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MISSISSIPPI ITEMS.
Greenwood, Miss., Feb. 17.—The
story ot a typical negro killing affair
comes from a small oommunity in
Tallahatche eoutny. Arthur Arps,
a prosperous colored farmer, suspect
ed that his dnsky spouse was not keep
ing her wifely honor in the straight
» and narrow path and a deaf negro
named Burton Bradford was accused
of figuring as the gay Lothario in the
intrigue. Accordingly, on Sunday
morning Bradford armed himself with
a huge revolver and went' forth to
settle the affair with Ins inamoratais,
husband. On reaching the house he
made a hostile motion toward his gun
and Arps promptly put twenty-two
buckshot into his body. Soveral bul
lets also entered the neck of the un
offending mule wliiolt Bradford was
riding. Arps was arrested but after
wards given his liberty without bail.
Prisoner Insane; Pardon Wanted.
vfnodvilie. Miss., Feb. 16."—A peti
tion lias been prepared for presenta
tion to Governor Longino asking that
a pardon be granted to William Moo
dy, a prisoner who was given a life
sentence in tlie Wilkinson county cir
cuit court last Maroli for murder.
Tiie petition presents a rather unusual
story. Moody is now in the insane
hospital ami the physicians at that in
stitution state that, while lie might
recover and remain sane if allowed
his liberty, yet his return to the peni
tentiary would render him an incura
ble maniac. Alooay is in a bad con
dition pl.ysicially, being completely
broken down in health,and it is assert
ed that he committed the murder
while anting in self-defense.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 17.-rrarming
operations for the ooming crop year
will be actively commenced in Mis
sisisppi within the next two weeks
and muoh speculation is now being
Indulged in concerning the probable
cotton aoreuge.
Careful inquiry has thus far 'ailed
to elioit any satisafetory information
as to whether there is likely to bo a
decrease in cotton aoreage, although
this course has been quite froely pre
dicted by the leading planters and
students of oottoa growing.
The chief ground for the belief that
there will be adecreaso in cotton acre
age this year is the fact that the corn
crop of last season was unusually
short and many small farmers will not
havo sufficient feedstuff to keep the
usual number of work animals in good
condition during the planting and cul
tivating season. This same argument,
however, was advanced about this time
last year, and yet no radical drop ia
acreage resulted.
An enormous amount of corn and
other feedstuff is being shipped into
Misisssippi from the North at pres
ent, and if this condition of affairs can
at any time have an effect on the cot
ton acreago it is sure to do so during
the coming crop season. The assertion
is mado in a current issue of a cotton
planters’ journal that enough oorn has
been brought into Mississippi by the
railroads since the war to buy and pay
for every acre of land in the state,
and, if it were possible to sooure the
aotual figures, the statement would
doubtless be verified.
Meridian, Miss., Feb. 17.—Today
the first annual Carnival and Free
Street Fair of the Meridian Elks
will be opened am in a blaze of
glory. The preparations for the
week’s entertainment have been
made and when the show is formally
opened the people of Meridian and
the territory adjacent thereto will
have an opportunity of enjoying a
solid week of fun aud frolic.
There will be given a reproduction
of Jerusalem of old, a coliseum of
art and temple of inusio, a high dive
by Matt Gray, and a wonderful
triple bar act by Gray and Linsley.
These are only a few of the wonder
ful aud entertaining features to be
seen at the Elks’ Fair all dating the
coming week.
Jack-on, Alias., Fob. 17.—Governor
Longino will not aunounoo (lie list of
Louisiana Purchase Exposition com
missioners until after the adjournment
of the legislature. It is understood
that quite a number of names have
been suggested to the Governor for up
pointment, and he desires to fully
consider the matter before making
the appointments.
Railroad Commission.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 17.—The jail
road commission met in regular
monthly session today. No action
was taken on the Kinoanuon resolu
tion offered at the last session instruct
ing the Attorney-General to institute
proceedings to set aside the consoli
dation of the Mobile & Ohio with the
Southern Railway, and it is likoy that
the matter will be allowed to uie a
natural death.
