Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 November 1883 — Page 4

LIFE AND SOCIETY.

Women, Marriage and Luxury.

the old piano.1 LILLIE K. I3AKB.

JIow still and dusky !g the long-closed room! What lingering snawdows and what faint perfume Of eastern treasures—sandal-wood and scent AVith nard and cassia and with roses blent.

Let in the sunshine—

Ouaint cabinets are here, boxes and fans, _\nd hoarded letters full of hopes and plans 3 pass them by. I came once more to see tfhe old piano, dear to memory,

In past days mine.

)f all sad voices from forgotten years t's the saddest: we see what tender tears l)ro| on the yellow keys as, soft and slow, play some melody of long ago.

Mow strange it seems!

•J'lic thin, weak notes that once were rich and strong, iive only now the shadow of a song, •rhe dying echo of the fuller strain IThat 1 shall never, never hear again,

Unless In dreams.

'What hands have touched it! Fingers small and white, Hince stilt" and weary with life's toil and flight Dear clluglng hands that long have been at rest Folded serenely on a quiet breast,

Only to think.

O, white, sad notes, of all the pleasant days, The happy songs, the hymns of holy praise, The dreams of love and youth that round you cling! iJ)o they not make each sighing, trembling string

A mighty link?

All Its musicians gone beyond rccall— The beautiful, the loved, where are they all? JCach told its secrets, touched its keys and wires

With whispering lingers.

Are all silent now, the farewell said, The last song sung, the last tear sadly shed Yet love has given It many dreamB to Jn thts1 lone room where only shadows creep

And silence lingers.

The old iiano answers to my call, And from my fingers lets the lost notes fall O, soul' that I have loved, with heavenly birtb. Wilt thou not keep the memory of earth,

Its smiles and sighs?

Shall wood and metal and white ivory Answer the touch of love with melody, And thou forget? Dear one, not so. I move thee yet (though how I may not know)

eyond the skies.

The Worship of Wealth Producing Cyn iclsmand Loveless Marriages. New York Tribune.

A large audience assembled last evening at Chickering Hall to hear MisB Emily Faitlitull deliver her lecture on "Modern Shams." The Rev Robert Collyer presided, and on the platform were the Rev. Drs. Tiffany and Burcliard, the Rev. J. C. Derby, 13r. Kramer, Dr. Dio Lewis, Mrs. and Miss Crowley, Mrs. Moscelles, Mrs. Carnegie, the Rev. Phcebe Hanaford, Miss Morris and Thomas C. Acton. In a few well-chosen phrases Mr. Collyer introduced the lecturer, saying he hoped she would be heard.

Mrs. Faitlifull, who looked remarkably well, but was visibly nervous at starting, said: "The subject, 'Modern .Shams, will be used as a text for my own observations only. We are all the victims of social shams. Formerly, honor, chivalry or ambition in some nobler shape, engaged the attention of mankind but now there is an all-ab-sorbing thirst for money, a reckless determination to enioy the present. We all bow down before the millionaire. The Dollar is our god, and Shoddy is his high priest. If things continue to go on as they are, in fifty years wc shall scarcely find a rag of social morality left. When women gQ about witli painted faces and ennstitutions patched up with chloral and pick-me-up, and men pretend to wstheticism on the strength of a sun-flower and the cut of a coat, it surely is time to speak out. "A casual observer can not but re mark how much a certain low, coldhearted cynicism, the result of extrav agance and unbridled luxury, is on the increase. There iB an exceeding great army of evils threatening us as the result of these vices. The vices of the present day are such as follow great commercial prosperity. Tho dollar has become the standard of merit. Wealth has established a falsestandard by which everything is estimated There is no sin in its eyes equal to poverty. New York of a century ago no doubt i.ad its social shams, but it eertainly was a happier city than the

New York of to-dav. A man was not looked upon as perfection because he was a millionaire, nor was his wife looked upon as dowdy because filie wore a plain dress. But now, we raust be well ofl'or we are nowhere. It is the lavish diflusion of Wealth which alone makes life worth living. Money is the magic wand that opens up to us regions of rarest material delight, Wealth is always a power, whether employed for good or ill. But it may and does set up an artificiality that gradually overthrows reality and makes all society hollow and false. When men and women are appraised for what they wear or what tney have social life becomes one vast snam. The standard of right and wrong is lowered, and ruin muBt inevitably set in. Some one has said that in America the three R's are for 'rithmetic, roguery and rum.' "Women have a great deal to do with spending money, and are really at the bottom of the social shams. They loose their finer susceptibilities under the hardening influences of luxury, until they grow indifferent to the misery around them. If we walk in Hyde park, or down Fifth avenue, or attend a fashionable church, we shall see that extravagance is the female besetting sin. It costs £30,000 annually to keep up a first-class hunting estabishment, but more to keep ur a fashionable wife. A lady recently wore jewels worth $400,oOO. All the truer principles of life are giving way before this insatiable craving for notoriety.

Parents in England complain of the extravagance of their sons at Oxford and Cambridge, and I hear it is coming to that here. The civic authorities set an example of this waste. At a recent banquet given to tlie Prince of "Wales the cost was £27,506, the wine bill alone amounting to £1,731. Luxury has become a fashion. All the nobler aspirations of our nature are stifled beneath the iron heel of money. All about uf is unreal. Women have false hair, false complexions, false shapes. We have stucco villas, plaster works of art. sham decorations there i* everywhere hollowness instead of reality. "1 hear everywhere of the difficulty of getting good sers'ants. They want to be tine ladies, and they study more their dress than how to please their master. But servants copy only the example of vulgarity set them. It should be remembered that these United States that have ever resisted lespotism, are in danger of submitting to one of its worst forms—the despotism of wealth. The tendency is much the same as that found in the old distich sung by English country folk. (iod bless the squire nnd all his rich relations, .And icaoh all poor people to keep their stations.

I really think the gorilla with a rentroll ami "a coronet would not want for numerous friends and toadies."

The lecturer denounced the credit system snd loveless marriages, and in conclusion she quoted the lines: Wc rut niul drink, nnd go to church on

Sunday

Ami tiiHiiv are afraid of od, but more of I Mis. Urtindy.

