Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 30, 1896.
WHICH ?
Which are the hands we love the best,
Those that are folded between our own
Or those that move us to strange unrest
By feathery touch that is quickly flown?
Which, ah, which, do we love the best,
Hands caressing or hands caressed ?
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Which are the eyes we most adore ?
Those reflecting our every thought
Or those whose glances our hearts implore,
Whose fire will neither be tamed nor taught?
Which, ah which, do we love the best,
Eyes adoring or eyes adored ?
Which is the heart of hearts we prize
That which sways with a passionate power
Or that which yields us a sacrifice,
Gentle and generous, day and hour?
Which, of all, do we hold above,
Hearts most loving or hearts we love — The
Century.
SUSANNA MORTON. :
If there was one thing in all her exper-
ience that Susanna Morton was heartily
tired of it was the evident and continuous
purpose of mankind to permit her to re-
main a spinster.
True she had been one so long it would
seem that she should have become ac-
customed to it ; but by some strange fatal-
ity women—that is the majority of women
—never accept their lot in this Christian
spirit which has won for them the endear-
ing title of the gentler sex.
And Susanna Morton had put up with it
just as long as she was gding to.
Four leap years had passed her by, and
she had submitted gracefully, but each
year less gracefully than she had done the
four previously, and there were moments
in the last of the four when she became al-
most desperate. Now that a fifth had come
her mind was made up. She would take
the reins of Cupid in her own hands and
drive that harum-scarum little rascal ina
manner to suit herself. She knew her good
points, one of which was that she was
thirty-five years old or thereabouts, and
possessed a poise and balance no man who
was looking for a real sensible woman as a
wife could afford to disregard. In addi-
tion to this she had—what men seldom dis-
regard—a comfortable fortune.
It was this fortune that had been the
real stumbling block inthe matrimonial
path of Susanna, and not any lack of at-
tractive qualities in her possession, for she
was not homely, nor was she anything but
charming. The fortune, however, which
was hers from her sixteenth birthday, had
developed in Ler a fear that men sought
her for her money and not for herself, and,
never having fallen in love with any of her
courtiers she did not find it difficult to
resist advances, believing, as she did, that
men were mercenary asa rule, and that
some day the one man in all the world for
her would appearand claim her as his own.
However, he did not appear, and he con-
tinued not to appear, until Susanna had
reached an age and a firmness of character,
to put it mildly, when her fortune would
have to be at least doubled to make her as
attractive as she was at twenty.
This knowledge had come to her grad-
ually, but was none the less forceful on
that account, and she was determined not
to let this leap year pass without results of
a lasting character.
Of the men in her train there were per-
haps half a dozen who were eligible, and
any one of whom would have made a hus-
band any woman could be proud of. But
they were merely friends ; not a manjack
of them had ever suggested such a thing as
matrimony to her, and possibly this was
why she liked them. So perverse is the
nature of woman.
Among the half dozen was one who found
the greatest favor in Susanna’s eyes, the
other taking their positions after him in
regular gradation, and this one Susanna
selected as her victim for leap year, re-
solved to try all the others in case of fail-
ure in the first instance.
Truly, Susanna was a desperate spinster.
And no less spry, for in the course of his
first call in the new year she began her |
operations. But it wasa dreadful task, +
and the evening passed without a single
step taken forward. The effort had been
made, however, and courage always comes
with effort.
When he came again she was so wrought
up over the work before her that her eyes
sparkled and her cheeks glowed in rosy
color.
He was ten years older than she, and al-
ways assumed that bless-my-soul style af-
fected by elderly men.
*‘Oh thank you, Mr. Culver,’’ she twitter-
ed. ‘I’m sure you only think 80, I look
just as I always look.”
“Of course, Miss Susanna, only slightly
more 80.” He smiled, but there was that
in the tone which had the ring of insincer-
ity, which is very nearly the same thing,
and which made Susanna despise the flat-
tery of men that so far had meant to her
no dissolution of the continuity of her
spinisterhood.
She was good-natured about it, however,
and let Mr. Culver go on with what he had
to say, for if there was any man who could
make flattery any more palatable to her
than any other man, that man was Mr.
