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RESULT OF THE MUNICIPAL ELEC
TION AT SALT LAKE.
The .Future of ilie Mormon Church
in Tolitics Decisively
Decided.
Claims of Large Majorities Made the the
Anti-Mormon Faction with Cor
responding Jubilance.
The Election Conducted Very Quietly
Despite Preparations for a Eiotous
Time Great Cries of Fraud
Eaised by the Defeated
Mormons A Con
test Certain.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Sigxal Office, "Wiciiita, Kan., Feb.
10. The highest temperature was GO ,
the lowest was 34, and the mean 50,
with warmer cloudless weather, fresh and
brisk southeast to hif;h and brisk south
winds, falling barometer.
Last year on February 10 the highest tem
perature was 50s. the lowest 32 and the
mean 11.
The temperature will fall to about 20
by 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Fijed L. Jonxsoy, Observer.
Wat. Department, Washington. D. C,
Feb. 10. 8 p. m. Forecast until 8 p. m.
Tuesday.
For Kansas Colder, fair, northerly
winds, cold wave.
THE MOEMONS DEFEATED.
Salt Lake's Municipal Election Carried by
the Gentiles.
SALT-LAKE, Utah, Feb. 10. Tho muni
cipal elections in this city, the result of
which is attracting tho attracting the at
tention of the entire country, passed off
quietly today contrary to the general ex
pectation. The city has been crowded for
days with special police, detectives and
"United States marshals, for the purpose of
preventing illegal voting which each party
claimed the other would resort to for the
purposq.of carrying the day. The excite
ment was intense and was participated in
by excited citizens who realized that upon
the result of today's battle depended the
future of the Mormon church as a political
ot conization.
The voting passed off as
quietly as in some hamlet for a
county justice. JOnly fcix arrests were
made for attempting to vote illegally and
these were made without any demonstra
tions from either side. At this hour it is
estimated that the returns at the Liberals
(,Gentilps)headquarters gave them a major
ity of 207 votes.
At 6 o'clock to night Chairman Powers
claimed that the Gentile majoritv will
le.ich 1,400. This however, is denied by
Chairman Richards, who says it is im
possible to say which side Is victorious
until the complete returns have been
counted. The Xlornions claim that "llim
Jlam" and fraud has been the order of tho
day with the Gentiles and if
they are victorious it will
have been by these methods and in this
event the Mormons will contest tho elec
tion in the supremo court of the United
Suites..
The polls closed at G o'clock and the
liberal leaders posted a bulletin In the
windows of the headquarters claiming a
majority of l,-'00. Tup news soon spread
over the city and the Gentiles took posses
sion 6f tho city. Flags were run up.
Every Gentile building in thocitrwas
decorated with flags and lanterns and fire
works were sent up from hundreds of
house tops. Cannons boomed and bonfires
were seen upon every corner and hundreds
of men were in line parading the streets
with drums and torches, shouting like
wild men over thei'r victory. No such
.scenes was ever witnessed in Utah as can
be seen in Salt Lake tonight.
The Mormons remain in doors nnd have
nothing to say on the result except that
the election was carried by fraud and that
they will surely contest it. They admit
iheir defeat, but claim the majority will
not exceed 400. Official returns will not be
in until late.
At 11 o'clock tho official returns from
every precinct in the city but oue gives
George M. Scott (Gentile), for mayor, 1,240
votes, Spencer Clawson (Mormon) 532.
Keturns from this precinct will probably
Mvcll Scott's majority to 850.
THE OFFICES TO BE FILLED.
Salt Lake City. Utah, Feb. 10. The
municipal election today is for mayor, re
corder, treasurer, assistant collector and
marshal of Salt Lake City; also for threo
councilmen and one justice of the peace
for each of the five precincts of the city,
which the new law provides for. The en
tire ticket is to be elected at large. The
old law provides for five aldermen and
i hie councilors elected at large. Previous
to the Ostlen election a year since, the fed
eral court decided that the election should
he conducted under the old law but as to
this one the court decided that it must be
conducted under certain provisions of the
new. A fragment of each enactment will
then govcrn.cousequently it is not unlikely
that litigation will follow after the election
no matter which ticket wins the day.
There are two parties in tho field, the
'People's party," composed chiefly of
Mormons, and tho "Liberal party,"' made
up of anti-Moimons. "The issuer involved
in todav's contesr," sain P. II. Lannon,
proprietor of the Salt Lake Tribune, "are
the go eminent of the city and tho bear
ing which the result of the election will
have upon the territory at large'
A GIRL'S MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.
St. JosEni. Mo., Feb. 10. "Mamma.
