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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-07
MONEY AND INVESTMENTS.
A big Engagement of Gold Doesn't
Turn Hair on the Market.
COTTON FEyERISH AND IRREGULAR.
combination OF Circumstances Made
The Bear Element Decidedly
Cautious.

New York pccomhar s,sn.,,.,,, =,
was quito cbarring ,oa,v ~, ~ ,,oa,,
market. II II WIN only, kocp II, s,, a ,n,y
days. the "bovsr viii no ah,a - h,,, ,to,.
winter naupe,s Tho r,ar,st v,s a,,,,o,.,,,,.
firmer and there vcro siirt,, rcso,,nn'.
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certiarntos
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lars cola ,r,,,,r,s ,,,1 =, 80, ,'e','u wa.
hair ~, trc F,as,,a, '-'' - ''"'' 'U'" q
Ind,.e sho..a1,~,'.
skvtin,. A. IT., .,.'Ns suS
IL wha, 60 ,,a,,o1 ei Us '"iai'''ss
and lca,hcr on,'a,,.n1 T., un,,'' suN','..I
en-. IN. ~ 'F"'p"'"S u"'
"e',i,'N9 were oil " rlp-shoftinS Kind,
Il reckless investor got cornercd in
sugar and u was "a good dny for Insiders
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MONROE DOCTRINE.
France Reminded of Its Existence
Soon After War Closed.
The Occasion Was Attempt TO Establish
Macmillan in Mexico.

'oi''' De0' W. LULU
w. WI" Was Sc 'r'ary t. 'IoVerh"E Nor
CON ""rihG we WV. speaking OF rccer'
"'''F /" ne ChiraT" Post, IN whlch II wa
't"''l thht MI Morton visited Farls
SHORTY after the f'as" OF the war On .
secret mission !" raii IN" attent'on of I'm
Her"r Napoleon Ill to the TACT hat srencf
soldiers We're oecaoYing American terri
tory IN VOCATION 80 'hH Monroe doctrine
and to impress Tr'n 'he emperor tho
necessity for an ear'v w tndrawal OF the
fr"""h tro"ps from Mexico. said;
the statements contai',ed in this ar
firl" are substantially tr7le and were ne
doubt ohiaincd'frofn AIR Hit. the present
ch1irnln of the hOUS. committee on FOR.
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TURKISH ATROCITIES.
Correspondent TELLS Tale OF Horror from
Village OF Arabkis.

Boston, Dec. GA correspondent writ
ing from Constantinoplc, referring to the
recent Turkish atrocities in Asia Minor
states that at Arabkir 5000 Christians
were killed and wounded, and that out Of
some 1000 houses of Christians, fully
three-quarters We're burned.
Into the remaining houses, the writer
states, are huddled several thousand sur
vivors, who are living on the refuse grain
rescued from their burned houses. The
scenes of the worst periods of Saracenc
invasion in the seventh century have been
repeated over and over. Thousands of
Armenian Christians have been forced to
accept Mohammedanism at the point of
the sword. Christian women without
number have been carried OH to the
harems of kourds and Turks.
The apathy of Europe and America, so
far as the governments are concerned, is
almost as surprising as the cruelty of the
Turks. There is still talk of committing
reforms to these murderous Turks They
will take care, unless Europe intervenes
speedily, that there shall be left no Ar
menians TO participate in reforms.
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NEW FINANCIAL PLAN.
Representative Smith Would Absorb Green
backs and Release Gold Reserve.

Washington, Dec. 29.-When the House
William A. Smith of Michigan introduced
in the house Saturday n bill embracing a
new plan to absorb the greenhacks and
treasury notes and release in their stead
the gold held by the banks as reserves.
The bill has been submitted to Senator
Sherman, Chairman Dingley of the ways
and means committee and Comptroller
Eckels, Mr.. Smith says, and has been ap-
proved by them
It provides that national banks in the
cities Of Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Gin
cinati, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Louis
vile, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, St. Louis, San
Francisco and Washington shall keep on
hand in United States and treasury notes
an amount equal to at least % per cent
# their notes in circulation and their de-
posits and all other banking associations
Is per cent. When these reserves fall be-
low the amounts given the bill provides
the banks shall not increase their liabilities
by making new loans and discounts ex-
cent by purchasing or discounting bills of
exchange payable at sight; nor pay
dividend until the reserves are restored to
the required amount. Also the comp
troller and secretary of the treasury may
after 80 days notice put in the hands of a
receiver to be closed banks that fail to
maintain the required reserves.
The principal change which Mr.. Smiths
plan proposes is the substitution of United
States notes and treasury notes, which in
cludc the grecnhacks, and demand paper
for the present requirement. of 'lawful
money for the reserves. This would
withdraw the currency which now keeps
in motion the endless chain" and release
the gold in its stead. Mr.. Smith says that
according to the last report of the comp
trolcr of the currency there was in the
banks individual deposits, United States
deposits and deposits of United States dis
bursting officers, the sum of Sl,7l5, 194, 500
m amount approximating the reserve re-
uured He estimates that $3.50, DOC, 600 of
treasury notes and United States notes
would be Immediately taken up and held
by the banks under his plan.
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FEARS CONFIRM Ed.
Boston Armenian Learns OF the Murder OF His
Father by Turks.

