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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C,, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. 188 MILLIONS IN A HOTEL. A VISIT TO THE WONDERFUL PAL ACES OF FLORIDA. A Description of these Magnificent Estab Ushments--Taks With the Proprietor of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar. (Correspondence ofthe Atlanta Constitution.) ST. Avers-mu, Fra., May 2.-There were only four of us. And yet the party represented sixty million dollars, not counting me. It was on the "Oneida," Commodore 1 Benedict's famous yacht, from the upper deck of which Thomas Bailey Aldrich vomiting into the ocean, groaned with watery eyes andpendulouslip-"rejected contributions to the Atlantic." Behind as lay t.A g ueient and iazy. To the front the ocean boomed, the white caps growing under a westerly wind. Over head a flock of pigeon, re minding one of that other Venice, drifted here and there, their wings breaking against the sunshine of the upper deep, as the crisp waves broke two hundred feet below. But who made up the party thus com fortably circumstanced? Let the writer rest under the nom de plume which your journalist carries, as the Spanish gallant carried his cloak--to hide the rapier with which he went a hating or the lute with which he went, a loving. Let Mr. E. C. Benedict, prin. , of good fellows, rest after his crni:e; through tropical seas, before he is pt it through his paces in print. Let Mr. R'. B Plant, tremendous developer and builder, prosecute his great work in peace for a while. It is with the fourth member of the party that we have to do at present. And one of the most remarkable men of this day he is. a A eadfat face-features reposeful bat not inert-gray eyes that gaze at you unwinking from beneath steady lids -square and resolute jaws-a broad, n deep forehead-a finely-shaped, well poised head-a slow-motioned man, con veying the suggestion of repressed en ergies-soft-spoken and deliberate of a speech-laughing low, but not infre quently-alert, but with the quiet watch fuiness of the waiting eagle poised in the blue-charming, in the deever ense of strength with kindliness-that is Henry e M. Flagler, the most talked of man m this country for the past year-the bild er of Ponce de Leon Hotel. - A marvellous career has Mr. Flagler C hadl Briefly this. He left western New b York where he was born, a poor young fellow and went into Ohio. There he, formed a partnership with Mr. Booka feller in the oil business. Through years of-staruggie these two men carried their a business in Cleveland, until the partner- f ship was merged into a stock company, h the capital of which was $1,000,000. Now watch the growth of this youngr company under the management of Messrs. Blagler & Bokafeller. In 1872 p the capital stock wasinreased to $2,500, 000-two and a half times the original. In 1873 to $3,500,000 and in 1885 to $70,000,000-seventy times the original issue. This last stock is now selling at . 175, making the eash value of the origi- $ real pa $112,000,000. Of course, of this stock has gone into other j bands, but the management has practi cally rested, from the first, with the t .men who oraized and built up the business. Mayoutside investmentsv :have been maeby the company. A single investment of $12,000,000 in Michigan suggests the stupendous eo -of its operations. "The" "andard ORl :men, for so the cmayis named, have ' umiformly hung toehrin their invest- P ,nent. In the onede Leon outlay a Xr. Flagler is alone. "I suppose," heb said, with a quaint smile, "I was the only footin the company-so I am alone inmy investments here." Now, let us see about that investment'! Mr. Flagler will have spent $6,000,000 . on the Hotel Alcazar and grounds when ~ he has finished. Thisis stupendous, but I it gives him the finest hotel in the world. General Sanford, who was minister to C Belgium, and who has spent years on the continent, says there is nothing in el Europe to approach it. in beauty or magananaMr. H. B. Plant says: ~ "I have studied it closely, and it is h the greatest individual enterprise I have E any record of. It is amazing that any c man should have had the courage to c spend millionsso lavishly in an old and tl dead city." Let me explain the investment. The "Ponce de Leon" is the hotel proper; " the "Alcazar" is a separate building ' across the street. It was originally in- r - tended to hold the cafes, baths, bar,'i billiard rooms, tennis courts, etc., for i the great hotel, but it has outgrown its b - original design. The Pence de Leon has I been open for the winter, the Alcazaris f: not yet finished. The Ponce de Leon 2 - cost about $2,500,000; the Alcazar will a 'cost even more. The Pence de Leon has been repeat- ' 'edly described. It is a hotel for thea accommodation of 800 to 1,000 guests, weith a court of several acres enclosed by wings having two rows of rooms, a ceen-e tral hail, and immense brick piazza ways, covered. It has immense Moorisht gateways for entrances. Over $125,000f was spent in decorating the walls andc ceilings of the rotunda and dining room, and $17,000 was spent for one mantle-c pic alone. The splendor of the hotelr hsbeen the wonider of the world for ar season. Bat the Alcazar will