Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — Page 4

A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE

BY LULU JAMISON

CHAPTER XXI V. rachkl'h coxfessio.v. Brian at flrat was content to lie still and watch Margaret, but as he grew stronger he would ask her to sing or talk to him, and then would she tell him again and again of the bitter regret and remorse which had filled those three long miserable weeks “How cruel I was,” he whispered. “I did not know what I was saying. I could never reproach you. You have done more for me than I can ever speak of. Always my true, loyal wife. Always making sacrifices for me. It was such a dear, tender heart that I longed for just a tender spot in it ” "A very proud heart,” she corrected gently. “Only sometimes. And had it been a thousand times more proud I should forget it all in the joy of possessing it at last.” “You have possessed it all the time,” she confessed, burying her face from his glance. "It has been yours since we were together at S’conset, Brian. I did not realize it myself, but now I know, and am glad of the suffering that taught me.” “Ah, darling, that I have been so blind. When you married me I thought ” “Yes, Brian, so did I think. My sense of justice felt outraged by uncle Stephen’s will, and I persuaded myself that I was marrying you to make amends for that, and all the while my love for you was pleading so much more eloquently than my love of justice. I have kept it back so long I wish you to know all the truth now.” His eyes filled with an inexpressible joy, as he lovingly stroked her bowed head. ."Rachel has made her confession at last,” he said, softly, “and Jacob would willingly live over his sufferings again for the pleasure of hearing such sweet words. He is very happy now, for he feels that this is his true wedding day, and his life lies before him.” August was nearly gone, and he was only able to sit in his chair and allow her to wait upon him. They were together so one morning when a messenger arr.ved from The Cedars with a note for Margaret. She read it hastily, and, with a radiant face and the words “I am so glad,” handed it to Brian. “Good news,” he said, taking it from her hand and reading the words aloud: “Another Bertie came somewhat unexpectedly with the sun this morning. Alice hopes you will pay your immediate respects to his lordship. “Bebtie, Sb.” "Bertie is evidently in the fifth heaven of delight," commented Brian. "Carry my congratulations. Margaret. I suppose you are going. ” Margaret, of course, fell in love with the tiny bit of humanity, and fully agreed with Alice that Cuthbert Barton junior was a very fine-looking young man. She even fancied she discovered a likeness to Bertie, though not a particularly striking one, as she told Brian afterward.

September came in very cool and the invigorating air seemed to infuse new life into Brian’s veins. "Tea will not be able to impose upon me much longer," he said to Margaret, one morning. Til be strong enough to rebel against your tyranny soon." “As soon as you like, Brian," she answered, looking up from the roses she had placed on the table beside him. “I think I’ve played nurse long enough. If you do not get well very soon you will grow so fat and lazy that I’M never be able to get you out of that chair." He looked up into the face, which had never seemed more sweet and lovable. and catching her hand held it a prisoner within his own. “Never mind,” he said, “wait until I am out of this for good. Then I mean to take my dear little nurse in hand and make her fat and lazy, too. I want to see some roses in her white cheeks. ” “I don’t think you will ever be abie to coax them there, Brian. It is not their element, but the nurse feels that she desires some petting and coddling; she has given you so much. What can she do lor you now’ Read?” "No, my dear; talk. I am a great trial, am I not?” “Oh, yes, a dreadful trial,” she returned with a half smile. “But,” she added softly, ”1 could never do without my trial.” He caught her hand as she uttered the last words and drew her unresistingly to his knee. Then came a sharp and unexpected interruption, in Bertie’s voice: “Hello, there! I don’t want to disturb such interesting proceedings, but I would like to know how soon the public may be admitted. Such civilities ’’ “ You are extremely impudent, ” cried Margaret, starting to her feet with a brilliant blush. “If you do not learn better manners I shall drop your acquaintance." “Please don’t, ma’am, I need your protection sadly. My respected father has just sent me from his presence with a parting injunction to visit a certain gentleman who is credited with warm quarters. I prefered coming here. And, by the way, Brian, I’ve been commissioned to inform you that you have been indulging your laziness long enough, and, therefore, you are expected to pay your respects at The Cedars to-night. " ‘Tell Margaret to come and bring her husband along,’ were the words of my venerable father. So, Margaret, please do as you are bid." “I wish you could be more dignified, Bertie. lor a husband and a father you are sadly wanting in that quality.” For answer, Bertie laughed. “How are you, old fellow?" he asked, taking Brian’s hand. “Able to assert your authority?” “Not quite. I’ve just been warning Margaret that the time is not far distant when I shall assume the reins of government.” “She looks quite miserable over the prospect," returned Bertie, with his eyes on Margaret’s laughing face. “I saw Wilson when I was in the city a day or two ago. He inquired very particularly about you, and Margaret also. 1 told him you were doing finely, and that Margaret was as unmanageable as "1 shall be revenged for that, sir. Was Dr. Wilson well?” “I can’t say he looked very well,” answered Bertie, with some hesitation. 'He works too hard, I think. He is certainly very pale and thin. * 'Why not write and invite him here

