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IB ISU WOXDEE." thought Mrs.
B " tJJI oc chii throw nsi<l*?
I I the latest magazine anil
L-.***?- glanced at the miniature
clock on the mantelpiece.
"I woncler what it is that
keeps George so late? Twice this
week he has been detained by what he
calls business. I should think he could
get home earlier if he chose."
When at*length Mr Syblett came in.
his wife's countenance wore a troubled
expression. He did not appear to observe
it, but said:
"Emma, I'm sorry, but I can't stay
to tea just now. I must be off at once
i on particular business."
("Business? I doh't see what business--ypu
can bave after office hours,"
i . - said Mrs. Syblett, coldly.
"No?women never do understand
such things, so it's no use trying to
explain. I'll be back in About a couple
of hours. Don't wait tea for me: and
If you feel lonesome, couldn't you send
over for your 'chatterbox' friend, Mrs.
iGlanrill?"
"I thought you didn't like Pollie?"
"Well, I don't particularly admire
her, but if you like ber society, I've no
objection."
"Well. I don't like to hear my friends
abused," said Mrs. Syblett. "And, at
any rate, Pollie is quite as nice as that
bald-headed, red-faced Mr. Crewes that I
you're so fond of, and are always asking
to dinner!"
, Mr. Syblett laughed good-naturedly.
"Me s a capirai ienow, is joe. iuu n
like him better some day. Where's
fe* 1 my other coat?"
And he bustled about and got himpr
. self ready, just as Joseph Crewes drove
*ip to the door. And the fine pair of
horses of which Mr. Crewes was so
?:: proud carried off Mr. Syblett, leaving
his wife to spend the evening alone,
k. "I wonder where they are going?"
V': she thought, turning from the window
whence she had watched them. "This
looks more like pleasure than business,
^ and George seems in uncommonly good
C-. spirits."
Her eyes fell upon her husband's
H* coat which he had carelessly thrown
across a chair; the end of a moroccocovered
notebook protruded from an
Inside pocket. She instantly pounced
upon it.
Here might be found a hint or clew
to the "business" which had kept
George away from home the last few
evenings.
She removed the elastic band and
^ eagerly scanned the pages.
There were plenty of memoranda,
and mysterious records, and notes of
various matters, as unintelligible to
Mrs. Syblett as so many Egyptian hieroglyphics.
But as she handled the book something
carefully wrapped in tissue
paper slipped from a little pocket and
'fell at her feet. Picking it up, her
*- . . horror-stricken gaze rested upon the
pnotograpu 01 a ueauuiui wuuiau.
A storm of mingled jealously and inv.
idignation swept over her. She dropped
the picture, and was standing stonily
gazing at it when Bridget announced
PjjA? . Mrs. Glanvill.
"Show her up!" said Mrs. Syblett, as
she sank hysterically on the lounge and
began to beat the carpet with her feet
and clutch the cushions with her hands.
And Bridget, well knowing these
symptoms, hurried down with a report
[which speedily brought up the visitor.
'*My darling Emma!" exclaimed Mrs.
Glanvill. bending over her friend,
'what has happened? What is the
3:; - matter?"
For answer Mrs. Syblett pointed to
the photograph upon the floor.
"I found it in?in his pocket!" she
sobbed.
Mrs. Glanvill's eyes sparkled. She
pursed up her lips and looked long and
curiously at the picture.
"Oh, Pollie, what am I to do? Isn't
it dreadful?" wailed Mrs. Syblett.
"My dear," answered Mrs. Glanvill,
.with ominous calmness, "it's only what
I have be^en prepared for. Don't you
remember how often before your marv
. fiage I warned you not to trust George
Syblett?"
This was true, for Mrs. Glanvill,
then Miss Maw, failing-in her efforts
to entrap Syblett, had done her best to
prevent his marrying her friend.
"It is only during the last week that
he has been so changed." moaned
Emma. "He hardly comes home at all
now. and neglects me shamefully."
