Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1895, Page 9

r S++ Dis a+ MOVE. While leather prices are stffl continuing to move upward— our three great Sho> are rapidly with our alroedy proverbial low prices, Many of the lines, roviously edvertised, have boon fold—and we are alling he gaps with still. higher grades of Shoes at the same low prices, Tomorrow We Shall Sell: Infants’ Hand-sew- ed Tan Goat Button, Poe tips and top First ality Ten- AQC. pe ssn Bi M Poe Forwenty Mens, “Youths kasi hg He iren's, a Ladies’ Splerata {4 t Wearing Black and |? Tan Kid or Goat Oxford Ties. he —- , G06. et FORMERTY — Ppped Stslisn sant K Sand $1.5. dain hd Ladies’ and Misses’ |b4 At 95C- Preity White Kid Sandals and Canvas and Ti > i if Boys’ and Girls’ {4} Derable and Dressy |p¢ FORMERLY Tan Shres, low or | | $1.25 nnd $1.50. high ent. > Tailles’ exceptional |" valties of: bd) At Kid Oxford Thes— [4 6 sorts. ‘an Low Shoes—4 |} | kinds, I ‘Tan Tace or But- |P4 ; °, © ton—2 styl = 4 Men's or Ross’ is Russia - finish Tan Leather Shoes. Ladies’ Best Hend- sewed Mack or Tan |p4 Viel Kid Stylish Low Cut Ties, Button and Julicts. Any size, width or shape. Ladies’ Best Wear- FORMERLY $2.00. At $1.85. FORMERLY {ng Twh Goat Walk- |>4 £2.50 and $3. tne Boots. ibe Men's Hand-sewed |>4 Weit Russia Calf Tan lal ‘ $ 2 = : S 5) 5 ‘durable FORMERLY sold at any }}4 $3.00. Ss. , ‘ At Men's Bench-made rt Genuine Kangaroo, |>¢ Tm; 2 Le: F 1 2. Calf Shoes. AU the bd) 1 popular shapes. Of jpg! FORMERLY wide or pointed toes. 4) ¢ $3.50 and $4. Ig) Fe. for 10e. kind, | 4. 1de: for 200. kina. 4 | Biack or Tan Dressings. We. for 25e. kind. | Wm. Hahn & & ya's RFLIABLE SHOE HOUSES: | 920 ard $32 7th st. 1914 end 1930 Ps. sre, Pd 4 It Pa. ave. se. bab 6b 6.6 >ab bab seb bo as! Pt@t+Dt- St D+ Ot G+O+ GS? McKnew’s i‘ “Daily Letter.’ HALF-DAY SATURDAY BARGAINS. We shall crowd a dey's busincss in the haif day “tcmo:row—Saturday—by offering absolutely Irresistible bargains. These items represent a loss: On'y 25 pleces left of those 8 and 10°. Silk Ribbons. To Cos ee ua aC. yd. About 50 pleces of 12, 15, 18 and 20e. Silk Ribbons. To nae loc. yd. 1 lot of Women’s Swiss Ribbed Vests, white and ecru. 19¢. quality. To close..... Leseeseese Ee 1 lot of Women’s Silk and Lisle Thread Vests, all white and white with Were S0e. To a. BBE Taffeta Gloves, in All of our 25¢. S! Blacks, tans and grays. For “half day .. QC. All cf onr he. Black Silk Mitts. For “half day tomorrow IOC Drop Stite ft day" tomo: dozen Men's Washable Were —25e, 3 for 50c. About 8 of Men's Handsome ‘0c. wing-end Tecks. Sat, All ef the Men’s $1 Shits, beautiful ne. 29¢. eglige Saturday. 89c. 12 pairs of 50c, Summer Cor- to 30. To — 39¢. Saturday About 20 pairs of Rest The. Summer = - Sizes from 24 to be 50c. Suits, Waists, &c. Only bring abont two-thirds or one-balf expected to pay for ults, Walsts, &c. Every snd Cont tm stock has also been y redced, 0 have been walt- i be gind to learn that shipment of Serge Suits, se Suit fs a beauty. I throughout, box coat, ripple equal to any $20 Suit on the W.H.Mcknew 933 Pa. Ave. Sieg eer i e Best For Babies. Ey TALCUM POWDER cures red, tt Ty h Plain‘ or pe ‘10; w and ri i. EYANS' D2UC SrORe, 973 F z. FOURTHINHONOLULU Rev, Joseph Cook Makes Some Un- fortunate Remarks. CALLED 70 ORDER BY MR. WILLIS Some Grounds of Opposition to : Minister Castle. THK NEW COUNCIL Special Corr2spondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, July 4, 1895. The appointment of Mr. W. R. Castle as minister at Washington has encountered a strong opposition, which, however, has not been successful. A number of execu- tive appointments were submitted to the senate for confirmation in executive ses- sion, about two weeks ago. Senator Mc- Candiless strenuously opposed the confirma- tion of Mr. Castle. The subject was re- ferred to a committee, consisting of Sena- tors H. P. Baldwin, H. Waterhouse and Cecil Brown, all three experienced and trusted legislators. The committee last week, after cons‘derable delay, reported favorably. Mr. Castle was confirmed, but not without continued vehement opposition in the secret session. So much is learned, although secrecy in the matter was strong- ly enforced, and has been unusually well maintained. The Objection to Mr. Castle. It has been rather difficult to ascertain the precise grounds of objection urged against Mr. Castle. The Hawaiian Star voiced the opposition to him, in a series of editorials, continued daily from the 18th to the 26th. For prudential reasons the Star has scrupulously avoided making any specific charge or naming any particular objection to the appointee, confining itself to such expressions as “Seven to every ten in the government party object to him’— “The pulse-beat reads that Mr. Castle was pot the man for the place’—“The choice was received with expressions of surprise, with derisive comment, with wonder at the thing”—“Everybody knows a dozen strong reasons against him”—‘“This pecu- Har, distasteful and unsuitable selection.” The Star has also urged the claims of Mr. Frank Hastings to be made minister, especially on the ground that he is accept. able to the administration, This considera- tion does not weigh much with this gov- ernment, who will send no man to repre- sert them who has not been thoroughly and zealously identified with themselves in the deadly war which Messrs. Cleveland and Gresham have waged against them. They want no neutral or half-hearted man. This is not saying that Mr. Hastings is such, or that he has not performed his subordinate duties with ability and fidelity, as is well understood to have done. He has scarcely at all, however, in former years been identified with the reform party or the men of the revolution of 1893. In- deed, his associates and intimates were quite as much of the opposite class, as was not unnatural