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THE COTTON PALACE.
ftL'irr TO ILLUSTRATE THE 'POSSI
BILITIES Ul' TEXAS
By the People oi the City «»f Waco—«»• IM
mentions end Arr»nf mem IJewcrilMd.
The Howmg Welts. Etc.
Waco, Tex. November 1-L—(Special.)—
The cut sent The Constitution to appear
with this" dispatch is an accurate trout view
depiction of the Texas Cotton Palace reared
by the peopie of the enterprising city of
souls on the slope of a hill on the
suburbs of Waco.
Built of wood. With a frontage of feet
and 250 feet deep. It is yet ot architectural
beauty and required an outlay of over s!(<»,-
•*»» to bring it to the standard of interest
it occupies today.
Those who have men the old Spanish
“missions" at San Antonio will recognise in
the architecture of th. “cotton palace" the
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renaissance feature of those missions. From
the central dome do its the original lone
star flag of the Texas republic and from
the many other towers and flag staffs the
stars and stripes and flags of many nations
fly. The building is in a park of ran- beau
ty, with grounds tastily arranged—statuary,
flowers, fountains, rustic bridges, grottoes
drives and promenades—and within a
stone's throw one of the largest of the
many artesian wells of Waco, flawing hot
water, attracts the admiration of all who
see it. These wells, by the way, are won
derful. Os the twenty-five developed hire
since IMO, all an- over I.NUO feet deep, some
flowing 1.0Q0.0U0 gallons daily. The water
is warm—iw Farvnheit when it reaches
the surface of the earth, with remarkable
pt ensure turn cl ar as crystal, pure and pal
atable, rivaling Hut Springs for curative
qualities and already potent factors in mak
ing Waco a health re.-ort, developing s.t.|.
lariunm and natatoriums on < lalwmte and
vo&tly scales. The water tn< els the ntv.li! of
the 2i.ua* souls • >r drinking, tire proiecUon,
ns motive power for machinery—ail pur
posc» tn fact. But, to return to tile cotton
palace.
Texas leads the south in the production of
cotton. Tne people are conservative but
ent. rprising. i hey n .d seen the success
Sioux City achieved with her com palace
UMu I.Ot<tae d-ipaUi SUIU. of expositions
ot ail Kii.ds. an t so when, four years ago.
a Waco ia.iy ot progressive ideas suggest
ed a cotton palace YY.tco talked of it nearly
four yean b fol. ■ tiling to attempt such
an Institution. Tht n. one night last spring
the pes pie hi 14 a mass meeting ami resolv
ed that as Vl aeo »a» th.- ventral city of the
Texas cutton b-->t, it would be appropriate
to rear a cotton paia.-e here, and that if
I- -ii.-y -a shoal I be pledged the move
ment should I-- pushed tor all it was
w.>rth. About s.*•.•»•' was pledged within
a week, and that settled the matter. Lead
ing < itixens organised a joint stock com
pany. a charter was secund and the move
ment was partly inaugurated by June Ist.
Fr<>m that day until this th re has Is en no
lagging. Th.- donators purchased grounds,
supplemented til.- money raised by the sub
scriptions with a loan of SfkWV.'and this,
with th-- sale of privileges has furnished
the money. The gate fees ar,- exiwcted to
1-r.ng in from W-m to sb». • . f„ r the place
will be otM-n until December .th, a period
of twenty-nine davs.
It is not a provincial or local affair. AA'at
s«-n raised the expense money, and, of
rse. exp el-: to reap prestige and sub.
ntial lieneiits from the undertaking,
she has made it. Texas institutions.
I’ies and citi-s have ls-.-n urged to make
•’v. receiving liber ,1 allotment- of
•Cotton is. of «-ou:>e. th.- d< iiitnnnt
jgitjun*. Yon re.- rott>>t. everywhere. There
a mil iatur ti.-!d wills th- plant at every
’. tag»- of gr.-wth. Th-- prwa-sses of piek
fng. ginning, compr-s.-ing. <!■-.. are shown,
and machine spindles and looms convert
ti.e cotton into elaths .ad into varments.
Jr. a word, all the multifarious uses of cot
ton. all Its possibilities are shown here. It
is an object lesson worth a long
journey to see. and th“ suggestions and
impresstons will no doubt have immense
pr.s tieal value.
