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Bellefonte, Pa., March 10, 1893
IT IS NOTHING.
“It is nothing to me,” the beauty said,
With a careless toss of her pretty head ;
The man is weak, if he can’t refrain,
From the cup you say is fraught with pain.”
1t was something to her in after years,
When her eyes were drenched with burn-
ing tears, :
As she watched in lonely grief and dread,
And startled to hear a staggering tread.
“It is nothing to me,” the rother said,
I have no fear that my boy will tread
The downward road of sin and shame,
And crush my heart and darken his name.”
It was something to her when heronly son,
From the path of right was early won,
And madly cast in the flaming bow!
A ruined body and ship-wrecked soul.
“It is nothing to me" the merchant said,
As over the ledger he bent his head ;
“I’m busy to-day with tare and tret,
And have no time to fume and fret.”
It was something to him when over the wire,
A message came from a funeral pyre—
A drunken conductor had wrecked the train
And Jie wife and child were among the
slain.
“It is nothing to me” the young man cried,
In his eye was a flash of scorn and pride;
“] heed not the dreadful things ye tel
I can rule myself I know full well!”
'Twas something to him when in prison he
la;
The victim of drink, life ebbing away;
As 3S Dhanght of his wretched chil
wife,
And the mournful wreck of his wasted life.
and
“1t is nothing to me,” the voter said;
“The party’s loss is my greatest dread—"
Gave his vote to the liquor trade,
Though hearts were crushed and drunk-
ards made,
It was something to him in after life,
When his daughter became a drunkard’s
wife,
And her hun ry children cried for bread,
And trembled to hear their father's tread.
Is it nothing for us to idly Sleep,
While the cohorts of death their vigils
keep,
Alluring the young and thoughtless in—
And grind in our midst a grist of sin ?
It is something—yzs all for us to stand,
And clasp by faith our Savior’s hand—
To learn to labor, live and fight,
On the side of God and zisnggless right.
Francis E. W. Hai per.
INAUGURATION DAYS.
Facts About our Presidents.—Sizteen Were In-
augurated on Maych 4, Two on March 5 and
One on. April 30.—Curious Facts Tending to
Create Superstition.
There is an old story to the effect
that Benjamin Franklin selected the
4th of March for inauguration day be-
cause in the next two centuries it
would fall on Sunday less often than
any other day in the year, and this
statement has crept into a few works
meant to be historical. It is, however,
but ove of the many cases, like those
of Niobe and Lot's wite, in which a
fact has gradually given rise toa leg-
end to account for the fact. It is a
pleasing story, but there is no proof of
1t whatever, and there is almost coo-
clusive proof to the contrary.
It is certain that Franklin bothered
himself very little about the distine-
tion between sacred and secular days,
and disregarded it altogether in his
daily life ; that the convention of 1787
did not fix the day, and in tact could
have no ineans of foreseeing when it
would be possible to name a day, and
that when it became possible by the
adhesion of the niuth state to the con-
stitution the Contederation congress
then in session fixed the day by a sort
of accident. And yet itis a fact, and a
very curious fact indeed, that the day
does very rarely fall un Sunday, though
at first view it would seem that this
day or any other day would do so one
time in seven.
The first day set was Wednesday,
and the years 1800 and 1900 are, con
trary to the four year rule, not leap
years. The first day was just eleven
years before the close of the century,
and thus it has resulted that the day
has fallen on Sunday but three times
in the first hundred years and will not
again fall on Sunday till 1917. There
after it will eo fall only in 1945 and
1974 in the next century, the result be-
ing such a conjunction only gix times
in the first two centuries of the govern-
ment’s existence, or once in thirty-three
instead of once in seven years.
Though we have had twenty-three
presidents, but nineteen were formally
inaugurated, and but sixteen of these
on the 4th of March, if the first time
only be counted, for Washington took
the oath the first time on April 30, and
Taylor and Hayes were inaugurated on
Monday, March 5. The same is true
of Monroe's second inauguration, but
his first was on the regular day. The
second Adams, Pierce and Garfield
were inaugurated on Friday. Five in-
augurations have been on Monday and
five on Wednesday, and the coming
one will make five on Saturday, no
other day in the week having had more
than three.
