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A BIS CEASE OF '73.
Story of the Once Powerful Banking
House of Jay Cooke & Co.
FIKAL SETTLEMENT THIS MONTH.
All the Members of the Firm HaTe Bmce
Hide Themselves Eicta.
HOW HE. COOKE WON A NEW FOETUNE
I n iUllEJf FOB THX PISr.i.TCH.'l
The last vestige of the once powerful
banking house of Jay Cooke & Co. will
soon be obliterated. For 16 years the suc
cessive trustee of the estate in bankruptcy
have nursed the property, and from time to
time sold off portions and declared a divi
dend, and the final sale will soon be held and
the final dividend declared. J. Horace
Harding, the present trustee, will sell at
auction at Thomas' auction rooms, in Phila
delphia, on June 19 and 20, all the .remain
ing assets of the estate. These are some
45,000 acres of land in North Dakota, some
iron land on Lake Champlain, detached
pieces of real estate in Minnesota, Nebraska
and other States, and a fine collection of
stocks and bonds of defunct railroads and
other corporations. The whole property
may realize 100,000 or $150,000, which will
be distributed among the 1,200 creditors of
the estate, and then the books will be closed
and the accounts finally audited and settled
by the court.
In the history of banking in this country
there never was a house whose interests
were so vast and whose ramifications were
bo extensive as the firm of Jay Cooke & Co.
The parent house was in Philadelphia, with
branches in New TorK and Washington,
and an allied firm, Jay Cooke, McCulloch
& Co., in London. The firm had 2,200
agents and correspondents in this country,
almost every village being represented.
During the war over $2,000,000,000 ot Gov
ernment bonds were sold bv the firm, and
the head of the house possessed the entire
confidence of the President and his Cabinet.
TJSIXO GOYEK2TMEXT FUNDS.
So profound was this fai'h that the Secre
tary of the Treasury went to lengths with
Mr. Cooke which no secretary before or
since ever ventured, and gave a citizen au
thority to use the funds o( the United States
in the'bond market Early on the morning
after the assassination of President Lincoln
Mr. Cooke telegraphed to the Secretary that
Government bonds must be sustained in the
market at all hazards, and he desired the
financial support ot the United States in
keeping up the price. The Secretary tele
graphed back the desired authority, and
Mr. Cooke sent word to all his agents
throughout the country to take all the Gov
ernments that were offered at J above the
closing'price the previous night. He bought
millions of bonds that day, and drew money
Irom the New York and Philadelphia sub
treasuries to pay for them at night. The
next day the price was advanced another
eighth, and more bonds were bought, but
the third day the run'was over.
It was the Franco-Prussian war, and not
the panic ot 1873, that broke the house of
Jay Cooke & Co. After our "War of the
Rebellion the firm became interested in the
Northern Pacific Bailroad and undertook
to build the road on bonds. The original
jaibsrrintion books of the Northern Pacific
Bailroad Company show that a member of
the pool received seven-thirty bonus lor tne
lull amount of his subscription, while the
stock was thrown in as a bonus. With the
wonderful machinery he had bnilt up to
float the Government loans still in exist
ence, Mr. Cooke found no difficulty in
bringing the Northern Pacific project be
fore the people and getting them to sub
scribe. TBIED TO FLOAT BOJTDS HIMSELF.
He also entered into negotiations with
foreign bankers, and had concluded arrange
ments with the Bothschilds to take in con
nection with his own firm 550,000,000 of the
bonds. The arrangements were verbal, and
were made three days before France de
clared war. tV'hile the formal papers were
being drawn up the war cloud burst, and, of
course, the plan collapsed. Mr. Cooke then
undertook to float 530.000,000 of the loan
himself, and it proved his ruin. He actually
sold 523,000.000 of the bonds at par up to
that tatal September day in 1873, when the
magnificent structure he had reared
crumbled in an hour. During the early
part of 1873 the sales of Northern Pacific
bonds were bade with increasing difficulty.
The revulsion from the great excitement
and expansion of the war was at hand,
and piices of stocks, lands and everything
else were shrinking almost daily. The
Northern Pacific was then in course of
construction, and the company was drawing
on Jay Cook & Co. daily lor lrom $50,000 to
$100,000. To supply this money bond sales
were relied upon, but the bonds were no
longer as salable as they were. Gradually
the firm's advances to the road grew larger,
until on the morning ot September 18 the
company was a debtor to the amount of
51,167,433, of which fully one-half was a
simple overdraft on the firm's books, with
not a bond as collateral.
CLOSING THE DOORS.
Besides the financial straits referred to the
members of the firm were not a tfhit on the
question of the Northern Pacific Boad. Mr.
Cooke thought it could be built on the pro
ceeds ot the bonds; others did not think so.
At any rate it was suddenly decided, ou the
morning ol September 18, to suspend pay
ment, and at 11 o'clock the doors were shut
The panic that followed was the wildest
since the South Sea bubble burst in Lon
don. The lew days succeeding the failure
were employed in circulating a paper
among the creditors for signatures, allowing
Jay Cooke to continue the business for
them, but this could not be carried through,
and lormal bankruptcy followed. The
creditors were asked to decide whether a
trustee should be appointed to nunc the as
sets and distribute them equitably, or
whether an assignee should be appointed to
sell off everything and wind up the estate in
a short time. A trustee was decided upon,
and the late Edwin M. Lewis, President ot
the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Phil
adelphia, was made the first trustee. The
creditors elected a committee of five to look
after their interests, Messrs. John Clayton,
Isaac Norris, Bobert Shoemaker, Charles P.
Helfenstein and Joseph Brown.
The members of the firm surrendered all
their property ot every kind to the trustee.
The claims against the estate, filed bv 3,200
creditors, aggregated $10,804,848 85.
Against these claims were assets which
seven years later were valued at 530,000,000
and which are now believed to be worth
over $40,000,000. Some of the claims were
contested and others were compromised by
the trnstee with the consent of the Commit
tee ot Creditors, so that when matters were
finally adjusted the claims unsettled aggre
gated about $6,500,000.
FATING OFF THE CKEDITOBS.
For the satisfaction of this sum the firm's
estate was devoted. Four dividends have
been paid on this sum. The first was in
Januarv. 1875. when the creditors received
tor each $1,000 of their claim the following:
Cash K0 00
northern Pacific R. R. preferred
stock 7 shares
Oregon Steam Navigation Co. stock 3 shares
St. Paul and Duluth R R. common
stock IK shares
Some ot tbe holders sold out their stocks
right away at very low figures, while others
held on. In 1879 the assets in this first div
idend were worth 51,600 per $1,000 claim.
