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;;; Crabbing for the Reed Campaign Button, First Production of the Year. A NEAT WREATH OF SOUTHERN LAUREL. n*s Button of Tin in Red, White and Blue, and Olney’s is a Cape Cod Fish. ;Iir WITH AN ODD BUTTON OF BRAINS. L : - a B;; Brass Button; and Is a Very Artistic Portrait in a Design. t .-> WEAR TWO TINY BUTTONS OF THEIK ^ADER. ;hr. lS'Hl.) Benjamin Har jl club, having noiiiw xi ion of unoth* party as Har .. Garrison's strength, small buttons beur u is not niv man.” ; ison Society in that winced buttons a size i vrs anti made t»f bet i in th* in there was the /s silk: hi rmv irons Here worn by the the lappets or their spring and were shown with pride passed by. . iking of the political button ;:i purposes has become so •in industry that tor many the manufacturers have been ready for turning them out. four years they devote their lusiveJy to the political button ' ‘ST EXPENSIVE IM’TTOX. — mipaun button” proper does nght until after the nomin Presideney in June cr long before that you may nt tons upon the coats of • dirlcians who ha\e got nhe-r to boom their own iXG THE BUTTONS, in . cture of the campaign niuoted in a peculiar way Tm provide designs for • d. They will have b i McKinley Allison •. Urisp and Oiney. y will have blank but LLISQN? " '»>•■• I i! K CAMPAIGN. ii' other name may be the "dark horse" cornea tk>n ami gets the nom y 'or a dozen designs nie for getting one AN S ARTISTIC BADGES. ' * n* ws of tbe nomina r the country the but -rnt-ii off bj the thousands ^ night ami day and started in boxes on rh< r way ;o the ditterent cities. Others are turned uti. and stiil others, thou ‘.tu is a.ion thousands and thousands more. It seems as though there might !> * enoug . buttons to supply the whole rountrv with lappel ornaments, even if ■' • ry woniuu end baby were to wear one. and if the country be unanimous for one man. i’or two weeks after the nomination rhe • xpress va > are full of boxes of 1 ampaign bin tons, and inside a month every shop, ev ry campaign club and c'. po ket oi every w ire puller is !" (he little buttons for use at the right time. i o u in manufacture of tie1 buttons stops am the ampaign button indus t' dull again for four years. But in mot: h : init trough buttons have bei :i made to bring a very large and - e sum in o ic sockets of the maker. BiTTONg Yor .VOW StRR. I-i w-;»\ tlie advance campaign but T,,ti is r t ..» an interesting thing for hose \v‘ > s »' the little button mys t 'rioosly i ireu tied and wonder where k loans from, lake that button of Allison's that h is appeared on the LAUREL WREATH FOR CRISP. Who ha< got it 'nr sale? To all of th*--^ qti> stions ev rybod) answers “T don't know!’’ \< -i rule though this is not definite ly star- .1 to he rue of the Allison but ton tie indivh.ua! h ms 'lf has the but ton made. As soon as a man's name is nromin :nl; no nrioned for the resi dency there isst nt to him by a button manufacturer a v» ry pretty design for a cam .aian button. With the design i» the si . • ion that he. the deal r. turn off tiMi' of the buttons as “samples.” They can be taken or not as the < un dulate may desire. The button is such a pretty thing, so well conceived and so flattering in its suggestion of leader ship that the candidate orders the lO, 000 ur Hesitatingly. M'KINLKY 1.AR TWO OF Whar will It do with them is the next qut '.rion, and one which is cmbt.r russing ev n to himself. When the but tons arrive in their little packets, each button done up in tissue, some friends o the candidate sees them and captures a packet • ' them. He gives them away. Others war r :h* rn Admirers from all over the country see them and ask for them. Vnd so the buttons get myster iously and silently around withou. money and without price. HARRISON'S DEFIANT BUTTON. That is the average channel of the advance campaign b«t-<*n whir l you low see upon the street. This tear the political contest is go ing to be sharp an l severe. and the f olitieal societies. ru>t to be behind in representation, have been getting out heir own buttons. Th.s means that ‘This or Thar Volunteers” have or dered d^s 41.S for a button with Such and Such's name upon it. Wh n they have selected the design they will have several hundred thousand of the but tons made. These they will give away j to the