OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1902.
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; Special Washington Letter.
SEVERAL years ago, when the
trusts first began forming un
der the favorable influence of a
robber tariff, I proposed to put
on the free list every article
manufactured by a trust. Recently a
good deal has been said on the subject,
and the Republican party is badly di
vided against itself on the subject
Now comes Roosevelt advocating a
constitutional amendment.; says noth
ing else will do any good. If there be
others who share that opinion, let
them read this press dispatch:
Peoria, 111. A stir something like tha't
caused by the handwriting on the wall at
Belshazzar's feast was created among the
Republicans in attendance at the convene
tion of the Republican State League of
Clubs here by the appearance of an inno
cent paragraph in the Peoria 'Journal, the
afternoon Republican daily. It occupied
the place of honor in the ''convention ex
tra," first column, first page, and was in
troduced by a glaring caption. Here it is:
"Chicago. The combination of the great
packing houses of the country which has
been under consideration and in process
of actual xormatioji for the last six
months has been abandoned, at least for
the present, says the Tribune. The. de
cision not to contemplate the combination
is due, in a large degree, to the attitude
of the national administration toward
trusts as outlined by President Roosevelt
in his recent speeches and to the possi
bility that in the event of a consolidation
congress might remove the tariff on cat
tle." Thus the beef packers give us con
firmation of our belief that a good
strong free list will clean out. the
trusts. Why, the more fear of free
trade in cattle prevents the 'consumma
tion of a gigantic trust! This should
effectually squelch all of Teddy's talk
about constitutional amendments in
the dim and distant future. A Demo
cratic congress is all that 'is needed
a body of legislator who -will cut the
tariff off of glass, lumber, beef, every
thing tbn is a necessity .of life and
which is controlled by a trust.
He Dotes on 'Em.
Congressman Calderhead is not tear
ing his clothes in his anxiety to find a
remedy for the trusts in fact, he likes
them. He wanls more trusts. Another
thing he takes a jab at 'organized la
bor. There are few unlommen in his
district There are many .more Repub
licans who would loudly indorse his
remarks on the subject but ;for the fact
that many of their constituents belong
to labor unions. Among the number is
Senator Pl.trt of Connecticut, who
emasculated (he Chinese .exclusion bill
when it was iu conference in order that
it might not prove effective against
Chinese labor coming into the country.
Chinese cheap labor is tbe .club that is
to be used to bring the labor unions to
terms. But, going back to Congress
man Calderhead, read what .he thinks
of the trusts:
Topeka, Kan. In a remarkable political
speech W. A. Calderhead, Republican con
gressman from the Fifth Kansas district,
defended the trusts, which he .character
ized as "godsends to the country," and
denounced organized labor as "the great
est menace the country ever had."
His remarks nave caused much .com
ment, as Mr. Calderhead is a prominent
member of the committee on banks and
banking In the lower house and has been
regarded as conservative. He said in
part:
"Why all this fus about the trusts?
Speaker Henderson has resigned because
some Republicans insist on tariff revision
as a panacea for the imaginary ffls which
the trusts are supposed to represent. 'Why
seek to remedy that which has been a
blessing? I deny that trusts constitute
an evil. I contend that they have been
a godsend to the country. I have no
sympathy or patience with this fuss
about the trusts. I care not If it .does
emanate largely within my party. I con
eider It all political buncombe. Trusts aiie
the handmaids of progress in every chan
nel of business and every avenue of life.
They have reduced the cost of living.
They have furnished employment for la
bor. They have promoted science and en
couraged Invention. Instead of attempt
ing to remedy or 'suppress' or 'contror
or 'disturb' that which we know Is a
blessing we should turn our attention to
that which Is known to be an evil and
take a hand at suppressing organized la
bor, I regard organized labor as the
greatest menace this country has today.
It not only robs its members of their lib
erty, but is a constant menace to the
lives and property of the whole people."
"A Solid Republican Column."