Lena has shot herself.' This is what a
little daughter said to her mother as Mrs.
lloberts came, running into the house yes
terday afternoon to find out tho cnue of
the shot she had heard while she was, on
the front veranda. Hurrying uu stairs she
found Lena in n 6leeping room leaning
against the bed. The wrist of her dress
hs on fire. After extinguishing the
flames she placed her in bed. The bullet
was fired from a ,' calibre revolver and
entered her right side and after passing
completely through her body made its
exit near her spine and buried itself in the
wall. Tho wound is mortal. To her
mother Lena would give no explanation
txcept that the shooting was accidental.
The revolver used ,vhs owned by her father
and had been concealed bsneath the iiuit
trets of a bed in a room on the firt floor.
No reason is known why the girl should
Lave attempted fcelf-destructiou. Patrol
man Roberts is her father.
A CASHIER'S ACCOUNTS SHORT.
Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 10. Ellis Bard,
calner of the Lincoln National bank,
this county, is a defaulter to the extent of
f25,000. The peculations have extended
over a considerable period and the money
was ued to assist an Ephrate firm. An
investigation of the bank's affairs isTnow
in progress. No arrests have yet beefi
made.
DIED OF INFLUENZA.
Baltimore. Md., Feb. io. The Rev.
Hugh Francis Griffin died Sunday at St.
Charles college, near Ellisott City, of influ
enza. He was 79 year. old and had re
cently celebrated the. fiftieth anniversary of
Lis elevation to the priesthood.
KANSAS MASTER PLUMBERS.
LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 10 The master
plumbers of Kansas met here today. They
adopted reco!utions condemning the re
port of the government experts who m
tefcticated the causes of the Tracy fke.
ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 10. The Na
tional Electric Light association will con
vene here tomorrow in Us eleventh annual
session at the Coates house. Extensive
preparations have been made for the recep
tion of the delegates. The majority of the
visitors will be brought here in a single
train, known for the occasion as the "Elec
tric Limited." The train left Jersey City
yesterday morning with the eastern and
southern delegates and arrived at Chicago
this evening, picking up en route delegates
all along the way. At Chicago two cars
were added to the train, which will make
the run to this city in fifteen hours. The
attractive features of the convention will
be an exhibit of various electric appliances
and patents and an address by Mr. Edison,
delivered to the convention by his proxy,
the phonograph.
MONTANA'S OBSTRUCTIONISTS
Helena, MonL, Feb. 10. Democratic
State Senator Becker, who was brought
here by the sheriff on Saturday night, was
spirited away by the Democrats last night
on a special train. A dispatch just re
ceived says he crossed the Idaho-Montana
line this morning. All of the Democratic
senators are now out of the state and the
senate is without a quorum. The ques
tion now raised is whether the unsigned
bills passed Saturday night can become
laws. The lieutenant governor is re
quired to sign the bills in "the presence of
the senate. Legal advice will be taken
whether the signature of the president
must be affixed in the presence of a quo
rum. If not the appropriations will be
signed today and sent to the governor.
TOO MUCH FOR THE CONS.
Kansas City-, Mo., Feb. 10. A special
to the Starirom St. Joe savs the entire
force in the employ of the People Street
Railway company struck today. The
strikers number thirty-two and were all
conductors. The cause of their grievance
was that the comnauv instructed them to
use a new cash fare register shaped like a-
couee pot and so designated by them, rue
company gave orders for the men to pre
sent the muzzle of this peculiar contriv
ance to the passenger, who would drop his
nickle in the slot. This the men resented.
No disturbance has occurred. The strik
ers' places have been filled with new men
who use the new register.
INFERNAL INGENUITY
Could scarcely devise more excruciating
tortuiestban those of which you see the
evidences in the face of a rheumatic or
neuralgic sufferer. Tho agonies are the
consequence of nob checking n rheumatic
or neuralgic attack at the outset. Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters has been found by
skillful medical practitioners to possess
not only remedial but defensive efficacy,
where those diseases exist, or a tendency
to them is exhibited. Surely this puissant
but safe botanic medicine, bearing, too,
such high specific sanction, is better than
the poisons often employed, but most un
safe, not only in continuance, but in iso
lated doses. The blood is depurated thor
oughly from the rheumatic virus, and the
nerves, slightly impurged upon, saved from
ultimate and direful throes by this benign,
saving medicine, which likewise exhibits
marked efficacy for malaria, kidney com
plaints, dyspepsia, constipation and liver
complaint.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH-
Promises That Something Will Be Done
For Ireland.
London, Feb. 10. The queen's speech
Avas read at the ministerial dinner tonight.
It opens with a reference to the cordial re
lations existing between her majesty's
government and all foreign countries.
Portugal, it says, has acceded to the re
quest of England in regard to central Afri
ca and the Portuguese government is doing
its best to maintain the friendly relations
that havo always existed between that
country and England. With these en
deavors her majesty's government heartily
co-operates.
Turning to colonial themes her majesty
expresses hopes for cood results from the
federation movement in Australia. In
home legislation Ireland will demand a
prominent place in the attention of parlia
ment. Her majesty is glad to announce a
marked diminution in the amouDt ot
agrarian crime and a decrease iu the num
ber of counties wherein it is necessary to
enforce exceptional provisions of law.
