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Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 26, 1897.
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JEHIAL; SLAB'S THANKSGIVING.
Of course they's changes in the ways
An’ methods of aour livin’,
An’ long among the holidays,
Some folks fo'git Thanksgivin’
We might, of course, let some things go,
An’ “vaporate” an’ die,
But what in sin I'd love tew know
Is the matter with punkin pie?
Iain’t agin the trolley car ,
Much less the tellerphone,
They may or mayn't be folks in Mars,
Ef they let me alone.
An they may string electric lights,
I hain’ no stock in gas,
The question thet my wrath excites,
Is whar’s your cranberry sass?
I'm as peaceful as a side hill plow,
An’ as tew Venzueeler,
Just settle it, [ don’t keer how,
Er let the British steal her,
But on American ideas
I stick right tew my celors,
An’ jest you promptly answer please,
What's crooked with aour crullers?
An’ you may scoot aroun’ on wheels,
An’ telescope yer stummick,
An’ then walk crazy on your heels,
An’ give yer back a hummick.
That ain’t my biz the country’s free,
You won't ketch me a huffin ;
But. Lordy don’t treat carelessly
A good old oyster stuffin’.
Chew gum, smoke cigarets, play ball,
Wear foot ball hair er bloomers ;
Wear Jenness Miller skirts and all
The fuds of fashion boomers ;
Read high eugene, Kneipp's water cure,
Until yer reason wabbles,
But at Thanksgivin’ time be sure
Tew roast the bird that gobbles.
What cruel things is said of pie,
"Pernicious thoughts instillin’.
The saltry teardrops fill my eye
When I think of mince pie fillin’
The meat and apples, cloves and spice,
The light crust as a rider;
The sugar, citron, suet nice,
All drowned in good biled cider.
Then let the preacher hev his fling
At preachin’ an’ at eatin’.
An’ when you've heered 'em preach an,
sing
An’ slide home after meetin’.
Tew find the turkey smokin’ hot,
You're thankful you are livin’,
You,ll smile and murmur, like as not,
*‘Thar’s no day like Thanksgivin’.”
—A. T. Worden in New Orleans Picayune.
THE HAPPY THANKSGIVING OF
THE BURGLAR AND PLUMBER.
Miss Elinor Merryweather went to bed
Thanksgiving evening in a graceless frame
of mind, at least in a frame of mind, that
may pass for graceless in a woman of such
kindly nature as Miss Merryweather.
“You may go, Robbins,’ she said to her
faithful maid, ‘‘and you and Harriet’’
(Harriet was the cook), *‘and Matilda’
(Matilda was the waitress, ) “may all go
to that party at James ’’ (James was the
gardener.) ‘‘I shall not need any of you.”
‘‘I hate to leave you alone, Miss Elinor,’
said Robbins; and hesitated, knowing Miss
Merryweather well enough not to ask her
would she be afraid. She did not do much
better than to blurt out: ‘They do say
there’s burglars in town ma’am.?”’
‘Very well,,’ responded Miss Merry-
weather with unshaken calm—whatever
her faults, timidity never was charged to
her—*"be sure you lock all the doors and
windows securely. And you may as well
see the galvanic battery works all right,
and that thesilver is all in the safe. Good
night, a pleasant time to you.”
Robbins knew when her mistress used
this tone that argument would be vain, so,
discomfited and with more than one wist-
ful glance backward in the hall she re-
tired.
Miss Merryweather began to walk u p and
down the room. It was an attractive room
with the soft ivory gleam of the paint and
the sparingly, old fashioned flowers on the
creamy walls. These walls were thickly
hung with water color sketches and pen
and ink and wash drawings which gave one
an eerie sensation of familiarity, like faces
seen in a dream, and sometimes by some
clever people of long memories were traced
to a favorable illustrator, being in fact, by
famous artists, their original drawings for
well-known magazines.
Whatever her eccentricities—I must
grant her some—she was greatly beloved by
her fellow townsman, and those who knew
her best loved her most strongly. She had,
however, a will of her own, and she was
one who, in the language of Holy Writ,
kept her promise to her hurt. Thus some-
times an impetuous temper led her into
imprudent declarations, out of which she
could not always extract herself without
great exercise of her wits. Her latest di-
lemma engrossed her to-night. Having the
plumbing of her dwelling repaired, in an
unlucky moment she had a quarrel with
the plumbers’ union over a bill, and the
result was that she sent away ‘‘every man
swindler of them all”’— I would not be
understood to indorse her words—and was
left with the water service of the house cut
off and water hauled from the cisterns and
a single faucet in the garden, while friends
sniffed apprehensively whenever they en-
tered the house, and asked, was she not
afraid of sewer gas? And her niece (who
was as a daughter to her) did not dare to
bring the baby to spend Thanksgiving, be-
cause the child might catch diphtheria
through the deadly leaking pipes.