Boston, Dec. % John NJ. Nakash, a
we'll known Armenian and real estate
man, who wrote to Washington seeking
to obtain through the state department
news OF his family In Kharput, the scene
OF one of the recent massacres in Armenia,
has received u letter from the state de-
partment informing him that under date
Of the 2lst inst. the United States minis
ter at Constantinoplc wired as follows
"Marderos Nakashjian killed; his hou so
plundered and burned; his family very
poor" The person named was Mr.. Ma
kash's father
Mr.. Nakash received this news with
great sorrow, as may be sur missed. Ho
said: "My father was about 6S years old,
and was probably killed for his money
and because he would not embrace the
Mehammedan faith. That is the usual way
There ars, loft now my mother and two
childrcn, q boy of 10 and a girl Of Is. l
am torn with anxiety concerning their
fats. They VIII probably remain about
K5arrIt dare not send them money in
~ 'snal way, even for their passage here
TMoy would oe robbed again as soon us
they received it, and perhaps killed
Il hope there can be some way arranged
to bring them to this country if will pay
their passage. 1t seems to me the govern
ment of the United States might arrange
to have brought to this country the rela-
Uves of those Armeuians here who desire
them to come and will pay for the trans
Dortatioun
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GERMAN DIPLOMACY
Fails and European Politics Are Now
in the Hands of Russia.
Germans Lose in China and Turkey-TripIe
Alliance Needs Prop.

New York, Dec 90 A cable to the
Herald from its Paris correspondent, NJ
st. Cere says :.
1.-The fresh scandals that have been put
forward in France are not taking with the
public, and we must wait until the end of
January for possible crisis.
international diplomacy is greatly
puzzled by Prince Won Hohenlohe's trip t.
Vienna. / am informed on trustworthy
authority chat the journey has no immed
ate Importance The German chancellor
wished to meet Count Goluchowsky, his
Austrian confrere, before the festivities of
Cbristnastide and the New Year.
g But the general opinion in diplomatic
circles is that German diplomacy has lost
a great deal of ground during the last
year. Neither in China nor in Turkey did
it WELD that preponderating influence
which 1t had been accustomed to possess
since 1870 The direction of European
affairs passed into the hands of NJ.
Nelidoff, a most sl,,llful and self-possessed
statesman. whose sole opponent is Lord
Salisbury.
The tables are turned and il is now
the Triple Alliance that is looking for a
prop whether in tho West or in the East
The view generally taken is that the
treaty upon which the Alliance rests will
not be renewed. for it no longer serves
any purpose.
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NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East,
South and West.

Prime Minister Cr.spi announces that
complete order and safety have been re
stored In Sicily, ana the Socialist rule is
over.
A mob burned Mrs. T. ]. West alive
and killed W. A. Dever, her paramount, at
Mrs. Vests house ON Cartwright creek
three miles north Of Lebanon, Ky, Satur-
day night. The mob is said t, have num-
bcred about IS.
A secret Russo-Turkish treaty is daily
expected to be heard of, as Russian
syndicate is offering to give the Porte
1850. 900 yearly for the petroleum monop-
oly. and the foreign embassies are all
fighting it with the exception of the Rus
sian.
Albert A. Nells, zeal estate dealer,
living at 25l West 10th street, New York,
was arrested by order of Coroner Hoeber,
Sunday, on suspicion of having murdered
Mrs. John Albert Runnett, found dead in
the area-way in front of Nellis' house,
Saturday night.
On New Years day the Middletown,
CT, Herald, for II years Republican
paper, will become a Democratic daily.
and change back from morning TO even
ing C. 4. Wilson of the Hartford Times,
, is the principal owner and manager. and
will have new staff.
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CANNON AT CARACAS.
Venezuelan officers Daily Drilled i
Use Of Heavy Artillery,
Notifications Going Up-A Small Force Can
Prevent Landing.

