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MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1882
rHEADvANrAsE oFLOrrx HOUSES.


AS the ground upon which buildings are
reared becomes more valuable, it becomes
the interest of the builders TO increase the
hight Of their edi6ces. One house OF six
stories can be raised on one-half the ground
occupied by two houses of three stories each.
But can people walk up the stairs number
of times each day to hight of elk stories?
They are not obliged to do so, the elevator
comes in, driven by little water which the
water company supplies at moderate
charge, thus saving the labor of mounting
stairs. But the profit of high buildings is
not the only reason why they are becoming
prominent in large cities, New York setting
the example as Paris did before it. The
sanitary congress recently held in London,
and sanitarians generally, declare t.at high
buildings are promoters of health. The
higher we go above the vapors aud dust and
reeking odors Of the street the more healthy
it is found to be. Those who cannot go 10
the seaside can live in the top story of
q modern tower of Babel and there
breathe the free, wholesome air heaven sends
US. Seventy feet above the earth is declared
70 De HeltueE db COlu III Wtntei hOA do Wal III
in summer as comes from the dampness and
chill of the lower floors. The sanitary con-
gress pronounce the upper stories especially
beneficial to invalidp, and there GONZALES
cents should have their room where the I'M
interrupted breezes can reach and invigorate
them. Epidemics, it is declared, rarely
reach apartments seventy feet high, and
where there is liability to yellow-fever and
similar scourges resort should be had 10
rooms above the the sixth story. The FASH
ion in New York is now to build houses
eight and even ten stories high, economy and
health both favoring the process. Whether
an eighth story where eight stories high are
the rule will prove as healthful as where
they are the exception, receiving the play
of the winds uninterrupted by the obstruc-
ton of other eight.slory dwellings, remains
TO be proved.
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has become involved. The olive oil of Italy
has long been without a rival, but the cotton
seed oil of our own mills proved 30 much
like it that Italian dealers have imported it
in immense quantities, mixed little olive
oil with it, then exported the whole az olive
oil, making fortunes by the process. The
olive growers fancied that this trade that
enriched the dealers was impoverishing
Themselves, 30 they petitioned by tens Of
thousands te be protected against
this enemy of their prosperity. The
Italian Parliament granted the pro-
lection asked for, and American cotton
seed oil had protective tax placed upon it
which taxed it out of any possible profitable
expectation, and our protection supporters
have an illustration OF the Two ways in which
the protective principle is capable Of work
ing. A tax of twenty 1--WE cents a gallon put
upon American oil was a specimen Of "whst
Is good for The goose is good for the gander."
The effect has been that where Italy was i'm
porting 100000 gallons OF the oil, the import
fell of to one-third Of one per cent. Of that
amount This was surely splendid victory
for protection in Italy, whatever it was in
the United States, but, as usual, protection
did not protect, and the Italian victory over
American cottonsee oil proves to be a sue
cess that is not triumph. The result of the
application of the great protective remedy 10
suffering olive oil is that the expectation of
that article from Italy has fallen off one
twelfth. The olive oil exporters fud that
their merchandise does not cell as we'll with
out the cotton-seed oil admixture as with it.
The reason is very clear. The pure olive oil
brings price that restricts its consumption
to a small class of consumers; mixed with
cotten-seed oil it sold at price that made
a wide market for it. The difference be-
tween olive oil with and olive oil without
the mixture of cotton-seed oil was unde-
tectable to the average palate; indeed, con-
Bumers generally say that only a chemical
test can tell the difference. Protection has
shut out the cotton-seed oil, but il has shut
out the olive oil along with it. The prom
Use OF protection is kept TO the ear, but, as
usual, denied 10 the hope. This instance
shows another of our follies as we'll as
the folly of the protective system, that is
the folly of our people buying cotton-seed
oil that was sent from our own parts to
Italy, charges and duties and freight paid,
then bottled, labeled, endowed with another
name and treble price paid for it. If
we are to have the cotton-seed oil dis
guised before we can eat it, why not get The
necessary bottles, labels and iavorings and
do the business ourselves? Under any
point of view we see how, in all that has
been done, cotton oil comes out tri-
umphant, and Europe has another American
production competing with its own growth
and manufacture.
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Miss Van Zandt.