“Stuff I’? said Miss Merryweather, who
used strong exrpessions sometimes, being
by birth and brecding quite too great a
lady to disturb herself about the minor
conventions; ‘‘stuff and nonsense !”’ There
are no leaks, Helen ; I shall get a plumber
and have you come Thanksgiving.”
She went to bed early ; but for a long
while she could not sleep. She thought of
the plumbers’ union and her own defeat
and raged anew.
And when, at last, she was just slipping
off into the shadows of peace, she heard the
softest of footfalls. Surely she had closed
the door on Diogenes, the dog! Hadn’t she
closed the door ? Her mind drove her hack-
ward over that hasty journey through the
rooms down stairs. Diogenes had a mat in
the laundry, and the range of the kitchen,
she certainly had closed one of the kitchen
doors. didn’t she close the kitchen door,
upstairs ? She did—at least she had seen
that the door to the cellar was fast and she
thought she had bolted the door upstairs—
how did the people ever feel certian about
anything enough to swear that it happen-
ed ?- The footsteps were nearer, in the sit-
ting room which adjoined the chamber.
Her first thought was for the safety of the
tea table with its precious freight ; she was
sure if she called to the dog kindly he
would begin wagging his tail, that tremen-
dous brush which with one sweep might
hurl her idols into irredeemable, smashing,
crashing ruin.
Sternness was the only chance ! ‘‘Down
charge, die !”” she commanded. ‘‘Bad dog !
Down !”’
A particularly mild voice answered her.
It ain’t a dog, miss; it’s a man !”’
‘A Man?” repeated Miss Merryweather.
“Well 1?
“Yes, ma’am,’”’ the voice repeated.
“Don’t be alarmed; I'm a man, a bur-
glar !”
Miss Merryweather showed no signs of
alarm; in the first place she had a fearless
soul; in the second place the voice was so
mild, so almost apologetic that it aroused
her sense of humor.
‘‘Idon’t know but that you are less of a
nuisance than the dog would be,”’ said she.
‘You stay right where you are and I will
turn on the electric lights as soon as I get
on a few things. Don’t move or you’ll hit
something ?’’
‘All right, ma'am,” said the burglar ;
‘‘only no pulling out a pop, you know,
and firing it off at me in the dark, hit or
miss !”’
"Certainly not, at least not until I can
see you,’’ said Miss Merryweather. All
the while she was hastily donning a wrap-
per and slippers. Then she turned on the
lights.
The burglar stood directly under the
blaze. He did not look like a burglar;
there was nothing much 1n his pale face ex-
cept the look of recent sickness and hope-
| lessness. His clothes were like any work-
| man’s, a pair of blue overalls, with some-
| thing like a bib front, and a patched check
shirt. His hat (it wasa hat and not the
cap in which artists, for reasons best known
to themselves, delight to depict the burg-
{ lar) was a very battered soft felt, and it
was not pulled down over his black brows;
it was pushed back from dark-brown locks.
| He looked like a workman out of a job.
| His hands, one of which held a pistol, were
I calloused and stained—a workingman’s
| hands. .
[ “I don’t want to disturb you, ma’am,”’
| he repeated; ‘but I’ve got to have some
| money !’
| “Why ?” said Miss Merry weather. She
was quite at her ease and had taken a rock-
| ing chair.
“Why ?’’ the man echoed bitterly ; ‘‘be-
cause I prefer to steal to seeing my wife
dying for want of things done for her, and
my children without shoes to their feet,
and never a bite amongst us all this day,
by ——. I beg your pardon, lady, I wasn’t
meaning to swear, but I’m wore out !”’
“‘Haven’t you had anything to eat to-
day ?’’ said Miss Merryweather.
He shook his head. A stiff lock of brown
hair which stood up on the top of his head
waggled at the motion; it gave him a gro-
tesque look. He certainly was frightfully
thin.
“Humph !” said Miss Merryweather.
“You sit down in that rocking chair and
stay there until I come up again. Don’t
you burgle any until I come back; then
we’ll see what we can do.”’
“You ain’t going to telephone to the
police to nab me ?’’
Miss Merryweather waved her hand to-
ward the wall at a telephone.
“It isn’t customary in houses of people
who are not millionaires to have two tele-
phones,” shesaid. *‘I am going to bring
You something to eat.’”’
