Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Page 4

•TWAS FAR AWAY. *tbna far away where skies are fair And sweet with song and light; When I had but my scythe, my dear. And you your needles bright. So far away ! and yet, to-day, For all the distance drear. My heart keeps chime with that sweet time And dreams the old dreams there. There, where love learned its sweetest words And built its brightest bowers: Where sang the rarest mocking birds And bloomed the fairest flowers ! fields were golden-rich, and clear The streams flowed in the light— When I had but my scythe, my dear, And you your needles bright! Bow soft and sweet across the wheat Your dear voice seemed to roam. When stars of love peeped pale above And I went dreaming home I Fife bad no sweeter joy than this— To a little while There, where you met me with a kiss And blessed me with a smile! So far that sweet time seems to-day, Here ’neath these darkened skies; And yet. across the weary way You light me with your eyes : And X would give earth's gold to share Once more that day. that night. When I had but my scythe, my dear, And you your needles bright! —[Frank L. Stanton.

A DAGHESTAN PATTERN.

Phoebe Jane Breek hung the little *ng over the ann of the old haircloth rocking-chair, and Mrs. Ponsonby Ten Broeck gazed at it critically. “It’s a real Daghestan pattern,” aaid the great lady, who was a sum■eer visitor at East Palestrina; and Phoebe Jane colored high with pride and pleasure. Being only fifteen years old, and not the capable one of the familj-, it was a great satisfaction to have her handiwork admired by a lady from New York. “You really have a knack at rugmaking,” said Phoebe Jane’s older aster Eunice, when the visitor’s carriage had gone. It was at that very moment, while Phoebe Jane was washing the best thin glass tumbler to which the lady had drank her cream, that a great idea came to her. She did not tell Eunice at once; Eunice was trying to trim Pauleny Jordan’s bonnet “kind of subdued,” according to that lady’s injunctions, as she was coming out with new false teeth, and was anxious not to look too “flighty.” "When Eunice had something on her mind was not the time to talk to her. Besides, it was such a great idea that it almost took Phoebe Jane’s breath away. If she could have told her Cousin Lttella, that would have been a com tort. Luella went to the Oakmount Female Seminary, and knew almost everything; but Luella and she were forbidden to speak to each other, because her father and Luella’s mother, Aunt Cynthia, had quarrelled long •go Aunt Cynthia’s boys, Jerome and Albion, and Phoebe Jane’s brother, Uetvellyn, had always scowled at each other, but Phoebe Jane and Luella had wanted to be friends ever since the day when Luella’s buff kitten got lost in Wingate’s woods, aud Phoebe Jane climbed a tall tree, in the top of which it was mewing piteously, and restored it to its mistress's arms. That had happened long ago, when they were little girls; but ever since they had shown themselves congenial spirits. So Phoebe Jane longed to ask Luella’s advice about Aer bright idea. But as that could' not be, she allowed it to rest awhile to her eager brain, and then proceeded to develop it. .Phoebe Jane stole softly into “the shepherdess room”—they called it so because the old-fashioned paper on the walls was covered with shepherdesses, with their crooks and their flocks of sheep. It was the best room, the parlor; but although 'Phoebe Jane’s father and mother lived in that house ever since they were married, the room had never been furnished. ' fEbey bad always been planning to furnish it; that had been one of Pfaebe Jane’s mother’s hopes as long as lived, and now Eunice, whenever she was able to save a little money, said that sometime, perhaps, they could furnish the parlor. Eunice had made a beautiful lounge for it out of an old packingcase, and Mrs. Tisbury, when she moved to Orland, had left them her base-burner stove to use until she %anted it. But Eunice said the great difficulty was the carpet—it was such .-a large room. Phoebe Jane stood in the middle of the room and surveyed it with a measuring eye. “Llewellyn will paint the edges for roe.” ihe meditated, “and it is very ufcylifjh to leave half a yard all 'round.” “'Then we could have the choir rehearsals here,” said Phoebe Jane cloud to herself. The choir rehearsals were held in "the church before the service on Sunday mornings, which was a very inconvenient time for those singers who lived away up beyond Pigeon Hill down at Wood End. These rehearsals seemed a little like profaning the Sabbath, too, to some of the singers; and, anyway, it was pot pleasant and social, as it would be ho have them in the evening. But it cost too much to heat or even to light the church for evening rehearsals; it was a large, old-fashioned ■church, and Palestrina was poor. The Brecks had a large parlor organ ; it almost filled the little sitting room. Mary Ellen, the sister who died, had bought it with her schoolleaching money. No one else in Palestrina had such an organ, and Eunice had often said, with along sigh. “How delightful it would be to have itbe choir rehearsals here, if we only Itod the parlor furnished! ” Phoebe Jane decided that if she had » “‘knack” it was high time she ■tod it to accomplish something worth the while, especially as she had an uncomfortable sense of not Jttotag good lor much. Eunice was a famous housekeeper,

