Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 December 1883 — Page 4

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Gossip About the Art Society and Charity Organizations at the State Capital.

Special Correspondence of the Express. INDIANAPOWS, Ind., December 7.— The Art-Loan Exhibition closed a very successful month -with a promenade concert on Thanksgiving night. The rooms were thronged the entire afternoon and evening by the elite and fashion of the city, who appeared in their handsomest toilettes t6 do honor to the occasion. While the collection was rich in paintings, crayons, etchings and engravings, a noticeable feature was the absence of sculpture, of which there were only a few specimens, borrowed from a well-known bric-a-brac dealer, in whose window they had grown to be as familiar to the public as the sign above his doors. This was a great disappointment to admirers of the life-like marble, but while there are dozens of fine pictures to be found in the wealthy homes of Hoosierdom, it is rarely that a fine statue is seen. Hoosier taste in that direction running to flower girls with rubber doll features, ample drapery and feet like a market woman's varied by an occasional bust of Shakspere or Dickens if the owner isliterary, or Mendelsohn, if he is musical, tucked up on the bookcase, and a dusty as their illustroua originals are by this time..

The Charity Organization society which exercises a sort of parental authority over the various benevolent associations of the city, held its annual meeting at English's Opera house last Sunday night. A number of distinguished speakers were present, among them John B. Gough, Rabbi Sonneschein, of St. Louis, and H. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati. Mr. Gough has lost none of his old time fire and vigor although his hair and beard are snowy. The dramatic interest with which he invests his stock of anecdotes, which is his only stock in trade as a lecturer, is unfailing. In the course of

remarks he told us of his own

youth, passed in the hardest, griping poverty, and we could well understand his interest in all charities of whatever nature they may be. There were few dry eyes in the audience.as he told how his mother, having died of apoplexy, his sister, a girl of seventeen, and himself a lad two years her junior, were put to their wits' ends to find means for her burial, and at last, while he was out seeking a coffin for her remains, the authorities took the corpse off in a cart, and buried it without psalm or prayer, because the weather was too warm to permit delay, while his legs were put to the test to reach the grave in timo to ooo tHo dear est friend of his life put beneath the sod. While there is a degree of poverty which awakens and keeps alive the best part of human nature, and sharpens the faculties to the finest degree, there is also a phase which stultifies and dwarfs the soul, and I could not but wonder at and admire the will power and elasticity of spirit that could surmount such obstacles, and triumph in the midst of overwhelming discouragements.

In the different ward schools contri buttons of clothing, provisions and toys were received from the scholars during the week before Thanksgiving for the orphan asylums and kindergartens, and in many cases the donations were accompanied by letters from the children full of childish cheer and comfort for the tiny recipients of their bounty. This week the Flower Mission ladies are having a German village at Lyra hall, at which one can buy anything from a pound of lard to the daintiest article of bric-a-brac. To add piquancy and beauty to the scene, the ladies themselves are attired in the costumes of the country. Each evening an entertainment of a musical nature in furnished, and on Saturday afternoon and evening Professor Morris and his trained dogs will give an performance for the children. All the Protestant churches of the city unite in the work, and large sums are realized annually from these fairs for the support of one of the most beautiful of charities, namely, the distribution of fruits, flowers and dainty food to the sick and worthy poor and the maintenance and training of competent nurses, for the relief of those who are *nable to pay for such service.

The pedestal for the Morton monu nient has been placed in the Circle, and the loth of January has been fixed upon for the unveiling of the statue. The pedestal is a huge block of granite bearing the single word Morton on one face, the others being without inscription of any kind. The G. A. R. has made arrangements for the attendance of the various posts throughout the state, and Colonel R. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, has been selected as orator of the day.

