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Show 1 PEACOCK ROOM WHISTLERS It v WE ARE THE RELATIVE TO SLANG. PEOPLE. In arrordnnre with an order JubI by Secretary Hay, the Inscriptions United States Embassy and will no United States Consulate longer appear upon embassy and consular seals. Instead "American EmAmerican Consulate" and bassy," American Consular Agency will be substituted on a'l tho new record books and documents. While the familiar abbreviation, U. 8. A.," may be missed by many, this Is a sensible change. In spite of the fitful protests that now and then come down from Canada, citizens of the federal stales are universally known The United States as Americans. representatives abroad are Invariably called Americans. When Secretary Hay first proposed the change that has now gone Into effect the Canadian press declared that the people of the United States had no more exclusive right to the name of Americans than had tho people of any other country In North or South lea. But national titles fit history and usage. It Is not customary abroad to designate an American as a Canadian American, a Mexican American, or a The real United States American. Americans were the Americans of the thirteen states. The real Americans are the citizens of the nation developed from the thirteen states. That Is the verdict of history. That Is International usage. Had the civil war resulted in disunion, It might Indeed have been different As It Is, the people of the union of states are the Americans. They are the American people. It Is an old dispute, but Secretary Hays order officially settles It. Chicago Inter Ocean. MILITARY CONSERVATISM. In his recently published reminiscences of the Duke of Wellington the late Rev. G. R. Glelg recalls that that famous commander was at all times strenuously opposed to new Inventions. He scorned, for example, such novelties as the Mlnte rifle, and good old Brown Bess, the clumsy musket of Waterloo, was his Ideal. It was with the greatest reluctance that he allowed flint and steel to give place to percussion cap. This Is only an extreme Instance of a feeling not uncommon among military men, nor Is It unnatural. Most of the Inventions that have revolutionized warfare have been due to civilians. Have they benefited the world? It Is at least hard to show that they have tended to makewar Impossible, as was so generally held a few years ago. Spring-fiel(Mass.) Republican. d TWO VETERANS OF THE NAVY. We cannot feel too tenderly toward the old ships that stood by us faithfully In times when the young nation needed their strength and powers. The frigate Constellation, now at the Brooklyn navy yard, was first commissioned 107 years ago. She was the smallest o! the three famous ships authorized by the direct Intervention of President Washington on the matter of the reorganization of the navy In 1797, as she Is the last of them to carry at her masthead the pennant of active duty. Of her sister ships, the United States, once known as the Old Wagon, was destroyed during the civil war, while the other, Old Ironsides, of Immortal memory, has found a snug harbor In the Boston navy yard. These old frigates were once the bulwarks of a struggling nation. They carried the flag in every sea and played their part so well that their deeds have become priceless national tra- Purists seldom will excuso slang, and always will Insist that a better phrase or word might have been substituted for Its use, until the slang word or expression becomes grafted upon the language. Even then there will be many not tolerant of Its use at first, but opposition becomes less and less In evidence as time accustoms the ear to receive gratefully that whleb onco seemed harsh, crudo and Inelegant. It Is true, too, that much of the sjang of one age falls Into disuse the next, so that tho languago suffers but little, if any, from Its temporary, acceptance, while such words as may have incorporated themselves permanently into the general structure fit so well that no one Is tearfully solicitous to have them removed. i A Western minister said recently: Slang Is largely the result of Indolence and lack of While In the origin of some terms commonly used as slang, there may be wit and a measure of originality, yet no person can Indulge In the use of these barbarisms without serious loss. I have heard men use slang In most earnest prayer. If a man does not wish to use slang op bis deathbed or In the pulpit or the school room, office or social circle, It would be well not to use it anywhere. New York Telegram. self-respec- t. PREMATURE BURIAL. RHas Been Moved from tiie Late F. - Leyland Gallery London a in House and Is Exhibited From time to time many people have wondered what would be the ultimate fate of Whistler's Peacock Room, one of Ihe best known and least known of his works. Everybody has heard of it, hut few have seen it. Its present fate is to be in the market. The "Peacock Room" was, of course, designed for, and to some extent in spite of, tho late Frederick Richard Leyland. It developed out of tho dining room In his house in Prince's Gate. A large part of this house had been decorated by Norman Shaw, with tho assistance of another architect, named Jcckyll, and of Murray Marks. The dining room was entirely Jeckyll's work. He designed a wooden celling, with pendent lamps, and on the walls an elaborate shelving for the display of Mr. Leylands fine collection of oriental china. This shelving was carried out in walnut wood, and the panels were fitted with brown Spanish leather decorated with small flowers. The leather alone cost 1,000. When Mr. Leyland bought Whistlers "La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelalne, which occupied a position of honor In the memorial exhibition at Boston, he placed It in a recess above the mantelpiece of his dining room; and here, so Whistler thought, the surroundings were not quite suitable to the picture. The leather was too dark and the flowers were too red. The Interfered with the delicacy of his own tints. They were as vulgar fellows In a gracious presence. So, with the owners consent, the 9 months a remarkable achievement. Tho brown leather became a deep, blue. rich, greenish blue the peacock away. failed quite The red flowers Flat was lacqueimd. Woodwork were gilded. spaces Child got into the hair of the busy decorators. Gold covered their faces. Paint dropped Into their eyes. But on they worked, Whistler now bent upon the floor, now on a scaffolding, now In a hammock slung from the brush roof, and using sometimes a fastened to the end of a fishing rod. Confronting the Princesse," above a sideboard which Whistler probably neardesigned himself, and spreading came room, the of ly across the end the superb panel of the two quarrelsome peacocks gold and silver on blue. Three splendid peacock declosed signs were placed upon the window shutters. Upon all the walls spread harmonies of gold and blue. Originally well proportioned, and suitably fitted with woodwork, the room became one of the most beautiful rooms In the world. Possibly it Is the most beautiful room In the world. And In At any rate, it Is unique. this unique state the Princesse lived till Mr. Leyland died. She brought 4(1 at his sale In 1892. Then she discovered America. The room, however, kept on staying Just where it was, and only recently did It occur to somebody that It might be possible to detach the decorations from the actual structure of the walls. Expert examination made this possibility a certainty, and the Peacock Room was Intrusted to Messrs. Er- - ) nest Brown and Phillips, of the Leicester galleries, Leicester square, for fils- - A Rialto correspondent tells of a case In which a young woman was buried, although her cheeks maintained a perfectly natural color. In such a case, the belief would be very strong that, as the Bible says: She Is not dead, but sleepeth. As the editor has said. It is perfectly awful to reflect how many thousands of people are undoubtedly burled alive, to Judge from the exceedingly small percentage of cases In which it Is possible to discover evidence. The haste with which people are rushed underground in this country Is disgraceful is damnable and should be forbidden by law. Los Angeles Times. '4 it V i'n ti inffiiir Iml THE TOURIST'S FAVORITE ROUTE LAKE SALT THROUGH CITf AID SCENIC D V - CO !li TO THE WORLD'S rr FAIK J FAST FLYERS DAILY BETWEEN OGDEN AND A i DENVEHrzss CHOICE OF ROUTES. AND PULLMAN THROUGH TOURIST SLFlW FROM OGDEN OR SALT LAKE r TO ST. LOUIS WITHOUT CHANGE OF J Free Reclining Chair Cara. Dining Car Service a la carte on all through trains. For Folders, Illustrated Booklets, etc., address SALT LAKE CITY, L A. BENTON, O. A. P. D MISSOURI PACIFIC TJTJ R1 The Popular Route to the ST. LOUIS FAIR and Points East : Pullman and Tourist Sleepers from Ogden and Salt Lake to St. Louie THROUGH SCENIC COLORADO WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. HIS LAST WILL. either through ambition, of duty, or In against boredom, works hard and accumulates property. Should he marry, he Is expected to provide liberally for his wife, to carry a life insurance for her benefit, to give his children every advantage of education as it Is now or misunderstood. understood He works cheerfully, finds little pleasure outside of his dally routine. Is prematurely old. He dies. He may be a widower he may leave behind him a second wife; or he may leave his only wife, the mother of his children. His will Is opened and read. He has made a reasonable provision for those near to him. But he took the liberty before his death of bequeathing certain sums of money, through a feeling of sentiment or duty to others, sums that will lessen in comparatively slight degree the money which would otherwise be distributed among those already In peThe poor wretch cuniary comfort. thought he had this right. At once there is strife. The lawyers are consulted and enlisted. There is a trial. The character of the dead man Is dragged from his coffin. Was he queer? Was he not Insane? Folblea and harmless eccentricities are paraded for scorn and mockery. There was a time when the Initial phrase. In the name of God, amen, was of solemn and abiding force. The dead man spoke. Who can use the phrase today with any assurance that it will be regarded after he la cold and voiceless? Boston Herald. A man, sense self-defens- e Dining Cara. Free Reclining-CbaiCars. Everything For bertha, tickets, folders, etc address r First-da- n H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. A., ST. LOUIS FAMOUS PANEL OF THE QUARRELSOME PEACOCKS, It refers to the quarrel between W histler and F. R. Leyland. The circu- lar spots of silver and gold symboliz the Almighty Dollar. Whistler also designed the sideboard. artist set about lightening the one pos&l. They sold It to Messrs. Obach and reducing the other with touches of 168 New Bond street. of yellow, but at first only In a tentaEvery panel, every scrap of leather, tive way. Apparently, It was during every stick of wood was carefully dethe owner's absence from home that a tached, wrapped up and numbered in complete scheme of deeoratlon pre- its due relation to the whole. And tosented itself to the mind of the artist t day, for the first time, any member