Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 April 1897 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREEN"CASTLE, INDIANA

CUBIT HENS,

BOMI!* ATI>'Ci TRAITS OF WASHINGTON'S NEW RIXERS.

EXHIBIT A WIDE VARIETY.

Mr. Al*rr «hr ArtUtto Mrmhrr. Mr.. Onr. I hr Mu.lrnl. Mr.. I-®nK « h » B.BUI, nnd MU. W W 01 ^'

WASHINGTON.

-Sooiety

THHf CABINET LADIES AS VIEWED BY WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

Klnley and Mrs. Hobart, but It » In doubt about tin* ladles of tb n Cabinet. Some t wo or three of m. like Mrs. Sbermau. have b ' ,p " f “ ,1 “® flguivs here for years, and. ' they are known quantit;,'*. A . others there is some doubt altbouKh as a matter of fact there is ‘I’ ‘ " for the folks who comprise th. smart sot to worry about it. I 1 ' matter of diversion. The the Cabinet women upon "• ,K, ' ngl " V .oeiety Is considerably overrated the bulk of entertaining bedug contributed bv the non-official residents, to-do folks who live here, aselnated year after year by the soeial atmosphere of the plaee. „ tn A woman who has been a flsn societv life here for six administrations. that is since Grants time, but who passes for thirty-fi'P much difficulty among new has classified the ladies of the new “There Is the way 1 have arranged the list." she said, "and the next yoat will prove that 1 am not far from rikht. although I have had to depend upon the say-so of other folks for some of my information. t> „ XI THE CABINET'S MATRIARCH. “Mrs. Sherman, of course, is well known by all regular Washingtonians. Slip lias been here for more than thirty rears, and next year she will celebrate her golden wedding. She probnblj knows more about the ins and outs o Washington life than any other woman. and when she is in a reminiscent mood she Is a veritable history. “Many people may not know it. but She has some of the finest jewels in the country. When General Sherman and his daughters were traveling abroad the Khedive of Egypt presented the girls with some very rare gems. On their return the girls said tliey could not afford to own such magnificent baubles, so their aunt bought them, paying a very fancy price. She Is fond of such things, and of costly clothes, but site uevr could be called i showy or ostentations woman. Naturally tier house will lie the social headquarters of the diplomatic corps, ind her long experience in M asliingtou life makes her an ideal hostess for the fastidious representatives of the older

uations.

“Mrs. Long. I think, will be the beauty of the Cabinet. She has got a sweet, strong face, not pretty, but something better tlian that. She is the second wife of the Secretary of the Navy, you know, and I remember when she came here a bride, back In the early '80s. She looks scarcely a bit older than the two daughters of the Secretary by his first wife. They were little girls when Mrs. Long was here before. At that time her husband was a Congressman. She displayed considerable social talent then, and was the leader of the New England set, which centered about the Hamilton

House.

THE WONDERFUL WOMAN. “Mrs. Alger is about the most wonderful woman of them all, tn my opinion. Do you know that she is sixty, or very close to it. and doesn’t look a day over forty-five? Her hair is gray, but that doesn’t count, because she lias such a bright complexion, and such pretty brown eyes. “She lias lots of money to spend, nnd she understands the art of spending it. She has a real love of the artistic. I have been in her Detroit home, and it is crowded with the best works of the modern painters. The Alger house here will he the most popular in Washington. Their youngest daughter, Frances, is unmarried, nnd is one of the handsomest and cleverest girls that ever came to the city. There are two married daughters and two sons, and with the grandchildren an Alger family reunion means ti houseful. THE MUSICAL HOUSE. “Another house that will be tremendously popular will be the Garys. There are seven girls in the family, three married and four unmarried. It will be necessary to reverse these figures nfter next mouth, for then Miss Ida Gary becomes Mrs. Frances Pegram. But that will leave three girls at home —Lily. Jessie and Madeline—and every one of them, married and unmarried, is n musician of exceptional skill, a talent inherited from the mother. Mrs. Gary's social successes in Baltimore nre a guarantee of her ability to more than sustain her position here. “Mrs. Gage, like Mrs. Long. Is her husband’s second wife, her sister being the first Mrs. Gage. She is Immensely fond of entertaining, not in a large or showy way. but in the pleasantest possible manner. Hint is. baying a •chosen circle of friends and concentrating all of her kindliness upon them. Washington life is new to her. but she lias adaptlbllity. and with a fair income at her disposal that means a rose covered pathway. THE DOMESTIC MEMBER, “Mrs. McKenna is the domestic woman of the Cabinet, also the intellectual one. Of German birth and raising she is a great housekeeper, and considerable of a student. Sim is not a society woman, and her entertaining, I think, will be confined to the few formal dinners which Cabinet members are expected to give. “Miss Flora Wilsor. the head of the household of the Secretary of Agriculture, is a clever girl, not In the society but In the broader sense. After her mother’s death, five years ago, when she was but twenty-one, she managed her father's home, and also filled the office of librarian in the Iowa Agricultural College. She will not be a social queen, but she will surely be a favorite among thinking people.” BLANCHE PRYOR,

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BfilBGE DIDN'T FULL

THOCTU.E STIRRED I I* RV \\ ASTIGMATIC TUI H i ll \\ A UII KID.

