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THE INADVERTENCE OF MISS PEBKINS.
sx wABunr clabkx,
S T was a qneer little house,
dicular weather-board*
ing, that seemed entire¬
ly out of plaoe on busy
Summer street, with its
J strutting bustle Bnt and the
harried air of importance.
house Was a felic of other days, when
the now thriving town was simply who a
village, and the old residents,
had long since died or moved to
quieter and more fashionable quar¬
tan, had considered Snmmer street
the most desirable place of residence
in the county. The Honorable Peter
Perkins had built the house, and there
had lived for years, nominally
practicing law, but in reality cultivat¬
ing that unproductive field, so dear to
the heart of every true patriot, the
field of Political Preferment; and be¬
ing uniformly unsuccessful, at length,
after a particularly disappointing cam¬ his
paign, had died, leaving Perkins—and only
daughter Martha-Miss
lit« little old-fashioned house.
Westfield, with all its miniature
metropolitan ways, bad not outgrown
the habits of everybody’s knowing
everybody else, and after the Honor¬
able Peter Perkins was laid in his final
resting plaoe, there waa not a house
hold in Westfield in whioh the prob¬
able doing# of Miss Perkins was not
more or less dismissed.. Bnt Miss
Perkins, being what her neighbors
called "a strong-minded person,” did
sot leave her friends long in uncer¬ her
tainty, for the very anoonneed day after in¬
father’s funeral she her
tention of opening “a flower store,"
a new venture for Westfield, bnt one
that sht fait sure the growing refine¬
ment of and the people, brought as they got more and
moaey were moro
more ia touch with city ways, wonld
warrant.
Accordingly, in a few days there ap
peered a neat sign over the front
door
“Min Perkins, Flower*.’’
And into the little front parlor there
a oonnter and refrigerator, while
the window wm filled with fragrant
blossoms—roses, carnations and vio¬
late predominating. The ont flowars
same from e florist in a nearby city,
bnt it was not long before a small
greenhouse in the back yard did much
to supply the demand.
At first the yonng men of Westfield
emed In s fair way to bankrupt
thamselvas at Miss Psrkins’s oonnter,
h«t gradnallv they grew aoeustomed
the Was novelty, rsdnoed and proportions the volume that of
to
oonld ba ratted upon,
And so store
permanent institution, and West
wondered how the town had ever
along without it. It was rash
convenient stopping plaoe, too; the
seeds it a sort of rendesvons,
drop in when yon might, you were tell
sore to find some one to
what was going on or ooming off
Wsstfield society. Indeed, the
society-reporter of the West
field Weekly Wetohi
upon Mias Perkins’s store
tfrely for the social gossip that made
np hat weekly “society latter." It is
tree that ia this way she always knew, print¬ bat
ed what every one already conservative
i Watchman wee a
SSL* and did not feel oalled flpon to
the responsibility of printing
ifore it had bean discussed and
confirmed by the whole town.
Mbs Perkins was busy behind the
! one morning, nwenging a
eat supply of flowers, when two
tediss aaivw m mm door as
Swell ; aren’t yon abides ont a
kh a laugh,
irds at oor h oom ; I’ve been to
already "
LdeaT*ns!" s Mitt
I
"•id
el
nm
m
happened? Yon most be going to get
married 1”
“Now see here, girls,” exclaimed
Mias Perkins from behind the connter,
“that’s the way young ladies talk. I
believe in the comic papers, but it
isn’t the kind of wit that is considered
good form in good society; so Rose,
if yon have any news to tell, let ns
have it, and Blanche, stop yonr chaf¬
fing.” laughed, and Miss Elwell
The girls
said:
“Miss Perkina’o curiosity is getting
aroused, so I won’t keep yon in sns- is
pense. Mabel’s engagement
broken!”
“What!!” cried both her listeners
at onoe. “Msbel Richey?” Elwell, nod¬
“Um-nmpb,” said affirmation. Mits
ding her head in joking,” said Miss
“Oh, you’re and Harry jnst
Clemans, “she were
devoted to cacti other. between Why, them. nothing Mabel
conld ever oome
told me so.”
“But something did, jnst the same,”
replied the bearer of news, “and that
something was Miss Margnerita Daisy
De Jones of New York.”