The shortest service was that of W,
H. Harricon—one month—and the
longest that of Grant, who held the of-
fice eight years and a day, unless in-
deed we adopt the facetious suggestion
of the Whigs that Jackson really gov-
erned during the “nominal administra:
tion of Van Buren.” Itis also worth
noting that of the eight presidents re-
elected Jackson, Lincoln and Grant
were the only ones whose second inaug-
urations were celebrated with much dis-
play, though it is certain that Cleve-
land’s will soon furnish a fourth case,
and a notable one. In truth, there are
many things in the latter's career which
might justify a little superstition in
his case. No other American, save
possibly Washington and Jackson, has
had such an extraordinary personal
triumph.
As a matter of fact, the first Wed-
nesday in March, 1789, fell on the 4th,
and three years later that date was
fixed upon for all time, But there is
nothing extant to indicate any special
reason for it. In truthit is at almost
the worst season that could have been
selected, and as the matter is entirely
within the descretion of congress, and
Washington was inaugurated the first
time on April 30, the argument for a
change to that date is strong.
Every reader has had enough on the
first inauguration of Washington. Suf-
fice it to repeat that the day was five,
that Chancellor Robert R. Livingston,
ot New York, administered the oath in
the presence of some 40,000 people, and
that the centennial celebration of that
event in New York city in 1889 was a
really wonderful success, on which oc-
casion there were more people in the
city than at any other time in its his-
tory. It was positively the only time,
said the oldest inhabitants, when “the
city crowd was completely over-
whelmed and lost in the country
crowd.” His second inauguration, in
Philadelphia, Monday, March 4, 1793,
presented an almost ludicrous contrast.
He took the oath in the senate cham-
ber in the presence of both houses of
congress and made a brief address, and
if anything unusual occurred the jour-
nals of the day failed to mention it. '
Nor was the inauguration of John
Adams on Saturday, March 4, 1797, a
particularly impressive affair. Thom:
as Jefferson took the oath as vice pres-
ident in the senate chamber, pro-
nounced a high compliment on Mr.
Adams, who bad just vacated the
chair, and then led the way to the
chamber of the house, where the inaug:
uration took place. Almost any wit-
ness who has given any account of it
says that all eyes were directed to
Washington, and as Jefferson stood on
the other side, a rather tall and com-
manding figure, the new president
really seemed overshadowed. He spoke
at some length, eulogized Washington
very highly, denied, quite emphatically
that he favored a stronger government
than that ordained in the constitution
and pronounced the oath after the
chief justice of the United States.
Adams is distinguished in our histo-
ry for many things, and one is, unfort-
unately for being the first president who
refused to participate in the inaugura.
tion of his successor. It was indeed a
very trying occasion for him. There
have been some heated campaigns
since, but none in which personal ani-
mosities played so great a part asin
1800. Nowadays partisans call each
other “rebels,” “traitors’ and ‘‘enemies
of American industry,” “thieves” and
“moaopolists” or “cranks” bnt
it is chiefly Pickwickian.
In 1800 they really believed it. So
when Jefferson was elected by the
house on the thirty-sixth ballot and
after a desperate stuggle a deep groan
ran through the Federalist party, and
Adams left Washingron early in the
morning of March 4, 1801. This bad
example was followed by his son 1n
1829 and by Johnston in 1869.
It is rather singular there should
have been so much dispute about the
facts of Jefferson’s inauguration. It is
clearly proved that he intended to go
in the usual state, with a carriage and
six horses, but the carriage ordered
was not completed in time, Adams re-
fused the courtesy, as aforesaid, and so
Jefferson, the attendant marshal and a
tew others made the trip on horseback.
His second inauguration had more
style about it. On Saturday, March,
4, 1809, Madison took the oath in the
hall ot the house, and the only fact
about it which excited much comment
was that he was ‘clad in a suit of ele:
gant black cloth entirely of American
manufacture.”