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec 90. The Ven
ezuelan military officials continue their
preparations to resist any attack that may
be made on this republic as a result OF the
contention with England, or any other
disturbance.
Officers of the army are drilled daily in
the use of heavy artillery on the hilltcps
above this city. A new Instructor is in
charge there and he has done much to
raise the men to high state of enthu-
siasm.
This instructor, who is regarded by the
Venezuelans as an authority, SAYS that
TO- 900 soldiers properly placed and armed
can prevent the landing of hostile force
in Laguayra. A much smaller force. he
contends, can prevent Handing 10 Puerto
Cabello and other sea coast towns
Ii is impossible, he says, for a landing
tn be made except in the far eastern part
T, of the country. If force should be put
ashore there or sent into the country from
British Guiana, long march would be
| necessary to bring it before this capital.
The Venczuelans confidently declare
/ that they would be able to resist any body
OF men that might be sent on such expedi-
/ tions.
The road between this city and Laguayra
has been fortified, so that troops can resis,
a force that might be sent form Ciudad
Bolivar
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An Old Time New Woman.

Women who pride themselves today up
on their all around ability and knowledge
of everything must sit in humility before
the accomplishments recorded of Mrs.
Hannah Woollcy, who, n govorncss in the
reign of Charles II, was moved to write
"a Guide TO tho Female Sex"
IN the volume her own education was
thus summarized: 1.-THE things pretend
greatest skill in are all works wrought
with needle all transparent works, she'll
work, MOSS work; also cutting of prints
and adorIling rooms or cabinets or stands
with them, all kinds of bougle works upon
wyres, all manner of pretty toycs, rocks
made with shells or in sweets, frames for
looking glasses, feathers of crewel for tho
corners of beds, preserving all kinds Of
sweetmeats wet or dry, setting cut of BAN
quets, making of salves, oyntments, wa,
tiers, cordials, healing any wounds not des-
perately dangerous, knowledge in discern
ing the symptoms of most diseases and
giving such remedies as are fit, all manner
of cookery, writing and arithmetic, wash
sweet powders for the hair or to lay among
linen"
Nor was this all. Mrs. Woolley knew
French and italian ana Latin, which she
counseled her sex to study, ''since it may
hence appear, ladies, that you have no
Pygmean souls, but as capable of gigantick
growth as your male opponents
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The Art of Frying.

How does your cook fry fish, for in
stance in a frying pan or painful Of
fat? IF in the first, she cannot put suffi-
cient fat; if in painful of grease she
must see that it rises to its highest tenn
perature and remains there. Any SUBJ
stance put into fat hot enough to fry is ut
once coated with glaze or shell by the
action of the heated grease upon the SUBJ
stance fried. This is the chemical princi-
pie of frying, and properly cooked fries,
though n little greasy on the outside, lose
this grease at once If lightly drained on
blotting paper. If the fish or outlet is
greasy beneath it's bread crumb covering,
be sure the fat was not hot enough or else
the coating was not itself dry before i'm
mersion in the grease and thus reduced
the temperature. 4 well fried fish should
be an even golden brown, crisp and dry.
What are your cooks bread crumbs like?
They should be dried In the oven, crushed
fine in mortar and sifted. A supply Of
both white and Drowned crumbs should DO
kept in jars, well corked and with wide
mouths. If the cook merely CRATES her
bread from the loaf as she needs to Use
crumbs this alone will ruin any dish,
however carefully prepared in other ways
--Philadelphia Ledger
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A MUSICAL ScRApBOOK.
How 1t Can BE Mado and What II Will
Do For the Young Musician.