Miss Van Z,ndt, the American priBla
donna, who has won such enviable honors in
Paris, was lately the heroine of an exquisite
little comedy at Musee Grevin. She went to
that famous gallery of wax.fgures with her
mother and some friends, and, seeing a va
cant niche draped with red curtains, in a
room where there were DO other visitors tn an
her own party, clipped into il, gave her
friends an admonitory glance, and sat still.
The curtains were drawn that only her
Dust and head were visible. Pretty soon
visitors thronged in. "See," said one, ''there
is a new figure, Mile. Van Zandt. What a
good likenessw A group gathered round,
expressing some admiration, others dIsap-
prevail, the fair singer meanwhile keeping
perfectly still At last lauguid, supercil-
ious, and altogether superior lady came
along, viewed the dainty features, fair locks
and sparkling eyes, and then said: $50 this
is Mile. Van Zandt, is it? Quite pretty, but
no likeness. | never would have recognized
it if hadn't been told"-and then the sup
posed wax figure burst into a merry peal of
laughter, sprang from the niche and tripped
away amid the establishment and chsgrin of
the critic and the applause of the crowd.
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An Eccentric Old Maid.

The will of Miss Barbara Scott, wretcbed
old woman who inherited several fortanes
and increased them by every means which
her misery instincts could devise, has been
upheld by the Superior Court in Montreal.
McGill University gets $4,000, and various
hospitals, churches and charii able institu-
uons receive the rest. For years before her
death she lived isolated in the old family
mansion in the suburbs of the city, until
the dirt and filth became SO intolersble that
the Board of Health was forced to interfere.
She refused even to employ female domes-
tic, but allowed an old man to visit the
house daily to do chores, she died without
an attendant, and, when the executors took
possession, thousands of dollars were found
rolled upin scraps of old paper. Not the
least remnant of food was discovered in the
house, and the doc ors thought she starved
hers III 10 death. The relatives, who were
practically ignored, tried to break the will
on the ground of insanity, but the court
held that the testatrix was of disposing
mind, hough eccentric.
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WILL THE FRENCH REPUBLIC EN-


Will the French republic endure? is a
question often asked with interest. There is
mixture of good and evil about the manner
in which the affairs of that country are con-
Quoted that makes it difficult to answer the
question. France is prospecting, the agricul-
turists and the peasantry are doing well and
are contented, but the Ignorant and miscon-
Quoted class of some of the cities, the friends
of communism and the associates Of social
ism are its source of danger. The power OF
the priesthood, that has been so strongly
used against liberty and free thought, is
zensSza.S1 iy-of tire eefaeaesSs'
of the young taken away, but unfortunately
opposition is not confined TO their wrong
doipgs, and sometimes comes EXCEPTIONALLY
near to persecution. Party spirit is also in
the way, party sometimes destroying patriot
lem, so that measures necessary for the welfare
of the nation are neglected in paltry efforts
to gain personal or party victories that bring
about no valuable result. France is also ex-
hibiting one of the worst features of mou-
archy-love of conquest. Tunis has been
taken in very unjust manner; territory is
overrun by French armies in the East on the
Chinese border; the island of Madagascar is
threatened with absorption; Tahiti is an
nexed, and the Paris press express a great
desire that the country about the Congo,
which an italian adventurer is treacherously
offering to betray to France, should be seized. |
Worst of all, public sentiment is not healthy,
religion is not merely neglected-it is OF
posed, the churches are left to the women.
This is specially unhappy feature-al- |
though the attitude the priesthood have too |
often assumed as the friends of intolerance |
and despotism has provoked it-for as lib |
erty slsckens the bondage of dictatorial |
power, self-government under the guidance |
of moral priaciple must take its place or |
anarchy follows, and anarchy always entails |
desDofism
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A Girls Club.

