Evening gazette, Saturday, June 18, 1898 · page 6

 

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BY CID CRANE.

It isn’t everyone who can have a fas-

cinating young woman s1t upon his
knee in a street car in broad day-
light without embarrassment on his
part. But there is an exception to
every rule—so they say—and your
humble servant poses as a living ex-
ample of that exception, although how
he ever survived the ordeal is more
than he can account for.

It was my dinner hour...and as I had
been in the city all day, whacking
away at an old ledger" at six dollars
a whack and one. continuous Whack
every week, my appetite was by all
odds the biggest part of me, and I was
in a hurry to get home.

It was half past 4 o’clock and the

. CHARLES EMORY SMITH. “

The New Postmaster General, a Man of
- High Attainments.

Mr. Smith, successor to James A.

Gary. was born Februarv 18, '1842, at

1 Mansfield, Conn, andsmren years later

removed with his parentsto Albany, N.
Y., where his early education pro-
gressed until, at the age or 16 years, he
graduated from the local academy.
Six months later he entered UniOn Col-
lege and during the interim, though he
was then, as stated bu.t 16 years old,
he wrote leading articles for the Al-
bany Evening Transcript. He gradu—
ated from Union College in 1861, and
was soon afterward appointed to the
staff of General Rachbone, who was in
command of various depots in New

'York state where volunteers were or-

car was crowded. There was just a ,

seat and a half left unoccupied, and.
according to the usual generosity of

mankind, I hastened to secure the in- .

tegral part, leaving the remainder to
the next unfortunate.

My dreams of hot chocolate and boil-
ed ham—a . happy combinationl—were
soon disturbed by the entranc’e of two
fair damsels. One of them, a fair-
haired, blue-eyed maiden, about whom
the spring poets love to gush, cast
her eyes about the car (looking for a
seat, I suspect), until I began to fear
she would break the windows with
them.. Finally she spied the small
space by my side, and, accompanied
by her friend, approached and gently
let herself down into it, squeezing an
old woman with a basket up against
the stove. I had a sort of inward
feeling that sheIwanted me to get up
and let her friend have my seat, but
somehow I became intensely interest~
ed in a newer aper that I happened
to have with inc-a newspaper is a
nice thing to have in such cases—and
I forgot all about it.

“Never mind, Mayme. you can sit
down on my lap‘,” I oVerheard the fair
one say. .

Well, maybe you think its funny.
but I didn’t take it in a humo1ous
light. I simply took it as it came and
didn’t bother about. the light. 1 al-
ways thought a girl Could disoriminate
between a woman’s lap and a man s
but I see [that I wit-sided from the path
of wisdom in my earlier days.

“Mayme” proceeded to, comply ”with
her friend’s invitation, but I wasn't

looking for what happened. She sat-
herself down on one knee of the lady'
I was.
sorry that I couldn’t accommodate her'

beside me and on two of mine.

with some more knees. But I didn’t
have an extra supply with me. Well!
You knowthose big sleeves that the
women are wearing, of course? I
wouldn’t have minded it so much if
she hadn't stuck them right ‘into my
face. It rather placed a chill upon
my enjoyment of the occasion, but
then, onevdoesn't have such-a pretty
creature to sit. upon his lap every day
in '- the Week,‘i‘and on a street car at
that, so I tried to oy'erlook it. In fact
by stretching my neck a trifle, I did
look over it. All that seemed to be
lacking was a nice grate fireof an<

'thracite.

If I hadn’t been so tormented hun-

, gry I' would have ridden to the ex-
treme end of the line, rather than to”

disturb her restful attitude, for
“where ignorance is bliss, ’tis better
to reinain ignorant. " But attitude, or
no, I had to get off pretty soon, and
besides, she began to become heavy.
I squiimed around’it bit, but she did
not seem to notice it, although the

newspapersartist opposite me did, and

mothned me to” keep still until he got
my feet drawn. They were sticking
out from under her iiowing skirts, be-
side her own, and I suppose the con-
ductor, who used to be the manager
of a dime museum up in Michigan,

V was thinking about long lost opportu-
A nities, et cetera.

I squirmed some more, but with the
same result, or rather, without any
result at all, for she sat as firm as the
tower of Babel. I was growing des-
peratc. I never had such a case as
that on my hands before—or on my
knees, more properly speaking. I had
to get off at the nest square, and un-
less she voluntarily removed herself
from my lower appendages, I should
certainly have to make her feel em-

‘ ~ barrassed. I wasn’t embarrassed my-

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. , thought,

ate a tremendous

 

self, as I said at the beginning. But
the Fates were against me, for on
she sat; or, to be more lucid, she still
sat on me—and a good hundred 'and
thirty pounds gets to be quite a load
when you don’t have a chance to
shift about occasionally. “Well, here

. goes,” thought 1, coming to the last

resort, and the last square on the
avenue. .

