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The record-union., 1893-02-23
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
She Iias Fortirude Unbounded, Yet
Now Inclines to PensiVe MnNs.

She lias FortiUude Unbounded, Yet
Now Inclines to Pensive Ways.
There seems to be mode in maladies
as we'll as III mantles, styles in suffering
rs novelties in dress. Just at the present
time It isn't fashionable to have any ply
steal alIment unless it is something vague
and peculiar under the general name OF
nerves" aud the odd thing about it is
that II Is only the more robust and vIgor-
Gus women, so iar as looks are an indica-
ton of Ylrility, that have this nervous
prostration on hand. Ii woman looks
pale and delicate she will never admit
that she is not strong. The tin-de-siecle
girl glorIes IN bearing physical pain with
out complaint. She will seat herself in
the dentists or oculist's chair as uncon-
cernedly as ii posing for the photo
grapher and submit to the most painful
operations without a groan; in fact, as
suring the operator that it really was
less painful than she expected" A car
driver would cry like baby if subjected
to half as much suffering.
But we are returning to the days OF
sloping shoulders, OF parted pensive
tresseS, OF fuIlness and frivoiitY in dress.
The up-to-date girl is sweetly submis-
slVe, not smart and selt-reliant. She
wears flowers in her hair and OCCASION
ally even ventures IN what the girl in the
old novels IS always doing, putting rose
III her bosom, your rose that you have
given her. And she does it with such a
shy and modest little blush. Now the
question IS, will the ''Yapors'' and
'sWoons" and ''sobbings" of that period
come in again? The Amelias and Delias
and CarOllnes Of that day were always in
dead faint over something. They
tainted for JOY ana tainted for sorrow. A
girl ol that time sWooned OIL when her
lover proposed and when she came TO she
was always lying in his arms, and, of
course, 1t was all over, and no use trying
to tell fellow about being sister to him
after that.
There was another feature about this
sWooning tit of the old-time heroine,
and that was that her dearest friend was
always within call with the scissors to
cut her corset laces. How is any one in
this time OF hidden hooks ever to loosen
bodice before the heroine passes over
the border line i'll her faint? 1t will be
rather difficult Tor the modern girl, who
has trained herself to smile when her
heart breaks, TO die rather than reveal
her heart, To conceal her Joy and preserve
her serenity alike through death and di-
Norce, to learn this graceful art of collap-
sing al just the proper time to bring a
wary sultOr TO his knees. There's some
thing dangerous TO Il chivalrouS mans
theories against marriage to find himself
suddenly with his arms full of limp,
signing, pale-faced girlhood. lie is more
APT 10 call her pretty names than he would
be If she stood radiant and defiant before
him, apparently ready to laugh at the en-
dearments.-Ne eW \ orll Sun.
The record-union., 1893-02-23
TO RETAIN THE COMMISSION.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON con-
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
The Traffic Associations Pet Measure
Opposed as Dangerous and
Retro2resslve.

Chairman Earl of the Senate Committee
on Constitutional Amendments COM
pleted the committees report yesterday,
on the constitutional amendment abol-
ishing the Railroad Commission, and
proposing to establish the Traffic Associa-
tion's ridiculous distance tarin'' as a
part of the Constitution.
The committees report is against the
proposed amendment. 1t will be sub
mitted to the Senate this morning. The
report is as follows:
Your Committee on Constitutional
Amendments, to whom was referred Sem
ate Constitutional Amendment No. s.
have had the same under extended con-
sideratiou and respectfully report US fol-
lows to wit:
1.-The proposed amendment strikes
from the present Constitution those pro-
visions establishing Railroad Commits
sion and proposes as a substitute in lieu
1 thereof the regulation of the railroad
companies by the Legislature as before
the adoption OF the new Constitution.
save and except that a Limitation is
placed on the legislative control by a
uniform maximum distance tariff for
passenger and freight service, and also
freight classification known as the West
ern Classification comprising a quarto
publication OF some eighty pages. This
uniform distance tariff and classification
is made applicable to all the railroads in
the State, some thirty in number, under
independent ownership and control, re-
gardless Of the length of the road or
amount OF business or cost of construc-
ton or operation or whether operated in
mountains or valleys.
In the investigation of this amend
ment your committee has had before it
not only the advocates and proponents
of the amendment, but also the repre-
sentatives of large number of the inde-
pendent roads of the State, who were
especially earnest in unanimous op-
position to its adoption. Various
amendments have been suggested by
the proponents OF the measure.
which were designed to meet
admitted objections to the original draft.
| The principal one of these amendments
was designed so to classify the roads with
reference to the amounts of their respect
i've gross earnings that nearly all Of the
so-called little roads" should be ex-
empted from the operation of the uni
form maximum distance tariff in the
measure, but otherwise leaving their
rates subject to. the legislative control.
| Under the proposed amendment, if
The record-union., 1893-02-23
WILL REPORT THIS MORNING.
THE COMMITTEE ON THE JOHNSON
CHARGES.
The Attorneys Argued Last Night and
the Case Finally SUBJ
lnitted.