outstrip it in beauty and elegance. The ileazar covers c twenty-eight acres of ground. You ap-c proachit from broad asphalt streets. It:] is fronted by an open garden, throught which runs walks as smooth as marble, turned at the sides with white copings. Within these copings are flower-beds of:1 indescribable richness. In the central1 walks are enormous marble basins from which rise fountains with countless< sprays and jets. This garden covers three or four acres, and is simply a dream of light and color. The Al=a=r stands square against its farther end,i broken in the centre bya superb arched gtwy, hog hc you goitoa Lions." A more ravishing picture than this is seldom seen. The superb Alcamar riss on every aide. Behind is the embe way throurh whioh yon entered. In front the gorgeous dining room and offices of the hotel, above which rise three stories of splendid architecture closes the view. On either side this im posing pile continues, the ground floor being given up to dainty shops and booths. The footways are exquisitely tiled, and the walks are of asphalt toned into beautiful colors. Above, the fronts of enormous lions, artistic and impres sive, look down on the court. In the eentre, the asphalt is cut into a running way of crystal water, thirty feet wide md a hundred feet long. From the water rise delicate fountains, under the plashing of which are masses of Zanzi bar lilies, rare flowers from the Nile, and lotos plants. On every side are acres of fowers and grass, fashioned in curious beds and growing with startling luxuri moe of color but blending in reposeful armony. The dining room looking out n this court and through the broad mrchway into the court beyond, will seat ,000 guests and is as handsome as the iew it commands. Beyond this stretches the Alcazar ?roper, and a nobler pile it would be ard to find. There are lines upon lines >f rooms en suite and single, finished with lavish but tasteful hands. The bar mnd billiard room when finished will put o blush the tawdry finery of Stokes's amous Hofman House Place. It is estimated that $100,000 will be spent in lecorating and equipping the saloon done. In this part of the Alcazar are ;he offices of the hotel, fitted with a splendor to be compared only to the ?once de Leon. Beyond the Alcazar proper come the )aths. These are simply marvellous. Lhere are huge marble rooms for the lrkish baths. Great concrete spaces n which an ordinary house might be (laced, and enormous pools for the lunge. I believe the rooms and pools or the Turkish and Russian bath alone >ccnpy more space than the Markham ouse entire. But the wonder is yet to come. Back r! these rooms is the sea bath. This is stupendous cave of solid concrete, 184 t in length. 84 feet across and from 4 r 30 feet deep. Do you get these di xnions? The builder who built the ase of the Bartholdi statue declares that de ruins in Rome show no such mason T or concrete work, and that this bath hands without a precedent in sacred or rofane history. Into this cavernous epth Mr. Flagler will literally let the a. Above it rise the three stories of be Aloazar, leaving the view clear, how ver, to the glass roof 90 feet away, rough which the tropical sun beats enilly even in December. On the first oor are hundreds of drawing-rooms, st as at Cape May or Coney Island. n the floor above is a cafe, the tables o placed as to overlook the pulsing sea eneath. On the next are bachelor uarters, fitted with the utmost luxury. [ere a gentleman can leave his rooms in ie morning in slippers and bathing sit-descend by elevator to the sea for plunge or swim-can splash to music o&m a band suspended mid air above im-return one floor, and while he eads his morning paper eat such a reakfast as Delmonico could not sur ass, and return to his room to dress for i day. About the bath and above it rill be flowers galore in hanging gardens nd terraces. After going over this amadng build ig, with its tennis courts, archery, rounds, bowling alleys. etc., with W. lagler and Senator Cameron, a promi ent New Yorker said: "Now add a million dollars more to d and make a Monte Carlo. You will ien have s'ch a Iesort as will attract aitors from every quarter of the globe tyear around." "I am too much of a .Presbyterian," [r.. Flagler replied, "t-o establish a ntblig house. Besides I have a firm tli that if you give the American peo Le 'wholesome, innocent sa healthful nusement they will be .satisfied. I ave spared nothing to do this-but othing shall carry me further than The Ponce de Leon was built in igteen months-the Ala-ar will be it in less time. To spend $6,000,000 i building in less than two and a half ears is a big underakng All the time Mr. Fgerhas asked but ne question: "Is it the best-the best that money m buy or ingenuity desire?" That answered, he said: "Buy!" hen he is away from St. Augustine he as photographs taken of the work every aturday night, so that he can see- pre isely how it has advanced. At fir1t ex uses were sometimes forwarded with Iwil hve no excuses," he replied. I want results. Ilam too old to d eal rith excuses," and after that no excuas rere sent. He secures the best meAz egardless of price. He heard of a maiz rho made a bueiness in Los Angeles of aising Asiatic plants. Thisewas the man te