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THE COUKIEB-JOURNAL, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1901 AT THE TMTERS. 0OIBIE' ENORMOUS PROFITS IN STOCKS MADE BY RAILWAY TRUST MANIPULATORS. Brief Points, ol which there were 400,000 tons, or over one-sixth, fold abroad. With the vast Increases In producing capacity the outside markets become more and more necessary. Published Dally, Sunday and Aboui 1 -M-r--f-f- H--H-HM At a meeting of the Antiquarian Society, held in the Columbia building last week, the following officers- were elected: Mr.

Peyton Neat: Clarke, Mlse Susanna Green. Vice President; Mrs. Mary Rogers Clay, Secretary; Mr. John C. Strother, Treasurer, and Miss Idelle Keyes; Custodian of Books and Records.

mi. j. aiouuaru jonnston vastus ruuring "tin picks and shovels. They The society meets every Saturday after- Aid not work for the money, as work is noon In Its clubroom in the Columbia generally understood. There was no par-building.

The object Is to keep up Interest tlcular brain-fag about It. There was in historical evente, particularly those of some little scheming, some placating of Kentucky, and to keep in touch with mat- small fry with adverse interef-ts, throw- It Is only natural that the greatest bull market in the world should yield its imperial showers most generously to those who have it in control. There are four men in Wall street, who, since the fourth day of November, have taken out of tho iiurKet, as a Klondike miner takes gold dust from a canvas bag, over i-ieiiy goou result for two months' hard work In cushioned chairs, Is it not? i oeaten tne Klondike or eisu oy a nunareo men working u.t lu bnrimps, and then, presto! the movement began. These four men are masters of the Juggernaut before which the Wall street habitually cast themselves. They are the mahouts of the elephants who sit astride its neck and command it to rise or kneel down.

The men referred to. are John D. Rockefeller, J. Plerpont Morgan, James J. Hill and James R.

Keene. All of which would seem to convey a hint that you must either be a Jim or a John or have some kind of a in your front name if you would succeed In life. At present these men are apparently allowing some stocks to remain quiet, but their hands can plainly be seen in the rise to-day In the coal stocks. Mr Keene is ill at home with the grip, but his brokers are still active. As far as can be ascertained amon brokers in Wall street the winning of the four men main oned during Jt LEO PREPARES The Globe-Democrat's Rome correspondent writes that exceptional importance was attached by the Vatican to the reception last Tuesday by the Pope, and unusual precautions were taken to maintain secrecy as to the proceedings.

Two days previously Cardinal Rampoila, the papal Secretary of State, sent a noU to all the Cardinals urging on them Ihs necessity of attending, as the Pope was desirous of making a communication of exceptional gravity. Consequently none of the twenty-five Cardinals who were then in Rome was absent, even Algrs. Oreglla, Parocchi and Lcdochowskl, all of whom have been on the sick list for some time, managins to be present. Only tho Cardinals and his were present. Even the trusted officers of the papal household, who are ordinarily present on these occasions, were excluded on Tuesday.

The Pope spoke for an hour and a half. After the reception each Cardinal as he left was observed to have a folded paper sealed heavily with the papal arms. These mysterious proceedings naturally aroused the deepest interest and are consuming wun curiosity. The correspondent, tn tne nope or throwing some light on the matter, called on Cardinal Macchi. who Is usually the most affable and accessible of the princes of the church, but his Eminence absolutely declined to say a word on tho subject.

The private secretary of one of the members of the sacred college, while not professing to speak with authority. ROOSEVELT TREED Col. Roosevelt enjoyed a parallel for his San Jucn experience Thursday evening, the chief difference being that in this case th: doughty Rough Rider washe subject of iutack, and not the aggressor. For fcur hours he was kept in a tree by a hungry pack of wolves, until finally help arrived in the other members of the hunting party, who had been searching for him for two hours. The weather turned colder at Keystone ranch Wednesday night, which led Guide a battle is but an' incapable and luckless gamester, who, when he has played his last stake, 'is kicked down stairs, to be picked up and carried off by the policeman at the door.

We do not mean to be offensive to our friend of Mayfield. He represents a type let us hope a diminishing type among Democrats. The figure of the owl the squinch owl is perfectly illustrative; for the- owl is blind by day, even to the light of the glorious sun, and opens its spectral eyes only by night, when men have quit their work and birds have gone to sleep. Bettered Her Royal Descent. The universal sympathy excited by the approachingdeath of Queen Victoria, not only throughout the broad realm of Great Britain and her colonies, and among the English-speaking people at large, but as to all civilized nations, is a tribute to the character of a wise sovereign and a good woman.

