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The herald., 1896-01-26

that experience, like the stern lights
of chip, illuminstes the track over
which we have passed." This maxim,
true generally, has special truth when
applied to the stage.
"Modern Illustration" is the title of
Mr.. Joseph Pennells new book by Nc
MILAN & Co.
Mr.. Clarence Cook has gathered
number of his papers into volume
which the Scribners will at once bring
out under the name of "The House
Beautiful"
The AthenBum calls "Jude, the Oh.
scure," "a technically bad book" Other
books Of his have been bad, but this is
the wickedness of Titan.
The Critic, which, everything con-
sidered, is the most acceptable and
valuable purely literary journal in
America, suitably celebrated its
fifteenth anniversary last week. It was
born January Is, 1881. 1t is about the
only survivor of its class-a large and
ambitious field of starters.
Everybody will be glad to know that
Eugene Field left about $4,000 worth
of personal property. This. with the
home which has for some time been in
comfortable.
The McMillans are soon to publish
life of Agassiz, by Jules Marcou.
Ruskin once wrote to Dante Gabriel
Rossetti: "If you want to oblige me
you would keep your room in order
and 60 to bed at night. All your fine
speeches go for nothing with me till
you DO that"
From pamphlet now before us we
learn that the state of Vermont cleared
about $4,000 during 1894 for the labor
of the convicts in her state prison
For the next five years, under a new
contract, she is expected to clear $685.
600 year from the same source.
A copy of the first edition of r. l..
Stevenson's Inland Voyage brought
10l los at London sale the other day,
aud one of the New Arabian Nights
81. Both were presented copies from
the author to the late p. g. Hamerton,
and the first named contained an au-
tograph letter from the author.
Ginn & Co. of Boston have become
the publishers of the University of
Pennsylvania series in philology, liter
ature and archaeology. the next iseue
in which will bs Social Changes in the
Sixteenth Century as Reflected in
Contemporary Literature, by Edward
?. Cheyney.
The Appletons will soon have in
readiness for publication Nine. Sarah
Grand's new novel, the first she has
written since the publication Of The
Heavenly Twins. It is said that the
new work is not unlike it's predecessor
in character, 80 we may count upon a
fresh sensation when it appears.
The Fly Leaf is the name of another
little magazine Of the Chap Book Or
der. hailing from Boston, conducted by
Walter Blackburn Harte and devoted
to the new-to new men, new women,
new ideas, WITNESSES and things.
The Tower Publishing company of
London is to issue Immediately a new
dictionary of the biographies Of living
men entitled People of the Period, con-
tanning some 5000 entries.
The one volume Trilby has reached
it's hundredth thousand.
| Mr. Blackmore's new novel for next
year will be Darrell, a Romance Of Sur
! rey.
The Arena has begun series of Per-
sonal Recollections of Americas Seven
Great Poets by Eminent Americans.
HA kbEasF.fditigaeq AZ fuhse9n the noysls 9ys S Of
lcRtlon the present year. "uo-
The herald., 1896-01-26
Hiss GOULD KNOWS LAW

ability to support herself by her beau
tiful painting in water colors. For sew.
eral years the belle of the Four Hun
dred was earning fame for herself un-
der a modest assumed neme by the
clever work of her brush.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is so we'll pro-
vided that it does not seem that either
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ready has one pupil in her little sister
Gladys.
Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane de-
signs all of her own gowns, and sews
on them, too, with her pretty bejeweled
fingers, and writes clever poetry.
Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt is an au-
thority on all art matters, and her sis
ter has organized an orchestra of mu-
sicians among the feminine millionaires
and plays first violin.
All of the daughters Of Mrs. Joseph
DreXel are accomplished musicians;
two of them have chosen the harp, that
delightful instrument which is so sell
dom heard.
Mrs. w. E. ID. Stokes would 20 in for
the breeding of fine horses; she has, In
fact, begun this branch of industry in
Kentucky.
Mrs. Bolton Hall, daughter-in-law of
DR.. John Hall, the noted divine, would
put to practical money making use her
wonderful inventive faculty. and Mrs.
Burke-Roche and Mrs. Ad h Laden
burg would turn their attention TO play
writing and stage business of all kinds.
The herald., 1896-01-26
let and blue Glace

