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The record-union., 1892-11-09
PEARL BUTTON INDUSTRY.
Telling Remarks Made by a Detroit
Manufacturer.

In a recent speech to the Travelling
Mems Republican Club, w. Fl. Leland,
who is connected with the firm of Henry
w. Crone OF Detroit, said:
Pearl button manufacture in this coun-
try Is fact, not a theory. Before the
Mckinley bill went into effect there were
seventeen small factories in the l nlted
States The number of workers was
small, and the investment Of capital was
insignificant. In two years the original
seventeen factories have increased to
nearly 200, and | can name one new fac
tory which represents capital OF sou, 600
LApplause.l To-day employment is given
to $500 men and 800 girls in the tacto-
ries. But the workers who are benefited
are not confined to those i'll the factories.
If you consider that these factories build
their machinery i'll America, have their
button-cards, boxes, ETC., manufactured
here, use American steel for their tools,
and the thousand and one things which
they require for manufacturing purposes
are produced in America, IL IS safe TO es-
innate the number of people deriving
their livelihood, directly or indirectly
from the manufacture Of pearl buttons III
the United States, at not less than 10000.
The industry has been profitable to
manufacturers The concern in which
am interested started with 40 workers,
and we now employ 450. BY January lst
the number will have been increased to
$50. Our output to-day is 5000 gross
daily. Inside OF 60 days we shall have
increased to 5000 gross. Our experience
is not an individual case. The Mills
tariff taxed pearl buttons t cents a line.
The Mckinley bill makes the duty 2!
cents and % per cent. ad valorem. This
tariff mas resulted in the establishment Of
the industry, yet it protects the worker
in the ratio of IS to %. That is to say, 10
per cent. of the tariff is for his benefit.
The workers derive a sum in wages
which amounts in one day to more than
would be paid a similar number in Aus
tria in q week. The free trade papers
do not publish conditions, but only theo-
ries."
Mr.. Leland displayed number of pearl
shells and described at length the opera
tions through which the shell passed. He
continued:
American ingenuity has already be-
gun to take hand in the mechanical op-
Grafton. The first improvement in the
method of manufacture which has been
made in years an American has just COM
pleted. The goods themselves have been
improved. The standard qualities turned
out by American factories are 20 per cent.
superior to the Austrian product, and
they are sold 20 per cent. cheaper than be-
fore the Mckinley bill was adopted.
There were 10000 workers in pearl but
tons in Austria prior to the Mckinley
bill. They were virtually pauper labor
ers, living like serts do."-Dry Goods
Economist.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Dickens, Love for Gad,s Hill.

AS 'very queer small boy' he used to
walk up 10 the house-it stood on the
summit OF high hill-on h holidays, or
when his heart ached for "a great treat,
writes Mamie Dickens in her first article
on My Father as l Recall Him" in the
Ladies' Home ,yourndi. He would stand
and look at it, for as little fellow he had
a wonderful liking and admiration for
the house, and it was 10 him like no other
house he had ever seen. He would walk
UP and down before it with his father
gazing at it with delight, and the latter
would tell him that perhaps If he worked
hard, was industrious, and grew up to be
"a good man, he might some day come to
live in that very house. His love for this
place went through his whole life, and
was with him until his death. He takes
mir. Pickwick" and his friends from
Rochester TO Gotham by the beautiful
back road, and / remember one day
w hen we were driving that way he
showed me the exact spot where 'Mr
Winkle" called out: whoa, | have
dropped my whipw After his marriage
he took his wife for the honeymoon to a
village called Chalk, between Gravesend
and Rochester.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
The Home in Politics.

