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ELLEN OSB0RN'S LETTER.
A Foreglimpse ef the Horse Show
 and the Football Games.
Velvet, Fur and Brocadc-Bediamonde Danes, Gay Capes and Wraps, Theater Gowns and Other Fnncics of
 the Waning Year.
COPYRIGHT 1895.

There is chill suggestion in the air that is almost of Thanksgiving.
 The MarlboroughVanderbilt we'd ding is already history, nine-days' wonder, one-third of whose life is al- ready spent; and in the windows one sees the football eolors, aud that, again, reminds one of the festival of thanks as she is thanked in the strangely un- New England nation we have come to be. It is our carnival time.
 'Tis amusing, or interesting, or sad, if you will to see how. instantly, after the great wedding, the shoplzeepers be- gin to tempt the feminine partisans of Princeton with bizarre and wasplike arrangements in yellow and black, and those of Yale with gowns of good hon est blue with appropriate trimmings. Let us suppose that each one of 5000 young students has five female rela- tiyes, actual or prospective, of that age between 14 and 90-when dress is matter of prime importance, and you have at once the market for good many yellow and black gowns, and blue gowns, and of crimson gowns not a few, even thus far from Cambridge.
 A public even larger is preparing for the Horse show, that strange function which ranges thousand or more so- ciety beauties in long rows, boxed, as it were, in open stalls, and turns in 1o,- coo more people to stroll round and round in outdoor dress and look at them. The requirements of dress at the Horse show are much the same as in theater. For one of the thousand exhibitors low-necked dress is ad- missible, but hardly correct, the ma- jority wearing gowns of high cut but extreme richness. So rich are they, indeed, that the most characteristic examples are seldom of q use after the
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MISS DAvIDGE's PET Whitney terminat- cd her close personal relationship with the family. Every poor beggar in New York has feeling of personal re- gard for this lady, as she never refuses a petition for aims, fact which is re- sponsible for serious inroads into a rather slender income. The rumor of the lady's engagement to Mr. Whitney diffused lively joy among the beggars of New York, who keep list of per sons like Miss Davidge. Her presence in the household explains the fondness Of mendicants for lettering about the Whitney brick palace in New York. There is, by the way, feeling among the New York democratic leaders that Whitney is not doing exactly a wise thing in permitting the marriage of his daughter to man who is practically a member of the British peerage. The fact will be used against him in case the presidential lightning strikes his way. Tn fact, his vast wealth, his former Standard oil activities, and this mar riage of his daughter are anomalies in
 the record of a presidential possibility.
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 cy. The serious business of diplomacy had been utterly neglected. Sir Julian is bluff parsonage, little given to trifes. He summoned Messrs. Bax-Ironsides and Ronald Mackay, the principal of lenders, to his presence, and read them q severe lecture. He even went so far as to rcproye them for what he called the British national sin of heiress hunting. Bax-Ironsides has acquired a tremendous reputation in society as a man Of marvellous adventures. His experiences in the desert of Sahara, wien he fled from hostile Egyptians on the back of dromedary, and wrote re- ports for the foreign office while so doing, have thrilled the entire Four Hundred. He had made numerous en- agreements for this winters season in New York, but pitiless Sir Julian made him cancel them all. The ambassador thinks there is altogether too much trihing in diplomatic circles as it is. He will hear no more of it. Therefore, New York society is incensed, and Sir Julian will not be the big man among Ame- ican heiresses that he has been.
 DAVID WEcHsLER.
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e.. 4sOw they are black and for bidding with soft coal smoke, but con- slider their adoption to the purpose and their perfect proportioning. New York has nothing to compare with them. The Rookery is a marvellous re- naissanee structure, the Temple is Flemish; he was master of all styles and the city is full of monuments to his talent. Architects from all over the country may we'll come to Chicago to study the work of man who died in his prime''
 Are you to publish in Chicago?"
 NO, that would make a local, a mem- orial volume. What have written is the biography of man who deserves broader recognition as a great archi-. tect."
 And your own works your future ?''
 Il have done some short stories of late, and I may try longer one, if I have an idea that presses for that sort of expression. But do not believe my forte is fiction. I am doing a signed column for the Times-Herald, but I look to verse as my metier"
 Where can one find poetic inspira- tion in smoky Chicago?"
 The little lady laughed. "You don't know the lake, that's plain. Ibelieye it's feminine. You should see the wonder ful colors of the water and the clouds that hang over it, purple strealed with green. In sunshine it's all play and in storm it's more boisterous than the sea. 1 could write an epic or book of idylls on Lake Michigan
 "And when will 1t appear?'
 "I don't know, but some day, some- where"
 "What do you read?"
 sKipling. He is head and shoulders above any man living. But have no right to such emphatic opinions. My eyes were bad for so long that really know little of the new writers; it takes such a while to catch up," and again there came that quick bright look as of child at it's lessons. My greatest treasures are my letters from Steven son; know of nothing more charming in literature. I am looking forward to the publication of his correspond ence. Then the world will know moro of the man than it has yet known. !
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it's buckles, and surmounting a green heather mixture of cloth cut in Prin- cess cut, with very narrow border of pink fur about the high collar and down the plain front. Surely if one like picturesque oddity-
 There is a considerable line of big collars and white Tapping lapels for the winter, and some of them suggest the sailor shape altogether too much for cold weather. One associates the sailor collar with throat open to the breeze and the dash of cool spray. But some of the less nautical ideas are very charming. ELLEN OSBORN.
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LABOR AND WAGES.