Her personal virtues, indeed, may be said to have Inspired the respect she has so long enjoyed, both at home and abroad, and to outweigh, now that her worldly career draws to a close, the tributes usually accorded to one of her distinguished public station. The contrast of her life and example to so many of her royal predecessors also tends to enhance her title to the respect of the world, since It shows how successfully she lias throughout her reign of nearly two-thirds of a century resisted the temptations and avoided the excesses which made tholr lives and reigns a by-word and reproach. If one would thoroughly appreciate her character in all its elements as sovereign and individual, he has only to read Thackeray's lectures on the four Georges, in order to learn how surely royalty is not of itself synonymous with virtue and greatness. It is more remarkable that she should have proven such an exception when It is considered that she unites in her veins the blood of two families which have been so conspicuous for the crimes which have made them both famous and Infamous. For, while it is custom ary to speak of the substitution of the House of Stuart by the House of Han over as the result of the Revolution of 1GSS.

it is only true so far as the direct line is concerned, and there has never been a time since that there was an English sovereign who did not have Stuart biood in his veins. William of Orange, whom we are accustomed to regard as the first Hanoverian King, It must be was a grandson of Charles and his wife, Mary, the daughter of James II. When they died Anne, the sister of Mary, succeeded to the throne, being a Protestant, while the male descendants of James, being Catholics, were disbarred by the Exclus ion Act, and were only heard of after wards as pretenders. When Anne died in 1714, leaving no children, the succession, by the Act of Settlement of 1701 would have fallen to Sophia, daughter of James I. But she, who was the Elec tress of Hanover, had died only a short time before, and the crown was inherited by her son, George, Duke of Cam bridge, who ascended the throne as George I.

in 1727, when fifty-four years old. With him bgan tha-t remarkable Intermarriage of blood which has been charged with much of the weakness of his descendants, relie-ved oniy by occa sional instances of exceptional capacity. He married his first cousin and left two children, one of whom became George and the other, who bicame the mother of Frederick the Great. George after reigning twenty-four years, died in 1760, and was succeeded by his grandson, George the first English-born King since James II. His career, extending through a reign of nearly sixty years, was marked by every phase of personal Incapacity, including periods of insanity, his reign being only redeemed by the statesmanship of his Cabinets and the valor of his Generals and Admirals.

Well would it be for England If the career of his profligate son who succeeded him in 1S20 at the age of fifty-eight could be blotted out of existence. Called by his flatterers "the first gentleman of Europe" he lives In history as one of the basest of men. Yet he was the brother of Queen Victoria's father. But with all this Inheritance of incompetence and imbecility, of brutality and vice, that she should have redeemed the crown of the shame with which they had besmirched It and preserved the ermine of royalty throughout a reign the longest of her country's history is honor worthy of all commemoration. Much, Indeed, there may be for which her constitutional advisors and directors are responsible in the way of territorial greed and imperial conquest and for which they will stand condemned in history.

Yet to her belongs the credit of restraining them oftener in the prosecution of such work, and of using the gentleness of womanhood to temper the harshness of their rule and to promote the personal happiness of her subjects. What shall follow after her place has been filled by her successor remains hidden In obscurity. Whether after her shall come the deluge, and the empire, which has so vastly expanded in her reign, shall crumble into its elements or still further embrace in its fold other peoples and empires, forms part of that In scrutable future which we can not fathom if we would and which mayhap It were better we should not ff -we One of Ben Franklin's wise sa3'ings was that experience was a dear school, but fools would learn In no other and sometimes not even in that. The petulant Pettigrew, who was ag-aln knocked down and trampled on by his associates in the Senate yesterday, is the realization of the latter part of the proverb. The stamp tax on checks Is virtually a tax on circulation, for checks take the place of currency.

Any restriction of their use is unwise. Repeal the tax. "ABABIAIT NIGHTS" CXEVEKIZ GrVETT AT THE Meffert-Eagle Stock Company Appears In a Laughable Parcel Footlight Notes. TEMPLE Meffcrt-Eagle Stock Company in "Arabian Nights" and vaudeville, matinee and night. AVENUE Hoy t's matinee and night.

"A Texas Steer," "Aratian Nights" Temple. Arthur Humtr.gtop Frank Lyman Ralph Ormerod Wiilson D. Stedman. Joshua Gilllbrand Robert McWade. Jr.

Dobson Frank M. Kendrick Rosa Colombier Esther Lyon Mrs. Virginia Drew Trescott Mrs. Gilllbrand Ada Levick Daisy Maltland Madeline Lack Barbara Nflna'oel Moblcy Comedy, It has already been proved, is the stronghold of tho Meffert-Eagle Stock Company, and "The Arabian Nights" offers probably the best vehicle for fast and furious fun shown up to date. The piecej is one of Sydney Grundy's first successes, which ran for a long time at Daly's Theater In New York.

It hinges on the old theme of mistaken identity and depicts the painful experiences of the man who introduces a theatrical fairy as his niece. Yesterday the experiences seemed painful only to the "man." though numbers of thti audience suffered from too much laughing. All farce comedies are a good deal alike, but how more complications could ba crowded Into a like space of time Is hard to Imagine. The company this week is particularly well cast. In the leading roio of Arthur Humlngtop, Frank Lymarj shewed exactly how ridiculous a regul-nr sta-re villain can be when he desires.

Tho performance Is a credit to Mr. Lyman'a versatality. As Joshua Gillibrand. the fool Robert McWade had the "fat" part. Although Mr.

McWade- has been ill with tho grip for some time, his work show-id r.o trace of iaxness. U5tial. it wa- finished, subdued and polished beyond the seemir.tr ncssibliitv of stock acting. Mr. Kendrick drew a laugh every time-he appeared in the role of the servant.

Rosa Colemb.er th, mcst attractive bit -Miss Lyon ha? done this son. Miss Madeline Lack, tis the niece, yen terday was charming. Miss Miss Levick both filled their parts A pood word must also he for Mis-'ij Nar.n'ocl Mobiey, who played tho maid. Arabian Nights-" is the best cast and the funniest piece given by stocx company this season. and Ashtan in balancing-specialty surr-assed anything in that line seen in Louisville.

