The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1895, Page 2

¢ e seicaumeenntemsinrer Ce ag agen me Why do dogs bark ? Because they are cowards. They are like some men. (age A brave man will not give the the enemy a warning. = samme SE Some people don’t know a good thing when they see it. ee. It is a bad policy to let some peo- ple know how much you think of them. A stern and resolute person can- not be insulted. People who have smiles for every one is often thought to be soft, or very deceitful. A soft minded person often be- lieves that flattery is a compliment to them. ae We often allow ourselves to be led astray by flattery. One favor is more often” appre- ciated than fifty gifts from a true friend. Some of the candidates ought to take a rest. Jesse Roy had a close call last week. He had the sporting fraternity very uneasy about him. He would be missed if fate should decide that he should pass over at this time. When you make promises you} should keep them. Marriage is a failure in the Teyes of some people. Divorces are numerous now. You should not marry until you are well satisfied with your better half. A good wife is a jewel. wives are never satisfied. Some | Neither are some husbands. Keep your eyes on the pious man. A false man or woman is unfit | for a husband or wife. Don’t make promises if you in- tend to break them. Gleason is a head thus far. If there is a man on the track to beat him hold him. If Editor Cooper’s model for aspiring youth should fall and} break, what would become of his tools ? The colored department of the colored exposition will open on Monday. The Editor will visit the Atlanta exposition. Why cannot colored social clubs be conducted like other clubs ? Don’t be alarmed if acolored ser- geant is appointed. A eolored steamboat company iz a certainty. The program for the press asso- ciation for Atlanta looks like a mus tual admiration affair. The president andjsecretary seem to get on for newspaper notoriety. It is best that they should get all the glory out of it now. There may be a cyclone strike them in ’96. The Southern Recorder should not have been left out. Do you read the BEE ? Get next weeks BrE by all means. It will contain something great. It will tell you all about it. It is the greatest thing that ever occurred. The people read the Brr. The Bee will be there to put life in the craft if nothing more. The truly wondertut effect produced by De. Alex. _nder B. Wilbor’s Compound of Pure Cod-Liver Oil and Phosphates renders it beyond doubt the most cerfect preparation of ite kind known to-day. ‘Consumption, coughs, colds,asthma, debility,wast 1g diseases and all scrofulous humors disappear un ter its influence. It is almostas palatable as cream It can be taken with pleasure by delicate persons anu children, who, after using it, become very fond of it it assimilates with the food, increases the flesh an¢ ppetite, bulics up, the nervous system, restores nergy to mind and body, creates new, rich and blood, in fact, rejuvenates the whole system, flesh, blooa: nerve, brain. This preparation is far superior toall other preparations of cod-liver oil; {thas many fmitators, but no equals. The results following its use are its best recommendations. Be sure, as eS value your health, ana get the genuine. Mam gored only by Da ALEZANDER B, Wipon, ston Sees pee arehy? When one remembers the har- mony and enthusiasm that were enlisted against Tammany last fail, the present chaotic efforts at a reform combination seem rather tame. For many reasons the enthusiasm has dropped out of the teform movement. Mr. Roosevelt is largely responsible for this fact, because of bis sturdy efforts to suppress Sunday beer. This was a hot summer, and a very large part of our population are either of Teutonic extraction or Teu- tonic tastes. Both Mr. Roosevelt and vor Strong are left very much in the lurch by the new reform alliance, whi-n has been patched up between the Re- cans and the State Democrats, on a worded excise plank. But all elements of last year’s reform ation seem tc be wandering in the woods of independence or seeking The Oldest Employee. refuge under the wing of Tammany. The Good Government Clubs have a ticket of thei: own, and it is bound to} attract the support of many of the real} independents. The German-American Reform Union, which was a very im- portant element in last year’s campaign against Tammany, has now joined forces with that ancient organization in favor of more liberal Sunday laws. The Stecklers and O’Briens are each run- ning an independent branch of reform, but they are more likely to drift iv Tammany than to the fusion camp. It has seemed difficult this year to rouse interest in the “reform” cry. The reason is