Earnings Have Been Increased and tho
 Days Work Made Shorter.
 Since 50 years ngo there has been here, as well as in England, great re. duction in the hours of labor. But this was not accomplished for the pleasure of the wage-earner; it was accom-, plished because experience proved that after certain state of fatigue had been reached labor was unproftable. The hours may be still further reduced A large volume of evidence had been col lected in the last few years to show that production is even more econom- ical with an eight-hour than with a nine-hour or ten-hour day.
 Experiments in this direction are in progress. If what is claimed for the eight-hour day be proved--and it has been partially proved-the eight-hour day will come into general use. But otherwise no amount of ethics or philan- thropy or Christianity will bring if i'll, Men are always, everywhere, trying to get all they can. If they can get moro by working ten hours than by work ing eight, ten hours will they work.
 Wages have been largely increased Tn the past 50 years, but this is due pure- ly to economic causes. The "prin- ciple of Christianity which attaches an absolute value, greater than that of all earthly things, to a human being as such" has not induced any employer to increase wages. It can be shown that this principle has led to the improved condition of the laboring classes, butit has done so in accordance with eco homie laws, and not by suspending them, or violating them, or substituting benevolent or selfish instincts.-Lippin- cott's Magazine.
 The Truth of 1t.
 Phwat is a society lion7"
 His son asked of MT. O Flynn
 Society lyin'.H he answered,
 .' Is sayin yer out whin yer in
 " Recorder
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Cutting.

At certain Cambridge viva voce ex- animation q particular candidate had so far failed to answer any question what ever. After wasting good deal of pa- tience on him the examiner in despera- tion finally tore from a sheet of paper portion two inches square, placed it in front of the luckless youth and cut tingly observed:
 "Oblige me, sir, by placing upon this paper the whole of what you know on any subject of any kind whatever."- London Judy.
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Poetic Justice in Germany.

