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FAMOUS FINANCIERS, How the Gig-antic Wealth ot the Rothschilds Was Founded. Frankfort-on-the-Main, With Its Pictures and Peculiar Architecture. The Founder of the House, and Where He Lived as a Shopkeeper. Money Hid From the French Troops in the Cellar of a Miserable House. ■ My summer wanderings have brought tne to the rich old town of Frankfort on-the-Miin, says a writer in the Kan sas City Times, a place which a few years ago was a sort of exchange coun ter for ail Europe. Many capitalists have however, gone to Berlin and to Paris, hence Frankfort is now more of a commercial than a financial center. Nor is it so aristocratic a city as former ly, although quite as celebrated; and, moreover, it bears the stamp of genuine antiquity about it, though hardly enough to show its age, for it was founded 1.100 years airo. It is a well built town, borders along the river Main and was started, as I have fre quently heard, by Charlemague. That, however, was in the days when the tidfl of French success flowed northward from Paris, and it may be pertinent to the subject of my letter to remark that th« very name of this place was de rived from the ford which the FraiiKs established across the Main in 7 1 J.). There is no need of my taking up all the historical dates that have occurred since that year. It is enough to say that in 1147 Frankfort became the town "where German emperors were elected, and in 150-2 the place where they were crowned; that in mtdiffival ages strong fortifications and stout towers surrounded the town and pro tected its citizens from the robber ; knights of the Taunus and other enemies, and that its importance as a commercial town dates from the twelfth •century. There used to be two fairs held there annually— one at Easter, the other in autumn, each lasting three weeks— and these fairs were the foun dation of the wealth of Frankfort. The attendance at them was something enormous; as. for instance, there were more than 40,000 foreign merchants present at the autumn on** of 17SS. Then perpetual wars began to hurt business, j and later on railways and telegraph lines made these fairs a superfluity. The leather market aiouo has kept up a certain importance ABOUT THE CITY. A very good idea of the topography of this city can bo obtained lrom the top of the old cathedraL Its configura tion is oval. On one side flows' the river and on the other are fine man sions with prettily laid out gardens, while in the center are hotels and old blocks of houses. To-day Frankfort Jias neither ditches, ramparts nor Gothic edifices. Indeed, there is little I or nothing about it that bears unmis takable marks of ehevalresque origin. It long since dispensed with most of its old garments and dressed up in modern babilainents. It has done away with all its ogives, the trefoils of old balconies, grinning figures carved on . oaken joists and ratters, Gothic arched windows, ele gant lace-worked pediments, fluted pil lais with exquisitely curved capitals, and all on account of the straight and regular lines imposed by modern architecture. Pretentious palaces have given way to business houses, and in the public promenades grace has taken the place of the grandiose. The streets of the old city are. as a rule, narrow and Bomber, but the newer thorough fares are wide and well paved. Here and there I have come across a house, with some Gothic sculptures, but these, 1 am told, are the only traces left of the ancient characteristics of the place. .There are perhaps 170,000 inhabitants in Frankfort, of whom a little more than lo;>.oo0 aro Protestants, 47,0(.'0 are Catholics and about 20.000 are Hebrews. Luxury seems to be general here, and is, I suppose, a natural couse ♦juenceof the position of its citizens The people have made an industry, so to speak, of exchange and speculation, everything being an object of sale, even kindness and good nature having their tariff, and must be paid for in gold or silver. Long ago was the time when Frank fort was a free city where two magis trates held supreme power, and the sen ate was composed of a dozen bankers. Napoleon was the first to take away its privileges and form a grand duchy of Frankfort, over which he appointed a favorite, the Archbishop of Mayence, as ruler. The allied powers turned man and master out of office, and the Ger man diet came to reside hi Frankfort. Plenipotentiaries and agents from the various