“Sure."

"Well. I wonder if the sarge expects

also that he was the first to discover it. One of the group was a spectacled

me to stand on me tipey toes and hold | I n , an ' 1 laughed when Mike had Unit up with me bands until help comes? speaking, and Mr. Googan

Here I’ve got five stripes on me arm, i . and In another year I'll have the sixth.,

jThat means thirty years on

| Mikey. but I've never had anything i like this to do before, and if it gets me ! into trouble may hivin above have

said the

‘That tower isn't leaning. the force : n ''' v, ’°»icr.

’I “Don’t I see that It is?” contradicted

I Mr. Congan.

No. because you're nn astigmatic.”

OFFICER COOGAM’S ALARMJwv^on your soul. for I’ll soak '‘‘ P if , l i,V; ( :';; ) na;!;;.'slike tlint." , ’ OI, ’ t you

! By this time Mike and Mr foogan "There’s nothing wrong about that: had reached the foot of Roosevelt n,,nrl -' one is more or less of an

street. Tliev walked across to the as, '”" int ' < '-

head of the pier, and Mr Congan took! "That means me wife and chllder.

NEW YORK. -“Say. boss, the bridge is going to take a tumble.” It was a small boy who spoke, ragged. breathless, hut tremendously earnest. He landed into the Oak street station house with a hop. skip and a

jump. The sergeant behind the desk Mr coognu stood up nnd was an old-timer in dealing with fR- took another long look, and several

Thr* man who Invented ttn* cono-whaped glass Iwmon tqueeaer made E0.000 out of It and was Utah offered $100 000 for four other inventlona of the same simple and pracUral kind

mors and events In the Fourth W ard,

and lie blandly inquired: "What did you say, sonny?"

“For the love of heaven, why don’t ; you get a move on,” demanded the j Fourth Ward kid. "D’ye think the j bridge takes a tumble every day?" “What bridge, and where is it going

to tumble to?”

“What bridge’. Why. the big bridge; 1 the Brooklyn Bridge. D’ye think l am J talking about London Bridge, or the Tombs bridge, or the Gowanus bridge across the river? No. 1 am talking about tlie big bridge, and if yon stand here Lexowing me much longer the whole push will fall into the swimtin* trains, wagons, bicycles, the people. horses and ferry boats, ships, steamers, docks and everything else will be drowned as sure as me name is

Mike.”

“Where did you get that pipe dream, Mike, and why don’t you wake up?” "Pipe dream, me eye. No wonder,! they want to shake up the force. Why don’t you ring the bell and get out tin* reserves, and send up to headquarters and get ambulances and fire engines and other things? Don’t you know your business? I guess the force must Is* on the bum sure when you sit there gutting and the bridge tower a leaning, i and when It leans a little more the whole shooting match will go into the river kerflop, and then you'll be hauled up to Mulberry street and fined ten days' pav for not attending to business. Don't you know a»big thing when you hear it?” “Shut your jaw or I'll have you; swept into the street. Now, wake up, I come back to earth and tell me what s the matter.” “Are yon sure it was leaning?” "On your life, yes.” “Here.” said the sergeant to one of the policemen in the back room, “go out with tlie kid and see if the tower is leaning. 1 think it’s only a ease of wheels in his thinker, but we can't take any chances.” Googan, the policeman, went out with the kid, and walked down to Roosevelt street, and then down to the East River. On the way he kept looking toward the tower, but the barricade of Intervening buildings hid the bridge from view. Mr. Coogan was worried about the assignment. He was proud of his police record, and ho wanted to be sure to do the correct

thing.

