Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1895, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. 4 8 SSS SSSS6S ©The facts are © ea. gin front of you.® Oe ‘3 There’s our new build- ing going up on the cor- ner of I street, and you might know we won't carry any of our present stock into it when it’s done. THAT’S BEING SAC- RIFICED RIGHT HERE. No waiting until the season is over—but cut right now. Good time for you to start to housekeeping. 3est time in the world for those who are house- keeping to refurnish. Our present prices ‘Il show how much in earnest we are. You never saw the equal of such offers as we are making. Cut | Furnitcre, {Crockery Ware, ‘arpets, Baby Coaches, to the | Spits, | Bstz, Cesehes Draperies, Pictures, B Core. | Rettigerators,| fries Brac. A reduction--and credit, too. What do you say to that? House & Herrmann, The Leading Housefurnishers, 917, 919, 921 AND 923 TTH ST. @ sel4-84d 636 MASS. AVE. G5O88S SSSSeS FLESH REDUCED) DR. EDISON'S FAMOUS OBESITY PILLS, SALT AND BANDS TAKE OFF A POUND A DAY. SOSCHSHHGODS SOSOHOBSOTOT HAIG @ GOOOSOS 99 OSS OOD IO DH HOSHGOGOOG DR. EDISON'S OBESITY FRUIT SALT TAKES OFF FAT AND IS A DELIGHTFUL, CHAM- PAGNE-LIKE, HEALTHFUL SUM- MER BEVERAGE. If you are fat it will pay you to read what a few Weil:known people say below: ‘Dr. Edison's Obesity treatment will recuce a fleshy abdomen, neck, bust, chin or face, or shoulders, or hips, without ‘reduc: tion where there is no surplus fat. ‘The akin con- tracts to {ts normal tension and covers the parts Without wrinkles.""—Mrs. Lucy Stone Menard in Woman's World. Mrs. Honorla Calfant Wayne, writing fcom the ‘Treasury Department, says: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills, Salt and Band ‘reduced my weight 19 pounds in three weeks and cured ine of kidney trouble.” Mrs. Zelma Thomson Sprague writes thus from her, residence on F atree six weeks Dr. Edl- son's Obesity Pills and Salt r me 40 pounds. ‘That {s what the Edison remedies did for me My sister, Mrs. Tillle Vanderlip Sprague, of George- town, used Dr. Edison's Pills, Salt and Band fat vegple und was reduced. $1 pounds in Ave She, Eliza Chelton Sterling writes trom the Woman's Club of Washington: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills and Salt reduced my too fat shoulders and bust, re- lieving me of 26 pounds and making me quite ‘well and graceful appearing in less than a month."” Capt. Henry Caton, long connected with the Post Office Department, writes took Dr. Edl- fon’s Pills and Salt and’ they reduced me 38 pounds in a month and a half.’" Si town, writes: “I took ‘Mrs. Stanton, Geor; Dr, Edison's Obesity Salt ahd Pills for six weeks aud they reduced my weight 35 pounds and cleared Biy cowplexton."” Major Gathright, one of the best known remain- ing old-time military men, writes: “I had my ab- dominal measurement reduced 9 inches by wearing an Edison Obesity Band four and one-half weeks.” 2 ‘Mrs. Helen Wandall Sturgess, writing from her residence on F street, says: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Band bas reduced my weight 21 Is and cured me of kidney troubles. Dr. Edison's Pills and Salt have cured my brother, Col. Wandall of the epartinent of State, of liver disease and reduced is welght 29 pounds In forty-three days. Obesity Pills, $1.50 a bottle, or three bottles for enotich for'one treatment. Obesity Fruit Salt Is $1 a bottle. Obesity Band, any size up to 86 inches, is $2.50; 10 cents extra for each additional inch in length. Send all mall, express or C. Q. D. orders to us. jetail drug trade supplied EE MERTZ, 11th and F n.w. ©. C, G. SIMMS, 1346 N.Y. ave. n. Send for “How to Cure Obesity,” 24 newspaper columns, written by distinguished ‘authors; numer- ous illustrations and 200 testimonials. Mention address exactly as given below: LORING & CO., General Agents, United States, Chicago, Dept. No. 19, No. 118 State street. New York elty, Dept. 4, No. 42 W. 22d street. be! Needn’t Hesitate To Have That Tooth Extracted. No possible chance of the extraction giy- ing you the slightest pain. We use a method which makes that Smpossible—a painless, harmless, safe method, that's pughly reliable. Extracting, 50 cents. I your DENTAL work. Bon Marche, 314 & 316 7th St. NEW FELT HATS. ‘The well-informed woman does not need to be told that ours is the largest Millinery House in* Wash- ington. The fall and winter shapes in both the English and French Felts are now ready. Hundreds or more shapes. “Bell crowns" will be fashionable. Plenty of Felt English Walking Hats and Sailors. Don't fall to see the mew shapes — “Defender,” ‘“‘Glen- more,’ “Elsmere,” _‘Fantasna,’” “Triton” and “Buckingham.” Aw- fully stylish! As an opening attraction we will sell Women’s French Felt Sailors, bell crown, velvet trim- med, which were bought 86c to sell for $1.25, for.... ©. Attractive “Buckingham’ Walking Hats, velvet trimmed, in navy, black and $1.25 brown.....++ ° ’ o— ’ Children’s & Misses’ Caps & Hats. No more difficulty about pleking ont a becoming style for your young one. It's more apt to be a ques- tlon of which not to take, as the varlety was never so extensive or the styles so becoming. Lovely “Rob Roy” Scotch Plaid Tam O'Sbanters, also plain and mixed Woolen Tam O'Shanters, 25 to Séc. Children’s and Misses’ Hats and Cups, plain colors fancies, at Yachting and Less Than the Hat Stores. BON MARCHE, 314 & 316 7th St. Sacre scecveoveeessesseseoe Eyeglasses § Spectacles): Only $1. Fitted with our FINEST LENSES. None better, no matter how highly priced. They'll be fitted to your eyes properly—without any extra charge for examination and adjusting. McAllister & Co., - EXAMINING OPTICIANS, 1311 F Street, "7 euupwe. sel4-28d | | | (XEREMREERERIKAERE) F hompson’s Insect Powder ual for killing Roaches, Bed Bugs, Water Bugs, Ants, Flies, Mosquitoes, etc.; always " fresh. Isn't, polyonous, ‘éxcept to insects. 