and could trim bonnets so well that people preferred her work to that of the village milliner. She was so useful in sickness that every one sent for her; and she could play beautifully on the organ, too, although she had never taken any lessons. Even Llewellyn, who was thirteen years old, and only a hoy. could be trusted to get dinner better than Phoebe Jane; he could draw delightful music out of the old fiddle that they had found in Grandpa Pulsifer’s garret, and could puzzle the schoolmaster himself when it came to mathematics. Phoebe Jane couldn’t play on anything. except a comb, and she was obliged to go to the barn to indulge in that musical performance because it made Eunice nervous ; she Said she could bear it if Phoebe Jane could keep a tune. And Phoebe Jane was very apt to be at the foot of the class at school. Never mind ! Mrs. Ponsonby Ten Broeck might flatter, but Eunice certainly never did. and Eunice had said that she. Phoebe Jane, had a “knack.” Phoebe Jane slipped away that afternoon without giving any naccount of herself. She called first on old Mrs. Prouty, who had been the Palestrina dressmaker for fifty years. Old Mrs. Prouty had the reputation of being “snug;” she had a great store of “pieces” in her attic, and she had never been known to give any away, even for a crazy-quilt. But she and Phoebe Jane were very intimate. Phoebe Jane had brought up Mrs. Prouty’s tender brood of turkeys, hatched during a thundershower; had always stood up for Ginger, the old lady’s little iat-ter-rier, that, was voted a nuisance by the neighbors, and had twice rescued him from cruel boys. Moreover, old Mrs. Prouty’s niece Lorinda sang in “the seats, ” and longed for evening rehearsals.

The pile of “pieces” in Mrs. Prouty’s attic was like a mountain of rainbows, and old Mrs. Prouty had so good a memory that she knew to whose dress almost every piece had belonged. Phoebe Jane made two or three other calls, and before she went home the success of her plan seemed assured. Eunice said, “I don’t see how you’re going to make a rug that’s large enough,” and “I hope you won’t get tired of it before its half-done as you did of the bed-spread you begun to crochet.” But she helped; Eunice would always help, though she was practical and saw all the difficulties at once. Llewellyn got the Corey boys to help him make a frame that was large enough, and he helped to make the rest too. By dint of hard work it was finished and laid upon the parlor floor the first of December. As Phoebe Jane said, if you don’t believe it was a siege, you’d better try one ! A real Daghestan pattern, nine by twelve feet.