Piatt an-I with their rag time tuner, seemeed to catch the gallery. The showed the new L. and N. special and cite Ji.ouirv:i:e fire mttkir? a run. l-rem first-day Cui.

Met. deservedly popular family theater will probably do its record weok. Footlight Notes. The first production in this city of Frank c-niic opera, "Tk-i wiil be seen nt on Thursday night Lust winter the press of York pronoumed the opera "the uomio opera hit of the season." The music of the work is by Victor Herbert and tho libretto by Fred M. Ranken ar.d Klrke La Shellc.

Mr. I.a Shelle is also the author of the light opera success, "The Princess Chic." Daniels' part is the title role. Th Inner life of the Ameer of Afghanistan has never been presented to public view. According to Frank Daniels interpretation of that life it must be one suriioiently fuil of incident to keep the monarch of that far-away land decidedly busy. Comedian.

Daniels Is said to be funnier as the Ameer than as any of his other characters. He says himself that he likes it better and that its comic possibilities are exceptionally excellent and numerous. The Daniels company is mcch larger than it was when last here, and in the enlarging process Daniels is to have exercised his usual in surrounding himself with pretty girls capable of s.nstlrs well. Among his piimlpals are H-l Kate Vart. Norma Kopp, Owen Westford.

Will Danfoth. Rhys Tiiomas ar.d William Corliss, l-'rof. is the director of music. for the engagement, which is for three nights Saturday matinee, are now on sale at tlia box oitice. Hoyt's keen ar.d cutting satire on American politics, "A Texas Steer." was by large audiences at the Avenue yesterday, and the sale indicates r.o failing off during the rni-agemcnt.

Mftinecs will be-given Thurtday and Siturday. for next week the Avenue picsent and St. John in "A Run on the Dank, the made famous by those fua makers. Ward and Vokes. DIED IN ASHETHLE.

Mr. Thomas A. Speed, rormerly a Louisville Business Man. Mr. E.

S. Tuley received a telegram from his wife yesterday afternoon from Asheville, N. announcing the death of her brother, Mr. Thomas A. Speed, at his home in that city at 2 o'clock p.

m. Mr. Speed was the son of the Into Maj. Philip Speed and his wife, Emm Keats Speed, of this city, where he was born and reared, and where he lived continuously until about seven years ago he was compelled to remove bis home to Ashville on account of Impaired health. Mt.

Speed had many friends in this city in both social and business circles. He was Vlje Ptcsident of the Todd-Donigan Iron Company for many years, of which prosperous concern he was one of the founders. He was also for many years one of the directors of the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Company. Mr. Speed established himself in tha foundry and machinery business In Ashville after his withdiawal iroin business in this city, and at th- lime of his death his business was prosperous.

He was also prominent in business and social circles In Asheville and was strongly urged by the most lnlluential citizens of his adopted home to stand for election to the ottice of Mayor with certainty ot election, but he declined tho honor. Mr. Speed leaves a widow, formerly Miss Amelia Harrison, of this city, and two girls Meta duf'ont Speed and Mary Tuley Speed aged fourteen and twelve years respectively. Mr. Speed's body will arrive at 8 a.

m. tomorrow and will be buried In Cave Hill cemetery. May Give a Banquet. The members of the Alumnae C'ub are contemplating a banquet to be civen some time in February. A Committee on General Arrangements, composed of Mrs.

Louis Seelbach. Miss Nora Gibson, and Miss Jennie Keene. have the affair in charge. Registered In Netv York. New York.

Jan. 21. Special. From Louisville A. Hallenberg, Vemlome; D.

T. McGill. P. B. Myers, Broadway Central, B.

D. Wariield. Holland; G. F. Stott.

Hoffman: S. S. Bush, Waldorf. From Jackson, Tenn. G.

H. Robertson, Hoffman. From Harriman. Tenn. G.

B. Havell, Imperial. From Nashville A. Rothschild. R.

J. McKay, Herald Square; A. C. Smith, St-Denis. From Memphis W.

F. Be'ger. E. Lang, M. Rau, Vendome: R.

T. IJurkett. J. K. Francis, D.

Mar.ire. M. P. O'Keefe. MarL borough.

Hollingsworth To-srne. Princeton, Jan. 21. J. W.

Hoilings-worth, one of the wealthiest and most in fluential farmers In this section of tha State, and Miss Settle Towne- were married yesterday at the residence of J. D. Hall in Eddyville. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C.

Roberts, of this city, and Gen. and Mrt. H. B. Lyon were the attendants.

months by conservative estimate is as follows: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. Stock. Po nts Profit. Shares.

Amount. Missouri Pacific 40 Texas Pacific ........10 Erie 15 Union Pacific 35 50.0CO $2 OCO.dCO 20.000 30,000 60.000 50.000 2G0.1W0 450 001 00 1,750.000 1.250.CO0 l.eoo.OJO St. Paul 35 Northern Pacific 25 mttauutuui I Totai $5,400,000 ptfrpont MORGAN. i Union Pacific .35 60.000 Erie 15 40.COO 000,000 2,100.000 SCO.COI 1.25-.- 010 250 CO) i.ooo.om l.COO.OCO 1,75 .00) 33)000 600.0.T) 1,000,000 54.C70.0O3 700,000 BOl.C-O) 300.I-O0 250.1.OT 600,000 St. Paul 35 60.000 Southern Railway ..10 S0.0C0 Northern Pacific ..25 50.000 Delaware 10,000 Other Investments Total JAMES J.

