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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
SHOPGIKLS WHO CAN ROW.
DR. FURNIVALI. old FATHER
THAMES"
GENESIS OF THE HAMMERsMITH GIRIs sCUrLlNG
CLUB SIR WALTER BEsANT AND
OTHER LITERARY AND SOCIAL.
LIONS INTERESTED.


odd Father Thames" and his girls the pion-
ears In England OF movement which might be
good thing in America. Father Thames" is the
familiar name that was given several years ago to
A gentle and scholarly looking man. seventy years
old, who was noticed every Sunday and holiday
during the outdoor rowing a boatioad OF
what were Enthusiastically London shopg.rls up and
down the river. Some persons stared and others
thought Il interesting bit OF gossip 10 tell how
the old gentleman used TO go around at luncheon
into the cheap restaurants and elsewhere. singing
out girls whose faces he found attractive and ask
ing them 20 come with a mate two for boat
ride the next Sunday. Some Of the girls came and
others didn't but those who did come rarely failed
to bid for a second invitation and for permission
70 bring along bosom friend.
By-and-by It got TO be understood along the
Thames that the old gentleman DR.. F. J. Fur
n,vall NJ A. Of Trinity Hall. Cambridge an officer
or fellow OF many a society In England and that
he was running counter a OF insular preju-
dices and any amount e Sabbatarian opposition
In order TO carr out a philanthropic scheme which
no else had taken up and which he thought
worthy.
OTHER NOTABLEs INTERESTED.
This wen, on for some years Sir Walter Besant
and the late William Morris. VI. A, Oxford be-
came Interested in DR.. FurnivaFs plan. They got
together the girls they wanted FOR nucleus. and
on May g. 1896. the Hammersmitn fi-ls Soulhns
club was founded. Its object was ITO give health
ful exercise and innocent enjoyment TO h2rd-w TX
Ing girls"
ANY one can see the change in Or. Furnivall :
girls" said Mrs E. r. Pennel. who is subscriber
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Being religious worker. greatly appreciate
the attention you pay In your columns TO religious
ma tiers Many OF my friends now save the Wom-
ans Page as faithful record OF religious WORK IN
church and mission circles God bless you ana
make The Tribune power for good In the lana
Faithfully, ELDNORE r.. NIL
No Ii East feminist, New-York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
WOMiN'S PACE APPRECIATED.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir much pleased with the Sunshine So
clety and wish to help its good work in any way
| can Yours sincerely
Mrs MARY E. BARNARD.
No col West One-hundr ed nd -frst-st.. Sept. l6
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

busted off with a damp cloth tied over a broom
There only few kitchen floors that have THIS
ideally smooth hard surface II requires the great
care IA finishing floor. and IL OF Ing II after
attempt II fail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

on their native heath have been known to I'VE f'r
twenty-five years. -.
Museum Of Natural History includes ST brrnaru,
Apollo presented by Lorenzo Daniels, hl,'S
pup apdo- presented by Mrs y VI. Food d
Mexican dog the gift OF Mrs g. e. Hunt ana
King Charles spaniel. the gift Of Cornelius Nahue'-
l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
FOR TOURISTS AND PICNTCKERS.

H.. tho holm o., tho channE dish hot meal, are
now served AZ picnics Sometimes the invitation
includes the command Bring your own chnhng-
dish DO each guest being expected TO cook Almost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