No Good Roads Legislation.
Jackson, Miss., Fob. 17.—The Dab
ney good roads bill has not yet been
brought up for consideration in tlie
Legislature, although introduced in
the House nearly three weeks ago, and
indications point to the belief that
there will be no good roads legislation
during the present session, notwith
standing the vigorous campaign that
has been waged for the past several
aionth-.
Natchez Wants Encampment.
Natchez, Miss., Feb. 17.—Unless
some more formidable arrival shies a
caster into the ring, it is likely that
the next enompment of the Mississippi
Ntionaal Guard will be held in
Natchez.
Although it is nearly three months
lienee before Jthe National Gnard offic
ers will take up the subject for settle
ment. Natohez is already making a
strong pull to secure the encampment
and the energy with which the na
tional guardsmen of this city iinvo set
about the matter seems to indicate that
their efforts will meet with success.
The commanding officers of the two
military companies located at Natchez
have been in correspondence with the
company officers in other portions of
the state on the subject asking that
they give their support and influence
to Natchez as the next place for the
encampment and many encouraging
replies have been received. Tims far
no other town in tiro state has launch
ed a similar movement and it begins
to look like Natchez will win without
opposition.
It is very unlikely that the plan of
holding regimental encampments will
bo followed this year. The regiment
al plan was adopted last year and
while a success in some respects in
other respects it was very unsatisfac
tory, giving rise to the belief that it
will be abandoned this year and a
general encampment held.
A lively interest is being maintained
throughout t ho state in national
guard matters, and the summer en
oampmeut should prove one of the
most successful ever held. It is very
probable that the legislature will
make an increase over the last bien
nial approprition, thus enabling the
commanding officers to arrange for
an encampment on a more satisfac
tory scale than heretofore.
Legislators Getting Tired.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 17.—the agri
cultural members of the Mississippi
legislature, and they are decidedly in
the majority, are manifesting a very
keen desire to got through with the
work of the session and go home to
Jook after the commencement of farm
ing operations. With many of thermit
is imperative that they should bo at
home within tho next ten days, and
during the present [week it is likely
that the attendance in both houses
will be quite small.
IN PANTOM i A IE.
Prominent Society Women Take
Part.
j Washington, Feb. 17.—Prominent
i ty women cf Chicago, Now York,
. -.liladolphia and Washington, are to
tel' /part in a notable social dramatio
event to ho given at Chase’s Theatre
tonight. A new pantomime by Mrs.
Burton Harrison is to be followed by
a scene from Alexander Dumas’ “Eu
traugers.” .Among those who are to
participate in the affair are Countess
Cassini, Baroness Hengelmuller, Mrs.
Chatfield Taylor of Chioago, Miss
Alice Barney of Philadelphia and
Miss Gjnn of New York.
SENSATIONAL CASE.
Charges and Countercharges ol
Desertion.
Yonkers, N. Y., Fob. 17.—Before
Judge Kellogg, there came up for
hearing today the case of Mrs. Flor
ence Lillienthal against l.er husband.
Captain Lillienthal, the Spanish war
veteran, and son of a millionaire to
bacco dealer of New York City, whom
sho charges with the desertion of her
self and child. Captain Lillienthal
lias prepared to vigorously contest the
oase, filing counter charges fn which
ho asserts that tho desertion has heon
altogether on the part cf his wife.
Democratic leaders, representing
all sections of tile Union, met at a
harmony di ner at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Letters were read from Crover Cleve
land, W. J. Bryan and other repre
sentative Democrats.
i
Ijorri Uruunorue, tue parliamentary
secretary for the foreign odea, ex
plained that whatever Lord l’aunce
fote may have said at the meeting of
diplomats in Washington, April 14,
regarding intervention, expressed
Pauucefote’s individual views and did
not reflect the sentiment of the Brit
ish government.
