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GKEAT GOOD TO TEXAS
An Abundance of Blessincs in Store for the
Ion SiftSnlelii tbo Next Two Years
Ccmstundnce of the Gazette
waihmiox April 14 The visit here
Messrs Smith and Burbridge of Fort
° rtb
was most successful in every par-
ticular aud it is safo to say that Fort
vWth is better known at present by
jV ashmptomans and others who live
upre than before they came Mr Bur
ee has secured certain information
° this trip which will be of vast inter
est to Fort Worth The plan to secure
P wa at Galveston will be coupled
ltti ot1r interests of more than local
The new railways and
utnial improvements to be made
lpxasduruip the next two years will
atm > hing In securing deep water
cnihepulf the impetus given to the
rj mg anl ruilwav interests throuch
SlHte wUl h0 Prodi2 > U8 ot
ni > wu there bo a marine barbor at
Civcm lut Aransas Pass will also
ll11 fleeted for a harbor before
f hre > aJiourus Infant the amount
l > 5 fatiou accomplished for Texas
u1 it this session is most gratifving
whie the delegation is solidly Dera
att0 thoy have worked as a unit for
t ie interests of the state and have ira
PrehSfd coujrress with the great necessi
f0 Providing a port on the gulf which
Vh its attendant interests shall give to-
e Lone Star state a position and an
cyortanco in the galaxy of state not
jiUlierto enjoyed concerning a deep wa
wharborfor Texas Your correspond
ent learns that John Willett rrothing
taunted by his failure to secure JF Jd < ral
sanction for an outer harbor at Padre
Island is now laying his plans for seouriug
private capital and support from the
East to carry out his project aud will
shortly visit Boston for that purpose
Willett is a hustler and is not discour-
aged by so little a thing as the refusal of
congress to aid his projaot
DANA DENOUNCED
ExPresident Cleveland Says tho Suns BoII
Ins DownJStory Is a Lie
Nktv York Apfiii8 In aq interview
last night exPr osfden t Cleveland said of
the jSunis stonythat hojWaa und er medical
treatmentfor oorpulency Tho whole
story is a lie Regarding frequent
personal attacks upon himJn the Sun
Mr Cleveland said he did not see them
but evnry time one appeared a dozen
cranks more or less would write to him
about it Whenever < T receive these
cranks letters continued Mr Cleve-
land Ikuow that the senile old liar
Dana has been a v it again
Thero is only one thing yl care
about these attacks soems that Dana
does not coniino his warfare to mien It
is bad enough for him to print his lying
statements about myself but it is infi
ujtely more cowardly aud dastardly for
him to include my wife in his attaoks
If Dana was not in his dotag his ravings
would attract more attention
TIIE SUXS ATTACK
ew York April 18 The Sun this
morning editoually calls Mr Cleveland
a covfcardly liar a halfdrunken deputy
sheriff selfish poltroon ah unworthy
liusbati and the stuffed prophet of Will
iam streetr t i
TEXAS LAWS
A Proceeding to Nullify the En-
tire Criminal Code of Texas
One Dick Duncan Sentenced for Mur-
der Brings the Case Before the Uni-
ted States District Court
The Illegality of Texas Criminal Laws It Is
Aliened Dates Back to Legislative
Action in 187G
Special to the Gazette
Sax Antonio Tex April 16 One of
the most curious legal proceedings which
has ever come to light in this part of the
country and which if prosecuted to its
ultimatum will bo no less startling than
sensational in its results has been com-
menced in the United States district
court in this city The proceeding has
for its object the complete nullity of
the entire criminal code of Texas
as established and practiced since
1870 Even the most casual and
unconcerned can readily see what a state
of anarehy would be forced upon the
people of Texas if the Federal court sus-
tains the allegatious contained in the re-
markable petition whioh was filed for
hearing today The issue of the validity
of the penal code of criminal proceedure
is raised in the application for habeas
corpus to secure the release from custody
of Dick Duncan who it will bo re-
called was convicted by the state dis-
trict court of Maverick county sitting at
Eagle Pass a few months ago of the
murder of the Williamson family whose
horribly mutilated bodies were found
floating in tho Rio Grande Duncan was
indicted on several counts of murder
and on his first trial was convicted of
murder and the
THE DEATH SENTENCE WAS PRONOUNCED
upon him by Judge Kelso He has been
in jail in this oty since sentenco was
passed for safe kSbfiping ponding the de-
cision of thcourt of appeals upon his
case This application for a writ of
habeas corpus is a new route by which he
expects to secure not only his own re-
lease and immunityibut to neo establish
that the state of Texas ia absolutely
without a statute undbr whioh any crim-
inal actcaulio corrected or punistied
Tho application was first made to Circuit
Judge Pardee at New Orleans ou the 10th
iust and Judge Pardee ordered
that a hearing on it bo had at the
spring term of the United States