Culver. But it ye soon over, and when
he had fixed himsێlf comfortably in an easy
chair with which he was familiar he seem-
ed to have forgotten whether Susanna look-
ed like a fright or a fairy, and began talk-
ing about all sorts of things, as people do
who talk for the mere sake of talking.
“At all events, that is the way it pre-
sented itself to Susanna, and she felt the
spirit of desperation slowly creeping over
her. She took a long breath of encourage-
ment, and tentatively turned the subject
of conversation upon the most recent wed-
ding which had occurred in their circles.
“What a pair of fools they were and
are,’’ said Mr. Culver, sententiously ‘‘to
marry on nothing but his salary, and that
not big enough for two.’
“‘But they are happy,’ argued Susanna.
‘‘Yes, Miss Susanna,” he said, “I do not
stand reluctant, for I think if I had been
more of a fool in one regard I would have
been less of a fool in another. That is to
say, a man is a fool to waste his life sel-
fishly as I have done.”
This was the auspicious moment that
Susanna had been seeking. She would
now lead right up to the matter and find a
listener to her proposal.
“Why don’t you marry, Mr. Culver 2”
she asked, with directness. ‘You are not
too wise to consider the question, I hope.”
‘Certainly not, Miss Susanna,” he
smiled. ‘I’ve been considering it for 20
years.”
‘‘Then you ought to stop considering it
and propose it.”’ Susanna laughed and Mr.
Culver also.
“I hardly think I'll everdo that,” he
said, seriously. “I wouldn’t know how
to go about it, to make my case half pre-
sentable. I’ve given myself up, you know,
as a bad job.”
‘‘Some of these new women will be
charging down on you some of these days,
teaching you the newer doctrine that wom-
en have the right to say whether you have
the right to do as you please with your-
self. In other words. some one of them
will capture you in spite of yourself.”
‘‘Not much, they won’t,”’ asserted Mr.
Culver, with a great show of courage. “If
there is anything Idon’t want to marry
it’s a woman with foolish notions of that
kind.”
Susanna’s heart went down to her shoes
on the instant. Here was an insurmount-
able obstacle in her path, and with Mr.
Culver holding to such an opinion, what
good would a proposal be from her, even if
she should muster up courage enough to
make it. The thought made her mute for
a minute, and in that minute a new scheme
came, one that had been there before, too,
but had gone wool gathering while she was
beating about the bush with the new wom-
an idea.
“I think myself they are Horrid,” she
said, with an effort to swallow something
that would not go down very easily. ‘But
there is the leap year privilege. All wom-
en, new and old, can claim that, and you
mustn’t forget that this is a leap year.”
“I had forgotten it,” he said, moving
his chair into the far corner of the fire-
place, but still not so far away that he was
out of the pleasant influence of Susanna’s
nearness. He sat there for an instant mak-
ing himself shiver with terror, and then he
moved back, possibly a little nearer than
before.
“Forewarned is forearmed,”’ she said ;
‘and now that I have told you of the dan-
gers ahead I hope you will profit by my
advice.”
‘Oh, I'm not afraid,” he asserted in a
good voice. “I'm just waiting for that
sort of thing. The custom of tradition,
whatever you may.call it, is an old-fashion-
ed one, and only an old-fashioned woman
would think of it, and that is the kind I
want. So none of them had better try it
unless she means business.”
Surely no finer opening could be pre- |
sented to a young woman in her mood
than this, and Susanna gave herself a shake
and took another long breath. The time
had come, and she was not the woman to
lose so glorious an opportunity.
‘Mr. Culver,’’ she began in 2 firm voice
and with great earnestness, ‘‘I have for a
long time been thinking you ought to
marry and I have even gone so far as to
select just such a woman as I think would
suit you. I have had two or three con-
sultations with her, and she is willing that
I should present the matter to you, be-
cause I know you so well, and you will
understand it better from me than if she
should present it herself.”
When she was about to proceed further
with her remarks Mr. Culver showed signs
of real anxiety and arose to his feet.
‘Miss Susanna,’ he exclaimed, ‘‘don’t
say another word. Really, I cannot listen
to it.”’ .
“But I must say it to you,’" she insist-
ed, because, as it seemed to her, that was
the proper way to conduct a successful
courtship, and now that she had begun it
she most decidedly wished it to be success-
ful.
