Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1890, Page 9

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WHAT WOMEN IN WASHINGTON sa¥ ABOUT THE PENDING QUESTION — SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY QUOTED—THE QUESTION ON WHICH METHO- DISTS WILL VOTE NEXT TUESDAY, There is a good deal of debate in local Meth- odism just now over the proposition which will be submitted to the peopieof the churches in this city next Tuesday evening. “Shall women be admitted to membership in the general conference?” is the question to be decided. ‘The campaign is warm, and one of the most in- teresting features in it is the fact that the ma- jority of female members seem opposed to the Promotion of their sex to the enjoyment of the privileges involved in the question. The ‘women who are on the affirmative side of the question are actively at work and making an aggressive campaign against the odds which seem to make their chance for success at the present time quite dubious. Mra. 8. D. La Fetra of Metropolitan M.E. Church, in response to the query of @ Stan re- porter, said: I believe in woman's admission to the general conference of the M.E. Church because I believe it 1s in accordance with the right interpretation of the Holy Scriptures and is therefore in accordance with the spirit of religious liberty and Christian civilization, and is also on the line of justice to two-thirds of the Legere: ofthe Methodist Church. “Tis true that all through the centuries every advance step gained in the elevation of human- ity has won its way against appeals to proju- dice and ignorance. Jesus of Nazareth was met on these samo grounds. The Scribesand Pharisees claiming to be the only safe interpreters of the Holy Scriptures accused Christ of Sabbath breaking, of eating with publicans and sinners and of irreverently speaking with the woman of Samaria. The most intense opposition eamo to Him from ecclesiastical quarters. I honor the clergy of Protestantism as I honor no other class of men under the sun. Yet, I am forced tu confess the strongest opposition to woman's admission to the general conference of our church comes from the clergy (though there is a mighty force among them who are honorable exceptions), the brethren who feel duty-bound and heaven-appointed (I speak reverently) in their interpretation of the Holy Scriptures con- cerning ‘woman's subjection” and her “divinely ordered” subordinate position in the church of Christ. Rev. Dr. Buckley in the New York Advocate of September 18, 1890, says: “So to speak of our church being founded by ® woman, if it means more than that she exerted so great an influeuce over its founder that he would never have been what he was, and therefore could not have done the work he did, is to substitute extravagant eulogy for the simplicity and power of fact. ‘fhe truly ven- erable woman might be called the mother of Methodism, and figuratively, but nut in any literal sense, its found But at the centennial Methodist conference held in Baltimore in 1884 Kev. Dr. J. M. Buck- ley read a paper on “What Methodism has Done for Women,” of which the following is an ex- tract: “In exploring this theme I shail first trace women in the early development of Methodism, and the firet name—the name that stands before all otber names in Methodism, male or female—is that of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles. It is a truism that whomscever Samuel Wesley might have married, if he had not married Susanna, John Wesley could not have been. But it is equally true, if not so obvious, that if John Wesley, born of Samuel and Susanna, had not been trained by his mother and sympathized with by his mother, the John Wesley who founded Methodism would not have been. Hence D: Stevens has justly said in his ‘Women of Meth- odism’ ‘Susanna Wesley is universally credited by Methodist writers as the real foundress of this mighty success. She planted its germ at Epworth; she kept it alive by her vigilant nur- ture when it was transplanted to Oxford; she guarded and nurtured it into mature strengeh im London.’ ” These statements would seem to be contra- dictory, but then New cocasions teach new duties, Time makes aucient good wucouth.” They tell us “no precedent is known in eburch annals.” Yet the Congregationalist, the Baptist and the Christian (Campbellite) eburches all admit women to their annual sessions on an equai basis with the male mem- bership and they vote on ail questions of law and church polity with the brethren, All husbands, of whom women must learn at home if St. Paul is taken literally, are not Christians. Often the woman is the only Christian in the entire family. I claim that 1 have loyally foliowed St. Paul's injunction and learned of my husband at home, and he has been twenty years iustilling into my mind these ideas of equal justice to all without ref- erence to sex, “race or previous condition of servitude.” I believe there is far less friction in the home where parents stand on an equal basis of authority and where neither is in subjection to the other, but mutual