that the city really has re- form. The streets are cleaner than ever before, the city departments are well ad- ministered, the excise laws have been enforced, and everybody ought to be happy. But they are not. Such is the inconsistency of human nature. Reform has cost much money, and has tread on nearly everybody’s toes. The old prob- lem is presented of harmonizing ideal government with personal liberty. It is no discredit to the present city officials that they have not solved it. Nobady ever has solved it. Perhaps Jefferson came as near to it as anybody when he d+clared “That government is the best that governs the least,” but Jefferson never tackled the job of governing a great city. A feature of the present business situ- ation is the high prices that at present! characterize the real estate mar’ Sales have been somewhat checked by the strong prices asked during the past week. This upward tendency is a nu- tural result of previous free bu. e grand jury, in presenting Mr. Jot reland, the owner of the buiid hich recently fell, crushing oui sev , expressed its regrets that it not find an indictment that would likely to result in conviction. The jury had previously indicted for ma slaughier several of the persons imm. diately responsible for the poor construc- | tion of the building. There is no doubt! that Ireland, by his parsimonious meth-! ods, was the real party at fault, but tho} contractors who took his orders and ex>- cuted them also took on their own shoulders the legal responsibility for the criminal negligence resulting in the d S Hence the doubts in the minds oi the grand jury. MILTON S. MAYHEW. } Points of Etiquette. vell that etiquette is not carried | ith us as with European nations, | and yet up to a certain point little for- malities add a grace to life. For stance, no one would wish to see the ad- surd rules and struggle for precedence that provoke such bitter quarrels and} heart burnings among foreigners adopi- ed by Americans. As an illustration of this we read that the English ambas- sador who has done good service at Ber- line declines the honor of a title which he has justly earned because having married the daughter of a duke so long as he remains a commoner his wife may enter a room in advance of those whose fathers did not hold such exalted rank. Kut should her husband accept a peer- age she would, as the wife of a peer, be obliged to sink to his level, and those who have folic ved her could then pass her by. It ail seems very silly, but the story brings to mind the gentle courtesy | that ought to be shown to those among us who are older or deserving of defer- ence. Every well taught child knows that she should not rush ahead of grown persons, but as she grows older she is apt to be careless an@ may forget that it is a mark of good breeding to stani back and allow her elders to pass before her, to be preferred before her in every instance. Much of the confusion at the bridge and along the elevated roads would be avoided if the public would re- member that those about to enter should wait until persons leaving have had a chance to pass. The men in charge miy not be approved masters of etique::e, but to the courteous their shouts are a reminder.—New York Sun. Human ustriches. It is surprising what a mania some persons possess for swallowing out-of- way and unpalatable trifles. An Eng- lish doctor says he has successfully re-| moved from the stomach of a girl aged ten forty-two cast iron nails, 15-8 incnes long; ninety-three brass and tin tacks, from one-half inch to one inch long; twelve large nails, some brass-headed; three collar studs, one safety pin, and one sewing needle. The child confessed to swallowing nails since 1898. A some- what similar case is reported by Gem- mel in a lunatic, aged forty-three, from Whose stomach he removed 192 large nails and other articles, weighing 1 pound 91-2 ounces in all. The Truly Brave. Do you start, trembie and turn pale when comfronted with unexpected dan- ger? Are you ashamed of this and do you call yourself a coward for the weakness? You are no coward unless you shirked a duty. The Duke of Well- ington once saw a soldier tremble and turn pale as his regiment passed to the front to charge a battery. “That is a brave man,” said he, “he knows the danger and he facesit,”. tsi | frank confession of the superiority of | result that they have quite uniformly | recent track events will give a great | stimulus to athletics next year. | for the America cup next year was re- | the volume of business that THE WASHINGTON BEE. NOTES FROM GOTHAM, WEEKLY BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE METROPOLIS. | | Military Post on Governor's sce ae {ean Athletics—Formal Challenge for aj New