“I'tell you I won’t hear it. This is en-
tirely unexpected, and I am sure that noth-
ing in my conduct has ever warranted you
in broaching this subject to me.’
Mr. Culver was very evidently in ear-
nest, and Susanna almost chuckled to her-
self, for this was the very way young wom-
en acted under the circumstances in which
Mr. Culver was placed. Allit needed now
was a little more coaxing, and Susanna
nerved herself for the final pop.
‘‘Perhaps you have not thought so,’’ she
said in her softest voice, ‘‘but to me there
has ever been a desire to say to you what I
am now saying. Mr. Culver—John.’’ and
Susanna came very close to him, notwith-
standing she was so nervous she hardly
knew what to do.
‘‘Hold on, Susanna, hold on,” he ex-
claimed. ‘‘Confound it!” (that shocked
her, for she knew no girl ever talked that
way under such circumstances, however
much she must have thought it.) ‘‘I'don’t
want you to be talking in any other wom-
an’s interest. There is only one woman in
the world that I want, and—and—and—"’
Mr. Culver was getting nervous himself
now and Susanna gasped. ‘‘And—oh,
Susanna,” he said, desperately, ‘don’t you
know that woman isyou? You, Susanna,
don’t you know it is you ?”’
Mr. Culver caught Susanna’s hands in
his and looked into her eyes with such a
pleading, pathetic, intense sincerity that
all her plans were consumed like straw in
a fierce blaze and she simply tumbled into
his arms and let him finish the proposal
she thought she had begun in such a mas-
terly manner.
Democrats Take Notice.
The attention of the Democratic voters
in each county and representative district
is called to the representation that they
may be entitled to at the next state con-
vention.
The representation in Democratic state
conventions shall consist of representative
delegates, one for each one thousand votes
cast at the preceding presidential election,
or fraction of one thousand such votes,
“I suppose s0,”’ Mr. Culver unwillingly
admitted ; “it takes fools to be happy ;
wise people know to much.’
‘Are you wise?’ questioned Susanna,
nervously, for she felt that she was lannch-
ing herself at this point upon an unknown
sea.
“I'm old enough to be,’ Mr. Culver
frankly responded, Mr. Culver’s age was
too well known to he denied, and too great
to be hid under a bushel.
“Isn’t there something soinewhere about
the old fools being the biggest?” laughed
Susanna.
“But I'm not so old as that yet.’
“Ah!” and her eyes twinkled.
yours a cise of :
; “Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the silly seasons meet 2
Mr. Culver assumed a more serious air
and there was a smile on his face when he
replied ; there was rather a shadow of
tg
regret :
amounting to five hundred or more in the
representative districts of the State, pro-
vided that each representative district shall
have at least une delegate.
It is hoped that the Democratic voters
will keep this fact in view and endeavor to
have the largest vote possible polled, so
that their county and district may have
full representation at the.next state con-
vention.
The necessity of paying strict attention
to this important duty will be readily ob-
served by all good Democrats. Each county
should take pride in seeing to it that the
present representation is sustained or in-
creased.
—A victory for free silver, is a victory
for the people. You are one of them. See
that you get to the polls early and vote for
your own welfare.
“cepting the requests contained in this letter, then
at the Bayonet’s Point.
Peale to be Held
United States Army to be Increased to a Quarter of a Mil-
lion Men if McKinley is Elected.—Plans of the Gold-
Standard Advocates. -Judge George F. Patrick Re-
ceives a Startling Letter from a Boston “Sound
Money Club” Member.-—A Deliberate Propo-
sition of Bribery.
If American freemen need anything to convince them that the gold standard is
not sought’ to be continued for the Lenefit of the masses, certainly the following
startling letter should at least open their eyes. “The rule of force’ is to be main-
tained, says the writer, an avowed McKinley man, if the Republican nominee is
elected. But the letter speaks for itself and no comment is necessary. A word
however, by way of explanation is in point. J udge George F. Patrick, the recipient
of the letter containing a deliberate offer of bribery, is known throughout southern
Colorado as a lawyer of the highest standing and a man of unimpeachable honor and
integrity. He was the democratic nominee for the district bench at the last judicial
election. When the
letter was delivered to him last Saturday his anger was almost uncon-
trollable. He put the document at the disposal of the silver literature committee
of the Bryan and Teller club and in circular form thousands of copies of the letter,
Judge Patrick’s reply, the affidavits and certificates, will be sent throughout the
doubtful states in the next few days.