helpful- ness is the rule of faith and practice. I do not believe this question necessarily _ implies woman's ordination to the ministry. I believe the pulpit would be as sacredly guarded from unworthy oceupante were she admitted, but the opposition must admit that many Meth- odists, “unsurpassed in intelligence, personal piety and devotion to the church and loyaitv to Methodism, do favor women in the ministry and also equal suffrage.” Itis said that in man’s struggle for recoguition by the chair and his determination to be heard in the gen- eral confererce woman's voice would be lost unless she herself first sacrificed her queenly womanliness. If our general conference has come to this then woman's geutle, refining in- fluence is greatly needed there and “it is not good for man to be alone.” ‘MRS. PLATI'S SIX REASONS, Mrs. Margaret B. Platt of North Capitol M. E. Church said, when called upon for her rea- sons as to why women should be eligible as aelegates: ‘They should be eligible because women constitute two-thirds of the member- ship of said church and it is just and equitable that they should share in shaping legislation for an organization so largely made up of and whose activities are so generally managed by members of their own sex. Because they oc- cupy places in the official and Sunday school boards and their ability and integrity in these places are not questioned, but commended by all, Having demonstrated their capability to act for the best interest of the church in these minor places, they should justly be permitted to ‘come up higher.’ Because in having dem- onstrated their ability to manage such organ- izations as the home and foreign missionary societies, homes for the aged, ladies’ aid, dea- coness homes, &c., they have shown sufficient wisdom as legislators aud skill as managers to warrant them titles to seats in the council chambers of the church. Because the church needs the united wisdom, energy and ability of all her members, men and women, to war suc- ceasfully against the power of Satan and ad- vance the cause of Christ in every possible way, whether in local church affairs or in legis- lating for the whole church. Because the aver- age Woman of the church is as consecrated, as pure, as unselfish, as able in every way to littingly represent her constituency as is the average layman, and by all the laws of justice is eutitled to do so on the principle that ‘taxa- tion without representation 1s tyranny.’ Be- cause woman's influence in general conference will be for the good of the whole church and the whole world, and it is right that that influ- ence for good should be wielded to its fullest extent.” BELIRVES THAT WOMAN IS CALLED. “Read the 28th and 29th versésof the 2d chapter of Joel,” said Mrs. 8. Minerva Wescott of Union M.E. Church, “Hero they ag and she read: “ ‘And itshall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit uy all flesh; and your tons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. And se ‘“Yhe only reason I have why woman should admitted tothe general conference is that to the front in every good poured out His Upon the servants and upon the handmaids those days wili I pour out my spirit.” be God is On May 8, 1881, God me. I felt His | i i i i law, have medicine to be have will Men will doors of the _ universities to us, ve to banish girls from the high schools and say, ‘You can no longer have any of the enjoyments of higher education or even the advantages of mpage They will be under the necessity of closing @ll the avenues of scientific research and allowing no compe- tition whatever in the literary world. The women will not be allowed upon any lecture platform or stage or to take part in musical concerts. In the churches the men will take the school entirely into their own hands, will be the officers, teachers and writers of Sunday school literature.e In all philanthropic and missionary work the men can have everything their own way. They will do all the charity work among the poor, ing the sick in the hospitals, forming sewing classes and cooking schools, even teaching many mothers among the poor how to dress and care for their babies. This would be their pert in the home missionary work. I wonder ow the men will manage the call which has just come for all Women engaged in i rk to dress a large supply of ‘ibuted among the poor c! idee ities. The men will change the name W.C.'L.U, to M.C.T.U., and then the toll- ing bell will indicate its expiring breath. Quite achange will necessarily take place in the commercial world, all business being done by men. Our dry goods and fancy notion stores will present a very different appearance. In fact, society will retrograde to the dark ages— when the women will walk the streets closely veiled and guarded by paid attendants or else be confined to the four walls of their homes and never allowed on tho streets, What a happy world for men to live in. If the 2,000.u0 women members of the Methodist church of this country are not successful in the coming election they certainly will be bofore the close of the next century, for