But cotton is not all. The managers
have ma I.- it as well an exposition, as far
•»« practicable. of all the varied resources
r»f this great stat -. and products as well of
•i-M. garden, orchard, mine, forest and
wat -r. of . .rt i and sir, r«-r th.- exhibit of
native birds r:v -I that of fowls, inside of
1:..-- all .h-sv pr-siucts are grovp 1
(tn! .li-'ptayv.l w th ta<te at once ing*nl< us
and < -irpt. hensire. Texas rais s all the
r rmls. com. wh-at. oats, rye, barlev. mil
let. sugarvan'*. tobnero. about ns freely as
she do.-s cotton. She mines coni, bitumin
ous and anthracite equal to any in this
union. Her ni<-l- ns. apj.l.-s, |M-ach s. cray.-s
sn I t rank with California's. H r
wells of natoral gas and oil rival those
In Pennsylvania, though r.ot dev.-loped y -t.
ti.t h-r coa«t th- oyst?rs an*l h.-hes tempt
rplcnrrs. H.-r sugar industry is pushing
ls>ui iatta, an-i her horses, cattl- sn i sheep
an- known of ail oter th world. Th-i-.it
ton j-alnc" cnnt-i’ns an lesson in all
th.«e. Iler native w-onds, limiting as to
p.n-\ ar shown in admiraMe vnri.-tv. And
taste nnd ingenuity hns grasped nil th.-s.-
things and arm ng. .J them in detmrttn.-nls
j— .in .-nsembl» that se n will not
b>« for..-tt. n.
Tne praettcat is dominant, but th.- art
and aesthetic side is not lacking. P-ople of
culture will b- d- ligh.-d with the art dis
play th.- pnla.-e c li’-iin?-. Th-■ is ih.'- work
of the wens n of VVa. o. Tex. T u r.- are
ru ms nh re all th.- furniture .-nt orna
ments :-r»- IICI-I.- of cotton. ...m, wneat. te-a
nut«. p..,.,, n sucar-c-sne. .. Th.- iliuii. n
1- Perfe : until vo« ex .mill- el.is.-ly. Ther •
Is a repreiu-’tioa of th. historic Alamo.
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Mobile, Alabama.
A New Being
That Tired Fooling
Full Strength and Appetite Given by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
The following is from Mr. Thomas C. Barrett,
Os Mobile. Aia- a well known memlw r of the
rity fire <lc;«artnwnt. sit;vhe-l to Hook and
la l«h-r Co.. No. 4.:
*C. 1. 110-xl & Co.. towel!. Mass.:
-1 have been taki:« IheePs Sarsaparilla ns a
•pnng iwdi- -ine and bbxid purifier. It is the
text blood medlrtae I have ever used and for an
appetizer it :s excellent. I have taken several
dtffenn. kinds of n-edieiw for the blood but
H.xxi’s Sarsap-.rilla has proved to be the best.
Hocd’s^ 1 * *ures
1 was troubled with ia ligrstiou and that tired
tiling. After taking four botties of floods
harsnparilla I feel like a new man. 1 eaimot
rveotnmend Hood’s sarsaparilla too highly.*
Thomas <’. Raom.rr. Matrite, Akilmma.
Heed's Pills are pratuH and efikient,jpfi
easy u> acuuu. bwld by all druggists. —.»
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA.GA« MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2*>. 1394.
made of such material. And there are ex
hibits of paintings, sculpture, statuary, em
broidery. pottery, that would win admira
tion anywhere. • There is an auditorium
annex, which will seat 6.0 W people, with atx
immense stage. There people have secured
Ellen Beach Yaw. the American prima
donna, anil company to give daily concei ts
in this auditorium. This feature has cost
up in the thousands of dollars, as has also
the famous lowa State band, of Dubuque,
l-i s-sty odd p! ees, which discourses music
daily in the music gallery, near the central
dome The cotton palace illustrates music,
art and all that is aesthetic, along with Un
practical phases. It ought to result in not
.done attracting much outside attention to
Texas but will stimulate Texas people too.
by showing them how grand are tne re
sources amt the promises of their wonder
ful state. , , , , -
All the people, so to sjieak. have nelue.l
build ’he "Cotton Palace.” I’leriut on small
salaries ami mechanics working by th<- day
subscribed as generously (means considered>
as the rl.-h men of the city, ur.d 1 exas at
large seems reedy to pay tribute to W aeu s
splendid public spirit b> s ndlng here, day
by day. thousands of admiring visitors.
In uniqueness, originality and attractivc
ness the Texas *ottou pal ice stands as a
distinctive credit to Texas and mis bustling
citv of Waco. There are many Georgians,
Tennesseeans, Abibamians and other south
erners here and a Constitution reader could
not come here ami fail to find some one
known aforetime in those states. It they
do come thev will see :i show meriting tne
trip and Is- able to gathar. here at ''“co.
in this cotten palace, a teally intelligent
and reliable idea of the progress ami prom
ise ot Texas- present and future —the child,
so to speuk. of the older southern states.
Some baking powders work too slow;
others too quick. The happy med’um is
r<-a<-hed in work done by Dr. Prices. Its
ingredients an* so a«-curately biend< d that
its action is simply perfect,
CAPT. BILLY’S THANKSGIVIN(i
Continued From Third Column First Page.
fortun.ate _ night. on returning from Boston
.-nd th- freight olllce. he had hurried
along to the slip where he thought
it likely his skiff and one of the
men might l>e waiting, not meeting
a soul on his way, as it happened, it being
the hour of supfM-r. The skin was not then-,
however. But another bout lay handy, ami
he look that, intending Bibliey or Bert
should low It ba< k. There was but one ore
in the lioat. but that was enough to genii
with. It was already very dark—the dark,
although of that soft dilluse twilight that
n-llects over the water as though it were
a dim light shed from it. or the earth’s own
light itaelf, and by which one usually sees
with more or less mystery <lee|>en<-d into
blackness, and Captain Billy thought it
likely that but for h< r lights, he couid not
see the shadowy hulk of the Pretty Poll
out there in the stream, although he always
said he knew every line in her. But there
she was, only waiting for him to come to
hoist sail for home, the tide running out
fast and the land-breeze blowing. And Cap
tain Billy thought to hitnseii’ a.- he seulied
along tnat it was all as it had lieen before
and as it would he again—the same old
story, and not a lipnle to disturb it.