wanted for his Zanzibar lilies and~ file plants. So he brought him ever rem California and installed him at the Llazr. He paid over $100 a day for orchestra for dhe Pence de Leon, and ung a $6,000 Bridgemon on his parlor rals, though $1,000 would have bought ,choicer picture. But has it paid? Yes. Contrary to the expectation of very human being, except, perhaps, dr. gler, it has paid. For sixty days his season people were turned away rem the Ponce da Leon. Frequently me thousand people sat down to dinner, d the receipts for the sixty days were >ver $300,000, or $5,000 a day. The nnning expenses could not have been nore than $2,500 a day, and it is said 2,000 would cover everything. At the mgher figure the profits for the sixty lays would be $150,000, or six per cent. n $2,500,000, the cost of the hotel. But for the thirty days preceding and he thirty days following this flush eriod there was an estimated. profit of 1,000 aday-so that the profit of the otel, which in this case means the rent, were not less than $200,000 for the sea ion. With the Alcazar opened, the ,pacity of the enterprise will be doubled md its earning capacity mere than loubled. The rates? Five dollars a day and ipward. Eight out of ten visitors pay 5 a day. The other two, taking privaIte parlors or extra rooms, pay from $8 to $00 a day. The suite of rooms engaged by Mr. Pulitzer were $650 a week. The Duke of Newcastle paid $580 a week for his rooms, ordered in an extra sideboard, andi kept thorn whilo away two weeks in southern Florida. A lady paid $1,000 for two weeks for her apartments. The bridal chambers cost $40 a day-not a steep figure for the young folks. The price for dinner is 82-simply because the boats and trains bring scores of sight-seers every day who take dinner, hear the concerts, explore the house from the picture gallery and gardens to the sheltered roof below which and far away the ocean unrolls its thunderous [r. ler said to me: "The Spaniards tried to do something with Florida. The French tried. Both failed. Now the American Yankee proposes to try his hand." And the Yankee is making things hum. Florida never knew such prosperity such fullness and plentitude of prosperi ty-as this season brought her. How much of this was due to the Ponce de Leon cannot be measured. Thousands upon thousands whose faces were set westward, were turned southward by the stories of this amazing palace. What it has done this year it will double and treble next year. For with the Alcazar added-the whole enterprise made per fect-nowhere else on this earth can the wayfarer live in such absolute luxury and enjoyment. What else of Mr. Flagler? Nothing. Except that he lives quietly at his New York home in winter and at Long Branch in the summer. At the latter place he has a stable of fine trot ters, a half-mile track, his trainers, his yacht, and his friends. He gives the summer to recuperation-and whether loafing at Long Branch or cruising through smiling seas, he gathers his friends about him. He is known far and wide for his charities and his general helpfulness. President Cleveland once said to him, after studying Ponce de Leon, wide-eyed with surprise: "The man who built this ought to be secretary of war of this republic." "My politics forbid in the first place, Mr. President," he replied, "and did they permit my inclination would not. But if I were a Democrat and were your secretary of the treasury you would not long be troubled with a surplus if I took a notion to continue building hotels." And so Mr. Flagler goes quietly along. In spite of his double score of millions and his enormous investments in the North and West, his heart is largely set on the wonderful peninsula that must in time become the winter sanitarium and tropical garden of the continent. The millions he has spent there are but an earnest of the millions to come, if they shall be necessary to prove that the "American yankee can rehabilitate what has wasted under the hands of the Spaniards and French." THE MONKEY ACTORS. The Entertaining Performance of Brock mann's Troupe at the Star Theatre. A company of' actors consisting of famous monkeys, remarkable dogs, dis tinguished ponies and one estimable goat took possession of the stage of the Star Theatre Tuesday night. A very large audience applauded animal intelligence, and the first nighters were there in dress suite-those mysterious first nighters who neither toil nor spin in a journalistic way, and yet possess some kind of claim onthe managers for free seats; inscrutable people who see more of the drama and know less of its principles than ordinary folk. Many Germans were there. Young people holding the hands of old people marched in, filled with anticipa tion, and at several points in the per formance made comment in loud voice. Altogether the most wonderful exhibition was thefirstonthebill. Itwas "A Banquet at Newport." At a table were seated Mr. Blackberry, a dude, who, after the manner of gentlemen monkeys of social position, wore a tail and shiny silk hat during the feast; Miss Terrmni, whose deportment and bustle were alike unex eptionable, a demure and sly lass; Clonel Axletree, a retired army officer, with a three-cornered cocked hat, arumi nating and severe visaged gentleman of the old