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The herald., 1898-11-05
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER s. 1898.

The time has arrived when the political buffer appears 1t
has become part of Republican methods to fill the columns of
newspapers with election predictions IA
REPUBLICAN vorabe to the Republican ticket and to
BLUFF rally dsheartened following to the sup
port of a losing cause by fake kilograms,
false prophecies and bluff bets.
quantity of "suh" which is being published in Repub-
lcan journals under the direction of the literary bureau of the
Republican oleraby good proof that in the
opinion of the members of the committee their ticket is already
beaten.
batch of fake kilograms and yard of gossip telling of
bright prospects carrying San Francisco and the state
for Gage daily pamed off the public in the hope OF
influencing weakened individuals vote supposed
winning candidate.
The of this state should be warned, if they not
already familiar with the tricks of the enemy, that for the
few days the motto of the Republican party will be "Con
cede nothng claim everything, and trust to Coils and the
sack for success"
The leaders the Republican party fully realize that the
stands today Judge Mcguire is far in the lead and that
their only escape from defeat by thwartng the will of the
people by the of the sack and of bluff and buster
The herald., 1898-11-05

1t is matter of common knowledge that the state printing
Office under the management of A. Johnston, has been
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Misery manifestly is immedicable. Life
is a vale of tears. We respire, aspire,
perspire and expire. Solomon told us
that; other things, too. But he was un-
acquainted with modern society. There
is the reverse of the medal.
Society is an elixir of bon-bons. 1t
represents the joy of being alive, the
presence Of beauty, usually of birth,
occasionally of brains, but always
wealth, and with it every opportunity
for fastidious delight. Breathed
through the newspapers, the atmosphere
seems a triie heady. One fancies it to
be the real air of the heights, a COM
pound of the exhilarant and the soda
tive, the mixture IF oscillant suavities,
ambient harmonies and exalting refine
ments fused into one. When it does
not happen to be otherwise such is the
case. Society is the happy hunting
ground Of the elect.
Society in New York, in Boston, in
Philadelphia, and, in Baltimore is rela-
lively the same. 1t constitutes a free
masonry of which the lodges vary but
in location and Importance. They diff
fer in degrees. The object of each is
identical. That object is the enjoy
ment of life.
These premises admitted, it becomes
important to determine what there is
in the Washington chapter which can
80 defeat that object as to induce one
young woman after another to kill her
self. Without entering into %personali-
ties. and putting aside the cases recited,
it may be noticed that suicides of the
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must be something wrong. The
individual cases recited belong to
the domain fflof private life, and
as such exempt themselves from
examination. 1t is the society that
produced them which is serviceable to
consider. Apart from the conglomer-
ate and the foreign, there must be Il
screw loose somewhere. If it is not
the heterogeneous that is at fault, It,
must be the climate, unless, indeed,
it be possible to regard Washington as
one regards Monaco-a resort to which
curious passions converge, and TO
which the suicide g%ravitates. The sun
position would be tenable were the
other sex concerned. 1t would be even
satisfactory. The elimination Of a few
political thimble-riggers, the
ton of a little of that scum and the
country would not deteriorate. Wash
ington would even improve. But it is
young girls that are concerned. In
view Of which, the only conclusion de-
ducible from the premises is that a So
ciety conducted on the European plan,
but wiElout European restraints, must
in certain natures produce a patho-
logical condition Of which suicide is tho
climax. EDGAR SALTUS.
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spiritual masters interfere. The la
emma is forever at her side. Even with
her brother she may not walk alone
She might be seen by third parties
who, knowing him, but not knowing
her, would take her for what she is
not. At the entertainments severally
known as the five o'clock" and the
white ball. she may iirt if she likes,
or, rather, if she knows how, but she
does so under the nose of all. There
is no getting her away, talking in her
tar and examining the lines in her
hand. 1t is the married women who
enjoy such attentions. The young girl
passes from the schoolroOm to the al
tar, delayed at most but by a surrep-
titious squeeze. The passage is made
as opportunity as her people can man.
age. She is lowered and married in
season.
The custom is not admired here, but
it has its advantages. Be that as it
may, the foreigner who lands in Wash
ington finds a collection of demoiselles
who are not only p~rettier far than any
he has seen, but who possess all the
liberty, sometimes much more liberty.