for awhile?” said Brian, turning to Margaret. “This air would infuse new life in his veins.” “He needs it certainly,” observed Bertie. “He has not seemed quite natural for some time. I’m afraid he Is losing his old happy spirits. ” “We will ask him to eome,” said Margaret, quickly, “though I fear he cannot give us any of his valuable lime. When I think of what he has done for you, Brian, I do feel so grateful to him, and I should like nothing so well as to find him such a true, gcod wife as he deserves.” “Margaret turned match-maker,” mused Bertie. “She becomes more interesting and original every day. I will tell Wilson to get himself in readiness, and meantime, my dear, I hope you will search diligently for the particular woman destined to become his blessing and torment at the same thne. Now 1 must be off. I suddenly remember that Alice sent me for some mixture for that young hopeful of ours, and if I don’t hurry he may bawl his head off.” “You outrageously unfeeling man. If I had known you were on any such errand, you shouldn't have staid here a second. That poor little innocent may be actually suffering for his medicine. ” “No more than you, my dear,” laughed Bertie. “It is simply the Barton temper asserting itself. Even father recognizes it, and while he accepts retributive justice in a meek and lowly spirit, it sometimes gives way to a mild ejaculation, such as ‘thunder’ when Bertie grows particularly demonstrative. However, I’ll get the decoction and say good-by to yon until to-night.” A day or so later, Margaret sent to Dr. Wilson a warm and pressing invitation to spend at least a few days at Elmwood. Wilson found the letter awaiting him when he reached his rooms after a long day’s work, and, though his face brightened at the sight of it, he did not accept the tempting pleasure offered, and his regrets, not himself, found their way to Elmwood. The letter found a place in a corner of his desk, and it was still there when time had whitened his hair and his eyes were dim from something more than sweet old memories.

CHAPTER XXV. AFTER TWO TKARR. Two years have passed, and brought their inevitable changes. The seasons have come and gone. The flowers have bloomed and died and bloomed aga n, and once more Elmwood is crowned in the full beauty of the month of roses. It is lata in the afternoon, and for some time Margaret has been waiting Brian’s coming. Her eyes are fixed alternately upon the long drive and upon the little face sleeping peacefully in her arms. Maternity, that perfect completion of woman’s nature, has given her a new grace and dignity, and left upon her life the impress of a happiness that even the shadow of old sorrows cannot lessen. Indeed, the sorrows are never remembered, except in a philosophical sort of way. and in the realization of all that she hoped and expected she feels that they have brought an ample reward. Brian has fully redeemed his pledge, and, with a life full of higher and nobler purpose, is walking faithfully in his father’s footsteps, and winning the same honor and respect. He comes home with a light heart this evening, and seeing Margaret, leaps from his carriage to take her in his arms and kiss the two faces with warm and tender love.

