Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — Page 6

AN AGENT OF CUPID

GrjO HE proudest sometime® unbend, and the botanical gardens were, ** for one afternoon, thrown off their usual reserve. Ordinary folks Sad only to come across Regent's park from Chester gate and present a card at the entrance to the gardens, and the bowler hatted old gentleman at the gate welcomed them as though they were most Important members. Miss Llewellyn and Master Kenneth Waller, her friend, walked on the grass In the direction of the music. “Anybody you know here, Miss Llewellyn ?” “1 don't suppose so, Kenneth." “You don’t know many people, do you. Miss Llewellyn?" “Very few!” “Wonder at that,” said the small boy, "because you’re not bad looking, you know. Did you use to come here when you were weir off? Do they sell lemonade here?” “Seems possible. You think that everybody ought to have plenty of friends?” “Plenty of friends," said Kenneth, wisely, "but one In particular. Wonder how old you are?” “That," said the young woman, good tempercdly, "that Is the only question, Kenneth, that you must never put to a tedy.” “I should guess,” he said critically, as they sat down In the low chairs near the refreshment tent and watched the people, "that you were about 26.” Miss Mias Llewellyn gave a quaint gesture es horror. "Well, 25, then. Fancy!” The small boy whistled nmazedly. “Twenty-five and not married yet.” “Young man,” said Miss Llewellyn, flushing and affecting a tone of great severity. “I find your conversation much too personal. You would like lem•nade, 1 think, and two pieces of cake." The scarlet coated band perched on seats near the glass house, with a crowd •f smartly dressed folks in front of them, started a cheerful selection from • comic opera. Miss Llewellyn, a composed young woman in an ordinary wsy, as young women are who work flor their living, found herself in quite • delightful mood. Music can do much when it tries.

“Of course,” said her candid guest, with cake at his mouth, "I don't mean to say that you mightn't get married even now. I had an aunt once who was eloae upon 30 before she could get any tat to look at her.” “The Instance is encouraging, Kenneth. Don't eat too fast, mind.” “Still,” said the youth, wisely, "if I were a girl I should be jolly careful not to miss a good opportunity. Are those •rchids they're carrying there? Hasn’t that chap got a brown face who's telllag the men where to take them? Seem to have seen him somewhere before. Shouldn’t like to be an orchid, should you, Miss Llewellyn? Why, you'd have to grow out in South America, and people would have fearful trouble to find yea, and risk their lives Hullo! Brown-faced chap's coming this way." Miss Llewellyn looked up, and then tooted down again quickly, and for a Moment her face* went rather white. Mar band trembled as she held it out. “Mr. Bradley,” she said. "How do you do? I did not expect to see you here.” “I did not expect to see you again anywhere," he said. There was a pause that comes after Mbs banalities of greeting. Master Waller, not having spoken for quite half a minute, felt that he was in some danger of being overlooked, and coughed. “This is my little friend Kenneth Waller,” she said. "Kenneth, this is Mr. Bradley." “What's the matter with your face?” asked the small boy. "Have you been abroad?” Mr. Bradley placed a broad fist on the aeoad iron table and leaned down toward Master Waller good-naturedly, seemed as cons used at the meeting aa Miss Llewellyn and as unprepared ter conversation. “1 have been abroad, young man. I’ve been hunting orchids.” “Are you home for good now?" asked Kenneth. Mias Llewellyn gripped the parasol tost rested in her lap with troth bands. “I can't do any good at home,” said Mr. Bradley. "I am off again to South America in a day or two.” “Why don't you stay in I-oudon?" “Nobody asks me to slay." “Should have thought,” said Master Waller, “that you could have got someMy to do that. Have you got any toreign postage stamps about you?" Friendship between the two gentlemea was cemented and made perma■ent by the production of several toralga stamps and an envelope to place steem in. People were coming up to ttee refresh merit tent now, the band Bavtag decided to rest for half an hour aad recover breath, and Master Waller tovtted Mr. Bradley to take his chair. “lon don't mind?" asked Bradley of Mias Llewellyn. “Not at nil." she said, politely. “May I smoke?" “Let me strike the match." Interposed Master Waller. "I'm awfully good at flteaL And tell us some of your adventores." “They wouldn't Interest Miss Llewel“Qlris don't count," said Master Walter "Tell me. Make It,” said Master Waller, appealingly, "one where you nearly loot your life." or 15 minutes were thus occu the small boy seated on Bradley's Base sad staring at him with openwathad astonishment. B!las IJewel-

