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The morning times., 1897-03-07

IL is pleasant to read that Secretary
Herbert is going to open a law office here,
and that his practice will be before
Congressional committees, the departments
and the local courts" 1t is also added
by way OF launching the Secretary of the
Navy more smoothly into the Delaware
River of his new buSiness-notice the deli
cate touches in these metapho hors-that Mr..
Herbert enjoys u large public acquaint-
ance.
Now, this advice that is coming is purely
gratuitous, and it is hereby withdrawn if
it is not perfectly satisfactory to all our
readers. Have the Cramps thought of re-
taing Mr.. Herbert? And has Mr.. Carnegie
realized what valuable service an ex-Sec-
retary Of the Navy would perform for him,
in and out OF Congress, in and out of the
departments, and in and out of Washington.
My advice to Hon Charles Hercules Cramp
is that he retain Mr. Herbert at
once. 1t will give his representation here
dignity and information. Similarly, Hon
Andrew Carnegie ought to arrange with
Mr.. Herbert to present before Congress
sional committees and in the departments
his numerous blowbole interests, Mr.. Her
bert, rs Secretary OF the Navy, pointed out
not long ago that Mr. Carnegie was get
ting so or 60 per cent too much for his
blowholes; but Mr.. Herbert was then pub
lie officer
Under the operation Of the law, which
necessarily provides that when a new Sec
retary of the Navy goes in an old one goes
out, the time will soon arrive when Mr..
Herbert VIII not be an officer of the gov
ernment. Hence, he Will not be prejudiced,
and he wllnot need to be prejudicedagainst
any struggling infant industry at Pitts
burg.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

one Of the prettieSt and wisest things
hir- Lee says IS: Nothing is more un-
critical IN the so-Called critical temper
than its prejudice against power Living
rs we are in a tired world, conceived in
WEAKNESS, and born in pain, driven and
dragged and worried into the hearing OF
burdens We cannot bear and straining
at ideals we cannot reach, il there is
man anywhere on Gods foOtsJool. in any
walk OflIfe. mo has too much of something,
who is rested enough to he held down, VINO
has a habit Of dropping absentmindedly
into too much strenth, for the love of
Hercules. comrades, tell rs who he is and
where is his abiding place, that we may
abandon our tools, our embroidery and
criticism. our hewing of wood and drawing
OF water and splitting of hairs, and go
and look in his face and hear his voice and
rest
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Platt wouldn't make him the nominee for
governor, When there was chance for the
nominee to he elected; for OF course Mr.
Reid is old enough in political crime if not
in years, to know that there are plenty OF
patriots, who can have chance to try
for anything in the wide world when there
is no chance of getting it. AS matter Of
fact, Mr.. Platt believed that critical
situation demanded the nomination of Levi
+. Morton for the goyernorship tie dis
tinctly thought that Mr. Reid wouldn't do.
Hence MIR. Reds lachrymorse condition in
these last several more or less bitter
months.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Ethel Reed is the most conspicuous con
Book Miss Reed is an American girl,
and the British recognition Of transatlantic
talent 5 most gratifying. The cover de-
sign, the title page, and four full page
drawings are from this artist : pen They
are all characterized by the familiar at
tributes of Miss Reeds pictures, and each
stands well the comparison with her other
work
The literature OF the Yellow Book dis
closes some PrJminent contemporary
There are two prose fancies by the new
literary BeneGicE, Richard lie Gallienne;
William watson contributes an unrhyned
poem of four ltne staHZas OF unusual meter,
but diSpla wing several beautiful idea 5; Henry
James has in some interesting COnsidera-
tions on Alfred De MusSet and George Sand,
suggested by some recent documents; Henry
Haiand and Kenneth Grahane are other
names which arrest the eye as 1t travels
down tie table or contents. | read over a
great deal OF text contributed by authors
OF whom little or nothing il heard, and
readers OF taste and dlScernnent Will
unite ID ny belief that the contents OF this
publication in its rutiretyis as credit able to
tie Judgment orthe cdit3r asiti is promising
for the future celebrity OF the contributors.
The appearance OF American names among
the conirbutDrsi duu:Btiess 10 be assigned,
at least Indirectly, TO Mr.. Lanes more in
tinIais ASSOCIATION with our market and our
trade
The morning times., 1897-03-07