In the controversy regarding Euro
pean intervention during the Spauinh
American war, interesting develop
ments ore expected, especially with
reference to the events following the
battle of - Manila.
The oom.droller of Chicago, pre
dicted “absolute insolvency and sus
peusion o' the oxerciso of the muni
cipal functions’’ of that city.
The report of the army board has
been made public. Only one medal is
awarded on account of service in the
Cabau campaign, "two in the Chinese
campaign and thirty in the Philippine
war.
A banking trust company with a
I capital of 31,000,000 and a surplus of
! $1,000,000 is being organized at
Chiaago by influential Southern cap
1 italists.
A BIG BANKING
TRUST COMPANY
INTENDED TO GIVE SOUTH A
GREAT INSTITUTION.
CAPITAL IS A MILLION
George S. Gardner, of Laurel
Miss., Is One of the Princi
pal Promoters.
Chicago, Fob. 15.—A banking trust
oompany with a capital of a million
and surplus of a million is being or
ganized by influential Southern capi
talists with a view to giving the
South a banking institution worthy of
its recent groat industrial develop
ment. George S. Gardner, of Laurel,
Miss., is one of the principal movers.
It is underwstood that George Gould
has given orders to lake one million
dollars stock.
The First National Bank of New
York will be the principal Eastern
connection. The looation of the bank
will be in New Orleans. One of the
names considered is the Southern
Trust Company.
UNIQUE BANQUET.
rielanclioiy Program of a Brother
hood’s Sole Survivor.
Philadelphia, Pa,. Feb. 15.—Phila
delphia has boon the scone of many
notadlo banquets, but what is probably
the most unique that has ever taken
plane here is to be held this evening.
Walter W. Boll, an old time news
paper man and the only survivor of the
Last man’s Brotherhood, will stand at
his own table in his own dining-room
alone. Tho table will beset for thirty
three diners. But when aged Mr.
Bell shall lift to his lips the Madeira
wine that lie with thirty-two othorg
bottled just forty-six years ago. there
will rospond to his toast only the
soundless voic93 of thirty-two impal
pable presences. Every other memba
of the brotherhood lias died.
Mr. Boll, whose melancholy fate it
is to respond to 32 toasts to thirty-two
vanished friends, is 450 years old. It
was during the yaars immediately
preceding the civil war that, the play
“Geoffrey Dale, ” was staged hore,
and in one of tho scenes a bottle of
wine was done up in a wicker hamner
and stored awav to be drunk by a last
survivor. The idea was quickly taken
up by thirty-tliroe nowspapar men one
for each Stato of tho Union. The
first meeting was on February 13,
1885. Since toe brotherhood wa8
founded Mr. Boil has never missed
one of tho meetings. Once a year ho
has eaten and drunk and laughed and
jested with the slowly dwindling
j-anks of gooa oomrados who once
swore to become brotliprs to each oth
er for life. ^Eaob banquet lias been
sobarer, sadder than the last. Mr.
Bell considers tonight’s affair so sol
emn an occasion that lie will order no
supper but will confine himself to
drinking to the memories of his dead
frienas.
SOME IMPORTANT
DEVELOPMENTS
London, ^Teb. 15.—Daily develop
ments in the Anglo-Japanese treaty
point to a general suspicion among
Englishmen that the compact is a vir
tual ultimatum to Russia, and the
sternest warning to retire from Man
ohuria. It is believed that the treaty
marks the termination of the hope
that Russia will fulfill , her pledges
and evacuate the Chinese imperial
provinoe unless other than moral
pressure is extorted. Englishmen say
that Russia must abandon Manohuria
or fight, whioh it is believed she will
do, with England and Japan as spon
sors for China.
The question is expected to enter
the sisterhood of civilized nations
which have achieved the rank of world
powers.
A TILDEN^DINNER.
Notable Gathering of Democrats
at Banquet Board.
