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JUDGE CRIST'S VIEWS.
THE ONE OBJECT OP ALL THE
FEDERAL ELECTION BILLS.
Crimea Against the Ballot No More
Frequent in the South Than in the
North—The Republican Idea that All
Negroes Are Republicans is Erro
neous, Ee Says—Reed Contradicted.
The proposed legislation to put the con
trol of congressional elections into the
hands of federal officers, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York World, '
is one of the most important propositions
now pending before congress. It was the
theme of Senator Reed’s speech at Pitts
burg on April 36. Probably no man in con
gress is better qualified to express the south
ern opinion on the subject than Repre
sentative Crisp of Georgia. He was chair
man of the committee on elections in the
last House. He is the leading democratic
member of the committee in the present
House, and he is indisputably prominent
among the democratic leaders in the popu
lar branch of congress. In an interview he
gave expression to his views on the subject.
“All the bills of that class now pending
before congress,” said he, “propose to take
entire control of the elections of represen
tatives in congress and to create returning
boards to count the vote and certify the re
sult and make tbe certificate of the return
ing board the criterion of a man’s right'to
be entered upon the roll of members-elect
by the clerk. Eaca state prescribes the
qualifications of electors for representatives
in congress. To to this time each state has
regulated the place and manner of the
election. These bills contemplate
taking these powers from the
states and making the federal officers dis
charge all the duties respecting elections
for members of congress. There is no ne
cessity for this law and no real demand
fcr it
“For some months past the republican
politicians have sought—through the news
papers, by statements on tbe floor of the
bouse qn<l by every other way in which
they could reach the people of the north—
to create the impression that in that section
of the country there exis ed a sentiment
which justified and excused fraud at elec
tions, murders for political purposes and
generally everything that could defeat the
right of the colored man to vote. The truth
is that in the south elections are as fairly
conducted and the votes as honestly counted
and returned as in other sections of the
country.
“Both in the north and the south bad men
occasionally commit crimes against the
purity of the ballot. Soon after the war
elections in the south were controlled by
federal supervision, and the result was that
political adventurers, not at all identified or
in sympathy with the people, were returned
as elected to the various state offices and
they used these positions of trust to plunder
and oppress the people they claimed to rep
resent. It cannot be denied that these re
turning boards then falsified returns and
certified results that were not true. After
a time the people of these states succeeded
in electing to office persons who did in fact
and truly represent them. The result has
been honest and economical state govern
ment and a development of the resources of
the south that is the marv el of the age. Life
and property are as fully protected there
now as anywhere iu the world. Thousands
of people and millions of dollars from the
north have gone down there and aided and
assisted in this development.
“The real cause of quarrel that these re
publican politicians have against the south
is that it is democratic. They are much
more anxious to retalu power than they are
to 6ee prosperity there. They are anxious
to lead the minds of the people of the
north away from the economical and
financial questions that are now at issue
between the parties, and they hope and be
lieve that the slanders and falsehoods that
they have circulated against the people of
the south have created in the north a senti
ment which will justify or excuse them in
the enactment of laws ostensibly to protect
the purity of the ballot, but really to enable
corrupt republican returning boards to
certify as elected from many districts of
the south the candidates of their party,
whether in fact they are elected or not.
“I see that Mr. Reed, in his Pittsburg
speech, says that the (>eople of the south
justify frauds on the ballot-box. This I
utterly deny, and it would puzzie the scurvy
politician who seems to see the things he
does not, to furnish any credible evidence
to sustain this statement. That there may
bs some Iml men at the south I of course
admit. There are such everywhere. But
that the people of the south, as a people,
either commit election frauds or justify
them is absolutely untrue.
“The republicans proceed on the idea that
all colored men Lelong to their party, and
hence they argue that in every district
w here tho negroes are in the majoritva fair
a fair election would return a republican.
This is not true. Very many colored p eople
tnlto r.o interest whatever in elections.
While they were inclined soon after the
war ti be republicans, they have found out
that their best friends are the people among
whom they live. The class of white repub
licans at the south is not such as to
nspire them with any great degree
of admiration. This class has discouraged
the candidacy of colored people and has
sought for years to use the.colored people’s
votes to put candidates of its own in office.
The white southern republican leaders have
made all s -rts ot promises which they have
not fulfilled, and the result is that many
colored people have judged the whole Re
publican party by these white republican
politicians with whom they come in contact.
For this reason the negroes of the south
have ceased to take any interest in political
contests. L appeal to tho thousands of
Korthern business men who have settle! in
the south since the war to vouch for this
statement.
“ The laws of every southern state secure
to the colored man every right they give to
the white man. These laws are a correct
expression of the public sentiment existing
■w here they are made. They are o forced in
the courts, and are no more violated in that
section than all laws are at timet violated
by bad men in every country.
“A system of returning boards, appointed
or controlled by federal authority, is odious
to the people. Each state should regulate
for itself the manuer of all elections therein.
The states should be permitted to choose
officers in whom they have confidence.
Our experience in 1876 teaches us that
such returning boards can be improp
erly influenced. Everybody knows that lh
Lousiana and Florida, and in South Caro
lina a false result was certified, and on that
certificate Mr. Hayes was declared Presi
dent. To take federal control of elections
implies a want of confidence in the honesty
and integrity of the officers of the states.
