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sPA IN likes our goods.
(U.OS >0 PRKJIUKE AGAINST IS
IX TRADE.
favorable Commercial Treaty
periled. However— American Goods
~, Be Met With in Almoitt Every
Quarter and ol Every Description
1 rom Agricultural Implement* to
on raphu—Italy la Alao Favor
inß. but Use* Many German Iniitn
tin # *
Washington, June B.—Spain holds no
j„dice against United States goods,
? .ording to' an extract from the an
tuaj volume entitled “Commercial Re
lations of the United States,” which
a8 m ade public at the State Depart
ment to-day by Frederic Emory, chief
f the Bureau of Foreign Commerce.
Ttl ls extract gives the information
contained in the annual reports of
inited States consular officers in
? pa,n and in Italy. Our trade with
Spain, it says, could be greatly en-
if a favorable commercial
treaty were negotiated. United States
Minister Storer, who is about to re
turß to Madrid, wHI endeavor to ne
gotiate suoh a treaty.
The extract says:
••American goods, according to Vice
Consul Wood of Madrid, are to be met
uith in the most unexpected places In
Spain. They consist of plows and
other agricultural implements, pumps,
condensers, steel working machines,
hardware of all kinds, spouts, faucets,
mining machinery, bicycles, typewrit
es hairclipping machines, electric mo
tors and fans, firearms and cartridges,
dental goods, lumber, phonographs,
cinematographs, etc. There is no pre
judice against United States goods, and
inquiries constantly received for
them. , _ ,
"Consul Smith of Leghorn, Italy,
ea ys that importations at that port
from the United States doubled in
value last year, substantial advances
being made, among other items, is sul
phate of copper (which has i isen from
{IO.OOO to $125,000 in three years) and
coal, which has been used in the navy
with satisfactory results.
• Consul Cramer of Florence also re
ports the popularity of our coal, which
is employed by the Italian railway
companies and by .factories. Our goods
gre to be seen in shop windows, he
says, and also many imitations of gen
uine American products made in Ger
many. Two Americans in the city are
about to begin the business of import
ing hardware, etc., from the United
States.
“Consul Caughey of Messina says
that an American company is about to
build a hotel there.
sul Johnson of Venice says "that,
American inventions have an establish
ed reputation for durability, and our
manufactured goods in general are
growing in favor.”
CONFERRED WITH MR. WRIGHT.
rrfMfirnt mill CommlMionrr Dis
cussed Coal Strike.
Washington. June B.—The President
talked with Hon. Carroll D. Wright,
the United States commissioner of la
bor tor some time to-day regarding the
situation in the anthracite coal region.
Mr. Wright came to Washington at
the request of the President to get his
views on the question and to discuss
what might be done under the law giv
ing the commissioner of labor the
right to investigate affairs of this kind
and to collect Information relating to
them which may be reported to the
President or Congress. The President
stands ready at any time to be of any
service possible to aid in effecting a
settlement of the differences existing
between the operators and the miners,
if this be possible. No statement was
obtainable at the White House to
night as to the result of the conference
between the President and Mr.
Wright. Later In the day the
latter left Washington for New
York, where he has several
days business demanding his atten
tion Under the act creating the de
partment of labor the commissioner is
empowered to investigate the causes
of labor disputes that tend to inter
fere wiih the welfare of the people of
the different states and report the same
to Congress or to the President. Per
sons familiar with the law, however,
question its utility, saying ample in
formation is already public property
through statements which have been
printed in the newspapers; and that no
one has authority under the law to
take any action on the information
which mty be obtained.
CREDIT MEN WILL MEET.
Their Seventh Annual Convention In
LonUvllle This Week.
Louisville, June 9.—The seventh an
imal convention of the National As
soclation of Credit Men will be held
j n ,his o| ty Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.
The association has a membership of
about 4,000, representing capital ag
itating Ji,500,000,000, and it is ex-
Pted that about 600 delegates will
, !>r!Sfn * at the meeting.
