Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — SPEAKER CARLISLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPEAKER CARLISLE.

His Speech at the Banquet of the Bay State Democratic Club. The Bay State Club, the most important Democratic organization in New England, recently entertained a number of distinguished gentlemen at their annual dinner at the Revevo House in Boston. Chief among the guests was Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was the orator of the occasion. Dinner over, President Taylor rapped to order, and in a brief speech introduced the principal speaker, Hon. John G. Carlisle, whose chief virtue, he said, was that he had been denounced bv Senator Hoar. Mr. Carlisle was greeted with great applause. After expressing his thanks for his cordial reception, he said: You must permit me to tender the sincere thanks of the Kentucky Democracy, not only for what you have done in the past, but also for what they know you intend to do in the future. You will not permit Massachusetts to remain always a Republican State. Old prejudices are passing away. Massachusetts is already moving toward the Democratic position, with the Bay State Club in front, and your brethr n everywhere hope to see her on the right of the line in 1888. Gentlemen, in the very nature of things, this country must always be governed by political parties. We need not be ashamed, gentlemen, to be known as “party men” if we honestly believe that the principles and policies repiesented by the organization to which we are attached will best promote the interests of the nation and the welfare of the people. This is the only true basis for political parties, and any party organized upon a foundation less broad, less patriotic, than this will soon degenerate into a mere faction and cease to command or deserve the respect of intelligent citizens. Every attempt to make a single interest or a single class, to the exclusion of all others, the basis of a political organization will fail and ought to fail. From the formation of your Constitution down to the present time the point of irreconcilable difference between the Democratic party and all its adversaries has been as to the nature ana extent of the Federal powers. The principle of local self-government is the vital part of Democracy. The amendment to the Constitution declares that the Eowers not delegated to the United States y the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people. No power can be justly claimed unless it is granted in express terms or by necessary implication. If no such grant of power can be found, and if its exercise by the State is not prohibited, it belongs to the State and her people; and thus the whole doctrine of State rights is defined in that article. It does not sanction secession or nullification, but it instructs the several States and their people as to the boundaries of all legislative, executive, nnd judicial power not delegated to the Uni ed Stales by a fair and reasonable construction of the Constitution. By this constitutional doctrine of State rights the Democratic party of the country stands to-day, as it always has stood, and as I trust it will stand forever hereafter. [Loud applause.] Twenty-five years ago the tendency was to carry this doctrine to a dangerous extreme. But since that time the dangerous extreme has threatened from quite an opposite direction. Great and powerful interests, too powerful almost to be successfully resisted, are constantly pressing against the barriers of the Constitution and demanding the extension of the Federal power to a degree never contemplated by the most extreme Federalist in the early days. It is quite common now to hear gentlemen, able gentlemen, in Congress and elsewhere, contending for the exercise of power by the General Government over particular subjects simply because the States refuse to do so, or because it is thought that the State legislation might not be entirely effective. The argument is that whatever the States will not do, or cannot do, must be done by Congress or the departments of the General Government, and that, independently of these specific grants of power, it is the right and duty of a government to exercise a general supervision and control over all concerns of the people. Mr. President, this is not Democratic doctrine as I understand it, and it never was. [Tremendous cheers.] It means centralization first nnd inevitable dissolution afterward. No part of the Union is so vitally interested in the preservation and the maintenance intact of this local authority as the New England States, and in no part of the Union have the beneficial results attending the maintenance of this doctrine been so thoroughly demonstrated. Your town mectiug is the most democratic institution in this country. [Cheers.) It has never endangered the liberties of a single human being. The town, the State, and the General Government all have their appropriate powers and duties, and so long as these are respected and maintained, neither encroaching on the domain of tho other, there will be harmony and unity in eur complex system of government. Fortuuately we have at last been permitted to inaugurate a Democratic national administration, and, more fortunately still, that administration, by its conservative and patriotic conrse, by its honest and faithful execution of the law, and by its regard for the rights of all classes of men, has given abundant assurance that the executive power can be safely trusted to our hands. This country was never better governed than it is now—[cheers)—and it was never more tranquil and contented than it is now. It is true that abuses still exist, but they were not inaugurated by this administration. Many of them have already been corrected, and most of those that remain are not under the control of the executive department alone. It is not my purpose, gentlemen, to discuss the revenue question upon this occasion. It is too large a question to be presented fully in the time at my disposal, and too important a subject to be treated hastily. It is enough to say in conclusion that in my judgment the Government has no moral or legal right to impose taxes upon its citizens except for the purpose of raising a revenue to defray its necessary expenses and pay its just debts. [Loud cheering.] Whenever it goes beyond this, it disregards, in my opinion, the plain purpose for which the power of taxation was conferred upon it. [Loud applause.] Audi believe I this is the doctrine of an overwhelming majority of the American Democracy.