New York, Feb. 15.—Thero prom
ises to be a gathering of notable Dem
ocrats about the banquet hoard at tlio
Germauia Club-house ’.u Brooklyn to
night. Tlio occasion is a dinner of
the Brooklyn Domocratio club in com
memoration of the birth of Samuel J.
Tildon. Prominent among those who
have accepted invitations to address
the gathering are Bonrke Cockran,
former Governor Pattison of Penn
sylvania, Congressmen DeArmond of
Missouri and Hay of Virginia, and
Edward M. Shepard, late Tammany
candidate for Mayor of Greator New
York.
Overstudy and Suicide.
Providence, R. 1., Feb. 15.—Rich
ard Montague Newton, of Center,
Massachusetts, a student here, crazed
by overstudy, suicided by shooting
himself today.
Will Fight at San Francisco.
New York, Feb. 15.—Fitzsimmons
and Jeffries have completed arrange
ments to fight 20 rounds at San Fran
j cisco about May 15th. Sixty per cent.
! the winner, anil forty to the loser.
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
What lias Happened Through
out our State.
Jackson, Miss., Fob. 6.—The Dunr
bill providing for the restriction oi
tho liquor traffic in towns of les?
than 600 population without day and
night polioe protection, is now ir
the hands of Governor Longino and
awaiting his signature.
The passage of this measure is
largely duo to the efforts of Rev. B.
C. Trigg, of Tunica county, a mem
ber of the North Mississippi Confer
ence of the Methodist church, whe
has been in the city since the open
ing of the legislative session working
in the interest of tho bill. He
framed tho original draft, whioli was
introduced in the Senate by Mr. C.
C. Dunn, by roquest. In disoussing
the effects of this new law, Mr. Trigg ■
said:
"The effect of the bill will bo to
oomplet9ly abolish saloons in Quit
man, Issaquena and Sharkey counties,
which ars now in the “wet” column.
It will ulso leave only two saioons in
Tunica oounty, both being in the
town of Tunica, which contains over
500 population. It will also dose
eighteen saloons in Washington conn
ty, and to a great extent affect the sa
loon businses in all the “wet” coun
ties by closing up the liquor shops in
small towns. It is a long step toward
state prohibition, and one of the best
pieces of legislation accomplished dur
ing tho present session.”
Meridian, Miss.. Feb. 15.—“Atlan
ta, ’' the special coach of L. S.
Thorne, first vice-president- of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad, of which
George Goald is president, passed
through Meridian yesterday afternoon,
bearing Miss Helen Gonld, the gentle
woman who has the reputation of
being the richest unmarried lady in
the United States, daughter of the
ate millionaire railroad magnate, Jay
Gonld. Miss Gonld was accompanied by
Misses Marguerite Deny Stevensnn ana
Margaret Wildes, of New Yors Mrs.
L. S. Thorne, of Dallas, Tex., and
Mrs. G. E. Paleu, Mrs. Gilbert Pa
len, Miss Anna Palen and Miss Estelle
Hartohome. The partv was an route
from New Orleans , where they wit
nessed the carnival festivities, to
Birmingham, and thence home after a
most extensive tour.
When asked if she had enjoyed the
carnival, Miss Gould replied :
“indeed I did, very much. It was
a perfect panorama of delight from
beginning to end and full of educa
tional Knowledge and pleasure to the
masses of the people, for whom I un
derstand, Marcti Gras was intended.
The balls, too, were beautiful and
will long be remembered.’’
When asked about her famous work
in New Y'ork, the fair philanthropist
laughed merrily as she replied:
“The newspapers, I fear, tell many
fairy tales of work they please to call
my work in New York, and I am of
ten surprised to read of the many
beautiful things credited to me.”
“But what about your efforts in be
half of our boys during the war with
Spain, of which we have read so
much?” was asked.