HILL. Northern Pacific ..25 40.CC0 St. Paul 35 50.000 Ontario 8 40,000 Erie 15 40.000 Other Investments Total JAMES R. KEENE. Union Pacific 35 20,000 Northern Pac.tic ...25 20.050 Erie 15 20,000 London calls Other Investments.

Total 77 Grand total .523,770.000 Of course, there are Wall street men Who will leil you that this Is an but lor every one of these men you can find two who will teil you that It Is not great enough by a third. It is bailed on a conservative summing up of the dealings during th- past two months, or sim-e the markit has been skyrocketing. INew York telegram to the St. Lou-Is Rt-iiubiic. FOR DEATH.

pressed the opinion that the document contained the Pope's political testament; that is to say, it set his views as to ills successor and the policy of the church in matters in the near future. The document will not be opened until after Let- death. A report current in Vatican circles i3 to the effect that the Pope it! handing the paper to each Cardinal merely remarked that the seal would be broken at his death, which he had no reason to suppose would be delayed beyond this year, and that in view ot' the gravity of the outlook cf the church it will be prepared for a conclave. Messengers left Rome Tuesday with the document for tile foreign Cardinals throughout Christendom. The delay in the publication of the encyclical on Christian democracy, which has caused a good deal of comment, was thus explained yesterday by Cardinal Agliardf, who has been assisting his Holiness in its preparation "At the last Vatican reception I asked the Pope when he expected to be able to give the encyclical to ihe world.

He replied thai he had considered it necessary to introduce several further modifications in order to make it ciearer and to kave no room for conflicting interpretations. we await, auueu nis noilijes. a i.ti;i- I able moment tor publication. The affairs await, aaaeu his Holiness, 'a ravor. the French Chamber keep us very pre- occupied.

We must have a iittie Cardinal Aglardi's personal opinion is that the encyclical wiil net be until the question now at issue between the Vatican and the French Government i rT.omirm tn tho st t.nuis Glnhr-Dom- ocrat. BY HUNGRY WOLVES. several jumped at the hunter, but were driven off. Shooting aain, the Colcnel seized the opportunity of "shinning up" a tallpine, while the pack devoured the dead-comrade, but in dping" so his cartridge- belt wa3 torn from his waist by a stub of a bough and dropped to the ground, his being- ozt also in the attempt to regain the belt. There was not time to descend, as the pack was now surrounding the tres In remained, ana oosevrit enjeyea a memn- choly amusement in killing a few of voracious iocs in saiety.

fortunately, ne was beyond the leaps of the daring wolves, who sprang, snapping viciously, at him. The darkness came on, and still did not arrive. He yelled until he was hoarse, but there was no reply, and tne cold soon began to benumb him. while hunger made itself felt. His watch apprised him that four hours had been passed in the tree, when shouts were heard, and his com rades, with guns and torches, appeared and soon dispersed the pack and assisted the half-frozen statesman to decend telegram to the Chicago Tlmes- neraia.

Beche, one of whose characters was ad vised to uemanti more from taxes and less from the taxpayer. As expenditure Increases every year It is impossible to abandon any sources of revenue; they oniy cnange l.ie:r places. All the same this Is a stcn forward. The redemption of francs of amortiEable rentes is also progress, for tne smit.ng rund is now working directly iur iiie nrst since our reverses In 1S70. This Is one of those events which the opposition press always pass over In silence.

Thev have a much frr.r hnnrl when they discuss the case of Maj. Culg-net. The Council of Inquiry which as- semoiea to consider the guilt of th's offl-enr was of the opinion that he had not committed any grave fault against discipline and that he should not be cashiered. Gen. Andre therefore Inflicted on him only sixty days' imprisonment in the fortress.

Paris cable to the New York Herald. CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST. 'You think you have a soro throat declared the prima donna, "but you haven't. Sometimes I think I have a cold, but I refuse to believe it. I fix mi-mind upon the fact that I have not n.

cold, and there is no cold." It is true that during her long engagement with Weber and Fields Miss Russell has never disappointed her ninllnroo by reason of that common and most an- noying of stage maladies prima donna's cold. Although the grip has played sad havoc with men and women of the stage. Mis3 Russell hos no fears, sustained as she Is by the belief that the dread malady can have no evil for those who refuse to hfl'ovo In f'c Dinull been studying Christian Science for more than a year, she has not yet joined that church. Several of her relatives are 3ald to be members of one of the West-side Christian Science churches. New York telegram to the Chicago Times-Herald.

Allard occupies a room on the third floor of the jail, and declares he will remain Where he is until the time expires, which will be six months. Miss Baker and Allard worked on the Williams sugar-beet farm, west cf the city, and she alleged that Allard told stories reflecting on her to some of the other men, and Ehe sued him for 53,000. Bay City, telegram to the Chicago Record. fireproof and with its own electric plant Vir. rendv for next season.

Mr. Jefferson says he has several other enterprises to be Immediately set on foot In West Paim Beach. It is said the actor Intends to retire from the stage permanently after his Apr'l engagements and will devote the remainder cf his life to his Florida interests 1 Jacksonville, telegram to the New York Sorld. Attempted In Gas and Electric Companies. MESSRS.

