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The herald., 1896-06-20
Interesting Evolution Of the Shirt Waist

The influence of the shirt waist is al
most as interesting a study as that of
the bicycle. From the first percale waist
Which set the ball rolling there have been
created the daintiest bits of elegance
conceivable. What seemed perfection
last season-the charming lace and chif-
ION trimmed bodices-are surpassed in
this years novelty, the iridescent silks,
covered with Persian organdie and
belted and collared with ribbon of its
prevailing color tone Ones wardrobe
these days, to be prepared for any occa-
sion, needs to consist of little more than
two or three skirts, one of black silk or
satin, blue or black wool serge or mo-
hair, and one white serge or camers
hair. with variety of waists. Entire
organdie toilets are exquisite while they
are fresh, but breath of damp air ruins
them, and many women now supply
only the waist of the thin material, u.s.
ing skirt that will stand the fickleness
of summers day and seaside moisture.
The desire for many waists and fronts
and collarettes has developed much
amateur ingenuity in designing, which
has led naturally to wish to make them
at home. 1t is now quite the thing to
take a course in dressmaking Several
classes have been made up the past WIN
ter of fashionable young women and
these are to be repeated during the sum-
mer. At several resorts there are to be
both millinry and dressmakng classes.
Saratoga is to have a Boston milliner,
whose classes are almost full at this
early date, and Newport is to sit at the
feet of New York Gameiel in the
dressmaking line, while at Asbury park
a well-known modiste will give talks on
Selections of Materials.
The herald., 1896-06-20
REPUBLICAN INTEREST IN
OTHER COUNTRIES

The Republican platform on foreign af-
fairs cuts pretty wide swath. 1t ad-
vocates the peaceful annexation of all
English speaking people on this hemis-
phere. This would include not only the
Dominion of Canada, but Jamaica,
Trinidad, Belize, British Guiana, many
West Indian islands, and also settle
ments in Argentine, the Straits OF Ma
gellan and Chile. Besides this the plat
form advocates the purchase of the Dan
ish West Indian islands. AS to Cuba, it
United States should actively use its in
fiuence and good offices to restore peace
and give independence to the island.
The Hawaiian islands should be CON
trolled by the United States" In Ar
menia the United States should exert
all the influence it can properly exert to
bring atrocities to an end" Amongst
these club suit cards Venezuela seems to
have been lost in the shuttle.
There is, however, quite enough of
outside business to divert attention from
little home trust affairs that in the in
terest of machine politics need oblivion.
We beg to suggest in the most polite way
in the world to the protectionist TRUSTEES,
that there is business in this country
close to the welfare of the republic that
demands earnest and patriotic atten-
ton Our own needs and our own bus
mess come before dickers with Denmark
over tropic islands, the annexing of ia
maica, Nevis, Canada, ct al, or armed in
reference in Armenia, which is the only
interference that will have the slightest
effect TRUSTEES are convictS more or
less freed from restraint. When we use
the term protectionist TRUSTEES we mean
that the great protectionist barons like
Carnegie, who sells naval armor to Rus
sia for $3.50 ton and to his own country
for $500 a ton, are convicts in the eyes
of the American people, and guilty of
bribery, perjury and wicked collusion
to rob their fellow citizens, and yet these
robbers. masked as patriots, are not
punished or confined, and are in fact
convict TRUSTEES. With these protection
lists it is policy to distract the peoples
attention from their corrupt congress-
ional lobby for securing privilege and
bounty, and to prevent any notice of
their combines to sell their protected
products for more in America than they
sell their own products elsewhere.
The herald., 1896-06-20