“Oh, but there are other women
who did rauoh more than I,” said
Miss Gould. “Think of the self-sacri
fice of personal service. This deserves
more consideration than the giving
of money.
And ns to my worn among tne so
cial settlements of New York. ” said
Miss Gould, “the newspapers are
wrong again. My work lies chiefly
along educational lines. I am also a
great bolic.vor in Christian work and
it is my delight to work among chil
dren. Such work appeals to me more
than all else, and it is to these I de
vote a great part of my time. Help
less, poverty-stricken children, with
out a rav of sunshine to brighten their
lives, appeal to my ideas, and it is a
great pleasuro to he able to do some
thing for them.’
As the train pulled out for Birm
ingham there was a large number of
Meridian people who were craning
their necks to get a slight glimpse of
the great-hearted lady, wtio lias both
the means au<i the disposition to alle
viate suffering humanity.
THE PRINCE SAILS.
Thousands Gave a Very Hearty
Send-Off.
Bremer Haven, Fob. 15.—Prince
Henry sailed this aftoraoon on the
Kronkrinz William. Thousands
olroered ats the steamship left the pier.
Tolstoi Improving.
Yalt, Crime*, Feb. 15.—Tolstoi im
proved today. Tho inflamation in the
right lung which caused alarm yes
terday, is beginning to subside.
The Late Mrs. Morris.
Port Gibson, Miss., Feb 12.—The
nows conveying tho death of Mrs.
Julius Morris at Vicksburg, was re
ceived hear last Saturday morning anti
it torribily shocked her many friends.
Sha leaves a married daughter in this
oify, Mrs. David Cool..
The void he tl"- pad week has been
very cold, v.acl fire is some vliat of
comfort in this neighborhood.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
* i
Bartow Man Has th-3 Grip and Is .
Pesiimi.stic.
LOSED WITH HIDDEN CASTOR OIL
Bill BemoanG the Death of Judge
Blancford and Relates Humor
ous Incidents of That Good
Man’s Early Life.
"I knew him well, Horatio. A man
of Infinite jest and most excellent
fancy.”
It has been years since. I met my
friend, Mark Blandford. 1 see by the '
press dispatches that he is dead—
died in Columbus last week. It griev
ed me for a time, although he was old
enough to die. Eighty years is a good
old age if the man is good. Every
time one of these old trees falls it
shocks me. George Barnes died not .
long ago in Augusta, and I was griev- :
ed, for 1 loved him and I unconscious
ly whispered, “Next!” Only three of
us left of the senate of i860. There
were forty-four, but the old reaper has
cut down all but our Chief Justice j
Simmons, our chaplain, Brother Tar- j
brough, and myself—and I am sick— '
tsut l was ruminating aooui juuge
Blandford—men called him Mark—we
who knew him best. He was, as Ham
let said of Yorick. a man of infinite
jest and most excellent fancy. When
the spirit moved him he could enter
tain his friends most pleasantly, and
It was our delight to get him and
Judge Underwood and Judge Buchan
an together with Evan Howell as a
teaser and spend the evening hours
during the session of the supremo
court when Murk was one cf the
judges. During the court hours Chief
Justice Warner was sitting there as
serious and solemn as a Presbyterian
preacher drinking in the record and
digesting the law of the case, while
Mark took in the surroundings End ab
sorbed the humorous side of every
thing. He was a good lawyer, but
jumped to conclusions like a woman
and never saw much difference be
tween- the pTaintiff and defendant un
less one of them was a woman or a
widow. One night we visited Mark
in his room and he regaled us with
his experiences in justices’ courts
when he was young and devilish. The
old time justice court was a good
school for a young lawyer. He not
only practiced law in it, but the arts
of oratory and could use big words
with impunity, for neither the old
squire nor the jury knew their mean
ing, but were impressed with their
learned length and lingering sound.