The letter came in a long plain, manilla envelope on Saturday, postmark *‘Bos-
ton, October 7th, 5 p. m. ’96.” It was received and marked at Pueblo postoffice
‘Pueblo, October 10th., 11 a. m. '96,”” The letter, word for word, is as follows,
and the writer of it carefully made a letter-press copy of each sheet and of the en-
velope address as well :
Furthermore, he is a staunch silver man,
“9 Milk Street.
. “Boston, Mass., October 4, 1896.
“HON. GEO. F. PATRICK, Pueblo, Colo.,
“Dear Sir : 1am requested by the secretary of one of our local Boston Sound Money
clubs to write you with reference to securing your influence in the state of Colorado to
forward the cause of Sound Money, and the election of McKinley to the presidency of
these United States.
“Our secretary is informed that it is possible, in his informant’s judgment, to secure
your services, notwithstanding you are a Democrat.
*‘It is the judgment of eastern Democrats, that it is useless for a Democrat to work or
vote for Palmer and Buckner, as these gentlemen were nominated in order to split the
party vote in Illinois and Kentucky, and thereby give those states to McKinley, and
therefore we Democrats of Massachusetts who favor the continuance of the present gold
standard are concentrating our forces on McKinley, not in an obstrusive way, of course,
but nevertheless our work is effective, and is as much under the guidance of Mr. Hanna
as are the Republican forces of the state. Our object, of course, is to continue the pres-
ent sound money system, as in our judgment it is more important than low tariff, and so
for this campaign we are urging all old line Democrats to work for McKinley.
“We have positive assurances from Mr. Hanna, that so far as raising the tariff is con-
cerned, THERE NEED BE NO OCCASION FOR ANY LOW TARIFF MAN TO BE
ALARMED, as Mr. McKinley will favor no unjust laws concerning this subject. There-
fore no Democrat need be alarmed as to his tinkering with the tariff,
“Now, Mr. Patrick, if I am mistaken in you, and the requests and tenor of this letter
do not suit you, or your environment be such as to preclude the possibility of your ac-
] my friend, if no answer is received, I
will understand you decline to entertain my proposition, all of which I hope will not
occur.
“In this connection let me assure you that many prominent men of
faith all over the country
Hanna.
“In your state, Colorado, we are very sanguine of success, but as your state is down
on the list for allotment of certain benefits, and as we are assured there is a possibility
of securing your four electoral votes, by hard work, and a judicious disposition of funds,
and furthermore as WE HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF ‘THE SINEWS OF WAR,’ I, in
common with my colleagues, are agreed some united effort should be made in your seat.
I understand there is a strong undercurrent of opinion in Colorado, favorable to Mr.
Te olents, that only needs a little greasing to burst forth in support of that noble Repub-
ican.
‘Now, my dear Mr. Patrick, you are located too far from the seat of war to under-
stand why we gold men are striving so hard to defeat Mr. Bryan and elect Mr. McKin-
ley, and possibly are not aware that to elect Mr. Bryan means financial ruin to many of
our greatest men. WILLIAM JENNINGS ‘BRYAN OPENLY DECLARES WAR ON
ALL TRUST COMPANIES, AND as he is pleased to term it, ‘MONEY POWER.’ On
the contrary Mr. McKINLEY IS SWORN TO PROTECT us, so in self defense we are
striving to protect ourselves. I trust you understand.
IF WE DO NOT SECURE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENTAL METHODS NOW,
WE FEAR LAWS WILL SOON BE ENACTED WHICH WILL PREVENT THE FOR.
