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which is sixty feet high. The general
style of the architecture is early gothic.
No churches like it have ever been con-
structed in the Southern States. though
/ they are very common in the mountain
districts of England, and are much more
massive than this church. The materials
used in the construction are pressed brick
and rough cast with a clay Shingle roof.
The tower is situated over the crossing
OF the nave and chancel. On the interior
the roof is open timbered. The finish Is
Of oak. The oaken ceiling of the nave
and chancel has deeply nodded ribs.
The pews, choir stalls and altar are of
carved oak The floor is of oak wood
block and laid herring bone patterns.
The electrical fixtures, which are Of
brass, are unusually magnificent. There
are five electroliers, which will illuminate
the auditorium brilliantly. The windows
are Of cathedral glass.
The work on the church organ began
October /, 1895, and was completed dur
ing the past summer. The church was
was designed by the late Richard NJ
Hunt, OF New York, who also planned
the magnificent chateau OF Mr. Wander
bilt, and was constructed under the super,
vision OF Architect r. s. Smith, the resi-
dent architect OF the BiltmOre estate
In general terms it may be stated that
All souls church is miniature cathedral.
GOSSIP AND STORIES.
One of the most attractive features Of
Asheville is its sixteen beautiful drives
in as many different directions. 1t is
claimed that the city has annually $4,000
visitors. The livery stables are numerous.
well equipped and do hustling business
! The negro drivers Of these vehicles, as
might be expected, have many marvellous
stories to tell the sight-seer One Of
these concerns Charlie Collins. a negro
who owns Il cabin and eleven acres Of
land. which the jehus allege is in the cor
ner Of the estate. and that Mr.. Vanderbilt
has offered him $11 600 for the PLACE and
that the colored man has refused it.
While it is true that Mr.. Vanderbilt owns
the land all around Charley Collins hum
Bile cabin, yet it is rather more on the
edge than the centre Of the estate and
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charge. From experience much longer
than his should judge the contrary.
Nv old friend, John c. Whittier, used
TO give as one reason for the support of
woman suffrage his lifelong observation
of Quaker women. Among them, he said,
those who were most eminent in public
service were also uniformly estimable as
wives and mothers. His solution was
that the same conscientiousnesss and
mental capacity which fitted them for the
one sphere fitted them for the other also.
This has, at any rate, been my own OBJ
seryatOn as to the woman suffrage wo-
men of the country.
! Not only have many of the best sug-
gestions as to education, hygiene and
home sanitation been due to them, but
| in their actual service and success as
wives and mothers they have almost al
ways been worthy Of admiration. In
the long line OF leaders. beginning with
| Lucreta Mott and continuing through
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone,
Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Julia Ward
| Howe, Mary Livermore and many 9TH
ers. their households and their children
have been their sufficient testimony.
Had there been any very marked excep-
ton. we may be very sure that it would
have been proclaimed in thousand news
papers.
There is. no doubt, general tendency
in New England, under the pressure Of
that atmospheric influence which the late
Tom Appleton called 1.-THE whip of the
sky" to overwork and attempt too much,
but do not see the smallest evidence
that this has any particular bearing on
the parental relation on the function Ct
suffrage. Under the. present improved
methods of votfflg-an improvement
which practically dates from the adms
sion OF women to school suffrage-a
mother needs to leave her baby for no
longer time in order to drop her ballot
into the box than to pest letter at the
street corner. AS for the aim in voting
it is primarily for her baby that she votes.
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no better. | am ashamed OF my sex, and
| never buy shirt for 80 cents but what
I remember that poor woman made it
made it in some garret-worked all day
and part of the night,
With fingers weary and worn
With eyelids heavy and red.
And yet these lords of creation pretend
that if woman is allowed to vote she will
get down in the slums and lose her purity.
She is down i'm the slums now and would
get out If she could / know women WHO
are at work for less than a dollar a day
and have to support themselves and their
little children out of it, while their rich
employers sit high up in the churches and
say amen and amen to the preachers
prayers. | know women, good women,
accomplished women, whom men have
ruined by neglect or abandonment, and
ALI they can do is suffer and be silent.
know women whose unprincipled hus-
bands have been breaking their marriage
vows ever since they made them, and still
they pass and repass in the community
as gentlemen. But this is the same old
story-whO cares!
Now it is said that although THE wo-
mans suffrage bill has passed the house
Of commons by large majority, it will be
ANONYMOUSLY killed in the house of lords
why | should like TO know? The lords
are not Senate whose age and dignity
might correct hasty or unwise legisla-
ton. but they are a pampered purse
proud nobility. The most OF them are
and many Of them have as many wives
as Brigham Young ever did. But the
time is near at hand when woman will
be enfranchsed in more ways than one.
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coration. To the south of the gallery is
the library, sixty by forty feet. IEs is
at the extreme south end of the building
and opens out on the library terrace and
bowling green, while the house in the
| illustration points east on the espianade.
| On the western end of the building IS
| the stable. accommodating forty horses.
! Near by are the gunroom and billiard
room. There is also. connected with the
palace an electric light plant and steam
laundry. The green houses are the most
perfect that money could bhy, and must
have cost, with heating apparatus, etc,
! not less than $4,000. They contain over
! I. 800 different varieties of flower plants.
l have never seen anything so much hike
paradise as view through the hot houses.
! Five or six dozen American Beauty
roses had been curt to decorate the palace
for the day. One of the palms, Of which
there are scores, is so large that it takes
sixteen men to move IL
| Everything is planned and executed on
| the most elaborate and magnificent
scale. The cost of "Biltmore House
| and grounds Immediately surrounding
| is said to be to date S6,G0O.OO0. There
has been an expenditure of an additional
/ s.. 100000 in purchasing the timber
lands. building houses and roads. stock
| ing the game preserves, etc. Several
more millions will be spent later on.
INCOME OF THE ESTATE.
On the several thousand acres Of clear
ed land on the estate scientific farming
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TABLET SOF HONOR AT BAPTIST
ORPHANAGE.
CHARITY and Cmldren.)

