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The National tribune., 1897-12-09
WEEK IN WASHINGTON.
Events of General Interest in the Nations
Capital.

TUESDAY, NOV. 30.-The President named
Maj. George III. Harries to be Brigadier
General commanding the District OF
Columbia National Guard to succeed the
late Gen. Albert n. Ordway, who died IN
New York on Nov. p. Mai. Harres is
Inspector General of Rifle Practice in the
District Guard. In business life heis the
Secretary of the Washington Board Of
Trade. Col. Cecil Clay, commanding this
I'd Regiment National Guard, rendered
his resignation after hearing OF the ap-
pointment of Maj. Haries. hrs junior.
Col. Clay was an active candidate for thu
office vacated by the death of Gen. Ord
way, and he, rs well as his friends, thought
he was entitled to the promotion, on the
ground OF military precedence over all
other candidates, and his long and faith
ful services in the Union army during the
war. Col NJ. Emmett Urell, gallant vet
eran, Will succeed him.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1.-JIstice Fields re-
retirement from the Supreme Court took
place to-day. There was no formality at
tendantuponit. The Justice wa not pres
ent in the courtroom, and. as he had not
sat with the court since the opening day
of the term the proceedings did not differ
in any respect from those of ordinary
days. II Justice Fields term had con-
tinued until next Tuesday he would have
had Al years of continuous service. Under
the law he will draw full salary until his
death.
THURSDAY, DEC. 2.-The President
appointed Blanche X. Bruce, of Mis-
sissippi. to be Register of the Treas
ury. Mr.. Bruce represented Mississippi
in the United States Senate in reconStruc-
ton days and is one of the beSt-known
cOlOred Republicans in the country. The
position to which he is appointed is one
he held some years ago.
FRIDAY, DEC. Sit was announced to-
day that Peru is the first of the South
American countries to open negOtia tie:Is
with the United States for reciprocity
treaty under the provisions of the Dingley
law. The negotiations are proceeding
briskiy. Peru has submitted a schedule
of the articles on which it desires con-
cesSions. These embrace brandies and
wines, hides of cattle and goats, vicunu
skins, sugar, wool, woven cotton goods,
Peruvian bark, rubber and many native
products, which, it is said, had not come
into competition with American products
SATURDAY, DEC. 4.-The Naval Amor
Board, created TO ascertain the cost OF
an armor plant, submitted report to the
Secretary of the Navy. The cost of plant
suitable for making naval armOr at the
rate of about G, 900 tons per annun, which
is fully equal to the capacity of both OF
the existing private plants, is estimated
at total of So, 747 912. Secretary Long
viii invite proposals for building such
plant as that designed.
SUNDAY, DEC. Sit was announced that
Gov. John w. Griggs, of New Jersey, has
been rendered and accepted the office
OF AttOrney-General OF the United States,
which will be vacated by the nomination
of Attorney General McKenna to be AS
SOciate Justice OF the United States SUI
preme Court. 1t has not yet been settled
when Gov. GriggS shall assume his new
office, but il is prOba bic the date will be
about the beginning of the new year.
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ARMY AND NAVY.

In his annual report Secretary Long
asked for appropriations for the running
expenses of the Navy, amounting TO S22,-
232, 1855, and IS 40 .273 for the increa sc of
the Navy; total of $50, 673 001 SO. The Sec
rotary recommended that the authOriza-
ton of new ships by the coming Congress
be limited to one battleship for the Pacific
Coast, where, after the five now under con-
struction are completed, there will be only
two, while on the Atlantic there will be
seven, and also a few torpedo boats and
torpedo-bo destroyerS."
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issued during the week ending Dec A. was
$50, divided thus: Original, 724; increase
and additional 322; reissue. 80; restoration
and renewal, 52 supplemental. ]; dupli-
cate, 10; accrued. 1877.
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FREE TO INVALID LADIES.

safe simple home treatment that cureirle after
years of suffering with uterine troubles, dspace-
ments leucorrhea etc, sent free to ladies with full
instructions how 70 use it Address MRS L. HUDNUr,
South Bend. Ind.
The National tribune., 1897-12-09

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was q Child, she cried for Cas,oria.
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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kax5aK12 X7.here 7hc
" laurel Blooms
- Coco. And Men and Women
Live Near Natures Heart.

