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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

for Mayor Hewitt. like the duke. and
also the present duke is, is a man OF
his glance bent gracefully over and per-
mitted the mayor to imprint a congrat-
ulatory kiss upon her brow.
After the ceremony in the mayors
office, it was deemed advisable that a
religious ceremony he performed. Mr..
Creighton Webb never labored so asSid-
engagements. As the dukes first wife
had obtained a divorce from him 1t was
impossible TO obtain the services Of any
Episccpaian clergyman for the religious
marriage Mr.. Webb was here and there
until al last he found a Baptist minister
who was willing to marry the duke and
Mrs. Hammersly. That ceremony was
performed in the little parlor in the
clergyman's house, no one but Mr. Webb
and the clergymans wife being present.
AS the party Quilted the house Mr.. Webb
placed a piece of paper in the clergy
mans hand: 1t was a check for $500.
Thus, in that most unconventional way,
the father of the present duke by a dOu-
bic marriage, one civil, the other relig-
ious, secured an American and an heiress
for a wife Between his step-mother and
the young duke there was established sin
cere affection, and Marlborough often
speaks OF her in terms of the highest
praise.
The wedding Of the duke to Miss Van
derbilt, interesting as it is to society
here, does not, after all, compare in in
terest with the horse show which is to
be opened on Monday of week after next.
1t has become the chief public social
function of the year Some idea of the
amount received from the sale of the
interest it entails may be gained by the
boxes in the Madison Square garden.
These boxes serve the same purpose thai
those in the opera house during the opera
season do They are for the display of
beautiful women, beautifully gowned
and furnish the one opportunity when
anybody can by paying the price for
admission see New York's fashona BILE
people on exhibition. The boxes sold
for nearly $4,000, and almost everybody
who is in society secured one or tried to.
II is thought, be the finest ever made in
the garden. The horse show means a
good deal more to the city than a mere
display 'of fashionable life and fine
horses. Mr.. Washington L. Jaques. who
was for some time president of the Amer
lean Hotel Mems Association, in speak
ing of the Show said that ii would brins
to New York at least 100000. He spoke az
hotel man, manager of one of the most
successful hotels in the city.
Il estimate that there will be attracted
to the city by the horse show not less
than 1900 people. That means the filling
up of all our hotels and a good deal of
incidental shopping. These people repre-
sent social Efe in other cities, horse fan
ciers, professional horsemen and those
who come to buy. One week of such az
exhibition as this is worth more to the
tons. Society people and horse fanciers
are liberal spenders of money, and you
can easily see what the oncoming of some
1900 people with the money to spend,
most of whom will be here a week, means
for New York"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

answer 10 ali CT her first testers she re-
eeived handsome gold. silver ana Otner
lions What cost considerable money
she wrote 10 all the Masons OF inc thit-
ty-thlrd degree who were personal friends
OF her father for a half dollar engraved
she received handsome medals. They come
from France. italy. Germany, seEefAl
from Japan. China. Austria, ireland, scot
land, Canada. Australia. Russia. FROM
the eX-queen, Lihuokalani, OF the ha-
Waiian Islands. she received "A handsome
engraved medal with the coat Of arms
OF her country on IT, In iact. nearly every
country is represented in her collection.
All these We're sent by personal friends
of her father who were members OF the
thirtv-thfrd decree of the MasOuS- Every
state in the United States is represented
in the collection. 1t is without doubt the
most valuable collection of lodge badges
collecting her medals from 1879 to 1888 and
sent out 30 requests. out of this number
she received lSZ medals. She had them
made into a large necklace. six bracelets,
a cross, two belts, one with thirty-tWo
medals on it, and the other with forty
two and a hairpin. MISS Pike has never
worn the entire collection at one time
In the city court at Macon Friday
Preston. Jordan & Aver fled a suit
against Steven n. Noble for $1,000. The
plaintiff in the case is Julia Ann Ansley,
whose husband was buried in "A sewer
ditch between Fifth and Hawthorne
streets. and when his body was recoV-
cred. the man was dead. His name was
Hiram Ansley Julia Ann alleges that he
that Steven n. Noble is a firm composed
of Steven \. Noble and r. II. Plant,
and as such they are liable for the obi
cations Of the sewer contractors.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