I still remember the Fretman case
that Mark rehearsed that night. A
yankee school teacher from the Nut
meg State had sued Jim Jenkins for
$18 worth of schooling for his two
boys, Troup and Calhoun. Jenkir.s
wouldn't pay It because the two little
nullifiers hadn’t learned anything hard
ly and they told him that Fretman
gave powerful long recesses and car
ried on with the girls amazingly, espe
cially with Sally Amanda Jones. Fret
man was a good-looking yankee, with
pink cheeks and winning ways, and
was popular with the girl scholars.
Sometimes Salamander, as they called
her, didn’t go out at recess, but pre
tended she had some 6ums to do, and
wanted the teacher to show her how.
Troup said he heard her squeal one day,
and peeped-through the crack and saw
Fretman squeezing her. She was a
redheaded gai.
Old Phil Davis was the justice court.
Mark’s plea was that Fretman wasn’t
a scholar, and not fittln’ to teach, and
that he couldn’t read writin' nor write
readin’ nor spell all the words in Dan
iel Webster's blue bark spellin’ book,
and he made a motion to put him on
the stand and spell him. Fretman’s
lawyer fought It, but the old squire
said he must spell. Fretman was
scared. He trembled all over like a
cold, wet dog. "Spell Phthisic,” said
Mark, and he spelt it correctly. He
then spelt him right along on all sorts
of big words and little words and long
words, and afterwords, but Fretman
never missed until finally Mark says,
“Now spell Ompompvnusuk.” Fretman
drew a long breath and said it wasn’t
in the book. But Mark proved by an
old preacher that It was in h!3 book,
and so old Phil spoke up and said:
“Mr Fretman, you must spell it, sir.”
He was then sweatin’ like a run down
filly. He took one pass at it and miss
ed. “Ycu can cccsc down, sir,” said
Mark; “you’ve lost your case.” A>.d
sure enough old I’hil gave i judgment
against him and he had the cost to
pay. But he was good grit, far he
stuck to his school and his Salaman
der.
At the next court Mark moved to
non-suit a doctor who had sued a fel
ler, and he filed a plea of mal practice
and demanded a profert of his diplo
ma. The doctor said he had one at
home, and begged for time to go after
It. Old Phil gave him time, and he
rode six miles and back as hard as he
could lick It, and shook it in Mark's
face triumphantly. Mark smiled ar.d
said: “Now, doctor, please take the
stand and translate this furrin lan
guage into English, so that his honor
mfcy know whether it Is a diploma or
fiot. It looks to mo like an old revolu
tionary grant of laud.” Of course the
doctor couldn’t translate It, and he.
lost his case In a jiffy. I don’t believe
we have as good anecdotes now as we
use to have. I don’t know anybody
who has taken the place of Howell
Cobb and Charles J. McDonald and
Cinclnnatus Peoples and Hope Hull
and the others I have already named.
I am writing about them now because
I am sick and It cheers me to think
of them. If It were not for the bright
little grandchildren who come to see
me I should go to bed and give up the
ehip. For two weeks I have had the
grip and am a nnsance- -blowing and
coughing and sneezing r«nd wheezing,
my head a fountain aid mine eyes
rivers *f tears and noDoay cares
very much, but they dose me with
quinine and bromine and calomel, and,
at last, prescribed castor oil and tur
pentine. I rebelled, but they brought
me something in a cup that they said
was the white of an egg and sherry
wine, and so I gulped it down and;
found it wa3 castor oil. My head
aches, I want a dozen holes bored in
It and a dozen corkscrews to pull the
stuff out. Sick as I am, my wife
laughs at me and says if I expect to
rate as a gentleman I had better be
more careful how I expectorate, and ‘
she made mo an old-fashioned honey
stew and I’m trying that now. It’s
the weather—the horrid old weather—
that has flopped over on us from van
kee land.
Every old veteran who has the grip
in bad weather ought to have some
body to tell him stories or some chil
dren to play around and cheer him
up with their merriment. 'The old
Persian monarch, Harun al Raschld,
was kept alive by listening to the
beautiful stories in the Arabian Mights.
