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THE WORLD’S SINS.
Only God and Satan Aiv Interested in Our
Tempt at ons and Tallin jars.
A Clmr \i |tiiiin mneenhip With the Serpent—When Woman Approarbei a
Clericynian With a Krcital of Her .inn, Let Her Tnke a (hape
rone Alone, Sa> Hah—The Real Lsprroinii of Prnanre—Re
ereml feed Purple—\o Rorattm or llnnslfi Wanted in
Confennlnn.'i 1 >*—Slow i lever W omen Can Hold
Men—A nine of Mngie W ord*—Why >■ vatic
Maiia in I nllke Patent Medicine.
New York, Feb. I—lt is the story ot
St. Anthony over and over again! A saint
and a woman, and the woman is backed
by the devil, and the saint—well, not ala
Kipling, indeed, no, it Is the same story.
It was told about St. Anthony this story,
long, long ago; and then, in a way. Haw
thorne told It in the "Scarlet letter," dnd
then a more modern novelist told it again,
but not quite in the same way, inasmuch
as It was the saint and not the syren, who
did the tempting. But now a modern
dramatist put* it upon the stage and au
diences are horrified or pleased, wearied
or delighted. But nobody seems to realize
that some part of the same, story is being
told every day. When woman was made,
an experiment had already been tried on
man and subtlety was left out of his com
position. In the creation of woman it was
not omitted. From the very first she had
what might be called little ways of her
own, and these little ways were approved
of and increased by her close acquaint
anceship with the serpent.
Too often, and I am a woman who says
It, religion in woman is hysterical and
dramatic; consequently, in approaching a
clergyman, nine times out of ten she looks
for a certain amount of spiritual enjoy
ment. She Joys in laying bare her heart
to him, she feels a keen delight in telling
of her sins, and lingering over them as if
they were virtues, and, I will give her the
benefit of the doubt, she forgets that this
clwgyman is a man as well as a priest.
If she is dainty, sympathetic, charming to
look upon, and of that mysterious age
which gives her the privilege of speaking
a little more plainly than a girl would,
she become* a firebrand that touches, not
only the soul, hut the heart of the man
who meets her. Take the man in the play.
He is a High Churchman who fasts rig
orously, who is stem and cold, severe, and
really more than bitter with the sinner.
Most people are who have never been
tempted. He forces an unhappy girl to
confess her weakness before the whole
congregation. Then there comes into his
life a woman, hard of heart and sweet of
face; charming in manner and flippant ol
speech; exquisite in dress, and with all the
dainty touches that individualize a woman,
such as a sweet perfume, about her.
He claim* It wa* fate that threw this
woman into his arms, that made him real
tze that he was a man and not a spirit,
and then, poor, conceited wretch, he
thought he did penance for his sin when
he got up before the congregation and
told them that he was the greatest sin
ner among them, but, like David, he had
fallen, and that he asked their prayers
Where was the dramatists skill? Or did
he count on all of his audience being
stupid? hat wasn’t a penance for that
man. You and I know that once we taik
a thing over we feel better. It was a
magnificent exhibition of the vanity of a
clergyman. If, instead of getting up in
the congregation and speaking his little
speech, in which he compared hTtnself
to David, he had kept quiet with his sin
ever before him, fed the hungry, warmed
the cold, cared for the sick, and made his
life the penance for his sin, It would have
amounted to something. But no, with ills
magnificent vanity, he takes it for grant
ed that all the world, or all his world. Is
Interested in his sin. My dear friend,
generalizing, the world doesn’t care about
our sins unless they happen to be the
kind that are considered bad form. There
are only two people interested in our
temptations and our failing, or our re
sisting, and these are God and satan. The
sum and substance of It ail was that this
melodramatic clergyman, who, to the very
last, says the only happiness he ever had
was when he was sinning, simply gave to
bis .congregation a sort of gossip a kind
of exaggerated essay, with himself as the
hero, and his sin as the chief incident,
and nobody was the better for it. He
shamed the church to which he belonged;
he shamed the father whose name he
bore, and he did nobody any good. The
best expression of penance is good
works.