poor, and sell them to those who have five cents to spare. A HILL BUTTON. A very characteristic Hill button was shown the other night to some admirers of the Senator. It had the “1 am a Democrat” done in black letters upon a white background. The button was of silk, and the lettering was done by ma chine with black silk on the same prin ciple that a flag is stamped. The col oring upon Hill’s face was remarkably good. A silk button like this costs the so ciety ordering it almost five cents apiece, no matter how many buttons are bought, and. as they will sell for only five cents, it can be seen that it is patriotism alone that prompts the man ufacture of the buttons. All the fancy goods shops carry the campaign buttonrduring tne period be tweeu election and nomination, and have them for sale the same as the po litical societies. It is the busin ss of the societies to keep the stores stocked with them, and also to offer slight premiums for those sold. If a certain number are “cleaned out" before a cer tain date the next lot of buttons will be sold low enough to give the pros pr rotis deal r a greater profit. Very often the sale of the button is entirely in the hands of the political party at headquarters, who thus be comes the jobber or "middle man” for the whole country, taking the buttons directly from the manufacturer and dis tributing them. Often rr.e button is intensely section al. An Olney button brought out from the d pths of a designer’s drawer has a iip a; ti.-h upon it swimming serene ly along between "Olney" and "Mass.” \ design like this, being practical, is understood by all. and is a great favor ite in the State at least, and often in the entire country. _ \Y1 I ITN EY'S GUITESOM E BADGE. AT.ir'on, of Nebraska, could not have i -nore graceful button than the trees :l-,i vines which ho has prorogated so industriously luring hi' entire career, private and public. _ . A grtif 'Otne button is the W lntney button. turned out to a smiling world fits; -unshiny day of spring. It 11 ?he simple inscription. “Brains! Whitney!” But between the two words there was a moitl d heart-shaped draw ing supposed to represent the substance r rr;< I to. All could gaze upon Mr. White v’s brains who would and envy or admire! WTUTNEY’S HIT. Strangely enough, this little button hud an almost magical effect in basi n' s circles. It was applauded and pronoune 1 the lx st thing of the season, but uptown among the leisure classes, rite woman politicians, it was less liked. It is predicted, though, that such a button would win a vote where a merely funny one would not. A plain button with Herman's bust upon it peering through space, as though breaking through all opposition and proclaiming itself, has been de sign 1 by an artist who is busy day an 1 night preparing buttons for differ TYPICAL STATE BI'TTON. ent candidates and societies. His plan for this button is to make it of tin, with the red, white and blue enamelled upon it. The circle around Gorman’s head i® ' hi e, th< lines u]on tt blue and the lettering is red. The stars are white. Herman’s hc.ul is outlined in black. A Southern artist whose designs are found upon many useful, as well is oinate, buttons has produced a neat cel luloid button for ('risp, of Georgia. It has been ordered manufactured by a Southern political society, its design, 'Crisp bears our laurel wreath." is del icately told by a branch of green. The celluloid is stamp; d with black, and < x eept for a rim of blue and red, running one in-ide the other, the button shows no hint of the flag which is supposed IN NATIONAL COJLORS P'OR REED. in one or another to be upon all polit ical devices. BUTTON COLLECTIONS. “Reed is right in it.” is the an nouncement upon a large flat button with a portrait of the Maine man in the middle. This is a white metal with a blue centre, upon which the face of the speaker appears. The lettering is in blue also. This button is a pretty thing, and will add to the collections of political buttons in an artistic sense Morton and McKinley’s buttons are alike, but different! The Morton but ton is more striking on account of the mysterious ”R. I*.?” in the middle. It is of brass, or a substance to look like gold, and is very brilliant in finish. The centre is a bright blue and all the letters are red. Others of Morton have a portrait of