There is nothing to justify this. Not one of
those gentlemen now so anxious for the
passage of a federal election law will admit
that it is necessary for the protection of the
ballot in his own state. They assume that
in states other than than those of their res
reside: ce such lawlessness exists as to de
nial and federal interference.”
“What is the prospect of any one of these
bills becoming a law?” Mr. Crisp was
asked.
‘‘Without the aid of the caucus I do not
believe t at a federal election law could be
passed,” he replied. “The present republi
can leaders understand the efficacy of the
party lash, and wield it unhesitatingly. I
have no doubt there are many republican
memb- rs of congress who would, if acting
in accord with their judgment and sense of
justice, oppose the passage of a federal elec
tion law ; but when the caucus, dominated
ard controlled by active and often unscrup
ulous politicians, determines that it is nec
essary for the success of their party to pass
sueh a bill, it requires an uuusua! amount
of personal independence and manhood on
the part of republican members of con
gress to refuse to conform to caucus
dictation. I fear, therefore, that they will
I'a-s a law. They have the majority in the
House and in the Senate. I hope and be
lieve the people of the country will not ap
j prove such a law, and that they will under
stand the real purpose of its authors. Whi e
: the pnssage of such a law may cause strife
and disorganization of the labor of the
i south, I feel sure that if honest elections
' officers are appointed who will ascertain
and certify the vote actually cast no mate
rial change will be made in the political
complexion of the repretentation from the
south.”
FARMERS’ WIVES ORGANIZED.
Methods and Objects of the Ladies'
Guild of the F. M. B. A.
Australia, 111., April 24.—Tne Farm
j era’ Mutual Benefit Association, which was
organized in southern Illinois less than four
years ago, is now one of the largest and
most powerful c rg&mzations in the country.
It spread from county to county until a
state organization was necessary, and now
it exists in several states and a national as
sembly has been formed. The order is com
posed entirely of farmers, and its objects
and purposes are to act as a body, and by
mutual co-operation buy and sell to a better
advantage, to exc ange views upon topics
pertaining to the farm, and to devise and
carry out plans and purposes to
relieve the burdens of the agri
cultural masses. Although the order is
non-political, the members usually vote for
only such candidates as are in sympathy
with their wants, regardless of the political
belief of the candidate, and sometimes in
local affairs they find it necessary to nom
inate a candidate of their own. At a gen
eral mass meeting held in this city in
March, a resolution was adopted favoring
the admission of all farmers’ wives and
daughters to full membership in the order,
and when the state assembly meets in
Springfield in October next, the friends of
the resolution will ask that the rules of the
order be amended so os to admit them.
In view of this action, and the unanimous
favor with which it was received, sime of
the leading farmers wives and daughters of
this locality conceived the idea of creating
an organization of their own upon the same
basis as the regular Farmers’ Mutual Bene
fit Association, and on the afternoon of
April 4, 1890, fourteen farmers’ wives and
daughters assembled at the residence of ex-
Judge John 8. Harney and organized the
first lodge of the Ladies’ Guild of the
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association of the
United States. Mrs. 8. M. Gordon was
chosen as president; Mrs. Will Rankin, vice
president: Mrs. James T. McKibben, secre
tary; Miss Hattie McClelland, doorkeeper.
These ladies are all women of en<-gy, well
informed, and are able to cope successfully
with the problems of s jcial reform pertain
ing to their sex and families.
In the preamble to the resolutions adopted
by this pioneer society its organizers say:
“While in times past the weaker members
of the common people of the human race
have suffered most from oppression, tyran
ny, and barbarism, we rejoice in the prog
ress of modern society toward the equaliza
tion of burdens, and are in full accord with
our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, in
their effort to secure the betterment of
human conditions. The rigid economy and
sell-denial forced upon us, having to begin
at home, falls most heavily upon
woman, and as tho American home
is the hope of the nation we realize the need
of the education of American women
on a broader basis in the practical every
day business of life, as well as in things
which pertain directly to the narrow sphere
heretofore assigned to them. A perfect co
operation between all members of a class is
necessary to secure the best results, and the
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, hav
ing been organized for such purpose, we
now bciieve that, for ourselves, self-help
and thorough organization are the first
adequate means to be used for the better
ment of our condition and the improvement
of our homes.”
The resolutions adopted read as follows:
Resolved, That we organize ourselves into a
society to be known as the Indies’ Guild of the
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association.
ltesOlved, That we earnestly request the
wives, mothers and daughters of all other sub
ordinate lodges to organize themselves similarly.
Resolved, .That we defeat the antiquated in
itiatory process so common in ail secret orders,
and request the ladies everywhere to ignore
such useless repetitions, and use in place fresh,
modernpdupational matter.
Resolved, That we claim the right to the use
of the ballot in the exercise of citizenship in the
decision of all questions affecting thfe conditions
of mankind, on the clause of section 1 of the
fourteenth amendment and in the first
section of the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States: Irom which
right we are now shut out by an antiquated cus
tom, which may be removed by the states,
under article 10 of said constitution.
Resolved, That on all questions, local, state or
national, moral, social or otherwise, wo will ad
vocate progression, and put forth our utmost
endeavors to defeat the present threatened de
cline of our civilization; and wo will advocate
“equal wages for equal labor for both sexes,”
and "equal opportunities for all," and that our
motto snail ever be: "Our Homes Shall Bless
the Land.”