we have enjoyed too well the advantages of education and personal liberty of the nineteenth century to ever again be contented with the ignorance and degrada- tion of the dark ages, oe STIMULANTS. Some Observations by an English Physi- cilan—How the Pace is Kept Up. From the New York Sun, The discussion of woman's eccentricities and follies occupies an astonishingly important place in the contemporaneous literature of the day. The pessimistic judgment of those who obtain their ideas of her frailty from lurid lit- erature and cheap sensations, rarely accredits her with even a minimum of the merit she de- serves, Sho isin reality an overworked and rarely appreciated creature. No greater tithe of tribute is demanded by the world of the struggling scribe pursuing the evanescent item or the poet courting the muse, Now the effect of this continual strain upon the physique of delicate women is variously estimated and the bad habits engendered in respect to the use of sedatives and stimulants criticised with differing degroes of soverity. It is interesting, then, to review a London woman physician's idea of the situation, based upon her wide experience with the ilk and habits of women in social place. The first point she brings out with respect to English girls is that the present system of physical training is developing them to such an extent that their increasing tallness affects the average height. This is also said to be true of American girls as well. But among the more robust British maidens there is a pecu- liar tendency to unequally grown hips or legs, one of which is slightly shorter than the other, which ecems to be strictly an English failing, not observable anywhere else, and, so far, mystery as to cause. The gymnastic craze doe: not seem to her likely to be carried too far, but she believes that there isa great amount of quackery about it, a great deal that is un- i scientific and nearly always directed to the teacher's individual hobbies rather than to scientific principals, “The fashionable woman must be strong to endure the routine of a London season,” cou- tunues the medical woman, ‘Her indiscretions —in diet, chiefly—are the cause of nearly ali her troubles.” A delicate appetite is no longer considered stylish, and the middle-aged taa- tron who dines at the unseasonable lour of half-past eight consumes six or eight hearty courses, with a lump of ice cream on top and a glass of liquor, which ia nothing more or less than simplé alcohol sweetened and flavored. If she goes to two or three balls after this she eats and drinks again things still more indi- gestible. With the American woman the greatest fault in diet is the irregularity with which she ents, It she stays in she is inclined to munch somo kind of fruit or sweet in the intervals between her meals, which effectually destroys her ap- petite. If she goes out, especially if she is hur- ried, she is likely to start out with littlo or no breakfast and shop incessantly until far into the afternoon before the necessity of lunching occurs to her. Then, if she has time, she makes a feast of croquettes and salads, with the inevitable ice cream and rich chocolate, If she has tickets for a matinee a muslin sand- wich and cup of tea satisfy her hunger, or per- haps even that is neglected, and then she won- ders why she is nervous, As for the king with the fashionable wo- man in England, the result of the appalling and perpetual! stram and the continual late hours cause her to waken unrefreshed in the morn- ing, and as she has no desire for breaktast hock and seltzer take the place of tea, and a glass of port is frequently taken about 11 to strengthen her for her ride. ‘there is more wine at lunch, and at the fashionable teas rich cakes and sweets and hearty sandwiches, with frequently a glass of wine; wine again at di ner and again at the late supper. and perhaps a glass of whisky to go to sleep on. So you see he coneumes quite enough of wine without any secret stores of it in her apartments. Eau de cologne and sal volatile are consumed in their peculiar way far too much, because the tired woman feels constantly in need of stimu- lants. It has been said that English women are not nervous women, but the doctor accuses them of being whimsical and fanéiful to the verge of insanity, and having what our grand- mothers called “vapours,” but what we call “nerve Coca wine is quite a fashionable remedy among English women, and probably corre- sponds with the different sedatives employed here; but the use of opium and morphine is not, it would seem, so prevalent as among American women, who do not, as a rule, drink so much wine or ale. Smoking is not confined to the lawlessness of Bohemia, but exi all ranks, and especially among genuine society women. ' A lady. patient of good standing has written to know if six or eight cigarettes are not too many for her girl cousin, The English woman's holiday, like that of the fashionable woman this side, is simple, the pursuit of this same unhealthy dissipation, [aripoer under different climatic conditions, ut their outdoor games of