him in the middle. The McKinley button is of a simple white metal, with trimmings of black, it is a small button, and two of them are worn by the McKinleyites. There are people who bur these cam paign buttons who are not politicians j in any sense. They get them for their ; button collections, and mount them > upon tapestries, or hangings, so they will show off to advantage. These but ton collectors are enthusiasts, like oth er collectors, and get all the campaign buttons, whether they come by them by begging, borrowing, stealing, or plain purchase. This last method to a bred-in-the-bone collector is the least exciting, and consequently is less satis factory than any. The scarcest button with collectors is the Reed one, of which few can be obtained for love or money. In a few days the streets will be gay . with these bright little insignia of lead- ; ership and party. The sight of them is not a strange one to us. but to for- j eigners it is one of the oddest features j of our campaigns. CLARENCE S. RUSSELL. -o Weighs 24 Pounds, Cost $100, and Is One cf the Many Sent to Irving ton for a House Party. Wheels Bought by the Gebhards. W. C. Whitney Put a Cycle in Daughter's Trosseau, and an Eas ter Groom is Buying a Beauty of j Silver with Handles of Pearl Miss Vanderbilt Has Just Pur chased e Light "Wheel and Mrs. I Astor a Heavy One. A check for lies upon the desk of a certain maker of bicycles. I< ts in payment for a bicycle of extra-fine finish and of the most perfect mechan ism of any to be found in his establish m nt. The name signed to the check is "Helen Gould.” And the letter with the check nays the wheel has been found perfectly satisfactory iu every particular. "That wheel,” said the bicycle man, "is the second one we have sent to Miss Gould’s country residence this season. Last spring we sent two, and the au tumn before, when cycling first came in for women, we had an ot\lc. tot one. grown up and married, called on us and said: “Wife and I are to have our sil ver wedding the middle of April. 1 wan: to make her a wedding present that she will remember as long as she lives. And I think I’ll give her a silver bicycle.” “In the most delicate manner we inquired if ‘wife* was a practicle bicycle rider. “The old gentleman flushed. ‘Yes,’ | said he, ‘she is. Wife is only forty-one I years old. We w'ere married when she was sixteen. We have been married twenty-five years. Now I’m an old man, butt she’s a girl yet Make her a wheel of best material and have it silver.” “Now our only way of accomplishing a ‘silver wheel' is to send one of our best wheels to a silversmith to be plated with silver. The firm of X silvered this wheel, and very brilliant it was when it came back to us. The plate was the heaviest in the market, and the cost to the old gentleman with the ‘girl’ wife was $n00. He was so delighted with ill that he left it here until the day of the silver wedding, and visited it every day, carefully wrapping the tissue paper around it when he had looked at i't. “We had another order for a fancy' wheel. It, too, was a silvered wheel, and its handles were pearl. It cost—or will cost, for it is not done—more than $1,000. I would tell you the name of the genvleman who ordered it, but I cannot do so at present. He is to be married this spring, and this is his wedding present to his bride, who is an arden*: cyclist. • We nave also an orner ior u gum wheel. The orders reads ‘cif pure gold,’ but that is ridiculous. We will simply plate one of our wheels. Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane. one of the season’s debutantes, is an enthusiastic rider. I think she has gone abroad and taken her wheel with her. She rides for speed and she has the easiest way of getting over the rough roads that lie along the Hudson that 1 ever saw. Her mother's country place lies in .'the great chain of millionaires’ farms. "There is supposed to be a bicycle boulevard running past the Astor, Mor ton and Rockefeller places and all the others. But spring rains are no re specters of boulevards, and the roads are ripped up annually. But through ft all this young woman rides swiftly and serenely along. I predict that she will bp thrown yet. She is in our opinion the •champion’ of the younger riders. "We sen-t a now wheel to Mrs. I. "MTSS SLOAN E. WHO HAS TAKEN HER WHEEL TO