My dear good woman, Just remember
that the clergyman with whom you flirt,
spiritually, is physically, a man, and the
tosß of the hand, the drooping of the pye-
Md, the quiver of the lip and the whole
dainty get-up Is as attractive to him as
It Is to any other man, and his tempta
tions are three times as great because you
make them so. If you feel that you must
tell a clergyman your sins, do it with a
chaperone. The lovely library with its
stained glass windows, the rows of beau
tiful books whose bindings tend to make
a soft framing to the pictures, the table
covered with religious hooks and with
religious symbols, the prie dieu, the soft
carpet which sends forth no sound as the
clergyman approaches you, all tend to
what might be called an aesthetic peni
tence on yourpart. The place isn't cold;
It is warm. The fragrance of flowers is
In the room, and you feel how good a
a thing it Is to be a sinner. Then you tell
this man of the sins on your soul. You
dilate on your temptations. You quote
from your favorite authors, you whisper
Of the woman or the man whose effect
Upon you is least good, and you go away
feeling yourself a saint. Though you re
member that Rev. Iced Purple pressed
your hand in such an expressive way when
you left! And there is a pleasant smile
about your lips and you feel sure that
the pressure of the hand was from the
man and not from the “priest. Possibly
the next time or the next time he gives
you a special blessing which includes a
kiss on your forehead, and then—well
there Is another story. But you see how
It begins. It would be a good idea if vou
would remember that, while the Mag
dalene confessed to Christ and was for
given, there is nothing told of her going
around the world announcing her sins and
dwelling on the quality of them from the
various churches.
When Peter fell he went out alone and
wept bitterly. He may have repented in
sackcloth, but he wrought out his salva
tion in good works.
There came into ray life once a woman
who had been in the habit of making just
such confessions as I have described. How
ever, she was a good woman. After a
■while she found no happiness in the church
to which she belonged, and she became a
member of the Catholic church. To me,
she confided the great joy she expected
from her tirst confession. Bho made it—
hut not where tt was warm, not where the
odor of flowers was strong, nor where tnere
was a soft carpet and a soft cushion to
kneel upon’, but at 6 o’clock in the morn
ing In a cold church, in a cold
confessional and to a priest wbom
she could scarcely see. She began
her pretty little story of her
dainty little sins, as she had been in the
habit of doing, when she was told to stop
and the priest coldly and calmlv informed
her that she hadn’t come there' to gossip
but to accuse herself of doing wrong, to
hear of the right, and that he didn’t wish
to listen to romances, nor did he desire
to hear stories about her friends. The
trouble is that women expect in a clergy
man the spiritual to triumph so entirely
over the physical that a fall Is impossible
They forget that Satan dared to tempt
Christ Himself, What will he do with men
who are fighting to overcome him and vet
who are far, very far, from being immac
ulate? The manliest of poets expressed In
four lines what the average woman ex
pects from a clergyman:
“Bea god and hold me
With a charm!
Bea man and hold me
With thine arm.”
It is an Impossibility, and yet, and yet,
the world goes on and the story is told,
and the only sinner who really makes his
penitence worth anything is that one who
fills his life with deeds that speak of the
goodness of heaven and tell of the mercy
of Christ. That is enough about the
play and what it suggested.
Speaking of women, 1 heard a clever
one give, a* her idea of the best method
of holding a man, this answer: "Make
him a creature of habit." Lo you know
how much truth there is in that? If you
are In doubt about a man. try It. Get
him In the habit of sitting in a certain
chair, and he finds most others uncom
fortable; get him In the habit of seeing
your face smiling at him across the din
ner table, and he is rather upset when he
is opposite another woman. That woman
who understood a man who had loved
many women, that woman who wa*
neither young nor beautiful, Madame de
Maintenon, said of Louis the Fourteenth;
“He is used to every chair in my room,
and if their places were changed it would
annoy him. He is used to walking a cer
tain distance every evening to see me, and
to go further or less would be a trouble
to him. I know the things that please
him, the food he likes, 1 know what an
noys him, 1 know the people who are
pleasant and those who are unpleasant to
him, and 1 never contradict him unless I
feel that he is in remarkably good health
and anxious to impress upon me how
much more he knows than 1 do. Then
1 start a little discussion, but in it I never
give a hint of the great knowledge I pos
sess. I permit him to come out conquer
or, and he forgives me and loves me all
the more because of my seeming ignor
onee. After a man has passed 4ti, the wo
man he loves Is the woman he is used
to.” 1 wonder if this is true? I am tempted
to believe It.