10, 15, 25 and 40c. can. W- Thompson, 7e3 * PHARMACIST, 18°3 hasn't an en ash Your Clothes Right. = ‘io —use the best laundry soaps. There * 2 ¢* is but one best— * Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s i {Laundry & Borax * washing—make your clothes a credit * * * to you—and save time and worry, * * | * At your grocer’s. ee 2 se7-3m,32 2 * They make Might work al pees © Factory, 8244 @ st. nw. ° Hail Dental Parlors, 1116 F St. RAN Fran te tmammtmmm AU ON MT RTE | FOCoCOC >>> OOO CCCCED “Opening” jOfFine Millinery. Stebel desires to announce that will “open on MONDAY and * TUESDAY the finest line of French welsh ns, Hats and Bonnets has yet brought to the city. clusive patterns, large varlety and some Trinimings. Mrs. C. Stiebel, 1113 G St., Importer of Fine Millinery. selt-2t INo Better Time Than the Present —No better place than here, to have your j 2 teeth carefully and effictently looked after. Our patpiess methods—our up-to-date ap- plianees, and our superior skill enable us to do the most satisfactory work. Teeth examined free. 50 cents. Painless extraction, Will You Go To Atlanta? Time to think about the Trunk— or the Bag—and the traveling things that you'll take with you. A Gcod Strong Trunk for as little as $3.25. A Good Telescope Case for as little as 85c. A Good Dress Suit Case for as little as $4. ‘Trunk Strap free with every Trunk, and your pame marked on the Trunk. Kneessi, 425 7th Street. CARBONA RE} sel4-24d YES GREASE SPOTS INSTANTLY. Non-inflammable-= Non-explosive. Does not injure the most delicate fabric or color. Ue your grocer or druggist does not keep it Apply to MARSHALL, CHEMICAL CO., Marshall, Va. $724-2030 a full assortment of+Hand- 5 . The Coming ycling costumes for the up-to-date wheelwoman 3 are prettily illustrated by the six little Hthographed models we're pre- senting to every lady caller. These costumes were ksned by Redfern, aul0-3m,28 452 Penna. 3 PISLSSOSL ISSO OS OLS ORO SOOO Tenderfoots. Kraemer, Mrs. We have made a specialty all of our lives of providing comfortable and sensible footwear for that very large class of the genus homo who suffer from tender feet, corns, bunions, ingrowing toe nails, &c. You cannot find a piece of harsh leather, any rough stitching, exposed pegs or nails Sooo: ‘he lUshed by pe Manufacturing the Company, and can be bad here free. District Cycle Co., ave. if you went through our stock with a@ microscope. The celebrated Wilson $3.50 ‘frue-comfort Shoes are shown in some new and catchy shapes this fall—same old- time comfort in ‘em, however. We al- ways guarantee satisfaction, WILSON, “Shoemsker for Tender Feet," 929 F St. N. W. 8013-364 Feminoria Woman’s Friend. It 1s an accepted medical fact that more women in this country suffer from those distressing dis- ckarges peculiar to the sex, accompanied by head- ches, pains in the back, loss of appetite, nervous irritability, sleeplessness, neuralgic pains in the limbs, languer, low spirits, anaemia, pallor, .pim- ples, blackheads and a host of other disorders and discases—than in all other civillzed countries com- Lined. Dr. Nicholl's Femlnoria is a boon to such sufferers. A few doses will stop that discharge, thus affording relief in the most obstinate cases. A few bottles will effect a positive cure. Recom- mended and prescribed by the best physicians in the country. Price $1. KOLB PHARMACY, Sole Agents, 438 7th st., cor. E n.w. sed-tt ICE, COAL, WOOD. “Home Ice Co."’- ‘M. Willis, Propr. 489. Depot. 18% and 14th st. wharves. ‘EREC KIVER I Retail, wholesale and in lots, at lowest market rates. Sggistaction gucrantecd. Best grades Coal and Wood for } family trade. For Good Color and Heavy Growth Of Hair, Use YER’S Hair Vigor. One Bottle Will Do Wonders. Try It. Purify the Blood with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. if “(HH BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE ‘and use that oll and well-tried remedy, Mra. Winslow's Soothing Byrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the guin, allays all in, cures wind colic and is the best 'remeds for jarrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. sel0-ly RECAMIER CKEAM. ample post On receipt of ett 131 West Sist reveport, had terrible contagious blood poisin, - nulls to come off, and left Lim entirely bald. 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Stops the bair from falling Out, arrests dandruff and makes the nicest dressing for’ the hair one can use. No poison No se ment. No stains. Price, $1. ‘Trial alze, Uc. KOLB PHARMACY, SOLE AGENTS, 488° 7TH ST. ‘N.W. Sent, 5 express prepaid, to any part of the country on receipt of price. 4a26-tf Paper Hanging! Saipan tad A new store—complete, new stock—but *¢** oid hands at the business, An entire new stock of Wall Papers, Borderlugs, &., in the newest and richest fall conceits and combinations imaginable. Work and prices guaranteed. Interior decorating a ialty. Window * * Shades, Fretwork and Walt and Louse- * © painting. McC. Farr & Co., 1115 G St. (ate of Louis Deiter.) au24-1m,16 Bargains In Long Hair Switches. 2.50. Formerly $5.00. 4.50. Formerly $6.50. Formerly $10.50. ttendance in Hair Dressing, e ‘Curlette,”” for keeping the hair HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N.W. Books to Satisfy Mental Hunger Of any sort. As varied as the minds 14 Cents of men. Here are 5,000. vol wwalting your choosing. | Mai nee thi pEnion ournalss Everything standard and popu A Day. literatuze you'll find here. Member- ship fees, $5 year; $8 six months. Imperial Circulating Library, Sil EVENTH ST. N.W. se13-16d Don’t Poison Your Feet ing “pretended corn cures. Come to osts nothing for an examit TF Corns removed painlessly, onl — walking mnde easy. Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, LISTS, 1115 PA. AVE. ‘he Raleigh."') J.T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST. N.W., CAR- Brick and Clay, Asvestos, t Lining, Felts, Fire ints, Brushes, Time, Cement, two and three eel ELL REGULATI TOLD SHOULD Without a bottie of Dr. Slegert’s Avgostura ‘i ated appetizer, ion. 4 ‘25e.—and sel4-100 King Alexander's Eseape. A Biarritz special to the European edi- tion, September 1, New York Herald, says: Great excitement was caused yesterday morning by the report of the narrow escape from drowning of the King of Servia. The facts of the case are tifat the currents, especially when the sea is rough, along the Cote de Bidart are notoriously dangerous, and yesterday, although there was iittle wind, the sea was rough and the waves came tumbling in even at Port-Vieux with considerable force. The king was bathing in company with his usual baigneur. Two members of his house- hold—neither of whom, I believe, could swim—wece looking on from the beach, when a large wave broke on the shore, and in its backward rush carried out the swim- mers. The king, finding that he was being car- ried out, called to his balgneur, who, stun- ned by the wave, was far from being able to give assistance, as he was himself struggling for life. A second wave provi- dentially carried the king ashore, while a cr1css wave overwhelmed the unfortunate baigneur, who was seen no more. A boat was procured at Guethary, the nearest point, and the body was searched for all day, but up to late yesterday evening with- out success. All's well that ends well, but there is no doubt that the throne of Servia was nearly left vacant. soe. Naval Orders. Lieut. C. W. Bartlett has been detached from the Atlanta and ordered to the Cin- cinnati. Lieut. C. J. Badge the Washington navy yard. Lieut. A. G. Berry, Assistant Paymaster R. Hatton and Assistant Surgeon M. S. Guest, have been detached from the Min- nesota and ordered to the Vermont. _ Chief Engineer G. B. Ransom, Surgeon R. C. Persons and Chaplain D. McLaren have been detached from the Minnesota and placed on waiting orders. Capt. H. B. Robeson has been detached from the Naval War College and odrdered to duty as captain of the Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard. Lieut. W. H. H. Southerland has been de- tached from the Cincinnati and ordered to duty as executive officer of the Dolphin. from the Dolphin to SENATOR DAVIS’ BOOM Tt Has Already Been Started in Minnesota. LOOKING 70 PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION Why He is Preferred in the North- west to-Others. ~~ __ THE SORT OF MAN HE IS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ST. PAUL, Minn., September 12, 1895. Minnesota will present the name of Sena- tor Cushmam K. Davis to the next repub- lican national convention, and ask his nomination for the presidency. There are Minnesotians who are moving with a great deal of diffidence in this mat- ter, for they remember the ridiculous fig- ure Minnesota cut in the convention of 1880, when she continued for many ballots to cast ten votes for Wm. Windom. It is a commen remark here that “we don’t Want any more of that nonsense.” And while the vote will now be eighteen instead of ten, a more respectable figure, with hope of stragglers frcm many of the new states, yet there will surely be care taken that the delegates have a second choice. There is no doubt about there being a solid delegation for Davis, No contest will be made against him, but underneath it all there is a contest going on between the friends of the different candidates to se- cure delegates who will, after voting for thelr favorite son as long as there is any possibility of his nomination, turn toward their own personal choice, It was stated that the Davis candidacy was meant to be used for the purpose of securing a cabinet position for the Senator, the votes being held for him until they could be used to nominate some particular man, and then swung round in a body, and the recipient to be pledged to a cabinet position. This is not true. Some of the more ardent Davis men may be figuring Senator Davin. on this as the final gatcome, but the fight that is in progress fcr second choice shows that there will be mothing of that kind, although it would not be a strange thing if Mr. Davis should be in the next cabinot. When He Denounced Lawlessness. The Davis hoom started when he stood up in the Senate and denounced the Debs lawlessness at Chicago. That bold stroke gave him prominence before the country. It made him talked about everywhere, and the newspapers were especially favorable in their comments. After Davis had been talked of so favorably in other sections of the eountry, his friends in this state thought he would make a good candidate, and so they began booming him. The Sen- ator is not averse to the mention of: his name, and has left no doubt in the minds of those who have talked with him that he is really in it, at least so far as Min- nesota is concerned. Reasons for His Candidacy. It appears that he has several reasons for going in. When he returned to Minne- sota last spring he found that one set of politicians had determined to give the state to McKinley; Tom Reed's friends had de- termined to secure the delegation, and there was another element who thought it would be a very neighborly thing to have the votes turned in for Senator Allison of Towa. Besides these there were a number of ex-office holders who were trying to figure out a few votes for Benjamin Har- rison. ; The Senator looked the ground over, and, after some of his friends had consulted kim, and shown him that they could not hold his boom’ back, and it was further pointed out