ET'ROPE, IS NOW THE CHAMPION OF THE YOUNGER RIDERS.” The first, wheel was evidently an ex periment to be tri <1 cautiously and fol lowed out if good. HOUSE PARTIES AWHEI^,". “The reason why so many wheels sre ordered by Miss Gould can doubtless be found in the fact that, having a large country house, she has house parties; and there cannot be found a house party of young women, or men eh her, who do not go cycvling after noons and moonlight evenings. "The wheel just ordered is for Miss Goud’s personal use. It is a twenty 1 eight inch wheel and it Aveighs twenty four pounds. That is a good weight for a woman of her size to wheel. "Many of our woman wheelers have two kinds of wheel. They have a heavy one that thev ride some days and a lighter one for other excursions when th y are looking for speed. Then, too, the wheel is a matter of whim and mood. One day yon feel quiet and con servative, and you choose a heavy wheel that hears you safely along with out rare on your part. The next you are in a wild mood and want to dash to the stars. The lighest thing you can get—a nineteen pound, if possible—is the article you want. “We sold,” said the bicycle dealer, looking ov*-r his order book, “a very nice wheel to W. C. Whitney before his daughter’s marriage to Mr. Paget. This wheel was undoubtedly in her wedding outfit. Most brides buy a wheel in their trousseau as they buy walking shoes. Or if they don’t buy one them selves their brothers give them one. MISS VAN'DERBTT/TS CYOEE. “We sold a lady’s wheel to Cornelius Vanderbilt the other day. It was a trim little affair, elegantly built and the highest priced one we had. But it was not ornamented. That talk about silver wheels for the members of the 400 is all rubbish, as far as most of them are concerned. “The number of decorated wheels we turn out is limited. It is our experiene thar a gentleman does not go to a cycle establishment and order a gold bicycle for his wife, nor a silver one, or one trimmed with jewels. He gets only the regulation Avheel. FOR A SI EVER WEDDING. “We had an odd order last week, and one that is now being carried out. A gentleman of middle life, with children Townsend Burden the other day. It is a little gem. There is not a finer one than hers to be found this year. It happened to be the very pick of the lot. FOR COUNTRY HOUSES. “We are shipping many ladies’ bicy cles now to country places. J. J. Van Alen has ordered three ladies’ wheels. He keeps them at his Bar Harbor house for use during the summer when he has house parties. His men's wheels are the finest made. We send fewer men’s wheels to country houses than women’s, because most men take their wheels in their luggage, whilo women rarely do so. “We have an order here,” said the bicycle authority, fingering his book, “to send the finest of wheels, one lady's and one gentleman’s, to Bar Harbor soon for the use of Mr. and Mrs. Fred erick Gebhard this year. This couple took two of us last year. The old wheels are probably smutched, or else the own ers are tired of them and want new ones. The old wheels will go in the servants’ hall for use when getting mail or carrying messages, or other quick, light work of ihe summer. “There is a singular thing about the buying of a bicycle which nearly every conscientious bicycle seller will ac knowledge, and that is the fickleness of bicycle patrons. To-day they ride one wheel and like it; to-morrow they go visiting, try another wheel and prefer it. The result is every house has in its order books the same names, for the wealthy do not hesitate to buy two or three wheels a season, according to whim, from different makers. “As for preferences, they will tell you one is as good as another. That is our actual experience. We would like to tell you that the bicycle we sent up to Ferncliffe to Mrs. Jack Astor the other day is the only one Mrs. Astor will buy this year, but we know better. Our rivals will also book orders from that house. “The Astor wheel is a heavy one. It is not for racing. Few ladies of the Four Hundred like to race, and Mrs. Astor has no proclivities that wrav. She likes to sit a substantial wheel and ride slowly enough to be sure of her bones. She likes a wheel a Little too large for her. and it gives the muscles bettern ex ercise in reaching. “Is our best trade with wealthy peo pie? Yes, proportionately; for each rich woman buys machines to stock her veranda, as She buys'horses to stock her stables. But we cater, after all, to the many who ride constantly year after year for recreation, health and because it is the besit, low-priced sport they know.” HARRY GERMAINE. -o GOOD CHEER. Roentgen Is Responsible. Photogra pher—“Photograph, sir?” Customer— “Yes, sir.” Photographer- Inside of outside, sir?”