district court for Western Texas which
opens here on Mayo Some of tho best
legal talent not only of Texas is en-
gaged on the side of Duncan but the
distinguished Gen Roeor A Pry or of
Now York has been retained to assist in
pleadiue forHho alleged murderer and
it is understood thatthe petition is tho
handiwork mainly of Gen P yor and
Mr T J McMinn of this city The
case will eventually be carried to the
United States supreme court The ap-
plication is a frightfully voluminous doc-
ument and after reciting that the appli-
cant is a bone fide oitizen of the United
States who is unjustly deprived of his
liberty proceeds substantially as fol-
lows
That the Texas constitution of 187C
provided that when the legislature codi-
fied the laws of thestatethey were to be
released from the operation of certain
restriction upon the enactment of bills
but that the fact that they were re-
leased from the operations of these por-
tions of the constitution served to em-
phasize the operations of other sections
that among these latter was tho section
requiring the legislature in passing a Dill
to read it on three several days
The applicant then goes on to state
that the codiiiers were regularly ap-
pointed under the constitution and sub-
mitted to the legislature a bill entitled
Senate bill 2sro 20 the jjresent penal
code and code of oriminai procedure
that said bill was referred ttfa commit-
tee and duly considered by the senate
but that wnen it reached the house it was
not referred to a committee as
CONTEMPLATED BY THE CONSTITUTION
but section 1 of the b ll of the Penal
Code was referred to a committee of
fifteen and that section 2 embracing
the code of criminal procedure was re-
ferred to another committee of fifteen
Further that sections 3 and i were not
referred to any committee nor was the
bill in its entirety referred to a commit-
tee And again tbo applicant sets up
that this bill was not read on throe seyeral
dayB in either branch of the legislature
as required by the constitution although
the time of its taking effeot waB post-
poned ninety days Again the applica-
tion alleges that tbo bill was not consid-
ered on three several days by either
branch of the legislature in lieu of three
several readings rtlengxt allegation is
that no journal ofeither housorwas kept
as required by the constitution and he is
driven for information to certain printed
books which are iuoapable of verification
by any record and he insists that he is
entitled to that record because if it had
beenkept he could indisputably establish
what ho now alleges to be true namely
that the two branches of tbo legislature
never came to an identical legislative in-
tent on the final passage of said
bill He then Bays that the
bill was never enrolled but
that the enrollment was done away
with by virtue or a certain joint resolu-
tion adopted in each house but which
was not signed by the presiding officer of
either house nor by the governor and
which
NEVER IIAD THE POWER OF LAW i
It is next set up that the amendments
to the bill were never enrolled and that
again on April 26 1879 the legislature
passed an act providing for the print-
ing binding and distribution of the
codes but afterward inserted an amend-
ment providing for a codifier thus alter-
ing the purpose of the bill and intro-
duced a subject different from that ex-
pressed in the title of the bill and di-
verted the appropriation for print-
ing binding and distributing
He next asserts that the ap-
pointment of a codifier with the powers
enumerated therein delegating legisla-
tive powers to one J IT I yle was abor-
tive and that all that Lyle did and per
formed was wholly unconstitutional and
void Again the applicant asserts that
Lyle did not even dowhat wa9 assigned
but transgressed the limits of his ap-
pointment and when he incorporated
the amendments he did not put them in
as passod by the legislature Tho legis-
lature in the special session of 1879 au-
thorized Lyle to codify tho laws passed
in both special sessiou and regular ses-
sion but that the governors proclama
tiou never contemplated suoh an enact-
ment and the legislation to suoh an ef-
fect was illegal and void
The application next presents a
contrast between the present laws
and the laws in force previously and
from this deduces that he is illegally re-
strained Several instances of the codi
fiers work are quoted and discussed
amone which is this By tho printed
bill as on file in the secretary of states
office and a written amendment at-
tached thereto the codifier was author-
ized to insert these words in article 729
code of criminal procedure The judge
may not before a verdict convey to the
jury his opinion of tho code That the
codifier in the exercise of his legislative
functions changed the word code to
case aud made changes in many other
instances
PRACTICALLY NULLIFYING THE LAWS
From the foregoing allegations Duncan
claims first that he has not been legal-
ly convicted of any crime second that
there was no legal grand jury and honoe
no valfd indictment could be presented