Then, alas! when the rug was down, and the parlor furnished, all the pleasure of the choir rehearsals was spoiled by a church quarrel. It arose as church quarrels and others often do, from what seemed a very small thing. Old Mrs. Tackaberry, Aunt Cintliia’s mother, had the old-fashioned New England habit of suspending all labor on Saturday evening, and beginning it again on Sunday evening; and being a very obstinate woman, she would knit in the Sunday evening prayer meeting. No matter how loud the minister and the members prayed and exhorted, no matter how loud the congregation sang, old Mrs, Tackaberry’s knittingneedle seemed to click above everything. Some people were, shocked and some had their nerves aflected, while others declared that “a mother in Israel,” like old Mrs. Tackaberry, should be allowed to indulge in such a harmless eccentricity. At this time the church was divided into two parties, one insisting old Mrs. Tackuberry should cease to knit or leave, and the other declaring that if she left it would leave with her. So the church was rent asunder. The supporters of old Mrs. Tackaberry hired the town-hall for their services, and a young divinity student for their minister. The funds that had been barely enough for one church were sadly insufficient for two, and there was enmity between old friends and neighbors. So Phcobe Jane said with a tearful sense of the futility of all human hopes, that there was “no comfort in half a choir rehearsal.” It was old Mrs. Tackaberry who had made the trouble between Aunt Cynthia, and her brother-in-law, years before, so it was not very likely that the Brecks would espouse her cause, though Deacon Breek who was a mild and gentle man, and never had quarrelled with anybody but Aunt Cynthia in his life—Deacon Breek said he “wished folks could have put up with the knit ting, for he believed it was conducive to godliness to let some folks do as they were a mind to.” As if Phcebe Jane had not had disappointment enough, the worst storm of the season came on that Saturday night when the choir had been invited to hold its first rehearsal in the newly-furnished parlor. It was a rain, following a heavy fall of snow. The roads were almost impassable, and most of the singers lived a long distance from the village. The town-hall was opposite the Brecks’ house, and Phcebe Jane looking out of the window, saw that the choir of the new society was assembling in spite of the storm. It was to be a great occasion with the new society to-morrow.; Jerome, Aunt Cynthia’s oldest son, who was a student in a theological seminary, was going to preach. But a great volume of smoke was pouring out of the doors and windows of the hall, and Llewellyn, who had been over to investigate, announced that “that old chimney was smoking again, and they would have to give up their rehearsal.” Then Llewellyn, who was a strong partisan, and didn’t like Aunt Cynthia’s Jerome, turned a somersault of excitement and delight. “It is too bad!” cried Phoebe Jane, whose soul was sympathetic. “Father—Eunice—don’t you think we might ask them to come in here?” Father Breek hesitated, rubbing his hands together nervously. He

said he was afraid peofle would think , it was queer, and if any of their choir I should come it would be awkward. Then Eunice suddenly came to the I front, as Eunice had a way of doing quite unexpectedly. “I think Phcrbe Jane has a right ! to use the parlor as she likes, she worked so hard for the rug,” said I Eunice. | “Well, well, do as you like, Phoebe Jane. Maybe it’s a providential | leading,” said Father Breek. Phoebe Jane threw her waterproof I over her head and ran out. There were Cynthia and Jerome, and with I them a professor from Jerome’s sein- : inary. Phoebe Jane had a lump in ; her throat when she tried to speak to them, but behind, oh joy 1 there was l Luella. “If you will come and rehearse in our parlor you know about my j rug!” said Phoebe Jane; and then she drew her waterproof over her , head again and ran back. There was a consultation, evidently. Phoebe Jane heard old Mrs. Tackaberry’s voice, and was afraid they would'nt come. But they did! It seemed almost the whole of the new society came pouring into the parior, and by that time Alma Pickering, and Jo Flint, and the Hodgdon girls, of their own choir, had coine! It would have been a little awkward if old Mrs. Tackaberry had not been immediately struck by the new rug, and begun to ask questions about it with a freedom that made every one laugh. Soon they were all talking about it. Phoebe Jane remembered, as she had meant to, where she had put almost all the “pieces” of which Mrs. Prouty had told her the history. Old Mrs. Tackaberry cried about the pink delaine that was her little granddaughter, Abby Ellen’s, who died, and about the brown tibet that was her daughter Amanda’s wedding dross when she married a missionary and went to China, and died there.

Then they all laughed at an arabesque in one corner which was Jerome’s yelllow flannel dress —Phoebe Jane had been a little afraid to tell of that, Jerome was so imposing in a white necktie. Aunt Cynthia would not believe that she bad let the dressmaker make that dress until she remembered that it was the time when she scalded her hand. People kept coming in. Phoebe Jane had an inspiration, and made Llewellyn go and invite them. It became a good old-fashioned neighborhood party—“just like a quilting,” old Mrs. Taekaberry said. Everybody found some of their “pieces” or their relatives’ “pieces” in the rug, and smiles and tears and innumerable stories grew out of this. The new-comers found the two factions apparently so reconciled that they were surprised out of any animosity that they might have felt; and when they came to rehearse their music it happened, oddly enough, that both parties had chosen the same hymn, and they all sang together. When they had finished rehearsing, someone—Phoebe Jane never was quite sure whether it was Jerome or the professor—started “Blessed be the tie that binds.” How they did sing it! Old Mrs. Tackaberry’s thin,crackled treble sang out in defiance of time and time, and when the hymn ended tears were rolling down her seamy cheeks. “I’m going back to the church! ” sho said, brokenly. “I’ve sp’ilt my meet’n’s and other folk’s long enough. And —and —I'm going to do what I’m a mind to, to home, when it comes sun-down on the Sabbath day, but I ain’t goin’ to knit a mite in meetin’ again—not a mite! ” There was a great hand-shaking; Aunt Cynthia and Father Breek actually shook hands, and out in the entry old Mrs. Tackaberry kissed Phoebe Jane. In spite of the bad roads, there was a great congregation in the East Palestrina church the next day. It was the professor who preached. He chose for his text, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” and every one looked at Phoebe Jane until she grew red to the tips of her ears. She and Luella walked homeward together—openly, arm iji arm; and it seemed like walking in Paradise, although one went over shoe In mud. —[Youth’s Companion.

