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' Bellefonte, Pa., May 28, 1897.
SWEETHEART AND WIFE.
If sweethearts were sweethearts always,
Whether as maid or wife,
No drop would be half so pleasant
In the mingled draught of life.
But the sweetheart has smiles and blushes,”
When the wife has frowns and sighs,
And the wife's have a wrathful glitter
For the glow of the sweetheart's eyes.
Jf lovers were lovers always,
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for a future of Eden
_ The joys of this checkered lite ?
{But husbands grow grave and silent,
And care on the anxious brow
Oft replaces the sunshine that perished
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still :
Whose voice, as of old, can charm him 3
Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill.
Who has plucked the rose to find ever
Its beauty and fragrance increase,
As the flush of passion is mellowed
In love’s unmeasured peace.
Who sees in the step a lightness ;
Who finds in the form a grace ;
Who reads an unaltered brightness
In the witchery of the face |
Undimmed and unchanged. Ah, happy !
Is he crowned with such a life :
Who drinks the wife pledging the sweetheart,
And toasts in the sweetheart the wife.
—Memphis} “Commercial Appeal”?
SOLOMAN HOLT, TWIN.
“I ’low that this slavin ver life away on
a pra’ry claims perty bard on a man of
your years.”’ said Doc Pitkin, removing
his sheepskin gloves and ‘warming his
brawny hands over the fire.
‘Jes 80,” replied Soloman Holt, careful-
ly brushing the dust from a cheap crayon
portrait which hung on the cabin wall.
‘‘ ‘Tain’t goin ter be fer long, though.
When I git ter be guard—?’
“Ive heard tell as how you're goin’ to
git an office. I'm glad of it, Sol ; you de-
sarve it.’’
“Thank ye—thank ye. ’Tain’t much
uv er office—jes’ guard up at ther pen’ten-
t'ary. I’ve already writ ter the gov’nor.”’
“‘Perty sure of gettin’ the office, you
think ?”?
“Ain’t no doubt about it.
now—"’ :
“Who is it 2’ ‘asked Doc, surveying the
crayon portrait, critically.
“That’s Lige. Mebby ye didn’t know
Lige.”
‘No...
“Nearly everybody knowed Lige. He
knowed the gov’nor and the gov’nor
knowed him. Tain’t every mansthat can
have sed that uv him.”
© “That's so.”
“Lige war in the Legislature ; he war |
one uv a pair uv twins.”
This picture,
Then he glanced at the postmark and next
at the printed words on the corner, his
heart giving a great bound. “Governor's
office,”” were the first words that caught
his eye, and thrusting the letter into his
pocket he walked towards the door.
“What's the news, Sol ?”’ asked the
postmaster, whose curiosity was raised to a
high pitch by the sight of the letter.
‘It’s only er letter from the gov’nor,”’
he replied, loftily, and opening the door,
he went out.
“It’s my ’pointment,’’ he muttered to
himself, as he hurried across the prairie in
the direction of his little cabin. It was
getting dark when he reached home. He
replenished the smoking fire, lighted a
small kerosene lamp, then seated himself
in one of the low splint-hottomed “chairs,
he drew the letter from his pocket. He
gazed at it for some time in fond anticipa-
tion before venturing to break the seal.
“Yes, it’s from the gov’nor’’ he said, as
he opened the missive, and spread it out
under the rays of the lamp. “I recken he
thought he’d give me a surprise by send-
ing the ’pointment by mail. It's a good
thing I told the squire to mention ’bout
Lige, an’—the twin. But let's see what
he sez.”
He read as follows :
“STATE OF K—r
“Executive Department.
‘Governor's Office,
‘January 17, 180—
‘Mr. Solomon Holt, Benton's Post Office, K—.
—My Dear Sir: Yours of Jannary received. We
note your application for position as one of the
guards at the penitentiary. In reply the gover-
nor directs me to say that the same will be filed
| and carefully considered with other applications.
Yours very Truly,
“J. L. BRIGHTON,
“Private Secretary.”
The letter fell from Solomon’s hand,
while a look of deep disappointment came
over his face.
*’Tain’t the ’p’intment after all,’ he
muttered, then relapsed into silence.
. The disappointment was a severe one to
him, hut he did not lose hope. He re-
| vead the letter many times, studying its
every word. How cold and formal is all
seemed. It was not even written by the
governor himself as he would have wish-
ed. Perhaps the governor had not seen
his application at all. He could hardly
believe that such a formal note would have
been written to him had the truth been
known. Perhaps he would hear from the
governor later on.
