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October 12, 1899.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
.AN IMPOSSIBILITY IN THE ENDOWED
-V COLLEGES OF TODAY.
Tk Heavy Band of the Hew Despo
tism That Crashes the Truth Capi
talism Dictates What tha Youth of
' the Land Shall Be Taught. '
Willis J. Abbot has an article la the
October Arena on the "Necessity of
.an Independent School of Economics"
-and In support of the academic free-
dom movement which took tangible
form, at the' Buffalo conference during
the summer. Mr. Abbot's Indictment
of the present method of conducting
the big colleges of the country Js unan
swerable. That portion of his article
follows: I r ; ,
The history of the world may be
searched In vain for any Instance of
Larm to humanity or to any people re
' suiting from the exercise of the fullest
Intellectual liberty.' Freedom of speech
never yet wrecked a nation, although
attempts to suppress U have more than
once resulted in disaster. 1 Freedom of
thought has" never yet put right In
. Jeopardy, nor has the fullest liberty of
the press been anything but an aid to
the orderly and progressive develop
ment of man In all that pertains to so:
lal and individual welfare. A cause
that Is essentially unsound cannot be
more certainly destroyed than by In
viting Its advocates to the arena of
pular discussion. 1 By their own ut
totances they then will be destroyed,
- IThile under suppression of discussion
their error would thrive In the atmos
phere of secret conspiracy.4' The men
who continually strive for the repres-
Ion of Intellectual liberty In the press,
the pulpit and the colleges mast either
- be cognizant of these facts for they
are readily deduclble from hlstoryr-or
they must be Ignorant of them. If the
latter, their Ignorance Is so crass that
. their pretension to authority over the
thoughts and utterances of Intelligent
; men can only "be regarded as an ex
ample of . the brutal and stupid Inso
lence of Irresponsible wealth. But If
they have read the lessons of history
aright they know that the fullest Intel
lectual liberty In college classrooms, In
the pulpit and In editorial rooms means
the certain triumph of right and the
assured overthrow of wrong. If, then,
they stUL. systematically and relent
lessly, apply the gag, It is a confession
that they profit by vested wrongs, that
their fortunes-and their power are
- founded upon Injustice and that they
fear the truth because It would de
throne them. '' - '
- In 1781 King Louis XVI of France
was sitting with bis queen and Mme.
Cam pan attentively reading the manu
script o a new comedy, "The Marriage
of FIgi'.o." Authority In France, had
'.....'never seemed more firmly fixed, nor
' had the Bastille ever been more popu-
lous. It was a day of the most perfect
legal jrovlslond for suppressing, the ex
pression of thought Plays, pamphlets,
songs and books were all subject to
the censorship, and behind the censor
stood open the door of the dungeon.
Yet never has such a volume of "sedi
tious" literature been Issued, nor has
ver the attack upon the 6tatus quo
equaled in vigor or In generalship that
led by the men who then had impris
onment or exile staring thorn In the
face: Beaumarcbais' comedy Was brim
ful of Insidious thrusts at the govern
mental evils of the "day: One para
graph especially, Mme. Cain pan tells
us, excited the Ire of the king.
"A question arises concerning the na
ture of riches,'" says Figaro, "and as
fou do not need to have a thing In or
Jor to talk about It 1, who have not a
penny, write on the value of money
and Its net product. Presently fr6m
" the Inside 'of a cab I see the draw
bridge of a prison let down for me and
leave as I go, in both hype and liberty
behind."., .... ., .. . .
jHearlng these words,- Louis XVI
bounded to his feet, white with rage,
v To sendfor his minister of Justice aud
make Inqyjrjwbetber.lt. were really
true that. ,so. wanton and, unjust an
abuse of the power summarily" to Im
prison Frenchmen was common? Not
at all. Ills thought was not to open
the Bastille, but to close the theater.
"It is detestable; It shall never be
played," he cried. "Not to have the
f production of 'this plny a. dangerous
piece of Inconsistency we should have
to destroy the Bastille. This man makes
sport of everything Jhat should be re-
sported In a government."
' IIow natural It sounds, ' even after
more than a centuryl "This man makes
snort of everything that should be re
spected." Silence him."' So he was si
lenced for the time; but the Bastille
came down nevertheless.