DIR. James Stuart Ayres of Chicago
said to be the oldest praeticing homer
pathic physician in the United States has
just celebrated his golden wedding He
traces his ancestry to the royal house OF
Stuart.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
Sizing I'm Candidofes

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
That dignified London journal, the Spec
tator, devotes an editorial paragraph to
our political presidential possibilities and
sums up the situation as follows, at the
same time adding a little gratutous ad-
vice to us. The Spectators opinions are
interesting chiefly for the reason that
they are a reflection of British public
opinion. ION the republican side" it says,
Mr.. Harrison must be reckoned as a
candidate. Mr.. Mckinley is another pos
sible selection, as also is Mr.. Reed, late
speaker of the House of Representatives
Mr.. Harrison, however, is far more likely
to be chosen than either of these two
On the democratic side ii is believed that
Mr.. Cleveland will in the end be chosen
We hope he Will, for we should greatly
like to see the third term superstition
overthrow. 1t is essentially anti-dem-
ocratic to limit the choice of the people
Let them choose the man they think the
best in spite of rules and conventions.
The choice of a whole people should be
held to be a sort of conservation sweeping
away all artificial barriers"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

A Meriden, Conn, man has rugged an
ingenious device to break one of his horses
of the habit of paving and keeping the
men who sleep in the stable awake at
mght. lie mas placed movable board
on the door of the stall in such a position
that when the horse strikes out with his
foot he moves the board From this hoard
runs ROD that passes out over the horse
whip. Every time the board is moved
the whip descends upon the horses back
AFTER one or two disturbances the animal
settled down and kept still.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
UNEXPECTED WEEPING PRESENTS.
Some Were Timely, But Another
Was the Reverse.
From the HARTFORD Times

lpui the I1dTlIOFu IlIleS
Not infrequently a marriage ceremony
has an added air of romance attached
to 1t by the bride receiving from known
or unknown source a wedding present
which was quite unexpected. One or two
such authentic cases have occurred dur
ing the past year, when the lucky wedding
parties were thrown in state of great
excitement as a result.
A curiously timed present was that
which arrived at the wedding breakfast
held in honor of Lord Ks marriage
with Lady NJ. Ten years before Lord
X was director of a company which
turned out to be a miserable failure, large
~ owing to the embezzlement of great
sums of money by the manager, VINO
escaped to Argentina. Lost sight or al
together, he was soon forgotten, and IN
year or two Lord X and his felio"
directors in part recovered from the blow.
As the wedding party sat down o break
fast, man servant handed Lord x an
envelope, full almost to bursting point.
Opening it, the peer was amazed to ma n
1t notes to the value of 10000 sent to nm
by the errant manager, who, according
to the private note accompanying me
money, had made one or two lucky specu,
ks wealth was not very great, the
wedding present of 10000 was an eA-
ceedingly welcome one.
Equally curious was the incident when
happened in South London some time
ago. According 10 the newspaper reports
at the time, about twelve years ago
young girl, daughter of well-to-do trades
people, lost nearly EGO which she had saved
out of a very liberal allowance. me
money was taken from a drawer in heE
bedroom, and the thief wac never detect
ed. On the girls wedding morn last year
she received an anonymous letter. stating
that the writer was the person who stols
her money while she was yet in her teens
and inclosing banknotes representing as
nearly as possible the amount stolen,
with compound interest added. Naturally
the bride was delighted, and the anohy-
nous writer was forgiven.
Not always are these unexpected Wed-
ding presents of this practical and useiuA
character. At a recent wedding a BRIDE
groom was verw much Disguised by re-
ceiving at the wedding breakfast bulky
looking parcel which evidently appeareu
to be late present. Unsuspecting eVlI:
the newly married man handed the parcet
to his wife to be opened. She opened T.,
and found therein number of letters IL
a girls handwriting, apparently loye-lel-
ters written to the bridegroom OF the
morning. Fortunately the affair was
joke on the part of the mans bachelor
friends, but 1t needed all his asseYera--
tons of innocence to calm the natural
indignation of the young WIFE
Friend. Were you successful with
your first case?
The Doctor; Yes; his widow paid the
bill-Pick-M e-Up.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