“Are you very tired?” she asks, looking into his eyes. “So, so. It has been warm in the village, but here it is quite delightful Poor Mrs. Ellis is down again for good, I fear, this time, and Brown has an attack of influenza. He is more frightened than hurt, I think, and more troublesome than either. He fancies lam no! giving him sufficient medicine, and insists on taking a double dose. His wife has quite a time with him. “What have you been doing with yourself, Margaret? Not trying any of yesterday’s experiments, I hope. Give me Marguerite; she is growing quite heavy. You must not try to carry her any more, dear. I will take her to Milly and we will walk to that hill to see the sun set. It is really superb." When the baby had been given Into the care of Its nurse, Margaret linked her arm in Brian’s, and they walked toward the place he had pointed out. “I have a piece of news which will please you, I know. Wilson has at last made up his mind to come to us for a week. We may expect him about the 21st, he says. ” “I am so glad," Margaret answered, with genuine feeling. “We must make it such a delightful wqek that he will want to repeat it. It is really quite curious, I think. But, do you know, I never had such a strong desire to see any one married as I have to see him? I know it would make such a happv difference in his life.” “I suppose you think that the only happv state for man?” “1 hope you do," she replied, meeting his laughing glance. “It should be, and, ae a rule, I think it is; the exceptions are individual cases. To my mind a poor, lonely old bachelor trying to persuade himself that he is fortunate in having escaped the evil of matrimony is a most doleful and pitiable spectacle. Ah, how glorious!” The last words were uttered as they reached the summit of the hill and the full splendor of the sunset burst upon them. They stood for a few seconds in silence, watching the globe of fire sinking in a sea of gold. Then Margaret stole more closely to his side with the words: “It seems to hold the peace of benediction, Brian.” “Abenediction,” he repeated, slipping his arm about her waist and holding her to his heart. “Ah, may we always feel the peace of such a benediction, darling. May we always stand together as we are standing now, through better and through worse; ever firm in each other’s trust; ever strong in each other’s love. And when our suns shall set, may our skies be as calm and as tranquil as this glorious one before us. “Oh. tranquil sunset of the soul. When all the jar of earth is past; When storms no longer round us roll, And heaven Is near at last; We know, though fail and faint we may. Calm sunset ends the longest day.” [the jsd.] Stentor. In the Grecian army it was usual to have three men in each battalion to communicate the commands of the officers to the men. Of these, one carried a standard and another a trumpet. But in the confusion and din of battle, when neither signal could be seen nor trumpet heard, the third man (who for this purpose was the strongest in the army) communicated the commands by word of mouth. Homer relates of one of these men, Stentor by name, that he shouted as loud as fifty other men. Hence a man with a powerful voice is said to possess the voice of Stentor, or a stentorian voice.*

THE SNAKE SCOTCHED.

IT WILL NEVER REAR ITS UGLY CREST AGAIN, For the Truth* of Tariff Reform Will Be Preached Until Accepted by All the People—What the New Era Denotes—McKinley ou Factory Building. What the Landslide Means. It means that neither McKinleylsm nor protectionism will ever again be the leading issue in this country. It means that farmers and laborers. 1 who always pay an undue proportion of j tariff taxes, have discovered that "protec ion” is a false god set up by manufacturers. It means that the so-called "statesmen” who have aided and abetted the manufacturers in their robbery of the ' people, will be retired forever to private life. It means that we will never again be compelled to listen to twa .die about the ' foreigner paying our taxes; about cheap i coats making cheap men; about raising wages by giving a bonus to employers; , about taxing ourselves into prosperity, ' and about a dozen other economic falla- ’ clesconnected with "protection.” It means that the question of the best' kind of taxation for national purposes will hereafter be discussed by earnest. students of economics instead of by demagogues. It means that our manufacturers will ’ soon have free raw materials—wool, I iron, copper, lumber, lead, coal, salt, tin plate, etc. It means that duties which support I trusts will be abolished. It means that Americans will soon not be compelled to pay more for agricultural maehlnes, bicycles,' hardware, and hundreds of other articles than do foreigners. It means that we will soon have bet- 1 ter clothing at very much lower prices, i It means that manufacturers will i cease to rely upon, politicians, tariffs, i and trusts to make their business profit- • able, and will become independent and j self-reliant. It means that, commercially, we will ! soon become the leading nation of the 1 earth—the position we should now oc- ' cupy but for the incubus of protection which has rested on us for thirty years. ' It means that early in the twentieth century we will be building and sailing more ships than any other country. It means increased production and 1 more work at higher wages. It means tbat tanners will cease to mortgage their farms to support "home ; markets” which remain abroad. It means that farmers will realize more on their products and that the value of their lands will increase as• their mortgages decrease. It means that political corruption will I decline at least To per cent, and that j purity in politics will no longer be an ; “iridescent dream.” It means that with the discarding of the system which has produced one- ; third of our Millionaires (according to ■ the New York Tribune) one of the great' causes of class distinctions and the ac- ! companying evils will be removed. It means, in short, greater prosperity, more intelligence, better morals and in- , creased happiness.

