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WHEN THE KING IS CROWNED.
POME OF THE FEATIRES OF THE
CORONATION CEREMONY.
Ancient Customs, Many* of Which
Will Re Abolished by King Ed
ward—Desire Is to Shorten the
Ceremony—Crowns the King Will
YVeur—The Queen's Crown.
From the New York Sun.
London.—Absorbing Interest is al
ready being shown in the forthcoming
coronation. Its ceremonies and all its
attendant circumstances. First of all
there is the Court of Claims which has
to settle who shall be the King s Lord
Great Chamberlain, his chief carvers,
butlers and what not. Some of these
have already been settled, but to settle
other numerous claims to be present ■
and perform certain duties at the coro
nation will soon be the duty of the j
Court of Claims.
In early ages the Sovereign, shortly
after his accession, issued a warrant
constituting the Lord High Steward
sole judge of the court, but Queen Vic
toria by proclamation committed the
duty to the whole of the privy council
or any five or more of them. The
claims are chiefly those of persons who
hold estates by -grand sergeanty," and
the term "tenure by grand sergeanty"
is explained by Littleton as where a
man holds his lands or tenements of
the Sovereign by such services as he
ought to do in his own person, such as
to carry the King's banner or his
sword before him at the coronation, or
to be his carver or his butler.
Some of these tenures are of a trivial
nature, and can well be dispensed with,
but others have become valued heredi
tary privileges which the COvrrt of
Claims is bound to recognize and the
sovereign alone can abolish. The most
well known is the hereditary office of
Earl Marshal of England, held for cen
turies by the Dukes of Norfolk. Others
are not so well known, although no
coronation ceremony is complete with
out them.
At the present time the duties of the
court are easier from the fact that
nearly all the peers who proved their
claims and performed their duties at
Queen Victoria's coronation have left
direct successors, and the appointments
should be as follows: The Duke of
Hamilton to be Lord High Steward,
and the Duke of Roxburg to carry St.
Edward's staff.and Lord Ryron the Gol
den Spurs; the Duke of Sutherland the
Second Sword, and the Duke of West
minster the Third Sword. The Cur
tana. or Sword of Mercy, which ranks
as the First Sword, is properly borne
by the Duke of Devonshire, but It is
probeble that his office of Lord Presi
dent of the Council will clash with this,
and he may be allowed to provide a
substitute. The Duke of Somerset has
the privilege of carrying the orb and
the Duke of Richmond the Sceptre and
Dove; but the Dukedom of Cleveland
being extinct, there can be no heredi
tary claim to bear the Sceptre and the
Cross, therefore the appointment rests
with the king, who also appoints the
lord high constable. Earl Robert’s
name is mentioned in connection with
this, and it is not unlikely that the
choice may fall on him, as the office Is
usually conferred on a solder. The
Duke of Wellington w as lord high con
stable at the coronation of Queen Vic
toria.
The most difficult question the com
mittee will have to decide is as to who
shall be Lord Great Chamberlain. and
the rival claims of the Efirl of Ancas
ter and the Marquis of Cholmondeley
will be fought out to the bitter end,
eminent counsel being briefed on both
sides. The duties of the Lord Great
Chamberlain are different from what
they were formerly, lie had, accord
ing to the official rules printed in the
early part of the last century, "to
enter the King's bedroom before he
rises and to give him his stockings and
shirt * * * and on the same day
the said Great Chamberlain and the
Senior Chamberlain for the time being
to dress the King in all his apparel.
N. B.—The like as to the Queen when
there is one.”
The office of King's Champion, which
has belonged to the Dymoke family
for many generations in connection
with the Manor of Scrivelsby, will, it
is said, be abolished before the forth
coming coronation, and the picturesque
spectacle of the Champion, in glitter
ing armor, throwing down his gauntlet
in Westminster Hall will be but a
memory. A tradition was formerly
believed in that the Young Pretender
was present at the coronation of
George 111, and that, as the Champion
cast down hi's gauntlet for the last
time, a white glove fell from one of
the spectators. As the story became
public it was connected with the young
chevalier. Sir Walter Scott introduced
the Incident in "Redgauntlet.”