Spring Bonnets.

Once more the spring bonnet agitates the

male pocketbook and the female mind. In truth, they come to us replete with beauty and novelty. This stylish gray straw will probably prove the most popu|ular and practical of the new importations. Stiff wings, it is decided, must go, and this hat is best adapted for trimming with ostrich feathers. White and gray plumes are {combined with a huge rosette of gray corded Sribbon, while a broad |band of the latter sur|mounts the crown. | This hat will prove ’quite popular with the

young misses. A more dressy and elaborate hat will be known as “The Constance.” It is capable

of varied and tasteful ornamentation, and will be suitable to be worn with reception and visiting toilets. The one we present our readers is arranged in materials of the new shade of heliotrope. Itis faced with velvet of that shade, the main part being made of embroidered lace over soft silk of the heliotrope color. The finishing trimmings are of gauze ribbon about five inches wide, and sprays of fine, long, yellowy-;! brown flowers and; leaves. Two browns velvety“cattails’ : com-; plete it, adding to the; graceful height of the'; hat. What were long

ago known as bridal strings, of the gauze ribbon, extend from the back of the hat and are knotted loosely under the chin. “The Mozart” is a hat with wide, rolling rim, and will prove very becoming for young,

fresh faces. This is shown in brown straws with trimmings of different shades of the same color. It will be seen that hats ,hav6 lost none of their heaven-aspiring attributes. but will reach to as dizzy heights as ever. Ribbons and flowers will be the principal trimmings, with the assistance of |ostrich feathers, as |suggested above. A |good deal has been |written of late on the of high hats,

but the coming season ladies who make any pretense of being in fashion will continue to wear them. They thus display pluck and “sticktuitiveness, ” if at the same time they exhibit questionable good taste.

Discontented People.

As the cold chilliness leaves the air, and the necessity of briskness to sustain existence departs, how many murmuring, discontented people one does meet! Their number is legion. It is hard to keep up one’s spirits in certain states of weather, but some poor wretches never try. They complain, they growl, they seem to take a degree of satisfaction in rendering everyone around them as miserable as themselves. One woman is “tired to death” of washing dishes, another is “worn to a shadow” making soap bubbles for Johnnie, yet another has her life “teased out of her” because Bessie knocked her elbow when she was writing a letter. Clara Growler wishes she was dead because the hero of her last novel surpasses in grandeur her only beau. Angelina Croaker cries sad tears that thaw her frizzes and swell up her nose because her little brother Tommy has left finger marks on that book of etchings Augustus gave her at Christmas. Mamma Highdudgeon suffers with a gloomy headache because her young hopeful has littered up a newly swept carpet. These are languidly discontented people; there is yet another class of them. They might be termed floaters—continually moving from one place to another, always seeking to better themselves and almost always making it worse. “A rolling stone gathers no moss,” is an old and threadbare adage, and yet its verification is new every day. As the season of flitting approaches this restlessness in some people amounts almost to a monomania. The housekeeper and her lord find that change is imperative. Disregardful of whether or not the new abode will be cheaper or more convenient, the carpets, furniture and household goods are tumbled out and carted to a new domicile.

We have seen plunder that looked as if it had been moved and battered around until it was about worn out. The only object these people seem to have in stopping at all is to get money enough to move on. They are a species of Arab or Gypsy, who are at home in a modified sense anywhere or everywhere. It is the time of the church year. We are supposed to be seated, meditating on our manifold sins and misdemeanors; we are, therefore, pardonable at thus uuselfishly glancing at a few dislayed by our friends and neighbors. It should help us Jo discover if we ourselves possess similar ones; or, in finding ourselves tasking in them, we should be thankful for manifold blessings showered upon us. We know a woman who when she grows discontented and dissatisfied with her life goes down in her purse, selects a coin and goes out to find some deserving, povertystricken sister upon whom to bestow it. In doing this she sees so much real misery, such pressed down and irremedial suffering, that she returns, takes up her lifeload philosophically and, while pernaps not satisfied, is content with her lot. The secret of content in life is not to be what one likes, but to like what oue has to do. Most often it is an acquired taste. Our work most frequently is at first distasteful, and we forces ourselves to do it thoroughly; but there ris no employment that possesses no intrinsic beauty, no recompensing pleasure. Dishwater is horrid stuff to put yonr hands into, but the warm shining glass and

china is pretty as we neatly arrange it on the shelf. All little household duties grovpnonotenous after years of daily repetition, yet there is nothing more graceful, more heartsatisfying, than their intelligent performance, and the comfort we see it gives those around us.

Hints tor New Costumes.