S finething did disturb it. though, that
moment. For when he turned bis he.’d again
just as he cried, "Poli ahoy!” lie saw a
lantern with a reflector, looking as big as a
ball of St. Alnio’s tire, waving round Bibb
sy’s head as he leaneu across tin- ran, shed
ding a wake of light full on iiiinsell', and
illuminating Bibbsy s face, th.it shone with
a ni.iligti i lit and tip-y !••• r. And lii< :i BO«i
--detily lantern and ship's lights ami all
vanished beiorc his eyes, as If they had
never been. Amazed and aghast for an in
stant. his grasp ul the single oar loosened,
giving the boat as it did so a lurch that
.-eni it out into the rilfs where the tide
streak ran like tire.
But if Captain Hilly lost his oar. he lost
no time b«-fore he hallooed at th ■ top of his
tremendous voice, again and again, lie did
not know, of course, that Charley Woods
X. . all-1 that t!ie mat-- and ih-lt
were aslei-p in their bunks. It’ they had ail
Is-.-ti on d<-ck, however, they would not have
h ard him; for just then a train was blow
lug i> tong witistto it thumivi> ■! act-. <
the bridg.-, and anotiit r engine behind the
town was answering it. And here he was
swr-giog away down the rip stern first,
head first, ami before he gathered pas sctit
t« :«-d >< ns ■» tii- re was tile tiarpduli. Hie
»■■«! . '..-uia.r, cluse upon him, plougli
iug her way Into tartar and up to tar
I. rlh. if he had had an oar lie could hate
kept tin- boat laiws on as tne swell reached
him; but as it was he was helpless. He
Uied io tear out a ttiwart that he might
j oss bly u-e, but before lie could do so the
swell of 'ln- tig steamer reached him, and
he was in the Wat r and the uat K, crjmg
out, "oh, 1..d-*. Lid •!'' clinging blindly to
tin boa.side utid washing down the harbor
and out to zca. tile northwest wind help
ing the tide along fearfully, past the can
buoy, he thoug.it, past the bar, past the
bill buoy, he knew, and into tin- oi»en bay.
It was un the bar that In- beli-ved for a
mcnieiit in- was gone. The great breakers
w< ri- racing un «-itm-r side ui' him; for an
instant tin re. b tween those rushing lim-s
of white tin-, he lost tin- boat, then hi- felt it
graze his shoulder, and biindly clutched it;
it was right side up. by heavenly ciianv ;
■he nearly 1-ulh-d It over trying to clam;- r
in. an i tin a he was there, lie knew nut
l:«.w. and fallen bnathiess in th- bottom
of t'he bunt, lie swept un, he knew not
w h« re.
When Cap’ll Billy came to himself for he
must have sunk into deep si ep after h- -
b.'ief mi onsc.ousn.ss, and have been ro -.*-
cd lii Hie cradle of tile deep for some line
the wav-s wen- still running un tile ebb tiu.
and befur< the wind, and the boat tossed
like a leather from one to another. He
was w< t to the sk.n ami chilled to the nt.i-'-
row, and th< llj iug spray ami now and
lit it the eoinb of a drt-m itihg wave broke
iv<-r him constantly, it was st 11 dark, ami
ae was hot ytl quite awake to his . oml.tiou.
but had a i ui lulls feeling of being an in
sensitive object, like a sl« m “I M-aweeU
throwii along from billow to li.ilow with no
111-tiileiii ami toward nu harmful - liu. Tint'
he had some vague r- i olle.-iion of sitting
on the arm of Ins mother’s rocking chair
aitu resting his head ut> her kind suouider,
end that passed, too. Presently he rose a
Hill .on one etbuw and looked about.