The next four inaungurations were
conventional in the extreme. That of
1821 was on Monday, March 5, as
then, for the first time, the regular day
tell on Sunday. John Quincy Adams
revived much of the old and solemn
ceremonial, but with him it ended, as
the country had now outgrown English
and colonial forms.
The fact that three presidents died
on Independence Day isindeed extraor-
dinary. Ae but twenty-one have died
the chances of oue’s death on that day
are not quite as one in eighteen, of two
still fewer, and of three not one in hun-
dreds. But that two should die on the
same day and a third but five years
later, and two the signers of the Decla-
tion, the chances are so remote as to
be scarcely calculable. Yet it hap
pened. Vice President Hamlin also
died on that day. Nearly all the presi
dents have lived to an advanced age,
as it was natural they should be men
of great vitality and temperate lives to
attain the honor. John Adams was
the oldest, lacking but a few weeks of
ninety-one, while, omitting Lincoln,
killed at fifty-four, and Garfield, killed
within a few weeks of fifty, the young-
est dying was Polk at fitty-four.
Another curious fat is that, includ-
ing the presidents of the senate who
succeeded to the functions of the office,
there have been more vice presidente
than presidents—to wit, though Clin-
ton, Tompkins, Calhoun and King
each served in two administrations.
From Adams the father to Adams
the son, as aforesaid, the inaugurations
were mild affairs, but Jackson came in
with a breeze, and the occasion was in-
deed breezy. He set the example of
taking the cath on and delivering the
inaugural from the east front of the
Capitol, and then, making all reason-
able deductions for the partisan spite of
those who described it, the scene which
followed did indeed “beggar descrip-
tion,” The largest crowd seen in
Washinton down to that time was in
attendance, and the mud was, in south-
western phrase, “half bootleg deep,”
on Pennsylvania avenue.
Through that mud the crowd rushed
tothe White House, where all the doors
were thrown open and punch served
out in barrels, buckets, tubs and even,
go the opposition said, wash basins.
Every room in the house was crowded,
and men with heavy and muddy boots
stood on the finest chairs and sofas to
see what was going onin front. Lamps
and furniture were broken, and punch
spilled till the house was a wreck. Soon
after there was a levee av which a
cheese weighing 1,400 pounds (a present
to Jackson) was cut up and and served.
The struggle for pieces resulted in a
smash of furnitare ; liquor was spilled
and cheese trodden into the carpet,
while ladies held dainty handkerchiefs
to their noses and foreign diplomats | Postmaster General in 1883, succeeded
looked on in undisguised horror.
Daniel
looked like a Republican palace taken
by siege and sacked by the victorious
enemy, but Benton. Felix Grundy and
other men of that class thought it just
as well to “let the boys haye their way
once in four years.” It was the last
scene of the sort, though Jackson's sec-
ond inauguration also attracted a large
crowd. The next inauguration—of
Van Buren in 1837—was a compara-
tively tame affair, but in 1841 the
Whigs honored Harrison with a grand
rally. Thence to Lincoln each inaug-
uration was much like its predecessor,
and none presented features of unusual
interest. The crowds, however con-
tinued to increase, and the procession
which followed Buchanan reached
nearly from the Capitol to the White
House.
This was the end of the old regime.
Little as the great men of the day sus-
pected it, the old republic was. practi
cally, soon to pass away, and be re-
placed by one ot vastly increased and
centralized powers. In all the great
speeches and state papers down to 1861
one finds the federal union referred to
indifferently as the Union or the con-
federacy. Thus President Pierce in
his inaugural said, “The security and
repose of this confederacy forbid inter-
ference or colonization by any foreign
power.” And President Buchanan in
his said, “Let every American reflect
upon the terrific evils which would re-
sult from disunion to every portion of
the confederacy.” What a storm such
use of that word would now raise!