Yacht Race—Political cei Ete., Ete. | Special New York Letter. | Now that Gen. Miles has been called | to New York to take command of our | iittle but well-drilled army of 30,000 men, | Major-Gen. Francis H. Ruger has been! assigned to the post at Governor’s Isl-| and. which is the headquarters of the; Department of the East. Gen. Ruger was born in this State, at Lima, Liv-| ingston County, in 1833, and graduated | at West Point in the class of 1854. After | some campaigning on the plains he set-| tled at Jamesville, Wis. for the prac-| tise of the law. The civil war brought him to the front as Colonel of the Thira | Wisconsin Infantry. He served gallant- | ly throughout the war, and retired with | the rank of Brigadier-General. He then, entered the regular army, as Colonel, and has risen by meritorious service to his present rank. | It is proposed to make Governor’s Isl- and an important military post, and to TR “’SPECISLLY ME.” = Little Beth her prayer was saying Close beside her mothey’s knee; ~ And this was the way she ended: “God bless us all—'specially me!"* And her words set me to thinking,— Was she selfish more than I? | Had not my own heart, half thoughtless, Made the same un-Christlike ery? | ‘And my prayer that night was humbler, For I plainer seemed to see God’s great mercy and the weakness Of us all—*’specially me.”” —Persis E. Darrow. LOVE AND DISPARITY. : When Robert Kester’s wife died at the age of sixty-five, leaving a tolerably, good-looking widower some twenty, years her junior, everybody said that as he had made her an excellent hus- band, in spite of the disparity in their ages, he could now with serene con- science marry again, and this time a young woman. Of course, they expect- ed him to wait the year of propriety, but they also expected him to begin to “take notice” almost immediately, as the girls of the community were prink- ing and preening before the event was a week old. That his late marriage could have been anything but an en- forced partnership was to them an im- hand but his touched it. So the spec- tacle of Robert’s horse hitched to the palings caused no surprise. Coming or going, he always carried some tribute | of remembrance and affection. Several times he had observed an- other mourner who visited a lot near | his own. He knew her as a poor lonely widow. whose husband and two chil- dren slept there. Her silent, shrinking movements, her grief, and the fact that she was far along the troubled pathway of life. gave her a transient interest, | and one day when a storm was ap- proaching he offered her a seat in his carriage. Such unwonted kindness quite upset her, and she was silent and despondent during the ride home. She had kncewn Mrs. Kester and included her in the few grateful words she said, in such a way as to please Robert much. Praise Gi his wife had always been an open way to his esteem. 3 But the widow went no more to the cemetery. There were several reasons for this. First, the days were growing cold, and she dreaded rheumatism. Then she did not want that good man, Robert Kester, to think that she was lying in wait for him. And, too, she had accepted a home with a family—a cross, disagreeable man and his prim wife—where in consideration of three meals a day and lodging, she was to act as housekeeper where no servant was kept. Her property had been taken from her by an unscrupulous son, and she was obliged in her old age to work quarter there a regiment of infantry possipility. With the arrogance of for strangers. and also one of artillery. There has!| been some needless criticism of this plan | youth they argued that he could not have been happy with a woman old Eeing a woman of education who in her youth had enjoyed superior advan- oy certain city papers. The new plans| o,5ugh to be his mother. It would not tages, she felt that her sphere was low- for seacoast defence contemplate keep-} be at all surprising, they said, that ering and closing her in. Being a Chris- ing a portion of the army at least in the | «jen he married again he should choose tian, she accepted the changed condi- Major General Ruger. vicinity of the fortifications they must man in case of war, for purposes of nec- essary instruction. The larger portion of our army is no longer needed on the plains. Its future work will be to pro- tect our principal cities, and the troops are to be drilled in the management of the rapid-fire and great seacoast guns that are to constitute our chief defence against foreigr attack. The question of American versus Eng- lish athletics continues to be the talk of the clubs. It is to be said of the Eng- jish athletes whe were beaten here this year, that they took their defeat in a manly way. There was no attempt to