Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — Page 6

FROM THE FILES

John Stanton, Ph. G. Prescription Druggist. Chicago, April 1, 1901. C. R. Eliott, Esq. Kansas City, Mo. Dear Charley: I’ve been in business here for five years and I’ve worked up a fairly good trade, but recently two women have opened drug stores within a block of me, and I’m going to clear out. Almost every day a woman comes in and tries to sell me something in the perfumery or soap line. They are breaking into almost everything. If there Is one thing I despise more than another, it is the new woman—the woman in business. She has no conscience, and, as a busl-

THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY GOT HOME FROM NEW YORK LAST WEEK.”

ness competitor, she is the limit. She expects a man to show her every courtesy and at the same time she will cut tils throat in a business way. I bad five or six thousand to invest, and,am.going into something where I shall be able to do business with men. I’ll let you know when I make a change. How are Mrs. Eliott and the olive branches? I’m afraid I’m a confirmed bachelor. I’m Just as much afraid of a petticoat as I used to be. Yours, JACK.

(From the Dully Spike.) BUSINESS CHANCES. WANTED PARTNER, WITH s'>.ooo TO Inveit In a light manufacturing business eatabllKhed for live years, with good Hue of customers; new partner to take active management of business; references given and required; Investigate; no agents. Addies* F. J. 192, Dally Spike office. John Stanton, Ph. G. Prescription Druggist. F. J. 192: Chicago, April 8. I have s’>,ooo to invest, and, though I rarely pay any attention to advertisements, I like the business-like tone of your notice. When and where can I have an interview? I refer you to the Sixteenth National Bank. JOHN STANTON. F. J. Jones & Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96th and Eldred Sts., Chicago. Chicago, April 9, 1901. John Stanton, Esq. Dear Sir: In reply to your note of yesterday I refer you to my attorneys, Sharp & Brown, who are authorised to enter into negotiations on our account. Our plant Is located at With and Eldred streets, and will be open to your inspection at any time. You may, if you desire, put in your own to go over our books. I regret that I am called to New York on business, and shall be gone for the next two weeks, but our lawyers and our manager. Mr. Edwards, are authorized to do business In my absence. I believe the business offers a fair opportunity for growth and for Increased profits, and trust you will not go into It unless you come to the same opinion after a careful investigation. I Inclose some circulars describing our present product. Yours very truly. F. JONES. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Springfield, 111., April 15.—The Secretary of State reports the incorporation of the Jones-Stanton Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $15,000, to manufacture and sell malleable Iron novelties. Principal office at Chicago. F. Jones, President and Treasurer; John Stanton, Secretary and Manager. Jones-Stanton Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96th and Eldred Streets, Chicago. Chicago, May 1, 1901. C. R. Eliott, Esq. Dear Charley: Out of the frying pan into the flret I wrote you a month ngo that the new woman had driven me out of the drug business and that I was going into something where I should have only masculine competitors. You will see by this letterhead that I have kept my word. I am now the secretary and manager of the JonesiMtautou company, manufacturers of malleable iron novelties. When I bought my interest the head of the firm was In New York and I did business through the altsrneys and manager of the firm. Its rating is good and its credit excellent. Tin* plant Is in good shape and there are three months* orders ahead. The President of the new company got home from New York last week and you esn Imagine my utter surprtso-