Gen. Clarkson, President of the League
of Republican Clubs, in a speech before
the Republican League Convention at
Buffalo, on the 10Th of October, among
other things, said:
In transferring our politics from heroic
or sentimental to economic issues, there
is left to be made by each party a cam
paign OF education and recruitment for
every business in the State and every
class of workingmen and laborers, all
economic issues touching every home,
either to increase its comforts or decrease
them. Thus is it true to-day that the
father has come to be the trustee of the
vote of his family. The woman has ap-
peared in American politics and the
home has become the unit of American
politics. Conservative people may scott
at it, old-tashioned men maysderide il.
but the power of the home is going TO be
more and more potential in American
affairs. Very soon there will arise some
great woman or association of women.
who Will organize in this great republic a
political league that will become speedily
one of the irst-class powers in political
America.
General Clarkson notes the signs of the
times truly. The democratic influence
Clubs" the "Woman's Republican AS
sociation otthe United States,'' the women
in the Peoples party, and in the Prohibi-
ton party, the full suffrage of women in
Wyoming, municipal suffrage in Kan
sas, school suffrage in twenty-five States,
all indicate the coming OF women into
politics, not TO organize a new party, but
10 he eagerly sought by one of the ruling
parties which is sagacious enough to see
the value Of adding such power to
ITSELF
Samuel E. Sewall used to say that
"Woman suffrage may come at any mo-
ment. A very little thing will bring it.
The air is full of it, all it needs is the
match TO set it off," But when that time
comes it will not be, as General Clarkson
says it is now, that 1.-The father is the trus-
tee of the family vote" Each woman
win have her vote as each man has his.
and this will be in accordance with the
great principle of "the consent of the
governed. IL. S. in the Woman's Jour
nal.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
FIXING UP JACKS ROOM.
Havoc Wrought by Two Fond Sisters
During Vacation Time.


Away on his vacation was Jack, and
while he was gone the dear girls thought
it would be a perfectly sweet idea to fix
up his room. 1t was a rather demoral-
ized-looking apartment from a feminine
point of view, although the New York
Heydtd says that, regarded through mas
culine orbs, it was Just about right and
perfectly comfortable. But the girls
wanted to surprise brother Jack So
they invaded the sanctum one day and
transformed it. They threw out the col
lection of old pipes on the mantle and
turned Pauline Hal's picture to the wall
They gave Jacks old slippers to the jani-
tor and tied pale blue cushions on his
leather chair. They painted forget-me-
nots on his boxing gloves and put a
drapery of lowered chintZ over the COL
lection Of photographs which adorned his
cabinet. They tied bows on everything,
from the coal scuttle to the picture nails
and hung spiIly ornaments on the gas
jet with baby blue ribbon. They burned
up collection of newspaper clippings
which Jack had taken live years to ac-
cumulate and they decorated the face of
his shaving glass with a spray of con-
volvulus.
They embroidered tender little senti-
ments and stuck them all over regard
lessly-''A Friend i'll Need' on the soap
dish, Think of Me- on the liquor stand,
and ''Sweets to the Sweet" on the snoe
bag. Then they stood off and admired it.
1t was too lovely for anythingi Then
Jack came home and they watched him
to see how he would take il. He looked
about him in a dazed sort of way first
and put his hand to his forehead. "What
is this for ?'' he said in hoarse voice,
touching a small, fluffy pincushion that
stood on the floor.
why, that's footstool, Jack. When
you're reading you can put your foot on
il and be just as comfortable ~
Whats that wedding cake doing over
there in the fender?"
THAT'S not a wedding cake, it's your
old cuspidore. We decorated it with val
enciennes lace and white ribbon. Don't
you think it's cute?''
Where have you taken the bed ?"
YOU'RE sitting on it, you great goose;
we've rugged it up as an oriental divan.
You'll have to take down the Japanese
umbrella and lanterns every night before
you go to bed. It's sweet, isn't it?''
But l can't do without a washstand.n -
"Why, you dear old boy, you just loop
this curtain one side, remove the vases
and be careful OF this swinging Ornament
and there you are"
'Is that a music-box over the desk ?u
swell, the idea! That's only the boot
jack. We stuck the shoehorn to it and
gilded them, and now you can keep
matches in it."
''Say, got any brandy in the house?"
"Why, yes. Are you ill p"
"Well, 1 do feel a little rocky; but saw.
before you go, what's this wriggling col
lection of blue snakes over the bed p,
That's an illuminated motto, Can't
you read it?'
NO, blessed if 1 can. What's it?u
"Why, it's just as plain as day-'God
Bless This Flat 1t will hang right over
your head every night!'
Then the strong man buried his head
in an old rose cushion with Nile green
bows and wept like a boy.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
CURRENT NEWSPAPER WIT.