question decisions or shirk a trial, as in the case of Valkyrie III. On the con- trary, the Cambridge boys made a very American methods of training for such contests, and the result will be a revo- lution in track athletics in England. It is to Yale College that American athletics owes its great stimulus. It has long been a source of wonder to all why the Yale boys were so uniformly success- ful in their contests with rival colleges. The English athletes have discovered the secret. It is to the faithfulness and sci- entific nature of their training that the Yale athletes owe their success. Har- vard and othe. colleges have followed the English system of training, with a bowed their heads to “Old Eli.” The The written challenge from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club for another contest ceived by the New York Yacht Club this week. The challenge is, as stated, with- out conditions, the New York Yacht Club being merely asked to give infor- mation as to dates, courses and condi- tions. No more sportsmanlike challenge was ever received for the cup, and Mr. Rose and his yacht Distant Shore will have a hearty welcome and a fair field next year. It is believed that Lord Dunraven will also try to get on a race for the cup again, and he may race with the Valkyrie III. next fall, if the cup committee is willing to waive the time conditions. Postmaster Dayton has done n@ more popular thing than in securing better sanitary. conditions for his employees in the big granite structure on the south side of City Hall Park. This is the most important post-office in the country, and passes through it is immense. A large number of the employees were crowded in the basement, which for years had been damp, ill-smelling and unwholesome. All this is now changed. All the basement | rooms have been renovated and cleaned, sweet sixteen as an antidote to his first disappointment. If he made a model husband to an elderly wife, what an ideal companion for youth and inex- tions of her life with fortitude and resignation. But a single petty act of eruelty and injustice raised her again to the plateau of happiness. Going out earlier than usual one | the favor of ¢ perience! | Meanwhile Robert Kester went onthe morning with his horse and buggy, Rob- even tenor of his way, not so much as ert saw a bowed and weeping woman looking at spinster or maiden fair, or vanish into the cemetery stile. He wait- troubling his head over the manifest ed a long time for her to appear, and interest displayed toward him. He was then he again invited her to a seat in mourning sincerely the good woman his buggy. who had been taken from his home, and who had made his life a most com- fortable one. No question of disparity, in age had ever come up between them since he had asked her to marry him and she had reminded him that she was twenty years the older. “You will be ridiculed, and I will be blamed,” she said, and persistently re- fused him. ‘Then he was very ill from a long, tire- some fever, and she nursed him through it, and he resumed his offer of mar- riage. “There is a law against a man marry- ing his mother,” she said to this. “Then be my mother-in-law,” he urg- ed, “only take me for better and for worse,” and he quoted something that Emerson had just then written, to the efiect that he who loves is in no degree oid. “Yes, but he says ‘he’—that is for a man.” “Man in the abstract, of whom wo- man isa part. If you will not say ‘yes,’ \ will conjure up the fever again and you will be sorry.” in this fashion he urged his suit, but wite outliving the affection of her hus- band, who found too late that he want- ed youthful society &nd amusement. She even rehearsed all the unkind things that would be sure to be said. making them appear in their most ridiculous light. His answer included the illustrious exampie of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts All Green County was electrified when they heard of Robert’s second marriage, and saw that plain, sad Mrs. Black dressed in a dark red—yes, actually red —bridal dress, superintending Robert's home, now hers, and looking like an- other woman in the sunshine of her new life. Then he hadn’t been unhappy before? He hadn’t repented of marrying a wo- | man much too old for him, and proved it by rushing off to marry one much | too young? He had selected another motherly wife, and asked nobody’s per- mission. And he went on living in the same calm, rational way with number two, who seemed to fit into all vacant 1iches as if she had been to the manner born. But the effect of all this on the people of that locality has been most remark- able. Disparity of age is the rule now instead of the exception. And it is al- ways on the bride’s