tennis and cricket are benefiting them to acertain extent, and are having a desirabie influence upon dress. It would seem that the fashionable woman would presently beeome an extinct species; but, despite the croakings, she does continue to flourish and give impetus to every known industry for her adorning and service, and fur- uishes ualimited inspiration to the paragraph hunter and dress reformer, fer sone aE AE Suing for Damages for Slander. A special to the New York World from Mon- ticello, Ill, says: Thomas E. Carson, demo- cratic caudidate for the legislature, began a 210,000 damage suit against J, ©. Myers of Clinton, the present democratic member, for stating over his own signature that Carson had offered Myersa $200 bribe while in the legislature. Myers is the chairman of the democratic committee. esc echo" Rae onate Evictions Resumed in Ireland. Evictions on the famous Ponsonby estate in Ireland were resumed yesterday. The evic- tions were executed by s large force of police and soldiers of a Welsh regiment. Fourteen 1d Toaaly on the doors of the evicted tenants and cheered, + ———--+e0 —_____ Sara Bernhardt’s Cleopatra. Sardou’s version of ‘‘Cleopatra,” written for Sara Bernhardt, had its first production last evening at the Porte St. Martin Theater, Paris, ASTONISHED BRITONS, The Aquatic Performance of Mise Dare ing and Its Results. He who attempts to say how far an American girl will go when she is not restrained by the fear of Mrs. Grundy is indeed « bold man, and an Englishman who has been in America this summer is probably not the one to play so dar- ing a role, says the Bostou Courier. The Englishman in question has long had strange ideas about American girls, and it is not impossible that the expression which he gave to his feelings had something to do with the hoydenish actions of Miss Daring. At any rate she had never behaved before with such recklessness as she did last summer while on a yachting trip where the Englishman and his extremely proper mamma, a corpulent and severe British maton, were also guests. ‘The things which Miss Daring did to shock that proper British matron cannot be told in anything short of a complete novel, but her crowning feat, which made the British matron take her offspring under her arm at the next port and depart with all speed, may be put in ® paragraph. The yacht was lying becalmed in the sound one fine August day and the company were on deck under the awnings lounging about in cos- tumos more comfortable than elaborate, when the Englishman appeared clad in white canvas, wonderful and spotless, . He seomed himself to have been starched for the occasion, and the company exchanged glances as he came for- ward with the splendidly uphoistered British matron on his arm. “Light of my eyes!” Miss Daring cried as he approached hor, “thon art more resplendent than the full moon in its rising!” The British matron glared at the girl, who was provokingly pretty und well dressed in ® gown of Quaker gray batiste. “Thave never been able to ree,” she re- turned ponderously, ‘why the fact that one is on a yacht is an excuse for going about in neg- ligee costume.” “Nor I,” the other assented with mock dofer- ence. “If there is one thing as vulgar as to overdress on a yacht it is to fail to be dressed well enough.” The British matron gave asnort in reply and established herself in a comfort- able seat, Her son, as the moth flies on the candle, made his way at once to Miss Daring. The girl rose as he approached her. Her eyes were fullof mischief and she threw a saucy glance around the circle, ending with a look at the British matron which sent cold shivers down the respectable backbone of that emi- nently proper individual. “lcan swim like a fish,” she said, Mr. Montgomery. And before any one could divine what she meant todo she had seized the Englishman by the arm and deliberately, though swiftly, leaped overboard into the blue, calm water. The Englishman, taken complotely by sur- prise, lost his balance and pitched awkwardly into the sea after her. Miss Daring let go of his arm at exactly the right moment, and, buoyed up hy her garments, managed to keep her head from going under water, so that when the discomtited gentleman came splut- tering to the surface she was ready to greet im, “Isn't it delightful, Mr. Montgomery?” she said. ‘Do call out to your mother that you are all right, orshe will hurt herself screaming oa “Come, For in truth the worthy British matron was screaming with all the force of her well-devel- oped lungs, How they got the pair out of the water, and how the men laughed and the chaperons scolded, and the Englishman swore and his mother sulked, would take up too much space in the telling, but at may not be amiss to add that it afterward transpired that the whole scheme had been carefully plauned by the wicked young woman. who had on bathing clothes ‘under her demure-looking Quaker gray batiste. The British matron will never forget and never forgive, while the son is more deeply in love with Miss Daring than ever. ‘Ind she is engaged, 40 the papers announce this