-be members of the Louisville Com
mittee on Entertainment have pre
pared an elaborate programme of en
ertalnment and much business of im
portance will be transacted, based prin
■paliy upon the reports of the Oom
u tees on Membership, Legislative,
Ufiness, Literature, Investigation and
osecution. Credit Department Meth
and Improvement of Mercantile
agency Service.
HOT MID PROM MOST I’ELEE.
botest Eruption Dill Not Do Great
Damage.
Tort de France, Island of Martinique,
B turday, June 7.—The damage from
* * eruption of Mont Pelee, which oc
urteri yesterday. Is less than was first
Phoned The plains of Morne Rouge
ana tover *d with hot mud, however,
ere sever ®l fls T>'ng boats, with their
■"', are reported to have disap-
WILL BE MUCH CANAL TALK.
The Southern Appalachian Park Blit
XAIH Also Be ileurd From in Sen
ate.
Washington, June B.—The greater
part of the time of the Senate the pres
ent week will be given to the Inter-
Oceanic Canal bill. An effort will prob
ably be made by the supporters of the
Nicaragua route to secure an agree
ment to vote on the bill next Saturday,
but the probabilities are all against
success. Senator Harris of Kansas
will open the debate to-morrow in sup
port of the Nicaragua route and he will
be followed by various other senators
for and against the measure. Senator
Fairbanks has given formal notice of
a speech on Wednesday. He will sup
port the Spooner bill.
To-morrow, in the morning hour,
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
win speak on the bill creating a na
tional park in the Southern Appala
chian mountains', and, in accordance
with the agreement reached yesterday,
the morning hour of other days will
be devoted to consideration of Sena
tor Nelson's bill for the abolition or
the London dock charges until a vote
shall be taken upon it.
Saturday at 4 o'clock the Senate will
listen to eulogies of the character of
the late Representative Stokes of South
Carolina. On Friday the nomination
of Gen. William Crozier to be chief ofj
the ordnance bureau will be considered
in executive session.
It is probable that Senator Hale will
call up the naval appropriation bill
during the week, but he has given no
notice of such intention.
PACIFIC CABLE ASD IRRIGATION.
Home Will Dioeum These Subjects
This Week.
Washington. June B.—The House pro
gramme for this week contemplates
consideration of the Pacific cable and
the Senate irrigation bills which the
rules committee is anxious to have
disposed of before the time set for tak
ing up the Philippine government bill.
Special rules have been prepared for
consideration of both measures. The
cable bill will be given two and the
irrigation bill three days. The cable
bill provides for an American-built and
an American-laid cable to connect our
insular possessions in the Pacific wtih
the Pacific coast. It carries a direct
appropriation out of the treasury for
this purpose. The prospects for its
passage are not considered bright. Mr.
Corliss, the author of the bill, professes
confidence that it will pass. The op
position to the measure believes the
cable to the Philippines should be laid
by private enterprise. . Some of the
House leaders, including Mr. Cannon,
chairman of the Appropriation Com
mittee, it is understood, will oppose the
irrigation bill, but the friends of the
measure are very hopeful of its pas
sage.
To-morrow is District of Columbia
day. All the appropriation bills, except
the general deficiency, which will not
be ready until next week, have passed
the House.
WOI.VDED HIM IN THE EAR.
Itnlinu Cabinet MiniMter anil Mem
ber of Chamber Fight Duel.
Rome, June B.—The duel between
Signor Prinetti, the Minister of For
eign Affairs, who was challenged to
fight Signor Franchetti, a member of
the chamber, as the result of a heated
discussion last Friday in the Chamber
of Deputies on the subject of the
Erythrean (Italian East Africa) bud
get occurred this evening at the villa
of the Marquis Medicis. Signor Fran
chetti was slightly wounded in the
ear. After the encounter Signor Pri
netti and Signor Franchetti became
reconciled.
.• i
EVILS OK PLEASURE SEEKING.