There are three tablets in the Central
Building. The one in the Office bears the
inscription: I'm honor Of Rev. j. ID.
Huffman. ID. D., placed by Scotland
Neck Baptist Church. 1896" The one
in the hall; This tablet is placed here
to perpetuate the history of the liberal-
ty of the Flat River Association to-
wards the Orphanage in contributing
funds for Flat River Building, 1896
The one in the school room in the south
end: This tablet is placed by West
Chowan Baptist Association 1896"
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does not annoy Mr.. Vanderbilt IN the
least. 81
VANDHRBILT'S GRAND OBJECT.

VANDFRBILTS GRfND OBI ECT.
The purpose of Mr.. Vanderbilt in the
Riltmore estate appears to~be of eXafted
grantlelIr. He is collecting plant strees
and shr1Ibs from all parts OF the world.
The magnificent sAstafe is to he open az
all times tosstufents and scientists who
are pursuing theSsthdy of botany. They
will lie afforded every advantage and OPP
portunity for their chosen work. DIT.
Chapman. the venerable bOtanist of Api-
lachicola Fla, one of the greatest author
tiles in the South. and who has written
several !sookS, has been invited by Mr..
Vanderbilt to spend some time at Bit
more examining the fora Of the estate.
Hon. julius Sterling Morton, ex-Secr-
tary Of Agriculture of the Unfted States,
recently said Of the BiltmoTe estate:
at is EAR greater object lesson to the
Americrr ,,eople than our National De
partme:,: IF Agriculture"
HOUSTON r. HARPER.
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WOMEN AS MOTH
Frs.
Col. Higginson's Certificate to Their
Fulfilment of Duty.