In October, 1878, another dividend was de
clared, in November. 1879, another, and in
March, 1881, a lourth. The filth will be
made alter the coming sale, and may reach
2 per cent in cash. The creditors will then
have received $157 50 in cash, 8f shares of
Northern Pacific prelerred stock, 3 shares
of Oregon Steam Navigation stock, ot a.
share ot St Paul and Duluth Bailroad
preferred stock, 2 shares of St Paul and
Duluth Bailroad common stock and $150 of
asset scrip. This asset scrip was receivable
by tho trustees at par in payment for any of
the lands belonging to the estate. Some
men took uptown lots in Duluth with this
asset scrip, paying therefor $45. which same
lots have since sold for $10,000 cash. Others
made fortunes in New York City lots. Manv
a man laid the foundation lor future wealth
by buying up at ruinous prices the assets ot
the estate which the poorer creditors were
obliged to sell.
AIL WEALTHY AGAIN.
It is a curious circumstance that all the
active men in tbe firm, although beggared
by the failure, have since recovered their
wealth and business standing. Pitt Cooke
and Henrv D. Cooke, the latterof whom had
charge of the Washington house, are both
dead. William G. Moorhead, of the Phila
delphia house, made no eflort to resume
business, but has picked up a competence
through opportunities afforded him, and now
lives in retirement Ex-Secretary ol the
Treasury Hugh McCulloch. of the London
house ol Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., lives
in Maryland in comfort and plenty.
For two or three years after the failure
Mr. Cooke nssisted the trustees in straighten
ing out the accounts of the firm. A man
whom he had once befriended in his days of
affluence then interested him in the Horn
Silver mine in Utah. Mr. Cooke visited the
mine, and. seeing its great value, secured
an option on one-ball of it lor $2,500,000.
He organized a company to take this option
and succeeded in placing enough stock to
give him an interest for nothing. The mine
proved very valuable, and in the following
seven vears he received in dividends between
$700,000 and $800,000. With this money he
bought back his home, the Island Gibraltar
in Lake Erie.
Mr. Cooke still retained his faith in Du
luth and purchased at a very low price
about 5,000 acres of land back of the city,
on Doth sides of the river St Louis. This
he intended to develop by utilizing the
abundant water power, bat deferred execut
ing his purpose and witnin tne last ou uaya
he has sold out the entire property for a sum
approximating $1,000,000. He is the prin
cipal owner ot the Gettysburg and Harris
burg Bailroad, which he proposes to extend
to Washington, owns the South Mountain
Iron property in this State, and has sundry
other investments. His present fortune is
estimated at about $3,000,000.
THE rAETNEES.
Htrns C. Fahnestock and James A. Gar
land were the principal partners in the New
York house. They continued their relations
with Wall street and finally secured an in
terest in tbe First National Bank. The
bank has been wonderfully successful, and
its stock is now quoted at $2,000 for $100
shares. Messrs. Fahnestock and Garland
own very large interests in the bank and
are both independently wealthy.
George C. Thomas was the executive part
ner in tbe Philadelphia house, attending to
the practical business. Alter rendering all
the assistance in bis power to the trustees he
engaged alter a time in the banking and
brokerage business with Joseph M. Shoe
maker, one ol Mr. Cooke's heads of depart
ments. The firm prosoered, but a few years
later Mr. Thomas was offered and accepted
a partnership in the firm of Drexel & Co.,
ot Philadelphia. He is the executive part
ner in the 'house and enjoys the unique dis
tinction of having managed the two largest
banking firms that ever existed on this con
tinent Jay Cooke, Jr., was a member of the old
firm for only a short time before the failure.
A year or two after the crash he formed a
partnership with Charles D. Barney, under
the firm name of Charles D. Barney & Co.,
which has ever since been one of the most
prominent banking firms in Philadelphia.
Tbe building where the firm carried on its
gigantic financial operations has become a
shop. The wall of that part of the room
where Mr. Cookt had his private office and
where he conceived plans involving millions
is now covered by an immense blackboard
upon which the changing quotations are
displayed before a band ot impeennious
men and boys who buy or sell five or ten
shares of stock at a time. The place still
retains, however, something of the popular
ity it once enjoyed, for it is the largest and
most prosperous bucket shop in Philadel
phia. J- S. A.
HI PEEKDfS JS L0UD01T.
Characteristic Intcnrlew Wllh The Dli-
paich'a Interrstlas Correspondent.
London Edition New York Herald.
Eli Perkins arrived in London from
America yesterday. A reporter met him
sight-seeing at the National Gallery, when
he seemed tired and was breathing hard.
"You seem to be all out oi breath. What
has done it this hurrying from gallery to
gallery?" asked our reporter.
"Oh, no," raid the American; "I lost my
breath down to Morley's."
"How?"
"Well, I ordered dinner there. I was all
right when I Bat down, but when tbe waiter
told me the price it took my breath away.
It will take a dozen mutton-pie dinners in
the Strand to bring it back again.
Mr. Perkins, before coming to London,
spent several days over at Truro and Pen
zance. When asked how he liked that
Land's End country, he sa;d:
"It is a beautiiul picturesque couptry, but
subject to sudden climatic changes. It is a
blizzard from Iceland one day, and a hot
simoon from Algiers the next Sometimes
the weather changes in a second. Now, the
other morning I got a little provoked at a
Penzance landlord, and I picked up a piece
of ice and threw it at him. I'm sorry I did
it now."
"Why? Did it hurt him?"
"Yes," taid Mr. Perkins regretfully, "it
did hurt him. You see, as the piece of ice
left my band there came one of those won
derful climatic changes incident to Pen
zance: the mercury took an upward turn.
tbe ice melted in transit and the hot water
scalded that poor landlord all over the back
of his neck."
"They have fearful ocean winds in Pen
zance, don't they?"
"Well, rather. An old Penzance sea cap
tain told me that one day the wind blew his
cook-stove 17 miles, and the next morning
came back and got the gridiron."
"Did it hurt anybody?" asked- our re
porter. "Well, to be frank with you," said Eli,
"I think it did. There were several Liberal
Members of Parliament n Penzance at the
time. The citizen em to keep their
mouth luj-iurricane, but the
Liberal m. .t.a were careless, left their
mouths open, when the wind caught them
in the mouth and turned them inside out"
When Mr. Perkins was asked if it killed
them, he said:
"No, it didn't kill 'em, but they were a
good deal discouraged. Why," said he, "it
blew these Liberal members fight up against
a stone wall, and flattened them out as thin
as wafers, and "
"What did they do with them?" inter
rupted our reporter.