Never, it seemed to her, had she heard
So many sinister noises at night as pricked
her ears while her candle flitted from pan-
try to sideboard. Boards creaked under her
tread as they never creaked in the daytime
and every door she touched sent up a long
shriek of remonstrance.
But Diogenes slept calmly in the laun-
dry. Miss Merryweather shook her head.
She carried a revolver in her hand, which
she laid on the tray. ‘He seems like a
decent sort of submerged unfortunate’’—
thus ran her meditations while she pro-
visioned the tray—‘‘but he may be wicked
and run after me down stairs. If he does Di
and the gun will have to hurt him."
“And I won’t talk to him away from
the telephone.”” She thought of waking the
sleeping dog and taking him up stairs, but
the peril to the china of Diogenes’ clumsy
bulk seemed so much greater to her intre-
pid soul than any personal danger from the
mild-mannered burglar that she dismissed
the suggestion as soon as it appeared. And
when she entered her sitting room again
and saw how starved and tired her burglar
looked she was glad of her decision.
His eyes brightened at the sight of the
tray. Miss Merryweather, making no
comment, lighted the lamp under the sil-
ver chafing dish, and as it burned she but-
tered the slices of bread and placed beef
between them.
‘I am afraid the beef isa little under-
done for your taste,’’ observed she kindly,
‘‘and I hope you don’t care for mustard, for
I forgot it ; but I’ve put on salt and pep-
per, and they were the best done pieces I
could find. The soup will be warm in a
minute. Now, you drink the glass of
wine.”’
The man drank it, keeping his eye on
her. Then he laid the pistol on the table.
“I ain’t going to use it,” he said.
‘You are not at all like a professional
burglar,’’ remarked the lady, who had now
come to ladling out the steaming sotip, ‘I
think you must be an amateur.’’
*‘I never touched a thing wasn’t my own
before lady. so help me—’
‘Well, you haven’t touched anything
yet, now,’’ interrupted Miss Merryweath-
er, who had a mania for accuracy. She
continued, *‘I suppose you are putting that
sandwich into your pocket for your family,
don’t do it ! I’Il make you up "a basket for
them. Tell me what brought you, such a
decent man, to this pass ?*’
The man smeared his eyes with his hand
before he began. ‘‘I never seen a lady like
you,” he said. “I’m just going to tell you
the honest truth. I was working in Chica-
80. I belonged to the junior plumbers—
‘‘Oh, if you are a plumber, it must have
come natural to you to rob !”’
. The burglar acknowledged the sally bya
faint smile. ‘‘We ain’t so bad as they make
us out. Well, hard times come and work
fell off and the union wouldn’t let us work
below wages, so I left the union, fact is, I
couldn’t keep up my dues— —
‘‘Do you mean to tell me,” cried Miss
Merryweather, springing from her chair in
strong agitation, ‘‘do you mean to tell me
you are not a union man.” Don’t think of
burgling me ! I can give you a great deal
better job, and I will advance you money
on it, too. This house is only about haif
plumbed ; if you will take hold and get
this plumbing done by 6 o'clock to-morrow
I'll pay you well ! And you shall have two
men to help you who aren’t plumbers but
have some sense ! And a boy to run to the
shop to get the tools. Are you a good
plumber ?”’
‘‘Yes'm, I was ; but you see I went to
Pullman and worked there till the strike
came. I didn’tstrike ; but I joined the A.
P. U. afterwards, soasto get the relief
The strike lasted so long I used up all my
savings, and then I didn’t get ‘back, after
all. So I'ma little out of practice." But I
guess I can satisfy you, I'll try hard.”
rr ——
‘‘But how did you get in? the windows
are barred down stairs—’
‘‘Yes’m, they look like good winders.
But I come in by the door, the kitchen
door. I reasoned like thegirls would have
some place where they hid the kitchen key
and I could hunt it up. Most like it would:
be under the door mat. That's where it
was, t00.”’
‘‘They shall have a latch key, every one
of them ; of course, you got in. But didn’t
you waken the dog?’’
‘No, ma’am, he jest slept like the dead.
Them big dogs is just like men about sleep-
ing, they sleep sound.’’
‘But when you came up the stairs what
did you do about the mat at the foot of the
stairs ? The lights ought to have sprung up
and the bells rung, the instant your foot
touched the mat !”’
“Why, you see, lady,’ said the burglar
apologetically,—he seemed to fear lest she
should be hurt by the failure of her care-
fully-planned burglar trap—:‘you see, I
naturally struck a match, now and then,
to see my way, and when I come on that
plain, common mat in that beautiful hall,
with the handsome rugs about, I knowed
it to be a burglar mat, so I jest stepped
over it ; I've no doubt all the things would
have happened, if I had stepped on it
right.”’