European courts came here to decide questions of peace or war, no fewer than thirty-four German sover eigns from free towns and the kings of Denmark and Holland sending repre sentatives. Then one One day in 1866 a body of Prussian troops came along, captured the place, made the cit izens pay contributions, and in October of that j c ir a proclamation was read in the Homer declaring Frankfort a Prus sian city. That settled the free-town idea for Ell time to come, her sovereign mayor became a simple burgomaster, and ever since then she has been en joying financial and commercial pros perity. Just now I mentioned the Komer. It is an ancient edifice, situa ted on the place of the same name, was built in 1410 for a town hall, and is still used for that purpose. Formerly it •was the scene of coronations. There are some finely vaultou halls in the Komer. On the first floor is the Kaisersaal, where the newly crowned emperor used to dine with the •seven electors; and from the balcony he presented himself to the people 'who were being regaled w.ith bread, meat and wine. The portraits of fifty-two German emperors hang on the walls, but as paintings they are without great merit. Close by the imperial hall is- the "Wall I/I miner, where tho electors held the first deliberation relative to the choice of a new emperor. In a room ad joining is an old German inscription re ferring to judicial sentences, which I recommend to all men and women. It reads: "The tale of one man is but half a tale— in fairness you must hear what both sides have to say." I Hi; TOMB OF GUKTHEB. The dom, or cathedral, is but a short Instance from the Homer, and I went into it to 5-eiJ the tomb of Gunther. He was a hero, born in 1304. Here his brilliant voutu was passed, and then suddenly the great man awoke. Ger many was a prey to the incessant en croachments of the popes; each day they opposed the authority of legitimate j sovereigns; their vengeful thunder bolts were confined to the Vatican, and their resistance was long and terrible. Well, the emperor had just departed this life, and the pontifical power no longer disguised its designs, but marched on toward the throne, and would have seized all scepters. The confusion and peril were so imminent that the crown of the German Empire was offered to Frederic, Margrave of Misnia, and to Edward, king of Eng land, but both refused to involve them selves in the matter, fearing to com promise the security of their own do minions if they united under their laws the debris of a scattered empire. In this extremity the people turned to Gunther as to one whose genius would alone disperse the storm-clouds. In him supreme power was vested, and the imperial sceptor got back by his iuuid was bravely "held; but soon the enemies of the public weal found in this hero a man to be dreaded, and so they poisoned him. A long-necked beast with knock knees dragged me in a cab to a part of the town which for a great many years was a black spot in the very center of Frank fort, and that blot which threw such a shadow over the splendor of the city was the Jews' quarter, out of whence came the Rothschilds. I have sent a portrait of the original "Jacobs" of that family. He has on a. cheap coat of many colors, a red wig, beard trimmed like that of a goat, and a long, hooked nova. But there is still enough of Israel left in the Oarons of to-day for them to stand by the Jews of yesterday. And why shouldn't they be proud of him, for he was an honest man. even though of vulgar extraction? Let me tell you the genesis of this famous family. Maier . Amschel Rothschild was born at No. 14S in the Jews' street of Frankfort, and, like his father, was a shopkeeper and tradesman. lie had the good fortune to become acquainted with William IX. Landgrave of Hesse- Cassel — the same who sold 20.000 Hessians as soldiers to the English to fight our forefathers, and he received the sum of 100 thalers (800 shillings) for i-ach man. In 1806 William IX was forced by Napoleon to flee in haste from Cassel, and. as he had known Amschel Rotheschild many years, he placed sev-, oral millions of florins in his charge, with permission to employ the money lor his own speculations until the French troops should leave CasseL UK HID THE MONEY. Rothschild hid the money in the cell ar of his miserable homo in the Jews' street, where the French, who were at that time masters of Frankfort, never thought of looking for such riches. As soon as they