Today, In our own land, some men n
college classrooms have attacked cer-
tain things, which the. oligarchs of
monopoly declare should be respected.
Again the cry comes from those who
wield despotic power, "Silence themT
Hoards of college trustees have been
compliant too often. - The Irritating
critics are silenced. But for bow long?
Will the command of capitalism prove
more enduring than the decree of the
French king? Can the structure of
monopoly endure assaults that shatter
ed the Bastille?
Frlests and princes, emperors, kings,
dictators, sultans the possessors of
' power, under whatever name and In
ad Bges bare striven to repress free
dom of thought and of speech. They
have , established their Inquisitions,
tbelr star chambers and their censor
ships and then, arrogantly elate wltb
tbelr success In resisting the trreststl-
ble, have died and been forgotten
themselves, their dynasties and their
beliefs while the Ideas they thought
: to kill and the teachings tbey thought
suppressed have risen Immortal bavs
- affected men's thoughts and dally ac-
tions In all parts of the world and bavs
won acceptance on every hand, so that
men now wonder that any reasoning
being in the shape of man should ever :
have thought them revolutionary. The
radicalism of one age Is the conserva
tism of the ensuing generation. Today
teachers are being disciplined for giv
ing expression to that which the pro
fessor of 20 years hence will be re
garded as Imbecile to deny. Look back
but a scant half century. In 1853 the
college professor iwho dared to teach
the Inherent right of all men, regard
less of race or color, to be free had
short shrift In most colleges, south or
north. Of such a one, supposing he In
sisted on his "academic freedom," It
would have been speedily discovered
that be really did not attract quite as
many students as the trustees had ex
pected, or that the financial state of
the college compelled retrenchment by
the abolition of his department, or he
might be looked upon as a political
professor, obviously working In the in
terests of a new and revolutionary par
ty given over to abolition and Llncoln
lsm, and his discharge would then be
pointed to proudly as evidence of the
determination of the trustees to take
the college out pf, politics. In some
way of other, be sure, be would have
been dismissed, and for some plausible
reason. Academic freedom? Oh, that
would not have been In Issue at all,
the faculty and most of the professors
who remained would assure the pub
lic. The difficulty would hae been
that the offending professor was an
"intellectual sans culotte," an "eco
nomlc free lance" and an J'irresppnsl:
ble." ' Doubtless there were In , that
day college professors qjjite as certain
that there was no Interference with
the right of their colleagues to teach
what they would on the slavery, sub
ject, as Professor Small Is sure today
there is no Interference with the free
dom of the teacher of economics and
SOClolOgy. ., : . j;.-' ,. i !
Nevertheless the antislavery) pro
fessor In 1S58 encountered the same
antagonism that confronts the pro
fessor of economics who today preaches
emancipation from the new slavery of
corrupt capitalism and corporate ag
gression. And then as now, no doubt,
out of the institution jnost distrusted
for, Its subservience to the forces of
corrupt wealth would have come a pro
fessor ready to say that to touch on
such a subject as slavery was to vio
late "a conventionality In the republic
of letters which be bas no right to dis
regard." .. ' ' ":. '' ' '
To the priests, princes, dictators, sul
tans, kings and what not of vanished
ages and of other, lands has succeeded
now, In this nation, a new power not
less arrogant, oppressive or wanton
than ; they. ;, Capitalism, operating
through the corporation and the trust.
Buttressed by special privileges fraud
ulently gained and corruptly held, has
created and maintains among a ma
jority, of our , people a wage, slavery
more brutal In some of Its manifesta
tions than the old chattel slavery and
among a smaller and more comfortable
class a. condition' .'of Industrial and
financial dependence further removed
from true freedom than was the rela
tion of the feudal vassal to his lord..
, Is this assertion untrue? , -,
."Execrably so," respond the spokes
men of the new despotism..,
"Let us argue It fairly then," say the
assailants. "We are ready to meet
your arguments in the press, In the
pulpit and. above all, in the college
classroom, where the youth of the land
the generation that must In the end
see Justice done between us may hear
and learn the trgth. All we ask Is that
the truth be discovered and preached.
Come, let us argue "together."