The Assembly Chamber was filled last
night with persons interested in the Rea-
Johnson matter, to listen to the argu-
ments of attorneys. Chairman Mordecai
announced that the prosecution would be
allowed half an hour for opening argu-
ment, the defense to follow for the period
of an hour, and the prosecution be al
lowed half an hour in closing. That plan
was carried out.
Mr.. Richards, attorney for Mr.. Rea, in
his opening remarks spoke of the grave
ness OF the charges against Mr.. Johnson.
He had hoped to have had the assistance
of his learned associate, Mr.. Shortridge
who is seriously i'll al his home in San
Jose. who could argue more eloquentIy
before the committee.
The attorney said his client nor himself
entertained any enmity toward Mr.. john
son. They rather pitied him. Had Mr..
Rea. said the attorney, known that Mr..
Johnson had wife and four children at
the time he made the charges, he would
have smothered them in his own heart
rather than bring intamy on Mr.. John
sons family.
AS soon as Mr.. johnson was elected,
continued the attorney, johnson per-
sisted III meeting Mr.. Rea and called at
his office from half dozen to ten times.
Four witnesses testified to that effect, and
Mr.. Johnson was corroborated in his
denial by only one witness. He re-
viewed the circumstances of the many
attempts and The final meeting with Mr..
Johnson, which has heretofore been
given at length in the columns of the
RECoRD-U MON.
No testimony had been introduced bv
fr hni 81
ton of Mr.. harrington because they did
not consider it incumbent. Mr. Barring
ton was Johnson's political adherent and
personal friend.
Mr.. Richards here rested and Attorney
McPike spoke in behalf OF Mr.. johnson.
The record-union., 1893-02-23

With regard to the appeal in the Briggs
case the st. Louis Md Continent pres J
says: 1T is urged that il is unfortunate
for the work of the church that distract
ing agitation Of this kind be prolonged.
1t certainly is unfortunate that Or. Briggs
in the tlrst place should have precipitated
such agitation. 1t may be true that con-
unuance OF the judicial case will continue
the strain of feeling. But did these breth-
rem thus counsel when Professor Smith
showed himself unwilling to let the Gin
clnnati action stand? And will not his
appeal keep alive the same distracting
issue irrespective of the New orl1 case?
Or would the brethren have coHnseled
Dr. Briggs to acquiesce had the Presby
tery's vote in regard to him been differ
enU But, further, would the distractiug
agitation cease even if the trial should not
be renewed? He is indeed blind who
cannot see that painfully absorbing in
tereSt, an uneaSineSS of suspense, an un-
certainty about the future would continue
until some answer OF final authority
should be made. The reading world
likewise watches this issue and cannot be
deceived nor put OIL the scent. They be-
leve that fundamental questions are in
vOlVed, and that the Presbyterian Church
at large IS concerned and is responsible
for the outcome, and that its refusal now
to speak would be an unworthy dictate Of
eXpediency. And just because it is not
local question of New York, but has
stirred all our Presbyterian people, and
in a sense involves them all, and because
also it riYetS the attention Of our sister
churches and the general public, and is
regarded rs representative case, and
Will be taken as Il precedent IN the future,
it is not good, since our system provides
otherwise, that its entire adjudication be
left to one Presbytery, and that Presby-
terry in its membership confined pracli-
caltV to one city''
The record-union., 1893-02-23
WHEN COAL WAS FIRST USED.
Heard of as Fuel as Far Back as 1856
-Preceded by Wood and Charcnal