The impending change was indicated
on March 4, 1861, by the first military
display of real consequence at an in-
auguration. There were sharpshooters
on the housetops along the avenue as
Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln rode
slowly to the Capitol; there were
squads of cavalry to guard the street
crossings, and squads of infantry along
the route ; there were trusty riflemen
at the upper windows of the Capitol
and artillery to the right of the east
front, commanding the crowd to which
the new president spoke, It wa. a
sad presage. General Scott was
savagely critcised for these arrange-
ments, but subsequent events justified
him.
Since that date the military has
formed an important part ofevery in-
auguration, and at Grant's second in-
duction, March 4, 1873, the display
was such as to excite the admiration
of foreigners accustomed to the finest
exhibits of London, Paris and Berlin.
But it was fatal to some of the partici-
pants and to many spectators. The
day has a bad preminence as the
most inclement of any inauguration
day in our history. From dawn till
dark a northwest wind so keen and
cold that it seemed to chill even the
bones blew without an instants’s ces-
gation. Scores of soldiers and sailors
who had to stand long in place were
prostrated in consequence, while spec-
tators suffered so much that the aver-
age mortality of the city for a short
time after is said to have been notably
increased.
Far ctherwise was it at the inaugu-
ration of Clevland, on which occasion
by far the greatest crowd ever seen
there was assembled in Washington.
Correspondents celebrated the occasion
in many hundred columns. Citizens
of Washington still tell with glee how
the visitors sat the night through on
chairs, on benches in the parks and on
the steps of public buildings, as the
weather was fine and all the hotels
overcrowded, and railroad managers
tell with pardonable pride how they
got the hundreds of thousands to their
homes in farily good seacon. Bat all
these and other incidents of recent in-
angurations are still fresh'in the pub-
lic mind. f ;
In conclusion, a few comparisons
are justifiable. We have had twenty-
three presidents in 104 years, while
Rome had, discarding minor contes-
tants, sixty-four emperors in 503 years,
and Great Bri ain has bad, beginning
with William the Conqueror, thirty-
five sovereigns in 826 years. Ot presi-
dents in Mexico. Hayti and South
America, it would be idle to make an
estimate. Yet two of our presidents
have been assassinated, and another,
Jackson, only escaped that fate by an
accident which apparently would not
happen one time in a thousand. An-
other escaped impeachment by but one
vote. On the whole, though we may
justly claim an improvement over the
dark past, yet there is nothing to
make us boast. Our government is by
no means exempt from the evils which
affiict other nations.—J. H. Beadle, in
the Williamsport Times.
Cleveland's Advisers.
A Short Sketch of the Men Who Make Up
Cleveland's Cabinet.
Secretary of State-- Walter Q. Gresh-
am, of Illinois. .
Secretary of the Treasury—John G.
Carlisle, of Kentucky.
Postmaster-General—Wilson S- Bis-
sell, of New York.
Secretary of War—Daniel S. Lamont,
of New York.
Secretary of the Navy—Hilary A.
Herbert, of Alabama.
Secretary of the Interior—Hoke Smith
of Georgia,
Attorney-General—Richard Olney, of
Massachusetts.
Secretary of Agriculture—J. Sterling
Morton, of Nebraska.
SECRETARY OF STATE GRESHAM,
‘Walter Q. Gresham, who is to be
Secretary of State, is a native ot In-
diana, having been born March 17,
1832, near Lanesville, Harrison county.
He earned his education at the Corydon
Seminary and Blcomington University
by performing the duties of a clerk in
the County Clerk’s office. When 22
years old he was admitted to the bar.
He joined the Republican party in
1856, was elected to the Legislature in
1860, participated in the Rebellion as a
Union soldier, was retired as a Briga-
dier-General, was in 1869 made United
States Circuit Judge for the District of
Indiana, became President Arthur's
|
Charles J. Folger as Secretary of the
Webster said the place Treasury andresigned to become United | ? :
established a ood practice when the re-
| bellion broke out.
States Judge for the Illinois and In-
diana circuits.
