HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-17, Page 3INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
Rev. Dr, Talmage Discusses the Relations Be-
tween Capital and Labor.
SOMO Lessons Drawn from Strikes in Various Parts of the Coon.
try --A Truce Between Employer and Employe
..—Eaoh Needs the Other.
Washingeoti, Aug. 18,—In this dis-
course Dr. Talmage suggests how the
eyeelasting was between capital and
labor may be brouglat to A happy end.
The text ie, L Corinthians xii, :31, "Tim
eye cannot say unto the band, I have no
need of thee."
Fifty thousand workmen in Chicago
ce.asiog work in one day, Brooklyn
etuoned by the attempt to halt its rail-
road cats, Cleveland in the throes a a
labor agitaelon and restlessness animog
totters ell over the land 130,Ve CAUSCA1 an
epidemic of strekes, and somewhat to bet-
ter things I apply the Pauline thought
of ley text
You have seen an elaborate piece of
maeliinex.y. with a thousand wheels and
thoutaird banae Ana A thousioul
pul-
Zey ail controlled by one great wheel,
the machinery so adjusted that when
you jar OM pert of it you jar all parts
Weil, human soolety is a greet
plete of lueolimaism controlled by one
great ATK1 ever revolving force—the wheel
of God's providence. You harm one part
of the tueuhitiery a society and you
harto all parts. All professions interde-
pendent. All trtiOee interdependene. All
°lasses a people interdepenent. Capital
end Mbar interdepeodent. No sueh thing
tin independence. Dives connet look
Lazarus without hurting bis own feet,
They who threw Shadraeh into the fuen-
eet: got their own budiee scorehed. Or to
tome back to the figure of the text, what
a strange thing it would be if the eve
ebould say: lioversee the entire physical
another family, and finally it was not
respectable not to go to the centennial at
Philadelphia, ttnd they mortgeged their
farms. The church and the uelgithorhood
ruined. in that way. Now, between suols,
fools and Pauperism there is. only A 'Very
short step. In time of pestee prepare for
war. In time of prosperity prepare for
Adversity. Yet bow many there are who
drive on the verge or the precipice and
at the least touch of accident or sickness
over they go. A.b, my friends, it is not
right, it is not 'wriest! He that provideth
not for his own, and especially those of
o
his wn. household. is worse then an
• infidel. A man has DO right to live in
luxury and have all comforts and all
briglituess around bine taking his famile
with him tie that rate—everything bright
and beautiful and luxurious, until be
stumbles against a tombstone and fells
in and they all go to the poorhouse. That
is not common honeety, I ant JWadvt.
care ot skinfliat saving I abhor is 13.1t
I plead for Christian, providence. There
are some people who are otsgusted if they
see anything like economy, such LW
Mall might show in turning down the
gmt in the parlor when he goes our There
are families actually embarrassed if toil
ring, their doorbell before they bare toe
U lighted. There are people who apolo
gins ,you surprise them at the table
Now, ie mann or it is magnificent to
save juse according to wbat you save tbr.
If la is for the miserly hoarding of
then it is despicable. but if it memos bet-
ter education for ,your children. if it
means more house help for your wife
when she is not strong enough to do
much welt-, if it means tluit the day of
your death shall not be a horror beyond
all matte:ince beeenee it is to throw your
family into disruptien told atinibiVielon
d the poorhouse. then it is magniticent
if it le LO11VOld, all that.
Exchang, ginconfidenees.
Again I remark, great relief is to come
for ehe laboring elestee or this country
by approve:main on the pars of employees
that they had better tath
ke eir m
eployee
into their cenfidenem I can eat very
easily, looking front my staodpoint,
what is the matter. Employes, seeing
the employer in eeeming prusperity, do
kn
not ow all the straits, 11.11 the hard-
ships, all the Tosses. all the annoy:mem:,
%%ea look ite him and they think, "WhY.
he bus it t•f44V, and we Dave it bard."
They do 1106 ELAM that at 1hil4 very
teoluent the employer is, at the lase point
of dialler:WOO CO lliS t•LigARMi
OAt.,
i
remove, again, great relief will come
to the labortng olaeses of tide eounery
through the roligioue rectification of it.
