Deworrali Wakdwan
Bellefonte Pa.. October 28, 1904.
ER BE —
THE SWEET SORROW OF PART-
ING.
‘‘Good-night,” he said; the parlor light
Was soft and dim and low,
“Good-night,”” he breathed again; *“Good-
night,
It’s time that I should go.”
She rose and smiled into his eyes,
Then shyly bent her head,
“Good-night,” he murmured loverwise ;
And then, “Good-night,” he said
“Good-night,—T'en minutes later, they
Were standing in the hall,
But he was on his homeward way,
“‘Good-night’’—he was so tall
Her head came barely to his heart,
And she was fair and slight,
‘“The hour has come for us to part,”
He said, “and so, Good-night.”
“Good-night”’—A half hour had gone;
He had his hat and cane
And said that he must hurry on,
Then said “Good-night’’ again.
“‘Good-night,”” ‘‘Good-night,”’ ‘‘Good-night,’’
and so
‘‘Good-night’’ they ever sighed ;
"Twas really time for him to go;
‘‘Good-night’’—the door swung wide.
““Good-night” he said, and took her hand ;
An hour or so went by,
‘‘Good-night”’—They could not understand
The grayness of the sky.
“Good-night, again,
night”
Upon the steps they stood;
‘“‘Good-night” — he kissed her fingers
white,
As every lover should.
and then ‘“Good-
“Good-night”’—the eastern sky grew pink
As though about te blush;
*‘Good-night”’—the stars began to wink,
The breezes whispered “Hush.”
Soon on their ears there clanged a knell
That smote them with affright—
The ringing of the breakfast bell—
That time he said “Good-night I"
— Chicago Tribnne.
CAPT. JIM McMILLAN’S
WHALE.
TAME
Did you ever hear of Captain Jim Me-
Millan’s tame whale?’ asked one of the
old-timers recently in a down east town,
- with a party of seamen discussing the par-
ticulars of the Chinese difficalty.
Without waiting for an invitation, the
speaker opened up with his story as fol-
lows : ‘‘Captain Jim McMillan was a re-
‘tired sea captain who moved, with his
family, to a small island ‘down the bay,’
near Deer Island, N. B., and under the
protection of the Canadian flag. The island
had a small harbor in which was a used-up
weir that in former years had gathered up
herring and other salt water fish so com-
mon in Passamaquoddy bay. With a few
weeks of repairing the brush enclosure,
Captain Jim had the weir in good condi-
tion again for the first catch of fish. He
arranged the gate for the high run of tides
and went home to await returns.
“They were not long in coming, for the
next day, when the veteran went off to in-
vestigate his newly-repaired weir, he was
very much surprised and delighted to find
an immense school of fat-looking herring
leisurely swiinming around the inside and
evidently enjoying the place. The fish
were unable to get out as the gate was
closed, and there was considerable satisfac-
tion in his first catch, since the fish had
been rather scare in the different weirs
near and the herring were in good demand
by the sardine factory owners at the neigh-
boring places.
‘“Here was a lacky catch, indeed, as he
could quickly find a ready markes for these
large-sized herring at Eastport, where they
would later find a place in one of the big
smoke-houses or he used as mustard sar-
dines.
‘‘The captain made a visit to Eastport a
few hours later, told of his supply of
herring alive in the weir and soon was of-
fered a fair price; in fact, looked upon the
lot of herring as worth $100.
‘When Captain McMillan returned to
his Canadian home down the bay a few
hours later, he was happy and his hopes
ran high.
‘‘ ‘We’ll bave plenty to eat when I sell
this lot of herring,’ said he to bis wife,
who met him on the beach, ‘and I’ll buy
You a new dress before I come back from
Eastport, sure.” A short time later in the
day he got into his boat and pulled into
the weir, when his hair stood on ends as
he saw a very large and black-looking ob-
ject resting on the water in the arrow en-
closure.
‘It looked like the body of a big snake
and the aged seaman thought it might be
the famed mythical sea serpent he had so
often read about, but had never seen be-
fore. Before he could leave the interior
the big fish began swimming around the
enclosure in a circle and it did not take
Captain Jim long to get on the outside and
drop the big gate in place. His weir full
of herring a few hours before had been
eaten up or gone through the several sma}l
breaks in the side of the enclosure, made
by the fish, and this was enough to cause
the captain to utter a few oaths, since no
one was near at the time.