Judge Gresham was warmly support- |
ed for the Presidential nomination at the |
Republican Nati nai Convention in 1888 |
but wasdefeated by Benjamin Harrison. |
He announced bis intention to support |
Mr. Cleveland previous to last election; |
explaining that he could not indorse the
tariff policy of the Republican party, |
nor could he tolerate the Pharisees who |
were in control of the party with which
he had so long affiliated He reluctant-
ly accepted the State portfolio, declining |
to consider it until convinced that the
country needed his services.
FINANCIER CARLISLE.
John G. Carlisle, the next Secretary
of the Treasury, was born in Kenton
County, Ky., in 1835. Hea was given a
common-school education, and at an
early age was admitted to the bar. Soon |
after he was elected to the Legislature,
where he espoused the cause of the Un-
ion and did much to prevent the seces-
sion of his State.
In 1866 he was made a State Senator,
and during bis second term was elected
Lieutenant-Governor. This was in 1871
Five years later he was elected to Con-
gress. He was chosen Speaker of the
Fortyreighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses,
May 17, 1890. he was chosen to fill
the unexpired term of James B. Beck,
who died while a member of tha United
States Senate, and took his seat May 26,
1890. He resigned over two weeks ago
to accept the Secretary-ship of the
Treasury.
THE PRESIDENT’S OLD LAW PARTNER
‘Wilson Shannon Bissell, who is to be
Postmaster General, has often been mis-
taken for the President. But he is tall-
er and more corpulent. He was born
in Oneida county, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1847.
He was but six years old when his pa-
rents removed to Buffalo. After attend-
ing the local schools young Bissell was
sent to the Hopkins Grammar School at
New Haven, Conn,, where he prepared
himself tor Yale.
He graduated from Yale and began
the study of law with A. P. Laning at
Buffalo. Laning later formed a part-
nership with Grover Cleveland and Os-
car Folsom. In the autumn of 1872
Mr. Bissell, having completed his
studies, found Lyman K. Bass as a part-
ner. A year after Mr. Cleveland became
a member of the firm and it was known
as Bass, Cleveland and Bissell.
In 1882, when Mr. Cleveland was
elected Governor, Mr. Bissell became
the head of the firm of Bissell, Sicard &
Goodyear. He soon became known as
an able railroad lawyer, and was elected
to the presidency of two or three of
these corporations in the western part of
the State.
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bissell are in-
timate friends. While residents of
Buffalo they occupied appartments in
the same building. Soon after the
election of Mr. Cleveland to the Presi-
dency in 1884, Mr. Bissell was offered
a bigh government place. He declined
it because he could not aftord to aban-
don his law practice.
When Daniel Manning was about to
resign the Secretaryship of the Treasury
Mr. Bissell was said to have been offer-
ed the portfolio. Agnin he refused,
and Charles 8. Fairchild was appointed
instead. A When Mr. Cleveland was
married at the White House Mr. Bis-
sell was his best man.
In polities Mr. Bissell has always
been a Democrat. Though he has re-
peatedly refused public office he has
many times been a delegate to state con-
ventions and in 1884 was a Presidential
elector at large.
THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR.
Col. Daniel S. Lamort, the Seec-
retary of War, is a native of Cortland,
this States and was born Feb. 8, 1852.
He earned his way through Union
College with bis salary as clerk in the
Senate engrossing-room. When barely
ot age he ran for Assembly in his home
distri<t and was defeated.
After the election of Samuel J. Tilden
to the Governorship, Lamont was made
chic f of the Senate document room. La-
ter, Secretary of State John Bigelow
made him his chief clerk. Under Dan-
iel Manning, of the Albany Argus La-
mont served as a reporter on the floor of
the Assembly.
Tilden made him clerk of the Demo-
crat State Committee.
Lamont was still reporting for his pa-
per at Albany when Grover Cleveland
was 2lected Governor. When about to
prepare his first message to the Legisla-
ture, Gov. Cleveland asked Manning to
recommend some one who was splendid-
ly intormed on State affairs.
Manning recommended Lamont.