school, and Mr. Fox, the clown, whose left hand knew what his right one did, and both were industrious in abstract ing nuts from neighboring plates. Mona. Bouillon, a $50,000 imported cok, appeared at command. He was dressed like the French chef de cuisine, and was very cunning and natty. Betty, maid of all work, had a mincing walk and was entertaining. The doings at the table were comical. Mona. Bouillon was very amusing when he leaned far over and watched lovingly the people at the board drinking wine. He would then petulantly turn in his seat, reflec tively look up at the ceiling, shake his. head and steal a backward look at the proceedings. He expressed his apprecia tion when Mr. Brockmann gave him a glass owine. With aparrot or two in the company there would be the deuce to play. The suggestion may commend itself to Mr. Brockmann. The drive in Central Park was brief, but lively. A monkey driver and three mnkey occupants of a coach, to which two dogs are harnessed, are overturned, and when they pull themselves together they asume positions and look at each other in'amazement. The dogs are well trained ajid exhibit, what is rare, no fear oi their tskmaster. They are not noisy. A monkey walked the tight rope. Another perftormed onthe flying trapeze. Dogs dance~d. Dogs jumped through hoops from the back of a rnnning horse. The ponies are beautiful and graceful movers and dancers. The numerous tricks of the dog were clever, but the principal features of novelty are the "Banquet at Newport" and "The Drive in Central Park." The goat, since Victor Hugo associated it with Esmeralda in his novel, "Notre Dame," has not been withoutromantic interest. This one is fairly interesting. The Germans are the greatest of animal trainers, and the students of the universities spend much of their time in bringing up poo es in the right way. Brockmann uses poodles exclusively. It is a great show in its entirety for children, and the "monkey buisiness" has features of interest for anybody. "I know that you love me," she said, sentimentally, as he held her to his vest. "1 know that you love," she repeated; "be cause when 1 lay my head against your breast your heart beats so loud I can hear it." "That," gasped the poor fellow, as the awful truth dawned upon him; "that is not my heart. That's my Waterbury wath." Chewing gum is forging to the front as a remewdr for sasickness. THE N~EGRO IN THE CHURCH. Action of the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church Upon the Troublesome Question. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina met in Anderson on last Wednesday. There were fifteen churches repre sented, as follows: St. Helena, Beaufort; John's Island i Church; Church on Edisto Island; Trinity Church, Columbia; Christ i Church, Greenville; Grace Courch, Cam- i den; Christ Church, Wilton; Trinity Church, Edgefield; Church of St. Thad dens, Aiken; Church of the Holy Com munion, Charleston; Chumh of the Holy Comforter, Sumter; Church of the Na tivity, Union; Church of our Saviour, Rock Hill; Trinity Chumh, Abbeville;. St. John's, Fairfield. The Bishop annonnccd that the Con vention was duly organized, and ap pointed the usual committee on creden tials. The committee retired and the Bishop proceeded to read his address. The Bishop declined to discuss the question now agitating the diocese, 1 stating that his views were well known. He confined his remarks to the work of the diocese during the past year and 1 made some recommendations, which were referred to the proper committees. The Rev. J. D. McCullough was unan imously- re-elected secretary, and Mr. F. A. Mitchell treasurer of the Conven tion. 1 Under the head of miscellaneous busi ness Mr. J. R. London offered the fol lowing: That the constitution be amended so as to read as follows: "Article 3, Section 2. The Bishop, the assistant Bishop, when there is one, and every other presbyter who is at the time in actual charge as rector or minister of a paristi in union with the Convention shall be entitled to all the privileges of the Convention. "Section 3. Every other presbyter in good standing and acting under the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese t shall be entitled to all the privileges of the Convention, except the right to c vote." a Referred to the committee on consti- f tion and canons. The Rev. Ellison Capers offered the' following resolutions: Resolved, That a commission be raised c by this Convention to consist of t clergymen selected by the clergy, and t laymen to be selected by the , laity, which commission is hereby e charged to prepare a constitutional i amendment, to be submitted to the next e Convention, providing for the separation t of the colored roe into a distinct organ- y ization under the.Bishop. Resolved, That the said commission f be instructed to .svise the Constitution, Canons and Rules of Order, so as to in- e corporate therein all provisions relating a to the organization of the Convention. c Resolved, That the election of the said commission be made the special order ( for Thursday at 12 m. Mr. Capers supported the resolutions a in a strong speech, while the Rev. E. E. c Bellinger opposed them in remarks of a great length. C After a recess, the Rev. Benj. Allston, 5 of