Telephone Doctors.

In a telephone plant for a big citylike Chicago there are cables containing upward of 130,000 miles of copper wire. Complete records are kept of the position of every wire, and the men in charge can pick out at once the line of any subscriber whenever it is necessary to inspect it or work on it. When a line gets into trouble it can be tested in both directions from the switchboard and out toward the subscriber’s station.

At every exchange there is an official called the “wire chief,” whose special duty is to overlook the making of connections between the subscriber’s line and the switchboard, to inspect the wires, and to test them electrically in order to determine the position of any defect that may occur in a subscriber’s line or instruments. The wire chief sits at a special desk, from which wires run to various parts of the system, and he is provided with electrical instruments with which to make tests on lines that develop “trouble.” He is the ambulance surgeon of the telephone plant, and his wires give him the advantage of bejng truly übiquitous. He receives complaints and reports of “trouble,” and enters on special slips every “trouble” reported or discovered. These slips are handed to “trouble men,” who search out the cause, and,, finding it, apply the proper remedy,' They then enter an account of what they found and what they did on the slip and return it. In this way a close and comprehensive check is kept on the operation of the telephone plant, which, on account of its complexity and of the number of small paints that go to make it up, is peculiarly liable to trifling but troublesome defects. Returns are made up periodically from the “trouble slips,” and these form a continuous record of the efficiency both of the plant and of those immediately in charge of it.—[Chicago News.

GOWNS AND GOWNING.

WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. **rtef Glances at Fancies Feminine, Frivolous, Mayhap, and Yet Offered In the Hope that the Heading May Frove Restful to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gay Gotham. New York correspondence

name is chosen for it. It is really no more nor less than a sweater. It is made of heavy wool with a little silk thread here and there. It slips over the head as did the long ago jersey, which it resembles except in bulkiness. The collar is high and double like the sweater of the athlete; it rolls up about the hips in a careless fashion, and dcos not fit at all about the waist line, where a heavy wrinkle marks each hip. It seems to have no darts, bagging under the bust line, which it fits as closely and exactly as did the old-time jersey. Over the shoulders and down the arms it tits like the paper on the wall. Most of them, however, are without sleeves. This garment takes on a sensational aspect as worn by some of its early adopters, who permit it to follow the contour of the figure, and to merely indicate the waist line. Enthusiasts declare that never has a fashion given to a magnificently molded woman such a chance for display. For wear over this garment comes the Polish cape, the like of which never saw Poland. It, too, is an odd affair, that reaches to the hip line in the back and hangs in fan-like fashion from the high collar from behind. From the shoulder-seams in front hang

A DAINTY MAID AND GOWN.