‘‘He watched the big fellow a few min-
utes in silence, then eaid slowly, ‘that
critter cost me $100 sure, and he may be |.
worth that amounts if I can get him—dead
or alive, but the latter if possible.’ He
was not long in finding out that the fish he
had captured was a very young whale, and
since it was one of unusual length and very
slim, might he taken for a big snake at a
distance as the parts of the body came into
view. It was not an easy matter to capture
the fish alive without assistance, and de-
termining to make the best of his recent
misfortune, Captain McMillian set out for
his home to inform his wife of the whale’s
visit, and what had hecome of their catch
of herring.
“It was a big disappointment, ‘bus she
cheered him up with the remark that ‘even
a dead whale was worth something.” The
skipper went across to a neighboring island
for help, later returning with two boatmen
and a long coil of rope with which they
expected to capture the whale alive. Re-
peated attempts were made to get the rope
under the mammoth fish as it swam around
inside the weir, but it was impossible to
get near enough and finally the men had
to give up the attempt.
‘* ‘There is only one way to get tle
whale landed safely on the beach, that I]
know of,’ said one of the men, ‘and that’s
to build on to your weir.’ A little ex-
planatian followed, and it was decided to
extend one corner of the weir like the two
fences of a lane, up on the beach to high |
water mark, then. drive the big fish on
shore where it conld be: captured when
agronnd and helpless. i
*Work on the extension began that day
lane was completed all but one thing. How
to make an opening for the whale to find a
false escape up the beach was a question
for the fishermen to solve, and it looked
like an impossibility. One of the boatmen
finally hit on a plan of lowering down a
gate at the end, aftér removing enough of
the brush weir at that place, and then to
hoist it out of the water again. It requoir-
ed several hours of hard work to construct
a suitable gate and sink it into place be-
fore the weir could be cut in the desired
place, but this was finally done, and at the
signal the false gate was arranged in posi-
tion, then raised. Hardly had it reached
the top of the water than the whale seeing
what looked like a sure opening and escape
in view darted up the narrow enclosure at
a rapid rate of speed.
‘‘The big fish could not turn and in less
time than it takes you to tell the story was
high and dry on the smooth beach. How
that whale churned up the water with its
tail when the tide began turning for the
ebb, but in a few minutes the mammoth
fish was as helpless as a baby. Captain
McMillan measured the critter on the
beach and found it more than forty-five
feet from nose to tail, but unusually thin
for a whale.
‘‘He did not want to kill his new-found
prize and was at a loss how to.hold it when
the tide came in again, but concluded to
build a small enclosure around the whale
on the beach and at a future time expected
to securely fasten a big bawser about the
tail of the fish which would hold. He set
to work and soon had the captive securely
fenced in on all sides so that escape was al-
most impossible, and when the salt water
of the Bay of Fundy again reached the
young whale there was some fun for a short
time. Next day the captain came to East-
port and from a blacksmith secured a stout
iron band to fit securely around the outer
end of the whale’s tail, just back of the
fi
n.
‘‘In the band was an ‘eye’ to fasten on a
light chain, and with his newly-made col-
lar be soon returned home, and after some
difficulty, at low ebb, had the iron band
fastened around his victim on the beach.
When the tide again came in part of the
fence was removed, and the chain was se-
curely fastened on both ends, one being in
the eye of the band, the sea motster was a
prisoner.
‘‘Captain McMillaz concluded to allow
his captive into deeper water than his cove
afforded, so that the fish might be able to
look after its supply of food during the day
when he was not around. For a few days
the captive whale made a lively time of it
and tried to break away from the chain,
but finally was obliged to submit, and after
a short time devoured a quantity of food
brought near the weir by the owner.
Many of the island residents came from the
neighboring places to see the captive whale
on the chain, and Captain McMillan was
asked why be did not exhibit his prize at
the large cities across the border and along
the Maine coast.
‘That would have heen easily enough
done had the fish been dead, or small
enough to carry about in a boat, hut how
could he get a forty-five foot whale out of
the harbor in safety ?
‘It was not long until the big fish began
to show signs of besoming tame, and on the
approach of meal time was always found
ready to devour the food provided.