"Well, the citizens of Penzance told me
that they went out the next day with shovels
and spades and scraped those members of
Parliament off scraped off several barrels
full of them, and sent' them down to London
and sold them for liver pads."
Alter our reporter had written out this
interview he read it to Mr. Perkins and
asked htm it it was correctly given.
"Yes," he Raid, "I said all that and a
good deal more;" why did you not put it all
in?"
THE majority of the physicians who will
atteud the convention will not hesitate to
recommend "Prince Begent" ler medicinal
purposes. Found only at the Old Beliable,
523 Liberty street, loot of Filth avenue.
Pittsburg.
Lacral Laces! Laces!
Black dress laces, nets fiouncings, etc.,
etc., ol every description at prices to suit
all, from $1 per yard up.
Hughs & Hacks.
These is no place where you can get bet
ter suited in lurniture, in assortment of
styles and kinds, nor is there another place
where you can buy as cheap as you can from
tbe Michigan Furniture Co., 437 Smith
field st
HOKDAY another great day for bargains.
Kicable & Shustek, 35 Fifth ave.
WAili Tents From $7 up. Pittsburg
"Water Proof Oo., 426 Liberty street.
THE
AN AMERICAN MECCA.
Pilgrimage Next Thursday to
Cradle of Universalism.
the
LIFE OP GE0EGE DE BENNEVILLE.
His Journey ThroBgh Celestial Lands While
Lying in His Coffin.
A BOOK WOETH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
rCOnilEBPONDENCI OF TBI DISPATCH.!
Beading, Pa., June 7. The founding
oi Universalism iu America) will be cele
brated with unique observances next Thurs
day near the village of Oley, eight miles
northeast of Beading, in an old mansion
built away back in the year 1745. The lo
cality being inaccessible by rail, the cele
bration will take the form of "a pilgrimage
in carriages from this city by representative
Universalists from allquarters of theUnited
States to the former home and religious
headquarters of the Bev. Dr. George De
Benneville, the founder and first apostle in
this country of the gospel of Universal Bes
toratiou. Beaders of ecclesiastical history, partic
ularly in New England, are disposed to
ascribe the honor of planting that creed in
the New World to Bev. John Murray, a
Methodist class teacher who achieved great
prominence and success in missionary work
in New England during the Bevolutionary
War. BntMurray did not land on the Hew
Jersey shore until 1770, and did not settle in
Gloucester, Mass., (erroneously considered
the American cradle of Universalism) until
1779; whereas De Benneville came here from
Europe as early as 1741 and preached here
the new doctrine unremittingly until 1755,
and subsequently in Germantown and Mile
stone, this State, until his death in 1793.
A FICTtTBESQUE OLD MANSION.
On Tuesday and Wednesdav, the 10th and
lltb, the general State Convention of Uni
versalists will be held in the Universalist
Church here, and on Thursday morning,
the 12th, at 10 o'clock, the delegates will
proceed to the former home of De Benne
ville. At least 600 carriages will be in line.
De Benneville's home is an old and pictur
esque stone mansion two stories high, situated
in a delightful hollow and surrounded by
stately trees and luxuriant greenery.
Though built in 1745, it is still in an ex
cellent state of preservation. It was de
signed to serve the double purpose of a resi
dence and a church. When De Benneville
first settled in Oley, he was received most
cordially by the Moravians, who had a
monastic house at Bethlehem and a mission
school just two miles from Oley line. In
the mission school De Benneville preached
mil Mm
THE DE BENNEVILLE MANSION.
regularly until growing differences of creed
between himself and the Moravians eventu
ally led them to close their doors against
him.
That was in 1745. De Benneville at once
set to work, with the aid of Jean Bertolette,
of France, whose daughter he had recently
married, to rear a substantial mansion of
his own wherein he could preach at will.
The second or upper story, which was orig
inally reached through a door directly over
the main entrance below by a long flight of
steps leading up on the outside, he con
structed as a hall for holding meetings, with
a seating capacity of 50 people. Tbe steps
are now removed, but otherwise tbe appear
ance of the building is practically un
changed. A LIVING BAPTISMAL FONT.
A spring of living water gushes from a
rock in the cellar and flows out at one corner.
In this spring of running water, to him a
mystic symbol of spiritual purity, De
Benneville baptized his converts. Here he
was wont, Sabbath after Sabbath, to gather
his friends and neighbors about him and
preach to them what is now tbe accepted
Universalist creed. With such quaint
memories clustering around it and such
historical associations investing it, the old
De Benneville mansion is bound in time to
become a center of interest to every Uni
versalist in the land. Alter De Benneville
left it in 1755 to reside in Germantown, on
account of the increasing outrages of wild
bands of Indians in thevicinity, the mansion
fell into the possession of Peter Knabb, and
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Once a Moravian 21 It Hon ffcAooI.
then to his descendants. The present tenant
is Jacob Dysher, a shrewd, typical Berks
county farmer, with an intelligent and very
numerous family.
The Moravian mission school whose doors
were closed upon De Benneville, as stated
above, was founded in 1740 and was long a
center oi doctrine and education in this
region. It was torn down last summer and
rebuilt Daniel Moyer, a small farmer, now
occupies it as a residence.
THE PBOPOSED PBOGBAMME.
The arrangements of the pilgrimage and
exercises are under the supervision of the
Bev. George W. Kent, pastor of the Bead
ing church, and a special committee of
ladies and gentlemen. The Bev. James
Shregley, of Philadelphia, formerly librar
ian of the Historical Society of Pennsyl
vania, will deliver an elaborate address on
the life and times ot De Benneville, and
Mrs. Phoebe A. Ham ford, of New Haven,
Conn., will read an original poem written
for the occasion. A fine musical programme
has been prepared, and souvenirs illustra
tive ot the event will be distributed
to each of the visitors. If it is
fair day, refreshments will be served
outside on the grassy bank in trout
of the mansion, where a power) ul
spring of Ice cold water bursts from the solid
rock and forms a creek too wide to step over.
Other interesting features will be introduced
into the ceremonies, and then in the cool of
the evening the carriages will be resumed
and tbe return trip made to Beading, where
services will be held in the Universalist
Church to complete the day. .
