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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1898)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , DECEMBER 18 , 1808. on * tf I/ Just Six Shopping Days Before Christmas H AT a world of work there is to be done we've seen to it that all parrs of our store service is equal to the occasion The stock was large over $100,000,00 invested in Christmas Jewelry , etc , The very newness of it makes it the one place for you to come we will help you in your selections so will our prices. Gorham Sterling Silver Ware The Gorham Sterling Silver , 925-1000 fine , has no equal for val ues we are Omaha agents for these celebrated goods , and sell Gorham sterling silverware at the same price as their New York salesrooms all Gorham patterns copyrighted and not duplicated in the cheap plated ware. Bon Bon Dish $ 3.00 Berry Bowl , large size 18.00 Sugar and Creamer , large size 22.00 Top Claret Pitcher , large size 16.50 Teaspoons , set of 6 8.50 Teaspoons , set of 6 4.50 Teaspoons , set of 6 5.50 Forks , set of 6 9.00 Large Spoons , set of 6 9.00 Bon Bon Spoon 1.25 Sugar Spoon . , . . . . 1.25 Gravy Spoon 1.25 Butter knives , Jelly knives , Berry spoons , Vegetable forks , Cold Meat forks at $2.00 to $4.50. Gorham Sterling SllverComb and Brush , In cue , Ju.no. Oorhnm Sterling Silver-Back Comb , 76c. Gorham Sterling Silver Backed Hair Brushes , Military Brushes , Hat Brushes , Velvet Brushes , Bonnet Brushes , Manicure Sets , single pieces ; Puff Boxes , etc. , make elegant Christmas presents that have a lasting value that you won't find la any other ware. Jewelry Never have we shown as much in jewelry as now. We are not am bitious to be reputed as cheap jew elers , for with such the country is well supplied. Fine goods are not always the most expensive. Solid gold ladies' set ring , em erald , sapphire , garnet or amethyst stone § 1.25 Solid gold ladies' set ring , two stones and two pearls § 2.00 Solid gold ladies' set ring , five genuine opals § 2.00 Baby arid children's rings 50c to § 1.00 Jeweled hat pins , in 14k gold , § 5.00 to § 10.00 Solid gold baby chains , § 3.50 to § 5.00 Solid gold gentlemen's chains § 8.50 Solid gold gentlemen's studs , spring button back § 2.00 Solid gold dumb bell cuff but tons $1.50 Stick pins , hundreds of them , § 1.00 to § 5.00 Gut Glass What n difference In Cut Glass comonr what w show with that of any other mnnufactu. , r. There it tiona exceut the J. Hoare & Co. that has that brilliant blue white tint ao desirable In cut glass. We are sole agents In Omaha for these celebrated eoods. Cutlery. Good silver dated Child's Set. 3 nieces . . . . . 43o Best quality Child's Set $1.25 and $1.60 Pearl handle Child's Set $2.25 Fenrl handle Fruit Knives , sterling bolster , set of 6 $5.00 Pearl handle Table Knives , sterling bolster , set of 6 .v $8.50 A beautiful stag ihorn handle 3-otece set at . . $2.25 Silver handle 3-plece Carving Set , only $ & .SO Gorham Sterling Silver Carving Set of 3 pieces $10 Sterllnc stiver handle Pocket Knives 5 gross of the highest quality two and four bladed steel tented regular price $3.00 and $3.50 our price for 'this week onlv 75c and $1.25 These must be Bold this week and these prices will do it. Rookwood Pottery There ere many Imitations of this ware but they are nothing like It. The bcautv of Rook- wood can be found onlv in Rookwood. You should remember that we ore the only Omnhi merchants that can sell you the genuine Rookwood Pottery. Watches Nothing will make as. fine a Christmas gift as a watch , and nowhere In Omaha can you find as many different kinds , styles and shaoee to select from. from.W quote the followlngorlces on watches : Misses' solid silver Chatelaine Watch . com plete with chatelaine , American , movement , warranted $6.00 14k Gold Filled Chatelaine , Watch , with chat elaine , complete $12.00 Gold filled , warranted ZO years , with Wal- tham movement , small O size , ladles' (45.00 14k solid Aold , with Walt ham movement . . . . $25.00 14k gold filled , diamond In back and raised gold ornamentation , small site $23.00 12 size gold filled beaded edge , the newest small size for gentlemen , $20.00 to $30.00 12 size gold filled , warranted 15 years $10.00 Our 21 jeweled Adjusted Railway Watch , In gold filled cafe , warranted 25 years $48.00 Our stock of Diamond Cage Watches never was more complete than now. Come in and see them. Elegant small Black Gun Metal Chatelaine , complete $6.00 Special Brush Offering We have 500 large size Cloth brushes , Velvet brushes and Hat brushes with solid ebony back , sil ver mounted , finest quality , genu ine imported French bristles brushes that sell any where at $8.50 for the last week before - fore Christmas only. . . Silver Novelties 1500 Button hooks , Nail files , Cuticle knives , Letter openers in