SNEAD AND 0DELL BEHIND TEE SCHEME TO ICOi THE INTEEESTS. ARE NOW IN CHICAGO. President KcDonald, of Kentucky Heating Company, Says He Will Hot Sell Out. OTHERS AEE WILLING. Before anoiher fortnight has rasred a deal Involving several million and affecting four large Louisville cor porations may be closed whereby all will be merged into one and so operated.

For the past week H. Allen Odeli. a wealthy promoter of New York, has been in the city endeavoring to consolidate the Louisville Gas Company, the Kentucky Heating Company, the Louisville Electric Light Company and the Citizens' General Electric Company. There have been a number of interviews between the parties concerned, but the plans are still in an embryo. state, and, if matured at all.

will not bo for several Mr. Cdell and Mr. tldoipho Snoad, Preddcnt of the Louisville Gas Company, went to Chicago yesterday to look after some Gf the tle-taiis. it is said, and on their return in a few days the plans will assume a much more definit. sh.pe.

At present those inustiy concerned in the gigantic deals ars unwilling to talk, because they do not know just what may be done next. It Is reliably learned that ail the parties approached have looked with favor on the scheme, with the exception of Donald McDonald. President of the Kentucky Heating Company. Mr. McDonald said yesterday afternoon the halting company would not he consolidated with any other concern.

Some of the officials of the gas and electric, companies were seen, and while they admitted that it was possible that there would be a consolidation of the interests, thc-y declined to talk about it un'il Mr. Snead returned from Chicago and the plans assumed a more definite shape. None of the officer? ot the Citizens' Genera! Electric Company could be located last night, but a reporter for the Courier-Journal was informed by a. responsible person thorough! familiar with the details that if the question cf could be agreed upr-n the company would seli. In fact, from the information obtainable it seems that about the only thirg that will prevent the consolidation is the question of price.

Both the Louisville Gas Company and the Louisvllie Electric Light Company are valuable properties with large capital stock, and an immense offer would be necessary to receive any attention from them. The other properties are also of high value and a proposition made them would have to be backed by larp capita! to be considered by them. Yet Mr. Odeli is a promoter backed, It is said, by unlimited Eastern capital, and a question of dollars and cents would not sto'i him if a deal advantageous to his backers could be made. He has effected a number of large combinations in the East.

It Is the Intention to have Eastern capital back of the combination here if it is made, but to have the company officered and managed entirely by local men, and It Is tipped that Mr. Snead will be the president of the consolidated companies. Some improvements have been considered, which, of course, will not be made known until the deal Is closed, but it is the Impression that there will be a general extension of the gas mains ot both the ngnting and heatlne com panics as well as an extension of the electric light lines, and there will be other improvements of such a character as may be necessaiy. The probable combination of these four Interests caused a great denl of talk yesterday afternoon and lost night and there were many predictions that the interests would never be consolidated. What figures were named by each company could net be learned, but in two instances it is said they were pretty High.

Mr. Odeli, the promoter, represents the same interests that attempted to pool the interests of the companies a few years ago. Twns Ever Thus. Washington Post. "I see myself quoted to such Injurious effect that I must make a mild protest," said Col.

Henry Watterson to a Post -reporter last evening. "One of these quotations represents me as uttering some disagreeable things about David B. Hill, of New York. I have never spoken a word that could be remotely construed as an uncomplimentary reference to ex-Senatcr Hill. My relations with him are wholly friendly, and I am incapable, as my friends know, of wantonly transcending the limits of personal courtesy.

The other quotation to my disadvantage pictures me at Chamberlain's drinking high balls. I never drank a high ball in my life, and although I am reasonably up in the nomenclature of the ungodly, I can truly say I don't know what a high ball is though that is neither here nor there, because there is a legend that there are still other good drinks at Chamberlln's but thle particular legend represents me as discussing with Senator Thurston the question of oratory in AmcTlca, In which he and I figure, along with George R. Peck, of Chicago, as the only living descendants of Clay, Webster and Calhoun. I am perfectly willing to allow that George R. Peck, if he were disposed to give himself to that sort of thing, misht prove the successor by right divine of Sargeant S.

Prentiss, Henry Ward Beecher, and Robert G. Ingetsoll, as the great American orator; but as I never had the honor of knowing or hearing Senator Thurston, and have never heard myself, except under conditions a little embarrassing for a fair estimate and still more so for a personal expression of opinion. I -have not made any fatal admission as to the other two." Gored By a Cow. Columbia, Jan. 21.

Special. Mrs. T. K. Pile, of this place, who was seriously gored by a cow Saturday, is improving.

She was gored in the abdomen, and at first It was feared she was fatally hurt. Irliss Barbee's Reading. A dialect reading will be given by Miss Barbee Thursday evening, January 24, at 8 o'clock, at the Fourth-avenue Methodist church. A bis audience, is exDected to be present. Ofllec.

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21 and 54 pages Mnta 26. ZS. 12 and 4C rattes coti TELEPHONE NUMBERS. Business department 1240. rlnc I Editorial roma rlnc TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 1901 "Business." Monday Evening, Jan.

21. The stork market showed extraordinary recuperative power to-day after a panicky which was caused by the severe break In London. Prices went down for a time, but afterwards-- rallied and closed with a decided burst of strength after a feverishly fluctuating day. Nearly the whole list ros- above Saturday. Money was -f- per cent, on call and on time.