“The gov’nor don’t know nothin’ ’hout
this, like as not,”* he muttered. “I kent
b’lieve he’d have sich a letter as that writ
ter the twin brother uv Lige.”
Three days later the squire returned from
the capital and came over to Sol’s cahin.
+ “I didn’t have time to write after learn-
ing of the appointment,’’ said the squire,
“and as I was coming home I thought it
best to wait till I got here and come over
amt see you in person.’
Sol nodded. .
~ “I'm a thousand times obleered ter ye.”
‘he said. *‘I reckon I'll hafter be goin’ ter
the capital fore long.’
The squire shook his head.
“I’m sorry it turned out the way it did ;
but you didn’t get the appointment. ’’
“What ! didn’t git it 2” said Sol, his
face growing a shade paler.
‘No ; vou didn’t get it after all. It was
given to Bill Shucker, who lives over on
Soap creek.”’
“He war?” *
“That's a fact. I’m the other twin.”
“You don’t say ?”’
“They did say we looked a power alike.
Would you take that to be me—say, five
years ago ?”’
“Well, there’s a family resemblance,
only the clothes—?’ :
“That’s a fact ; T never thought uv the
Solomon Holt sat as if stupefied, gazing
into the smoldering fire. It was several
moments before he could find ‘voice to
speak.
“Ye seed the gov’nor in person 2 he
asked at length.
‘Yes.
“You tol’ him about Lige 2”
“Yes.”
clothes. Lige always would spruce up—
had to do it yer know, being a legislater.
Yas, as I war sayin,’ Lige knowed most
everybody, everybody knowed him, an’
that’s goin’ ter help me in gittin' ter be
guard.”
“No doubt of it.
Lige now 27?
‘‘He ain’t nowhar—he’s dead—bin dead
these five years. People come fer miles ter
go ter his funer’l. It wara powerful blow
ter the state when Lige died—he’d a’ been
gov'nor ‘fore this, like as not.”
“Like as not,” répeated Dok Pitkin.
“There was no doubt in the mind of
Solomon Holt that he would receive the
appointment which he had asked, and he
Whar’s your brother
“An’-—an’ the twin 2”?
“Yes ; but there were so many appli-
cants for office—"’
_ “I reckon he never knowed Lige,” said
Sol, in a sort of hopeless, dejected way, as
if speaking to himself. “No, he couldn’t
a-knowed Lige."’
He sat there gazing gloomily into the
fire long after the squire had taken his de-
parture. The darkness deepened around
him ; the fire died out and the cabin grew
bitterly cold. Still he sat motionless, his
chin resting in his hands. He was think-
ing of—well, no matter ; his lot had been
a hard one ; his life had been a fierce strug-
gle with poverty and want—yes, want. He
had not always had even the necessaries of
set to work making preparations to £o to
his post as soon as he should he called.
Squire Spludford, who was something of
a local politician, was going to the capital
to attend the inaugural ceremonies of the
newly-clected governor, and he had
promised to present the claims of Solomon
Holt for appointment, and if possible to see
life. If he had got the appointment he ex-
pected he might have. got along ; but
now—
He shivered like one with a chill, and
rising, he groped his way to his cold, hard
bed.
Three days later some of the neighbors
came to the cabin, to find him in a dying
the governor in person.
“I’ll see that your claims are presented
to the governor,”” said the squire’ “and
there isii’t any doubs that you will get the
appointment, that is, if sonieone don’t get
in ahead of us.”
“I’ve heen in the state fer 35 years an’
that ort ter count for somethin’, said Sol-
omon,
“Yes, I've no doubt it will.”
“You'll he sure an’ tell the guv’nor
about it?’
“Yes.”
condition. Pneumonia, the doctor ‘said.
He had but a short time to live, that was
the verdict of all who looked into his pinch-
ed and wasted face.
They gathered about him as the ‘end
drew near. He lay as if he were already
dead, save when he would murmur some
incoherent sentences.
‘Yes. the gov’nor’ll know Lige,”” he
said, in a faint whisper, his mind wander-
ing. “Tell him—I’m his twin brother,”
He lay silent for a long time, his breath
coming faintly.
‘An’ about Lige 2’
“Of course.”
“He'll know Lige—least the other gov’-
nors did.”
“Yes.”
An’ about the twin—tell him I’m the
twin brother of Lige.”” 3
“I'll do that, and as soon as I learn
about the appointment I'l] let you know.”