had left Frankfort lie be gan to speculate with the landgrave's money,- and all his undertakings suc ceeded in a marvelous manner. In 1812 he died, and when in ISIS William IX returned to Cassel he received from the live sons of Amschel the whole of the capital which had been confided to their father and two per cent interest for the time lie had speculated with it. The five sons of Rothschild already pos sessed at that time a fortune of many million florins, and they founded bank ing houses in London, Paris, Vienna and Naples. At 20 Borne street (for merly Judengasse) is the old family house of the Rothschilds. The widow of Maier Amschel never left it. and died there in 1849, aired ninety-six years. The Jews' street, when I first visited it a dozen year.-, ago. consisted of two rows of houses, but it has been almost entirely rebuilt since. The first histori cal mention of Jewish inhabitants of Frankfort dates back to 1240, and the massacres of them, usual in the middle ages, took place in this city from time to time. The worst massacre was in 1848, when all were killed or chased away, and for a long time there was not a Jew to be seen in the whole town. But in 14.">S the number of Jews in it had increased in such a manner that the council resolved to build a new street, in which all the Jewish families wen; forced to settle. This narrow street was separated from the Christian quar ters by high stone walls, and two nar row gates and a little door, formed the only means of communication between them. Every evening, and also Nun days, holidays and on all festivals given by the city, the gates were closed and a heavy penalty was inflicted on every Jew who ventured to leave the street in spite of the prohibition. The Jews' street was several times quite, or in great part, destroyed by fire. The houses which are now in existence date from 1711 and 17'.»:i, and stand in streets that are dirty and smoky. The houses have tottering, shaking eaves, and there is a state of ruin about the.m more fit for the haunts of unclean bcasi6 than for human habitations. From out the grimy windows, narrow as loopholes, haggard, withered laces looked out on me, and, were it not for the gleam of av arice in their faces. 1 might have thought they were those of corpses. Old women with anxious looks confronted me like living images of Shakespeare's witches, as they sat on the doorsteps presiding over the eternal traffic in faded aid spotted rags in which they deal. Tie husbands and sons of these matroi.s have striking features of resemblance; all the sinister faces seem to have been cast in the same mold, and they are the impersonation of astuteness. Both men and women are alike consumed with a thirst for gold; the precious yel low metal is their master, their dream, their god, their heaven in this world and the one to come. Still, oven among this strange type of the human face divine, I came across two young girls who had sweet faces. They had black eyes fringed with long ebony lashes, their complexion was of a warm brown color, there was a mixture of. wildness and timidity in their faces, and I thought them worthy sisters of Ruth or Bachael. LEFT UNIMPROVED. This quarter of the town has been but lightly touched by progressive civ ilization and it seems to rest under the anathema that so lone ago was hurled at the people of Juuea. Here, completely isolated, as if they were lepers turned out by the priests of old from among their fellowmen, these sons of Israel live among themselves, by themselves and for themselves. Through the cent uries that have passed they have ever remained a distinct race, strangers among the people with whom they live, making to themselves a law of their sol itude. Such are the Jews of Frankfort. Yet, strange to say, outside this quarter one meets all over Frankfort and with the prestige of large fortunes attaching to them persons who are un doubtedly Hebrews also, How comes it then that a distinct class of their co religionists should dwell in such disas | trous isolation, while they live in I luxury and hobnob with the highest born? Can it lie in the innate and re pulsive sentiment which separates Is-, raelites from Christians, the old haired that dates from the day when the voice of the Man God addressed all the peoples of the earth in the sublime words, '"Love one another." words of | holy alliance which the Jews alone re- used to hoar? 1 have said that the capitalists, or rather