during his long service as United States vice consul. Had Mr. Castle been rejected, there were many other men whose services would have been sought in preference to Mr. astings’. It should be said that the editor of the Star is a recent arrival, and writes as he is prompted by others. The New Minister. To tha best of my knowledge, the appolnt- ment of Mr. Castle was received by a ma- jority of the supporters of the government as a most fitting one, in view cf his ability, his zealous ‘dentification with the reform party and the revolution, and his personal Magnetism and geniality. Hardly any other man of approximate fitness could be found who would be feady, like him, to sacrifice his own business for the public in- terest. There is no money to be made by him in going to Washington. He sacrifices His business profits in taking this duty. Indeed, the chief cause of the most serious charge against Mr. Castle, as urged before the committee, has been his readiness to postpone his private business to public- spirited service in the legislature and other political and benevolent work. From this disposition, and from asthmatic malady, his legal business has sometimes suffered neglect, and clients have been dissatisfied, although he has continued to be crowded with business. It was made the worst alle- gation aginst him that he was negligent, and could not be relied_upon for faithful devotion to his work at Washington. ‘Another cause of antagonism, perhaps not very serious, was an alleged lack of straightforwardness on his part some ten years ago, in the legislature, upon a Chi- nese question. He has long had @ large Chinese clientele, and would naturally be suspected of favoring that class. Besides the foregoing positive grounds of antago- nism, was a jealousy in the radical body, the American League, about their not being consulted, and being taken by “surprise” in the appointment, and also some feeling among the ant!-missionary element, about so many sons of missionaries holding office. Certain family friends of Mr. Hastings also thought they saw an opportunity to get him promoted. Altogether quite a storm was raised against the appointee, apparent- ly with little tangible cause. It !s a small teapot of a country, you know. The New, Council of Siate. In the multiplicity of subjects occupying the attention of the executive the past year since the new constitution of the republic was made, there is evidenca that neither they nor the members of the legislature have kept themselves completely posted about Its plain provisions. Curious blunders were made in consequence in choosing members ef the new ouncil of state.” This is a body exercising certain advisory powers, composed of fifteen members, five of them chosen by the lower house, five hy the senate and five by the executive. Their qualifications for choice are made the same as for legislators. For that position no official or employe ef the government is eligible. Notwithstanding this, three of the five gentlemen chosen by the house held cffices as notaries or on public boards. They had to resign thos2 offices, and then the house re-elected them. Stil! Tse Was the president and cabinet appointing to the council the clerk of the suprems court, a half white, who could not afford to an is valuable position. Besides him there is cone full native councillor and two part e. At of the new council were members of the late advisory council, who formed such an important part of the provisional government, as well as of the government of the republic, exercising temporary legis- lative power, until the assembling of the legislature, when that council ceased to exist. The first official duty which the new council of state has been called upon to perform was to sanction the pardons by the president of a large number of the late insurgents. Ex-Minister Thurston. Ex-Minister Thurston opened a law office last week. Important cases came to him at once. Rather oddly, the very first one was that of C. A. Spreckels against his redoubt- able sire, Col. Claus Spreckels. Thurston has met the father before in active hostili- ties. Employing him means war on the old man to the knife. Categorically, un- qualifiedly, absolutely, does Thurston deny all and every item of the Washington tele- grams of a month ago attributing to him various conferences with Secretary Gres- ham on the subject of annexation, in which any agreement was obstructed by Thurs- ton’s refusing to entertain any view look- ing to a change in the relations of Asiatic aliens in conformity to United States laws. Thurston cays that he never had, at any time, one moment's conference of any sort whatever with the Secretary of State upon the subject of annexation. Mr. Gresham always refused to permit that subject to be touched. On the matter of dealing with the “alien” element, Mr, Thurston has always been one of the foremost opponents of Asiatic immigration. To counteract that he zeal- ously went lately to Lisbon and secured a fresh immigration of Portuguese laborers for the necessities of the plantations. No yaan is more anxious to secure here a European and American population to dis- place the already too numerous Chinese and Japanese. One of his strong reasons for desiring annexation is the thereby ex- pected enforcing here of United States laws 0 as to put an end to Chinese immigra- tion, and to the objectionable contract sys- THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1895-TWELVE PAGES, tem, without which Japanese would not be numerously imported. That whole story im the Washington dispatches referred to is as ridiculous a canard as the previous cne that Thurston wanted to restore the monarchy under Kalulani. One’s curiosity is excited to learn who invents and man- ages to circulate such preposterous false- hoods, and with what motive it can