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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
MEMS Els.
what Some Men Spend for Footwear in tho
Course OF o Year.

what Some Men Spend for Footwear In the
Course or q Year.
The great majority of men nowadays VICAR
ready-made.shoes. and tho proportion of men
that do so is steadily increasing. There are
plenty of rich men who buy ready-made shoes.
There are some who have shoes made for
them at a cost Of from $3.50 to $15 a pair for
walking or dress, and buy ten or twelve pairs
In q year.
Such men would have for street wear q pair
of all patent leather walking boots, either lace
or button, the soles heavy and of extra width,
or boots.of all enamel leather, laced. For dress
they would have light ali patent leather button
boots. Some men wear for dress patent
leather Oxford ties. These would cost. made to
oruer by the same maker, $40. A man of ex-
IRENE fashion would wear patent leather
pumps. An older man might wear for a dress
boot a silk top patent leather congress.
For winter wear in slush or snow the man
tan oiled grain leather boots with double ex-
might buy Syies doubl eesS Te cali b eSs. @ OF cor K
sSied boots: lie might wear In summer low
spring and fall boots:of brown leather.
II no were q sportsman, he would have shoot
Ing boots OF heavy black or tan grain leather.
he would have golf shoes Of heavy tan grain
leather. costing from SIS to $ls q pair. OK.
thu, golf player. These cost from $40 to $i4.
For riding he would have CATERS of patent
leather, creole style, or all patent leather con-
gress boots with no scam in front. These
would cost from $14 to $lS a pair, SlS being
the price with spurs and boxes fol, them in the
heels. For riding or polo no would have boots
OF patent or black enamelled leather. or Of
some shade of brown caitskin or of tan Rus
sia leather. Riding boots Aro made In Two
styles, with stiff legs and half-stin legs. The
boots with h~alf-stiff legs have a few wrinkles
where the leg and foot join. The patent
leather boots are worn more for parade. Brown
boots are more worn In summer. A man may
buy one, two, or three pairs of riding boots in u
year. When not worn, riding boots are always
kept on trees. Riding boots cost from $25 to
$50 a pair.
The men who wear shoes of this kind fire.
guently buy, of such as are commonly worn. as,
for instance walking boots, two pairs at u time.
They never wear the same boots two days in
succession. When not worn the boots ARE kept
on trees. Two pairs OF shoes worn and cared
for in this way will last as long as three pairs
worn each pair continuously. besides keeping
their shape and looking better. Tho men who
arc here specially referred to never have their
shoes repaired. They don't wear them to that
age. They might have tho heels of o pair OF
boots Strengthened, but that would be some.
thing unusual, and as a rule they never wear the
eoles through. When the shoes begin to show
signs of wear they are discarded.
The men who buy shoes OF this sort spend
yearly for footwear Sl5O and 200 and more.
They include men in various parts of the coun,
try who come To New York for their shoes just
as they do for their clothes, and shirts, ana Other
articles OF wear.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
OUT OF THE FIR z.
Ono Horse That Was Not Pnnic-strichen When
His Master Wont to Rescue HIN.