McKinley on Factory Building. Ralph E. Hoyt, of Chicago, in a letter to the editor of the Herald ot that city, utters some truths well worth the attention of thinking peorle. He says: Mr. McKinley said in one of his recent speeches: “A revenue tariff never built a factory in the United Stat s. ” Nobody says it did. Tariff laws of any kind do not build factories, nor is it the business of the government to build them, or to furnish them with special privileges after they are built and putin operation. But probably Mr. McKinley meant, If he meant anything by such a statement, that no factories have been established in this country during the existence of a revenue tariff. If so, he is a long way from the truth, though that is something over which he is probably not at all worried. from 1850 to 1860 this country had what was understood to be “a tariff for revenue only.” It was designed as such, and if there was any protection in it at all the protective feature was very slight and purely incidental. It was such a low tariff that any similar measure now would be denounced by protection champions as “free trade.” And yet that decade was one of great prosperity in manufacturing Industries. During that period no less than 17.400 factories were erected in the United States, or more than 1,700 a year ou an average. The increase of capital interested in manufacturing interests was 90 per cent.; the increase of manufactured goods was 85 per cent.; the aggregate increase of wages was 60 per cent.; and the increase of wages per capita was 17 per cent. From 1860 to 1892 we have had an era of protective tariffs, with a constant upward tendency, to meet the growing greed of the stalwart “infants” nursed by Uncle Sam. This whole period of thirty-two years dots not show any such ratios of increase in manufactures as are shown by census reports for the ten years preceding the war. In the light of these facts It will be difficult for McKinley and his associates to make intelligent men believe that even free trade would ruin the country. The Farmer's Foreign Market. Mr. E. W. Stout, a farmer whose place is near Trenton, N. J., visited his father in England recently. Before starting, as he tells a New York Times reporter, he talked with some of his Jersey neighbors, “and we agreed that if I found on getting on the other side that I could buy some plows and other things and get them out to Trenton so that we conld save 10 per cent I should do it ” Mr. Stout thus tells the sequel: “Well, I’ve done it, and in the course of a few days the things will arrive, and I reckon tbat I shall save considerably more than 10 per cent. On the plows the saving will be fully 25 per cent. I think, for the prices for American-made plows on the other side are just about half the prices charged for the same things in this country. I bought hay rakes, cultivators, feed cutters and plows, and everything will come hack to this country in the same packing that was on it when it was shipped from the factory." No wonder Farmer Stout is moved to add to this plain, unvarnished tale this wrathful bit of comment: “ ‘Protection,’ the Republicans call it. ‘Robbery’ is my name for it. It’s nothing short of robbery when taxes make me pay $lO for a piece of farm machinery that the manufacturer sends abroad for sale at about half that sum, in spite of the extra expenses of packing and freightage. I'd have stayed on the other side another fortnight if I hadn’t thought it my du'y to come home and vote for tariff reform and get my neighbors to do the same.” Farmers who have wondered why farming didn’t pay, and have been told by the administration that they ought to diversify their crops, may be better able to see where the leak is by the light of this revelation from one of their own fraternity. Philadelphia Record.

Yes, with a Vengeance.

The American Economist of Nov. 4, last issue before election, instead of putting, as usual, a dozen “questions to free traders” puts but one: “Can you, with clear mind and true heart, vote for Grover Cleveland and the Democratic

ticket Md be happy thus to win the approval of the Cobdt n Club, the titled nobility, and the great manufacturers of England?** Republican Theory Tested. Edward Atkinson, the foremost political economist in the country of the kind that deduces theories from facts and not facts from theories, has issued a pamphlet summarizing the results of the latest census bulletins and applying them to the question of the tariff. Dividing the working population into seven classes he shows, by the last two censuses, that only one class is at all affected by foreign competition, and tbat only halt of that class, or 5 per cent of the working population, or .016 per cent of the entire population, is actually affected. The wages of skilled labor have increased from census to census, but this is due to recognized laws created by the skillful application of methods developed by science. In unskilled labor the increase has been much less, and in farm labor the increase is 1 cent a day. To equalize the increase in wages, to give 95 per cent, of the working population the same chances as 5 per eent., and to move from that 5 per cent, artificial restrictions which cause destructive reactions, Mr. Atkinson shows that it is necessaiy to remove the duties at once from all the crude materials which are necessary in the process of domestic industry and to keep duties for revenue on finished products and manufactures. When that is done our manufacturers will be placed upon even terms in their competition with other countries in the cost of fibres, metals, drugs, dye-stuffs, chemicals, and the like, in many of which wa now enjoy a great advantage over other nations. In agriculture, the mechanic arts, in mining, and in a large part of the manufacturing arts we now possess a great advantage over all foreign nations. M hen the Democratic policy of promoting domestic industry by exempting from duties all important materials that are used therein has been adopted, the only remaining question would be how to protect American labor from undue competition in the moderate number of arts of which a finished product of like kind can now be imported, until the unwholesome effect of a high tariff has been overcome. In dealing with this factor we may rightly a lopt the policy laid down in the Republican platform in the following terms: “On all imports coming in o competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages at home and abroad. ” We may adopt the policy without discussing it, as the necessity lor revenue will not permit any lower duties at presentthan would- be imposed if it is adopted as a compromise—in fact, much higher rating must for a time be continued. It will be observed that the proportion of labor in converting crude materials into finished products, as disclosed by these statistics of manufacturing,ranges from 18.84 per cent, in Chicago to 32.4 per cent, in Grand Rapids, averaging 25 percent., substantially the same ratio governing the textile arts. It is claimed by the advocates of protection that the rates of wages of the manufacturing arts in this country are double what they are in the manufacturing countries i f Europe. This is not the case in respect to rates of wages in Great Britian, our chief competitor; but let it be granted for the purpose of removing any objection to tariff reform. Let it also be granted that if we abated the duties on crude materials we should compete on equal or better terms in competition with the countries in all but manufacturing labor. Let it then be granted that, In dealing with tne element of labor in the factory and the workshop, the cost of labor in the unit cf product is t > be determined by a comparison of the rates of wages, although such is not the case. If it were so our chief competitors would be on the Continent of Europe, in France, Germany, Italy, and Austria, where the general rates of wages are lower than our own.