] hear that A. T.. Buck will be in the Nc
kinney administ ration the undisputed
bosSof Georgia. Col. .Buckresisted theefforts
OF the Reed and Allison and Morton men
to make any considerable inIoads into the
Georgia delegation 10 the st. Louis cCnven-
tion, aud preserved the whole thing prac-
tically intact for Mckinley. In South
CaTolinaN a practically similar condition
exists. There T.. A. Webster, a former
New Englander like Col Buck, resisted
all efforts 10 send an uninstruCted delega-
tion to st Louis, but came out early for
Mckinley, and staid with him 10 the end.
Webster had been for several years the
chief Republican leader in the State though
he had had TO encounter now ana then
considerable opposition, which, however,
hc always managed, one way or another,
to overthrow. This early advocacy Of Nc
Kinlcy, together with has position Is mem
Der OF the Republican committee br South
Carolina, makes him not only close to this
particular administration which happens
TO be in, but the regular authoritative head
or his party. You can't always tell about
the politics OF these Southern States, but
| should think that Buck ana Webster We're
about as strongly entrenched as ever two
Southern leaders We're.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

The most prominent cOntributiOn n TO
child literature last week was book pub
IiShed 10y the Harpers, I'm the Old Her
nick House" by Ellen Douglas Deland.
Mrs Deland is known in the world Of
Juvenile readers as the author OF Oak
leigh. - Malvern" and several other sto-
Ties. The present book is q collection
of three stories, not so long as are usually
consigned each u a single volume, yet
sufficiently long 10 stimulate a strong in
tereSt and sustain il through several chap
tiers The first Of the three stories is the
one which gives its name 10 the volume,
"Atthe Cameron : is the second. and ''The
Little Red Book j. the last. In each OF
them young pcopic-cirlS eSpecially-wilI
find wholesome narratives, which. with
out intoxicating virtue by preaching, point
a moral 10y the example OF tie amusing
and interesting people OF the stories. The
lesson is given none the less forcibly by
shielding the point, for Inference is often
more direct than any other means.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

'.GoI's Failures seems a lIasphemous
name o give the title page Of a took. But
Co.'s failuGcs are G1 II ans making. Per
haps that'sthc rea son forit. J.s Fletcher,
wi.o wrote The Wonderful Wapentakc"
aud Life in Arcadia is the author OF
"Goi's Failures" The significant appro-
pria1eness Of Tie title is manifest after
observation-disclosures sketches which il overs.
They recite the tragedy in the lives of as
many perverted humans who have gone
at a tangent o the righteousness of nature
and Goi. Each sketch j. a little tragedy
and in It's way each is a nasterful little
recital OF tile burning facus. Mr.. Fletcher
displays a vigorous strength, inferential
and dcuo-ed, IN tie piGt-iilacing as well a $
character working Of his stories.
In the first Of them, The Light o.
Love" there is told how girl turns from
the knowledge of evil to the memory and
tasting OF former puriGeS is Scornfully re-
1ectcd by old associates. 1t is bitter, heart
breaking and tragic as the girl sturnbles
over the Rough ground away in the dark
hess. Yet, what if she had remained?
'-The Pric, OF Confession" and The Beat
ifiC Vision" are two other subtle and sen
tient sketches. Iat'Irir entirety these strong
bits viii add materially 10 the already
cresccaut regard in which Mir. Fletcher is
held by conservative appreciation. Though
he has chosen tu traverse the dark and
tangled paths Of .ifc. where detection and
TeTnorse are Inevitable. his resultant il not
repeliiug. aHd the bJpS i pat aside rull OF
grateful memory of the fine contents
hf. Fletcher writes not alone with real
istic Jruth, but with simple sympathy
winch ailays the rrpuEnance usually stimu-
lated by more harsh and less discreet pes
enUatinnS 81 mans, rather t.ial tfud's, !aiI-
ureS John Lane is Mr.. FIctcher's Mc,ac-
uaS
The morning times., 1897-03-07