There is a promise to introduce a land pur
chase bill and a local government bill and
other measures for improving the material
interests of Ireland.
Beecham's Pills cure billious and nerv
ous ills.
BLACK "ELAOK CAPS."
A Negress Beaten and Her Child Killed
by Negro Women.
Charleston, S. C, Feb. 10. The follow
ing story comes from Allendale, a hamlet
in Barnwell county, near the scene of the
recent wholesale lynchings: Hattie Fra
zier, a negro woman, and her infant, a
month old, were the victims of a queer
black cap outrage. When the news of the
butchery at Barnwell court house re iched
Allendale Hattie Frazier was one of the
few negroes who did not join in the chorus
of condemnation of that act. Since that
time she received threats but treated them
with scorn. One night last week,
while asleep in her houe she
was aroused by a noise indicating
that some one was trying to set in at the
door. Not suspecting auy thing she went
out with her child m her arms to see what
was the matter. Arriving ht the door she
was seized and dragged away from the
house and subjected to a most brutal
beating. The hnchers were masked and
wbro caps which were all black. After
beating the women nearly to death they
loft her with a warniug that they would
leturn the next night and finish her if she
was found in the neighborhood. After
their departure the woman dragged her
self to the houte and found her child lying
dead on the ground.
Tho next day she identified two
of her assailants. They were negro women
and were at once arrested and locked up.
They turned state's evidence and confessed
the flogging was done by a band of twenty
or thirty negre;ses dressed in male attire
with black masks and caps and who un
dertook to punish their victims for tho
mother's expression of opinion of Barn
well negroes, fate. Upon their testimony
fifteen negro women in the vicinity were
arrested.
Do not take any chances of being potson
ed or burnt to death with liquid stove
polis, paints and enamels in bottles. The
Rising Sun stove polish is safe, odorless,
brilliant, the cheapest and best stove
polish made, and the consumer pays for
no expensive tin or glass package with
every purchase.
ANTI-TRUST SUITS DEFEATED.
St. Lot I-. Mo., Feb. 10. The state has
lost its first suit in the effort to forfeit
charters ot lesident corporations under
the anti-trust law. Among the corpora
tions that did not comply with the secre
tary ot state's order, to make affidavit
disavowing an allegiance to nnv pool or
trust, was the Jennings Heights Land and
Improvement company, and recently a
suit was brought by Circuit Attorney
Glover siskins for a forfeiture of the com
pany's charter. Tho Mi'.t has been defeated.
To create an appatite, and give tone to
the digestive apparatus, use Ayer's Sar
saparilla. SOME CHICAGO BOODLERS FREED.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 10. The five boodle
county commissioners whoe terms at j
Joliet prison expired today were released t
this evening and left the big stone build- 1
iug all nicely dressed and in a happy j
-spirit. A bystander remarked that they i
looked like a party of bank presidents who
had just been through the prison on a lit- j
tie excursion. Tnere had been talk by I
their friends of giving them a grand recep- j
tion on their arrival in Chicago, but the
idea for some unexplained reason was not
carried out. 1
LATHE0PS CRUSADE-
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Both Sides in the Comteiriirm Platts
bnrg follows Suit
Kansas City, Ma, FebTlO. The Times'
Lathrop, Mo:, special says: t The temper
ance crusade goes merrily on. A mass
meeting was held this afternoon to deter
mine in what manner the public regarded
the action of the ladies recently in raiding
the saloons that were doing business can
trary to the provisions of the local option
law. Prominent among those present
were four clergymen, representing as
many different denominations. Resolu
tions were adonted endorsing the course of
action pursned by the women and assuring
them that they would in the future have
the moral and financial support of the cit
izens of the county. The Rev. W. A.
Crouch in speaking to the resolu
tions said that there were certain
occasions when mob law was justifiable.
The raid upon the saloon was one of those
occasions and the women did perfectly
right. If the men of the town did not
have courage enough to enforce the law,
let them stay at home and rock the babies
while their wives carried forward the
work of the crusade.
At this point the announcement was
made from the platform that James Ward,
one of the sufferers by the raid, had been
before the prosecuting attorney and had
an affidavit sworn out for arrest of four
teen women and nine men who
had participated iu the raid,
charging them with riot. This
announcement was received amid
much excitement and the Rev. Pierce,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church
(north) rose to speak. He denounced the
violators of the law and" the officers who
would dare to arrest the -women and said
that when the officers shouIoKave plucked
the feathers from their bodies the women
would be ready to undergo , their punish
ment, intimating that the officers would
be treated to tar and featherSjShould they
attempt to make the arrests.
It is expected tho arrests will be made
tomorrow. In the meantime the excite
ment oyer the situation increases.