His Master Wont to Rescue Him.
From tho Youths Com pdnton.
The common belief that horses in a burning
building are always panic stricken and refrao-
tory, not recognizing their friends and refusing
not strictly true, as is proved by an Incident re-
lated by n Compdnion contributor,
The Governor had a fine black driving horse
called Dexter. Although strong and spirited,
Dexter was docile and .obedient. and was petted
and made much Of by his master. AZ the Coy.
ernor kept no other horse, Dexter had the stable
all to himself, with q clean stall and q full
ton to Dexters stall and harness room. con-
tanned a large carriage room. an oat bin, and .
d 9 night, when the family and the servants
were away from home and the Governor was In
Ins h eraell hnSn and he a S brish Hw slSre on z Si sn eh om,.
her window. and before he could collect his
sleepy wits he was startled by a cry unlike any,
window, he learned th cause. The stable was
ter was calling his master to his rescue.
Pausing only TO don coat and slipper, the
stable leading into the stall was already blocked
by the flames. and the only entrance to be had
room. and a narrow entry leading past the oas
bin. These rooms w're on fire overhead, and
burning wisps of hay and shingles were raining
along the rosundabout way. and. reaching the
Sbuii oOL tuhtA II OApOSbSh LSA hoNuAouk
down the steps against the excited animal. who
was vainly Juggling at his halter. Thinking
some new danger thr atened him, Dexter gave a
mighty kick that sent his master sprawling and
famed him for a month.
whoa. Dexterf" shouted the Governor.
Don't you know me, siri Steady now, old fol.
low, and We'll get out Of this
Recognizing his masters voice, Dexter turned
his head toward the PROSTATE man and uttered
a coaxing whinny quite unlike his previous loud
kicks, the Governor crept up and cut the halter,
and calling Dexter to follow him. limped blindly
through the smoke-filed entry and the two blaz-
ing rooms beyond. And close after him went
Dexter, his nose pressed against his masters
shoulder, man and horse reaching the safe outer
air together.
ut was Dexter's obedience that saved him."
said the Governor. II could not lead him. and
had he shown the least obstinacy or any less
readiness to follow at q word through all that
roundabout, unaccustomed way. must have left
him to perish in the flames. But he followed
like a well-trained soldier. and we escaped from
our burning. fiery furnace almost as afely az
Shadrach. Meshach. and Abednego did from
theirs"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
SHOPS NOT FOR SAL ES.
Chinese Merchants Discourage the Patronage
OF Americans.

Chinese Merchants Discourage the Patronage
OF Americans.
Tho worst statesmen in New York are the
Chinese whose shops are in Dovers and Mott
streets, whose windows are filled with Chi
nese handiwork as q bid for tho curious to
enter. When a would-be purchaser once gets
inside a shop tho proprietor treats him as an
intruder. Most of these shops are modelled on
the same plan. Near the door is a little boxlike
office, and from this extends a counter half the
length of tho store. The back Of the store Is
shut off by a board partition, and IL the
visitor is curious and pokes his head around
it q Chinaman is very likely to appear
from the darkness and gently push him toward
to entertain a few friends back there it is no
ones business, and he doesn't propose to have
intruders get any idea of what sort of entertain
mont he may be furnishing. The dull, heavy
Il Ha Dos ahSt n To K moss OF pre snss scc nsr.s SgG ns to m shss
is going on behind the partition. Each shop has
about the same collection, Of wares; Chinese
edibles fill the shelves, and In the windows are
brightly, colored Chinese vases. bowls. fans.
children's toys. and occasionally a piece
for carved ivory in Chinatown. and the small
dealers say that It is too expensive to carry In
Of ei0 these shops is greeted BY the proprietor q with ID
an Indifferent Hello" and a perfectly expires.
sionless face, The proprietor stands behind the
counter. but he isn't anxious to sell his goods.
Have you any carved ivory = asks the
customer.
The Chinaman stares at him suspioiously and
answers:
mo. No ivly. No got"
There are three pieces in the case behind him.
and the customer points them out The China
man turns and looks at them as II he had never
seen them before.
Let me see them r asks the customer.
want to buy T. says the Chinaman. still
without interest.
The customer mods. and the ~shopkeeper goes
nVnr Tn talk tn n (hinnman who h az inst cnnR in
Incidentally he looks at the customers shoes
to see If they have the heavy solos and the
square-cut toes which stamp the wardman. II
his conversation with the other Chinaman
proves uninterestinR he will come back to his
customer and eye him suspiciously. He may
even be persuaded to take the worries out of the
case and tell their prices. He shows no interest
In 1t and II apparently doesn't occur to him that
1t is his business to sell his wares.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
Il HERD OF WHITE DEER.
Tho Extraordinary Sight Reported by n SPORTS
men from Newport In Maine.

KINGMAN, Me-. Nov. ia herd OF white deer
was seen near here afcw days ago, and every
hu ter for twenty miles around is now trying
TO get one OF the animals. The herd was first
seen by a Newport sportsman. For awhile he
was so bewildered that he did not know what
to do. for II may be that no man before him
in the Maine woods. He succeeded in killing "a
big white buck weighing about 225 pounds, and
he lett ON the next train for homo, after having
MS white as snow. There was n patch OF brown
hair on his right side near the rump. When the
man arrived In Bangor he met a ta~Xidermlst,
who bought the deer at "a handsome price; The
taxidermist says that he has mounted only one
man, who wanted It to present to the British
Museum.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
Pale Face Nuarrles AN Iad,an BELLE.
From the 81. Louis Globe. Democrat.