Miss Merryweather had very much the
sensations of a burglar in her own house
when later on she despoiled the larder to
make up a basket for the plumber to take
home.
‘Robbins never did stay out before later
than 12 or 1; it’s a quar—Great Heavens!”
Miss Merry weather jumped. Suddenly she
was bathed in a flood of light and bells
seemed to be ringing all over the house !
‘IT guess the mats is straight goods,”’
said the burglar ; ‘‘you trod on one by mis-
take, ma’am. Say, what's that? They’re
a hollering in the yard ! I'll try thisdoor.’’
‘No, you will not,’ said Miss Merry-
weather, all herself again; “‘you will stay
just where you are, while I open the
door.”
She was at the hall door before she ended,
calling loudly to the shrieking maids, who
came in timidly (except Robbins) in the
rear of the two men, who were none too
valorous.
*‘Nothing is the matter,’’ said Miss Mer-
ryweather. ‘‘I stepped on the mat myself.
Iv works perfectly. Harriet, I’ve engaged
a plumber, and he is to work all night and
the plumbing will be done by to-morrow
afternoon. If you need those extra tools
you better go home and get them now” —
turning upon the bewildered burglar—
‘and you don’t need that candle any
more; put it down. Don’t forget the
basket.’’
‘No, ma'am; thank you. ma’am,”’ the
burglar responded meekly, ‘and I'll be
back—"’
‘As soon as you can; there’sno time to
lose,’’ said Merryweather. “He isa good
plumber,”’ she announced calmly to her
dazed domestic staff, and I was lucky to
get him. I have sent a basket of things to
his family. Get him a good breakfast to-
morrow morning; and hope we shall have a
Thanksgiving after all. I shan’t forget how
good you all are in these emergencies.”
The plumbing was done, and well done,
by 4 of the next afternoon: The burglar’s
family, as well as the Merryweather gath-
ering, dined late that Thanksgiving, —
Octave Thanet.
As to Selling Game.
Provisions of a Section of the Revised Law.
There have been so many questions asked
concerning that clause of the revised game
laws which prohibits the selling of certain
kinds of game birds and animals that we
herewith publish ‘the clause in full for the
benefit of many inquirers. The section in
the game law prohibiting the selling of
game is causing considerable comment.
The law reads as follows : “That it shall
be unlawful at any period or season of the
year to kill, entrap or pursue with intent
to kill or entrap any elk, deer, fawn, wild
turkey, pheasant, grouse, quail, partridge
or woodcock, in any part of this common-
wealth, for the purpose of selling the same.
And it shall be unlawful for the proprie-
tor, manager, clerk or agent of any market
or firm or other person, firm or corporation
to purchase, sell or expose for sale any elk,
deer, fawn, wild turkey, pheasant, grouse,
quail, partridge or woodcock killed or en.
trapped within this commonwealth. That
it shall be unlawful for the proprietor,
manager, clerk or agent of any market, or
any other person, firm or corporation, to
purchase for the purpose of again selling
the same, any elk, deer, fawn, wild turkey,
pheasant, grouse, quail, partridge or wood-
cock killed or entrapped within this com-
monwealth. Whosoever shall offend against
any of the provisions of this section shall
be liable to a penalty of $100 for every elk,
deer or fawn so taken, purchased or sold,
and $25 for every wild turkey, pheasant,
grouse, quail, partridge or woodcock so
taken, purchased or sold, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail for a period of one
day for each dollar of penalty imposed.”
SE ———
The Late Dr. Evan's Estate.
Of Probably $15,000,000 Value—The Bulk of It to
Endow American Institutions.
Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the Philadel-
phian, who has been practicing dentistry in
Paris for many years and who through his
intimacy with Napoleon and many of the
royal families of Europe, was able to ac-
cumulate a vast fortune, died last week in
Paris. In September his wife died
suddenly and when he brought her hody
home, for burial in Philadelphia, he in-
quired minutely about many of the educa-
tional institutions of the United State and
intimated that he ini-oded to remember
them in his will.
His estate is valued at $12,000,000 or
$15,000,000 and both his lawyers and
friends acknowledged that the buik of it is
to come to America for educational institu-
tions.
Tammany’s Generous Hand.
Gives $20,000 to Cuba and the Same to the New
York Poor.
