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Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

erous and Kan A TALMAGE METAPHOR. tippe. Thus report, which vouches for itself in this case with unusual ac- curacy of detail. Mrs. Talmage is so- cially ambitious, fond of dress and aristocracy. Her husbands benefcent schemes have been repeatedly rendered nugatory through her austere scorn of certain plebeian associations entailed by practical Christianity. She has, it appears, made enemies for her husband and as result severe criticisms of him have been made. So far no one but the unusually well informed have under stood why so generous and able man has met with such inexplicable re- verses. To-day Talmage is rNlctically poor and uninfuential. His enemies are legion. Yet, throughout it all, he has remained ever faithful and submissive to a wife who enjoys the distinction of being the most dislilSed woman in America. Those who allude to her metaphorically as the cactus on which the Talmage blossom blooms have abundant reason to defend the figure of speech.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

Christmas celebration that has been very much looked forward to. Father Kniekerboclzer's tree will have very little upon it for the friendless this year owing to the Squabble..
 The whole trouble appears to be due to jealousy of Lady Henry. When she came to New York small clique of self-styled workers among the down trodden had matters pretty much their own way. They resented the inter ference of Lady Henry, but the latter had powerful social support, as mat ter of course. The discomfted ones thereupon set out to embarrass the Eng fish woman's movement. It appears that they even communicated with cer- tain London enemies of Lady Henry and caused to be put in circulation stories to the effect that the titled philanthropist is humbug and 8 hunkey.
 This created & veritable sensation. All the prominent women who had aided Lady Henry were dumfounded. The woman's committee for the relief of the east side was utterly broken up and Lady Henry herself is reported to be quite prostrated by the shock of it all
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

1T RATTLED OVER TO THE OLD TOWN" 'em pay me? And that ain't the worst of it. Uncle Sam lets the very feller go who'll pay the most money Nine times out O ten it's the person that re- ceives letter who really wants to do business with the post office. Take all the money that's sent by mail Who has the most interest in that? Why, the feller that gets it, of course. He's the mar who can be made to yield up You can most gen ally tell when there's money in letter. l got so, when I was postmaster up in Amity Dam, that could tell every time. Wal, I'd save out those letters. Then I'd send a good, sharp Yankee around with 'em, and I'd have him say something like this: Here's a letter from So-andSo. Whats it worth to you?'
 ''Wal, they'd naturally dicler awhile, and mabbe the feller wouldn't give what it was wuth. Then I'd have my man bring it back to the office. l tell ye in day or two you'd see that feller snealsin' round with proposition for 9 trade Then I'd have him where I wanted him. You bet he'd come to terms. Ain't that the way to do busi- ness? I tell ye it's tho way business is done when it's done right. Take plain, ordinary, everyday article like coal. Do the fellcrs that own the coal figure up how much it will cost to carry it to the city and then get somebody up in the mines who don't really want to buy coal to pay the freight? Not much. Those fellers get together and they say: How bad do the folks up in the town want coal? It is goin' ter be hard winter? If coal is skerse and the goose bone indicates cold snap, they load on the price, and they get it, too. And who pays the mostof it? The com f'table feller with three or four tons in his cellar who thinks perhaps he'd bet ter have five? I guess not. It's the woman who goes out in calico dress carryin' an empty coal scuttle. That's the way to do business. But as to this post office matter, why, see by the papers that the government actually loses money on it."
 True" I admitted. 1.-The govern ment does not attempt to exact large profits from the postal service. It has always been the theory that an intelli- gent lberality-"
 'Fiddlesticfs!' he exclaimed. All the liberal men know of arc poor, ex- cept one. know fellcr up in Amity Dam who was so liberal that he bought his wife pair of rubber boots so she could go out and tend the cattle when it showed hard. He's well-to- do man. You might call that intelli- gent liberality. perhaps, though" he added thoughtfully, Tt seems to me, loolSin' back on it, that she might have got along without the boots"
 Did you succeed in introducing your theory of the service when you were postmaster?"
 I managed to do a leetle bit O busi- ness," he replied, but the people in Washington don't give man much of chance. They make lot of laws and rules that keep the postmasters poor. However, managed to get along. wasn't in office great while, but I got people in the habit of loolSin' at me when they were par tic'larly hurried abous letter. There ain't much money UP iI these parts, but I got considerable many presents et various kinds O truck fer hurryiu'
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