the stock exchange people, have largely taken themselves to Berlin, but many rich bankers still reside in Frank- I fort. The future of this city is entirely j commercial and industrial. It is bound I to be the great receiving and storage ! house of the southwestern part of the empire, although it will always have a big rival in Mannheim. In recent years the Badoise city on the Rhine has taken rapid strides, and she has built some fine warehouses. Still Frankfort is preparing for the struggle, and the im j perial government is helping her Iby building barracks and mag | nificent railway stations. Millions lof marks have been spent in im proving the river Main and in construct ing docks worthy of the town. The depot is. 1 believe, the largest on the continent. It cost a great deal of money; eighteen different railway lines enter it, and it is the best arranged depot I ever saw anywhere. The open ing of the St. Got hard railway through the Alps was an immense benefit to Frankfort, it is about 305 miles from here to Milan, nevertheless it costs less than 12.50 to send a ton of freight that distance. There are men in Frankfort who own large steamers sailing regu larly from Genoa to the East Indies, China, Japan and Spain, and the direct ors of one ot the^e companies tells me that the investment is very profitable. w». COMING OUT. How a "Bud" Makes Her Debut and What Follows It. Philadelphia North American. The season for dances has begun, and every young girl who has finished school and is able to entertain her friends is expecting to enjoy herself to the utmost when she glides over smooth floors in the arms of some nice young fellow to the entrancing" strains of Strauss and Waldteufel. A young girl who is about to enter society is termed a "bud" because she is an undeveloped blossom, even more attractive to many than the full-fledged society girl who has had experience oi worldly things ' THE SAEnT PA VI, JOAXtjiL GLOBE; 'MO^IjLY MORIONG, JJ KUAI*Y 6, 1890. sained by going through a couple of seasons. :• .-. . . The first duty of a bud Is to have a tea, to which all her father's and moth er's friends, as well as her.own, should be invited, and then she is really started on her social career. Teas are rather tame affairs, not only because the ice cream, wafers and coffee are insufficient to satisfy the hunger of the sterner sex, who prefer when they go out to have something substantial if no dancing is in order, but because the attractive girls who are not receiving are apt to decline being present if there is another en gagement of a more important charac ter scheduled for the same evening. The tea, however, is a highly necessary event, and it is a cheap way of paying of any number of social obligations. At her first tea the bud always looks charming in her attractive white garb, ami her cousins or school friends who assist her in making the affair pass off pleasantly, are particularly anxious to call attention to her good looks as they beam over lingo corsage bouquets and endeavor to prove even more attractive themselves. After the tea. when the you girl has been flattered by the attention she has received, and has been called upon by young men, and older ones, who have had more experience in address ing compliments to the fair sex, she is ready for balls, germans and dancing classes, and if she has any personal charms, and knows how to sway her form in time to waltz, polka, yorki\ Berlin, Danish dance ormilitaire scbottische music, she is sure to have a good time. Even if she knows but few people, others are sure to solicit an in troduction from her chaperon or other attendant, and her dance will soon be engaged. The first season of a young girl is for her a delightful existence. Alas, that it is so quickly gone. ««»- LA, GRIPPE IS KING. The Heavy Cold Attacks People in All Stations. London, Jan. s.— The Marquis of Salisbury, who has been sick with in fluenza, is making favorable progress toward recovery. There are many cases of influenza in the hospitals here, but there are no signs of a rapid spread of the epidemic. At Colchester the troops an lamely affected. Pauls. Jan s.— There were 427 deaths in this city yesterday. Beli,ix, Jan. s.— The influenza is spreading in the provinces. Business is partially suspended, and in many places the school houses have been converted into hospitals, Here Patow, formerly minister of finance, has died from in flammation of the lungs. Madrid. Jan. s.