De Benneville's time was evenly divided
between tbe practice of medicine and in
preaching, lor which he never accepted com-
Pem&llOIl. UUU1 j;iOBUWU WJ A.t.Mw -6-f
lt was his'his custom to perform a journey
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PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
twice each vear through Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Virginia, preaching to the
weaker churches. William Penn had
thrown open the State ot Pennsylvania lor
the purpose of trying "the holy experiment,
as he styled it, of toleration of all religions;
and here French Heugonots, Dutch Mennon
ites, German Mystics of all shades, and
Eomau Catholics as well, received a welcome
of equal friendship. De Benneville cared
little for superficial distinctions of creed and
moyed with equal ease among all the various
denominations.
, KEMARK ALE KXPEKIENOES.
De Benneville's life and experience were
stranger than fiction and more thrillingtban
a romantic novel. His mother was of the
noble Granville familv of England, and
bore nine children in five years after mar
riage, having twins four years successively.
She died at De Benneville's birth. The
lather was a French refugee attached to the
court of King William III. After the death
of his mother Queen Anne herself provided
theinlant De Benneville with a nurse and
superintended his early education. At the
age of 12 he was sent to sea to learn naviga-
tion in a war vessel belonging to a little
fleet bound for the const of Barbary. On
his return to England he was stricken with
a fainting fit, during which he had a vision
of himself as a firebrand in hell. On coming
to himself he cried out, "I am damnedl"
This incident determined the trend of his
future life. He became melancholy and
continued so lor 15 months. At the end of
that time, as he himself records, he was
wakened out of a sleep and heard a voice
within him which pronounced upon him a
sentence of condemnation. Then, as he re
lates, "I heard the Savior's eternal univer
sal voice, which penetrated through mo
with divine power, saying, 'Take courage,
my son, thy sins are forgiven thee.' "
A FEBIOD OF PEBSECUTION.
He became a convert, and began to preach
the doctrine ol universal salvation. For
this he was arrested and imprisoned. Some
of his companious were hanged. De Benne
ville himself was sentenced to be beheaded,
but through the intervention of Queen Anne
he was pardoned by Louis XV. After that
he removed to Germany, and iu Holland he
met his most extraordinary experience,
which resulted in his openly expounding
the creed ot universalism. He fell into a
wasting consumptive disorder. He felt
himself die by degrees, and was regarded as
dead by bis friends for 42 hours. He saw
them prepare his body for burial and inclose
it in a coffin.
During the interval he had one of the
most remarkable visions on record. He re
lates this experience and describes his sen
sations in a little volume written by his own
hand in the French, an English translation
of which was published in 1804 in Philadel
phia. Only two or three copies of this little
boot are now extant One is in the posses
sion of the Congressional Library at Wash
ington, and is prononnced by Librarian
Spofford to be, in a commercial sense, worth
double its weight in gold. In tbe latter
pages of the book De Benneville relates his
trance. Occult mysteries, things hidden
from the wise and prndent, are set forth
with a vividness of coloring recalling the
works of Virgil and Dante in the same line.
He says:
DE BENNEVILLE'S TBANCB.
"I felt myself die by degrees. Exactly at
midnight I was separated from the body and
saw the people occupied in washing it, ac
cording to the custom of the country. Im
mediately I was drawn up as in a cloud,
and beheld great wonders where I passed,
impossible to be written or expressed. I
quickly came to a place which appeared to
my eyes as a level plain, so extensive that
my sight was not able to reach its limits,
filled with all sorts of fruit trees. In this
place I found I had two guardians, one at
my right hand and the other at my left, ex
ceeding beautiful beyond expression. They
had wings and resembled angels, and had
shining bodies and white garments. One
took bis place at my right hand; immedi
ately we were lilted up in the air, and some
time alter we arrived iu a dark and obscure
place, where nothing but weeping and
lamentation and anguish could be under
stood. I was conducted into each of the
habVplgsed through we were lifted up some
distance lrom thS -Pjace, wnere we reposed
ourselves. A messenger" "ites sent to us who
snid, 'My dear sir, and my deST,2''oth, the
Most Holy Trinity orders that J0" shall
proclaim to the people of the lfCjW a
universal gospel.'
"A glorious multitude approached. The
glory caused us to fall down. After .they
had passed us we were lifted up, and ar
rived in the places of the seven habitations
of the damned. We could perceive no
more darkness. Then all tbe heavenly host
shouted with one voice, 'An eternal and
everlasting deliverance, and eternal and
everlasting restoration.' Presently we
passed through the Beven habitations of the
damned, and a multitude were delivered
from each. Many thrones, palaces, temples
and buildings were erected iu all parts, with
fruit trees intermixed, and rivers ot pleasure
gliding along through.the celestial land.
"Then my guardian took me up and re
conducted me to the house from whence I
came, where I perceived the people assem
bled and discovering my body in the coffin
I was re-united with the same, and louud
myself lodged within my earthly tabernacle;
and, coming to myself, I knew Brother
Marsey and many others; who gave me an
account of my being 25 hours in the coffin,
which altogether made 42 hours. To me
this seemed as many years."
John D. Cbemer.
Can Ton Name the Next Congressman f
Well, then name the most popular make
of beer? Wainwright's, of course. All
dealers, or telephone 5525. tvjtsu
100 pieces 20c sateens to go at llf c
Enable & Shusxeb, 35 Fifth ave.
Tuxedo awnings. A favorite style.
Mahatjx & Son, 539 Penn ave., Pittsburg.
Hemstitched embroidered fiouncings at
halt price and less. Special sale st Boien-
J baum & Co.'s,
Dt Eennevttle't Baptismal Spring.
JUNE 8,
TflEWOOTS CLUBS.
Bessie Bramble Says They Mark a
. New Era in Social Progress.
REFORMS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED
A Pittsburg Organization Compared With
Those of Other Cities.
ORATORS AMONG THE PAIR 8EI
tWTUTTEX TOB HTB DISPATCH.!
At the late convention held in New York
for the federation of women's clubs, 64 clubs
and 18 States were represented by delegates,
which means a large awakening by women
all over the country in the past few years.
Such an organized feminine force of intelli
gent students nnd thinkers shows how rap
idly they are growing out of the old-fashioned
ways of the grandmothers, when no
woman would have thought it decorous or
right to raise her voice iu any meeting.