that he was not being con- sulted by the various men who were en- gineering other booms, he said “let 'er go.” ‘And she has been going ever since. But it has only changed the appearance of things. Under the surface the other fight is go- ing on. But the Davis candidacy will re- sult in getting Davis men on the delega- tion, who will be controlled by the Senator, in spite of the work that is being done by the friends of the other candidates. In fact, it is possible that Davis will prove so strong that he may control the delegation in its entirety, as did Windom once before. Objections to Other Candidates. The Davis men here, and there are many of them, are very much in earnest, and they are discussing the possibilities of their candidate with as much seriousness as are the devoted friends of Reed and McKinley. This is the way they are reasoning: There is a great deal of objection to Mc- Kinley on account of the name and the y bill. The republicans have not ered from the jolt they got at the first election afier the McKinley bill was rT that Is the talk. Then they say that Reed is so far from the cen- ter of the country, and that the candidate will of necessity come from the west. Alli- son {s not considered available, and in Min- nescta the large majority do not want Harrison. It is, of course, easy to see that this re- duced the available candidates to a very narrow limit, and Davis is that Hmit. In answer to the suggestion that it is not hkely that a candidate will be chosen from a sure republican state, it is at once point- ed out that Maine, Ohio and Jowa are sure republican states, and that is no bar to candidates, ‘ Effect on the Labor Vote. The question naturally arises, How will the position Senator Davis took when the Debs strike was on affect his candidacy. Well, it is recognized here that the politi- clans will be apt te shy a little for fear that a point will be made against him, and he will lose many~ workingmen's votes. “They may push this matter too far,” Sen- ator Davis said to a friend who was dis- cussing the question with him. “The fact is, the walking delegates, the agitators and the men who arp professional laboring men, inaugurating ;strikes and disturb- ances, are, perhaps, taking the Debs side of the case, but the rank amd file of the labor- ing men, the actual workers, recognize that Debs was wrong, anil that no body of men has the right to wreck property and defy- the authority of the,United States.”” It is evident from%what the Senator has said to friends that he Would not be averse to having some of the agitators make an issue of his position, and, to declare that he should not be nominated because he took a position against the Debs crowd. Outside His State. A question has also arisen as to whether Senator Davis will be able to command any strength outside of his own state. South Dakota, and, in fact, the other western states, are being carefully sounded as to their presidential preferences, and it is be- lieved that several delegations will be se- sured for him. It is also said that as Sen- ator Davis has never taken an active posi- tion one way or another on the money question, or, rather, that he has never as- sumed to be a leader against silver, con- tenting himself with voting the sentiment of his state, without making any bitter fight on the white metal, he will win many delegates from the silver states, who will really haye no one to vote for after Don Cameron is out of it. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, one of the most ardent sil- -| ments. ver men in the west, is one of the warmest supporters Senator Davis has. As a Dark Horse. ‘There seems to be a great hope among ‘the Davis men here that when the leading candidates have failed to secure a ma- jority they will turn to Davis in preference to having the principal rivals selected. It is really interesting to know that the vic- tory which Quay secured in Pennsylvania gave the Davis boomers a great deal of comfort. It is not generally known that Quay and Davis are very warm personal friends, but such is the fact. Both are great scholars and readers. They have a great many mutual literary tastes, and the discussions they have had has inspired admiration of each for the other’s abilities and attain- Stranger things might happen than that Serator Quay should swing the Pennsylvania delegation to the Minnesota man. Then there is the strength of Quay’s friends in the convention. Oh, there are lots of contingencies which make the Davis boom large in the eyes of Minnesota men. Personally Making No Fight. I do net want to indicate that Senator Davis is making a canvass. He is sitting quietly in his law office by day and his library by night and letting matters take their course. I think it is very gratifying to him, and it is with considerable pride that he looks forward to seeing the Minne- sota delegation going into convention to vote for him for President. The corre- spondence of the Senator since the talk ot his candidacy has gained ground has assumed immense proportions. He does not find time to answer all the letters that come to him. Many of them come from old soldiers from all parts of the Union. As chairman of the Senate committee on pen- sious Senator Davis was able to leave a big mark upon pension legislation, for all of which the old vets are grateful. These men are promising him support from nearly every state. Senator Davis is now engaged in the practice of law. He is not a politician when legal questions are to be untangled, and since his return from Washington he has had many important cases. At the present time his firm has pending in the courts som2 of the greatest cases that have been considered in northwestern courts. Probably there is no better all- around lawyer in