Labor re honored and rewarded in prupor-
Won as a community is tahrietianized.
Why le it that our sinaliiNA
est n in this
eountry is a penny, while in China it
takes a half dozen pieces ef eoin or a
dozen to Make OM or our nonniee in
value, so the Chinese carry the eaSh. AS
they call it. like string of beetle around!
the neck!, WO MAW Want mpay leAS
than a penny for anything in this tome -
try. They must pay that wbich et worth
only the sixth part or the twelfth part of
a penny. HM001136,11. end iniquity and
infilelity depress everything. The goepel
of JensCh
srist elevates everything. llow
do I account for this? account for It
with the plainest', philosophy, Tho reli-
gion Of Jesue Christ is a democratic
religion. It tells the employer that he Is
a brother to all the operacives in the
eetablishment—niade by the same God,
to be in the same dust and to Ire saved
by the same suplaune mercy. It dues not
lnitke the slightest difference how much.
money you have, you cannot buy your
way into the kingdom of heaven. If you
have the grace of God in your heart you
will enter heaven. So you see It is a
democratic religion. Seturate our popula-
tions with this gospel, and labor will be
respectful, labor will be rewardea, labor
will be honored, capital will be Christian
In all Its behavior, and there will be
higher tides of thrift set In.
of America for runt and tobacco, and I
will establish co-operative assooiations in
all porta or tbd, iS lensolne thorn
mightier than any Anancial institutions
of tbe country. We spend in this country,
over $100,000,000 every year for tobacco
We spend over $1,500,000.000 directly or
indirestir for rum. The laboring classes
spend their share of this money, Now,
suppose the laboring rnan who has been
spending his money in those directions
should just add up how much he has
expended during these past few years
and then, suppose that that rnooey was
put into a co-operative aaeoriation and
then suppose he Should bave all lila
friends in to, who bad made the same
kind a expenditure, do the same thing,
old that should be added up and put
/Imo ee-eperAtiVe association. And then
TARO all that money expentlea for over-
dress and overstyle end overlivitig on the
pert of toiling people in order thee they
may optima as well as person's who have
more income—gether that all up, and
you could have co-operative aeiociatiolls
all over this /and.
I am not setyleg anything now ebeut
trades unions. You want CO hiMit What
I think.o trades. unions. I think they
aro most beneficial in some directloos,
and they bane a specific °Weer, and in
thii data when there inc ran monopolies
thousand monopolies eoneentrethig
the wealth of theee
people into the poss.
sion of a few men, unless the laboring
men of this country and all countriee
band together they will go under, There
=atolls= &toss she ether ineinaert IS A laWfal use of a trade Tipton, but then
If it means sympathy in tune ef etekness,
if menus finding work for people when
they are out of work, it it the
prevenient of the finanoial, the morel ay
she religious condition of the laboring
(lasses, tbat is all right. Ho not artist
band together in an art union's Do not
ingers band together in Handel and
leytin societies? Do uot, newepaper men
land together press oinks? Do not
misters of religion hand together in
conferences and associations? There isnot
In all the land a city where clergyman
clo not comeem on
together. many of them
a week, to talk over °intim. For these
reasons you should not blame labor
guilds. When they aro iloing their legiti-
they find thut they are identieal In their Initra work, they are mutt admirable,
interests. When ono goes down, sgey, but when they come around with drum
both go down. When nue rises, they both anti flfe and flag and drive people off
from their toll, from their scaffoldings,
from their factories, then they are nibli-
istio, then they are eommunistio, then
they are barbaric, then chey are a curse.
But DOW suppose that all the laboring
classee banded. together for beneficent
purposes in co-operative aseociation under
whatever 'name they put their means to-
gether. Suppose they take the money
that they waste in rum and tobaceo and
use it for the elevatdon of their families.
torsthe education of their children, for
their moral, intellectual and religious
improvement, What a different state of
things we would have in this country
and they would have in Great Britaini
Better without Stimulauts.
Do you not realize the fact that men
work better without stimulant? You say,
"Will you deny the laboring ;nen this
help which they get from strong drink,
borne down as they are with many anxi-
eties and exhausting work?" I would
deny them nothing that is good for thein.