fall, to the owner of the yacht whercon this bit of farce-comedy was enacted. HIGH WAVES ON THE BAY. Startling Experience of Passengers on the Steamer Virginia. A terrific southeasterly gale raged on Chesa- peake bay yesterday. The wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour and lashed the seas into mountainous waves, which were so high that at Old Point they completely washed across the new iron pier completed by the gov- ernment last spring. Passengers on the steamer Virginia, which was coming down the bay when struck by the storm, had @ terrible experience. Waves broke over the vessel's deck, flooded her down stairs saloons and wrecked the pantry. Just before reaching Old Point a tremendous wave struck the boat, crushing her port wheel house and shattering the joiner work on the port side. All of the passengers had on life preservers, and frantic men and women begged Capt. Bohanman to beach the steamer. ‘The steamer George Leary, which left Wash- ington Wednesday afternoon, put back, All of the telegraph lines of the signal service along the coast are down, and if any disasters have occurred no news of them has been received, On the Fields of Gettysburg. Company A, Purnell Maryland Calvary Le- gion, yesterday dedicated its monument lo- cated on the cavalry battlefield cast of Gettys- burg. ‘The services were held in the rink on account of the storm. Capt, Donaher of Balti- more presided, aud addresses wero made by Col. Wm. H. Purnell, Capt. iam Gibson of Wilmington, Del, and Chicago. ses Women and Their Dogs in Paris. Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. Women here, as ia London, have an insatia- ble mania for carrying or leading by chain pug dogs of all degrees of ugliness, Yesterday af- ternoon, during a shower of rain, one was seen walking along the Quai Jommapes, where a number of workmen had just finished discharg- ing acargo of coal from barge. The lady held in one hand an umbrella, with which she carefully protected from the least drop of wet an ugly little dog with a gorgeous blue ribbon round its neck. By herside trotted her daugh- ter, @ little girl about three years old, her shoes not so waterproof as they might have been, who, deprived of the protection of the umbrella monopolized by the dog, was rapidly getting drenched. As she was about to cross the bridge which spans the canal one of the coal heavers went up to her and suid: “Allow me, madam, to relieve you of your dog, so that you may carry your girl to the other side.” ‘The woman accepted the offer, but when the party arrived at the other end of the bridge the coal heaver threw the pug into the canal, telling ite mistress at the same time: “That's a lesson to you not to shelter a dog when your child is getting wet.” The woman screamed and soon a crowd collected, to whom she pathetically narrated the assassination of her pet, ‘Iwo policemen at her instigation took the coal heaver to the station, but the superintendent declined to formulate any charge against him. All she could do, ho told her, was to bring a civil action for tho value of her dog. She left the station “apparently much dissatisfied with the decision.”” Potatoes as Pen Wipers. From the Pall Mall Gazette, One of the chief woes of the ready writer, be he clerk or what not, consists in the fact that he no sooner gets a pen into good work- ing order than it, like the “dear gazelle,” comes to an untimely end from the corrosion caused by the ink, Life is not long enough to use and mend quills, nor to apply with delicate firmness the pen wiper to a steel one. But some genius has now hit ona solution of the difficulty which has the merit of the most ex- treme simplicity. formed, a pot ‘The juicy tuber holds the at once NOT GIVING ENOUGH. Report on Systematic Beneficence of| Inspector Byrnes Became Convinced the Presbyterian Churches, The synod of Baltimore was in session at Wilmington again yesterday. The following The Rev. Samuel McLanahan of Baltimore, chairman of the standing committee on sys- tematic beneficence, made a long and exhaus- tive report, In the synod there are thirty-one churches which rent pews, forty-one do not, their expenses being paid by subscriptio: forty churches do not secure enough by ordi- nary methods to meet their current expenses. In the judgment of those in a position to know, thirty-five churches are not giving what thoy could or ought to do for their own support. ‘The report of the synod’s committee on pub- lication, Sabbath school and missionary work shows an increase of seven Sunday schools for the year ending April 1, four of these being in New Castle presbytery. There is an increase of 1,290 of scholars enrolled, but there has been ajdecrease in the average attendance of those enrolled, ‘The afternoon session was mainly devoted to the caso of the Rev. J.A.Campbell, a former pas- tor of the Snow Hill Church. The judical com- mittee reportedin favor of reopening the case. ‘The report was adopted after much discussion, Rev. J. A. Campbell was charged with securing a divorce from his wife through means which were alleged to be