A charming theater bodice is of pale
blue glace velvet. with graceful velvet
sleeves cut so that they leave part of
the arm prettily visible. Both front
and back, the bodice is draped with a
transparency of jet and black satin ar
ranged in squares and richly jeweled
and embroidered. The decolletsge is
outlined with soft edging Of black
ostrich tips, small ostrich plumes be.
ing placed on the shoulders, tied with
bows of black satin ribbon.
The herald., 1896-01-26
A Striking Costume

A thester gown of white Chine silk,
worn at the opera the other evening,
was striped with mauve and pink and
blue. Round the decolletage was
draped large fchu of chiffon, lace
edged, caught at one side with a large
bow of pale blue miroir velvet. The
lace also decorated the seams of the
skirt, tied on each side with bow of
the velvet again.
The herald., 1896-01-26
Immature Buttons

Buttons are in evidence on all the
the modish gowns. They are of various
sizes, except the very small, and some
of them have taken to themselves
prices that make them seem very big.
A set of the exquisite miniature but
tons or of the jeweled ones is by no
means ow-priced gift.
The herald., 1896-01-26
Acco riding 10 N an

Women are exact in dealing with the
pence. They usually make us pay our
debts to them-onr small debts; they
are generous enough to forgive us our
big ones.
A woman may be too proud or shy to
show it, or so unattractive that men
do not like her; but l have never yst
seen woman who, in her heart of
hearts, did not find my sex interest
ing.
Most men-up to certain point-as
they are only Tom Horners of a larger
growth, like other men to admire their
wives and toappreoiate their wines. Up
to certain point; when vanishing
point is reached it is another matter.
The herald., 1896-01-26
Literary Notes,

Mrs. Mary Hastings Foote'S sLife of
Christ for Young People" has met with
many encoimums both in private and
in public.
Mr.: George Barrie has issued in
broadside form a notable ESSAY m
Balzac by Paul Bourget.
The publishers of McClure's Maya
zlne have secured copies of every por-
TRAIT or Lincoln known to exist, some
fifty in number. ~
Mr.. Marion Orawford's novel "a Oip-
arctic Makers Romance" is being
dramatized.
Coleridge is credited With the saving
The herald., 1896-01-26

FINEST ROOMS IN THE CITY AT soc, Use AND $I.0o
per day; 81 90 to ST. 90 per week. SS 90 to $50 90 pa
p 5. OONDON, manager
The herald., 1896-01-26
BUTTERFLIES OF SOCIETY
What They Can Really Do if
Necessary
THE INDUSTRIES PREFERRED
Professions, Of Course, Would Have
the Call
co,,,a Wand Recome Miiljners Ofhers Con.
THE INDUSTRIES PREFERRED
Some Would Become Miiliners, Others Con-
stfuct Bills of Fare, Many Resort to
Music and Athletics

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-It is really won
derful how quickly the butterflies OF
fashion could transform themselves
into the busiest of working bees if the
occasion should arise. Taking reef
in their glorious wings, and shedding
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
TURKISH BRUTALITY.

Great Britain appears to be getting
ready to do what she should have done
fifty years ago. The Mediterranean SQUAD
rons, which is composed of dozen or
more warships, have been ordered 20 the
Levant, presumably to apply the heroic
remedy to the "sick man of Europe" The
massacre of 1000 Armenians in the CITY of
Constantinople in two days is arousing a
feeling of so much bitterness against the
Sultan all over the Christian world that it
does not appear how the powers can
longer tolerate the Turkish empire to
exist.
The evidence is pretty clear that the
Porte has been secretly urging the slaugh-
ter OF Christians for year or more,
although he has appeared to deplore the
existence of trouble among his subjects.
No doubt he is the champion villain of the
nineteenth century, and unless England
leads in the good work of dismem boring
his empire. she will forfeit the respect of
all civilized people. But sending a large
feet to Turkish waters looks very much
as If the London Government had at
last concluded to make war upon the
Sultan, if need be. to put stop to his
atrocious treatment OF the subjects OF his
country.
For half q century the Sultans of Tur-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
CIVIL LIBERTY ATTACKED,