A private in the Pomeranian chas- seurs, imperial German army, recently lost ais captain, Franz Abicht, by death. He always had the deepest rev erence for the captain, and he voiced his feelings twoweeks ago in poem which he sent to the Kulmer Zeitung. The poem was published. As soon as copy came to the notice of the commander of the battalion he called the private to him and told him that the poem, by it's excessive praise of Abicht, implied dis respect of the other superior officers who outranked the late captain, and, therefore, was subversive of discipline. The private was sent to the guardhouse for his sins and all copies of the Kul- mer Zeitung which had been bought by members of the battalion were seized and destroyed.
 Bicycles will be taxed in Elaine next year
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DoohboN AKMs. 1t is said, has be- come fully $5o,o9o,ooo, owing to for tunate financial operations.
 MT. Drexel now has a place among the Astors and the Vanderbilts as a bill lionaire. It is understood that his social campaign this winter will be something dazzling. It has lately been discussed, by the way, that the blood of the Beurbons, the royal house of France, flows in the veins of the Drcxels. The rather modest artist who founded the house in America never alluded to the circumstance. yet the Drexels may employ the cadet Bourbon arms, the famous escutcheon of the five tapers. They do not do so. as they were always unassuming, even if the queen of Portugal is their dis tant lSinswoman. MT. Drexel will be warmly welcomed in the most exelu- siye circles, and an effort will be made to have him permanently abandon Philadelphia for New York, the latter city being deemed best for the dissipa- ton of a million or two yearly. ". K Yanderbilt's only quoted aphorism is to the effect that Philadelphia is hard city to be extrayagant in, and it does one no good to be rich there.
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sntly settle all ru- mors of the ap- preaching marriage of William c. Whit n e y. Miss s D a. vidge was a sort Of g 0 V ernesa in the
 " h i t Il ey family, but she was always
 treated as one of the
 Whitneys, being a
 lady of birth and
 breeding. The mar ri age of Pauline
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don. These state ly animals are very efficacious for the purpose, and they excel even horses in being dociie and easily driven. The giraffe will shortly be introduced into New York in the same caDacifv The
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i s h ambassador has, indeed, lost all his popularity with
 the metropolitan
 fashionable coter-
 ies. For when he got back to Wash ington lately he instituted a rigid investigation into the doings of the gay attaches of the embassy These do4 ings consisted al most entirely of so- cial diversions at Newport with the. cream of metro
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q coterie ofNcw York capitalists who arc anxious to obtain con trol of the structure. Russell Sage and youn g George Gould are declared to have en- gineered much of
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pade. He IS going to Egypt this win ter, having organ ized a y a c h t i n g party, included in which will be the cream of the Four H u n q re q. Dr. Seward " ebb is sticking stanchly to his fri e n d.
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He has decided to
 abandon his native
 Philadelphia for awhile,, and make h i S h o m e on 5fst street in |
 s u P e r b private m a Il s i 0 n. AIr. Drexel is now a man. of fabu- lous wealth. He inherited $35,ooo,- GOO from bis father a few years ago and this sum.
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THE FAD.
same capacity,

fad would have been taken up long ago, but individuals were afraid to under take it singly, fearing the effects of the innovation upon the sensitive pub lie. When score of society men go
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Sir .Iniian.a Wrath.

New York society now deems Sir Juaian Pauncefote brute. The Brit
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The Bridge conspiracr.

The scheme to diseredit the Brook lyn bridge management is said to have
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-10
Whitnev,a noreholt,.

The departure of Miss Joanna Da- vidge from New York ought to perman-
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GiraTes and ostriches.

Baron Rothschild set the fashion of using giraffes to draw carriages in Lon
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The New Conner.

Mir. A. J. Drexel will be a decided ad- dition to New York society this winter.
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Coming Upheaval Among the
 Four Hundred.
Sir Julian on the Rampage How Whit ney Has Hurt His Presidential Chances Another New York Billionaire-
 Giraffes and ostriches.
copyR1eHr 1se5

James J. Van Alen will not suffer socially as a result of his recent esca-
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The Truth of It,

The Truth of 1t. :" Phwat Is a society lion?' His son asked of Mir. O'F1ynn- Society lyin'.a he answered, .' Is sayin' yer out whin yer in. =
 IN. Y. Recorder.
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Bicvclcs will be taxed in Maine next year.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

I leave this afternoon for visit of several days to relatives in Atlanta. All letters sent to my residence on the South Highlands will receive as early attention as possible. Matters of immediate mo- ment will receive prompt consideration during my absence if telephoned to 230, State Herald office. I expect to return early next week.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

General freight and passen- ger office Alabama Great Southern Railroad removed to No. ' North 2Oth street. Tele- phone 848. II-5-tf
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
A SAD DEAIH.