MATION AND CONTINUANCE OF TRUSTS, AND THAT THE PROFITS OF BUS-
INESS WILL BECOME TOO WIDELY SCATTERED. Some of our people, the more
timid ones, fear we may push the reduction of values a little too far, and that the com-
mon people may revolt, but let me assure you, my dear Mr. Patrick, that IN THE
EVENT OF MR. MCKINLEY’S ELECTION, A BILL WILL AT ONCE BE INTRO-
DUCED IN CONGRESS TO INCREASE THE STANDING ARMY TO AT LEAST 250-
000 MEN, WHICH WILL BE DONE IN THE EVENT OF THE SUCCESS OF THE
GOLD FORCES ; the criminal classes, the discontented classes, and LABOR CLASSES,
WITH THEIR UNIONS AND STRIKERS, WILL SUCCUMB TO THE RULE OF
FORCE, AND NO LONGER PLAY ANY PART IN AMERICAN POLITICS. IMAG-
INE a revolt with a good trained force of REGULAR SOLDIERS IN EVERY ONE OF
OUR MONEY CENTRES WITH READY RIFLE AND GATLING GUN TO HOLD IN
CHECK ANY DEMONSTRATION to the contrary.
“IF WE ONLY SUCCEED, CAPITAL WILL once more be sate in its invest-
ments, and able to procure LABOR IN THE OPEN MARKET AT THE LOWEST
PRICE POSSIBLE.
Of course, Mr. Patrick, you need not allow these remarks to be made public, as they
might do our cause injury among laborers, and such business men as believe it necessary
for labor to prosper, but when you meet a capitalits, a banker, or one of whom you are
sure, just disabuse his or their minds, if they are inclined to be timid.
LH ¢ silptinly assure you that when MR. HANNA GETS CON TROL, strikes will soon be
disposed of.
“Now, Mr. Patrick, if Tam correctly informed, you are a gold man, and with you
sound money and your country’s integrity come first. This being true, and in order to
quickly come to an understanding, I wish to ask you a plain question, coupled with a
business proposition.
HW! wou for a considération commensurate with your worth join us, and in your
c.ate Jo your share to quietlp aid the honest gold party, and aid in the election of
McKinley ?
“If you will, and also assist in placing the funds necessary for your state, you will in
the event of your success, receive recognition. One of Mr. Hanna's assistants will pay
you a visit shortly to arrange the details.
“Your reply need not go into details, since as a shrewd lawyer you will understand. If
you decide to accept wire answer. The single word ‘yes’ is sufficient. Awaiting your
reply, and respectfully requesting immediate attention to this long letter, I am,
Respectfully Yours,
& SAM’L. C. PRESSLEY.”
*‘P. S.—The writer met you once in Silver City, N. M., but you have forgotten him by
this time, no doubt.”
It is unnecessary to say that Mr. Patrick did not telegraph that little word ‘‘Yes.”’
The following speaks for itself :
“State of Colorado, | __ :
“County of Pueblo, | ** :
“G. F. Patrick, of lawful age, being duly sworn, upon his oath deposes and says, that
he is a resident of the city of Pueblo and State of Colorado ; that he received, through
the regular channels of the mail, the foregoing letter at about 4 o'clock on Saturday,
October 10, by the same being delivered to him by one of the mail carriers of this city ;
that he has never conspired in any way, shape, form or manner with any person whom-
soever for the purpose of getting up any such article for campaign purposes.: that he
knows nothing of the reasons that induced the writer to send him the same unless said
writer had been led to regard him asa gold man because of his having subscribed for
different good periodicals in order that he might be enabled to understand both sides of
the question. “G. F. PATRICK.
‘‘Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of October,JA. D. 1896.
(Seal.) R. S. ANDERSON, Notary Public.”
“My commission expires July 16, 1898.
u 1 | of your political
are in the service of ours at one time political enemy, Mr.
Then as to the receipt of the letter by Judge Patrick the following affidavit was
made :
‘State of Colorado,
“County of Pueblo.
“Alfred H. Long, of lawful age, being first duly sworn, upon his oath deposes and
says, that he is a son of ex-chief Justice Long, of New Mexico ; that he was present in
the office of G. F. Patrick in the opera house, in the city of Pueblo, on the afternoon on
the 10th day of October, A. D., 1896; and that he was present when Mr. Patrick re-
ceived through the regular channels of the mail, and opened and read the foregoing let-
ter. “ALFRED H. LONG.
‘Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of October, A. D. 1896.
“R. S. ANDERSON, Notary Public.
(SEAL.)
“My commission expires July 16, 1898."