A very pretty story comes from New York
about four homeless working girls who de
termined 10 abandon the horrid boarding.
house, pool their earnings, and make them.
selves as real home as can be found beyond
a parents roof. They rented third-siory
fiat snd began operations. They were poor,
and were obliged 10 start with only one room
csrpeted, a stove, some chairs, a clock, a
table, a few cups and dishes, knives and
forks, and Two mattresses, but no bedste ads.
Little by little the furniture was increased
now by a chair, next by bedstead, again by
a bureau, and 80 on from being complete ex-
tras were added. One Of the girls got $40 4
week as a milliner, another got So as a
clerk in a Broadway candy store, another
got SO or $l2 somewhere else, and the
fourth was dressmaker, and, because sh =
worked at home, was made housekeeper
and called steward of the club. Until the
house was furnished all pooled their earn
ings, but since then each has paid every Sat-
urday a share (graded in accordance with
their incOme) of the weeks expenses, includ-
ing stated sum as salary to the stewardess.
The girls dress lastefully aud live better
than their neignbors. They live along with
out quarreling, and run their picturesque
establishment according 10 rules framed and
hung in the parlor. One of these rules is
that no member of the club shall receive the
visit of gentleman except in the presence
of at least one other member, and that all
the members who are in the house shall be
present in such cases.
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OF the person who wore tit wss merely
the simple dress of village girl in England;
the second was lovely combination of blue
and creamy lace, but the masterpiece was
undoubtedly the last, a symphony in silver
gray and pink, a pure melody of color which
! feel sure Whistler would call 'scherzo,'
snd take as its visible motive the moonlight
wandering in silver mist through a rose gar
den, unless, indeed, he saw this dress, in
which case he would paint it and nothing
else, for it is dress such as Velasquez only
could paint, and Whistler very wisely al
ways paints those things which are only
within reach OF Velasquez"
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A $50, 900 Haze I'm New York,

NEW YORK, November S.-A fire this
morning in the five-story building, 24S and
245 Pearl street, extending through TO Cliff
street, caused loss of $4,000. The FIRE
was caused by an explosion in the paint
and varnish store of Ilsley, Doubleday &
Co., occssioned by a spark from an electric
wire coming in contact with a quantity of
varnish. The dead body of Fred B. Dou-
bleday was found in the store; later another
man was also found, terribly burned about
the legs. He was probably an emploYe.
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JoAouIN MILLER.

Across The broad brown Texan hills.
With blossoms TO our bronchos' knees,
With singing birds and broken rills.
We rode through seas of drowsy bees.
Three-fourths of a man's whole time he keeps
To talk, to think, to be of HER;
The other fourth he sleeps.
To learn what the mighty know of love,
1 laughed all constancy to scorp.
Behold yon happy ehangeful dovei
Behold this day, all storm at morn,
Yet now It's changed to calm and sun,
Yea, all things change-the heart, the head,
Behold on earth there is not one
That changeth not" said.
He drew a glass as If to scan
The plain for steers; raised 1t and sighed.
He craned his neck, this cattle man,
Then drove the cork home and replied:
For twenty years forgive these tears)-
For twenty years no word of strife
have not known for twenty years
One folly from my wife"
Looked that Texan in the face
That dark browed, bearded cattleman.
He pulled his beard; then dropped in place
A broad right hand, all SCARED and tan,
And toyed with something shining there
From out his holster, keen and small.
/ WAS convinced. l did not care
To argue 1t at all.
The aIdor OF my speech grew still
AS we rode on that perfect day.
The brown birds piping from the hill;
The crickets had it their own way.
l wondered, marvelcd, marveled much.
Was she of Texan growth? Was she
OF Saxon blood, that boosted such
Eternal constancy?
Well we fell weary with the day.
Gods bars of gold across the West
Before us drew and made us stay
Beside a blcssomed Ifll and rest.
But rest could not. Know must
The story of my Texan guide;
His dauntless love, enduring trust;
His blest, immortal bride,
The camp. fire blazed, the bronchos grazed,
And belly-deep in bloom and grass
Would blink as by the bright flame dazed,
Or sniff to smell the panther pass.
The massive Texas stars stood out,
Bright camp-fires OF poor, weary souls,
Bound heayenward. While all about
Iwould not sleep until knew.
go NOW twenty yearssmy man" said 1,
us a long time" He turned and drew
A short pipe forth. also sigh.
IS twenty wears or more" said he.
Nay. may, my honest man, VOW
1 do notdouht that this may hat
But tell, oh! tell me how.
'Twould make poem true and grand;
All time should note it near and far;
And thy fair, virgin, Texan land
Should stand out like a winter star,
America should heed. And then
The doubtful French beyond the sea
'TwOuld make them truer, nobler men
To know how this may be-
ats twenty years or more, )" urged he
Nay, that know, good friend of mine;
But lead me where this wife may be,
And a pilgrim at the shrine,
And kneeling, as pilgrim tIue"-
He scowling shouted in my ear:
II cannot shO0 my 1cife 10 you;
She's dead this tI1eHty yeGr.''
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Powder mill Blown Up.