Did you ever realize the, value of magic
words—words that will bring you bless
ings or words that will result in your
suffering? Words that you could utter to
your friends, and words that said to your
enemies will bring ail sorts of trouble
upon them. Of course, the most important
of all words is “Abracadabra." This,
written on a bit of parchment, and put
in a silk hag worn about the neck, will
drive away all evil spirits and bring good
health to you. Could this have been the
beginning of the scapular? People who
were very wealthy got precious stones or
hits of gold, and had this mystic word
written upon each, and then the precious
bit was covered with a golden case, not
unlike a locket, and swung on a string
of pearls, gold, or of diamonds, as one's
desire or purse permitted. By-the-bye,
this was the name Caligostro gave to his
favorite horse. If you have the chilis
(and oh! is there anything worse than a
chill, unless* it is the fever that comes
after It?) then have “Abracalan" written
on your parchment, and the chills will
disappear as rapidly as your monthly al
lowance. It appears, according to his
tory, that there Is a certain amount of
sex In these words, for what cures a had
headache, a fainting spell or indigestion
tn a man will do no good whatever to a
woman. For those ills a man should
have, either on the parchment In his bag
or on his shirt cuff, or, Indeed wherever
it is most convenient, the word “Anam
zaptas,” while a young woman with a
leaning toward iheadaches, and these
other ills, requires “Anamzapta.”
For general use around the house when
the kitchen lady is Insubordinate and the
children all show symptoms of getting the
measles, the word ‘“AglB." is handy. It
wouldn't be a bad idea for people who
have discovered its good qualities to have
it painted on stiff cardboard in very large
letters, frame it, and permit tt to take the
place of the worsted motto which tn many
houses has formed tle chief decoration?
If to use the language of that immortal
Mr. Ohimmie Faiiderr, “you’re chasin’
yourself around the centaury" and meet a
snake, you need not trouble to use his fa
vorite phrase. "T’eil," hut instead draw
yourself up in the most, dignified manner,
stare the serpent in the eye, and say, "Os
ya.” I do not know how to pronounce this
word, and I beg that n tibody will ask me
if the y Is soft or hard; one of the charms
about the mystic words: Is that you can
pronounce them as you. please, for It Is
doubtful If. west of Calcutta, anybody hut
a few Oriental professorn knows just how
they should be uttered. I should like you
to feel that I am giving you much that is
good in offering this mystic slang, but it
seemed to me that, as words don't amount
to so very much, there could be no harm in
trying them. In that they are unlike pat
ent medicines. If you have a ruby or a
sapphire, or even an emerald sufficiently
large to take It, get the word “Bedooh”
engraved upon it, and aIT the money you
want will come to you.
If somebody would onliy prove this, I
would pawn the entire furniture and be
longings of "The Hut” to get a ruby and
to have the dinky wurd put on it. But,
alas! although I have heard the tale and
am repeating it, I have never even met
an oriental gentleman who had struck it
rich, so to say, by his mystic word. When
you have an enemy and meet him, hurl
the word ‘’Abraxas’’ at him, and imme
diately a ladder will fall on him. or if it is
a she, her hat will go out of fashion, but
whatever happens you will get the best
of it. A really, righty enemy, one on
whom you wish all sorts of dreadful
things to fall, can be made to suffer dread
fully if you send him a sheet of paper
with "Abrazapta” written on it. It seems
to me that of these letters were spelled
out on children’s blocks there would be a
great run on a’s. Perhaps it is because
it is the first letter, and therefore diffi
cult to learn. Well, I don’t care very much
for In my own name I have the mystic
letter A hounded on each side by the
mystic letter B, so, though vou can't find
Venezuela, there is no difficulty in dis
covering. " Bab.
A MOLES Utt RIRROW.
Fop .Yearly Two TIIp II Mound Its
Way Along thp River Rank.
From the Karens City Star.
Down along the river bank after the
water had receded into a narrow chan
nel, through which It tumbled and eddied
and belched up great rings, there was left
a broad sand flat. This sand flat fell off in
broad steps In which, here and there were
left shallow pools. Big gnarly stumps of
trees, probably grown many miles up the
river, had occasionally stranded, after
floating down on the river’s surface, and
gathered piles of driftwood about them
Barrels and boxes of all sorts of strange
plunder were to be found, and it is not
altogether unlikely that one, by looking
closely, might have found more than one
article of value.
The sand had dried down as hard and
Arm as on any Atlantic beach. It was
springy, too, Just the thing for brisk walk
ing. And walking on it was a Jov. There
were neither Jostling elbows nor street
smells, nor sounds. Just the gray sky
aliove, the damp wind and the yellow riv
er oozing along a stone's throw away.