It will be remembered by the readers
bf these letters that in my speech at
Bangor, Me., before the Democratic
state convention June 17 I declared
that the Republicans are badly split,
up and that for making that truthful
assertion the St Louis Globe-Democrat,
Republican organ grinder, took me to
task, denying my statement and de
nouncing me as "a queer person," what
ever that may mean. It boldly asserted
that "the Republican column is solid."
Subsequently 1 submitted certain bits
of evidence which proved that I was
right. Here Is another. The Washing
ton Post, independent. In an edotorial
headed "Implacable Hostility" says:
The factional fight In the Republican
party, which broke out with great viru
lence during the first session of the Fifty
seventh congress, is still on. The organs
of the minority that caused the defeat of
the administration's Cuban policy the
policy of McKinlcy, of Roosevelt and of
a majority of the Republicans In con
gressare still firing their "barb pointed
arrows of malice" at the administration's
friends in congress. Although the elec
tion of a Republican majority In the next
house is by no means assured, the leading
organ of that bitter faction prefers the
election of Horace Boles to the return of
Bpeaker Henderson by the voters of the
Third Iowa district and regrets that there
Is no Boies In the Eleventh Ohio district
"to take the measurements of another
representative of the same breed as Hen
dersonthe sailed and spavined back,
Grosvenor."
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I Free Trade the Only
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That paper Is the New York Press,
mouthpiece of the protection extremists;
the men who, while posing as the only
genuine protectionists, are doing far more
toward condemning that doctrine and
bringing it into disrepute than all of its
open enemies have done or can do. In
the case of the speaker the Press does
not admit, in so many words, that it pre
fers Boies, but its remarks are equiva
lent to such an admission. The Press
says that "It-would be an extremely diffi
cult task for any Democrat to carry Hen
derson's district, which is naturally Re
publican by a tremendous plurality, but
the character of ex-Governor Holes is so
well known, he is so highly esteemed by
the citizens of his state, and his record
Is so generally good that there can be no
doubt, though he should not succeed in
carrying a- Republican stronghold with
Democratic Issues, that he will cut the
Henderson vote to pieces and thus give
the American people an accurate meas
urement of Henderson."
That is a splendid sendoff for "Uncle"
Horace and ought to 'be goofl for a num
ber of votes if skillfully utilized by the
Democratic managers. But as Hender
son has a margin of about 9,000 votes the
chances are that the Press and the fac
tion for which it speaks will not be able
to dislodge him.
The Globe-Democrat should read that
pungent editorial, digest It and then
make the amende honorable to me; but
it will never do it.
Journalistic Mendacity.
The Globe-Democrat lis caught 'lying
about seven days in each week on an
average. Here is a fair sample of its
everyday lies lies that are nailed as
fast as they are uttered. The follow
ing is fioni the St. Louis Republic:
Mr. Irwin L. Page, editor of the Bonne
Terre Star, was in St. Louis yesterday.
An editorial in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
of Friday was shown to him. The
editorial said:
"Mr. I. L. Page, editor of the Bonne
Terre (Mo.) Star, has put himself forward
to deny facts perfectly well known and
to call the Globe-Democrat .a liar. Mr.
Page's letter may not have been written
by Sm Cook, but its publication .will in
sure for the Bonne Terre sheet the con
stitutional amendment advertising."
Mr. Page said in comment on this at
tack: "As for the advertising the iGlobe lies,
as usual. The contract for the advertis
ing has been made and not with my pa
per. So, you see, I am free from bias on
that account. According to the . evidence
obtainable, the Olobe .deliberately faked
the Farmington dispatch about Governor
Stone's speech. The .Globe's regular
Farmington correspondent, Mrs. T. D.