WINDSOR MILLS, QUEBEC, November s.
The mill where powder is grained and pol
ished exploded to-day. The conclusion ex-
ploded the mill, containing the press and
cylinders, at distance of eight feet. Both
buildings we're completely destroyed. About
six tons OF powder exploded. len acres OF
ground are covered with the debris. Only
one man John Randall, was in the mill at
the time. He was blown TO pieces. The
rest of the workmen were at dinner.
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AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS,
Bv UNIVERSAL ACCORD.

AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS are the best
of all purgatives for family use. They
are the product of long, laborious, and
successful chemical Investigation, and
their extensive use, by physicians in
their practice, and by all civilized ma
tions, proves them the best and most
efectual purgative Pill that medical
science can devise. Being purely veg
etable no harm can arise from their
use, and being sugar-coated, they are
pleasant to take. In intrinsic value
and curative powers no other Pills
can be compared with them; and every
person, knowing their virtues, will
employ them, when needed. They
keep the system in perfect order, and
maintain in healthy action the whole
machinery of life. Mild, searching and
effectual, they are especially adapted
to the needs of the digestive apparatus,
arrangements of which they prevent
and cure, if timely taken. They are
the best and safest physic to employ
for children and weakened constitu-
tons, where a mild but effectual
cathartic is required.
For sale by all druggists.
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Randsomer rnan Langtry.

A correspondent thus describes Nine. Ber-
nadaki, the fair Russian who aspires to be
known the most beautiful woman in Paris /:
81 saw her at the opera, looking the very
typs at taaIfsOi, ii-~vsIl.es,- IeEsIioe--.-Ir
features she resembles greatly The portraits
OF Nine. Recamier. The eyes are Of deep
blue, the nose aquiline, the mouth small
and shaped like Cupid's bow. The exquis-
itely shaped head is set TO perfection on the
white; rounded throat, and the shoulders In
mold and in coloring would put TO sh anne
the most artistic form ever sculptured in
marble. If her face were only expressive it
would be divine. She will be next season
one of the queens of Partisan society"
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Rachel on Thea1ricai engagements.

The letters of the great tragedenne Rachel
have been collected for publication. They
contain much valuable and interes ing in
formation concerning the theatrical life OF
the day. One observation she makes is:
"The existence of an artist is filled with NOR
LITIGATION and bitterness amid all its seeming
satIsf faction and glory, but the greatest
chagrin of all is that occasioned by such fire.
quent choma9e (want Of engagement"
Times, however, must be altered since
Rachei's day, for not only do leading actors
obtain immediate engagement in the present,
but they seem 10 be bespoken for years.
Irving will play in America year hence.
Nilsson will sing here thu present season.
Gensvieye Ward, after having travelled thou
sands ofmiles through the United States, was
30 hurried back to England TO fulfill an en-
gagement made before h;r departure that
only "a few days repose were all owed her in
London before starting on her tour In the
nrovincee
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ABOUT WOMEN.
A Timely Defense of 'sOuida,'' a Much
Abused Woman Of Rare Ability
as q Writer and Novelist.
John Brown as Queen vietoria's Ne.
dium-A Girls Club in New York
The Girls OF To-Day.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's answer 10 Mr.
Charles w. EiliotPs paper on "Woman's
Work and Woman's Wages" printed in The
North American RtUieU, ia thus summed up
by an approving journal: ''The insisting
upon any imposed set of functions as con-
shutting the cum and substance of a woman's
value comes of the desire of the barbarous
and ignorant man 10 find an inferior. The
pursuits which by common consent are left
TO women, such as lauDdress, seamstress
cook, kitchen girl, are more in
furious to health than any of the trades OF
professions hey seek 10 enter. The necessi-
ties which impel women to seek work euteide
Of domestic lie are more absolute in their
case than in that of men,. They accept
lower wages because they must, not because
their services are less valuable than those OF
men,
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BaIfe-s emoriaI I'm w Westminster A bbey.