President Taylor Speak* of ll* Dead
ening Effect to Vaunr Student*.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June B.—ln the
baccalaureate sermon at Vassar Col
lege to-day President Taylor spoke of
“The Deadening Effect of Pleasure
seeking on all the Higher Activities of
Life," and expressed the opinion that
all that is good in our lives is threat
ened by the pleasure-seeking spirit of
the present age. Many students, he
said, feel that the best thing to be got
ten from colfege is the chance for a
good time. Thi spirit the
physical vigor and dulls the mental
power. ,
A TRIBITE TO ROOSEVELT.
Baccalaureate Preacher nl Roanoke
Say* Good Word for Him.
Salem, Va.. June B.—The commence
ment exercises of the forty-ninth ses
sion of Roanoke College began to* day
with the baccalaureate sermon deliv
ered by the Rev. Dr. Edward H. Ward
of Pittsburg, an alumnus of the college
of the class of ’7O. A large audience
assembled to greet the speaker.
The speaker took occasion to pay a
tribute to the fearlessness of President
Roosevelt. He warned against a too
hasty judgment and urged sympa
thetic estimate of his public acts.
BEEF PACKERS DOWNED.
Chicago Stock Yard* Company Sur
render* to It* Employe*.
Chicago, June B.—The threatened
strike to-morrow of all the allied
unions employed by the different meat
pecking concerns, was averted to
night by the stock yards company sur
rendering to the stock yards employes
union. All the demands of the union
were granted and the cattle drivers,
who were recently discharged after
forming a union, will return to work
to-morrow morning in their former
places. _
Hon. Edward Robb Renominated.
St. Louis, June B.—Returns from the
primary elections in the Thirteenth
Missouri district yesterday show that
Edward Robb, Democrat, has been re
nominated to Congress.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JUNE 0. 1002.
UNIVERSITIES DEFENDED.
Xo More Temptation* There Than
the Hniiv Man Would Meet Else
where. Say s President Patton,
Princeton, N. J., June 8. —The feature
of to-day’s commencement programme
was the baccalaureate sermon preach
ed by President Patton. The proces
sion of trustees, faculty and members
of the Senior class formed in front of
Nassau Hall and, led by President Pat
ton and ex-President Grover Cleveland,
marched to Alexander Hall. Mrs.
Cleveland and Mrs. Patton were in the
audience.
Among other things Dr. Patton said:
"Sooner or later a man must be free;
sooner or later he takes charge of his
own conscience, and a university is one
of the best training places for this. I
say this because an impression
abounds that a university is a place of
terrible temptation and mothers often
debate whether they should sacrifice
morals for intellect. They think it is
difficult for a man to acquire an edu
cation except at a great risk and speak
of tile temptations of college life as
if there were no temptations in busi
ness, as if the banker and broker lived
in a holier atmosphere, as if the
apostles of Wall street were in cloter
touch with the ten commandments
than ether men. I know of no place
where a man may be trusted to work
out the best in him so well as in a
Christian university. If you have
been faithful to the early training you
have received it has been helped by
coming here.”
CATHOLICS MAKE PROTEST.
Federation Send* Resolution to
President in Regard to Philippine
School System.
Cleveland, 0., June B.—The advisory
board of the Federation of American
Catholic Societies met here to-day.
Letters of commendation of the fed
eration’s work were read from Bishop
Spalding of Peoria, Bishop Forrest of
San Antonio, Bishop Haid of North
Carolina, Bishop Conaty of the Cath
olic University and others.
A resolution that was adopted to be
sent to the President at Washington
protests against the donduct of the
Philippine school system, the claim
being made that it is a proselyting
system which seeks to wean Catholic
children from their faith. The charge
is made that Catholicism is being
greatly discriminated against in favor
of Protestantism, and that considering
the fact that the Filipinos are a Cath
olic people, but scant recognition has
been given that church in the appoint
ing of teachers and other methods
used in teaching the Filipinos.
WOMAN’S SKULL CRUSHED.
Fourteen-Year-Olil Negro Boy Sn
pecteil of Crime and May Be
Lynched.