lin my opinion, " said ex-Presidert Har-
rison in his New Y ork speech last week.
there is no issue presented by the CHICAGO
convention more important or vital than
the question they have raised of prostitut-
ing the power and duty of the National
courts and National executive. The de-
tense OF the constitution, of the Supreme
Court OF the United States and of the Presi-
dents power and duty to enforce all of the
laws OF the United States without await
ing the call or consent of the Governor of
any State is an important and living issue
in this campaign
1t would matter very little to the people
OF this country whether they have free
trade or protection, bimetallism or mono-
metallisn, paper money or metallic
money, If the courts were made subser-
Went to the schemes of professional poIi-
ticlans and economic experimentaiists.
The soul of the power that maintains
civil liberty in the United States is
in the court of final appeal, and in pro-
portion as that court is prostituted for no.
litical or social advantage Is its power to
protect the individual in the endowment
of his liberty weakened. If the personnel
of court may be changed at the will
and pleasure OF party or clan, either
by increasing its numbers or by legis-
lation to strengthen the hold of that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLIsM.


A REVIEW OF j. AsBURY JoHNsoN'S RECENT
LETTER ON THE SUBJECT.
Mr.. ]. Asbury Johnson, Populist, seems to be
somewhat confused, or wants TO confuse
others, in regard to the construction of inter-
national bime tallism by the Republican party.
There is no doubt about the simple being able
to confound the wise when 1t comes to asking
questions. don't expect to satisfy the gen.
tleman, but to say something for the benefit of
the honest and well-meaning voter.
1t seems to be the principal argument of
gold and silver monometalIists to charge the
advocates of bimetallism by international
agreement with sinister motives. Monometal-
lis Is are opposed to bimetallism. The gold
men do not disguise the fact
Able advocates of free silver coinage at the
ratio of 16 10 1 admit that the country NAV go
to q silver basis If their theory prevails. So it
is reasonable to infer that both of these theo-
rists believe that an International agreement
or even bimetallism is an "irideSeent dream"
Your correspondent may be of that number.
He even states that oil the European govern
ments stand committed against it. That is
true; but there is strong sentiment in Ger
many, France and England IN favor Of it and
this sentiment is growing.
Now there is one point that the two wings of
monometalliSts agree upon, and that is not to
depart one hairs breadth from their psrticu-
lar theories.
The gold men say that the commercial ratio
between the metals cannot be departed from
while the silver contingent will not agree to
any other ratio except 10 to 1. Bimetallists
on the other hand contend that If some inter-
mediate point between 16 and so could be
agreed upon. and that ratio maintained
awhile, then 10 to 1 could be reached and sus-
tanned. II a man cannot lift $50 pounds it is
evident he cannot lift 200 pounds What
seems to worry Mr.. Johnson is whether Major
Mckinley is in favor of 16 to 1 or some other
ratio. He does not state, and it is not neces-
sary. He is willing to leave that to the judg-
ment and wisdom of the members comprising
conference appointed to agree upon ratio
Nh. Johnson seems TO think that if a ratio of
20 to should be agreed upon 1t would make
but little difference 10 the pensioner or
laborer. think IL would make considerable
difference difference that the lsborer could
Ger tainly see and a probability that the ratio
could finally be established at 16 to 1 when
the loss would be nothing. A. J. DILL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
" DISTURBING BUSINESS"