third that all the requirements necessary
to the validity of a bill are wanting iu
the penal oode and the code of criminal
proceedure aud that as a codification
the entire thing is a rank absurdity no
claims that the constitutional require-
ments enumerated in his application are
mandatory and cannot be ignored by
any body
Duncans application was presented to
Judge Don A Pardee tho Federal cir-
cuit judge at Xew Orleans on April 10
and tho hearing was set for May 5 in this
city Notice of tho granting of the hear-
ing has been served upon the attorney
general of the state aud upon tho
distriot attorney The Federal ques-
tion is held to arise because
a decision by a court of the state of
Texas upon the issue presented would tend
to disturb the present system of Texas law
and cast a cloud upon tho title to office of
the judge himself It is held that tho
state court would in some measure be sit-
ting on its own case
Duncans attorneys have been engaged
upon the case for many months and the
application for Duncans release is the
result of the investigation into the legis-
lation of the state solons in 1S79 >
c
LOVE HEEDS NO TRADITIONS
Jefferson Daviss Daughter to ITnrry a Grand-
son of Abolitionist Samuel J May
Sykacuse N Y April 16 A
respondent has verified the1 report
Mss Winnie Davis tho eldest dau
FOET WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 24 1890 TWELVE PAGES
cor
that
hter
of Jefferson Davis the late president of
the Southern Confederacy is soon to
marry Mr Albert Wilkinson of this city
the grandson of Samuel J May tho
great abolitionist leader
Miss Davis came North four years ago
to visit Dr Thomas Emery bf D Mc-
Carthy Co in this oity It was her
first visit to this old abolitionist strong-
hold and she was quite anxious to meet
the sooiety peoplo of Syracuse At one
of the receptions given in her honor she
was introduced to Mr Wilkinson Miss
Winnie received a verycool reception in
one or two houses here Mr Wilkinson
resented the coolness shown her and gal-
lantly championed her cause The
friendship thus engendered blossomed
into love
Miss Winnie later on went to Europe
wih a cousin and is still there Mr
Wilkinson two months ago crossod the
ocean to see Miss Davis and spent several
weeks with her sightseeing on the con-
tinent and pressing his suit When he
returned they were betrothed
Mr Wilkinson is a bright and promis-
ing young lawyer here about twenty
eight years of age His income is quite
fair but he Is not a rich man The
young man moves in the very best sociotj
here and stands high in the community
The actual time for tho wedding has
not been set but it is understood that the
date will be in the near future It is
vaguely hinted that there is no very re-
mote connection between the European
trip and the wedding trousseau
COLOKED SETTLERS
Ten Thousand Booked from Alabama for Okla-
homa by July 1
Special to the Gazette
Kansas City Mo April 19 Rev
F Foster of Topeke who has been in
Alabama for the last two weeks in tho
interest of the Oklahoma immigration
society writes that 10000 colored peo-
ple will como from Alabama before July
1 to settle in Oklahoma He has been
making speeches all through the state
and has met with marked sucoess The
association has another agent at work in
Texas Arkansas aud Louisiana and he
writes that several thousand people are
preparing to move to Oklahoma this
year A letter from Atlanta says that
1700 colored people left that city on the
15th inst for the new country A col-
ony from South Carolina will start for
the Territory in a few days
A Typographical Error PerbapB
American Grocer
Aunt Matilda 0ookin u ° from her
paper What a wicked unprincipled
governor we have Richard I see he
actually refuses his support to a bill for
balletreform those poor depraved
girls they need to be reformed
Dick a sorry wag Yes aunty I
quite agree with you tho majority of
thenc are sadly in need of being re-
formed
7S +
Will Astonish the Natives
Special to the Gazette
New York April 18 It is announced
today that Steve Brodie of bridge
jumping fame is going to astonish
the natives of the Old World
with his feats of daring
He will sail next Tuesday on tho steam-
ship Nevada of tho Guion line His
first act will be a flying
leap from St Patrioks bridge into the
Lake of EMarney and he will
follow this up by swimming across the
English channel from Dover to Calais in
his rubber suit
GOTHAM TALES
A Budget of News About Life in
New York Equestrianism
A Thousand Horseback Riders to
Seen Next Week Why Mabel
Jenness Rides Man Fashion
be
Dixeys Now Partner Stanloys Book Dan
lament May Becomo a Millionaire
Tattl Spurns a 1000 Check
Correspondence of the Gazette
New Yonrc April 19 Horseback riding has
become a marked feature of New York city life
There are at least a dozen firstclass riding
academies in this city half a dozen more in
Brooklyn and Jersey Citv and one or two in
each of the score of small cities lying all around
us Men women and children of all ages rido
horseback now Some own their own horses
but the majority of riders do not There is a