Sterling was firm. Governments were steady and railroad bonds firm. London was at first much depressed over the Queen's illness, but recovered at the close on New York buying. Wheat was also strong to-day, scoring an advance of lrsc. Corn rose Uc.

but provisions were lower. Cotton was quiet and steady. Cattle were steady to strcng, but hegs were sio-w to a shade lower. Sheep were steady and lambs weak. Exports of Iron and Steel.

The shipment of 3,000 tons ot steel billets to Glasgow Saturday from New Orleans calls attention not only to the South as an iron and steel producer, but also to the extraordinary growth in the industry, as shown by the exports and imports. The following figures set forth the change that has been wrought during the past twenty years: Imports. Exports. 1S30 $34,060,720 JI4.716.524 1S00 20,470,521 121.S5S.314 Here is an Increase of 500 per cent, in the export trade and a decrease over GO per cent, in the In other words, we bought last year only 35 per cent, cf what we purchased in 1880, and we sold abroad six times as much, and eight and a half times as much as we exported twenty years ago. This progress is marvelous, and it means more than appears upon its face.

It is generally admitted in Great Britain that cur steel and iron masters have reduced the cost of production to much lower figures than has been done over there. According to Mr. Carnegie, we can mnke three pounds of steel for two cents and pay an average of S4 a day for labor, because of the extent to which we use machinery. The consequence is we have now' begun to supply the markets of the world and are competing- successfully with the British steel masters both at home and in their colonies. Sales to Australia and Africa have bocome too common to need more than mention, and recently we have been shipping steel plates and billets in large volume to Scotland, an early homo of the steel Industry.

Within the last week an important step has been taken which is likely to Increase greatly our foreign trade. The Eastern trunk lines have made material concessions on freight rates on both steel and iron. For this, Mr. Carnegie Is largely responsible. How he managed to bring about the important is told in the current number of the Iron Age.

Mr. Carnegie insisted that Iron and steel should be carried as chr-tply as grain, which is a. commodity lower in price. The railroad managers took exception to tills, but upon examination of the selling prices pf wheat and steel for five years It was found that wheat averaged $7 a ton abov- steel rails. The average selling price of wheat, corn and oats was found to be within ten cents a ton of the aver- age price of billets, rails, plates and structural stec-I.

Having been shown this condition of affairs, the trunk lines reduced all their rates for pig iron and steel. This was for the Pittsburg district primarily, but it stands to reason that other iron and steel centers will not rest content without similar concessions. A general re duction is probable, and this would have a most Important bearing upon the export, trade, since a great part of the cost when delivered at the ports consists of the railroad charges. This would place the markets of the world more completely at our command, and the steel industry has always shewn itFelf ready to avail itself of such advantages. The export trade has a most important bearing upon the iron and steel Industry, notwithstanding our own consumption is so large.

For instance, orders have already been booked for tons cf steel rails for 1901, and it is held that 700,000 or 800,000 tons are required for renewals. Last year there jvas a total production of ".350,000 tons. '''TEN Hark From The Tombs "An de Squinch-Ofti (Uncie Remus. Every once and awhile some screech-owl, perched upon the limb of a black wa'nut away out in the deep, dark woods, turnB its blind eyes vacantly in the direction of Louisville, and In its own peculiar lingo delivers the Courler-Jourual a lecture upon political morality. Translated into pigeon-English, wllJch is the usual equivalent, and in- deed the oni3 Simon-pure interpretation of owl language, thess lectures are wont to accuse us of a disposition to emulate the Republicans; and, at lesst with respect to Intelligent this is not so very wide of the mark.

Says our esteemed contemporary, the Mirror, of Mayfield, the organ of Owldom down In Western Kentucky: ''Henry Watterson still harps about Free Silver and about its being a heresy, and a mistake that ha3 cost the Democratic party untold damages. Now, Mr. Watterson, what would you think of the hardihood of a Twentieth' century Democrat that would" still maintain the doctrine that Free Silver was right in 1SSS and 1PC0 and always will be right? Sup pose we did lose the elections? Does that prove it wrong? Are the Prohibitionists wrong in proportion to the vote received when compared with the Republican and Democratic parties?" If the Prohibitionists put up their tlckets merely to have then knocked down again, and play politics only for fun, they are all right. But if they aim at results we should say they shoot exceeding wide of the mark. At the end of some fifty or sixty years of that sort of thing, they are about where they started.

They have made no progress apparently no Impression upon the country. Such isolated victories as they may have gained have proven either barren or of short duration. The one fortress which they have carried and have held is the State of Maine: and after their half century of occupancy drunkenness is as rife in Maine as elsewhere, whilst the liquor the prohibitionists of Maine get drunk on, is the vilest on earth. Meanwhile, to evade the Prohibition law perjury has become a fine art. and adulteration is reduced to a code of ethics.

One would think that if there be any reasonable prohibitionists they should begin to cast about them for other methods than those they have hitherto urged upon an unappreciative public. Does our Mayfield Owl want the Democratic party to take lessons In political wisdom from the Prohibitionists? Our critic, as If to deliver a sockdol-oger into the diaphram of both our political thinking and our parts of speech, closes with this very owl-like squinch: "Free silver is right because the gold standard Is wrong, and is the grossest and wickedest trust in existence. It is the crystallization of capital vs. labor, which are natural-born enemies, and though we may never get surcease from the evils and sorrows heaped upon us by this and the other trusts even by war with all its "grim-visaged front" let us stand up and fight for principle like our ancestors of old. and.

like the Americans we were wont to be not so very long ago, although possibly we now may be indeed and in truth but serfs, slaves and subjects." This is sheer tol-de-rol and the better to make our meaning clear in saying so, let us illustrate: In the War between the Sections, the North began by solemnly declaring that it did not wage it to interfere with the institution of African slavery. It ended it by abolishing slavery. There was no constitutional warrant for this. In equity it was wanton and "in law it. was lawless.