A dispatch from Plastsburg, Mo., says:
A crusade has been orgauized among the
the temperance women of this city after
the plan of the Lathrop crusade. About
100 women met today and, after perfecting
an organization, served notice upon Henry
B. Mclntj re, the keeper of a saloon which
is being run in violation of the local option
laws, that if he did not close his place
before next Saturday it would be closed
for him after the Lathrop plan.
Alfcsufferers from blood disorders can
iiBe Ayer's Sarsapaiilla with assurance of
cure.
BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.
London, Feb. 10. The Mark Lane Ex
press in its weekly review of the British
grain trade says: Free deliveries of En
glish wheat caused a slight relapse in
prices, the average lall of the week being
8d. Foreign wheats have a quiet tendency
and are weak. Holders of California are
offering new snipments at 34s 9d, thereby
underselling Australian, which is held at
35s. Flour is steady. Corn is weaker.
Oats, rye. beans and peas are firm. At to
day's market English and forejgn wheats
showed a rather better tone, though with
out a distinct advance in prices. There
was more inquiry for corn.
Gout in most cases first makes itself
known by an acute pain in the joint of
the great toe. This most excruciating
pain may be likened to that produced by
the driving of a wedga tinder the nail. For
gout use Salvation OiL Price Jj cents a
bottle.
"Drink, pretty creature, drink,"1 a little
at a time ot Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and
you will relieve your cold, and not rack
your chest and lungs to pieces, and keep
everybody else in a state of agitation.
Price 25 cents.
SYSTEMATIC THEFT OF SHOES.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 10. A special
from Jefferson City, Mo., says: J. Fred
O'Dellas, foreman of the Jefferson City
Boot and Shoe compay at the penitentiary
here, was arrested today for stealing shoes
from another penitentiary firm. The ar
r'st has made a sensation both on account
of the prominence of the prisoner and the
unusal fact of his committing the theft
within the prisou walls. His peculations
have extended over a considerable length
of time and the amount of goods removed
by him is considerable.
CARR'S KILLING JUSTIFIABLE.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 10. The coro
ner impauelled a jury this morning to in
quire into the killing of Joseph Carr, the
detective who was shot by Ed Findley, the
noted gambler, Saturday e'ening. At the
investigation this evening the evidence
showed that Carr had sustained suspicious
relations with Findloy's wife and that he
made a motion as if to draw his revolver
before Finley fired the fatal shot. On. this
evidence the jury returned a verdict of
justifiable homicide. Finley was released
of $10,00J to await the preliminary hear
ing. Pear's Soap secures a beautiful com
plexion. LOST LIVES IN THE BLIZZARD.
Langdon, N. D., Feb. 10. During the
storm Thursday a Norwegian, name un
known, came to town, filled up on whisk',
and started for home ten miles away. He
never arrived there and is suppose to be
buried under the snow. Saturday another
storm came up and while it was raging
Mrs. William King started to return
home from a neighbor's. She lost ber
way and yesterday was found dead within
twenty rods of the house.
Beecham's Pills .let like magic on a
weak stomach.
A SUDDEN COLLAPSE.
North Dakota's House Kills the Lottery
Scheme.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 10. The great
lottery scheme suddenly collapsed today
without a single note of warning. The
friends of the bill in the house moved its
indefinite postponement and carried the
motion. They then advised the senate of
the death of the measure. .
ANOTHER ROAD FOR GOULD.
Kansas City, Mo Feb. 10. The rumor
was current some days aco that Jay
Gould was about to purchase the Kansas
City, Wyandotte & Northern railway, ex
tending from this citv to Beatrice. Color
of truth was given to the rumor today
when S. H. H. Clark, Gould's lieutenant, j
started here on a tour of inspection of the
road. The Northwestern people do not
deny that Mr. Gould has made overtures
for the purchase of the road.
CRONIN BRIBERY CASES.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 10 John Graham,
whose disappearance was reported some
days ago. failed to come into court today
when the case was called against himself
and others, charged with attempted jury
bribing in the Cronin trial. Graham's
bond, amounting to 15.000, was. declared
forfeited.
NEW POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 10. Governor
Francis today appointed Frank Rossell
and Bernard Corrigan to succeed Police i
Commissioners Ferrr and Lillis, whose j
terms expired last Saturday. Rossell is an
attorney at law and Corrigan is a con
tractor, a brother of Tom Corrigan.
DAVIES & CO.'S FINANCES.
New York, Feb. 10. Schedules in the
general assignment of Robert K. Dav.es .k j
Co.. at SOS Broadway, liabilities s7j..a9t
nominal assets $357,115, actual as.ets twQ2,
97S. The actual assets are encumbered
with secured claims amounting to SaLCcS. j
Of the liabilities ;s5M.l.: is due Airs. A. is.
1L Dayies. In the nominal assets are
many old and worthless accounts and
others which are disturbed.