*‘In several weeks Jim’s baby whale had
came quite tame, so that when the veteran
seaman came near it in his boat his captive
would play alongside. After two months
had passed and the fish had increased in
size to be noticed, Jim thought be had bet-
ter secure a stouter chain to hold his pet,
and again made a visit to Eastport for a
longer and heavier piece of chain. This he
secured and returned to his Canadian home
for a change, when he was much surprised
and disappointed when he was told that
the whale had brokpn the chain and disap-
peared into the deeper water of the Ray of
Fundy. It was quite a shock to (ptain
Jim to find the broken chain and lose his
whale after so much expense and trouble,
but he returned to his house and talked
over his loss to his wife.
‘‘Never mind, Jim, perhaps the big fish
will come back for his dinner as usual, as
I’ve heard of such things, and, you know,
that wasn’t no ordinary whale, neither.
That whale was tame when it left these
waters, and mark me when I say that
you’ll see the fish back when it’s time for
the grub to he served.
‘‘The husband allowed that the whale
capture the big fellow if he shouldn’s re-
turn to the cove for the customary noon
meal.
‘I'd better shoot the critter and be sure
of the carcass this time; what do you say,
wife 2’
“Don’t he too hasty,}Jim, but wait for
developments, as the whale will return of-
ten when it comes back once, you can bet.
Only wait and see.’
‘“At the appointed hour for feeding his
former pet Captain McMillan went down to
she ledge where he had stood so often on
recent days and tossed the food into the
bay to his friend, the whale.
*‘He threw the bucket of food to the wat-
er and watched it sink below the surface,
but before the last particle had disappeared
the dark form of a long, slender fish came
to view, and when the tail was exposed
there the telltale iron 1ing and hanging to
it a small piece of chain.
‘“That’s my whale !”’ exclaimed Jim, as
the big fisb swam leisurely about the cove
and did not want to leave the small harbor
when the food was gone.
‘“The old seaman remained on the rocks
for a long time, and was then convinced
that his wife was right about the fish
which bad come back to stay, evidently.
Next day, and as fast as meal time came,
there was the tame whale, and soon the is-
landers heard of Jim’s lucky find. When
Jim went out to gather up his lobster traps
or haul in his fishing lines and nets the
whale accompanied him and was
rewarded by receiving a newly
caught cod or pollock off the hooks. One
day Captain McMillan started out on a
fishing trip down the bay, and not far from
Grand Manan, N. B., a fierce gale arose
and a blustering snowstorm set in, which
promised to last for several days.
‘Mrs. McMillan and her children gath-
ered on the beach near their home and
watched closely through the storm for the
husband and father, but nothing could he
seen in the distance but the high waves in
which no small boat could live.
“If Jim was out in that storm he had
litle chance to escape, she thought, and as
the day was nearly gone and no signs of
her husband, she began to feel a little un-
easy.
‘‘The storm seemed to increase in fury,
piling the waves high up on the beach, and
it began tolook as if another seaman was
to be reported among the missing.
“But what was that long, low object she
saw coming up the bay like a fast moving
steamboat half buried in the water? The
more she looked as it the more she wonder-
ed, and as the object came nearer she was
and contintied for three days, then the
able to make out the form of a snake-like
increased somewhat in length and also be-:
was certainly tame, but how was he to |
fish of a very large size, the Lead high up
out of the water.
‘Could it be her husband’s tame whale
back for its dinner at this late hoor, she
thought, as she supposed the fish had gone
away early in the day. As it came close
to the point of land on which she stood she
saw that there was some object on its back
that resembled a human being, and as the
whale came out into the small harbor with
the speed of a steamboat, under all steam,
the form of her husband could be plainly
seen. He lay across the whale’s back, near
its neck, with his arms over the side of the
fish, holding on in a firm grip and in an-
other minute Captain Jim’s form rose from
the surf and was quickly clasped in his
wife’s arms. He followed her into the
house and after a complete change of cloth-
ing, followed by a warm drink, he told her
how he had been saved from a watery
grave by his faithful whale, which seemed
to know considerable.
‘‘When the storm broke this morning,”
said Jim, we were well down the bay and
before I could get prepared for the storm
my mast broke off by the fierce wind.
What followed I am unable to say, except-
ing that I struck in the icy water, and was
sinking when I felt something soft like,
coming up under my hands, and you can
bet I grabbed it. When I came to the sur-
face I saw it was my tame whale, and then
I felt safer than I had a minute before, al-
though I was at a loss to know just what
the big fish would do and where it would
take me. I talked to the faithful whale as
I would to a person, as I had so often done
during the meal hour, and promised him
extra rations if he landed me on the beach.