Fashions in church entertainments aB well as fashions in religion are continually changing, and the much-re-viled oyster stew having ceased to be a drawing card, all sorts of devices are resorted to, to tempt the curiosity and the palate of the public. A novel entertainment was given by one of the Presbyterian churches here recently, in the shape of a "pumpkin social." The supper room was brilliantly? lighted bv jack-o'-lanterns, hung about in every available nook and corner, the bill-of-fare embraced among its attractions, the homely but palatable pumpkin pie, and the ladies and gentlemen of the supper committee were adorned respectively with boutonnieres and necklaces of the yellow seeds. The same chicken salad, and scalloped oysters, the same

1 sponge cake that "Deacon Jones' wife" made, that have been attending like entertainments since the Reformation, were all there, but =tiU was a novelty, and people eimUl sweetly at the new young men in coi i1'• •-Mtion, talked religion to t-h« and scandal behind th" relery, their quarters with dociliiv, aud voted the affair "too cute for anything." v: brings u** to

Talking of fashions f.ha subject of cloaks. The euterpris woalfte who will invent anew una

shapely garment that will keep out the wintry blasts without making the wearer look like a bale of hay trimmed in fur, or a mummy wrapped in sealskin, will earn the lasting gratitude of a suffering public. In the endless stream of promenaders that flows up and down Washington street on pleasant afternoon. Emily Maude, Maria Theresa and Harriet Matilda wear long plush sacques that "look exactly like seal skin" while plain Jane and Sallie array their sensible forms in Russian circulars, fur-lined or not according to their purse. A few slender demoiselles make candles of themselves in the new Langtry coat, with huge plush capes for extinguishers and still others display their handsome walking toilettes to good advantage with no wraps at all, suggesting consumption and early graves to the casual observer, and chamois-skin uuderjackets to the initialed. L'ut in all the various wraps there is very liUie bwiuty and lese grace and feminity is not so much interested in the coming woman, as it is in the wraps she will wear.

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VISIONARY.

Prof. Hosmrr Forward a Keuuloii. of ti laud. St. Louis KepuMl'.-au. "Shall Auicrira Look Forward to a Reunion with England?" was the novel title

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The display of oil paintings crayons by Indianapolis talent was very creditable indeed, although the number of stocky looking snowballs, vivid red roses, and pastoral scenes, wherein the cows in the foreground and the trees in the background look as though they were copied from the decoration of some old Egyptian tomb, might well have been diminished. A matter of fact visitor, looking at one of the latter, remarked to a companion, "Them's mighty lean looking cows there." "Bound to be, if they live off that medder," was the laconic reply, and looking at the broad expanse of burnt umber, dashed with green, one was bound to agree with him.

a kenne delivered at

Washington university last night, the concluding one of a series by Prof. J. K. Hosmer on eubjecis connected with American history and politics. The professor prefaced I life keture with a brief review

a new book entitled

"The Expansion of England," by Prof. Seelye, author of "Ecce Homo." In this volume Prof. Seelye wishes to obliterate all the preeout distinctions between England and her colonies in the manner of government. He would have them all under one representative government, "a great world Venice through which the sea shall flow, but uniting—not separating." A recent prophccy by Rev. F. Barho.n Zincke, chaplain to Queen Victoria, was also quoted. It is to the effect that 100 years from the present time there will be on earth one billion of English speaking people, and of these eight hundred millions will have their home in the United States, which will be the dominant power among the nations of English descent. It will be the head of and give character to the whole group of Anglo-Saxon nations that is to be. Our president will be the foremost man in this sisterhood of kindred nations, and the American farmer will be the prevailing type of citizen in all of them.

Taking for granted that there was considerable ground for this prophecy in the present tendency of affairs, the speaker asked if it would not be well for America to go back into a confederation with England and whnt are now her provinces, all the different sections to be united under the government of a sort of international congress. In this compact or union the United StateB as a whole would be "the empire state of the larger United States. "There were three reasons advanced in favor of the union. The flrst of these was a sentimental one, which was, "I a pleasant thing for kindred to come together," which argued for the reunion of the AngloSaxon kindred. The second reason was that it was a step toward that brotherhood of the nations which the benevolent are always anticipating. The third and most important was that AngloSaxons throughout the world needed to join hands in order to keep themselves firmly fixed to the old principles of freedom transmitted from their ancestors. In the course of the lecture a survey of the United States was taken, the conclusion being that the condition of the country with regard to genuine freedom was far from satisfactory. The "town meeting" which the professor denominates "the primordial cell*of Anglo-Saxon liberty has not been preserved in the purity and efficiency which characterized it in New England." in the country it is not in a healthy condition, and the city life it has almost disappeared. America can do something to more firmly establish her freedom by joining bands with a confederation to consist of England and her colonies. They need the help of America and America needs theirs.