Another office threatened with ex
tinction is that of the Grand Almoner
of England. It was his duty to dis
tribute the alms collected In a silver
dish on the day of coronation, and
also to divide among certain poor per
sons the blue cloth on which the sov
ereign walks from the throne in West
minster Hall to the door of the abbey;
and he received as his fee the silver
dish on which the alms were collected,
and also the napkin by which it was
covered. Other claims which are in
abeyance through not having been
granted for several coronations are the
office of Carver, by himself or deputy,
while the King and Queen sat at din
ner. This was the privilege of the
Earl of Lincoln, but the peerage is
extinct. The chief butlership was an
eagerly coveted position, as was the
post of chief lardener; the latter re
ceived as his fee "the remainedr of all
beeves, muttons, calves, venisons,
eheverels and other flesh, fish, salt and
all other things remaining in the office
of lardener after dinner." The Mar
quis of Abergavenny can claim this.
The Grand Panneter's duty was to pre
side over the pantry on coronation day
as service for holding the Manor of
Kebworth Beauchamp, in Leicester
shire. lie received as his fee the salts,
knives and spoons placed before the
King and Queen.
The barons of the Cinque Ports—that
Is to say, sixteen barons or free men
from the towns of Hastings, Dover.
Hythe, Rye, Sandwich, Romney and
Wlnchelsea—can. If they like, claim to
carry over the Sovereign during the
precession a canopy of cloth of gold,
receiving the canopy, etc., as their fee,
and having the privilege of dining at
a table on the right of the sovereign.
Also, the citizen* of London, by the
mouth of their Recorder, can claim,
"to officiate in the Butlery on the coro
nation day and assist the chief butler
at table in the hall, and after dinner
in the chamber, and also there to serve
the nobility," and the Mayor of Lon
don had the additional duty, when the
King entered his chamber after dinner
and called for wine, to serve him with
it in a gold cup, and have the same,
together with its cover, as the King's
The cltv has another claim, that of
•ervlng the butlery, but this it shared
with the Mayor an.l Burgecses of Ox- !
foul. How many citizens served is not i
on record, nor how the reward of three
gilt maple cups was divided; but the
city of London fared better in other re- j
upsets by the Mayor claiming another I
gold cup for serving the King with
wine while at dinner.
Besides the more important offices
some of which cannot very well he
abolished, numerm* petitions will he
considered, and probably rejected, from
the persons who hold manors and ass
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tates on condition that they perform
some menial act at the coronation.
The Court of Claims sitting for Queen
Victoria's coronation made a clean
sweep of most of them, but some will
inevitably be presented, partly from
the remote chance of the petitioner be
ing allowed to participate in the glories
of the day and partly because of the
fear, generally groundless, that the
title to the estates may be in danger
if the claim is not put on record.
One of the most curious duties Is
that of providing a man on coronation
day to make, in the King’s kitchen,
"a Mess called Dellegrout,’’ said to be
a variety of coarse porridge, as ser
vice for holding lands from the King
in Addington, Surrey. Another quaint
service was that claimed by the family
of Soames, "to hold the towel when
the Kin? washes -hi*-hands .aiter din
ner on nls coronation day;” and the
present holder of the lands at Heyton.
In Essex, can fortify his claim to per
form the duty by the fact that it is
on record In the exchequer rolls. The
holder of the Manor of Liston has to
make wafers for the King and Queen,
and can claim the instruments of silver
and other metal, as well as the nap
kins used in serving the wafers.
George ll’s coronation was the last at
which the obligation to perform these
menial acts was recognized by their
being done, although they have been
brought forward and dispensed with at
all subsequent coronations.
There are other claims that would
not for a moment be entertained now,
and recital of them will show that the
desire to make money through a popu
lar event was just as strong centuries
ago as now. Before the Court of Claims
for Charles ll’s coronation a petitioner,
with the somewhat strange name of
"Bold Boughey, Esq., Warden of the
Fleet and Keeper of the Two Palaces,
Called the Old and New Palaces at
Westminister,” claimed to have the
privilege "to let out to farm all the
shops, tents, stalls, and scaffolds with
in the King’s two palaces at West
mlnister, and to attend on the King
when he shall be at these palaces on
his coronation day.” Bold Boughey’s
claim was not allowed, but he was
politely told that he could sue for jus
tice if he should think proper to do
so.