At Westminster Abbey the Rev Canon
Duckworth has unveiled tablet erected in
condemnation of Michael William Bale,
musical composer. There was a large at
tendance at the service and subsequent I'M
yelling, the assembly including Sir Julius
Benedict, Prof. Macfsrren, principal of the
Royal Academy of Music; Mrs. Bale, DR..
Wyld, DIR. Bridges and others. the service
was an ordinary choral one, but the anthem
was 10 God, Save Me-" one of Balfe's own
compositions. The tablet is placed in the
northwest aisle, almost side by side with the
monuments of Henry Purcell and DIR. Sam
uel Arnold close TO the tomb of William
Sterndale Bennett, and opposite the monu-
ments of DIR. John Blow and Dr.-William
Croft. The tablet is of pure white Carrsra
marble. On the lower panel Is the inscrip-
ton, Michael William Bale, born in Dub
lin, the 18th of May, 1908; died at Rowney
Abbey, HsrIfordshire, the Goth of October,
1870" Upon the molding below are the
words "New Legion of Honor of France"
aud Commander of the Order of Charles
Ill of Spain" Resting upon the
top of the panel is an oval medal
lion portrait OF Balfe. On one side
9dlisman and The Bohemian Girl On the
other side is a music book opened at ran
dom, as it were, at the song OF "The Bohemian
Girl" Canon Duckwofth, Ia unwilling the
tablet, said the monument which he had had
the honor of unwilling heightened The inter-
est of those aisles, already crowded with IL
lustrious memories. 1t was twelve years
that day since the brilliant and successful
Irishman whose features were before them
passed away, and for more than half CEN
fury the name of Bale had been house
hold word wherever the English tongue
was spoken. 1t might be thought that the
present tribute TO HE genins had been some
what tsrdily paid, but if 80, it was salts
faction to reflect that 1t was now paid with
enhanced honor, for it might be safely said
to embody the matured verdict of the mu-
steal world. Memorials hastily erected were
apt to be the offering of admiration so mixed
with personal grief that it might overrate |
the loss it commemorated. But when they |
accorded to the founder of the modern En- |
gl;sh musical drama place by the eide OF |
Purcell and Sterndale Bennett, they ratified
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CafhoIlc synod Of New York,

NEW YORK, November S.-The Catholic
clergyman of the archdiocese of New York
assembled in st. PAtrick's Cathedral this
morning for the purpose of holding a do
cese synod. The Synod was formally opened
Corrigan, assisted by Fathers Lavelle and
Kelly. Cardinal McCloskey presided over
the Synod, which was held with closed doors.
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CorTox.sEED OIL TRIUMPHANT.

Protection, which is scheme to make
things at home at high price which can be
purchased abroad at low price, is "a game
that two can play at" If protection is a
good thing for one nation it is for another,
but the country that finds its productions
shut out from expectation by the protective
system of other countries scarcely finds pro-
lection to be benefit. In this shutting-out
manner our own production Of cotton-seed oil
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PITTsBURG, November S-The body of a
man, afterward identified as R. T. Simpson,
of this city, was found at an early hour this
morning lying in pool of blood on Liberty
street. His lace and hands were cut, and
blood was issuing from his ears aud nostrils.
1t is supposed that he was murdered in a
house near by aud the body thrown into the
street. Three women, named Mrs. Wright,
Clara Warren and Mrs. Davidson, inmates
of the house, have been arrested on suspicion
of having committee the murder.
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Creuched low, at bay; her vesture rent apart;
Ungirt the fair false breast where Anthony lay,
Lord over half the world but yesterday;
Her bloodless fingers twined above her heart;
Her tawny hair athwart her brows-a net
Wherein no more shall souls be shared or slain
Her cheek like pale blush roses after rain;
Her cruel lips like marble, carved and set;
And gray wan eyes, forgetful of their guile
AS through the tangled fringes of their lids,
Lost in some dream of palms and pyramids,
They spy, at last, the hooded worm of Nile.
-WiHidm Young in November Atlantic.
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the deliberate judgment of all the living
did more; they awarded TO him dis:ipc-
ton which would be unanimously sane.
toned, the Canon believed, by the must
clans OF Europe