In due time the squire went to the capi-
tal, where he expected-to remain for two
weeks. After a few days Solomon began
to pay daily visits to Benton’s store at the
crossroads, where the post office was kept.
“I'm lookin’ fer a letter from the
squire,” he explained. ‘‘He’s goin’ . ter
let me know when I git the ’pointment.’’
Solomon Holt was almost 65, and age
and the hardships of life were already tell-
ing upon him. His frame was very spare,
and his thin hair was thickly streaked with
white. He wore a suit of faded blue
material that was threadbare in many
Places, and he made a grotesque appear-
ance 2s he hobbled across the wind-swept
prairie.
“I must git me some new clothes when I
git ter be guard.” he said, casting a glance
at the pile of cheap, ready-made clothing
at the store. |
His frequent visits to the store soon be- |
came the. source of comment among the
idlers that frequented the store and more
than once Sol and his appointment were
made the butt of rude jests. But of these
he took no notice. The time would come,
he felt sure, when he would he in position
to ‘put the joke back on em” as he ex-
pressed it. :
* But the days went by without bringing
any tidings from the squire. The uncer-
tainty-of the issue kept Sol in a state of
restless anxiety, and every day found him
at the store, waiting for the arrival of the
mail which the stage brought daily from
Stoper’s station.
One evening the postinaster handed him
a letter in a" large, offlcial envelope. He
stared at it a moment in ‘bewilderment.
“It’s a long dark road,” he said, feebly,
“but I ken see the light now. It's gettin’
closer an’ closer ! I see ’em comin’ ter
take me up thar—How bright it is—the
: 'p’inment’s comin’ now—thar ain’t no mis-
take this time—they—they knowed Lige
—tell em the—twin !?
He fell gently back on his pillow. He
was dead.—N. Y. Ledger.
Mistook Acid for Whiskey.
A dispatch from New Bloomfield Tues-
day says: John Halman, a resident of
this place, suffered terrible burns from
carbolic acid Friday night last. Mr. Hal-
man is a cigar manufacturer and a member
of the Bloomfield school board. Friday
night he got wet in the rain, and feeling
chilly he went to a closet in his house,
and, as he supposed, grasped a bottle filled
with whiskey, kept in the house for medi-
cinal purposes. Pulling the cork, he put
the bottle to his lips and took a large drink:
from it. No sooner had he done so than
he discovered his terrible mistake. In the
dark he had taken hold of a bottle filled
with carbolic acid and poured his mouth
full of the deadly burning liquid. Quick
as the realization of the terrible mistake
flashed through his mind he endeavored to
spit the deadly poison from his mouth, and
in a short time succeeded, as the acid had
not been swallowed. His mouth, throat,
tongue, lips and chin were hurned in a
terrible manner. A physician was hastily
summoned and the pain alleviated as much
as possible. In time Mr. Halman will
recover from the burning and acid poison-
ing, but he certainly had a narrow escape
from more fatal results.
——Nice Gentleman-—How old are you,
little boy ? And how old is your brother ?
Swipsey—We’re craps.
N. G.—Crapx'?
Swipsey—Yes.
leven.’
Jim’s seven and I'm
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INTERESTING READING FOR TAX-
> PAYERS.
Criminal Extravagance—Our State Officials Guilty—
They Should be Arraigned. '
We do not advocate any ‘‘cheese paring’
policy in the buildings or furnishings for
the State. They should be as good as the
best, but should not be wasteful nor
smirched with jobbery.
If a father uses the money earned by his
wife, at the wash tub, to purcifise a ‘gold
chain with which to adorn his rum red
neck, instead of using that ‘money to buy
bread for his starving childrden, or clothes
to cover their shivering forms from the
biting winds of winter, the common con-
sensus of mankind would say he has been
guilty of a crime, and deserves to be pun-
ished. It is not enough to say, as he stands
over the emaciated form of his starved boy
now cold in death, that ‘‘I was the father
of the fatnily. In law I had the right to
control its earnings. It was wholly a mat-
ter left to my discretion as to whether I
would buy a gold chain or bread, or legal-
ized rum, and into the exercise of that dis-
cretion the law may not intrude to say
what I should or should not have done.’’
Never in the history of this generation
have the people as a whole been so pressed
for the necessaries of life as during the
Years’ of the present State administration.
Bank or business failures have been of daily
occurrence, suicides have multiplied, some-
times of men reduced from opulence to
poverty, and frequently of men and women
starving for bread, and no work with
which to earn it. There have heen in-
stances in which the father or mother have
slain their children rather than see them
starve. Thousands of the tax-payers of
Pennsylvania have lost their homes and
with them the savings of years of hard toil.