lyn, her head bowed, studied the band program In apparently laborious search for the misprints that a musical program always offers. Bradley told the story very well without obtruding his own share in the adventure, and when he had finished punched the small boy humorously to bring him back from South America to Regent park. “And is that story true?” asked the small boy, respectfully. “It has that drawback, youngster.” “Well,” said Master Waller, “I’m • man that's awfully fond of adventure, but I shouldn't care for that. What did you think of when that fierce animal was waiting to spring upon you?” “Guess." “Can’t,” said Master Waller. “Can you. Miss Llewellyn?" She shook her head and again became Interested in the hand program. Bradley looked at her and waited for her to speak, but she made no sign. Now silence may at times be tolerable for grown up folks, but for Impatient young men like Master Waller It brings nothing but weariness. “Is there any chance of seeing these orchids, Mr. Bradley?” asked the youth. “It’ll be something to brag about to my people if I could Just get a sight of them.” “We'll all go over to the marquee and have a look. Miss Llewellyn, will you come or shall we leave you here? There’s rather a crush.” “Let's leave her,” suggested Master Waller. "Miss Llewellyn likes being alone.” “I think I will stay here,” she said. “We shall be back tn 10 minutes,” said Bradley. Master Waller had to trot to keep up with the long strides of his new friend, but he did not mind this, because he felt a kind of reflected glory in being accompanied by the man who had brought home some of the rarest of the amazing specimens in the crowded tent. “Giris are a nuisance, aren't they?” said Master Waller, looking up confidentially. “Sometimes,” said Bradley. “She isn’t so tiresome, though, as some.” "I think I agree with you there.” “Works awfully hard. Too hard, my mamma says.” “No necessity for that, surely,” said Bradley, rather sharply. “But, Miss Llew'ellyn has to live,” urged the small boy. “Mamma says that she was well off for a year or two before her father died, but since that ” “Her father dead?” “Here, I say,” said Master Waller. “Don’t grip a man’s shoulder like that.” “Sorry!” “They came into money, so my mamma says, a few years ago—” “I remember that.” t “And then Miss Llewellyn’s governor put it all into something and It never came out again. That’s why she has to manage the calisthenic school that I go to. And I say! Can you touch your toes with the tips of your fingers without ” “Where does she live now?” Mr. Bradley seemed excited. “In rooms,” replied Master Waller, volubly. “I’ve been there to tea along with my sisters. That’s a fine orchid there. You can’t see it now; a girl’s hat’s in the way. And Miss Llewellyn’s got awfully nice furniture and photographs, and ” Master Waller slapped his knee suddenly. “I remember now where I've seen your face before, Mr. Bradley. Only without the short beard.” “Come outside,” said Bradley, "and tell me.” They made their way through the crowd and reached the exit Bradley held his breath, and bent to hear the small boy’s reply. “On her dressing table," whispered Master Waller, confidently, “in the beautifullest frame you ever saw, and —where are you going?” "Back to Miss Llewellyn,” cried Bradley. “Well, but,” said Master Waller, protestingly, “waft for me.” Bradley did not obey the young man. He strode across the lawn, past the band, which was playing a quick march that was not quick enough to keep pace with him. Before Master Waller found the two there bad been a swift exchange of low sentences that altered their views of the world, and made them both think of it as a place where happiness is to be found. "And why did you refuse me before, dear?" “Because all my people pressed me to accept you,” said Miss Llewellyn. “The excuse of a very obstinate young woman.” "Why did you why did you not ask me again?" she demanded. "Because," said Bradley, "It was Just then that your father came Into that money.” •The excuse of a 'very independent man," said Miss Llewellyn, touching with pretty affection the big hand that .-ested on the round table. “Whenwhen is It that you leave for South America?" “Not until you tell me to go, dear," he said, promptly. “Here, I say,” cried Master Waller, arriving after some difficulty. "You two! Don’t lose sight of me, nriwd. Miss Llewellyn, have I been a good boy?" “I’ve a great mind to kiss you, Kenneth." she said.