large sizes that we've bought at a sacrifice that were late in coming not our regular stock anyway that are easily worth § 1.50 and § 2.00 just to close them out and do it quick , we are going to give you a buying opportunity that you'll never get again your choice at Diamonds Do you want a Diamond at t 6.00 Do you want a Diamond at S 25.00 Or would you rather have one at $ 75.00 Or even one at S125.00 We can suit you we are now and always have been beaclaunrters for diamonds. Pocket Books Sterling silver mounted Sealskin Pocketbook..S1.00 Genuine monkey skin. Kilt mounted onlv . . . . $1.50 Its eaual can't be bought for less than $3.00. We show the beat values In Pocketbooks In Omaha. Stationery. A complete line of the very latest in stationery elegantly initialed or inonogramed stationery , in boxes , make beautiful Christmas presents. Box stationery , any initial , 35c. 200 engraved wedding invitations 113.50. 100 engraved cards and plate , $1.50. Letter seals and sealing wax. Umbrellas. Our line of Umbrellas for ladles and gentlemen Is the largest wo have had and wo arc making aome special prices on them. A line of Silk Umbrellas that we have been celling at $0.60 , In Dresden handles , sterling mounting , $3.CO. Another one , In One silk , fancy sterling mount ed , Dresden handle , easily worth $10 J5.00. A good Umbrella , steel paragon frame , luur- locked mountings , stiver trimmed , $1.50. Platedware. Our line of plated goods is very largo and complete. Rogers' genuine tea spoons , set of six , $1.25. Rogers' genuine table spoons , set of six , § 1.75. Lamps With powerful burners ar preferable to gas and cheauer to use. We have an entirely new line of Decorated Uamofl aud we make lower prices than nv other dace in the city prices range from $3.50 to $10.00. A beautiful Decorated Lamp , bowl and glebe to match , $7.60. A Open S. AYMOND Open A Evenings . Evenings Southeast Corner of Douglas and Fifteenth Streets. w. HIGH LIFE IN BLENDS AURES How the Nabobs of the City Look , Act and Blow Their Wealth. RACES AND LOTTERIES WELL PATRONIZED Scene * at the Claim , the Opera , the Promenade and the Driven Iin- , pndcnt Yaniift Men and Chnriulnir Women. ( Copyrighted , JS83 , by Frank Q , Carpenter. ) BUENOS AYRES , Nov. 25 , 1898. ( Special Correspondence of The Be * . ) High life in Buenos Ay res 1 High life in the Paris of South America ! Where millionaires are thicker than black berries In .dog days and honey-lipped heir esses swarm like bees in midsummer. We may e e It out driving in the park at Pal ermo , or meet it every afternoon on the Callo Florida. We may take chances with it every Sunday at the races or we may laro at its diamonds every night during the opera season. If tve have good Intro ductions we may go inside Its mansions and ttend Its fine dinners , or perhaps drop in tea a game at the swell Jockey club , where fortunes sometimes change hands in a night. The raws are one of the social Institu tions of the Argentine capital. The presi dent and his cabinet , the officers of the army and navy and every one who pretends to bo anybody attends them , and this not withstanding that they are always hold upon Sundays. The chief race track Is owned by the Jockey club. This club Is the most celebrated In South America. Its Initiation fee Is three times that of any club In New York and Us annual dues equal more than tnany an Argentine young man earns In a year. Its club house will compare favor ably In lit furniture and. finishing with al most any palace of Europe. The races are nil under this club and all the money won and lost passes through Us hands. It takes a certain percentage of all the beti made and when I tell you that last year more than thirteen million dollars passed through the hands of Its pool sellers you can sec that a small percentage will glvo the clut a very big Income. There are many flni horses In the Argentine and the raoes art well contested. The day I attended their eighty-seven horses were entered and th < grand stand contained moro than ten thou- and people. A building covering more than half an acre was devoted to pool selling - ing , and there was a stream of men goln ; to and from the windows of this building to make their beta or to receive their win nings. Every one was betting. Men , womet and children put their money on every ran and as the horses ncared the winning pot' ' tha crowd In the grand stand went wild Ten thousand people stood up , some climb' Ing on the benches , and now and then a yel w nt up from many thousand throits. I was a well-dressed crowd and there seemei to bo aim cut as many women as men In It There were the poor , as well as the rich although the former were shut off In i cheaper section of the stand by themselves In Palermo Park. The Sunday afternoons of the Argcntlm vfople are eoent up to 3 or 4 o'clock