Miss Marguerite Lndley and Miss Burrus are al
the Equinox House, Manchester. VI. Miss Lindiey
will deliver lecture while there on physicai
economies a subject which she IL handling with
much success She and Miss Burrus will return
to New-York early IN October
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Letters have also been received from A C. ward
VI. +. W, Mrs Harris. A. l.. j.. Nellie A Wills
F. C. Moore Mrs Mary F. Barnard Miss +. l..
r. Mrs Elizabeth Shultz. Justitia Mrs T. b. Van
Amringe. Mrs. K. X Avery Mrs. Mary Augusta
Iathrop Miss Agnes K. IT. " Margaretta NJ
Creary. A. S. Marvin. NJ 3. H. g + D. MIS-
+. A F. r. Mrs. J. d. White. c. f. ;, May
Evelyn" Mrs Louisa T. Lyle Laura 5. Collins
Mrs. Mary McMurtrie A. Marsh, j.; d. o, MIS-
W u. Cragin, r. A. Shutz and Mrs. F. t. Rltchle-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Some OF Vrgina's leading papers are propoS'"e
amendments 10 the Constitution requiring heSroe7
TO entirely sunport their own schools. IL Is sug
gested that ali school taxes paid by the white pro-
pie shall be Withdrawn only D per c""' u '
taxes Is paid by the negroes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Sister Iynatia Fecney OF the Chicago sisters Oh
Mercy was the first woman TO obtain a diploma
in nh,-n,acv IN the State OF Illinois. She j. now IN
charge OF the immense drug department or lnr
Mercy Hospital. in Chicago. and Is said 10 De one
OF the finest pharmacists in the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Miss Elizabeth Mitchell Fessenden. OF dorchester
Mass daughter o. Mrs Susan Fessendcn. has peer
elected director OF the gymnasium OF large schoo
In Detroit Mich
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The Woman's Page gives much cheer and
comfort Truly yours Miss NJ. Il. ii.
New-Jersey. Sept lG. 1897
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

the T s s for an invalid member. II has beautl-
ful selections and poems artiscally arranged upon
the back.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

The Puritan and the illustrated supplement
OF The Tribune OF August 90 sent 10 the So
cietv without the name OF the sender attached.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Mrs. D. c. Hogan sent box OF flowers, and
book came from c. f. 3.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Miss Marie Madre. who was graduated this sum
rner from the law school OF Howard Cnivers'tv' a.
Washington IL the second colored graduate or
to,t INSTITUTION She stood first In a class o, more
thirty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Mrs E. NJ J Cooley is the librarian and general
manager o, reading-room she has founded III
Cripple Creek Col The city has recently grantrtI
"a nav month 70 ena HE her 10 enlarge her work
and to occupy more desirable quarters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

The Mohametan women o. Bosnia are nov aIIo"'"
TO receive medical attention from men physicians
pecer-iv n woman doctor has been appointed 70
care for them Her name Is Or. Theodora hrayr ,
ska. and she Is a native or Poldnd 5he J. '
an army surgeon. and wears UNIFORM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

,rcrt,p WORK OF THE NORMAL COLLEGE.
Thu regular work Of the Normal Co.esr e., oes s'
i", rhe opening was last THURSDAY. Inc stu
to-u"9 ia,,o number twenty-five hundred
deH's sye new ciassroos have been built to accom-
hem
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

II e said that the smallest human being ever
known 10 exist was Catherine Elliott. VINO Was
horn at Glasgow Scotland. A few weeks ago ohe
WAS on exhibition In Liverpool az freak "neh sn
dfcd belng anout three weeks old. she WelEh'I
only twenty ounces at the time ~ her death ana
was lust a foot hign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Column are c. F. s. the Rev. V. lie Roy Lock
wood and Mrs. Josephine d. White The anwer Is
tn" letter Il
The President General wishes that the &C w.
who sent the old paper with the account OF WASH
,ne-on's death would let the society have her fun
name and address FOR enrolment. and also in order
that the paper may be returned 10 her.
Miss f. T. Edwards No. 333 Belleyle-ave.. New
ark y J. writes that she will pay for any
autographs Of distinguished people whch any OF
the members can send her. provided. OF course,
that she docs not possess them already she
would Ike members 10 send her the prices OF any
autographs they wish 10 sell.
\ - Ward suggests two shades OF ysllo" as .ne
Sunshine coiors and asks the name OF the latest
and best cyclopedia OF questions II A. e, "aL arg
will send her address. with a two-cent stamp the
club pin Will be forwarded 70 her.
Da.sv-Your poem has been passed on. ana a
pin has been mailed 10 you.
A. A. Jennings OF Franklin. Delaware County.
y Y writes that the poem II Shall Be Satisfied
was written BY Harriet Beecher Stove A. a,
and Is entitled 10 the club pin.
Mrs s Crosby adds A 70 Mrs. Schenck :
poem published September "a. and makes some
alterations in r. Her version IL as follows hu'
she does not know the author:
once Rad money and i friend;
on both I set great store;
lent my money 20 my friend
And took his note therefor
asked my money ~ my friend.
And naught but words got
lost my money and my friend.
For him would not
III had money and n friend.
As had once before
IA keep my money and my friend,
nd nlny the fool more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Among those who sent in the correct answer
the riddle that appeared in Fridays Sunshin
Column are G. +. s. the Rev. V lie Roy Lock
wood and Mrs. Josephine d. White. The anwer
the letter T."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