1t needs no bloodhound to get on the
trail OF the girl OF the period.
A mans idea of practicing economy is
to preach it three times a day to his wife.
The rain always falls on the Just when
the unjust has walked off with the
umbrella.-New York Journal
Dawson-Did you ever see a volcano
during eruption? Mawson-No, but
married an actress. Amt much differ
ence.
Teacher = Now, Johnny, see if you
can't give me an example of sentence
Johnny-Certainly. Ten dollars or ten
days"
Johnnie Studying geography)-Papa,
what's a strait? Papa-A straight? Oh,
yes; 1t beats two pair or three OF kind,
my son.
She-I suppose you would have been
happier if you had not married me-?
He-Yes. darling, but l wouldn't have
known it.
"Young Chasehem went off awful sud-
High living" "What-gout?" mo;
roof gardens"
Voice from the Gallery-Chestnuts
Interlocutor (af1ably)-That's right, sir;
if you don't see what you want ask for it.
brooklyn Life.
Asker-Is it so that your friend Ruddy-
man is such hard drinker? Tasker-
Not bit of it. | never met any one that
could drink as easy as he can.
Akers-Can you swim on your back.
Miss Trebolyn? Miss Trebolyn (who is
from BostonJ-Oh, no. Why, L can not
even swim on my-tacade yet.
Bridget" asked Mrs. DeLeon, "can
you cook on scientific principles?" ''Sure.
n a wi EaT1 20. ft,fa1 /
ranger" asked sensible Bridget.-De-
troit Free Press.
Jinks-I don't know much about
French, but it strikes me that it must be
very flexible language. Filkins-Why
so? Jlnks-Well, just take the word
cafe, for instance; think how many differ
ent kinds of places that means.-Lite.
Mrs. Hardhead-I can always tell what
kind OF wife man has by his views on
the woman question. Stranger-I have
all sorts of views. Mrs. Hardhead-
Then you are Chicago man.-New York
Weekly.
Policeman-Mr. Smartie, I have some
bad news for you. Your store was burg
larized last night and the thieves car
ried off everything. Smartie-Is that SO?
But amt lucky? 1t was only yesterday
that marked down my goods 25 per
cent.-Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Hawkins" said she, 81 wish You
to decide bet between me and Mr.. Bar
rows. lie says it is only 500 feet from
here to the beach, and say it's 1,OO0.O
''Well," said Hawkins, 81 should say YOU
were both right. It's about 500 of Bar
rows feet and 1000 of yours" ."-Harpers
Bazar.
My husband is good man morally,v
said Mrs. Arthur Dox, "but L have the
gravest fears for his soul" "Why so ?V
asked a friend. "Wel, first he drifted
away from the Methodists and Joined the
Baptists. After awhile he left the Ban
lists and Joined the Universalists. It
would have been all right if he'd stoned
there; but now he has thrown religion
aside altogether and joined the Unita-
rians."-New York Press.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Practical uomn Trimming.

When manual training, with its do
mestic economy department Of cooking
and sewing, was being urged as a neces-
sary part of public school training,
teachers and wise men brought forward
the argument, That it is NOT needful for
mothers to teach these things" writes
Miss Grace Dodge in the Ltutes' Home
Journal From every city came the an
swer, Mothers do not teach these
branches, and our girls are being brought
up without practical household training"
One summer a lady had 200 girls from
offices, stores and factories to board during
two weeks vacation. At the end of the
summer she found that but nine of the
number knew how to make bed. and
many of them made it a boast that thev
never had made bed in their lives.',
Some did not know whether sheet or
blanket should be put on first. And
these were not destitute girls, but such as
represent our selt-respecting wage-earn-
ers-girls who were boarders, paving a
fair price, and yet who were expected to
make their own beds. Mothers had not
trained them. There are hundreds of
bright, Intelligent girls of Is, 10, Is, and
even older, who have never sewed, and
do not know whether thimble should go
on their thumb or forefnger. What kind
OF wives and mothers are they to make?
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Suggestions to a Guest.

Do not let the Old saying: "The first day
the man is a guest, the second a burden
and the third a pest" be applied to YOU
Endeavor to time your arrival so that it
shall not interfere with your friends meal
hours, and arrange so that your baggage
shall be delivered without being care TO
them.
DO not outstay your welcome; do not
even stay as long as you are asked to.
Allow your hostess time to attend to her
household duties; observe the hour at
which her husband is likely to return
from business, and try to arrange so that
he may find his wife alone at that time.
you can easily find an excuse for absent
ing yourself.
Try to be unconscious of anv friction
which may exist in the household ma
chinery, and by your punctuality do your
best toward keeping it in regular motion.
Be thoughtful of your hostess, atfectionate
to her children and courteous to her ser
wants.
When leaving, bestow some little gift
upon each of the servants, and send some
thing to the cook: she is generally the one
III the house whose work is most increased
by the presence of visitors, and she is
usually the one ignored in the general
present-giving which ensHes as the guests
prepare to depart.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Fish Croquettes.