glories Of the doctrine of scarcity ana
commercial isolation, called protection,
will be painted in all the lying and de-
ceitful colors afforded by the resource
full English language. The people who
live in the immense area which furnishes
the bulk of the country's exports Will De
told that what they need, what thelr
crops are waiting for, what the live STOCK
will not propagate without, the thing
and the only thing which will bring re-
ligion. rain, and children. is tariff high
enough to shut out the things they
themselves sell abroad. To the feartui
and radical reductions and changes
made by the present tariH-a measure
which made a reduction of duties aver
aging the stupendous rate of about per
cent. and placed as many as half a dozen
staple articles on the free list-will be
ascribed all the ills financial, industrial
and physical with which the populace on
the Rocky mountain side of the Missis-
sippi have been afflicted. as well as the
panic of 1898, which occurred before the
existing tariff law was drafted, and more
than a year before the bill went into
effect. The support-support by the way
which will be produced with varying de-
grees of ostentation, according to the eX-
igencies presented in particular locali-
ties-to this western star issue Will be
the promise made in the Republican
plank to the effect that the party will
favor free silver coinage just as soon as
an international agreement can be
reached, something which every Repub-
lican stump shouter and pencil pusher
of the west will proclaim solemnly he
can see the dawn Of Immediately, if not
before. Thus, the campaign of issue
flimflamming will proceed to the end.
The herald., 1896-06-20
SUNSET EXPRESS ON ECO.
NOMICS

The Evening Arcade has is marked an
ability to argue itself out of court as
even the "Cahuenga delegate" A couple
of its recent protectionist editorials
have in common words, knocked the
stuffiing out of that doctrine"
The first one set forth statement that
wheat growers could produce $40 an
acre, while sugar beet growers could
produce $50 an acre. This state of facts.
it claimed, demanded a tax on the $40
men to give a bounty to the $50 men.
This vigorous exposition of protection is
to be commended. 1t is frank confess
sion that the poor must contribute out
of their poverty to enrich the rich in
their riches. 1t is more frank than poll
tic.
The second one, apropos of Japanese
competition, argues that there is no fear
of japanese competition, " that cheaply
paid laborers on a low standard of life
cannot compete with we'll paid laborers
on a high standard of life" II then
cites fact after fact to demonstrate the
truth of it's argument. This exposition
of a free trade principle is as vigorous
as its exposition of the preceding pro-
tectionist doctrine. You pays your mon
ey and takes your choice.
From that the Sunset Express con-
cludes that reciprocity would lend itself
to the mutual trade of both countries
This is an advocacy of free trade be-
tween us and Japan. The safety to this
country, it appears. is mainly credited
to the cheap labor prevailing in Japan
We must admit that the economic de-
lirium tremens that usually rides finan-
cial storms on passes in the Sunset Ex-
press" is sometimes accompanied by a
lucid interval
The herald., 1896-06-20
Balloon Game in Paris

The newest sport in Paris is the bal
loon game, which is played in this fash
ion: a number of toy balloons are en-
tered for the competition, and in each
of them is placed an envelope containing
a postal card, which is addressed to the
judge of the contest. The little balloons
are then set free, and after more or
less time come to earth again, in differ
ent parts Of the country. Those who find
them see the envelopes and notice there
on a request that the time when each
balloon was found and also the place
be written on the postal card, which is
then to be dropped in the postoffice. At
the end of week the various postal
cards are compared and the prize is
awarded to that balloon which travel
ed the greatest distance in the shortest
time. Not costly sport this, and one
which is likely to give great impetus
to a new industry, the manufacture of
racing balloons.
The herald., 1896-06-20

exceedingly heavy. and almost as stiff as
STEEL
mot many women wear stays nova
days, believe" modestly ventured the
young man.
"Oh, yes," spoke up the young woman.
THAT is altogether mistaken idea.
There are very few women who do not
wear stays, and, indeed, there are very
few who could leave them off with any
degree of comfort or grace. For while
women rushed madly after health waists
but the corset makers and dealers re-
port that far fewer substitutes for cor
sets are sold today than formerly. A
garment like that becomes a fad. but
soon goes out of vogue. Women aren't
going to stop wearing the corset. They
discard stays when exercising in gym
nasium or when playing In field games.
and many of them leave them off when
awheel, but as for giving them up when
dressed up few women are emanci-
pated to that extent. True, the corset
of today is not so straight, stiff or heavy
as formerly, and is not worn so tight.
but all the same they are still very i'm
portant part of woman's wardrobe.
and there is nothing in well construct
ed, loose, light corset that coulVpossibly
make anyone faint"
"Oh. pshaw!" exclaimed the doctor.
impatiently. "T told you that fainting
was out of style long ago. My opinion
is that in twenty years, even in ten very
few women will be wearing stays. BIZ
cycling and basket ball and hurdling
and cunning and broad and high jump
ing will drive out whalebone and steel"
II, for one, hope they WILL" said the
college girl, as she drained her small
cup Of coffee.
They won't. all the same. and II we
live we shall see," remarked the matron.
with equal earnestness.-New York Sun.
The herald., 1896-06-20