1 would deny them strong drink, if I had
the power, because it is damaging to
them. My father said: "I became a tem-
perance man in early life because I
found that in the barvest field, while I
was naturally weaker than the other
men. oould hold out longer than any of
them. They took stimulant and I took
none."
Everybody knows they cannot endure
great fatigue—men who indulge in stim-
ulants. All our young men understand
that. When they are preparing for the
regatta or the ball club or the athletic
wresthng, they abstain from strong
• drink. Now, suppose all this money that
is wasted were gathered together and put
into co-operative institutions—oh, we
would have a very different state of
things from what we have nowl
I remark again: The laboring classes of
this country are to find great relief when
they learn, all of them learn, forecast
and Providence. Vest numbers of them
put down their income, and they put
down their expenses, and if the incoroe
meets the expenses that is all that is
necessary. I know laboring men who are
ID a perfect fidget until they have spent
their last dollar. They fly around every-
where until they get it spent. A case
Caine under my observation where a
young man was receiving $700 a year
and earned it by very hard work. The
marriage day carne. The bride had re-
ceived $500 as an inheritance from her
graudfather. She put the $500.in wedding
equipment. Then the swain hired two
rooms on the third story. Then this man,
W.ho had most arduous employment, just
as much as he could possibly endure, got
evening employment so he oould earn a
feW dollars more, and by this extra even-
ing employment almost extinguished his
eyesight. Why did he take this extra
evening employment? Was it to lay by
something for a rainy day? No. Was it
to get a life insurance so that if he W
sbould die bis wife would not be a pau-
per? No. It as for the one purpose of
getting his wile a $150 sealskin sack. I
am just giving you a fact 1 know. The
sister of this woman, although she Was a
very poor girl, was not to be eolipsed,
and so she went to work day and night
and toiled and toiled and toiled almost
into the grave until she got a $150 seal-
skin sack Well, the news went abroad
all through the street. Most of the people
on that street snare laboring, hardwork-
ing people, and they were not to be out-
shone in this way, and they all went to
worlr in the same direction and practical-
ly said. though not literally, 'Though
the heavens fall, we must have a fatal -
skin sttokl"
inortaaging the TS arMS.
A clergyman in Iowa told me that his
ohurch and the entire neighborhood had
been ruined by the fact that tbe people
mortgaged their farms in order to go
down to the Philadelphia centennial ina
1876. First, one family would go, then
fol the betty. If there is anything I me there is an unlawful use of a motel/111QU.
isgussed WIT11. it Is with those mieert
tiWe. bends. Or what it the
baud should. any: I am the toss workman
of she whole physical economy. I have
no respect for the other members of the
body. If these is anything 1 despise, it is
the ere seated under the dote° of the
Sorehead doing nothing but look.
I come in, and I, wave the Dug of truce
between these two contestants, end I say,
"The eye cauutit s,e.y to the nand. 'I
beve no need of thee.' "
That Inings me to the first suggestion,
and tnat, is, that laber and eapital are to
be brought to a better understanding by
a complete ittinetse of the whole subject,
They will be brought to peace when
rise. 'there will be an equilibrium after
awhile. There never bas been an excep-
thin to the rule. That whiell is good for
Orte class of society and that which is
bad for one class of society will eventu-
ally and in thne be bad for all. Every
speech that labor makes against capital
postpones the day of permanent adjust-
ment. Emery speech that mph:al makes
against labor postpones the day of per -
=anent adjustment. When capital
maligns labor, it is the eye cursing the
band. Wben labor maligns capital, it is
the band cursing the eye. As far as I
have observed, the vast majority of capi-
talists are successful laborers. If tbe
capitalists would draw their glove, you
would see the broken finger nail, the scar
of an old blister, the stiffened finger
joint. The great publishers of the coun-
try for tbe most part were bookbinders
or typesetters on small pay. The great
carriage manufacturers for the roost part
sandpapered wagon bodies inwheel-
wright shops.
wet a Great Gulf.