Fish croquettes may be made very
much like meat croquette from almost
any cold fish. Fry halta an onion, minced
fine, in tablespoonful of butter until it
Is good brown. Moisten the whole with
cup of strong white stock, adding a
like, a dash of cayenne. Put in pint Of
cold fish, minced fine, add two eggs and
stir all for two minutes over the fire. Let
this mixture become cold; then shape it
with your hand in the form OF cylinders
or pears as you chose. Roll these GRO
quettes in yolk of egg and then in fine
bread crumbs. Fry them in hot fat for
two or three minutes till they are deli
cate brown. They are very nice served
with a tomato sauce or piquant sauce, or
by themselves with an accompaniment
of walnut pickles.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
ELECTRIC CARS FOR NEW YORK.
A Storage Battery system to be Tried
on the Second Avenue Line.


A new storage battery system for run
nlng street-cars is to be tried soon on the
Second-ayenue line. 1t is the Waddell-
Eutz system. Ten cars to be propelled oy
electric storage batteries are now being
constructed and viii be put in operation
before January lst. Ii they prove sue
cessful the entire line will be SO equipped.
President George 5. Hart said yesterday
that an electric power plant would be built
IN the old car stable at Second avenue and
One hundred and Twenty-seventh street.
II do not wish to appear rover-confident
about this new SYSTEM" said Mr.. Hart,
'and consequently shall not say much at
present, but have seen cars operated by
It and they gave great promise.
The people Of this city don't want the
trolley, and they do want a storage bat
terry system if they can get one that is
satisfactory. The Julien system was q
1alIure on the Fourth avenue line. Our
new cars Will be only half The weight of
the Julien cars"
PRESIDENT Hart said it would take $50
cars, costing 100000, to equip the road,
Whlle the expense of operating the electric
system would be little if any less than the
present horse power.
Ihe Naddell-E -EutZ works are at Bridge
port, conn. The system was tested last
winter at Chester, Pa, where a car was
run 5000 miles and carried 1900 pas
sengers.
cars for the Second avenue line will be
lighted by an auxiliary set of batteries, so
the light will be Independent of grades
ana variations of speed. Each car will
nave TWO motors, either being sufficient
TO run the car.-New York Herald.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
THE CHILD'S PARTY
Prepare Pretty Surprise for the Lit
tie Ones.

A pretty surprise for child's party is a
basket OF oranges, each one cut i'll half,
the pulp scooped out, refilled with tri-
colored jelly, and the two halves after
ward tied together with fancy ribbon.
Lemon rinds are also very pretty, filled
IN similar way. In filling a mold with
three layers OF Jelly in different colors,
place the heavier, darker Jelly as a base
Tor the mold when it is turned out. 1t
Will be at the top when you fill it. In
putting III layers of different colors have
a pan OF cracked ice, with mere sprink-
ing OF salt in it. Set the mold i'll this ice
and salt. Put in the first layer of white
Jelly and let it stand for fifteen or twenty
minutes, or until it has hardened. Very
pretty effects may now be produced by
the use of candied fruits in the clear
(eIly-such as cherries, pineapples or
lines. Cut them in suitable pieces and
arrange them i'll the form you desire.
Put little gelatine over them to keep
them in place. When this has hardened
pour in the next color Of jelly. If the
green IS delicate shade, it looks prettier
next, reserving the darker crimson for
The last layer. Such a mold OF Jelly as
this. arranged on a low crystal platter, es-
peclally If it be wreathed with little
whipped cream, has wonderful fairy
Ike appearance on birthday table.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Electrical Terms.

