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The morning times., 1897-01-17

emperor sold the territory OF Alaska
to the United States, the sale carried with
it all the privileges and rights in the
waters pertaining thereto that Russia
had maintained in the seas appertaining to
her own territory. ALI Russia's rights
were conveyed TO the United States un-
questionedby any other nation. But twenty
OF the rights of RIssia, then conveyed with
the territory of Alaska, are to be called
in question, and ma de the subject OF arbi-
tratiea. Say to your President, that
Russia is ready to make good any part
of her guarantee. and in any manner
that is needful. The emperor has only
to be notified by America OF what is
called i'll question to take action
Meantime, our government was notified
that the Russian fleet in the North Pa
cific Ocean would rendezv Gus at the
port of vladivostock at the sli ghtest hint
that it might be required. Just that near
we came to q war between Russia and
England, and not more than twenty men
in this country had the least idea OF
the imninence of the danger. But Blaine
was in his last illness. Ten years be-
fore, when he was well, there would
have been no arbitration. Still, though
we got the worst of it, as we always
shall, observe with pleasure, that Canada
has never got one penny OF the sum we
were solemnly decreed TO pay, and it
will never be paid.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

AS Nine. CaTeno has had six husbands
and Lillian Russell only five, it was
quite proper that Miss Russell should can
first.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

The tempest in teapot over Mr.. Dam
rosch's alleged alignment OF Baltimore
among the Phiiistines in re Wagner hav-
ing Gained down, it is in order to suggest
to that apostle OF 1.-The IN Isle Of the future
that the capacity OF Baltimore to grasp
Wagner may be due not so much TO prOvin-
cial culture as to his neglect TO serve beer
with Wagner's music. The wo are insep-
arabic from bibulouS and art standpoint.
Instead of having small boy with a steam
whistle of voice crying photographs and
librettos in the exhausted audience, un-
limited beer might be served by means of
keg under each with a schooner attached
AT the end of Tannhauser," for instance,
after the trombone has been eXpia lining to
the audience the situation and the yio-
Inns open in full cry in pursuit of the mel
ody, while the whole orchestra comes down
with crash like pile of lumber, what
the inner man wants after the soul has
been SO long tossed on a sea of harmony
in cyclone is beer and plenty OF it. We
are also painfully behind here in this
can gradually mellow us into an impress
sionabie and raying condition. Even Mr..
Damrosch's athletic manipulation of the
Wagner baton can infuse that soulful, hun
CRY appreciation which marks your true
Wagnerite, unless the pccolo gives forth a
note promising lager and the clarionette
seconds the motion.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

1t is not to be understood that I take
back anything about Alger that printed
in my book.-Jo oim Sherman.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

"Pshaw, you don't know nnrthin'.- said
little Tommy Toodlemacker, scornfuIIy.
There never was q man with blue
beard
Well" said Susie Heffelfinger, my
papa knows man with lilac whiskers, so
nowi''
The morning times., 1897-01-17

people Of Illinois want Billy Mason for
Senator; and Billy Mason himself thinks
that no Illinois family should be without
him.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

The influence OF the public and the pri-
vate art galleries here is very marked upon
those who have already some taste, hut
not the kind that is cultivated to the point
Of intelligent discrimination. 1t is to be
The morning times., 1897-01-17

The five-cent cigar is still having q fine
run, from which it is to be inferred that
Universal Prosperity has not yet returned.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

II / were able to advise my long lost
brother, Charles Emory, 1 should urge him
to keep out of the Cabinet.-Hoke.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

II this Ohio business keeps on much
longer it is thought that Mr.. Foraker will
ring in q third alarm.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