We renesO and emphasize our allegiance to
! the policy Of protection as the buIwark of
american industrial Independence and the
foundation Of american Development and
prosperity. We denOunce the present Demo
cratic tariff as sectional, Injurious to the pub
lic credit and destructive to business enter
prise.-Republican National Platform
1--WE denounce as disturbing to business
the Republican threat to restore the Nc
Kinley bill. "-Bryan's platform.
Let US see which of these two declara-
tons history justifes During the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1891. we exported
agricultural products amounting 10 $642.-
751,344 and 9,328, 232 during the fiscal
year ending June So 1892. mckinley
Ism" prevailed in those two years.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1885, we exported agricultural products
amounting to 1858, 210,026, and $559, s41, ia
in the year ending June 80, 1896. The
Wilson-Gorman act was in operation dur
ing these years, and the decrease, which
the agriculturists OF this country sus-
tanned, amounted to 1919 OPS, 1857. The
Mckinley bill did not disturb" farmers
very much, did it? Unless it disturbed
them to get nearly 1920, 600, 600 more for
their produce in two years under the Nc
Kinley ''robber tariff" than they got in
two years under Organism.
But farmers are not the only persons
who were disturbed" by the Mckinney
bill. No one escaped its disturbing"
influence. For instance, during the first
twenty-three months of the operation of
the Mckinley act the bank clearings aggre-
gated Sill, 979, $40, 800.
During the same number of months I'M
der Organism the bank clearings amounted
to sos, 792, 777,7S6. or $13, 1876, 1864. 6O4 less
than during the months when the Nc
Kinley bill was disturbing business.
Thirteen billion dollars is a good deal of
money, and that is the sum of the reopIe's
loss on business represented in bank clear
ing-house transactions which cover less
than so per cent of the countrv's total
volume of business. There has been an
average decrease of more than half
billion dollars a month since the repeal
of McKinley's disturbing" law.
Those who are we'll acquainted with the
character of Am erican business men would
not hesitate to say that they rather like
to be disturbed just the way the Nc
Kinley act disturbed them, and it is
equally safe to say that they are getting
impatient for November to come SO thew
may put public concerns in shape to be
disturbed again after the fashion OF the
Mckinley way of ''disturbiHg" business.
But perhaps the Bryans, the Altgelds and
the Tillmans believe that the poorer the
people are the easier they will be to ham
die, and hence they advocate free trade
and cheap money.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
THE PRESS ON McK1NLRY's LETTER

IL Is great letter, strong in all the essen
tlals OF craftsmanship and yet simple, in that
the arguments are addressed to the common
people.-Chicago Inter ocean.
The letter will be universally regarded ne q
strong document, as it presents the issues SO
clearly that the plain pc ople will have no diff
hculty in understanding them.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
McKinley's letter of acceptance will fir tho
lasting attention of the people as one of those
nooie appeals to reason and patriotism which
go Tar TO make the history of a nation.-New
York Tribune.
Mr.. MeKinley's letter accepting the nomina.
ton Is strong ana satisfactory utterance. AS
Is emlnently fitting, the finance question
hoios the leading place in it, both In the no.
sltlon occupied and the amount of space filed
-Globe-Demoerat
Inc letter as a whole is a lucid. forcefuI
aIement OF the position of the Republican
party concerning the questions now before the
people. Compared with Bryan's wild utter
ances, which are as indefinite and unsubstan.
tiai as log bank, it is a block of steadfast t.
pohshed granite.-Chicago Tribune.
Dealing with every important opest;on
toueheo oy the Republican platform, emphasis
anu stress are naturally laid on the para
mount issue OF finance. Democrats and indie.
penoents who contemplate voting the Repub-
mean tlcket have the satisfaction of knowing
tnat MAJOR Mckinley has more than justified
tnelr trust and confdence.-Chicago Post.
MAJOR Mckinley rises to the height of his on
portunlty In his formal letter OF acceptance Of
the Republican nomination for President
mere are no rhetorical pyrote Clinics in it. 1t
is PAIN and forcible presentation of the is
sues OF the campaign in language which needs
no interpreter to the plain people of America.
St Paul Pioneer Press
The spirit and the reasoning of Mr.. McKin-
Ieys letter on the issues presented in the finan-
cial plank OF the Chicago platform are admir-
aole' II is the manly and digniied offer of the
hepuDhcan candidate to meet those who are
reaoy 10 trust him in this crisis on a plane
hlgner than that of mere party opinions or
purposes.-New York Times
In the very simplicity and acknowledgements
ness OF this magnificent utterance OF the Re-
PuDncan candidate there lies a strength inf
uA'eiy greater than could have been achieved
Ny any other form of eloquence. We have had
. suriels OF oratory. What we needed were
iacIs' pure and clear and cold And now we
nave tnem.-cincinattiT Tribune.
MAJOR McKinley's formal letter of acceptan CO
Is MS aoiest utterance upon the issues OF the
present campaign, whether it be considered
as literary production or a political exposi-
ton. The arguments are exceedingly we'll put
IN Clear ioreible, but carefully tempered Ian
guage' which leads naturally from topic to
TOPIC and gives the whole a continuity In
tnought and style that is equally effective
from the standpoint of letters and of logic
Chicago Journal
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key have felt secure to butcher Christians
at their pleasure because the powers could
not afford to dismember the empire, or
rather because the powers could not agree
upon division of the territory belonging
to Turkey. Of course the powers are NOR
ally responsible for the slaughter of the
thousands of Christians by Turkish SOL
diers, and, no doubt, too, had the Sultan
been little more moderate and caused
fewer murders last week, a British fleet of
warshlps would not now be sailing to
turkish waters; but perhaps just such a
brutal and wholesale killing as has been
witnessed in the last few days was neces-
sary TO drive the powers into war with the
M0ssulman brutes. Think of 1000 human
beings butchered in the streets of a Eu-
ropean city in the year 1896, simply to sat-
lsty the cravings of brutal Turk for
Christian bloodi
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
"THE ENRMY'S COUNTRY"