—Puck. An exchange heads an editorial: “Can Figures Lie?” Possibly not, but it is i always to bear in mind that liars can figure.—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. Vexed Mother—“James, how many ' more times must I tell you to stop mak ing that noise?” James—"I 11 leave that to your judgment, cia.”—Philadel phia North American. In Front. Conductor—“Life, me boy, is just like a trolley car." His Son “How’s that, pa?" Conductor—“’Cause : there’s always plenty of room up in i front for somebody.”—Puck. Encouraged^ “I.” the young man frankly admitted, “am looking for a i snap.” “Well,” the elderly one sug gested, “if you have the ginger it ought to be easy to find some one with the dough.”—Indianapolis Journal. “I can’t understand why Jolliver ga ve up writing poetry. He was doing great work.” "He gave it up as soon as he saw the statues people erect to deceased poets. He was afraid they’d put up a brass cartoon of him if he kept on. — Harper’s Bazar. Why They Preach. The distinction between a good preacher and a bad preacher has not changed much since Archbishop Whately declared that "a good preacher preached because he had something to say and a bad preacher because he had to say something. Chicago Standard. Employers’ Liability. Employe— “Sir. 1 would respectfully ask you for an increase of salary; I have got mai ried lately.” Manager of Works— "Very sorry, my friend. I can he of no assistance to you. The company is not responsible for any accidents that happen to our men when off duty! ’ Philadelphia Telegraph. In the Chemical Laboratory. Pro fessor—“What has become of Tom Ap pleton0 Wasn't he studying with the class last year?” ”Ah. yes; Appleton— poor fellow! A fine student, but ab sent-minded in the use of chemicals— very. That discoloration on the ceil ing—notice it?” “Yea.” “That s Ap pleton.”—Pearson’s Weekly. In a French Police Court. “You say vou have been robbed of a pair of boots. How much were they worth?.Hiey cost me originally 12 francs. I have had them resoled three times, and had to pay three francs each time; so that -T makes altogether 24 francs.” “cleric? write ‘one pair of boots of the value ofi 24 francs.’ ”—L’In.transigeant. °° MAN AND HIS MANUSCRIPT Comedian Crane Tells a Storv nf . Philadelphia Trio. Y * Crane is forever having odd expo nences with ambitious pJavwrlgK and one that he takes great delight telling happened a short time ngodhlia he was appearing in Philadelphia pi” ly one afternoon the actor .vas vlsiS by a tall, gaunt individual, who brought with him a letter of introduce!™ a prominent man. The ac:or gave ha.« a friendly greeting and quickly founS that he had a play that he wasln\E£ to dispose of to the right party’ LIUi that right party was Crane. Them'* « took the play and. Baying that he w.nil.t read it. a.sked that the author call „ the following morning and he woolli give him his opinion of it and tell hint whether he wanted it. Mr. Crane reef the work and. while he fould it well written. he sa w that the author view, a, everything from an erroneous micro scope. To produce it would simply ha an impossibility. The author came tho next morning, bringing with him, among other things, a clem shave and an air of joyous anticipation. "My dear sir,” said the comedian "t find much that is good in your work, but to produce it you would have to build a theatre as large as one of th*. big railroad depots in town. Furrher more, to carry out your ideas would re quire an expenditure of several hun dred thousand dollars, and to tell yvm the truth I do not know of an you. p*. the profession with capital enough uj go into it.” The man seemed not aw hit discon certed, and continued to smilo in his ex pectant way. “Now,” continued the actor, *'T have a few suggestions to offer. Cut out your naval battle and do away with the bull fight and—” Hut he got no further. 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