at thi races. The races begin at 12 and are sup powd to stop at 3. At about 3:30 you wll eee all the carriages turning toward Pa lermo park. This Is a beautiful forest am garden , covering many acres. It has fin drives , magnificent palm trees end wlndlni lakes , with here and there a cafe wher you may atop for refreshments. It Is 01 Sundays and Thursdays that all fashlonabl $ ueno * Ayre * com i to Palermo. On Bun day afternoons the crowd la Immense , and It a estimated that there are often as many as 1,000 carriages and 10,000 foot passenger ! , o bo seen there during a single afternoon. The carriages are owned by all classes. The people of the Latin races are fond of how , and the Spanish , the Italian and the \rgentlne of modern means win starve himself during the week in order that he may take a drive on Sunday. Most of the urnouts , however , are owned by the swells , tome of these are magnificent They have coachmen and footmen In livery. The horses n some cases have harness plted with dllvcr and gold , and they are of as Ine etock as you will find In Hyde park or n the Bols de Boulogne. Young bloods Bit on high drags and direct their horses as : hey drive with gloved hands. On the mcks of other rig * you will we stiff-backed Ittle tigers or footmen In gorgeous dress. Cavalry office-re in uniform gallop by you and boys canter along on ponlea. At just about 5 o'clock the crowd is the thickest and at this time it Is a sight for the gods and men , especially for the men , for most of the carriages are open and the majority of the women who sit In them are of that beautiful type which Is seen at Its best In Buenos Ayres. Rosy faces with luscious lips and largo luminous eyes look out at you from nearly every carriage tbat passes. The pic tures are well framed. There are no dark manias or bead ahawls here , such as they have in Peru. There Is no prudish modesty , no dropping of the eyes and blushing at the sight of men. These are live flesh and blood clrls , not nuns. They are girls who are not afraid to look you In the eye and who evidently feel well able to care for them- selvns , although their fathers and mothers by Spanish custom keep them secluded. They do not often walk upon the streets and you seldom see them out of doors except In carriages. They are , however , on dress parade every afternoon at the windows and as you look up , It the street Is clear , you may perhaps be rewarded with a smile. At least I was. I remember how one looked down upon me from one of thn swellest houses of Buenos Ayrcs and s her eye caught mine she bowed. She actually did. I tipped my hat In return , carefully hiding the bald spot which my wife sayi is coming there. At the Opera. Even moro swell than the races or Palermo Is the Italian opera. Buenos AyrM Is a theater-going city. It haa twenty-six such houses of amusement , upon which Its poopre spend In the neighborhood of $2,000,000 a year. The most expensive and most fashion able of all Is the opera , where the boxes for the season cost a thousand silver dollars and upward , and where some of the greatest sing ers of the world take part. The boxes are usually taken for the season , and an Argen tine swell would rather sen his shirt and wear a dickey than give up hl part in a box at the opera. The orchestra pit la next In price to the boxes. A seat here costs six teen silver dollars a night , or a Httle more than $5 In gold. General entrance Is $2 In gold , and the seats In the peanut galhry are as low as 25 cents. During my last night at the opera the Italian star Tomagno sang In "Wllhelm Tell , " but the house Interested me even more than the singing. There were , 1 should say , at least 3,000 people present , and every man and woman In the boxes and In the orchestra jvas in fuM dress. Then was not a man In a business suit except In the top galleries. The women were without bonnets and most of them had on low-neck gowns , with arms bare , except when cov ered with long white gloves reaching as fat up OB the biceps. The dresses were fai better and more costly than those you eee at a White House reception. Thev were better made and , I am told , moat of the costumes used by rich Argentine womec come from Paris. There were Jewels every where. There was , I venture , a good hall peck of diamonds on the female part of the audience. Diamonds at big as the end of mj Kttle finger hung from the lobe * of plnl ears , clusters of diamond flowers neetled In beds of lace upon voluptuous bosoms , and combs set with diamonds fastened the well- groomed treseee of Argentine beauties on the crowns of their shapely heads. There were pearls as big aa marrow fat peas , necklaces of them Joined at the center with a great ruby or an emerald. There were sapphires and opals and gold galore. How the Girls Look. Many of the women were pretty , repre senting