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lie Got the Girl.

Mrs. Trelawney," said Francis Wal
%lingford, there is something hat l
have for a long time wished to say to
you"
The president of the Society for the
Squelching of Husbands looked over
her glasses and frowned. She evident
ly knew what was coming, but after a
moments silence she said in her most
impressive platform tones:
We'll go n What is it?'
II love your daughter, Miss
Gladys. l have reason to believe that
she returns my passion, and I want to
ask you to give her into my keep
ing
Mrs. Trelawney's features hardened,
and there was a cold, metallic ring in
her voice as she answered:
What recommendation have you to
offer for yourself? How can you con-
vince me that you will always love. her
that you will always think her beau
tiful?"
She, looks like her mother" said
Francis Wallingford. THAT is enough
to convince me hat her beauty will
not diminish as her years increase.
OF course, | know that this can hardly
be regarded as a final test. You have
not reached the age at which women
begin to lose their"
They were interrupted then, but he
got the girl.-Cleveland Leader.
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a. 81
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than is enjoyed by the married at
home. The fact surprises, and no Won
der. Then, presently, before the sur
prise can subside. it has occurred that
without effort, almost without knock
ing, he finds himself admitted into the
intimacy of a young girls heart.
Before him are candors such as he
has never presumed to approach, OPP
portunities for investigating them SUCH
as he has never known. Before her Is
the easy glitter of suggested scenes,
evocations of sumptuous courts; the TO
nance of the remote, the spangle or a
title. perhaps. and, with it, the reso-
nance of a name.
Such things affect a girl. In thelf
absence there are the terrible chaps
from the departments of the Navy ana
the War. The sword is yet to be
forged that ca.1 work swifter havoc
than the CLEAN of brass buttons, he
sheen of gold braid and shimmering
blue. Such things affect a girl also.
But not ~infrequently the foreigner is
preferred. In addition to other attrae-
tons. Washington provides him wlth
a background of political thimblef1g-
gers and provincial scum. 1t sets HAM
off.
There. too. q title can be divided. A
count makes a countess. There is IL
magic in that. 1t has happened, how
ever, hat the title has already been
divided. 1t has occurred that the own
CT is not dividing just then. The in
cvitable dies not necessarily ensue.
There is an effect that does. That it
should lead to suicide is pathetic.
1t is worse. There is nothing as dis
NAL as a young girls death. She ha.
lived so little. In her heart is the
longing and The dream of beautiful
to-morrows. Wait for me-" she cries
Il am coming" When a malady
pounces and carries her off what is it
but one of Deaths a ssassinations? Yet,
when, instead of the unexpected, the
unnatural s~upervenes, when the dream
of the morrow retreats, and the long
ms subsidies, when the fu ture narrows
into a blind alley, when some form
less thing she knows not whLt comes to
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Three Of the five deaths Of students
In Chicago University the past year are
attributed to actual starvation by Pres
tdent Harper, who also affirms that in
every large university poor and ambi-
tious students sacrifice health, comfort
and life itself in the thirst, for an edu-
cation. Startling as Is the statement,
1t emphasizes n Of the greatest needs
of the age, a proper understanding Of
the chemistry Of cooking, and the detri-
ment to mind and body of unsuitable
or insufficient food. Two kittens Of the
same litter were recently set apart by
a scientist and brought up under identi-
cal conditions, except that their food
was Numerically unlike. At the end
of four months whenever the scientist
held out his finger to one, the kitten
rubbed lovingly against It; whilst the
other would bite and draw blood! No
wonder, says a witty commentator, that
around some family tables the women
scratch and the men swear.