A Duel Between Two Brothers. London Gcbo. Two brothers, sons of a prominent Russian family, were students at the best college in St. Petersburg, and on graduation became officers in the same crack regiment. The young men differed greatly in their mode of life from their comrades, and only seldom joined in the customary revelries of the jeuneute doree. Three years after leaving the regiment the elder brother married a young, beautiful girl of excellent family. Gradually, however, the newly-wedded pair became estranged in affection,

much so that

after three years of married life tbey occupied separate rooms. In the meaft time the younger brother fell in loTt with his sister-in-law. At flrst, the wife, surrounded by a host young of admirers, was not aware of the passion she had kindled in her brother-in-law's heart, but soon she, in turn, experienced toward her adorer a love so passionate that she was unable to struggle against it. The young husband's jealousy was rightfully aroused. Terrible scenes ensued, followed by mutual recriminations, a challenge and finally a duel between the two brothers. The elder—the outraged husband —was woundei in the side the younger, who had wronged his brother, remained untouched by the latter's bullet. The last act of this life's drama, begun so tragically, was that of a farce. After the duel the wounded man was first brought into the city and then token abroad, where the combined care of his wife and brother snatched him from the jaws of death. Out of gratitude for this he allowed his wife to secure a divorce from him, taking all the blame on his shoulders. This she did, and then married her lover.

The Real Vienna Bread. Notes and Queries. Viennese bread is celebrated. It may interest you to know something about it. The excellence of the bread is attributed in Vienna to three reasons—the oven, the men and the yeast I ttiink another may be added, and that is the dry climate. An ounce of yeast (three decagrammes! and as much salt is taken for every gallon (one litre) of milk used for the dough. The yeast is a Viennese specialty, known as the"St. MarxnerPressheffe," and its composition is a secret. It keeps two days in summer and a little longer in winter.

The ovens are heated by wood fires lit inside them during four hours the ashes are then raked out and the oven is carefully wiped with wisps and damp straw. On the vapor thus generated, as well as that produced by the baking of the dough, lies the art of the

browning and the success of the "sem-

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Twenty-four O'clock.

Charleston Courier. The train for New York on the Northeastern railroad now leaves Charleston at 24:65 o'clock, according to the time table. The north bound tialn from Jacksonville leaves that city at 13:30, and arrives at Savannan at 1!:30. The train for Charleston leaves Savannah at lite railroad •gency at the Charleston hotel is now run on this new series of hours, and has kept up with tue praefssioa hj cutting out twelve new couples of figures so as to make the old timept«c« do the double duty repaired of it

'THE STAGE WAITS.'

From Belgr&via. "I will drink the toast," said M. Grattin. 'Our notable professor, the lyric art.' I have no great fancy to your gin, but I will drink the toast in the liquor of your country." He was on his legs at this time, and bowed forward right and left before he drank so as to include all the company under his condescendingcompliancein pledging the art to which »he belonged in a product of England. "Hear, hear, hear!" cried several veices cheerfully. The Frenchman emptied his glass and sat down with a look of profound satisfaction.

They were all men present (a dozen), and they all appeared in the verv best humor and spirits. They were seated in tho dining-room of James YValford, a professional singer, and the occasion of the meeting was to commemorate Walford's signature to an agreement with the lessee of the Cremonia theater. A few days 8go the document was duly completed. Walford was to have £20 a week, the largest salary he had yet reached, and was to create the leading tenor part in a new comic opera. To be sure the Cremona was uoi a first class theater, but Walford was glad to get a leading part anywhere, and £20 a week was a great advance upon £10, which he had formerly been earning in.a subordinata part.

Walford himself was hardly as glad as his friends, for he was the best natured, best tempered, kindest hearted tenor that ever lived, and all his friends wished him well. There were other reasons also which made thoee who liked him glad of his success. A few months ago ho had lost a .yonng wife to whom he was devotedly attached, and he was left a widower with an only child, a boy four years old. Now that his wife was gone, this boy was the very apple of his eye. He took the child with him wheresoever he might, and when he came home, whether it was early or late, his first care was to visit his boy. Those who knew him best said it was well he had the child to centre his affections on, for otherwise they feared that his reason might give way.