Fisher, told me emphatically that she
sent a report of the Sonne meeting and
that the Globe used merely a line or two
of it. That part of the ipublished dis
patch purporting to give what Governor
Stone said about the tec hnical .constitu
tionality of the school ertillcaies was
not sent by her, and she .-Kays 'that Gov
ernor Btone said nothing of the sort
Unless the Globe can prove that some
body sent an extra dispatch ifrom Farm-
ington it must confess that the report
v.'us a fake concocted in the Globe of
fice. Certainly the burden of .proof Is on
the Globe. Mrs. Fisher has .been the
Globe correspondent at Farmington for
fifteen years. It is most improbable that
the Globe ordered a separate report from
anybody else. If it did. it was because
the Globe knew that Mrs. Fisher would
not send a political lie. Anyway you put
It the Globe has concocted and published
as news a deliberate political falsehood of
facf. In view of the savage attack made
by the Globe on the country editors gen
erally I am certain that the Whole pro
fession will thank tue Republic for ex
posing the forgery of Democratic editors'
signatures to an invented letter in a re
cent issue of the Globe."
Taking the Cork Under.
Those Democratic newspaper corre
spondents In Washington must be a
guileless set who will allow themselves
to be hoodwinked into sending ito their
papers impossible tales to the .effect
that the trusts will not contribute to
the Republican campaign fund because
Roosevelt has uttered a few beautiful
platitudes on the subject of their .con
trol. Republican talk of controlling
the trusts cannot be very sincere when
it comes from men who were elected
with funds furnished by trust mag
nates, who voted for the tariff law
that brought the trusts into existence
and who refuse to vote for a law to
.control the trusts, who also refuse to
enforce the present law against trusts
and who are opposed to any alteration
tf the tariff law that makes the trusts
possible. Of course it takes a good
deal of gall to enable them to put up
a plaint that is so palpably false, but
gall has always been the long suit of
the Republican party.
Rut it is strange that the correspond
ents of Democratic newspapers will
bite at the false bait in fact, they
take the cork clear under and send
the harrowing tale to their papers.
The real truth is that the Republican
campaign managers always have
enough money to enable them to squan
der it lavishly, while at the present
time, as always, the Democratic cam
paign committee In Washington has
not enough money to more than pay
postage.
The editor of the Folton (Mo.) Ga
zette hits the nail on the head in the
following:
Discerning people will take with a grain
of salt all of the utterances of J. Pler
pont Morgan that President Roosevelt
must not be elected a second time be
cause of his supposed unfriendliness to
the trusts. Mr. Roosevelt may have erred,
from the trust standpoint. In ever men
tioning the trusts, but he has not yet
given the country any suggestion of prac
tical legislation, and his latest Idea con
cerning the tariff that is, that Its regula
tion should be put In the hands of a
commission smacks so much of old world
imperialism that it will not even receive
respectful consideration. It Is apparent
that Mr. Morgan's hostility Is a bit of
stage play to deceive the voters, Just as
was the canard that Chairman 2rigg tl
the Democratic congressional Bommittee
had been to New York looking for funds
and found that the trusts and nj.jt,y bags
of Wall street were willing to honor his
drafts for any amount, while Chairman
Bibcock rot the Republican committee had
been turned down at every place he ap
plied tor funds. Reasoning folks will not
for a minute doubt that there (s an at
tempt to Impose upon the credulity of
the people. The very nature of the sto
ries o far current Indicates that there is
an agreement between the political pow
ers that be and the money powers that
be to take advantage of the unpopularity
of the trusts to secure the return of a
Republican congress. Fortunately, the
.nature of the stories show on their face
the Impossibility of truth.
Some Truth From the Post.
The Washington Tost has an able
editorial page, and even its Republican
leanings cannot stifle the clear truth
that the Republican party is the party
of political fraud and misrepresenta
tion. Just read this editorial loader
from the Tost printed under the head
ing "Astonishing Misrepresentations:"
Deliberate misstatement of Indisputable
facts is never politic. While it may be
excusable for a party organ to ignore or
dodge such facts it never pays to misrep
resent them. To state that which 4s the
reverse of true as to the proceedings of a
congress of so recent a date as the Fifty
sixth is to display something more repre
hensible than unwisdom. Nothing In the
proceedings of that congress, with the
single exception of its badly botched gold
standard act, attracted wider attention or
is more distinctly remembered than the
farcical treatment it accorded the trust
question. It was, as the Post has here
tofore explained and as every live news
paper in the United States understands, a
farce-comedy in two acts under the man
agement of the house judiciary commit
tee. The first act ended with the defeat of
an antitrust amendment by the solid vote
of the Democrats. Had there been the
ghost of a chance of effecting the pro
posed change in the fundamental law of
the nation no one suspects that it would
have been introduced. Its presentation
was a feature of a carefully prepared
scheme to "put the Democrats In a hole."