sometimes at buying and selling cli-
mates, but II is a remarkable commodity
nevertheless and 1t is the only property
where the acquisitions of the buyer do
not in any degree diminish the possess
ions of the seller. Our commercial GER
tainties are great, our manufacturing
department will in the near future
amaze the land, for nowhere can ship
and rail- coal and raw product, labor and
loom be more advantageously connected
than in California, but with all our ad-
vantages in these particulars it is cli-
mate rather than commerce that lures
to these shores the pleasure seeker. the
wealth seeker, the home seeker, the in
vestor and the speculator.
The herald., 1896-06-20
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
AND CAMPAIGN

The Republican national platform. like
the Mckinley campaign for delegates
to the st. Louis convention, is drag-net
affair; in length and variety of topics
treated it is little short of a Populist's
pronunciamento. In the general char
acter of its declarations and in phrase
ology it differs not at all from the usual
Republican instrument of the kind. The
same bumptious tone, grandiloquent
language, comprehensive misstatement,
confusion of causes and effects and alb
surd Inconsistencies that have marked
similar productions in the past are pres
ent in this, else it would not be a Repub-
lican platform.
There are but two planks in the plat
form worthy of consideration, and that
because of their relation to the two most
important issues before the American
people--the financial and the tariff
planks. Fortunately, both are positive
and unequivocal in tone, and the orators
and editors of the party will have some
difficulty in giving them other than
common Interpretation. What juggling
is INDUCED in must be with the ISSUES,
not the planks, and it is undoubtedly the
sue paramount in the east and the other
in the west
In the eastern states. where the peo-
pie are convinced that the maintenance
of the gold standard is of more conse-
quence than any other proposition ever
written, or talked of, the Republican
party will be offered as the "only orig
inal Jacobs" of sound money, and it's
return to power viii be held up as the
price of the preservation of the coun-
try's financial credit and monetary sta
bility. The tariff plank in this instance
will be used as the leading support to
the sound money star. The fact that
the present money plank is not in har-
mony with the declarations and prac-
tices OF the party in the past, that sub
stantially all the silver legislation which
has been obnoxious to the east was en-
acted by and with the consent of Re
publican congresses and presidents, will
not worry the leaders of the party of
pretension and consistency
never wears its jewelry" when in such
company.
In the western states where the ma
jcrity Of the voters seem imbued with
the idea that millions of human beings
are hungering and thirsting for the sill
vern stream yet locked in the noun
tain Businesses Of the west, all because
the American congress has failed to fur
nish the legislative key needed to do the
unlocking with-what terrible over
sight it would have been if nature had
failed to provide silver mines-the star
issue on Republican platforms and in
the Republican prints will be the tariff.
The everlasting virtues and unfading
The herald., 1896-06-20

It would be more decent and really
more religious to discard the parade OF
prayer at political conventions. At the
opening ceremonies of the st. Louis con-
vention the rabbits prayer, no doubt
fine oratorical effort, was received with
cheers, which was sufficient proof Of
the irreligion and lack of taste of sec
tion- of the audience. On a second occa-
sion when prayer was offered the up
roar in the hall was so great that not
word of the prayer could be heard.
The herald., 1896-06-20
To r1agnetiZe Hairpins

A New York man has received a
patent for magnetized box of hairpins.
He does not clearly state the object Of
his invention in magnetizing the pins,
but it is presumed that the charged pins
are less liable to come out of the hair
and be lost, as they are all attracted
toward each other when in position. To
remove one of them it must be done
against the magnetic force which tends
to keep it in place by attracting 1t to the
remaining pinS.
The herald., 1896-06-20

The Herald extends the glad hand"
to the local movement on foot for better
CITY government, and is willing and anx-
ious to lend it's active support to an in
dependent organization which shall nave
In view the emancipation of Los Angeles
from the domination of the professional
eaters now fattening upon the cor
poration like locusts of Egypt
The herald., 1896-06-20
E1eartIess Wretch