couple of million dollars of capital invested in
iding academies round about here and a
large number of ridhig masters grooms
and stablemen find employment A
good well broken saddle horse
costs from 100 up to as much as the prospective
owner may care to pay The parks are daily
thronged witn riaers and some really fine eques-
trians are seen The annual ride of the New
York riding club takes place to daj A grand
parade of all the ruling clubs in this vicinity on
the 126th is arranged for Both events will be a
step beyond all previous affairs of the kind and
the parade of next Saturday will mark an im-
portant era in amateur horsemanship One of
the features of the riding clubs exhibi-
tion today will be the tandem evolu-
tions For the first time in this coun-
try twelve riders with twentyfour horses will
participate The members of the club who fur-
nish this part of the performance are in the or-
der of riding E II Johnson D E Seybel A
Schwab A Kusuth O G Smith W J Peek
R H Davies Theodore H Silkman Jules Si
men Howard Carroll Carl A Nycgaard and H
W Struss
An interesting figure will be the jeu de
barre which is a severe test of the ability of
the riders There are three contestants engaged
at a time wearing red white and blue
rosettes pinned to their right shoul-
ders The wearers of tho blue and
the white endeavor to remove the red rosette
from the other riders shoulder by reaching
from his left side Three minutes is alloted for
the task and a lively scrimmage with the rider
in the dust is occasionally the result Many
kinds of fancy riding will be given and there
will be squadron evolutions gallop evolutions
and hurdle leaping by twos and fours Mr
George C Clausen will command the trot-
ting and Mr O A Nyegaard the gallop evolu-
tions
On Saturday next if the weather clerk will
furnish pleasant weather New York will wit
ness the biggest array of amateur riders that has
ever assembled in this country All of
the riding clubs of this city Brooklyn and sur-
rounding towns will take part each in distinct-
ive uniforms The clubs which will take part
are the New York club Howard Carroll presi-
dent the Fifth Avenue club Frank Ehret pres-
ident the Park riding club Elias Rothschild
president the Belmont riding club Joseph A
Flynn president the Sagamore riding club
John Haar president and the Manhattan club
J I Bristoll president all of this city the
Brooklyn riding club F W Weeks president
the Hudson riding club J Huber president
and the Hoboken riding club A P Hexamer
president
Howard Carroll will be the marshal of tho
parade as it is at the suggestion of the New
York club that the affair takes place The ren-
dezvous is the headquarters of the New York
club The start will bs made at 230 p m Tho
rpute is through the part to Mount St Vincent
down the West drive to Seventysecond street
to Riversitio drive up to Claremont and return
to the starting point Tho parade will bring out
over a thousand riders other than those in line
The riding clubs will be out in force and sad-
dle horses will be in demand
It will bo a great day for riders This newest
fad of people of wealth is important for it
means rosy cheeks for the girls and better
health for the men
Mabel Jenness Defends Herself for Hiding
3Inn Fashion
The road the reformer treads is rough and
stony When pretty Mabel Jenness announced
to a few friends that she was tired of riding side
saddle and in bifurcated garment would gallop
her horse astraddle she had no idea of the
storm she was about to bringdown upon herself
She has been charged with immodesty lack of
feminity breach of decorum a desire to create
a sensasion and a dozen other offenses against
the usages of society Today she consented to
reply to her critics Her dark brown eyes
sparkled and her voice assumed an earnest tone
when she referred to the unpleasant thines
that have been said about her She is
a young woman to face such a storm or oppo-
sition She is only twentyfive A little above
the medium height with an abundance of fluffy
hair dark brown in color large handsome eyes
symmetrical features and a wellrounded figure
that illustrates the success of physical culture
she presents a pretty picture of girlish simplic-
ity She began by declaring that she never in-
tended the public to know anytb ing about her
experiment She arranged to have no one pres-
ent except her riding master and four friends
They were all pledged to secrecy but tho
riding master gave the story away to a
gossiping woman reporter and all the
world knows the result Miss Jenness said
that she made the experiment in the search
bf a better mode of riding than is now in vogue
among women A short time ago she sustained
a serious injury to her hip by being tripped up
by her conventional riding habit while dis-
mounting from a horse that was a kicker This
fact and her study of physical culture which
convinced her that riding in a side saddle devel-
oped one side of the figure more than the other
convinced her that a reform was needed She