Right in the flush of his silver fame,
Proud of his slver-mounted name,
Into the Enemy's country came
William Jaybryan.
Into the Enemy's country he
Swung like a star from its apogee,
Crossless and crownless though he be,
William Jaybryan-
High on platform we saw him stand,
His silvery utterances In his hand
Which caused us 10 think of other things, and
William Jaybryan.
Into the Enemy's country side
Siiver-lined patriots hurrledly hied;
And very soon they had notified
William Jay bryan.
Much was the talk he talked that time;
His wisdom was like the cents in a dime:
The principal point he m ade was: "rm
William Jaybryan."
And what of the Enemy's country? Oh!
Well. really 1t pains me to tell you so,
But the Enemy's country didn't know
That Bryan was there. At least If 1t did,
IL paid no 11tention to the Kid;
In fact, IL did not know till he
Said so, that it was the Enemy
w. j. L., in New York Sum-
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party upon the machinery of govern
ment, the court may also be required to
render decisions that are in harmony
with the purpose of the powers that be
without reference to the constitution or
legislative enactments. Can one conceive
how the liberty of the people could be put
in greater jeopardy than such system of
jurisprudence would place itP
The wording of the Bryan declaration,
or Chicago platform, on the question of
tampering with the functions and per-
sonnet of the Supreme Court of the Ma
ton is adroit and we'll calculated to de-
ceive the casual reader, but the under
lying purpose is to revamp and reorganize
the highest judicial authority in the land
so that decisions may be secured which
will comport with such theories of govern
ment as are advocated by Altgeld, who, as
the Governor of Illinois, released from the
penitentiary the Haymarket bomb
throwers and officially censured the trial
court for inflicting punishment upon
them; with such theories of government
as are held by Bryan, who breaches the
doctrine of blood, of war, of brother
against brother and section against Sec
ton, and with such theories of govern
ment as are held by Tillman of South
Carolina, who reioices when fear and
calamity come upon the North because it
refused to acquiesce in South Carolina's
reasonable purpose in 1861.
The revolutionists who controlled the
Chicago convention know that so long as
the courts stand between their purpose
and the liberty of the people their efforts
to overthrow the Government will avail
them nothing. and hence it is that they
propose to have courts that will cid and
abet them. The silver question with them
is an issue to agitate the people and at the
same time draw public attention from
their Interior object, and when they say
the free coinage of silver independent of
those whom we have trade relations with
would be followed by "good times" they
err and they know it, but the end with
such men justifies the means, and the end
is disorganized society and a government
conducted on lines that are in harmony
with Altgeld's denunciation OF the courts
for Furnishing crime. With the courts
under the thumb of the organs, the Ait
gelds and the Tillmans, the law would be
made to accommodate itself to the wishes
of these revolutionisst. Then civil liberty
would wear Bryan's crown of thorns, and
finally 1t would be crucified upon his cross
OF sectionalism an d class hatred.
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WHY THEY WON'T VOTE FOR
BRYAN.
Springfield Journal.

The Indiana Farmers Association has SO. 600
members, consisting approximately of 81, 500
Kepuoiicsns, 10000 Democrats, 1000 Pop
ulists and 1000 Prohibitionists. OF the whole
number, according to a canvass made bv the
president OF the organization, AZ $50 propose
to vote IN November for Mckinley and honest
money: "The silver sentiment is swiftly dis
appearing says the president, "and the
Inulans farmers don't want any of your CHEAP
money. what is true of the farmers OF
inolana viii be found to be equally true of the
farmers OF Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa
anu me other States The free-coinage bubble
mas burst. The scare is over, reason has re-
turned and the farmers viii be found in No
honest government $40