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character which have occurred there
are due to a pathological condition of a
morbid type. But it should be noted,
too, that while now and again men of
position kill themselves, the suicide of
4 girl OF position is so unusual that
when 1t ONE to a succession of them,
six, one right after the other, the cir
cumstance ceases to be unusual, it be-
uneXampled. In the history Of
affiliated cities, in the social chronicles
Of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, nothing of the kind is to be
found. Washington, however, is an
other kettle of fish. New Workers, Bos-
tonians, Baltimoreans, Philadelphians
particularly Philadelphians-speak of
their coed old families. A good old
Washington family is a thing which
genealogy has to hear of yet. Society
there is heterogeneous and conglom-
crate. Composed of women from all
over the globe, there is none as varie-
gated. There is one as unstable. 1t
is in process not of constant evolution,
but of constant Transformation. The
origin of the members is elsewhere. 1t
is not a home, it is an ipn-one, par
cnthetically, which, conducted on the
European plan, lacks European re-
straints. The young girls whom the
various administrations gather there
bring their beauty and sometimes lose
their heads. That is natural. In the
diplomatic set they encounter men who
differ entirely from those of their race.
The girls, too, differ from any whom
these men have met.
1t is the rehashing of platitudes to
state that society as it is constituted
On the other side differs radically from
society as constituted here, but the re-
hashing is necessary for the convent
ence of the point which is sought. Over
there the young girl is a neglectable
and neglected quantity. Practically,
until she marries, she can't be said to
exist. Her parents, guardians and
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soar,
AS she waits in the wings for the
earned encore;
THE spell of a glance n the charm OF
a curl
Belong to the rollicksome gaiety
girl.
A laugh and a smile her charms en-
nance,
At home the heart of the dazzling
dance,
Always gay where the footlights
shine, .
Always bright, like the rosy wine;
Winning the world with her simple
grace,
Shadows fly from her sunny face,
And no heart beats in the daily whirl
AS light as the heart Of the gaiety girl.
Here and there like a bird that wings
It's flight in many lands and sings;
Now in the realm of the drifting
SHOWS,
Now in the South where the orange
blows;
Holding hearts in her gleesome thrall,
Nightly winning the smiles of all;
Beautiful ever in pose and twirl,
The worlds less dark for the gaiety
girl.
"Only a gaiety grill" you say,
With a toss of the head as you turn
away,
And you never think meath the starry
dome
How beats her heart for mother and
home;
How soft and gentle her hands can be,
With a heart as white as the foam Of
the sea;
And Love doth weave mid the seasons
whirl
o. for the brow of the gaiety
girl.
II. c. II.
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Secretary Of the Navy Long sent a
recommendation to congress for an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for improve
ments In the battery Of the cruiser
Chicago, and accompanying it is a
strong report Of Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, in which he points out
some. weaknesses of the navy. Mr..
Roosevelt says: II earnestly wish we
could as soon as possible withdraw
from active service the cruisers fitted
with slow firing guns and substitute
ships with rapid fire batteries. At
present the real fighting efficiency of
ships like the Raleigh, Cincinnati,
Marblehead. Montgomery, and Olym-
pia compared with foreign vessels of
the same nominal class stands high,
while the reverse is the case of ships
like the Baltimore, San Francisco and
Yorktown"
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Historical Old Cradle.

Valparaiso, Ind, has a cradle yet in
actual use in the home of the Rev. John
F. Brandt, which is 106 years old. In
this interesting nursery fixture more
than forty babies have been rocked to
sleep. In it was rocked, in his in
fancy, Mordecai Hardesty, the first
white child born in indianapolis. The
cradle came from Virginia, and was
handed down to the Brandt family by
the grandmother of Mrs. John l..
Brandt, wife of the pastor of the Chris
tian Taberp acle of Valparaiso. Mrs.
George Marquis is Mrs. Brandt's grand
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An Allurlnx idea.

What I want to see," exclaimed
Senator Sorghum, "is the annexation
of Hawaii. I envy the men who will
one day come to this capitol to repre-
sent the interests Of that far-distant
state"
YES" rejoined the enthusiastic
young friend. They will loom up as
giant reminders Of the progress OF CIV
ilization and of the increasing power
of this young republic"
so they will" answered the senator;
so they will. And in addition to all
that, just think of the mileage.'-
Washington Star.
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Several important changes will be made
in the Traffic Department of the BAIT
more & Ohio Railroad compa ny on March
Let.
J.. A. Murray, the present coal and
coke agent, will be given the title of gem
eraf coal and coke agent of the entire
systt m, with headquarters at Baltimore.
William l.. Andrews will be assistant
coal and coke agent for the PittsburS
district, with headquarters at Pittsburg.