VIII the members who are sending renu.',S 'r' o,
ter TO Mrs. May Darby Of Denver, p'eaS. 10,
that she has removed TO Ohio city COLI " "''""'
camp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Through some oversight mention was not mace
,ar, davs ago OF the receipt OF the poem entitled
.,.,,,I,. Resigned" sent by Miss J. H. Young. IL
W ~ ,or5warded at once 10 n member VINO naS g.
was LOT ',os,cd r. The selection. OF which the
puihor IL unknown. Is taken from an 0d pin o
, To-, ,on now out OF print. and II u NauaDie s
pun ~ ,h,s reason as for its merits WIN tile
WI ~. u,ho received this poem please MAKE roPs
md return the original to MIS-. fo""S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Mrs So. Smith has presented pictures o, Helen
ard Lucille Western = the Professional Woman
League
The October Drama Day at the ?. w l.. IS 20
ho in charge ~ Mrs I J. Goodfriend; the NoV@n-
Seoten1her Iay on the 10Th IL Miss Mary shaw =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

, house book" an odd kind OF scrappoo~' .e-
ceiv.d from Marie Louise PerSeh' nus
sarv.d for the little mothers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

Miss Stella Strait. Of Fort Scott Kan. has been
nominated for County Register Of Deeds by the
pou-bon County Republican Convention. The Office
"a one OF the best PAID in the county.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-20

The Countess OF Ancaster has started. in London.
a crusade against the modern dance "hlch she
thinks is degeneratlng into a mere romp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
TARIFF AND COAL PRICES.

The editor of a local paper who says I'VE
have high tariff and high tariffs and yet
the miners have starvation wages cannot
have read the article of President Ratch-
ford, of the coal miners organization, in
which he said that the fall of price began
a little more than four years ago. In other
words the wages fell with the large de-
crease in the use of coal by the shutting
down or reducing of employment in the
factories of the country, which began in
January 1898, and was general by July of
that year. Then followed the German tariff
law, which made it possible to reduce the
use of West Virginia coal in New England
by the importation of the product of Nova
Scotia. The mine operators did not realize
the extent to which the announced Cleve-
land tariff raid had cut into the consump
ton of coal. so they kept on for a time and
accumulated stocks. To sell these they
probably resorted to cutting prices, as if
lower-priced coal would open factories
closed because their managers could not
sell their products. OF course they failed.
The fierce competition soon forced a reduc-
ton of wages and since the collapse Incl
dent to the Cleveland free-trade proclama-
ton and the passage of thS Wilson
German bill, miners wages havf been low
and irregular. This is chiefly tHe result of
conditions which make it possible to pro-
duce much more coal than there is a de-
mand for.
The starting up of hundreds of factories
in all parts of the land, the larger business
of the railroads and the recapture of the
New England soft coal market will make
a much larger demand for coal in a brief
season, giving regular employment to more
men, If the coal operators would form
combination to limit the output of the
mines to the demand for consumption and
the present evils incident to trying to sell
more coal than is needed could be ended.
The President OF the mine workers ad-
mitted, before Debs made himself the gen.
eral spokesman of the strikers, that the
trouble was with the low prices rather than
with the mine operators. Very low-priced
coal means very low wages for coal miners.
Better prices mean better wages. Prices
are too low which do not make fair rate
of wages possible. For that reason the Re
publican party, as far as law can do it,
has made an effort to prevent equal COM
petition between this country .and those
which do not pay labor what are living
wages in this country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
THE USUAL MIsREPREsENTAT