Georgetown, offered a substitute pro- ( viding for the election of a commission t to consist of four clergymen and four e laymen with the Bishop as chairman, to d whom the troublesome question should c be referred and whose duty it should be to devise some plan for the adjustment of the same and report to the Conven tion next year. As a substitute for this the Rev. J. D. t McCullough offered the following: C Resolved, That a commission of-] lergy, to be selected by the clergy, and f --laymen, to be selected by the lay- t men, be appointed to whom shall be re- c erred all matters which have disturbed t the peace of the diocese. That they a onsider them deliberately and present 1 the result of their deliberations as to a I remedy to the next Convention.I Col. Jno. C. Haskell expressed himself 3 as favoring more decisive action. t The Rev. A. Toomer Porter, D.DI., of ~ Charleston, getting the floor, stated ;hat C the perplexing question which had been so long agitating the diocese had given ~ him a great deal of trouble, that he ha~d a given it considerable thought an:1 had ~ prayed over it earnestly, and prepared a set of resolutions which he believed a would remove the difficulty and restore peace and harmony to the diocese. He then read the following paper: "After long, anxious and earnest effort / to solve the greait problem which has I agitated this diocese for thirteen years, resulting in the alienation of the clergy' and laity, and the withdrawal of severl parishes from this Convention, it is I apparent that the interest of Christ and 1 this Cxiurch among both races are in great jeopardy, and events have forceda upon us the conclusion that an absolute necessity has arisen for the separate organization of the two ratces in this diocese. To this end be it "Resolved, That in the judgement of this Convention such a sparat.ion, entire and complete, is now essential. "Resolved, That tis Convention, recognizing that it cannot compel an organized congregation or a mission to comply with the terms of its legislation, but believing that such parishes or 1 missions as now exist have the true inter-1 eats of the Church at heart. "Resolved, That a commission of three clergymen, selected by the clergy,1 and three laymen selected by the laity, with the Bishop as chairman, be reques ted and aithorized to consult with the vestries of St. Mark's, of Charleston;1 St. Luke's, Columbia; Church of the Epiphany, Summerville; Calvary Church and the colored clergy in this diocese to 1 effect a complete separation into two or ganization under the Bishop of the1 diocese. "Resolved, This Convention will give all aid and assistance in any applications which these or other parishes or missions may make. The General Convention should legislate if it be found necessary to put this into full operation.1 "Resolved, That this commission will report the result to this Convention at the next meeting." "Resolved, That the election of this commission be made the special order for to-morrow at 1 o'clock." These resolutio -seemed to meet the1 hearty approval of te entire Convention, and were unanimously adopted. When the vote ~"sso hearty and was declared unanimo~s Dr. Porter said in a The Bishop announced that the Con ention would be adjourned with prayer, :ut thought it would be well if the or ;anist was in the house to sing "Gloria n Excelsis." This was sung and a gen )ral good feeling seemed to prevail, ifter which the Bishop led in prayer and adjourned the Convention until Thurs lay at 10 o'clock. The gentlemen who did not go into he Convention held a meeting, and con dered the propositions embodied in he Porter resolutions. Their delibera ions were secret. The Compromise Rejected. ANDEnsoN, May 2.-It was the gener il opinion at the adjournment of the Bpiscopal Convention yesterday after icon that the resolutions offered by Dr. Porter and adopted by the Convention vould meet the approval of the seceders. nothing could be ascertained, however, is to what effect they would have on the ourse of that party. A long meeting of the seceders was ield last night in the Knights of Honor Sall. Rev. Ellison Capers, Dr. Pinckney md Dr. Wilson were present to urge ipon the seceders the importance of ap >roving or aocepting Dr. Porter's resolu ions and the importance of coming into he Convention this morning. The en reaties of these three gentlemen were, however, of no avail. It was finally agreed at a late hour hat each member of the seceding party :ould do as he pleased as to coming into he Convention. Nearly all the seceders left the city his morning on the south-bound train. The roll of the Convention being called 1r. E. A. Bell, of Grace Church, An Jerson, and Messrs. R. S. Desportes and B. W. Seibels, of Trinity Church, Co mbia, who had been in the ranks of he seceders, responded to their names. At 6.45 the Convention adjourned to eet next May in St. Thaddeus Church, Liken. Before the adjournment Bishop Howe wade a brief parting address. He ?aid that he came to this Conven ion, as, no doubt, many others came, ith a heavy heart. He felt that this ' Id diocese was about to go on the rocks d he could see no way of escape. He elt that the conscientious differences of C pinion were so strong that there was no 1 ossible chance for