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New-York tribune., 1895-10-20

LES Trois Saisons," by NJ. Henry Bernard and
deals with the three ages Of love- youth. matur-
jty ard senility Colombine falls in love with
Pierrot in youth later OH. not finding him SUIT
able to her sentimental tastes, she showers her
mature fayors on Harlequin, but returns In ad-
vancing age TO her old love. The piece. which Is
set to excellent verse, serves to bring out some
Of the prize pupils of the Conservatoire The
most amusing play. however. and assuredly the
most successful. is sde-splitting comedletta,
Les Criminels," at the DejaZet Theatre. wncn
is no longer the ramshackle house OF last season.
The prison of Chllon. a duel, a wedding and
some sparkling music by NJ. Bonhamy contribute
to II AXE up of these peculiarly Partisan
plays OF wild, farcical character which literally
defy description. At the Opera Comique we have
for the first time La Navarraise' which saw
light in London last year. 1t is a two-act opera
in which Jules Claretie and Henry Cain have
coaborated with Massenet, and which is based
on an imaginary incident in the Carlist war.
Madame Calve. fCf whom. indeed. Massenet
wrote the part Of the Navarraise. performed the
role Of Anita with striking intensity and realism.
and some Of the situations are extremely power
full in their dramatic effect. The success OF the
opera seems quite much assured here as 1t
was in London.
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
NICKy4MES ~ TIE GEPNAy ARMY.
From The Chi-ago Inter Ocean.


Everybody is fam lar with the name OF Tommy
Atkins representing the British soldier; but now
many know the terms of endearment by which the
German soldiers are called? Some OF these are ap-
Piled to the entire regiment, some 10 an indivduai
corps. The guards are called 'hammel, or sheep
the guards call the soldiers of the line He'd rats
the infantry speak of the cavalry as grooms.
and the cavalry return the compliment by pestow.
Ing upon the infantry the names OF sand mares,
sand carriers" and "codhOppers." The cuiras-
siers are known as flour sacks the pioneers as
moles the hussars as pacEbthread,s rs ana se tne
called "astronomers," and the engineers water
rats" In these divisions again the corps nave
names for themselves and their rivals. In the
cavalry the 7th Curassers are the 'whitesmihs ;
the lst Hussars the deaths heads. as their
shake bears this emblem; and the th hnssars.
from their brown uniforms. are called 'partrldges,
the only brown in the Germany Army, preserved
In remembrance OF Frederick III. VINO used az the
cloth found In a Capuchn convent for mis- soldiers
The green uniform with yellow facings mas given
10 the 9Th Hussars the name OF spinach and eggs"
and for a similar reason the l0th iussars are
called parrots" In the guards the lst REGIMENT;
OF Foot are called "tin heads In poetic al.us!on
to their helmets the Chasseurs are green iross !:
glow worms" from their red clothes: the Sd
J'hlans "dustles" from their dull. yellow trim
mings and the Pioneers. earth worms.
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
AMERICAN TOURISTS ~ MEAICo.
INCREDIBLE RUDENESs AND VULGAR