"What! Argue with a beggarly lot
of intellectual sans culottes!" exclaims
the new despotism. "I know a better
plan than. that. Get out of my col
leges. I endow them, and I shall se
lect the conventions of letters,. that may
not be disregarded. Get out of . my
newspaper ollices. Don't I control ad
ve'rtislng? You, fellow," there In the
pulpit, prCnclilug about the ' Golden
Utile in business! Who pays the pew
rent here, I'd like to know? What this
church needs is more gospel and less
politics in Uie pulpit. Argue with you?
Not much. Get off the earth!"
Thus, colloquially and not courteous
ly like Professor Small does' the new
despotism meet the appeal for free
speech and Intellectual liberty. Some
of the attributes of the old despotism
are lacking, it Is true. , The rack and
the dungeon have gone out of, vogue,
but discipline by starvation Is still
within the power of the despot If ir
reverent critics cannot be exiled, they
can at least have all opportunities for
the pursuit of their professions closed
against them. It Is that method which
bas been applied to the college teach
ers who have offended the ruling pow
ers. It Is that weapon which has been
raised against Professor Edward W.
lie mis, who mortally offended the
Standard Oil conspirators; against Pro
fessor Commons, who justly earned the
hostility of the trusts and monopolistic
corporations, and against President
Will and Professors Parsons and Ward,
who In the State Agricultural College
of Kansas were filling the minds and
hearts of their students wltb hope of a
new ana higher order of society. In
which there should be more of justice
and less of special privilege, more of
Christ and less of Cain. The heavy
band of the new despotism fell on all
these as It bad fallen on others before
them. ,
There Is seldom a place In an Amerl
can college for a teacher who takes
advanced ground on any question re
lating to the distribution of wealtb or
the destruction of monopoly. Such a
leader and teacher of men as the late
Henry George might have been able to
Influence thought In a score of lands
and to count bis followers by hundreds
of thousands, yet do American college
would have dared to give him a class
room and freedom td teach, even though
at the same time an "orthodox" econo
mistnot a sans culotte might be In
stalled In an adjacent room to contro
vert bis doctrines. In the vast major
ity of our privately endowed Institu
tions the teachings upon controverted
questions of public Interest must be
subjected to some such test as this:
Colleges are supported by endow
ments; , . .
Endowments proceed from the capi
talistic class;
Therefore nothing obnoxious to the
capitalistic class shall be taught lu
this college. t
Of course bo bald and frank a state
ment of motive cannot be expected
from those wboe dutj It becomes to
warn the teachers themselves against
plain speaking. A recent letter from
the secretary of the University of Chi
cago to the members of the faculty
will furnish for other college officials
seeking to shackle their professors an
admirable literary model. I venture to
quote two paragraphs of It, thinking
that It has peculiar pertinence as ema
nating from the constituted authorities
of that college, which employs Fro
fessor Small and his optimism!
"While It Is the privilege of every
member of the university to entertain
whatsoever opinion be may choose con
cerning controverted questions of pub
lic Interest and to express that opinion
in any proper way and on any proper
occasion, it la nevertheless desirable
that great care" should be' taken to
avoid lnvolvlng'th'e university even by
implication in such controverted mat
ters. ;' !'"' v-' :-:;';. .
y "AH actions and expressions of opln
Ions on such subjects should be scru?
pnjously disassociated from all univer
sity relations so iar as possiDie, mat
by such scrupulous regard for the good
standing of the university In the opin
ion of all classes real freedom of
speech and of action will be promoted."
If this Is not equivalent, to a com
mand to, all professors that .they ignore
In their classes matters, of vital politi
cal and economic Importance.' then It
has bo meaning whatsoever.
i GOLD CERTIFICATES. , .
Issued "by the Haters of Greenbacks.
' The Right Kind of Paper Money.
Tbe banking Interests have complain
ed long and bitterly that tbe green
backs were an "endless chain" to take
gold out of the treasury In times of
panic. However, these same Interests
have finally brought strong enough
pressure upon the administration to se
cure the issue (the legal authority for
which Is doubtful) of gold certiflcafes.
They want to kill tbe "soldier's mon
ey," the'money that saved the nation;
but they want god certificates. They
said that tbe greenbacks are a danger
to the gold reserve In times of famine.