Yesterday chronicled the death of a most lovable woman, loving wife and faithful friend. At 4 o'clock, at the res- idence of her husband. pr. P. P. Grove of Coalburg, Ala, Mrs. Mary Barker Grove answered uncomplainingly the summons that took her from the home of which she was the light.
 Mrs. Grove had been Ill but a fort night, and her death was in manner un- expected. She was the daughter of our honored townsman, MT. W. P. Barker, one of the oldest citizens of Birmingham, and has herself been identified with the growth of this section, having lived her life among its people. To her sisters. Mrs. Tom Parker and Mrs. Walter Moore, to her husband and her devoted father, the sympathies of the entire com munity will go out in their hour of sor- row
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

The concert for the benefit of Camp Hardee occurs tomorrow night at the opera house and should attract large audience.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
OFFICERS TOO QUICK FOR HER.
A Negro Woman Steals Lace and the Officers
 Steal March on Her.

A colored woman by the name of Mar garet Williams was arrested by Officers Culpepper and Eagan at the union depot yesterday on a charge of grand larceny.
 She went into Kline's store on Second avenue to do some purchasing, and while the clerk who was waiting on her had his head turned, it is said. she very mys- teriously confiscated a lot of lace valued at about $5. The lace was missed at once and the police notified, and description of the woman given. She at first denied everything, but when the lace was found edged her guilt.
 To get away from our officers Is like trying to cross the Rocky mountains on a bicycle
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
CHAL[FOUX'S s,
 Pioneers of-Low Prices, December 25th Is
 Xmas Day.

Of course we all know that; we also know that most people wait till it Is practically too late to make their purchases for the holidays. Our advice Is for you to do 1t now-this week-while our stock is com plete, besides you'll avoid being in the awful rush of buyers Many of you will remember the crowds we had last year. and you may expect much larger crowds this year. for times are better, and everybody feels happy, including ourselves.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

Stenographer wanted at the offices of the Equitable Life, 2O2l lst avenue. Young ladies with references only need ap- ply. I2-5 2f*
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
OUR SOCIAL WORLD

(All items of social interest will be gladly noted in these columns if sent to Mrs. George C. Ball, Nineteenth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, South High lands. Telephone 9SS)
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
Notice to Contractors.
Office of City Engineer,

Office of City Engineer,
 Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 29, 1895. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 12 o'clock noon, December 4, 1895, for constructing the sanitary sewer in Nineteenth street and Thirteenth and Four teenth avenues, south. Certified check for s1OO. made payable to the mayor and alder men of Birmingham, must accompany each proposal Maps, plans and profiles may be seen and specifications obtained at this of flee. Bond to the amount of one-third of contract will be required. Right is reserved to reject any and all bids. (Signed)
 JULIAN KENDRICK, 12-1-3t City Engineer.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04
EARLY ELECTRIC CARS.
I,ata Car
Good fishing at East Lake.

Oyster cocktails at the Met rOpOlitan bar. II-I2-f
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

Old papers for sale cheap at this office.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-06-22
THE FLOW Or ln-AsuRE.
Ianaence os Iucreasei Wealth on Intel
 leotuatfty.

Inflaence os Increased Wealth on Intel-
 leotuatfty.
 In 14s2 Columbus discovered America, and, as the stream of treasure slowly flowed into Europe. bew life dawned It was the opening of modern times. For the first fifty years, says the Fort nightly Review, the influx of the precious metals was not enormous, but Potosi was opened in l5a5, and then the flood of silver reached it's height, and the power of the stimulapt was felt.
 silver sunk in it's real value, or would exchange for a smaller quantity of labor than before; and corn rose in its nominal price, and instead of being commonly sold for about two ounces of silver the quarter came to be sold for six and eight"
 Yet though there was this great rise in commodities, the relative values of the precious metals remained unaltered during the whole of the sixteenth cen tury, and in 1s90 the ratio of gold to silver was twelve to one, precisely where it had been two hundred years before
 Nothing is more curious and inter esting than to watch the impulse given to intellectual activity as the tide of money ran from south to north In 1915 Raphael and Michael Angelo were in their prime; in 1519 Luther denied the papal supremacy; in 1899 Calvin was born at Noyon, while Shakespeare did not sec the light till 1864 Science came little later, for Calico was not eminent much before f5so, and Kcpler only took his masters degree in 1891. Adam Smith says that the new silver docs not seem to have had any very sensible effect upon the prices of things in England till after l7e But within twenty-five years from then Shakes. peare was writing his plays, Bacon was in parliament, and Drake had become ,he greatest seaman of the world. In iGO0 the merchants of London founded | the East India company, the first step l toward England's commercial suprema' | py
Arizona silver belt., 1895-06-22
ABOUT HE MATTERS.