But having thus come to an agreement for practical legislation we may legislate on the following basis: Me may leave out articles of luxury, laces, silks, embroidery, furs, fine cotton and worsted fabrics and the like, to be subjected to special rates for revenue purposes. Most of these articles depend upon fashion and fancy for their sale rather than upon cost or utility. They are, therefore, suitable subjects for high revenue duties, and have so been dealt with by the Democratic party in both the Morrison and the Mills bills, and in all proposed adjustments of the tariff. Dealing only with the useful goods which are consumed by the million rather than by the millionaires, the ratio would then be substantially as follows, admitting all that the advocates of protection claim:

European United manufacturing States. States. Cost of materials, general expense and other charges 73 75 Labor In factory or workshop 25 Duty on foreign cost to 87.50 equalize labor or wages 15 per cent 12.50 too 100 Losses In Wheat and Cotton. Sufficient returns have been received to enable the American Agriculturist to make an approximate estimate of the wheat crop of 1892, and it puts it down at 495,0iX),b0« bushels. This is a falling off of 117,C0i),0i0 bushels from the crop of last year (612,t0<',0t0 bushels), and this decrease in the quantity raised does not tell the whole story. Instead of the falling oil being attended by higher prices, it has actually been attended by lower prices. On October 29 of last year No. 2 red wheat was qu ted in St. Louis at 92 cents a bushel, and on October 29 of the present year at 6 j cents—a decline of 24 cents. Here, then, is a falling off of 117, r OO,000 bushels in the size of the crop and of 24 cents a bushel in the price. Last year’s crop (612,01X1,000 bushels) at last year’s October price, 92 cents, was worth to our wheat raisers $563,000,000; and this year’s crop (495,00 1,000 bushels) at this year’s October price, 65 cents, is worth only $321,750,000 a loss of $241,250,000. And this on a single staple in one year. And when we look down south we find that the cotton raisers are in a similar predicament. The cotton crop of last year was 6,700,000 bales, which, at the August price in 1891, was worth SSO a bale, or $435,100,000 for the crop. But Agriculturist estimates the crop of 1892 at only 6,500;000 bales, which at the August price in 1892 is worth only $35 a bale, or $227, MIO,OOO for the crop—a falling off of $207,500,000. Add this to the wheat loss and we have a loss of $448,000,000, with only two staples heard from. How rich we would grow under the McKinley policy, particularly the wheat raisers of the West and the cotton raisers of the South!—St. Louis Republic. A Memorable Kick. The people have broken the kicking record. Republicanism, McKinleyism, protection, and monopoly were kicked into the middle of eternity. There will be no resurrection for them. Ten million voters have employed Presidents, Senators, and Congressmen to make laws for all. These servants of the people have accepted bribes from a few thousand manufacturers and made laws that robbed the millions to enrich these few manufacturers. Encouraged