Traversing this flat was a remarkable
little ridge or welt. It started in the sand
where the last river bank had begun just
before the river receded. Above it the
grasses hung over the flve-foot bank and
towering aloft was a large
cottonwood tree. The welt ran
straight out toward the riv
er a thousand yards or more, then turned
west and wound in a waving line up
stream. For nearly two miles it could be
followed, weaving here and there never
disappearing below the surface and never
changing in appearance until it suddenly
lost itself in another bank of sand against
which it had run. It was the burrow of a
mole. And who knows but the little blind
burrower is still working his wav through
half of Clay county to find the end of the
bank. Or, maybe he started upward after
awhile and came out in the middle of some
farmer’s frozen garden patch or corn field.
—Another Irrepressible Capitalist.—“We
don’t intend to allow Joe Pulitzer or anv
other New York editor to outdo us in com
ing to the relief of the government in its
hour of distress.” wrote the editor of the
Spiketown Blizzard, “and we hereby no
tify Grover Cleveland that as soon as he
has his new bonds ready we shall be pre
pared to take $000,000,000,000,001 worth of
them ourselves. We know where we can
borrow the cash. Trot out the bonds
That’s the kind of a self-sacrificing pa
triot we are.— Chicago Tribune.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY A IJ6.
THE DIKE OF TOMUSTOSE.
He Took Three Ha Iks a Hay When
Water Cant Five Crai* a Gallon.
From the Chicago- Tfc.nes-Herald.
He used to be called "the Duke of
Tombstone” when an Arizona settlement
marvelled at recklessness of a man
who bathed three times a day and water
5 cents a gallon at that* Edwin Fields in
those days changed his white flannel suit
whenever the smallest blemish In tge way
of dust was noth wable, and rode behind
a pair of horses that we re a sensation in
a community where burros were the high
est type of draft a-nim als. Now he is
“poor old Ed. Fields." t nd when he gets
out of the county hospUal. where a Har
rison street police amt ulance took him
last night, he will be uiken to the poor
house at Dunning to spend hts few re
maining years in con--cm plat ion of Up
time when he owned a. large part of the
city of Tombstone and a mine worth more
than half a mlltton.
Too poor to ask for help, yet sorely In
need of it; too proud to ask for money,
yet having a brother whose fortune is
vast, he was taken from a lolging house
at 68 Thirteenth street, against his will,
on the strength of a cirtthoate obtained
from Dr. A. W. who had found
that his mind was fail,ng, and that he
needed comforts he snee would have
scorned.
Dr. Joseph H. Greer cf ?J7 Oakley ave
nue, knew Fields in Art ic na and has as
sisted him from timo to time during the
past three years In Chic: lso.
“I went to Tombston . Arlz., In 1879,"
said Dr. Greer, "and Kit bis was there tie
fore me, although the town contained but
seventy-five people at tltat time. He was
squatting on some mini! ig property which
was not supposed to b t of much value.
But the town grew to and he owned
two-thirds of the town site, so that his
reqts increased until tfley gave him an
income of over *4,000 a tmsnth. The mine
which he owned was railed 'The Glided
Age,’ and proved to b<> a rich property.
Held’s title to it was it little shaky, but
he was backed by BosHq’n and New York
capital, and in the end. secured a perfect
title. He sold the min a in 1881 or 1882 for
$600,000 in cash, every .sent of which went
to him. After the towm grew and Fields
amassed his wealth hie assumed a mode
of life that made him the most conspicu
ous character In the west. He was known
everywhere as the ’I Juke of Tombstone’
on accojint of the i;orgeous manner in
which he carried o i his establishment.
He rode behind a handsome pair of bays,
and kept a negro vrdet. He dressed dur
ing the summer in white flannel, and
changed suits three times a day. When
water was selling In Tombstone at 5 cents
tt gallon, ho took three baths a day, and
broke a bottle of Florida, water in every
bath. He started as a nine days' wonder
and was the most talkcxl-of man In the
country.
"I left Toonbstone and settled in Chi
cago. One day during the world’s fair
period a seedy looking individual stepped
Into my office and I recognized Edwin
Fields. I asked him what he was doing,
and he told me with a mournful smile,
that he was ’store man’ at the Southern
hotel. His salary, he said, was sl4 a
month. Where had his money gone? Well,
I asked him that, one day, fog I could not
understand how a man that never drank,
never played cards or gambled to my
knowledge, could have squandered a cool
million of dollars, which amount he cer
tainly possessed at one time. He tnld me
that he had lost most of his property in
speculation on the board of trade, and
had then taken to the bucket shops,
where the rest of his money had taken
wings. He was at that time, even with
his pittance of a salary, drifting daily to
the bucket shops in the vain endeavor to
retrieve his lost fortune. He lost the most
of hi* money In St. Louis, but carried on
his speculations both in that city and in
Chicago.