fan-pleated pieces which join the back “fan” under the arms and which do not cover the front, thus not interfering with the display of the blouse beneath. The cape is lined with 9ilk to exactly match itself, and contrasts stronglv with the color of the blouse. The latter is usually a dark red, or a strong myrtle green, in some cases being a dull yellow. With the red is worn dull gray, brown or black; with the green, a brilliant emerald green, but black, stone color or brown will be more popular with the yellow. Brown is the best, though black looks well. It is said by the very advanced designers who are launching the garment that it will be much subject to elaboration if it “takes. ” One of white silk was overlaid with silver, for use with a white satin trained skirt having drapery from the shoulders of silver and silver gauze, and hanging in the back in Greek fashion. It seems hardly possible that the Polish blouse will adapt itself to evening use, though it undoubtedly has attractive points for street wear. Less like innovations are the garments which the artist sketches herewith, though each possesses points of novelty, as new styles must to gain general favor. The pictured models vviil be more likely to become established fashions than will garments like those first descrit ed, for the former’s new features are but part of the whole, and in the remainder can easily be recognized fashions which already prevail. The item of unusualness in the first illustration's bodice is that, in place of the ordinary round basque, there are a number of tabs, each showing an ornamental button. In materials the who!© costume is simple enough, being made of navy-blue serge and garnished with white cloth. Its gored skirt i-; entirely plain, is lined with alpaca, and is stiffened around the bottom. The bodice has a fitted vest which buttons down the center, and is finished by a rolling collar faced with white. The jacket fronts are lined with white cloth, which also furnishes the large revers-collar. Far more dainty is the second costume shown. Like the first, its skirt

ODDLY DRAPED

is plain l and slightly stiffened, and its material, as sketched, is a dove-colored cashmere, _ trinimed with the same shade of ribbon and white guipure, though there is no end of stuffs and garniture which are available. The bodice comes inside the skirt and is laid in a deep box pleat in the center of the front and ba.-k. The guipure trimming forms draped epaulettes and revers, and a band of it extends down the outer seam of tho puffs. Standing

collar and cuffs show lace garniture and a dove-colored ribbon with big loops ana ends coming about the waist* A trick of d raping gives a touch of novelty in the next dress shown. Herein, mess-green watered silk dotted with white is trimmed with white guipure and moss-green velvet The skirt is quite plain, and the bodice s oddly draped fronts a: e plain in the waist, where they are laid in pleats. The standing collar, bretelles and belt aro of green velvet garnished with lace, and the ample sleeves are draped at the top; but are otherwise plain. The very newest sleeve is, of course, an effort to lead the styles away from the adorable puffs that now take more material than the old-fasbioned skirt used to. This sleeve fits over the shoulder with no fullne-s, the arm-hole sets lows, and the sleeve follows the outline of the arm to a little above the elbow, where it suddenly widens according to the plan of a bell skirt and is very large. An under s eeve of muslin is a regular shower of frills, and is either made to show the bare arm, or

IGHT into autumn go many of tho fashion*' of summer; in fact, the downright new things so far developed in the fall fashions are very few. Such as are found are for the upper part of you. One garment which is now bidding 1 for acceptance is a decided novelty and is called the Polish blouse, it being so very odd that a far-away

is like the gayety dancer's skirt—a mass of frills with nothing else disclosed. Wear an old-fashioned muslin bertha that comes weil down over the shoulders and is finished with frills of its own at the edge to break the severity of the new sleeve at the shoulder, and the effect will be very pretty. There is no need to point out the features of newness in the bodice next shown, for it is of quaint shape throughout, with the exception of the plain sleeves. The maker of this one was determined that its uncommon cut should be apparent, for she chose scarlet cashmere for it and trimmed with black lace. The garment fastens invisibly in the center and has a plain yoke finisnod with bretelles headed and edged with lace. A double row of lace extends down the front, trims the standing collar and continues around the basque. A big two-looped bow of scarlet ribbon is placed in the junction ot the bretelles in front. The back is plain, but shows the yoke and bretelles. Frilled epaulettes are to be added to the many accessories of the modern gown, and they go charmingly with gowns made on the yoke plan. ’ They are slightly half-moon in shape and stiffened prettily, the foundation being covered with little frills of taffeta, net or lace. The ‘ horns” of the moon rest back and front on the edge of the bodice where it meets the yoke. Here a great rosette, sometimes with a stole-like scarf pendant, finishes the effect. In black net, each ruffle edged with a tiny thread of gold, they are very effective with any kind of dress. A woman may, with a clear conscience, cut up her old black net dress and use the good parts to concoct a pair of these epaulettes. Such devices of fluffery are excellent for the slender figure, whose angularity they disguise, and, if skillfully managed, entirely conceal. With that end in view, the blouse waist of tho final sketch is constructed. Its material is maize colored foulard, which is trimmed withwhite satinand white lace.