by their successes the manuf*cturer«' increased their bribes and the mie-rep-resentatives of the people extended their bold scheme of robbery. This process has been repeated several times during the last thirty years. The people have been slow to discover the schemes and to believe in the guilt of their servants. But as Lincoln said: “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time," and at last the most credulous have been compelled to believe that their interests have been betrayed. The kick of November 8,1892, will be a memorable ohe. The Protection Shirt. Albert B. Leeds is professor of chemistry in Stevens In titute, Hoboken, N. J. Being requested by many prominent citizens of Hoboken, both Republican and Democrat, 1o make public his Masons for having the Republican party, he did so in a speech on Nov. 4. He left the Republican party mainly because of its position on the tariff-protec-tion for protection’s sake. He thinks that such protection corrupts morals and causes class distinctions. He says, with Garfield: "I am for protection thaS leads to ultimate free trade.” He says this is good orthadox Republican doctrine from which the party has strayed, and that neither his reason nor his conscience will permit him to follow it. As a result he is left in the Democratic party. Prof. Leeds has traveled in Europa and has purchase 1 goods there. He is firmly convinced that the foreigner does not pay our tariff taxes. He showed two small linen table-cloths of the same pattern, one purchased in New York and the other in Cologne, the former at $3.75 and the latter at $2.50. He mentioned other articles that showed even greater differences in pi ice. He has come to the conclusion, reti.hed by all sincere investigators, that American labor at Ametican wages is as cheap as European labor at European wages. On this question he says: 1 was much struck by the reply which a manufacturer of textile machinery, employing 1.500 hands In Manchester, made to my question as to what had most impressed him In his visit of six months’ duration to the factories of the United States. He was a member of Parliament sent out on a tour of inquiry in America by the Royal Commission on Technical Education. He replied that It was the feverish way in which the American mechanic appeared to hint to do his work, laboring as though his prospects for tbe future depended upon his putting all his heart and soul into it. and in his turning out in tbe shortest possible length of time an amount of work which to tbe more phlegmatic Englishman appeared Incredible. As far as true labor cost and producing capacity are concerned, the American mechanic is more than a match for his competitor the world over, and his truest friends are now asking to back him in a fair fight, no protection gloves belli; worn, and without favor. One of Prof. Leed’s greatest objections to McKinley protection Is that it has deteriorated the quality of goods and introduced greater dishonesty into trade. He illustrated this part of his speech with a shirt and two pairs of stockings. Here is what he said: The effect of Inflated protection is to bring about an unfair competition which degrades tbe character of American goods, places tbe dishonest imitation in competition with the superior fabrics from which its pattern and finish are copied, and does away with the necessity of artistic skill and advanced technical education. These debasing effects were strikingly shown after tbe passage of the McKinley bill. At first there was a sharp rise of prices corresponding to tbe increased duties. But the people could not pay the increase, and tbe prices fell to tbelr former level, an Inferior article being substituted, 'i o Illustrate bow this was done, 1 have here to show you the famous “23-cent stocking.” Of the two pairs which I show you. this, which was sold before the higher tariff, weighs forty-seven grains; the other pair, such as is sold now for twenty-five cents and having tbe same trade-mark and purporting to be just the same goods, weighs thirty-three grains. It weighs one-fourth less, and is of an open, flimsy texture, representing hardly half the value and endurance of the old goods. In another store I purchased a shirt of American make for 98 cents, marked “Men’s Fine Natural Wool.” I purposely asked the salesman three times whether it was all wool, and he positively declared that It was. On treating it with washing soda the shoddy filling at once came off and only the cotton backing remained. In this bottle I have the dissolved shoddy. On adding acid to it you see that the shoddy comes to light again as so many dirty white flocks. It may be said that falsehoods of this character are a part of ordinary business, but tbe telling of them both by manufacturers and sellers of these debased domestic goods has been greatly stimulated by a competition of which theft Is regarded as a necessary feature.

We heard a (treat deal at one time of what was called the bloody shirt. It long outlived Its usefulness us a campaign scarecrow, and is now consigned to wellmerited oblivion. But the shirt I show you might justly be retarded as a fit emblem of the inflationists, and be held aloft by them as a standard under the name of the Protection Shirt. Its thickness and apparent warmth are all shoddy and represent that part of the protection which goes t,o' the manufacturer. It won’t wash. Its substance is this open gauze of cotton like a mosquito net, but with meshes so coarse that even a Jersey mosquito might slip through. Tills is the part of the protection which will be enjoyed by the laboring man who wears, and quickly wears out, the shirt. It won't keep him warm this winter; he will decidedly be left but in the cold. When competition is on a fair basis, manufacturers must continually improve the quantity as well as Increase output and diminish cost They must invent new and more artistic patterns and designs; they must add the latest refinements in finish and taste; they must anticipate the latest caprice or novelty of fashion; they cannot safely steal or copy, they must invent. But when goods having all the virtues above spoken of are shut out of the country, except to the rich who will and do buy them at any price, the domestic manufacturer finds it much cheaper and easier servilely to imitate than to produce a domestic article of genuine merit.