Harriman, Tenn., June 8. —Yesterday
evening the wife of Jack Bailey, a
well known farmer, was found dead
at her home, having been brutally as
saulted. Her head was crushed in
several places, supposed to have been
done with an iron found near by, cov
ered with blood. An inquest by jus
tice Newport showed strong suspicion
that the crime was committed by George
Robert, aged 14, a negro servant, who
was arrested. To-night a large crowd
of determined and angry men were
gathering at the Emory river bridge,
bent on lynching the negro, but the
officers had just started to the Kings
ton jail with him. If the crowd dis
covers the negro has gone It is feared
that they will overtake him and then
nothing can prevent a lynching.
PATRICK WALSH COUNCIL.
Knight* of Columbu* Loilge Install
ed In AuguMtn.
Augusta, June B.—Patrick Walsh
Council No. 677 of the Knights of Co
lumbus was installed in Augusta to
day with sixty-odd memebrs, including
lei*ding Catholics of the city.
Knights of Columbus came from
Richmond, Atlanta, Savananh and
other cities for the initiation and in
stallation of the Augusta Council, and
the day ended with a banquet for 175
at the Albion Hotel to-night.
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AUGUSTA’S FIRST BAPTIST.
Historic Old ItuildliiK to Give Way
to New Structure.
Augusta, Ga., June 8. —The last serv
ice in the old First Baptist was
held this evening, and to-morrow the
building will be turned over to the
contractors for demolition. A hand
some new $50,000 church is to be erect
ed In its place. The church that will
be torn down is historic. In it was
held the first Southern Baptist conven
tion and the Semi-Centennial conven
tion.
MAN THREW WILD ill LL.
Famous Mexican Wrestler Perform*
Great Feat.
Laredo, Tex., June B.—A bvll fight
was given in the Plaza del Toros of
Nueva Laredo, Mexico, to-day, the
unique feature of which was the suc
cessful performance of Romulus, the
famous Mexican wrestler, who suc
ceeded in throwing a wild bull from
the San Luis Potosi ranch. Romulus
grappled the bull and threw him at
the first attempt.
One bull was killed, but no horses
were hurt in this fight.
CANADA CULTIVATES MEXICO.
Duty on Mexican Coffee Reduced lo
One Cent Per Sack.
City of Mexico, June B.—The depart
ment of foreign relations has received
notice from the Mexican consul gen
eral in Canada that the Canadian gov
ernment has conceded a considerable
reduction on the duties imposed on
coffee imported from this country. Du
ties were formerly 10 cents per sack
and are now 1 cent. Canada has shown
a desire to promote direct trade with
this country.
OBITUARY.
TVllllnm H. Dooner.
Mr. William H. Dooner died yester
day morning at his home. No. 17 Hen
ry street, east, from paralysis. He
had been in ill health for a long time.
His funeral will take place from Sacred
Heart Church at 5 o'clock this after
noon. Mr. Dooner was a native of
Ireland, and was 68 years old. He
came to this country and to Savannah
when he was seventeen years old. and
had lived here ever since. Me had
not been engaged in active business
for many years. He was a soldier in
the Civil War. and followed the Con
federacy's flag from the beginning of
hostilities to the final surrender. He
was a member of the Irish Jasper
Green*, with which he served as a
lieutenant. He leaves a wife, two
sons, Mr. M. J. Dooner of San Antonio,
and Mr. W. H. Dooner of Savannah,
and two daughters, Miss Nellie Dooner
and Mrs. .1. A. Gallaher, who is now
in Colorado. Mr. Dooner was a mem
ber of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr*. \A. A. McNeil, Wnyeros*. Ga.
Waycross, Ga„ June S.—A telegram
was received here early this afternoon
announcing the death of Mrs. W. A.
McNeil, which occurred in Savannah at
10 o’colck this morning. Mrs. McNeil
was the wife of Postmaster McNeil of
this city. She has been in ill health
for several months past, and has been
treated at one of the Savannah hos
pitals. Mr. McNeil, accompanied by
his nephew, A. P. Penham, Jr., went to
Savannah at 6 o’clock this afternoon.