Col. HlgglnSOn Certlhcate 10 lhelr
Fulfilment of Duty.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson writes
to the Boston Herald Il note in relation
to the recent hearing against giving par
tial suffrage to women at the state-house.
and his letter reads as follows:
Il regret to differ from my valued
knsman, Dr. Walter Charming. in his
argument against woman suffrage. 1t
seems to me that the -ogical foundation
for this plea is wanting. and for this
reason that, while he complains that wo-
men do not sufficiently do their duty as
mothers, he does not adduce one fact to
show that women who perform public
functions or advocate woman suffrage are
liable in any special manner to this
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the construction. Hundreds of contracts
had to be let. About six hundred hands
were employed daily for several years
at work on the house. in the park at the
brick and terra Gotta yards and kilns, at
the sawmill and on the agricultural lands.
Mr.. McNamee systematized everything.
Departments We're organized, such as
horticulture, forestry, agriculture. fori-
culture, etc. and chiefs appointed over
each. The manager can sit in his hand
some office building in the village of Bit
more and receive reports as to the smallest
detail in each department from its head
man. Everything goes on as smooth as
clOckwOrk
Mr.. McNannee was born at Irvington-
on-the-Hudscn. After an elaborate
course he graduated from the Columbia
College law school in 1871 While in col
lege ne enjoyed instruction under Prof.
Theo w. Dwight, who is acknowledged
one of the greatest expounders of the
law Of this age. In New York city he was
member Of the law firm of Davies,
Work, McNamee & Hilton. Julian T..
Davies was the son of Henry r. Davies,
formerly Chief Justice of Appeals. who
was also counsellor of the firm. L. ).
Grant. Jr., was also for IL short time a
member of the firm. They had am extern
sive practice and some very celebrated
eases Many of their cases went before
! the United States Supreme Court. When
in the latter part of the SOS Mr.. George
w Vanderbilt decided to build his place
in the LAND Of the Sky" he wisely Sc
lected Mr.. McNamee to take charge of
the great work. That he made no mis-
take has been amply proven.
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ALL SOULS CHURCH.

Through the benefcence of Mr.. George
Vanderbilt handsome Episcopal church
has been erected in the village of Bit
more From the striking and peculiar
architecture, no one would ever imagine
that it has seating capacity of go.
The queer appearance of the structure is
caused from the lantern" or roof tower,
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Turning mad dog loose is trifling
thing compared to what the devil can do
with gossiping tongue.
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INCOME OF THE ESTATE.

On the several thousand acres Of clear
ed land on the estate scientific farming
is carried on to perfection. The crops
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-27
Drawn Up by the Ministers.

London, May 18.-A dispatch to the
Standard from Constantinople says:
The porte's reply to the powers is
based upon a mazabata presented by
the ministers to the sultan represent
ing that Greece was responsible for
compelling Turkey to declare war; that
for the last fifteen years Greece had ig-
nored her engagements under the Ber-
lin treaty by emitting to pay indem-
nifty, by Selling and confiscating Va
koups, or religious domains, and finally
by invading Turkish soil; and that,
therefore, the council were of the opin-
ion that Greece had no just claim upon
him for lepiency.
Then follow the proposals upon
which the council would base treaty
of peace. The grand vizier, in sub
hitting the mazabata, assured the sui
tan that the nation was prepared to
shed it last drop Of blood in support Of
such conditions of settlement.
The war party threatens to dethrone
the sultan if he allows any weakness,
but shrewd observers believe that this
is only farce to enable him to pose
before Europe as the unwilling victim
of his fanatical subjects.
In spite of the success of Edbem Pa
sha, the palace spies have raised the
doubt Of his fidelity, and the sultan has
sent a special aide-de-camp to watch
him.
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SENATE DEBATE CONTINUED.