While, on the other hand, in all our
large inanulaturine: establishments you
will find mon on wages who once em-
ployed 100 or 500 hands. Tbe distance
between capital and labor 19 not a great
gulf over which is swung a Niagara
suspension bridge. 11; is only a step, and
the capitalists are crossing over to be-
come laborers. and the laborers are cross-
ing over to become capitalists. Would
God they might shake hands while they
cross. On tbe other hand, laborers are
the highest style of capitallete. Where
are their investments? In banks? No. In
the railroads? No. Their nerve. their
muscle, their bone. their mechanical
skill, their physical health, are magnifi-
cent capital. He who bas two oyes, two
ears, two feet, two hands, ten fingers,
has machinery that puts into nothingness
carpet and SereW and cotton factory and
• all the other implements on the planet.
Tbe capitalists were laborers, the laborers
14 were capitalists. The sooner we under-
stand that the better.
Again, there is to come 'relief to the
laboring classes of this country through
co-operative associations. I am not at
this inoment speaking of trades unions,
but of that plan by which laborers put
their surplus together and become their
own capitalists. Instead of being depend-
ent upon the beck of this capitalist or
that capitalist they manage their own
affairs. In England and Wales there are
818 co-operative associations. They have
840,000 members. They Lave a capital of
$18,000,000, or what corresponds to our
dollars, and they, do a business annually
of $68,000,000. Thomas Brassey, one of
the toremost men in tbe British Parlia-
Inent, on the subject says: "Co-operation
Is the one and the only relief for the labor-
ing populations, This is the path," be
says, "by which they are to come up
from the band to the mouth style of liv-
ing to reap the rewards and the honors of
our advanced civilization." Lord Derby
and John Stuart Mill, who . gave half
their lives to:the study of the labor ques-
tion, believed io co-operative institutions.
The co-operative institution formed in
Troy, N.Y., stood long enough to illus-
trate the fact that great good might come
of such an inetitution if it were rightly
carried on and raightily developed,
Tobacco and Liquor.
"Bub," says some one, "haven't these
institutions sometimes been a failure?"
Yes. Every great movement has been a
failure at some time. Applioation of the
steam power a failure, electro telegraphy
a failure railroading a failure, but now
the chief successes of the world.
• "But," says some one, "why talk of
7urplus being put by laborers into co-
operative associations, when tbe vast
multitude of toilers of this' country are
struggling for their daily bread and have
no surplus?" I reply: Put into my bend
She money spent by tbe laboring classes
THE TRUST MAKER.
SooleOttnts About axe Man Who Joins
willows in viannetai Wedlock:,
All that part of the finaucial world
whose laterests center in Wail street
has conie to know James B. Dili as "the
trust maker." This is betause he has
been itistrumental in bringing about
many of the immense vombinations of
eapital which have recently ma:erred,
Ile has, acted as a kind of high priest in
joining uiibtio to millions, billions to
billions.
Mr. 0111 is a corporatioa lawyer: also
he is at the top notch of his profesion.
How he tame to 110 there is an up to
date story, replete with lemons interest.
Briefly it is thie: When he left the Yale
law school in 1878, with honors and a
diploma, he went to New York and pre-
pared to practice, He edged his way
Make Investment,' far Eternity.
Let me say A word to all capitalists;
Be your own executors. Make invest-
ments for eternity. Do not be like some
of those capitalists 1 know who walk
around among their employes with a
supercilious air or drive up to the factory
In a manner which seems to indloate they
are the autocrat of the universe, with
the sun and moon in their vest pockets,
chiefly anxious when they go among lab-
oring nien not to be touched by the
greasy or smirched hand and have their
broadoloth injured. Be a Christian em-
ployer. Remember those who are under
your charge are bone of your bone and
flesh of your flesh, that Jesus Christ died
for them and that they are Immortal.
Divide up your estates, or portions of
them, for the relief of the world before
you leave it. Do not go out of the world
like that man who died in New York
leaving in his will $40,000,000, yet giving
bow much for the church of God, bow
much for the alleviation of human
suffering? He gave some money a little
while before he died. That was well, but
ID all this will of $40,000,000 hew 'pooh?
One million? No. Five hundred thou-
sand? No. One bundred dollars? No.
Two cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities groaning in anguish, nations
crying out for the bread of everlasting
life. A man in it will giving $40,000,000
and not 1 cent to God! It is a disgraee
to our civilization.