Miss Clemans exclaimed, “Well, I
never!” and Miss Perkins groaned.
“To think,” finally said the elder
lady, “that Harry Martin has no more
sense tbsn that! What the yonng
men of this day and generation are
coming to I’m sore I oan’t tell. Here
that bold faoed creature with her
blonde hair—”
“It’s blondined, I know,” pat in
Min Clemans.
'“And her pink oheeks,” continued
Min Perkins, “oomes to town with
r obo% to introdnoe her bnt the hotel
keeper, and sets half the men in town
crazy, and they do say that some of
her worshiDere are not tingle men
either,” and Min Perkins set down
the sprinkling-can so hard that the
noise attracted the attention of people
In the street
“It does beat all; Harry Martin was
such a nioe fallow, tool” said Mias
Psrkihs; and then suddenly she asked,
“When’d it happen?”
“Oh, it’s been going on for a long
time, 1 goes*,” said Min Elwell, fin¬
gering some flowers on the oonnter,
“bnt the break came Disk night told before brother last.
Mabel’s brother my
Tom, yesterday, and Tom’s been coax¬
ing me to lend him my wheel, so he
came straight home lnt night and
told ma It waa raining -too bad for
me to get ont then, so I had to keep
it to myself all night I guess from
what Diek said they mast have had an
awful lima It seems that Min Mar
gnerita Daisy Ds Jones hotel is to-night going to
givs e supper at the to
* lot oi yonng fellows, end Mabel
heard that Harry wn going, end of
coarse that made tronbla They jnst
had it in the parlor and she gave him
bank his ring end he left in a
huff Dick nya that Harry navar in¬
tended •«& going at all, that ha
invited, but when Mabel began
to suspect him he got angry and said
he’d go if' be wanted to. Hain’t
“Wall, I don’t believe he go¬
ing,” mid Min Parkins, “and some¬
body ought to patch it np between
them.”
plied “I don’t Min Elwell; think anybody “they’re will," both re¬
as
proud as Lnoiiar and aa stubborn as—
I don’t know what. Tom says he beta
Hany goes away, and I suspect ha
will. Wefc I feel sorry tor them, but
I don’t know >b»t we’re going to/do
about it Say, Min Perkins, what is
that plant over in the oornerf I never
saw anything like it hatora"
Mks Perkins told her the of
the plant, and than a commercial
traveler, who wanted to sail Min Far
kips rian that she iaTand didn’t need
while
was conld explaining n’t why athon- aha
on
the yonng ladies
slipped morning away. Mias Perkins, who
All
ally did not give mnoh heed
gossip that went on in her little
thought J A
; it a
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ponteh
A
,
'
And he wrote an address on a tag
lying on the counter. I’ve left mother in
“This address.
the carriage and she’s afraid of the
horse, so I’ll harry out.. Good-morn¬
ing, Miss Perkins.”
And Mr. Martin was oat and away
before Miss Parkins had hardly recov¬
ered her breath.
She looked at the address he had
left:
“Miss De Jon«s, Liberty House,
City."
And then Miss Perkins lost her tern
per. pappy!” she
“Why, the impudent send
cried. “If bethinks I’m going to
those flowers to that—creature, he’s
mistaken 1 He’s crazy, he is. I won¬
der if his mother knows?”
And then out of pore vexation she
sat down in a back room and had a
good cry. —— out
A few moments later she came
and calmly pat the roses in a box,
dropped Mr. Martin’s card among
them, tore into little bits the tag he
had addressed, and with a firm hand
wrote a new then one, which with she placed on
the box; pat it a half dozen
smaller packages, which Nero, the
factotum of her establishment, wonld
deliver. Then Miss Perkin* regained
her habitual smile and gentle self
possession, and went about humming
little snatohes of happy songs and
seemed as one conscious of having
done a good deed.
Harry Martin had was not a happy man.
Indeed he been miserable for
thirty-six hoars, for he was, or had
been, deeply in love with Mabel
Richey, and in reality had never been
introduced to the golden-haired until girl
with the three sectioned name,
since the quarrel with his sweetheart
Bnt since that tempestnons interview,
he bad sought, and easily obtained an
introduction, and had decided to send
her roses for the decoration of the
table at the sapper that was making
several Westfield sweethearts jealons
and unhappy.