Left Stranded ly the Receding Tide of Fashion. Hshin^ton Ktar. "It is all on account of that old Auieoline!" she cried, as she flounced into a fashionable drug store on the Avenue. "I could just sit right down ind cry," and she stuck out her lips, ran lur fingers through her frouzy Tud colored bangs and looked miseraDle.

After she had had her say and gone Star renorter, who always takes an iterest in distressed females, asked le druggist what could occasion such Inguisli in one so young. I ?'0h, she's been using Auieoline to

bleach her hair, and now, that light hair is going out of fashion Bhe's all broke up bo to speak. That is to say, she wants to make her hair dark again, and instead of getting to its natural color it has turned out a dirty nondescript hue, and she's mad about it." "What is Aureoline?" asked the Star. "It is awfully horrid stuff if you take her word for it. But it is known to us druggists as a patent compound, warranted to make the hair like gold only two dollars a bottle." "Do you sell much of it?" "Yes that and other similar drugs. For the last three or four years golden hair has been all the rage, and all kinds of drugs for bleaching the hair have be i! i-n great demand. You would be ast'-nished at our sales. They are mostly fashionable women who buy these goods." '"Is your trade confined to women whose hair is faded and gray, or who have naturally dingy, bad-colored hair?" "IJy Hi me:i!is! Why,such lias been the i-1 Miy iif golden hair that even young yes. uirls hardly out of school. v. Iiom- iiair is as fres 11 and beautiful as ca:, lie— Mil j- 1 it to all soitsof processes to change it from a black or rich brown to a blonde shade." "Is thih n-l very injurious?" "Yes. Haii once subjected to these blcaching processes can never he restored to it natural stale. And there's where the trouble comes in. Light hair is oii)g out of fashion now, and all those who two or three years 0go were cr?zy gtt-something t» bleach it are now rushing after us to give them something to rest're their hair to its natural color. There are many, howeyer," lie continued, "who still cling to their golden hair. Many fashionable women who go in society a great deai, and are very particular about their personal appearance, have compounds made from their own formulas, and keep their hair always at that shade they most admire. They never give us any trouble about restoring the color of their hair. They know what they are doing when they dye it, and they let it stay that way. The trouble all comes from simple, inexperienced women, who dye their hair 'just to see how it looks,' or to be in fashion."

Here he was interrupted by the entrance of a Etylish-looking lady with black eyes and a profusion of golden hair, who spoke very confidently to the clerk, at:d, getting a little square bottle done up in pink paper, hurried out to her carriage, which was waiting at the door. As she passed out the druggist winked at the reporter and whispered, "A-u r-e-o-l-i-n-e."

Parlor aud llning doom. THINOS PKKTTY AND USEFUL. Little brass-legged tahlesare the most fashionable upon which to serve afternoon tea. They are covered with a dainty lace cloth.

To keep knives and forks in good condition when not in use, dust the blades and prongs with finely powdered quicklime and keep them wrapped in flannel.

Oyster plates are said to he out of fashion. Raw oysters must now be served on single shells, buried in a ma£8 of snow, ice and celery, with a bit of lemon in the center.

Square tables of mahogony for the dining room are superseding the round cornered ones of black walnut. Everybody now has a piece of heavy canton flannel beneath the table-cloth.

Ice cream is no longer served in bricks. At one dinner party lately it was made up into the shape of a large watermelon, and the guests were served each a slice on a dainty glass dish.

Antimacassars of antique lace and broad satin ribbon of two vividly contrasting shades are in vogue again, and are used in preference to a bow of broad ribbon on the back cf a handsome chair.

Marble mantels arc judiciously covered up with beautiml valances or lambrequins ol satin, wl vet and plush. Window lambrequins now match that on the mantel of a bedroom. Lambrequins are not used tor parlors, except where they are of an unusually rich description.

For a dinjng-rooni the prettiest and not too expensive curtains one can have are those made either of dark maroon or green felt or Canton flannel. A band of old gold about a foot from the bottom and top of the curtains, sewed on with herring-bone stitch, uiake them effective as well as comfortable.

Pretty and odd chair backs are made of squares of linen and of satin. This may seem a strange combination, but the effect, is excellent. Where the squares are joined, cover the seams with fancy stitches. The satin squares may be left without ornamentation, and all the work be put on the linen ones. Embroidery, or painting or etching is the favorite method employed.

A good deal of the green is now left on the top of the celery when it is put in the glasses on the table. And, by the by, crystal celery glasses are becoming more fashionable than those made of cut glass, which have been used since our grandmothers were young. The newest ones rest in the hands of dainty little Kate Greenaway figures and are very graceful, expanding at the top like an opening rose.

American Queen: A pretty scrap bag for the bedroom is made of white linen. Cut apiece fifteen inches square. A cress the top and bottom put on a strip cf Canton flannel three incheB wide sew this to the linen with fancy stitches, then draw three circles at equal distances apart, and about the size of a half-dollar. Work these, commencing at the center, and going up in straight lines to the circumference, with three or four shades of yellow embroidery silk. This bag is not gathered at the top, but has two blue strings attached to the corners to hang it by. The bottom of the bag may be ornamented by a strip of linen fringed out, or by a row of torchon across the bottom, slightly fulled on, or it may be left plain.

About Woiuen.

Sealskin sacques have "riz." Of the 45,000 persons arrested in Paris, last year, only 0,000 were women.

A bold robber in Ohio has carried off and married a rich deaf and dumb bride. .V

Miss Hairiet LenoSc and Miss Kittie Wolfe are the two richest spinsters in New York.

If Mary Churchill intends to answer the stage's loud call for her, now is her opportunity.

The Harmless Burdett-Coutts thinks of doing America. She will bring her own money along.

Miss Lizzie Logan, of Lynn, Mass., was snatched bald-headed in a machine shop, her hair having caught in the shafting.

A young woman in Erie, Pa., has married her brother's wife's father. She therefore becomes her brother's mother-in-law.

There are 2,000,000 widows in Germanv, it is said. Some of the husbands are in heaven, but the majority are in this country.

Christine Nilsson and Adelina Patti are both the same aee—forty—and both aie fare and fat. Gerster is twelve years younger.