city. Suddenly their mania asserts it. self and they make existence very dan gerous for all within their reach. Various exciting scenes have been wit messed in New York's streets as re- suit of the carelessness with which the insane are cared for, and the matter is to be made a subject of Legislation at Albany.
 However, there are many idiots in the city whose manias are harmless and who are not interfered with. In- deed two of these unfortunates have contracted warm friendship for each other and are familiar figures to many New Workers. One thinks himself a Roman deity and the other disbeleves in his own existence. Their names are well known and their relatives are very sensitive to any derogatory allu- sion respecting them. The problem of the idiot promises to be a vexing one before it is settled.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

wasn't sendin' the money they ought to have sent home to their folks. Most of lem were so mean that they'd write home on postal cards. Wal, I'd kinder sort the cards over, and get the boys addresses. Then I'd write 'em, private and confidential, saying their folks weren't gettin' along we'll. I'd stir lem up that way, and by and by along would come letter. Then I'd say to their folks when they came to in- quire fer the mail: How'd you like to hear from Johnny? What would you give for nice letter with money in it?' Say, the mention of money would bring tears to their eyes. Why, I got peck O potatoes the first time Ben Gay sent anything home to his father, the deacon. But had to keep the let ter till 1t began to get kind O worn around the edges.
 "Once, by thunder, I brought two lovin' hearts together. There was feller over In the next town-only thirty miles away, and connected by stage with us reglar once weelS-and that mis'rable cuss wouldn't either write to his girl or come over and see her. He really thought lot of her, but the fare on the stage was high. wrote him couple O times but it didn't do any good. Meanwhile I'd encouraged the girl, more or less, just jokin' ye know, as if the postmaster could fix those things all right. She'd promised me nine pounds of the best butter her mother could make if I'd get her letter from Fred. Wal, it wasn't so much the butter-though it was A butter, at that-but because 1 sympa- thized with the girl that I hitched up the old horse one day and rattled over to the next town. Say, brought back letter in my pocket and got the but ter next day.
 But haven't got time to tell you all the things l done. Standin' here loolSin' at the post office building, the thing came into my head, and jest had to speak about it to the first person who came along. don't suppose the government wouldgive me anything for the idea. But it ought to be done. Busi- ness is business; and the way to make money is to find out what somebody
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

WHAT MATRoNs DO. years, or at least that portion of them which is in the swim, can no longer boast their su- periority to the fashionables of Gotham in this respect, Even those New York belles who might be deemed least sus- ceptible to the charms of learning have private libraries in which they spend many hours weekly. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, or as she invariably signs her self, Ava Willing Astor, is conspicu- ons example of this. French and Ital- ian she understands thoroughly, and is so fine a Petrarchian scholar as to have won the appreciation of the late Leconte de L'Isle. Mrs Astor, by the way, understands French much better than she does English, and for fully year after her marriage she spoke the latter tongue with a French accent. This was owing to her long residence in Paris Mrs. Astor always speaks French to her little boy, who is growing rap idly out of baby's clothes. She is also quite a painter, and decorates vases beautifully, as do most of the society matrons.
 But it Is In scientific research that John Jacob Astor's wife begins now to excel. She thoroughly under stands the theory of electricity and spends hours with her husband in the laboratory of the Fifth avenue house when the pair are in town. The pro- tracted period of mourning into which the youthful couple have been plunged has allowed them ample leisure for their scientific studies, and it is hard ly overstating matters to say that Mrs Astor is as enthusiastic as her husbandl in scientific experiment. It has oftenl been declared, indeed, that the hus-l bands interest has been kept alive pyl that of his wife
 In short, instances might be cited alll' through the list of ladies whom too many Gothamites deem mere wasters of time. Fashionable women in the metropolis are not frivolous by any means. In one respect, however, New York is led by the women of London. Classical learning is almost unknown to them. In all the Four Hundred there is not one woman who, like the prin- cess of Wales and Lady Cadogan, is a Latin or Greek scholar. We have yet to produce Sulpicia or a Hypatia.
 DAVID WECusLER
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22
MONEY GOING TO WASTE.
Suggestions for the Post Office De-
 partment.
From an Amity Dam Man--A Business Citizen Holds Up Fielding on the Streets of New York and In-
 struots Him.
lcoPYR1aur. Iee4.1