The object of the management was to
manufacture capital for the then pending
presidential campaign of 1900.
The second act was the passage through
the house by a .practically unanimous
vote of a stringent antitrust bill amenda
tory of or supplementary to the Sherman
antitrust law. That bill met its pre
destined death In the senate at the hands
of the Republican majority in that body.
The senate refused to consider it An op
position senator on the eve of the ad
journment of congress made a vigorous
plea for an opportunity to vote on that
measure, which had received the vote of
every Republican member of the house,
but his appeal .had :no effect. The bill is
still on Tile hi a senate committee room.
Such are the facts, and it would be a
gross disparagement of the Intelligence
of so enterprising a metropolitan .news
paper as the New York Press to suppose
it to be ignorant of them. Yet in the
face of that record the Press declares
that "amendments to the Sherman law
attempted by the Republican party when
it was discovered that the Sherman law
was Inadequate to protect the interests
and rights of the public against combina
tions and agreements In restraint of trade
and competition were defeated by the
Democrats." That no room may be left
for doubt as to the meaning of the Press
it goes on to assert that "in the Fifty
sixth congress the Republicans engaged
to make such changes in the Sherman
law as would make it fulfill the designs
of its framers and enable its provisions
to be applied to all acts In Testraint of
trade without .evasion or escape. But the
Democrats in .congress aligned themselves
solidly against this Republican legislation
and for the time being killed Jt."
The Press can easily find "this Repub
lican legislation" in the north end .of the
capitol. It reached the place It was in
tended to occupy. The Tress can also
readily iind the practically solid Demo
cratic vole of the ihouse recorded for it,
and the Press should toe able to discover
abundant evidence that no business of
the Fifty-sixth congress was more care
fully attended to than the accomplish
ment of its firm purpose to let the trusts
alone. Thus far the Fifty-seventh con
gress has shown -equal disinclination to
Injure the feelings of the managers of
monopolistic combines.
Fourteen Different Ways.
The St. Louis rost-Dispatch says:
Just how to pronounce the name of .our
president Is a matter that puzzles a great
many people. His name has given rise to
a greater variety of $aronunciatkn than
that of any statesman who has ever .oc
cupied the front rank.
The English people shied at "D'Israali"
when they first saw it in print, and ,
Americans when they first saw "Thiers"
were given pause. Bonaparte changed
the spelling of his name, and there me
some purists who excite amusement 1py
still spelling it "Buonaparte" and pro
nouncing li accordingly.
But for a man of worldwide fame, as
the president of the United States must
necessarily be In these days, there has
never before been a case like that oi
"Roosevelt" to puzzle mankind. Even
"Goethe" and "Pepys" were not so mys
tifying. Elsewhere than in New York and in
Holland and South Africa, where Dutch
names are common, the greatest varia
tions of the president's name are to be
met with. People in England are at sea
about It. On the continent almost every
man has his own opinion on the subject.
Here are a few of the vagaries:
RUZY-VELD, ROSA-FELT,
ROOZE-VELL, ' ROSEN-FELT,
ROSE-VELT, ROOZE-VELT,
ROSEN-VELL. RUZY-FELT,
ROSEN-VELT, KOSSA-FELT,
ROOSE-FELT, RUZY-VELT,
RUZA-FELT, RUZE-FELT.
The Man and the Hour.