Without investigation the free-trade pa
pers are declaring with vehemence that the
duties of the Dingley law are the highest
and the most monstrous ever imposed. Sew
eral papers assert that the Dingley duties
are higher than those of the Mckinley law.
The statement is false. With the exception
of the duty on sugar, which is imposed for
the purpose of revenue and not for protec-
ton, the Dingley duties are generally lower
than those of the Mckinley law. Conse-
quently in any comparison of duties sugar
should be left out and comparison confined
to the duties on articles which have been
regarded as the objects of protective care.
In the past the free-traders have made
more indignant protests against the pro-
tective duties which have been imposed
upon iron. For years they rung all the
changes upon the duty on steel rails until
they were worn out. In the Dingley tariff
the duties on many important iron and
steel products are lower than in the Cor
man law and are lower on nearly all of
them than in the Mckinley law. On cotton
goods the duties are generally lower than
in the Mckinley law, and for the most part
the same as in the present law, except that
the specific duty takes the place of the
ad valorem where it is possible. On the
great majority of chemicals and on many
agricultural products while higher than the
Democratic tariff, the duties are not so
high as those of the Mckinley law. The
rate is not higher on earthenware and glass
than the present law except that the
change from the ad valorem D the specific
duty makes it more effective. The duties
on woolens and silks are the same as in
the Mckinley law in effect, but they are
made more effective by a better classical
ticn. The same facts will appear in all the
comparisons. The general range of duties,
taken as a whole, is much lower than in
the Mckinley law. The few advances over
the rates of the last protective law are
either on luxuries or on articles like sugar,
which will produce the largest revenue, or
on more advanced products of manufac-
ture, which, under the new tariff can be
produced here for the first time.
AS a matter of course, the enemies of
in making comparisons. This, it is repeat
ed should not be done, because it is inn
posed Ior revenue only If the government
had adequate revenue without the duty on
sugar, raw sugars would go on the free
list.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27

old straw Of the sugar scandal. Allen and
Pettigrew and other new men without re-
gard for the old-time courtesies are there.
Other men having broken into the Senate
the rules should be changed so as to apply
to their eccentricities. One of these men
should not be permitted to stop the work
of the Senate simply because he can do so.
The Senate should insist that debate on
measure should not permit members to
spend hours in harangues which have no
bearing on the question. The majority
should assume the right, now that the Sem
ate contains such men, to limit debate so
that weeks cannot be spent in chatter. No
rules should place minority in a position
where it can dictate terms to majority.
as did the minority in the present Senate
when it told the majority that it would not
be permitted to pass a tariff bill If it did
not agree to let the monetary question
alone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
INDIAN FAMINE HORRORS.

The second installment of Julian Haw-
thorne's report from the famine district of
India (Which is four-fifths of the whole
country appears in the August number of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine and is even
more appalling than the first chapter. He
does not tell of what he hears; he describes
what he sees, and he does it in an un-
emotional, unrhetorical way, with intent
only to give the facts in the simplest form,
that makes the scenes pictured only the
more vivid and narrowing. He declares
that England is doing all it to relieve
the suffering and abate the calamity, but
the government is hampered in many ways.
There are not enough white men in the
country to act as its agents, even if they
could live in the worst districts, and the
native subordinates which it is forced to
employ are not to be trusted. They will
steal even from the starving and divert all
the money they dare away from the relief
service to their own pockets and to those
of their friends with whom they have
agreed to divide. Moreover, the district af
fected by the famine is nearly half as large
as the United States, means of
transportation are inadequate, and
who do not need help mslead
the white agents in a thousand ways so
that it is almost impossible for the govern
ment to know officially just what is the
truth concerning any one district. In fact
millions may actually die without its
knowledge, as was the case in the famine
of 1S77-7S. From the facts he has been able
to gather Mr.. Hawthorne estimates that no
less than eight million persons have died
from the famine and disease directly caused
thereby. He says this statement is received
with incredulity by English officials at
Bombay, but that missionaries and other
newspaper men, particularly one English
man, who, as press agent has made care
full tour of the district, know that it is
within the truth. The account he gives of
the condition of the natives and of their
sufferings is almost past belief Their
skeeton-like forms shown in the illustra-
tons hardly seem to belong to living be-
ings. The one thing we, meaning this COM
try. can do to help India, says Mr.. Haw-
and to distribute it through the mission
aries on the ground, sending it to them
direct and not through the mission boards.
The missionaries do not work through the
native officials. The money they handle is
given by them directly to the hands of the
starving persons.
1t is at least worth while to read Mr.
Hawthornes story and to know how the
"other half lives-and dies. We have APP
peals from the hungry in our own country
every now and then-there is a flood and
peoples homes are washed away; just now
the striking miners families need aid-but
these hungry are in the midst of plenty and
have not to call loudly nor to go far to
get it. In India they are. hopeless and
helpless; even the Lord seems to have for
gotten them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
CHANGE IN THE SENATE RULES.