INCREDIBLE RlDENESS AM 'NA+'''''N'
From The Mexican Herald. , - oor.
clude an important negotiation WIN the orot"ea ~
the Governor OF the State. the pTother y
vated Mexican gentleman who has lived IN Enbahu
and in France a linguist and thorough gente'na"
in every way. The American had with run a., On, IN
patriot cultivated cosmopolite, Who, st1ylns ~
the city had fallen in with him. ahG nag o"srs rsa
to introduce him to the Governcrs prosnel. s, ton
three mot In the house of the latter. ConVeIsatv'
begins: II say shouts the American 10 MS IRENE,
tell that Aztec son-ofa-gun that I've come o' INV
And YOU" said the Governors brother as ea,r. ~.
y as possible. inform this gentleman sn'' @ r,r nv.
Aztec son OF gun chooses not 10 nave any ~"
ther business with HIM Tableau. ,,,,,r,.rt
Typical American po.iteness, ana an iihp'i'A"'
business ruined by 1ackass - 49,, ,..,,
Another scene: great hacienda house me ocSa. ,s
pants a wealthy Mexican gentleman anu ms ~. 49,
and family all highy educated ana t and nj Ffencs
and with the advantages or foreish IaETi nv tsSs,s
phone announces that crowd Oh ,bS sugar mill
and witness the grinding OF the cane. me ptniis' ~
has his horse car line ana nosp.,a"iS ponasiS,l car
phones back that the party can nav sps0ii,' i,sr
and may come any time Half al an hour ia'Sr r:a
party OF thirty tourists arrive wen nan,lemsn
the outward appearances OF ladies' anu gehtlen,s
The entire party without waiting TO De pIopers ~
announced. bolt into the mansion hTEns y nmroceed
to ransacS the house. the women finding OUT hs ,ss
kitchen where they lift the IDS CT me pots On s ss
hrssero exciaiming: How can these people ess
such Sithy mes.es!' Entering the parlor. ore s os
the women seeing the charming Iedy OF ,ne hho,t
and the women all feel the ladys hair. the MS ms
tress OF the house submitting. VITA an shho!eS Ssr
but smiling at the terrible awHwadhess " "N'
guests. ,,, -, .on,nent
IN ,ha w,ckedness Of employing poor poems ~,
ons they say-at small wHges and .,,,nn mmeasths Of ths
erecting theory OF the enslaved CONDITION y. ~ ths
.naenrs" A1ter an hour they all go away ln u,s
car leaving the master and mistress OF the es,s sss
speechless, You will never convince s"y ,bs ptyi
these were not typical Americans, more sv ihs Sal
They Mere dressed-up hoodlums and oackaiey Ss "a
llesi This is a cold. cold fact and the vs,' esr,ain
tourists remains unpleasant memory III 'e
hacienda. - 49,. aha sr,ering the
ancisnt churches often older than the thileu ~ ,hn
and rich with sculpture and painting, ana a,siby a.,
splendor OF glorious art. begin 20 ba aho,ics OF
Wsxce Ignorant Of art. pifuly unaware nav nerbsps
they are ha"ng an opportunity tney a, w" exainnpe Of
Architecture Of painting and Of the hshesy syegnowned
artistic decoration they stalk through thrns, SsciSmsr
churches. finding only topics lot 'a""''N"'
ton.
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
CTRCCLARS THAT LOOK LIKE LETTERS.
THE TRICK or MAKING THE RECIPIENT THINK
HE Is GETTING PRIVATE coMMU


NICATION.
rs that an individual letter a manifold or
what" asked q business man OF an associate, put
ting the document In his hands FOR inspection
The whose opinion was solicited put on
his eyeglasses and examined the writing carefully.
ut is not individual. | should say, was the ver-
diet, but 1t is most clevery done and calculated
to deceive acute observer"
The letter In question In reference 10 a
business matter and was couched In the clear con-
else terms OF "A business man who has no time 10
waste in idle talk It In clear. legible long
hand characters also, and gave no evidence OF be-
ing an Impersonal circular In fact 1t had all the
appearance Of being a private letter put through
copying press.
''Yes, that kind OF circular used advertise
ments Is highly successful on OCCASION" said an
authority this subject Il sent out 10000 similar
to this few months ago. and heard from
two-thirds OF them personally. the recipients evil
IDENTIFY having mistaken them for genuine letters
This 1000 were done in this way. | had a
nicely worded letter printed simply printed In the
ordinary way. which cheap enough and then
that printing subjected TO sort Of blurring
process with ink the exact shade OF my type
writer's ink. drawn through machine which made
the printing look exactly like typewriting. The
typewriter then filed in the names and dates the
letters were put In envelopes, stamped with two
cent stamps and sent afr with the result l have
mentioned. This plan. or any OF these clever de-
vices however. answer only with country people.
farmers and tradesmen who do not frequent cities
or keep in touch with the times think such CIR
culars sent out in New-York city would fall in
their design"
NO. they would not" said a bright little woman
who makes her living by supplying such circulars
for the market. Il have known wide-awake phys!-
clans here in New-York who have personally an
swered such circulars circulars in which even the
names wer. manifolded. thinking they were letters.
| had order once for several hundred to be got
ten out by patent process l nave. the pur-
pose being to call attention TO certain articles OF
use TO physicians. They were mailed with two
cent stamps and were successful In every case. 1
cannot use the article, madam. but hasten to re-
ply To your courteous letter, one physician wrote
and he In known 10 be n well-informed man"
This young woman by-the-way, Is an example
OF what conscientious industry can do toward build
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
Why gg RESIGNED HIS s.5.oOo PLACE.