Another claim of a similar character
was that of Sir William Throckmorton,
Knight Marshal. He petitioned “for
leave to build scaffolds at the Palace
in Westminster and from thence to
the Palate at Whitehall, and from
thence to Temple Bar and the High J
street, for the purpose to see the solem
nity of the coronation, and to have
the benefits thereof.” "The benefits”
thereof would have been enormous if
this monopoly had been granted, for
half a crown was the price of a seat
at Charles ll's coronation, and five sidl
lings at the time of William and Mary,
when the last attempt was made to
obtain the waste lands at Westminster
for putting up stands by Sir William
Edwin, Lord of the Manor of Westmin
ster.
But, however well founded, these and
other quaint claims must be regarded
at the present time as relics of the
Middle Ages that are doomed to ex
tinction, as it rests with the King to
abolish all or any of them. He will
probably steer a middle course by pre
scribing only those offices that have a
direct bearing on the ceremony of coro
nation.
Of course, until the King has made
known Ills pleasure on these and many
other points, it is only possible to sur
mise. At present many rumors are
abroad as to the way In which the
lcr.g and tedious ceremony of the coro
nation is to he telescoped to suit mod
ern Ideas. But it must be borne in
mind that at present these are surmise
and nothing else. It is stated, for ex
ample, and this is very probable, that
it has been decided to postpone until
the following day the ancient and pic
turesque ceremony of homage, when
representatives of every grade of peer
and commoner swear fealty to the sov
ereign In words and a manner which
date back to the feudalism of the Nor
man Kings.
In order still further to contract the
service it is even stated that the com
munion will not be celebrated. If this
should turn out to be true, IC iw lrd VII.
will be only the third English King
during 900 years to dispense with this
service, and the precedents are not fa
vorable examples. For the first King to
abstain was John, who was a mis
creant; and the second was James 11,
who was a Papist.
But it is further stated that even
some of the most ancient symbolical
rites may be left out—those, for in
stance, which symbolize the sacerdotal
character of the King and Involve his
submitting to certain ceremonies, in
cluding that of his being anointed. It
is considered in archaeological as well
as other circles that not even the twen
tieth century could condone the aboli
tion of so ancient and important a rite
in the crowning of a sovereign.
A well known authority on th’ his
tory and ritualism of the coronation
service suggests that the four and five
hours of wearying ceremony could ho
easily contracted to about one-half
that time without sacrificing anything
essential to the religious and roval
character of the rite. Asa beginning
he suggests that the sermon should he
left out altogether, a suggestion which
will probably be accepted.
The Earl Marshal's orders with re
gard to the costumes to be worn by
peers and peeresses nttendlrg the cor
onation have already appeared in the
Suh. After their publication in the
Gazette here one heard the echo of
some plaints that robes of velvet trim
med with miniver and ermine would
be distressingly hot wear for a sum
mer day, Rut, "noblesse oblige.”
Many—in fact, probably, most —peers
of the older creations have their robes
already. At the last coronation It was
a thing to be proud of to have so old
and dilapidated a habit that It would
scarcely hold together, the inference
being that it had duns service for
many generations in the past. So long
a time has elapsed since then that
probably the custom will not hold on
the present occasion. Certainly, much
of the splendor of the ceremony must
have been lost by many peerr
wearing oil rags. It is. therefore
hoped that all who do not provide them
selves with new robes next year will at
least have their ancestrlal garment*
rejuvenated, so ns to add their quota
to the glories of the coup d'oell
With regard to the commercial side
or these glorious garments one reads
keeping tit,- salt handy, perhaps, that
"those who wonder where all the er
mines and minivers are to come from
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1901.
which must be sacrificed to robe some
2,000 or more peers, peeresses and offi
cial dignitaries who will attend the
coronation ceremony will be interested
to hear that one enterprising firm has
recently sent 40.000 weasels' tails out
to China. As the consignment is an
entirely novel one and cannot be ac
counted for on any sudden demand for
these particular appendages in the Ce
lestial Empire, it can only be con
cluded that the tails will shortly re
appear on our shores as ermine and
erminois.
The prices asked for peers’ and peer
esses' robes and coronets by various
traders seem to be fixed very arbitrari
ly, as they vary so enormously. A
regulation silver-gilt coronet can be
purchased at £7 at one well-known
West find goldsmith's, and at not less
than £22 at a similar establishment
in the same street. It is to be pre
sumed that the two articles are prac
tically identical, and therefore there is
nothing but the caprice of the jewel
ers to account for this great discrepan
cy."