“Bather have some more lemonade.” “As Kenneth declines your suggestion,” said Bradley, signaling to a waiter, “may I venture to submit myjelf f* “Hush!” said Miss Llewellyn.— Woman at Home.

THE RICHEST AMERICAN CITIES.

Baltimore la Fourth, Following New York, Boston and San Francisco. There is no way in which the diffusions of wealth among the inhabitants of American cities may be gauged with ultsolute precision, but the amount of personal property held in each furnishes one test, for, it includes generally bonds, cash, money, furniture, jewelry, equipages, stocks and money invested in business. It is a fact well known, of course, that the general taxation of all such personal property is impossible, that a considerable portion of it escapes taxation and a considerable portion, of it, too, is exempted by law, but the relation w hich personal property of one big city bears to that of another furnishes a fair guide to the wealth of each. By this standard New York ranks first among American cities, but not very far in advance of the city of Boston, one of the oldest and most opulent of American municipalities, and one in which personal property bears the relation of one to four of real estate value; in New York it is only one to six. Following New York and Boston, which are at the head of the list of the richest American cities, comes San Francisco, with $120,000,000 of taxed personal property, a condition of affluence due to the vast property which has come from the Pacific coast mines, the chief owners of which, or their descendants, have an actual or, at least, a legal residence in the Golden Gate city. Following San Francisco is Baltimore, one of the most substantial municipalities of the United States, with a larger amount of personal property taxed than San Francisco, but with a much larger population as well. Following Baltimore comes Chicago and then Detroit, St. Louis, Providence, one of the wealthiest of American cities; New Orleans aud Indianapolis.—New York Sun.

HIS GUESTS ALL "SKUN."

Johnnie Invited the “Gans” to Hie Birthday Party. A 10-year-old boy, whom it will not harm to call Johnnie Joy, living in Herkimer street, Brooklyn, on his last birthday had a party. It was a party that stands out fresh and sharp in the memories of the entire family. Johnnie’s sister had had birthday parties, where all the girls and boys governed themselves strictly according to the rules of decorum. Johnnie's party was made up entirely of boys living in the Immediate neighborhood. “I just want the ‘gang’ I play with,” said he to his mother, according to the New York Tribune, and the “gang" it was that awkwardly surrounded the table in the basement dining room and looked with gleaming eyes on the bountiful supply of goodies. Noticing their restraint, Johnnie’s mother tactfully withdrew, after noting that there was plenty for every one to eat. She had scarcely reached the floor above before her nerves were thrilled by a terrible commotion below. There was a sound of breaking crockery and glassware, and the Jingle of spoons and knives striking a hard substance. There were excited exclamations and a scurrying of feet outside the basement door. Then suddenly all became silent as the grave. Wonderingly, the mother of Johnnie returned to the dining room, where three minutes before were 12 hungry little boys. The tablecloth and dishes were on the flpor in a heap. Johnnie's head was buried in his arms, and the scalding tears were trickling down his nose. “Why, Johnnie, dear, where are your friends?” asked the mother. "They—they—swi—swiped all all they wuz on-on-the table an’—an’ skun!” said Johnnie, breaking forth into a fresh torrent of tears.

Farming Told on Him.