1t seems to ME as looker-on that Eng
lands colonists in South Africa are pur-
suing a course that will get them into
about the worst Scrape they have ever been
in, if they are not extremely wary. They
are feasting the Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes,
lately premier for that quarter OF South
Africa popularity called Rhudesia. The
home government has declaredthat Rhodes
has been accessory before and after the
fact to an attack on the people OF the
Transvaal. For this offense the Right
Hon. Rhodes is soon to be tried. The men
OF the Transvaal are slow in thought and
action, but they are very dangerous when
they do begin to act They are not pleased
TO see the Right Hen. Cecil Rhodes who
wantonly planned an attack upon them,
and who is so soon to be tried for that crime
treated as a hero by the British nation.
When these Dutch Beers do getangry they
are angry all over, and they have a way
OF shooting withan awfully deadly aim. The
English should have learned this at Matt
Hill, where Sir George Galley was killed
and his force destroyed; at Laipg's Neck,
and other places could name Englands
colonists might better repress their zeal
and enth usiasm, at least until they can
shoot as well as their Boer neighbors can
or course, the defenders OF Mr.. Rh 0tles
and DR.. Jameson aver that there are no
intention of any seifaggrandizement in
their movement to seize the Transvaal and
put it under English rule; that they only
wanted to weld all Southern Africa into
great English empire-one that would
match the Indian empire-to create a
mighty state, OF which Rhodes should be
emperor and king. All this was very fine
and very English. This is the way Eng
land's colonies have been made. The
stealing OF Matabeleland and Beehaana-
land two years ago, a country nearly
as large as continental Europe, and the
murder OF nearly 2,000 of the native
owners of this country, who naturally re-
sisted it's being forcibly taken from them,
was the first step in this gigantic scheme
1t was called Rhodesia, and two-thirds Of
godly England looked on complaisautly
But they struck a tough outfit when they
reached for the Transvaal. The sturdy
Dutch farmers who had won this beauti-
ful country from contending tribes by
their good rifle shooting did not and do
not mean to give it up to English land
stealers without fight. This Is the in
wardness OF the business Holland is not
The morning times., 1897-01-17

BARRIERS will do well to shave with the
grain as m uch as possible.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

Living in flats is comparatively O new
phase of life in Washington, and as
mode is on the increase. All OF the first
class flats are full of people who formerly
kept house. The security, privacy and
freedom (fr ON battles with servants
tradesmen, gas and water eompanies) COM
mend it greatly to women whose pro-
tectors are away, or who are alone in the
world. While it does not offer the dig
nifty Of ones own house and home it has
neither its cares nor its responsibilities
You can simply lock the flat up and go
whenever you wish, certain that when
you return You will find everything Just
as you left it. In a city like Washington,
which has SO large a transient popula-
ton, coming only for the winter andspend-
ing the summer away, the advantages are
decidedly in favor of the flat. Many who
have tried housekeeping for years have
come to the conclusion that flat life is
more convenient. Whether the domestic
virtues and the home feeling flourish un-
der system OF six months in flats here
aud six months of travel or hotel life else.
where, is another question. It depends
largely upon the W omen of ones family.
One woman Will make a flat ideal while
another Will convert it into a prison and
a purgatory. One man will be happy in
a fiat, while another w ould as soon be in
Jail-andso burrows in his club and leaves
his wife alone to her own devices.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

There are still few journalists who
have not visited Cuba as commissioners
extraordinary.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

There are two classes Of society peoDle
who get on in the world. Those who. by
virtue OF birth, position and breeding.
supplemented by wealth, have rank given
them without question or criticism: and
the others are those who, no matter how ILL
bred and low born they are, have wealth
and, by sheer assertion and push. elbow
and force their way even into the most ex-
elusive circles. The SO called .saristo-
cratic" element viii pity, and endure, and
then embrace them We have become n
nation Of hustlers and worshipers of man.
mon. There was a time when gold even
could not sildvulgariCy but that has passed
The hemostoverbearing. .insolentand offensive
people in society are those who came out of
the gutter, from the wash tub d nd the labor
er's ditch. They apply the same methods of
running rough-shod over the poor and re-
spectacle clement which they practice. in
a business way, in grasping their millions.
Their nouns and verbs do not always gree
but their money throws a halo around
their plebeian heads, which fairly transfig-
ures them Disguiseitas wemay, thesocietv
hoboes are a power in the land. while
gentle birth, culture and good manners are
crowded to the wall in the crush of the
world of mammen.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