not to say horror—to find that F. Jones is a woman, a pretty and young woman, at that. And her name Is Florence. There Is the irony of fate for you. However, I’m In here and I’ll have to stay until I can get out to advantage. Next time I’ll insist on seeing everybody connected with a deal myself. Yours, more in sorrow than in anger, JACK. Jones-Stanton Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96 th and Eldred Streets. Chicago. Chicago, May 2, 1901. Dear Ellen: You know I push this thing myself so you won’t mind my writing you this way, Instead of with a pen. I’ve incorporated my business, sold a third of the stock to a young man named John Stanton, and installed him as secretary and manager. The sale was made while I was in New York, and you should have seen him stare when I got back and he discovered that I was the F. Jones of the company and bls president. I suppose he thought I was a man with u a large chin whisker. I hardly know what to make of him yet. He may be a good business man, but he’s got to get over starting and blushing every time I speak to him. He acts like he was afraid of me, and I can’t stand that kind of a man. But he has nice eyes and a rather pretty blonds mustache. Lovingly, FLORENCE. Jones-Stanton Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96th and Eldred Streets, Chicago. Memorandum. Mr. Stanton: I have under consideration several applications for an agency in Baltimore. If you do not mind working a little after hours I should be glad to have you dine at our house this evening. We can discuss the agency matter after dinner. F. JONES, Pres. Jones-Stanton Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96th and Eldred Streets, Chicago. Chicago, May 15, 1901. C. R. Eliott, Esq. Dear Charley: For a business woman the president of our company isn’t half bad. In fact, I am fast losing my old prejudice against the sex. We have Increased our business by 40 per cent in the last three months, you will be glad to know, and the prospects were never better in our line. The next time you come to Chicago you must meet Pres. Jones. You will like her, I am sure. She is really a nice little girl. I am feeling better than I have for years. Y’ours, JACK. (From the Daily Spike, June 30.) CHANGE OF OFFICERS. F. head of the old firm of F. Jones & Co., and for the last few months president of the Jones-Stanton company, has retired from active business. The name of the company has been changed to the John Stanton company, and F. Jones is succeeded as president by John Stanton. The business was established a few years ago by the

“WE HAVE CONSOLIDATED ALL THE OFFICES.”

retiring president and Is now one of the largest pf its kind In the country. (From the Dally Spike.) AMONG THE JUNE BRIDES. Wedding of Miss Florence Jones and John Stanton. John Stanton Co., Malleable Iron Novelties, 96th and Eldred Streets, Chicago. Chicago, July 1. C. R. Eliott, Esq. Kansas City, Mo. Dear Charley: Congratulate me. The best thing possible has happened. You know how I have always felt about women In business and bow put" out I was* when I discovered that I had bought into a business of which a woman was tbe head. I felt sure I couldn’t get along with that sort of an arrangement, and now I shan’t have to try. Pres. Jones of the old Jones-Stanton company and I were married a week ago. We’ve changed the name of tbe concern to the John Stat ton company, and have consolidated all the offices. Mrs. Stanton says she will still continue as chairman of the board. * Yours, JACK. —Chicago Tribune.

FASHOIN AND FANCY

FOOT NOTES. The becoming sandal slipper of the moment is sometimes adorned with one and sometimes three or five narrow straps. Very becoming also is the shoe with a fairly large buckle and tongue. This is khown as the Greek or court shoe. Very dainty shoes are of fine gray suede, destined for wear with an all-gray costume. WOMEN’S WORK IN RUSSIA. It is well known that women enjoy in few countries greater equality with men than in Russia. This fact is attested by the following partial compilation of the public positions in Russia now open to women; Dentists, teachers, midwives, apothecaries’ assistants, chemists’assistants, physicians, assistant prison directors, telegraph operators, post officials and various railroad offices, including that of station ftiaster. * CUBA’S FIRST‘POSTMISTRESS. The distinction of being the first postmistress in the island of Cuba belongs to Senorita Ysabel Maria de Los Rios, who holds-a commission to handle the mails at Gibera. She receives a salary of $1,200 a year. As a clerk iq this office she displayed so much executive ability that her appointment to take charge of it meets with the fullest approval of the department officials and patrons of the office. Senorita de Los Rios is the oldest of a family of thirteen children, ami is in her twenty-third year. She is a daughter of the late Judge Jose de Lbs Rios, who was postmaster at Gibera at the time of his death recently. There is a possibility that Senorita de Los Rio, will not remain in office long. She is engaged to be married. TO GROW THIN. Avoid sweets of all kinds and liquids in greater quantities than will absolutely quench your thirst; even a mouthful of water with meals is to be strictly tabooed. Saccharine has become such a common substitute for sugar that it is used in place of it by women who follow no other rule to keep down their flesh. Abstaining from water or any other liquid at meals is also a point to be observed in the reducing of one’s weight. For an hour preceding and for an hour following each meal no liquid should be taken. This process is not difficult, especially as any quantity of water can be consumed an hour after a meal is over. The effect of this sort of abstinence is really remarkable; it is as good for the general health as for the reduction of fle-li. American Queen.