"I do not know his birthplace, but he
was an eastern man and was well con
nected. He has a sister living at Steuben
ville, 0., a brother at Farley's, N. M.,
who owns a big sheep ranch, ana another
brother w-ho owns an immense cocoanut
plantation in the Samoan Islands, such
has been his pride or his perverseness, that
he never would seek aid from them. He
has roomed at the house of Mrs. Fitch,
68 Thirteenth street, whenever he was
without employment. 1 fear he will not
live long, as he is suffering from a compli
cation of diseases and is now an old man."
WILDCATS AS PETS.
Friendly Enough to Their Masters
and ns Good os Watchdogs on a
Ranch.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
A sheep rancher near Ash Fork, Ariz,,
J. H. Abshire, has discovered that wild
cats can be domesticated, and are then
as nice pets as any purring Maltese or
tortoise shell tabbies. He has one that
follows him everywhere, acting as both
protector and companion. It is a big,
striped and spotted animal, with glaring
yellow eyes, whiskers like porcupine
quills, aiid a tail as glossy and sinuous in
its windings as any Jungle tiger’s.
"How did I happen to take a wildcat
for a household pussy?” repeated Mr. Ab
shire during a recent interview. “I’ll tell
you about it.
“I was herding sheep one day, and was
standing on the top of a cliff. Booking
down on a ledge of rocks projecting from
the cliffs below I saw a very large, fero
cious looking wildcat. She had tassels on
her ears, and was lashing her tail from
side to side and glaring at me and grow
ling angrily. I stood spelibouid for a min
ute, and- not having any gun, I was at a
loss to know what to do. I spied a huge
boulder on the edge of the ledge right
over this cat, and, using all mv strength
1 pushed it over. She was too quick for
it and dodged. When I looked down again
she had disappeared.
“I concluded there must be a cave and
perhaps a nest of kittens, so I lay ln’wait
a few minutes to see if the cat would
make her appearance again. I was ready
for her this time, as I had secured a lot
of rocks, and intended to shower them
upon her. I did not have very long to
wait, for out she came, looking fiercer
then before. I let the rocks go. and that
time there were too many for her to
dodge. One struck her on the back and
broke it. and after that I easily put an
end to her.
“I then crawled down the cliff a short
distance and peered over as far as I
could, and discovered there were two
very small kittens in the cavern Their
eyes were not yet open. I made - up my
mind I would have them. It took me
some time to plan how I could get to
them as the cliff was almost perpendicu
lar. It was with great difficulty that I
captured tny prizes.
“I took off my coat and wrapped it
around them and started home When I
reached there I laid them down at the
base of a big Juniper tree. Mv large
hound, Adam, came bounding up'and to
my surprise, seemed as pleased over ’my
kits as I was. He at once began to lick
them, and laid down beside them The
kittens crawled over him, and seemed
to think he was a good substitute for
their mother.
“I gave them sheep’s milk, which they
seemed to thrive on. Thev would lie all
day under the trees with the hound, and
he would never let my shepherd dog come
near them. They grew very fast, and
we all became very much attached to my
strange pets.
"At sheep-shearing time we drove the
sheep into Ash Fork. I packed the bur
ros, and made a box for the wildcats and
lashed them on top. When we reached
town that evening I let them out to run
around the sheep shed. While Adam
was eating his supper a large dog came in
and killed one of the cats. Next morn
ing, as we were passing down the street
with Adam and the wildcat following’
we created quite a sensation. Some peo
ple were afraid of the cat—others were
anxious to pet him, seeing me caress him
but he objected to strangers, and would
arch his back and spit furiously
“While we were at a saloon near the de
pot the passenger train came in. Several
of the eastern tourists came rushing over
to the saloon for a drink. Thev had Just
poured out whisky all around when they
turned and saw the wildcat sitting there
looking at them. They started for the
train on the run, their whisky standing
and not getting their change. s
“I shall try to keep him out of sight
of the tenderfoot after this. I don't want
to scare them to death, but the cat i all
right and the finest pet I ever had I
wouldn’t part with him at anv price He
is death on coyotes, and keeps all those
sheep-killing rascals away,”
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thousand plants alone, a record that no other
Rose has even approached, and this is the more
remarkable from the fact that we were the only
firm advertising it.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE is a true ever-bloom
ing Rose, and belongs to the Tea section. It is a
vigorous grower, with beautiful, dark-green foli
age, of leathery-like texture. In its freedom of
bloom it takes rank in the lead of all other Roses.