It was not an American farmer of whom an English paper tells a story, although the Incident might possibly be matched on this side of the water. The agriculturist in question bad been to a rent dinner to enjoy himself among men of his own walk in life, while bis hard working wife stayed at home and saw to it that the farm stiffen'd no loss in his absence. "I’m about tired out," was the man’s greeting upon his return. "Is t’ cows in t’ barn?" “Yes, long since." replied his spouse, barely stopping a moment from her duties to glance at him as she spoke. “Is t’ hosses unharuossed nnd fed?” he inquired. “Yes.” “Fowls locked up?” "Yes.” "Wood chopped for mornlu’?” “Yes." “Them ducks plucked and dressed for market?" “Yes." “Wagon-wheel mended and ready to start In t’ mornln’?" "Yes.” “Oh. then," concluded the good man with a sigh of relief, "let me have my supper and turn In. Farmin’ is beglnnin* to tell on me.”

Fine Academy at Annapolis.

When completed the new naval academy at Annapolis will have cost 13,000,000 and will be finer than any Government structure outside of Washington. It will have accommodations for 600 cadets. You rob yourself oftcner than others vnb you.

SIGNERS OF OECLARATON.

John Hancock Was the First—Boger Sherman a Jack-of-All-Trades. “John Hancock was the first to sign the declaration,” says a writer In New Lippincott, “and his bold, heavy, inky black signature Is a character study in itself. There is dash and fire, frankness and firmness In it, and the tremendous flourish at its close shows ready wit, firm nerve and sure execution. Hancock was Governor of Massachusetts many terms. He left most of his fortune to colleges and for beuevolent purposes. "Roger Gherman died in 1793, the! same year as Hancock. Shoemaker, surveyor, lawyer, storekeeper, mayor, congressman, Judge and supreme Judge, senator, member of the committee of declaration and of the boards of war and ordnance, he disproved the old proverb about Jack-of-all-tradcs by being a success at all. He was sagaclou*:, practical and of quickest wit. Senator Randolph, proud both of bls aristocratic birth and of having the blood of the Indian princess, Pocohontas, in his veins, despised Sherman because of his lowly origin. Once when the latter was speaking be interrupted him: “‘Can the senator from Connecticut tell me,’ piped he In his shrill, sarcastic voice, ‘what he did with his leather shoemaker's apron when he came to the senate?’ “Quick as a flash came the answer, T cut It up to make moccasins for the Indian senator from Virginia!’ ”

CHAMPION OF FAIR SHOTS.

Miss Nettie King, of St. Louia, who won the title in a recent shoot at Springfield, O.

The Man and the Belt.

Next to bls neck wear, the average man shows his love of color chiefly in his belt. If he doesn't wear a yellow belt, he wears a red one, and is equally well satisfied. But it is not the color of this article that makes it noticeable at this time; it is the difficulty that each particular lord of creation has in keep ing his particular one around his particular waist, and not having it forever slipping down around his hips. The look of haunting anxiety that ornaments each masculine face during the months when suspenders are tabooed has almost developed into a particular kind of an expression, like the bicycle" face. It all arises from the abhorrence that the sterner sex has for tight clothes, too. The belt would be all right If It were drawn close enough to be effective, but worn as it is it develops elusive qualities that give a pained look to Its owner and cause him to spend a great deal of time pulling it into position with the most approved sailor's hitch. Now, this is not graceful. but that it is necessary is evident, and it will be, too, until belt plus come into more general use among the masculine members of society.

Death Followed Quickly.

Foxall is a reckless young man. He stopped a friend in tbe street, and, In a rash moment, he said: “Look here, Wiseman! There was an argument among us yesterday as to the way the word ‘restaurant’ should be pronounced. Some of the fellows held that ‘rest-a-rong’ was correct, while others were ready to bet their fortunes that ‘rest-a-ront’ was the proper pronunciaion. Which do you say is right?” “H’m! Well—er--those who pronounce It ‘resta-rong’ are right, and—er —the rest are wrong." said Wiseman, whose inquest is fixed for to day.—lx>ndon Answers.

Cranes Own the Islands.

In Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, there is a picturesque Island which takes Its name from tbe fact that It la uninhabited by man and given over to the cranes. Generations back these birds decided upon this spot for a summer resort. As time went on and the surrounding islands populated no man had the heart to disturb them, until now Crane Island is pointed out from passing Inuits ns one of the curiosities of the Northwest.

Freaks of an Earthquake.