SILKWORM RAISING.
Chief WaSte JJfclks of tfce
man's ChaaoM to TUa Use.
'I have just returned from Europe,"
Baid Chief Walker, of fne newlycreated
silk' division in the department of agri
culture, "-with a reeling machine that
seems likely to accomplish the great
problem the solution of which "will turn
the United States into a gigantio silk
farm. This one difficulty, as things are
now, alone stands in the way of the silk
producing industry in America. So
troublesome and costly is the process of
reeling silk with the contrivances thus far
applied that manufacturers on this side
of the water cannot afford to pay cocoon
raisers here living prices for their prod
uct, if they are to compete successfully
with foreign competition.- For this rea
son comparatively few cocoons are raised
in this country not more than 10,000
pounds in all, probably of which
amount we ourselves buy one-half for
experimental purposes. One fair sized
silk factory can easily consume 100,000
pounds of cocoons in a year. But if this
new machine, just completed after my
own designs on the idea of a French in
ventor, fulfills my expectations, it will
be found to be- practically automatic, so
that, as one might say, the cocoons put
in at one end will come out raw silk at
the other. A contrivance that accom
plishes this will so considerably reduce
the expense of making the raw silk that
American manufacturers can buy co
coons here for materialj instead of im
porting it, in the shape of raw silk, from
Japan and elsewhere aboard, as they do
now. The moment that the cost of pro
ducing rdw silk is brought down a big
per cent, below the foreign market price
of the article, the profits of silk manu-
"facture will rise proportionately, and
the business will jump into activity all
over the country. A corresponding de
mand will, of course, arise for cocoons,
and the market price for cocoons will go
up sufficiently to draw thousands of
fanners into the occupation of raising
them."
"And why tho farmers?'' asked The
Star reporter.
"I should rather say the farm women.
It is to them that the great American
silk manufacturers of the future will
look for their supplies of cocoons. The
production of silk cocoons is an industry
especially adapted to the use and oppor
tunity of farm people. In France each
farmer's wife raises a few pounds of
cocoons every spring, and makes a little
money by selling them; in this way
mainly is the siljf crop grown. Women
of the agricultural class in the United
States are not obliged to work in the
fields as French women are, and thus
they have more time to devote to such a
pursuit. There is a vast amount of waste
female labor in this country, or rather
idleness, that might be turned to labor,
and here is a purpose to which this spare
hen time' might be devoted for six weeks
in the year, at any rate, during tho co
coon raising season. No occupation could
possibly be more easy and agreeable for
a woman than the raising of cocoons,
tuid it will offer a new source of income
to rural wives and daughters, north,
south, east and west, as quickly as this
little mechanical problem is solved. The
machine which I hope embodies"the solu
tion of it is already put together, and the
first trial of it will be made at once."
"But how is a woman to get started in
the silk raising business?"
"Easily enough. Any woman in the
United States who will take the trouble
fc write to us in March of any year, with
a request for silkworm eggs, will be sent
about April 1 a quarter of an ounce of
thqm, or about fhOOO, in a little box. The
eggs will have been kept on ice by us to
prevent hatching, and all the beginner
need do is to put them in a dry place
where they will come out of themselves.
The 0,000 worms' will take up a table
space forty feet square, and the most
convenient way is to put together roughly
a tier of big square shelves for them, one
above the other, with spaces of two feet
between. On these or on ordinary tables,
the worms should be placed and allowed
to feed four or five times a day upon as
many mulberry or osage leaves as they
will consume; no other sort of food will
do. When they are ready to spin their
cocoons, light brush must be put over
them for them to climb up on. Once
spun, the cocoons may be detached from
the brush and thrown into boiling water
for a few seconds to kill the worms in
side; otherwise they would bore out and
spoil the silk. With two ounces of eggs
a year a woman ought to be able to raise
fifty or sixty pounds of cocoons per
annum, hatching the eggs April 15, and
gathering the cocoons June 1. The lat
ter are worth about 1 a pound now; wo
buy most of the cocoons at that rate from
the women whom we supply with eggs.
When the great demand for cocoons ar
lives as it surely will before long 100,
000 women, producing fifty pounds each
per annum, will supply fifty factories
with material for turning out an enor
mous amount of silken fabric." Wash
ington Star.
Horse Flesh as Food.