as many complexions and kinds of features as you will see at the Metropolitan opera In New York. I could not notice a predominance of the Spanish type. So many of the rich Argentine families have Intermarried with the foreigners that their women are as cosmopolitan in their ap pearance as our own. Some of them were homely , and not a few , I regret to say , owed much of their good looks to their make-up. Powder and paint are artistically used in Buenos Ayres , and there is no cap ital of the world where the professional hairdresser and face enameler has a bet ter custom. I have been told that the Parisian hairdressers and enamelers have their regular clientele of rich women , who come to be made up before they start for their drive In the park or for an opera or evening party. On opera nights you have to engage your enameler beforehand , or wait In the ante-room for hours before he will yell out "next. " However this may be , the effect at the opera is excellent. The house Is a very large one , the largest , I be lieve , In South America. It has five gal leries , the lower three of which are boxes. When the curtain Is up the men behind the women in the boxes are practically out of sight , and from the pit where I sat In my Ixteen-dollar place I could see above me he breasts and heads of the women stand- ng , as It were , on the red plush railing of he galleries. There were hundreds of these justs running tier above tier , making a lesh and blood beauty show far superior to he wax works of Madame Tussand and well worth coming to the Argentine to see. In addition to the ordinary boxes there Is a special gallery in this theater called the cazuela , where women can corao without escorts , and In which mon ore not allowed. Seats there cost from $2 to $5 and are well patronized. The opera at Buenos Ayres Is considered much more as a social event than as a musical entertainment. I oan't describe the Importance with which dress la regarded. In my plain American w y I first thought of wearing a black suit , but not going in full evening dress. I put on , however , my steel- pen coat , but neglected to wear gloves. On entering the house I found every man In the orchestra except myself wearing white kld , and every man but TOO had a tall silk hat. Between the acts the men roae to their feet , clapped on their hats and then sauntered to and Ire through the bouse. Some stood at their seats with their opera glasses to their eyes and stared at the women regardless whether they knew them or not , but the greater part walked to the entrances of the aisles and stood there In knots with their hats on end feasted their eyes upon the women. It was a sort of a cannibal feast , but the paint or enamel on most of the faces was so thick that it brought no blood to the surface. On the Calle Florida. And this brings me to a Buenos Ayrea custom of the young dudes of the Argentine capital , who make a business of standing upon the street and greedily staring at women as they go by. There Is no city o ! the world where this prevails to such on extent. It is most common on the Calle Florida , which Is the Broadway or Regent street of Buenos Ayres. It Is the fashionable shopping street and its stores are those ol the swell Jewelers , confectioners , milliners , tailors and fashionable rcstauranteurs of the city. The street has not more than twentj feet of roadway between its narrow pavement - ment < < Every afternoon from 1 to C o'clock a line of carriages moves up one side of the street and down the other. It may grow dark , but up to 6 the line is solid , and you may here see a thousand prancing horses moving to and fro. The carriages are open , as a rule , and , in them sit the fashionable women of the capital. They drive here every evening merely because it is the fashion and the young men have the fashion of standing on the street and staring at them as they pass. Every afternoon the Calle Florida is thronged with knots of young men who are there for this purpose. They are all well dressed and well groomed. They carry canes , wear glows and smoke cigar ettes as they look. From time to time they make remarks on the women who go by and not unfrequently say things which are ab solutely indecent. Not long ago one of them said something to an American girl who was passing along the etreet. What he said was an Insult and the young American re warded him with a slap acroea the mouth which almost knocked him to the ground. The ordinary Argentine girl would have merely pouted and passed on. Within the last year or so the Argentine police have been trying to stop this Insulting of women and now any woman who makes a com plaint can have her insulter at once taken to the city authorities for trial. The Yoanv Argentine. We hear a good deal said of Young Amer ica and his Impudence. The boys of the Argentine