-Wai.” said Cap n HilK. to ti.e great void
■lair, and lii— si.; nu<f tin- fishes. "1 gm ss
I got my mtvealur.-. But I do’no’ liow
Li-ie ah’ tlw children an’ mother urc H-guin’
ter co.ne out ot it." h added. He Was
alone, in an ojieti lioat. without sail or oar,
;.t s« a ami out ui sight of shore, in tin
■ l-pill of Hie mgat, with thi w.nd singing a
great song in ins ears, but he could not
have said that lie was afraid. His heart
was trembling, to b. sure, but it was with
the thought of tears in l.ide’s tender gray
eves, of the ituioci til smile of Kitty, ot the
baby's little loving mouth. "If 1 never
see th-m again, you must take care ot
them!” he cried out. whether to God or the
-real elements, or his own soul. W hen
a little while had passed he contriv'd
to littisli loosening the thwart he had
half turn out b.-tor-. and rigging U to
the painter, ami getting it over the stern
us a drag, ami he lay down again, some
thing out of ttie sermon his wile had read
on his last Sunda.v at home flashing on h s
memory, and m- sent out a prayer from the
depth of his b-ing that he might lie saved
mr Lid.*. And then, as a blow tingles
again, he re. ailed that face with the lan
tern light glowing like a St. Elmo’s tire
lull upon it. and for a second he felt faint
with a kind of horror, as if there were a
hell an J he had be n very near its devils!
But, looking up, in this quick horror, as if
tu nnd escape soim-when. there were the
i k>uds blowing to fl.ms, and out of them,
just before him. Just above him, was a
star, a er.-at t weet star, as If it gleamed
from some half-veiled angel's face. And
then, as plainly us ever, he had seen any
thing in his life, he saw Lide kneeling at
the window at home. Io iking at tha'. ge’itl
star, and saying her prayers for him. And
he sai l afterwards that he knew, as sure
as the Hd- s flowed and the winds blow--d.
that h - should come out of this all right
an l Ih- bonie with Lide for Thanksgiving!
The morning crept up softly into the dark
midnight blue, the bland mild Indian suni
tm r morning, th- star molting away in the
skiey s<-a of light, th- gray flowing into
lose, tin- rose changing to gold, and the
sin soaring like a burning bubbli In th
clear blue that was like th- paved work
of a sapphire. He got off his wet clothes
and dri<-l them in the sun. bailing out the
boat with an old gourd that was in the
st-rn, and giving himself as hard a rub
bing as he could. It took him nearly all
day; ami when the soft windless night
•i.-scended, faint and blistered and worn out
In- fell asleep again with the universal
wash and whisper of the waves murmur
ing r tilt’d him.
It was toward the close of the n’t xt day
that he was picket! up by an outward
bound steamer, all but utti rly exhausted,
and slightly wandering in his min I. But
by th.- time the steamer reached Halifax,
whe-e it was tiound, he was quite himself
again, anti without wasting five minutes
in |<orl he took the return passage on a
smaller boat, hound to the |.ort near-st
Blackpool. \n<l standing on deck, search
ing the horizon with the captain's glass,
what should he see but something amaz
ingly like the Fretly Poll. An object of
somewhat romantic interest, as he was,
the steamer easily went off its course a
point or two; and then a boat was lowered
for a mile of rowing, and when it went
baek it left Captain Billy on his own deck
again.
“Wai, wal. will," said the mate, grinning
like a gargoyle, and shaking Captain Billy’s
hand as if he would shake it off, and shak
ing it again, and coming back ami shaking
it once more. ’’Ef ’twarnt past the time o’
nieracies I should say, did you drop from
the sky, cap’n? We—we're jes’ ez fflad ter
see ye ez es we said so! By king, we're
glad. Cap’ll Billy!”
"So be 1.” said the cap’ll. "Glad enough
ter kiss the hull four on ye! Finest thing
ever I see in my life was the Pretty Poll
in the skipper's glass ji-s’ now, cteepln’
along, all sail set! 'Twarn’t no meracle,
boys. 'Twu,s jes’ Lide’s prayers. That’s
w’t»t brought tne round right side up with
care. Gmss we’ll make It afore dark, Mr.
•Mate. Ye'd orter see the stylo on the
fntiin’ t.oir.’ craft. Hope Lide ain’t, liee.:
much worried—telegraphed? Would, but
tin-y ain t no telegraph to home-her ‘o
drlv« over 'ith old Nubbins’s horse.
Tin I’ght I’d fetch it quickest. Cap’ll of the
Halifax said he’d telegraph; but he'd done
so much 1 couldn’t hear to it. You’d a
tin.ught I w is a man-fish, or some sech out
landish thin', they made so much o’ me—
in* to champ igne ’n I’ll ever drink agin es
I live til I die! Give me a hat an' these ire
ck.se an’ the women folks give me hand
k< rcheis. Lost that blame i-hi-que for the
Height money -soaked all ter pulp. Guess
th< y II give tne another, though -ain't no
doubt of it. Lost them little red shoes’, tco.
Don’t mind any of that, long as I'm home
ter Thittksgi. in’ that’s tomorrow, :'in’t it?
Wall, tell me all about it. flow'd ye feel?
"hat happened? W’at was ye goin' ter
do? Do ye s’pose Lide’s been worried? l’<i
1 <• Sony es she .ivj.s, an’ I'd be sorry es she
wasn’t.”
"Bibbsy wrote to her. Cap’n Billy,” said
the mate as soon as he could get the word.