Our Berlin correspondent writes: Tho
price of beef, mutton and pork has in
creased so much throughout Germany
that hundreds of households of the-small
official class aDd artisans and laborers
cannot afford to see these meats on their
tables. Recourse is now had to horse
flesh, which is mnch cheaper, though
the extra demand has run up the price
of this also. In the month of October
S16 horses were slaughtered in Berlin for
domestic consumption, an increase of 25
Tim- cent, as com Dared with last ear. At I
Koni"sber- a town with about a tenth (
of the inhabitants of Berlin, 330 horses
...,, . . . a .- r,i,i. v, !
went to ids outcners . --;-- ,
increase in the consunipuuu ui Uu 1
neon is cent per ceuu Wmy... u .
last year, and Dortmund follows suit; at J
Cassell it is 00 per cent., and at Bochum .
and Stuttgart it is SO per cent.; at Leip-
sic it is a little over GO per cenL; at
Brunswick and Lubeck it is over 30 per
cent. Tne increase also greatatHam- j
burg and Bremen In the former town ,
the price per pound is now seven pence, j
Loudon Tileraph,
'luUejTnd' Breriir-
Two autograph letters of Talleyrand
have juat been sold in Paris. They were
written to a ladv. the first on the death
of her husband: " ear Madam Alas!
Your devoted TaU-Trandr and the sec
ond on her remarriage " Madam
Bravo! Yourderoted Talleyrand. Sa
Francisco Argonaut.
llis Upper Tenne (as her nrotaer
comts in wearing a hright red necktie)
Oh. I knw you were coming; Iheard it
two blocks off. Detroit Free Press
womes&tMohmaexet
SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR SPECU
LATIONS ON 'CHANGE.
Tho Strange Story of One Wosaa'i Expe
rience DeroUnc Hrr Ufo to the BeeoT
ery of Her Husband's Money, Which She
Lost An Oil Company of Women.
There have been some pretty big fe
male plungers in the oil market at one
time and another. There are still wo
men speculators in most of the oil ex
changes in the region, but there are few,
if any, of the "high rollers" left. Oil
City has had more women speculators
in petroleum than any other town, al-
though at one time Bradford bad a fair
quota. The Globe-Democrat correspond
ent learned today that therp are but
three women who still visit the Oil Ex
change daily and make a regular busi
ness of toyjng with the oily tiger. These
ladies have been familiar figures about
the exchange for several years, and are
all that are left out of several women
speculators.
These ladies do not come on the floor
of the exchange, and are not, in fact,
members, but are in their seats in the
ladies' gallery as soon as the exchange
opens, and remain tolerably regularly
until the close at 3 o'clock inthe after
noon. They deal, of course, entirely
through brokers, a nod being a sufficient
order for a broker to buy or sell 1,000,
5,000 or 10,000 barrels of oil, as the case
may be. It is not often that they go be
yond 'a deal of 1,000 barrels, as the la
dies who are left in the exchange, to put
it in the phraseology of a broker, are
"flying light." With a few exceptions,
'the ladies who have entered tho jungles
of the oily tiger have got tho worst of it.
The three who still cling to tho exchange
are content to deal in 1,000 barrel lots,
and it is not always they can do this.
A number of ladies prominent in the
charitable organizations and in society
here have been successful speculators in
oil, and two or three of them have been
interested in some large deals. They
were not regular habitues of the ex
change, and were frequent visitors to
the gallery, which is open to the public.
All their deals in the market have been
made through brokers. When there was
more activity in tho market than there
is at present it was a universal theme of
fireside gossip. Everybody speculated
in oil, from the minister down to tho
porter in the hotel, and it is no wonder
the ladies fell under the fascinating spell
of the "bull ring," as the pen like place
where the deals are made on 'Change is
called.
During exciting times in the market it
has been discussed quite as much in the
drawing room as in the counting room.
In the system of speculating in oil the
persons of small capital and no capital
at all havo not been overlooked, and the
servant girl is given an opportunity to
"take a flyer in oil" if she is so inclined.
During one big whirl in the market, fol
lowing the collapse of tho Cherry Grove
field, it was well known that a largo
number of servant girls lost their little
bundle along with the big fellows. This
was the most disastrous panic the oil
country ever knew, and it marked to a
great extent the end of speculating by
women. So many of them lost all their
money that only a limited number of
them have had the courage to venture
back into the speculative whirlpool.
The history of one woman's specula
tions in the Oil City exchange i3 curious.
Her husband had been in business in the
oil country for several years and had ac
cumulated considerable property, in all
worth about $1G,000. Ho concluded to
go west, and went to several of the west
ern cities to look around for an invest
ment. Ho had effected a sale of his
property before leaving Oil City, and his
wifo remained behind to settle up some
details, collect payments not yet due
and join him in the west, where they
were to make their future home. The
woman collected the money, and, doubt
less, wishing to carry a pleasant surprise
to her husband, she put the money into
the oil market to "mate a turn." The
turn went the wrong way and she lost.
In the hopeof getting it back she made
other investments, with the usual result
It was not long before she had lost every
dollar of the money that sne was to carry
to her husband. It was somo time before
she ventured to break the news of her
folly to her husband, and this she did
only after he had written repeatedly for
her to come on with the money. At last
she told him thostory of her loss in the
oil market, where she had gone in the
hopo of doubling their money. The hus
band had taken enough money with him
to buy a small farm, and with this he
was contented to begin the business of
money getting over again, but his wife
refused to share his lot until she had re
stored to him the money she had lost.