QUEEN VICTORIA’S BEAUTIFUL CHINA. Among the modern china that Queen Victoria admired and prized is a Belleek tea service from the Irish factory of that name. It is mother-of-pearl-like and lustrous, and the bases of the larger pieces, such as basin, which is one of the choicest pieces of the set. are formed of coral branches and adorned with a few small sea shells. Every make of fine china is represented among Her Majesty’s tea services, but the pride of them all is one of the most delicate Sevres, with a claret-colored ground on which are heads in medallions and landscapes in panels. A remarkable modern afternoon tea set is of the wonderful Burmese china, brought out a few years ago when Burma was opened up. It is a sort of pale primrose color, shading to pink at the edges, much decorated with gold, and so thin that it seems like inviting disaster when hot tea is poured into the cups.— London Gentlewoman.

MILK AS A TOILET LOTION. Theoretically, on account of its cream and albumen, this is valuable, but the advantages are more than counter-bal-anced by the very irritating character of the salts and sugar contained in the milk. As a rule, milk renders the skin red in a patchy way. Skins differ very greatly in their sensitiveness to the action of milk. When it can be used without subsequent irritation it should always be wanned—not boiled. It must be borne in mind that milk quickly undergoes septic change. If used as a lotion, and the skin is not cleansed daily with hot water, soap and rinsing, pimples may be expected. The milk bath of the experts, about which such wild statements have been made, is never adopted as a routine agent for treating exposed parts of the skin. It is always followed by careful cleansing, and at the first sign of irritation. popular or otherwise, by proper remedies.— Home Notes.

SOCIETY LIFE MADE EASY. Foimal calls between women have always been considered more or less of a farce, even among the most rigid adherents to the practice. The task of making anywhere from* a score to a hundred of these very brief visits per week, even when the “call” consists only of leaving a card at the door, is not to be lightly considered. London society people arc patronizing a "social bureau” which advertises in certain society papers that it is "prepared to send out visiting cards—the work undertaken by experienced ladies with accuracy and dispatch—by coupe if desired.” The extent to which this enterprise may be developed affords opportunity for much chjprful conjecture. If "experienced ladies" can be engaged to send out visiting cards, why may they not also be employed to attend dinners and balls and other social functions; to ride in tbe park of spring afternoons;, to shop, and even to attend church? There seems really no limit to the scope of the work.—Harper’s Weekly. CORDOVAN OUSTS ALLIGATOR. Cordovan has taken the place of alli-

gator for wear in wet weather. This is largely imported from Germany. It is made from certain parts of the horse hide, and is a Very durable leather. It is impervious to water, and has a very smooth surface. It is not imported in sides as most kinds of leather, but comes blocked to the shape of the vamp. Unlike calf, it does not stretch in wearing, but retains the shape of the last until the very shoe is worn out. Formerly it was very expensive, but recently the tanners have conquered many of the difficulties in preparing the hide, and with reduced cost it is now popular. This season, in all the many original designs for tasteful footgear, ooze calf plays a conspicuous part. Its soft, velvety feeling and appearance no doubt commend it to the favor of the fair sex. it -is really skins of fine fibre being selected. The dyes are percolated or oozed through it: hence its name/ The velvety feeling is given to the flesh side by a scries of sand papering-;. while the grain side of the skins is slightly pebbled. This permits of many combinations from the same skin. The peculiar texture of a calfskin permits of its being dyed a "fast color” in any color and shade from jet black to a bright orange or cream white’. Gray, tan and russet arc most in demand. Not onl is ooze calf being used in the manufacture of shoes, but it is now used to quite an extent by the makers of albums. pocketliooks, hand bags, card cases, pen wipers and a thousand other novelties. — Pittsburg Dispatch.