In morality it was cruel, unjust and oppressive; because millions of dollars of slave property were thus' confiscated, annihilated, which belonged to women and children, minors and even to babies in their cradles, who had no responsibility for either slavery or secession; and no part, or lot. in rebellion; whilst other millions belonged to persons who had committed not the smallest act or thought of treason to the Government, being in many cases persons who had been consistent Unionists from firs to last No other such sequestration of private property is known to modern times. That it was wrong admits of not the least doubt or equivocation. Not any fair man would pretend now to defend it. Yet what would be thought of a party which would undertake to make the issue of the payment for the slaves thus emancipated the corner stone of its platform and creed? The vislonary leader who proposed such an Issue would be regarded a hopeless crank and would get only the following of cranks as hopeless as himself.

Now Free Silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, or any other ratio, is quite as dead as the Institution of African Slavery. Whatever crime may have been perpetrated in 1S73 is past curing. The world has adjusted itself to the Gold Standard. For good, or for evil, this standard will prevail until there is a revolution in all the existent metallic conditions. The writer, or speaker, who holds out the faintest hope to the contrary deludes himself and those who hearken to him.

Meanwhile, the' issue of Free Silver has cost the Democratic party two Presidential elections, has lost it State after State, has paralyzed Its power In both Houses of Congress, and has sent the ablest of its leaders to the rear, exiles from public life. Is it possible that any sane Democrat anywhere can wish to tie on to a corpse like this? Is it possible that any such Den-oeral has not had his belly fuil of such jack-o'-lantern politics? Statesmanship is the science of transacting the practical affairs of government. He is no statesman who addresses himself to the impossible. Politics is the everyday businessthe working out of the details of statesmanship. The statesman who loses all his battles who wastes his energies upon theories and quiddities is as a child who plays with soap bubbles.

But the politician that never wins Ooff to prophecy the appearance of wolves I large numbers, their eyes gk-aming fierce-among the stock that night. Thursday ly in the darkness. His six-shooters yet ters of genealogical Interest. The society subscribes to a large number of historical magazines, and Its shelves are full of vai-uabio histories and records. Mrs.

Jack Woodward entertained the Young Married Women's Euchre Club yesterday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Swope will give a dinner party this evening In honor of Miss Rosa Green. The Kentucky Society of Colonial Dames will meet to-day with Mrs.

Hampden Zane and Mrs. Luke P. Blackburn. and Mrs. John C.

Russell be the guests of honor at a dinner which Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Knott will give this evening.

The Woman's Whist Club, which has met'at Mrs. Paul Oaine's since its organization, now meets twice a week with Mrs. A Leight Monroe. Miss Jane Helm will entertain the Bowling Club to-morrow evening. MiSB Allen.

Boiling has returned from a shore visit to Anita Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Pope Rogers, who have rented their home in St. James Court to 'Mr.

and Mrs-. W. W. Davles, are at Southern Heights with Mrs. Rogers' aunt, Mrs.

John Hampden- Fuitz. Miss Hart, of Paducah, reached the city yesterday on a visit to iter sister, Mrs. Henry Weissinger. The latter has just returned after a visit to Paducah. Mr.

W. Meade Robinson and Dr. James W. Guest, who have been at Pass Christian, for the iast ten days, are now at Palm Beach, Fla. Mr.

Francis de Great, of Duluth, returned home yesterday, after a short visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. Belknap. Mrs.

Shouse and daughters, Misses and Dixie Shouso, are at Mrs. Clarence Martin's for the rest cf the winter, Mrs. Harry Bush, who has been seriously ill for the past two weeks, is improved. a Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Claggett will return home next week from a visit to. St. Joseph and St. Louis, and from Chicago, where they have been visiting Mrs, Claggett's mother, Mrs. Mitchell.

Mrs. E. E. Shutterly, of Evanston, 111., will return home to-day, after spending several weeks with Mrs. Shackelford Miller.

6 Madame Duret Berthel, who taught vocal music for several years in Louisville, expects to return in April. She has been making her home in Hanover, Germany, in recent years, and now in Lelpsic. i IP Mr. Basil Hobbs, who. has been spendiri the winter In Asheville, N.

on account of I1T health, is convalescent, and will rei-turn to Louisville in May. Mr. and Mrs. M. G.

Yckum are. with Mrs. M. S. Hester, 403 West Broadway', for the rest of the winter.

Mrs. Katie Sweeney and Miss Emma C. Sweeney will go to New Orleans February 1, and will subsequently visit Florida. Miss Owens, of Kansas City, is expected soon to visit her grandmother Mrs. Wicks, at Mrs.

Clarence Martln'B. Mr. and Mrs. John Welch and Mr. and Mrs.

C. O. Lancaster have moved to Mrs. M. S.

Hester's, 405 West Broadway, for the rest of the winter. Miss Ana Griffith, of Owensboro, is in the city the guest of Miss Agatha Buiiltt. Misses Belle and Hallle Quigley and Mrs. Herbert Whipple expect to go t6 Havana, Cuba, next week. Miss Mamie Hite Rowland, of Danville has been spending a few days with Misses Leonora and Mamie Bowman.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Broaddus will leave to-day for New York, where they will spend a week or ten days. Mr. Louie Mourning is confined to his home with the grip.