“Mickey, me boy, y’ say the tower is leaning?” “Sure." “Well, be gobs, what the divil ran I do if It do be leaning. Is It leaning toward the water, Mikey?”

a comprehensive ami Indicia! look at ,0(> - *1 • vn ” keep on Insulting me and the bridge structure. Then he stooped ,no I'» I"'*' 1 . vo '"’ in - , ' v, ’ n down and whispered to Mike. “May the i ^ * 111 l’ 1 ’ 0 ^ 1 ' f’ 01 ' H :ln< l ' oso me pen-

good St. Patrick lave me if it isn't sion''

••All right, but It isn't leaning any

more tlian the Madison Square Garden tower is leaning. A good many men who have looked at it from a certain

men and boys gathered about, and Mike proudly told them tlie trouble

NEW YORK'S TWO OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. BOTH TOWERS SEEM TO VIEWED FROM A CERTAIN ANGLE.

LEAN TO THE LEFT WHEN

CREED PROVES HIS RUIN. liitmtitthle Appetite of the Codtiwh Makes Him an F.asy Prey. A codfish is never more happy tlian when he is hung to a line. He will travel 100 marine leagues if he hears that some man in a little fishing dory has a hook out, says the Boston Transcript. He never learns that the dainty, Juicy morsel swinging to and fro thirty or forty fathoms down in the sea conceals a steel barb. His ancestors have successively gone on making the same unpardonable mistake ever since the waters of the great deep were gathered together. Other creatures, in the light of a dreadful experience, have picked up an instinct that there is danger in a hook, hut the cod does not and is pulled in. And his family of youngsters—he leaves behind 1,000 of them—sooner or later will follow him into a cask. So the chap in the dory drifting quietly over the bank watches his two lines and awaits the inevitable jerk which tells of the presence of the voracious fish. He knows that if the signal nibble does not come soon that cod has other fish to fry, because it is always eating or going to eat. It is the marine personification of famine and starves with its stomach full of food. Old fishers say that a cod will gulp down a baited hook wdth his mouth filled with a salmon he has just caught. There have been several cases where this gourmand of the seas has managed to get away with a hook, sinker and several fathoms of heavy line, to be caught a few minutes later by a new fishing tackle. Notwithstanding the fearful mortality among this fish, so anxious to get caught that only the most remarkable error on its part can save its life, it defies extermination. It spawns and swarms and thickens the sea with itself. It has been said that if the cod'd many enemies ceased working on him and if he himself did not die from overeating he and the different members of his family would soon fill the ocean from bottom to surface and from shore to shore. In fact, there would be no more sea. Being a juicy, delectable morsel is not the only good thing that can be said of this fish of the genus gadus. He has an insatiable appetite for scientific research, and an exploration within his almost unfathomable stomach has revealed the flora and fauna of life existing far down in the soundless deep. While he is discussing a breakfast of mussels with seaweed on the side he is laboring in the cause of science, and when some scientist hooks him out of his great watery dining room he will be the means of adding much to roster of the vegetable and animal kingdom of the sea.

USE OF WORD CLEVER.

SYNONYMOUS IN DISTRICTS WITH KINDLY AND HONEST.

angle In the park have lost money betting that it leans to one side. It is the same with this tower. It is merely an optical Illusion,” and the newcomer faded away. Doubting everything and everybody Mr. Coogan went back to the station house. “Say. sarge,” he reported, "it’s leaning all right, tint a spectacled guy down there said it wasn’t. He called me names, too. and if I hadn't had me uniform on I would have given him a swat in the jaw that would make him see eight times instead of four. He said I was an astigmatic, and he called me wife and ehilder the same, and you. too. because he said nearly every one was.” “Astig matic,” repeated the sarge. “Wait till I look that up in the dictionary. Here it is. Coogan. The foureyed guy was right. It means that you don’t see straight.” DAVID FERGUSON.

A SuppoHltltlous C'aar. Powell—But for your birth you would be my equal. Howell—Yes; if I had never been born I suppose I should be a nonentity, too?

PlftV Million Tons of Steel. During the last twenty years the railways of the world have absorbed 50,000,000 tons of steel, or almost half the total product. WONDER WORKERS. A spring safety valve for beer casks has just been patented. A new spring seat-post for bicycles has an air chamber inside the tubing, into which the saddle-post projects. Skates that are locked on the feet by pressing the heel of the shoe into the heel-plate of the skate have just been patented. One of the latest designs in incandescent lamps is formed by placing the wire between two sheets of glass set in a flat frame. A handy heater for curling-irons can be attached to a gas-bttrner and has an opening surrounded by jet orifices into which the iron is thrust. Detachable hardened steel points for picks, recently patented, will not wear out as quickly as the usual points and can be removed for sharpening. A newly patented car brake consists of a steel shoe fastened to the car above the wheel so that the weight of the car helps to apply the brake to the wheel. A handy device for lifting a burning stick of wood or coal is a shovel with a projecting prong over the blade to be pressed down by the hand and hold the coal in place. To protect the trousers from wearing by contact with the shoes a cloth-cov-ered metal guard is attached to the shoe inside the upper and projects down around the outside of the shoe, i A removable tire for bicycles to be | used on the ice, recently patented, has metal teeth or corrugations on its running surface and clamps to fasten it around the tire and rim of the wheel. To prevent the trousers from becoming caught in the pedals or chain of a bicycle a wire loop is attached to tho pedal and extends up high enough to hold the pants away from the machine. A pneumatic bell mechanism for blI cycles has the pump in the rubber handle, operated by squeezing the hand over it, the air being forced into the small motor to which the bell is attached. For use in stretching gloves a new device consists of a skeleton spring frame formed of loops on which the glove Is fastened, there being a loop to go inside of each finger and the thumb. A handy bottle for dropping liquids has a crescent-shaped glass web attached to one side of its flaring mouth, with a small opening next to the bottle rim, through which the liquid runs slowly. She—You won her hand, then? He —Um—I presume so. I’m under hei thumb.