"We can understand why," said Mrs.
Glanvill, glancing significantly at the
photograph. "Have you any idea,
Emma, who this is?"
"Not the least; but it looks like some
brazen actress or ballet dancer."
"It's very handsome, at least," said
Pollie, with a half-malicious side
glance at her friend.
"Handsome! How can you say so?
Only look at the short, snub nose, and
the enormous mouth, and the low,
v idiotic forehead! It looks quite coarse
and vicious. And then the figure! Did
you ever see anything so shameless?"
"Shocking, indeed; but, then, some
first-class society women are no better
?those Hollworthys, for instance, who
imagine they have such good figures.
I'm sure nothing on earth could induce
me to make such a display of myself
in public as those girls do!"
Anyone who had, glanced at Mrs.
Glanvill's figure would have been conyinced
of the sincerity of this declaration.
"How did you happen to find this?"
ce-sumed Pollie, curiously.
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i "I "was looking over tlftt little notebook
there just to see if I could find
out what business detained George in
the evenings, and the photo slipped out
of a cunning little pocket in the cover."
"And you did find a clew?" inquired
Mrs. Glanvill, eagerly.
"Xo, I had just commenced looking.
It is a 'sort of memorandum diary, I
believe."
"In that case the last week's entries
might afford some information," suggested
Mrs. Glanvill.
j Mrs. Syblett opened the book and
glanced over the last written page.
"There's something here about 'auction,'
and 'Foster & Co.,' and a 'consignment,'
and some figures. I'm sure
I can't make out what it all means.
And here"? Mrs." Syblett's eyes became
fixed very intently on the page?
"just look over this?do, Pollie."
Mrs. Glanvill read aloud:
"Mem.?Foster & Co.?consignmentsee
Fanny?jewelers?Ch. Sup'r.?I.
Cr."
"What?' cried Mrs. Syblett, starting
upright on the lounge. "See Fanny?
Oh, the deceiver! Who would ever
have thought it?"
"No doubt" said Pollie, her eyes
gleaming with triumph, as she held up
the photo, "no doubt we've at last got
a clew. This is Fanny, and?I declare!"
glancing again at the book; "the
date is the fifteenth?this very day!
Why, it must be to see her that he
has gone!"
Mrs. Syblett gave a hysterical sob,
ending in a suppressed scream.
"Don't worry yourself .about it,
Emma, I beseech you," said her friend,
bathing her hands and forehead with
cologne water. "It's just like the rest
of the men. Not one of them to be
trusted. I've always said so; and I
pity you?indeed I do!"
"Oh! the si/, deceitful hypocrite!"
I gasped Emma. "To neglect his own
wife, and p&y attention to a creature
! like that!"
"And making her presents cf jewelry,"
sueered Pollie-.
"And the 'Cu. Snp'r.'?what can that
mean?"
"Why, champagne supper, of course!
Anyone can sen that. And the 'I. Cr.'?
some letters I can't make out, but it
looks like ice cream."
"The wretch!" cried Mrs. Syblett. indignantly.
"To think of his spending
his money in that way, at the very
tirna fhof bo ftcenrorl 1110 ho rrmldn't
afford to get me that basket phaeton
and pony that I've been longing for.
He's richer than Eva's husband, and
she has a pony phaeton. There never
was any wife so ill used as I am!"
"Indeed, dear, you must have the
weakest and most patient of dispositions
to submit to it. L couldn't be
such an angel."
"I won't bear it any longer!" cried
Mrs. Syblett, in sudden indignation.
"I'll leave him. I'll go home to ma,
and I'll get a divorce!"
"No one could blame you. I'm sure,"
said her friend, sympathetically. "Only
?do you think that your husband will
let you go if he knows of it?"
"He sha'n't prevent me. I'll go now
?this very night!" exclaimed Mrs.
Syblett, desperately.