New York has had her Parkhursts
and Jeromes, and they all turned out
to be fanatics without executive capac
ity or politicians merely playing on the
desires of un overwrought populace,
but St. Louis bus a man who Is one lu
ten million In an emergency Joseph
W. Folk, the hard hitting young prose
cuting attorney. The way he Is ham
mering the boodlors has put his name
on erery lip. The future has much In
store for young Mr. Folk. One of these
days he will be hulled as Congressman
Folk, Governor Folk or perhaps better
than either of those. When Folk was
nominated by the Democrats, St. Louis
was the most corrupt city politically
In America, with the possible excep
tion of Philadelphia. The city had
been In the hands of a powerfully in
trenched Republican ring, and somo
times the returns showed a Republican
majority as high as 10,000. But Rolla
Wells was elected mayor by the Dem
ocrats lu a three cornered race. The
strides made by St. Louis since that
happy change was made will probably
serve to make the city Democratic for
a generation to come. The name of
Folk has become as great a terror to
8t Louis eomintionlsts as was that of
Tamerlane to the robber bands of Asia.
RICH FIND OF FOSSILS.
Three Tora Horse , Skeleton I .
earthed by -.xiiloriii I'uri).
Word was recently received by Pro
fessor Osborne of the American Mu
seum of Natural History that the par
ty of sclentilic explorers which went
west some mouths ago to search for
relics of extinct species of horses had
found fossils of a. herd of five small
horses, says the New York Herald.
!The animals belonged to the three toed
variety, which hitherto has been known
only from skulls and poor fragments of
the frame.
Professor Osborne is overjoyed at the
success f the present searching party.
The word ho received stated that ten
fore legs, ten hind legs, several skulls
f.nd cue skeleton almost intact, all in
an excellent state of preservation, had
been found. With the fragments, it is
believed, it will be easily possible to
restore at least two complete skeletous.
This remarkable find far exceeds any
ambition the exploring party had. At
best the Members had expected to un
earth but a few fragments, with the
aid of which, by dint of much labor
and study, it would be possible to give
an idea of the frame of one of the
three toed horses which once galloped
on the plains of the west.
Just where the find was made wits
not stated. The searchers, have been
working with the fund provided for
that purpose by William C. Whitney.
The fossils have been shipped to New
York.
"This find is an Important addition
to the history end development of the
horse iu Amerca." said Professor Os
borne. "Special explorations for fossil
horses began iu 11)01. Last season two
complete si ages were obtained, but
they were of an earlier period than
those just found."
FADS IN FALL JEWELRY.
Detncliniilr Gold I cdmvear Button
j I'or Rich 'li-n's le.
The sole outsiaistMii;; novelty iu fash
ionable fall a. ul winter jewelry is de
tachable plain gulti underwear buttons.
These are put c.p in sets of four and
six and can lie haj in varying sizes
and weights says the New York Times.
A thoroughly servii-eaide set of six can
be obtained (or X)n and this size gives
evidence of being th.- most popular.
The buttons v ilaiig or round on
the outer xU'.v.; !s.l the reverse ends
are molded to li! the curves of the
body, 'ihe man f luxurious tastes
and ample means -.wed no longer suf
fer from the distress occasioned by
the deadly animosity of laundresses to
buttons of ail kinds.
In the wit tell trade the demand Is
all for thinness, flatness and plainness.
Watches even of only moderate thick
ness are being displaced as rapidly in
the American market as were their
ponderous predecessors driven out by
the "mediums" of today.
"Customers arp constantly asking for
something new," said a prominent re
tailer. "They are tired of watches,
rings, pencils, dressing cases, etc., and
a big fortune alraits the man who will
bring out something really novel. There
are all kinds of adaptations, but noth
ing that is at once unique and artis
tic." WOMEN AS. "IMMORTALS."
French Paper SuKKext the Idea and
AmL For Name.