When the Women's Club of Pittsburg
Ta organized, about 16 years ago, some of
its earlier members can well remember how
shocked some people were and how much
croaking was done over it. Some good,
pious persons thought its members were
"going agin the Scriptures." because they
had determined to hold meetings and talk
over things literary and otherwise. Some
of the dear brethren were horrified over
women taking part in anything that was
called by such a name as a club. They had
an idea' that an institution which had
always been monopolized by men
and held sacred for their use
would demoralize women. They had
a fear that such association would
result in too much "gadding" and gossip,
but the club has gone on with its work
quietly and effectively, and the dire prophe
cies have none of them been fulfilled. The
homes have been preserved, the circle of
intelligence has widened, the members now
have something to think about and talk
over outside of clothes and fashion and per
sonal gossip.
HABD AT FIB3T.
At first,how timid they felt about standing
to make even a five-minute speech or to read
an essay upon a subject which they had
thought over care ully and studied welll
But tbe practice has grown, and there are
members who can talk as wittily and per
8uaiivelv and entertainingly upon their
feet, and express their views within parlia
mentary rules, as any of the dear brethren.
Eloquent orators, who can move and retain
the attention of an audience by power of
speaking, are few in number as compared
with those who listen, but with the develop
ment given by the practice and education of
the clubs and other organizations of women
growing up on all sides, they will be much
more common among women than men in
the future.
In old war times when Anna Dickinson
first took the political stump, she was re
garded with horror among tbe conservatives,
but her eloquence and power were beyond
contradiction. She was set down, however,
as an exception among women, and excused
for her departure from the rule of silence
then prevailing, by the fact that Quaker
women were not forbidden to speak out in
meeting when inspired by the "inner light"
or "moved by the spirit," and Anna had
been brought up to use ber tongue when any
powerful occasion justified it But since
then who more eloquent or powerful in
speech than Mrs. Livermore, Frances
Willard, May Wright Sewall, Mary F.
Eastman, Bev. Anna L. Shaw and others,
who are coming to the front "in the W. C.
T. U. and in the Woman's Clubs? Daniel
Webster said that "eloquence comes if it
come at all like the outbreaking of a
fountain from the earth." Who can doubt
this who has heard the impassioned speeches
of women who plead for freedom from op
pression, for protection for the home for the
promotion of honor, purity and virtue in
society?
GENIUS TVITH -WOMEN.
How much of genins has been repressed
in women in the past can never be known.
It has even been asserted lately, as a re
proach to the sex, that not one woman has
beeu a composer of music that will rank
with the work of the "great masters" among
men, but the case of Fanny Mendelssohn
shows some reason for this, if even in her
case alone. She showed the same high order
of talent as her brother Felix. They both
composed, and had equal application. Her
earlier songs were greatly admired by able
and critical judges. But at that time the
highest profession for a woman was that of
being a housewife, and it was firmly held
that she should in no wise consider music as
a career, but only as an ornament Her
compositions, which, while they were said
to deserve eqnal applause as those of her
brother, were published under his name, as
it would have beeu a disgrace to her reputa
tion as a housewife to let the world know
that she frittered away time upon musical
composition. Later fn life the prejudice of
her men folks gave way, and she published
a volume, which met with much success.
So strong was the feeling upon this sub
ject, even less than 50 years ago, that Mrs.
Swisshelm relates in her autobiography,
that her highest talent for art, as well as
her ability to wield the pen, were resolutely
crucified from a sense that her duty de
manded that she should spend the best days
of her life in cooking cabbage and being a
bad housekeeper. She put away her studies,
and for years did not read any book save the
Bible.
PAST GIVING VTAY.
This prejudice even yet survives In many
minds, but it is fast giving way to the idea
that talents were given to women, not to
bury or to smother, but to use. In allot the
Woman's Clubs the study of history has
taught them the position of women in tbe
past. They are also acquiring a knowledge
of themselves in the present. They are
learning about the science of government,
and the principles of political economy.
Although they are called the "impecunious
class," they are learning to manage even
their limited finances with judgmentand dis
cretion. In tbe Bhode Island Woman's Club, dar
ing the past year, its members have studied
and discussed "Ballot Beform," The Com
parative Waees of Men and Women,"
"Trusts." "Educational Aims and Meth
ods," "How Co-operation can be made to
benefit the Working Classes" these were
iig social topics, while art and literature
and housekeeping and domestic economy
werentitlKXlected. The Indinapolis Wom
an's Clnb during ne Past year has been de:
voted to Italiaft-fcjstory and other historical,
studies, while yet, demoting much time, as
individual tastes dictates to the topics of
the hour such as socialism, communism,
prison labor, Sabbath lawfljnd the current
interests ot the country as ihprtrayed in the
newspapers. Of this club airs. Harrison
and Mrs. McKee are said to-be members.
GOOD ACCOMPLISHED AT CHICAGO.
The Chicago club goes into local rearms,
and the work ot its various committeesnXl
been, as reported a marked influence for
good in the community. As an example, it
is stated, that the Education Committee se
cured a compulsory education law, and as
sists in providing books and clothing for
those in need. The Beform Committee is
doing active work in the endeavor to secure
women physicians in the insane asylum to
have charge of women patients. The Home
Committee is doing its utmost for the im
provement of domestic service, and extend
ing aid to the kitchen garden. The Art
Committee took up the study oi architecture
and has undertaken to raise $15,000 for the
establishment of a scholarship in the School
ot Art The Committee on Philanthropy
has been at work mainly in tbe eflort to se
cure police matrons at the station houses,
and of furnishing aid in the care of their
nntortunate charges. The Committee on
Philosophy has met weekly for a study of
geology, and Plato's republic. The largest
work of the club as a whole has been the
raising of $40,000 for a Boys' Industrial
Sehool. Beeeptions have been given for
distinguished people so it will be seen that
Sunday,
1890.
the Chicago women do things in the large
way peculiar to that great city.
PHILADELPHIA TVOMEN ATVAKE.
Philadelphia has tbe reputation of being
a city asleep, but from the report of its
Woman's Clubs, some of its women must be
wonderfully bright and wide awake. The
New Century Club reports that it has
reached its limit of membership 400. It
has a class for the discussion of "Current
Events," and a class for a study of the
Greek poets and medieval literature, and
other subjects. Moreover it does not con
fine itself to home talent, but during
the past year has had talks lrom specialists:
"Civil Government," by Prof. Francis
Thorpe; Political Economy, from Prof. Pat;
ton; Higher Education of Women, by Dr.
William H. Harris; lectures from Abby
Sage Bichardson and from Miss Edwards.