side. Tne girls are hurrying up the time when a young man will consider them old enough to marry. Instead of making themselves younger when their ages are asked, they invariably add years to their num- |she drew a ludicrous picture of the aged ber, so that they will be considered suf- ficiently ripe in judgment for marriage with their juntors. For these unequal marriages are won- derfully happy, filled with a strong and abiding friendship, a comradeship, that indicates the true measure of living. Some one has‘said that real life never arranges itself exactly like a romance. And as the value of first youth is not upon It. are able to say sion for their be must endeavor to pursu: ous b and at last she relented and they were appreciated until it has vanished, so married. love produces a second youth of the If people expected the middle-aged heart—and with it time has no existence bride to put on youthful airs they were —years do not count.—Mrs. M. L. Rayne, jisappointed. She was calm and digni- |in Detroit Free Press. nd her husband looked so thor- fied, oughly satisfied that the gossips were Overrun by Rats. The island of Tropic, twenty miles south of the Florida coast, it exactly invited in. As the years went invaded by an army of ee Lai Ly Robert grew elderly and comforta- and the inhabitants have been forced ble-looking, possibly from association. to flee for their lives. Tropic is three It was noticed that when they gave a miles long and two miles wide and the party, as they sometimes did, that he soi] is very fertile. A dozen families went about with the young people and have settled on the island and engaged vegetables for market. entered into all their sports, and then jy growing ae eee ee ESne esa aa George Butler, one of the settlers, has hear him say after the company had just reached here, and tells a thrilling gone: story of the invasion and subjugation “Isn’t it a relief to be by ourselves, Of Tropic by the rats. Up to a month mother? 1 tried to make myself agree- 28° ®ccording to Mr. Butler, there able as vou asked me to, but it was Were no rats on the island. At that stupid trying. I wish we didn’t have tw time the advance guard of the rodents entertain.” arrived, and were quickly followed by He called her “mother,” though no others, until in two weeks there were child was theirs, and it was at times fully 10,000 on the island. pathetic to see how much he depended | The rats came from the mainland, on her “mothering.” which was only two miles away, and One Sunday he had gone to church Mr. Butler affirms that they swam alune—an unusual event, but she had across. He says he has seen them insisted. It was the beginning of the coming out of the water by hundreds. end that was coming to their long court- At first the rats contented themselves skip, and she wanted to be alone and with attacking the vegetables, which think it over—how best to tell him. And were soon destroyed. Then they in- he had come home, disturbing a con- vaded the homes of the settlers. The ference with God, to say this: latter made war on the rats, killing heart-broken. The world was not e cluded from their domain: neither “Mother, how could you let me go to hundreds of them. Mr. Butler says | church with the legs of my trousers he has killed as many as 100 at one | rolled up like that?” shot, but that others would rush for- “My dear boy”—he was always her ward and attack him, biting him vic- | “dear boy” to the last hand-clasp— iously on the legs. and improved lighting and ventilating “how vould I prevent you? You were introduced. In fact, this portion of the in such a hurry you did not present building, where over three hundred ser- yourself for inspection.” vants of Uncle Sam toil, has been made as bright and wholesome as any part of the building. A living witness to the changed condi- tion of affairs is old Harry Taylor, who has worked in the Post-Office for forty years. He is getting a little feeble now, but does his work as well as ever. A | i Yale Athletes. short time ago the old man asked to be allowed to sit down while at work, and the request was complied with, in consid- eration for Mr. Taylor’s age. As he sits at his work in the underground room the old employee looks as cheerful as a boy, and in the well-ventilated, brilliant- ly-lighted and comfortable work place that a little common-sense and human- ity has provided, there is no reason why he should not continue to work cheer- fully for many years more. Is it the nature of independent move- ments in politics to create political an- “But you knew they were rolled up In spite of the slaughter the rats got into the houses and attacked the women and children. Several of the latter were badly torn by the sharp the