Similarly, for exactly the same robe
made from the Eari Marshal’s specifi
cation one Is asked £25 at one tailor's
and £l4O at another of precisely similar
standing. Some mbemakers are going
to the extent of asking £2OO and more.
Ever since his accession the King has
in every way possible made Queen
Alexandra as prominent as possible.
Every honor and distinction that could
be paid to her upon public and state
occasions have been paid. And it is
therefore probably quite true that for
the coronation Queen Alexandra's
crown will be reset with other and
more valuable jewels. The Queen Con
sort’s crown, which was first worn by
Mary of Modena, Queen of James 11,
has been taken from the Tower or
London. It is of very rich gold, set
with diamonds of great value, Inter
mitted with pearls and other precious
stones, the cap being similar to that
of the Prince of Wales’ crown. The
chief alteration, It is generally under
stood, Will be the addition of the fam
ous Koh-i-noor diamond to the stones
already in the crown. Yet it is not
certain that anew crown altogether
will not be made for the Queen and
that the Mary of Modena crown has
not been taken from the Tower simcir
for the purposes of comparison with
models of the new crown. However
that may be, it is generally accepted
that the Koh-i-noor will appear in the
Queen’s Coronation crown. The his
tory of this famous diamond can be
definitely traced for nearly 350 years.
But it Is said to have been discovered
5,000 years ago in the Godavery river,
which rises in Bombay and flows into
the Bay of Bengal, and there is little
doubt that it is the wonderful Jewel
that figures in hoary Indian song and
romance.
It was brought from the Lahore
treasury in 1850, presented to Queen
Victoria, and recut at a cost of £B,OOO.
The diamond now weighs 106 1-16 car
ats, haying lost 80 carats in the recut
ting.
There are only four diamonds larger
than the Koh-i-noor. These are the Or
loff diamond, weighing 194% carats,
w hich was stolen by a Frenchman from
the eye of an Indian idol and sold
'through Count Orloff to the Empress
Catherine of Russia; the Pitt diamond
(136% carats), bought by the Regent
Duke of Orleans in 1717 for Louis XV.
of France from Mr. Pitt, Governor of
Madras; the Florentine diamond (133%
carats), now in possession of the Em
peror of Austria; and the Star of the
South (121% carats), found by a negro
in Brazil in 1555.
The sum of 2,000,000 sterling has been
mentioned as the value of this famous
gem, hut, said a jewelry expert “it is
wor.th just what a rich person or state
might be disposed to give for it. Its
value is immense, of course—it is
worth a fortune at the least—but it is
not a common article of commerce, and
no man can say how much or how little
a Rothschild or a Rockefeller might
pay for it were it offered for sale. Its
great worth lies in its sentimental
value—the history that centers around
it, the vicissitudes through which it has
passed, the fact that it was worn by
Queen Victoria on great occasions, and
that it is now the property of the King
of England."
Before the Koh-l-noor reached Queen
Victoria, but after it had become her
property, it was nearly lost. After the
annexation of the Punjab in 1849 it was
given up to the British, and at a meet
ing of the hoard was handed to John
(afterward Lord) Lawrence in a small
box beneath many folds of linen for
safe keeping. He placed It in his waist
coat pocker, and forgot the treasure.
When he dressed for dinner the waist
coat containing it was thrown care-
WHAT GOES UP
Must Come Down.
Nothing is more certain than that
the use of so called tonlc3, stimulants
and medicines, which depend upon
alcohol for their effect, is injurious to
health in the long run.
What goes up must come down and
the elevation of spirits, the temporary
exhilaration resulting from a dose o;'
medicine containing alcohol, will cer
tainly be followed in a few hours by
a corresponding depression to relieve
which another dose must he taken.
In other words, many liquid patent
medicines derive their effect entirely
from the alcohol they contain.
Alcohol, and medicines containing it,
are temporary stimulants and not in
any sense a true tonic. In fact it is
dcubtful if any medicine or drug is a
real tonic.