We have no hesitancy in saying that we believe it
will produce mere perfect Roses than any variety
extant. There are some Roses that will show a
few more buds than this variety, but they will not
perfect all the flowers, while in the “General Lee”
every flower coines perfect. We have never seen
an imperfect bud or flower of this variety. With
us it has been a mass of beautiful buds and roses
all through the year, both Winter and Summer,
The great beauty and value of the Rose is in the
elegant shape and color of its buds and bloom.
There is no other Rose like it in either respect.
The buds are borne on long stems, and are long
and somewhat more open at the end of the bud
than is seen in the othe- varieties—the arrange
ment of the petals interlacing so nicely as to give
50c. BARGAINS
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“ P—lOFragrant Carnation Pinks 60c
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u G-10 Elegant Geruninma, all different fiOc
“ H—B Flowering Bejronlaa, choice kinds 60c
“ J— l 2 Vines and Plants, suitable for
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•' K-T2MajrnUSoent Colens, bright colors 60c
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*• It—4 Dwarf Ever-blooming Fr. Cannae 600
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NO TWO ALIKE IN THESE SETS.
Anji 3 sets for SI.2S, any 5 for *2.
By mail postpaid, safe arrival and aatiefao
tion guaranteed. Ordor by the letters from
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everything you need for tho garden and house,
vv a mail it for 10c. in stamps. We are the Urg
ent rose growers in the world. Over one and a
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Box - IPRIKGFIELO, OHIO.
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN
Mil, BAYARD AND MU. OI.NEY.
Corrigan Is to Ben Cardinal—Con
spiracy to Lower the Prestige of
New York.
(Copyright, 1896.)
New York, Feb. I.— Benjamin Harrison
wins general sympathy in New York.
The melancholy division in his family
over his marriage has not been a sur
prise, for It long attracted attention as
an open secret. The most discerning pol
iticians here take a pessimistic view of
the situation in its bearing upon Mr. Har
rison’s presidential prospects. It would
be almost an undignified thing to have in
the white house, they say, as first lady In
the land, one who had occupied in that
palatial abode a position of decided in
feriority. The women in New York so
ciety certainly take this view, and they
would not call upon the lady except in the
most formal manner. This fact would
wreck the second administration of Gen.
Harrison from a social standpoint. The
lady Involved is, it must be admitted, very
accomplished. She is conversant with
three or four languages, and has unde
niable skill in painting and music. She
was called Portia by her friends because
of her scholastic attainments, and the
former Mrs. Harrison once made a por
trait of her In that character. She little
dreamed she was painting her successor.
It is well known that one of the most
prominent families In New York has un
dertaken to bring Its influence to bear
with the administration to prevent the re
call of Mr, Bayard from London. This fam
ily has been favored by Mr. Bayard in the
appointment of members of the embassy,
and were our present embassador to be
brought home, other changes would en
sue, greatly detrimental to the position of
the family in question. It has been inti
mated already that our diplomatic estab
lishment in London Is very aristocratic in
Us tendencies. Mr. Olney is by no means
favorably impressed by the merits of Mr.
Bayard as a diplomat, and if it rested
solely with him the Delawarean would
come home in a hurry. Those strained rela
tions have been apparent to the British
foreign office, it is said, and have been
taken advantage of. The famous Olney
letter to Salisbury was Interpreted in the
foreign office as a plain intimation that the
British premier is making a donkey of Mr.
Bayard. The latter Is quoted, it will be re
membered in a somewhat unfriendly spir
it by Olney, that is, Mr. Bayard's state
ments when Secretary of State are repro
duced, but only in sections and In such a
garbled maimer as to leave an impression
GENERAL R. E. LEE.
MonleZaZXl'.’ WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.
'We have large two-year-old Roses for Immediate effect, and all kinds of Climbers and
Shrubbery for the Lawn. Liberal premiums to club raisers, or how to get your Seeds and
Plants FREE.
We Are the Largest Bose Growers in the World!
Our sales of Rose Plants alone last season exceeded a million and a half. When you or
der Roses, Plants and Seeds, you want the very best. Try us. Address,
GOOD & REESE CO.,
CHAMPION CITY GREENHOUSES,
Box 350 SPRINGFIELD. OHIO.
upon the reader’s mind that they present
our case rather weakly.