Nilsson has not yet selected the American who is to* succeed to the conjugal felicity that unsettled the wits of her late demented.

A daughter of Charles Lever is making quite a reputation for herself as a novelist under the nom df plume of •'Sidney Smith." Blood wiL tell. "No," said the eloping woman, "there isn't tho least likelihood that my husband will discover our whereabouts. He's a New Yoik detective.

Mrs. W. T. Sherman has written to the general that she is much pleased with their new St. Louis house, and feels almost fr the first time in her life she is to settle down into a home.

There is nothing hU: l.eii.g onfidential with one's wn wile. A Pennsylvania man lm\n £10,(M, and being afraid oi burglars, put it a ttove

oven, but forgot to tell his wife. It ruined him. Although the women of Vermont have the right to vote at school elections, they do not exercise the privilege. There are twenty female super intendents in the state all elected by the votes of the men.

The parsonic kissing habit, which went out of fashion all over the country after a certain cause celebre in Brooklyn, was very strong in old Dr. Ripley, of Concord. Mr. Emerson reports, in the paper published in the current Atlantic, that he "spared neither maid, wife, nor widow."'

It is a great thing for a country village to raise a prima donna. She sings in the church as a girl, and her voice is pronounced divine. The good people get up a benefit for her, and sub scribe money, and she is sent to Italy with the pastor's blessing. Four years later she is singing with a' Pinafore" company in America, tramping over the country with lieht baggage Her trunk has been left in Texas for board.

JPusbion Notes.

New York papers. The Henri III. is the coming hat. Cloak clasps are small and very artistic.

Clinging draperies remain in favor with society girls. Escurlal remains the favorite lace of dressy women.

Kitten's beads adorn many nobby felt and velvet bats. All kinds of laces, even the old style Hama, are fashionable.

Fichus, plastronsandlarge collars of lace arc Immensely fashionable. Cut steel, Jet, silver, gilt and jewelled buckles adorn many dresey bonnets and hats.

Tapestry wools and checked cheviots are much worn by young ladles who like color.

Lace of all kinds is fashionable, and, considering the great demand for it, It is Inexpensive.

Cheille fringes are very handsome when used discreetly—that is to say sparingly— on wraps and costumes.

Titian red, a lovely shade verging on auburn, bids fair to be the fashionable bright color of the coming season.

Trains are to be seen on the new importations of dinner and evening dresses, and these trains are very full and long.

Real sealskins, dyed almost black, are brousht out for ladies in mourning, and for those who prefer an entirely black costume.

The dress par excellence for the street Is the plain tailor-made costumes of ladies' cloth with close fitting wadded over-Jack-et of the same material.

Pompador lace is very beautiful and inexpensive, and 1« brought out in collars, cuns, and deep flounces from two to ten Inches or more in depth.

Many handsome Indoor dresses of velvet and plush areas simply made as street costumes, the plain, straight corsage being only ornamented by the small collar and cuffs or real lace.

The latest novelty in bed linen consists of sheets, pillow cases and shams hemstitched and embroidered, and decorated with diamond-shaped and square blocks of linen, hemstltohed on in geometric patterns of various kinds, and bordered by frills hemstitched and vandyked on the edges. Others are hemstitched in rings and dots.

It Is a fancy to make the heavy trains and corsage of evening dresses of plain dark plush or velvet, in a color which contrasts sharply with the rest of the costume. For instance, a train of plain black velvet has a skirt front and corsage of white velvet brocade Titian red velvet is used with pale Jemon-tinted embroidered satin, and dark blue velvet with plush bf pale rose color.

A BIG FAILURE.

Columbus Boy Corners the Cotton Market of the World. Columbus (Ohio) Tlires.

The Atlantic cable brings news of the failure of one of the largest cotton firms in England, that of Morris Ranger & Co. This news is of particular interest to the people of Columbus, inasmuch as Morris Ranger was formerly in business in this city, and is well remembered by many of our citizens. Mr. Ranger formally announced to the president of the Liverpool Cotton Association that he was unable to meet demands matured and had suspended payment. At first his liabilities were estimated at £400,000 in Liverpool and £40,000 in Havre, but later reports fi* the amount at £6.")0,000 and 400,000 bale3 of cotton open. Relative to the failure, the New York Commercial Advertiser com incuts as follows: "1'he cotton firm of Morris Ranger & Co., is one of the largest in England, and is composed of Morris Ranger alone. The firm was established in l,X(i,s. At the house of Fatman & Co., Broad street, who Mr. Ranger was supposed to represent abroad, it was statetHhat no news beyond the loregoing had been received by the firm, and it was not believed that any American houses would be in the least afl'ected by Ranger's suspension. Messrs. Fatman & Co. deny having any business relations with the suspended firm,and can throw no light upon the extent of the failure or as to the parties involved in this country orris Ranger & Co. are reported to have bought in or made settlement for a heavy amount of September and October short cotton, but they have anticipated this by suspending. Their short contracts outstanding are esti mated at from 100,000 to 190,000 bales."

About the year 1860 Morris Ranger and his brother Gus were conducting a small cigar store in an old building on the present site of Kelly's saloon. They sold cigars and tobaccos at retail and dealt some in wines, the entire stock probably not invoicing over two or three thousand dollars. This business was conducted for several years previous to the war. Charley Cox, then a clerk for the firm, was aftei wards left in charge of the business. He went to the war, and Mr. J. N. Howie, now proprietor of the cigar store of the United States hotel building, conducted the store in his absence. Afterward, for five or six years, Howie and Cox were partners, and the former finally succeeded to the business.

Early in the sixties Morris and Gus Ranger both married daughters of a wealthy tobacco dealer in New York bv the name of Fatman. Fatmai dealt in leaf tobaccos, and was one of the largest dealers in the country. The old gentleman gave the boys a share in his business, and for some .time they employed Cox as a western agent to buy up tobacco and ship it to the east. Cox, during most of the time, had headquarters at Evansville, Indiana. Later on the Rangers embarked in the cotton business, Morris going to England and Gus to the south, having headquarters at. Mobile. Alabama. They were soon launched in a prosperous business, and vast quantities of cotton were shipped to the old world in ships belonging to the firm. So it progressed until Morris had a reputed wealth of many millions.