She declined to go west, but remained in
Oil City in tho hope of recovering her
lost fortune.
This was ten yearsago, and the woman
is still a daily attendant in the gallery of
the Oil Exchange. She has had varying
luck, but has never got enough money
ahead to make good the loss to her hus
band, or anything like it. The Globe
Democrat correspondent was told that in
this time she has several times been re
duced to the extremity of doing the work
of a servant. When she would gt
enough money together to buy a "put"
or a "call" she would again try her luck
in the market. She always dresses in
solemn black, and evidently has but-ope
purpose in life, namely, to recover the
money she foolishly risked in oil and re
store it to her husband.
There is not much likelihood that she j
will ever succeed
Her husband contin-
ues to urge her to abandon her self 1m-
Psed task and join him on bis farm in
the west, but she resolutely refuses to do
Ho has made two or thrte t j
oa tQ prevaiI upon her to gvc up l
tne marjt, ouj 6Qe cannot be snaren
from her purpose. She says she is in it
for the money sha lost or for her life,
She lives in the most frugal manneT,
even when making some money, but tho
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breT Jnakes enoui sapV herself,
0 city fp) 3,r. gL Louis Glob&-
Democrat.
A Hint for Toaa; GlrUu
When your sweetheart cornea to
you, don't be foolish enough to confina
your sweetness to him alone. HaT him
in where all of the rest of the household
are. Let the talk and the chattr and
the music and the playing of games bz
in the home circle. Then the few min
utes that he gets with you by yourself
will seem all the more delighrf ul, and L
will think you the most loving litlJe
creature in the world. Men are much
more observant tkan tccr are jrUtc4
SCHEME!
When in early life we engaged in the dry goods
busines our understanding was that it required the ap
plication of the best business coupled with the highest
integrity to insure ultimate success, but our observation
in later days indicates that just the opposite is used to
catch the public. When a, certain class of dry goods
houses want to get rid of accumulated stuff or old chest
nuts that because of their originally being marked too
high did not sell,the usually resort to some Scheme or
Mysterious Dodge or Gift Enterprise to assist them in
getting rid of the goods they could not sell in a legiti
mate way at fair prices.
One house offers you a chance on the life of a
dog if you will only pay $15.00 for a clock that regularly
sells for $12.00. Another house virtually tells you that
if you will pay them 12 1-2 cents for 10 cent hose they
will give yon a chance at 10 o'clock a. m. (sharp), and
the latest riddle if correctly solved secures you a pair of
gloves.
The ' 'Arcade' 5 is prepared at all times to meet
the legitimate prices of any honorable competitor but
Lottery Schemes and Gift Enterprises we opine have no
place in legitimate business, nor among respectable busi
ness men. Make your own prices and sink or swim on
your merits and the'cArcade" will always meet or beat
any prices you can make.
General Clearing itp Sale this week at "Arcade"
and Special Bargains will be on every counter.
ARCADE
with being, and Uie man worUi having
as a husband is the one who will appre
ciate your love for those of your own
people and will eeo that as you make a
small part in one home, you are becom
ing adapted for the central figuro in an
other. Never say that you don't expect a man
to marry your whole family. It's vul
gar. You do. That is, if you are a good
daughter and a loving sister. You want
him to be one with you in sympathy and
in affection, and as you take his name,
so you assume responsibilities as far as
his people are concerned. You two are
the most to each other your love for
each should be tho greatest, but you can
not isolate yourselves and insist that you
have nb duties outside your own home.
If you do this you become narrow and
selGah, and you are quite too nice a girl
for that. So remember when ho comes,
this bridegroom of yours, that his heart
& bound the tighter to you if tlio ribbon
used to hold it has written upon it in
golden letters, "Love and consideration
for those at home." Ladies' Homo Jour
nal. Truth "ot Always IMeaant.
"Dear friend!" cried the willow, as sho
bent over tho stream, and gazed on her
beautiful form reflected on tho glassy
surface, "how tender and how true you
arel I and the flowers around mo have
not a single charm that i3 not mirrored
on your faithful bosom.'1 And, as the
breeze played gently among her branches,
they bent to the stream and kissed the
placid waters.
Summer passed, and winter; etimmct
and winter; summer and winter; and the
willow grew old. Its leaves were few,
its branches withered, the flowers around
faded.
"How changed you- aref" she cried
peevishly to the stream. "Once I never
looked on you but to rejoice, for all you
showed me was pleasant and fufl of
praise. Now, when I try to bend to
catch a glimpse, I turn away sad and
sorrowful; for what do you bring before
me? Not verdure, not symmetry, not
grace; but bareness, deformity and de
cay. You are greatly changed."
"Foolish willow!" answered the
stream, "I am too true that is my
fault. There is a change, but it is not
in me; but ydu are not the only one that
looks coldly on the truth when it offends
the liking."