Rvery now and then New York socie
ty receives a shock on account of what
is termed the stright-laced severity of the
first lady in the land. It Is well known that
Mrs. Cleveland feels profound aversion
to being known as the new woman, but
now she has set the mark of disapproval
upon the girl who smokes cigarettes. It
seems that a young lady who Indulges the
habit, whose name is withheld although
she Is well known, was lately frowned
upon very pointedly for the offense. Mrs.
Cleveland, in fact, will not "know” any
woman who smokes cigarettes. New
York society i3 up in arms at this, and
the rather strained relations between
Mrs. Cleveland and the metropolltain four
hundred have become more tense than
ever.
It can be stated on the very best au
thority that the archbishop of New York
will be made a cardinal by Pope Leo, and
that in no very long time. The honor, it
appears, is only delayed because Arch
bishop Corrigan is still a young man from
the point of view of the sacred college,
and there are many aged men whom the
pope wishes to honor and whom it would
be graceful to bestow the red hat upon.
But these aged ecclesiastics are not Amer
icans, and Archbishop Corrigan is the
American who will next be elevated to the
sacred college. The attempts to injure
the prelate are now acknowledged to have
been futile, and his standing at the Vati
can is of the highest. It further appears
that the pope was actually scandalized by
the irreverent nature of the attacks by
some priests upon the archbishop, these
going to the undignified length of term
ing his grace of New York an ostrich, and
so forth. However, all that Is over and
done with, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral
will in time be the center of magnificent
ceremonies upon the installation of Car
dinal Corrigan. It was feared that the
archbishop might discipline certain of the
ecclesiastics who attacked him, but it is
now known that he deems such a step be
neath his dignity, and, moreover, it has
always been his policy to heal dissensions
instead of aggravating them.
Ballington Booth is being severely con
demned for his rebellion against his father
in the Salvation Army. It is really rebel
lion, for the commander has seen Various
misstatements put into circulation con
cerning his father and has not taken the
trouble to correct them. To begin with it
is a regular thing in the Salvation Army
to make transfers of commanders from
one country to another, and the present
transfer of Ballington Booth to another
country has long been on tho cards In
the next place Ballington Booth is not
quite so popular with the Salvation Army
as he would have it appear, and there is
no rebellion in the ranks, either. On the
contrary, the Salvation Army is too well
trained for such lack of discipline to as
sert itself. Transfers are always being
made and always will ba The truth seems
to be that Commander Booth has a soft
thing In the United States and will not
g j ve HE' , M °r, e oyer. he has abandoned
the old 'back alley" campaign and taken
the army into "swell parlors.” This
change Is not liked by the rank and
file. In fact, the army has always been
proud of its influence with the typical
tough and its ability to make him re
ligous, whereas under Ballington Booth
it has, to quote an officer, “given the
tough the marble heart.”
The wild stories being put into circula
tion on the subject of the carnival of crime
alleged to prevail in New Y'ork are well
known to be part of a conspiracy to injure
Theodore Roosevelt. The truth is that the
law breakers are as well suppressed now
as ever, and only the venom of liquor deal
ers inspires assertions to the contrary
The operations of house breakers are not
conducted on an unusually reckless scale—
quite the reverse, indeed. Were the wild
stories now circulated true. New York
would be a paradise for burglars. But in
reality crime is repressed with a stern
hand. New York’s prestige is being low
ered throughout the country owing to the
conspiracy to injure Roosevelt. This
shows very little civic pride on the part
of the conspirators. Indeed, one might im
agine Roosevelt himself to be a thief in
the night in view of the lies told about
him. David Wechsler.
WOMAN'S SKILL IN INVENTION.
Prof. Mason Shovyi That She Has
Tanght Men Many Useful Arts.
From the Now York World.
That this is truly the day of woman’s
progress Is shown by' the remarkable ex
habit which Is now In the process of con
struction under the care of Prof. Otis Tuf
ton Mason, curator of the department of
ethnology at the National museum at
Washington.
The professor has proven that, while to
man belongs the honor of having invented
the murderous implements, it is to wo
man that all those of a domestic nature
are entirely due. This he shows by wo
man’s work, as exhibited to-day In sav
age tribes, whose state corresponds to
that of the civilized nations thousands of
years ago. Woman was the first to bring
the food to the family, the first to weave
the first to dress skins, the first to make
pottery and to encourage art and relig
ion. All of these statements Prof. Mason
establishes by his researches, whose
fruits are on exhibition.
Among the American Indians and the
negro races there is ample proof that wo
man was the first to gather the grain and
house it in granaries of thatched straw
To her also belongs the honor of having
tamed the cat, and domesticated It into
an animal which would protect this grain
This she did by raising the young by gen
tle means.