At one time Morris cornered the cotton market of the entire world, and bv this wonderful stroke of enterprise is said to have realized profits amounting to two millions.

Gus Ranger is better remembered here than Morris, as he was here more constantly and was a member of the State Fencibles. Both are Jews. Gus is the younger and Morris is probably about fifty-two years of age. He is described as a tall, finely formed and exceedingly handsome man. Gus is shorter and blocky. Both are exceedingly sharp and shrewd business men. They came here on a chance visit from the East, and, seeing a good business opening, located. Their store was at that time the only one oi the kind in Columbus.

Not. High Toned.

Philadelphia Call. "My dear, I am shocked that yc siould invite those young ladies to your party." "Why, mamma, how you talk! They have always been in society. Their father is the postmaster." "Very true, my child, but you forget the change which has recently occurred." "What change, mamma?" "Why, the rates of postage have been reiduced to two cents. Postoffi ces are not high-toned auy more."

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VINNIN& OVER A MUIiE.

Display of Mesmeric Power bjr a Hegro. N. Y.Sun. A man and a mule stood on the cor ner of Park row and Beekman street. The man was excited. The mole was not. A crowd of idlers formed a ring and gazed stolidly at the efforts of the man to start the mule. The mttle stood still.

There was about the mule an air of gentle exuberance, mingled with a reserve, that protected her from the pointed remarks of coaree men. Her eye—a large and soulful orb—looked downward, and her ample ears sloped coyly toward a drooping tail. Her legs were spread out like the legs of a four-legged stool, and she seemed quite restful and at times even disrait.

The man was trying to batter in the mule's ribs with a bungstarter bor rowed from a friend on a neighboring truck. Large beads of sweat stood on tlie man's brow and stupendous remarks fell from his lip® as the bungstarter fell with awe-inspiring thuds upon the neatly defined ribs of the mule. A policeman sauntered through the crowd. "Phy don' th' muhl go an? he asked, haughtily. "Bekase he stays where he is,' answered the driver. "Don't be lippy, you." "Eat a brick, y' tarrier!"

The driver and the policeman thrust their chins forward and glared into each other's eyes for several minutes, while an artful smile stole over the mobile features of the mule, and her ears waved gently. Suddenly there was a rushing sound in the air, and a howl of warning arose from the crowd, as the mule gathered her hoofs under her and shot them out in four direc tions all at once. One of the hoofs came within two inches of the policeman's nose, and he at once fell upon the driver with a howl of ferocity, jammed him up against a telegraph pole, and choked him half to death while he poured a stream of rugged adjectives into his ear. Then he shook the driver until bis teeth chattered, and cast him against the mule.

The driver picked up the bungstarter and resumed his exercise upon the mule with a downcast air, while the policeman yanked at the mule's bit. Tho mule seemed more or less annoyed, but still smiled. Then the policeman, the driver and some volunteers got at the wheels of the cart and tried to roll it against the mule's hind legs. They succeeded in doing this, hut it only amused the mule. Then the volunteers stopped and mopped their fevered brows, while the mule looked commiseratingly around upon them.

It was at this moment that a small and stumpy negro emerged from the crowd and walked around in front of the mule and looked steadily into the mule's right eye and stroked one of her ggfg. "Phat's th' coon doin' wid th' mule asked the policeman. "I'm a mezermeriBin' ob dis heah animile, I am," said the negro in an injured tone. "He don't like de I— rash."

Then he communed with the mule again, went to the cart, climbed to the seat, said "G'on dar!" and gently prodded the mule with his toe. Without an instant's hesitation the mule started off at a toggle-jointed trot, and whirled around the corner.

The Art of Story-Telling. London Clobe. Some people seem personally fitted for effective story-telling. George Henry Lewes was one such. Those ho were familiar with him have often remarked the vivacious sparkle of the eye, the peculiarly telling actions of the hands and the perfect self-posses-sion with which he would fascinate a convivial party. Anthony Trollope it was, if we are not mistaken, who once said that the very clothes he wore seemed somehow to contribute to the effect of his good stories—his velvet coat and his neat slippers, and the rest of it, all worn with that air of easy unconsciousness well calculated to enhance the points of his narrative. That unconsiousness, by the way, is a great matter in personal narrative. There are some who are prevented from ever telling a story well by their evident aDxiety to do so. They appear to be as much concerned for themselves as for tjie success of their tale. Their own manner and choice of language and the impression they are making on their auditors are plainly distracting their wits and diverting a great part of their power. A good story-teller will always be found to be one who i3 himself too deep in his own enjoyment and appreciation of his tale to be at all conscious of anything pertaining to himself. He enters into the thing too fully and too entirely to be concerned with the criticisms which may be passing upon his personal appearance or Ian guagre or manner. Anything like timidity, or nervousness, or selfconsciousness, is fatal to that freedom Lof manner which is always a principal charm of really successful tale-tellers, and in all such narratives as observant travelers have to tell upon their return home. A ready flow of language is, of course, essential to success in this line. Nothing is more unpleasant than to have to listen to long narratives which seem continually on the point of breaking down for want of words, or which are told in words that continually prompt the listener to interruption and criticism which politeness nevertheless forbids. A pleasant voice, too, is a great point, though not by any means invariably indispensable. There are times everyone must have observed, when some harsh incongruity of voice aids immensely to the effect of a story, just in the same way as the personal appearance of a narrator may greatly influence its success. Lewes was generally allowed to be anything but a handsome man, and it was in a great measure what some would call—did call, a fact—his very ugliness which often lent immense force to his utterances. An odd or unpleasant vein may do precisely the same thing, giving perhaps a soapcon of acidity to what would otherwise be found flat and insipid, or a droll turn to points which would be tame and dull if in a smooth and faultless tone.