An earthquake wrecked several buildings In the town of Aulton, Mexico, and then passed on to Zopothon, where it sported with the water of a big lake. At first the waters teemed In • state of great agitation and then they subsided and gradually disappeared. The earthquake had caused a fissure In the bed of the lake and through this the lake passed out of sight.

Cotton Mills Then and Now.

1 One hundred thousand bales of cot(ton lasted tire Lancashire mills for a year In 1800; now the same amount would feed their spindles for a day and , • quarter.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Republicans and the Negro. When the Democrats of Maryland made the race question an issue in the pending campaign the Republican press of the North protested with vigor and gave the impression that the Republican convention would accept the challenge. The party which has never neglected an opportunity to proclaim its disinterested love of the negro might jn truth have been expected to rally to his defense when the Democrats of Maryland made him an issue. Not so, however. In the course of a long and tiresome platform lauding all things Republican and denouncing all things Democratic, these so-called Republican friends of the negro did not find space for a syllable of protest. Oh, shade of the fallen, oh, genius sublime. Great friend of the negro from Africa’s clime; Alas, how low he lies! While the Republican papers of the North were dancing the old Republican Jig upon the grave of secession and waving the bloody shirt with accustomed vigor, their party oh the scene of conflict, with characteristic cowardice, refused to burden itself with the defense of negro suffrage. But for the purpose of Justifying the ludicrous hypocrisy of Northern Republicans in the North the chairman of the convention, in his speech, dropped generalities for a moment to give one weak, limping paragraph to the negro question. By merely stating that the negro population of Maryland is not sufficiently large to endanger white domination he justified white people of other States, in which the conditions were reversed, In their discrimination against the blacks. This Republican of Maryland, then, takes issue with the Republicans of the North, who denounce disfranchisement under all circumstances. It is really too bad that the Southern Republicans cannot rise to the level of their Northern brethren. The Maryland Republicans then admit their Impotency in this matter. The Louisville Courier-Journal, always trustworthy concerning local political conditions in the South, declares editorially: ‘The Republicans in Maryland have evidently been content to assume mere opportunist positions. They have net the courage of their convictions. They have made bad use of the power which they obtained by Democratic divisions, and their object is to obscure the real issues in the hope of retaining some Democratic votes. In this respect the resemblance between the plan of campaign in Maryland and in Kentucky will not escape attention. In both States it is to the interest of the people to intrust the management of their affairs to the party which, everything considered, represents the better elements of the population. If the truth and the whole truth were only known it would show that the race problem is sectional and not political. The Republican party has never dared to go to the defense of the negro in the Southern States. Why? Because Jt would lose votes. Thus we have Republican cowardice exposed.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

Dancer Ahead. “Sound finance,” In the opinion of Wall street and its, organs, has resolved Itself into the theory that the people have to be supplied with money not by the mints, but by the paper mills on a bank-bills-based-on-bonda plan. In the past sixteen months GO6 national banks have been organized, 437 w(th a capital less than $50,000. These institutions are issuing notes galore upon which they are drawing interest, as well as interest upon the bonds which they have put up for secqrlty. These notes are not Ip tended to be “redeemed,” and as a matter of fact are never “redeemed” unless a bank goes into liquidation. The system that puts flie making of the money of the people Into the bands of private corporations is undemocratic and dangerous. It is a system against which the Democratic party has always set Its face, and which has been denounced and protested against from the days of Jefferson until the present day. It is a system which requires a public debt as a basis, a debt that the Democratic party has always held Is a calamity and a curse, a perpetual blight upon honest industry and productive labor. Those who to-day are back of this system and scheming for Its supremacy are men holding the same views held by the men Thomas Jefferson warned the people against, who he declared were seeking to establish “a single (and centralized) splendid founded on banking institutions an«r moneyed incorporations, riding and ruling over the plundered plowman and beggared yeomanry.” If the people shall submit to the establishment of this system of “sound finance,” as the supreme money-<mak> fhg power, they will rue the day. It is the appropriate agent of the stockjobbing Interests, Increasing the unjust advantages which these already possess. It Is a system to that which has caused the degradation of labor In Europe, and Is the foundation of a great moneyed monopoly in absolute supremacy over the business,lnterests of the country that adopts It. We can endurs the system as It now exists, perhaps, although It naturally assumes political character and Influ-