The funeral services will occur at
Quitman to-morrow afternoon. Mrs.
McNeil leaves three children, W. D., cf
Savannah, H. P., of Jacksonville, and
Johnnie, who is with the United States
navy, and is stationed at present in the
Philippine Islands.
John J. Brantley, D. D„ Macon. Ga.
Macon, Ga., June S.—John J. Brant
ley, D. D., LL. IJ., died here to-day.
Pie was for thirty-five years professor
of languages in Mercer University. His
father was a Baptist minister in Phil
adelphia, and in honor of his brother,
the late William T. Brantley, Baltimore
named a Baptist church. Dr. Brantley
spent his entire life teaching and was
one of the most accomplished linguists
in the South.
Mm. Mirinm \eiiberjter.
Mrs. Miriam Neuberger died last
night at 10 o'clock at her residence.
No. 107 Jones street, east. The funeral
will take place this afternoon at 5
o'clock from the late residence.
Mrs. Neuberger wa® the widow of
the late Herman Neuberger. She
leaves three children, Mrs. Isaac S.
Levy. Mr. Max H. Neuberger. and
Mr. Louis Neuberger, who have the
sympathy, of many friends in their
loss. Mrs. Neuberger had resided all
her life in Savannah, and had many
friends and acquaintances.
Sfllvß Brintnall, Chicago. 111.
Chicago. June B.—Solva Brintnall, one
of the early pioneers of Chicago, and
until two years ago president of the
Drovers’ National Bank, died to-night
at the family residence in this city.
Mr. Brintnall was 85 years of age and
since his retirement from business two
years ago had been falling in health.
Jockey Booker Diet* From Fall.
New York, June B.—Jockey Arthur
Booker, who was thrown Memorial Day
at Gravesend race track, died to-day.
He was 19 years old. At the time of
‘the accident Booker was astride of the
2-year-old colt Red Knight.
RAN THE NEGROES OUT.
Decatur. Iml„ Repeat* It* Perform
ance of Fifteen A'ear* Ago.
Decatur, Ind., June B.—For some days
persons employing negroes have been
receiving warnings to discharge them.
Last night a mob of fifty men, some
of them intoxicated, attempted to drive
all the negroes from the town. An
other crowd formed and rescued them.
There are no negroes in this place to
night. Fifteen years ago all negroes
were driven from this place and they
were kept away until recently, when
they were engaged in hotels and else
where.
Mr. Kruger to Remain In Holland.
Brussels, June B.—Mr. Kruger de
clares that he will end his days In
Holland. t
MUTE SIGNALS. .
System l *ed 1- Stock Broker* While
Trndihg on ’Change.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
On the floor of the Stock Exchange
there has been In vogue for years and
Is still In use a mute system of lan
guage by which telegraph operator®
convey orders to brokers whom they
represent. It is done by movement of
the fingers, and the purpose of it is to
hide the nature of orders from other
brokers. The plan is after this fash
ion:
When a telegraph operator receives
an order to transmit to a broker he
will raise his index finger if the order
is to buy at an eighth; reverse it if
the order Is to sell. Should the-opera
tor want to indicate other fractions,
each additional finger raises the limit
an eighth. The fist clinched and thumb
uplifted tells the broker that three
quarters Is meant. When it comes to
seven-eighths that fraction is made by
forming a right angle with the thumb
and first finger, and, finally, if the even
figure is wanted, a waving movement
of the hand Is used.
This is the system adopted by nearly
every active broker in making trans
actions, but to prevent others from fol
lowing up their orders some have an
Independent notation device, and will
communicate by signs which are known
only to the operator and the broker di
rectly concerned. If you ever visit the
gallery of the Stock Exchange in the
Drexel building you will see on an ac
tive day thousands of shares bought
and sold in this queer fashion.
Best of Al^^^
At Good things are good so far as they do good. This Vi.