The objects of the society are as follows:
“1. To put ourselves under training for
the future before us, and in a position from
which we can contribute advisedly all in
our power to any of tho touch-needed re-
forms.
2. To prepare ourselves for membership
in the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association,
in case said order wills to admit us.
3. To visit the sick, help the needy, and
relieve suffering as far as possible.
4. To encourage all good meh and
women in whatever line of reform, in busi
ness or society, they engage, and to dis
countenance any one given to any vice or
corruption, and to assist in the education of
the masses in all that contributes to human
happiness.
Although this lodge has been organized
less than one month, it is one of the most
widely known institutions in the county.
The action of this handful of active wo
men has been discussed through the news
papers far and near. They have been re
ferred to by the representatives of our
government ~at Washington, and letters of
inquiry are pouring in from all quarters
asking for an Organizer to institute similar
lodges. Thete ladies are proud of their
work, and gladly accept the name of being
the mothers of one of the most promising
orders ever originated in this county, espe
cially by and for the women, aud should the
state assembly refuse them admittance into
the regular order, they propose to have an
organization of their own.
Base Ball Yesterday.
At Toledo—Toledo 8, Columbus 11. Bat
teries: Healy and Rogers. Gastright and
O’Connor. Errors: Toledo 2, Columbus 4.
At St. Louis—St. I ,onis 2, Louisville 2.
Errors: St. Louis 8, Louisville 3. Batter
ies: Stivetts, Whittrock, and Earle;
Goodell and Weekbecker.
At Syracuse—The Syracuse-Brooklyn
game, scneduled for to-day, was postponed
on account of rain.
Strike of the Coopers.
Chicago, May 4. —If something unex
pected does not occur to-morrow every
cooper employed about the packing houses
at the stock yards, with perhaps an excep
tion in the houses operated by Armour &
Cos. and Swift & Cos., will go out on a strike.
Their request, they say, is not unrensonn
ble. but was ignored, and the result is a
determination to quit work.
Eis Ambition Not Gratified.
Amone the many personal anecdotes told of
Gen. Lee is the following from the Atlanta
Journal: “On the night following the battle
of Malvern Hill Gen. Magrudwr, known as
Prince John, having been unfor.unnte in an
attack made that day on account of misunder
standing his orders, rode up to Gen. Lee, and
saluting him, said that he had come to ask per
mission to storm the hights at daybreak with
his division.
“If you give me permission,’ continued
Magruder. anxious to redeem himself, 'l'll
promtse to carry the heiguts at the point of the
bayonet.’
“‘I have no doubt that you could carry
them.' replied Gen. Lee, ‘but I have one ob
jection ’
“ 'Name it,' said Magruder. seeing honor and
glory Defore him, and expecting to be able to
remove the objection.
“ ‘I am afraid,’ said Gen. Lee. with a quiet
smile, 'that you might hurt my little friend,
Maj. Kidder Meade of the engine- ring corps,
whi Is over there rec innoitering, tne enemy
having left about an hour ago,’ ’’
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 5, $9O.
HOW THEY PROPOSED.
DIFFERENT WAYS OF POPPING
THE QUESTION.
Are the Novelists True to Life?—An
Experience Meeting in a Broadway
Hotel.
From the Xew York Tribune.
“One of the recent revolutions in fiction,’
said a bald-headed, jolly old fellow, who
sat in the center of a group that filled the
window of a Broadway hotel the other day,
“is the way in which the heroes propose
marriage to the heroines. In my younger
days the novels always represented the
young fellows as falling on their knees be
fore the adored ones, and getting off a
string of long-winded sentences that would
cast Senator Evarts in the shade, and filled
with bigh-sounding and flowery platitudes
that a southern stump orator could hardly
hope to equal. These they continued to
pour out, seldom coming to the point
until the poor girls fainted. In thi* gen
eration the novelists make shorter work of
it, but whether they are any truer to life
than those who wrote and went to their re
ward before them is an open question.”
“Well, how did you do it yourself?” said
another of the group. “Tell the truth now,
and then we’U be able to judge, perhaps,
how near the novelists come to the real
thing.”
“ I'hat’s just a little too personal,” laughed
the old fellow, “and besides, what could
you determine from once instance* But I’ll
tell you what I will do. I will relate the
incidents of a proposal which I know to be
true, names of the parties to it not to be
asked for, if each one of you will do the
same. Absolute truth the only condition.
And from the mouths of many witnesses
let the novelist be judged.”
“Agreed, agreed I” was the chorus. “You
make the start!”
"Well,” said the old fellow, with a twin
kle in his eye, “I remember a nice young
man around our parts some forty years ago,
who was of an affectionate disposition, the
kind that generally marries young, but he
bad a saving appreciation of the value of
money, which, it was supposed, would keep
him out of a foolish marriage. However,
he fell head over heels in love with a penni
less but beautiful girl, who had a score of
admirers, all eager for her baud. He was
anxious to win her, but did not feel able to
marry on the income he then had. Promo
tion in a year or so was pretty sure, how
ever, and he thought he could hint to her
that if she would wait until his income was
SI,OOO a year, he would then ask her to
marry him.
“After bringing the conversation deftly
arouud to the proper point, ‘Mary,’ said he,
‘I have only SSOO a year now, would you
marry me if 1 bad SI,OOO U
“John,’ said she. smiling sweetly on him,
‘I would marry you on a hundred.’