last rainy day.” “And hadn’t you the sense to roli fangs of the rodents. One baby was them down when it was dry? Why, 5° severely bitten about the face that Robert, living with me must have its life is despaired of. turned your brain.” For three nights, Mr. Butler says, not That was enough. He kissed her 2 soul on the island.slept, as that with all the warmth of a lover, and that would have meant death. At last the was as far as ever a quarrel progressed. people in terror and worn out, fled in A year passed, and not only was Rob- their boats to the mainland, where they ert Kester still a widower, but he had are now camped in a destitute condi- not even begun to take notice. He lived tion. Mr. Butler says the rats pursued in the comfortable house which had them to the water’s edze, and the wom- been his home for many years, and it en and children were repeatedly bitten was taken care of by a chore-woman before the boats could be pushed off. who came twice a day and cared for Every vestige of vegetation had been the premises when he was absent. No destroyed. The rats are described as invitations had wheedled him out of his gray in color and monstrous in size solitude, and he had never noticed any being larger than squirrels.—New York of the sixteen-year-old girls who were Record. to succeed Mrs. Kester. All overtures of sympathy and respect were put te alta 7 Bae aa A Dentist for Their Employees. aside. ani loc as @ most elig- A ivle widower in Green County was to re- TS oes anaes eae main a widower to the end of his days, lishment on the west side which employs Robert Kester owned a good horse, 2 dentist to examine the teeth of all appll- which he drove to a covered buggy, in cants for work. If a tooth has a cavity which he and Fis late wife had explored it must be filled, or, if it is too far gone, every nook and corner of the town in jt must be pulled. This dental work is, which they lived, and much of the sur- in most cases, done at the expense of the rounding country. factory, and has Proved to be wise econ- After his wife’s death he occupied the omy. Little time is lost on account of buggy alone. It was the one pleasure he allowed himself and he drove more ‘00othaches. Teeth of employees are ex- frequently than anywhere else to the amined at regular intervals, whether cemetery in which she reposed. He they are giving ther owners any trouble went there at all hours, but no one could or not.—Chicago Times-Heraid. say whether | rift or sentiment took him there. The lot was kept like her -1¢ gnee talk flower garden at home, and no other oncap? ety te aitver: Dome cae Le SUBJECTS FOR THOVaR?, Sow good service; sweet r, will grow from them. The man who can end is either a saint or a cur. Intelligence without characte, candle stuck in the mud. a? Industry keeps the body mind clear, the heart pulse full. Happy it were for us all prosperity as well a-d wise dure adverse fortune. Riches do not consist gold and silver, but in proportion than our r The voice of con: that it is easy to stifle clear that it is imposs' Be no less exact in keeping intrusted than you would , erence to deposits SmMeMbr ang ure everything f We boty wo We egy and prosperity; for pr cen to ambition and ambit nent. It hath e querer to ie Romans always us that there is no nation bu with their language. How many men who through discipline, and who y disturbed— r than there When soured by disappo!ntmen:, y+ nili ther, jin power e one make ‘ mating pride or arrogan he can find in hi beauty, regarding i him for the benefi which will grow ing.—Waverley Mas SHOES OF THE WORLD. The Persian fo and is often a foot high. |light wood richly inlaid, | tending over the instep. The Algerian shoe :n appearanc unlike the light glish woode This shoe made y | the simp form, and any ornan | Tho Ar an shoe hd |and heel, hou: a 1 |quarter. The vamp ‘s lis beautifully ernamer work, done in colored s: The ®iuscovite shoe a wooden frame, but | The Russian boot pieces of moroc¢ tsael the wearer or n boot is beautiful | ight cok | Ths Siame ancient canoe two feather plumes on the the toe. The sandal worn by the Eg | composed of a sole made by gether three thickne: is held to the foot by across the instep. The sand: fully stitched with threads of colors. The Grecian shoe ts made almos tirely of leather, and has a thickly-p sole with a sharp turn-up toe, w5 surmounted by a large ball of co! wool or hair. The shoe Is fleece-line and 1s gorgeously decorated with bead# and ornamental stitching. , The Hungarfan shoe, or moccasin, | made of rawhide, prepared by a sun~'"" yr; ing process. It is bound togs) to ° “= many thongs of rawhidge a ™o> thongs extend upward rojer. and through these loop: | which is buckled at The Tw