Did you ever think of making a musical
scrapbook? Now is the time to begin to
collect matter for it, and girls or boys who
are studying music will especially enjoy ii,
because it will make musicians and com-
posers more real and their ideas less of Il
vague tradition. 1t is much more inter
esting and easier, for example, to study a
Schubert impromptu when you know
something of the mans life. In the first
place, get the pictures of as many of the
famous musicians, both Instrumental and
vocal, as possible. These need not be ex
pensive photographs but Autographs and
prints such as are found on many concert
programmes and published in daily news
pap$fs. For the musicians of the past one
can often find pictures of them in old
magazines and can supplement them with
an occasional photograph.
Arrange these pictures chronologically
or according to nationality, or both, sing
ers, pianists and violinists and the like in
separate groups. Then read up about them.
There is plenty of criticism and descrip-
ton in papers and magazines of the IA
nous singers and players of today, and
one can readily secure at least one account
of their lives and manners with the pic
give the best idea of the musician. The
encyclopedia or musical history will have
to be consulted for accounts of older mu-
sicians, and from them a brief description
can be written, telling the dates of birth
and death, where the life was chiefly pass.
cd, the greatest works and triumphs and
the characteristics of the style of the com.
posor's music or the performers art.
Personal anecdotes of musicians float
frequently through books and periodicals,
and they will increase the scrapbook' in.
terest. Doing this will require reading,
but one will soon know little of what
goes on in the musical world, of the rem
dering of famous compositions, of the skill
and voices of executants and of the char
acters taken by well known singers in OPP
cras and oratorios. Before long one will
not only have made a scrapbook of genera.
musical information, but will have taken
several steps toward being an Intelligent
musician. NEW York Times
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A Glass of Water.

"The things that learned when l was
q child" said a dear old lady the other
day whose hair is snow white, and who Is
n grandmother, II have never, never for
gotten. When was about years old, an
aunt of mine, who was an invalid for
many years, and in whose sickroom we
children were allowed only as great
privilege when she was feeling unusually
strong, asked me for IA glass Of water.
brought it to her, holding the glass in my
hind with my forctinger bent over the rim.
She took it and thanked me and then said:
Now, dear, here is a little lesson TO re-
member all your life-never put your fin-
gers over the edge of "a drinking glass,
either your own or one that you are pass
ing 10 some one else. 1t is better not TO
hand the glass; but offer ii on a plate or
little tray, but if that is not possible hand
it very daintily and without letting your
fingers touch the edge anywhere. You are
a little girl and haven't learned this yet,
but now you will never forget, will you?
said would not, and though that was
many years ago | think ] have never Of
tered glass of water to any one without u
quick thought of that first lesson of how
% do it. "-Philadelphi Ledger.
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Will Have an Escort

DENVER, Dec. 81. B. Porter Of this
city, who has been chosen president of the
New York mining exchange, will be es.
cortcd to New York by large number of
business men Of Colorado. A special
train will be run, carrying at least 81, 000,-
700 worth Of ores. beside millions OF pure
gold, under the protection of armed
guards. The Colorado party will attend
Che first call of the New York exchange.
The annual hauquet Of the Maine Com
mercial Travellers Assotia ton was held
at the West End hotel, PORTLAND, Sat,
day night. Previous TO the banquet I
business meeting was held and me Follow
ing Officers elected. Blop 4. Lane PR s
A. NJ. Menish. vice pras Mhilam 4
Roberts. clerk and treas; y ~ ,oWa bar
L. p. Senter. f. r. Seward anu y. al
Myshrall, executive comInietee.
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DEATHsLlsT GROWS.
twenty Seven Victims ldent fled in the Bal
( timore Theatre Horror.

Baltimore, Dec 2o-The horror at the
Front Street thcater is increased rattle:
than abated by later developments. The
list of identified dead has grown TO 81,
and two or three more who are lying at the
city hospital are so desperately injured
that their names may serve to swell it erd
another night has passed. The morgue,
however, is clear and all the CHASTITY array
of disfigurcd human forms which lay there
Friday night have been recognized By
friends or relatives
Hundreds of relatives and friends of the
dead and the injured have visited the city
hospital anxiously inquiring for their
loved ones. The wide corridors were
crowded, and the physicians were COM
PEELED to refuse permission to all who de-
sired to visit the injured who were being
cared for in the wards.
Ten persons are in the accident ward
and three cases are expected to terminate
fatally. These are Mrs. Goldman. 60 years
old, fractured skull; Amelia Goldberg. IA
years old, crushed head and shoulders, and
q 4-year-old girl who has not been identi
fed. The child is injured internally and
is unconscious.
There were 16 funerals, today, of per
sons who lost their lives in the theatre
panic. Seven victims were br.ried, yester-
day All those killed in rSe stampede
have been inferred. The injured are i'm
proving
The coroner S jury, today, after hearing
the testimony of many witnesses, returned
a verdict stating: 1--WE can attach blame
to no one except the audience itself, which
became panic stricken and raised the cry
OF fire simply because someone ignited u
leakage IN a gas pipe, which leakage was
so trivial that witnesses testified that it
could have remained burning for hours
without damage"
Jacob Schneiderman testimony created
sensation. He swore that so persons
his own people-were responsible for the
horror. 1t was their intention, he said,
to cause II stampede for the purpose of
robbing the excited people. He asserted
that many of the gang came from other
Cities but some of its members were resi-
dents of Baltimore. The jury apparently
did not believe this story
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THE BOND BILL
Passed by the House, Saturday, by
Vote of 1863 to 1856.
New Financial Scheme Prevented by Mr..
Smith Of Michigan.