The latter fulfilled his duties so well
that Cleveland placed him on his staff
with the rank of colonel. The Govern-
or was opposed to having a private
secretary, but Lamont, nevertheless,
performed the duties of one without any
definite arrangement until the campaign
of 1884.
After the nomination of Cleveland to
the Presidency, Col. Lamont was the
one above all others to be consulted.
He was invaluable to the State and Na-
tional committees in devising plans to
increase the Democratic vote, especially
in the rural districts. Noone man did
more than he to secure the electoral
vote of the State to Cleveland.
Soon after the returns announced his
triumph the President-elect asked La-
mont to accompany him to the White
House as his private secretary.
While in Washington Col. Lamont
formed a very intimate acquaintance
with William C. Whitney, Secretary
of the Navy, and when the Republicans
were restored to power in 1889 Lamont
came to this city and sided Whitney
in a syndicate to secure control of near-
ly all the surface roads in town,
He is now president of two companies
treasurer of two more, and a director in
three other concerns which go to make
up the Metropolitan Traction Company.
HERBERT, WHO WILL RUN THE NAVY.
Hilary A. Herbert is a native of
South Carolina. He was born at Lau-
rensville about six ty years ago. When
he was a child his father removed to
Greenville, Butler county, Ala. After
obtaining a rudimentary education. at
the village school young Herbert was
sent to the University of Alabama.
Later he took a law course at the Uni-
versity of Virginia and was graduated |
with high honors. |
Herbert was admitted to the bar, and |
He enlisted as a |
captain, and soon was promoted to be |
Colonel of the Eighth Alabama Con-
federate Volunteers, At the head of |
that regiment be participated in all the |
engagements up to the battle of the |
Wilderness. There, while leading his
troups, be lost an arm. . For months be
lay in the hospital with scant chances
for revovery.
Herbert had a good constitution,
however, and, pulling through tried to
enter the service. He was not permit-
ted to do so because of” hie disability.
He resumed the practice of his profes-
sion at his old home. Later he remov-
ed to Montgomery, osce the capital of |
the Confederacy, and from there was
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat. He has served continuous-
ly in the House ever since, many times
having no opponent in the nominating
convention. From the day he entered
Congress Mr. Herbert affiliated with
the friends of the new navy and fought
persistently to rejuvenate the merchant
marine. Twice he has been appointed
Chairman of the house Committee on
Naval Affairs. He holds that place to-
day. When efforts have been made by
enemies of the navy to cut down appro-
priations Mr. Herbert has taken the
flour, and by convincing argument al-
most always has carried his point. He
is u capital debater, a polished gentle-
man aod popular among leaders of both
parties. His appointment is under-
stood to be due not only to his thorough |
understanding of the needs of the navy
as exhibited when William C. Whitney |
to whom he lent invaluable aid. was
Sceretary, but also to the efforts of Con-
gressman Oates and other friends who
persistently have urged Mr. Cleveland
to select him.
Col. Oates, it will be remembered had
a long interview with the President-
elect. He recommended the appoint-
ment of Herbert as the very best that
could be made. When Herberfs chances
were at low ebb, the Alabamians and
other Southern Democrats deluged Mr.
Cleveland with telegrams and letters
begging that their favorite should not
be passed by. Col. Daniel §. Lamont
also is said to have urged the appoint-
ment.
HOKE SMITH’S CAREER IN GEORGIA.
Hoke Smith, the Secretaty of the
Interior, was born thirty-eight years
ago in North Carolina. He removed to
Georgia with his parents, and, after re-
ceiving his education in the Atlanta
schools, became the Principal of the
Girls’ High School.
While instructing pupils he studied
law and was admitted to the Barin 1876.
In the pratice of his profession he was
frequently retained in suits against rail-
roads which tried to gobble up land
without paying for it, and for years he
has been known as a fearless enemy to
grasping corporations. Having wade a
fortune out of his practice, Mr. Smith
purchased the Atlanta Jowrnal and
made it one of the leading daily news-
papers of the South.
e is known as the ‘original Cleve-
land man from Georgia,” having
espoused the President-elect cause when
he had need of friends in that State. His
most recent political feat was to trans-
form the Georgia delegation to the Pres-
idental convention at Chicago from a
Hill to a Cleveland delegation.