— The young king is ailing. The infanta Isabel is suffering from influenza. Baltimore:, Jan. s.— Over half the students at JohusHopkins university are nearly sneezing their heads off. Several days ago tne grip visited them and it has been steadily increasing until now. A special from Charleston, W. Va.. says that Henry 1). Winkler, a banker of that place, died this morning of the grippe. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. s.— Dr. George Wagoner, local member of the state board of health, says there are 400 to 500 cases of influenza in Johnstown. NEW Yoke, Jan. s.— Nine deaths from la grippe were reported to the cor oner's office to-day. Baltimore, Jan. The fast death that has occurred in Baltimore tracea ble to la grippe occurred this afternoon. John Benedict Kissner, a cat pet weaver living at 1019 Bank street, contracted a heavy cold in the head Dec. 27. It extended to the chest and pneumonia was developed, and he died this after noon. London, Jan. ' 6.-<riiree members of" parliament are suffering from influenza. A large number of clerks in warehouses here are on the sick list. There has been a serious outbreak of the disease in Lincolnshire. Most of the victims are children. The registrar has decided nut to issue official statistics of the epi demic at present. Vienna, Jan. s.— Many of the friendly societies in this city are suspending or curtailing payments in consequence of the heavy calls made upon them by vic tims of the influenza. London, Jan. The United States steamer Enterprise has arrived at Ply mouth. The majority of the officers and crew have influenza. Six of the crew have been sent to the naval hos pital. -o»- FILTHY AND NAKED. Terrible State of Affairs at an Illinois AlinsSiou.se. Chicago, Jan. s.— Tiie reports of the horrible treatment of insane women in the Dv Page county almshouso are de clared in an official statement to Gov. Fifer to-night to be well founded. The statement is signed by Dr. F. 11. Wines and Rev. C. G. Trues dail, both members of the state board of charities. The women were covered I with tilth, naked and ate off the reeking I floor. When bathed at all it was by male attendants, and at night the women's cells were left unlocked, ex posing them to the danger of criminal assault from men about ttie place. The two women thus treated were in corrigiole, and to this fact and the ignorance and carelessness of the keeper the report attributes the disgrace. Both women have been removed to the state asylum, and the re port recommends legislation to give the state board of charities jurisdiction over the county authorities in such cases. One of the women was insane when a dozen years ago she arrived from Ger many. A law is recommended to the legislature giving the state board power to return such patients to the place from which they came. Biff Strike Haded. Evansvii.le, Jnd.. Jan. s.— The con ference between President Mackey and the committee from Evansville & Terre Haute, from the Evansville & Indiansville, the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis and the P. D. & E. roads, comprising the Mackey system, came to an agreement at 10 o'clock to-night, and the men will return to work at 7 o'clock. The details of the compromise are not known further than that Master of Transportiou 11 will be retained in his position. '■* Sweetness in the Honeymoon, America. Bride — Are there many tunnels on this railroad, Charley, dear? Bridegroom— Quite a number, dearest. j selected it on purpose. If 1 remember lightly we are coming to one in a few moments. Brakeman (entering)— your partuers for the tunnel, please. Not an Actionable Libel. Sew York Truth. Young Curate (on a parochial visit)— You go to Sunday school, little girl? Little Girl— Yetb, thir. Y. C— l hope that the little girls and boys you meet there never do or say anything naughty. L. G. — Well, thir, Bobby Brown said yesterday that Billy Thomas was a d— v fool, but the* he ith, you know. Sagasta's Cabinet. M adrid, Jan. s.— lt is expected that Senor Sagasta's new cabinet will much resemble the last one. Only three or four changes are looked for. m Part of Oar Navy. London, Jan. The American squadron of evolution has arrived at Gibraltar from Tangier. . All Afraid of Cornell. Boston, . Jan. s.