And Mabol Richey was not a happy
woman. She bad wept all night after
the quarrel and gotten np the next
morning firmly resolved to die Bather
than show any signs of weakening.
And she had gotten throngh the pre¬
ceding' day fairly well; the only times
that she manifested any nnnsnal feel¬
ing being when the name of Miss
Margnerita Daisy De Jones was men¬
tioned in her presence.
Miss Perkins’s Nero was never very
swift, and it was qnite the middle of
the afternoon before be reached the
Richey residence and left a loifg box
evidently containing flowers. Mabel
was in her own room, and Jennie, the
maid, took the box to her. It did not
take her many seconds to tear the box
open and scramble among the roses for
the oard; even before she looked she
felt sure of the namo she wonld find
on it, and when she read, “Mr. Harry
Martin," she sank down on the floor
and laughed and cried and said, “Oh,
what a goose I am!" In less than, ten
minutes she was down stairs in a fresh
froek with the tear stains all washed
away, and her father’s stable-boy
speeding with a note to “Mr. Hany
Martin," and under the stimulus of a
coin in advanoe and the promise Jack of
another when he returned, really
harried.
Harry Martin, for some reaion, had
found the work in his fathsr’s office
vary irksome that day. After he had
made several more or less serious blun¬
ders, the side* Martin suggested in he a
tone permeated with sarcasm that
go home and rest, and Harry, acting
on the snggeation, had pat on his hat
and street coat and left the offioe. Ho
•topped on the front steps, however,
and wondered where he wonld go and
what he wonld da Westfield, and
life itself, seemed a dreary waste; he
wanted to get away from it all. The
satisfaction ha had expected to feel In
■ending a box of roses to Min De
Jonse was not vary mnoh in evidanoa
and ha haartily wished he had never
seen nor heard of that frivolous yonng
woman*
Whiie he stood on the steps wrapped
in melancholy, whioh he punotored it
with an occasional, “Denoe, take
all I" he saw Jaok, the Richey’a stable
boy, approaching, wearing a broad
grin. Harry, from old-time habit, be¬
gan feeling with one hand for a ooin
and held ont his other for the note;
then he suddenly started and thought
with bittern
“What an ass I am 1 H# hasn’t any¬
thing for me.”
“Bus’s a latter, Mr. Martin," said
Jaok, his grin widening; and than he
added in a lowir tone, “Miss Mabel,
die told me to harry.” back than,” said
“Well, harry and giv¬
Ham, tearing the note ooin, open,
ing Jrak the expected “I’ll take
the answer,”
The note he opened reed*.
IrSuuR Hun:
BOW vsry /rood of yoa to Mad the rosea
jealous, twit I know that you fMgire ma
wheauall I you? Toon,
Harry whistled.
4 Why Ant the deneedoes
f I’ll jnst go and sea Poor
ttttte girl, she’s been ell cat op and
r*e bean a perfect brute!”
While he upbraided him
toward
K before Jack did.
in, bnt
‘ m. they got
t • . .\ nor did he
** * i to
• '
mr*
m*
•ere
m » L]
.
“No, Mr. Martin,” she said, “there
was no mistake. The flowers went
right to the right person." reddened
And then Harry’s face a
little, bnt he looked thoronghly ^ happy and
as he reached orer counter
took Miss Perkins’s hand and said:
“Yes, Miss Perkins, inadvertence or
not, it was the right person. ’’—Woman¬
kind.
Fishers of Lobsters.
As may be well understood, the life
of the lobster fishermen is not a sine
cure by any means, and though be is
off to sea. Again, he frequently has
hie traps carried out to sea and lost in
the strong undertow. These traps are
made of two thick hoops of willow
joined by clbsely set ribs of lath, and
within them is hung a piece of old fish
or meat; the older the better, for the
lobster has a strong scent, and a stone
is placed on the bottom of the trap to
act as a sinker, while a long line ex
tends from the trap to the surface of
the water, and to this line a buoy, or
marker, is fastened.