By JOHN McELROY.

Copyright, 1897 by the publishers OF IHE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune., 1897-12-09
sAGAsTA's COURSE.

That the Government of Sagasta has
entered upon a course from which recess
sion with honor is impossible can hardly
be questioned that in the few weeks it
has existed it has made earnest of the
sincerity of its professions is undeniable
| shall not impugn its sincerity, nor should
Impotence be suffered to embarrass it in
! the task it has undertaken.
1t is honestly due to Spain and to our
friendly relations with Spain that she
should be given reasonable chance to
realize her expectations and to prove the
asserted efficacy of the new order of things
TO which she stands irrevocably committed
She has recalled the commander whose
brutal orders inflamed the American mind
and shocked the civilized world. She has
modified the horrible order of concentra-
ton and has undertaken to care for the
helpless and permit those who desire to
resume the cultivation OF their fields to do
so and assures them of the protection of
the Spanish Government in their lawful
occupations. She has just released the
Competitor" prisoners heretofore SEN
fenced to death and who have been the
subject of repeated diplomatic correspond
ence during both this and the preceding
Administration.
Not a single American citizen is now in
arrest or confinement in Cuba of whom
this Government has any knowledge. The
near future will demonstrate whether the
Indispensable condition OF q righteous
peace, Just alike to the Cubans and to
Spain as well as equitable to all our in
terests so intimately involved in the well
fare of Cuba, is likely to be attained
If not, the exigency of further and other
action by the United States will remain to
be taken. When that time comes that ac-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
SUN SPOTS AND SOCIETY,".

Solar Phenomena Said to BE Con-
nected with Very Vital Matters.
On the first day of January, 1892, DIR.
Brendel and Herr Raschen reached the
Alien Ford, Lapland, to remain sew
eral months, studying auroral displays
and magnetic disturbances. Brendel
succeeded in photographing the aurora,
a very difficult thing to do, as all who
have attempted it know. The deep reds,
which are so beautiful to the eye, make
little impression on the photographers
plates, and the light itself is generally
feeble and Pickering. Not unaptly have
the quivering aurora beams been called
merry dancers" Even the bright dis
plays are hard to photograph, as we
may see from an entry in Gen. Greely's
note book on January 81, 1882. IA most
beautiful aurora" he says, with in
tense light, at times sufficiently bright
to cast my shadow on the snow. Rice
exposed a sensitive plate without effect,
but the constantly changing position OF
the aurora may have been the cause"
But, some one will say, photograph
ing an aurora, while interesting from
a scientific standpoint, is not q very
momentous matter to men or nations.
And we make haste to answer that these
auroral displays are linked with phe-
nomena which have very practical in
terest. Long before the now we'll
known relations of solar phenomena
and terrestrial magnetism had been
determined, Sir William Herschel
thought he could, from meager data,
detect evidence that the price of wheat
was generally higher at times of few
sun spots. In later days we have Stan
ley Jevons tracing connection be-
tween financial crises and sun spots,
and a host of writers tabulating the al
lied phenomena-of auroras, sun spots,
magnetic disturbances-andt tracing in
their periodicities a close relation to
famines, commercial crises and alb
normal weather. What a wonderful
achievement it would be to foresee the
veal and woe of decade!
While such relations are conjectura1,
there is little doubt that auroras and
solar and magnetic disturbances are
closely linked. They do not come and
go by chance. The astrophysicist
knows that these phenomena will be
very numerous in 1908. He knows that
a similar condition will not again oc-
cur until 1915, the mean period being
IL years.-Alexander McAdie, in Cen
fury.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
MARIE AND THE AGENT.
story of an Attempt to Boom a Sewing
Machine in Faust.