The executive committee of Tammany
Hall has shown its generons hand by giving
$20.000 to the poor Cubans and $20,000 to
the suffering poor of the city. The money
is the surplus of the campaign fund. Asa
supplement to the donation of money for
the benefit of the city poor, Nathan Straus
made a contribution of 1,000 tons of coal,
by the same committee which will dis.
burse the money.
Sire btimicsmiaseis
Languages of America.
There are, according to an eminent arch- i
aeologist, no less than from 120 to 130 |
absolutely distinct languages in North and !
South America. As the growth of language
is very slow, he thinks the fact of the ex-
istance of so great a variety of speech on |
the western continent proves that the na- |
tive red men have inhabited them for many
thousands of years. |
The Jews and Palestine.
The Jewish world, but to a much greater
extent in. Europe than in the United States,
is much interested in the Jewish state pro-
posed to be established in Palestine, where
*‘the “chosen, people’ from all the world
will be invited to congregate with the in-
tent of establishing an independent polit-
ical state amid the scenes of the ancient
glory of the Hebrew race. The Zionist
congress recently leld in Zurich, Switzer-
land, has given a considerable impetus to
the movement. Its significance is political
and economic. The avowed purpose is to
reawaken the Jewish national spirit and
bring about the reconstruction of the Jews
as a nation. Nationality is what is deem-
ed the invaluable missing quantity of the
Jewish people. Dr. Herzl. president of
the Basle congress, has been the most
prominent leader in the movement, and he
seems to have no doubt of its entire prac-
ticability. His plan is to send to Pales-
tine a well-equipped expedition to explore
the country and build roads and telegraph
lines as a preliminary to colonization. A
political organization called the society of
Jews, and the Jewish company, a corpora-
tion under English laws, said to have im-
mense capital, are at the head of the pro-
ject. The Basle meeting was an intensely
interesting occasion to the enthusiasts en-
gaged in the work. It took measures to
carry it on with system and energy. Vien-
na, a city in which Jews are often ill
treated, was selected as general head-
quarters. It was stated at the conference
that the sultan of Turkey would sell
Palestine for $50,000,000, and the Zionists
propose to raise that sum.
Since 1840 the number of Jews in Pales-
tine has steadily increased, and is now esti-
mated at 65,000. At that time of the 12,-
000 inhabitants of Jerusalem only about
4,000 were Jews. In 1896 of the 45,520
people in the city 28,112 were Jews. Scat-
tered over the world there are plenty of
Jews to found an independent state, and
their great wealth is well known. The
Jewish bankers of Europe make peace or
war by their control of great reserves of
money. The Rothschilds are as important
a factor as kaiser or czar. Within the past
sixteen years more than one million Jews
have been driven from their homes in
Russia hy restrictive laws, and a high
Jewish authority asserts that the anti-
Jewish element in Russia will not be satis-
fied until all the Jews are expelled from
the country. The number now in Russia
is estimated at from three to four millions,
and the question is what is to be done with
them and where are they to go when they
becomg friendless wanderers on the face of
the earth ? The solution of the problem is
sought in the return of the Jews to Pales-
tine and the inauguration of a system of
colonization which would be a real home-
going. That is the meaning of the move-
ment started in Europe by the Basle con-
gress.
American Jews, prominent with this
people, do not as a rule take much stock in
the Zionist movement. Rabbi Isaac M.
Wise, of Cincinnati, a man of great learn-
ing and influence, warns the Jews in this
country not to put any faith in the scheme
ofa Hebrew state in Palestine. He says
this congress at Basle was ‘‘a gathering of
visionary and impracticable dreamers, who
conceived and acted a romantic drama, and
applauded it, all by themselves.” He re-
views the history of the Israelites in their
dispersion and calls special attention to the
fact that while they migrated from land to
land they never went to Palestine, except
a few of the extra pious, who went to the
Holy Land to subsist on the charity of
Jewish congregations the world over, and
to die there and have their hones buried in
the sacred soil. It is the opinion of this
eminent Jewish divine that there is not the
barest possibility of purchasing any coun-
try, of forming and establishing a new gov-
ernment anywhere with the consent of the
European powers, or of securing the $400,-
000,000 to $500,000,000 which, he says,
would be required for such an enterprise
anywhere among Jews and Gentiles, the
world over ; “nor is there even the shadow
of a possibility to get, among all the Jews
in this world, within the next ten years,
200,000 immigrants to goto Palestine to
begin life anew under the precarious pro-
tection of a dwarf statelet.”
However it may be in Europe, there is
not much doubt Rabbi Wise indicates the
best judgment of his people in this coun-
try. They are liberal, and spend millions
annually in charitable works, but it is not
likely they will become large contributors
to the Zionist movement. The American
Jews are intent on cultivating and grafting
on their people an American nationality.