COnstftuents-MasOn Talks.
Washington, May 2O.-Cuba again
occupied the foreground in the senate
today. It drew large crowds to the
galleries, and brought out two notable
speeches, the one by Mason in favor of
the Morgan resolution, and the other by
Hoar, in opposition to it.
The Illinois senator pictured in fer
vid terms the distress in Cuba, dwell
ing particularly on the starving condi-
tions of 800 United States citizens, as
reported by the president, and called
upon the senate to throw off its leth-
argy and pass the Morgan resolution.
Mason had several sharp tilts with
Wellington. the latter protesting that
he was being misrepresented. It led
to considerable commotion in the GAL
leries, during which Wellington de-
clared that he could not be choked off
by the rudeness of the galleries.
Hoar spoke in his usual calm and
dignified style, and took occasion to
deride buncombe appeals to constitu-
ents and braggadocio as to our national
strength. Hoar's criticisms, although
impersonal, were clearly aimed at
Mason. Senators Gallinger and Haw-
ley also spoke, the former for the reso-
luton, and the latter urging that the
United States should not rush into war
while our coast defenses are manifestly
Inadequate.
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DE LONE GIVES HIS CONSENT

The Sending of Food to Americans IL
Cuba Is No Concern of Spain.
Washington, May 21.-In an author.
lied interview, the Spanish minister:
Dupuy de Lone, broke his diplomatic
silence, and said:
81 am going at~once to call on the
president and express my gratitude fol
his splendid action and the kindly con.
sideration shown in the wording Of hit
message. Notwithstanding the activity
of the papers that are hostile and un
Just, our cause has again triumphed.
We are stronger today with President
Mckinley and Secretary Sherman than
we ever were with the Cleveland ad.
ministration.
"Spain has no objection whatever to
the United States helping her own citi.
zens now resident in Cuba and alleged
to be in distress. The way that the
charity is distributed is entirely the
affair of the United States, and not
that of Spain.
''This government expressly states
that only Americans are to be relieved,
therefore no authority is asked to feed
the subjects of Spain. If Americans
have suffered through exigencies of war,
it is their misfortune to be in Cuba at
this particular time. Spain does not
care if the United States maintains her
citizens in luxury, so long as she dis
tributes her bounty through the con.
sular agents and only in the towns. -
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Washington, May 20.-The senate
committee on privileges and elections
today heard an argument by G. E. S.
Wood, an attorney of Portland, Or, in
support of the claim Of Hon. 81. w.
Corbett to a seat in the senate to sue
coed Senator Mitchell, under the ap-
pointment of the governor of Oregon,
but the committee took no action. Mr..
Wood contended that the appointment
was valid because there had been no
session of the Oregon legislature. He
held that failure to organize was equiv
alent to holding no session, and for this
reason there had been an interregnum
He argued it was the intention of the
trainers of the constitution that state
should be at all times represented in
the senate; that, as he expressed it,
the sovereign states should ever be rep
resented by their ambassadors in the
senate. The committee expects to pass
finally on the case at their next weekly
meeting
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-27
THE SHIP is LACKING.
Navy Department Has No Vessel
Garry Grain to India.

Navy Department. Has No Vessel to
Garry Grain to India.
Washington, May 2O.-The navy de
partment has had so much trouble in
securing ships to carry the contribu-
lions of grain from this country to In
dia that it has now under consideration
the propriety of appealing to congress
to amend the resolution under which
it is proceeding.
That resolution requires the grain to
be carried in an American vessel. It
happens that there are very few Ameri-
can steamers outside of the regular lines
and the department is unable to comply
with the terms of the act of congress
unless it turns to sailing ship. Such
ship could not reach Bombay in
much less than 81 months, by which
time the famine sufferers, for whom the
relief il intended, might be expected to
be either starved to death or in possess
sion new crops of rice. Therefore, un-
less an American steamer can be pro-
cured at New York in few days, it is
probable congress will be asked to re-
move the injunction and allow the de-
partment to charter steamer OF an
other nationality, which may be al
lowed to carry the American flag Tor
the occasion. A steamer is wanted also
at San Francisco for a like purpose, but
it is said the need is not 80 pressing.
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The EEL Moro Mud Island.