The whole question of electrical distri-
puuon may be popularity illustrated by
It's analogy to the hydraulics, saws X, G.
Davis In the Marine ReUie11. The DYNAMO
IS essentially rotary pump, but pump
ing electricity instead of water. If the
ulscharge pipe OF rotary pump be car
rled around through a given circuit and
connected with suction, both purap and
pipes being full of water. the movement
OF the pump will obviously cauSe the
water 10 how IN one direction, producing
continuous current of water, Substi-
tuCe dynamo Tor pump, wire for pipe and
eiectr!cIty Ior water, and conception of
electrlcal transmission by the continuous
current is at once clear as to its element
ary phenomena. We will bracket the
analogous electrical terms; then we NAV
say that a certain number of pounds
lVoltsI OF pressure are required TO over
come the friction [resistancel OF the
pipe LwIreI in order that the water
lcurrent may flow at the rate OF
SO many gallons Lamperesl per min
ute. Ihe larger the pipe Twirel the
more water [currentl can be carried and
the less Will be the friction [resistancel;
or per contra, the smaller the pipe [wirei
the less the quantity [amperes1 per min
ute and the greater the friction rresist-
ancel. Manifestly the pipe [wirel might
De SO small that the friction resistancel
MouIu ABSORB very large proportion OF
the power OF the pump ldynamol leaving
out little remaining for useful effect;
therefore the :wo horns of the dilemma
are: If the pipe [wirel be too large it
Will cost too much; if too small the loss
Will be too great. The electrical appIi-
ances. are also analogous to engineering
appliances. The switches are valves, the
reversible strips are the safety valves, the
contacts are the pipe fittings. Ii the con-
tact IS insufficient to carry the current
there Will be leak drop in the current.
The volt meter is the pressure gauge; the
ammeter Is the same as the water or gas
meter, the recorder ofquantity consumed.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Berlin Cough I,t1re

For coughs and colds and all lung and
throat affections this article has sunerior
merit. 1t is perfectly harmless, gives inn
mediate relief, and cures the worst cases
in from two to three days. Endorsed by
our best physicians. Try a bottle and
you will always keep it. Price, SO cents
a bottle.
G. c. Liniment, the best remedy for
aches and pains.
Compound Sulphur Powder, the most
perfect laxative and cathartic known.
Gives instant relief in cases Of constina-
tlon, indigestion, piles, biliousness, liver
troubles, rheumatism, gravel, etc, etc.
A great blood purifier and pleasant to the
Easte' The w. II. Bone Company, San
Granclsco, sole proprietors. Kirk, Geary
q Co.. Sacramento. sole agents.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Tennyson,s Mesmeric powers.

Tennyson had extraordinary mesmeric
powers, says the Boston Heratd's corre-
spondent. He went, as a young man,
with his wife to some country inn, and
soon after his arrival a doctor called,
who, after introducing himself, said: Il
am here with a lady who is suffering with
severe physical ailments, and want you
to come and try your mesmeric passes on
her, because l am quite convinced that
you have strong mesmeric powers"
Tennyson laughed at this, but he went
with the doctor, who showed him how to
make the passes, and no found that he
had the power, and that it exercised n
very beneficial influence on the SUFFERING
lady. Afterward when he went into the
room the patient would fall into a mes
meric sleep almost before he began his
passes on her. After the parties left the
inn they did not meet for some wears.
and Tennyson did not recognize the doc
tor until reminded of the circumstances
by the latter who further said: "Do You
know you saved the lady's life, and she
is now my wife,
The record-union., 1892-11-09
What They Are Good For.

Brandreth's Pills are the best medicine
known.
First-They are purely vegetable, in
fact medicated food.
Second-The same dose always pro-
duces the same effect; other purgatives
require increased doses and finally cease
acting.
Third-They purify the blood.
Fourth-They invigorate the digestion
and cleanse the stomach and bowels.
titth-They stimulate the liver and
carry off vitiated bile and other depraved
secretions.
The first two or three doses tell the
story. The skin becomes clear, the eve
bright, the mind active, digestion is re-
stored, costiveness cured, the animal
vigor is recruited and all decay arrested.
Brandreth's Pills are sold in every drug
and medicine store, either plain or sugar.
coated.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Questionable Fame.

Mr.. Roseberry-Dis yere Chris pher
Kerlummus must'r been'r pow'ful smart
sortr chap.
Mr.. Dewson (contemptuously)-S Smart !
Eff he'd coined over yere am discovered
Philadelphy or even'r place as big as Ho-
boken, yo' maght talk; but when it
comes to tindin' such n monst'ous piece
oh de yearth as dis yere country, why
er-hunl-why, he couldn't hev helped
findin' it efhe'd r tried.