The lining of the blouse fastens in the center, but the blouse proper closes at ; the side. It has a shirred yoke finI ished with a belt of wide white satin | ribbon tying in full loops cd the left side. A similar bow is placed in the I center of the yoke in front, and the | sleeves are draped into a series of I puffs tacked to the lining. I Women who feel kindly disposed toI ward dress elaborations which act as | concealment for defects in the physical | make-up need not avoid them because j of the approach of winter, with its I fashions turning largely to garments I which are e sentialiy protective. It j is almost always the rule as summer : closes—and the one just past is no exj ception—to have a genuine outburst of i frivolity in styles. If there have been ! frills before, there suddenly come frills j before and behind. Besides, the sea- | son is longer now than it used to be, and ruffles may be indulged in for some [ weeks yet. j One of the fanciful' notions of the changing season is the demand for gowns of richer materials inside than out. Thus, gingham dresses are seen which are actually lined with silk. The plaid gingham so much in vogue is lined with heavy wash silk of the most brilliant shade in the plaid. Dressmakers declare that the “hang” of the gown is much improved, and that every dress should have the rustle of silk about it to be entirely feminine. On the other hand, there are many who insist that the rustib of cotton is the right sort of rustle for cotton to have. Luckily, the patient s metimes gets well when the doctors disagree. Copyright, 1894. I\ the ndrthern parts of Siberia, the cold is so interne that the earth never thaws to a greater depth than five or six feet. Bodies of the dead buried below this x-emain perpetually frozen. At a depth of 400 feet below the surface. the earth is still ata tempei'ature of 10 degrees below freezing. The first city built was, according to Hebrew tradition, in B. C. 3760, by Cain.

ENTIRELY NOVEL.

WELL SUITED TO SLENDER ONES.

WORK OF DEMOCRACY

CAMPAIGN IN THE SOUTH OPENED AT ATLANTA. Speaker CrUp and Secretary Smith Fire the First Gan Into the Hanks of the Hnemy—Georgians Entreated to Beware of Populist Doctrines. Crisp Is for Bilver. The Democratic campaign in the South was opened in Atlanta, Ga., by Charles F. Crisp, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior. There was an immense crowd at the meeting and much enthusiasm prevailed. Messrs. Crisp and Smith made speeches, which were freauently applauded and listened to intently. The principal features of the speeches were Mr. Crisp’s declaration that he was a believer in free silver and Mr. Smith’s attacks on Populists and Populism and the lt>to-l ratio in the coinage of silver. In the course of his talk Mr. Crisp said: “When the Lllld Congress met In August of last year It was confronted with difficulties which seemed almost Insurmountable. Irade was paralyzed, manufacturing had almost ceased, labor was Idle, our banking institutions were falling and confidence, life and soul of commerce, was utterly destroyed. In so far as this deplor-

SPEAKER CRISP.

able condition was attributable to legislation. the Republican party was responsible. For more than thirty years that party had made our financial and economic laws. Until the meeting of the 1.1 lid Congress the Democracy was without power. The condition which confronted us, while not wholly, was very largely due to evil legislation. In 1873 the free coinage of silver had been dls continued and gold became the standard of value; In 1878 partial coinage was resumed. In 1890 this law was repealed and soon thereafter coinage of sliver practically ceased. These acts of the Republican party resulted In so lessening the volume, of money of final redemption as to decrease the price of all commodities. Increase the burden of ail debtors and Impair the confidence of the people In the power of the Government and of banking institutions to redeem their outstanding obligations. “For thirty years the Republicans had been building up tariff walls around the country, and In 1890 passed what they termed a ‘perfect protective tariff law. ’ A protective tariff restricts trade and commerce: It limits the market In which we must buy and depresses the market in which we must sell. It Is a tax upon a foreign product which the consumer here must pay. By taxing tls foreign competitor you enable the domestic manufacturer to Increase the price of his wares to the extent of the tax, and this, too, the consumer here must pay. Then you buy foreign goods and pay tho duty; It goes Into the treasury and Is called a ‘tax;.’ when you buy the domestic product and pay tho increased price it goes Into the pocket of the American manufacturer and Is called •protection. ’ “What has the Democratic Congress so far done for the people? The first matter considered was the financial question. What should or could be done on the silver question? We bad pledged ourselves against the makeshift Sherman law and In favor of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country. By an agreement arrived at between Democrats we determined to take the sense of the House on tho free and unlimited coinage of silver, at several ratios. After full debate a separate vote was had on each, and on the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. The result you know. “While not professing to understand the question fully in all Its bearings, I have always been In favor of the free coinage of silver. lam In favor of it now. I believe the fears of our friends who oppose It are largely imaginary, and I believe the enactment of such a law would afford great relief to the people of the country. “With our great struggle for tariff reform you are familiar. Thirty years of class legislation has built up In this country large trusts, large monopolies and largo combinations of capital. All these interestswere arrayed against us. Under these conditions our progress was slow. The IJouse framed and passed a tariff bill. This went to the Senate. After a long and tedious struggle the Senate passed this bill, with amendments. Finally the question vras presented In such a fashion that we must either accept the Senate amendments or have no bill, thus permitting the odious McKinley law to remain upon the statute booka When we were convinced such was the true situation we did not hesitate a moment; we accepted the Senate amendments, and so the bill became a law. This bill Is not all we hoped for. It contains provisions we deplore, provisions which the House by separate bill immediately repealed, and yet, taken as a whole, it goes further in the direction of relief to a tax-ridden people than any bill that has been considered in any Congress since the war.”

