning on a Louis
Seize’s staff of white tipped with gold.
The picture is full face, and the artist has
caught Miss Vanderbilt’s sweetest expres
sion. Harper Pennington, a well known
artist of Baltimore, has just finished an
other portrait of Miss Vanderbilt, which
is said to be admirable, and which is
much liked by her friends.
All doubt as to what Impelled the duke’s
visit to this country is dissipated by the
announcement of his engagement. "Soon
after his arrival he became the guest of
Mrs. Vanderbilt at Marble House, in New
port. There he remained for some weeks
and whs constant in his attention to Miss
Consuelo. On a recent visit of Mr. Wm.
K. Vanderbilt to Newport on his steam
yacht Valiant the Duke of Marlborough
went to a luncheon on the Valiant On Mr
Vanderbilt’s Invitation. The tendering and
acceptance of the hospitality, and the fact
that for the first time Mrs. Vanderbilt
permitted her daughter to drive and walk
alone with the duke, made his visit the
more marked.
That the duke is not much of what is
known as a society man is proven by
his manner at the ball given by Mrs. Van
derbilt for Miss Consuelo, at Newport
on Aug. 23 This was the first time that
the beautiful house, since its completion
wits thrown open to general society
When guests were received the duke
stood with Mrs. William Jay; he did not
dance, he had no partner in the cottillion,
which was led by Miss Consuelo and
Richard T. Wilson, Jr., and when supper
was announced he found a place at a
table with some young men of his own
age, and, after passing some time with
them, retired to his room. Nor did he
meet many of the Hub men in Newport,
seldom visiting the clubs, and then only
for a few moments at a time.
SCALPERS OFFER ~A ~ BRIBE.
THE JOINT AGENT AT ATLANTA OF
FERED 93,000.
He VVn» to Wink nt the Signatures
on the Return Tickets Deposited
With Him—He Indignantly Rejects
the Offer and Reports the Matter
io the Roads Employing Him—The
Fight a Lively One.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24.—A sensation was
sprung in railroad circles to-day by the
disclosure of an attempt by the ticket
scalpers, who are now as thick as hops
in Atlanta, to bribe J. W. Johnson, the
joint agent of all the railroads center
ing here, in the validation of exposi
tion excursion tickets. Under the plan
adopted by the railroads when they made
the low rates to the exposition all round
trip tickets must be signed in the pres
ence of Agent Johnson and approved
by him, before they are good for the re
turn trip. The signature then made be
fore him must correspond with that on
the ticket when it was purchased. By
this means the ticket scalper is knocked
out.
Several days ago four tickets sold by
scalpers were taken up on the Atlanta
and West Point railroad and the holder
made to pay fare. This set the scalpers
to thinking, and as a result of their
joint deliberations ft is uriderstood that
they offered a $3,000 purse to Agent
Johnson if he would “wink" at the sig
natures.
Mr. Johnson, who admits that the
bribery was attempted, would not “wink,”
however, but indignantly resented the
insult, and reported it to the heads of
the railroads.
The *?calpers and the railroads are
having a lively fight of It, with a pros
pect of getting much deeper into each
others hair before the exposition is over.
FOUNDERED IN THE LAKE.
A Wheat Laden Schooner Goei Down
In Lake Superior.
Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Sept. 24.—The
schooner A. W. Comstock. Capt. William
MacArthur, foundered off Stannard Rock,
Lake Superior, at 7 o’clock yesterday
morning. Her crew of efght men took to
the lifeboat and were tossed about on the
heavy sea until 11 o'clock, when they were
rescued with great difficulty by the steam
er John F. McWilliams. The Comstock
was laden with 50,000 bushels of wheat.
She was valued at $45,000 and was fully
insured.
A PAIR OF LOVERS SHOT.
The Identity of the Person Who Did
the. Shooting Unknown.
St. Louis, Sept. 24.—A special from Dal
las, Tex., says that Katie Carter of St.
Louis was shot and mortally wounded
at 1 o’clock this morning, and Samuel F.
Wilson, with whom she was living, is
dead with a bullet through his body. The
woman was conscious, and said that
Wilson did not do the shooting, and that
a third party must have committed the
crime. The couple came here from Kan
sas City last Sunday.
CUTTERS TO CRUSH CUBANS.
XIXE VESSELS SECURED IX THIS
COUNTRY FOR SPAIN.
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They Are to Patrol the North Coast
of Cuba to Cat Off Outside Supplies
Destined for the Rebels—The Ves
sels of Very Light Draught, Only
GO to 70 Feet Long and to Carry 15
to 20 Men Each.'
New York, Sept. 24.—Within a month nine
American-built steam cutters under the
Spanish flag will be cruising on the north
coast of Cuba. The late Admiral Man
uel Delgado Parejo sent Lieutenant Com
mander Triana to this city on special
duty, and the orders for these cutters
■were placed very quietly. Not until they
were completed did the fact of their own
ership become known. The last of the
nine were shipped to Cuba a few days
ago.
The lengths of the cutters vary from
sixty to seventy feet and their speeds are
from eleven to fourteen miles an hour.
Their average draught is four feet. Their
crews—numbering from 15 to 20, all men
from the Spanish navy—will be officered
by men of known ability.
The posts of the new vessels will be on
the north coast of Cuba between Matan
zas and Santiago de Cuba. They are
built especialy for rapid in-shore work.
Their armament will be of a very destruct
ive type, including American gatling guns
and Nordenfeldt’s. Smugglers of contra
band war will be their prey.