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man in high station. Yet I am told that be makes $100,000 a year itidr law practice and takes a good many holidays. That man has been the father of thirteen children, and eleven of them are living. They are not unusually bright, hut especially capable and sensible. The two smartest are the twins, Sherman and Prescott, who gradnated two years ago at Harvard and Yale, respectively. Sherman is studying law with his father, and Prescott isgworking hard to become an Episcopalian clergyman. And yet Sherman is the more demure and Prescott was a great athlete. Two or three of the girls are married, but the home life of the Ev»rts family is still as delightful as ever. Up in Windsor, Vt., Mr. Evarts has a. beautiful river farm on which he spends thousands of dollare every year. Besides, on the main street are four houses, all large and comfortable and standing each in its own|yard, which he and his family occupy every summer. I don't know how it is now, but a few years ago when the children were young, they were not only occupied, but with their retinue of nurses and servants filled these houses every summer. The ex-secretary is a strong man,and with the exception of Hamilton Fish, has the most statesmanlike ideas of any one who has occupied high office since Seward's time. In society and at home I consider him the most fascinating man I ever met.

THE CORNETIST, LEVY.

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Justice Coleridge's Discretion. Interview with Lord Coleridge. "Oh, I have columns of gossip about the Americans, but I am not ready just yet to give it out. I have learned to respect your profession so much that I ofteran apology for the refusal to be interviewed, but I have enjoyed my visit to the United States so very much more than I expected to, and 1 feel so grateful to the Americans for the hospitality which they showed me when I was a guest in their country, that I have felt that the greatness of the subject and the peculiarity of my position demanded more than usual caution in making statements about what I saw and learned during my visit. I have, therefore, resolved not to speak of my impressions of America and American institutions until I have thoroughly assimilated the information I gathered in the course of my travels there. When I have done that I intend tn make in print a deliberate expressir of my opinions, which will be full and, I hope, satisfactory. Until that time I shall consider it unwise to even intimate what I would like to say. I am vprv much obliged for your courtesy. Good evening.

The Evarts Family.

Washington Letter. William M. Evarts was here thia week arguing a case. He looks thinner and more nervous than ever. I do not believe the man weighs a hundred pounds. Any way, since Alexander Stepheu's death lie is the swftllMt

Ladies uf Macou Refuse to Appear at a Festival With Him. Atlunta, Ga.. Special.

A startling sensation has been pre cipitated upon this community by the refusal of ladies of Macon to appear in the Atlanta Musical Festival with the cornetist, Levy. For several months preparations have been under way for a great musical festival. Each of the cities of Georgia was to furnish large delegations from their musical ranks. The most, important delegation was that which was to come from Macon* The cornetist Levy was also engaged to appear. This morning the Constitution published the Pittsburg interview of a newspaper reporter with Levy, wherein the latter spoku so heartlessly about his wife abandoned in England, but the worst sting was when Mr. Levy said he was also safe from Mis. Tearle, as by her own action she had placed the brand of illegitimacy upon their three children. So now he was free from the whole batch. The expressions smacked so much of the heartless libertine that it raised a perfect furore among the ladies, who questioned if they were to appear on social terms with such man. The ladies of Macon canvassed the matter energetically, and came, to the decision unanimously that they would not appear under the same roof with such a man, and telegraphed Manager Doepp at Atlanta this eventhat they would not come. "Not for all the money in the world," said one charming lady, as she bit her lips and stamped her foot, would I appear upon the stage with a'man who would talk so of his aban doned wife and poor little children Oh, if I had him here now."

This is the general sentiment among the ladies. Levy will be here to-mor-row.

Ought to Have Known.

Detroit Free Press. "Didn't you predict a rise in Great Washtub railroad stock?" queered the customer of his broker. r,

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"Well, yes." *f' "And I took your advice and bought all I could get and have been cleaned out." "Ah! very sorry, indeed. When I made the prediction did I say anything of the Soapsudfc and Great Bubble road?" "No, sir."

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"The Soapsuds and Great Bubble road, you know,^ has made a cut and took most of the business. Did I say anything about crops?" "Not a word." "I presume not, but I expected the biggest crops for ten years. Did I mention the weather?" vt'V." 'y. "No,sir." "Ah! another oversight. I based my prediction on a mild fall, with no frosts until November. Didn't I hedge by saying that if the old board of officials was re-elected?" "No, sir." "Well, it slipped my mind. Sorry very sorry but when another man pre diets that stocks will go up or down you must take into account the crops the weather, elections, business fail ures, cyclones, earthquakes, freshets, hard winters, railroad pools, stock rings, congressional movements and the European situation. Always remember this."

Terrible End of a "Stowaway. St. James' Gazette. The Fremdenblatt states that the body of a young man. apparently about twenty years of age, a stranger both to the crew and the passengers, was discovered in the hold of the steamer Professor Woermann, of Hamburg, as the sailors were unloading her on the 28th of July last near Little Popo, on the western coast of Africa. The body was found completely blocked in by huge bales of merchandise and other heavy goods, sufficient space, however, having been left for the Ktowftwav to breathe, aud even to move about a little. It was supposed that he had contrived to hide himself there when the vessel was about to sail from Hamburg, being under the impression that her destination was England, and that he would therefore be released before the food with which he had provided himself would be exhausted. By his side was the bone of a leg of mutton. He had also found means of breaking open a case of Holland and had emptied two bottles. His provisions having been consumed and there being no means of escape or even of making his presence known he had apparently died a lingering death from exhaustion.

Receipt for 'a Dnel.

London Family Herald. In the little town of Rosenberg, West Russia, lived a young and hothead lieutenant, who one day had a dispute with a clerk in the government service, and suddenly exclaimed: "You know well enough how to handle your pen but I have at home a pair of sharp swords with which I can write better. The other answered: "Such playthings ought only to be given to children who have nothing to lose." The lieutenant then challenged him to fight with pistols. "Very well," the clerk replied, "I accept your offer, on one condition. Yon know I have a wife and children for whom I must care. My income is 4,300 marks. If you will deposita sum sufficient to yield that interest, I am willing to fight. In that case you must place to my account 90,000 marks."

But," stammered the astonished officer, "I have no fortune!" "Ah, sir, those who possess nothing have no right to ask men who must work for others to fight duels!" The duel nevei took place.