Miss Patty Fl-aek. of Hopkinsvllle, will reach the city to-morrow on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Baylor Hickman. i Mrs.

Oscar Fenley will entertain informally at tea this afternoon in honor of her guest. Miss Lou Hopkins, of St. Louis. i Tho engagement of Miss K-atherlne Kell-ner, the handsome daughter of Mr. John F.

Kellner, President of the Frank Fehr Brewing Company, to Mr. James Fair coner Paterson, of St. Paul, has been announced. The will be solemnized Wednesday afternoon, January 30, at 5 o'clock at the bride's home, 310 East Broadway. The bride's sister.

Miss Ida Kellner, will be maid of honor, and the bridegroom's brother, Mr. Stanley Paterson, will be the best man. Mr. Paterson is a successful business man of St. Paul, where the couple will make their home.

Mrs. C. N. Thomas, of 2303 Portland ave nue, entertained at euchre in honor of Mrs. J.

M. Jamison, of Colorado Springs, Col. The prizes were won by Mrs. Walwork and Mrs. J.

Dupree. Those present were: Mrs. E. C. Underwood, Mrs.

King, Mrs. Batman, Mrs. Hoffman, Mrs, Dupre, the Misses. Thlckstun, of Jefferson-ville. and Mrs Jamison.

Mr. and Mrs. Sol. Isenberg will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage on Wednesday, January 23. I Lieut, ana iurs.

teonara cox will be here from Brooklyn on January 21 to visit Lieut. Cox's parents. Col. and Mrs. Attilla Cox.

Mrs. Eager At Knoxville. Knoxville, Jan. 21. Specials-Mrs.

George B. Eager, of Louisville, is ncre tne guest or ussoll Circle, Knox-ville's leading women's club. She addressed the circle this afternoon on Mark Twain and Frank R. Stockton. A previous address was upon great Southern writers, particularly those from Mobile Ala.

Mobile was Mrs. Eager's former home. Saturday night, at the Lee birthday celebration, she spoke on "War Poet ry of the South." Mrs. Eager is being handsomely entertained here. Dr Eaircr was formerly pastor of tho wirat Registered At Chicago Hotels.

Chicago. Jan. the arrivals in Chicago to-day were: W. Gates, Coke Alexander, of Louisville' r' G. Burke, of Memphis, at the Grand 'pal cific; A.

H. Barrett, N. Snoad, of Lou's-1lle, at the Auditorium Annex- 8 Jones, McMinnviiie, at th' Palmer-F. W. Wagener, of Louisville, at the' afternoon Col.

Roosovclt wandered out alone, in the hope of shooting something before supper. He espied a small lion, and in attempting to creep up cn it lost his bearings, as darkness was falling. He vainly attempted to retrace his steps, and the peril of his position became apparent to him as he heard the long, melancholy howl of a wolf behind him, followed by others. He soon became aware that a pack of fully a hundred was at his heols. Several times the Colonel fired at the approaching horde, but a temporary stay was all he sained, and his shots attracted no attention from his friends.

The hungry animais were uecoming emuaiacneu, anu CHEAPER WINE AND HiGHER RENTS IN PARIS. Paris has had as a New Tear's present the removal of the taxes on wine, beer, cider, described in the act as "hygienic" liquors. If one desires to find out what are the exact modifications brought about in the life of Paris by this reform, which dates from the first day of the Twentieth century, wo need cite only the three following facts: In the cafes a petit verre of absinthe costs ten centimes (two cents) more. Those who sell wlno sell It fifteen centimes (three cents) less per litre. A worklngman's family which consumes two litres of wine per day will henceforth save 114f.

(522.80) per year by the cutting oft of the octroi duties. This lessening ot the revenues of the city, which amounts to francs will be made up hy taxes on property, which will finally fall on rents, for one only needs follow the advice of La LILLIAN RUSSELL A Christian Science has gained an enthusiastic convert In Miss Lillian Russell. So serious is the fair comic opera queen in her new belief that, contrary to stage custom, she refuses to be interviewed on the subject. "I am not yet sufficiently versed In the science to speak of it with any authority," she said to-daj, "and it Is a. subject I would not have treated with But, though among her fellow artists Miss Russell has not been preaching Christian Science, she has been quietly nrirtlrinsr it practicing it.

When Miss Fay Tempieton was sut- ferlng recently with a sore throat Miss Russell assured her positively that the soreness was only a creature of the lmag- InnHnn. 1 GIRL PAYS HER SLANDERER'S BOARD IN JAIL. Several weeks ago Miss Mary Baker secured a judgment of Si, COO for slander In the Circuit Court against John Allard. Since that time the defendant has shown no disposition to pay. As a result a body warrant was issued for his arrest, and he Is now boarding with Sherirf Kinney, at the county Jail, his board being paid by Miss Baker, who is determined to get the money or punish her alleged defamer.

JEFFERSON TO BUILD FLORIDA HOTEL Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, who i is at the Royal Ponciana for the winter, has just bought a big plot of land in West Palm Beach, paying more than $50,000 for It. On this land the actor. In partnership with Mayor Wilmon Whlllden. will build a SKO.GUO tourist hotel live stories, brick. i.