A true tonic is something which will
renew, replenish, build up the exhaust
ed nervous system and wasted tissues
of the body, something that will en
rich the blood and endow it with the
proper proportions of red and white
corpuscles, which prevent or destroy
disease germs. This is what a real tonic
should do and no drug or alcoholic
stimulant will do It.
The only true tonic in nature is
wholesome food, thoroughly digested.
Every particle of nervous energy, every
minute muscle, fibre and drop of blood
If. created daily from the food we
digest.
The mere eating of food has little
to do with the repair of waste tissue
hut the perfect digestion of the food
eaten ha;s everything to do with it.
The reason so few people have per
fect digestion is because, from wrong
habits of living, the stomach has gradu
ally lost the power to secrete the gas
tric Juice, peptones and acids in suffi
cient quantity. *
To cure indigestion and stomach
troubles it is necessary to take after
meals some harmless preparation which
will supply the natural peptone and
diastase which every weak stomach
lacks, and probably the best prepara
tion of this character is Stuart's Dys
pepsia Tablets which may be found in
every drug store and which contain In
plcasnnt palatable form the whole
some peptone and diastase which na
ture requires for prompt digestion.
One or two of these excellent tab’ets
taken after meals will prevent souring,
'ermentation and acidity and Insure
complete dipgcstlon and assimilation.
Rtunrt’s Dyspepsia Tablets are equal
y valuabl > for little children as for
adults, us they contain nothing harm
ul or stimulating, but only the natural
tgestives.
One of Pfuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
will digest 1,800 grains of meat, eggs
*r other wholesome food, and they uie
in every sense a genuine tonic because
hey bring about In the only natural
way restorative of nerve power, a !
building up of lost tissue and appetite,
ii the only way it can he done by the j
digestion and assimilation of whole- i
some too# j
lessly on one side. At a subsequent
meeting of the Punjab Board Henry
Lawrence suggested to his brother the
advisability of at once forwarding the
Koh-i-noor to Queen Victoria. John
Lawrence had forgotten that the dia
mond had been given him; then sud
denly remembering, he quitted the
board with an unruffled countenance,
hurried home and inquired of his man
servant if he had seen a small box
which had been left in his waistcoat
pocket. "Ye s, sahib,” the man replied,
“I found It and put it in one of your
drawers.” “Bring it here," said Law
rence. The servant produced it. "Now,”
said his master, "open it and see what
it contains." The old native obeyed,
and after removing the folds of linen,
he said, "There is nothing here, sahib,
but a bit of glass.” ’"Good," said John
Lawrence, with a sigh of relief, "you
can leave it with me.”
The King, one may assume, will wear
two crowns on the day of coronation.
Going to the Abbey he will wear the
state Imperial crown which is being
slightly altered merely that it may fit
his head. This crown was made by
Messrs. Rundel & Bridge in the year
1838 with jewels taken from old crowns
and others furnished by command of
Queen Victoria. It contains in the cen
ter of a diamond Maltese cross the
famous ruby, said to have been given
to Edward, Prince of Wales, son of
Edward 111, by Don Pedro, King of
Castile, after the battle of Najera—a
ruby which was worn in the helmet of
Henry V at the battle of Agincourt.
It is pierced quite through, after the
Eastern fashion, the upper part of the
piercing being filled up by a small ruby.
For the rest, it consists of diamonds,
pearls, rubies, sapphires and emqralds
set in silver and gold, with a crimson
velvet cap with ermine border and
lined with white silk. It weighs 39
ounces 5 pennyweight. The Duke of
Devonshire carried it before the King
when he opened the last Parliament.
The other crown that will appear at
the coronation is the one with which
the Archbishop, of Canterbury- will
crown the King. This is known as St.
Edward's crown and will, of course,
undergo no alteration whatever. It was
last used in the coronation of Queen
Victoria, and was made for the coro
nation of Charles 11, to replace the one
sold during the civil wars.
Now that the Prince of Wales has
been created special interest attaches
to the crown which, by reason of that
creation, his Royal Highness will wear
on the great day next June. It is
formed of pure gold, and Is unadorned
by jewels. On occasions of state this
crown—which has more the appearance
of a coronet—was always taken from
the Tower and placed before the seat
In the House of Lords which Is appor
tioned to the heir-apparent, and this,
of course, will now be done again.