are even more precocious than those of the United States. An Argentine father seldom whips his eon , and children have much more liberty south of the equa tor than north of It. The Sunday school is almost unknown , and ideas of morality are eo loose tbat children are brought up in a most pernicious way. As to lying , this , IB common among men , women and chil dren. The polite lie is met with every where , and a father will sometimes say about his little girl or boy in admiring terms : "Why , hear that child lie , " or "How well It does Ho ; " "Why , I could not lie bet ter than that myself. " They do not think It Is disgraceful to lie , and have the Span ish ideas of honor. You might , for In stance , call at Argentine e liar and ho would think nothing of It. He might think It a compliment more than anything else. But if you should call him a coward he could not consistently rest until he had knocked you down or stabbed you In the back. The young Argentines learn wickedness at a much earlier age than do our boys. Many of them have depraved minds at 14 , and already pose as men. Boys begin to talk politics before they are out of knee pants. Nearly every college has Us political factions. The hoys organize revolutions against the professors , thus training ttiem- selves to get up revolutions against the gov ernment when they grow older. The well- to-do young Argentine la Bet brought up to any business. He has a prejudice against trade and work , though be will study for a profession. It is > th fashionable thing to study law and thus get the title of doctor to the name , though the young man may never expect to practice. The children , as a rule , learn the lan guages easily , and many young men ( peak English and French. Girls are- also good linguists , but outside of the languages they know but little. I doubt whether you will find a score of young girls In Buenoa Ayres who have any such education as is glv n at our first-class women colleges. . Family l > lfe. It Is hard to learn much about family life 1 In the high circles of the Argentine. Each family Is run as a close corporation , and when a eon Is married he usually brings hie wife home. Sometimes an addition Is built to the house , and the newly married couple move Into It. The eoxes are not kept apart as much as In the other countries of South America before marriage ; etlfl , there Is no such Indiscriminate calling and courting ag In the Unttrd State * . If a young man pays 1 any attentions to a girl he Is understood to mean business , and If he goes to her house often he is expected 'to ask her In marriage. When he calls he does not see his sweet heart alone , and he Is not permitted to be with her without the family Is present. After marriage there Is more freedom , but even then women are closely watched. I am told that the women are usuaUy faithful to their husbands , and it Is said that the percentage of good married women Is greater In Buenos Ayres than In any capital of Europe. You seldom hear of a scandal In connection with a wlfo or mother of a high Argentine family. There is no such thing as a divorce , although there a : e separations. The women are very proud , and their regard for their children often keeps them from making a fuss about things which other wise they could not pardon. As to the men , there are many good husbands , but there are many who have as .loose Ideas of such things as you wilt find In Paris , and who model their lives after much the same style as that of the heroes of most of the French novels. The percentage of Illegitimate births is very high. The Women and the Lottery. The women are the religious element of the community. They keep up the churches , attend mass regularly and manage all the charities of the eountry. One of the chief charitable organizations presided over by these women is supplied with funds from the national lottery , a certain percentage of which goes to them. This lottery has drawIngs - Ings weekly and the sums realized are enor mous. The women take charge of them and spend the money for charity. Such actions can not but have a bad effect upon the character of the people. You can not make a child think It la bad to gamble when his mother handles the Ill-gotten gains , no mat ter for what good. The result Is that the Argentines are a nation of gamblers , and Buenos Ayres today Is as badly affected by its lottery as was New Orleans when the Louisiana lottery was at the full. There are drawings now every week , the grand prize some weeks rising to upward of $100,000 in silver and at every Christmas to $1,000,000. L/ast year $28,000,000 worth of lottery tickets were sold. There are now lottery offices In every block. You meet lottery , ticket peddlers on every cor ner , and you are not safe from them even at the doors of the churches. Among other gambling