Secretary Smith’s Address. Secretary Smilh in opening his remarks reviewed the financial troubles of the past eighteen months, and congratulated the South, as well as Georgia, upon the excellent showing made. The attention of the commercial world had been attracted, and he predicted for that sect.ion a period of development and marked prosperity such as never before experienced. The cotton States and International Exposition would prove of great assistance in this work. But tho attention of capital once secured, Its confidence must also be won, and It was therefore of the utmost importance to the future welfare of the

SECRETARY SMITH.

the leadership of a Leweliing or a AVaite. Bad as was the record of the third party in the West, the crazy theories of their leaders in Congress were enough to stagger comprehension and shock thoughtful men. They sought disbursements amounting in the aggregate to over $25,000,000.000. The people of Georgia could not afford to indorso such a party. Tho Stale would to disorganized locally and discredited before the world If it appeared to have ever listened to their Impracticable theories. Fow, of thdir beliofs were worthy of discussion, but there was one which seemed to have appeared attractive, although when carefully investigated It must be classified with their other theories as almost equally wild and impracticable. He reforred to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 by the United States alone, and declared it to be a plan utterly at variance with sound business principles and fraught with lbcalcuable ovlL He did net wish his position misunderstood. He was a thorough bimetallist, strong In his faith, and no one could

, The great strike and lockout in the cotton mills of New Bedford and Fall River are due to a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages by the manufacturers. The publiG is interested in knowing if this trouble is in any measure due to the new tariff. The duties on cotton goods in the bill just passed are less, but not much less, than these imposed by the McKinley law. Shirts, in deference to Mr. Murphy, are to pay 50 instead of 35 per cent. Stockings are to pay 30 instead of 35 per cent. There have been slight reductions, however, on other cotton goods, and Senator Aldrich estitimated that the average rate of duty on manufactures of cotton under the new law would be about 40 per cent, instead of 57 percent., the average rate under the McKinley act. The new schedule was accepted a* satisfactory to the cotton manufacturers. Their Senators did not offer a word of opposition while it was passing the Senate, and were twitted cn their silence by Senators Dolph and Teller. Senator Aldrich, in reply, said that the schedule was “prepared by tho manufacturers of Fall River, so lar as tho price of cloth is concerned,” ana added that it “is perhaps the most scientific schedule that has ever been prepared upon the subject." He further said: “I think the committee deserves the thanks of the cotton manufacturers of the country.” Senator Hoar also expressed his satisfaction. Certainly the new tariff bill cannot account for the proposed reduction of wages. According to a correspondent of the Evening Post, writing Irom New Bedford, wages have been reduced and increased there without regard to the tariff. This statement is verified by a recent report of tho Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. In ten years reductions of wages of cotton operatives in these two cities have aggregated ab iut 35 per cent, and increases have aggregated 221 per cent. Therefore, notwithstanding the Republican tariffs of 1883 and 1890, wages have gone down in the cotton mills of Fall River and New Bedford about 12! per cent. Another strange fact in connection with this proposed decrease of wages is that, according to the American Wool and Cotton Reporter of Aug. 23, there is “a perceptible improvement in the demand” for cotton goods. This journal advises against a reduction of wages, and truly says: “The cotton foods market as a whole is rather inependent of tariff letrislation. ” This is in line with Secretary Blaine’s report that the labor cost in manufactured cottons is less in this country than in England. According to the annual report of the Bureau of Statistics of Massachu- * setts for 1893, just published, the business of making cottons was about the most prosperous of all the industries of the State for that year. It used more raw material than in 1892. The value of its goods fell off less than 3 per cent. The number of persons employed decreased about one-quarter of i per cent., the amount of earnings .97 of 1 per cent., and the average earnings .69 of 1 per cent. The explanation of the proposed reduction in wages remains to be made. Certainly the tariff bugaboo cannot he raised when wages fell 10 per cent, under the McKinley law, as they did last September, and when they increased 10 per cent, after the great tariff refbrm victory of 1890.—New York World.