The members have also tackled the domestic
service question, aud have a committee to
assist women to secure their legal rights.
All this sounds very large to the modest
club of Pittsburg, but the yearly fee of the
Philadelphia club is $10, with which it can
do much more than with the little $1 ot the
club at home. But tbe Pittsburg club is
going over pretty much the same ground as
the other representatives of the club idea.
If Andrew Carnegie, out of all his millions,
had taken thought of the Woman's Club in
his great educational library scheme, he
might have given a little slice ef the im
mense pile of cash to help secure a modest
little club house for its members, but they
are not beggars, .and have no intention of
calling upon their friends for contributions
given grudgingly or of necessity, bnt leave
all thai work to the purely charitable insti
tutions.
WOBK OP THE CLUB.
During the past year the Woman's Club
ot Pittsburg has studied the history of Spain
from the earliest records to the present day.
This, with discussions upon current topics
and other matters of interest has constituted
an unusually good year's work, so that its
members have no reason to leel that they
have fallen behind the 64 clubs which now
form the Federation of Woman's Clubs, and
which have given a stimulus to the minds
and souls ot women all over tbe country.
The narrow rut in which women lormerly
lived narrowed their minds, saddened their
souls andtaade them disheartened and dis
contented before middle life was reached;
but now, with this contact of kin
dred minds, this quickened thought,
these broadened lives, this ardent desire
for knowledge and companionship, these
clubs have opened to many the ways of
pleasantness. In these clubs, which aronot
organized chiefly for charity, there arernem
bers of almost all creeds, political opinions
and convictions, and consequently their re
sult is to create tolerance and mutual respect
among the members.
Last week the council of New York Uni
versity voted to admit women to its law
school and to the school of philosophy.
With the conferation of clubs iu view, and
these advances all along the line, it is not
surprising that the New York Sun once in
stern opposition, and predicting dire happen
ings as a result has changed its base aud
alters its prophecy in this wise:
Whether women compete with men in trade
and Industry in public life in platform de
bate, or In the realm of knowledge or learning;
they retain and never lose or impair the charm
and the power of their womanhood. Tbe more
they can do and know, the more attractive they
become to men. and the more they dominate
their affections.
Now there's an admission for you.
Bessie Bbamble.
THE LEGISLATUBE OF HAWAH.
The Parcel Past Convention With
the
United States Rallflcd.
San Fbancisco, June 7. The Oceanic
line steamship Alameda arrived this morn
ing from Honolulu, where the Hawaiian
Legislative Assembly of 1890 was opened
May 21 by the King, who, in his address,
stated that during the biennial period just
closed the country had enjoyed a great deal
of prosperity and the financial affairs of the
kingdom were on a sound basis.
He recommended that the credit of the
kingdom be pledged for the placing of the
Hawaiian harbor in condition to fnrnish
accommodations for the great increase oi
commerce which would follow the probable
completion of the Inter-OceanioShip Canal,
and of the promised extension ot lines of
steam communication; also toward arrange
ments for a Pacific cable line.
The opening of the Legislature was at
tended by no disturbance. The National Be
form party secured control of the organiza
tion of the House. The reports of the
Hawaiian Minister were presented shortly
after the opening of the Legislature. The
report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
states that in consequence of the Wilcox re
bellion ot July 30, 1889, the King's guard
was reduced from 62 to 31 men, while the
Second Battalion of Hawaiian Volunteers
was disbanded.
The most important treaty negotiated has
been a parcels post convention with the
United States, which was ratified Januarv
29, 1889. The report states that since March
1, 1888, when the Chinese restriction act
took effect, 814 permits to enter the country
had been issued to Chinese. Over 500 of
these are yet outstanding. The excess of
departures of Chinese over arrivals in 1888
and 1889 was over 900.
THE HEW BAPTIST XnHVEBSOT.
The Ground! to be Paid for In 60 Days and
Work Began at Once.
Chicago, June 7. The Bev. T. W.
Goodspeed, Financial Secretary pro tern of
the proposed new Baptist University in this
city, has paid to Marshall Field the first
installment on the ten acres of ground
which that corporation has bought adjoin
ing the ten acres given by Mr. Field. The
purchase price is $132,000, and Mr. Good
speed hopes to be able to pay the entire
amount within the nex. 60 days. '
Application to tbe Secretary of State for
the incorporation of the university will be
made within the next ten days, and work on
the building will be commenced at once
thereafter. Mr. John Rockefeller, Marshall
Field, Nelson Blake, F. F. Gates and Dr.
Goodspeed will be the incorporators.
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All the items in stove, ranee and natural
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FLATS IN PITTSBURG.
A Chicago Man Says Local Capitalists
Don't See Their Chance.
GOLD MINES IP RIGHTLY PUT UP.
Properties That Realize Ten Per Cent Might
Produce Twentj.
TDB 6ISTDH POPULAR ELSEWHERE
icoKRZsrosDjurcx ot tttx ntsrxTcn.1
CHICAGO, June 6. After dinner at a
downtown club to-day a Chicago real estate
man, who had just returned from a visit to
Pittsbnrir. said that nothing aboutthat city
'surprised him more than the entire absence
of anything like the system of nats, or
apartment houses, which is such a marked
feature of Chicago and New York.
"I cannot understand why Pittsburg capi
tal does not go into investment of that
kind," he said. "There is no place in the
country where a judicious investment in
apartment houses would yield greater re
turns. The land available for residence
purposes is very limited, and a great
deal of what there is is made unavailable by
reason of the broken surface of the country.
Consequently the bulk of the population of
.this cilv must always be crowded into a
comparatfvely 'small space, the limits oi
which are incapable of expansion. And in
nrrlpr that it mfiv lid nrnirirlfd With hOUieS,
the buildings must eventually be arranged
so as to accommodate the greatest number of
people. In a word, the residence portion of
Pittsburg must sooner or later build high up
into the air, as it has already done in NeV
York, Boston and Chicago, and the capital
ists who first grasp the idea and properly
carry it into execution are the ones who are
likely to reap the golden harvest
HOW CHICAGO MEN WOULD DO.
"These Pittsburg people do not seem to
know how to invest their money,' the real
estate man continued. "For instance, I saw
property worth from $150 to $200 per toot
front on desirable residence streets, on
which were being built resident houses cost
ing about $10,000, designed for the accom
modation of a single family, and renting
when finished at about $150 per month,
yielding a net income ot about 10 per cent
A Chicago man would take t.iat same prop
erty and build a five or six-story house with
a frontage of, say 50 or 60 feet. He would
put in a stone front of original and ele
gant design. He would have a single en
trance in the center and lour flats two front
and two rear on each floor.