Other crown jewels that are now on
view In the Tower of London and will
be used in the ceremony at the Abbey
incude the gold Orb, which will rest in
the King’s right hand at the corona
tion, and —should the Royal party prot
ceed to Westminster Hall —will rest
in his left on his Majesty’s visit to that
building. On the top of the orb is an
extraordinarily fine amethyst, of an
oval shape, nearly an Inch and a half
in hight, which forms the foot of a
cross of gold, set very thick with dia
monds. St. Edward’s Staff of beaten
gold, four feet and a half in length,
will be carried before the Soreveign
at the ceremony. So will the Cur
tana, or'Sword of Mercy, which is
borne between the two Swords of Jus
tice. Other articles In the regalia
which will be used are the gold Ampul
la, which will contain the holy oil the
Armillae, or solid gold bracelets edged
with pearls, which the King will wear
on his wrists, and the Royal spurs of
curiously wrought fine gold, which will
he carried in the procession. None of
these last named ornaments has been
used, of course, for over sixty years.
A MINUTE BEFORE 12.
BY CARLTON TAYLOR ELLBURY.
(Copyright, 1901, by Authors’ Syndi
cate.)
The manager of the Dramatic Book
ing Agency, Mr. Horace Duckworth,
was seated at his desk resplendent in
a red vest with plaids so large that
there were but very few In the whole
garment—a drooping black mustache,
flashy diamond shirt stud, making up
the type of man that one almost ex
pects to see in such surroundings.
Seated outside on the benches were a
number of aspirants for theatrical
honors. They, too, were typical of the
cheaper vaudeville houses—red rib
bons, feather boas and soiled finery
galore. There was one woman, though,
who would have atttracted your at
tention, so contrasted was her manner
and appearance from the rest; she
seemed to slink away a3 if she felt her
superiority and regretted the necessity
of having to associate with the others.
A tali, dignified gentleman came up
the stairway and sent his card in to
Duckworth. No sooner had Duckworth
read the name than he hastend to
greet the owner, as he recognized him
as on of New York's "smart set”
prodigals.
“What I want,” the stranger was
saying, "is a dancer for to-night. You
know of my approaching marriage to
Old Banker Lawton's daughter and I
am going to give the boys a littll time;
something spicy, you know; not quite
so bad as that affair of Seeley's that
you attended to, but on that style.”
All this conversation was carried on
in the inner office, but loud enough
for the dignified woraan, so much in
contrast to her surroundings, to hear
the whole of it. When Dick Turpen, the
leader of the cotillon, had first appear
ed on the scene, she had dropped her
veil and stood aside as he left the
office. When he had gone Duckworth
motioned her to enter.
“I suppose you are still seeking a
position in‘a high-toned dramatic com
pany,” said the agent.
She blushed, and seemed instinctive
ly to shrink from the man, but re
plied: “I am anxious to get some
thing to do, but nil those other chances
that you offered me —well—l Just could
not do it, that’s all. I have a little boy,
you know, and it would be too bad
for Dick to know that his mother wus
dunning tights. No. I cannot do that.”
While she had been commenting in
this hesitating manner an impatient
look had come Into Duckworth's face.
“My dear madam, you must under
stand sooner or later that the vaude
ville profession, particularly the type
for which I am agent, and this mod
esty do not go together. The people
want novelties. Frenchy acts are the
rr.ge. you know, and It is utterly Im
possible for me to secure you anything
whatever as long as you maintain these
hlfalutin ideas. For instance," he con
tinued, "young Turpen, who was Just
In here. Is going to give a farewell
dinner to-night to a lot of his sporty
young friends of the ’four hundred.’
He wants to get someone to do a turn
there to-night, something sensational.
He Is wll’lng to pay SIOO and commis
sion*. Of course they do not want an
elocutionist to recite ’Gray’s Elegy' or
‘Curfew Shall Not Ring To-Night.'
What they want Is something spicy.”
A peculiar look passed over the face
of Eleanor Clay as she stood facing the
agent. "You telephone Mr. Turpen
that you will have a performer who
will create the greatest sensation of his
life; that his guests will be astounded;
that the p.ipcta will teem with It, If
he likes, or it will be kept perfectly
quiet. I will appear at twelve o'clock.”