Benevolent societies, such as the one in
Harrisburg, headed by that prince of hene-
factors, Gilbert M. McCauley, and our City
Missionary, Rev. B. F. Beck, who delights
to go about doing good, have exhausted
their resources in a vain attempt to feed all
the hungry and tlothe the naked.
Individuals who believed that their own
personality and sympathy should be
brought in contact with the suffering ones
have gone to the homes of the poor and ac-
companied their alms with their prayers,
their tears and their affection.
People of all ranks in life, except multi-
millionaires and State pampered politicians,
have had to practice the most rigid econo-
my, if not for themselves, yet for the pur-
pose of helping their relatives, friends or
neighbors who were in need. ;
In the midst of this suffering what have
been the estimates of Messrs. Delaney,
Hastings, Haywood and Mylin as to the
amount necessary to make our Governor
and his family comfortable. These are the
men who pounce upon a private citizen
with three libel suits, because, forsooth, he
dared to suggest a Court of Inquiry to
ascertain in part whether they had not
been extravagant in using the hard earn-
ings of along suffering but law-abiding
constituency.
Let it be remembered before we give
| figures that the Executive Mansion was
remodeled and renewed, if we remember
correctly, during Governor Beaver’s term
at a cost exceeding $25,000, and that dur-
ing Governor Pattison’s term the mansion
was kept in good repair and the furniture
renewed and replenished when actually
needed. Let it also be remembered that
in order to make room for the new furni-
ture and furnishings ‘hereinafter descrih-
ed,” nearly all of the so-called old, but
really new, and very valuable, furniture
had to be disposed of in some way. Ladies,
who were watching for the public sale of
the many valuable curtains, were disap-
pointed at the small number offered, and
so of all the furniture. What became of
it ? It was worth many thousands of dol-
lars. What, for instance, became of the
two chairs, elegant and valuable, bought
by Governor Pattison and placed in the
mansion as relics of the great Columbian
Exposition. They should have remained
there. They were not sold, as the law
directs to the highest bidder. Where are
they ? ;
Let us leok at some of the new pur-
chases for Governor Hastings, and remem-
ber that he helped. to make the estimate
that these things at these prices as a max-
imum, were necessary. . Not that there
were no books, glass-ware, silver-ware,
ete., ete., there, and in good condition for
use, but it was not sufficiently rich, rare
and costly. However, future examina-
tions will show whether these things have
the real value indicated by the figures, or
whether, on the other hand, much of it is
mere surface tinsel’ with the purchase of
which there was connected the most un-
conscionable jobbery. Much of the so-
called sterling silver-ware called for is
marked ‘Marquise,’ showing an affection
Presently he spoke again.
for the luxurious tastes of the worn out
nobility of England. But to the figures :
One batch of spoons and 7
knives, £150.00
| One tea service, six pieces,
latest and richest designs. 400,00
Other silver-ware, 559.50
Total for silver, $1,400.50
The above includes three dozen Trilby
forks at $30.
The estimate for cut glass reaches the
modest sum of $467.25. This includes one
Combination Bowl (what for ?) at $100. .
For rugs, mats, ete., for all buildings in
the year 1896, they asked for the enormous
amount of $4,151.85. Of course some of
them were expensive luxuries for the
‘‘Soup House’’ period, estimated at nearly
$800 each. From the number asked for
the year 1896, it would seem that rug®
were to take the place of carpets. But not
so. They wanted 659 yards of best Wilton
carpet at $2.25 a yard, amounting with the
lining to $1,633.20. :
In 1897 over six times as much as call-
ed. Four thousand yards of Wilton, cost-
| ing not more than $9,000, the lining to
which was not to exceed in the aggregrate
$1,000. Total, $10,000. The mats and
rugs for 1897 were fot to cost more than
$609.25. : :
Enough carpet was called for this year to
cover 70 rooms, each 20 feet square, to say
nothing about the rugs and mats.
In the back yard of a house kept by a
woman who is visited almost daily by a
prominent employe at the capitol, not her
husband, fifteen elegant rugs were one day
counted by a neighbor—they were being
aired. Query : Was there any connec-
tion between these rugs and the large num-
ber purchased for the capitol this year ? It
was to this employe that a prominent Har-
risburg attorney and statesmau brosecuting
the libel cases against us, sent word to
‘have the furniture taken away from this
house or it will give our case away.”
In the home of a relative of another of
these attorneys is a fine carpet which she
says she bought of the woman of many
rugs.