At either end of the trap a purse net
is placed over the willow hoops, and,
while it allows the lobster entrance, it
successfully bars his exit. The fisher
men work in pairs and set from 100
to 250 traps each day, and their pay
at this season of the year will average
$50 or $60 a week.
One man who followed lobster fish
ng for a living owns several pretty
cottages and lives in a fine house of
his own on the shores of Boston Bay.
Bnt, like the waters about New York,
iBoston Bay has long been an unprolific
souroe for lobster! A greater part of
the supply for the New York markets
come? through Boston and reaches
there by steamers from Portland, Me.,
and from Nova Scotia or Newfound
land.
As soon as they reach the d^cks they
am hurried into lobster houses, for if
a live lobster is left out in the frosty
air he will shed his claws as fast as
tree will shed its leaves on the ap
proach of winter. great steam
Within these houses are
tanks, and while the liveliest of the
crustaceans are placed in floating
floxes out in the river, those that move
slowly are loaded into iron orates and
plunged into the steam tanks, whenoe
they emerge in the course of twenty
minutes as red-well, as red as a boiled
lobster.—New York Press.
Drove the Steer.
„ Squire . v Vogelsang, . of , KeUoTovm- XT’ t„ »
sWp. Indiana, heard a carious case
whicL may become as noted1 as that cd
^ at-.’BhSrif 7k ssffis
to Yorkville, two mile! If Kegler
won he got the buggy, u not, tn«
steer went to Hornbeok.
The trial came off the next after
noon. The roadway from New Alsaoe
to Yorkvillo was lined with men, wo
men, children and an army of dogs,
Kegler brought out his steer, a little
»-■
angry that it required Hornbeok a dozen men rode
pat on the harness. a
big gelding. A bridlo was pat on the
& When 0 «< “d it started the bit the made orowd it furiouj. yelled,
The steer didn’t know where the win
ning wire was, but it went the open
wMf toward Yorkville. The eight as
the steer went by, with bulging eyo«
and tail sucking atraight out, while
all the dogs joined in the r»oe, y«*P- b
ing at every jump, was a waved their ®
remembered. The women
ahawb and oapes, and even the chU
drentook part in tbe
^8 . ht
•oo? m *
followed and the road was packed from
fenoe to fence. Then Hornbeok re
fused to pay Hie bet, _ bntKegler kept
th« boggy.— New Hork Recorder.
ne Care of the Aged.
When a man or woman passes seventy
years of age, greet care should be
given him to the oonditions surrounding
or her for the prolonging of life.
The vital forces are greatly enfeebled
at that period of life, end the powers
of resistance in oosseqnenoe of age ere
the weakest. A man of threescore
years and ten, and over, is like an old
machine that by proper care given to
it; condition buz been keep running
many years, end is still able to , do
work, bnt its wheels end exlee end
pinions ere mnoh worn end rickety,
and if it should be pushed, even to a
small extent, in exease of its disoin
ished powers, it breaks down end can¬
not be repaired, for every part of it is
shattered. Bat if worked carefully
and intelligently by a pereon who un¬
derstands its oondition and knows
aattteBi it can be knot in action
mnoh longer time than would be poa
sibie it e careless engineer controlled
„ it the
•rally not profitable [to husband
of an old m a chine Bat this
is not tone as regards oar old «d
It is desirable to. hold on to
as long as possible, and if
- - *t will ... greatly
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WILL PLEASE DEIOGRATS
M’JCQILEY'S _ NOMINATION _________ FOE PBES
IDENT SHOULD BE WELCOMED,
He Would Be the Most Fitting
Standard Bearer of the Party of
Trusts and Monopolies — Some
Plain Facts of Recent History.
The probabibty that Major McKm
\ , *?. e * r ? President lH **• gives Republican sincere pleasure nominee to
Republican leader incur the same
deep-rooted hostihty which the Amen
P eo £f ®bow author
the tariff law of 1890. Viewed in the
* °" P* 3 * bistory there is every
reason the Democrats should
^eleotue the choice of the Ohio Major
08 r09 *'*J ts 0 and standard mono bearer J? 0 e8 of the party of
. jews ago the “, tariff '.~. bill to . whioh , . ,
the accident of his selection as Chair
“ an of the Committee on Wavs and
Means fastened Mr McKinley’s name
waa P a8S f d through Congress. The
new measure was extolled as theem
bodiment of all protection wisdom,
and wonderful results of prosperity
and political success were predicted by
* ts fne0 8 -. Prophecies were
doomed to signal failure.