AT axiom applies with force to the plain goodness of y,
/f Uneeda Biscuit. They’re good because they taste good
/M and do good. Vl
are good for the grown man as well as the boy—as good If
for the baby as the mother. Are not only good, but keep If
good. You can always depend on them. That’s
against your biscuit experience—and you can’t Jy
''X. understand it until you examine the
In-er-seal Package iu which they
are always sold.
GREAT GEM TRUST.
South Africa Control* the World'*
IHnnionrl Trade.
W. R. Holt in the London Daily Ex
press.
The diamond merchants of Hatton
garden do not disguise the fact that
the failures in Antwerp and London
represent a crisis m the trade, but they
take refuge in the hope that the end
of it is in sight.
“The trouble was inevitable," ex
plains one of the leading merchants
of Hatton garden. “After two lean
years the Antwerp speculators count
ed upon a big coronation boom. They
bought a lot of stones in the rough,
and now that they are cut find they
cannot sell them. Being men of lim
ited capital, they have gone to smash.
But that does not affect the trade gen
erally.”
A diamond's merchant's office is as
little as possible like the "shilling
shocker” conception of it. The Mar
quis of Anglesey made more show with
his paste ornaments, on his pantomime
tunic than all Hatton-garden and Ely
place combined.
A safe stands in the corner of the
room, and there is a pair of delicate
scales on the writing table. For the
rest, the room might belong to an in
surance agent or an accountant in a
small way of business. There are no
outer and inner guards, no man-traps,
none of the sensational apparatus of
the transpontine drama.
AThlef Resisting Safe.
The safe is specially constructed to
resist thieves and fire and a fall from
the fifth story. Except for that pre
cautions are no more obvious than they
would be in a grocer's back parlor. Yet
the safe always contains enough to
make a rich man's mouth water. When
a dealer of repute locks up his office
and goes home to dinner he seldom
leaves less than $125,000 worth of pre
cious stones behind him.
A few days ago there reposed in one
of the Hatton-garden safes two pearl
necklaces worth $500,000 between them.
Occasionally when a merchant has been
“round the Garden,” collecting jewels
for the aprpoval of some rich custom
er, he may lock up half a million's
worth of stuff in '"his safe. And even
the expert declines to give an esti
mate of the total value of all the pre
cious stones in Hatton-garden and Ely
place on any given night.
The modesty of the display is as as
tonishing as the value of the stock,
and more astonishing than either is
the absolute confidence repose, In
eaoh other by men in the trade. A
merchant neither gives nor takes a
receipt for, his “parcels,” and a par
cel of diamonds may be worth any
thing up to SIO,OOO. Between 9 and 10
in the morning a merchant's office is
crowded with travelers and brokers.
“X want such-and-such a grain,”
says the traveler. "Here you are,” re
plies the merchant, handing him a
tiny paper parcel, on which is In
scribed the weight and the price tier
carat. He looks at the stones, and
takes them or leaves them. If he takes
them the parcel is entered to his name.
He may keep them for a day, or he
may keep them for a week, but the
merchant bothers no more until he re
turns.
Pocketful* of Stones.
Calling upon a West End jeweler, it
is a common thing for a traveler to
produce $25,000 worth of stones from
his pocket. The stones are in
their parcels and the parcels
are contained in a specially-made
leather book. The parcels pass from
hand to hand, and nobody thinks of
counting the stones or of demanding
a receipt.
The trade is dazzling in sentiment,
but remarkably prosaic and business
like in practice. The merchant or the
broker examines his diamonds just as
he would examinO specimens of cut
glass. and that is very much what a
parcel of diamonds looks like in the
cold light of day. In a diamond mer
chant's office they never seem to re
member that there were such persons
as Aladdin and Monte Cristo.
But for real cold business, with about
as much sentiment as if they were sell
ing bales of sugar, you must go to the
fountain head. The diamond trade of
the world is in the hand? of the De
Beers Company, and the syndicate in
London take the whole of their out
put. Consequently, every dealer in the
world has to come to London for his
rough stones. Very few firms are in
the position to deal directly with the
syndicate. They have to deal through
a broker, who may represent half a
dozen large houses.