“What could he do? Back out and lose
her forever, or bind the bargain then and
there. He was made of good stuff, was
John, and they were married soon after,
much to tho surprise ot the villagers, who
bad often listened to his condemnation of
hasty marriages, and not without many
misgivings on his own part, but I believe he
never repented.”
“Those are just my sentiments,” grumbled
the youngest member of the party, a decided
rake, always hard up, a little frayed about
the edges of his cuffs and reputation.
“These mercenary marriages are the curse
of the age. It’s got to be so now that a girl
never asks what her future husband’s quali
ties are until she has satisfied herself about
his property.”
“Come now, Algy,” replied another of the
group; “it’s well known that you’ve been
courting old B ’s rich daughter for a long
time. Have you proposed to her yet? What
did she say?”
“Well, I’ve got the refusal of her,” said
Algy, diplomatically but dolefully.
There was a general smile at this, and
someone said: “You could not have chosen
the best time to offer your hand, old man.
There’s a good deal in that."
“What do you mean?” asked Algy, with a
gleam of hope.
“I don’t believe she’d have declined your
hand if you had offered it as she was climb
ing down from the top of a Fifth avenue
bus, for instance.”
“Rats!” quoth Algy as he gnawed bis
moustache.
“Perhaps,” broke in a man who had mar
riageable daughters himself, “the reason
girls look so carefully for a husband with
money is because they seldom find anything
else about a young fellow nowadays worth
having."
The conversation was becoming a lit’le
too personal here, and the good-natured old
fellow who had started the talk said: “I
wouldn’t ba in a hurry to marry that girl,
anyway, Algy, if I were you: you don’t
know enough about her yet. Her name’s
Ann, isn’t it ? Yes. Well, now, if you wish
to be certain of what you get, never marry
a girl named Ann. Every one knows that
An is an indefinite article.”
“Oh, chestnuts!” shouted Algy; “you’re
worse than the other crauks. Isn't it some
turn now ?” •
•* While we are on the subject of mercen
nary matches,” said another of the com
pany, “I’ll give you my little contribution
before I forget it. I knew of an attractive
widow, twice married, who was left almost
penniless by her second husband, and did
not know what to do for a living. Her last
husband had had a big income and was
supposed to be rich, but, in reality, had al
ways lived up to the last cent of it, and had
left his widow only a few thousands. She
kept up appearances, however, and met a
a clever aud rising young lawyer at a ball
ohe evening, who paid ardent court to her
under the impression that she was wealthy.
“She encouraged him, aud not long after
sent for him to draw up her will. In the
will she bequeated hundreds of thousands
of dollars in stocks and bonds among her
relatives and various charities. The young
lawyer estimated that her fortune was at
least $600,000. Before long ho proposed,
was accepted and married, only to hud that
his wife was penniless. To add to his cha
grin, he discovered that her first nusband
bad been hanged by vigilantes in the west
for neglect to return a horse he had borrowed
without telling the owner about it.”
“Well. No. 3 must have had the satisfac
tion of finding that she could not reproach
him with the virtues of No. 1, and draw
invidious comparisions, anyway,” said one
of the group, who had married a widow
himself, and spoke from the depth of expe
rience.
“I’m afraid that did not save him,” re
plied the narrator, “for I believe she used
to praise No. 1 indirectly by saying that
hanging was too good for No. 3.” '
“I’m a cautious man,” said another of the
group, "and I’m inclined to tnink that the
best way to propose is with a kind of a
laugh, as if it w r ere a joke. Then if she ac
cepts you, why all right; if she refuses you,
you can say you were only in fun.
“I remember,” he continued, “two young
follows in our town who were both courting
the same girl. Neither of them could say
which she p. eferred, so nicely did she play
both her fish, n it willing to lose either till
one had been fairly lauded. One evening
I—that is, Jim; you understand, we will
call him Jim. One of these fellows to whom
I refer, you understand. Don’t you!”
“Yes, yes, of course.” said every one,
“Jim, go on!”
“Jim found her alone; and he began at
once: ‘Miss Jennie, do you think you could
bring yourself to leave your comfortable
home, kind father, loving mother, and little
brothers and sisters, and go to the city as
the wife of a young fellow who has his
fortune yet to make, and has nothing to
offer you but his honest heart and strong,
aud willing hand!'
“Jennie cast her eyes down demurely
and, after a moment’s reflection, said:
‘Yes, Janies, I think I could, with the right
sort of a young man.’
‘“Well,’ said Jim,‘my friend John (his
rival) is going to New York to seek his for
tune and w ants to marry. I’ll mention to
him what you sty <’
“ ‘You horrid thing!’ she snaoprd out, ‘I
thought you meant yourself—l O, my,
what have 1 said?* and she burst out crying
•mi made for tbo door. But I caught her
and assured her that it was for myself.
“Why, what are you all grinning at? O,
shucks! I mean Jim caught her and ex- |
plained that it was for himself, and they
lived happily ever after, as the story book
says."