— Harvard has de clined to row Cornell university at New London in June. Who Can Help Loving Such a Girl? Epoch. When you truly and devoutly love a girl who is as rich as she is pretty, it's very hard to take no for an answer. MINNEAPOLIS. FLOUR CITY SABBATH r<>ut iiiu< •! Front Third Page. of it, and surely we shall receive our reward. Rev. Dr. Wright then followed with a statement of the cost of the building, " etc. lie stated that tho building cost r $14,500, and the grounds, frescoing, etc., £5,825 more, making a total of 320, --425; 8425 of this lie had paid and he de clared his willingness to contribute -one-" i fourth of what remained. Hew John" Stafford then spoke upon the same sub ject, and announced that cards with amounts left blank would be passed around, and each one could contribute as much as he could afford. This was accordingly done and the services closed with prayer. j : A NATURAL. ANTAGONISM. ; Antipathy Between the Church; and the World. ■ At the Church of Christ yesterday morning Rev. W. J. Lnainon spoke 1 up on the "Antipathy Between the Church and the World. lie took for his text: "They have called the master of tho house Beelzebub, how much more they of his household?" "Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you." and said: "Antipathy to Christ was a fact. They called him the Nazarene, Beelze bub, the prince of the demons. They despised, rejected and crucified him. The apostles were persecuted; Paul was called a babbler by the Greeks; by the Jews he was scourged; he was stoned by the idolaters. Most of the apostles suffered martyrdom ; the early Christians bitterly persecuted. In the Paris collections there are coins that were struck by Roman emperors to sig nify the destruction of Christianity; Jupiter, the Thunderer, is hurling his bolts at a kneeling form with snake-like feet. Through all these centuries the antipathy to Christ has not ceased. The churches are not altogether to blame because the masses do not attend them. The masses are like a mighty sleeping piant; they do not want to be aroused. Christ makes demands which are not pleasing to thelelhenjic, the somnolent, the self-satisfied. Telia drunken man he is drunk and he resents it. The somnolent sinner is insulted by the very church bells. Anarchy curses the church because it breathes the spirit of peace and brotherhood; Agnosticism because it declares much that tin* lofty philosophers have never . found out; Atheism because it is too proud and rebellious to confess and obey the Father whom Jesus revealed. 'Materialism has no faith except in its own linger ends; how could it accord with Christ. Fatal ism Knows nothing but law; how could it agree with love? Mammoiiism lias no faith but greed: the man who is en gaged in nothing else than pulling down his barns and building greater ones dot's not very much love the Divine Be ing who says to him pathetically,"Thou fool." The antagonism between the world and the church is the everlasting war between good and evil; the serpent and the dove have not yet learned to nestle together; a 1 long as a man loves .sin he will hate Christ. There is a radicalism in righteousness that is repugnant to sinful people; nothing short of conver sion can bring the sinner to love the 1 saint. This antipathy is proof that the church is something more than a human society; the carnal mind is enmity against tiod— and His church. There ir. no such antipathy between the world and the social clubs, tho political par ties, the fraternities, and the forms of amusement. Every man who chooses Christ as his ideal shames his willfully wicked neighbor, and so the war goes on. If all were content to wallow in the mire, then all would be dirty alike, and there would be peace. If all would wash and he clean then there would be peace. But all do not wash, all do not wallow, and the contrast, and with it the antipathy continues. Croniuwasa martyr, because he washed his hands of the infamous Catholic Cian-na-(Jael. Christ was crucified becauso he loved what the world hated. The better the church the less it will be liked by some people. Yet it must seek to save these very people. TOWN TOPICS. The thanks of the newspapers arc due to tho Minneapolis churches for tho amount of news which they have been ! supplying to the public of late. First came the announcement of the creation of Bishop McGolrick, and soon after came his [consecration with the preced ing and succeeding presentations, receptions and preparations. The episcopal miter had just nicely settled upon his head -when Bishop Graves was consecrated. Two bishops from Minneapolis, all within one week, was a