conciliation. But t ow he could go home, as many others r ould, with a light heart. He felt that he Convention had done all it could do D heal the breach, and while it had not = one all that the laity demanded, it had 1 xtended to them the right hand. If the ity refused further to take the extend d hand, the fault could not be placed t pon the Convention. The Bishop ex ressed the hope that when the Con ention met again it would meet with I slier hearts and fuller ranks. He c ledged his strongest support to the' fforts that may be made to effect a eparate organization of the colored C hurch in the diocese. The correspondent of the News and I ourier says: "The members of the c onvention appears to be unconcerned l'out the matter, but there is in the l ommunity a feeling of regret that the seeders did not accept the conditions 1 f the Porter resolution and restore eace and harmony to a once united a shurch. The prevailing opinion seems 3 be that the clergy have made such n oncession as the Christian spirit would e emand, and that the layman is the dis- 8 ordant factor in the diocese." C A Queer Habitation. e One of the queerest residences among E Le many oddities of the modern taste c an be found on the Great Kanawha r iver in West Virginia, not more than z .e or six miles above the confluence of at stream with the Ohio. The resi- a .ence referred to is a monster sycamore c ree, which doubtless was a monarch in c giant forest when Cornstalk and his t rarriora contested witth the pale for su- I >remacy in that beautiful valley, and erhaps cast a grateful shade under a hich the chieftain when wearied with r he chase or confict often reclined. This a ronster tree is now hollow from its entre to within a few inches of its outer y urface. So large is the open space that family consisting of two men, a womant nd two children have taken up theirt bode within its recesses.i They live, eat and sleep in it, and to 1 l appearances are as happy as many wners of brownstone fronts in Pitts >urg. "Yes, we are pretty well satisfiedt ith our quarters," one of the men re- 1 >lied in answer to a query. "The land-( ard never threatens us with a writ of jectment because we don't pay the rent; 'a re never have any repairs to make; the Louse never needs painting; the tax atherer never bothers us, and then wee Lever have the bother of moving. Taken .ltogether, we think we're better off than great many people."1 The Welisbach Light. Struck with the intensely brilliant butC tot glaring light issuing from 122 South Lwelfth street, the premises of the Wels >ah incandescent Gas Light Company, I ,Times reporter went in last night to I avetigate.' As explained to him, theC tew burner, which is likely to revolu ionize all preseut systems of lighting,C s very simple. An ordinary BunsenC >urner, suspended above which inside 1 he glass andheld by aplatinlum wireis Scone or mantle of cotton net. This nantle has undergone a chemical prep Lration by solution, and thought of tis-C ire will last from six to tw ilve months. )rdinary coal gas is used, but the inten-C ity of the bright, white light as the net ecomes in':andescent is astonishing. t It is difficult to explain the color of he light; perhaps an intensified daylight >et expresses it. Colors retain their stural hue, the most delicate tints being maffected by its rays. An ingeniously :ontrived arrangement, which shows 1 trips of silk under the two lights, dem- I matrates better than anything the super ority of the Welsbach, in all cases the ( abrics under the ordinary gas-light 1 iaving a totally dfferent color than they I >ore by daylight. Other advantages alaimed for it are its economy, perfect 1 ombustion and cheapness.-Philadel yhia Times, May 3.C It las been figured out by a statistical 1 >fficial that there are thirty-one criminals o every thousand bachelors, and only 1 ~leven criminals to every thousand married 4 nen. From this showing he argues that atriony restrains men from crime, and ught, therefore, to be encouraged by leg. I latn and otherwise. THE LAW OF TlE PARTY. D EOC' ATIC REGULATIONS IN SOUTH CA ROLINA. the Cons, itution as Amended by the State Convention, August 6, 1886. ARTICLE L There shall be one or more Democratic clubs organized in each -lection precinet, each of which clubs shall have a distinct title, "The Democratic club," and shall elect a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, i Recording and Corresponding Secreta y, and a Treasurer; and shall have the following working committees, of not less than three members each, viz: A Donmittee on Registration, an Execu ive Committee, and such other commit ees as to each club may seem expedient. Ar. IL The meeting of the clubs should be frequent after the opening of she canvass, and some member of the lub or invited speaker deliver an ad tress at each meeting, if practicable. Air. III. The president shall have cower to call an extra meeting of the 'lb, and-members of the club shall sonstitue a quorum for the transaction >f business. ART. IV. The clubs in each county ,hall be held together and operate under he contr >1 of a County Executive Com nittee, which shall consist of one mem er from each club, to be nominated by he respective clubs, and elected by the sounty convention, and