‘““‘You know the rest,” continued the
captain to his wife, ‘and here I am safe
and sound after a ride of fully twenty
miles on the back of a real whale, buta
good one, I can assure you.’
‘Captain McMillan turned the fish to
good use later, when he went out on his
fishing trips, as he would fasten a stout
rope to the iron band in the whale’s tail
and would be towed home faster than hy
sailing, or even steam, as the fish always
came into the little cove. All went well
for about a year and many tempting offers
were made for the wonderful fish, but Jim
would not part with his silent friend for
any amount, as to the fish he owed his
life. He was just beginning to teach the
whale to tow his boat to different neigh-
boring towns in Passamaquoddy bay, when
the long fish took sick and died.
‘‘That was a sad blow to Captain Me-
Millan, gentlemen, as well as his family,
and it was a long time before they fally
recovered from the shock and the loss of
their pet. :
‘‘Captain McMillan didn’t know just
what to do with the body, but finally de-
cided to give it a burial in the bay near his
home and mark the spot with a gravestone
in the form of a big buoy above the dead
whale.
“This he carried out to the letter and
the unique funeral services were held on
the beach the following day and were
attended by quite a large gathering of
Canadian friends from the islands near.
‘“That ended Captain McMillan’s tame
whale, gentleman, ’’ said the speaker, ‘‘and
I will now bid you all good-night,”’ saying
which, he gathered up his bundles and
started for home. — Lewistown Journal.
When Japan Lost.
The treaty of Shimonoseki was signed
April 17, 1895. On April 23 the Russian,
French and German Ministers at Tokio
presented a joint note to the Japanese gov-
ernment protesting against the cession by
China of the Liaotung peninsula, on the
ground that as a Japanese possession it
would be a constant menace to Peking and
a danger to the independence of Korea,
and hence detrimental to the general peace
of the Orient.
Russia bad increased her military forces
in the Amur province, and her fleet in
Chinese waters numbered 22 vessels, in-
cluding some of her best ironclads. Ger-
many also prepared to strengthen her fleet
in those waters. ' The British Government
refused to join in the menacing demands of
the three Powers, but advised the Japan-
ese Government to yield. Japan sub-
‘mitted the joint note to her Generals and
Admirals, and they reported that scarcely
a ship was in thorough fighting trim, while
the whole military organization had been
put to severe strain hy the recent cam-
paigns in Korea, Manchuria, the Liaotung
peninenla, etc.
The financial resources of the Adminis-
tration were nearly exhausted, and it
would clearly bave been madness for Jap-
an to engage under such conditions in a
war with Eoropean Powers. She there-
fore sought only a dignified means of sub-
mission, and finally, after much unegotia-
tion, an arrangement was reached and a
protocol signed at Peking early in Novem-
ber. Japan accepted 30,000,000 taels as
extra indemnity and agreed to evacuate
Port Arthur and the Liaotung peninsula,
while China is said to bave covenanted not
to cede any part of the latter to any for-
eign Power. Japan was thus forced to
abandon part of the fruits of her victory,
under pressure brought to bear on her
at the moment when she was least able to
resist.
Uses For Old Shoes.
When our shoes are discarded as ‘‘really
too bad for anything,’”’ they have by no
means finished their course of usefulness.
The second-band dealer, perhaps, buys
them up and renevating them to the best
of his power, sells them again to some poor
person.
When finally discarded as footgear they
still have a future. They come into the
hands of the rag dealers, and by them they
are sold to factories, where the leather they
contain is submitted to various processes
till it gradually forms a material resemb-
ling in appearance morocco leather.
Upon this designs are stamped and hand-
some wall papers, coverings for trunks
and other articles are made from it. Fact
is oftener stranger than fiction, and it is
sober fact that many a handsomely furnish-
ed library and dining room has its walls
covered with a costly and beautiful leather
paper which was made from old shoes.
The Policy of S=S-SH ?
Why bas the grand old party of free
speeeh—and grand it was in its earlier
days—suddenly become the party with an
assortment of muzzles ?
The President and his Secretary-Chairman
Cortelyou are silent on the subject of ocam-
paign icontributions from the trusts and
corporations.