showering of honors thick and fast. The Catholics and Episcopalians were absorbing all of the public attention, so the Baptists re solved to get in their work. Dr. Mac- Laurin and his parishioners held a meeting which was not exactly a love feast, and the excitement attending that has not yet died out. It may be that it will end with pistols and coffee for two or more probably with a war of claymores, with the bagpipe sounding the slogan of war. Before tho smoke of the battle in Immanucl church had cleared away Dr. Hoj t descended upon the city in his "short, sharp, de cisive way, and there you are. Go lightly Morrill and his brothers are preparing for a campaign, and they will no doubt he heard from ere many suns have sunk behind the motor line. .' * ; : ■■■»•■ Capt. Dan Day started a hospital yes terday afternoon at the central police station. The houseless, homeless and unfortunates began sifting in through the cracks in the doors before the moon rose o'er the city, and when Lieut. Tom Coskran arrived the captain had col lected a nucleus for a rival lof St. Barnabas. There were three men down in the tramp room who claimed to be ill. Capt. Day claims to be something of a physician, and when Dr. Matchon could find no symptoms of illness about one of the men Day said: "Wait till morning. I know where there's a goat, an external application of whom will cure that fellow." An other complains of his stomach, and this •. morning the captain will perform a del icate operation on him by means of a lumberman's lancet, alias ax. Tho other man. Capt. Day thinks, can be brought around by a strenuous applica tion of oak-plank salve. *-. , ' w * « There was a sound of revelry by night around the city lock-up yesterday, only it was in tho afternoon. A man had been hauled in Saturday night in com pany with a violin, and Sunday after noon his instrument divine was 'sent in to him. The way he awoke the echoes and the other prisoners was a caution. "Black-E>ed Susan," "My Mother." "Where Did You Get Thzi Hat" and "The Wind That Sha es the Bar- Icy" were rolled off in rapid succession. The city mission workers strolled In just as he was In the midst of "Chippie, Get Your Hair Cut," and an abstracted mood, He never "'no ticed the mission people. They tried to get in a few body blows on him, but failed to reach him. The end of that round came, chippie's hair was cut off short, as it always is, and before the successor of Ole Bull could get away, the mission people gave him one in the wind, and he dropped. Ere he could re- ! cover, however, "Holy Fount, with Mercy Flowing' held the boards, and he had lost. But he pricked up courage later, and not for many a year has the lock-up seen such a hilarious night as that of yesterday. * • "Dearest, turn not thus from me! Me very .•-out is on fire with love for your adorable self! Ah! ■ Gwendoline -Gil- : hooley. you once told me that you loved me. Why, why has your love become, likf- unto a Dakota winter?" Passionately spotce Matthew McSwil- Hgau and as lie knelt before the haughty Kast side beauty his four dollar trowsers were strained to the point of dissolution ..while his voice, vibrating with anguish* disturbed tho slumbering fishes of tho Mississippi. ""-.• "Mr. McSwilligan," and Gwendoline Gilhooley-s tones were firm, clear aud as hard as tho ico St. Paul long* d for; "leave nic and never let me look upon your face again. I loved you once, but yon are unworthy ot a Minneapolis girl's untarnished affection." "But why. Gwendoline, \vh— ? Gwendoline swept toward the door. With her hand on the knob she turned and though it might kill her she did it: "You've been -caught by a McGinty 'frag:.' " she said, and was gone. Do you blame her? AMDS R MB Stetson's Double Spectacular Uncle Tom's Cabin opened at the Pence to * very large audience last evening. It is really the strongest Uncle Tom show here of late years. The feature of the show is little Mabel Arlington as Eva, the angel child. She is very pretty and exceedingly bright, and the quartette singing ai.so deserves a word ot praise. They are certainly very sweet singers, and responded to five encores. The two Topsys and two Marks furnished plenty of laughter. Taking all in all, it is a very creditable performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin. To-night Miss Lillian Lewis will ap pear at Harris' theater. Tiie play will be "L' Article 47." As Cora, the Creole, in this play Miss Lewis has