pos- sibly have been done. Joseph Cook’s Criticisms. The distinguished public lecturer, Joseph Cook, LL. D., is here for a fortnight, the guest of his Yale classmate, Chief Justice Judd. He expresses the highest admiration of President Dole and his associates in the government, and thinks they have ability and character “enough to govern six king- doms.” Dr. Cook, however, holds extreme “manhood suffrage” views, and is some- what stumbled at our limited suffrage for electing senators. He cheerfully admits that our present conditions may justify such a departure from sound political prac- tice as to order an income qualification cf $600 for senatorial electors. But he doubts Whether New England can consent to ad- mit to state fellowship a commonwealth with such illiberal institutions, He also shrinks at finding such a lack of conformity to sound republican principles as what he regards as extraordinary pow- ers given to the senate. First, the senate ecntrols the electicn of the president. Ar- ticle 24, section 2 of the ccnstitution, says: “For the purposes of such election the Senate and tne house of representatives shall sit together. The election shall be by ballot, and the person receiving a ma- jority vote of all the elective members to which the legislature is entitled. which ma- jority shall include a majority of all the senatcrs, shall be president. for the suc- ceeding term,” etc. Power of the Senate. A mere majority of the senate can thus Prevent the election of any president they deem unsuitable, while no majority of the house can do so unless the senate majority is no larger. Undl an election is effected the existing president kolds over. It was considered indispensable to the public safe- ty to prevont the election of the president from falling into the ccntrol of the incom- petent majority of the native voters. Dr. Cook finds it hard to reconcile his mind to the admission of a state so far away from seund republican principles. Again, the senate has a somewhat similar power in respect to appropriation bills. In case the two houses fail to agree upon the appropriations, then the old appropriation law of the previous period holds over or continues in force. It thus becomes impos- sible for a turbuient lower house, chosen by en ignorant majority, to block the gov- ernment by 1efusing the ordirary supplies. The eppropriation bill has also to be first Presented to the senate, a really unimport- ant matter, but which Dr. Cook finds re- pugnant to his republican principles, as he does the rest of it. While admitting that our social conditions probably make these provisions indispersable to the public safe- ty, he thinks them repugnant to New England principles of freedom. We are too much of an “oligarchy”’ to come into the free and demccratic Unien. On our part we fali to see the justice of being called an.oligarchy. We point to the great amount of power and influence ex- erted by the lower house, notwithstanding the superior control lodged in the senate. We show the senate to contain no charac- teristic of an oligarchic body, by reason of the fact that it is chosen by a body of electors,the large majority of whom are artisans and others dependent upon their daily labo~—the irdustricus, hard-handed men who earn two dollars a day and over. Few artisans earn less than three dollars a day in this country. There are some- thing like one thousand natives possessing the $600 income, co as to vote for senators, and that thrifty, intelligent class of na- tives will usually vote fcr good senators. A Temporary Arrangement. Besides the foregoing reply to Dr. Cook's objections, it may be pointed out that the present arrangement may be viewed as a temporary one. It is cn the road toward an enlarged suffrage, to be adopted as fast as the conditions render it safe. It should especially be noted that there has not been the slightest retrogression away from free institutions, Former voting provisions un- der the monarchy were far less liberal. Then the common people chose the repre- sentatives, but had no voice whatever in choosing the nobles. Those were always appointed by the king until 1887, when the present system of chcosing. the upper house was adopted in the liberal constitution thea forced upon Kalakaua. , Neither. the native rulers or any one else had ever regarded the mass of the native People competent to exercise a controlling power in the government. The principle of “manhood suffrage” has not even yet be- come thoroughly applicable to them. When they were made voters in 1851 the!r man- hood was undeveloped. They were but children, not full-grown men. The majority of these voters are still but children in in- telligence and character. More time needs yet to be given for their attainment of capable manhood. It is safe to assume that such maturity has been attained by most of those who possess the $600 income. The rest need to wait a while longer. The wis- dom of the old chiefs and their white help- ers who refused to commit government con- trol to these masses is not recklessly to be discarded in compliance with an abstract principle of “manhood sfiffrage,”” unquali- filedly applied. Nor is Dr. Cook-to be un- derstood as demanding it, although he, per- haps, fails to recognize how earnestly we are seeking to approximate to the desired goal of complete democracy. What Annexation Will Do. But what will the most rapidly and effec- tually facilitate the desired progress to complete manhood suffrage will be annexa- tion itself. Nothing can be more certain than that annexation to the United States would immediately be followed by a large and continuous immigration of Americans. These white immigrants would speedily constitute a large majority of the voting populatioa, far outnumbering the 13,000 native voters. All apprehension would cease of the ignorance