Mr. Roosevelt is mum as to negro suf-
frage and the threatened reduction of
Southern representation.
The negro Republicans at the North have
been admonished—by no less a person than
Booker Washington, it is said—not to
speak too loud of their devotion to Mr.
Roosevelt.
Secretary Taft warns the American people
pot to breathe the words ‘‘freedom and
independence’’ in the ears of Filipinos.
Is not this bushing suspicious ?. i
Parker Will be Elected.
Democratic Leaders Assert Their Candidate Will
Have 256 Votes. Policy of Campaign Has Beén
One of Quiet. Task of Claiming Everything in
Sight is Left to Republican Managers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—That Judge Park-
er will have 256 votes in the electoral col-
lege is the real belief of the Democratic
managers—a belief which is more than a
hope—indeed, a conviction. The Democrat-
ic policy thronghout the campaign has been
that of a still hunt. The campaign has
been conducted upon the lines which Sam-
uel J. Tilden, nearly 30 years ago, pursued
with such astonishing success. Confidence
has been withheld from everybody, even
within the committee headquarters, while
the work of thorough o1ganization bas been
persistently followed.
oNo claims have been made. There has
been, indeed, no attempt to arouse the lo-
cal workers by promises of success and the
glare of brass bands. On the contrary, it
has been impressed upen them that the
road to success lay through constant work
in organization.
Proceeding upon the assumption that the
independent vote of the sount1y was with
tbe Democratic candidate, they hammered
at the building up of the organizations that
eight years of continuous defeat had laid
on the giound and have sought the last
vote in each minor civil division they be-
lieved they were entitled to have.
These policies, though the managers are
yet maintaining silence, it is their belief,
based on the proofs of returns, have heen
attended with success that has more than
justified their labors and expenditures.
These policies have left vo their opponents
all claim-making, which, the more unop-
posed it has been, has swollen to such mag-
nitude until, to quote a distinguished Dem-
ocrat, ‘‘The Republicans are claiming,
‘‘the heavens above, the earth beneath, and
all the waters under the earth.’’
MAJORITY FOR PARKEK.
The Post has been placed in possession of
the inner facts upon which the Democratic
belief in 256 votes for Parker in the elec-
toral college is hased. Asa matter of fact,
more than 256 votes are boped for. Wis-
consin, it is held, is quite likely to cast its
electoral vote for Parker, and there are even
hopes of the State of Washington. Her? is
the list connted on by the Democratic man-
agement :
Elec. votes. |
New Jersey......ccceeeunt 12/{Indiana
Indiana........ 39 Montana..
Connecticut. 7/Colorado..
Delaware......
Maryland.. 8 Wyoming
West Virgi
Total
One hunnred and fifty-one votes from
the Southern States are conceded by the
Republicans to Parker. Add these to the
105, and the resul$ is 256, a majority of 17
for Parker. These are the real figures of
the close mouth Democratic managers.
The Republicans claim New Jersey by
17,000. The Democrats dispute it by claim-
ing a majority. In New york with its 39
electoral votes, there is in the returns and
the canvass sheets abundant justification
for all the claims made. Here the real fig-
ures are 30,000 plurality in the whole State
for Parker, and 60,000 for Herrick,although
there are enthusiasts who claim for the gu-
bernatorial candidate at least 100,000.
With the exception of two counties, the
State from a Democratic standpoint is in ex-
cellent shape. These counties are Onon-
daga and Westchester. In the one 9,000
plurality for Roosevelt and in the other
2,500 are conceded. The condition in
‘these counties is dune wholly to local Demo-
cratic divisions. Elsewhere everything is
barmony. The Gold Democrats are in
line and enthusiastic everywhere else.
What there was of silver alienation bas
passed away.
The secret figures of the State managers
are 85,000 plurality for Roosevelt above
the Harlem river, and 115,000 plurality
for Parker below it making the plurality
of 30,000 for Parker.
HOPE IN CONNECTICUT.
Counecticut, in the beginning, was one
of the most doubtful States because of
the large percentage of the whole vote
given to McKinley in the last two cam-
paigos, and becanse of the divisions ex-
isting among the Democrats. There was
another fear, and that was that the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
would be used asa political engine in
favor of the Roosevelt ticket.
Three weeks before the election, how-
ever, conditions have materialized that
bave justified the Democratic managers of
the State, as well as the National man-
agers, in the conviction that there is both
a National and a State triumph awaiting
them.