Feniinn, a Frenchwoman's review,
has asked its readers to give the names
of the forty Frenchwomen who would
be "immortals" if there were such a
thing as a French academy for wom
en, says a special cable from Faris to
the Philadelphia Press. Among the
names sent lu were many well known
to Americans, some of them being
Sarah Bernhardt, Augusta Holmes,,
Rejane, Gyp, Calve, Chaminade, Bre
val and Lucie Felix-Faure.
There were also the names of the
wives of writers well known in the
United States, like Alphonse Daudet,
Edmond Rostand and Octave Feuillet
A Rash to South Africa.
A rush of emigrants from Australia
te South Africa has set in and Is wor
rying the authorities, says the Argo
naut. Applicants for permits to emi
grate have to prove themselves pos
sessed of a minimum of $500. The re
quirement, together with the expense
of the voyage, is an obstacle to the
poor In purse, and the result Is that
ships from Australia are suffering with
a plague of stowaways. The captain
of the Fortunatus, bound from Mel
bourne to the Cape, recently found that
he had twenty of these unlicensed pas
sengers on board, and so he took a
drastic course. He dropped all the
stowaways on the Australian coast 250
miles from Melbourne.
Popularity of Irish Country Seat.
To have a country seat in Ireland is
a growing fad of rich Americans
abroad, says the New York Press.
After a round of London gayeties Mrs.
Adair finds relaxation at Olenvalgh,
her beautiful country home In the sub
urbsif suburbs It may be called of
Dublin. The beautiful old hall Is rare
ly without house parties of alien Amer
icans and a foreign lion or two. Glen
valgh is looking forward to a visit
from Lord Kitchener before he starts
for India. ,
Winter Style In rnre.
Green leather purses and wrist bags
will be much used through the winter,
Russian seal, polar seal, matte seal
and oriental seal will also be worn, and
there Is a new leather, graphite, that Is
being made up smartly with French
gray silver or aluminium Into chate
laine bags and the like. Aluminium,
by the way, Is a novelty as a trimming.
In bag trimmings nothing excels In
popularity Pompeilan gold, a dull Ro
man gold with green tinge.
NEV WHITE HOUSE CHINA.
Service of l.IS.'U I'lccea Made In titu
land to Com About If 10,0(10.
The magnificent china service for the
White House which is being designed
at the Wedgwoed potteries at Stoke,
England, will arrive some time in De
cember, says a Washington special to
the New York World. The design and
pattern are of Mrs. Roosevelt's selec
tion. The president and Mrs. Roose
velt commissioned Charles M. Vau
Heusen of Albany to visit nil the fa
mous china manufacturers and place
.the contract. This china will be the
first service of English manufacture
to be used at the White House. The
famous $'io,(lU0 service purchased by
Mrs. Hayes was from the Havilaud
firm of France.
The new service is plain white, with
tt gold border, with the great seal of
the United States In colors on each
piece. The shapes are colonial. This is
the lirst time that the arms of the
United States have been used for the
decoration of White House tableware.
The design and shapes have been copy
righted and may unit be duplicated ex
cept by permission of the president.
The set consists of l.iU'iti pieces.
There are til'tcen dozen dinner plates,
ten dozen breakfast plates, ten dozen
tea plates, live dozen bread and butler
plates, teu dozen soup plates, eight
do.eu after dinner cups and saucers,
ten dozen oyster plates, ten dozen lisli
plates and twenty -four platters.
Mrs. Roosevelt has been much an
noyed by exaggerated statements con
cerning the cost of this service. It is
stated that the china will cost less than
$10,000. ' Thirty thousand dollars was
allowed for the purchase of china, sil
ver and glassware for tlw repletion of
the White House closets.
The new rhisswiire will consist of
1-11 pieces of the liucst cut crystal
Each piece will bear the great seal.
Tiffany is now engaged lu designing
about Tiiili pieces of colonial silver,
which . .11 co,.:, :.'.e 'lie i .vsidci;; :il
dinner service. The old silver was in
much better condition than the china,
and the new pieces consist mostly of
oyster and oilier o.ld forks, which have
recently beiouie requisite lor a well
appointed table.