and incompetence of that class proving disastrous to the government of the country. The average capacity of our voters would rapidly, become equal to that in other American states. The pres- ent necessity for a property qualitication would cease to be indispensable to the pub- lie safety, and such Hmitation could be re- moved. In the meantime, should we, in obedience to a theory, prematurely abolish Hmitations to suffrage, could we «xpect to commend ourselves to our American friends by exhibiting to them a commonwealth in a consequent state of disorder, under the rule of worthless demagogues, placed in power by the ignorant native majority? It would seem probable that your statesmen of all sections are- more likely to respect our little state, and to welcome It into your grand partnership, if we continue our past course of prudence and moderation, moving with caution among the reefs and shoals in the dangerous passage from monarchy to democracy. Since writing the above I have listened to what se2med in most respects a dis- criminaling address by Dr. Cook at today’s celebration, in which he explicitly exoner- ated us from the charge of being an “oll- or of having any element of in our government. This address was delivered at ncon today in Independ- ence Hall. The United States minister, Willis, was officially presiding, directing the exercises in an appropriate and im- pressive manner. I deeply regret to report an extremely unpleasant episode, in which Dr. Cook and Mr. Willic had a severe and painful altercation. The sympathies of the large audience, mainly American, were manifestly with the American minister, who, I am constrained to say, appeared to ba quite in the right. An Unfortunate Episode. The distinguished Boston lecturer had been invited to speak at what was strictly an American celebration. It had been pro- posed to combine the celebration of Ameri- can independence and that of the birth of the republic of Hawaii, both occurring on the same day. Minister Willis had dis- tinctly explained to the committee of ar- rangements that his official position would debar him from presiding at any other than a simply American celebration, from which Hawatian issues should be excluded. This was fully agreed to, and that under- Standing- was made public. Presumably Dr. Cook was aware of this adopted limi- tation upon the topics to be discussed on the occasion. If aware, he disregarded it, and launched into a discussion of the con- ditions under which the republic of Ha- wail was now being conducted. He made little reference to the war of independence, but made his discourse a lecture td us upon Hawaiian affairs and our fitness for annexation and political needs generally. In doing so he found much occasion to in- sist upon New England views and northern principles as dominating the United States, and necessary to prevail in Hawali, at the same time reprobating southern caste prin- ciples and race antagonism. Minister Wi Interferes. The audience felt painfully that the ‘whole discussion was outside of the limita- tions of the occasion, and that the talk about northern and southern principles must be offensive tO’ the Kentucky demo- crat who was officially presiding. Mr. Willis, however, remained quiet until Dr. Cook, in urging all Americans to register and vote in this republic, touched upon a cause why many abstalied from register- ing here, on accor of the nostility of the administration. At this point the Ameri- can minister ar< called the speaker to order and admini to him a severe reprimand for discoursing upon topics un- suited to the occasign. The audience very loudly applauded Mg. Willis, who added a remark that it did not become the speaker to come here and ventilate exclusive views from Boston in a mopolitan cammunity like that of Honol This elicited more applause. Dr. Cook’ tien demanded to learn what he had sald that was improper. “Your whole address,” replied Mr. Willis, “is inadmissible on this occasion, although I could have heard it all with pleasure elsewhere.” Dr. Cook then said that Boston, to which the chairman objected, had rendered some important service in the war of independ- ence, and that he was not ashamed of his Place of residence. Mr. Willis responded that he held Boston in the highest esteem. Dr. Cook then said, emphtically, that he was not accustomed to wear a stralght- jacket or to be gagged, and that his ad- dress would be published, together with the interruptions. The eminent lecturer then proceeded to make a few concluding remarks on his topic in rather general terms. He was compelled to hasten away, as his steamer for New Zealand was then leaving the dock. No cheers from the aud‘ence followed him. In Dr. Cook’s Behalf. It is due to Dr. Cook to say that after his earnest and sympathetic study of our conditions his incentive was extremely strong to leave with us some\instructive, encouraging and prophetic words. He is also a man unaccustomed to subject him- self to much limitation of occasions. Prob- ably had he,not opened the sore topic of Hawaiian relations with your administra- tion, Mr. Willis would have remained si- lent. Had he then not spoken he might have peen Hable to official censure. Per- haps he was too vehement in his manner, and more courtesy might have been wiser. But he could not fail to be greatly irri- tated by the speaker’s tone of superiority in disparaging southern principles. Dr. Cook is an admirer of Charles Sumner, andp ilke him, is not averse to rousing southern anger. We are sorty to have the fracas take place on an occasion when all de- sired good feeling. But people say it is no quarrel of ours, and Dr. Cook is abundant- ly able to stand up for himself. The president this afternoon announced the release, subject to remand at his will, of forty-five of the more ignorant class of the