"An’ he io|<; her lie wuz afeard ye w uz iost,
but we didn't know nuthin for sartiu. An’
he told her not to worry, he’<l take c..re on
her ami the Imbfes to his dying day an’
never teeli the little brown jug agin. An’
w. ’<! a helped him out, you bet! Powerful
glad ter see ye, eap’n. Powerful,” grasp
ing his hand again. "An' he told her es
you turned up we’d come into, harbor 'ith
the schooner dressed out in all her flags,
an’ she'd know the Kiist there wuz ter
know es we coine in ’tliout a single stream
er Ilyin' ”
“Git ’em out!” cried Cap’n Billy. “Git
’em out! Git ’em out! Dress her out from
truck to keelson! Mind how she looked
tin- day we launched her —ez es
she wuz strung ’ith posies. Lide
thought I wuz sorter darnin’ the ex
iH-nse then. Wisht I’d hed twice as many,
now! Quick about it! Set every inch o’ bun
tin’ tin re is aboard her—all the signals, an
the pennant, an’ the tlag o’ our union! By
G« orge, my girl shall see the Pretty Poll
look ex gay ez hi r best bunnit’. She’ll lie
down there at the pier, an’ she'll see the
colors Ilyin’ in the sky ’fore ever she sees
the schooner!” An.l I am sure if you hud
told Cuji’n Billy t ,ie immortal story of the
King of Ah n and the herald fir s from Troy
to Argos, it would have seemed to him an
affair of far inferior moment to the tidings
these flags would carry Lide.
Tin- other men had gone forward, a half
hour after the flags hail blossomed out. and
while the schooner was skimming along
like a bird, win ti Bibbsy came up t imidly
liehind the captain. "Cap’n Billy,” said
Bibbsy, “Cap’n Hilly.”
The captain turned on his heel quickly
and looked at the down-cast and woe-be
gone face before him and above him. for
Bibbsy was a. giant. “Cap’ll Billy,” said
Bibbsy. half whisp ring, hail crying, "you
know lii.-d. T-II me now. It seems sorter’s
es I’d had a dream—and sorter’s es I hedn’t.
I can’t make out the rights to it. I’d—l’d
in-i my jug tilled, yt know. I—l1 —I can't seem
ter sense it—but de >e make out ’twuz me
put out tin- ship’s light that night ye didn’t
get aboard?”
The cap’n gave him it sound slap on the
shoulder. "Wuz the ship’s lights out?”
said he. " 'Twarn’t nothin’ but my consarn
.l carelessness hindered me gettln’ aboard.
Alas wus so cocksure, ye know. Abo.ud
no.v, though. Guess I don’t won’t no more
adventure! This un’ll do tne 'till Bub's a
man.
"Fetch it in about forty minutes,Cap’n Bil
ly.” called the mate. "This wind wuz made
a’-i>upiM»se!”
"Wisht there wuz another j s’ like it,
though.” Sabi the cap'll, his face beaming
,vitb his hon ■: t joy. "Forty minutes is
forty years when ye’re waitin’ ter see the
color spring up yer wif ’s face cs bright <-z
that Puntin'. Ye ain’t got a wife, matey.
Wal, .xou'll all come round un' take Than
g’vin’ nim h with us. Hope LWe ain t b- s
much worried!”
11. M. Kinsley, the famous caterer of
Chicago, writes: ”1 am ex well
pleased with Dr. Price’s Baking Powder.
I have ti--e I it for several years past with
great satisfaction.”
(Hit LEGAL TF.ADEIt MLA EIL
The Kind nnd < liarii<-(cr of I nited
hlu (ch Money Before 1N73.
The first coinage law of the Cnited St ites
w.is th* a-t of April 2, 17M2. it provided
for the coinage of eagles, half eagles mi l
qt-arler eagles of gold, and dollars, half
dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half
dui of silver, all of these coins to be
of full weight and the silver dollar the
unit. Section lt» <1 ißred "that all the gold
mi<l silv-r coins whicn have been struck at,
at’<i issued from the said mint, shall be a
lawful tender in all pay-n nts wh itsoever.”
Coinages of silver in this country up to ls;x
-,v>-re mostly of foreign metal, as the homo
ptodu t was estimated during this period
at not more than while the gold
moluet w.ts eoasid- rablj more, but not up
to the go! 1 coinage, being less than W).-
(’JO.
After minting more or less of ail thes--
< ..ins up to 1801 it was found from experi
.!h.- that the half eagle was the favorite
gold coin and the half dollm the preferred
silv-r coin. Tite <■ inag. of the eagle w’is
. t pped and none was minted fr >m 1801 11
IS.IS, and th« re w. re no qu ti ter etigh s coin
ed troin 180.8 t-.» 1821. except a few in 1821.
There were no silver dollars coined from
t*. anlti 1828. except in 18::.">. On the other
full legal tinder were coined every year
up to ix.7’., exe. pt in 1815.