Justice Gardner's Prescription. N.Y. Sun. Seven women in the Thirtieth street police station quarreled on Thursday night over the question of their ages. They fought and screamed until they were separated and placed in different cells. When brought before Justice Gardner at Jefferson Market yesterday, each said she was forty years old, and each professed to be a widow. "You may be forty," said Justice Gardner, "hut von are neither fat nor fair. I will give each of ron six months on the island, where you nay grow both fairer and tetter,"

VARIETIES.

Horatio Seymour, in his old age, has not lost faith in the Democratic party. With some men, the longer they live the leas foundation they' require for their faith.

A New York fashion boOk says gentlemen's visiting cards should alwrys have the prefix- 'Mr.*' Society gentlemen in the east are sometimes mistaken for ladies.

It is said-that Queen Elizabeth had hand like a brakeman. No doubt Mr. Essex often thought a brakeman had hold of him while Elizabeth was yanking him around.

One man connected with the New York morgue has handled 350,000 bodies, and a post-mortem examination fills him with delight. Perhaps he iB from Massachusetts.

An Englishman with an imported China sancer.stands at the fountain in Central Park, New York, to give the pug dogs in the carriages a drink as their mistresses drive up.

New York Commercial Advertiser: "No, Bir, my daughter can never he yours." "1 don't want her to be my daughter," broke in the young ardent, "I want her to be my wife."

It is now claimed by his friends that the erratic Major Nickerson was insane, and that when he played poker and lost heavily huge injections of morphine had to be given him.

Another great chieftain will 600n pay a visit to London. His highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, India, is to leave his dominion in December for Calcutta, and thence to London.

The barbed wire fence around a cem etery in Texas is being used for telephone purposes, and is said to work well without the use of insulators. The sexton originated' the Scheme.

A man in Kingston, Ont., who feared that the body of his wife would be stolen, erected a tent over her grave on the day of her burial, six weeks ago, and has slept there nightly ever since.

A Savannah woman has a pet alligator which seems to befvery affectionate. It will show its love for her some day by indulging in a noontide lunch from a portion of her shapely anatomy.

The Indianapolis Journal is using all its great energies to secure the holding of the Republican National Convention at Indianapolis. -The Journal evidently wants to give the home gin-mills a chance.

A Democratic sheriff has been elected in a Republican community in Connecticut, and there is great grief in the grand old party of the state. No Republican wants to be hanged by Democrat.

An Indiana weather prophet pre diets a terrific thunder storm on or about the 13th or 14th of the present month, to be followed by a severe cold blizsard and snow, to continue for sev eral days.

The Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche says that a census of southern editors shows 2 captains, 17 majors, 7 generals and 1,826 colonels. There are no privates, and no officers below the rank of captain.

George William Curtistold the Staten Islanders at their late celebration that "this precious stone Staten Island, set in their silver seas, is the most resplendent gem of the imperial crown of the great metropolis."

A Cincinnati street car company has just given eleven conductors, who have acted as such for one year, $100 each as a reward for faithful and efficient services, in accordance with a contract made between them and the company.

Itwasatthe close of the wedding breakfast. One bf the guests arose and, glass in hand, said: I drink to the health of the groom—may he see many days like this." The intention was good, but the bride looked as if something had displeased her.

James Crow, who died recently in London at the age of eighty-one, commanded the steamer Edinburgh in 1840, and was forced to land Prince Louis Bonaparte at Bologne when he made his futile attempt to incite the garrison there to insurrection.

The attempt that is making to educate the Indians is meeting with considerable success. At a school in New Mexico the Utes and Apaches take kindly to instruction, and some of them have even gone so far as to learn to put their shirts on over their heads.

Moses Wasserman, who is a sort of commissary general for the Panama Canal company, is in San Francisco for a few days. He says the canal will be finished in 1889. There are now 8,000 men at work, and 6,000 Japanese laborers are to be added on December 1st.

Insulting Our Flag.

Texas Si flings. "Ah, Jones, good morning,1' 6aid Plumbottle, the other day, grasping his friend warmly by the hand, "I have a few questions to ask you." "Proceed," replied Jones gravely. "Have I got a short bull neck!" "Quite the contrary," said Jones. "Am I all intellectual development, aud no hair? Does my forehead extend away over to the base of my brain "Quite the contrary." "Do I look like a pouter pigeon with a white vest and a moss rose in my coat-lapel "Certainly not." "Am I cock-eyed "No," said Jones, indignantly. "Glad to hear it," said Plumbottle "Glad to hear you so emphatically deny the following foul aspersion. See here," taking a newspaper out of his pocket, "that legal British luminary, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, says thai Benjamin E. Butler is the typical American. Plumbottle, shall we, as freemen, take such insults, or shall we twist the lion's tail?"

A Beautiful Critpeon Kose. Philadelphia Pre««. A plateau of the William Fiancis Bennett rose, commonly railed the crimson nephetos, will be oa exhibition at the chrysanthemum show in Horticultural hall. The rose was first produced by Henry Bennett, of Walton Shepperton on the Thames, England, and is owned and grown in this country exclusively by Charles F. Evans at the Rowlandsville nursery, near Frankford, tnis city. It is sometimes spoken of as "the $5,000 rose," one-half of the stock of Mr. Bennett being bought by Mr. Evans for about that amount. Under the terms of the purchase of blooms only can be sold by either party for the next four years. The rose is somewhat of the shape of the nephetos, but larger and of a deep, permanent crimson color, and is most delightfully fragrant. It is a most decided acquisition to the market, as, unlike the jacqueminot, which is a hybrid and blooms only once, the Bennett is a very prolific and perpetual blooming tea-rose. 14-i

What Economy Did.

Boston Herald. In Castleton, Vt., there is a clergyman who was employed nearly fifty years on a salary ranging from $250 to $1,000 a year. Forty years ago hiB family consisted of himself, wife and four children, all supported on a compensation of $300 a year, with not a yard of carpeting or a stove in the house. Now he is living a retired life, with 250 yards of carpeting and four stoves on the floors of his dwelling, all of the most approved patterns of the present day. Besides that, he has a son in Massachusetts, one in New Hampshire, one in Pennsylvania, one in Oregou, one in Wisconsin, two in the state of New York and a son-in-law in Castleton.