PRETTY NEGLIGEES. There are no end of pretty negligees made of the soft, artistic liberty stuffs. They are most effective when made up on rather aesthetic lines, so many of the figured liberty materials reflect the art n uveau tendencies with their color schemes worked out in dull greens and blues. A score or more shades of yellow figures in one ravishing piece of soft mull. One of the artistic liberty boudoir gowns is made of deep cream mull covered with a yellow rose design, its yellowish green leaves and heavy brown stems giving a certain character to the material. It is made in one piece and is gathered in loosely at the waist line. The lower part is trimmed with a group of narrow ruffles, each edged with folds of pale yellow crepe de chine. Around the bust line there is draped a broad riblvon of orange panne velvet that is knotted into a butterfly bow at the top of both sleeves. On to this ribbon there are suspended ten long tabs of pale yellow crepe de chine edged with narrow ruchings of orange mousseline de soie. Over the bishop sleeves of mull shorter tabs of the crepe de chine fall. These, too. have a finish of mousseline de soie niching.

WOMEN TO GO TO SOUTH AFRICA. A meeting was held in England recently to arrange for the emigration of English women to South Africa as soon as peace is restored. Lady Frances Balfour presided. The wives and children of men already in South Africa are to be assisted to go there, and it was stated that as keepers of respectable lodging houses and nursing homes, dressmakers, milliners, housekeepers to direct native servants, as market gardners, poultry farmers, certified teachers and nursery governesses, capable women should be in great demand. Those who were failures at home were not wanted, and all should be prepared to rough it at first. So far as possible, funds will be provided for respectable women who desire to emigrate to that section. The Hon. Mrs. Lyttleton Gell and the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil were among the speakers. “BUTTON HOLES SOLD HERE.” “Button Holes for Sale Here” is a sign which peers out through a rather dirty window of a tower floor tenement on the East Side. In view of the possibility that it might mean just what it said and that the dealer really sold holes for buttons a reporter investigated. A woman whose dress was a mixture of bathing suit and ball gowm answered his knock. "You sell button holes here?” was asked. “Naw; we make ’em!” she exclaimed, with as much disgust as a very squeaky voice was capable of showing. “Well, the sign in the window says”— “Never mind the sign!” she snapped back. “What do you want with me?” She was finally persuaded to tell something about her new business. “You see, it’s this way,” she began. “The working girls who live over here have to dress pretty well, and do it on little money. Most of ’em makes their own glothcs, but they have not too much time to do the work in. Now, if you was a woman you’d know that it was mighty hard to make button holes, ’specially by hand. Poor girls can’t afford button hole machines. They make up the dresses and bring ’em over to us, and we put the button holes at so much a hole, ’cording to the kind of stuff and how well they wants it done. An’ that’s all there is to it.”— New York Tribune.