In grinding grain woman first used two
flat stones. Then she originated the mor
tar and pestel, Implements still common
in every drug store of the day. In Cali
fornia and in Asia this primitive method
of puverlzlng the grain Is still in use
among the women of the tribes. Among
the Arabs the women do all the work at
the mills, which are flat stones turned hv
a rude handle. *
Implements of agriculture were fash
ioned bv women and Dr. Livingstone told
of a double-handled hoe, made by women
which he saw in Africa. Long before the
age of discovery the women of that coun-
the bud a charming light fluffy effect. The one*
flowers of this Rose are perfectly double to th.
center. It is extremely beautiful, both in bud and
in the open flower The coloring in this wonder
ful Rose is very difficult to describe. It is a shade
of yellow hitherto unknown in this flower and is
what is termed a solid color, while the center of
the flower may be a shade deeper than the outer
petals, still it is hardly perceptible. As near as
we can name the color it is soft Nasturtium vel
low, or coppery bronze. Taken altogether it is
the most wonderful Rose in every particular of the
century.
Price of Gen’l R. E. Lee Roses—Strong
Young Plants, 20 Cents each, or Three
Plants for 50 Cents. Seven for SI.OO.
Large Two-year-old Plants, 50 Cents
each;
Beware of Imitations.
This Rose is so popular that unscrupulous deal
lers have endeavored to foist on the public inferior
varieties for it. To get the genuine Roses send
to us. We are headquarters for it. *
Our handsome Illustrated Catalogue, describing
all kinds of Roses, Plants and all Seeds, mailed
for 10 CtS. stamps. This Catalogue has an ele
gantly colored -plate of the new climbing Rose
CRIriSON RAMBLER, besides five other litho
graphed plates of flowers.
try not only gathered and ground th*
grain, but also made the rude plows and
mills which assisted in the work.
That woman was the inventor of weav
lng is another of the beliefs of Prof. Ma
son, and his collection shows some beau
tiful work in that line. Baskets of various
shapes and sizes are In a big case, soma
of them beautifully colored. Baskets of
wood, grass and fibre were fashioned by
women of all tribes. Among the Algon
quins of America beautiful baskets ars
fashioned by means of the peelings front
the birch tree, and in Polynesia the women
make one that is almost an exact repro
duction of those used by the North Amer
ican Indians.
That woman was the first to dry and
use skins for clothing is shown by th
fact that among all tribes that has been
her work since the dawn of history. The
man killed the beast ifhd laid it at his
wife's feet, and, with the help of rude
stone knives, she then scraped the flesh
and left the thin outer skin, which she
dried, and then, by means of the threads
of sinew, made into clothing for her hus
band and children. The tool used by the Es
quimaux was of ivory from walrus teeth,
and at the present day the custom of the
women chewing the skin to remove all
flesh still obtains, according to the account
of Mrs. Peary. The skins, when deprived
of the hair, made a soft and impervious
rawhide which is used by the man of the
Arc s*o cover his boat.
Prof. Mason's exhibit also shows
that woman was the inventor of all ce
ramic work. The Esquimau woman of
Bristol Bay has made pots or lamps of
clay mixed with dog's hair and blood, and
these are similar to those found in the
temple of Vesta at Rome, while the arts
and tools of the potter are such as were in
use thousands of years ago by women. The
Pueblo women of Colorado make fine spec
imens of pottery. The water Jars of Bi
ble time were, no doubt, the work of the
women of that day.
Prof. Mason says that he has no de
sire to advance the theory that women
are the superior sex, but he wishes to prove
by this work that she has kept pace with
man in invention; that all of the useful
arts of ancient days were due to her In
genuity; that, she Is the originator of such
things now usurped by man as weaving,
skin-dressing, making of pottery and oth
er arts w'hich be has taken up after leav
ing off his barbarous tastes, which were
formerly devoted only to combat.
A Mure Defends a Man.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Oil City, Pa., Jan. 21.—An immense St.
Bernard dog pounced upon William Wright
near the City Building, and threw him
down on the pavement. A mare which
Wright was leading rushed to his rescue
and fought the dog so furiously with her
teeth and forefeet that the mad canine
was forced to desist. Several persons and
animals were bitten and the rabid St. Ber
nard was shot.
—Crimsonbeak: What's the matte*
with young Huggins?
Yeast: I understand he has lost his
heart.
“Is that all! He makes as much fuss
as if It was his collar button!”— Yonkers
Statesman.