How about gold certificates? 'The fact
is that they need' paper money, and
they know that the people prefer paper
money, but they oppose the paper mon
ey which stays at home and fights the
country's battles In time of need.- '
Gold certificates are not money prop
er, but only receipts for goods. , They
enable tbe bankers to store their gold
In the government vaults Mvittjput
charge and use the certificates as mon
ey, saving the express charges on the
gold, by sending the certificates on
missions of trade to "move the crops"
Instead of sending the gold Itself." The
government does that for the banker;
then why should It not store lead, zinc,
copper, wheat, etc.. for the qwiiers of
the same on the same terms? But all
must agree that It would be much bet
ter for the government to Issue, not
certificates for gold, load, wheat or any
other kind of product,' but It should
Issue paper money, Jjased on all the
leading products of the country, or a
general average of, say, 100 of the lead
lug products ef the country as a stand
ard value. , , . .. , r
This Is the only way to finally and
permanently settle , the gold question
and the silver question. vWhen money
so based Is Issued by the general gov
ernment In quantities to maintain a
normal average of prices, panics will
cease, for falling prices and panics go
together, aud If a normal average of
prices Is maintained, a panic Is Impossi
ble., This weuld be a definite, perma
nent and safe basis for all business. It
does seem that we ought to reach such
a basis some time. Are we not tired of
panics and uncertain business condi
tions? Is not a permanently safe basis
worth studying for and working for?
Medical World. - "
True National Greatness.
Many of the eminent ones seem to
think that a nation with a big acreage,
a big fleet a big trade and a big ar
my Is a great nation. I say It Is no
more a great nation than a great bully
is a great nian. I say that a nation
may have all those things and not pos
sess a single element of greatness. The
greatness of a nation consists surely In
the greatness of Its people; tbe great
ness of a people consists as surejy In
their great goodness, nobility and gen
ius. That Is my theory. I cannot Imag
ine greatness without justice, sincerity
and purity. I cannot admit that we
are a great nation; because we are not
noble, nor pure, nor Just nor sincere.
I cannot Imagine a great nation wltb
crowds of paupers and thieves, with
miles and miles of slums, wltb fearful
prevalence of Ignorance, of brutality,
of vice, of ' gambling, drunkenness,
roguery and licentiousness. I cannot Im
agine a great nation wltb 30,000 prosti
tutes In the streets of Its capital. I can
not Imagine a great nation which
breeds hordes of rogues, harlots,
tramps and hypocrites; which allows
the spread of Its greatness to be her
alded by an advance guard of politi
cal sharpers, bloodthirsty filibusters.
Perhaps I am a fool, as so many clever
people bave said so, but I cannot call
our nation great It Is not great to
me. It Is, to me, a base, barbarous and
unspeakably vulgar nation, wltb only
Just enough leaven of honesty and vlr
tue In It to keep It from moral decay.
It Blatcbford In London Clarion.
PUBLIC OWNERS!!!?.
SOME OF THE PRACTICAL POINTS
BROUGHT OUT BY MAYOR JOHNSON.
The Waterworks Lesson Taught by
Denver How Private Gas and 'Elec
tric Companies Hob the People The
Telephone Hold Up. .
, At the convention of tbe League of
American Municipalities, held recently
In Syracuse, Mayor lieury V, Johnson
of Denver, said: 5 , , ;
t Water stands pre-eminently at the
head. It Is not, only , nature's : great
cleanser and puriSur, but It Is an ab
solute necessity to the human system.
In the United States at the beginning
of this century only one city owued Its
own water supply. In 1879 3,300 towus
and cities had waterworks, 04 per cent
of which were owned by the muulcl
polity. ., ..'., - ...i,; ;
That the handling and furnishing of
this great human necessity Is a source
of enormous profit , to private enter
prise Is proved by the avidity with
which the franchise to furnish, It Is
gobbled up and the ; extent to which
the private company Is capitalized and
boudeil. Take, for Instance, the water
company of Denver, bonded for $7,000,
000 and stocked for $7,000,000 or
000,000 imore. When we contemplate
this fact and realize that .competent
engineers declare its plant can bo
reproduced for $5,000,000 or less, we are
led to ask the question whether there
Is as much water In Its reservoirs as
there Is In its stocks and bonds. '. , '
The question of light Is as Interesting
nd almost as useful to a city as that
of water. We find that the struggle'
on the part of the- private gas com
panies to retain control of the business
and to prevent city ownership bas been
equally as bard and as protracted In
the matter of gas as It was In that of
water. " '. ':'"'. .''". ;.' '. "
The price of gas Is exorbitant when
furnished by private companies, and
the quality is usually in Inverse ratio
to tbe price the higher the price the
meaner the light Tbe cost of manu
facture and supply is variously esti
mated at from 17 cents to 35 cents per
1,000 feet owing to peculiar condi
tions. But there Is no doubt that tbe
greater tbe amount consumed the less
the cost per 1,000 feet
In Denver the price of gas Is $1.33
for Illuminating and $1 for fuel per
thousand. Another company Is anx
ious to form and secure a franchise
and will agree to furnish gas for 80
cents, per 1.000 feet for either Illumi
nating or fuel purposes. This Is a fit
Illustration of the enormous profit the
people are forced to pay for this neces
sity to that modern octopus the gas
combine. - ; v
Tbe electric light Is by far the clean
est most convenient-and most easily
connected of all methods of lighting.