FASHION NOTES. Many pretty hats are bound around the edges this year. White alpacb is extensively used for outing costumes and frocks for cool days. The ostrich feathers which are worn so much, not only on Gainsboroughs, but on all kinds of dress hats, are but little curled. The Gainsborough hat hardly knows itself when it looks in the mirror this year. It is masquerading in all colors and materials, and there are even large and small Gainsboroughs. Animals are growing large in jewelry. One can get a brooch in the shape of a bulldog’s head which seems half the size of life. There are other animals if one ii fond of the jewel menagerie.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Hanna for President. It Is broadly, stated that I’erry 8. Heath 1s still “rooting” for Senator Hanna for next President. Mr. Hanna, though he has a commanding influence with Heath, does not appear to be putting his foot on the brake lever. Mr. Hanna hasn’t much false modesty. He would no doubt like to bear the proud title of President of the United States, ami do the business of the office at the same time. If the present reign In Republican politics is to continue, and the Republicans are to carry the country again in 1904, Mr. Hanna comes pretty near being the logical President. He is a thorough believer in himself. Nobody ought to blame him for that. Self- reliance Is one of the first qualities incident to success in life. Mr. Hanna believes that success as the leader and commander of the Republicans has excused, if not effaced, his record as a “bad man” in politics. He believes himself personally vindicated in the reelection of William McKinley. He is proud of the reception he has had as a public speaker. It was believed that Mr. Hanna was solely a “business man” in politics as well as in affairs, and that he bad no facility of expression. He demonstrated, though, in the campaign of last year that he was at least to be tolerated on the stump. At first he was a curiosity in that line, and possibly curiosity still has a large part in the desire to hear him; but he did very well. In the Senate last winter he made a speech on the ship-subsidy bill which, though in a bad cause, was impressive and argumentative—probably far exceeding as a thoughtful and practical piece of speaking anything his colleague, Mr. Foraker, ever accomplished, though he has the greater reputation as an orator. At the Republican State convention at Columbus this year Mr. Hanna laid down the party law “in good, set terms.” Of course he expanded the sophistry that the prosperity of the country was due to the goodness and greatness of the McKinley administration, and gave notice that the Republican parly would win on that platform again, and continue to give the country prosperity and honor and contentment. He did it well, thougji. Though his subject was trite there was a flavor of immediate inspiration in it that did not characterize the studied phrases of Senator Foraker, who was the other orator of the occasion, and who also went over the ground of prosperity as a result of Republican true goodness. Mr. Hanna has certainly demonstrated a quality as a party commander, and has cut a prominent figure in the United States Senate. He has been preeminent in connecting himself with those who can inflate the campaign treasury, if the political styles that have been in vogue for the last five years are to be still potent Mr. Hanna is the logical Republican candidate for President if he wants to be. He is more than logical. He can simply go in and take the prize. Occasionally there are intimations that Mr. Hanna is In a bodily condition that would preclude the idea of the Presidency. We have been hearing these stories, however, for five years, and the patient seems to be more than “holding his own.” The Senator gets a little “falnty” occasionally, but his fits of sickness would not be noticed in a person of less prominence. Keep an eye open for him. Look out for Hanna If the present drift in politics continues. Of course, if the canvas of 1904 is to be a poor man’s campaign Mr. Hanna nor no other Republican will have a chance.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Tariff Certain of Attack. That the tariff question is to be an active subject for consideration by Congress is hardly a matter of doubt. The Philadelphia manufacturers, the Home Market Club and the Protective Tariff League may fight against the demands for a change, but a large and powerful clement In the Republican party will Join in a demand for free raw materials, If nothing more, while the Democrats will be ready to fight on old lines. The necessity of a reduction In the revenues will also have great weight. The fiscal year Is cioffing with an uncomfortably large surplus, and so great Is the increase in trade that a big balance promises to remaifi to the government's credit on July 1, 1902. Tbe petty reduction of war taxes will not offset the economies to be effected by the withdrawal of troops from tbe Philippines and Cuba, and tbe constant growth of internal receipts. Buch a surplus would lie a menace and would encourage further extravagance In pensions, if in no other direction. There Is likewise the feeling that It is necessary to open up foreign markets to our expanding manufactures, and this operates without respect to party. Tbe fact that trusts are encouraged by the Dingiey tariff is tbe final argument for revision, and! this will not down at tbe sneering of protectionists. The case agalnsKthe tariff'from this point is very strong and demonstrates Itself, as Prof. W. G. Sumner shows in an article on “The Economics of Trusts." He discusses the trusts conservatively, but points out conclusively how the protective tariff aids these great industrial consolidations. He ■ays: “The protective tariff surrounds the ‘home market’ with a tax-barrier to exclude foreign products which are «nu-