There was a time in ante-belum days
when the Army and Navy Were considered
by the great untcrrified democracy and the
horny-handed sons of toll ''hot-beds of
aristocracy." But the war changed all
OF that. There are now over one hundred
and thirty army Officers, who have risen
from the ranks, where there were perhaps
half dozen in 1861. West Point was
originally established for the education of
officers, and appointments were made gen
orally from the first families class.
for reelection made more certain by in
augurating the competitive examination
plan, thus lodging their appointments, and
placating voters at the same time. The
result was a revolution in the social per-
sonnel of the cadets. Now a larger pro-
portion of the cadets, army and navy Off
GERS spring from what are impertinently
called the ''plain people" The black
smiths, carpenters, mechanics, tailors, and
SIN all farmers son goes before the
board, gets examined, passes, goes to
West Point or Annapolis, and graduates
along with the sons OF the proudest houses
in the land. Once at either school, the
adnirafs, the generals and the ambaSsa
doris son is ''plucked,' just the same as
the blacksmith son, if found deficient.
Hence, as ''hot-beds OF ariStocracy" the
Army and the Navy are no longer "menac-
ing the liberties of the people, even if
some misguided officers imagine that tire
uniform makes them privileged class.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

Mr.. Fairbanks of Indiana is praised by
the Baltimore American for having had
tno disreputable connection with the
machine politics. Wait till he gets
really into the Senate.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

Here is the gay Philadelphia Press de-
cIaring that Mr.. Platt evidently gave Joe
Choate the frigid mitt.
The morning times., 1897-01-17

DoIltitof lOH, IL.
Francis Murphy tells US, ''If you want
drink take it alone" Is he in favor Of
the bottle, then?
Hon. Harry New has been appointed
champion OF the temperance committee of
the Indiana senate; and this is no joke
No, Anxious Inquirer, you Will not be
likely to find expurgated copies of the
Congressional Record at any of the book
stores.
Farmer Lee Crandall has renewed his
subscription TO The Times (nIorning, even
ing and Sunday) by sending in a 81 900
gold nugget which he picked up on his
Arizona ranch. Thanks, neighbor Gran
dali
AS Nine. Caueno has had six husbands
and Lillian Russell only five, it was
quite proper that Miss Russell should can
first.
Alderma n Madden declares that the
Senator; and Billy Mason himself thinks
that no Illinois family should be without
him.
1t is not to be understood that I take
back anything about Alger that printed
in my book.-Jolm Sherman
II / were able to advise my long lost
brother, Charles Emory, should urge him
to keep out Of the Cabinet.-Hoke.
There are still a few journalists who
have not visited Cuba as commissioners
extraordinary.
Mr.. Fairbanks of Indiana is praised by
the Baltimore American for having had
''no disreputable connection with the
machine politics. Wait till he gets
really into the Senate.
Here is the gay Philadelphia Press de-
claring that Mr.. Platt evidently gave Joe
Choate the frigid mitt.
The fiye-cent cigar is still having fine
run, from which it is to be inferred that
Universal Prosperity has not yet returned.
II this Ohio business keeps on much
longer it is thought that MIR. Foraker will
ring in third alarm.
BARRIERS will do well to shave with the
grain as N uch a. possible.
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gence. Work is resumed and continued
from IL to l. Then dinner is served,
which consists of bread and soup, mix
ed with meat and vegetables, all cook
ed together, and this is also served in
the cell in wooden bowl with wood
en- spoon. From to o'clock each
prisoner is allowed to sit outside her
door in the gallery upon which her cell
opens. and for an hour they are per-
mitted to talk with each other.
But" as Mrs. Maybrick said to a
friend, what can l talk to them about?
They have never read anything, so they
know nothing of the books that I have
read They know nothing of society or
the world to which / once belonged.
They could not understand me, nor do
l know anything of their life, or the
world from which they have come.'
And she might have added, all were
not like the poor friend that served her
so tenderly and loyally-all were not to
be trusted. Many of them ruthlessly
betray their fellow prisoners, who may
be rash enough to confide in them, in
return for which they receive petty IA
vors from the subordinate attendants
1t cannot be believed that there are
many who would resort to such dis
honorable means of keeping themselves
informed as to events transpiring with
in the prison.
Work is resumed after association"
as this hour of conversation is termed,
until supper time, and at o'clock the
prisoners are locked in their cells.
These are in semitwilight-the only
light being from the gas jets in the
ends of the corridor. not enough to en-
able the women to read or work. This
seems a hardship, and the hours must
pass heavily and YEARLY, with MOTH
ing to do but to think. 1t might al
most drive the sane to madness.
There is a religious service in the
chapel at Aylesbury every morning at
S o'clock and on Sunday at 10 and at 8.
The prison is most fortunate in hav-
ing as a chaplain Rev. John Knight
Newton, a man of genuine Christianity,
deeply interested in both the physical
and spiritual welfare of his unhappy
charges. 1t too often happens that the
men assigned to these difficult posts,
with all their profession and their out
ward regard for the forms of religion,
have hearts of flint and are as destitute
of any real feeling as blocks of stone,
but to this class Mr.. Newton assuredly
does not belong.
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that every dollar given will be spent
To make some stage child happy.
Aunt Louisa knows more pretty girls
than a millionaire duke and she's as
much interested in the love affair Of
little Miss Soprano as if she hadn't lis
tened to these stories of true love year
in and year out. And she gives good
advice, does Aunt Louisa. But, alas:
The pretty girls don't always take it,
Or course dainty Miss Soprano marries
the handsomeIeyoung actor, but Aunt
Louisa, who Knows SO much of life, Is
yet as ready to sympathize and to help
is If life and she We're strangers when
she hears that the faithless man has
discovered that an English girl is more
TOMS liking, and poor little Soprano liz
alone in an actprs' boarding house, with
out money and helpless because she
must take caresof the baby. Then Aunt
Louisa grows busy. In some mysteri-
Gus way she gets the money to pay the
board for the two wretched ones. She
finds layout, if not layette, for the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