A romantic ta.e Is going the rounds among Chi
cago business men OF man who voluntarily re-
signed s95 600 salary A business had got into
had shane through the owner being In Europe most
OF the time The s25.0oa-year man was employed
IN nut The business on It's feet For a year or TWO
no worked like a steam engine putting In eighteen
hours a day When the mandatory was once
more on a having basis the manager told the pro-
nretor that as there was nothing further for hin,
TO do he proposed to retire. and handed In his
resignation to take effect at once
..I2ut we don't want you to 60 You made the
business what 1t is" said the proprietor.
Ives but YOU can take care OF II yourself now
and there is no use In its being taxed 500 a week
to support a person who isn't needed"
month. ,har q only three weeks longer"
"No' 1 won't take what don't earn. I'm going
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20

ing up a business even when that conscientious
industry Is embodied in feminine form. Her nus
band being an inventor and fond OF experimenting.
had allowed his Legitimate business Of circular
printing to down deporably, to such an extent.
Indeed, that at his death his wife found herself
nearly penniless. She started in TO revive the old
trade made some of her husbands inventions
practical and in two years has rescued her anairs
from disaster. She has the upper floor OF down
town tenement for her office. has number or girls
10 assist her labors and gets out thousands or rae
slmile circulars a day at lower prices than some
OF her masculine rivals long established in the
business.
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20

OF so-called designers and sometimes the question
resolves ise.f not much into a survival or the
nttest as Of the least unfit"
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20

10 Quit Saturday I've been working hard and need
a rest" . - ,oh ,,bers
The man has had his rest. and wants )oo "ne''
he get big pay ana chance % ear" 49,
New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
CleVe1and'S
Baking Powder,


Rro,hers. Albany. N. Y. now by the Cle'e-
land Baking Powder Co., New York,
has been used by American house.
wives for twenty-five years, and
those who have used it longest
praise it most.
1t is perfectly pure and whole
some.
Its composition is stated on
every can.
1t is always uniform and reliable.
1t does the most work and the
best work.
1t is the strongest Of all pure
cream of tartar powders, as shown
pv the U. S. and Canadian Govt.
Reports.
All the leading teachers of cook
cry and writers on domestic science
use and recommend it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23
= RAIN SONG.


Tinkle. tinkle.
Lightly fall
va .he peach buds. pink and small:
up the tlny grass. and twinkle
on Inc WILLOWS green and tau
Tinkie. tinkle-
Faster now,
lutte faindrops. sm.te and sprinkie
Emery bloom and apple Dough.
1eit the eims. and show them hov
fou can dash,
Ano splash! splash. splash!
WINE the thunder rolls and mutters, ana the
nghtnings fash and FASH
Inen eddy into curls
Of million misty swirfs
AND thread the air with silver. and smb,ofde,
1t with pearls,
And patter, patter. patter
IN the messy flags. and clatser
On the streaming window panA
Rain, rain
On the leaves
And the caves,
ana the turning weatnervane,
Eush In torrents from the tip
Of the gable peak and drip
In the garden bed, and fill
All the cuckoo cups. and pour
More and more
In the tulip bowls, and stiu
Overspill
In a crystal tide until
Every yellow daiodI
10 Hooded to its golden rim, and trimming DER
and Ger,
Then as gently as the low
Mufaed whir of robin wings
Or sweep Of silver strings.
Even so
Take your airy April fight
Through the merry April light,
And melt into a mist of rainy music as you go.
-Evaleen Stein, in St. Nicholas
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23

+. couLD NOT HELP PAUsING TO ADMIRE II
woods at home. Then 1 was suddenly
halted by the sharp yelp Of baby
lion. He had leaped upon an antelope
sleeping in a messy hollow just be-
yond. A moment later should have
been out there myself, and if the little
fellow had waited he might have found
me right in range.
There was q sound of scurrying feet
as the rest of the drove sprang up, but
instantly there were two more yelps
like the first, two more dusky shadows
bounded from the underground and
two more antelopes were detained.
Either q family of whelps had been
set adrift by the old folks, or the
parents were in hiding, denying them
selves, for once, while the youngsters
took a sort of kindergarten course in
marketing.
Twas not anxious to find out which
7bv irving to pass them. There was no
need for haste, with only seven miles
more to make before morning.
sclimbed the nearest tree and made my
sself at home, well up among its
branches, looking down upon the open
vus hardly there when the very air
was split by q crashing roar. 1t shook
the forest, and gave q most cordial
clutch to the branch above me. Evil
IDENTITY the whelps' old gentleman or
some other old gentleman proposed to
helu himself, and with series of
-eoueaking cries the young folks de-
~camped, giving him the field
Thst roar was the signal Tor the Tor
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23