T.. II. khaeck, now coal and coke agent
for the lines west of the Ohio river, with
headquarters at Columbus will become
assistant coal and coke agent for that
territory. -
Mr.. Andrews Is Awell known as private
secretary of Rece !syer Oscar -. Murray
and came to the BIZ itimore & ONO when
Mr.. Murray was appointed receiver. MI
Afiieck has held his y resent position 1or-
a number of years, and Or. J. A. Murray
was formerly private secretary 10 eA-
Traffic Manager Frank Hal MOTT.
These appointments care in the nature
Of promotions, and it is believe VI VIII very
materially strengthen that branch or eho
Baltimore & Ohio traffic depart. nent.
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The Chicago wheat deal is attract
ing much attention. Joseph Letter
continues to hold his immense pur-
chases of high grade winter wheat, an
amount now estimated at 5000, 900
bushels. In the meantime prices are
advancing in all parts of the world,
and 1t is difficult to predict the figure
which will be reached by May wheat.
The Letter clique claims that the far
mers have long since parted with their
wheat, and points to the fact that
dollar wheat" fails to materially in
crease the receipts at the principal
points. An interesting feature of the
situation is the development that hun
dreds OF millers and wholesale -four
dealers have been mixing corn meal
with -four and selling this blended mix
ture a. high grade wheat This Is said
10 account for BLACK Bread and the
further fact that -four has not ad-
vanced in price in proportion to wheat.
This matter has been introduced into
congress and some legislation may fol-
low. The reports of a Russian short
age which were at first vigorously
denied. are found to be true, and the
government will probably repeal the
duty on wheat so as to permit imports.
The stocks % in Russian ports
amount to 11,6oo, 900 bushels, as against
an average Of 19,904, 900 bushels for
same dates in the last ten years. The
London Times prints a telegram from
st. Petersburg saying that the failure
OF the crops threatens a worse dearth
than that OF 1891. Russian editors are
forbidden to refer to the matter of the
coming reduction in import duties.
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Mrs. William Gillivray, of 80 Regent
street, this city, who is over 60 years
of age, has given birth to a baby girl.
Her husband, to whom she was married
seven years ago, is rs. Mrs. Gillivray
has been married twice, and this is her
twenty-second child. She married
first when Is. The baby is all righ.
and doing well.-Toronto (Ont.) Special
New York Sun.
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A New York Judge has granted a wife
a separation from her husband for six
months, with alimony at the rate Of
$40 a week. The plaintiff was a wife
30 years old. the defendant a husband
OF 20. Doubtless the young woman feels
herself happy in being rid Of the old
gentleman for six months, receiving in
the meantime $40 a week. At the end
OF the first term OF separation she can
apply for an extension and the old hus-
band is not likely to survive many de-
erees OF court. Anything Is possible
under our divorce laws, and the prece-
dent set by Judge Gaynor Of New York
be extensively followed and separ-
alton take the place in court records
extensively occupied at present by the
word divorce.
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In Washington last week it was re-
ported that a young gentlewoman, Mrs.
Thomas F. Lane, daughter of Senator
Blackburn, had attempted suicide. Sub
s%equently the occurrence, was attrib-
uted to an accident, and the report de-
nied. The. incident may, therefore, he
dismissed. But a text remains. A
month ago Miss Leila Herbert. daugh-
ter OF the former secretary of the navy.
threw herself from a window. A fort
night later Miss Mary Waite, daughter
OF the ex-governor of Colorado, took
poison. Meanwhile Miss Wells put a
bullet through her brain. Anteriorly
Miss Kate Bayard killed herself; so,
too, did Miss Daisy Garland; so. also,
did Miss Bessie Hillyer. Miss Bayard
was the daughter of the secretary Of
state. Miss Daisy Garland was the
daughter of the attorney general. The
father OF Miss Hillyer is a millionaire.
These young women moved in what ii
Is colloquial to term the best set. In
dividually their deaths are recent.
Each is without apparent motive. All
occurred in Washington. Why?
Ahoe AuCStioH IL Is tue IpO OF tnlS
article to consider.