Owing to Its brilliancy and tbe ease
with which it can be turned on and off,
both for streets and for bouses, It Is
the best method of Illumination. ", To
give an Idea of cost' the city of Den
ver now pays a private company $100,
000 for lighting her streets with 1,000
arc lights of 2.000 candle power each.
Uppn carefully drawn plans and speci
fications already, made Denver can
build her plant complete jfor $250,000
and can furnlsji her streets with the
same number and power of lights' for
$50,000, thereby saving $50,000 a year
and paylnj for her plant In five years..
A city owning and operating its eleq
tric lighting plant is more iearly ready
to operate. Its street ear lines.. The
same plant has only to be, enlarged to
furnish more nower. and the same
noles carry many wires for both pur
poses. From this Joint electric power
house ' there' comes a byproduct of
steam beat that is' free of extra cost
and which. If properly used. Is capable
of heating all buildings In a radius of
one-half mile, . From its use Immense
public boths might be heated or great
public wasbhouses furnished at small
cost to the laboring classes, where, as
In Glasgow, the poor woman could take
her laundry and for a few cents secure
soap and hot water and tubs for wash
Ing and mangles for Ironing . ber
clothes.. , , i .-
Is the tgkpbone of such value and
usefulness that ' the , municipality
should own It? We think It is; so much
so that we believe It not only well for
the city to own and control It for its
people, but It would be cheaper If the
state owned It, and It would be far
best If the national goverument con
trolled and operated It for the benefit
of the whole in-ople. , A private tele
phone company In a city at this, day.
even, wltb high and exorbitant cnarges,
is far bettter than no telephone system,
The company goes on the principle
that It Js better to receive $120 for a
phone per annum from 1,000 subscrib
ers than $40 a phone per annum from
3,000 subscribers. It costs less to oper
ate, less office room Is needed, smaller
switchboards, fewer employees, less
number of telephones to keep In repair,
fewer lines to look- after. Tbelr motto
Is, "Fewer patrons and higher charges
make os more clear money." From
their standpoint they are all right;
from the people' standpoint they are
all wrong.
In Denver 2.500 telephones are In use.
Foran unlimited service tbe charge of a
telephone for a year Is $120. Indianap
olis, wltb about the same population,
has two systems. The new telephone
company, with a better system than
Denver, charges only $40 a phone per
year In a business house and only $24
per year for residences. Both are full,
unlimited, up to date systems, as good
as can be bad. This new company Is
doing a fine business and making a
handsome profit If this Is true, by
what name shall w'- style the company
which chargesCue people of Its own
city three times as much as Is neces
sary to make a handsome profit?
A
Remedy
That
Cures
Paralysis
IN THtt SHALLOWS.
If 7 leet are la tbe ahillows, I
The betdi'of ylfoW sunshine ' li'-l-.Vr
Drip laly from my tunas.
: ' .V" (r
I watch tbe crimson soe dulse, , "'
C.n
The dimpling eddies Deck,
And gather shells bright tinted a
: To circle brow and neck. . '
I Witch wlfite, polished pebbles,
, And laugh, to catch a glsnce
Laugh back (ram gurgling ripplet,
' As to their time I dance. ,
Afar the winds are hasting, ' j
The billow leap and rosri
They press in mighty transport
To clasp the sunset shore 1 ,
Afar the ships ere sailing , 'i , ,
Across the trackless blue, - i
'Neath skies whose atari are strangers '
To lands I ever knew. .