In merchandising and trading, in banking,
at the bar, 1n other professions and in poli-
tics they have achieved wonderful success
considering the ancient and deep-seated
prejudices that have been overcome within
a few years.
Costly Deafness.
A Washington correspondent tells of a
public man who is a little hard of hearing
and who sometimes attempts to save him-
self from annoyance by pretending to be
more deaf than he is.
In a public place, one day, this man was
approached by an office-seeker who, he had
reason to believe, was about to bore him
with his tale of woe. The office-seeker
said, in a low voice, which the others pres-
ent could not hear :
“Will you please lend me five dollars?’
‘What do you say ?’’ asked the public
man, in a tone which, he thought, would
deter the applicant from repeating his re-
quest in the presence of so many ; but the
man said, in a voice which drew the atien-
tion of everybody within hearing distance :
‘Will you lend me ten dollars, please?’
The public man was ashamed to refuse.
“Why, yes,’? he said, and gave the man a
ten dollar note.
As the borrower went away the lender
looked ‘after him bitterly and said, with a
sigh :
fra have saved five dollars if I'd heard
him the first time !’’
Origin of “Tip.”
Here is an interesting hit of philology.
It concerns the origin of the word ‘tip,’
and throws a little light on the origin of
the custom. In old English taverns a re-
ceptacle for small coins was placed con-
spicuously, and over it was written, *‘To
insure promptness.”” Whatever was drop-
ped in the box by guests was divided
among the servants. In the course of time
the abbreviated form, ““T. I. P.”” was used.
Giving rheir Employes a Chance
The Shawmut coal company is giving its
employes an opportunity to become land
owners in Elk county. Messrs. Hall &
Kaul employ over 1,000 men in their col-
lieries and lumber plants and are offering
them 10,000 acres of land at two dollars
per acre on easy payments, furnishing ma-
terials for building on time, and guarantee-
ing to furnish the men employment.
Republican Silverites.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is
a Republican silverite. He did not join
Senator Teller, Dubois and others in repu-
diating the platform of the St. Louis con-
“vention, hecause-he-believed in giving the
plan to secure international bimetallism a
fair trial, and he has declared time and
again that but for that pledge in the St.
Louis platform Mr. McKinley would have
been defeated, as the country is overwhelm-
ingly for the continued use of both gold
and silver as the money of final redemption.
Senator Chandler is a power in the Repuh-
lican party. He has heen three times elect-
ed to the Federal Senate, and his present
term will not expire until 1901. He was
also a member of President Arthur’s cabi-
net. His prominence and leadership in
the party cannot be challenged. This gives
importance to a letter published recently in
the Washington Post on ‘The Next
Duty of Republican Bimetallists.” We
give the essential parts of this letter.
Senator Chandler starts out with the les-
son of the late elections, and says :
‘‘As to the elections, they prove with rea-
sonable clearness that if the Republican
party permanently acquiesces in “‘the ex-
isting gold standard’’ and gives up the
struggle for bimetallism, that party will
be defeated in the congressional elections
of 1898 and in the presidential election of
1900. The silver monometallists will then
take possession of all branches of the Na-
tional Government, and a free coinage bill,
with silver made the tender for all debts,
public and private, domestic and foreign,
will pass both houses of Congress and be
signed by President Bryan.”
Reviewing the elections in the different
states, the great numbers of rural Republi-
can bimetallists, and that New York will
be lost to the Republicans by their votes,
Senator Chandler goes on :
‘“There may be infatuated individuals
who think, in view of the recent elections
in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky and Ne-
braska, that the Western Republican States
can be kept in line if future party plat-
forms shall completely yield to gold and
give up the effort to remonetize silver, but
the wiser and safer view is to assume that
with the issue so framed the Republican
party will meet with overwhelming politi-
cal disaster inflicted by a solid South and
a West almost solid, aided by Tammany
hall and the free silver Democracy of the
| Empire State. This comes very near being
a country of free voters, and our elections
come very near being honest transactions,
and an intelligent people, with their votes
freely cast and honestly counted, will never
adopt or submit to the permanent demon-
etization of silver and the fixed ascendency
of the single gold standard prescribed by
England. So the pathway of safety is only
in one direction. Mr. McKinley was
elected only because his platform and his
previous utterances promised efforts to se-
cure bimetallism.’’