In this way he secured a notable vic-
tory over Evan P. Howell and Patrick
Walsh, the Hill leaders, and achieved a
national reputation for himself as a
politician,
RICHARD OLNEY.
Richard Olney is one of the best
known corporation lawyers in New
England. For several years he has
been attorney for the Buston and Maine
Railroad, and is consulting lawyer for
many cther corporations. His fitness
for the position to which he has been
appointed is unquestioned, and his per-
sonal character commands respect from
men of all parties. His appointment is
a surprise to Democrats in Boston, as
Mr. Olpey has always refused to accept
public office, but it cannot be objected
to by any faction of the Democratic
pai. He has been recognized as a
eader 1n that organization. Mr. Olney
is a man of large wealth. His income
from his practice is said to be $50,000 a
year. His winter residence isin a fash-
ionuble part of Boston and he has a
summer place near Gray Gables on
Buzzard’s Bay,where he has been the
friend and companion of President
Cleveland.
Mr. Olney has twice retused the prof-
fer of a seat on the Supreme Bench of
Massachusetts. One year merely to
oblige his party friends, he accepted the
Democratic nomination for Attorney
General, but was of course defeated.
The only time he ever went outside of
urty lines was when Butler was nom-
inated for Governor. He refused to
support Butler.
ben the vacancy occurred in the
office of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court Mr Oiney’s name was presented
to Mr, Cleveland, but the appointment
went to Melville W. Fuller because he
was & Western man. In addition to
being counsel for the Boston and Maine
system Mr. Olney is general counsel of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
Chicago, Burlington and Quincey roads.
AGRICULTURIST MORTON,
J. Sterling Morton, the new Secretary
of Agriculture, was born at Adams, Jef-
ferson County, N. Y., April 11, 1832
He was graduated from Union College.
Removing the Nebraska, he became the
editor of the Nebraska City news, was
twice elected to the Territorial Legisla-
ture, and in 1858 became the Acting
Governor.
He ran three times for Governor of
the State, but was defeated. For five
years he has devoted himself to the cul-
tivation of trees and the preservation of
forests. He is the father of what is
known as Arbor Day. He was offered
the Agricultural portfolio Feb. 17 and
accepted on the spot.
—4T wish you would go on an errand
for me.”
Small son—“My leg aches awful.”
“Too bad. I wanted you to go Mrs.
Stickney’s candy store, and —"'
“Oh, that isn’t far. I can walk there
easy.’
“Very well. Go there, and right
alongside of it you will see a grocery
store. Go in and get me a bar of soap. '
The World of Women.
He was a six times millionaire
Who sat behind her at the play;
The maid took off her bonnet there ;
He married her next day
Purple and violet gauze, veils are the
very newest style.
“Ouralay” is a new green which will
bold its own as a popular spring
tint.
_ Shaded velvet sleeves with contrast-
ing costumes. and plaid velvet sleeves
ich blue or green cloth gowns are pop-
ular.
The Rembrandt bat is another revival.
These bats are as large as a bushel bas-
ket und give a sort of roofed-over ap-
pearance to the woman who wears
them.
The newest embroidery for trimming
fine zephers, batiste cloths andlother fine
;cotton dresses (is in open work, wrought.
with a heavy design in color to match
the dress.
Fine lace or embroidered muslin
scarfs are being much ‘used for evening
wear. With the addition of one of
these bright scarfs a needed bit of color
may be given to an otherwise sombre
gown.
Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of
America, is quite content with her lone-
ly home in a Narragansett Bay light-
house without bothering about going to
| the Chicago show to display herself and
her medals.
A pretty trimming and one that is
quite new for a ball dress consists of nar-
row satin ribbon crossed to form a deep
lattice work, while at each intersection
is a tiny flower or bow, This ornamen-
tation is pretty in colors over white.