"Will the coming woman raise whis-
kers?" inquired Tommy Wrott.
she will raise them as now, sir" re-
piled the majestic Mrs. Strongmind, ION
the faces of her stalwart sons
Then let her do her voting with the
hands of her stalwart sons" rejoined the
unfeeling Mr.. Wrott.-Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1896-06-20
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1906

Mckinley has a face like Napoleon
Will he have a Waterloo like Napo-
lann,S2
The herald., 1896-06-20
TO THE EDITOR

(The Herald under this heading prints
communica tions. but does not assume re"
sponsibility for the sentiments eXpressed)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
A TALENTED WOMAN DEAD

Mrs. Eliza j. Nicholson. of the New Or
leans Pioayune-she was a Poet of ALn-
ity and Managed the Newspaper With
Great skill.
New Orleans, February 15.-Eliza J.
Nicholson, proprietress of the Plea
yune, died this morning at $40. She
was suffering from the grippe when her
husband died a week ago, and the sad
event so shattered her system that the
disease developed into congestion of
the lungs, and without strength to fight
off the attack, she sank rapidly into the
final sleep.
Mrs. Nicholson was born on Pearl
River, in Mississippi, and was the
daughter of Captain J. w. Poitevent,
descended from a Huguenot family,
still one of the most influential in the
section. She was born a poet, and un
der the name of Pearl Rivers early
wrote songs which made her famous.
Her first verses were published in the
Home Journal, and Lippencott pub
lished q volume of her lyrics, which
earned praise from Paul II. Hayne and
other poets and critics.
Her latest contributions to American
verse were "Hagar" and Leah in the
Cosmopolitan, intended to begin a ser
les of biblical lyrics. The work of her
youth attracted the attention Of Col.
A. NJ. Holbrook, then the proprietor OF
the Picayune, who offered her a posi-
tion on the paper which she accepted.
She became his wife and increased her
mastery of the details of newspaper
work, sOthat upon his death she was en-
abled to assume the management of the
journal ard direct its progress to graf
flying success, becoming one of the best
known editors in the coutry.
She associated George Nicholson,
then business manager, in the direction
of the property, and upon their mar
riage the firm became Nicholson & Co.
Of late years Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholson,
feeling that their interests no longer
required constant personal attention,
allowed an able staff to conduct the
active work of their journal and de-
voted most of their time to travel and
recreation, although she constantly
made suggestions and preserved an
intimate knowledge of every depart
ment. She leaves two sons. the oldest
only fourteen years of age.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
DOESN'T WANT TO COMFn
sherman. the Negro in Jail at UniontOwn.
viii Resist Efforts to Remove Him to
Parkersburg.

sherman. the Negro in Jail at Uniontown.
viii Resist Efforts to Remove Him to
ParkersbUrg.
Special 10 the Register.
Parkersburg, W. Va, February 10
James sherman, the mulaJto who is
under arrest and serving a sentence for
vagrancy az UniOntOwn, Pa, which eX
pires to-day, is making hard fight TO
keep from being brought here. charged
with the assault of Lulu Wetherell.
He has made affidavit before Judge
Ewing TO the effect that he never was
in Parkersburg, and Judge Ewing will
give the matter a hearing Monday.
Assistant Prosecutor McCann and Chief
Of Police d. w. Heaton Will be there,
and Will also have present the watch
man az the mill near this city who
identified Sherman as the man who was
much excited and asked him about
the leaving time OF a freight train on
the night O. the assault. A negro pris-
Oner in the Jail at UniOntOwn states
that Sherman told him he committed
the assault and how he did it, and the
man WOolard, who saw the mulattO at
MonOngah, states that a pair of shoes
has been located near there which was
traded TO the mulatto for gum boots,
and Sherman wore gum boots when
arrested at UniOntOwn.
The authorities think they will get
their man, and he will be brought here
Monday night
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
A SENSATION
Caused by the Arrest of a Leading
Light of the Church, Charged with
Poisoning his Wife 80 Proposed
Marriage to His Step-Daughter.