“Madam,” I said timidlv,
to get off here.

“Well,” she replied, over the top of
her sleeve, lathei suspiciously. I
“I'm not hindering you.”

“Really,' ma’am, I have enjoyed this
ride with you immensely, but-”

“How dare you, sir!” she exclaimed.

“But you are sitting on my knees,”
I said tenderly, as I thought of the
mutilated creases in my trousers.

Well! If you could have seen the
jump which that lady made. you
would have classed heri immediately
as one of those modern feminine atlr
letic enthusiasts. I don’t know what

“I have

- followed; I didn’t wait to see, but like

a man who suddenly thinks of a for-
gotten, engagement, I hustled off the
car and finally reached home, where I
dinner without
speaking once, much to the wonder-
ment of my good aunt Jane. ‘

All this happened quite a number
of months ago, and the young lady
is now helping me to spend that six
dollars week. Queer coincidence.
isn’t it? But, then. this would be a
cheer world. indeed, if it wasn't so
queer as it is, with its queer peo-

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ganized into regiments. and having
'spent two years in this work be ex-
changed the post for one in the faculty

 

CHARLES E. SMITH.

it his old school, the Albany Academy.

In 1865 Mr.‘ Smith left the scholastic
world and entered the Journalistic pro—
fession, becoming the editor of the Al—
bany Express of which he had charge ’
for five years, undertaking, in addition,
for several months. of 1868,the duties
)f priv~atesecretary to Governor Fen-
Izon. In 1870 he becamelassmiated with
George Dawson 'in'the’ ’conduct of the
lournal, the leading Republican paper
'11 Albany, becoming editor-in- chief on
Mr. Dawson' ‘3 retirement in 1876.

In 1874 he was president of the State
Press Association and delivered the an-
ual address at itsm‘eeting. 'For six
succcessive years he served as delegate
:o the Republican State convention. In
[880 he was selected as temporary and
permanent president, and was chair-
nan of the committee-on resolutions in

each: of the other years, excepting 1877,

‘when Roscoe Conkling held that post

'tnd Mr. Smith, was secretary, He was

tiso-awdelegate to the National Republi-'
2an convention in 1876,. and, as New
York member ‘of the committee-on res-
olutions, .a. large zportion- of.:~the .1 plat-A
lorrn was drafted by ,his pen.

In 1871 Mr. Smith was elected a true-
;ee of Union Collegeby his fellow alum-
hi, and in 1879 the State Legislature
elected him a. regent of the University
)f the State of New York.

In February, 1880, Mr. Smith resigned
the editorship of the Albany Journal
and the following month took up his.
~esidence in Philadelphia, of which he
13.5 since been a citizen, havinggat, that
time acquired' the editorship of what
sad been known as Forney’s'Press’and
of which he assumed charge March 8
of that year, becoming, soon after his
appointment as editor, part owner of
the paper. He transferred to this city
and State the. active interest that had
made him a. prominent participant in
the political affairs of New Yerk, es-'
pecially in State and national politics.
in the interim he has become a. well
known figure in Republican State and
national conventions, as well as upon
:he stump as a Republican speaker. He
was one of the - committee having
charge of Mr. Blaine’s nominationain
[884, and made the speech in the con-
vention of 1888 presenting Mayor Fitler
as a presidential candidate.

He was made minister to Russia by
President Harrison in 1890, assuming
charge of that post on May 14 of that
year at St. Petersburg. During lhis ser-
vice there he bore a large part in the
iistribution of the extensive relief sup-
Dlies sent from this country fer the ben-
efit of the famine-stricken peasantry.
He resigned the post in May,~1892, and
‘esumed the editorship of :the Priess, a
position he has since retained. His
name was mentioned frequently in con-
1ection with a portfolio when President
McKinley's cabinet was first being
Iormed, and particularly in connection
with the one that has now been given
‘1im.——Philadelphia Ledger.