A hurried calculation shows that up to
IM7, when we began to hive tin- first flurry
of gold, full legal tender coinages were as
follows: Gold, eagles. .*'9.511,230; half eagles,
>:.7, l*li), <175; quarter c-aglts, $1,810,082; total,
$52.fi11, 117, full legal tender gold. Silver, dol
lars. $2,288,54'J; half dollar:-, $58,398,111; quar
ter dollars, $5.31t: 075; dimes, $3,123,270; half
dimes, $1,298,257: total, $88,372,217, full legal
tender silver, an excess of legal tender sil
ver coined up to this time (1847) of over
hand, half eagles were coined every year
ut> to the present time, except 1816 ami IM7,
silver half dollars of full weight and
sl6,o(jO.!i<o. From this time forward the coin
age ot gold exceeded the coinage of silver,
tiie excess of gold product from 1850 to 1873
being $1,574,800,000, and from 1850 to 1892,
sl. i71.27-.tMW.
The act of February- 21, 1853, reduced the
weight of the half dollar, quarter dollar,
dime and ha f dime, and made th.-m a
1.-gal tender for five dollars only - and since
th it time none of these coins lias been a
full legal tend-r. From 1847 to 1853. while
these coins were a full legal tender, there
were coined e.f half dollar*: 57.291.410; quarter
< o!lars, $877 !r 5. dimes. $776,900; half dimes,
■?42’’,875, and th-- coinage of dollars Irom
18,17 to 1X73 was $5,843,668. All these amounts
added to the full legal tender silver coined
before 1817 make the total $X3.i’?.>.095, the
an-ount of full legal tender silver coined
before 1873.
There were no gobi dollars authorized
until 1819 at <1 they were prohibited by act
of ptember 26, IS’-ti. Their < ntire coinage
amounts to $19,499,337.
There were more silver dollars coined in
1871 and 1872 than in any two previous years
and more in |>roportion in 1873, prior to the
d< monetizing act of February 12th, than
ever before. Silver was just beginning to
<•< me to the mint for coinage when It. was
shut out.
From the formation of tIP- government up
tn the act of February 21, 1857. many for
eign gold and sivei < oins were full tender.
They were gold coins of Gr.-at Britain,
Portugal, France uml Spain and its domin
ions, and Spanish milled dollars and French
crowns by act of February 9, 1793, Februa
ry 1,17" S, April in. 1806. Fn-m-h five-franc
l-i.-os also bv act of April 29, 1816, continued
by acts March 3. IXI9. 1821 ami 1823. The
ret of June 25. 1x34. extended full legal
tender quality to silver dollars of Mexico,
Peru. Chile and Central America. The act
of June 2X. 1834, eXtend-d the like privilege
to the gold coins of Mexico and Colombia.
The act of March 3, 1843, included Spanish
pillar dollars and silver dollars of Bolivia.
With all this f< reign gold ami silver m -n- y
in circulation before the war. as full legal
tender and on perfectly equal terms with
all United States coined money, it is abso
lutely itnpossllde to determine the amount
of money in cir< illation at that time In
gross or per capita. All tables purporting
to give even approximate figures are neces
sarily misleading, as there is absolutely no
data to go by.
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TO 0.48 N THK UNITARYA.M) IMPRESS
THE EVIL TREND OP THE TIMES.
Who Can AVrite the Truth?—Truth is Strang
er Than Fiction and a Knowledge of Ihe
'limes is the Essence of Wisdom.
For The Constitution.
1 don’t have any secrets—not many—so I
1 will truthfully give my experience of last
week.
Newspaper men receive many strange let
ters. It is well, 1 suppose, that the most
of these letters are dismissed at once and i
forever, but sometimes Brown and I re- ■
ceive a. letter with such suggestions of j
good or give such opportunity to impress :
the evil trend of the times that we use their ;
substance. We give a correspondence iiere ;
and tlie experience that led from it, in the |
hope of doing good. Now the letter:
“Atlanta, Ga., 1894.—Mr. Plunkett.—ln ap- |
predation of some kindly words you have J
let fall for us in the past, we elect you an j
honorary member of our society—called the i
’alien Women Society.’ in doing this we |
might do you a harm were it to become •
public, but be sure that you can dei*end up- |
on secrecy, - and, also, believe us, yours '
truly. LORENA VICTORIA, |
i “Secretary.’
“P. S.—Find enclosed by-laws of our or- ‘
der, which will give you a clear insight i
into our aims. L. V., Sec.”
This was a strange letter, anil 1 lirst. '
thought of burning it, but 1 did not, and, at I
last, was led to read the by-laws. As the '
by-laws are too lengthy to print. 1 will give ,
tlie purport in a briefer way.
In tlie afternoon 1 was standing on the
coiner of Alabama and Broad streets when
another note whs placed in mj- iinad by a
smiling member of the society herself. Hear
it:
“Mr. Plunkett—Read this and follow me.
1 will linger in sight till you make up your
mind. LORENA, See.”
To say that this maiden startled me is
putting it mild. But there stood the wo
man, and she was restless under niy delay.
Throng'll curiosity or satan or something
else, 1 followed her. It did not take us
long to arrive at a building waere I was
informed that this society had apartments
titled up for their use, and where 1 would
i*e p.-rfectiy secure and private. 1 set to
work at once to find out all that I could
of litis society, and fur this purpose 1 mov
ed my chair close up to Lor. na victoria
and asked:
“Tell me why this?”