' O depths stirred strong fn pssstonl ' '
' O waves that toes and shine! v -,
. My feet are in the shallows j
" " : " Would God tli era were mfnot
Elizabeth Worthingtoa Flake la Washington
BUT. . - .' :v,-
HIS OWN PORTRAIT.
How an Artist PsJsjis a Plctnrw of
,, ., HlmsclK , .. V-.-'"-
It has been a couiuion practice With
artists of all ages aud countries to
paint their own pictures, ant at the
Ufflzl irallerv In Florence can be seen a
rrjat'niBcent collection of portraits of
tho world's ereat painters' done , by
themselves. It Is a coveted honor tQ ue,
Invited to contribute one's own portrait
to this collection, for one must be emi
nent before tniacomplitutnt is paid. As
mav be easily understood, pumung
one's own portrait Isi somewhat trou
blesome task, for tue painter must uo
a good deal from memory, especially
If he puts nlmself In an attitude which
It Is difficult to reflect In a-mirror. A
Straightforward portrait looking out of
tho nicture Is obviously the easiest to
manage, for tbe painter bas only to
place the mirror in front of Mm to see
his model. , ,
Trlnla'and ouadrunle mirrors must
be employed when the attitude is In
any way removed from full face. A
nmfflo nrnnlrt ha more difficult to See
for oneself,-but a three-quarter face
would be no 1chs so, as hv.botu cases
the artist would be working from a re
flation of a reflection, which, to say
the least of If, U a bothering condition.
Thr? looking at oneself, for a long
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Mr. II. N. Warner, of Kearney,
Neb., says: -.' '
"In 1894 I was attacked with
paralysis in my left side. You
might stick a pin to the head
into my left hip and I would not
feel it., I was unable to do' any
kind of work, and had to be turned
in bed. I fully made up my mind
that I could not be cured, as I bad
used all kinds of medicine and had
tried many doctors. At last I
was advised to try. Dr, Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People, and I
very reluctantly commenced their
use last September. Before I had
finished my first box I began to
feel much better, and by the time
I had used 6ix boxes the paralysis
disappeared; and although two
months have passed since I finished '
my last box, there has been no re
currence of the disease."
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time Is one of the strange and trylnri
conditions of painting one's own por-!
trait, for difficulties and complexlttest!
appear to grow the more one trlea to
grapple wltb them. Like the road to
1 hlh 'aoomai tal
uiu ureu , --.
lengthen as be goes, so the dlfflcoUe
of painting oneseir appear 10 iucres
rather than diminish the more one
looks at oneself. ' 5 . .
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trait artists largely draw from them-(
selves, for a man can more easily atH
some a particular attitude than getl
another person to ao so. , men mr um
tails, such as a hand, arm, nose, eye,
the artist and a mirror supply all that
Is required. Another of the many oseal
nf a mirror is to reversc'tbe work dur-i
Ing Its progress, as reversing a drawr-)
Ing will often reveal an awKwaninena,
want of balance or rauuy arawing,
which might otherwise go undetected.
Chicago News. . , . ,',,. ,
Tho Pars-sot Tarwod Brows.
T.nn had the wife of a Doer WasbJ
Ington clerk been yearning for the pos-l
session of a green parrot. , .
1 At last a fine specimen was obtalne
for $10. It was delivered In the mornt
incr. and It came to pass that a newl
servant from the depths of the coun
try opened, the door; to the delivery
boy. Iler mistress was out; there was
not a soul to Instruct her in tue coae
of ethics as applied to parrots.
"Is It for the table?" she asked.
"Without doubt, was the wicked re
ply. - . -..-,
.Whereupon the parrot was dispatch
ed, at opce, plucked, trussed and put'
Into the oven, lie was Just turning
a beautiful brown when the mistress
of the establishment returned, and that!
same e veujng, the Jlttle servant frora
the country was back among the ducks
and drakes of heti own' village green aj
wiser and sadder girl Washington1
Times. '" ; ' 1
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The colors that will be most popular
in fall millinery are the pinkish shades
of manve, the deepest shades of violet,
red and the various shades of brown.
1 Being a titled editor pays. Lady Ran
dolph Churchill has 8,000" subscribera
who paid $20 a year in advance for her
quarterly, The Anglo-Saxon. ', "
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