' Mrs. Glanvill strongly approved of
this resolution. She had never forgiven
George Syblett for marrying
Emma instead of herself; and it was
balm to her feelings to think of such
a punishment befalling him.
At 9 o'clock precisely Mr. Syblett let
himself in at the front door. He
paused in surprise at the sight which
greeted him.
Three or four trunks stood piled in
the hall, with a multitude of smaller
j packages. Mrs. Syblett, in her hat
I and cloak, stood at the drawing room
door, with Bridget close by. They were
| waiting for a cab. Mrs. Glanvill, on
i hearing the masculine step, fled into
a back room, out of sight, but not out
I of hearing.
"Why, Emma, what on earth does
all this mean? What has happened?"
questioned he, in an alarmed tone.
"What has happened?" repeated Mrs.
Syblett, with a great effort to be calm
and majestic in the dignity of injured
innocence. "At great deal has happened.
My eyes have been opened to
what 1 was simple and confiding
enough never before to have suspected.
T Imva fTicfvn-oror? that' tllA man "whom
I called husband is a base, deceiving
hypocrite!"
Here she prematurely broke down,
and gave a convulsive sob, while
Bridget muttered:
"Sure, that's good for the likes o'
him!"
"Emma, what can you mean? What
is the matter? I don't in the least understand
it."
"Oh, of course not! You don't know
anything at all about it!" Mrs. Syblctt.
in her nervous excitement, had
entirely lost her assumed dignity. "You
thought I never heard of?of that creature?Fanny!
You thought you were
keeping it a secret from me!"
Mr. Syblett's countenance changed.
A sort of subdued and guilty expression
came over it.
"How did you learn about Fanny?
And I don't see wby your finding it out
should have excited you thus. If I
kept a secret from you, it was only in
order to "
"Do you bear that?" exclaimed- Mrs.
Syblett, tragically, to the universe in
general. "He confesses and without a
blush!" !
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"Well, I nirer!" burst rorui Bridget,
indignantly^
"I have nothing to blush, for," said
Syblett, firmly. "Have you lost your
sensesV"
"Oh! he's nothing to blush for,"
sneered Mrs. Syblett, hysterically.
"And you're not a bit ashamed of
dressing up your dear Fanny in jewelry,
and treating her to ice cream and
champagne suppers, I suppose?"
"Treating Fanny to ice cream and
champagne? What on earth are you
talking about?"
"I am talking about the wretched
creature for whom you have neglected
your wife. Don't deny anything?I
know all about it. I found her photograph
in your precious notebook?hand
it here, Bridget. And I found her name
in the same book?a memorandum to
'go and see Fanny" this very evening!
Business, indeed! So that was the 'important
business' which took you away
from your wife and your home?and
with that wretch. Joe Crewes!"
It was a study to behold Syblett's
countenance while his injured and indignant
wife thus hrone-ht. home to
him all these accumulated charges.
First, there was a look of wonder and
perplexity, then of sudden intelligence,
followed by the oddest expression imaginable.
And when she concluded he sank into
the nearest hail chair, tried to speakapparently
in explanation?and then,
leaning back, laughed long and loud.
"Sure, it's an unfalin' baste he is, intirely!"
muttered Bridget. '
Then Syblett calmed himself, wiped
his e^'es, and addressing his wife in a
voice still quivering with suppressed
mirth:
"Emma, do you know whose picture
this is?"
"Don't presume to speak to me?
don't!" sobbed Mrs. Syblett.
"But, my dear, allow me to explain.
Don't you remember expressing a wish
to have Mademoiselle Ferlini's picture,
'to see what she looked like?' Well, in
coming home this evening, I observed
some pictures in Bland Brothers' window,
and purchased one, but in my
haste forgot to give it to you. This is
her photograph."
Mrs. Syblett looked up incredulously.
"You are deceiving me," she said.
"If you doubt me, go down to Bland
Erothers' to-morrow, and satisfy yourself.
And now, as to Fanny?do you
know who Fanny is?"