Heard of as Fuel as Far Back as 1856
Preceded by Wood and Charcoal.
Though coal had been employed for
centuries III the manufacture of salt on
the shores of the coal fields, wood had
hitherto continued to be the fuel at the
inland salt works. The use of coal at
Nantwich is mentioned as novelty in
1905; and, according to the Contemporary
ReC1eC, at Droitwitch wood fuel and
leaden pans We're in use up till 1851. In
this era the sea salt manufacture was III
the zenith OF Its prosperity. But the
substitution of coal for wood in the inland
salt trade, aided by the discovery of rock
salt, which took place accidentally in
boring for ccal III Cheshire, in 1870, led 10
the gradual decline and final extinction
OF the manufacture Of salt on the coast
The only traces now remaining of this
once hourlshlng industry exist in such
names as Howdonpans on the Tyne,
PreStonpans on the Forth, Saltcoats in
Ayrshire and Saltpans in Arran and Kin
tyre, or in the Scottish proverb, Garry
salt to Dysard," synonymous with the
English Garry coal to Newcastle" In
no branch of industry was the scarcity of
wood moro keenly felt than in the smelt-
ing of metalliferous ores. Continued
efforts to accomplish this with coal began
Immediately after the accession of James
l. and were persevered in throughout the
seventeenth century. But for long
period the new fuel proved highly intract-
able, and scheme and scheme ended in
failure and disappointment.
After eighty years of ott-repeated trials
the tantalizfng problem remained un-
solved. Wood and charcoal still held the
field in the smelling furnaces and all
hope of ever seeing coal substituted for
them had well nigh died out. In 1886
Sir John Pettus. in his Essays on Words
Metallick," concluded his observations
regarding sea coal and pit coal with the
remark: These are not useful to metals"
The unpromising prospects, however,
soon began to brighten. Immediately
after the revival of lead and copper min
ing, which took place about l6J2-having
probably been more or less in allegiance
since the Interruptions occasioned by the
civil wars, when
The record-union., 1893-02-23

The secularization of the public
schools" says the New York Christian
Union, sis false in psychology. 1t as
sumes that a child can be divided up
like tenement into different rooms.
part developed and part left undeveIoped.
This Is not true. The child is a unit He
cannot be taught to think wisely if he is
not taught to act rightly. He cannot be
taught to observe truly if he Is not taught
TO imagine lawfully. He cannot be made
q true scholar if he is not inspired with
noble and ennoblng hope. The seculari-
zation OF the public schools is false in
philosophy. 1t assumes that religion is
The record-union., 1893-02-23
The fisher left his skifl' to rock
on TamaT's glittering waves;
Ihe rugged miners rushed to war
From Mnndin-S snnIpsS nnN-nS

these ores came to be smelted with
coal. The extraction of silver from lead
with coal was accomplished by a MIR.
Lydal in 1897, and the same individual
appears to have been the first to success
fully employ coal in the smelling of tin.
i'll l105. The ores of iron proved more
refractory, no substantial and perma-
nent success in smelling them with coal
being obtained till near the middle of the
eighteenth century, when the manufact-
.ure of charcoal iron had dwindled to
very small proportions-in fact, was
dying out for want of fuel. 1t then at
length became an accomplished fact at
the Coalbrookdale iron works in Shrop-
shire. The success was at first ascribed
to the Shropshire coal, but probably the
employment of a strong blast had great
deal to do with it, From this the coal
became the life of the iron manufacture.
The ci-devant dropping trade rapidly re-
vived, and the latter part of the eighteenth
century saw coal iron furnaces in sue
cesstul operation throughout the king
dom.
The record-union., 1893-02-23
In RELIGIONS REALM.
Expressions From the Various Re-
ligiOus Newspapers
The Religious Thought of the Day as
Expressed in the Sectarfan Press
Some Matters of Interest to Both
Ministers and Iaymen.

"Lent is near at hand" says the New
York Churchn7da (P. e.. "What, after
all, is the spiritual meaning of it? 1t is
not mere scenic imitation of our Lord 5
fasting forty days and forty nights In
these Western and Northern regions of
the world such exact imitation is physi-
cally impossible. What we should call
fasting in the United States is the normal
condition of Eastern or tropical climates.
The ordinary habits of such regions would
be death to the American. Therefore,
perhaps-but, at any rate, certainly-the
Protestant Episcopal Church has laid
down no minute rules of dietary for the
season Of Lent. II is physiologically GER
tain that rigorous fasting, or even absti-
nence from meat, for forty days, would
render great majority of Americans alb
solutely incapable of unusual acts and ex-
ercises of devotion. And if fish, for in
stance, be substituted for flesh every
body knows that rich man can live as
IuNuriously i'll Lent as during Easter
tlde. His Lent would differ from Easter
TIDE only III being very much more hypo-
critical and ruinous 10 the soul. More
over, self-indulgence lies in very many
different directions. How could any
hard and fast rules about diet have the
same significance for society man and Il
Vegetarlan?'
The record-union., 1893-02-23
The Worlds Fair-The Chicago "Inter
ocean,