“I’m afraid you let the cat out of the bag,
old fellow, but now we come to the last
man,” said the jolly originator of this ex
perience meeting. "You’re a bachelor,
though, Brown, and I don’t suppose you
have any remimseuces of the kind; have
yon P
"Why am Ia bachelor then?” replied
Brown. .“Copse now. I’ll be honest with
you an<J tell you my own actual experience,
as 1 believe you have been doing, though
you wcu* Acknowledge it. I hAfi studied
how to propose gracefully, and bought a
ring and c mposod a little speech and had
got it all down fine. Drawing the ring from
my pocket, I struck a telling attitude aud
said:
“‘Will you wear this beautiful ring for
my soke? It resembles my love for you? It
has no end.’
“To which she replied: ‘Keep your ring,
sir. It also resembles my love for you. it
has no beginning.’
“Thus was I saved from a horrible fate
which I never again tempted.”
“Huh!” grunted the old chap with the
marriageable daughters. “The man who
shuns matrimony for fear of its petty cares
is like one who cuts off his leg for fear of
corns. ”
LIFE IN A HAREM.
Olive Harper Writes of the Mysteries
in the Houses of Opulent Turks.
From the Pittsburg Bulletin.
People iu general have an idea that Turk
ish women absolutely do nothing that is
useful or ornamontal aside from the decor
ation of their own persons, but that is not
altogether true, as my residence of over a
year in their country taught me, for they
are really dexterous with the needle, and
do work which is as tine as that done bv the
sisters in the convents or that of the wives
of the fe idal noblemen of olden times.
The favorite pastime with Turkish
women is the bath, which brings together
the wives and slaves of well-to-do Turks,
and is like a picnic of school children.
These wives, most of them very young—
some, indeed, not over 12 or 14 years old—
take their lunch along, aud they eat and
steam, plunge and splosh, and play pranks
upon each other in the wildest glee the
whole day long.
No fear of ail angry husband haunts their
minds, for they are not expected to do any
thing, and their husbands very rarely en
ter their harems before 6 o’clock. By this
time they are all back, rosy and sweet from
their bath.
At the baths there is often an old woman
who has the faculty of relating stories, and
she is eagerly listened to by the grown-up
children; and the stories are generally of
the “Arabian Nights” order, full of genii,
beautiful ladies, and charmiug youths and
jealous husbands. Many a lesson is given
as to how to outwit the most jealous of men
—a lesson they aro neither slow to learn nor
practice.
The way they were watched and confined
always made me think of the woman who
cautioned her innocent children not to put
blue beans in their noses while she was out.
The magic lantern entertainments amuse
these ignorant caged birds. Danciug girls,
singing and playing the lute, playing with
the baliies, and occasionally quarreling with
each other, take up some of their time; a
weekly tour of tho bazars, and once in
a while a visit to the harem of some other
Turk still leave much time on their hands
that the rare calls of their husbands, the
eating of sweetmeats or smoking of cigar
ettes cannot fill, and so they give their poor
little minds to fancy work. They very
seldom learn how to read, or perhaps books
would help them through, and they never
make their own clothes, though they do
sometimes decorate them elaborately after
others have made them.
They have frames made on which their
embroidery is worked, and on velvet, satin,
or that t.oauMful and durable Broussa
gauze they embroider with exquisite fine
ness and taste. The most of their embroid
ery is done in durable and admirably
arranged colors, in subdued tones, which
seem to me remarkable in women who are
so fond of brilliant primary colors and ill
assorted contrasts. They have no patterns,
bat work out graceful and beautiful fan
tasies, and all done with the most exauisita
care and fineness, requiring patience and
extra good eyesight.
They work in gold and silver threads to
a great extent, and they make cushions for
their divaus which are stiff with the finest
of gold and silver needlework. Their
jackets are worked so thickly over with
gold and silver arabasques aud other pat
ters that they are almost as stiff as our
corsets.
Their slippers are ornamented as well
with gold and silver embroidery over velvet
or satin, and sled pearls and fine coral and
turquoise beads are lavishly used with beau
tiful effect. They also work gold borders
to their bathing wraps. This is done in
outline work in chain stitch. The little
Broussa nockties are worked ia the same
manner, ouly that the tourah, or national
coat-of-arms, is always placed at the end,
with a verse from the Koran worked in
gold thread at the bottom.
They make a very beautiful and durable
lace out of silk thread, which resembles no
lace I ever saw. The mesh is thick, but
not heavy, and different flowers aro
frequently made in relief upon it. I
have seen a piece of this lace three yards
in length and a quarter of a yard
deep. On it ran a rose branch, every leaf,
bud, and flower bring made separate, and
laid in relief upon it, joined firmly and yet
loose. The roses were perfect fac-simiies of
ruses with perhaps 100 petals. Another
woman had made in this lace work a little
garden about fifteen inches square. There
were the little trees about three inches bign,
flowers of different kinds, and two of tnree
birds, all made of this lace and set in relief,
tiny wires being run through the stems of
the flowers and trunks of the trees to keep
them upright.
The soft and durable crape undershirts,
petnhazars, as they are called, all have,
around the bottom, on the bottoms of the
long, loose sleeves, aud arouud the neck, an
edging of the finest work I ever saw, which
renders the edge indestructible. These
garments are left unfinished when manu
factured for each to finish according to her
own taste.
The Turkish women wear no other under
garments, and the jacket sleeves only reach
the elbow, so that these flow loose below
like undersleeves. They are delicately soft
and semi-transparent.