Editor (gazing at his best's Die4rr.,
That girl Is a poem e.
Poet .tcuriously):g And still Won do not
reject her?-Detroit Free Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03

Friend: We're you successful with
your first case?
The Doctor; Yes; his widow paid the
ll.-Pick-Me-Up.
Mrs Lizzie NJ Frost Of Monmouth.
Me, runs a grist mill. She turns on tn e
power and watches the machinery WINE
her husband writes poems.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20
DOES NOT ADMIRE .sFoRM DIVINE"

There will be trouble now. Somebody
has written a letter to the New York
World on the following text. taken from
Schopenhauer's Essay on Women; 'It is
only the man whose intellect Is clouded
by his impulses that could give the name
fair sex to that undersized. narrow
shouldered, broad-hipped, short-legged
race (woman). Instead of calling
them beautiful. there would be more war
rant for describing woman as the un-
aesthetic SEX The writer states that
his object is TO see what defense women
can make to this charge, and in order TO
give a greater stimulus to their replies
he challenges them to refute his state
ments that Man is more beautiful than
woman. He is better made. His legs
are better, his muscles are more fully de-
veloped. He is healthier. Life insurance
companies prove women's inferiority by
and adds insult to injury by saying, "wo-
man as rule is knock-kneed," and that
''Trilby" has made so great a sensation
because its author pretends TO discover a
woman with good feet The climax is
reached when he affirms. "Woman's legs
are among natures horrors. Perhaps
now and then there may be a good pair.
but they are rarer than white crows"
This is an attack on the very foundation
of society, the ballet included. II is not
probable that there will be much left Of
the libeller when lovely woman has ex-
hausted pen and ink on him.-Ex.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20

1t is inferred that Mr.. Hammond
turned on his heel and left in dis
gust This would be the natural thing
for a man with the blOomerphobia to
do. But the narrative is not COM
plete. Presuming that Mr. Hammond
really loved Miss Drew, it is easy to
see several important developments,
not recorded in the above narrative.
1t is easily presumed that that self
same night Mr.. Hammond went to
bed and spent several sleepless hours
tossing a feverish head on a hot pillow.
1t is also easy to imagine him rising
while the moon still hung in the sky
and going up the street and looking up
to Miss Drew's window and signing his
shOe-strings loose, until almost day
break. And in all likelihood he spent
the next day wandering around aim
lessly, stunned and benumbed 1t is
not difficult to infer that the next night
he was hidden behind a rose-buSh in
the garden, calling gently to his lady
love; and that she, also deploring the
separation, but steadfast and faithful
to her new" attire. came softly over
the grass to him and with a low cry
OF happiness he sprang up and grasped
her fOrm-blOomerS and ALTO him.
For, while there may be several tenn
porary bluffs at maidens because of
their boomers. they are still maidens,
and the men cannot survive without
them, or help loving them, bloomered
or blOOmerleSS.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20
LENGTH OF NOVELS

The short novel Is IN It's zenith. Ex-
perts say that If person Is a conscien-
tious reader he can't get over but 1000
words an hour. and four hours Is all that
anyone wants TO spend over a boook. That
puts the ideal length Of a novel at 1900
words.
The average woman prefers a novel OF
about 900 or 100 words IN length. ''Trii-
by was $500 words long. The Golden
House. has 5000 ships That Pass In the
Night" 1900. and The Princess Aline,"
3. .0cl
Strange to say, the INST successfu! now
els OF late have ranged from eO.ooo 70 l5o.-
Ooo words. All OF Mrs. Humphrey Wards
novels are about 5000 words in length
Du MaUrier says that his coming novel
will be longer than anything ever writ
ten. This is a rash promise. as Adam
Bede'' is $500 words long and "Monte
Cristo' has the supreme record OF 5000
words.
There have been score Of Instances In
the past three years where novels have
been rejectd from prominent writer's. all
because they were so long. The delay IN
the publication Of Meredith's Amazing
Marriage" now running IN Scribner'e,
was because it had TO be generously cut
down.
Some OF our writers, particularly Conan
Doyle. claim that goo! novel cannot De
written under 1850 vords--Ch.caSo
News
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20
DO BLooMERs AFFECr LOVE