In 1897 Messrs. Delaney, Hastings, Hay-
wood and Mylin called for 8 fire sets at
$900. These included fenders, andirons,
shovels, pokers, ete.
In 1896 they needed 12 carpet sweepers
at $54. The average life of a Sweeper is
said to be from three to five years ; but in
1897 they wanted 18 more at $81. They
also call for a piano cover at $100. Won-
der if it is for the mahogany piano in the
Governor’s house, which captain Delaney
had painted white.
The window curtain and portiers bill is
so large as to render one incredulous, yet
we have gone over the hooks again and
again, and where windows are named and
so much a pair for the curtains is given we
have assumed that the plural form meant
but two windows, though it might mean
many more, so that our calculations fall
short rather than reach above the actual
figures. With this explanation let us look
at some of the rooms-in the Governor's
house and see what he thought necessary
to make him happy.
For the Louis XIV room the
drapery estimated as nec-
essary was worth (maxi-
mum), seises
Moorish study,........
Guest Room, 3rd floor,... 1,292
+ «“ “ « ! 190
” ft year... . 130
Bachelors® Room,. 130
Smoking, * rs 455
Governor's Private Office,. : 530
Sitting Room,t........ © 000
Dining Room,.. 1,290
Hall, i 60
Reception Room, Louis ) 2,140
Total for drapery, $12,027
How does that look for curtains alone dur-
ing the starvation period of 1896-972
Only a Woman.
There is living over in England at the
present moment a plain, simple, rather
commonplace old woman who is attracting
a good deal of the world’s attention. Her
name is Victoria, and she ‘happens to be by
the accident of birth Queen of Great Bri-
tain and Empress of India. There are
millions of brighter women in the world,
but by reason of the hereditary laws of the
monarchy and by reason of the manner in
which rulers are selected she is the most
distinguished, the most noted, the most
powerful of her sex. She is, also, by rea-
son of these circumstances, partly by rea-
son of her character and bearing as well as
by reason of her age, the most illustrious
individual in the world. She is the belov-
i ed and respected sovereign of all the mil-
lions of people who dwell in the territories
subject to British domain in all quarters of
the world and in every zone and clime.
She is not ®nly this, but, by reson of the
fact that she was called to the throne when
very young, she has the added distinction
of having reigned longer than any other
British occupant of the throne. Not only
that, but her reign has been the most ii-
lustrious in the history of her country, and
has witnessed the most marvelous advance
in arts, science, industry and literature.
This is the 60th year since she came to
the throne as a young girl of 18, and the
What a travesty on economy to attempt
now to shut the taxpayers’ eyes by going
to the opposite extreme and attempts to
build a Capitol for $550,000.
Let us see what Megsrs. Delaney, Hast-
ings & Co. estimated the other furniture
necessary for the Governor’s house.
Parlor Louis XIV—Centre cluster with
four chairs $186; 2 sofas $350; 2 arm
chairs $270 ; 2 window lounges $200 ; 2
reception chairs $100 ; cabinet each $200 ;
table each $130; grilles each $75 ; pier
glass frame each $250 ; mantel and glass
each $200; lady’s desk each $100. We
have used the word each as found in the
schedule. If they bought more thah one
as the language would infer, they of course
ought to be able to explain what was done
with the extra one or ones. It foots up
$2,061, and tax-payers will perhaps never
know how much more, as indicated by that
word cach, was brought in the name of
Louis XIV. The language of the schedule
is such that the estimate, may as easily be
$4,000, or $6,000 or $8,000.
From the schedule, no bidder, unless he
had a private understanding, could offer an
estimate on the work proposed and done
on the Governor's Mansion. The failure
to give measurements, etc., makes it im-
possible for bidding to be accurate. This
gave the favorite bidder the job. We will
not now say, as many have said, that the
favorite bidder must needs “divvy’’ as the
condition of favoritism. Some of the ceil-
ings had been finished in expensively pan-
eled quartered oak, which grows richer in
coloring and more valuable the older if
grows. - The spirit of vandalism run wild,
combined with the spirit of avarice, tore
out these beautiful ceilings and in their
stead put perishable plaster-of-paris at fig-
ures that are simply appalling, when, con-
sidered in connection with the poverty-
stricken condition of our industries and of
a large share of our tax-payers who must
foot the bills.