My word is to all laboring men in this
country: I congratulate you at your
brightening prospects. I congratulate
you on the fact tbat you are getting your
representatives at Albany, at Harrisburg
and at Washington. I have only to men-
tion such a 'nen of the past as Henry
Wilson the shoernalicer; as Andrew John-
son, the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln. the
boatman. The living illustrations easily
occur to you. This will go on until you
will bave representatives at all the head-
quarters, and you will have full justice.
I also congratulate you because your
work is only prefatory and introductory.
'You want the grace of Jesus Christ, the
Carpenter of Nazareth. He toiled himself,
and be knows how to sympathize with
all who toil. Get his grace in your
heart, and you can sing on the scaffold-
ing amid the storm, in the shoo shoving
the plane, in the mine plunging the
camber, on shipboard climbing the rat-
lines. He will make the drops of sweat
on your brow glittering pearls for tbe
eternal Coroner. Are you tired? He will
rest you. Are you sick? Hewitt give you
help. .Are you cold? He wili wrap you
in the mantle of his love. Who are they
before the throne?' "Ah," you say, "their
hands were never .oalloused with toil!"
Yes, they were. You say, "Their fest
were never blistered with the long jour-
ney." Yes, they were, but Christ raised
them to that . high eminence. Who are
these? "These are they that came out of
great tribulation and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the Lamb." That foe every Christian
workingman and for every Christian
workingwornan will be the beginning of
eternal holiday.
James n. PILL
In among the thousands ot other strug-
gling lawyers stud worked for recogni-
tion. But his means were limited. To
!seep from going hungry he worked as a
reporter on OM' of the big dailies, keep-
ing a sharp eye out for ellente at the
tante
At last he secured a case. A director
In a big commercial ageuey was a client.
He won. This gave hint a standing anti
a fat fee He began to devote blinselt
to corpuratiou law. He saw that with a
ease of that kind onee a year be could
make mote money time by headline', 100
petty eases.
He met with his greatest successes in
the New Jersey coerts and came to be
recognized as the leading authority on
corporation lave in that state. His book
On Jersey corporation law, known as
"0111 ea New Jersey Corporations," is
a standard work that is used in all law
offices.
15 was because of this cOmprehensite
kuowledge of New Jersey law, which is
partieularly beneficent in its treatment
of trusts, that led the promoters of
nearly all the big Industrial corporation,
to seek Mr. Diirs counsel.
Today he has large holdings In great
corporatione, He is a director in several
trusts, and he knows more about cons
billing capital so as to escape the cons&
quenees of the law than any other MAD
In the country.
PUSHED INTO POLITICS.
ifiteesseasatoo•-•-•-•-•-a-eite Lieut. Win-
' sten Churchill,
Why Tones' Mr.
chine:but Stood
who has been
seeking elec.
tion to the Eng.
1 lish house oi
For Commons. commons, is a
........ young man
who takes
much more interest in society and mili-
tary affairs than he does in politics.
However, his ambitious and energetic
American mother, Lady Randolph
Churchill, Is determined that he shall
have "a career."
Young Mr. Churchill followed in the
footsteps of his father as a supporter ot
the Tory -Democracy policy. His cam-
paign attracted much attention in Eng-
land. Lieutenant Churchill bad a col -
HARRISON'S MURDER CASE.
now He Won One of the Few That
Dna A'oorikers Ever Lout.,
The scars are almost healed. The
small boys of tbe civil war period are
growing gray, and Hoosiers who used
to be afraki to go into Kentucky and
Kentuckians who dared not eross into
Indiana iicetv lug' for catfish from the
saute skid' and swap war lies and plug
tuhacco in perfeet amity. The war
tot:st be over.