‘‘We Republicans,’’ says Senator Chand-
ler with marked emphasis. ‘‘did not prom-
ise to establish bimetallism if we could,
believing it to be a bad thing, but because
we believed it to be a good thing. If we
now faithlessly abandon the pursuit of that
good thing we doom ourselves to political
annihilation.”
‘Political annihilation” is a strong
phrase. Evidently the republican New
England senator does not believe silver a
dead issue. He compares that pretense to
the frequent Democratic and Whig com-
promises before the war ‘‘that proclaimed
the doom and death of the anti-slavery
agitation.” We all know how they panned
out.
Senator Chandler next discusses the dis-
appointing action of Great Britain in refus-
ing to join France and America in helping
bimetallism. That we had a right to ex-
pect better things the senator shows as fol-
lows:
On Mareh 17, 1896, the house of com-
mons unanamously declared that the best
interests of the country had been injured
by silver’s demonetization in 1873, and
urged the government to do all in their
power tosecurean international agreement.
In the debate the chancellor of the ex-
chequer (Sir W. E. H. Beach) promised
that the government would obey this in-
junction. The first lord of the treasury
(Mr. A. J. Balfour) made the same prom-
ise in many words, among them these :
‘‘We will reopen the India mints. We
will engage that they shall be kept open,
and we will therefore provide for a free
coinage of silver within the limits of the
British empire for a population greater in
number than the population of Germany,
France and ‘America put together.”’
The British ministry and parliament
having once changed its mind may do so
again. We oall particular attention to this
part of Senator Chandler’s letter, in which
he says of British action :
‘‘At first they ( the English ministry ) were
undoubtedly inclined to listen favorably to
the French and American proposals, and
induced the Bank of England to promise to
contribute to remonetization: the holding
of a portion of its reserve in silver bullion,
as the bank law allows. But the money
power of England was aroused and ex-
pressed its disapprobation. The potent
Mr. Robert Benson tried to convince the
ministry, by impressive facts, that the
American movement was not in earnest,
and that Secretary Gage’s proposed meth-
od of currency reform and the self-consti-
tuted currency reform commission were
conceived in hostility to the remonetization
of silver, and that President McKinley was
not sincerely in favor of an international
agreement.
Senator Chandler appeals to silver Re-
publicans, if they desire their party to re-
main in power, to ‘renew the pledges to
bimetallism and devise ways and means
for fulfilling them.” With that we have
no special concern. It is for Republicans
to determine. The ways and means he
suggests are that the people and govern-
ments of the two Americas shall, by a Pan-
American remonetization congress., sub-
mit their united request to European pow-
ers. It will be heeded even by England,
he says. Senator Chandler evidently thinks
this will be a stop-gap, and answer the
same- purpose with the American voters
that the bimetallic declarations of the St.
Louis platform answered in the McKinley-
Bryan canvass. They cannot he fooled
again. — Pittsburg Post.
Engines for Foreign Countries.
Foreign orders have been received by the
Baldwin locomotive works for fifty-nine
locomotives of varying types involving an
expenditure of nearly $600,000, and caus-
ing an early strengthening of the working
force. These make one of the largest or-
ders booked by the company for some time,
and, with one exception, are from foreign
countries, a number of which have here-
tofore awarded their contracts to English
and other foreign builders. This latest
order includes ten passenger and twelve
freight locomotives for the Finland state
railway. The Central railway of Brazil
orders sixteen freight and eight passenger
engines, the Grand Trunk railway of
Canada ten freight engines.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
To suit a long, narrow face the hair
should be dressed round, and it is always
best to show a coil or so from the side be-
hind the ears ; also endeavor to fill up the
nape. of the neck as much as possible.
For a sharp-featured face always avoid
dressing the hair right at the top of the
back of the crown in a line with the nose,
as this so accentuates the the severe out-
lines. Dress the hair low down or else
quite on top to meet the fringe.
For a broad face narrow dressings are
Dieleraide, but should be kept somewhat
igh.
Exceedingly tall people should keep the
hair dressed rather low and decidedly
round. :
Very short women should have their
hair dressed high, as it gives addition to
their stature.
It is very rarely that we find purely
white hair ; it is usually a gray-white, and
with this latter no colors are so suitable as
dark greens, browns, ambers, purple tints.
deep cream, dark reds and warm shades of
dark blae.
Strange to say, there is more oxide of
iron contained in vegetables than in meat,
and it is iron which makes rosy cheeks and
rapid coursing of blood through the veins
which gives the clearing complexion. The
potash in vegetables also aids in purifying
the blood, driving away gouty tendencies.