achieved unqualified success. An exchange says of her acting: "She is a great artist; . The word great means a vast deal, but Miss Lewis merits the full value of that word. She must be classed among the greatest exponents of the dramatic art. She understands the realism and idealism of the characters she portrays and blends the two with the perfection ot an artist who has in born genius augmented by tho most thorough art-schooling." Miss Lewis' engagement la. of course.the noteworthy dramatic event of the week, for not only is she herself an artiste of dis tinguished ability, but her supporting company is one of collective and indi vidual excellence. The presentation this company gives of the plays of Miss Lewis' repertoire is complete in every detail. :: : :; With the assistance of Stage Manager Braun, who was busily employed with his assistants at the Grand all day yes terday, Bo'ossy Kiralfy will introduce in "Antjopc" at the Grand to-night, for the lirst time on any stage, a mag nificent and glittering transformation scene representing Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Besides this and four otiuu; transformations. Carmencita, Mile. Paris and Alice Gilbert will ap pear in three distinct different types of dancing. The encasement continues throughout the entire weeK, with a Sat urday matinee.® .Regular prices will prevail. Florence Bindley, the clever little actress and soubrette, opens at the Bijou theater this evening in "Dot." Miss Bindley and hex company made a very favorable impression early in the fall and will doubtless be again greeted by full houses during this engagement, which is for the week._ .v ; George W. Floyd, business manager of the Ivudolph Aronsun Opera com pany, is in the city. Mr. Floyd was for many years tho manager of Nat C. Goodwin. The fust three days at the Grand next, week will be devoted to a revival of "Erminie" ;>nd the last three to the production of "Nadjy," which ran tor over 300 nights at the New York Ca sino. :K-t v: Tho Clumber Concert. The first concert of the Chamber Con cert club will take place to-night at Dyer's, assisted by Lachmund's string orchestra. Among those who will take part are Heinrich Bowel, Carl V. Lach niund, Fritz Schlachter and Earnest Laciiiuund. Miss Laura Dennis will also take part, and 11. S. Woodruff, pianist. The concert consists of eight pieces, and will be a rare musical treat. -^ THE PUtiSK OP TRADE As Shown by Kxchan<;es of the Lending Cities. Bostox, Jan. The following table, compiled from dispatches from the man agers ot the clearing houses in the cities named, shows the gross exchanges for the week ending Jan. 4, IKX). with rates per cent of increase or decrease, as against the similar amounts for the cor responding week a year ago: Amount. Inc. Dec. New York 5776.068.845 10.4 Boston | 124,193,19) 12.U Philadelphia 70. 831.763 2.9 Chicago C(i.G^7,ooo 4.9 St. Louis 18,701.511 3.2 -San Francisco... 1K,!M9.552 1.4 Pittsburj* 14.721. <>7." •-O.G" Baltimore 17.835.97!) US.i' New Orleans... 12,108,588 0.4 .... Cincinnati 12.250,350 7.6 Kansas City 7.SXJ.SO3 7.8 Louisville 7,(i9i,812 7.2 -Providence ti.«:4!,<iOO 13.2 Milwaukee 5.351.0 3.4 .... Minneapolis 4.692,865 0.9 Detroit 4,515.692 ... 3.3 St. Paul 3.593.266 12.1 Omaha ... 3.9 >7,3« l 5.6 Denver 3.947,397 17.4 Cleveland. 4,89 »,8 6 31.1 Columbus :-i,3 '7.* o 18.8 .... Memphis 3.135,393 3.8 Elchmoud v . 2, 8.i,i6.' 45.3 Indianapolis .... 2.861,533 2.'.3 ... Galvcston 1.615,1001 33.61.... Dallas ... 2,352,!»73 135.2 Fort Worth .... 2.0!>t>,335 123.1 .... Peoria .. 1,507.139] 0.2 Duluth 1,050.5*7 •••- 13 4 Hartford 3,379,&61 6.2 St. Joseph 1,5*9.0671 .. ... 4.4 Norfolk B^2,i»-Jl 7.9 New Haven 1.401, 730 0.9 Portland 1,3 "1,761 20.0 .... SDringfield 1.271,493 .... lo.S Worcester 1,278.101 2.1 Wilmington 8-(>.207 20.0 Syracuse .... • 746,413 ....... 15.5 Lowell 712.483 3.* lies Moi ues ..... . 591. 800 24.6 Grand Rapids... 691.3:4 13.7 Wichita 530,995 1.2 Los Angeles 739,506 39.2 Topeka . ;;t>-\:iß."> 21.0 *Buffalo 4.204,704 •Portland: 0r.... 1,654.182 ♦Sioux City 823,174 'Birmingham 810,428 •Seattle 8-19,311 . .. Tacoina... ..... 613.467 "M0ntrea1.. ...... 7,4541,39.1 [ ♦Halifax 1,258.384 .... Total 51,219.220,714 9.9 Outside >'. V..1 443,190.889 9.2! ♦Not included in the totals; no clearing house at this time last year. Mortar-Spotted Skin Accurately describes psoriasis, the second great sUn disease. 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