A Qnestlon In rhjrlol Culture.
Sweet Little Daughter Papa, isn't
mamma dreadfully strong?
Papa Jo, dear. She's Bmall. you
know. It's your papa that is the ttrong
one of the family.
S. L. D. "But, then, I heard mamma
telling Mrs. Tcllytall last evening thaf
she -could just wind you around her fin
gee, Pittsburg Bulletin.
What ft Backet Shop I.
Tom Say, Jack, wharfs a bucket
shop?
Jack I gues it's where tho brokers
get their buckets to water tho clock
with. Iippincott's.
John Bright' TodMom.
The gravestone which now marks the
last resting place of John Erigbt, in' the
Friends jrraveTard it Rochdale, is re
markable for nearness and simplicity,
and just m keeping witn wnat be coBrcu i
ehould be placed at the head of tho
grave of his late wife. It ia white mar- f
ble, but only two feet eix inebfet tn length
and two feet in breadth, bordered with n
l.n H.MA.A nil vAMnrl ta rtn r JTt Ul(
the lettering ispf plain English charac-1
ters, the wording being: "John Bright.
died March 27, lfcSS. Age, 77 years."
Thi3 simpl record and unadorned tAone
lies honzontallr at the head of the grave.
and soft green graea now covers the re- J
mainder. A tinular ilan ot marnie, 01
the same size, now aarw tho place br
hi3 side where hL laie wifo peacefully
reposes, bearing the Inscription; "Marga
ret Elizabeth Bngot,d:d May 13, lSTg.
Ace, 57 years. New York Tribune.
Jnrerioc At BnrjUry,
For two years past there has been aa
insurance company agauut burglaries,
flouriihing in London. According to th
regular rates you can insure tho contents
of your residence, oc the damage to it
through burglary, or any special article
yoa dsire. Lendcn Letter.
Wonderful.
An Englishman, traveling in Btzrmah,
irivea a lauchablc account of tho aatcni&b-
i ment with which the natives regarded
his air puiow. xue very ignorant, uko
tho very wiso, find plentiful occasion for
wonder in what to people in general eoem
only commonplace object and occur
rences, I began blowing up my air pillow. Tho
Burman nearest my corner, who liad
been watching my preparations for bed
with 6leepy interest, sprang to lifo with
b. start aa he saw the pillow increasing in
bulk, nnd sat upright on his mat,
"Ahmay!" "motlicrl" ho exclaimed.
"He Moung Gyee! Oogyawl Pohgino!"
"Hi, you fellows! Look here! Look,
here, all of you; look at this!"
Slumbered were rapidly awakened by
tho noisy scrambling of tho wakeful
members of tho party; and I was noon
surrounded by a crowd of squatting
figures.
Ko Chaik and hi3 family, roused by
the scramble and tho loudly murnrarcd
"Ahmaysl" as the pillow blowiy swelled,
glided quickly In, by twos and threes,
and by the timo I had screwed up the
nozzlo tho en tiro household and all tho
visitors wero among the audlenco.
"Whafs that for?" atked iloung
Oyee, a little, wizened up nian liko a
dried monkey.
"A pillow for the head," I replied.
"A wind head bag," said iloung Daw,
promptly, and his remark elicited a uni
versal murmur of "Hookbahl lioukbahr
which might bo frrdy translated, "Ah
yes; of course, of course."
The pillow was now gently token from
my knees and passed slowly from hand
to hand, patted and pinched, equeea.-d,'
smelled, tasted and bumped on tho floor.
Eyes were applied to tho nozzle, bat
they could make littlo of that, and afur
the pillow had passed about tho entiro
room, receiving on mnch criticism oa a
new fossil in the hands of a Jfarnod so
ciety, it wan respectfully placed by
Moung Daw at tho top of tho Kpmui
blanket, balanced on one end agaimrt. tho
walL where it continued to receive rilcnt
admiration
"Show us how it isdoBe," wnsthenr-xt
demand.
1 yawned widely, but unerwid tho
top and returned the eurionity to iloung
Daw, who forced out the air in the faces
of his friends, to their great tMU&lacLon
Youth's Companion.
lio Other Ciar baa 8arh a Record aa
Wontlerful Kebom.
Every one u familiar with the phenom
ena of ecboe. In a care la th Pan
theon tiw guide, by etrikiaj; th flap of
his coat, make a doLs topial to a 13
pound cannon's report. Tho singularity
is noticed, In' a &wr dtgrt, la tha
Jfcunznoth cav fn Kentucky. In the
cave of Saellin,pe3X Vifcorg.trt Finland,
a cat or dog thrown in will malta a
screaming tcho, lasting sOBe misutw.
Puny telm of a csve hi Dalraitia where
a ttone toneed in would rais a perfect
norm. Fingain caTc, on the Isim of
ijtaffa, has an abnoraially developed
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