One would suppose that after all the howling of the Republican organs about sugar tax that they would cease to claim that tariff taxes are paid by the foreigners. But the Manufacturer of Philadelphia still continues to utter this old parrot cry. On August 18, it said “under the McKinley tariff the foreigner has been compelled to pay a tribute which the new act deci’esses or removes." Hence “the proposition that the act will fulfill the promise to relieve the nation from taxation is absolutely without warrant in fact. ” It is only McKinley who can get a curve onto a tariff bill so that the tax will miss the American consumer and hit the foreign pi’oducer. It is, therefore, impossible for Democrats to make a tariff'bill to please Republicans, all of whom believe in the golden rule and shift their taxes onto the poor overtaxed and half-starved foreigners.

state that in the coming election the people of Georgia should show the world that the wild theories of the Populists had no foothold among them. Calling attention to the recent experience of the great 'states of Kansas and Colorado under I’opuiistlc rule, the Secretary asked who would wish to see Georgia follow

“I am not sure that this vei’y failure may be the harbinger and assurance of tho speedier and mox-e complete triumph of commercial freedom than the smooth and. unobstructed passage of the House b’ill would have been. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have ai’oused them to the deadly menace that protection begets to the purity and very existence of free.government, ’’—William L. Wilson’s speech at Martinsburg, West Va., Aug. 29. “With all its manifold failures, its final retention of many protective duties, its objectionable sugar schedule, and its excessive duties On cottons and woolens and metals, the new bill carries in it substantial relief to the American people, and must be accepted as a beginning to thorough and progressive tariff reform.”— Will ( iatn L. Wilson’s speech at Martinsburg, West Va., Aug. 29. “When the sugar trust thus challenges the American people to a contest of strength, its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is its speedier and moi’e complete overthrow and with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood of monopolies that are sti’on" through its support. "—William L. Wilson s speech at Martinsburg W Va , Aug. 29. 8

be more unalterably opposed to the adoption of a single gold standard. Bucb a course would bring about a contraction of the currency calculated to cripple the industries and lessen the demand for sunplies. The injury Inflicted by a single-standard currency bad been recently demonstrated abroad, and the evil effects had been felt here upon products of this country raised for foreign consumption. 3e believed these evil effects wonld be lessened by preserving the present per capita of currency here; but where three-fourths of our great cotton product goes abroad, three-fourths of the Injury could not be reached except by tbe success of bimetallism In the places of consumption. Currency In the United States has not been contracted, but, on the contrary, the per capita to-day was $24 19 as against an average of $14.85 from 1850 to 1860. The Secretary then described the eight different kinds of money now used in this country and maintained that the Instant any one of these went to a premium It would become a commodity for private sale and contraction would follow, hut by preserving them upon an equality and by an Increase equal to the growth of business and population contraction would be prevented. This could be accomplished, first, by changing the bullion la a silver dollar so as to require 100 cents’ worth of silver In every dollar; second, by International agreement, which. If secured, would prevent the necessity of changing the ratio, or, third, by calling in all money of small denominations, say $lO and less, not consisting of silver, and giving silver the right qf way. He especially urged tbe repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on State banks as a remedy within control of the United States. Mr. Smith closed hts speech with an appeal to the voters of the State to remain true to the Dsmocratlc principle of sound money inaugurated by Jefferson, supported by Jackson, and preserved by Cleveland.

The Cotton Mills Trouble.

A Familiar Parrot Cry.