first tried riding with a saddle on the left side
one day and on the right side the next but
neither the horse nor the rider was satisfied with
this Then came the determination to set
astride just to see how it would seem
I rode for an hour and a half said Miss
Jenness My saddle was the ordinary mans
saddle My costume resembled the conventional
habit except that tho skirt was a divided gar-
ment of the accordionplaited variety My seat
in the saddle was much more comfortable than
the cramped position necessary with a side sad-
dle When I dismounted I was no more fatigued
than I would have been riding the old way the
same length of time Yet I was not entirely
satisfied with the experiment I made up my
mind to try it again with a smaller saddle be-
fore deciding that it is the best way for women
to ride
4 I never said that I would appear in Central
park in the divided habit That wonld only
make a sensation and if there is anything I
abhor it is that I shall go on with my experi-
ments and if I finally decide that women ought
to sit the saddle like men I shall have the
courage of my convictions and shall ride In
that manner A3 to its being indelicate I think
the divided skirt is less so than the present
costume If there is anything improper in out-
lining the figure the ordinary habit does tliat
more than the divided costume The divided
skirt hangs down at both sides and is soft and
fnil and not tightly strapped to the figure like
the present style The women who saw me ride
declared that the costume was graceful and be-
coming
And as Miss Jenness arose her eyes snapped
and in her face was plainly written the deter-
mination to go on no matter what the world
may say
Depew the Reporters Friend
The popularity of Chauncey M Depew is one
of the things that puzzles the average public
man and yet it should not A group of poli-
ticians in the Fifth Avenue hotel the other night
were talking about this very thing They
seemed surprised that the newspapers should
make so much of him that the reporters should
all apeak so kindly of him and thsfrh e should
always be in such demand where public
speeches are to be made The trottyof
the matter is that Depew is not only
a brainy man but a diplomat as well He
knows how to say a good thing at the right time
and he never makes the mistake of snubbing re
Eorters I may say truthfully that he is on the
est of terms of at least 200 members of the New
York press and he is always ready and obliging
to answer any question they put to him at any
time He has the unique honor of being called
uponby more reporters daily thansny ten men
in New York and no matter how pressing other
engagements may ho he has always time to say
a few words to these men to tell them a funnv
story or to give them an idea that may bo
worked up into a readable newspaper
article He may be called the reporters
friend He is ever thoughtful and when he is
to deliver a big speech helps instead of retards
the reporter in getting such portions of it as his
newspaper may desire to print Ho is the most
approachable of men and his disposition is as
pleasant as a day in June It would not of
course do to say that all his popularity comes
from these kindnesses to reporters but a large
share of it does Depew knows that the re-
porter of today rnav be the editor of tomorrow
and he has studied human nature so well that he
never makes enemies
Other public men might well follow his ex-
ample Senator Hiscock is one of the hardest
men that reporters have to deal with Tom
Piatt is another Jay Gould Russell Sage
Cyrus Field Augustin Daly Edwin Booth
Lawrence Barrett Senator Evarts and Governor
Hill are all men who seem to be afraid to say a
word to a newspaper writer But on the other
hand there are men like Depew who know the
value of their friendship One of these is P T
Barnum He is as happ v as a school boy at play
when entertaining a doien or so of reporters by
telling them funny stories
Stanley s Book Will Mark an Epoch la
Literature
The publishers of Stanleys forthcoming book
expect to have it on the market about the middle
of Hay It will be issued simultaneously all-
over tho world in a dozen different
languages and an enormous edition will
have to be printed to supply the demand It
will be the great book of the year and will
make a fortune for the publishers as well as
Stanley I am told the work will be in two vol-
umes There will be 1V illustrations tho chief
of these drawn by M Riou of Paris an artist
thoroughly acquiantcd with Africa and native
manners and customs Each volume will con-
tain 150 pages besides four important maps
illustrative of the great travelers wanderings
and discoveries The frontispiece will be a
portrait group of Stanley and his officers from a
photograh specially made at Cairo The book
will mark an important epoch in literature for
a larger edition of it will be printed at once than
of any book ever published
There is little likelihood that Stanley will
visit America this year Indeed nobody knows
what the great explorer will do But thut he