hit upon male attire and the stone pile
as a punishment for women criminals.
The rules are stringent and severe,
strict obedience being exaeted of ne
cessity from all who are in health-the
latter point being decided by the prison
surgeons, who are usually excellent
men-those at Aylesbury being espe-
cially humane, sympathetic and atten-
tive.
The prisoners rise at 6 O'Clock and are
served with bread and cocoa in their
cells. Butter and milk are not sup
piled, and there are. it seems, no
holidays, as Is customary in Amer
lean prisons, when a variation in the
fare is allowed. Breakfast over they
work alone in their cells-ythose not as
signed to the kitchen or laundry-untiI
IL o'clock, when they walk In the yard.
three and three, until noon. This en-
forced exercise, with the lowest and
most hardened criminals, must have
been peculiarly painful to a woman of
Mrs. Maybrick's refinement and intelli-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

thus, but she mended her clothes,
washed and ironed the muslin caps
which arc part of the prison uniform,
and rendered her every service that a
faithful and loving friend could render,
ignorant. degraded and criminal though
she was: 1t is Il commentary on that
cruel and mischievous fallacy. "a bad
woman is worse than bad man." 1t
is pleasant TO know that when she was
discharged, half naked and penniless,
this woman was gratefully cared for
by friends of Mrs. Maybrick in Eng
land
The management of the prisons for
women in England is very different
from those for men. For one thing,
women convicts are not now required to
wear a distinctive prison garb, or at
least mono that would tend to lessen
their self respect. An appeal, and a
wise one, has been made to this charac-
terisitic, and they are spared the cam
vas suits stamped with the broad ar
row which constitute the uniform of
naale prisoners in Pentonville and else
| where. II has remained for the genius
| of Kansas City common council to
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17
Bah Writes About
Dear "Aunt Louisa. y

graphed 10 Aunt Louisa for money to
get home. In half an hour the man
with the play was making some eorrec-
tons. Aunt Louisa was up to her belt
In a huge trunk and | was helping her
find costume for the Puff-and Powder
girl. who had gone off for rehearsal.
A few minutes later an old time act
ora very old lime one, since his legs
were distinctly bad and his back de-
cidedly queei-eame in and after sra-
eous good morning" all around, said
he'd like to speak to Aunt Louisa alone
for q few minutes. We all know what
that means. He's getting a little money.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17
Hope Comes Again
To Mrs. Maybrick.

truth of Which cannot be questioned.
At one of the prisons there was a con-
Wet in The cell next to hers who had
been assigned the care of the rooms of
the women attendants. The meals of
these attendants were served in their
rooms, and from the trays the poor
creature removed every scrap of food
that could be carried away, bits of
bread, chicken and beef, and these
were conveyed to Mrs. Maybrick's cell
and she was forced to eat. She was
then in falling health and unable to
take the coarse prison fare. Not only
ala The Woman convict befriend her
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

MANY PLUMES.