The same fascina tiOn which makes
players and cir Gus people objects OF
especial interest TO US i'm real life, T.
taches itself to the actors in fiction. A
novel about the stage or a romance OF
the circus is always sure Of a respectable
amount of attention as soon as it ap-
pea RS 1t stands an excellent chance
OF success A man or woman. mere
man or woman as distinguished from
actors whom public simplicity has elected
to he men and women extraordinary, is
commonplace Either OF them may be
found among our own circle at any time,
Out the players and circus people are
circumscribed by a circle within which
one may only look from without.
John ID. Barry probably counted on this
when he wrote "Madamoiselle Blanche"
Blanche was anacrobat. A beautiful young
girl, who made wonderful dive from the
trapeZe. She becomes fascinating figure
at once We love 10 read about her, any
little insight into her method OF performing,
her rule of lie and her passions or preju-
dices. In fact, Mr.. Barry has played the
same trick upon his reader that fate played
upon jules l.. Baron jules was q young
Partisan who wandered one night to the
The morning times., 1897-03-07

The proposed Francis Scott Key monu-
mcnt at Frederick, Nd, will become "A
reality before June IA, 1898, when it
VIII be unveiled. The committee having
the matter in charge has accepted the de-
sign of Mr.. Alexander Doyle, Of New York
city The Maryland legislature appro-
priated 50, 900 for the monument, and the
rest of the money was raised by popular
subscription in all parts OF the country,
many pennies and nickels being given by
school children.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

They haven't done a thing to Chauncey
Dcpew. 1t is a case OF what might he
called dull, sickening tinBd He really
wanted to he ambassador to England, and
probably all OF the j. Pierpont Morgan and
Vanderbilt interests supportedhim warmly
but the heavyweight shot-putters of the
Push seem TO have lifted the doctor high
up in the air on order to throw him down
the harder. The night before inauguration
he found that his business in New York
was so pressing that lie couldn't keep
away from any longer Andyou noticed,
possibly, that there may have been sun
dry and diverse good and sufficient rea-
sons why Col John Hay blew himself so
gayly that evening to the whole Mckinley
Push for dinner of so many covers that
it covered all the table and few cham
pagne buckets ON the side
The morning times., 1897-03-07

New Sleeping Car Service to st.
Louis Via Pennsylvania Railroad.
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars now in
service between Washington and st. Louis
on $40 p. m. train daily.
mh4,T %, L I'm A 6 ,S.lOev
The morning times., 1897-03-07

has such an attractive name for little
pocket l6mo. and besides bears the pres
tige of Stone & Kimball's imprint, that
il gave promise of something very delight
ful But IN truth the dialogues are rather
tame affairs. They have the virtue of
correct English and realistic reproduction
of the inanity OF polite conversation, but
these are more desirable rs the sauce than
the marrow ofthings. Occasionally a smart
retort is dropped into the dialogues, but
IL seems to accent the waste Of common
placcncss which surrounds it, The dia-
logues are OF that consistency which might
find excellent favor with the character of
people described in their own pages,
The morning times., 1897-03-07

l must refer again to this thing of expect
ing, or pretending to expect, that any anti
trust legislation may be passed by the
next Congress. Some of the traders in
ina ginary sugar land in other equally
imaginary and eyaneSccnt stocks) discuss
the question seriously; and, of course, the
discussions and the tips and the suspicious
and the GueSses all serve their purpose,
putting the stock upor down point or two
As for believing that anything really harm
full can come to the interests of the sugar
trust, or to any of the other trusts, in the
next Congress, that is absurd. Can you
find an antitrust law anywhere that is ef-
feCtive? And hence can il be saidthat there
is any real anti Legislation anywhere?
The trusts. the mcaopoiieS and all the
combinations OF capital were on the side
OF Mckinley in the last campaign. Every
body knew this at the time; and ii is q
fact no less notorious now If the trust
interests don't get Mr.. McCook into the
Cabinet tsupposing that ne is the man whom
they first wantedl, they will have some
body else in the Attorney Generals office
equally obliging, and their friends will be
sitting on all the sarety-yalves in the other
departments, also.
The So called anti trust legislation,
which we hear OF now and then, is in
tended to pretend to interfere with the
combinations, though really protecting
them; and hence it is that judges of va
riouS courts find these various antitrust
laws so defective that the district attor-
neys prosecuting cases before them al
most invariably hesitate TO waste their
time with any case that may be presented.
There is no question that Mr.. Mckinley
wants To do something handsome for White
law Reid. 1t is just possible that Cabinet
position may have been offered to Mr..
Reid. though the public announcement that
the health of the editor of the New York
Tribune would not permit him to accept
such an arduous post is no good evidence
of the fact. a Canton friend tells me,
however, that there is no doubt whatever
of Major McKinley's friendliness to Reid;
and since he is not to he in the Cabinet
and could not very well accept anything
else except the British mission, what is
to become of him after all? Whitelaw Reid
has always fought the machine in New
York, chiefly OF recent years because Mr..
The morning times., 1897-03-07