has not lost his thoughtfulness I can assure
you For a little school girl of this city who
wrote him a childish letter to Zanzibar immedi-
ately after he emerged from the dark continent
received a courteous reply written iu the great
explorers own hand in which he thanked the
little miss for her greeting and wrote a few
pleasant words to her She has been gleefullv
showing the letter to her school companions
cvei since It is a precious memento aud in
cer eyes more valuable that the Kohinor
diamond
Dixoy8 New Manager
Two of the best poker players in New York
have joined forces Rice and Dixey have parted
company and in place of the former is a young
man somewhat of a high roller who here-
after will be the manage of the clever comedian
It is Warburton of Philadelphia a sou of the
proprietor of the Telegraph He has come to be
known as one of the handsomest men seen in
this city He ha3 a perfect face and a form as
symmetrical as that of a Greek god His head
is the sort that nainters and sculptors rave over
His eyes are clear blue He wears the best of
clothing that can be bought in Europeof course
He is a splendid athlete and excellent horse-
back rider and can take a fence
with any of tho best jocks in a crosscoun
try race He is independently wealthy
has troops of friends and fives a life
of Sybaritic ease He was married a short time
ago to one of the most beautiful girls in these
parts but who unfortunately did not long sur-
vive her bridal day He and Dixey get along as
famously as Damon and Pythias now but
theatrical men are somewhat skeptical of a con-
tinuation of this warm friendship The two
men agree on every point at present Whether
they will continue is an open question Rice
and Dixey have made several fortunes in the-
atrical ventures Rice has saved most of his
money and today is a wealthy man Dixey on
the other hand has squandered his money
with reckless prodigality and instead of being
worth half a million dollars as he should be
has little or nothing to show for his many sea-
sons of toil when the blind goddess of fortune
smiled so sweetly upon him It is not likely
that he will save money in the future Warbur
ton will not exercise the restraining power upon
him that Rice did and instead of making
amends he is likely to get into more serious en-
tanglements Nevertheless Dixey is one of the
best stars in the theatrical proiession Properly
handled he should be able to retiieve all that
ho has lost But with a partner who is his equal
in playing cards and who loves the enjoyments
of this life he is more likely to continue iu the
old rut than get out of it
OneHalf of New York Suffering from Dys-
pepsia
There never was a time in all my experi-
ence said Dr Charles Perry to me the other
day when so many men and women com-
plained of dyspepsia Fully onehalf of Hew
York suffers from it Dr Perry knows what
he is talking about For twenty years he has
sold drugs in the vicinity of Printing House
square where busy men and women hive to-
gether like bees Indigestion has become the
great American evil During the past four
or five years there has been an enormous in-
crease in dinner giving and New York now
rivals if not equals either London or Paris in
the number and variety of big dinners given
during an evenine How men manage to pre-
serve their digestive organs is a mystery But I
guess they dont do it for Dr Perry tells me
that he sells more medicine for indigestion and
dyspepsia in one day now than he did in a
month ten years ago Fashionable doctors
could a tale unfold on this subject of overeat-
ing It has really become a crime against
nature and is one of the most alarming symp-
toms of our too rapid civilization
Three Women Who Write
Three women whom tho public takes an in-
terest in were on Upper Broadway the other
afternoon The first was the Marquise Lanza
the daughter of Dr Hammond a stout well
proportioned brighteyed rosy cheeked wo-
man with a wealth of curly brown hair She
lives in style in Seventysecond street has num-
berless friends and entertains in a queenly way
Her rooms are decorated with odd pieces of
bricabrac gathered during many trips abroad
She is one of the best mandolin players in New
York quick at repartee and many leagues in
advance of most women in originality of ideas
and liberality of thought She has about com-
pleted a new novel
The second woman is slight of build but
would be noticeable even in a crowd She has
a singularly open face and a profusion of fluffy
hair She goes along the street with the air of
a business woman who has a great deal to do
and only a short time to do it in It is Ella
Wheeler Wilcox the poetess of passion al-
though she looks very far from being a poetess
Like the Marquise Lanza she entertains on a
liberal scale and her parlors are always crowded
on reception nights She has some hopes of es-
tablishing a salon in New York She is making
money rapidly with her pen has an army of
feel proud of herself and look on the pleasant
side of life
The third woman is Gertrude Florence Ather
ton also a blonde strong of build and with the