non and looked out into the smoke. as
though nothing whatever had hap
pered since he was leaning there a
moment before.
As the smoke lifted he muttered:
Hi told we twas holds on the gun,
sir. She's oily terror. She's a pow
erful one"
Powerful! I looked down that ra-
vine, and drew back with a shudder of
horror. If were to try to report the
scene, it would not be believed. A
squirming, groaning, torn and bleeding
mass of human beings filed the ravine.
Otherwise there was not Kafhr in
sight.
81 suppose we'd better fill up again, ;"
he muttered, after admiring the work
of his pet. There may be more will
want a taste. Hid be sorry to deprive
EN-"
Fill up? BY all means. I went at
reloading the rifles as eagerly as the
old gunner himself. With thing like
that to help US, we could hold the hill
against all Africa. If the gunner him
self had suggested retreat then, I
should have refused to give up the gun.
When all was ready we took our
positions again and waited.
Maybe they've 'ad enough, :" he NUT
tered; but we watched by turns and
waited all day long and all night and
all of the next day. Not a Kafhr
showed himself
We did not dare to go beyond the
walls till the central and the left came
marching back together, having found
each other in the jungle, but not a
sign of the native insurgents. They
found them all, instead, in the ravine,
waiting impatiently for burial
The old gunner received promotion
and life pension, which he well de-
served; but even then he wouldn't
give up the gun"
The last saw of him he was leaning
with his folded arms crossed over it,
ready to put the ''hodds on it, every
time. Magazine.
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outbreak at any moment.
So far our march had been utterly
monotonous. Some of the boys were
growing restless.
Late one afternoon our signal corps
came in with the report that the CEN
trail was throwing up a temporary fort.
fifteen miles away, due east, that the
natives were massing to the north and
sharp fighting was expected. and that
we were to move on for one day more,
and then return and hold the new for
LITIGATION.
There was q general groan among
the boys. They did not want to tramp
up hill and then tramp down again,
while the central was having all the
fun, and then be left to sit around a
fort There was no help for it, how
ever. The order was given to move at
daylight
With me it was different. 1 was
quite as much after lively times as
central as with the left The grave
question was how to get there.
The major would have given me an
escort, but it would have weakened
him. and, as the going was my own
affair, decided to go alone. 1t was
only fifteen miles
The jungle was not so heavy but
that I could easily keep my points
by the stars, with an occasional peep
at my compass
Natives are not apt to be awake long
after dark, even when they are on
sentry duty, unless they have good rea-
son to expect something. was much
more afraid of wild animals; but they,
too, are not half so dangerous, in
reality, as hayward travellers seem to
find them.
For the first eight miles I might as
well have been going through the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23

Some few sprang from rock to rock,
but most of them crowded more and
more into the narrow path up the
smooth rayine.
It was easy enough then to see the
folly of having thought that two OF
us could hold the place. and, not being
SO ready as the old gunner to die for a
cannon, heartily wished myself any.
where else in the world.
AS fast as we could pick up, aim and
throw away the rifles we made them
do their duty. But what did the few
we killed matter in that multitude?
They came this time prepared for it.
1t simply had the effect to turn them
from the rocks, where they were too
prominent, into the cut.
Their bowls were something fright
full. In two minutes more our lives
would not be worth broken straw
The whole gorge was one solid mass of
fiends.
The old gunner dropped his last rifle
and turned to the cannon. He folded
his arms across it and looked calmly
down the path. One would have
thought that he had whole detach-
ment at his heels, and even then that
he was brave man.
The picture seemed to amuse him.
His bronzed face wrinkled in smile.
1t suddenly struck me that he was
crazy. The black fiends were within
fifty feet of us. 1 was petrified.
Now, then, old girl" he muttered,
and, as if it answered his voice alone,
there was a crash that sounded like the
thunder of broadside.
How he did it don't know, but be-
fore the smoke had cleared away he
sent another, and then a third, charge
from that lannon's mouth. Then he
folded his arms again, and with the
same grim smile leaned upon the can
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23
FURTHER ADVANCE IN WAGES.
Substantial Industrial improvement I'm
der Democratic Rule.