A* if Asking a Favor.
The monopoly is absolute and com
plete. A broker approaches the syn
dicate, not as one conferring a favor,
but as one praying for it.
“May I venture to ask for a sight of
y°ur first shipment In May?" he write#.
“Trusting to receive a favorably reply,
I am, yours, etc.” If he is lucky
enough to receive a satisfactory an
swer, he takes $500,000 in his pocket and
buys as much stuff as he can get. It
is not for him to ask prices. Those are
fixed by the syndicate. He pays his
money and takes his diamonds.
Just before Kimberley was besieged
the syndicate hud thirteen parcels to
sell. There were 114 applicants for a
"sight" of the goods. An English
broker went in first and bought four
parcels; an American followed and
bought four, another American took
five—and the remaining 111 would-be
purchasers went empty away.
America, being largely populated by
millionaires, takes two-thirds of the
diamond output of the world, and likes
quality as well as quantity. That is
why diamonds are dear, and likely to
remain so. “Oh. I can't sell diamonds
at the present price.” says the English
Jeweler. "De, Beers will have to come
back to the old price, and then I shall
do as much trade as ever.”
He forgets that the Americans, who
are the best customers, do not grum
ble about the price. So long as they
do not the Englishman may grumble
from one Christmas to another with
out effect.
Why Price* Do Not Hiar.
“If that Is so,” it may be inquired,
“why not double the price?" For a
simple economic reason. The price is
just about what it was before South
African diamonds came on the market
some twenty-five years ago. Put It up
to any considerable extent, and it
would pay to reopen the Brazilian and
Indian mines, which wete not exhaust
ed, but throttled by competition.
Above everything else this will he a
pearl year—partly because of the
Queen’s fondness for the gem, partly
because It has been growing in popu
larity for some time past. The de
mand is out of all proportion to the
supply, and prices have reached a fig
ure never known before.
There is a necklace in London at
present priced at $300,009, and the other
day a Jeweler asked $5,375 for a pair
of pear-shaped pearl earrings of very
modest size.
PLAGIE OF LUXURY. *
How It lln* Fallen I non l With
Prosperity.
John Gilmer Speed, in Ainslee's.
The growth of luxurious living in
America was very slow during the first
fifty years of the republic. Indeed, up
to the breaking out of our Civil War
the inequalities of fortune were not so
marked as to make those who lived
supmtuously according to the stand
ards of those days seem so far removed
from the merely well-to-do as to be
almost in another world. In the earlier
days, any Hither and industrious man
could prosper, even though he did not
perform merely manual labor. There
was work for every one to do, and no
one was more in demand that Mr.
Jack-of-all-trades, who now walks su
perfluous in the dustv highway, with
no one to applaud His adaptabality,
none - to need his ingenious services.
Food was plenty, land was cheap, rents
were low. Be honest and you will be
happy, was not mere cant; it was the
solemn and the grateful truth. Pretty
nearly every one lived well, but pretty
nearly all lived plainly. With better
houses, with better water supplies,
with improved lamps for illumination
and then with the introductnon of
illuminating gas, and most of all with
the greater wealth which came at the
end of the Civil War, the growth in
luxurious living began taking tremen
dous strides. Luxury with poor light
after sunset, luxury with few of the
means of personal cleanliness, does nfltt
mean much to us nowadays. Why, a
man in a Harlem flat at 600 a year
can command more of the kind of lux
ury just mentioned than say the dis
solute Charles II ever dreamed of. But
the wealth that comes with new for
tunes to new people was really what
begun the race which may be called
the Millionaire Stakes for all ages.