A Terrible Wreck. Few more tragic disasters of the sea arerecorded than that which befell the fine steel bark Newfield August 29 on the Victorian coast at Curdie's Elver, The vessel went on the shore and nine men lost their lives. The exact spot where the Newfield struck is an evillooking reef that runs out some hundreds of yards from under towering cliffs. The tops of the cliffs turn stiffly over a sheer iall of about 100 feet, and at the base and all round there is a network of sharp rock teeth, on any one of which ash p might meet her fate. It was upon the highest and most dangerous of all that the Newfield sailed in the darkness. Captain Scott mistook the light on shore, and before he could remedy his error the ship struck, became wedged in the rocks, and was swept by huge rollers. Then began a struggle "for life, the captain and crew evidently thinking their only safety lay in reaching the shore, whereas if they had remained on board all would have been saved. The life-boat was launched, and the captain and twenty-two men got aboard. The sea was so heavy, however, that she was water-logged, and the men on board saw that they must regain the ship or be lost. By great efforts fifteen men succeeded in reaching the deck. The captain and the others went down with the life-boat The survivors got out the other life-boat, and at a great risk all on board reached the shore. A great crowd thronged the beach, and there was deep disgust when it was learned that the vessel was loaded with salt.—San Francisco Examiner. Key West has 4,000 idle cigar makers.

BELLES OF THE BALL.

WHAT THEY WEAR IN THE METROPOLIS. Some of the Revivals in Minor Fashions for Ball-room Toilets—A Device to Which Stylish Women Will Take Kindly—Powder Balls. New York Fashions. l>ew York correspondence:

lhe same shade, and a black velvet trel-lis-work applique. The skirt is of dark preen merveilleux, arranged with black velvet trellis-work to conespond. Furthermore, when your eyes rest on the second picture, try to realize that the woman is in an ante-room ata ball, and has not yet removed her rich wrap. That showiest of outer garments is, in this case, made of beige-colored cloth, trimmed with lace, lined with whitefox fur, and t mbroidered with a largo bow, holdings multi-colored bouquet of the rococo style. Broad ecru guipure lace forms the sleeves, and is pleated under the triple Watteau bow. A revival in miner fashions for ball toilets is that of the ancient “girdle mirror.” It has been added to the things a woman may bang at her side. It is a more sensible thing, I am sure, than a pair of shears or a bootjack, and we seemed on the road to those. Why should the modern woman be so shy about using her mirror in public? Everyone knows she must have recourse to one sometime. It argues small interest in her escort if she ceases to be concerned about aer appearance just because she is out of reach of her home

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mirror. Much more frank and attractive. too, is the old fashion of carrying a hand-glass at the belt, and referring to it frankly whenever one fancies. Such use need not convey vanity, but merely a flattering desire to please. Surely a man cannot but be pleaded to note that a lady adjusts her love-locks while he is approaching. Besides, the details of a woman’s toilet are always fascinating to a man. While she studies herself in the glass, he feels that he can in turn study her, sure that her attention is taken up, and that he can endeavor to satisfy his hungiy eyes without offending or seeming to stare. By all means add the girdle mirror to the trinkets you wear at your belt, and u j e it, too, in the intervals of the dance. A representative ball lo'.let is shown in my third picture, and its ingenious peculiarity is that it has an effect of Watteau short-waistedness without any real sacrifice of waist length. That is achieved by wrapping the lower bodice lightly round with a piece of the goods. Stylish women will take kindly to this device. Not more than one of us in a dozen can wear the genuine short-waist Josephine gown, but all the rest of the dozen will wish to, and if they do they will look like the dickens. It is not a fashion that adapts itself, and the one will look the lovelier by contrast. Positively you must not wear corsets nnder such a gown. You may wear a

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soft belt-like arrangement, but it must in no way change the natural figure. It must only support it and give it stability. The average corset pushes the figure up to emphasize its lines and to get all breadth possible away from the waist. The real Josephine gown wants euite a different disposition of figure. Go look at the A enuses—the old-time ones. See that fullness about the body just above where we put the waistline. Well, that is what you have not go’, and what the other women haven’t got, and it is what the one woman in the dozen has got. That is what makes the difference between looking as she will in a Josephine and looking badly. The ball gown here depicted is ‘ a happy escape horn ail those difficulties. The required taffeta petticoat is a serious addition to the- expense of one’s get up, and we can not all afford it Home-making does not reduce the expense sufficiently, especially if we want to have a lot of dainty things. Here is a way out of the trouble. Look over your old party and summer dresses. Many of them are silk. Those that are

OCIETY in the metropolis is getting its clothes ready for thedancing season, and all women will like to know something ' about the fashions that will prevail at the very modish balls. So,when you look at the initial sketch, imagine that the pretty gown has a corsage and sleeves in very pale Nile green pongee silk, trimmed with satin of