Substantial Industrial improvement I'm
der Democratic Rule.
The upward course of wages still
continues to make the progress of re-
turning industrial prosperity and vim
dictate the wisdom of the economic
policy embraced in the new tariff law.
The wages of all the cotton operatives
in Fall River, Mass, were advanced
twelve and one-half per cent. within a
few days, and twenty-five thousand
working people in one city were made
happy. Also a similar advance took
place in New Bedford, Mass, where
twenty-five thousand were also af-
fected.
The Quinebaug and Danielsonville
Manufacturing companies, whose mills
are located in various towns in Con-
necticut; the State Wooden company,
of Webster, Mass; the Vassalbrough
wooden mills. near Augusta, Me-; the
Burke Hall company, Rowley, Mass;
the Weybosset wooden mills, Olney-
vile, r. l.; the Dyervi1le Manufacture
ing company, Dyerville, r. l.; b. S.
Stevens, manufacturer of woolens.
Quinebaug. Conn, and John Chase 6
Sons, manufacturers of cassimeres,
Webster, Mass, have all advanced
wages from five to fifteen per cent.
thousands of operatives are benefited
by the fact.
This is good news for the country,
because it proves a healthful and sub
stantial industrial Improvement. It Is
bad for the calamity howlers and the
advocates of McKinley!sm, who in
sisted that people can be taxed into
riches and robbed until they are made
wealthy. But the country will be the
better because of the exposure of the
fraudulent pretenses of these quack
economists in time to prevent the
restoration to power. Every advance
in wages is nail in the coffin of the
republican party.-Kansas City Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

apparently Mr.. Thomas Bracket
Reed finds the cutting of bait most
absorbing occupation. Mr.. Reed knows
how to keep silent sometimes.-N. Y.
World.
1t is relief to hear that Harri-
son does not want another term as
president. There is not the slightest
danger of his encountering a disap-
ointment.-Detroit Free Press.
1t looks as if the hard times issue
would be eliminated from the next po-
litical campaign. This is the most
powerful obstacle that the party in
power has had to meet.-Boston Her
aid.
The outlook is little gloomy
for the democracy, but the man who is
acquainted with the party's history
will not be in any hurry to write its
obituary.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
(Rep.)
One of the most pathetic proofs
of the indefinite survival of evil is that
on the edge of the twentieth century
the republican party is still alive. and
apparently hopeful of some years to
come.-AIbany Argus.
-McKinley's friends are claiming
that they have secured the North Car
DINA delegation, but what will that
profit candidate who does not know
how to execute the Indiana back
somersaults in straddling the coinage
question?-N. Y. World.
The democratic party Furnishes
it's own rascals. 1t drove Tweed to
prison. 1t has driven from public life
plenty of his successors in believing
public Office is public snap. What
conspicuous instance can be cited of a
repu blican rascal punished by the re-
publican party?-Albany Argus
Business revival is here, and
daily grows more pronounced. But it
is a sign deserving particular notice
and also the consideration of the stu
dent Of economies, that instead of
wages being the last to experience the
benefits of recovery, they have begun
to rise coincidently with the beginning
of trade revlval.-Boston Transcript
(Rep.).
American woolens are still maxi
ing their way in foreign markets under
the beneficent and stimulating iniu-
ence of the reform tariff law. With
free raw wool, Yankee ingenuity and
the matchless skill of American arti-
sans the world will bow down to your
Uncle Sam as manufacturer of WOOL
ems. All the old man needed was a fair
chance and the democratic congress
gave it to him.-Kansas City Times
There seems to be a difference of
opinion about the degree of harmony
existing in the ranks of the republican
party. The Chicago Inter Ocean rep
says: Whatever broils may disturb
the democratic party, the republican
convention of 1896 win be peaceful.
though spirited. The Washington
Post Gnd. J. on the other hand. mentions
republican factional disputes in New
York, Delaware and Ohio, and adds:
There are other states where white
winged peace is not abiding In the re-
publican household IN. Y. Post