The beautiful teeth of the Italian peasantry
are said to be due to their maccaroni diet
and the polenta (mush) which America
has taught them to use. Beauty-seekers,
however, in the direction of attractive
mouths should take their oatmeal in baked
biscuit form, as the teeth need more exer-
cise on this grain than the mere swallow-
ing of soft porridge, unchewed, can give.
It is amusing to note that there is even a
vegetarian bicycle club in London, though
how ‘these would compare with the beef-
eaters in a century run is not stated.
When a man is ordered by his physician to
eat meat only once a day, and not red meat
at that, he finds amusement, not satisfac-
tion in the astonishing list of things served
at these London restaurants, from oyster
plant croquettes to the mince pie made of
apples, raisins, currants, lemons, citrons
and lemon peel. The shaddock or grape
fruit, te begin a breakfast with, is as good
as a dose of quinine ; and fig-bread, con-
taining a generous supply of chopped figs
in the household bread, is very appetizing.
The cardoons make the boiled celery which
all travelers in Italy learn to like exceed-
ingly ; and celery in every form is excel-
lent for the nerves. So, between com-
plexion and comfort the fruit diet and
vegetable varieties offer a larger choice
than one would think for a large propor-
tion of the meal.
The ever-popular shirt waist will be
worn through the winter, for shopping and
business, made in velvet, silk or pretty
woolen material, plain taffeta, is more
popular this year than the shaded. Russian
blouses are still most fashionable but if you
cannot afford two or three wraps do not
buy one to wear for a coat as they are only
becoming to very slender tall people.
Grey still leads the fashion.
Every indication, we are assured points
to continued and even increased favor for
neck garnitures that completely conceal
the throat and well-nigh the ears. The
latest shown have a large bow under the
chin and combine the ribbon stock with
ribbon plisse and lace in a truly hewilder-
ing manner. In addition we shall’ have
little scarfs ending in big bows, lace scarfs
and at least two novelties that are easily
made at home. The one is of five-inch
ribbon, the other of silk, but both are
simple in the extreme; at the same time
they are effective and becoming. To make
the former is required only a bias strip of
taffeta four inches wide and 40 long. All
the edges are finished with narrow hems,
and exactly at the centre is placed a loop
of narrow ribbon, or mad« from a tiny band
of the silk. The scarf is vassed round the
throat, crossed at the Lack and brought
round to the front a second time, when the
ends are passed through the loop and al-
lowed to hang without forming a bow. The
ribbon is made to cover a stiff stock that
closes at the back, where two ends are at-
tached that pass round to the front and tie.
The ends are simply fringed, and when
the ribbon is of a well-chosen plaid or
Roman stripe the effect on a gown of quiet
tone is difficult to outdo.
Modish women adhere to the nose-tilt
hat, in spite of the vogue of the Pompa-
dour style of coiffure. And wise, indeed,
are they, as the flare-back hat is merciless
to the wearer and betrays every tell-tale
line and blemish of the not-too-fresh com-
plexion.
The short straight front corset continues
its vogue, and the only objection to them
is the extraordinary high prices charged.
They give full scope to the hips and back,
while keeping a tight rein in front, a
decided advantage where there is a ten-
dency to embonpoint. There will be an
epidemic of suddenly developed hips this
winter, and it will not be because the old-
time pad has been resurrected, The wise
woman is simply paying more for her
corset, and studying carefully the lines of
her figure. Even when not made to order,
the trying on has become a serious matter.
‘The straight front has a very great merit }
it simply starts in by doing the very best
for what is already there.
Shoulder drapery continues to be a fea-
ture of the modern woman of fashion. It
is no longer a mere matter of bunching up,
for an effort is made to keep the shoulder
flat and to square off with military-looking
epaulette what was once a huge circular of
material, puffed and tucked here and
there. The shoulder drapery, then, should
not he allowed to puff up, still less be per-
mitted to droop listlessly, but should be
squared off with sharp angles and true
edges.
A generation ago the little girls of the
family were made happy by a gift of a
Roman sash presented by the aunt or uncle
who returned from a European visit.
Heavenly blue, barred with gold, the
Italian colors, red, green and white, deli-
cate combinations of rose-pink and pale
blue, striped these heavy sashes. There is
nothing handsomer to-day. One Roman
sash outlasts three or four sashes of
ordinary ribbon. They are now once more
the height of the fashion, and will be worn
with white frocks by the young, and on
gray or black for afternoon and evening by
more mature women.
A Roman sash smartsns a dull black
silk. Most of them have long tied fringe
of white silk. When this becomes rough,
tangled or soiled it is clipped off and the
edge hemmed and hordered with black
lace. Tie your sash with short loops and
quite long sash ends.