insurgents, who_were working out five- year sentences, He also commuted the long sentences of eight of the leading in- surgents by reductions of from three- sevenths to one-half. These last seem proper to be interpreted a3 tokens of dis- position to grant further lenience as fast as conditions permit. . The supreme court has rendered its deci- sion sustaining the validity of the military commiss‘on, It occupied an hour in the reading. It has not yet been published. KAMEHAMEHA. ——__ PHEHISTORIC TUNNEL. Apporently luplements of Stone Were Empleyed in Its Construction. From the Butte Daily Ipter-Mouatain. A few weeks ago a’number of well-known residents of Butte lefy-here on a prospect- ing expedition to thé Big Hole country. Among the number were W. D. Clark and Thomas J. Howard. (Rhey are men of un- impeachable veracity, who number their friends by the hupiiregs in this city. This latter statement is perhaps made necessary by what ts to follow. = The gentlemen returred to Butte ®last evening, and today. filed for record a loca- tion notice of the Catalpa lode claim, which the notice says is Jecated thre2 miles south of the Divide station en Fleecer mountain, @ portion of country that has not been prospected very thoroughly on account of the large amount of gnow in that locality during the summer months. The remark- able-part of the Te ig of this claim is the statement of Igoators that they dis- covered a tunnel fifty feet long, which had been driven. thio,the mountafi appar- ently several years ago. * In prospectiifé alongithe side of the moun- tain the men found several pieces of good- looking copper ore in a hollow which they at first supposed to be a buffalo wallow in the days when those animals’ roamed the prairies of the Big Hole country. The prospectors, believing that there was @ lead somewhere in the vicinity, began to dig in the mountain side. After an hour's hard labor they were considerably sur- prised to find the earth suddenly yleld to the blows of the pick and a big hole loom up before them. They cleared away the earth ‘and en- tered a tunnel about six feet high and four feet wide, walled in with blocks of stone. The top of the tunnel was protected by large flat stones, and for about twenty-five feet_there was not a break in the primitive timbéring. About twenty-five feet from the mouth of this tunnel the prospectors came to a spot where the earth had apparently broken down the stonework, and after clearing away the debris the men were enabled to go ‘n about twenty-five or thirty feet further. Here they came to a ledge, vhich was carefully examined, but as to What was discovered there the men will Say nothing, except that they found some implements, made of stone which had ap- parentiy been used in driving the tunnel. The men are positive that the work was not done in this age or generation, for the Teason that at the mouth of the tunnel there was a hardy pine tree growing, and the ground surrounding it was covered with @ growth of sage brush which has not been disturbed for years. The men are very reticent as to the dis- covery, and all efforts to ascertain the ex- tent and richness of the ledge have been unavailing. They will return to the place a soon as they secure a quantity of sup- piles, ——___+ e+_____ English Cabinet Relationships. From the Westminster Gazette. The number of rear relations by blood or marriage in the new administration fs In- teresting. We have a father and son, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Austen Chamberlain; a father-in-law and a son-in-law, Lord Salisbury and Lord Selborne; two brothers, Messrs. Arthur and Gerald Balfour; an uncle and two nephews, Lord Salisbury and the Messrs. Balfour, and two brothers- in-law, Lord George Hamilton and Lord Lansdowne. It is very generally stated that, in the event of the new government having a majority at the general election, Mr. W. J. Lowther will be nominated for the post of chairman of committees. This will again introduce to office another near relation of cabinet ministers. Mr. Lowther is a nephew by marriage of Lord Salis- bury, and a first cousin of the new home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley. It is remarkable that, although the lib- eral unionists have secured posts in the government in the ratio of one to every sev- en of their number iff the house of com- mons, in a cabinet of nineteen members only four—if we place Mr. Goschen among the conservatives, only three, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Aylestone (Sir H. James), and Mr. Chamberlain—@re liberal unionists. The large number! of’ ministers comprised within the cabinet-gives significance to the circumstances indientet. by the Times that a select few ‘‘will-constitute an inner cir- cle.” The nominal: cabinet ministers, con- sisting largely of pnjonist “hacks,” will be sent for on spectal occasions when Mr. Chamberlain seems inclined to be trouble- some as out-voter whose services Lo! arf “‘utility men,” on Salisbury can rely. “Yes,” answered the wife. He paled. cae “Tuis is so sudden,” he gasped. While they were working to revive him she blamed herself for not having apprised him of the new light that kad burst upon her. She could see that it would have been better kad she broken it to him gradually. For example, she might better have sald: “In thirty seconds,” if she d:d not wish to say as of old, “In a minute.” ——_+«+-__—_- Stanley J. Weyman. ‘Tomorrow’s Star will contain the first in- stallment of “The Cat and The King,” a most interesting story by Stanley J. Wey- man, author of “A Gentleman of France,” ete., one of the most popular authors of the day. The story will be in three install- ments, published daily, beginning tomorrow. A detective story of intense interest by Howard Fielding, called “Stamps Enclosed for Reply,” will be published in full