CLAREMONT. |. T., Nov. lG-J. Leonard Conner.
ormeTly of Kansas City, and Miss Mary Nc
Lellan Of this city were married this evening at
of 1ahlequnh officiating. The marriage WAS
attended by 300 OF the most distinguished people
OF the Cherokee Nation, The bride Is a Cherokee
farmer and stockman. The groom 10 a SON OF a
prominent citizen OF Kansas City. and 10 as
slstant cashier of tho First National Bank In
this city. Mr.. and Mrs. Conner departed tonight
Tor KanAAa City, and will visit LaAtern cIties.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
Caught a Dove with a whip Lash.
From the Batte Times.

While Isaiah King was driving on Elm street
this morning his whip lash caught a dove around
one of its wings and the fiuttering bird then
caused the lash TO curl around the drivers neck.
1t was necessary to cut the lash in order to clear
the dove. WEIGH was taken homo a captive
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
Stout People

should use MERoK's SAcoHA-
Rim TABLETS, the Faultless
Sweetener, and not Sugar, in
sweetening their food and
drink. Sugar makes them
stouter. MERCK's SAoCHAR1N
TABLETS do not. They are
over 100 times sweeter than
the sweetest sugar. Trythem.
Merck's saccharin Tablets como in bottles at aSe.
100 and 9l.75 q bottle.
AT ALL
Froe Samples may be had At the Merck Pharmacy
University place. corner 9Th st.. New York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13
The Fall silver.

The fall in the price of silver is not in
the least strange, for that price is regulated
by the supply OF silver available and the
demand for it. In recent years the supply
of silver has been vastly increased by an
immense production and at the same time
the world has gradually been settling it,
self upon a gold foundation and conse-
quently there is not so great a demand for
the silver that is mined. Then, too, much
of the silver now produced is a bi-product
Of copper, gold or lead mines and as such
can be sold more cheaply by the producers,
everything they receive for this bi-product
being pure profit. Then, too, there is
big surplus of silver. With the market
for silver materially reduced by the with
drawal of the United States from the mar
ket silver naturally declined in price and
when the Indian mints were closed the de-
cline became more marked. Since that
time Japan and Chill have gone upon a
gold basis and Russia and Austria have
practically done the same thing.
Silver has recently touched price which
makes the metal in a silver dollar worth
only ~ cents. The price tluctuates some
what, but careful experts expect TO see the
decline continue, and Mr. Preston, the di-
rector of the mint, believes that within a
year the metal III silver dollar VIII be
worth no more than IS cents.
This fall in the value of the metal that
is regarded by the silverites as suitable to
be coined with the same freedom as gold
at the ratio of 10 to l, which they deem to
be God given ratio, settles the silver
question, for it is drop that cannot be
| overcome. Legislation will not advance
the price of silver aud an international
! Co. ell, =
likely, particularly as the maintenance of
the parity between gold and silver at any
ratio that might now be agreed upon, would
be a difficult and costly matter for those
involved in the attempt. The increasing
production of gold aids in settling the ques-
ton, for it is giving an ample supply of
the metal which of all others seems to be
the most stable, so silver following copper
is soon to be relegated to the rear as a
money metal, save in a subsidiary sense.
-Sprinqfeld Union.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13