Last winter Mrs. Roosevelt renewed
the While House napery with the
daintiest creations to lie found in the
Philippines and Porto Rico.
KIPLING'S NEW BOOK.
Object of ills "JiiMt So Storle" For
the Numery,
The object of Mr. Kipling's new
nursery book. "Just So Stories," for
which he has drawn the droll and orig
inal pictures as weN as written the
tales they illustrate, seems to be to
provide patient nurses and anxious
young mothers with ready made an
swers for (juestlous they cannot al
ways evade, says the New York Times.
Thus .they may now learn how the
camel got his hump, how the leopard
got his upols and various other Impor
tant matters relating to the animal
kingdom which have long been per
plexing, though Mr. Oliver nerford
and other philanthropists have tried to
answer some of them satisfactorily.
The new book is funny, even amaz
ing, but It Is hardly one of Mr. Kip
ling's master works, scarcely the stuff
we might look fur If we chose to be
exacting from a highly praised writer
aged thirty-seven who published "rialn
Tales From the Hills" In his twenty
third year and "Seven .Seas" at the
age of thirty-one.
VENETIAN CANAL FOR PARIS
American Engineer' Great Scheme
to Beautify the City.
Sidney Watking, the American engi
neer,, has been expounding a gigantic
project to the Paris municipal council,
says a Paris cable dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Press. It Is said to be backed
by a powerful American syndicate, and
he offers to take the old fortifications,
now disused, and demolish the -walls
at bis own expense.
On the COO foot belt of ground thus
provided all around the city he would
excavate a grand canal communicat
ing with the Seine river, build an auto
mobile speedway, a horse and riding
track and a bicycle path unrivaled
anywhere.
These would occupy only one side of
the strip, and all Watkins' syndicate
wants lu return for the tremendous cost
is the privilege to build, sell and rent
luxurious residences and hotels right nt
the water's edge, making the other side
like the Venice grand canal. It also
wants a perpetual franchise for the
gondola service.
Jewelry Novelty For Women.
The "pickup" Is the popular name of
a new Idea In Jewelry. It Is an orna
mental bucklo designed to hold up the
skirt while walking. It may also be
worn In front, with a ribbon, or to keep
the bodice, the belt and the skirt In
proper relations at the back.
An October Sonic.
Crackln' of the teamsters Whip 'long the
country roads;
Nelghln' of the hones as they draw the
heavy loads;
A shiver In the woodlan's, where the
leaves the irrcen have lost,
An' a whUper on the hilltop of the com-
in' of the front 1
Light the cabin fires;
Hummer iiweet has fled;
Coldenrod is boomln'
Neur the holly berries red.
Up from many a cabin now the blue
smoke curls,
An' the boy have brought the wanoni
for a brisk ride with the girls.
Glad eounds In all the woodlan's; faint
echoes from the town.
An' the barkln' of the squirrel an the
hlck'ry nut full down.
8o light the cabin fires,
For Bummer aweet ha n1
An' the noldenrod Is bloomln'
Near the holly berries red
Atlanta Constitutor,
TOYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Some Novelties of the Christ
mas Season's Trade.
ATHLETIC GAMES IN BIG DEMAKD
Fully Equipped Gymnasium, on a
Small Scale, Can lie Bought For the
Children Large Output of Pins
pong; Acceorle Imitation B11-
Hard For Youthful Player.
Although It wants some time of
Santa Claus season, Christmas toys are
already on the market, says the New
York Times. All summer long the
creators of children's novelties have
been at work, and the retailer Is laying
Iu his stock. The keynote this year is
to be sensibleness in the matter of toy
selection. Santa Claus has been at
work on a variety of things Intended
to promote the health of the child as
well as to amuse him; hence athletic
games are In the majority.
You will be able to buy a complete
gymnasium on a small scale for the
use of the child this year, including
everything that goes to make up the
paraphernalia of muscle development.