"Don't mention her to me?the horrid
creature!"
"Fanny isn't horrid at all, Mrs.
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with bright eyes and dainty limbsgentle
as a lamb, and graceful as a
fairy. I fell in love with her at first
sight."
Mrs. Syblett gave a convulsive
scream, and beat her feet upon the
floor.
"And so will you. dear, when you
see her. She is the prettiest little pony
in the market, and just suited to a
lady's basket phaeton. I had intended
it for a surprise on your birthday,"
added Mr. Syblett, gently; "but that
unfortunate notebook has spoiled my
plan."
"Oh. George, you don't mean it?"
"Well, you'll know better next time,"
he answered, soothingly; "and we will
both learn not to have a secret from
each other. It's the best plan, after
all, as Crewes hinted to me from the
first."
"What has he to do with it?"
"Why, he has taken the greatest interest
in it all along. He's a good
judge of horses, you know; and it was
he who found Fanny for me, and took
me to see her. He was quite interested
in thinking how pleased you would be,
provided?I could keep it a secret from
you till the right time."
His wife flushed a little. Then she
came closer to him, and said, in a sub.
dued tone:
"George "
"Yes, Emma."
"Ask your friend to dinner next Sun*
day."
"Certainly."
"And?any other time that you like."
"I'll remember."
She still looked thoughtful; then said,
doubtfully:
"But about the jeweler's, and the
champagne supper and the ice cream?"
Syblett glanced over the memoranda.
"I made a memorandum to call at
the jeweler's for my watch, which I
had left for repairs?here it is. I had
also to call on the chief superintendent
at the gas works, whom your imagination
has converted' into a champagne
supper. And, Emma, you must
have liked my friend better than you
admitted, else you would never have
taken 'Joe Crewes' for 'ice creamI'"
"How ridiculous! But it was all the
fault of your careless writing."
"Well, I didn't expect it to be criticised
by a lady, you know."
Mrs. Syblett blushed.
"Sure," said Bridget," he's turned the
tables intirely, and it's ashamed of
meself I am. Ana, p'aze, mum, isn't it
a bite o' supper the masther would like
?and him comin' home so late?"
"A good suggestion," Syblett admitted.
And as he walked into the dining
room, with his arm around his wife's
waist, some one whisked out of the
side door, and they heard the hall door
close.
"It's only Pollie Glanvill," Mrs. Syblett
explained. "I had entirely forgotten
her."
"Ah, indeed! A mischief-making
chatterbox! That explains your contemplated
journey!" said her husband,
looking enlightened.?New York
Weekly.
London's Twenty Thousand Club Women
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world in the matter of women's clubs.
Twenty-one years ago there was not a
single institution of the kind; now there
are thirty, with a total membership of
over 20.000. There are also several
mixed clubs, of which the women
members number about 1000.?Woman
at Home.
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After Tobacco Tag Collectors.
.Representative E. J. Etheridge has
introduced a bill in the house reoulrng
a county license of three hundred
dollars from tobacco tag collectors,
whether they are collecting for themselfves
or another. The maximum
penalty is one hundred dollars or
thirty days.
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Governor Tied the Knot.
The governor's mansion in Columbia
was the scene of the culmination
of a romance a few days ago. The
governor was called upon to perform
the marriage ceremony there which
made ?fr. H. C. Dechamps, a well
known Sumter traveling man, and
Miss Rosa Barnett, a handsome girl
of St Matthews, man and wife.
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Mall on Through Freight.
Through the efforts of Congressman
A. F. Lever, it is very probable
that mail service will be put on the
through freight of the Columbia, Newberry
and Laurens railroad.
This train arrives at Newberry
from Laurens at 8:35 a. m. and from
Columbia at 7:05 p. m., thus giving
Newberry a morning mail from the
up country and a late afternoon mail
from Columbia.
Should Congressman Lever be successful
in his efforts the new service
will be a valuable addition to Newberry's
present mail facilities.