’’That’* right," said Turpen, "you
are beginning to talk like a sensible
person. You are Just the party for this
%ffair. You are not at all bashful. I
The
•**oo Finishing
■ffftPr Touch,
Some men think that a good suit is enough to
make them appear well dressed, forgetting that the
necktie is the accent, the nice point of their whole
make-up.
Good dressers are wearing the Derby Four-in-
Hand, King Edward Scarfs, which tie in puffs and
bows and bat wing bows.
All that make good dressers may he found
here. All that's here is right. If it isn't here, it
isn't right. Moreover, prices are as right as the
styles.
Our tie counter contains a choice collection at
25c, 50c and 75c.
Beautiful Silk Mufflers 90c to $2.25.
And above all, the foundation of your wardrobe, your SUIT and
OVERCOAT, is here not only of right fabrics, rightly tailored, but
also right in price.
The Underwear, Collars, Cuffs, Shirts and
Hosiery you'll need are waiting for you here.
Clothing, Hats, Furnishings and Cloves,
1 11 Broughton St., West.
will have a carriage call for you at II
o’clock. You will reach the place at
11:30. They will provide for you a
dressing-room. That Is all, I believe.
Good afternoon. Miss Clay.”
"Good afternoon.”
As Eleanor Clay went down the
stairs from the office conflicting emo
tions were crowding themselves upon
her. Her mind reverted to a day, four
years gone, when Dick Turpen was a
college student In the town of her
birth in Kentucky, and how he had
been good to her when her mother
died, and how gradually the little bud
of romance had bloomed into the full
blossom of passion, and how she loved
him with more force than discretion;
and then that other day when she was
left alone with her disgrace and he had
graduated and gone hack to New
York, And. oh, how she remembered
the pain of her father when she had
told him; and how she had watched
little Dick (she had named him Dick)
grow more and more like his father.
The scenes of her childhood were too
poignant of her misery for her to re
main In the blue grass state, so she
had come to New York hoping to make
the talent she had for dancing, and
her excellent soprano voice, earn her
a livelihood. And now he was going
to marry Banker Lawton’s daughter.
The clock lacked a little of midnight.
Seated around a table were a number
of society’s most celebrated repre
sentatives. All of New York’s junior
"mart set” knew Dick Turpen, and
Dick Turpen seemed to have invited
them all to this farewell dinner prior
to his marriage on the morrow to
Mabel Lawton.
The boys were beginning to grow
impatient for the intertainment which,
their guest had promised them. Some
had already begun to cry: “Bring on
your French dancer;” others, whom the
wine had affected less noticeably, re
mained silent.
In the extreme corner of the assem
bly hall, directly facing Dick Turpen.
was a little stage. The performer had
been shown there a few minutes pre
vious, but before that time she had
sent a note to Dick. The cloek was
Jut a few moments removed from 12
when Dick Turpn arose, and in a
voice that sounded husky and grave,
he said:
“Boys, there are times in every man’s
life when he had to choose between
right and wrong. There possible have
been times with all of you when you
h >ve done things that on second con
sideration you would never have done.
Mine is a double crime. I stand before
you to-night one of the most detestable
nrnn In New York city. You think I am
going to marry Mable Lawton, 1 am
not—hush end let me continue. While
I was In college, some of you were the-e
with me, I met a woman—a represen
tative of one of Kentucky’s best
families. She gave me all of her love
and her confidence, and Implicitly
trusted In my honor. I was false to
the trust. That woman Is here to-night
as a performer, although she is not
going to give any dance for vou fel
lows. for she Is going to be my wife. I
have sent for a clergyman, who Is due
to arrive here at once.”
Tui*pen was here Interrupted by a
number of voices; some protested one
thing, others asserted another and
while they were speaking the clock
struck 12. The little curtain was slow
ly drawn back and there, standing
gowned In superb white, whs a beauti
ful girl, and by her side a flaxen-haired
little chap of possibly three years,
Dick arose and, offering her his arm,
brought her over to the center of the
room and announced her to his friends.
Jut then the clergyman entered, and
before the clock had noted the half
hour they were m>n and wife.
“Boys,” said Dick, “I received a note
from this lady early this evening, and
T did not have the heart to go on with
this game of crime that I was playing, j
so I went to Miss Lawton and told her
the whole truth."