There are plumes and plumes on the
new hats, and they droop in most pic
turesque manner. There are gray
plumes on dark blue velvet hats, white
plumes on delicate gray hats and black
-plumes on all sorts and kinds and con-
ditions of hats. 1t looks as if the os-
triches would not have a feather to
their backs this winter. But they Will
be kept in countenance by an army Of
wingless birds. All the hats which do
not have plumes have wings or an oc-
casional whole bird-some as big as
hens. The few remaining hats, plume
less and wingless, are decked in plaid
ribbons. But plaid hat trimmings are
doubtful. In bright color they cheaper
almost everything on which they APP
pear.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

Here is a pretty dress of tan covert
coating, lined with black satin, es.s:ls
seam piped in the same nlatesilli taae
skirt Of which, cut in the iotest .r@ian-
ner. is quite fiat about the waist, back
and front, spreading into very wide cir
conference below the hips. This is a
very smart and capital dress for rainy
weather.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

baby, and arranges that until the
mother grows stronger, they are to be
together; and then a situation is to be
got for the mother, while the baby goes
off to the country TO get fresh air, good
milk and kindly care.
Aunt Louisa has an address book that
is marvellous. She knows more kind
people, and she is ready to excuse more
unilnd people than any woman of my
acquaintance. She is quick with joke.
but she wouldn't hurt the feelings of
the most forlorn creature that ever
lived. | often wonder, when 1 look at
her, what in the world she Will find to
do in heaven, for she's going there
straight. Aunt Louisa has had her
purgatory here in shouldering the woes
of other women. ldleness will never
suit her. Consequently unless there is
some special arrangement by which she
can look after the angels with aspira-
tons toward the .histrionic, I don't
know what will become of her. Her
weaknosses-sh only has two-are at
tending auctions and buying flowers for
funerals. Mary Fiske once declared
that she read bill from a florist that
was worded in this fashion,:
MRS. LOUISA ELDRIDGE TO BULBUs
GRAFT, DIR.
Crown, t"Ta-ta. Maria "...s............s 3 90
Cross. sR. /. p" Crest In peace).... ~
] Pillow. IS Y. L." (See You later)... 90
Stand of fowersto steamship. ....... 10 D,
cornncopia with flag. ................... ~
l Crown, 80 Long .................... 8 90
l Pillow. '.G. P.'' tGrandpa): l Cross,
"P A. l." PLANTED at last ......... 10 80 .
So %
Received payment,
Il. GRAFT.
OF course I can't vouch for this bill,
but 1 think it possible. Aunt Louisa's
strongest emotion is her patriotism.
When she saw the queen at the time Of
The jubilee she saluted her by waving
the American flag at her, and some
people. frivolous people, do not hesitate
to say that the queen winked in recog-
milton. Aunt Louisa believes that this
is the greatest country in the world,
that it's fine to be an American. and.
While She is civil to the English, she
doesn't forget that little affair of a fsw
years ago when our fighting forefathers
appreciated the fit of the backs If their
red coats.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17
HAS TWELVE DREssMAKERs.

1t IS well known that the German en-
press is an ideal housekeeper as well as
an ideal wife and mother. Her dread OF
waste goes so far that the suits of her
elder children are cut down to fit the
younger boys and her own court dresses
are altered again and again, SO as not
to be recognized when they are worn at
any court functions. Yet it, is also re-
ported that an army of ~ dressmalSers
is always at work for the empress and
that 1t is increased to over 80 whenever
the empress is about to start on jour-
sney. New gowns would, after all, be
less expensive. since the great Berlin
artist In dresses who makes the court
costumes for her majesty charges only
about SIS for making a gown of state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

In France about 12o years ago 1t was
the fashion for mothers and their little
girls to dress exactly alike.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17

"A return froma dusty trip or a ride in
the wind should be followed by hot
rather than cold bath. The escaping
steam induces perspiration. and the ko'
water washes out the fine dust.