“For mutual benefits to fallen women,”
site answered briefly.
After some little talk I suggested to the
woman tiiat her society could be nothing
but odiuus in popular circles.
“Ah!” said she, with a sneer, “that is
just it. \\ e are odius. We are under a
cloud -a terrible, terrible eioiul—and there
are many uho Lak. advantage of us be
cause it is so. To kick a pour laden wo
man is to receive the plaudits of tile world.
Hypocrites, hypoi-ntes!” bhe hissed llirougn
elm. tied teeth.
1 was a little seared as she closed her
sp<. <-li and considerably hacked, tor she
used her words un-i curried her.s. if tn such
au easy manner that 1 felt not equal to
the wvasiun. 1 was silent, and waned for
her to break it.
"Now, Mr. Blunkett," she said, after a
nionient, with a return of her good humor,
“1 will let you into some seen is.’
1 was still silent and really felt that I
wanted none of her secrets, but she al once
begun to open little pacaages <>ut on the
table and 4 looked on. Many little notes
and some fetters wvr, brought out. Then
some trinkets —such as rings, bracelets,
pins, buttons, were exhibited. I could not
s. e what connection thtse trinkets nad with
lilt society till she explained;
“Each one of these trinkets lias ;• value
to our socn-ty, tor the r ason that it is
circumstantial evidence that their owners
have visited our resorts. Thtse trinkets
are all lagged, you see, with name of
owner upon the lag and registered in our
journal.”
•'.Yuti would not dare to charge mon and i
Wi»::a :: 10l there Mere WuTnen • along tti- rn
—of such ‘doth’ as being guilty of such
practices?”
“We do not wish to," she said :fiowly, I
with a sinister smile, “but there is nothing '
like being pr< pared--pn pare tor war
times ol peace is our motto front now on?"
1 shuddered at the thought of such an ,
exjxisition as she seemed to threaten. Sh-‘ |
seenn d to read my thoughts and became 1
more ehe rful, as she said:
“As old as you are you don’t entirely
know tlie world as yet. As wicked as my :
class of females are reckoned, tn, re is a j
more dangerous class to society. The |
world knows us. We sail under our true ■
colors and the good can avoid a contact
with us. But—"
Here the wicked woman ran her finger
along a column of names in her ledger and
asked nt to look, but 1 refused to look
and I. Hl ever refuse to attach any credit
to the stories I heard at the Headquarters
ot ims, un strangest of all the societies,
but there is iii) harm to state in a general :
way that these women claim to have many i
men and women “spotted" who are sailm; I
high in good circles. These, they claim. I
shielded by a cloak of respectability, are ,
■ ,he inn< cent, and that it is of
such that the world should be alarmed the j
most just at this particular time.
, >i..s giau tu return to the ire«h air of I
tlie street and to Brown, who waited for I
nt.- outsid . Nothing would do Br >wn but
that we must learn more of this loathsome |
locality. To lie ignorant of such places is |
*.:>)•• !>. id's-;, b it yet, I think, that could all ■
such places of slum and infamy be pie- I
i.,. i io the wur<d just as lacy are. it
would caus all youthful souls to shun
them as it, II itself is shunned. In such lo
calities one sees human nature at its worst,
infamy in all its abandon ami poverty in
all its distress is found there. Ch ldho<xl
as cunning as the serp tit, and old age
as hope Fess as satan eke out a miserable
existence there. The story that some of
th- older ones tell of their lives, of their
fall and of their hopes for the future Is
strange and pathetic, and to look ppon the
young inhabitants and contemplate their
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G. L. McCRARY, Helena, Ala.
prospects is a picture of horrors hot
These poor worn it stand impest he
one of them could put their words. . ■
the "gentlemen" who debauched
be believed. Nobody believes anytl f
they might say -1 do not believe then
their life is a lie. But yet may it not be
possible to draw a lesson from the stones
of these unfortunates whereby s ‘ ,n ’''' h ‘ v
of a remedy may be approached. You may
take them as 1 did-like witnesses unthr
rule, as it were—and 95 per cent of them
will make man infamous anu res l ,jn^ “” f
fur their downfall. It is oftenest a -dory o
loving too well that these women relate—
“l loved, I trusted, 1 fell!"
| This is about the story of a ,nft ; or F ,t '’
but let us go among them and 1 will K*'' e
I you the story of a different class to tne
■■ "loving too well” class, and 1 will give it
. to you in as near their own words as I pos-
I sibiy can. .
| The first witness is one who does not look
I so hardened as her surroundings. She looks
! as if that at some time in her life she
' might have knelt beside some good mother
I and said her prayers. I don’t know why I
! feel thus toward this woman, for she has
; just uttered a terrible oath and given a
! youngster with a cigarette stump in h;s
I mouth a backhanded slap that sent him
! reeling—but hear her:
"1 was a sewing woman.”
“Yes,” said I.