San Luis Obispo, CAL, May 20.-The
mud island which so suddenly rose out
of the ocean near Ell Moro as the result
of an earthquake shock last Thursday
night still stands in the bay. Its black
shining surface seems to indicate the
presence of tar. Several times since
the mass was thrown up, as parties who
have ventured near the spot say, it has
been seen to swell and subside in spots,
which indicates that seismic forces are
still at work beneath the bay. At each
Of the instances named the mud ap-
peared to be of consistency OF rubber,
for it gave slack under the pressure and
resumed its usual state when the forces
beneath were removed.
No signs of great heat have been no
ticed about the place, which is regarded
as peculiar by local scientists.
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Chicago, May 21.-A special to the
Times Herald from New York says:
Behind the movement for the passage
of the Cuban resolution is solemn
pledge made by the Cuban junta to it's
supporters in congress that four effec-
tive men-of-war flying the Cuban flag
are only awaiting this recognition to
take to the seas. These vessels, it is
declared, will be obtained in England,
and it is asserted that arrangements
have already been perfected by which
they will be manned, thoroughly equip
ped and will be ready to sail the very
day the belligerency of the Cubans is
recognized.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-27
FIENDISH MURDER.
An Entire Family in Montana Killed
and the House Robbed.

and the House Robbed.
Denver, Colo, May 20.-A report
was published in an evening paper here
yesterday to the effect that w. H.
Hamilton, contractor. his wife, Mrs.
Catherine Hamilton; his son, Leo, aged
18, who lived in Denver until recent
ly, were murdered in small village
near Helena, Mont, three weeks ago,
and the crime suppressed in order to
enable Montana authorities to trace the
murderers.
Mr.. Hamilton, who had lived in Den
yer 20 years, disposed Of his property
here last February, and left with his
family, going first to Oregon and later
to Montana. Near Helena, it is said,
he engaged in brickmaking. Accord
ing to the report which has reached
friends of the family in this city, Mr..
and Mrs. Hamilton were found dead in
bed with their threats cut.
Miss Hamilton was also dead in bed
with her throat cut, and many bruises
on her body. It is stated that appear
ances indicated that an attempt had
been made to outrage her, and that she
was killed after a struggle before her
assailants had accomplished their fiend-
ish purpose. Leo Hamilton had evil
IDENTIFY made desperate fight. His
body lay on the floor, and was literally
covered with wounds. All the fingers
of his right hand, except the forefnger,
were severed, showing that he had
grasped the razor or knife. His throat
was also cut.
Foot prints near the house showed
that two men were concerned in the
murders. The house had been ran
sacked, and it is believed the murderers
secured about $500!
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The Car stopped the W..

Constantinople, May 20.-It tran
spires that the czar made a direct APP
peal to the sultan to order his troops to
cease fighting and to arrange an armis-
tice, and this, coupled with the fact
that the most serious results would
have ensued if Turkey had persisted in
her defiant attitude, brought about the
present state of affairs. Tewfik Pasha,
the Turkish minister of foreign affairs,
called upon the dean of the diplomatic
corps, Baron Won Calico, this morning
to convey to the foreign ministers the
sultan's decision to arrange an armls-
tice. It is now believed the terms OF
peace will be negotiated directly be-
tween Turkey and Greece.
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The City Held Liable.

Vancouver, B. G., May 21.-The
first Of the trials arising out of the
tramway disaster at Point Ellice bridge,
Victoria, last May, was concluded this
afternoon, when the jurssv decided that
the city was liable for the disaster.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Gordon, whose hus-
band was killed, was awarded SO, 900
damages 81, 600 for herself, $1,000 for
her eldest son, 81, 800 for the youngest
child, and $500 for steps0n. Judg-
ment was given to the tramway COM
pany, With coats.