Judge Patrick’s standing in the community is attested by the following state-
ment signed by Dr. A. T. King, mayor of the city of Pueblo :
“I take pleasure in certifying that I have known G. F. Patrick, Esq., for some years,
and know him to be a man of moral and intellectual worth, and one of the leading at-
torneys of the city, and unhesitatingly vouch for him as an honorable and truthful citi-
zen. A. T. KING, Mayor.”
As to Judge Patrick’ standing at the bar J udge N. Walter Dixon, of this city,
judge of the Tenth judicial district of Colorado, writes :
“This is to certify that Iam personally acquainted with G. F. Patrick, Esq., the
above named affiant. He is a lawyer by profession, a member of the Colorado bar in
excellent standing, and a gentleman of the highest integrity. ‘“N. WALTER. DIXON.”
88.
Democrat who is not at the election, don’t
wait until night to go for him, but go at
once.
great Democratic victory.
——Don’t wait for some one else to
haul out your neighbor one lection morning.
If you have a team hitch it up, take him
with you, and see that his vote is cast for
free silver and the people’s prosperity.
— Vote early and if you know of any
A full Democratic vote means a
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Indian Names of Places.
It is rather surprising, considering the
musical words that are left to us from the
Indian tongue, and the pretty sentiment
that so many of those words convey, that
80 few of them are given to localities and
places in the country. New York, is the
most loyal to the Indian of the Northern
States, and there we find the State full of
counties, lakes, rivers and places named
for the aboriginal inhabitants. Maine
names her lakes and rivers for the Indian,
but her cities, and the most of the counties,
are borrowed from abroad. The New Eng-
land States abound with Essexes, Worces-
ters, Sussexes, and that tiresome second-
hand nomenclature, but New York gives
an American flavor to her geography with
such original Indian names as Seneca,
Mohawk, Allegheny, Cayuga, Niagara,
Onondaga, Genesee, and all over the State
are similar names closely identified with
the whole history of the communities.
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It is fitting that New York should pay
this tribute to the Indian, for the great
Iroquois, the foremost of the race, lived
for several centuries in the Empire State,
the remnant of the tribes still holding res-
ervations in different sections of New
York. The Iroquois federation, or the Six
Nations, was composed of five tribes in full
membership, the Senecas, Mohawks, One-
idas, Onondagas and Cayugas, while the
Tuscaroras were later taken into the con-
federacy, although on hardly a full affilia-
tion. When the white man discovered
America, the Iroquois were undisputed
masters of the country, their sway reach-
ing clear to the Mississippi asa hunting
region, and far into the South. They lived
in New York and Northern Pennsylvania,
the Senecas, the chief tribe, occupying the
upper Allegheny valley and Western New
York. In spite of all that has been said
derogatory to the Indian, the Iroquois, and
especially the Senecas, were a noble race of
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savages. Before they learned vice from the
white man they were not an immoral peo-
ple, nor were they especially bloodthirsty.
They tilled their little patches of ground,
subsisted from the chase and by fishing,
making war with no more frequency than
their white brethren across the sea. They
possessed many virtues, were religious and
upright in their dealings and should be
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Pennsylvania has done little to preserve
|
; out through Tennessee, Kentucky,
the Indian names. We have a few. rivers
and creeks, and occasionally a small town,
| but outside of that, Erie, Allegheny, Sus-
quehanna and Juniata are the few re-
minders of the early days. Indiana county
is all right, but while Delaware is the local
name of an Indian tribe, Lord Delaware,
who was one of the early settlers, was not
an Indian, although he loaned his name.
The States begin it with Ohio, and carry it
In-
diana, Towa, and all over the South and
West. In Kansas, an Indian name itself,
we find Comanche, Kiowa, Wichita, Pot-
tawotamie, Shawnee, Miami, Cherokee,
and lots of other names for the counties, as
is the case in others of the newer States
which were created since the feeling of
veneration for English associations has died
out. And as we go West and encounter
the Indian names, itis observed that the
names of English counties and heroes are
wholly neglected. The Cumberlands,
Yorks, Westchesters, etc., drop out, and
where Indian names are not enough, the
names of our own statesmen and com-
manders find a place.
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In the South the rivers are quite gen-
erally given Indian names, a custom pre-
vailing to a considerable extent, however,
all over the country, for the rivers and
lakes are more decidedly called for the red
man than anything else in the country.