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Costly Blaze at Abbeville.
The Seaboard Air Line railroad
eVinno QnH roilrnaH rftlin^hdllSA nt
Abbeville were destroyed by fire last
Sunday morning. Estimated loss $25,000.
The shops were built in 1892
and were actively engaged in repair
work.
All woodwork and small parts of
six engines in the roundhouse were
burned and their withdrawal from use
until repaired is a great inconvenience
to the railroad company. The loss
is covered by insurance, and it is understood
that the buildings will be replaced
at once.
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Charged With Lynching.
W. J. Myrick, Wade Sanders,. C. W.
Hogg and Tom Huggins, all prominent
farmers; Postmaster Joseph
Halford of Ulmer and Constables W.
J. Harter and Milledge Lee were lodged
in jail at Barnwell, charged with
having assisted in the lynching of
Frank Deloach, colored, and John Deloach,
colored, father and son, at Ulmer,
December 22. The younger negro
was accused of having killed
Hayne S. Criddock, a prominent farmer,
having done so at the command
of his father. State officials, assisted
by detectives, have been working on
the matter since that time.
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Compulsory Education Defeated.
There was an interesting and spirited
fight in the house over Kershaw's
compulsory education bill, requiring
children from 7 to 14 years of age to
attend school 100 days a session. The
first vote favored the bill, 54 to 53,
against striking out enacting words.
Then there was more sj>eechmaking,
followed by a yea and nay vote to
indefinitely postpone, which resulted
59 to 56 against the bill, which was
finally killed by a yea and nay vote
of 63 to 54. This shows a decided
increase of sentiment in the house
in favor of compulsory education over
last session.
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Duncan Adjudged a Bankrupt.
Thomas C. Duncan, former president
of the Buffalo and Union cotton
mills, and reputed to be a man
of considerable wealth, has been adjudged
a bankrupt in the United Slates
district court at Charleston, and John
J. Earle of Columbia was appointed
referee to administer the affairs of
the estate. The petition to have Duncan
adjudged a bankrupt was filed
November 13 by the Union and Buffalo
cotton mills and the Exchange
Banking and Trust company of Charleston.
The next move in the matter will
be at a hearing before Referee Earle
in Union February 27. In his petition
Duncan stated that his property at a
fair valuation, would pay his debts
in full, but on account of lack of
harmony among his creditors, he considers
it best to ask the court to ad?
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of said creditors.
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South Carolina Industries.
The census office at Washington has
announced its preliminary report on
the manufacturing industries of South
Carolina for 1904, exclusive of neighborhood
industries, and hand trades,
such as the building trades, dressmaking,
custom millinery, custom
sawing and grinding, cotton ginning,
cobbling and blacksmithing. They
show 1,399 manufacturing establishments,
with an aggregate capital of
SI 13,422,224; salaried employees, 2,389;
wage earners. 59,442; miscellaneous
expenses, $6,013,241; cost of ma\
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terials used, '$49,868,626,:?Value. of ;
products, including custom work and ;
repairing, '$79,376,262. The capital reported
at 1909 census was $62,750,027
and the vaiue of products, $33,335,81!.In
lt04 the value of different products
in the state was: Cotton goods,
$49,437,644; fertilizers, $3,637,756;
lumber, $8,270,032, and oil, cotton seed
and cake, $5,4C2,$18.
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College "Frats" in Turmoil.
An interesting situation has developed
among the students at Wofford
college, Spartanburg, on account of
an issue raisea oeiween me nieuiuero
of the fraternities and the members
of what is known as "the non-frat"
organization. The points at issue
arose over the proposition to issuo
an annual, a publication to be edited
by the students. The non-frats contend
that the members of the fraternities
have conducted the elections in
such a way as to cause their members
to hold a majority of the editorships
to the former's almost solid exclusion,
and threatens to issue another
annual.