in the same issue. MR. AND MRS. BLOSSOM A Revelation That Came to Thetff bt a Child's Bedside. A Hotsehold I Which No Children Had Come to Brighten Life and Bring Happincss. Eugene Field in the Chicago Record. The name we meant to call her was An- nette, for that was a name I always liked. *Way back, before I got married, I made up my mind that if ever I had a daughter I should call her Annette. My intention was good enough, but circumstances of a pe- cullar nature led me to abandon the idea which in anticipation afforded me really a lot of pleasure. My circumstances have al- ways been humble. I say this ™ no spirit of complaint. We have very much to be thankful for, and we are particularly grate- ful for the blessing which heaven has be- stowed upon us in the person of our dear child—our daughter who comes from school tonight to spend Thanksgiving with us and with our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Blossom. I must tell you how we became acquainted with the Blossoms, When our-baby was two years old I used to sit of mornings, befcre going to my work, on the front steps, watching the baby playing on the sidewalk. This fleas. antest half hour of the day I divided be- tween the little one and my pipe. One morning, as I sat there smoking and as the little one was toddling to and fro on the sidewalk, a portly, nice-looking old gen- tleman came down the street, and, as luck would have it, the baby got right in his path, and before I could get to_her she tangled herself all up with the old gentle- man’s legs and cane. The old gentleman seemed very much embarrassed, but, bless your soul! the baby liked it! = “A pretty child—a*beautiful child!” said the old gentleman, and then he inquired: “Boy or girl?” “Girl,” says I, and I nanan: “Two years old and w2ghs thirty pounds.” : “That must be a great deal for a little girl to weigh,” said the old gehtleman, and I saw that his eyes lingered lovingly and yearningly upon the child. I am sure he wanted to say more, but all at once, as if he suddenly recollected himself, he glanced furtively up the street, and then, turning as suddenly the other way, he resumed his course down town. I thought to myself that he was a kindly old gentleman, a trifle queer, perhaps, but of a gentle nature. Three or four times within a week after that a similar experience with this old gen- tleman befell me and the baby. He would greet her cheerlly; sometimes he would pat her head, and I saw that his heart warm- ed toward ker. But all the time he talked with us he seemed to act as if he feared he was being watched, and he left us abruptly—sometimes breaking away in the middle of a sentence as if he was afraid he might say something he ought not to say. At last, however, I learned that his name was Blossom, and that Mrs. Blossom and he lived alone in a fine house up yonder in @ more fashionable part of our street. In an outburst of confidence one morning he told me that he was-very fond of children, and that he felt that much was gone out of his life because no little one had ever come to Mary and himself. “But,” he added, with an air of assumed cheerfulness, ‘‘as Mary does not like chil- dren at all, It is perhaps for the best that none has ever come to us.”” I now understood why Mr. Blossom was so cautious in his attentions to our baby; he was fearful of be:ng observed by his wife; he felt that it was his duty to humor her in her disjnclination to children. I pitied the dear old-gentleman, and for the same reason conceived a violent dislike for Mrs. Blossom. But my wife Cordelia told me something one day that set my heart to aching for both the two old people. “A sweet-looking old lady passed the house this afternoon,” said Cordelia, “and took notice of baby asleep in my arms on the porch. She stopped and asked me all about her and presently she kissed her, and then I saw she was crying softly to herseif. I asked her if she had ever lost a little girl, and she said no. ‘I have always been childless,’ said the sweet old lady. ‘In all the years of my wifehood I have be- sought but one blessing.of heayen—the joy of maternity. My prayers are unanswered, and it Is perhaps better so.’ She told me then that her husband did not care for children; she could hardly reconcile his pro- fessed antipathy to them with his warm, gentle and loyal nature; but it was well, if he did not want children, that none had come.”” 4 “What was the old lady's name?” I asked. “Mrs. Blossom,” said my wife Cordelia. I whistled softly to myself. Then I told Cordelia of my experience with Mr. Blos- som, and we wondered where and when and how this pathetic comedy of cross- Purposes would end. We talked the mat- ter over many a time after that, and we agreed that it would be hard to find an instance of deception more touching than that which we had met with in the daily Life of Mr. and Mrs. Blossom. Meanwhile the two old people became more and more attached to our precious baby. Every morning brought Mr. Blossom down the street with a smile and a caress and a tender word for the little one, that toddled to méet him and overwhelm him with her innocent prattle. Every afternoon found the sweet-looking old lady in front of our house, fondling our child and feeding her starving maternal instinct upon the little one's caresses. EM one—the old gentle- man and the old lady—each one confessed by action and by word to an overwhelming love for children, yet between them stood that pitiless He, conceived of the tenderest consideration for each other, but resulting in lifelong misery. I tell you it was mighty hard sometimes for Cordelia and I not to break out with the truth! It eccurred to us both that there would eventually come a time when the friend- ship of Mr. and Mrs. Blossom wovld be precious indeed to our Gaughter. We had great hopes of that child, and all