The feridjees or outdoor wraps look, as far
as shape is concerned, about as graceful as
a waterproof cloak; they are shaped like a
big loose nightgiown, with loose sleeves
and a long flap hauging from tiie shoulders
to the heels. These are usually made of
black alpaca, or farmer’s satin, but you
often see them of the most brilliant-colored
silk or satin. They aro made without trim
ming, for the most part, and are simply
hemmed; but these ladies make narrow
trimmings to go arouud the edges of the
most exqisite daintiness ii the shape of
shells, diamond braids, and many other in
genious shapes out of the same material as
the feridjees, and not over half an inch
wide. 1 remember noticing one which had
a trimming made of miniature pears and
lavgjj,_v hich was extremely pretty. An
other resembled a fhght.aJf done in
dark-blue satin.
We might suppose that these women
would take pleasure in making and em
broidering their babies’clothes as do other
women; but as babies are simply swathed
In euuiess rollers, like a mummy, until they
are six months old, ornament is unneces
sary. At the end of six months boy babies
are DUt into pamaloons a id girls into loose
trousers, both bjiug ufuolly made of large
llowered chintz.
About tbo only thing I ever noticed the
Turkish women do for their little cnildren
was to make toys for them, and they made
the most grotesque looking dogs, lion*,oows,
rabbits, elephants, camels and doll babies
out of rags for their amusement. They
never nurse their babies for fear of spoiling
the shape of the bast. They ore very poor
mothers, as they are too ignorant them
selves to understand their responsibilities or
to teach their children. They alternately
slap them or caress and indulge them, just
as their own humor happens to be good or
bad.
The little girls are taught how to sew and
embroider, how to walk gracefully and re
cline in the most negligent manner upon
the divans, how to play by ear a little ou a
lute, and to sing their Interminable love
songs. Their songs are like “Barbara
Allen,” “Lovely Young Caroline of Elin
boro Town,” “The Brown Girl” or "Gypey
Dave”—all long and telling a whole ro
mance to a plaintive chant.
I never learned to speak Turkish, but I
got so that I could seize upon the moaning
of these songs. The singer aiways puts all
the life and sentiment she can into her
music, and often sheds tears as she sings, as
do her listeners. I have even seen one or
two of them faint away at the most pathetic
part. This is a very common trait among
Turkish women, and I have not yet been
able to decide whether it is the result of a
weak will or extreme sensibi’ity, but they
faint on every possible occasion.
The Turkish women love music passion
ately, and nearly all of them can
play *ome instrument with taste
and feeling, though almost always by
ear. Their nativo music is always sad and
plaintive, and often lull of such a piercing
sorrow that it is no wonder that it brings
tears. They love flowers, too, and you
rarely see one without a flower in her baud
when it is possible to get them, and they
are fond of birds and raise a great many
themselves. Many of the Turkish women
show considerable talent in drawing aud
painting, though the poor things never
have any chance to learn. They simply
“pick it up.”
As I found the Turkish women—and I
happened to have obtained, by a fortunate
circumstance, a chance to know them in
their homes accorded to very few foreign
women, and to absolutely uo foreign man—
they are gentle, submissive, loving, aud
with many natural gifts in addition to their
beauty. If they were educated they would
be tne equals of any women in Europe. It
does not seem to me that they are unhappy
in their peculiar marriage relations. They
reminded me of a lot of irresponsible young
girls in a boarding school, and the only
jealousy such as might be felt of the
"teacher’s pet.” Instead of the poisoned
and vindictive murder I supposed aiways
ready to be inflicted upon each, other, the
worst they ever do is to pull each other’s
hair occasionally and box each other’s ears.
I don’t think the Turkish women are
really lazy or indolent, but for many rea
sons they appear so. The husband consid
ers his wife an ii responsible being, prone to
mischief (and he is rarely mistaken), and all
he requires of her is to look pretty, be
cheerful and pleasant when he is near, aud
it would be a mark of disrespect for her to
do anything in the way of work when he
is present. SSo these women are early taught
to be gracefully idle.
Girls reach their majority at 9, and are
frequently married a year later, though
not usually until 15. By that time all the
education they get is acquired. Instead of
being taug t all the abstruse science-, she is
taught all the caressing words and gestures
possible to imagine—how to walk, s:t, look
and speak, so as to appear tho most seduct
ive in the eyes of the husband who gets
her.
No Turkish wife of the better class is ever
expected to do any domestic labor what
ever, nor to make any of the household
linen, nor to make any garments for her
self or members of the household, nor to
sew any buttons on, nor, above all, to make
her husband’s shirts; therefore it can be
seen at once that almost every source of
domestic disagreement is done away with,
and the Turkish husband never expects his
wife to get on her knees and huut for his
collar button, nor scold her if the dinner is
badly cooked; so that in many respects life
in a harem is not so very bad after all, and
one-tenth of a good husband is better than
the whole of a bad one.
But the women can decorate, embroider,
and sew pearls and turquoises all over any
thing they want to, and they do it as a
labor of love, with exquisite care and deli
cacy of taste.
Their own garments are such an odd in
congruity—bare feet and legs, or socks and
slippers, pantaloons of common gaudy
chintz, a shalvar or skirt, of which the
breadths are notsewn up, a great wad of
shawl tied about a waist guiltless of corsets,
a jacket covered with gold and pearl em
broidery, jewels, necklaces of coral, pearl,
diamonds, and other precious jewels,
mingled with strings of common beads, ear
rings, rings, and bracelets four inches wide,
the brilliant sorvotch above their fore
heads stuck full of gay flowers and jewels,
and ovesall thefendjee, with its shapeless
folds, and tho beauty-giving, refining, and
mysterious veil or yashmak, which makes
of a Turkish woman at once a most ravish
ing and ridiculous creature in the world.