Horizontal skirt trimmings mount
higher and higher. To remodel an old
sheath skirt of last season, to give it the
appearance of the width now required,
the easiest resort is several ruffles of vel-
vet set at wide intervals up the skirt.
The most popular way to trim a skirt
just now is with narrow bands of some
contrasting material, placed at graduat-
ed distances from the hem to the knee,
the bottom space being the broadest,and
the upper one the least in width. Satin
is very popular for these folds or bands,
which may be from one to two inches in
width. Black satin and black cloth
make a favorite combination this season.
Large, showy plaids in most
exquisite tones will be much used for
sleeves, revers. narrow bias bands and
the hundred aud one ways that a wo-
man of taste knows bow to utilize a ma-
terial which for an entire gown would
be too much, but which makes the most
effective trimming imaginable. In di-
rect contrast to these very pronounced
effects are the wool challies, the beauti-
ful Jovanaise in its dainty silk and
wool mixture and the printed cash-
meres.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has heen in Wash-
ington trying to beguile $92 000 out of
Congress for the Board of Lady Mana-
gers, One of her latest schemes points
towards the issue of a new souvenir coin
to be known as the ‘Isabella coin,’ of
the value of 25 cents. She offers to
take $10,000 of the $92,000 she requires
in these proposed Isabella souvenir
quarters, which will give her 40.000 of
these coins. If the coins are issued they
will contain a picture of Queen Isabella
on oneside and a picture of the Woman’s
Building in Chicago on the other.
Next to new spring bonnets I think I
like best the array of silk blouses that
always appear at this season. The win-
dows are full of them, and they are es-
pecially pretty and stylish this season,
with their flaring ruffles and little extra
jackets of velvet. Some of them are
made in sort of bandage fashion, coming
only to the waist line, and appear to be
merely draped around the form rather
than fitted. Of course the underlining
must be tight, but the effect is of a fichu
crossed in front and tied in a soft knot at
the back. The sleeves are of course of
the prevailing large and baggy order:
Beside these, of course, in all the new-
est spring shades, were to be found
broadcloths, bengalines, changeable pop-
lins ard many other fabrics.
sacking, one of the season’s novelties, re-
sembles a canvas in texture and promis-
es to be much 1n vogue for gowns that
will receive plenty of wear and tear.
Nuage beige is also a product of the
loom but recently imported. The wo-
man who bhasn’t at least one gown
showing changeable effects cannot call
her wardrobe-altogether up to date, for
the two-toned harmonies run the gamut
from silk to cotton.
A very handsome street gown for
a young lady that has come under my
observation this spring is a chestnut
brown diagonal wool. The skirt is neat
and not pronounced in any way. There
are three narrow rufiles around the bot-
tom.’ The waist 1s plaited to a point
front and back and heid in by a seal
brown velvet girdle. The fore-arms are
of the velvet, and the sleeve puffs are
plaited downward, which is certainly
more graceful than the stiff puffs so
often seen. A neat little triple cape of
the velvet adds richness and effect. The
hat is felt, of the same brown shade as
that in the gown, and it has maize col-
ored plumes, donkey’s ears of brown
velvet, a gold buckle and two peacock
anthers for trimming, the entire outfit
being a model for a young lady.
Capes are to take a fresh lease of favor
with the opening of spring, because they
go on so easily and do not crush large
sleeves. They are already imported in
most varied sizes, in little cape collars
that reach only to the shoulder tips, in
double and triple capes that come down
to the waist line. and in longer single
capes that reach low on the hips and
have a cape collar to make them amply
full about the shoulders. Cloth capes
will be most used, and tan and army
blue of grayish shades are the favorite
colors. Figured stuffs of mixed silk and
wool will be stylish for spring capes, and
are made very full, one model three
yards and a half wide reaching below
the hips, being boxpleated to around
yoke that falls low on the shoulders, A
cape collar of seven box pleats covers
this yoke and forms a standing collar.
Red and green are the colors mixed in
the fabric, acd the lining of taffeta is
shot in the same colors. The design in
the stuff is vague, being partly of balls
and pear-shaped pieces.