The Berenger, Pontoon, Service and the
American cutters, in all thirty-nine cut
ters and floats, will add immensely to the
effectiveness of the Spanish naval forces
in Cuba. With these and the double line
of war vessels cruising, it is declared that
all outside relief will be cut off from the
rebels now in the central part of eastern
Cuba.
Havana, Sept. 24.—Reports have been re
ceived here that Col. Hernandez, com
mjinding the government troops in the
Sagua district, overtook a band of rebels
in the plantation of Caridad and routed
them. Pursuing them, he attacked them
again at Libano, killing three, taking
three prisoners and capturing a
of horses, arms, ammunition, etc. It is
also reported from Santl Spiritus offi
cially that Lieut. Cols. Navas and Caves
tany, with their combined forces, had a
battle with the rebels at Olaleita on Sept.
21, in which four rebels were killed.
Hanava, Sept. 24—Eudaldo Tamayo, An.
tonio Bravo,, Alfredo Betancourt and De
siderlo Fajardo have been arrested at
Sanltago de Cuba for connection with the
rebellion. They will be deported to Spain.
Madrid, Sept. 24.—A special to the Im
partial from Havana says that on Sat
urday last a force of 600 rebels surprised
a party of 36 government troops under
Capt. Reestra at Palma Sola in the La
gua district. The soldiers made a stout
resistance, but were overpowered by
numbers and twenty were killed. Capt.
Reestra and the remaining sixteen of the
party succeeded in making their escape.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 24.—Officers of
the steamship Westgate, at this port from
Cuba, report that Spanish tipops have
been stationed, and that stof/,cades will
be erected at the property of , the
Spanish-American Ore Company in and
near Dalgulri.
While the Westgate was loading her
cargo of ore at Dalgulri, Spanish soldiers
put in an, appearance ana two Spanish
men-of-war arrived in the harbor. The
troops surrounded the mines and placed
men on guard along the railroad to the
wharf in Dalgulri and on the wharf prop
erty. The mines of the Spanish-American
Company are very large and $3,(XX),000 were
spent to develop them. They are in 4
country that is thick with filibusters who 1
have already stolen a steamship load of
explosives which had to be replaced by
a shipment from Baltimore.
Philadelphia, Sept. 24—After an unsuc
cessful search for Yumurl, a Cuban sea
port, the British steamship Culmore, a
fruit carrier, which was sent there to load
bananas for Philadelphia, returned to this
port to-night and reported that the entire
town had been devastated by the insur
gents’ torch on Sept. 18 and destroyed,
not a home having escaped the ravages
of the flames. Several of the refugees
were picked up along the coast of the
former town and brought to Philadelphia
aboard the Culmore. Among the num
ber were Col. Miguel Arrue, a prominent
fruit exporter, with his wife and family,
and J. Rodiguez and several women and
children, who formely lived in comforta
ble homes at Yumuri. They were, for the
most part, engaged In shipping bananas
and cocoanuts to Philadelphia and New
York, and they lost all their property.
Prominent citizens of Yumuri were
sympathizers with Spain in her warfare
upon the Cubans, and the insurgents
determined that in order to render such
sympathy ineffectual they would destroy
the town. Hundreds of persons, many
of them from the poorer classes, were
left homeless. A mountain railroad, or
fruit elevator, used to carry the bananas
from the mountain where they grow,
to the seashore, was also totally de
troyed. It was a novel elevated road, and
transported bananas by unique means
ten or twelve miles to the coast. This
road was owned by J. D. Hart and a syn
dicate of Philadelphia and New York
fruit dealers, and cost the proprietors
many thousands of dollars. They pro
pose to hold the Spanish government re
sponsible for the damage to their prop
erty.
SWEEP OF THE FUMES.
Big Warchon.c. Burned at Philadel
phia. and New York.
Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 24.—F. R. Walker
& Sons, paper mill, and an adjoining
dwelling house were burned yesterday.
The mill had not been In operation for
several weeks, being closed for repairs,
and the cause of the fire is unknown.
The loss is $125,000, partially insured.
New York, Sept. 24.—The big 6-story
brick storage warehouse at 305 and 307
East Sixty-first street, owned by A. B.
Yeleter, was burned this afternoon, caus
ing a loss of between $40,000 and $50,000.
Adjoining property suffered to the extent
of $35,000, bringing the total loss up to
about 175,000.
Philadelphia, Sept. 24.—The six-story
wool warehouse of Charles J.
Webb & Co.. No. 116 Chest
nut street, was destroyed by fire
rhe rear were badly damaged. The fire
startd in the basement in the rear of the
W'ebb & Co. building at 6:15 o’clock.
The fire was practically extinguished at
11 o’clock. Webb & Co. lose $200,000 on
stock, etc. Their loss is covered by in
surance. The building occupied by this
firm, and which was completely gutted,
was owned by the John A. Brown estate,
and the loss by its destruction is placed
at $50,000. The building was insured.
I. Refsnyder, a wool merchant, who oc
cupies a portion of the buildings Nos. lit)
and 112 South Front street, and which
structures adjoin the rear of the Webb
building, loses SIO,OOO by fire and water.
The establishment of Charles Lennig at
Co., limited, manufacturers of chemicals,
at 112 South Front street, was damaged
to the extent of $5,0(0. The minor losses
are also covered by insurance.
Sank. With Four Lives.
Escanaba, Mffih.. Sept. 24,—During the
prevalence of Bunday night’s gale the
schooner Charles R. Williams sank and
all on board are reported lost. The crew
consisted of Capt. Hunton, Maggie Ben
nett, the stewardess; the mate and four
sailors.
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