story az an Attempt to Boom a Sewing
Machine in Faust.
The following story. which was pub
lished in German recently In connection
with the death of Marie Seebach, the
noted German actress, shows very well
the conception of American affairs
which stiIl prevails in Germany to a GER
tain extent. Seebach was here more
than 20 years ago, and it is scarcely pos
sible that such an incident as is de-
scribed would have taken place then,
but many such stories are told in Ger
many to-day as illustrative of American
enterprise.
According to this Renaissance Marie
Seebach one day received a message
that gentleman wished tosee her. She
told the servant to send him to her draw
ing-room in the hotel, and when he ar
rived he introduced himself as a certain
Col. Smith. Then he plunged at the OBJ
ject of his visit. and said that he repre-
scented a certain well-known make of
sewing machine.
81 have already heard he said, 'tthat
you are great artist. Iwant to find out
if you are good business woman as
well. Do you want to make some
money"
"Oh, I've no objections to make to
that" she said, "if it is possible in 3
perfectly correct and dignifed way"
''Oh, it's in the most correct way pos
sible that I propose the visitor con-
tinued, land offer you $40, 900 for doing
it."
What have to do in return?" asked
Seebach.
Nothing in the world,'' the colonel
replied, and as he noticed the express
sion of establishment on her face he
went on: Il told you that 1 came from
sewing machine company-one of the
largest in the world. All that demand
of you in return for the $4,000 is that
as Marguerite in the spinning wheel
scene from Faust you will use one of our
sewing machines instead of the wheel,
and just keep it in motion for few Sec
onds. Then we would let handbills drop
from the gallery saying that the ma
chine used by Marie Seebach was made
by our firm"
The actress is said to have hesitated
for second, but, in the end, her respect
for Goethe's tragedy is described as the
feeling which saved her artistic repu-
tation.
This story is of a type that disap-
peared from general use 40 years ago.
1t is of the kind told about P. l. Barnum
in the earlier days of his career But
stories of the kind still pass muster in
Europe, although a press agent who at
tempted anything of the kind in this
country would soon lose his John. Y.
Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
PtTH AND polNT.

Mamma, why do you whip me?'
sit is because I love you. Bobbie. =
We'll, mamma, I wish you wouldnf
love me so much. Brooklyn Life.
Fair Exchange.-Miss Booful-''Be-
fore we are married, Fred, want to tell
you how I detest profanity" Mr.. Hip
pie Rest easy on that score, love, pro
viding you can cook."-Harlem Life.
Judge Fifty dollars and costs"
Prisoner-"But it is impossible for me
TO raise that amount at once, your
honor" Judge-''Then take your time
six months. Chicago News.
-Harris-'sDOn't you think that a
liking for oysters grows upon one?''
Gordon-'Well, don't know. Fact is.
you know, it is seldom one sees the same
oyster more than e.'-Boston Tran
script
Reporter (whipping out his note
book)-"The amount he stole, you say,
was nine dollars" Officer of Company
II didn't say nine dollars. I said
9,ooo." Reporter promptly correcting
himself)-"He embezzled $4,000. Go
ahead. Chicago Tribune.
First Passenger-''Would you-ah
lend me your spectacles moment,
please?" Second Passenger-"Certain-
", sir" First Passenger .Ah-thank
you; now, as you cannot see to read
your paper, would you mind letting me
have it, please ?''-T1t-Bits.
with the aid of my wheel" re-
marked the party who had hitherto done
most of the talking, II can cover more
ground than by any other means" The
party who had lost both legs and arms
demanded, excitedly: did you ever
try dynamite ?"-Detroit Journal.
Working for Another Piece.-'tNow,
Robbie" said mamma, just before the
company sat down to dinner, ''remem-
Der, you must not ask for more pie"
Robbie didn't; but he finished his first
piece with much promptness, took a
long breath, and addressed himself very
audibly to the guests at his right.
"Ain't that dandy pie?" he asked
Judge.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
The skxInrk.s song.