There are patent reversible wall sets,
the weights of which are dumbbells
and may be detached and used sepa
rately. There are punching bags that
may be used either on a bracket or on
a floor and ceiling rope. There are
parallel bars that may be converted
Into vaulting horses. There Is even a
punching bag and football combina
tion. There are geographical puzzles which
take In our new :vw":t possessions,
teaching die name-- of r:ticn and towns
therein. There are niiij.s which, when
placed tojvcihi r. lorui themselves into
niini.'iti:n o Manila. Porio itico and
Cuba, but t',:ey are imt affairs which
are easily pieced together, so that the
child will m-od in have at least a smat
tering ot the tup.i raplij of these coun
tries be Lie ;e will be able to cotlr
Stl'tlel li:e iu:t t!:' li'lii'.
Most of l lie h'a.iliig novelties this
year are Intended to furnish amuse
ment for the elders as well as the
youngsters. So, while a child will un
doubtedly be fascinated with some of
the games planned on the order of bil
liards and p ( ".. - i also will be the older
members of i ; lani.ly. for some skill
is required t .laulpiilate many of the
games. One 'if these games has even
attained to the dignity of composition
balls and chalked cues for shooting
them into the pockets at the corners of
the table. The game Is different from
that which Is played in public halls,
however. The bulls are placed differ
ently on the table, and the counting is
not the same.
Gaines generally are In demand, and,
Judging by the fact that one firm alone
has placed orders for 100,000 sets of,
piugpong, or table tennis, that game is:
to be the popular Indoor Innovation
this winter. Another dealer whose or
ders are nearly as large as those of the
dealer Just mentioned says that there
has been no falling off In the popu
larity of the game and that it will be in
even greater vogue this winter than It
was last year.
The classic building block Is to be
sold In even greater variety than ever
before, and there are specimens of
stone, cement, wood and other con
struction, kites are also to be award
ed the good little boy not the old fash
ioned affairs that have to be adjusted
with long tails, but great box kites,
like those used by the United Statea
weather bureau, to which tho young
ster may attach Iieyden jars and do.
some experimenting on his own ac
count. Malay kites are also on sale,
some of them seven feet high, but so
easily handled that a boy under ten
may fly them from the housetop with
out danger of being pulled from his
perch.
For the little girls there are dolls
the mothering Instinct Is always asser
tiverag dolls that will not break. Tho
chief novelty In this line Includes two.
dolls In one. It Is planned to enable
the child to practice a little magic, ta
the great surprise of her friends. For
Instance, she shows them a doll dressed
In blue. Placing It behind her back,
she brings forth Instantly a black pick
aninny dressed In red.' In either case
she has apparently only one doll.
How does she" manage It? Under the
skirts of the white doll, which has no
legs, there are the head and bust of the
pickaninny doll. By catching hold of
the head of this black doll the skirts
Immediately fall down over the white
doll's head, the arms hanging down
beyond the covered head and making
the necessary feet.
Freak toys aro not to be In vogue
this winter. Those that are sold are
In the hands of the fakirs and will be
obtainable only on the sidewalks. The
leading novelty In this line Is a rubber
case, which, when Inflated, looks like
a monstrous Frankfurter sausage and
which, when allowed to leave the hand,
files swiftly up into the air, pursuing a
gyrating course;
It loses air as It files, however, and
soon cosies down again near where It
was set off. A curious feature of the
sale of this toy In that the fakir hav
ing It In charge employs a
Klstants to cliase (lie leea
loons and hfl i:-; item !::
The crowd that gal l ei's a
chape the t hit!.- r n:i ! u
nild there Is coii .i iim m! . ;
Of excitement in the .!;;:""
borhood if the halioi n sr .
orps
11 1 1 : 1 i I
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bal-
low-s f(
as -miit.
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Quite ii 1 i. "J i :..
The 2r() p'ine'l stiioeiit in, in Iowa
Who Is being bilked i.f as a probable
center for Harvard's football eleven
looks In the newspaper pictures of Inai
to be broad enough, says the Iiostoti
Transcript, to play center and both
ends at the same time.