A spaniard has taken exception to HoS
hart c. Chatfield-TayIor's book title. The
Land OF the Castanet,' saying book on
America might IS well be called The Land
OF the Hog" Indeed, the objector is
Juan Valera. once Spanish minister here.
His criticism is at least trenchant.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Cirque, saw Madam oi>eiic Blanche and fell
In love wiki her. At least, he thought he
fell in love with Ter. The author pats it
into tie mouth of another character that
jules fell in love with Blanche's perform
ance. IL was partly that But wasn't it
in reality the ;,c. oEat I'D not tie perform
ancc alone or the woman all?
Demonstrating faeiIc aptitude for story
writing, Mr. Barry draws out a tale of
the possibilities OF such a love. Jules
and Blanche wed, so happily. In time a
baby is born. Then the dive must be given
up. Finally tbeawakeningcomes. Blanche
cannot fatbom it: Jules does not ask him
self. but for some reason the love wanes.
In hope OF restoring her husbands affec-
ton Blanche consents to resume her refil-
Gus performance He goes to the top OF
the Cirque again, but-weli, there is the
Gcnouement, and Jules knows his own
heart too late.
Mr. Barry writes with many pleasant
graccS, and he tells story OF an acrobat
without the conventional atmosphere of
show life. blanche is sweet and noble
character; jules is possibly as true to life
as one can ask There are a few strokes
of character drawing in the environment
OF these two, the best of whom is Madame
Pcrrault, Blanchc's mother She is q char
acter to be remembered. The book will
well repay the reading. 1t is ON Stone &
Kimballs lists.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Inauguration edition Of The Times,
twenty-eight pages, Including sixteen pages
souvenir extra, ready today. Price, in
wrappers for mailing, Five Cents.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

THERE'S a really remarkable appreciation
OF Izraei Zangull in the current critic. II
f. written by Gerald Stanley Lee and will
certainly appeal 10 his readers as being
a. valuable for its own Original and
scholarly sake as for the interest borrowed
from the distinguished subject II is a
criticism 10 read. study, and remember;
criticism OF a critic, 10y a critic, for a
critic
The morning times., 1897-03-07

We understand every family in town is
to have free sample or delicious Quaker
Oats-enough for a breakfast for four or
five
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Miss Fiona Macleod is accused Of being
like Homer, composite king, or syndi-
cate OF young Celtic revivalists.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Rudyard Kipling has completed new
short story OF 1900 words, to which
he has given the title OF The Slaves of
the Lamp"
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Ifone could go into Priscilla's S room when
she is out, one would find tiny ballroom.
with a rag carpet on e-floor, a plant or
twointhe window, some home made knick-
knacks on the walls, ana everything ex-
quisitely clean. In the shoe box covered
with cretonne in one corner always stands
prirnly an extra pair OF shoes. Every
night the little boots. soon as they are
taken off, are pulled into shape and wiped
off with cloth till the dust-is out OF he
creases and the mud off the heels. Then a
bit OF vaseline is rubbed over the shoe from
heel to toe, and why it should do this
do not know, hut ir leaves the shoe
glossy black. no matter how rusty 1t may
he. The next day this pair OF shoes has
rest and the other pair goes To the shop.
Priscilla always takes off her boots in the
evening and wears slippers; and she never
has corns. Her prim ways amuse some OF
her friends, but there Is one person who
thinks them delightful. That is Priscilla's S
secret, and some day the world her world
will know all about IL.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