Mobile, Ala, February ia sensa-
ton has been caused here by the ar
rest of Henry David Hearn, leading
light in the Baptist Church, who is
accused of causing the death Of his wife
by the administration G, nitric acid,
which he had obtained from local pay
sician for alleged analytical purposes.
The arrest was made upon the infor-
nation of the accused's step-daUghter,
who alleges that an ante-mortem
statement of the deceased woman, who
died suddenly in conyulsions, attributed
the cause of death to poisoning at her
husbands hands.
There have been unpleasant relations
between Hearn and family ever since
they charged him some time ago with
making a proposition to his step
daughter to marry him in the event Of
her mothers death.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
GASOLINE
Used for Cleaning Carpet, Causes a
Frightful IlDlOsiOn---Threa Cars
Wrecked an Ihre7 Persons Badly
Injured.

Pittsburg. Pa. February 15.-An ex-
plosi0n Of gasoline in the Pullman
sleeper "Wyndham' about noon, COM
peJely demolished the interior OF the
car. badly damaged the Pullman cars
"Gitl' and New England ' and seri-
ously injured three passengers. Their
names are.
Mrs. Laura Fass, aged 80 years.
Miss Sadie COuroy aged % ye'ls
James Richardson, porter, Of Cincin-
natl. aged 40 years.
The cars were lying in the Pennsyl-
vania yards. and the women We're
cleaning the carpets of the Wyndham
with gasoline. BY some means the gas
ignited from the stove and the expo
sion followed
The c0ncussion wrecked the car and
damaged the other cars lying alongside.
The women and the porter were seri-
ous'y burned and Miss Conroy will
probably die.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
DR.. NANSEN IS SURELY SAFE.
The Arctic Explorer Now on His
Way to Civilization.
A Confrmatory Dispatch from tho
British Consul at Archange.-The
Report Ger orally Credited in Eu.
rope-Opinion Of Experts as to
How the Pole was Reached.

London, February 15.-The British
consul at Archangel. capital of the Rus.
sian government of that name, tee.
graphs confirming the report that Or.
Nansen is safe and returning from
the north pole.
The news of DR.. Nansen's success
has created intense interest in this
city. The report received from IT.
kutsk. Siberia, was generally discred-
tied at first, although more faith was
placed in it than in the previous ru-
mors which have reached London dur
ing the past twelve months. The
dispatch from the British consul az
Archangel is regarded as conclusively
showing that the Norwegian explorer
is homeward bound, even if he has not
discovered the pole.
Dispatches received here from differ
ent parts of the continent indicate that
the same interest in the news from
the North is manifested throughout
Europe. and it is also generally credit
ed at the European capitals, although
DR.. Nansen's wife and relatives did not
believe the announcement which came
through Kouchnareff, the agent OF DR.
Nansen, near the mouth Of the Lena
river. residents of which locality fire.
quently visit New Siberia.
Later advices say that news of DR..
Nansen's safety was sent TO Kandar-
off. the local Russian official in the
Yakutsch region, who was a member
of the Siberian-Koffs expedition.
DR.. NordenskiOd, who is I'm Chris
tiana, is inclined to believe the news
of Dr. Nansen's safety. at any rate,
even if it is not true that he has sue
ceeded in discovering the north pole.
According to thN opinion Of Arctic
experts here, Wis the Fran left
Karaza in 1898. :. W7nay have found
the sea, northwards, free Of ice. and
pushed on until she was locked in.
They add that she may then have been
allowed to drift until the expedition
came to land around the pole, and that
Dr. Nansen and his party may have
returned in sledges to the Siberian ISL
ands.
Washington, February 15.-The con-
frmation from Archangel OF the rc'
port of the return of DR.. Nansen. does
not really amount tr a confirmation,
in the opinion Of GAs 'Leafbyr, q1lr-
Lieut.. Scheutze. Ihee11tfe-1T- - WIN
the possible exception Of Commodore
Melville who is temporarily absent
from Washington, better posted than
any other official In Washington upon
the characteristics of the North 81
berian coast, which he has visited on
a governmental mission, being charg-
ed with the distribution of awards 10
the natives who aided the survivors OF
the unfortunate jeanette expedition.
Said he: This confirmation OF tho
Irkutsk story from Archangel as II
we had a telegram from Portland. Ne.
confirming a story from Sandy Hook"
Gen. Greeiy took a similar view, and
held that it was inconceivable that the
same story should emanate from two
places so remote from each other as are
Irkutsk and Archangel He knew Of
no way in which news Of Nansen's ap-
proach TO the mouth of the Lena delta
should also reach Archangel.