ence that are dangerous; but if th® scheme Is made complete, and sliver coin and treasury notes are abandoned as money, and the entire business of the money supply turned over to these corporations, we may look for manifold evils thtot will destroy a government of the peQble, for the people and by the people, and substitute one of the banks, for the banks and by the banks. They will become the regulators of business and of prices, will make the laws, and will found “a splendid government” in which the moneyed corporations will rule and ride rough shod over the common people. Against such a consummation the Democratic party has always labored and should continue to labor. Far better a flood of “free silver” than a flood of bank bills based on bonds.—lllinois Register.

Politic* and the Trusts. Every day it becomes more imperative that some step should be taken to check the trust movement which threatens the Industrial freedom of the people. Since the last election these combinations have multiplied with alarming rapidity and conducted themselves with an audacity unparalleled in American history. Four months ago the press considered the organization of a trust as worthy of Sensational headlines, but their formation has become so commonplace of late that no especial notice is taken. The prospects aro that within a short time a majority of the railroads will be consolidated under one management. When the trust element has secured control of the transportation facilities—and such is its intention—the business man and farmer will be completely subservient to its will. The people are confronted with one or two alternatives. Either they must find some method whereby the trust may be eradicated, or they must acquiesce in the destruction of their industrial liberty. Considering the intelligence of the American people, we are Justified in the inference that they prefer the eradication of the evil to its acceptance. The question then occurs: To what source shall they look for the means for its eradication? There is absolutely no hope from the Republican party. The trust principle, after all, is but the Republican principle applied to economics. It has developed during the period of Republican supremacy and largely as the result of Republican legislation. No serious effort has ever been made to retard its progress. On the contrary, every effort in that direction has been resented by the Republican machine. The socialists represent the very opposite extreme. Their solution would completely revolutionize society. There is reason to believe that the remedy would be as bad as the disease. The Socialist convention of last week clearly demonstrated the incapacity of the Socialists as a reform party. If any solution is to be offered, It must emanate from the Democratic party. By its very nature it is opposed to the trust principle—that of concentration. It has tbe conservatism of sauity and is as radical as justice. It has received no tribute from the trusts and has no debts to pay. It is free to act.

Thus the hope of the nation depends upon the possibility of Democratic success before these abnormal monopolies become too firmly imbedded In law and precedent. One of the most prominent planks of the next Democratic platform will promise salutary legislation along this line. There will be no reason to doubt the sincerity of the declaration. And if Intrusted with the government of the nation there will be every reason to hope for the eradication of all combinqjlona which have tor their purpose the destruction of competition.—lndianapolis Sentinel. What la the Duty For? The American i»eople were taxed a cent and a half a pound to establish a tin place industry for the benefit of American labor. Then the manufacturers brought over Welsh workmen to make the tin plate, on tbe ground that American workmen did not know how. Now the Welsh workmen are out on strike, the mills are closed, nnd the steel trust, which has absorbed tbe tin plate trust. Is Importing plates from Wales tn till Its orders. Is it uot about time/or that-duty to come off?—Chicago American.

Tims to Abolish the Tariff. The perpetuation of the high protective tariff threatens now to precipitate a trade war, waged against this country by a European trade alliance, which would be of Infinite costliness to American trade. The high protective tariff now only further enriches the American trusts. It taxes the American consumer for this sole purpose. It Is time to abolish the high protective tariff.—St. Louis Republic. Ths De man J for Tariff Reform. There will be an effort at the next ses. slon of Congress to change the tariff and It will be vigorously resisted. This movement is in the Republican party. While it does not proceed wholly on sectional lines! bhe demand for tariff changes and commercial treaties Is stHmaeat la the West, while in the East the resistance plants Itself on the existing law as the best thing that seems attainable just now.—Louisville Courier-Journal.