He was not one of those who wear their hearts upon their sleeves. He was made of stubborn stuff. But then all knew that when he married his late wife he had given her the love of his whole nature and that the very quietness of his manner upon her death meant a stubborn nature terribly controlled. To one or two of his most intimate friends he had said confidentially that if anything happened to his boy he should not care to live.

One of the pleantest things in connection with the recent social meeting was that M. Grattin had come and shown himself most cordial and agreeable. Every one regarded this as exceedingly good on his part, for it was known to all that the choice of a tenor for the Cremona Theatre was between him and Walford. Thus he had come, as it were, to signalize the triumph of his rival over himself.

M. Grattin was a man of medium height, black haired, sallow, with darkbrown eyes, a slightly acquiline nose, and good figure. His manners were refined and gentlemanly-like, and the only objection Englishmen found to him was that he seemed to be anxious to show elaborate fcindness in small things at the expense of sincerity in greater. Thus it happened that although the men present in Albany Lodge, Canonbury, that night greeted his arrival enthusiastically, and told him he was a good fallow for coming, next morning, when they thought more quietly over the matter, they agreed it was only what was to be expected from so polite and courteous a man.

It was but natural that, under the circumstances of the death of Walford's wife, his curly-headed little boy Freddy should be made much of by the Bohemian friends of his father. For a time no one came to the house without bringing him some little toy or sweetstuffs, and if the bov had not

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She was now at least sixty years of age, and of course nothing like as ac tive as she had once been. But he knew he could rely on her to do justice to his boy, and that was the great consideration in his hgart then. When she came to stay with him he said to her with all the earnestness he was capable of: "Martha, 1 am not particular about the house I shall not want you to do much for myself. If you will just keep the little place tidy and get me something simple to eat and drink when I want it I shall be quite content. But am particular about the boy. You must not let him get into harm of any kind. He is all I now have in the world, and if any great barm came to him I should break my heart."

The old woman promised, and kept her promise faithfully during the time Bhe had been with him.

At last the great night was at hand. Walford was full of spirits and confidence. The rehearsals had been most satisfactory. Everybody connected with the theatre bad complimented him upon his singing and acting in the part, and the whole company were in the very best of humor, for the belief was general that the opera would run a hundred nights at least.

It was a dreary, cold, damp, disheartening eveninir when Walford prepared to leave Ins home for the theatre. Some months ago, when his wife died, he had had an engagement, but it was now two months since his latest appearance in public. "Now, Martha," said he, on leaving, "you'll be king of the castle while I'm away. I shall not be back till past midnight You need not sit up for me. I shall get my supper in town. It's time now, isn't it, for Freddy to go to bed He took the boy in his arms and kissed him fondly and stroked his brown curls and called him his Fred, his little men, his fine boy. Then added: "I think, Martha, in honor of the occasion I must give Freddy a shilling."

The boy clapped his hands with delight and laughed. He never had had a whole shilling before. Pennies, of course, often came his way, and although he had no definite idea of the purchasing powers of a shilling, he knew they were much greater than those of a penny.

The father banded the boy the shilling, and having kissed him again long and lingeringly, rose with a sigh and said to Martha: "You'll take care he gets into no trouble while I'm away. The safest place for him is in bed.- Put

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good soul. She promised to do so and he left the house, got into an omnibus and made his way as quickly as possible to the Cremona.

Here all was bustle and excitement Every one who was any one was in front By the time he had dressed he was told that the honse was filled cramful from top to bottom, and that from t£e parts where it was impossible to book seats they had been turning money away. Everv one behind was in the best of giod humor and he himself felt more elated than on any oiii"i occasion since his w. fe's death.

If this piece were a hit, and he a auccf-ss in it, his upward progress in his profession won Id be *ert#in. He should not only b» able to live |a com-

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a Very good disposition and a gay atuTTftat it "ofre co-mo to

fort, but to eive up money for his boy, and for a time when that most delicate of all properties, a tenor's voice, ceased to have a market value. He still lacked of thirty, and with care he might calculate on twenty years lease of his voice. Supposing his voice lasted twenty years, and this opera gave him a command of the market in those twenty years he could Bave enough money to insure hiB old age against want and to provide handsomely for his boy.

He aid not come on very early in the first act. He felt in no way nervous. He never had been in_ better voice, and the part suited him perfectly. What more could any tenor desire?