glow of health on her cheeks She was a Cali-
fornia girl originally but has taken up her
abode in New York She lives qnietly in hand-
some apartments entertains a few chosen
friends whenever they favor her with a visit
but devotes most of her time to her literary
work Her novels have been unusually success-
ful and the onetht is now leaving the publish-
ers hands bids fair to croate as much of a stir
as HermiaSuydam Mrs Atherton is a sis-
ter of the wife of Con3nlGeneral Rathbone our
representative in Peris During her visit to
Paris last year Zola paid her the unusual com-
pliment of avisit and spoke very highly of her
novels In London Proressor Shairp gave a
great reception In her honor at which Ruskin
William Black Rider Haggard Mrs Mona
Caird Oscar Wilde and others were present
Dan Lnmont May Become a Millionaire
This litaV man with his hat polled over his
eyes buatiing along in the crowdon Bark row
is a moijeyniaker 3 At onetimeie had the reif
usationof being a clever politician but he cares
nothihg for politics now Every momentoLhi3
timels occupiedTn chasingr the nimble dollar
aiid he is gettingrrich at a rapid ate It is Col
Daniel S Lampnt late private secretary to
Cleveland He is interested in at least a Cozen
large enterprises and he is constantly being
sought after by people who have moneyv < and
wish to double it by engaging in someafe
speculation Ha is as bnsy as a bee all
day and often far into the night His
friends say he is making 60000 a year
and bids fair to become one of the wealthy men
of the metropolis He pays no attention to pol
itics goes out but very little in public and
seems to have lost Uasu > iUoa save for mocey
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stirfi
making He is one
advisers and tlie two
gether down town
of Clevelands chosen
men are often seen to
Valnablo Patents that are Locked Up
It will be interesting4to all persons who use
typewriting machines to know that the proprie-
tors of these new indispensible instruments
are the possessors and owners o patents
which if applied to the instruments would
very largely increase their usefulness and add
to their simplicity and very materially decrease
the cost of the machines There has been some
talk about the consolidation of the various in-
terests and firms now manufacturing type-
writers but it is not likely to take place Tho
trrth is the manufacture and sale of type
wrters are a bonanza and the patentees can
hardly be expected to do anything that might m
I the end help to deplete their own bank account
What these important patents consist of f do
not know but they are said to be very valuable
and representatives of the various houses an
constantly on the alert for new ideas which
they immediately patent and pay for liberally
It is not generally known but it is a fact
nevertheless that the Western Union telegraph
company pursues a like coure and every new
invention that promises to aid in the develop
itsu of the telegraph is eagerVv bought up and
put away for future use Edison is the only
man who seems to have so nJshy ideas that lie
can afford to give the public the full benefit of
them His perfected phonograph i > really re-
markable and is used by a large number of lit-
erary workers I know of one author who spoke
an entire novel into the phonograph After-
wards it was carefully transcribed on the type-
writer and is now in print
Apropos of Ediion it may not be out of place
to say that his genius has counted for more sub-
stantial things than genius usually does He i
said to be a millionaire five times over and
his clever wife devotes most of her time to look-
ing about for good investments Edison him-
self is so busy and cares so little for money
that he would probably buy anything that wju
offered him Ilis daily mail is o ne of the que r-
est collections imaginable but he seldom
his letters as they are all read and answered by
one of his secretaries Indeed when he is very
busy and some gr at idea has seized him nv
one not even his wife Cuu get into in
iaboratory
Patti Spurns a StOOO Check
Patti is about to leave us and unless she
changes her mind will never return io America
again Her visit to this country added quite
hundred thousand dollars to her hank account
and she may safely be rated to be worth
2000000 at least and the possessor of a match-
less voice that will live in history a < s long as
there is any record of music
cinct constable
She will n > t tw
sorry 60 leave us During her last few weeks in
New York she lived in mortal dread of reporters
She was so misrepresented iu some of her inter-
views in the Western newspapers that the very
name of a reporter made her shiver The editor
of a leading magazine spent three days trying to
get a word with her He haJ a chock signed for
1000 in his pocket which he was willing to offer
her for an article on the care of the voice He
could not even get a glimpse of her and was
forced reluctantly to give un the task in despair
By tho way there is a distinguished tenor in