the northwest than Sen- ator Davis. In fact, he has few, if any, superiors in the legal profession anywhere. When Congress is not in session he de- votes all his time to the law, and even he continues his legal work while attend- ing to his senatorial duties. His Literary Tastes. . Minnesota’s candidate for the presidency is an omniverous reader. He has one cf the finest libraries in the state, and in point of rare books his collection is not rivaled outside of public libraries. The happiest hours of his life are spent among his books. A person passing his fine resi- dence on St. Anthony Hill in this city any night before 1 or 2 o'clock can see the Senator sitting in his library reading end smoking, for with his book he enjoys his cigar. He can scarcely be tempted from them by anything else, and only the stern- est duty will make him abandon his cozy corner. His Career. Senator Davis has been a favorite in Minnesota for a great many years. He is a native of New York, went to Wiscon- sin when a boy, enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment and- remained in the army until gent home from the Arkansas swamps to die. He recovered his health and gradu- ated in law. In Minnesota he first attain- ed prominence. He was district attorney for the state and then elected governor. He was a popular official, and his more enthusiastic friends tried “to elect him to the Senate, even going so far as to bolt the republican caucus. The result was that Senator ‘Ramsey was defeated, and for twelve years Davis remained in private Ufe. Then he was elected without opposi- tion, and at the close of his term was re- elected. His record in the Senate Is very satis- factory to the people of his state. He has never talked much, but when he does it is generally to the noint. He is a favor- ite son, and his friends see the opening now for giving Minnesota a President. —_——.___ INDEPENDENCE DAY IN MEXICO. Stery of Hidalgo’s Futile Fight for Freedom. Independence day in Mexico will be cele- brated today. The idea of independence for Mexico had been conceived when Hidalgo was but a student. In the meantime the United States had obtained freedom from Great Britain, and this example fanned the faint light in the priest’s mind into a flame. While working among his flowers and vegetables in the little garden at Dolores he dreamed of Mexico as Mexico, and no longer a helpless dependency of a rapidly deteriorating Spain. Hidalgo, on Saturday night, September 15, 1810, with a few chosen spirits of his own way of thinking, liberated a few pris- oners in Dolores and armed them. The next morning from his pulpit he declared the independence of Mexico and made a passionate appeal to his parishioners to fol- low his leadership and fight to free the country from the hated Spaniard. This was Sunday, September 16. A new viceroy—Don Francisco Javier ‘Venegas—had just taken up the reins of government in Mexico when this move- ment occurred. The imperial troops were sent against the priest, and were complete- ly routed at Monte de Ia Cruces, near Mex- ico city. Hidalgo, instead of immediately pressing forward into the city with his victorious patriots, withdrew to the city of Queritaro. A new force of Spanish troops Was massed in the meantime, and the independents were disastrously routed at Aculco. But one more stand was made by Hidalgo at Puente de Calderon, near Guadalajara, and, again meeting defeat, the patriots fled toward the northern fron- er. At Las Norias de Bajan, near the Rio Grande, they were captured, and Hidalgo, Allende, Aldama and Jimenez, the four leaders, were shot in the city of Chihua- hua, on June 26, 1811. Thus ended the first effort made by Mexico for freedom. But the cause lived. The Mexicans were aroused. The country was but a sleeping volcano, and Spain knew it well, but still continued the system of misgovernment, which had but the one result—independ- ence. The heads of the patriots were ex- posed for days on poles at Guanajuato, In later years they were buried with great pomp in the cathedral at Mexico city. The Celebration. Every town and city from the lowlands on the Pacific coast and along the Gulf of Mexico to the beautiful tablelands, near- ly seven thousand feet above sea level, will put on its gayest attire today and make merry in commemoration of the event. Not with the boom of cannon and the crackling of firecrackers, as Americans celebrate Fourth of July, will the day be ushered in, but rather by music, which Mexicans enjoy more than any nation on earth, save the Italians, and the sports pecullar to Spain and Spanish-America. In many modest hostleries where the peons congregate will be held cocking mains. Military bands stationed In the “por- tales,” or the plaza, will play with finish and precision the most difficult airs by foreign or native composers. Such band music cannot be heard anywhere else in the world. The Mexicans of both the high- er and lower classes will congregate around the music stands and fairly drink in the very soul of the melody. Within a very few hours these selfsame individuals will revel in a bull fight and go mad with delight at some feat of daring by the fighter in the arena. ——_+e+ Excess of Imports. A bulletin issued by the bureau of sta- tistics of the Treasury Department shows an excess in imports of merchandise over exports for the month of August of $15,- 215,729, and for the eight months ending August of $36,505,518. The same periods last year showed the exports to be im ex- cess by $9,078,075 and $64,777,257. Gold to the value of $16 261 was exported dur- ing August, making $55,766,217 for the elght months of the year. The excess of exports over imports is placed at $1. 