Eight or ten rooms, including hallways
and bed-rooms, were decorated. Under
the head of papering and decorating sched-
ule for the Executive Mansion, the Board’s
estimate includes—
For side walls, each panel frame $30 ;
filling panels $6 a yard ; ornamental plas-
ter ceiling per square foot $1.10 ; cornice
per running foot $1.25. Then, for decorat-
ing this ornamental ceiling and cornice per
square foot $1, making $3.35 a square foot
for mere ornamentdtion. They might al-
most as well have papered it with green-
backs. For columns and pilasters per
square foot $3.50 ; wainscoting, $3.50 mM
square foot; for mirrors, $150 each 5 for
mirror frames, $75 each; for repairing
present plaster work, 50 cents a square
foot. In smoking room ‘for wall hung,”’
presumably with paper, or it may have
been with gold, per foot, $3. Moorish
Room ‘for stuff’ for side walls hung per
foot $3.25, and so on ad nauseam. We
leave the tax-payers to figure out the prob-
able totals. It évidently runs into more
money than the mansion originally cost.
The furniture must he considered at
some other time.
As the reader walks through the Capitol
grounds let him look at the four black
hoards having gil letter directions to rooms
n diflerent buildings. They are a few
months old and are so defective as that one
at least is splitting from the action of the
weather. We have asked mechanics what
they were worth. Ten dollars each is the
highest estimate, but the ground commis-
sion’s maximum estimate was $50 each, or
$200 for $30 or $40 worth % material and
work. These boards are really standing
guide boards, sort of ensamples of the flimsy
known young man of New Stanton, West-
work and high price of everything done.
The fire has quickley effaced the evidences
of tinselled fraud that a single year’s wear
would have demonstrated to every man
who has eyes and care to to use them.—
Pennsylvania Methodist. :
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The Presbyterians.
Dr. Jackson Was Elected Moderator by a. Big
Majority.
There were but two candidates for the
moderatorship of the Presbyterian general
assembly, now in session at Eagle Lake,
Ind., Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the home mis.
sionary, and Dr. Henry C. Minton, the sem-
inary professor. The politicians of the as-
sembly were treated to a great surprise,
and the election of Dr. Jackson by a vote
of 313 to 338 was characterized by many
delegates as ‘‘a breaking of the machine.’
It was claimed as a victory for the more
liberal branch of the church, and was in
line with the election of Dr. Withrow last
year. The new moderator, in taking the
chair, disclaimed any personal elements in
his election and charged it to the desire of
the church to forward the home missionary
work of which he is an exponent.
Swallowed Two Dozen Eggs. ~
Thursday evening James Gaffney, a well-
moreland county’, made a wager of fifty cents
with George Crock, of that place, that he
could eat two dozen raw eggs inside of five
minutes. The contest took place in Gal-
lagher’s store, and Gaffney won both as to
the amount of eggs and the time required
to do the eating. He was given his win-
nings. Although it is said he became sick,
no fears of any serious results befalling the
Young man from his mess of eggs are anti-
cipated.
people of England are going to spend mil-
lions in a mammoth celebration of the
event, which promises to be memorable for
centuries to come. There is no question
of the loyalty and devotion of the English
people everywhere to their Queen. In
spite of the spread of democratic ideas,
there is no doubt whatever of the stability
of the English monarchy and the continu-
ance, for the present at least, of hereditary
rule.
| One strange thing about all this is that
Victoria is really not an English woman.
She is one of the several generations of
Germans who have ruled over England,
and she is about the first of her family of
whom it could be said that the English
was her native tongue. In addition to
this she married a German, her cousin, one
of the petty German princes, Prince Al-
bert of ee Coburg Gotha. But none of
these things affect her sovereignty, and
Englishmen have long ago got over any
chagrin they may have felt over the fact
that their rulers are not of pure English
blood. This woman, however, great as she
is, is more of a figurehead than a person of
positive power, having really less authori-
ty and less initiative in the conduct of the
government than the President of republi-
can America. She is subject to the British
constitution, which, unlike that of the
United States, is an unwritten one, and is
made up of a great mass of traditions and
precedents, that has grown up in the course
of ages, but which controls everything.
She has, like the President of the United
States, a veto power, but while every
President exercises this power more or less,
it has become almost obsolete in Great
Britain and bas not been exercised for
several reigns.
As the mainspring of the government, as
the fountain of honor, as the head of the
great social machine, as the head of the
church, and in other ways, this old woman
has vast power and influence. The senti-
ment toward her amounts toa sort of idola-
try. To kiss her hand, to be spoken to by
her, or even to be in her presence, is con-
sidered by many the crowning of a career,
a thing worth the struggles of a lifetime.