Beautiful in the face as an angel, ugly, and
awkward, seen from behind, as a hippo
potamus.
The total catch of seals by schooners fitted
out at Victoria, B. C., up to April 1, is reported
at 1,800.
MEDICAL.
Peculiar
Peculiar in combination, proportion, and
preparation of Ingredients, Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla possesses the curative value of the best
known reme- go dies of tha
veget ab 1 e PSOOCS S kingdom,
Peculiar in Us strength and economy, Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is tlie only medicine of which can
truly be said, “One Hundred Doses One Dol
lar.” Peculiar in its medicinal merits, Hood's
Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures hitherto un
the title of “The greatest blood purifier ever
discovered.” Peculiar in Its “good name
at home,” —there is more of Hood’s Sarsa
parilla sold in Lowell than of all other
blood purifiers. Peculiar in its phenomenal
record of p ■ I S ra r sales abroad
no other* preparation
ever attained so rapidly nor held so
steadfastly the confidence of all classes
of people. Peculiar in the brain-work which
it represents, Hood's Sarsaparilla com
bines all the knowledge which modern
research w in niedicai
science has fi O BISGiT developed,
with many years practical experience in
preparing medicines. Be sure to get only
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
8o!d by all druggists. #I; six for £5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
iOO Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
MOSEY TO LOAN.
Liberal loans made on Diamonds. Gold and
Silver Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Silverware,
Guns, Pistols. Clothing, Tools, and on almost
anything of value, at the old reliable Pawn
broker House, 179 Congress street.
E. MUHLBERG, Manager.
Highest prices paid for old Gold and Silver.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The yacht THISTLE will be raffled at J. J.
Sullivan's on TUESDAY. May 6th, at 8 p. m.
All holding chances are requested to be present.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
We have formed a copartnership under the
firm name of D. Y. t R.R.I) tNCY for the pur
pose of doing a Cotton Brokerage. Factorage
and Commission business.
Office 10Sj$ Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
and. y. dancy.
K. R. DANCY.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
CLEVELAND.—The relatives an! friends of
Mrs. Victoria Clivilaxd. of Lena Reed, of
Delia Wilson, anil Fra ax Hall are invited to
attend the funeral of the forra-r trom her late
residence. 217 Bryan street. THIS AFTERNOON
at 3 o'clock.
MCDONALD.—The friends and acquaintance
of Miss Mary McDonald and Mrs. John Deacy
and family are respectfully Invited to attend
the funeral of the former from residence, cor
ner Price and Gaston straits, THIS AFTER
NOON at 4 o’clock.
MEETINGS.
DetiALU LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. V.
A regular meeting will he held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock, sun time. Metropolitan
Hall, corner Whitaker and President Streets.
The Second Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of J. D. GOODMAN, N. G.
Jon.N Riley. Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 8 o'clock.
BEIRXE GORDON,
Recording Secretary.
CARNIVAL AND TORCHLIGHT COM
MITTEES.
The members of above committees are re
quested to attend meeting THIS (Monday)
EVENING, May 5, 1890, at 8:15 o'clock, for the
purpose of making up report and the trans
action of other important business relative to
the recent affair.
ABE S. GUCKENHEIMER,
Chairman Carnival Committee.
ROBERT G. GAILLARD,
Chairman Torchlight Committee.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising in the Morn ixo
Nxws will be agate , or at the rate of $1 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
SAVA NN A ll’S GRE AT ENTE ft PR ISE?
SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY
PILSEN BEER
THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE.
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY
Beg leave to inform.the public that
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, 20th INST.
ALL LEADING GROCERS AND DEALERS
OF THIS CITY
WILL ATTEND TO AND PROMPTLY FILL
ALL ORDERS FOR
► FAM IL Y US E
Of the Savannah Brewing Company's
EXTRA PILSEN BEER,
MUNCHENER HOFBRAU BEER,
A pure and unadulterated brand of choicest
Bavarian Hops of our own importation.
THE REAL ESTATE OFFERINGS
t
ON TUESDAY, 6th,
AT THE COURT- HOUSE,
—WILL BE
15 shares Series “A" Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company.
Lot 50x310 and two houses.
On Perry and JeffersoS’streets, two lots and
improvements—store and residences.
3 lots in Dittmersville.
A Broughton street corner and two residences.
A brick residence on Broughton near Price.
Washington ward residence and large lot.
Two-story residence on Duffy near Haber
sham.
Jefferson street, English basement residence
near Harris.
A fine corner for business or for a home on
Jefferson and Harris.
Block of lots and eight houses in southwest
section—a favorite renting locality.
All of the above merit investigation by in
vestors.
C. H. DORSETT,
Real Estate Dealer,
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST,
149 Broughton Street.
STATE AND COUNTY TAX RETURNS.
The office is NOW OPEN for Tax Returns for
the year 1890, and will remain open for two
months.
I will, as usual, visit the offices and workshops
of the Central and Savannah, Florida and
Western railroads for returns of the officers
and employes. JOHN R. DILLON,
R. T. R„ C, C.
“WE ARE THE PEOPLE.”