In the winter the skylark of England
does not sing; but in early days of
spring the great focks of these birds
break up, and then go in pairs to look
for places to build their nests and rear
their young ones. And then the charm
ing song of the skylark is heard in all
its sweetness. While the mother bird is
brooding over her eggs to warm them,
her mate often rises into the air, and
then with quivering wings mounts
vertically upward so far that he looks
like a mere speek in the sky, and all the
time pouring forth his rich and beauti-
full song. but atslast ceases his song be-
fore descending again to the nest.-St.
Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
JAPANESE STUDENT COOK.
Why the Brilliant Opportunity Was
Lost-He Wished to Learn

IN
LOst-He Wished to Learn.
He was Japanese student, Shasuka,
fellow in chemistry of the Imperial
university of Toxic, who came to this
kitchen to learn general homework.
He answered all questions as to his
capabilities with II don't know, but ]
wish to learn" His interest in the
culinary processes was great, his wan
cheek flushed and his languid eye
kindled as his mistress initiated him into
the applied principles of food chemis-
try. He did not know how to make
bread, but he wished to learn" The
philosophy of the cooking range inter-
ested him deeply, but of its working he
had all to learn. The dish-washing and
serving appealed less to his scholarly
instincts, but still he wished to learn"
Mistress was scientific, and with SO
promising a pupil should have got on
famously. The consciousness that her
appliances were not all that a scientist
should desire, and the humiliation of
disclosing to the distinguished visitor
her makeshift methods and experiences
proved painful. Also, it was taxing to
had given her skill. She thought of
several really good inventions for re-
ducing the work to system, which had
been thrown aside because Ellen would
not bother with them, and the POSSIBLE
ity of working out the problem intelli-
gently with Shasuka as associate took
the form of desire.
Meanwhile the family must be fed
and the house made comfortable. there
was little time for experimenting; poor
Shasuka fell into treadmill of drudg-
cry little BETTING his personality, and
the mistress, finding the new role too
much, fell a prey to nervous prostra-
ton. So brilliant opportunity was
lost, and Shasuka went-still wishing
to learn, let us hope.-American kitch-
en- Magazine.
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of all men to be envied; when thought
of his broken home-this stigma of dis
grace the world would put upon his
name; of how, perhaps, the prison cell
yawned for his father; and when, above
all, guessed the thing that CALLED him
more than all else, his love affair,
cried myself. The news was spread
broadcast throughout the country by
the morning papers. "Big-headed Har-
vey, Railroad Manipulation, Bankrupt
Harvey's heart was broken; his spirit
was crushed.
Hastily penning a few lines to Bees
sic, in which he referred to the sudden
downfall of his family, of his disgrace;
their present difference in position, life,
etc, he gatherd his belongings together
and in half an hour was off on a mid
night train for New York. He would
not stay over day. He said on leaving:
Fellows, want you to remember me
as Harvey, and not as beggar."
He would not and could not go home
He would only Zoe useless to his parents
in their hour of woe. He could not
bear to go back to town beggar where
he had once been a prince.
Harvey shipped out of New York on
a steamship bound for San Francisco.
She was to take the place of a liner
that had gone down off the coast of
Lower California. After vain effort
to find something worth doing in the
city of the Golden Gate, he shipped out
of Frisco as a common deckhand on
the fast boat for Japan. After few
months of knockabout life in Yokohama
and Toxic he fell in with a party of
pearl fishers and was faring well until
heavy sea tossed them all upon the
rocks of Australia. He next tried sheep
herding away back in the hills, where
he lived for months with no company
but his dog and his sheep. He was
stricken down with a deadly fever while
one of party of Adventures who were
searching for quick fortune in the
diamond mines of South Africa. Three
months later, more dead than alive.
he found his way to johannesburg. He
here fell in with an English captain
and made his way to London and then
to Liverpool. and after four years of
adventure, trial and sickness he landed
once more in New York.
Harvey was Il changed man-changei
this time in earnest. He had learned
most valuable lesson, one worth going
all the way to Africa to learn, nv boy.
He had learned to know the value of a
dollar.
Being a persevering fellow, he de-
sired to raise himself to better posi-
ton in society. knowing that an eCu-
cation was necessary, he looked for a
school where his limited means would
hold out for the longest time, and In
few weeks after we find him enrolled
as a student of law at Ann Arbor.
North of University hall to-day still
stands building that, had il tumbled
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
THE ROAR IN THE CHIMNEY.