Institutions are the ball alleys , the race course and the stock exchange. I shall write of the stock exchange In another letter. But in the lotteries , the ball alleys and on the race course I see by a state ment In a Buenos Ayres paper that $47,000- 000 was won and lost last year , while the sales at the stock exchange footed up the enormous amount of $436,000,000 gold. The total foreign trade of the country during that year was less than $120,000,000 gold , showing that three-fourths of the business of the exchange was done on worthiest paper. There Is a good deal of private gambling In Buenos Ayres. There are card tables at the clubs where a hacienda maybe bo lost in a night , and there are many small gambling hells Which carry on their business contrary to law under the very eyes of the police. FRANK O. CARPENTER. CONNUBIALITIBS. A Kansas City couple gave as an excuse for marrying suddenly tbat both had the "blues. " Baron Rolf Zederstrom , who Is to marrj Madame PattI , Is only 23 years old , Tb < diva is 55. The "marrying squire" of Jeffersoovllle , Ind. , is dead and his books show that he had performed 9,000 marriage ceremonies. Mlsa Pauline Astor , the only daughter ol William Waldorf Astor , Is reported to b < engaged to marry the young duke of Kox- burgh. Miss Astor Is 19 years old. Aa a wedding present to his daughter Franklin Farrel , millionaire , of Ansonla Conn , , gave his check for $250,000. As i wedding present to the bridegroom he gavt a check for 1160,000. , In addition , he gav < the young couple $20,000 to be used ex clusively on their wedding trip. There Is one young man in Somervllle. married throe months ago , who keps pullIng - Ing buttons oft his coat because he so enjoys having his pretty young wife stand up cloto and sew them on for him. It is rumored In New York that Bourke Cockran. the lawyer and orator , wants to marry Miss Virginia Fair. Mr. Cockran la Just now cutting something of a dash In the fashionable society of New York and is very attentive to Miss Fair. With the greatest secrecy an antl-matrl- monlal club was recently formed In Boston , with a membership of Just twelve. The secret was too much for one or two of the young men , and now nearly all about- the unholy compact Is known. It Is proposed to dine annually as long as the men bold to gether , and should one of them be married he must give a farewell dinner costing not less than $10 a plate , and as much moro than that as he cares to afford , to all the other members , and must alaj pay into the general treasury for the accumulation of a club fund the sum of $500 as a slight "for feit" for his treason to the cause In taking unto himself a wife. Those who think that the queen of the Netherlands will marry Prince William of Wled tell this story of how It came about : Princess Pauline of Wurtemberg , who Is the intimate friend and sole confidante of Queen Wilhelmlna , married the older brother of Prince William of Wled , Before her mar riage the princess used to spend a part of the year with the presumptive heiress to the throne of Holland , and the two friends at times would dream dreams of the future , as young girls will do , be they princesses or peasants. Engaged In this pleasant occupa tion one day , they thought to themselves how pleasant It would be If they were to marry two brothers and thus unite them selves by bonds of kinship as well as affec tion. The Idea grew on them and they de termined , jf possible , to carry it Into effect. "N. L. Francis , " says the Boston Tran script , "whose engagement to Miss Jane Fuller , daughter of Chief Justice Fuller , bai Just been announced , In a Harvard man ; class of ' 92. Ho prepared at Chauncy Hall school. In the last year or eo before gradu ation he came Into a fortune amounting to nearly $1,000,000. During his last year at college bo began to take an Interest in yachting. He first bought the cutter Sara cen. Subsequently he told this boat and built the fast schooner yacht Serkara. Aftei one or two years ho bought the famoui English cutter Queen Mat. Last spring h sold this boat , but still retains his member' ship In numerous yacht clubs. Mr , Francis Is now about 28 years old. Since his gradu ation from college In 1S92 he has spent the greater part of bis time In travel , havlnj been abroad several times. " RELIGIOUS. Two Methodist bishops , John F. Hurst am C. C. McCabo. have Just raised $50,000 ti Plttsburg for the American university li Washington. The Salvation Army preaches the gospe In twenty-seven different languages. It pub Itshes fifty-two newspapers in eighteen dlf ferent languages. In Englaqd there are 14,000 livings am 25,000 clergymen to fill them. That la each clergyman , on an average , a llttli more than half lives. Robert college , Constantinople , has com pleted Us thirty-fifth year. It is crowdw with