and characteristically enough he did of the general public who possesses not seek the owner's consent before half a crown and the Improbable desire to spend It on aesthetics may bebeginning the new work. Nearly thirty years have gone by hold the Peacock Room, skillfully since it all happened. Artist and reconstructed, In Messrs. Obachs galowner are dead, and It Is difficult to leries. All relative arrangements know Just what each said to the other have been carried out with taste and when they next met. Much gossip Judgment, and the exhibition will may be read about the matter In the ditions. open for not less than a month Whistler hooks. and probably longer. The Constitution and the ConstellaIt Is certain that there were disThe place of the "Princesse du Pays tion are the last visible links that BENEFITS COMING FROM WASTE. It Is certain that as a de la Porcelalne Is at present occuagreements. bind us to deeds that stand forth In Waste Is universal and is peculiar consequence of these Whistler introour naval annals aa something to be pied by a mirror. If this room could to no rlass. The into decoration duced his a be secured for America, and If the miser aa wastes symbolic of. In The was Constellation proud Princesse could be restored to her numerous brave fights off the coast of tnnch as the spendthrift, and perhaps representation of the Almighty Dolthrone room, designed by a great artFrance and captured several rhlps more, because his hoarding withdraws lar. for there It is to be seen All the decorations seem to have ist In defiance of all social convenof superior force. The country will benefits front others and does himself see to It that both she and her veteran no good. Those only do not waste who been carried out by Whistlsr with on- tions, for the sole purpose of displaysister ship, the Constitution, remain in a sense give something for noth- ly one assistant, and to have been ing her beauty, future generation an Inspiration to the new men of the ing. Our great philanthropies, our ed- completed in little more than six would be grateful. New York Sun. ucational Institutions, our public benenavy. fits of various kinds are the fruits of He Wanted the Claselce. EDUCATED BUSINESS MEN. this higher philosophy of life. It Is Apropos of Col. Edwin Emerson, not the man who knows how to save, Students of the history of education who avoids waste, hut the ntan who Jr., war correspondent In Japan, Judge Smyly last week, In women of evk are familiar with the time when the knows how to spend. There Is more whoso erroneously reported death in middle-agewas one of the topic of ligence swore to two Manchuria In of the the foundation latter Joy more and la dlrectl, object collegiate wisdom conversation last week, he Is a much stories, suggests the was almost solely to train young men required In its exercise, Boston questlo younger man than his title of colonel women make reliable wltnei lor the ' priesthood or the ministry. would suggest. A Baltimore lady re- late Lord Chief Justice R Then the desirability of general calls being the guest of his father, dared once that where no scholastic culture aa a preparation for VALUE OF THE PLAGIARIST. q lYof. Emerson, In Munich, Bavaria, prejudice was concerned a Into law was the entry recognized, and No writer In the English tongue when the still youthful scribe was an evidence was more valuabl lastly, as a preparation for entry Into mmllctne. The ministry, the law and stands in the same rank with Shake- Infant of six summers. Prof. Edwin man's. There Is no doub n edlclne these almost up to our time speare. and yet none was so Incessant Emerson and his Maryland guest noticing small matters of di have been the three learned profes- a debtor as he to the classic writers were starting for an afternoon tea en are much quicker than sions. Except for the comparatively and the folklore of other countries. when Edwin, Jr., was discovered sit- have a much better memory are strongly apt to be Infli mall number attracted by the notion From Hamlet to Shjiock. from ting disconsolately on the floor. Why. what Is the matter, mjr prejudice. During the trla that an academic education waa fitCorlolanus to Cymbellne his playham Reed, the South End quoth the professor. ting to gentility, the vast majority of wright path Is strewn with the frag- on?I want something to read," la- one of the witnesses, an o academic puptla were destined, In the ments of an older literature from of more than sixty, swore tc order named, for the surplice, the which he had pilfered the best he mented the infant. To read? said his father. "Have tlty of the prisoner, robe and the chaise. Front the three could lay his hands upon without so not you your 'Mother Goose, or 'Jack mltted that she hadalthoug universities the much as a by your leave. typical American It la, and the lbanstoek,' or Grlmm'a once In her life six only monthi greater number of graduates now look after all. the people who popularize when he passed her hut forward to business careers or to rather than the pimple who suggest Fairy Tales'? I want something clnsslral." said country road at 10 o'clock technical pursuits which are closely or Invent an Idea who deserve whatIn scornful tones, and veraber evening. She deel The business ever praise attaches to Its success. the related to business. man of the future Is plainly to he a The geologist tells the miner where his yearnings were satisfied. Propped she recognized him by the fl ttutn of scholastic education. This he might wisely dig for gold, hut It on three cushions and a dictionary eye. 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