In8tead of becoming more prosper
ons the country began to show signs
8 °* oods business advanced, depression. and wjth Trices dearer °*
goods consumers could not affora to
buy as much as formerly; so manufae
turers found the demands for their
products decreasing. TUe people
grumbled because they bad to pay
higher prices, an wherever l was
possible they bought less. Thus in
stead of a business boom the McKm
la " b f n « ht decreased consump
* lon » the first sxep toward industrial
®“®f The 0a political 10 ?‘. , results of ,,, the new tariff .
00 088 dl800ur a *! n * \°. the P™'
teetionista In the , fall elections, held
the same year in which it was passed,
» House of Representatives was elect
ed in which there were only eighty
seven Republicans. The Republicans
lost the States of Connecticut, Ne
hraska^Indiana, | an .d» Wisconsin, Miohigan, and even Rhode the high Isl
t® r ifi stronghold of Pennsylvania.
Kansa f carried by the Populists,
a0 d *“® ° tates °* Minnesota, Iowa,
and McKinley’s own, Ohio, were car
riod byvery narrow Republican ma
jorities. In New York State, only
eleven Republican Representatives
were elected against eighteen m the
preceding Congress, and in Ohio only
r e “ R ®P re8enta ^ e9 108taad of B1X -
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^
i u 1891 there was a repetition of the
. Democratic victories m the various
State elections. The Republicans who
had been claiming that their defeat in
1890 was due to a failure on the part
Q f the voters to understand the new
tariff law began to invent other ex
oases. In 1892 the whole country was
usae «.»ft”*«».«*• of the MeKmley law <* versus «>.
reform. The Republicans insisted
that each vote for the Democratic
oandidat es was a vote against protec
tion. The Democrats accepted the
issue and everywhere denounced the
D f 1890 as a fragd and robbery.
| Once pressed more their the opinions American in people emphatia ex
form by triumphantly eleoting a Dem
ocratio President, House and Senate.
As the result of their swindling tariff
gobeme t b e Republicans lost oontrol of
the entire Administration of the
eral Government.
These we the plain facta of
history. What reason is there
BUpp08 i n g that^the polioy of McKm
i ayl8m , go obnoxiooa in 1890, 1891
an d 1892, will be regarded with more
favor in 1896.
, New Southern Cotton Mills,
President Dwight, of the Nashua
Manufacturing Company, Nashua, Ala, N.
H., reoently visited Cordova,
and selected a site on whioh his com
pany will at once erect a $600,000
cotton milL The new factory will i>e
the largest of ita kind in Alabama and
will be equipped with all the latest
and best improvements in machinery.
Calamity-croaking McKinleyites will
pl take notioe that their efforts to
scare business men from undertaking
new entarpriseas are not meeting with
much ra Lying stories tariff of in
das trial rain caused by low taxes
are of little weight when oompared
with one fact such as the above.
_ „ . . * d °?i * to
P? ul oa fP r °
tectxmist friends that the country is
not importing more goods under the
Wilson tariff than were imported nn
der the McKinley tariff they declare
that the statistics are deceptive. They
explain by saying that the importe era
now greatly undervalued- There is
doubtless some troth in this rapiaan- the
tart undervaluations^ under
new tariff wonld be largely rihet by
the T T
dent of tariff taxation.
AU
in a v i c to r y for the
in
SSPLfarSLT
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feee cotton ties.
Congressman Wheeler, of Alabama,
Makes a Strong Speech.
The Democratic party contends that
a country like ours, with but four per
cent, of the world’s population, and
producing as we do eighty per cent, of
the cotton and oorn of the world and
an average of forty per cent, of those
other great staples—wheat, coal, iron
ore, pig iron, finished iron, and steel
—must have the markets of the world
open for the sale of the products of
American labor.