such other nember: as the convention may add. The Executive Committee, when elect 0d, shall appoint its own officers and fill ill vacancies which may arise when the :onvention is not in session. The tenure >f office of the Executive Committee hall be until the next general campaign, inless soener removed or suspended by he county convention. AnT. V. County Democratic conven ions shall be composed of delegates lected by the several local clubs-one lelegate for every club, and an addition b delegate for every twenty-five (25) en oiled members-with the right to each ounty convention to enlarge or dimin sh the representation, according to ircumstances. This convention shall >e called together by the chairman of he executive committee, under such les as each county may adopt, and rhen assembled shall be called to order >y the chairman of the executive com mittee, and proceed to elect from among is members a President, one or more ice-Presidents, a Secretary and Tress ter. The convention shall proceed to usiness, and when the same is trans cted it shall adjourn sine die. AnT. VI. The mode and manner of nominating candidates for county offices r for the State, Judicial and Congres ional conventions shall be regulated in ach county by the respective county onventions. AnT. VII. The State Convention shall e composed of delegates from each ounty, in the numerical proportion to hich that county is entitled in both ranches of the General Assembly. An. VIII. The officers shall be a 'resident, one Vice President from each ongressional District, two Secretaries nd a Treasurer. Any. [X. The State Executive Com iittee shall be composed of three from ash Congressional District. The dele ates from the counties comprising the kngresional District to nominate the andidate from that district, and the onvention shall then proceed to an lection. The member representing kuth Carolina on the National Demo ratic Committee shall be ex-officio a ,ember of the State Democratic Com iittee. AnT. X. The Executive Committee hall elect its own chairman and other ficers, and shall meet at the call of the hairman or any five members, at such imes and places ashe or they may ap int. AR. XI. The Executive C:>mmitee hall have power, by the vote of a sajority of the whole committee, to call convention of the Democratic party of he State, at such times and places as it ay designate; and is charged with the ecution and direction of the policy of he party in the State, subject only to his constition, the principles declared n the platform, and such instructions, resolution or otherwise, as the State sonvention may from time to time opt; and shall continue in offce for wo years from the time of election, or Ltil the assembling of the next State jonvention for the nomination of a state ticket, unless superseded by the ction of the State convention. And if 1ny vacancy on the State ticket be iccasioned by death, removal, or other ase, the committee shall have power o fill the vacancy. Provided, this shall iot apply to the offce of Governor hen there shall be sufficient time to all a State convention. ART. X[I. When the State Demo ratic convention assembles it shall be alled to order by the chairman of the state Executive Committee; shall elect a emporary President, and shall proceed mediately to the election of permanent ificers and the transaction of business. The convention, when it has con luded its business, shall adjourn sine lie. And when a convention is called >y the Executive Committee, such con ention shall be composed of newly lected delegates. Any. XIU. Representation in Ju icial and Congressional conventions halbe on the same basis as in State onventions. A majority of the del gates shall be present at a convention o constitute a quorum for nominating a anidate either for Congress or Solicitor. [he delegation of each county in a Con ~ressionat or Judicial convention shall iave power to fill any vacancy in the elegation. And whenever any county s or shall be subdivided among two or ore Congressional Districts th.. del gates to the conventions of the several ongressional Districts shall be elected >y the county Democratic convention, .d apportioned among the respective jongressional subdivisions of the county a proportion to population. In every convention to nominate a andidate for Congress or for the office >f Solicitor, a majority of the votes shall >e necessary to a choic, and the votes hall be taken viva voce and recorded, iless there is but one candidate,in which vent the vote may be taken by accla nation. As soon as a Congressional or udicial convention has nominated the arty candidate for Congress or Solicitor to shall neoun sine die and whenever a candidate to fill an unexpired term of either office hasto be nominated, it shall be done by a new convention of dele gates fresh from the people. The exe cutive committee of each conr nal district ornudicial circuit aconsist of the several county chairmen of the respective cointies and parts of counties composing such district orcircuit, which committee shall elect its own chairman, secretary and treasure, who shall con tinue in office for two years in a district and for four years in a circuit, ve ly, or until their successors shall have been elected. It shall