great frankness of his action, sustained by
the Republican majority, in not allowing
the House to take up the work of general
legislation during the long wait while the
tariff bill was in the Senate. These were
the reasons for his course:
"Legslation was impossible The two
Houses were radically opposed. Nobody
can name a single public question on which
they were or are in accord. Business there
fore would be impossible, and nothing
could come of il except a stirring up of the
country with crude propositions which, as
they could not become law, would be un-
dertaken with no proper sense of RESPONSE
biity and discussed solely on academic and
political bases. What the country wanted
was tariff and rest. Hence any mere
discussions would have but confused this
simple issue and prevented the operation
of public sentiment on the Senate. We,
therefore, resisted all attempts to confuse
the people and held the issue up before
the whole community, with the result that
the popular will has not been thwarted."
There is no doubt that the speaker was
right in this course. Notwithstanding all
drawbacks and imperfections Mr.. Reed
looks to see confidence now revive and
prosperity return:
"If the world begins to work together
again with hope and some fruition, as it
always has after such periods as the one
we are now in, we may not only again
astonish the earth by our vast production,
but also give a greater measure of pros
perity and leisure to all who toll.
1--WE have learned at least one lesson
worth all the suffering, and that is that the
great problem is not prices, but the EN-
ployment of all our people. There is but
one standard of real prosperity, and that is
the whole nation at work"
These closing words are worth making a
note of and laying away in a corner OF
ones mind to be called to remembrance
now and again in the days to come.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13

esis of Louisiana are at stake, when the
conditions are such that the peoples inter
ests must be sacrificed, or my personal in
terests and political ambition. | will will
ingly give up all hope and expectation of
future preferment and follow line of ac-
tion that will bring prosperity to Louis
lana"
The position of Senator McEnery was
perfectly consistent and tenable. He did
not try to get protection for the products
and industries of his own state and then
vote against the bill as whole. On the
contrary he voted for protection as a po-
litical principle, granting to other sections
the same benefits which he asked for his
own. The meeting adopted resolutions of
confidence in the Senator, endorsing his
action and supporting his tariff position.
This event appears to have attracted less
attention from the Northern papers than
its importance deserves. In one of the
strongholds of Democracy it sets at def
ance the doctrines of the free traders, and
endorses in the strongest and most en-
phatic and public way the doctrine of pro-
lection as a principle of political economy.
And this, Senator McEnery says, is also a
principle of true Democracy, from the
fathers down. 1t is another break of the
right kind in the solid South.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13
HENRY A. GAME.

Henry A. Cane, a retired Boston mer-
chant, held in high esteem for his sterling
character and admirable personal qualities,
died at his home in West Newton, Mass,
Monday, aged So years Mr.. Cane was a
native of England and learned in that
country the trade of a bookbnder, serving
the term Of seven years apprenticeship
which the custom of that country requires.
At u he came to this country, going first
to New Haven, Conn, but coming soon
after to work at his trade for Holbrook d
Fessenden and the Topographic company
which was then carrying on a large book
publishing business in BrattleborO. Mr..
Cane left Brattleboro about the year 1S40
going soon after to Boston, where he estab-
lished himself as a bookbinder on Corn
hill, building up large business. Seven
years later he opened a store for the whole
sale trade in bookbinders' supplies, devel-
oping business which made him one of
the wealthy men of the city. In due time
his two sons became associated with him
in the business and branch houses were
established in New York, Chicago and st.
Louis. About 20 years ago Mr.. Cane re-
tired from active business and has since
lived life of happy leisure upon his hand
some estate in West Newton. lie devoted
himself mainly to Horticulture, with the
growing of chrysanthemums as a special
ty. In this specially he gained wide re-
pute and took prizes at the leading exhi-
billions in the country. His beautiful
grounds and his greenhouses were always
open for the enjoyment of his friends.
While living in Brattleboro Mr.. Cane
married Emily, the ninth child of James
Esterbrook, of whose family of twelve
children Mrs William Bullock and George
Esterbrook of this village are now the only
survivors. Mrs. Cane died some five or
SIX years ago. Two of their three children
were born in Brattleboro. The older of
the two sons now lives in Chicago and the
younger in New York. The daughter is
now Mrs. Jerome Jones of New York.
Her first husband was William Henry
Dutton of the Boston Transcript, through
whom she inherited large interest in that
paper
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13
The Pirate VS.. the Pessimist.
From The Confession of Lover of Romance
in the August Atlantic