Hen Harrison's appearance la one Of
greatest lawsuits in tlie world's
1ietory—the boundary dispute between
Venezuela and Great Britain—IS not
11;s first cause celebre by any means,
Ile may reeall one in which be partici-
:tied alma he was ant years younger
lieu be is now, with Dan Voorbees as
epposiug touusel. He may reteenther
neeause it was tote of the few mur-
der eases Voorhees ever lost, Tbe
etate of ludiana bad found fault with
one 1:11 :41oith—that was not his name,
but 'twill serve—because Bill bad kiU-
ci it was is most unprovolt,
esi murder. for Rill and a party Of
rataaering vompanions bad stoned the
farmer's house, and whoa be appeared
without the moat te make physical
proreq they set upon him most Fa.i.
g(1.Y. Ile was stablied to death witb
taelinnife in the heads of Smith.
arriaon was called In to ASSIST the
proteeming attorney. It WAS a great
day at the eoutity seat, and the court,
Louse was peeked to witness tho battle
reyal between the two giants or the
foreir4ie arena. Smith was a very bus
prieulaing eandidate, for nature and a
bail axweetry haii made a low browed
degolerate of him to begin with, and
Ilk own efforts had not improved 1114
naineup. While the wituesses were
behig examitted he leered, and grinned
alai spurted tobticeo juice vigorously
tatraettel frten a quid whieli trout, the
rwellizig la hits cheek Seetoed to be Of
about the size of the ordinary egg ot
etil la Di 4Tce. Voorhees, etilting each
juror Ity his first name—"Bill." "Jim"
or "jetelt" as was his wont --made a
naint impassioned plea for the venng
matt begging his 12, peera to "give bins
Pat oue mere elianee." Ile ming tbe
eitatims on 'that teat for three or Mir
looms, awl the more eloquent Voerlotes
bietaute the mure Smith grinned and
etfots-toraimi.
When Voorhees had finished, Harri-
eoli walked close up to the prisoner,
regarded him most attentively tor A
length of time that Seemed au hour
to the jury fwsi spectators and an age
to the euiprit, and after he had finish-
ed his survey exclaimed in mock con-
tinuation of Voorhees' speech: "!es:
give him one mere Chance!" And the
deadly sarcasm in Ills tone was like a
thrust to the heart to the defendant
With malignicat deliberateness Hard -
un sized up the degenerate again for
, interminable length of time, and
• ,e jury could not help doing the same.
'ado° hlm one more chance!" hissed
the cold blooded, cruel Harrison, and
then the tlaying began. If ever a man
was verbally skinned alive that same
Bill Smith was, and Voorhees ac-
knowledged after the trial that his
Client's fate was sealed when Harri-
son first mutely called the jury's at-
tention to the prisoner's utterly de-
praved appearance and then sneered,
"Give him one more chancel" Smith
got 20 years, whicb Mr. Voorbees de-
clared was a light sentence, consider-
ing all 'he cIrcumstances.—Minneapo-
lis News.
LIEUTENANTIVINSTON CHURCHILL.
league in a workingman named Maw-
desley, secretary of the largest trades
union In Lancashire. The election was
fought with great spirit, but young
Churchill was defeated by the Liberal
candidate.
During the campaign Lieutenant
Churchill often made four speeches a
day. They were good speeches, too, for
he is an eloquent orator. His talented
and energetic mother also made a lively
canvass on her son's behalf, She will
probably urge him to try it again at some
future election.
It is quite possible that young Mr.
Churchill may turn out to be quite as big
a man e,s his father. He is certainly
talented. He is already known as an
author, haying written a book about the
wars in India. He is a fighter, too, for
he won distinction In the Sudan earnpaign under Kitchener. His regiment,
the Fourth hussars, participated in one
ef the most spectacular features of the
battle of Omdurman.
Re Got Even.
She—I wouldn't marry you if you were
/he last man on earth.
He—You wouldn't get a chance. I'd
tureiy have, ma pick them—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
TOILT HiNT$.
Advice Concerning the Core of tins
Hair and complexion,
The hair should be allewed to float
loosely upon the shoulders for a little
while every day, if possible, as wben it
is kept closely coded or braided all the
time the air does not hate free access to
it. It should neyer be arranged upon the
head while it is wet or even damp, but
after a bath should be left banging until
it le quite dry.
Brati water is excellent or the sicia
and is of service in cane of sunburn.
Tears are destructive to beauty and if
habitually indulged in briug on au un-
timely aspect ef age, SO weeeing is to bet
avoided as much as possible. Faded eyes,
with the skin about them worn and loose,
red eyelids and scauty lashes are the re -
suit of frequent erying, and insufficient
rest has almost as bed an effect on the
personal appearanee. A great deal of
sleep, a good digestion and go mere are
A Landmark In the Way.