782 and 41, as opposed to $1,935,! and $74,233,281 for corresponding periods in 1894. Gold ore showed a total export for the eight months of over a million. The silver exports, including coin, bullion and ore, were 4 1-2 and thirty-five millions, oppesed to 4 1-2 and twenty-nine millions for 1804. The immigrants during the month num- bered 27,199, and for the year to date, 212,- 733, as opposed to 17,449 and 166,581 during 1894. [UNITED ITALY The Celebration to Take Place Next Friday. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EVENTS What Led Up to the Occupation of Rome. VICTOR EMANUEL’S TRIUMPH The Italian residents throughout the United States are very generally preparing to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the unification of the Italian stetes, which occurs on the 20th instant. After wresting from Austria the states held by that power, the last thing to be done to complete the unification of the Italian states was the seizing of the papal terri- tory, which was finally done by military force September 20, 1870, that being the day of the proposed celebration. ‘The event will be celebrated in Washing- ton by a street parade, reception by the Italian minister, Baron Fava, and a ban- quet in the evening. Napoleon’s Great Project. One of the great projects of Napoleon I was the unification of the great nations of Europe. There are historians who credit Napoleon with having inspired the great movement which cemented the states of the Italian nation, and which has placed that power among the great nations of the earth. Las Casas has reported the words of Na- poleon as spoken to him when the emperor was at St. Helena in 1816, as follows: “One of my great plans was the rejoining, the reconcentration of those same geographical rations which have been disunited and par- celed out by revolution and policy. There are dispersed in Europe upward of thirty millions of French, fifteen millions of Span- iards, fifteen millions of Italians and thirty millions of Germans. It was my intention to incorporate these several millions of peo- ple each into one nation. It would have been a noble thing to have advanced into pos- terity with such a train, and attended by the blessings of future ages. I felt myself worthy of this glory.” Emperor Napoleon is quoted with saying that concentration of nations which he de- sired to se2 would be brought-about sooner cr later by the very force of events, and it is to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the completion of this unity, long-looked for and hardly fcught for, by Italians, that the Societa Fratallanza Unione Italiana will hold a street parade, reception and banquet next Friday. Italy Cut Into Fragments. The great object of the congress of Vien- na, upon the downfall of Napoleon in 1815, was so to dismember and reconstruct Europe as to hold its people in entire sub- jection to the feudal kings. Italy was cut up into fragments, and so parceled out as to render any rising of the people in favor of popular rights almost impossible. The whole of Italy, with the exception of Sar- dinia, was virtually cut up into province: of the Austrian empire. “he Italian peopl were exasperated in being handed over; bound hand and foot, to Austria. A secre! society was organized, called the Carbonarlj to rescue Italy from Austrian sway. Th society spread with unprecedented rapidity It is sald that during the mont! of March, 1820, 650,000 members were sdmitted. In the month of July, 1820, the insurrection burst forth in Naples, and almost simul- taneously in the papal states in Sardinia and in other parts of Italy. The whole military force of Austria, Russia and Prus- sia was immediately put in motion for the enslavemert of Italy. Throughout Italy the popular cause was utterly crushed. Still the members of the Carbonari were active, and for ten years the volcanic fires were gathering for a new eruption. overthrow of Charles X and the enthrone- ment of Louis Phillippe aroused the popu- lar party allover Europe. Louis Napoleon, then a young man twenty-two years of age, with his elder brother, joined the Car- tonari. His friends endeavored to dis- suade him from his purpose, but he stead- fastly worked in the cause of the people of Italy, The Austrian armies, with those of Russia and Prussia, again swept over Italy, and the patriot bands were slaughtered inercilessly. The elder of the Napoleons was slain at this time, and Hortense suc- ceeded in saving her son, Louis Napoleon, by disguising him as a servant and escap- ing to France, and from thence to England. This was the termination of the second at- tempt for the emancipation of Italy. The Uprising in 1848, ‘There were eighteen years more of grind- ing oppression for the Italian people, until, in 1848, when the French again rose, and, driving Louis Phillippe from the throne and kingdom, established the republic. The events aroused anew the liberal party throughout all Europe. Charles Albert, then King of Sardinia, was the only ruler in Italy who had even the semblance of independence of Austria. Emboldened by the example of France, which had constituted a republic on the basis of universal suffrage, and of equal rights for all, he commenced cautiously in- troducing popular reforms into his kin; over Italy the revolutionary movement burst forth. Again the armies of Austria were on the move, and in a series of terrible battles swept the whole peninsula with billows of fire and blood. Charles Albert met disaster. Hts forces were utterly routed, and on the 224 of March, 1849, he said to Gen. Durando: “This is my last day. I have sacrificed myself to the Italian cause. For it I have exp?sed my life, that of my children and of my throne. I have failed in my object. Since I in vain sought death, I will give myself up as a last sacrifice to my coun- try. I lay down my