How Mr. Schenck Played Poker. Oath In New York Tribune. A game of poker played some years ago between Gen. Schenck and a Mr. De Graff, of Dayton, is thus described: My informant saw Schenck's hand all the way through. He drew an ace and

raised and bet $10. De .01^ railed it to$100. "Gambling, are you?' said Schenck. "I'll bet you |600."—continuing to draw. He drew flush, or handful of spades. De Graff bet $500 more. Schenck raised, it again $500. 'Til take your money," said De Graff showing three jacks. "Some day or other you may, said Schenck, presenting his flush "but not till you can play this game."

Fan for the Divas.

San Francisco Argonaut. Nilsson is a person of no^great sense of humor, and cannot perceive the comical side of the constant interviewing she is subjected to on her travels. Mrs. Raymond (Annie Louise Cary) considered it an excellent joke when a Pittsburg cremation society offered to cremate her for nothing if she would sing for the benefit of a fund to erect a furnace, and refused with a chuckle the certificate entitling her to free cremation but Nilsson would have been ill by such an incident. Marie Rose says she never enjoyed herself more than when the boxes containing the music got lost in an Arkansas snow storm, and they had to give "Carmen" with such,act libitum accompaniments as the members of the orchestra thought appropriate. But Nilsson would have taken to her bed at the suggestion of singing under such circumstances

A Long, Gtimmy Kiss.

Cleveland,O., November 10.—Rosie Drury sued her brother-in-law, Jacob Sclinoberger, a well-known letter-car-rier, and his wife for $5,000 damages for alleged alienation of her husband's affections by her sister, Mrs. Schnoberger. The trial began to-day. Rosie testified that she followed her husband to Schnoberger's house, and that "Mrs. Schnoberger went over and sat on his knee and put her arms around his neck. He kissed her and she kissed hiin in return. It was a long, gummy kind of a kiss. I rushed in and my sister jumped up. I told them that was a nice wav to act, and she said that I had the same right to kiss her husband. I told George to come home and he wouldn't." The case is attracting considerable attention. i,.«r

Armless, But Not Harmless. Morgan Argonaut. Mr. J. R. Hollis, of Duffau, Erath county, Tex., lost both arms several years ago in a molasses mill. There is a stub protruding from each shoulder about eight inches in length. By placing a pen between his right stub and chin he can write better than the average business man. He can handle a pistol in a lively way, and needs no assistance in putting on or off his clothes. To suit his convenience be wears high top boots, so that he can lean over and catch the straps between his teeth. He thus pulls his boots on without any visible exertion. He says he can do anything that an ordinary man can, and, judging from what we saw him accomplish, we do not doubt it.

POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.

OAio* No. SO South Sixth Street OFFICE HOURS. Geueral Delivery from 7:80 a. m. nntl

R.. way stations. 6^0a. m. Rockvlllc, liidiaua, through poucli. 3:40 p. m.

Nirtli'n

deuce of apidM, paid bis*ante,

•lit

Large

-v?

Department, (rom

7:00 p. m. Lobby and Stamp 7:30 a. m. until 8:00 p. m.

Money Order and Registry office, from 8:00a. in. until o.tWp. m. On Sunday the office Is open from 9:00 a. m. until 10 o'clock a. m. No Money Order or Kegiater business transacted on Bundays.

MAILS CLOSB. EAST.

Indianapolis and 12. night 12 noon through East 1:45 p. m. 3:40 p. r. H. & I. Railroad, 1

6:00 a. m. 1:48 p.

tti

way station I. & St. L. R. R. way station. 12, night 3:40 p. Toledo, Wabash A

Western, east of Danville, 111. 11:30 p. m. WEST. dt. Louis nd 12, night 9 40 a. m. through West. 10*0 a. m. 1:45 p. in Van. R. R. way sta. 9:40 a. m. 1:45 p.

I & St. L. R. R. way station 10:00 a. m. 111. midland way sta. 6il)p a. in. Toledo, Wabash A -s

Wes'n, westofDanvllle. 111. 11:30 p. m. Charleston, Illinois, (through pouch,) 12, night. Mattoon, Illinois, 'i (through pouch,) 12, night. 1'aris, Ills., (through pouch,) 6:U0 ni.

NORTH.

Chicago, Illinois, 6«0 a. m. 1:45 p.m 11:30 p. m. Clii. & Eastern 111.

R. R., way stations, 6:00a. m. Danville, III. th'rongn poucn 11:30.p. m. T. H. & liogausport K.

in. il :.fi

Intl. nortli'n) 12, night,

Ohio, Mich. A Ca. (1:45 p. ui.SOUTH. (Svausvllle and stations on T. il. A E.

K. R. iliKUt 2:80 |i. WortUlugl-on and stations on'l'. a. A

S.E.U.R. 6:00 a. in. HACK LINKS. Pralrieton, Prairie

Creek, Grays vllle and Fairbauks Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: 7 :Wi a. m, Nelson, Ind., Tuesday and .Saturday 1:00 p.

CITY DELIVERY.

The Carriers leave the Office for delivery and collection, over the entire city, 7:00 a. in. and 1:30 p. m. Over tho business portion of the City: 7 a. n., 11 a. in., 2:00 p. m., 8:30 p. m. and 9 p. m.

The mall is collected from Street Letter Boxea ou Main street, from First to twelfth streets, north on Fourth to Cherry, couth on Fourth to Walnut and south rtn First to Poplar, and on Ohio between {firstfind Fifth, every week day between 1 and tf a. m., between 9 and 10 a. m. between 12 and 1 p. m. and between 7:30 and s:20 p. m. All other boxes are collected twice a day. between the hours of 7KB and 10 a. in., aud between 1:30 and 3:30 p. m.

Ou .Sunday the Post Office is open from to I'.' o'clock a. m., and persons desiring their mail can call at the window designated by the number of their carrier.

Sunday collections over the entire city *re made between 4:30 and 5410 p. m., and .ivain in the business part of the city be-CTS-een 7:30 and 8 o'clock, p. m.

J. O. JONE8. P. M.

J. F. McCANDLESS,

Dealer In all grades of hard aud soft coal,

BRAZIL BLOCK, BLOCK NUT,

BITUMINOUS

and

O A

WOOD A SI) (JOKE.