During the consideration of the bill
which Mr. Russell made the
distinguished champion of number protection, of
Mr McK inley, made a
speeches, especially devoting himself
to increasing the tariff tax upon ‘iron
co ff on ties from thirty-five per cent,
to 102 per cent, he and his colleagues
fagoting that unless this was done it
won j d be impossible to manufacture
cotton ties in the United States; and
they repeated their threadbare threat
that when the manufacturers of cotton
tieg in the United States had become
bankrapUd for wantof sufficient pro
t ection the European manufacturers
wou i d double or possibly treble their
prioe apon those articles,
\^ 6( on the contrary, contended
that the high-protection system in¬
v jj ed retaliatory tariff and cut us off
from foreign markets which otherwise
woald become large purchasers of the
products of our farms and factories,
Mr. McKinley claimed to be especially
j n f orme d on this question of cotton
t j 6g( becauge the largest factory of iron
ties in the United States was located
a t Youngstown, in his district. He
flUCCeeded j n getting the tariff raised
to 102 per cent, and from March 3,
jggg^ to August 24, 1894, bis Youngs
town friends were enabled to oompel
tbe * „ rower8 Q f cotton to pay the double
pric e for their iron ties.
of course there was no export de
mand, and many of the factories had
to be c ] osed and workmen turned out
of employment, Democrats got in
When the power
and W e enacted the Wilson bill, which
p j aced co tton ties upon the free list,
immediately every benefit claimed by
Democrats was more than fulfilled,
i ns t ead 0 f oar being flooded with iron
|i eg f rom foreign countries, the de
m and for iron ties came from all parts
Q f tbe world. I hold in my hand the
Cleveland Wor i d of March 18, 1896,
ed ite d by /the the very high priest of pro
teQtion Hon. Robert P. Porter,
late Soperintendent of the Census of
the United States. This paper tells ns
that the Youngstown Iron and Steel
Oom F any y ia now engaged in filling an
imme n8e order from Bombay. India,
for cotton ties. The dispatch says:
sas-ws zzssrrsr&Lrz r s
e J
gend th# f the olerk’a desk
d k hi _ d the t t have
marked yi,. ™1“ derhread as follows• l
^*dib tor ikon b*iro bhippkd tbom
todsostowk to bohbat.
Yooicostoww, Ohio, Maroh 17.
The Union Iron and Steal Company is
safssjx^sffossajfs; Bombay, India, and shipments
order ^ from
have already been began. An immense
a “ oun * °*
“Made ‘^eTy paokTge the United s^t States.” out Zu
be marked: in
J Speaker, that is one of theben
efloia e flf eo ts of the Wilson bill prin
ciple of letting down the bars and
opening the markets of the world to
the products of American industry. In
t he face of propheoies made
by protectionists we see that with
f ree trade in iron oottdn. ties
we are applying P the entire
world . and Youngstown, Ohio,
^ one 0 £ the largest beneficiaries of
th 6 Democratic .tariff which we enact
ed on August 24,1894. (Applause.)— in
Congressman Wheeler, of Alabama,
0 f Representatives.
Higher Wages for Miners.
The companies operating the coal
mines in the Clearfield, Beeoh Creek,
Cambria and Gallitsen coal regions,
Pennsylvania, have posted notices that
on and after April the employes of all
the mines will be paid forty-five labor eents will
per ton for mining. Day
receive the same rates as when this
price for mining was formerly paid,
The new rates mean an advanoe to
miners of 12| per oent over day the laborers wages
paid in 1893, and to the
of at least ten per oent. SeTersI
thousand men will be effected.
American wage workers are familiar
with the history of wage reductions
in (he coal region* daring the last
two yean that the MoKinley law was
in operation. Yet, in spite of the fact
thet the companies were everywhere
catting down the wages of their min-,
an, the agents of the coal trust ia
^ ^ deo Ured that the McKinley
of ^nty-five cents per ton on
TSJ naoe esarv in order to keep
_
Since the Wilson tew lowered the
^ duty about fifty pta oent. there
egeseral advanoe of wages,
^ ^ the important collieries, that!
- boTereeorf *i bringing the number:
0 f wbo have received incre a s ed
pay ap to nearly 60,000. And tide is
wages have been in cr e as ed throngh
the revival in industry whi
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