crown and abdicate in favor of Victor Emanuel.” It was Victor Emanuel who received hig crown, it might be said, in the midst of his father’s failure and disaster. He was des- tined to see the Italian states united and formed into a great nation. His father's failure ended the tijird attempt at a popu- lar uprising in Italy. Ten more years pass- ed away, when the empire was re-establish- ed in France and became a power which all Europe was constrained to respect. France's Pledge of Assistance, The Sardinian court, after a few years, applied to the imperial government in France to learn if that nation would aid Sardinia against Austria, should Sar- dinia enter upon the work of popular re- form. The pledge was promptly given. Sardinia cautiously commenced introduc- ing enactments of liberty. Austria _remon- strated, declaring that itberty in Sardinia would excite discontent in other parts of Staly. Austrian troops to the number of 250,000 ‘Were moved to the Sardinian fron- tier. The ambassador of imperial France immediately informed the Austrian court that France could not look with indiffer- ence upon the invasion of Sardinia. Un- intimidated by this menace, the Austrian army in April, 1859, crossed the Ticino and commenced its march upon Turin, It was under these circumstances that the armies of France were sent to the aid of the Italians. The Austrians were driven from Sardinia and from Lombardy. All Italy in one general burst of enthusiasm rose against the Austrians, and were fiock- ing to the banners of France and Sar- dinia. Dynastic Europe was alarmed. The splrit of the French revolution of 1780 had risen from its grave. Hungarians and Poland- ers were grasping their arms, Ireland was exultant that her hour of opportunity had come. Sardinia and France were now pushing triumphantly forward for the lib- eration of Venetia, that Italy might be free to the Adriatie; that United Italy might be orgarized into a kingdom upon the basis of universal suffrage and of equal rights for all men. England joined Prvssia in an alllance with Austria io prevent the liberation of Venetia and the unification cf Italy. France and Sardinia were informed that unless they immediately arrested the march of their victorious armies and left Venetia in the hands of Austria, in accord- ance with the treaties of 1815, all the mili- tary power of both Prussia and England should be brought forward to the ald of Austria. This was an appalling menace. It was certain that all Europe would thus be involved in the most sangulnary of wars. Thus the Mberating army was ar- rested. The peace of Villa Franca, whitch recognized the Hberation of all the’ rest of Italy, left Venetia in chains. This inter- vention and coalition of the dynasties against Italian liberation compelled the French army to return across the Alps, Jeaving its work but partially accomplished. Italy United Under Victor Emanuel. The leaders in this Italian revolution were willing, in order that they might disarm mcnarchial Europe of its hostility, to re- linquish the idea of a republic and to ac- cept monarchial forms in view with repub- lican institutions. Py the peace of Villa France, which tock place in the summer of 1859, all the fragmentary provinces of Italy, except Venetia and the states of the church, were united in one kingdom, under Victor Emanuel. By the general voice of Europe Napoleon was recognized as the liberator of Italy. The Emperor of France was that Louis Napoleon who took up arms for Italy in his younger days. Some thought he had made some vow at the bedside of his brother, dying in his arms at Forli, and that this swayed Napoleon’s mind through- out life. At any rate, he was always the friend of Italian unity, and worked steadily to attain that end. When Bismarck had matured his ambi- tous plans of creating in the heart of Eu- rcpe an immense German empire it was es- sential that German territory should be wrested by war from the dominion of Aus- tria. But this power was stronger in arms. than Prussia. Bismarck needed help. Though under a different policy he had pre- vicusly prevented the liberation of Venetia he now informed Victor Emanuel that if he would attack Austria upon the south, while Prussia attacked her on the north, Venetia might easily be wrested from Austria end arnexed to Italy. It was purely a selfish Policy. It did not pretend to be anything else. Austria attacked so fiercely by Prus- sia found it necessary to withdraw her trocps from Venetia. She surrendered ‘the province to France, by whom it was im- mediately transferred to Italy, which was now free to the Adriatic, with the exception of the states of the Catholic Church. The Papal States. The question respecting the papal states now became exceedingly embarrasing and difficult of solution. On this question Ab- bott, in his history of Italy, says: “Victor Emanuel found himself in a very embarrassing situation. There was a ‘strong democratic and infidel party in Italy, led by such men as Garibaldi and Mazzini, who were ripe for any measures of violence in reference to the pope. They would gladly hurl him from his spiritual, as well as from his temporal, throne, and confiscate all the broperty of the church. These men formed the nucleus of a strong opposition to the constitutional monarchy of Victor Emanuel, They wished to overthrow his throne and to establish the government of a radical democracy. With great efficiency they raised the popular cry of ‘United Italy with Rome for its capital.’ “The revolution in France so roused the Italian democracy that the government of Victor Emanuel felt compelled to take the lead of the popular impulse, which had be- come so strong that it threatened to sweep them from power. To save the monarchy it was deemed essential to seize upon Rome, fcr unless the government should do it the revolutionists would rise en masse and proclaim a republic in the captured city. Apparently, the only way to baffle the intrigues of the revolutionists was to anticipate them in the movement. ‘The agitation in Italy became so great that the government of Victor Emanuel was im- pressed with the necessity of immediate action. There were enthusiastic meetings all over Italy, calling for the seizure of the territory of the pope, and the appropria- tion of Rome as the capital of Italy. The enthusiasm was so general that those who were in the opposition found it expedient to keep silent. Occupation of Rome. “The court of Florence sent a letter to the pope by an eminent nobleman of Sar- dinia. This document, which was very def- erentially worded, announced to the holy father the determination of the Italian gov- ernment to take possession of the states of the church and to constitute Rome the capital of united Italy. The pope was as- sured of the profound respect with which the Italian government did still regard his spiritual power, and he was entreated to submit to the Inevitable with as good a Brace as possible. The reply of the pope, which was a very laconic and eiiphatio refusal, was giver in a formal audience whieh was granted the ambassador on the i0th of September, 1870. The very next day the troops of Victor Emanuel crossed the frontier and entered the states of the church at three points. These military bands were so strong as to render any ef- fectual resistance on the part of the pope impossible. The pope, conscious that any resistance would be unavailing, command- ed that there should be only such show of force at the gates of Rome as to prove to the world that his realms were wrested from him by military violence. “At half-past 5 o'clock on Tuesday morn- ing, September 20, .the Sardinian troops having arrived before the walls of the city, opened fire upon the Porta Pia and upon the Porta Salavia. At half-past 8 a breach was effected at the Porta Pia, an@ at half-past 9 it was carried by storm. At 10 o'clock two divisions of Gen. Cardona’ army entered Rome and took possession of the city and the struggle ceased.” When the members of the Italian colony in this city sit down to their banquet at Freund’s Hall next Friday evening it will have been just a quarter of a century since the stirring events occurred in Rome which resulted in the complete unity of the Ital- ian states. Victor Emanuel, after seizing the papal states, submitted the question of their fu- ture rule to the suffrages of the people of Rome, whether they would renounce their temporal allegiance to the pope and become subjects of united Italy. The vote was al- most unanimous for the change, but the clerical party refused to vote, affirming that they were overawed by 60,000 bayo- nets, and that the pretended ballot box was a a ee e church has never recognized any title of Italy to the papal states, and it is sup- posed to await the day when they may be regained. The last quarter of a century has beer one of considerable prosperity for the Italian nation, and, though harassed by political struggles, the government has nev- er been so weak that it could not maintain all the territory that was gained under Vietor Ema:uel. —___ OPENING THE EXPOSITION. Pr-parations for the Great Parade in Atlanta, The Atlanta exposition opens Wednes- day. Up to noon everybody will be busy in the preparations for the big event, but af- ter that the people of the city and the strangers within her gates will give them- selves over to a celebration of the event wlich means so much to the city and the south, As the day of opening draws near the city is taking on a new coat of cleanliness, and everything is being brightened up and freshened, so that the belle of southern cities can show herself to the best ad- vantage. Preparations are being made for quite an elaborate decoration of the business por- tions of the city and of the streets through which the procession. will pass. The pro- cession will be composed of the local and visiting military companies, all the civic societies, the exposition officials and the distinguished guests, who will be in car- riages. It is expected that Governor Mor- ton of New York will be one of these. The parade will be under the command of Col. Kellog, fifth infantry, U.S.A., whose regiment will participate. This is Gen. Miles’ old command. now at Fort McPher- son. It has been ordered to camp at the exposition grounds, becoming a working exhibit of the army. The grounds are less than two miles frcm the center of the city, and the route of march lies out Peachtree, the Sth ave- nue of Atlanta. In the grounds the exer- cises will begin at 1:30 o'clock. They will open with Victor Herbert's “Salute to At- lanta,” by the Gilmore Band. Addresses of welcome will be made by President Col- lier and Mrs. Thompson, president of the woman’s department. Then Professor Washington, the colored orator, will make a formal presentation to the negro depart- ment. Governor Atkinson and Mayor King will do the welcoming for the state and city, and then, off at Gray Gables, President Cleveland or Baby Marion will touch the button that will start the machinery. The principal orator is Judge Emery, Speer of the United States district court. Frank L, Stanton, the Georgia poct, hag written the ode for the occasion. The com. mittee in charge of the program has almed to make it thoroughly representative ang has worked with the idea of having ms exercises as concise as possible. They w! take place in the big auditorium. The people of the state and of the entire south are beginning to join in Atlanta's en- ti.us'asm over the expositicn, and the indi- cations point to a big crowd Wednesday,