Restored to Its Original Meaning—Ths Old-Fashioned Red Quiltings, Uouss Raisings and Harvest Gatherings With One's Neighbors. HE English meaning of the word “clever" is given In the dictionaries as dexterous, skillful, ingenious, says Philadelphia Times. In the United States it is, in some parts of the country, used in the sense of “well disposed, kind, honest.” There can be no doubt that we obtained the word from England and with the meaning it has always had in that country. It is a significant fact that the English meaning is used and accepted In the oldest parts of our country and prevails in parts of our country farthest and most rapidly advanced in the circumstances we express by the word civilization. We can readily see how, in this country, we came to change the meaning and why now we are gradually going back to its original significance. In the early settlement of America, and in the settlement of what we know as the new portions of the United States, it happened through the absence of means to hire assistance that the custom grew of neighbors helping each other. It was a common thing for a new settler to have a "house raising." From apple parings and bed quiltings to harvest gatherings neighbors far and near came in and lent a helping hand and made the occasion social as well as industrial. In the "help gatherings” those who came in showed different degrees of skill and also different degrees of alacrity and willingness, for there was no compensation beyond the social enjoyment that accompanied the work. One would naturally imagine how th» helping neighbors became noted ia greater or less degree for “cleverness" In the English sense. It is easy to see how the “clever” man more easily attended to his own affairs and had more time to devote to the assistance of his new neighbor. And this very “cleverness” which gave him more leisure was naturally conducive to the cheerful and willing disposition that usually accompanies the satisfactory condition of one's own affairs. Then, too, there is the natural disposition that makes persons more or less well disposed and kind and honest In the sense of kindly and fair mindedness. Under such conditions of life in a new country just beginning to build itself up it might easily happen to come about that such a word as “clever” came to mean not only “dexterous, skillful and ingenious,” but also “well disposed, kind and honest,” and when people under such primitive conditions spoke of a “clever” person they referred to moral and social qualities as well as to intellectual and manual ability. But as parts of the country became older and more settled and there was an increase of population and wealth, there came means for securing assistance without calling on "kind, well disposed and honest" neighbors for voluntary help and we can see the word "cleverness" as applied to neighborly qualities gradually going into disuse. And now it is noticeable that in Boston, New York and other old eastern cities and throughout the older settlements of the country the word “clever” is used In its original English sense, while the nearer we approach the newly settled parts of the country we find “clever” used with its mixed local meaning. It is not unusual to hear in these new places a man spoken of as “clever” who is neither intellectually nor mechanically ingenious, but simply "well disposed and obliging.” And, on the contrary, in other and more advanced communities we hear of a man who if neither kind nor willing spoken of a* "clever,” because he Is so "skillful and ingenious.” Many English words that have a meaning in the United States different from that commonly used in England have ucen in the same way affected by local > onditions and circumstances, but as taese become more and more like the conditions existiag in the older countries we find the meaning in the useof the word going back to its original significance. There are many sons who give little study to the uses, meanings, and history of words and often these new meanings are set down by them as a servile imitation o f the English, but to the student ot words the changes show the strength and pliability of our language, as w pi: as the steady progress of our own country In the advancement of better and more mature conditions.

Hud to Take* tho Lot. Jones’s better half presented him with twins. When nurse brought them intot * room for inspection the poor man " •• so bewildered at the multitudino- 13 character of his happone.-'s that e asked: "Am I to choose?”

Fighting Against lnllitrii , . y ' ^ , All true Christfans are one In ■' lngs, one In purpose and plans, and ^ In desires, ami present a solid b" 1 " 3 of resistance when th* doctrine of demption is assailed by an inti h'! M • tery.—Rev. Edward McHugh.