The shoe question Is one of infinite rami-
fications. There are as many kind of
proper shoes as pretty feet, and there are
as many wrong ways OF wearing them as
there are corns and bunions The only in
variable rule on the subject is this: Never
wear anything that hurts.
The hevoism of women in hobbling about
on feet deformed by shoes too tight, too
short, too stiff, ,.of, the wrong make, and
with heels from half an inch to an inch
too hi gil, S OF the kind for which we send
missionaries to the Chinese. II depends on
a wonan's CHARACTER and also on what
she has to do whether her feet are pretty
and well shod or uionStrosities that shun
the ght of day even when under the pro-
lection of their one pinety-nine bargain
counter arunor. They are not even pretty
these feet which have been squeezed and
twisted into the wrong sort of shoe-to say
nothing Of the gaitof the, woman who wears
them, or her tempcGafter a days shopping
The first economical, rule, therefore, III
the buying of shoes is to get comfortable
ones. The prettiest foot 1 know belongs
to Priscilla, and she works in factory,
and is on her feet all day long. She has
been obliged TO buy shoes in which she
could work comfortably, and being a maid
of aesthetic tastes, in spite of her occupa-
ton, she has hunted till she has found
shoe that would just tit her foot. When
She has found il. it wears a long time,
and looks well up 10 the day when, after
visiting the shoemaker twice, it goes into
the ash barrel, utterly incapacitated for
further service. There is nothing es-
pecially pretty about Priscilla, except
her feet. She is shy, silent, precise,
neat little woman, with demure dimple
now and then iii a rather pale cheek; but
her dresses always fit, and her shoes and
her gioveS-when she wears any gloves
are always nice. She is like a small
prim Ladies Delight, strayed out among
the daisies and the clover, The other girls
don't quite know what 10 make of her.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

vaseline, and not shoe bla cking, is
most profitable to keep shoes looking nice,
but il one must have backing, it is best
To do it just as a man does, though it
takes some hard rubbing 10 give them the
polish. Most of the concoctions used for
ladies" shoe polish are sold for the
benefit of the manufacturers. The shoe
begins to crack after few applications.
But if shoes are rubbed every night witt
a very little vaSeline, not enough to make
them catch the dust pulled into shape,
and only worn every other day, they
may be worn as long as there is anything
left to hold them together and still keep
their shape, which is TO n shoe what self
respect is to a human being.
1t is fine to have shoes made to order,
if one can afford it; especially if one is
travelling and there is not much room to
pack these necessary articles. A pair OF
handmade shoes costs twice as much as a
pair OF ready-made ones. but it lasts twice
as long.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

Depend upon it, q comfortable foot is
more than likely to be pretty. IL viii
shape a shoe To its own lines and graces, il
it has u fair chance, and these are as Enuch
more graceful than the lines Of tie boot
makers fancy as an elm tree is more
graceful! than a brick tenement house.
People are beginning to see tins since the
"Trilby' fad, which ;cauSed so many Of
them to take fairsio at their feet and
find out just how ugly they were. The bi-
cycle and ',Trilby'' together have done
more to effect a reform in shoe ieather and
also in human tempers than anything else
for some years One cannot ride a bicycle
and wear comfortless shoes, and still less
~can one walk five miles homein them if the
bicycle happens TO break down.
The morning times., 1897-03-07

There is another never which might
appropriately be added to this. 1t is on
the score of economy as well as comfort.
Never never, never allow yourself to be
persuaded into buying a shoe because the
clerk III the shoe emporium says it is Just
the thing. No matter if it is the number
you asked him for Some makers give
quarter of an inch more width across the
bali of the foot than others for the same
number Never mind if the shoes he is
trying to sell you are the most stylish
thing he has. You, and not he. will have TO
wear those shoes and have those Corns, if
anybody has them. aud also you will pay
for the privilege. Buy thing To please
the clerk and you will wish YOU had not.
It will be more profitable in the end for
him TO hunt till he finds a pair that are
just what YOU want, for then YOU will come
again, and he will sell yoI a second pair.
One of the delightful modern inventions
is the button fastener, which does away
the most tiisagreeable job in all stitchcry,
the sewing on of shoe buttons. They will
always put on these fasteners when the
shoes are bought, if they are requested, and
the buttons stay on till all the rest of the
shoe is worn out. Some of the shoe stores
have cobbling department attached, but
they do not publish the fact, because they
do not care to mend the cheaper grade of
shoes. tits worth ones while to ask about
this.
The morning times., 1897-03-07
CINDERELLA

Will be produced, followed by an excel
lent program, by the elGcution pupils OF
Miss Jessie Good March 3, 1897, at
7:;;U p. m, Carroll Institute Hall, 10th
st. NV Admission, 70 cents; reserved
seats, 30 cents. Tickets ON sale at hail.
or 1T the studio. 924 9Th st. NV 1t
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