The charge that politics enterea
into the election is stoutly denied by
the fraternity element, who assert that
the results of the election so far as
the affiliations of the editors is concerned
is merely a coincident At
present it appears that either two
publications will be issued or none at
all. Both sides are firm in their convictions
and declare that they will
maintain their positions.
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House Passes Morgan Bill.'
By a substantial majority the house
of representatives passed the Morgan
bill, which provides for the abolish'
ment of the state dispensary. Tho
new measure provides for local option
in the counties; that is, each county
may have a dispensary, under county
control, or prohibition. The high license
feature was eliminated in order
to secure the passage of a bill which
would remove the dispensary as a
state institution.
The bill now gees to the senate,
hut that body has a bill of its own
which provides for the rention of the
state dispensary under..a..new form oi
management The question is "engaging
more attention than any other mat
ter before the general assembly. To
forecast the probable action of tho
senate on the Morgan bill would bo
the merest guess work. '
The Morgan bill is lengthy in detail,
but the more important features aro
that the present dispensary restrictions
which provide that liquor shall
not be sold in less quantity than hall
pints, no sales after sundown nor
drinking on the premises are retained.
Counties may immediately vote for
"sale or no sale" on petition of onethird
of the qualified voters, but a
vote cannot be had oftener than every
four years. No counties which havq
voted out the dispensary?sixteen in
number?can vote for "sale or no
sale" under two years from the passage
of the bill.
MRS. POST AGAIN CONVICTED.
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Alleged Mental Healer Guilty of Fraudulent
Use of the Mails.
Helen M. Post, the famous mental
healer, after a trial of twelve days,
was found guilty in the United States
court at Jacksonville, Fla., Saturday.
She was sentenced to pay $500 fine
and serve thirty days in jail. Mrs.
Post, who is 75 years old, was head
of the Mental Science institution at
Seabreeze. Fla.. and was charged .with
using mails for fraudulent purposes.
Her patients resided in every state in
the union.
She claimed to cure all ills, love
troubles, etc., by the so-called "absent
treatment." The case has attracted
great attention. This is the second
trial. She was convicted about two
years ago and sentenced by Judge
Locke to imprisonment for one year
and one day in the United States penitentiary
at Nashville,"" Tenn. She
appealed and the decision was reversed.
Notice of appeal was given and
the defendant released on $2,000 bail.
HEAD WAS GNAWED AWAY.
Body of Well Dressed Unknown Man
Found in Virginia Woods.
The body of a well-dressed, unknown
man was found in the woods near
Roanoke, Va? Monday. The head had
been gnawed from the trunk by carnivorous
animals. The skull was
found nearby, with a pistol wound in
the forehead. The revolver by the
side of the body contained one empty
shell and four loaded cartridges. A
gray wig lay near.
In the pockets were found $65 in
money, a railroad ticket from Charles
ton, W. Va., to Bristol, Tenn., aaiea
January 4, a razor, a gold watch and
an aluminum tag stamped "Preferred
Accident Company, New York 243431."
CASTRO MAY CALL BLUFF.
Report Says He is Ready to Turn
Loose Guns on French Vessels.
Report is current that President
Castro of Venezuela is making every
possible war preparation. They add
that orders have been issued to fire on
the first French war vessel sighted
cruising in Venezuelan waters. Castro,
it is asserted, regards the whole
French movement as a "bluff" and
says he "will not be bluffed."
DEMOCRATS BOUND
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Caucus Urges Vote Against
San Domingo Treaty.
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ARE FORCED INTO LINE
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Those Breaking Senate Caucus Rule
Will Be Read Out of the Party.
The Outcome of the Action
Very Problematical. 4
A Washington special says: Under
the action taken by senate democrats
in their caucus Saturday, any democrat
who refuses to vote against the
ratification of the San Domingo treaty
will be barred from future party caucuses.
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So far as his fellow senators are - 0
concerned, any .member who declines ...;
to be bound by caucus action will be
read out of the party.