This great weekly, and the WEEKLY
UNION can be had for 81 year, or the
DAILY RECoRD-UNIoN and the Inter
Ocean for S6 80 per year. AL ABOUT the
great Worlds Fair will be elaborately
treated in the Inter Ocean. Can be had
for this price only by subscribers to the
RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY UNION.
The record-union., 1893-02-23

When condensed milk was first intro
duced thirty years ago the idea was
laughed at. The inventor carried the
entire daily supply for New York City
in ten-quart pail, delivering it person.
ally to patrons. he died worth s., ,0O0, ,O0G,
made out of the business, which has
grown to be gigantic industry.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-12

constructed, by aid Of the accompany
ing diagrams. This case affords two
ample shelves for the orderly arrange.
ment of books and curtain to screen
them from too much light and dust.
Below is a long, deep pocket, framed in
to contain newspapers or periodicals.
This space may be divided by middle
partition if desirable.
Above the book shelves is a third
shelf shut in by the slanting cover,
which is hinged at the top and will in
close few back numbers or other ar
ticlcs which require such an out OF the
way receptacle.
To construct this inexpensive case
OF soft wood boards is an easy matter.
The sides are made of two boards, 6
inches wide, sawed out as in the dia.
gram, being 81 inches long at the back
and having the front corners cut
down to tvventy-four inches in length
in front. Between these, at the
points indicated by the dotted
lines, fasten the three shelves, by p
inches. For the back at the top take
a board Ii by - inches and at one side
saw off the angles, tapering from the
middle of the side SO that the ends
are but eight inches wide, and, placing
this board above the top shelf at the
back, nail it in place along the side.
top, except that the width is II inches
in the center and II inches at the ends;
fasten in this back below the bot
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-12
SUMMER BEVERAGES.
Directions for Preparing . Sumb(r {
Delicious iced Drinks.

Directions for Preparing Sumb<r OF
Delicious iced Drinks.
The secret of delicious summer bev-
erages is their iciness. They be un-
wholesome in their frigidity. but in
this way only their ''true virtue lies"
Iced tea and coffee are probably the
least injurious of summer drinks. 10
prepare the former pour a cup of fresh
ly-boiled and boiling water over three
teaspoonfu1s of tea, set to steep, when
add one quart of freshly-boiled water.
Five minutes later strain into an
earthen jug, and when cool--not luke
warm--add one or two large pieces of ice-
Serve with a large quantity OF finely
chopped ice, graduated sugar and
thin slices of lemon If iced coffee be
desired make a fresh pot of very strong
coffee, and when cold serve with large
but seldom used.
ICED LEMoNADE.--Cut three lemons
into halves, remove the seeds and
squeeze into large jug. Add what
ever quantity of sugar you desire, q
large quantity of ice and one quart OF
water. Stir thoroughly and serve in
tumblers, the edges of whose rims
have been wet from the squeezed
lemon halves and afterward inverted
into bowl of pulverized or graduated
sugar. Limeade or orangeade may be
made in the same way, allowing three
lines or Cnfc0 oranges 10 Uae quar- y CH
water.
STRAWBERRY SHERBET. Mash to
smooth paste one quart of fresh berries,
to which add the juice of one lemon
and three pints of water. Let it stand
for three hours, when strain it into
three-quarters of a pound OF white
sugar. Stir until tho sugar is thor
oughly dissolved, when strain a second
time; and keep in ice for few hours
before using
CURRENT SHRUB.-Nash currants srf.
ficient to give a quart of liquor. first
through a coarse sieve and then
through a muslin bag, and to this add
one quart of water, and sugar to taste.
Strain after the sugar is dissolved and
ice we'll before drinking.
EAsrBERRY VINEGAR.-Pour a quart
OF Sood cider-vinegar over two quarts
of raspbcrries, and after covering
closely set aside for forty-eight hours.
At the end of this time drain the liquid
and pour it over a third quart of ber-
ries and set aside for another forty
eight hours Strain through a muslin
bag, and to every pint of liquor add
one pound of sugar. Boil slowly for
Ave minutes, remove the scum, let cool
for fifteen minutes and bottle. tn
blcspoonful Of this, added to a glass Of
iced water. makes q most refreshing
drink. blackberry and strawberry
vinegars are made in the same manner.
Florence Wilson, In Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-12
NEW SECRET DISCOVERED.