The Mississippi, the Missouri, Ohio, Alle-
gheny, Penobscot, Susquehanna, Tennes-
see, are among the best known. But all
over the South are charming little streams
like the Suwannee, Oconee, Congaree,
Tombigbee, Nolachucky, Hiawassee, Chat-
tahooche, Ocklawaha, etc. In the far
Northwest the Indian is kept in closer
touch with history by the use of his names
than anywhere else, and some of the selec-
tions are very grotesque to the Eastern ear.
Klamath, Clackamas, Umatilla, Tilla-
mook, Clatsop, Snohomish, Chehallis and
Klikitar are familiar examples. But
while they sound strange to ears not ac-
customed to them, they are no more out-
landish than many of the common English
names that we have grown used to in the
East, and they have the merit of being a
part of the country, and a link in the per-
petuation of its history is good enough for
Americans, and the newer generations are
incorporating the real American names
into American local history.
Spain.
When the young men of a country fly
from it, to avoid serving it, as 40,000 of
them have fled from Spain ; when the Gov-
ernment of a country is unable to borrow
the money essential to its support, as Spain
is unable to borrow the needed sum of
$200,000,000 © when the army of a country
fails, after twenty months of campaigning,’
to gain any success over a body of insur-
gents one-fifth its size, as the 200,000
Spanish troops in Cuba have failed ; when
the Generals of a country bring disgrace
upon their: military titles by deeds of dis-
honor, as Weyler, Melguizo, and other
Spaniards have brough it ; when a country
represents oppression and corruption, as
does Spain’; when it expends all its strength
in mad efforts to destroy the liberties of its
colonial subjects, as Spain has vainly ex-
pended hers in Cuba ; the ruin of that
country must be at hand.
Spain, once so proud, is perishing in dis-
grace. Once a conqueror, she has suffered,
and yet suffers discomfiture. Once the
richest country in the world, she is now
impoverished. Once the ruler of America
from Florida to the furthest south, she
fights for the only remnant of it left to her,
an outlying island. She sowed the wind
and reaps the whirlwind. She went up
like a rocket and has come down like the
stick.
Yet Spain is an supercilious a1 d insolent
as ever she was. When driven from Cuba
and Porto Rico, her last foothold in the
New World, she will leave behind her
there, as she left behind her elsewhere in
America, a name to be long and deeply
detested.
——Every man on the Democratic ticket
is worthy your support. They are for the
people’s interests, as against the combines
and corporations, the banks and the brok-
ers, the speculators and non-producers.
See that your vote is cast for the straight
Democratic ticket.
—You have a team. Use it for your
own good on election day, to get out votes
in the interest of the people. The people’s
cause is your cause.
remembered in the history of the country |
{as the worthy forerunners of civilization. I newer style than the Louis XVI.
! Robespierre bas the front and sides cut off
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,
If every woman would begin to-day to see
how much good and how little evil she
could find in those about her she would be-
come an angel of light. Her divine influ-
ence would be felt in every sphere. Into
her kitchen as well as into her drawing
room she would’ carry the olive branch of
peace. Her heaven ‘would begin here be-
low, not only for herself, but for evervone
about her. =
It is not unusual to see children of both
sexes with ears projecting in such a ‘way
as to be a positive deformity. The mothers
appear oblivious of this fact, and any sug-
gestion from an outsider is met with indig-
nation and disgust. The mother thinks
her little ones perfect, and, perhaps natur-
ally enough, resents any hint that they
could be improved.
It is possible to correct many of the tri-
(fling errors in appearance hy steady and
judicious home treatment, provided it is
continued regularly, and not spasmodi-
cally, for this often does more harm than
good by disturbing existing conditions
without fully settling new ones. If a
child’s ears have a tendency to project
from the head, it is well to wear a ribbon or
a cap suited to this purpose. A misshapen
nose may be trained into proper form by
a very gentle and careful handling. The
bones of the child are soft and easily
moulded into the required shape.
Personal beauty and symmetry are great
factors in a successful life, and itis well
worth while to take the little trouble and
time that are involved in correcting the
thousand little irregularities and trifling
deformities.ahat very many children are
born with.