The effect of this step, in the opin- V
ion of democratic leaders, will be
the defeat of the pending treaty.
Senator .Patterson, wno nas declared
himself a supporter of the presi
dent's program, was present during' "
the discussion, hut withdrew before
the vote, serving notice that he could . ^
not permit himself to be bound by it; ;
Senator McEnery, who has been
quoAed as declaring he would vote for
the treaty, caucus or no caucus, was- {, - .\,0.
absent What position Senator Clarke
of Arkansas will take upon the final
vote on the treaty is uncertain. He
was the only senator present wh3>.'">:iM8
voted against a resolution declaring. 'Jj|||
against the ratification of the treaty,.
but his associates seem to believe be
will be bound by the caucus. There
were other absentees, but their failure
to be present does not, in the *''
opinion of fellow democrats, indicate
that they are in any degree "white ^8|
house democrats
Two resolutions adopted at the cancus
not only will dispose of the Dominican
treaty, but will furnish the
precedent for demanding a united par- . >.. >jH|
ty vote on all questions that may- be *;
considered partisan in their character* .
when two-thirds of the democratic:
senators so decide. *
The resolutions, both of which were- Z&M
carried by more than two-thirds of ,
those present, follow: ;-^8i
"Resolved, That the senate otight
not to advise and consent to the treaty |jjwfl9
between the United States and therepublic
of Santo Domingo, now pending
before the senate.
"Resolved, That if two thirds of tbecaucus
shall vote in favor of the fpregoing
resolution, it shall be the duty ^Isg
of every democratic senator to vote- !.
against the ratification of the same k
treaty."
Represented in the caucus were .
twenty-six of the thirty-three minority
members. Those who were absent _ VpK
were Berry, Clark of Montana, Gfearin,
McLaurin and Stone, all out of the
city. Patterson withdrew before the .
vote was taken. Teller voted for the .
first resolution, and was excused from v?||f
voting on the second, and McEnecy . |f||9
and Taliaferro absented themselves ^
without explanation.
Gorman was ill and Carmack was
out of the city, but both* authorized '
their votes to be cast Guerin wascalled
to New York, and telegraphed
instructions to be counted at present
His dispatch was not sufficiently explicit
to have his vote recorded. Hie .
first resolution was adopted by a vote *
adopted 20 to 4, Clark of Arkansas, *
in the negative. The second was
adopted 20 to 4, Clarke of Arkansas,
Daniel, Foster and Mallory voting in
the negative.
The spirit manifested in the caucus '< <
and voiced by several leading senators
in emphatic expressions after the.
caucus adjourned was-that this action
meant that the democrats of the
senate would have united party action, 'Mm
on matters determined by two-thirds ; .
of their number to be questilons af-,
fee ting party policy. Those who do
not abide by caucus decision will not . ,1
be regarded as democrats, and the
point Wlil De raiecu <?6<uu3t uiviu,
should they appear in future caucuses
of the party. ' ;> |||*
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DATE FOR WHEELER MEMORIAL. ' >
Blue and Gray Vets to Gather In At- . ;vjj|
lanta on February 28.
The Wheeler memorial, an event
contemplated by the members of Camp ..
A, Wheeler's confederate cavalry, in ~
Atlanta, a week ago, has been fixed ,
for Wednesday, February 28, and the ' ,
indications are that the occasion will /;J,
be one which will attract not only
the attention of a reunited country,
but will draw to Atlanta more Grand
Army of the Republic men and Uiri- \'J;.
ted confederate veteran men than have 7
ever mingled since the days of Appo- ;r
mattox.
ANNA GOULD SEEKS DIVORCE.
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Makes Charge of Infidelity Against
Gay Hubby Bonl.
The Paris correspondent of the ' J
London Exchange Telegraph company
says that he has confirmed from reliable
sources a story that the Countess
de Castellane is seeking a Ju- '
dicial separation from her husband *
on the grounds of infidelity. -|j||j
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