A large stone that is one of tbe land-
marks of Fairfield county has raised a
dispute that will probably have to be
settled in the courts. The stone was
planted et a road crossing of the old
Boston and New York turnpike, which
now forms the main street of the vil-
lage of Fairfield, in 1797 by the an-
gestors of Henry 1. Flint, a prominent
business man of Bridgeport. The
Bridgeport Traction company operates
a trolley line through Fairfield a.nd re-
cently decided to place larger cars up-
on that line, but when the first car
was run to Fairfield it was unable to
pass the corner owing to the prox-
imity of tbe stone to the track. bit.
Flint was asked to remove the land-
mark, but flatly refused to do so. The
traction company officials say they will
take legal action to have the obstruc-
tion removed.—Hartford Courant.
Uses of Opaline.
Aecording to the Boston Journal, a
new article called opaline bas been
placed upon the market by a French
plate glass factory, presumably a
French invention, though this is not
mentioned. It is described as a vitreous
mass; absolutely free from metals, acid
proof, of a grayish blue opal color and
resembling artificial ice. It Is cast and
rolled into large plates of from 85 to
100 square feet surface area and from
oue-balf to one and a half Indies thick.
Large surfaces, it is said, can be lined
Witb a single plate without a joint, and
it is superior to marble, in that leis
acid proof and remains spotless. The
plates havea smooth and a rough sur-
face, the •latter to render adhesion to
mortar sure, though for partition walls
it is furnished snipoth on both sides.
Die Dinner Cootume.
Palermo has not yet got o'er the
Duc d'Orleans' dinner costume. The
French pretender presented himself at
a dinner party given by an Italian
duchess there in white knee breeches,
white silk stockings, white waistcoat,
velvet smoking jacket with the orders
of the Golden Fleece and of Charles V
on the breast and in shoes with dia-
mond buckles. He explained that that
was the way he dressed for dinner At
botuek
MORNING JACKET.
More preservative of youth than ell the
cotniteles in the world. lloseweter le
Very soothing to the eyes, while thin eye -
loathes caused by inflammation of the
lids unty be improved by bathing the
lids regularly with au infusion or camo-
mile or cornflowers.
The cut illustrates a morniug jacket of
golden brown cashmere. It is cut in
scallops around the edge, and also at the
top. where it Is mounted on a yoke of
ecru guipure over golden brown silk.
The top or the sleeves is also of snipers
over silk, Tlze scallops and edges are
finished with it band of narrow black
velvet. The belt of soft brown silk is
tied at the side. JUDIO ClIOLLICT.
THE HOME MODISTE.
ciao. Mints Regarding Dresemale.
DM* and Milliner'',
Parasols of Scotch plaid are pretty for
the country and seaside. There are also
parasols of lace over a lining of silk
which matches the costume,
Circular ruffles, so much worn, lose
their attractiveness when made of thin
goods. For cloth, velvet and substantial
wools and silks they are satisfactory, but
for sheer tabrics gathered ruffles 'will be
found more effective.
It is said that light straw hats may be
cleaned by rubbing the braid, band by
band, with lemon juice, and immediately
covering it with powdered sulphur, leay-
ing the hat to dry in a dark place. Dark
straws disfigured by dust may be cleaned
.perfectly by erst giving them a thorough
PLAITED ROUSE GOWN.
brushing with a clothes brush, then
brushing them with a small hrush dipped
in kerosene oil. The hat must be left 24
hours for the oil to dry and tbe odor to
evaporate. It is hardly necessary to say
that all trimming must be removed before
the straw is treated.
The wrapper illustrated is of accordion
plaited lilac crepon over white silk.
Around the foot are two bands of gun-
pua: edged by fine ruches of lilae Mous-
seline de sole. The little plaited pelerine
is trimmed in the same way, as are aloe
the plaited sleeves. Around the neck and
wrists are thick ruches of lilac mousse-
line de soie end vshite lace, and a bow at
lilac satin with long ends is placed at
the threat. JDDIO CROLLEZ
Putting On.
She --I'll bet wberi Adam firet net Eve
he put on an air of superiority.
Ile—Well, there was nothing atom ta
rut on juld ,at that time.—Intliaziasteal
Journal.