This Time It's an Invention for MakSnS
Butter without ChurninE.
It is reported that the butter secret
has been discovered. DR.. Vaughn is
the man who is credited with having
found it, and it is regarded in scientific
circles as perhaps the greatest of his
discoveries. The thing that he il repxe-
sented to have got at is the allkalcid
which, being created in milk or crca m
by churning, produces butter. Or.
Vaughn, it seems, takes a can Of
fresh milk, drops in some alkaloid, a ad
presently dips out the fully-devclhfrd
butter without further ado. 1t is s.ot
oleomargarinc, or any illeSal-EHl:Es-
la beled substitute. but real butter.
Here, says Harper's Weekly, is eu-
other step taken toward the millcnxial
period when man will press the button
Vaughn does away with the ch,1ns,
the next inventor may be expected to
abolish cows. Give him pail of rain
water and he jugglcs something in to it
and you get back real milk. Then ssD
ounce or two of allxaloid, and 10, butt
ter! and all the mil<men and dairy
maids are il search Of new employment
There is something disconcerting
about these discoveries, for all their
usefulness. Where are they going to
stop, and what is to become of tho
working people when all the work doss
itself? Next we may hear that sc11rc
meddling investigator has discovered
the secret of literary style, SO that by
the adjustment of simple appliance to
a printing preso raw facts may be ted
in at one end, and literature cut off at
the other in lengths and of qualities to
suit the market. This is a more tesri-
flying possibility than even that all tho
Harvard undergraduates should become
proficient writer's. 1t remains for man
kind to hope that when it ceases to be
possible for the multitude to make q
living on earth, the secret of living
without food may come out, or the per-
lection of flying machines, or some
thing, may provide means of immigra-
ton to other spheres.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The republicans now claim that the
tariff lowers prices. Is that why they
want farm products protected" by the
tariff?-St- Louis Republic
AS the republicans will ''stand
by their rccord,' the campaign badge
will perhaps be a clothespln, worn on
the nose.-Clevcland Plain Dealer.
1t is said Mr.. Harrison is laying
plans for the presidency in 1896. He
laid few plans in 1892, but up to date
they have not been carried out.-Kansas
City Times.
The republican critics of the dem-
ocratic administration are emulating
the example of the individuals who set
fire to buiAling and then boot the
firenen.-N. Y. World.
-Ex-Czar Reed is enjoying the
somewhat doubtful honor of being
.'mcutioned" for the next presidential
nomination of his party. Thomas. how
ting wet during shower if shelter is
at hand, and, like b'rer rabbit, he "ain't
a-sayin' nothin'."-Chicago Herald.
The great trouble in respect of
reforming the pension office is that hon
est and patriotic soldiers are unwilling
to believe that any man who fought for
the union can be such a rascal as Raum
was. But they will know The truth
soon, and then there will be music in
the camp of the grand arny.-N. 7.
World.
Mckinley cannot win this year,
nor at any time in the future, with his
face to the past. He must turn right
about and get abreast of the times.
The republican party of to-day needs
earnest, intelligent, aggressive and
courageous leadership. 1tcannot afford
to sit around the idols of former days,
rnumbling the shibboleth of departed
leaders.-Philadelph tRep)
Mckinley talked finance, though
he did not know enough about the sub
ject to keep fortune when he had one.
and the only other man prominently
considered for the governorship, before
the convention acted, was ex-Sccretsry
Foster, who made q mess of his duties
at Washington and siRnally failed In
the management OF his own affairs.
Ohio is q great state.-Detroit Free
Press.
Let's sec, wasn't it Gov. McKin-
ley who two or three weeks ago strong
~ rebuked those people who sought to
make political capital out of the exiet-
ing financial situation? And wasn't e
this same Gov. Mckinley who on his
denomination last week devoted about
half of his speech to an attempt 70
make political capital out of the exist
ing financial sitnation3- Louisville
ESourier.JournoA