From THE Confession of a Lover of Romance"
in the August Atlantic
After perusal of the book "The Pi-
rates Own Book" am inclined to think
that pirate may be better person to
read about than some persons who stand
higher in the moral scale. Compare, if
you will, a pirate and a pessmist. AS a
citizen and neighbor | should prefer the
pessimist. A pessimst is an excellent and
highly educated gentleman, who has been
so unfortunate as to be born into world
which is inadequate to his expectations.
Naturally he feels that he has a grievance,
and in airing his grievance he makes him
self unpopular; but it is certainly not his
fault that the universe is no better than it
is. On the other hand, a pirate is bad
character; yet as a subject of biography
he is more inspiring than the pessimist
In one case, we have the impression of one
good man in totally depraved world; in
the other case, we have totally depraved
man in what but for him would be very
good world. l know of nothing that gives
one more genial appreciation of average
human nature, or greater tolerance for
the foibles of ones acquaintances, than
the contrast with an unmitigated pirate.
Not only is a pirate more comfortable
person to read about than a pessmist, but
in many respects he is a more comfortable
person to read about than philanthropist.
The minute the philanthrOpist is intro
duced, the author begins to show his own
cleverness by discovering flaws in his mo-
tives. You begin to see that the poor man
has his limitations. Perhaps his philan-
thropies are OF a different kind from yours,
and that irritates you. Musical people.
whom have heard criticise other musical
people, seem more offended when some one
fats just little than when he makes big
ear-splitting discord; and moralists are apt
to have the same fastidiousness. The phil
anthropist is made the victim of the most
cruel kind of vivisection-a character
study.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13
Vermont Fire Losses to July 1.

l.. S. Hayes of Bellows Falls, the insur-
ance adjuster and expert, has completed
his record and tabulation of the fire losses
in this state for the first half of the current
year. 1t makes favorable showing, both
by itself and in comparison with the same
period in the years 1895 and 1896 In
point of fact the total loss by fire in Yer
mont from January to July this year was
probably much less than for the same period
in any recent year, or for many years. The
number of fires was HI; the property loss
was S253, ,4S7, and the insurance paid
S155, ,0G7. This is the record by months
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13
Thomas IL. Reed on the Tariff.

Speaker Thomas b. Reeds opinion of
the new tariff and its passage through Con-
gress, expressed by him in an article con-
tributed to the Illustrated American, is in
teresting. The views of no man in the
country could be more so. He says frank
ly that the new law is not ideal, but:
Notwithstanding the exasperating de-
lays and the five months, mostly wasted,
spent on a piece of public business which
every practical man will say might have
been finished, under proper conditions, in
two months with all the additions to the
sum of human knowledge which we now
have, the country has yet great reason to
congratulate itself upon what has been,
upon the whole, happy and unexpected
deliverance."
The situation was difficult, because,
while this country is ruled by parties,
neither party is in full control of the gov
ernment 1t was easy enough to pass a
tariff bill through the House, but when it
got into the Senate trouble began. Had
the Senate also been Republican, with a
commanding majority, the act would have
been better and more in conformity with
the wishes of the country. Mr.. Reed S
judgment of the law as finally enacted is
that it is not so good as the original bill as
it came from the Dingley committee and
was passed by the House; and it does not
so nearly represent the sentiment of the
Republican party as did that bill. "Never,
theless, the bill as a whole is better thar
we had right to expect with party politics
in the Senate in the condition which actu
ally existed"
In the same article Mr.. Reed speaks will
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-13

1t is proposed TO resume work on the
Hudson river tunnel aud carry it to COM
pletion. The tunnel was begun in 1874.
Work was suspended upon it in 1892,
owing to lack of funds. At that time 81, =
600, 900 had been spent, and 3916 feet had
been eXcavated eastward from the jersey
City terminal and ITO feet westward from
the New York shaft. Less than 400 feet
remain to be dug, and it is estimated that
an expenditure of 81, 800, 900 will complete
the work. 1t will take about year at a
rate of progress of four feet day.
Secretary Gage has issued an order put
ting into operation in his department Pres
ident McKinley's rule against arbitrary re-
movals of employees. Supervising officers
who desire TO secure the removal of an en-
ploye must serve written charges on the
accused, who has three days from their re-
ceipt in which to file his defence. Final
decision will be made by the department
to which all the documents will be referred
There are nearly $4,000 employees of the
treasury in the classified service who are
safeguarded by the Presidents order.
Rowland E. Robinson, the Vermont
writer, is the author of many graphic
stories, but one of the most dramatic which
has come from his pen appears in the Aug
ust Atlantic. He calls it "Out of Bond
age" and 1t is the story of a fugitive
slave.