The bloomer costume has been the
means of breaking into the marriage
enga cement of Frank Hammond and
Lille Drew of Walton. y. Y. Miss
Drew. who is an expert wheelwolnan.
donned boomer costume last week.
The young man was so enraged at the
sight that be Indignantly demanded
what she meant by making such an
appearance.
why, Frank. this is the most ap-
proved style for lady cyclists now. and
what possible objection can you have
to my being in fashion, answered the
girl with laugh.
The rig is one OF the most abom.n-
able outfits girl ever wore exclaim-
ed the young man, ''and want 10 say
right here that unless you discard that
mode of dress forever our intended
marriage VIII lot take place.
The two eyed each other closely for
a moment, and then Miss Drew slipped
from her finger the engagement ring
and handed il back to Mr.. Hammond
with the remark: VERY well. Mr..
Hammond. here IS Your ring. The
new woman has a mind OF her own
and viii not submit to such a dicta-
torial spirit under any circumstances
This looked like tyranny on the part
Of Miss Drew. And tyranny Ii was.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20

Already French architects are send.
ing in plans FOR the great exhibition "a
1900. No fewer than one hunirod sfJ
twelve competing designs ere q vie u
in the Palais dIEdns,rie. The cDndi.
tions laid down by the frsash govern.
ment allowed designers either 70 rc.
move the Eifel tower and the aa,
chinery gallery from the Champs -
Mars or not. They were also left "a
produce schemes involving the rerovtt
Of other buildings standing on TIA
ground Knowing the enormous ca.
pen.e which breach Of ecntract wifa
the Eiffel Tower company would IN
voive, noo. Of the competitors haTs
made their plans On the basis Of retain.
ing the tower. Some Of the propos<.is
include the construction % gizantie
figures o. elephants. the bodies q.
which are intended 20 form ball aud
concert rooms and restaurants, Wilt
the public are 90 be carried up ths
platform by means Of tabular bsilooa4
Aiding On wires
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20

One of the most grewsome tales dug
up out Of the misty past Is that told byI
the York (Me.) Courant of the wreriS
of the Nottingham Galley on Boon
island. This vessel, which wss bound
TO Boston from London, was driven on
the island In terrible gale ON the
night Of December IL, 1719. The wealth.
er was so dreadful that some Of the suf.
ferers soon died. There was nothing
to cat but shreds Of raw hide, rockwecd
and few musselA After a few DAYS
two OF the men attempted to get to
York on q raft but were drowned. At
last the hunger Of the survivors became
SO raging that they ate some Of tho
flesh of their dead comrades and, hav-
ing no fire, must perforce swallow 10
raw. Immediately their dispositions,
which had been kind and helpful
seemed to undergo . total change. In,
stead OF praying they began 70 swear
and quarrels commenced At last, after
twenty-threc days of this horrible life,
they were rescued, being then mere
skeletons and unable TO walk. A light
house was erected on the island In lslk
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20

The land-office which Richardson has
taken charge of at Topeka, was stolen
from Wichita. The business at the
Topeka land-office having all played
out something had to be done to retain
the pap of the place for that town, so
without the knowledge of either Plumb
or ingalls, an order was surreptitiously
secured from the department transfer
ring the Wichita Office and its records
and books to the Topeka Office. The
order had a forthwith and immediate
clause 10 il and the books were packed
for shipment before our United States
senators and congressman could be
communicated with. Plumb was aw-
ful hot over Ii and tried 10 get the
order countermanded but failed
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20
BLOWS A BLOW.