While all other women are denied the or-
dinary rights of citizenship, it is considered
no inconsistency that the chiefest among
the millions of British people, and the one
to whom all citizenship owes allegiance
and royalty, should be a woman.
And yet, in all that pertains to her per-
sonality, she is only a woman. She loved
and married her handsome cousin, she rais-
ed a family of nine children, and she was
much devoted to them as any mother in
her kingdom. She mourned her husband
when he died with a grief that refused to
be comforted, and she even had the -ambi-
tien to write a book which was as poorly
written, as books go, and could have been
produced by any of her women - subjects.
She has had little to do with the great
progress which her empire has made dur-
ing her long reign. She has simply con-
tributed to it by having sense enough to
allow those who were capable of its man-
agement to have their way, and by yield-
ing from time to time to the voice of pub-
lic opinion. She has devoted herself to
making matches for her daughters the
same as any other mother, and to trying to
repress the waywardness of her sons, some
of whom were disposed to sow an undue
quantity of wild oats, and through all her
life she has set an example of piety and
womanly propriety. She has been a good
wife, a good mother and a good woman.
ple or hereditary rule, we cannot but think
that in this the year of her jubilee it is
fortunate for the world that for so long a
period such a woman should have been in
a place where her virtues were so con-
spicuous and her example so far-reaching.
Whatever honors may be her due as a
queen, they are equaled by those which
should be paid to her as a woman.
——Even the Pullman car porters enter
perity, for which Mr. Pullman made them
all vote last fall. They have petitioned the
Pullman company for a raise of salary, giv-
ing as one of the principal reasons for the
demand that tips from the traveling pub-
lic have fallen off, and they find it hard to
support their families on their earnings.
There has been no depreciation in Pullman
charges, and the case the porters make out
isa good one. Turning the porters loose
on the public to exact their wages in tips
that should be paid them by one of the
richest money grabbing corporations in
America is the meanest display of petty ex-
tortion of the times. Mr. Pullman de-
serves a monument commemorative of his
genius in making money. He was the first
of Yankees to naturalize the English tip
system, which is another way of begging
wages from the public taat should be paid
by the employer.— Pittsburg Post.
—1It was a little hard on the young
man for he meant it well and had a sincere
admiration for the girl. They were sitting
at the table with a company of others, and
as he passed her the sugar he whispered ;
“‘here it is, sweet, just like you.” The
compliment was a little awkward to be
sure, but he meant it, and it seemed more
than cruel when a moment later she had
occasion to pass the butter to him. She
drawled ; ‘‘here it is, soft, like you.
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Newly married husband (home late
for the first time)—I know Iam a little
late, Alice, dear. You really shouldn’t
sit up and wait supper for me, darling.
Newly married wife (with withering
scorn )—Supper, dearest ; it’s too late for
supper. I've laid the breakfart table !—
Tit Bits.
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—— ‘I would I were a tree that I ight
leave,” remarked the stranded hotel guest.
‘But you forget,” said the other. ‘‘that
sometimes the trunk of a tree is seized for
board.”’
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
It is a peculiar fact, though an admitted
one, that transoms are of little or no nse
except-to accumulate dust, but no builder
will honestly declare it. If you really be-
lieve in the ventilating value of a transom,
remove the window entirely and supply its
place with a silk curtin, loose at the lower
| edge, which will flutter to and fro not un-
pleasantly. Yon may close the transom
entirely and cover the opening with a
drapery, which will be a good background,
and just below it fix a shelf, which will
hold a plaster cast or two and a pot of some
bright; colored ware. Sometimes there is
light enough in the hall to admit of having
a jar filled with loug sprays of German ivy
or tradescantia growing in water, set upon
such a shelf. Again, you may conceal
your ‘transom with a mass of the dried palm
leaves which are sold in the Oriental shops.
Or a panel of fretwork may take the place
of the discarded window, and the transom
still be useful as a ventilator. When two
transoms come close together, try the shelf
and drapery arrangement for one and the
palms for the other, arranging the latter so
they will rest partly against the drapery.
Against the inner or flat side of a transom
you may with advantage hang a picture of
such shape and size as_ to-entirely conceal
the opening and its frame, fastening it flat-
ly against the wall,
I wonder who thought of such a dainty
mode of decorating their stuffs, as tuck.
They always seem so perfectly appropriate,
and so daintily neat.
Gowns of thin stuffs are more or less
elaborate with tucks, often separated with
narrow insertions, or edged with tiny frills
of butter-tinted vale lace,
A pretty frock of leaf green organdie is
made up over a foundation of leaf green
The organdie is sprinkled plenti-
fully with huge clusters of dull pink roses
with graceful stems aa deny leaves. The
skirt has a hip yoKe laid in tucks, each
tick edged with a frill of the yellow lace.