our day drecms Involved her. She must go to school, she must be educated, she must want nothing; there was no_concetyable sacrifice which Cordelia and I would not make gladly fer our little girl. Would we be willing to share her love with these two childless old people, who yearned for that love and were ready to repay it with every benefit which riches can gupply? We ask- ed ourselyes that question a thousand times. God helped us to answer it. The winter set in early and suddenly. We were awakened one night by that hoarse, terrifying sound which chills the parent heart with anxiety. Our little one was flushed with fever and there was a rattling in her throat when she breathed. When the doctor came he told us not to be frightened; this was a mild form of croup, he said. His medicines seemed to give relief, for presently the child breathed easier and slept. Next morning an old gentleman on his way down town worcered why the baby was not out to greet him with a-hilarious shout; he felt that here— all about his heart—which ‘told him that two dimpled hands had taken hold and held him fast. An oid lady came to the door that day and asked questions hurried- ly and in whispers, and went away crying to herself under her veil. When it came night again the baby was as good as well. I was rocking her and telling her a story,- when the door bell rang. A moment later—I could hardly be- lieve my-senses, but Mr. Blossom stood be- fore me. “I heard she was sick,” said he, coming up to the cradle and taking the baby’s hand awkwardly, but tenderly, in his. ‘ou can never know how I have suffered all day, for this little cne has grown very dear to me, and I dare not think wha: 1 should do tf evil were to befall her. Tonight I told my wife a He. I sald-that I had a business engagement ihat cal!ed me down town; I told her that in order to hasten here without letting her know the truth. She does not like children; I would not for the world have her know how tenderly I love this little one.” He was still talking to me in this wise when I heard a step upon the stairway. I went to the door and opened it. Mrs. Blossom stood there. “I have worried all day about the baby,” she said, excitedly. “Fortunately, Mr. Blossom was called down town this even- ing, and I have run in to ask how our precious baby is. I must go away at once, for he does not care for children, you know, and I would not have him know how dear this babe has grown to me!” Mrs. Bloscom stood on the threshold as she said these words. And then she saw the familiar form of thé dear old gentle- man bending over the cradle, holding the baby’s hands in Mr. Blossom had recognized his wife’s voice and heard her words, “Mary!” he cried, and he turned and fac- d._ her. She said, “Oh, John!”—that was all, and ber head drooped upon her breast. So there they stood before each other, con- fronted by the revelation which they had thought buried in long and many years. She was the first to speak, for women are braver and stronger than men. She eccused herself and took all the blame. But he would not lsten to her self-re- Proaches. And they spoke to each other— I know not what things, only that they ‘Mere tender and sweet and of consolation. I remember that at the last he put his arm about her as if he had not been an aged man and she were not white haired and bowed, but as if they two were walking in the springtime of their love. “It is God’s will,” he said, “and let us not rebel against it. The journey to the end is but a little longer now; we have come so far together, and surely we can go on alon “No, not alone,” I said, for the inspira- tion came to me then, “Our Ittle child yonder—God has lent this lambkin to our keeping—share her love with us. There is 80 much, so very much you can do for her which we cannot do, for we are poor and you are rich. Help us to care for her and share her love with us and she shall be your child and ours.” That was the compact between us fifteen years ago, and they have been happy, very happy years. Blossom—we call her Blos- som, after the dear old friends who have been sd good to her and to us—she comes from school tonight, and tomorrow we shall sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with our daughter. We always speak of her as “our daughter,” for, you know, she be- longs now no more to Cordelia and me than to Mr. and Mrs, Blossom. ——+e+. LEATHER IS SCARCE. Some Curious Facts Disclosed in Securing French Army Supplies. From the Nex York Worid. Leather is so scanty and high of price just now in France that the minister of war is greatly perplexed over the question of how to secure the necessary footwear for the great number of men which that nation keeps continually in readiness for its deferse. Not only this, but a sufficient supply of leather for the saddles, harness and other furnishings of the cavalry and artillery is lacking. When the government invited bids re- cently for the equipment of the troops with shoes and horse furniture, the only con- tractors who dared make an offer demand- ed so high a figure that their propositions were rejected, and those who have yet con- tracts to fill for these articles are seeking every means possible to break them, fear- ing that ruin will be the result if they are compelled to carry out their agreements. Hides have doubled in price since the be- ginning of the present year. This unusual state of affairs in the leather trade was thought at first to be the result of a cor- ner in the market, but it has since become evident that the remarkable scarcity in that commodity is produced by a varicty of simple and natural causes. Three of the principal reasons for this dearth of leather are: The recent war be- tween China and Japan; the many revolu- tions and bloody conflicts in the South American republics, and the scarcity of fodder and