The Democratic managers will admit of
no doubt of the result in Connecticut.
West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are
a group of States which, erroneously, are
supposed to go together. Maryland may
be dismissed with the assertion that the
reports from that State assure a plurality
for the Democratic electoral ticket, in that
the element of the Democratic party that
supported McKinley in 1900 and gave him
a plurality is solidly in line and declared
for Parker, its leaders being on the stump
for Parker.
WEST VIRGINIA IS SAFE.
The lass reports from West Virginia bave
convinced the Democratic managers that
West Virginia is no longer doubtful. The
figures of plurality for Parker are put down
for 7,500.
Delaware is claimed by ‘the Democrats
by 1,500 plarality. This is made upon the
reports of the State managers, who say
that they have the best organization they
have had since Addicks began his cor-
rupting work in Delaware. There is no
doubt that they have had encouraging
assistance from the Democratic National
committee. The gold Democrats are in
line, and there is no silver Democratic fall-
ing away.
VICTORY IN INDIANA.
Indiana, so often the contesting ground
for the great parties, is by the Democrats
ranged solidly in the Democratic column,
with 15,000 plurality. Even the Republi-
can managers, claiming everything else in
sight, admit that the State is in doubt.
The tour of Mr. Bryan through the State
has put an end to that doubt, and from all
quarters the Democratic National man-
agers have had assurances that the State
will be solid for Parker.
MYSTERY IN WEST.
Concerning Montana, Colorado, Idaho
and Wyoming, the utmost mystery has
been maintained by the Democratic man-
agers at the National headquarters. It is
doubtful whether the admissions that they
count upon the 14 electoral votes they
could give would have been made if repre-
sentatives from each of the States had not
come into New York and boldly proclaim-
ed that their States were committed to the
Parker cause.
It was not until then that admissions
were made—not until they were confronted
with what might be considered proof—
it was admitted that each of these States
was upon the secret list, and they were
confident of the result.
No claims are made as to Wisconsin, but
there is a large hope that the conditions
obtaining in the Republican party will
continue to the end, in which event it is at
least a chance that the electoral ticket of
Wisconsin will be for Parker.
Although there are conditions in Michi-
gan, Minnesota and Illinois whieh indi-
cate that in each a Democratic governor
will be elected, no claims as to the elec-
toral ticket will be made
WILL NOT TAKE STUMP.
Judge Parker will not go on the stump.
Any political utterances be may make will
be at his home at Esopus. This is final.
Delancey Nicoll, vice chairman of the Na-
tional Democratic committee, made this
statement to-night, when asked what sue-
cers the leaders of the party had made to-
ward inducing the presidential nominee to
g0 on a speech-making tour.
For three days many of the prominent
Demccrats have urged Judge Parker to re-
consider his determination to not appear
at any of the big mass meetings. It was
planned that he should make a whirlwind
campaign during the last two weeks of the
campaign, in Indiana, New York and West
Virginia with his ronning mate, Hznry G.
Davis. All the pressure possible was
brought to bear upon him, but it availed
nothing.
HOLDING UP EMPLOYES.
“The Democratic National committee has
received information that the Republican
State committees in Southern States have
adopted some extraordinary methods to
raise funds for their National committee.
W. A. McKee has been sent out as an
agent from Republican headquarters at
Atlanta, Ga., with instructions to visit
every postoffice in Georgia of any size, and
demand from the postmasters a contribu-
tion, also asking him to notify all clerks
and carriers in the various offices to repors
to him.
The amount that each employe is asked
to give is 10 per cent of his salary. The
postoffices are told to instruct all Republi-
cans employed in the postoffices, and also
those who have not made known their
political belief, to visit Mr. McKee at his
hotel and make contributions.
Each caller is said to be told by Mr. Mec-
Kee to consider the interview strictly con-
fidential, and warned not to let it reach
Democratic ears, because Mr. Cortelyoun
would be postmaster general after Jan. 1st,
1905, and they might lose their positions.
Predicts Prosperity Wave,
St. Louls, Oct. 18th—That a wave of
prosperity is about due, was predicted to
the Illinois Bankers’ Association in ses-
sion here to-day by Frank A. Vanderslip.