"He would make each flat of say six
rooms, three large ones and three smail,
complete in itselt with" all the modern con
veniences, and if the locality was a con
venient one, ou tbe line oi one of tbe cable
or electric roads, he would get from $45 to
$50 for his flats on the street floor, lrom $35
to $45 for those on the second floor, and from
$20 to $35 for those on each ot the floors
above; and there is no reason in the world
whv, in tbe present condition of Pittsburg,
his investment should not yield 20 per cent
lor the first few-years. But to accomplish
that result the building must me made on a
liberal scale, and its appointments must be
so elegant as to draw to it people of taste
aud refinement
"WOULD ADVANCE THE LAND.
"If the experience of Chicago can be taken
as a guide, the erection of one snch build
ing in a given locality will advance the
value ot land all around it by demonstrat
ing that it is capable of being made to yield
so much more revenue when it is properly
built upon."
It the Chicago man was surprised at the
absence of "flats" in Pittsburg his astonish
ment was not greater than that of an old
resident of Allegheny who was
told as he drove up Dearborn ave
nue one fine summer afternoon that
fnllv three-anartersof the elegant residences
which he encountered on every hand were
the homes of thriving business men, who
did not pav more than from $40 to $75 per
month for their apartments in them. By
means of tbe flat system the quarter which
was once entirely, and still is largely, the
abode of the rich, now furnishes homes to
the rich and the poor alike. Indeed, the
rich and exclusive element is rapidly being
crowded out of the finest residence streets of
Chicago.
CBOWDING OUT THE BICH.
The elegant brown stone palace of Con
gressman Adams, just over the river on the
North Side, with its four or five acres of
beautiful lawn, is now overshadowed by a
ten-story flat building of even greater ele
gance, which has just been erected by tbe
heirs of McCormick, of reaper fame, and it
is only a question of time when it must
"go." In like manner the builder ot
"flats" has crowded close up to the castle of
Potter Palmer, on the famous Lake Shore
drive, and is almost a next door neighbor of
Bobert T. Lincoln on tbe same thoroughfare.
He has invaded tbe sacred precincts of the
millionaire brewer and the railroad shark
ou Prairie avenue ou the South Side, and
haB a strong foothold on Ashland boulevard
on the west A.
HE WAS A WHOLE CIECTJ3.
inllci ot a Maine Ball Who Grew Tired of
tha Routine of Life.
A big and vicious bull belonging to Far
mer Charles Ellsworth, of Wilton, Me.,
broke loose, one night last week and stirred
up such a rumpus about the place that the
women folks, 'who were alone in the house,
thought that a two-ring circus had arrived
by the cvclone route. The bull had been
closely confined by- means of a ring in bis
nose. He first demolished the hencoops,
setting about a hundred squeaking lowls
loo'se, and then wrecked the pigpen, send
ing several old sows and their litters squeal
ing about the barnyard. .
Next he brought down tne clotheslines
and trampled a " week's wash in the mud,
capsized the lye cask, soft soap barrel and
rainwater tank, and then charged the tool
house. He succeed in partially wrecking
this, and then fiercely attacked a big grind
stone which stood nearby. In some manner
the bull got the grindstone fixed upon his
horns, and this angered him so that he mada
a break for the farmhouse, bringing up with
a crash against the door.
One of the women in the house thought a
burglar was trying to get in and blazed
away with a revolver, whereupon the door
was burst in with a crash, and the grind
stone, which had slipped from its sockets,
rolled into the room. The revolver fright
ened the bull, for he sneaked back to tbe
stable, where Farmer Ellsworth afterward
found him, looking very sheepish, with the
frame of the grindstone still about his horns.
AMITY OF A 1EPEB,
Sister Itois Gertrude's Description of a
Scene In Father Dnmleu'a Tlllace.
A London correspondent writes: I have
seen a letter recently received from "Sister
Bose Gertrude" concerning her visit to
Molokai. After briefly describing the
beauties of the island, she refers to the
village where FatherDamien died. ''Here,"
she says, "we visited a young Englishman,
a leper, who was even then entering on his
agony. This was one of the most heartrend
ing sights of tbe island. There, in a little
white-draped bed by the. open lattice.fanned
by the .southern breeze laden with the fra
grance of tbe jasmine and honeysuckle, lay
the sick man, the skin drawn tightly over
bis bones, one side of his lace entirely eaten
away by cancer, his eyes bleared and sight
less, his hands deformed, his breath coming
in cfuick short gasps."
Sister Bose Gertrude says that the lepers
appear to enjoy Ufa in their own way. She
met several on horseback, and was assured
that in the settlement of 1,203 lepers there
were 800 horses provided by tbe Govern
ment for those who cannot walk. There
ara three churches in one of tbe little
villages, a EomaavCatholic, Calviniit and
MoraTisn.
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IB.
HEWS FROM THE SCHOOLS.
TrrE teachers ot tbe Bono school visited th '
old Schcnley mansion yesterday afternoon.
Thk North, Liberty and Lincoln schools art)
having a half day session for tbe present
month.
The examination forprofe:slonal certificates
closed yesterday. The snecessfal candidates
will receive certificates by Jane 2L
The Misses Anna JIcMasters and Bertha
Stein, of this year's Normal High Sehool grad
uating class, take tbe honors of the class.
The school exhibit for the Exposition Is all
to be at tbe Central Board rooms by Jane 15, so
the circular stated, which by the way falls on
Sunday.
The Allen scbools are in a very crowded con
dition, and the need of a newbnildingls very
apparent. The school picnics at Maple's Grova
on June 27.
The Central Board of Education holds IU
regular meeting next Tuesday evening. Tha
election ot tbe High School faculty will not
occur tillJnly.
Pbof. br.ATTEEi.T, of .the Riverside school.
Thirty-fourth ward, salls'at the close of school
for a two months' trip to Europe, not In com
pany of the regular educational party, however.
SAMtTELHAMH.Toa'.Connty Superintendent
returned home Friday evening from a four
days' trip to Slippery Bock State Normal '
School, where he bas been engaged In exam
ining students of that institution for gradua
tion. Miss Blanche Coot-ee, of the First ward
school, Allegheny, who has just resigned her
position, leaves next month for Denver, Cot,
on an extended visit She bas been offered an
excellent position In a normal college in that
State, which she will probably accept.