From this yoke falls the body of the skirt
which is set in full fashion all around. The
bodice is round, and is provided with a
yoke made of tuck like the skirt. The full
lower body is caught into a crushed girdle
of leaf-green satin, while the throat is
swathed in a stock of the same.
The very latest bodice is no longer the
bolero. but the kind that fastens from the
right side over to the left. Some are full-
ed and finished with a jahot just against
the sleeve ; some have a double knife plait-
ed rufile from the shoulder to the-waist,
while still others are finished with a point,
just at the bust, with a narrow frill all
around. The very latest shoe has the
modified bull dog toe ; not the very man-
nish broad one of the past winter, nor yet
the old fashioned round toe, but an unde-
scribable modification of both. One of the
latest modes consists of a checked skirt and
jacket of plain cloth to match the prevail-
ing color in the plaid. Black and green is
a favored combination.
Speaking roughly, the imported gowns
last opened show four distinguishing char-
acteristics. The heavy linens in their var-
ious weaves have their braiding, which
means anything, from a few straight rows
to the most intricate designs : the semi-
elaborate gowns have their shallow yoke,
which forms epaulets over the tops of the
sleeves ; handsome gowns for occasions
Whatever we may think ahout the prinei—|
complaint at the delay in the era of pros- ;
have double edged insertion let into their
silken surface, “while the frail evening
dress has its chiffon sash.
Red is running riot !
It is the color of the moment ; the talk
of the shops. To ignore the subject is to
avoid that which is of utmost interest, as
far as toilettes go, to shoppers and well
dressed women.
Why this flaming shade should he desi-
red when the blaze of Midsummer heat is
upon us is a query that belongs to the
‘who was Junius” category. Red is here;
it will be worn ; it shows on everything ; it
is the belle gf shades ; to be on speaking ‘ac-
quaintande with it gives one a cachet.
One can Raveit in degrees from a ‘Jack?’
rose in one’s Panama hat to a red straw
toque banded in geraniums, with a red
canvas gown made over red silk and a red
parasol to match. Red organdies are the
latest innovation among summer dresses 3
and some of them are made up over pink
silk, but the majority over red silk or dim-
ity. These trimmed with plaid taffeta rib-
bons and Swiss knife pleatings are very
dashing. : :
No material so ordinary but what flaunts
itself in the chosen color. Red and ‘white
striped pique, polka-dotted duck, batiste,
dimities, percales and muslins galore
answer to the call. Repped piques in red
and white are made up with Eton jackets,
trimmed with white or black braid and
worn over cotton waists; white muslin
makes the prettiest combination for a shirt
waist. Old fashioned guimpes of lace,
muslin and embroidery are coming in, and
and each week they are growing more
popular.
In white they are especially attractive
with red organdies. I saw one yesterday
made of finely hand tucked Swiss’; the red
organdie blouse made over red silk was cut
round at the shoulders, a narrow, stand-up
frill finishing it in the old fashioned way.
Another innovation is trimmed sashes,
Ribbon or muslin, they tie at the back in
a small bow, and the ends fall to the hem
of the dress. Each side is trimmed with ;
narrow lace rufiles, or fine pleatings of
Swiss or muslin. Thisis one of the pret-
ties fashions of the season and will be re-
joiced in by youthful looking matrons.
In making the simple French dressing,
says an excellent salad maker, so many
keep the quantity of oil, vinegar, pepper
and salt in mind, but the manner of using
them seems of no consequence. It is of
consequence if you do not want the vinegar
on the leaves and the oil at the bottom of
the salad bowl. In the first place it must
be remembered that a wet leaf will repel
oil, therefore the lettuce or other salad
must be dried before it is sent to the table.
Now it is quite evident if a leaf wet with
water will refuse to retain oil one wet with
vinegar will do the same ; for this reason
the leaves should be covered with oil be-
fore the vinegar is added, or the salad will
be crude and very unlike what it should be
if properly mixed.
Don’t wear a dark underskirt beneath a
light or white gown, fancying it will not be
seen. It will make its presence known
some way, be sure, and the effect is not
good. That petticoats are apt to be seen
proves the use of elaborate and expensive
ones.
——Young men should take warning
from the story of the watchful mother, who
thinking that her daughter’s gallant had
stayed long enough, walked out on the pi-
azza and inquired if the morning paper
had come.