questionable aud marrying a second wife. All the members of the synod attended a re- ception at West Presbyterian church last even- ing. The pastor of the Church is the newly elected moderator of the synod of Baltimore, the Rev. Albert N. Keigwin, Following the ro- ception a supper was served to the membors in the basement of the church, “BUNNIE” AND “BABY BUNTING.” Campbell-Arbuckle Breach of Promise Case in the Court of Appeals, At Albany, N.Y., Tuesday the court of ap- peals listened to a rehearsal of the salient features of the celebrated “Bunnie” versus “Baby Bunting” breack of promise case, which afforded Now Yorkers so much amusement when tho case was first tried before Judge Beach and a jury. At the trial the jury awarded Miss Clara Campbell (Bunnic) a verdict of 25,000 as a substantial solace for the injury done to her affections and worldly prospecta by Mr. Charles Arbuckle, the “Baby Bunting” of the voluminous correspoudence which was submitted, Mr. Arbuckle didn't relish the verdict against him and still less did he relish the idea of handing over to the dam- sel upon whom he had once lavished so many endearments $25,000 of his profits in tbe coffee business. So he took an appeal to the general term of tho supreme court, wnich sustained the verdict of the jury, ‘Then Mr, Arbuckle carried his appeal to the court of appeals, where argument# on both sides were heard Tuesday. Ex-Judge Fullerton and Charles E. Rushmore represented Miss Campbell, and John E. Parsons presented Mr. Arbuckle’s reasons for socking to have the ver- dict set aside, Mr. Parsons contended that the trial judge erred in allowing the case to go to the jury at ali; that he erred in sundry other ways and grievously erred in charging that if the jury believed that one of Mr. Arbuckie’s letters contained dishonorable proposals they might take that into consideration in estimating the damages. Mr. Parsons traversed the evidence and from it deduced the conciu- sion that Mr. Arbuckle was an honorable and guilcless man, who had falien a victim to the wiles of a designing woman, who all the time had an eye to the contents of his pocket book. Ex-Judge Fullerton described Miss Campbell as a high-minded and tender-hearted, but deceived woman. He made good use of **Bunnie’s” letters wherein she repeatedly referred to the promise of marriage which still remained unredeemed, and of “Baby Bunting’s” letters wherein ail allusions to the promise of marriage were scrupulousiy avoided. He contended that the trial judge made no errors; that his charge was amply justified by the evidence, and that the judgments of the lower courts ‘should be af- tirmed. After finishing their arguments and submit- ting their bricfs, Mr. Parsons and ex-Judge Fallerton returned to New York by the same train, Japanese as Metal Workers. ‘The Japanese are past masters in the treat- ment of alloys, both in texture and color, and no better guides exist, says the Jew- elers’ Review. They achieve their grand rosults by the simplest means—a judicious blending of various metals, inlaying and picking. Copper is the basis of their chief alloys, and by incorporating with it certain pro- portions of gold andsilver they obtain remark- ablo results in color through the pickling pro- cess, But not only do they get striking effects from their alloys and pickling, their mode of working up the metals is a thing to be studied. For instanco, they will take six or seven plates of different metals and alloys, weld them together, and then, by drilling, punching up and filing, got a surface in which all the metals show in s manner which is truly won- dcrful By the range of tints at their command they can work out on a metal suriace scenes of animal life, land- scapes, &c., with effect never dreamt ot by metal workers in the western world. Among some examples recentiy shown in England was a knife haudle, on which was a representation of a duck dipping its head under the water of @ stream on which it was swimming, the arrangement of the different alloys by which it was composed and the pickling being so well arranged that the neck of the duck was seen as under the water when the handle was held inacertain light. Another example wasa sword hilt on which some minnows not more than one-sixteenth ofan inch in length, and each having a pair of gold eyes, were swimming upon a gray stream, the effect of their being actually below the surface of the water being suggested with marvelons skill. Imitations of wood grain and marbles were Blames the New Tariff Law. ‘The announcement was made yesterday of the withdrawal from business of the house of Herman Berheimer, Son & Co., No. 705 Leonard street, New York, who have for many years been large importers of the woolens and worsted used in the cheaper and medium grades of clothing. Jerome Berheimer said that the firm were compelled to close out busi- ness because of the prohibitory tariff raised in the new law against the goods which the firm import. Mr. Berheimer further said: “The iminediate results of the McKinley tariff ac- count must be to drive out of business many rt