Washington, Dec. 29.-When the House
convened Saturday, but three hours re-
manned for debate on the bond bill. The
vote by the terms of the rule under which
the house was operating was to be taken
at 3 o'clock. The attendance was large.
Mr.. Brosius (Rep, Pa opened the de-
bate In favor of the bill. This was the
only country on the globe, he said, where
gold redemption had neither qualification
nor Limitation, and where the treasury
was without the power to resist the in
cursions OF foreign gold grabbers or do
nestle spectators. The revenue deficit
was the chief sinner in the comedy OF
errors which had produced the present
troubles. 1t was not suitable to the dig
nifty OF the government to employ the
sleuth hounds of foreign syndicates to hunt
down gold. The people of this country
should have the first opportunity to help
the treasury out Of the trough of the flnan-
cial sea. He declared that there was no
politics in the bill. The president had APP
pealed for succor for distressed treasury,
and it was our duty to put aside party ex-
pediency
Mr.. Parker rep, n. j. could not see
how any representative of the people could
decline to give thctreasury authority to
issue debt certificates 10 supply temporary
deficiencies and to reduce the rate of in
terest on the bonds issued to fortify the
gold reserve.
Mr.. McLaurin Dem, s CD opposed the
bill because it would increase the burden
of people already tax ridden, and would
tend to legalize q series Of usurpation of
power by the secretary of the treasury. II
the secretary would use his discretion and
redeem notes in silver, the gold raids
would cease and new hopes would be in
fused into the Democratic party, now
crushed by the financial policy of the adj
Mr.. Cannon rep, In) in support of
the measure declared that it was bill to
maintain specie payments, which had been
resumed under the wise direction of the
Republican party in 1879. For the 10
years following the resumption the rev.
snues had always exceeded the expendi-
lures.
The vote was taken promptly at 3
o'clock and the first section of the bill
passed, yeas, 1863; nays, 1856. The second
section passed without division.
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Coiu. and Character.

BALLAD once said that the way to gauge
woInan's character was by her choice OF
colors, and that nothing expressed charac-
ter so much as clothes. And he advised
those in doubt as to how best they might
reveal their innermost selves by their
choice of garb, what garments and what
tones they must wear. For instance. IL
one reader has lively expression, pale col
oring, red lips, tawny hair and round
lull neck, she should place in her frizzled
locks crimson flower; her dress should be
Of red tulle, cut low to show the dazzling
whiteness of her shoulders, long, floating
sleeves of tulle, which will half conceal.
half reveal her snowy arms, and belt OF
red MORE to encircle her flexible but not
too slender waist. Never under any cir
cumsfarces, though, should she wear wa.
terry blues or ineffective drabs.
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EXPLODING GAS
Badly Damages the Falmouth
Hotel Block, Portland.
Loss Entirely by Smoke and Water
Water Penetrates Entire Block.
Building Damaged s3o0o-loss to 0ccu'
pants. Several Thousands.

Portland, Dec. 29.-An accumulation
of coal gas in the basement of the book
store Of the Stevens & Jones Co., caused an
explosion, this afternoon. This store is
in the. FalmdLth hotel block and the
smoke penetra ia TO the hotel and adjoin-
ing stores.
The loss is entirely by smoke and water.
The Stevens & Jones Cos stock is dam
aged several thousand dollars; insured.
Allen q Co., clothiers, Davis & Cart
land. shoe dealers, and the Falmouth
hotel are ali damaged by smoke to small
amount; insured.
:. The building, which is owned by the
Brown estate, is damaged $4,000 or $4,000