"I lugged and tugged through winter’s
! cold ami summer's heat the garments to
I Ih- made. Often I have carried such loads
■ to an 1 from home that I would almost faint
| upon the way. But no one would piiy me.
! If a button-hole chanced to be a little
I wrong I was docked out of all proportion
I to my wages. If my stitches were a little
I long they were severely criticised and I
i was docked again. Altogether, with the
i sorry wages and the knock-offs, I was
I starving- starving by degrees. Day by day
' I grew weaker, grew’ despondent, grew tjes
| perate, anil vile men took advantage of my
i desperation to tempt me on to
’ sin and misery. A bad man with
| plenty of money is a poor starving wo
man’s curse.”
1 shall only put one other of these in
mates upon the stand. She is quite young—
seventeen, I should say—but how hardened
she does look! She was pretty once though.
I know it by iter mouth ami hair and her
big blue eyes, but how swollen and blood
shot now. How sail many of us should feel
if this girl's story be true. We won't believe
her, but We can hear her in her own way.
"1 was rais'd out o’ sight.” said she. as
she tossed her skirts in an abandoned twirl.
“Don’t get slangy,” I suggested.
"Slangy?” said she. with a hideous laugh.
“No slang about that. I talked that way
when I was a prize Sunday school scholar.
Yes, I was a Sunday school scholar. I col
lected more to buy the new organ than any
other girl, but. alas, I wish 1 never had.
It was a great rivalry. I beat, but look at
me now?”
The young girl ceased speaking f< r a
moment and looked upo’t her rob-s with an
air of absolute contempt. She soon recov
ered .and went on:
“First I was very bashful. I could only
approach the most familiar friends, and
them blushing!. . I outlived that period.
Soon I could boldly approach an.v one I
happened to see. Aft«-r awhih- I sold k sses
for $1 a kiss—only in fun. to my best friends
at lirst. l>ut after so long a time I sold them
to any one who would pay me. till at last
my kisses were not worth a nick'd a thou
sand. 1 was lost an<l now the dogs are
better than me!”
I hope this letter will not appear harsh
to the reader, but if it takes sone Flting
harsh to put the good people to thinking as
to the trend of the times, then let us be
harsh. I like to look upon the high steeples
anil grand churches, built to the glory of
God, but when 1 contemplate the result
that may follow from methods resorted to
to build these structures anil ta keep up
the style connected with them I almost
shudder. As wicked a« I am. and as much
whisky as Brown is known to drink, we
have faith in the good Lon! to believe that
no such metnods are necessary to glorify
Him. I feel and Brown f'els that
If God’s so great—as well we know He is—
lie can provide—He <-an take care of His.
SARGE I’IM NKETT.
The victory of Dr. Price's Baking Powder
at the Chicago and Midwinter fairs is a
legitimate triumph for the b st boon ever
given to the housewives of this country.
AA EAGl.lSil COLONY
'J hat AA’HI Probably Nettle in Sumter
Con nty.
Amerb'UZ, . Nov tflber 22. <S;»*ci ij.>—
! Th)' eyes of foreigners as well as of people
i of the north ami west are turning towards
' the southlaml. and from the crowded cen
i ters of th-- old world and of the new they
■ are com'.ng hither. Thousands of settlers
i will loc Lte in the south within the next
i year, and southwest Georgia must get its
j share of these thriftv p • ->p! . The tide at
I last has been tutned this way. and soon
I the waste places will be eonverted into
1 green fields, while orchards and vineyards
; will surround the pretty new heme of the
i strangi r.
I In proof of this, a letter was received
' here a day or two ago from a gentb-man
living in the north of England, making it:-
quirn s as to the pri< of lands, the cli
mate. crops raised etc. H- -"at- <! that h •
h:.il h> ard mm i of the adv'nt : ies of south
west G)*orgia. and if ail the con-.i’tions were
I favorable, < esirt d to come here. He s.-t 1
j fuith I'nioi’)- that 2')-i of hi- frienls a.,-'
I neighbors v culd come with him.
Thev desire to purchase a tract of good
I farming land -about .ier-. s. am! settle
|an English colony >■ r.- Yll are thrifty
| farmers, ho says, and will prov* :'n aequisl
| tion to any eemmunity.
j Parties here a:e a'eea iv inte:< tin-g them
j selves In th- matter, 'ml prives ami <i>-
I tailed descriptions of several ’.:rg-* and for
j tile tracts of land in Sumter - ounty will
be sent to tlie Englishman this we >k. South
west Georgia would suit these people, ami
if they are really disi»ose<l to come every
inducement will be offered them to locate
near Americus.
S(<-v «-um<»h’m Daughter Dj i-tg.
Asheville. N. C., November 21. Miss
Mary L. Stevenson, daughter of the vice
president, is no better today, ami hop- of
her ultimate recovers’ nas been about
given up.
Fretting I
Thin I
is often equivalent to ■
getting ill- If loss of flesh ■
can be arrested and dis- ■
“se baffled the ‘‘weak I
• spots” in the system are I
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Scott’s Emulsion I
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