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' No self-respecting neck is now to be seen
without ruffling of some description ; but
as the winter season advances these will de-
crease in size until the tucker stage is
reached again, for so does modistic history
always repeat itself. The many will rejoice
; exceedingly to hear this news, for a soft
touch of white lace is ever of becoming
character, while the hard line of ribbon
drawn high and tight around the throat was
really suitable only to the few.
Of the new jackets the Robespierre is a
The
| at the waist line and a much shorter back
than the Louis XVI. The girdle goes
| an
{across the front and finishes each seam of
the back with a button or small knot.
This change is influenced no doubt by the
necessity of wearing coats now and the
longer ones hang below the short jackets in
vogue in a very ugly manner.
Miss Georgia Richards, county clerk in
Arapahoe county, Colorado, receives a sal-
ary of $2,000 a year, the largest paid to
any woman official in the west.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil there-
of, and as yet we have not come to the day
of really tight sleeves ; only once in a
while are our senses smitten with the sight
of monstrosities, because people generally
have to niuch good sense to wish to appear
odd.
By another reason, I dare say, we shall
be submerged in” skin tight sleeves, tight
enough to stop the circulation of the blood
and make the hands purple, but, no mat-
ter, so long as fashion demands it.
For the present we may revel in genu-
inely pretty, becoming sleeves which dis-
play, the graceful contour of the arm, and
yet have enough width at the top to give a
good breadth to the figure.
This effect is obtained by either a nar-
row puff of cleverly-arranged cape, or bre-
telles. All manner of devices are resorted
to in the decoration of sleeves. One style
shows numbers of bands of whatever trim-
ming is employed, encircling the arm from
the wrist to the shoulder, while a second,
quite as unpopular mode of decoration, has
lengthwise bands reaching: from shoulder
to wrist.
In the case of aslim arm the circular
trimming is best, as it tends to add to the
apparent size, while a too plump arm may
be made to seem more slender by the up-
right trimmings. A smart new model,
turned out by Paquin, shows the sleeves
of rosy purple velvet, all interlaced with
narrow bands of Persian lamb, from under
which peep tiny frills of yellow Valencien-
nes. Very often two or three material are
employed in the decoration of the sleeve,
without appearing in any other portion of
‘the gown. Narrow pipings of sealskin, or
any of the close-haired furs, are emloyed as
a trimming on sleeves, setting the seams
together.
Collars and sleeves appear to have changed
places. While the sleeves have diminished
into almost nothingness the collars on the
jackets are perfectly huge many of them.
Flaring ones standing out from the neck,
cut into points or in the style of Medici,
Elizabethan ruffs are much worn on capes.
A girl should marry when she is capable
of understanding and fulfilling the duties
of a true wife and thorough housekeeper,
and never before. No matter how old she
may be, if she is not capable of managing
a house in every department of it, she is
not old enough to get married. When she
promises to take the position of wife and
housemaker, the man who holds her prom-
ises has every right to suppose that she
knows herself competent to fulfil it. If
she proves to be incompetent or unwilling,
he has good reason to consider himself
cheated. No matter how plain the home
may be, if it is in accordance with the hus-
band’s means and he finds it neatly kept
and the meals (no matter how simple)
served from shining dishes and clean
table-linen, that husband will leave his
home with loving words and thoughts, and
look ahead with eagerness to the time when
he can return.
Let a girl play the piano and acquire
every accomplishment within her power,
the more the better, for everyone will be
that much power to be used in making a
happy home. At the same time, if she
cannot go to the kitchen if necessary, and
cheerfully prepare just as good a meal as
anyone could with the same material, and
serve it neatly after it is prepared, she had
better defer her marriage until she learns.
If girls would thoroughly fit themselves for
the position of intelligent houekeepers be-
fore they marry, there would be fewer dis-
contented, unhappy wives and more happy
homes.
Soft shades of brown always spring into
favor at the first frost; perhaps because
it is harmonious with the fading leaves, and
perhaps because there is so much warmth °
in the color. A lovely gown made of a
soft canvas cloth in the most beautiful
“warm shade of golden brown, over crimson
satin, showing beautifully through the
meshes.
A narrow rope or cord of crimson velvet
outlined every seam of the gracefully
gored skirt.
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