Just then a messenger boy entered !
with a. telegram for Dick, who opene I '
It and rent aloud: "I leave for Eu
rope to-morrow. Though you have
wronged roe, yet the greater wrong
was to the woman who is now your
wife. I am glad that you were strong
enough to be at l£ast honest, though
to late too save me this terrible pain.
Good-by. Mabel.”
ABOUT “CURES.”
A Water Warranted to Cnre Rheu
matism.
Victor Smith In New York Press.
The Nevis is a small volcanic island
in the Caribbean Sea. There is a
stone conduit leading down from an
extinct crater, carrying a fine stream
of watah—the red-hottest, stinkingest
sulphur watah you ever saw—into an
extinct hotel. Said hotel was built 145
years ago and destroyed about 85 years
ago, leaving omy an agglomeration of
stone ruins. I am offered this ruin—
with watah—for $1,500. Dirt cheap! A
rheumatic who had spent $4,876 on
physicians warrented to cure, went to
the Nevis and was well in ten davs.
About all that remains of the hotel is
the bath, which has been referred to
before in the column. Our paternal
Government should buy that hole and
send Its Invalids there. The watah
comes straight from hell. It smells,
tastes, feels of hell. When you drink
that watah you can’t drink whiskey.
Hence.
The Sensitive Hollow.
There is an old saying that when the
hollow of a man’s foot makes a hole
in the ground ho is no gentleman. This
does not require demonstration. The
celebrated Adrienne, Comtesse de K.,
who gave up her fortune to Napoleon
111, and went into the army in 1870
as a physician and nur>. still lives
In New York, and her aendee is often
sought by learned men in the medical
profession. Redan settled her perma
nently into poverty, for her money had
paid for some of the silver stewpans
of the Man of December. The Comtesse
maintains that the hollow of the hand
and the hollow of the foot are the
,origin and sure of numerous Ills that
are misunderstood by physicians. Be
ing nerve centres, they contract dis
ease; being nerve centres, they expel
disease. All they require is a chance
to do the one or the other.
Experimenting,
Aciing upon the Comtesse’s advice, I
applied "drafts” to the hollows of my
feeL to draw out a mass of rheumatism
that had been piling up in my system
for thirteen years. Each pair is to be
worn six days. After wearing the fifth
pair all rheumatic pains disappeared
and with them the soles of mv feet! *
Three layers of skin peeled off, leav
ing the plantar arch as fresh and rosy
as the new flesh that Mrs. Langtry ob
tains from her Ifc-ench renewer. Nat
urally walking has been out of the
question for several days. Please send
me no more cures, kind friends! These
foot drafts make the 199th certain re
medy. What their permanent effect will
be no one can guess. Time will tell.
Consolation.
One thing Is settled, namely, an ex
ternal application of common old pitch
and one thing and another to the soles
of the feet will save many a rheuma
tic’s life. When my soles left me I
hastened to Inquire of a physician If
there was danger In continuing the
drafts. "No,” he said, "Just go right
ahead with one or two more pairs and
don t wear them so long. The removal
of that tough old skin you have been
walking on all your life will enable the
tar, etc., in the drafts to work better.
The operation is to draw the uric acid i
cut of the system, and it's pretty hard
to do that through sole-leather.” He
recommends wearing drafts in the
palms of the hands, provided a mans
employment Is such as to permit it. i
They could be made circular, about I
inches In diameter. I cannot help be
lieving In the'-e things. The m ignetl • 1
ting has proved it* value to hundreds
of thousands of rheumatics. All of us
have friends that wear It and swear
by It, it we do not. The therapeutic I
value of something sucking out poison
through the nerve centres Is inestima
ble.
Killing to Cure.
The loss of soles to cure rheumatism
reminds me of the Indian cure for
cancer. It is to burn the malignant car
cinoma out with red-hot irons, for the
Medicine Man says; "Indian no cure
cancer; Indian easily cure burn."
Heroic, to say the least. Everything
that humanity can do to cure rheu
matism should have the widest publi
city. It seems to be the national dis
ease. Let such as have tried some o£
the 1,790 cures in vain turn, as I did,
to the external draft. There are scores
of recipes for strong poultices, such as
“we used to have at home with mother.’
Get something that will drawn like
engine No. 2,980, of the Empire State
Express, when It puts on its “traction
increaser.” For ages you have been en
deavoring to push out the poison, now
turn around and pull it out.
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