Outside there's q humming of winter-night
cold:
The restless snow Sits In the field and the
void:
The leafiess trees moan. though the wind
scarcely stiFs,
And the harp of the frost In hung up In
the frs.
But here by the fireplace it's cozy and
bright,
As snug and as warm as the heart OF the
night.
And the sound that ? hear fills the whole
house with cheer
IT'S the roar Of the fire in the chimney
See how the fame streams like nag on its
staff!
Hear how the sap sputters like elves when
The rosy-faced Goals. Row they nestle and
glow,
And snap fly the sparks Ger the hearth
The rooms all a-blush with the bright,
CHEEKY flame,
And the heat thrills ones blood like the
woods whence it came.
But better than all. whom the night shad-
ows fall,
Is the roar Of the fire in the chimney!
How brsveiy it shouts to the comprising
Like the cry of some strong. rudy Viking
of old;
How loud and how fearless. yet honest and
Is the voice that replies to the querulous
windi
No ghost of regret, and no phantom of fear
In the depths of the oli-fashioned fireplace
/ hear.
But hopeful and brave as the heart that
God gave
Seems the roar of the fire IL the chimney
Then welcome to winter. the frost and the
sleet,
The snow on the threshold. the drift In the
street;
For then in the dear, quiet castle of home
once more to loves primitive altar we
come.
Pile up the oak logs and draw closer the
chairs;
Remember life's blessings truce to its
careSl-
While loud, and then low, like voice that
we know,
Sounds the roar OF the fire in the chimney
James Buckham, in Demorest's Maya
zine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
He Watched and Learned.

Recently a small boy, a real boy, who
chases cats, and wears out clothes, and
slams doors, showed that he had rare
ability in solving the problems and an
swering the questions that so frequent
ly come into a body's life. Near the
house was tall maple tree, and the boy
announced late in the summer that that
tree measured 80 feet. ''How do you
know" he was asked. His answer was:
81 measured IT." did you climb it %
why, no." the boy said, with surprise,
Il measured the shadow" Some one
near made the comment that shadows
differ in length. He said yes, but twice
a day shadows are just as long as things
are themselves. IAN summer l have
been trying to get the height of that
tree. 1 drove a stick into the ground,
and when the shadow of the stick was
just as long as the stick knew the shad-
ow of the tree would be just as long as
the tree. I measured it and it was SO
feet Union Signal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
WAL now built on the promise q Il VIM

vival now built ON the promise Of lt VIM
not be realized
In short there must be substantial
business world from dependency and
accompanying hard times to hopeful
ness and prosperity. But Mr.. Reed tells
us no. He told us that this change OF
sentiment was due and would come a.
surely as the swing of pendulum. He
led rs mp to the unavoidable conclusion
that revival being fated to follow upon
the heels of such q period of industrial
stagnation that has weighed upon the
country since 1892. that prosperity was
sure to come In this year of 1897, tariff
legislation or no tariff legislation; that
the passing of the Dingley tariff was to
be desired, indeed, but desired, not be.
cause effecting material changes, not
because extending the market for the
products of our factories as claimed by
fits author, but for sentimental reasons
merely, because its passage. being
looked upon by many as the point which
would mark the turning point in bush
ness, would hasten the change of senti-
ment from dependency to hopefulness,
sure to come, indeed, because it was
due, but which could be FASTENED by
humoring those who were so shallow as
TO base their views of business pros
poets on something more substantial
than the change of sentiment which Mr..
Reed declares is all that is needed. And
SO Mr.. Reed led us on to the conclusion
that If the Dingley bill could be secretly
scratched from the statute book and the
Wilson tariff replaced, that the revival
of prosperity would be in no way af-
fected, in no way retarded.-American.