‘‘I am convinced, ’’ said Mr. Vanderslip,
‘‘that the possibilities of another great
business expansion are at hand, bus con-
nected with those great possibilities are
great responsibilities. Those responsi-
bilities are largely on yourshoulders. The
bankers of this country will have great
influence on the beginning and the length
of this next period of prosperity.
‘‘A great speculative boom now is nos
what is needed. It is, indeed one of the
special dangers. If bankers in the great
centres are unconservative in the induce-
ments they hold out to secure deposits, and
accumulate great stacks of money which
will loan at such low rates as to encourage
unduly a speculative spirit, they will
strikea blow at this returning prosperity
which may long . delay. its coming.
‘There is another danger in the banking
situation. During the height of the last
commercial expansion people so lost their
heads as to excuse their extravagant and
foolish actions by saying that there was a
new political economy: that the old laws
no longer applied under the new conditions.
They were wrong, lamenetably wrong.
And to-day a thing for the bankers of this
country to remember is that there has been
discovered no new law of finance which
makes banking without reserves safe and
conservative.
*‘T believe it is time for optimism. So
long as we remember in humbleness our
mistakes and hold close to a proper con-
servatism the course of financial events
seem likely to follow only ope general di-
rection, and that is toward improvement,
toward expanding business and toward
better times.’’ '
Tillman a Preacher.
CoLuMBIA, 8. C.,Oct. 24—James H. Till-
man bas decided to enter the Methodist
ministry. Tillman hes written a letter to
aclergyman in this city selling him of his
intentions, and also informing him that he
bas already made application to the Meth-
odist conference for admission.
Tillman is a nephew of Senator Benja-
min R. Tillman, of South Carolina. While
serving as lieutenant governor of this
State, James H. Tillman shot and killed
N. G. Gonzales, editor of a paper published
here. He was subsequently acquitted at a
trial held at the capital city, which was
quite sensational.
The Home Doctor,
Palpitation of the heart may be arrested
by bending down so as to allow the blood
to run to the head.
It is said that a muskrat skin worn the
for side next to she lunge will bring cer-
tain relief to asthma sufferers.
Poultices of hot baked onions will not
only relieve earache, but will sometimes
cure the deafness that results from ear-
ache and hard colds.
Blisters which form after burns or scalds
should be pricked immediately, the water
squeezed out and pressed down gently
with cotton wool.
The skin of a boiled egg is the most
effications remedy that can be applied to a
boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply to
the part affected. It will draw off the
matter and relieve the soreness in a few
hours. :
Remarkable Hospital Patients.
Two remarkable cases that are oconpy-
ing the attention of surgeons are those of
Herbert Castello, who is in the German
hospital with a fractured skull, and
Thomas Winters, who lies at the Medico-
Chirargical hospital with a broken neck.
Castello was injured when thrown from a
trolley car on September 12, and since that
date all endeavors to restore him to con-
sciousness have failed.
Winters’ neck was broken by a steam
shovel in the subway on July 13, and his
death was expected in a few houre. He is
paralyzed from his neck down but his mind
is clear, and unless gangrene shall set in
his chances for several years of life are
excellent.
~——Cortelyoun allows 159 electoral
votes to Parker and Taggart, with more
lavish generosity, concedes 200 votes
to Roosevelt. But concerning the 117 that
are left there is an irrepressible conflict
between the two chairmen.
A PE PA EA CH SR SAR
To the President of Our American Col=
leges and Universities.
Our readers will remember that in be-
balf of our American Humane Education
Society we addressed the presidents of our
Awerican colleges and universities, asking
them to aid in establishing a *‘Professor of
Social Science and Humanity’ in every
university and college.
We are requested to republish that letter
in part or whole and comply with the re-
quest a3 follows : :
A Professor of social science and humani-
ty in every university and college.
The university or college sends ont a
doctor with a knowledge of drugs and
medicines to hold in his bands the lives,
health and happiness of human beings.
Is it not important shat he should be
also bumane ?
It sends out a lawyer to practice his pro-
fession for good or evil ; a law-maker to
make laws; a judge to administer them ; a
capitalist to employ hundreds, perbaps
thousands, of poorer people.
Is it not important that all these should
be humane ?
Ought it not to he the aim of every col-
lege and university to send out every
graduate a better and more humane man
than when he entered ?
And how is this to he accomplished ?