Sir Joshua Beynolds’ time, including the coiffure of I’Angelica Kaufman, with the pale-blue ribbon or ropes of pearls twined carelessly in the flowing tresses. The process itself is not very agreeable, but the result repays the trouble. The hair must first be dressed very firmly and covered with grease, and the powder should be thrown down adundantly from a height Sometimes a white wigis preferred to powder, and in this case the natural hair must first be combed away from the face and secured in assmall a compass as possible at the topof the head, a little cosmetic being applied so as to prevent it from slipping down. The face must be slightly made up, or the effect of the powder will be tootrying. First, cover the face with glycerine or cold cream, next rub in some rouge with a piece of cottonwool, beginning at the cheek-bones and working gradually downward. Now powder well, and outline the eyebrows, if requisite. • The patch gives the finishing touch to the toilet, and requires tobe adjustea with care. A patch must never be put on a line of the face, or it will appear to extend it. It should leput near a dimple or under the eye. on the upper lip, or near any feature which happens to be especially prettv. The patch may be circular or crcsjen'tshaped, or the wearer may pationize some of the quaint designs of goodly size wh eh weie indulged in by the belles ot your great-grandmother’s time. A coach-and-six or a ship in full aa 1 was a comm n object on a lady’s face, and birds, cupids, or even demons, were all pressed into the service. Excellent patches can be cut out of black stickim: plasie - . Modern dress is worn at powder balls, ijrd while, lavender, pink, or black look particularly well with pow dered hair. Grntlemen wear ordinary evening dress, but a white waistcoat and a flower in the buttonhole are imperatively required at a powder ball. copyriKhtea, i.nrJ. The first book issued by the Institution for Savings in Newport, Mass., on the first day the bank was opened, Apr ! 5. 182 P, and still in the possession of the family of the ueposcloi', Was received at the banking rooms recently lohave the interest added. The original deposit was S2O, and no more deposils were made. The interest to datr amounted to sß9s. E. F. Scott,one of the wealthiest colored men in Virginia, went to Clifton Forge several years ago without a dollar. He now owns eighteen houses and lots, a hotel and a large amusement hall, and is putting up a large buildin ; on Main street. He also runs 1 a wood and coal yard.

I not worn out are too short skirted for the present fashion, but the foundations are just right for petticoats. Have them cleaned il need be, and remake them if they do not seem to be hung just right. i You will find yourself with a pale-blue skirt, a rose-colored one, a pale-green one, an ecru one, perhaps. If-you want a particular cne, or if the silk seems faded, have it dyed the color you wish. Dyed silk is always a little stiff, but that is that much more like taffeta, by the way, as far back as in the reign of Charles IX. the underskirt was made very handsome. It was called the cotillion. Presently came the dance in- ; tended to display this petticoat. So it I you want to be quite right and very fine besides, I am sure you may call your taffeta a “cotillion." My readers may like to know that powder balls will be fashionable this season. This is a very pretty variation of a fancy ball, and is far less trouble to get up. It-is not everybody who wants to go to the expense of an entire

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fancy costume, but no one can object to paying a little extra attention to the way they do their hair. Powder is so un,versal)y becoming that ladies are always pleased to have a chance of assuming it, and every one seems to look their best at a party of this kind. The origin of powder is uncertain, but it has been arcribed to the fact that when the court ladies went to see the country fairs at St. Germa’n they noticed how becoming was the flour with which the players used to cover their hair, so as to give themselves a droll appearance. The ladies notice ! how the whitened hair set off the coloring of the cheeks and gave an added brilliancy to the eyes, and they borrowed the fashion from the players, rowder was worn for neatly two centuries, so that there is a great variety of choice in the style of hairdressing one adopts at a fancy ball. The last two sketches show toilets suitable for powder balls, and at Iho same time good for other occasions of full dress. The s'ngle figure is in a lovely toilet, with a petticoat of white gauce, embroidered with bunches of mauve flowers and a plain plisse white gauze bodice. The trimming, as designed. is made of pansy, pearl-gray, fresh butter, striped faille, and of pale mauve ribbon ruche also on the Watteau court train, which comes from the shoulders; the gloves are gray. One of the other pair is seen in white-spotted tulle, with white roses and white satin ribbon as trimming; also a white satin bouilienne along the lower hem of the petticoat and train. The sash is of iron-gray surah. The final example is a gown of pale-blue damask trimmed with sapphire velvet; white lace plisses complete the pett coat. At a powder ball you may wear the towering head-dress of the days of the King George whom the Yankees whipped, or have the hair turned back over a cushion like the Watteau shepherdess, or comb it back from the face and tie it at the nape of lhe neck with a bow of black ribbon. Then there are the beauties of

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