Walls need finishing, whether with decora
tions or otherwise, but modern house-builders
find by experience that by far the most desir
able and pretty finish is a handsome “Wall
Paper.” Wehavean
OVERWHELMINGLY LARGE STOCK
Of thousands of different patterns, and offer
our patrons this large variety to select from.
It might pay you to examine the many patterns
suitable for all requirements. The Kitchen re
qu res not quite as nice a quality as the Spare
Room, andtne Dining-room a shade different
from the Parlor, the Hail and Bedrooms still a
different quality and pattern. We have numer
ous styles for each. Alabaatine is still a popu
lar wall covering. Try it.
A. HANLEY.
BUILDERS’ SUPPLY DEPOT.
Whitaker Street.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT ~IN GOLo'
It is a broad assertion, but nevertheless true,
that Ulmer's “Liver Corrector,” a faultless
family medicine, is worth its weight in gold.
Prominent medical men indorse it, and thou
sands of citizens who have used it bear willing
and cheerful testimony to the above assertion.
Silver medal and diploMi awarded over com
petitors. Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist,
Savannah, Ga.
Price. One Dollar Per Bottle.
If you cannot obtain the “Corrector" from
your druggist, send your orders direct and it
will be forwarded by express, freight paid.
TURKISH SALES ~ ~
OF OTTA OF ROSES
By Pear’s Soap manufacturers have been enor
mous. The genuine Otta of Rose Soap, Glycer
ine, Unscented Shaving Sticks, and Fuller's
Earth received direct at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress Streets,
AMUSEMENTS.
Plßwer EHSI
BAZAR BUILDING,
South Broad and Whitaker Streets.
The Savannah Floral & Art Association
WILL GIVE THEIR
ANNUAL EXHIBITION,
Commencing on TUESDAY EVENING. MAY ,
and continuing four nights.
LIBERAL PREMIUMS OFFERED.
NO CHARGE TO EXHIBITORS.
WE ask the citizens to assist us in making the
J ' exbition a credit to our city. Send some
thing, ir only a single plant
We request the Ladies to send their work of
Painting, Drawing, Needlework, and other work
of art. Contributions of Cut Flowers solicited.
Doors open at 7:30. Admission only 2T.. ■ ■
children, 15c. " *
Grand Testimonial Benefit
To Savannah's Favorite,
COL. ALBERT HUEBLER,
MIDGET COMEDIAN,
Adopted son of Mr. Herman Winter.
SAVANNAH THEATER,
Tuesday, May 6.
Tickets for sale at Winter’s Music Hall and
Screven House.
LOTTERY.
lottery
OF THE PUBIJC CHARITY.
established in isrr. by the
MEXICAN
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Operated Linder a Twenty Years’ Contract
by the Mexican International !.
provement Company.
Grand Mm ridy Drawings held in the Moreaona
Pavilion io the Alameda Park, City of Mexico,
and publicly conducted by Government Ofij.
eials appointed for the purpose by the Secre.
tary of the Interior and the Treasury.
Grand Semi-Annual Drawing June IS9O
CAPITAL PRIZE,
#OO,OOO.
80,000 Tickets at @4, f.121, 003
Wholes, $-1; Halves, @2 ; Quarters, $1;
Club Rates: ivortb of Tickets for
SSO T'. S. Currency.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $120,000 is .. $ nOD
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF 20.000i5..." ao'ni
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF 10,0001s....;. loV*)
1 GRAND PRIZE OF.. 2.0001s 2 000
8 PRIZES OF ... 1,000 are.... 3(mo
6 PRIZEB OF 500 are.. * 8>
SO PRIZES OF 200 are! 4no
300 PRIZES OF lOOare. 10 00)
340 PRIZES OF SOare"." 17 0m
55i PRIZES OF SOare.... 11,03)
APPROXIMATION PRIZES,
f 0 Prizes of stto, app. to SOO/00 Prize... $ 9 001
150 Prizes of *SO, app. to 20,000 Priz-.... 750)
150 Prizes of S4O, app. to 10,010 Prize.... s'DM
799 T rminals of S2O.
decided by $60,000 Prize. . 15,980
2276 Prizes Amounting to $178,550
All Prizes sold In the United States full pall
In U. S. Currency.
SPECIAL FEATURES
By terms of contract the Company must de
posit the sum of all prizes included in the
scheme before selling a single ticket, and re
ceive the following official permit:
CERTIFICATE.—I hereby certify that the
Bank of London and Mexico has on special
depo stithe necessary funds to guarantee Vis
payment of all prizes drawn by the Loteria
de la Beneficencia Publica.
A. CASTILLO. Interventor.
Further, the Company is required to disirib.
ate 56 percent, of the value of ail the tickets is
prizes— a larger proportion than ia given by any
other Lottery.
Finally, the number of ticket* is limited to
80,000 —20,000 less than are sold by other lot
teries using the same scheme.
For full particulars address 11. Hiieeitt,
Apartado 73a. City of Mexico, Mexico.
CIGARS.
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All who have tried them so
far, have pronounced them
good.” All educated smokers
agree in calling this brand
perfect. Made only by the
CORTEZ CIGAR COMPANY,
KEY WEST.
Lee Roy Myers & Cos.,
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