Pkof. C. B. Cook, Principal of Charter
borough schools, bas been in Braddock dnrins
the past week. He is assisting Mr. Hamilton
in the county examinations for teaching. There
will be more than 7U0 applicants at tbe different
places where examinations are held. Tha
county employs 650 teachers.
According) to their old-time custom. In
augurated by Prof. Proudfit tha grammar
pupils of the O'Hara school, 75 In number,
marched to the cemetery and held memorial
exercises at tbe soldiers' graves last Monday
afternoon. The pupils were in charge of tha
Misses Lacy De Armltt, Lizzie Holt and
Emma Marshall.
The Highland School Board organized on
Tuesday evening. Dr. Sterret was elected
President; Dr. B. H. Peabody, Secretary, and
J. E. Rogers, Treasurer. The other mem
bers of tha ooard are A. A. Gettys, A. A.
Schultz and Dr. A. Stevenson. Miss E. M.
Young, the principal, and the entire corps of ,
teachers were elected. The first public opening;
of tbe new building. Highland No. 2, occurred
last Friday.
At a meeting of the Committee on Teachers
and Salaries held yesterday afternoon it was
fonnd that the attendance at the Peebles
school. Twenty-third ward, jnstiflces the elec
tion of another teacher. The South school, not
having sufficient pupils for tbe nnmber of
teachers, will lose one teacher. The allotment
of teachers for the month ot September is tha
same as for tbe present month. SSM teachers to
be employed in tha ward schools and 25 at tha
High school.
The meeting of the Peebles School Board
on Thursday night and Its action are causing
much talk. Miss Fisher, Miss Lyon, Miss Sul
livan and Mrs. Parker were not elected to
teach again. Miss McClure resigned. She and
ber mother leave in July for Colorado on
account of tbs ill-health of Mrs. McClure.
Tbe teachers elected to fill tbe vacancies ere-,
ated are Miss Weimar. Miss Locke, Miss Sar
gent and Mrs. Borland, now of tae Franklin
school.
It is among tho probabilities that Prof.
Eaton, of tbe Sixth ward school, will not ba.
Principal after this year. This will ba no reflec
tion on Principal Eaton, however, as be wanted,
to resign last year, but the school board pre
vailed on him to continue another year. Mr.,
Eaton has been teaching school fqr 51 years,
and has been Principal of tbe Forbes School
for SO vears. There are several applicants for
tbe position, bat the board seems disposed to ,
give tbe honor to Miss Simpson, the Assistant
Principal.
With school picnics and other attractions
scheduled' for the last week of the school term
the school children are lookinz forward to
one merry day at least, before the books ara
put awav for a long vacation. Among the pic
nics slated are: The O'Hara school, at Hulton
Grove on the 27th Inst; Ralston, at the sama
place on the 26th; Tbad Stevens, at McKee's
Rock- on the 26th, and the Lawrence at Hnlton
onthe27tb. The Luckey school will charter.
The City of Pittsburg for the 27tn; the Fornei
will have a lawn fete on tbe school grounds
tbe last day ol school, witn icecream ana case,
and music by the Great Western Band. The
Humboldt school will not hold Its jubilee this
year in .the school, as usual, bat will have s
picnic either in the woods or on the river.
DWELLIHGS GOING TIP.
BiUdlng Permits Issued Yesterday for tha
Erection of Homes.
Permits were taken out yesterday by Mrs.
M. E. Hill for three two-story brick housea
on Center avenue, to cost S6,0D0, and threa
two-story brick houses on Clark street,'
Seventh ward, to cost 56,200. Alfred Heck
holds took out a permit for a two-story brick
house on Brierton street, Thirteenth ward, v
to cost $2,900.
A Fair for the Kami' Home.
A fair and festival is to be given in
Cyclorama Hall, corner Beech street and
Irwin avenue, Allegheny, Thursday even
ing, June 12, for the benefit of the Nurses
Home, to be built for the training school
connected with tbe Homeopathic Hospital.
This fair is given by a number of young
ladies in Allegheny, who are putting forth
every possible effort to make it a success.
A variety of interesting features will be in
troduced that will make the evening one of
enjoyment to everyone.
Bait for Destruction of a Fish Pond.
"RTM-.-vtmraE. N. J.. Jnne 7. Fish Ward
en Frothingham has instituted legal pro
ceedings against the American Forcite Com
pany, a branch of the Standard Oil Com
pany, for emptying the sludge from ita
worktinto Lake'Hopatchong, thus destroy
ing one of the finest ponds of fish.
Ltjceene awnings, one of the best styles.
MAMAUX & Son, 539 Penn ave., Pittsburg.
TT a TTTTri'Tv.i' Tiotiafo otrtlh ft to
Bjtable&Shusteb,,35 Fifth ave. f 'a
MADAME A. BDPPKKT.
New York's popular complexion specialist,
who has met with such unexcelled success in,
all large cities of tbe United States aud En
rope, has opened permanent parlors In Pitts
bure, where she will keep on sale ber wonder
ful FACE BLEACH. Face Bleach is not a
COSMETIC, not a WHITE WASH, but a.
thorongh tonic and skin bath. It opens tha
pores of the skin, so the blood can throw off Its
imptrre matter. Face Bleach Is healthy for
any skin. It removes the old dead cuticle that
has accumulated. Face Bleach has been
thoroughly tested for tho LAST TEN YEABS
bv ladies whose faces have beencured of hide--ous
blemishes of every nature. One side hav
ing been cleared at first The general pnbllo
invited to call and see one side ENTIRELY
FRESH AND WHITE, six weeks JUter the i re- .
maininc side clear. No more CONVINCING
PROOF is necessary. Write to your New
York friends and ask them to call at oar main
office and be convinced. Face Bleach perma
nently removes all blemishes moth, freckles,
excessive redness, Eczema, Salt Rheum, ra
fact every skin blemish, making tha complex
ion clear, smooth and beautiful. Does not give
a washed oat appearance, bat a healthy look.
This wonderf ul Face Bleach, guaranteed, will
be sent to any address on receipt of price, (3 OO
per bottle or three bottles, usually a cure, JS C&
Ladles out of city can send for It securely
packed. Send four cents or call for sealed par
ticulars. Very interesting to ladles who ara
desirous ot having good complexions.
MADAME A. RDPPERT.
Boom ZD3. iiaxnuton uuuoinr,
-jtl-101-aa Filth fre Pittsburg, Pa.
I Boom ZD3. Hamilton unudisr, t iSB
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