Ought not the great questions of peace
and war, upon which the happiness of mil-
lions depends, to be thoroughly discussed
in our colleges and universities;—the ques-
tions of capital and labor; how best to pre-
vent anarchy, riots, and great destruction
of property and life; the temperance ques-
tions of poverty and crime;—how best to
deal with them ;—the wise administration
of our great charities for.the prevention of
cruelty to the sick, the insane, and all
who are dependent on charity ?
Is there not a vast amount of informa.
tion on all these subjects which it would
be well for university and college students
to know ?
It is clearly established that there is a
great increase of crime in our country, far
more murders than the average of the most
criminal country in Europe.
What can the educated young men of our
country do ahout this ?
Another great field of humane effort lies
in the almost unrestricted sale, especially
to the poor, of poisonous and adulterated
articles of food, drink, cooking wares, wall
papers, etc., ete.,—the milk upon which
tens of thousands of infants are fed in our
cities.
Then in regard to the claims of the lower
animals to protection, is there not another
important field of information and thought?
How many of our college or university
students are familiar with the wonderful
intelligence of many of the lower orders of
creation ? The carrier pigeon that flies
hundreds of miles to its home—how many
bave ever studied the evidence of their
good as weil as intellectual qualities ?—
how many know that Agassiz firmly be-
lieved in the immortality of some of them?
—-how many know the effect on public
health of eating the flesh of animals that
bave suffered in transportation or slaughter-
ing, and that all suffering to animals just
before death poisons, to a greater or less
‘extent, the meat, so that old hunters re-
fuse to eat the flesh of deer,run and worried
by dogs, and wise fishermen prefer fish that
have not suffered before dying ?
How to promote public bealth by im-
proving animal transpertation by land and
sea—by improving and making more mer-
ciful our methods of slaughtering animals
—by preventing the confinement of milch
cows in dark and unwholesome stables and
feeding them on distillery slops and other
improper food ?
How many know that the milk of the
abused animal mother, like the milk of
the abused human mother, may produce
sickness and sometimes death?
How many have ever properly consider-
ed the relation of birds to agriculture, and
how much better it is to study them with
an opera glass and kodak than witha
gun?
How many know the happiness that
may come intc all human lives by the
universal teaching of kindness to the low-
erones, and that the boy who has no
proper home influences may be made a
merciful man and good citizen by the con-
stant practice of kindness to the lower
creatures ?
Is there not a vast field of thought and
information on all these subjects which
educated men ought to know ?
And where else san they be better taught
than in the college or university ?
When in 1878 we asked President Hayes
at Washington to put into ‘his message to
Congress what had been written on the
transportation of animals, he answered,
‘When I was in Harvard University I heard
a sermon by Dr.Hodge on the immortality
of animals, which I have never forgotten
to this day. What yon bave written
shall go into my message.” And it did,
almost verbatim.
‘When in the winter of 1884 and 1885 I
addressed the students of a New Orleans
university, a gentleman arose at the close
and said: ‘‘Ten years ago I was a student
in Dartmouth College when Mr. Angell
came there and addressed the students on
the importance of teaching kindness to
dumb animals. I had never thought of
the subject before, but when I left college
there was no one thought more strongly
impressed upon my mind than the duty of
kindness to the lower animals.”’
The gentleman was then the assistant
superintendent, and has since been sup-
erintendent of the public schools of Min-
neapolis.
If such results can come to only two
students from listening to a single sermon
and talk, what may we not hope when
the seventy thousand students now in
our American colleges and universities are
as thoroughly educated in regard to
humane subjects as they are in regard to
other matters ?
I am sure no thoughtful man connected
with any of our American colleges or uni-
versities can carefully consider this sub-
ject without feeling that a Department and
Professorship of Humanity in our larger
institutions, and courses of lectures in our
smaller, are quite as important to the
fature of our nation and the world as any-
thing now taught.
If preferred, it may be called The De-
partment of Social Science and Humanity.
GEO. T. ANGELL.
Doesn’t Work Both Ways.
The President’s ‘‘gag’’ order regarding
annual estimates is not to be striotly ap-
plied when there is a decrease in the
amounts to be asked for by any depart-
ment.
After the cabinet meeting ou Friday at
which the probable estimates from sev-
eral Departments were disoussed,Secretary
Hitchcock said that the estimates for the
department of the Interior will be $3,000,-
000 less than the appropriation for the
present fiscal year.
"Nothing was said about the estimates
from other departments.