 JoHN JAooB AsToR, who has made a beginning as an author, is ambitious to become playwright.
 RuDYARp KIpIINe is spending sev- eral weeks at the capital He has been making close study of George Wash. ington relies.
 TIE funeral services of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa were conducted by missionaries of the London Missionary society.
 WHILE Herbert Spencer bankrupted himself by the publication of charts to go with his phIlosophic books, a French high-lziclling concert hall sing CT pockets s2, 900 week at n New York place of amusement.
 RUDYARD KIPLIEa's father, John Lockwood Kipling, proposed to his mother, Alice Macdonald, on the shore of Rudyard lake, England, and was ac- cepted. The author was named Rud- yard in honor of that romantic episode. PRoF BIoKMoRE, who is lecturing on American forestry at the Museum of Natural History in New York, illus trates the durability of wood by exhib- iting an Egyptian image made Of wood which he states is ut least 4,O0o years old
 AMONG the eccentrieities that Harriet Beecner Stowe is said to have devel- oped in her old age is dctestation of all reference to her famous book, Uncle Toms Cabin" She can stand no allusion, however yelled, to her noted novel, and her friends and relatives are very careful to prevent the men. tion of the book in her presence.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-06-22

J. o. Dunbar, Jas. H. McChntock and the Gazette Publishing Go. are defendants in three libel suits, begun 8 year ago last December in the Pima county district court. The original suit was based upon an editorial SCOT ing Governor Hughes, Secretary Bruce and Marshal Meade. A change of venue was asked and in the affidavit language was used which Judge Sloan construed to be contemptuous, and Mir Dunbar and his attorney Judge Barnes were adjudged guilty and sentenced to thirty days iu jail, The matter was taken to Phoenix on writ of habeas corpus and after a two-days hearing Judge Barnes was discharged and Mr, Dunbar wss remanded.
 Tn the meantime City Editor Frank King had found his way into custody in Pima county for contempt. The cases were then taken by hsbeas cor. pms before Judge Rouse of the Second judicial District and the prisoners were ordered discharged The case against Mir, Dunbar was tried in the district oours q Tucson last Tuesday and re- suited ln 8 verdict of guilty.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-06-22
gHE ARIo LANDS.

The last Congress enacted law pro- viding that the general Government shall donate to each State in which there are arid lands, 1000, 900 acres of such lands, on condition that the re- clamation IS done ny the States. It IS said Idaho and Wyoming have com piled with all tho formalities of the law and have taken steps towards se- curing 1000, 900 acres of land within their borders. Under the new lew the State is to undertake the work and IS to sell the lands, in sections of not over l60 acres to any one person. for such price as can be obtained. The Gov ernment retains possession for five years, and if at the end of that time the reclamation appears to be perma- nent, the title of the land passes to the Stats and thence to the settler.
 The law is not practicable, owing to the large capital required for the eoL- struetion of irrigstion works Most of the arable lands in the West, contigu- ous to streams and irrigable by canals, have already been reclaimed, and to increase the area of agricultural lands, it would be necessary to construct great reservoirs and canal systems al an expense So vast that few, if any, oi the Western States and Territories are financially able to undertake it. Re, clanasiun of the arid lands hy the Fed. eral government is the only feasible plan.