Office,18 and

South Third Street

(Telephone Connection.)

FARMERS, ATTENTION! SAVE Your Feed.

FEED STEAMER,

Jast the thing for Farmers or Dairymen.

R0MAIN & DAILY FEED STEAMER

can be seen at Fonts A Hunter's livery •table, or at corner of Seventh and Poplar streets. It win save you mou«*y—call ana •eet It. A. B. WlliLIS, f23 North Seventh St.

STAR LAUNDRY,

NO. 077 1-2 MAIN STREET.

Shirt,Collars,I'nlTs

L#CE

DBALBB IB AT.T.

BRAZIL BLOCK, BLOCK NUT, AND BITUMINOUS

IICfltEIMI

aCl

Cirtain,

DONE UP EQUAL TO MKW.

it I UuUef .and thtmOf WMfcUfa tttea*

WE STILL HATE SOME OF THAT CHOICE

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Ranches,

Well Improved Farms,

Finely Selected Sections

BARGAINS FOB CAPITALISTS.

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10 BEN" BLANCH ARD

630 Main Street, Terre Haute, Indiana.

DON'T FAIL TO VISIT

Fisher'sBargainStores.

We show the largest, best selected, most varied and complete stock of

Boots, Shoes, Furniture, Stoves and Queensware,

In the city. We have just received our second shipment of 10,000 pairs of Boots, Shoes and Slippers. If you contemplate purchasing goc^.-i in any of the above lines you should visit our

MAMMOTH ESTABLISHMENT

^.BBTOIUD BtrsriNC* blsewhere.

J. K. FISHER, 325,327 & 329

VllvS tl

W.B.OLITT.

J. H. WILLIAMS,

CLIPT, WILLIAMS & CO.,

JtAHUFAGTOMtfg OF

SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, &c.

AHO OlAiiBBSOr

Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glass, Paints, Oils and Builders' Hardware.

KULBBBBY STBBBT. COB. BlIfTB., TBBBB HAUTE, IND,

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ALL ORDERS OF 25 CENTS AND UPWARDS

Machinery Power, Cast and Wrought Iron Work,

I I REPAIRING PROMPTLT ATTENDED TO fj: 218 to 285 North Ninth Street, Near Union Depot, Terre Haul*- Ind

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

JACOB 1). EARLY, I Attorney at Law,^ KOOM13, BEACH BLOCK,

Terre XXa.u.t«, Ind.

I.H.C.ROY8E,

Attorney at Law

No.5031-2

MAIN STREET.

H. L. BARTHOLOMEW* W. H. 1ALL.

BARTHOLOMEW & HALL Dentists.

OFFICE:—Southwe«t corner Sixth and Ohio streets, over BaVlngR Bank. Entrance on Ohio street.

?AN VTLZAH,

Dentists

1 "V*

Office,S.W. Cor. Fifth

and

Sts.,

Mtin

KNTRANCKON FIFTH BTBKKT.

Communication by telephone. Nitrone Oxide Gas administered.

Dr. W. C. Eiehelberger,

OCULIST

SAVE YOUR EYES I

urn

Terre Hiate, ladiaai,'Efr frtrmry. R. D. HaLIT,of N. y., late of Trenton, Mo. and J. E. duitbab, of 8U LonJf, late of Winchester, Mo., Proprietor*.

WiU treat all diseases of the eye tenders free of charge If ample satisfaction not given. Office and rooms, 129 South Third street, opposite St. Charles Hotel, where one of ns can be consulted at all hour*

plemenU, west side Public Square Hiram FonlU, tcrooer. Cor. Flrat an^ lla^n, ,.

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Boatli rtftb StrMt,

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p*jri uknaiiv^r easwlT clothing.

T. J. PATTOH &

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*,, Southdown Mnttonand bunb.

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Men's Sewed Brogans,

Maiu

St.

J. Jt. CLIFT

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A. C. COMBS,

RCCCMROK TO COMBS KOGKRg.

OBADB8 OV

HARD AND SOFT COAL,

OFFICE, lit SOOTH THIRD STSFJCT, at 8T. CHARLES HOTkL (Telephone fconnection.) TERKK HAU1K, 1M'

PHDLX FOMY 3 MACHINE WORKS

ESTABLISHED, 1866. INCORPORATED, 1875).

,,ni MBnufaetarers and Dealer* in Everything Relating to

A.X

WOOD AND COKE.ls^VV^R^

PROMPTLY FILLED.

$1.25.

Men's Fine Sewed Button,

as#*

ii-f '3 fS-x

Women's

$2.00

Men's Calf Boots,$2.50. Men's Kip Boots,$2.00 Boy's Brogans,50 Boy's Kip Boots,$1.50.Centc Women'sFine

$1.50.

Buttoned Shoes

Lace Shoes,$1.00.

Misses' Fine Button Shoes,$1.00.

All goods are Harked Down to Make a Clean Sweep, to Clo^e llusiuesH. We don't Brag or Blow but will substantiate all we advertise, so coine along and bring your families, we can save you front Z5 cent* to 11.00on a pair of Boots.

Goods Warranted as Represented Money Refnnded. 1

Fours Truly,,

Daniel

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and

Reibold,

Cor. Third

AURIST,

Is®:

Room IS, Barfngt Bank Boildlnff rERKE HAUTE, INDIANA. iillt

Onici Houss:—9 to 13 a. m., and from 3 to 6 p. m.

and

Main

Sts.,

TERRE HAUTE, IND

CHOICE

GROCERIES

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-AND-

Fresh Country Produce,

J. F. ROEDEL

K. E. Cor. of First find Ohio Sts.

SKJ1Pi It'

N. S. WHEAT

WOW REMOVED TO HI8 OWN COAL OFFICE, BUILT AT

•S3 East Maiu Street.

There is a telephone connected withthe office, and he IK prepared to furnish coal of all kinds as low a» the lowest, and of the best quality. His old former friends, and aa many hew ones, are cordially Invited to call andket prices which he aatlsfled will be satisfactory.

REMOVAL!

MRS. R. K. CHILTON

B*amovedhef stock of

MILLINERY GOODS,

f» §0$ Stain Street* BuUnan BtotV,

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