pasturage owing to the unfavor- able weather of last year and the year be- fore in the countries ofthe world from which the principal supply of hides eomes. As can readily be conceived, the poverty of pasturage is a potent factor in the de- crease of the supply of cattle and of hides. The number of cattle this year which will furnish skins for the tanneries of the world has not reached anywhere near that of former years. Though the grazing lands are recovering from the effects of the long and severe drouths, which, with the con- sequent fires, have killed rauch of the grass, it will be another twelve months, even un- der the most favorable conditions, before they can supply cattle in sufficient num- bers to even partly meet the demand. This disproportion between the demand and the supply is being felt not only in France, but also in every other manufaciuring country whtch depends upcn the prairies and pam- pas of the western hemisphere for the sup- ply of leather. In the countries of South America where the catile run wild in great herds the un- favorable climatic conditions have been less severe in their results, but nearly every one of these countries has been the theater of a devastating civil war which has left the people little chance to think of any- thing else, and has left the scanty popula- tion still further reduced and crippled. The catastrophes of the climate and of war in South America, although serious enough in themselves, would not alone Lave been sufficient to bring about the present state of affairs. It is the war between China and Japan which is more directly responsible for the Jearth which now pre- vails. When war was declared Japan placed large contracts in the United States for the equipment of Its infantry and cav- alry with footwear and other furnishings. To fill these promptly the contractors in this country bought up nearly all the vis- ible supply of ieather suitable for that pur- pose. Since the war closed Japan hag sent new orders of equal importance to the mer- chants here for fresh supplies of shoes’ and military trappings, and the qarkets haye been swept bare to fill them. The price of “green” hides has therefore risen so high that the tanners are buying as little as they can, and a large percentage of the tanneries throughout the world are closed. In France espec'ally the wholesale manu- facture of shoes is in a deplorable dtate. Generally the product of one season is’ made up to sell the next, but owing to th high prices prevailing this year for the necessary Taw material a great number of the shoe factories are closing and throwing out of employment a larze number of workmen. An immediate and practical solution of the question seems impossible. The crisis has not yet been reached, and the ultimate outcome will be interesting to note. e+ ___ HUGUENOTS AND THE MAYFLOWER. Interesting Story Told of the Early Settlers of South Carolina, From the Charleston (8.C.) News. The memorial tribute to Mr. Daniel Rav- erel, published for private distribution by the family, contains historical facts of cu- rious interest and value but recently brought to light by the Investigations of the indefatigable and accomplished author. Witness the following extract: “It is not generally known, but is a his- torical fact, that, as early as the 10th of February, 1629, French Protestant refu- gees in England were in communication with Charles I for planting a colony in what is now South Carolina, and that the patent Issued to Sir Robert Heath, as sole proprietor of this extensive region, grew out of the proposals of Soubise, Due de Fontenay, representing French refugees in England, whose name is tnudissolubly as- sociated with Rochelle, France, and of An- toine de Ridouet, Baron de Sance, his sec- retary. “In 1630 a colony of French Protestants actually sailed from England for Carolina, and, as this most interesting record shows, in the ship Mayflower. Could it have been the same vessel that carried the Puritans to Plymouth Rock? “How mysterious is that strange fate which from a small circumstance changes the largest promised*Yesu!ts! “These unfortunate French colonists were forced to endure further sacrifices and dis- eppointments. For some unexplained cause they were landed in Virginia, and although the owners of the vessel were made to pay £600 damages for the miscarriage of his hepeful voyage, it was insignificant, in com- parison with the loss of an early and prom- ising founding, forty years in advance of the Ashley river settlement in the spring of 1670. “If we have ylelded at this length to the mention of the identity of the Huguenot refugees with Carolina it Is for the reason that it is a congenial topic, and has its proper significance and relation, as well so- cially as historically; for the countrymen of Coligny have left their impress on their new homes everywhere in the western world, and nowhere more distinctly than in the land of the stately oak, festooned with gray mos3 or wreathed with yellow jas- mine, where the queenly magnolia scatters the perfume of its white flowers, and the evergreen palmetto sentinels the shore, typical of heroic deeds. _ “It Is, too, a pleasant’ memory tha‘ the | Huguenots were among the earliest settiers | under Charles II’s grant to the eight iords | proprietors, and that between 1670-80 they } were in numbers equal to the founding of a church in Charlestown, and that the lot at the southeast corner of Queen * and Church streets in that city has been occu- pied since 1680-81 by church buildings of the French Protestants.” a ‘The Union Stock Yards at Rodeo, Costa county, Cal, will be foreck craditors, to secure the payment worth of bonds. most of which we: in the east. ‘The bishon of Winchester Whit Ferrand and A murder, were hanged at & yesterday. 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