require the con sent of a majority of the whole executive committee in any district or circuit to call a nominating convention. The executive committee of each district or circuit shall be especially charged in its discretion, except as herein provided, and subject to the State platform, as well as.under the supervision of the State Executive Com mittee, with the conductof every election for Congressional Repreenatves or Solicitors in such district or circuit; and said committee shall meet at the call of the chairman or of any three members at such times and places as he or they ma y appoint. Each Congressional convention shall meet within its Congressional convention district, and each Judicial convention shall meet within its circuit. Each Congressional district or Ju dicial circuit in this State shall be at liberty to adopt the method of primary election instead of the convention plan zor nominating candidates for Congrees or Solicitor, provided such method. be determined upon by a convention regul arly called in the manner herein before specified for that purpose among others. If such a method be adopted, the con vention adopting the same shall fix the time when, and ."h the rules under which, such unshall beheld: Provided, That such primary election shall be held on the same da in each county comprising such * or circuit: Provided, further; That no eleo tion, either for delegates to a convention or under a primary plan, shall be here after prior to the first day of September in any year. Goip about Women. Mrs..lndicott denies that her daughter is engaged to Joseph Chamberlain. This is authentic. - Mrs. Ashton Dilke told the members of the Women's Club of Chicago that she smokes cigarettes and likes decn1lete dresses. The important news is chronicled in a Washington newspaper that Belva A. Lockwood's spring bonnet is a thing of beauty. The Presidential bee in it, however, is not especially becoming. Carrie Bragg is editor of the Virginia Lancet, published at Petersburg, Va. She is a colored woman, the onl one in the United States thus em Mrs. Mancell Talcott, who recently died in Chicago in her 68th year, gave away $800,000 in charity in the last ten years of her life. She used to pick up children on the street and bu them shoes and clothes. She esta hed two day nurseries in Chicago and the drinking-fountain in Garfield park was erected through her generosity. Unlike most employers George. M. Pullman has as much reguard for the executive ability of women as for that 4f men. He is always willing to pay a man's wages if she can do a man's work. He has a great many women in his employ and a high opinion of their usefle. It is said that Mrs. Dr Soliliman won her husband'sheart by her knowledgeof Greek. He visited her father's house. when she was a young woman of 18, and she amazed and delighted him by reciting to him a long extract from the liad. The next day he popped the question. The Duchesse De Dino from whose. abundant coffers are said to have come the funds that assisted in securing Gen Boulanger's election, brought to the eccentric marquis an almost princely fortune, which he appears to have found., available in furtherins his poliical semes, he being a Republican of the Rochefort type. Oneof hispeculiaitise, it is said. is to occasionally surprise the Anarchists by forwrig them a handsome check. The Duchess' was formerly Adele Livingston Strauss, of New York. and was divorced from her American husband. Joseffy, the pianist, has beenreceiving a good deal of social attention in Wash ington of late. He remombered having met M1rs. Cleveland when she wrs a school-girl at Aurora, N. Y. "Have you forgotten how we girls bothered you for your autographs?" asked Mrs. Cleveland. "I don't believe you ever knew that it was my good fortune to secnre no less than twelve of these auto graphs, one of which, written on the margin of the concert programme, is still retained byrme as a souvenir of that occasion." Says a Chicago newspaper: "Amelia Rives, the oung Virginia novelist, has gone to bdsick. overwhelmed by the adverse criticisms on her latest story. She is said tebe aghast at the interpre tation made of it by people who saw evil where she meant none. Letters from indignant readers have poured in on her from all quarters. It is Miss Rives's first experience with hostile criticism, and, even if not deserved, it will have a more wholesale efleet than the fulsome adu lation she has been fed on." An Indian Roll. A curious and historic Indian toma hawk hais been unearthed on the banks of Richland Creek, in Greene county, Ga. Its historic interest consists in the fact that it has been identified by old settlers as the axe wielded by Cusstuggee, one of the most dreaded Indian braves who resisted the advances of the paleface into this part of tne country. In size the tomahawk is as large as an ordinary axe, but is much thicker and heavier, yet Custuggee is said to have wielded it as though it were a mere toy. It has still a keen edge. As a piece of workman ship it is perfect. It is of block quartz rock, is cut smooth, and weighs seven pounds. It was found on the bank of Richand Creek, sunk deep in the earth, where it has lain fifty years. It requires a clever surgeon to dress wonded vanity.