Certain it is I don’t hanker after se
rious or mournful company. I’v»
coughed until I am almost a coffin. ,
I’m like that bad boy who got to say
inf damn It and his father whipped
him for it, and so one day he asked
his father if there was any harm In
saying “eofferdamn.”
“No, of course not," said the old
man. "Why do you ask?”
“Because,” said he, “the old cow
has swallowed a cob and Is about
to cofferdam head off.”
My daughter regales me 'with anec
dotes and my wife feeds me oa anti
dotes and so X am worrying along,
waiting for the spring. If I can live a
month longer I will get well.—Bill Arp.
In Atlanta Constitution.
CAUSES FOR DIVORCE*
**.ls Tire rue Ciaelty'* Is a Charge Rcquir* |
in- Nice X>l.«crJ]xili::vtion*
A3 sufficient rat!‘;c3 usually cited foi
the intervention of law and infidelity
ii-..;:-3upport, “grots neglect of duty,’
and “extreme cruelty.” In regard tc
idle first, the injured party, whetliei
r or woman, must keenly feel tlic
personal indignity offered by infidelity
as. such a plea for divorce is an open
recognition cn the barfs of marringi
which many a woman had rather >.
dura wrong than acknowledge in pi* I
He, writes Mrs. K. Garnett Wells, is I
the North American Keview. The sec
ond enure, non-support, is being don«
away with ty the modern, economic j
woman, who contends for her right |
to industrial pursuits and alleges hei 1
ability and destiny to be a wage- ;
earner, ft used to be a stigma to lx j
so* unattractive as a wife that one was
not suppiy-tect in comfort. Now it 13 a j
greater sttgma to be incapable of self- >
support. If both husband and wifi
are to- be- wage-earners, or If the un- <
earned increment of Invested capita! j
accrues tc both, it will be difficult foi
a woman to base a suit upon thU.j
ground,, except its object to be to secure
an arrangement for her participation
in her husband’s resources, in which tr
v.vij'p him luv. i-ua'-i
burden of self-support will fall upor
the man, onctr the patron, now th«
equal,, of woman! The third and
fourth* conditions, "gro''3 neglect ol
duty” and “extreme cruelty,” appeal
to the mind as pregnant phrases
which allow large liberty to offenders
and require a nice sense of discrimina
tion' in me- court, if other conditions
are maligned, these can never be—sus- i
capable as they are of individual in^r
terpretation, sheltering alike
and modesty. “Neglect of duty'’ i V
much more ethical cause than the o, i
faring of "indignities” that render life*- I
"intolerable" or “boadenlome,” as ons ' j
might be over-fastidious or too easily J
iored. “Extreme cruelty” depends up-|l
en that to which the victim has beedB
accustomed. But, however bad or misMj
leading Is any "omnibus clause,” It ia j
no worse in its moral client than re
striction of divorce to a single cause.
IvxjwnKo of Entertaining Royalty.
Entertaining royalty is an expensive!
operation. That little ’-isit of the Czar
to France has cost the republic a pret
ty penny. Special messengers' were
sent to invite him at. a cc3t of $3,000,
1 and *00,000 was speot In cleaning up
Dunkirk, where ho was to lam}, and
putting it in a presentable shape. For
electric crowns and things the govern
ment spend $10,0(W besides what the ■
people spent on doc.nrari.ons, and the
government also erected triumphal!
arches at a cost of $50,000 and spent,
$5,000 for flags',
Then there were 5,000 picked troops'
,o be got ready, Ik .- ides the regular ’
review troops. These picked troonai.
were specially trained, drilled^
i: uartered for over six weeks at a cost!
! of $100,000, and 25 military bands were
i lit down in the estimates at a cost j
cr toed and extra expenses of $10O,QOO.y
The naval review held for the djlec-M
tation of the Czar cost $250,000, thoJ
item for coal alone being $100,000, Infl