this country at present who has given me a few
rules for the care of the voice thai may be worth
heeding It is Edward Lloyd the famous Eng-
lish singer He says that there is no estab-
lished rule but he has found in his own case
and in the case of Sims Reeves whose tenor
voice is still the admiration of England
that constant practice dieting and a deter-
mined effort to get to bed earlv are three im-
portant requisites that cannot be overlooked
I occupy my morning said Mr Lloyd n
practicing I dine at i oclock an unearthly
hour to be sure and take nothing except some
tea before going to the concert in the evening
If I am not singing I am in bed by 10 oclock
I have no use for club life and I absolutely de-
test big dinners Singers cannot afford to in
dulgo too freely in social pleasures If they
keep late hours they must expect to lose their
voices
As Mr Lloyd is in the pinkjof condition and
his voice is one of remarkable purity and sweet-
ness he may be supposed to know what he is
talking about
Trro Governors TVho Btay Bo Struck by
Presidential Lightning
Two men who are likely to be important figures
in the next national Democratic convention are
of ten seen in Now York They are both gover-
nors of states and have the presidential itch in
its worst form Leon Abbett is one of these
He is of about medium height He wears a full
grayish beard and hu hair is of the same color
His shoulders stoop a trifle and although he
looks to be calm he is really very nervous Ho
is a good public speaker and an excellent story-
teller He is said to bo Gormans choice for the
presidency
Governor Campbell or Ohio Js the other pres-
idential possibility who 13 often seen in New
York He is perhaps one of the handsomest
governors in the Union He has a cleancut
distingue appearance that never fails to make
people look at him twice Nearly six feet in
height well proportioned always superbly
dressed in nobby New York style polite but
not patronising in manners when he stands in
the corridor of a hotel bystanders are apt to
ask Who is tho younglooking handsome
man He is young looking although he haa
an irongray mustache and his dark hair it
streaked with gray The fine effect of his thiols
blackish gray hair is seen on his temples when
he has his hat on It seems to bring out more
clearly his finely chiseled face His eyes aro
dark and peculiarly bright as if he had used
belladonna But nature hi the only belladonna
he uses He appears to be forty years old His
ways arc breezy and his frankness wins him
hosts of friends
Neither will admit that he is in the race for the
presidentialnomination
They know how futilo it is to chase shadows
Foster Coatbs
BELLEVUE ALLIANCE
i
Resolutions
Setting Forth tho Grievances
of tho Laboring Man
Special to the Gazette
Paris Tex April 17 The following
resolutions were adopted by the Bellovuo
Alliance at its last meeting
Whereas believing that one reason why tho
laboring classes are so oppressed is that there
are so many men elected to office who are not in
sympathy with the laboring class therefore
be it
Resolved by the Bellevue Alliance that we
will endeavor in the coming election to cast our
votes for such men as we know to he Identified
with the workingmen
2 That we will not vote for any man whom
we know to buy the peoples vote in any
manner
3That we will not vote for any man whom we
knbw follows any immoral conduct
4 That we deprecate the action of tho last
legislature in legalizing prizefighting further-
more we will not vote for any man to represent
ns in the state legislature whom we know to bo
in favor of same
5 We believe the laboring class have tho
right and it is their > dnty to elect men to office
who are in sympathy with the laboring men
friends perfect health and has every reason to fis > m president of the United States down to pre
6 Sceingthat the farmers and the laboring
class generally are the worst opposed of any
class of people in the world whereas seeing
that our only chance is at the ballotbox re-
solved that we petition to tho cojinty Alliance
to select from our ranks and to do our utmost to
elect to office those that are in sympathy with
ns that will enact laws which will be beneficial
to us and detrimental to none
These and the resolutions passed by the
oounty Alliance indicate that the wait-
ing delegate is at large Our beit farm-
ers entertain no such views
Arlington
Epeclal to the Gazette
Arlington Tex April 18 The Ar-
lington building and loan association was
organized last night with a good large
membership Mr E E Rankin was
elected president by the board of direc-
tors today Mr N K Grove vice
president C H Stevens secretary W
H Kimbrough attorney and A J
Rogers treasureriJ
We are in theirn ldst of quite a boom
More real estate has changed hands in
the past two months than in as many
years before A good many strangers
are coming in
The wheat cropyfc looking fairly well
notwithstanding the ravages of the green
bug during the winter and early spring
aad a fair yield is looked for
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