students , not only from Turkey , bu from all the surrounding countries. Rev. D. Stuart Dodge , son of the lat William E. Dodge has been appointed presl dent of the Preibvterlan Board of Horn Missions In place of the late Dr. John Hall. The secretary of the navy has approvei the plan for a naval young men's Chrlstla : association and Commander Philip baa bee ; elected -to supervise the Army and Nav ; department of those organizations. Bishop Thomas W. Dudley , when hi friends knew that he proposed to settle 1 Kentucky , was advised not to ten there an one man said to him that a man killed an other In that state for treading on a doe "What arB you going to do In a place Ilk that ? " "I'm not going to tread on th dog. " w the reply. The rellrloui Journals in alluding to D | Lyman Abbott's resignation of the pastoral of Plymouth rhu/cli have oono but car words for the ability , energy and devotion which ho has ever manifested In his work. Lord Ktnnoul. soon after the flret rendition of the "Messiah. " complimented the great composer for the noble entertainment he ua4 given the people. "My lord , " replied Handel. "I should bo sorry if I only enter tained them. I wanted to make them better. " and that Is what the oratorio does do every rendering. The Rome correspondent of the British Medical Journal says : "Notwithstanding tha ( somewhat alarming rumors which appeared some tluio ago as to the health of Leo XIII. , I am happy to bo able to state , on the au thority of Prof. Lapponl tno pope's phy sician , that ho enjoys excellent health at the present time. Prof. Lapponl has told m that the only foundation for the rumors was a slight gastro-entorlc catarrh , from which 'the pope suffered on ono or two occasion ! during the heat of the summer months. " Friends of Archbishop J. J. Keane , now in Rome , are endeavoring to have htm ap pointed to the see of Oregon , as the BUC- . cessor of the late Archbishop Gross. The Roman Catholics of Oresron would be pleased with his selection , but they do not thlnk.hs would accept. "Tho choice of Portland , " Bays the Oregonlan , "appears to bo Bishop O'Dea of Washington , former secretary of Archbishop Gross , and former pastor of St. Patrick's church , this city. Bishop Chrlstla of Vancouver Island has a number of sup porters. Some friends of Bishop George I Montgomery of Los Angeles are urging him for the see but it U not known whether his name has been sent < to Rome , while it Is said hat the names of both Bishop O'Dea and ; 31shop Christie have been forwarded to tha pontiff. " Aa many as 111,000,000 bottles of cham pagne are Stored in the vaults of French producers. They represent a cost price of 150,000,000. AWFUL SKIN DISEASE Suffered Untold Agony Two Years. Itching and Burning Terrible. Had to Give up Work Entirely. Instant Relief in First Application OF CUTICURA REMEDIES. At Work , Fully Cured in 2 Months. I waiafflleUd with Bttrrlble malignant break. Ing out all over the upper part of my body. I wae treated by earn * of the very bc t pbytlclani , wiio pronounced It conUgloui blood potion , through whom I iptntbuodrediof dollare trying to jet relief , but It lecmed tonctworee. All th * time I wu tufferlng untold agony , and finally bad to give tip work entirely. I graiped at every , tiling I aw advertised , and llttened loomy tug. leilljti from friendi , butnotblng teemed to reach mycaie. TheburntDg.ltchlngfU I wat In teemed to bo aggravated by over ) effort to relieve myielf ; but , thunk Oed , relief came to cue at la t. OUTI. cum REMEDIES were auggeited to me , and I Immediately procured Ihoi.UTiruni ( ointment ) , Ctmcuiu HOAP , and CUTICUIU RESOLVENT. From tea fint , I eiperlcnced a teething relief , DOtnltbttandlog my intent * pain. The warm bath , with CUTICUMA boP , the anointing with CUTICUIU , and the dote of CLTICURA UEBOL. TENT , teemed to itart the good work from the flrtt. I Improved right along , and in tell than two monfAi I teal at/It to It up anil at work , and continued to ImprOT * dally till at lat I wai inllrtly curtJ , aound and well , not a itgn on ny body anywAfrelmllcatlnglbat anything bad ever bee tbe matter wllh me. It U now orer two yean tine * I have been entirely cured , and not tlgn or a lymptom bat ever returned. I will gladly answer any and all lettert with reference to my COM. U. 1) ) . RABT1EK , 1JC W. Hunter Hi. , Atlanta , Qa , i : J. Q.AUEIIN , QlOBOU , FtJLTOX COUNTT. In neiion appeared brfore roc , Edgar FT Orr , Ju > tlcc of ifie i'eacfi In nnd for 18 Dltlrkt , It. M . mate and County tformld , J. it. Atu-rn , who hulng dnly iworn , depoftli and tilth tint Uie itateruenu made In the above tettlnuinui H true. J. O. AIIEliS' . Sworn to and innicrlbed before in Ittli Oct. Mtu.lKrt. ElHimli.O iJ.r. aid Ihrouchnut th. Krld 1'oIIH Duel no Out , Cuar. . I'rau. . UMU.L. Ug M Cur. WoriiKtJMu.n *