Before these stakes were opened
there were a few fortunes in this coun
try. Some were made in the trade with
the East, some were made in strictly
domestic commerce, some were founded
in piracy and other adventures by sea,
but the greatest number and the most
vestments in land which was enhanced
in value by the growth of cities. Even
up to the time that the Newly Rich
began to splurge, the owners of the
fortunes Just mentioned were pretty
generally tolerably plain people, who
lived very quietly and looked upon
those who made unusual display as too
vulgar to come Inside the sacred pale
which called itself society. In New
York, this class of people at the time
mentioned lived in the neighborhood of
Washington Square; in Philadelphia,
toward the foot of Walnut street, and
in Boston, In that ever sacred Beacon
street. They were slow but sure. They
had no doubt about their position or
the propriety with which they main
tained their dignity. They did what
they pleased, but they did not please
to be in the least fantastic, theatric,
ostentatious or conspicuous. And un
til the Newly Rich had arrived, with
the manifest intention to stay perma
nently, there were none with either the
ambition or the ability to dispute this
supremacy, which was maintained not
by an aggressiveness, but by the pas
sive power of inertia.
With the advent of the Newly Rich
tehre was a great rattling of old bones,
and to the cynical observer who merely
looked on without caring which side
won there was plenty of fun. One of
the newcomers was an Hebraic banker,
who had the Oriental Imagination of
his race and the brutal giugnacity char
acteristic of the men who compel ma
terial success. His luxurious living,
his novel methods of entertaining, his
indifference to criticism and his enter
prise generally shocked the old-tim
ers quite out of their self-possession.
This man strengthened his position by
marrying one of the most beautiful
women of the day, a member also of a
family that was truly distinguished.
The success of this man was really
the beginning of the end of that old
order in which display was a shock to
gentility and luxury a mark of vul
garity. The old-timers did not give
in without a struggle, tt may be be
lieved. No, they never gave in; but
their followers, tfietr heirs, their de
scendants gave in without firing a
shot. Fighting was not in their line.
'The primose path of dalhanee, was
much more to their taste, and so they
trod it gladly and proudly, locking
arms and keeping step with the Newly
Rich with such constancy that now,
after forty years of comradeship, there
is no telling the one from the other.
Rcilni-lng Heat of Slieol.
From the New York Press.
“The first thing you know," said the
manager of a firm that builds refriger
ating plants, “we will be cooling Shoel.
If the Orthodox description of the do
main of His Satanic Majesty is correct,
it is the intolerable heat that makes
hell an undesirable place of residence,
but with tbe progress that is being
nvtde in producing artificial coolness
we will probably be setting up refrig
erating plants in the infernal regions,
if only we can locate the place and get
our machinery there.
"Do you think I am joking? Oh. no,
not at all. Why. we have an order now
for a refrigerating plant that is to
make conditions tolerable somewhere
near the traditional site of Sheol, and
I don't see why It should be thought
unlikely that we should eventually go
a few thousand feet deeper and sup
ply grateful rootness on the shores of
the lake at brimstone.
“In the gold mines in the Rand, In
South Africa, the temperature becomes
higher ns the shaft sinks, and at a
depth of 5,000 or 6,000 feet it is almost
intolerable, and we are now building a
plant to lower the mercury so that the
miners will he able to work with com
fort and to go down deeper.
“It is calculated that with this re
frigerating apparatus the shafts can be
sunk to a depth of from 12,000 to 15.-
000 feet, and if the prospective tenants
of the lower regions are enterprising
enough they will dig down until they
penetrate the Kingdom of Satan and
will commission us to install refriger
ating plants which will rob hell of its
chief terror."
—Among the coronation peers will be
W. E. H. Lecky, the historian and
member of Parliament for Dublin Uni
versity, who will take his seat in the
House of Lords as Lord Lecky of
Carlow, where his landed property is
situated. Mr. Lecky has always been
troubled with an extremely delicate
constitution, and it is r.ot generally
known that his inability to withstand
the physi-al strain of writing in the
erdinary way compelled him to adopt
the extraordinary method of lying on
his face on a bed with a blotting pad
on the pillow, and in that posture he
has written by far the greater part of
his historical works.
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