The Bomb In Jefl’ Davls’ Desk.
,VVhe'n the United States troops occu-
pied Richmond, Va., April 3d, 1865, Gen-
eral Edward H. Ripley: of Vermont,
who was appointed military governor
of the city, ‘found in the desk of Jef-
ferson Davis, in the house occupied by
the Confederate President, a cast-iron
bomb in the shape of a. lump of coal.
It was evidently cast from a good-
sizedpiece of coal, was coated with
coal tar and coal dust, and could hard-
ly be distinguished when handled from
a lump of coal. It was hollow, and
would hold powder enough to make a
heavy explosion.‘ Army authorities
have never doubted that the otherwise
unexplained blowing up of a steam ves-
sel loaded with amunition at City Point
was the work of a bomb of this kind,

1 which had been dropped into a. pile of.

coal and shovelled into the furnace of

.the steamer, and similar bombs pro-

bably ' occasioned similar catastrophes
during the wan—Burlington, Vt. Free
Prese. '

"Mamma," said Bobbie, “when ,you

go to town buyme a whistle, and let

71: be a religious whistle, so that I can
pie and queer coincidences. ~Roller Iylay with-sit on Sunday."

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SLEEPING IN SIGNAL TOWERS.

A New Attitude of *Railroad Managers to
Mon Guilty of 8 Grave Fault.

 

When the soldiers sleep on picket'

duty in time of war they are liable to
be courtmarti‘aled and shot. Soldiers

' know that, and still not even the fear

of death is sufficient to keep them
awake always. A momentary lapse of
alert, waging intelligence on the part
of a. railroad man sometimes means the
loss of life and property. When rail-
road men are'found ”asleep at their
posts they are not taken out and shot;
they are simply discharged. At least
that was the invariable rule up to a
very recent time; no railroad officials
would even inquire into the particulars
of a. case of this kind. Recently there
has'arisen a premise‘of greater lend

-iency with regard to the man found

asleep on' duty. Slime railroad men
have worked on the question carefully
and intelligently.' They have Consid-
ered the fact that not even fear of

, death will keep the sentinel aWake al-

ways, and have realized that the lower
penalty of discharge must therefore be
ineffective sometimes. They have rea-
soned that men have'always slept and

probably always will sleep at certainj

times when they shculd be‘awake. Be-
ginning ,with. this fact, ,,.there _, has been
evolved a change of alttitude on the
part of the railroad toward its em—
ployees. A man is charged to stay

.awake just as emphatically as ever be«

fore; but the mere fact of being asleep
is no longer considered the gravest in-
fraction of duty. The thing that men

are discharged for under this new sys-‘

tem is the giving of a. wrong signal.
That is, they are discharged for mak-
ing mistakes that might cause a wreck,

whatever may have been the reason»
Going to sleep,
itself the

for making them.
it is argued, is not in
gravest mistake. The mental attitude
of the railroad 'toward its employeeun—
der this system is something like this:

“Don’t go to-sleep! - In the name of
everything good'and holy don't-go to
sleep! But-if you} do, wake up thor-
‘ Don't touchja
signal before you, count twenty-five, 'or
before you wash your face, or before

you do something else tocon'vi-nce your~

self that you are Wide enough awake to

act reasonably '8.th rationally."
Investigators have found .‘that a man

who has slept will upon waking take

the most desperatechance‘s to cover
up his fault when discharge is the in-.

evitable result of detection. Take for
an example the case of a tower opera—
tor on a block system where the home
system is normally set at danger. A
man, and especially a very tired man,
never knows upon waking how long he
has been asleep. It might seem to
him hours since he let the last train
into his block. In reality only one
short minute might have elapsed since
he leaned his tired head upon his desk
and sank into the unconsciousness of

utter exhapapo‘n. If he woke up and--

saw a train standing at the towethis
first. wild impulse, under the old sys-
tem of discharge, would be «to throw.
things wide open and take the chances
of a clear track. 1 He would do this
rather ‘ than resort to the telegraph,-
which would inform him as to the po—
sition of trains. but would also inform
the despaitcher's office Of his cOndition.
If anything hadlhappened to thefor-
ward train and it had-come to a. stop
w.thout protecting its rear (it isgenerg
ally some such combination of errors
that causes a. wreck under modern
methods of railroading), the rear train

. would inevitably crash into it and spill
Not even an elaborate interr
locking system, such as is in operation.

thingsu .

on the New York Central, is an abso-
lute protection, because machines get
out of order and make as'Ser'ious mis-
takes as men. For the safety of‘lives
and property it is necessary to depend
upon the employees; and it may also

be said that no present emplOyee of ,-
any railroad has ever made a mistake,
when you consider a “mistake" in the-

technical railroad sense of having
caused a.- wreck. Railroads diScharge
men every day for proving themselves
human, and no railroad will take a.
man from another road Without a clean
record.

' It speaks well for this new_method
that wherever it has been tried it has
continued in use. —New York Sun.

A POPULAR: IEAD.

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ITHE WEEKLY MENU.