The state official organ, "The Kansas s
Breeze, seems to have it in for the
Peerless Princess. The inextlicable
thing about 1t, to us, is that Tom Nc
eNai, its editor, was formerly a south
Kansas man. a man Of infinite grace
whose good humor was his chief char
acteristic. The last number of the
Breeze to reach our table deyotes q
full column of criticism to the editor
OF the Eagle, one Of his wide first page
columns, and in addition a three
column poem on Wichita, in W-hic-
ltaw meter the most narrowing epic
1t has ever been our unfortunate fate
10 peruse. He offers nothing new in
his personal attack, simply confining
himself to the old charges of our I'm
paralleled gall" our ''brazen hypoc-
risy," our ''narrow-minded vengeful-
whisky stomach" ''small-souIed vim
dictiveness," ''inordinate ambition"
and 'proneness to patronize question
able resorts" and the like things, of
which everybody is already advised of
our guilt, without the necessity of any
admission upon our part of their
truthfulneSS.
But that poem, we shall never get
over nor forgive the person who wrote
1t. After reciting the prenatal history
OF W-hic-itaw in the worst-well Eng
llsh can't express it-bizarrerie. lie ma
sais quoi, that ever went anywhere or
was ever got off by anybody, the poem
then Zigzags on with the recital of a
supposed prayer offered by the editor
of Eagle for less water and more and
better whisky. The next hundred
lines or so. still more wild-eyed if DOS
sible, quotes the "W(hi-Dchita declara-
ton of Independence" further along
describing the great meeting held at
the Auditorium in the interest Of good
government, reporting the speeches of
Otto Eckstein in mongrel Dutch and re-
producing Missouri Jacks lurid Sec
cnd in woolly slang. When we shall
ever be able to gain our own consent
to hustle this inSufferable stuff upon
our readers we cannot say. Ordinarily
we entertain little dread of mobs but
a poem which threatens to convert job
lots Of people into wild maniacs. by
wards and precincts, should be given
the benefit of a discretion if not of a
pair of tongs, the last verse of which
reads:
The the cry of question" question" rose
within the council hall,
So the chairman put the question, and the
members one and all
Stood up and yelled in chorus, AYE. aye;
for W(hic-i-)chita;;"
And gave three cheers for silver, and for
whisky. and for law.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20
ORIE MORSE GETS THERE.

The appointment of J. G. o. Morse of
Sumner county, as superintendent Of
the State Reformatory at Hutchinson,
by the new board of directors, will give
very general satisfaction. Orie Morse
had the strongest backing of any man
in the state for the wardenship Of the
state penitentiary. but anti-election
promises crowded him out. AS sheriff
of Sumner county he demonstrated
that he has plenty OF executive and ad-
ministrative ability, and no lack of
energy. Being in addition an honest
and square man and popular in all of
the counties Of south Kansas, his ap-
pointment was just the thing.
Notice of his election appeared In our
Sunday mornings dispatches.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-20

The Chinese are eannibalA ChinaS
so-czlled civilization Of thousands OF
rcsrs has not succeeded IN doing away
with caaribalisn among Us OWE
people When Chinese have been en-
gagged IN warfare With tribes On the
mainland. We hear Of this eating Of hu-
man fesh, bu. no. until reached For
nao<s Gid have proof q its truth
After killing . ssvaes On The isiAnd. the
head Il severed from TIC body and b
pl.ced on . pole 20 exhibit 70 those M
fortuEates who are 10, .. hand 70 wit
mesa this Aeartless display II slaughter
and matila,soa- The BODY IA then divsd-
ed among the capso-s sat eaten The
kidney. Eyer. heart soc sole Of the foot
are considered the rso<t desirable por-
tons, ard are usually c.. up n very
srau pieces. bciied. E1s eaten as Sso1s
of soup. The sesh ssd b>oc@s arc h-0ilsd
and n.xde into . ,elly. The cainess
profess 20 believe, II acor-sisnce with
"a Old ssp~rss.;i0a. fkz. ;he eating os
this &av.ge cesh VII gsrs ihesn
os1ngokon6 courage. 70 soas te.s