importing houses, which, like ours, have hafdied the less costly lines of foreign goods. It does not affect the importers of the finest goods in so great a measure. These manu- facturea are demanded by people who can afford to pay for them, and, moreover, the ad oe percentage of advance in duty is much Bo adie aa Found With His Skull Smashed. One of the most horrible murders ever per- petrated in West Virginia occurrod a few miles from Wheeling yesterday. Benton Huggins, » prominent business man, left Littleton Wednes- day night to go home after attending a card party. Yesterday his dead body was found by the roadside. The skull was smashed, hie pockets turned inside out and his gold watch goue, He-had been killed with a plece of iron which lay at his side. He was known to have a large amount of money on his person, but it was all gone. Two men who had played cards with him are Great excitement WHY HOPE IS FREE. That He Was Innocent. It now seems almost certain that young Johnny Hope, who was pardoned out of Sing Bing on Wednesday, after serving nine years and . ight months for alleged complicity in the great Manhattan Savings Bank robbery in New York city, on October 7, 1878, is innocent of the crime. He seems to have served ten years in prison because of mistaken identity. In spec- tor Byrnes, who was indefatigable in his efforts to convict Johnny Hope,is now equally as posi- tive that Hope is an innocent man. Inspector Byrnes gave his reason tor this belief yesterday. Hesaid: “Hope was arrested in the Theater Comique, on Broadway less than a year after the robbery. He was identified—falsely, as I am sure—by a milkman anda colored woman.as the the man who came of the side door of the bank at the time of the robbery. Hope was convicted af the crime on the testimony of those two witnesses, which was honestly given, but was nevertheless untrue. Ibe was, in fact, 0 has since been sentenced nt of twenty years, During all the years which have ensued since ilope’s conviction I bave had a doubt as to his alleged identification, and, finally, after the most thor- ough investigation, I came to the conclusion that Hope was not properly convicted. I then luid the matter before Gov, Hill and: sked hi to pardon the prisoner. Ali stories to the effect | that Hope's pardon was the price of the return of the stolen securities to the bank are faire. The bank knew nothing about my investiga- tion, for I had not consulted with those officials regarding the subject.” ‘Did Hope have anything at all to do with the robbery?” the inspector was asked. “That I can’t say, but I know that ho is not the man who came to the side door of the bank = to the milkman and the colored & Se ee a ee SMOKELESS BATTLES, Changes and Training Necessary With the Use of the New Powder. From Broad Arrow. The air wili be full of noise—sharp, crisp, ratthng, bellowing detonatiors, coming from many quarters, deceiving the judgment, shak- ing the nerves of the timid and possibly inter- fering with the condition necessary to catch quickly and clearly the words of command. Smoke volumes break and shut up sound, and in their absence there will be need of greater calmness, the strain on the mind will be more severe, tho discipline required will have to be more rigid, the attention will have to be more concentrated, lest the far-distant should attract and disturb. All this will come with training, of which thera will have to be a considerable amount, involving much waste of powder, be- fore our troops will be fit to fight with an enemy using smokeless gunpowder. Indeed it will be for some time necessary to train the British soldier to engage in the old as well as the new battle with an enemy making a great smoke, as well as with an enemy making none at all, Accordingly the new powder will not be all gain, and it will impose a good deal of oxtra work and anxiety. It is by no means clear what the issue would be if two bodies of soldiers, equal in other respects, were using different forms of gunpowder. The ad- vantages of quick firing and clear sight migit not long be with the smokeless weapons, aud in the thick of the melees troops trained in the smokeless system might be somewhat bewild- | ered. On the other hand, especially with ar- tillery, massed or in detachments, and of fairly long range, the use of smokeless powder would undoubtediy be an advantage, not only as re- gards rapid and accurate firing, but as offering less aim to an enemy, obscured by his own smoke and with nothing but sound to guide him, With armies using smokeless powder, it may be that one of its early effects will be to affect the color of the soldier's dress, subduing | itim tone, andso depriving a battiefield of another of its picturesque elements, Judging distances by colors will become a most im- portant feature in military training, and | more attention will be needed to’ per- fect sight at such ranges as the dif- ferent arms in use will carr, How this may affect @ people afilicted with short sight will become avery grave question in- deed, not wholly to be settled by the employ- ment of