merated in It. All the industries which produce the enumerated articles are artificial monopolies, or may be made such by combining all the establishments In each line. If they are not combined, but compete with each other, they may, and often do, waste all the advantage which the law offers them. They, therefore, have the strongest inducement to combine, and this inducement is heightened by the, fact that if they combine they can use the home market up to the limit of production offered. them, and ean sell the surplus In a sacrifice market outside. The tariff then acts as a great bounty on exports, and the larger the exportation of protected commodities the greater the gift which the domestic consumers are giving to foreign consumers. The difficulty of managing a protected industry is greatly lessened when It is brought into this form. The protective system, therefore, exerts a constant pressure on all the Industries affected by it to drive them into the trust form.” Such reasoning as this cannot be con-' troverted. The people demand that If we must have trusts they are not to be protected from competition from abroad at the same time they are unloading their surplus stocks on foreign mar-kets.—Courier-Journal.

Onr Soldier# Abroad. The Manila Times is a>t Imperialist orifiamme of civilization which flickers in the wind of certain manifestations which it is forced to witness under the benign rule of the Taft satrapy. Among other things it has seen and has been compelled to note was a long procession of military prisoners marching through the streets amid the jeers of the people to whom we have carried • wealing and blessing.” A Manila correspondent tells us about these and about 725 ex-soldiers who were waiting to get out of the country. "Each day’s delay in the sailing ot a transport which can take them,” says this correspondent, “renders their, position more and more difficult. There are to sail on the transport Indiana, to-morrow, 190 military prisoners who were taken out of Bilbid penitentiary. This large num-ber-of convicts has attracted considerable attention, especially as slxty-two more military prisoners still remain In this prison, and those going Include the commissary sergeants, Meston, Woodcock and Wllsoij, who were recently convicted of stealing supplies from the goverment.” Referring to these prisoners and to the spectacle they presented to the heathen, the Manila Times, with a pathetic note in its protest, says: ’’The march of the prisoners from Bilbid to the quay was made in broad daylight, all of the prisoners being shackled one to the other. Some of the men took the ordeal sullenly, aid walked with hanging head, while others passed by wearing a look of Indifference and even contempt. Not a few were beard to remark that they didn’t care, they were going back to ‘God’s country.’ The spectacle of the march caused a standstill in the traffic of the streets through which the procession passed. The comments excited among the American and European onlookers by the strange and somewhat degrading sight, were not favorable to the mode of transportation adopted, or the manner in which the men were paraded jn full daylight. Several of the American speectators said it was a shame and a disgrace to walk the prisoners in full daylight through a crowd of gaping and curious Chinese and Filipinos. They thought we should make an effort to hide our shame, both for the sake of the criminals and the name and reputation of the United Sfhtes. It was believed such a sight could not but be demoralizing on the masses of the governed." Fathers and mothers who are thinking of pending thelr.boys put in pursuit of duty and destiny should consider this picture of the American soldier on a foreign shore and of the servtee he is doing the cause of civilization and religion as he marches “through a crowd of gaping and curious Chinese and Filipinos." With shackles upon them and with the broad light of day illuminating their sullen or Indifferent faces these evangels of liberty might well bring traffic to a standstill In the streets where Spanish soldiers were wont to parade; and It Is little wonder that European spectators paused to make ribald comments to shrinking Americans, —Johnstown Democrat.

Smell and Metals.

Sonie metals have a very much more pronounced smell than others. Th« smell of tin especially when newly cut Is unmistakable, but It (s n moot polfil whether gold or platinum has any smell that could be recognized by human ol factory organs. Of tbe rarer metah uranium and all Its compounds give th( strongest smell and this gives us the reason why metals should have ar odor. Uranium Is always giving ofl what are known as the Becquerel raysj consisting of streams of excessive!] minute “corpuscles.” The Hanua combine ha been formed, with Daniel R. HanmJ son of Senator Hannn, as president Democrats and Reyplfllcans alike wll have to suffer when winter comes ajil the trust begins to get in its Work. I Backing up civil government by bn J onets is perhaps the best Republican ean do In tbe Philippines, but It Is n<| the kind of civil government that til United States has hitherto boasted ol