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MONDAY. » ‘ «I ._

Breakfast. —Strawberries, Sugar and
Milk. Boiled Eggs. Baked Potatoes.
Rolls. Coffee. ‘ .
Luncheon—Welsh Rareblts. Wafers.
Lunch Cakes. Preserves. Tea. ‘

Bianca—Vegetable Soup. "Cold Veal.
Mashed Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes.

 

Lettuce salad. Wafers. \Cheese.
Baked Custard. Coffee. '
1 , TUESDAY. ,

Breakfast—Oatmeal, Sugar and
Milk. - Bacon and Eggs. French
Toast." Coifee. ,

Luncheon —-Veal Cutlets. Fried '
Potatoes. Bread. Stewed Rhubarb.-
Cocoa

Dinner. —Cream of Parsnips. Broiled
PorterhOuse Steak. Riced Potat
Stewed" Carrots. Cucumber Sale .
Crackers. Cheese. Pineapple Salads
Cake.» Coffee. ‘ ‘ '

. WEDNESDAY. _ .

Breakfast.——Hominy,- Sugar - :and

Milk. Lamb Chops. Rolls.- cones.

Luncheon. -—Cold Sliced Tongueu Ly-
onnaise Potatoes. Hominy cakes.
IIBaked‘Bananas. Cookies. Tea.

Dinner.-——Vegetable Soup. (mickey.
Fricassee, with Dumplings. Mashed

Green Peas. Tomat
.Sliced. Strawberries Land Crea
Coffee. ‘ '

2HUR‘SDAY.

Breakfast.—-Shredded Wheat.
and Cream. Broiled ' 'Ham.
Cake. Coffee.

1 Luncheon. — Chicken Croquettes.
lToast. Brown Bread and Butter.
Sliced Oranges. Cake. Chocolate.

Dinner.—Cream of Onion. Roast
Ham. Spring Cabbage. Potatoes.
String Beans. Water Cress Salad.
'Wafers. Cheese. Chocolate Pudding.
Coffee. ',

FRIDAY.

Breakfast. — Oranges. Oatmeal,
Sugar and Milk. Bread Omelet. Johm
11y Cake. Coffee. ‘ --'~-

Luncheon. —Corn Fritters. Ginger-
bread. Orange Omelet ACocoaA.

munch—Clam Chowder. Baked Blue
Fish. .Mashed Potatoes. ButterbeanS.
Green Peas. Strawberry Short Cake.

Milk
Codes

Mashed Potatoes. Asparagus On Toast.
Canned Corn. “Radishes. Waters.
Cheese. Lemon Meringue Pie. Coffee.

 

A Pretty. Mode of Hair pres-I113. 1.
A simple. and artistic/mode or hair-

suited to the woman Who; wears
hair high is here shown. first til
hair should be 1005er waved all- roun
then divide a portion for the fronI,
combing the remaining hair well up
on the crown and tyingI there secures

1 1y.

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Then take the treat piece of‘halr
and‘ comb it back to'the crOWn, arrang-
ing it" rather high and roll the ends
round the fingers to form a kind of
pad, which pin to the crown. Divide
the back hair into three strands, take

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loop, whichtwist under the end with,
the left hand to give it a small knot

loop' rather high on the top of..the.

of hair make two more loops like the-
last one, and pin them more to! the
back of the head a trifle lower than
the high loop, then-twist the ends of”

The Independent Queen of Holland.
" The young Queen of Holland is of a
serious turn of mind, and though de-

dislikes any talk about “conquests,"
flirting, or. matrimonial intentions. Sins

of the'persistency with which rumor
betrothsher, now to. one person, now'
to another, and lately exclaimed: “I
will never marry? unless I love, and
love is' a sacred thing which should
not be Igossiped about!”

keeps a scrap-book, in 'which she
graphs printed about her husband.
They come in handy for quotation at
times.

 

Coffee.
SATURDAY. .
Breakfast—Grape Fruit. _ Oatmeal
Cakes. Liver» and Bacon. Mullins;
Coffee. .. -
Luncheon. ——Baked Beans. Graham
Muffins»; Stewed-A Rhubarb.., Jami}.
Tea. .
DinnerréBoullllon. Roast Beef.

dressing and 'one particularlyt» Niall ,

 

the centre portion and. make into a.

at the base. o‘f’the loop, then pin the .

head. With the two remaining strands ’

hair round the; fingers toform small ’
French curls, which pin in position.

lighting in most girl-pleasures, greatly-

never fails to complainto herfriends *

The wife of a well-known politician '

pastes all the uncomplinientary para- '

ls