artificial aids. Maneuvers will take pince over larger areas before actual fighting begins, and something of an Indian's crait and na‘ keenness will be needed onthe part of staff ofticers. The impact of solid troops will be rarer probably and surprises much more fre- quent than they have beeu in recent warfare, unless a freer handling of mounted troops is resorted to or surveys from fixed balloons can be made to play an important part, Smoke has been 80 good acover on many occasions that its absence will impose new conditions and natural cover will have to be much more extensively utilized. These are general suggestions not intended to do n excite preliminary surveys and to what the smokeless battles of the future may be like. The strictly practical is for more elaborate examination, in the light of the best information obtainable, interpreted by the common sense which ought to bo brought to bear upon the whole question. With the vanishing poetry of the smoke battle, the prose of anew era will begin, in which combat will be more like a game of chess, in view of the pieces as a whole, and new disposi- tions of old qualities and virtues will be wanted. Caution will pay in a smokeless combat, enter- prise and vigor will win as before, but biun- ders will receive a terrible punishment. fatal to armies and ruinons to nations dependent en em. oo Arrest of Michael Dwyer. Michael Dwyer, one of the owners of the Elizabeth race track, was arrested in that city yesterday on a warrant charging him with gambling. The warrant was signed by Justice Frazee of Rahway on the complaint of Patrick Coleman, who is in the employ of ex-Bookmaker Poter de Lancey of New York. Dwyer was brought before Justice of the Peace Weed, who required him to give bail for his appeurance before Judge Frazee this morning. De Lancey has caused arrests to be issued for Swenty-cight bookmakers. Boulanger Denies the Embezzlement. Gen. Boulanger has written a letter to his friends stating he never touched the money contributed by the Duchess Denzes and the royalists, He estimates his own personal sav- ings during the time he was minister of war at 70,000 france. His rotiring pension was 12,500 francs, the donations of partisans 260,000 and the receipts from his book on the invasion of Germany 100,000. His personal expenses from April, 1888 to April, 1889, were 230,000 francs. Gen. Boulanger also states that he refused an offer of a million to lecture in America, wee ten Let erno The Foreign Metallurgists. ‘The southern contingent.of the iron and steel delegates from abroad reached Roanoke last evening and left this morning for Luray, from which place they will goto Washington, arriving here about 10p.m. They spent yes- terday investigating the coal mines at Poca- hontas and the mineral outburst in the Gassen fields, This is really the termination of the party’s investigation of American mineral re- sources, W. B. 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Every article marked in plain figures at cash prices 27-im Ds Licorant ‘Has resumed his practice and removed bis office te is residence, 1411 K ST. 5.4. EARLY MANIFESTATIONS OF CONSUMPTION, If & person bas an obstinate cough, which com- enced without any obvious cause, a couch which is at fret dry and hacking, and subsequently attended fora time with frothy or mucilagious-looking expec- toration, accompanied by wandering puins about the chest and loss of flesh, even to # slight extent, he ista all probability consumptive. If, besides, there be be-moptysis or spitting of blood. even to the amount ofa drachm, the probability is increased to almost a certainty, If, im addition to these symptoms, the breathing Lecomes harsh, burried sink deep imspire- tions evoke a few clicks of # dry and cracking sound, or if the voice becomes permanently weak and hoarse, there can be little doubt that the person is suffering from consumption. If a person, free from dysentery, and who has not re- sided in tropical climates, suffers from obstinate diar thea, which goes cu mouth after month, with slight remission oF intermission, even though there be no cough, he is most likely consumptive Should this diarrhea be followed by chest symptoms of the alight est amount, the existence of copsumption is an ab- solute certainty. If @ young adult, not addicted to enervating habits and not leading s dissolute life, without clear cause steadily loses weight, be is, im ali probability, consumptive, though no chest syimp- toms should have appeared. When such, however, manifest themselves additionally the establishment of consumption is almost fixed fect. In all cases where any of the manifestations described make their appearance we should advise an unmediate examinee tion of the chest and a prompt resort to apppropriate treatment. Atan carly stage of consumption «radical eure cam be frequently effected, and health placed upon s fz tnd permanent footing, while with every step in ede ‘vance which the disease to take the chances pros ‘thereiore, coususption is attended to, the Letier are the chances Tur ssuaiactury resalan, DR LIGHTHILE