I think the use of braid appliques for all purposes and on all varieties of costumes is increasing, and this kind of garnitu.e for cloth dresses is perhaps more popular now than it was early last fall. For street dresses these designs are large and free, representing scrolls and conventional flowers, with leates and similar patterns on the basque; collar, cuffs and revers, or lapels are figured with braid, smaller but of the same color as that used on the skirt. The designs are also, of course, reduced. What seemed rather a novol idea was the trimming of a very stylish breakfast sacque or morning neglige sacque with braid which, in very pretty designs, was applied all along the bottom edge of the sacque, upon the sleeves, up both edges in front, and upon the collar. Braid is seldom so applied upon so light a material as that of which this sacque was made —cashmere —but it gave a very neat effect nevertheless, and added precisely the amount of trimming which such a garment requires. For the coming spring season, and, I expect, the summer months beyond, French satines are 6hown which almost approach, in texture and appearance, the finest grades of India silk. Ihe colors in which they appear are about the same as those in which they were shown last year. Tho figures are, for the most part, also very similar—little sprigs of flowers, dots, small geometrical designs, circles, etc., appearing, with cuneiform characters and conventionalized blossoms. . ~ Plaid woolens will be used for combination with plain fabrics, but will not be largely employed to form the costumes entire. Combination goods, diagonals, mixed fabrics and checks, with fine stripes, will not have any portion of their past popularity abated; as for the plain materials, camel’s hair, tricots, the finest grades of ladies’ cloths (now made to perfection) and serges will be seen.

A neat and appropriate house or indoor costume is developed in warm, brown ladies’ cloth. On the basque, the high collar is entirely covered with bronze passementerie, and a very small plastron of velvet, extending in a V shape from it, is enlarged by the addition around the sides of a wide border of the same bead-work; the cuffs naturally being of the same. The basque is very Bhort, pointed in front, and with two short points behind; it is fastened up the front, as far as the point of the plastron, with a lacing of silk cord. The drapery, which is of tne same material as the basque, is made in a heavily draped apron in front, which falls to a point at one side, and is looped back under the back drapery on the other; the back drapery itself falls in two long jabots, and the underskirt is untrimmed, being of the same goods as the rest of the dress. For indoors, chemisettes are still worn; particularly with open basques; a basque of this kind recently noticed was in a plain woolen material; the collar, of velvet, was in a wide, rolling form, and drawn around in front into tho form of two wide notched revers, which extended clear to the bottom of the basque; the open space was not filled in with a vest, as is usually the case, but with a plaited chemisette in which three gold studs reposed. The colored armures now shown are very neat materials for indoor wear. They are worn with Zouave jackets or Russian waists, of velvet, in some color to contrast, and the effect so produced is exceedingly picturesque and pretty. Ginghams in fine qualities and in the proper colors—lavender and black, or lavender and white, or all three combined—are becoming quite popular for mourning dresses during the second period. Armures and Henriettas are still the standard goods for first mourning, and one of the few novelties is the introduction of Persian lamb’s wool as trimming for mourning garments. Shawls are proper to wear on the street, for mourning, but, as black visites are also allowable, young ladies do not affect the former. Young ladies are quite fond of evening dresses in plain white silk, or corded white silk, even omitting the usual tulle draperies. The effect sought to be obtained, and which is certainly accomplished, is an experience of extreme simplicity. On some of these toilettes the trimming consists of swan’s down and pearl passementerie. The accessories of the toilet are also of white; the fan having mother-of-pearl sticks with white ostrich feather tips.

Tiling 8 Women Mlioultl Know.

Lard is the best polish to put into starch. . ’ Vinegar and salt will clean copper and brass, but should be thoroughly removed afterward. Brass work should be scoured, but washed with hot w ater and soap and rubbed with shammy. A few drops of ammonia in tepid water cleanses brushes quickly and without juryStrong salt water will stay the colors of prints or any wash goods. A heated knife will cut fresh bread without making it soggy. Copperas dissolved in water will kill ordinary sewer gas odors. Tar suds are best to use for washing bedsteads in the spring cleaning. Borax is effective against roaches and ants. Silk should never be brushed with a whisk-broom, but carefully rubbed with flannel or velvet. To prevent China from chipping, place it before using in a pan of cold water and place over a fire until the water boils, then wash and use it. Never clean windows when the sun shines on them. It makes them smoky. A little alcohol in the water will permit you to wash them in quite cold weather.

Interesting Women.

Miss Patrice Boucicault, the daughter of Dion Boucicault, is engaged in giving instructions to young ladies in elocution. MtRS. Annie Sheldon Coombes, author of that clever book, “As Common Mortals,” has fast completed a new and realistic study of New York social life. The postmistress of Paw Paw, Mich., owns up to forty-nine, but is as pretty as a peach blow vase. The Paw Paws all gaze upon her with admiration. What’s her name? ~