Whatever the senator's themselves may
think of it, the session of the Senate which
has just closed has caused many thought
full men to believe that it is time the old
terminable debate should be cast aside.
Years ago, when minorites observed the
right of majorities to legislate after a prop
er season for debate, the rule which pro-
vides that a vote shall not be taken upon a
bill so long as a senator desires to discuss
the measure or offer amendments, may
have been proper and just, But times have
changed. A new quality of men has broken
into the Senate. 1t was a fair rule
doubtless, when Hampton and Butler rep
resented South Carolina, or before the com
ing of men like Morgan, who can speak
day after day upon subject of no i'm
portance to prevent consideration of some
important measure. 1t may have been a
good rule before several States came to be
represented by men who have one idea and
will fight for it with all the advantage
which the rule of interminable debate and
eternal courtesy can give.
But times, rather men, have changed.
Tillman is there and If he had not been
overruled by the president of the Senate
on point of order the Senate would still,
In all probability, be threshing over the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
FIGHTING PROSPERITY.

Strange as it may seem, there are people
who are fighting returning prosperity. They
do not want it and they do not want other
people to have it, nor do they wish to be-
lieve that better times are at hand. First
there is a class of politicians, or, rather
place-seekers, who seem to think that when
any sort of prosperity is abroad it is no
time for them 10 seek public position
Their opportunity is in hard times, and the
harder the times the better their opportun-
ity. They assume that when people have
no crops, no employment their homes are
mortgaged and they have the chlls and
fever or the grip. they are in a state of des-
peration in which they will vote for the
otherwise condemned calamityite. That
class of men are fighting prosperity with
their newspaper organs.
There is in every city, and indeed in
every small village where there is store
or a saloon, a number of men who are on
a long strike against any sort of labor
which will earn bread. These people con-
stitute a larger number in the aggregate
than is generally believed. They can be
found at tho Ioafng places. Few people
can remember when they did any regular
labor. How they live, not even those whose
premises they cucumber can tell. They
have been heard of this season when farm
ers have offered them good wages to help
a few days in the fields, because they have
Indignantly refused to work for wages. This
class of men are always talking of hard
times. For weeks their regular vocation
has been to sneer about Mckinley pros
perity." The only prosperity that could
reach these men is a period during which
it would rain dollars. With such a pros
perity these foes of labor might pick up
a few. But there is no sort of prosperity
which must come with more general en-
ployment that will reach them.
Still another and better class of men is
not in the way of realizing better industrial
and business conditions They are those
who fit themselves for doing things which
few desire TO have done. They seem to
say that they have fitted themselves to do
this or that. 1t happens that The this or
that are lines of work which are either al
ready crowded with people to do them or
things which nobody desires to have done
or articles which nobody wishes to pur-
chase They wait and wait, and because
nobody comes to purchase their services or
wares, they assume that prosperity is
myth. Where there are six men 10 do a
business which will support but one, there
is no sort of prosperity that can make a
demand for the products or servi ees of six.
Those who expect and desire to succeed
must meet better times half way with a
purpose to engage in tie employment for
which there seems to be a demand. Until
they do they have no right to sheer ard to
fold their hands and say that p~osI Gritty
will not come until every fifty cents worth
of all the silver bullion of other people is
stamped dollar.