"rhar's D dern good business goin' ter waste" said the gentleman with the chin whisker, as he tapped me famil- iarly on the shoulder.
 We were standing in Mail street; and as l turned toward the stranger, saw that the end of his chin whisl5er afore- said was pointing at third story win dow of the post office.
 'Going to waste?" repeated "What do you mean?"
 "Why they ain't maxim what they ought to out of it. They ain't runnin' it on the right principle"
 ''You refer to the postal business?"
 ''Sa tin 1 do."
 "Wlly, what's tho matter with it?"
 ''I tell ye tain't run on business prin- ciples."
 ''They make several millions of dol lars year in there. 1 should call that pretty good"
 The stranger suddenly turned his chin whistler toward me. I begged him to point it another way, on the ground that it might be loaded.
 "Young man" he said, as he complied with my reasonable request, Gin busi- ness nothln IS pretty good when ye can get more. That's the first princi- pie of my early trainin My father handled farm mortgages, my uncle traded horses, my oldest brother was an undertaken, and ma took summer boarders. I tell ye, young man, I've had a business bringin' up.'
 admitted his superior qualifications, with 2 respectful gesture; and then in- quired, deferentially, how he would re- form the management of the post office.
 ''Ter begin with" said he, "I wouldn't give somethin' for nothin'. Say I'm runnin' shoe store. When man buys pair O shoes, do give a pair to his wife? Not unless I'm paid for it. Very well, then. When a man writes letter to his wife and paysIne to take it, shall give it to his wife for noth- ing7 No, sirree."
 Then you would charge at both ends of the route if you were running the postal service?'
 "Sartain I'd have two customers, wouldn't l? Why shouldn't both of
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22
Truthful Johnny.

Johnny" said the lads father, "where have you been? Your heads wet"
 ''Is it?" exclaimed the boy, his cheer ful expression vanishing
 ''Itcertainly is. And your hands and face are cleaner than they have been for week."
 "Wcll, jes' washed 'em."
 And that is1't your shirt you are wearing"
 Father" said the boy. ''the beauti- ful story of George Washington which you and mother have so oft related to me sank deep into my heart. I have needed the lesson. Father, cannot tell lie, have been in swimming. Washington Star.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

TOMS SERVICE. over six months past been waging war on one another to the great discomfort of the treasury department at Washington. Matters by this time have become so compli. eating that either the entire customs staff in New York must go, or the so- cial season must suffer.
 The lack of concord is due to the privileges taken by plutocrats of fashion when they import foreign hab- Ailments. With every steamer come boxes and bales of finery consigned to the husbands of extravagant wives. The wives absolutely refuse to obey the regulations prescribed for such con- tingencies, and when the officials as- sert their authority they are threat ened with the direst consequences. The extravagant wives claim to have no end of political influence, and, in truth, their claim is well founded. It seems that by the time matters had reached crisis the women of fashion caused letters of remonstrance to be written to Washington, and Secretary Carlisle obediently instructed the off, cials of the port of New York to be less strict with incensed fair ones. This ill time very much disgusted the custom house men and although they were compelled to pass baggage that should have been strictly watched no very long time since, they can still be very captious in obeying slight re- quirements of the law. Among the eminent families who have been ag- oriavad bacauSa tha offinials ara nuar. strict are the Crugers, the Marquands, the Wetmores and the Webbs, although, as a matter of fact, the whole of New York society deems the custom house shocking. Dresses and bonnets are smashed, jewel boxes are pried open and silks and satins are ruined. So formal protest was made to the depart ment against the treatment of women of social position as suspicious crim- inals.
 The officials saw the approaching storm and did their best to avoid it. A counter petition was sent to Washing ton. But it availed nothing. There was complete shake-up in the custom house. Even Col. J. Henry Story, whose record as detector of dutiable goods has never been equaled in the department, was relieved of the chief tainship of inspectors and put in a hum- bier place. The society women have triumphed. They can do as they please. If you are a swell" your luggage now passes unquestioned. As the officials themselves put it, the fash ionable set runs the customs service.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-22

house. That is { h e opinion of all who are at present in the service, and their c a t a l o r Il e of " 0 e s IS more than sufficient to con s ii t u t e a really start ing grlev a n ce. In truth, tn e GUS toms service and the upper ten of Gotham have for