BY way of preliminary, a definition
or two may help. Nine. de Stael-a
lady whose graces Byron described as
not those of the person-commended
suicide. She declared it to be the act
OF n who has conquered ever the fear
OF death. Suicide, however, is little
else thai assassination driven in. Those
who want to die usually do so because
others don't. When they happen to
have another reason it is more often
than not because they really want to
live. What they don't want are the
miseries attendant on their own par
ticular existence. Abolish them and
they will swear by Methuselah.
II do not know" said Voltaire, "what
life eternal may be, but l do know that
this n is a very poor joke. Happi-
ness" he added, lis a dream. Only
pain Is real. l have thought so for
eight odd years, and I have hit on no
better plan than to resign myself to
the inevitable and reflect that flies were
born to be devoured by spiders and
man to be consumed by care"
Voltaire's views. were not original.
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mother. She had fourteen children,
who were rocked to sleep in this cradle.
Mrs. Brandt's father was one of the
fourteen. He is now Sc years of age.
1t is a quaint old relic of the primitive
log. 1t was cut from one solid piece,
except that the two rockers were NOR
tised in and pegged on with wooden
pegs. The cradle is five feet three
inches in length. By reason of its con-
tinuOus service, it has been worn very
smooth, and its fine polish causes il
to resemble ebony rather than fine
grained black hickory wood.
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Captain Dreyfus in his disgracefu!
exile, is a factor in French politics far
greater than he might have been If he
had kept his freedom. 1t is certain that
his guilt was not conclusively proven,
and he ought to have had the benefit
of the doubt in view Of the magnitude
OF his punishment. Governments can
not afford to be unjust, and the suffer-
ing of n innocent man because of
hatred OF his race may bring about
suffering to the nation which is respon-
sible for his undoing.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHER

We are asserting in the courts our right to tho
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," andi
PITCHERS CASTORiA, as our Trade Mark.
|, DR.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachu-
sets, was the originator of PITCHERS CAS-
rORIA," the same that has borne and does now
bear the fac-simile signature Of CHAS. Fl.
FLETCHERson every wrapper. This is the
original PITCHERS CASTORIA" which has
been used I'M the homes Of the mothers OF
America for over thirty years. Look carefully
At the wrapper and see that it is the kind you
have always bought, and has the signature of
H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No
one has authority from me to use my name
except The Centaur Company OF which Chas
H. Fletcher is President.
March s, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M. D.
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Maine is again to enter the list of
copper mining states. The deposits,
which are numerous and valuable,
were worked more than twenty-five
years ago, but a sudden and great de-
cline in the price Of copper made them
Improbable; improved and cheapened
method Of production is the cause OF
resumption of work. Copper is a met
al with which the market is never over
stocked; although consumption in
creases rapidly from year to year, a
good copper mine is more valuable
than a gold mine.
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Miss Coldwater-"Is it possible that
you believe in the use of s~pirituous
liquors for medicinal purposes?"
The Naughty Man-"No, whoever
told you that wronged me. l don't be-
lieve in wasting liquor on people who
are too sick to appreciate it."-Cleye-
land Leader.
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mmic.-"Hey dere, Tommy! Oh,

Jimmic.-"Hey dere, Tommy! Oh,
Tommy"
Tommy.-"Well, wot's de trubble? ?"
Jimmie.-"Git yer brudder Ted, an
yer brudder Bill, and yer sister Kit,
an all de kids yer can, an hurry up!".
Tommy.-"Wot fur?"
Jimmie.-"Cause dere's a dago or
ange peddler out here in de alley OATS
bin tooken sick an fell down, an dere's
a cinch for us ter git away wild a good
ting. Come on"
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If you see a with something
like a gold safety pin shining at the
nape of her neck in her hair, don't tell
her about it or try to remove it. It
didn't get caught there by accident, but
was deliberately put there to fasten
up the short stray curls. This is not
a pretty fashion.
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The wretchcd Middle Glass.

Doctor-You ought to take that child
into the country for several weeks ev-
cry summer.
Mother-Oh, doctor, I'm sorry to say
we are not rich enough.
Doctor-Well, then, have her sent by
a fresh-air fund.
Mother-But, doctor, we're not poor
enough!-Fliegende Blaetter. .