This was of course an under-study on his part. M. Grattin was the under-study, and singular to Bay, he did not arrive in the theatre before the curtain went up. This was grossly improper. For supposing any accident had happened to Walford, there would bave been barely time for Grattin to dress and make up from the moment the bell rang until the leading tenor was required on the stage. Grattin had belonged to this Cremona Company for a considerable time, and during that time had always sung second or third tenor parts. He had been paid eight guineas a week, and for awhile there had floated before him the hope that he might be promoted to a front place with a salary of £20. This hope had been dispelled when Walford got the engagement, aud now he, Grattin, had no part at all, and no chance of an appearance during the present run, unless Walford broke down.

Just as the curtain was rung Up there was a great commotion behind. Grattin had arrived in a state of the highest excitement, and there were sounds of consternation and dismay from the men's dressing-room. Before the curtain had been up a couple of minutes the opera was stopped, and the manager stepped forward to explain that owing to a sad calamity, news of which had reached the theater but that very moment, Mr. Walford would not be able to appear that evening. In the face of such a misfortune, M. Grattin, with whom they had so long been favorably familiar had kindly consented to sing the part.

The manager said more, but this is all that is material. The audience were docile, and accepted the situation without a murmur.

What had occurred behind was this: Grattin had, in a state of the wildest excitement, rushed into the men's dressing-room and announced that Albany Lodge was on fire, and there was reason to suppose the boy bad perish ed in the flames. He explained that, what must have been from three-quar-ters of an hour to an hour after ford left his home, he (Grattin) was passing by with the intention of calllug for his friend, when he found a crowd around his house and flames bursting through the windows. He learnd from the police that from the first alarm it was impossible to enter the house. Hence their fear that the boy ard possibly the old woman had perished.

In the face of such horrible events it was clearly impossible for Walford to sing. Grattin bad taken a hansom the whole way down for the sake of speed. The best way for Walford to do was to take a hansom back and let Grattin go through the part. So said every one. And one of the good-natured members of the company, who had nothing to do that night, volunteered to accompany him. So 'the poor father, assisted by those around nim, took off the gay trappings of the stage and resumed the garb of everyday life and went off mutely with his friend to the scene of desolation.

When he got there the house was all ablaze, and he was assured that nothing could be done until morning.

Had anything been heard or seen of his boy? No, nothing. Had anything been seen of Martha? Yes, she li#d come back and her story was a strange one. It ran as follows:

Very shortly after her master had left the house and just as she had put the boy to bed, a knock came at the side door. She went down, leaving the paraffine oil lamp burning on the table close to the Ded. She found at the door a ragged little boy, who handed her a note. It was to the effect

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airy manner, which made him take the' gifts with the laughter and delight rather than the gravity of greed, be would have run a fair chance of being hopelessly spoiled.

Albany Lodge was a much more modest house than one might suppose from the name. For, taking the times he had engagements with the times he had not, Walford could not, hitherto count on earning much more than £300 a year. During his wife's time she had had a general servant for the house, while she herself looked after the boy. But upon the death of his wife, Walford having no woman relative who could take her place, dismissed the general servant aud hunted up his old nurse, Martha Grace.

public house tne writer would tell her something which would be greatly to her advantage and to the advantage of her master. She did not like the notion of leaving the bouse. In the first place, her instructions about the boy were clear. In the second place, the fastenings of the house were not satisfactory. The spring lock on the side door little better than touched the hasp, and, as tho master himself knew, a strong push was sufficient to open that door from the outside, ex' cept when it was bolted within.

For along time the woman hesitated. Then, thinking there really might be some advantage to herself and her master behind thenote, she resolved to risk going. Before leaving she went upstairs, and lest the boy should feel lonely—she had bsen accustomed to sit with him while he went to sleep— she told him she would leave the lamp alight on the condition that he lay still and did not get out of bed while she was away. The boy promised and she went

At the public house indicated she found a stout, slatternly woman, who appeared to be the worse for drink. The woman said she was the writer of the note, and then, to Martha Grace's ho.rror, assured the faithful old servant that she had no intention whatever of benefitting the master of Albany Lodge, but that her design was that Martha, being in a position of confidence, as she Vas informed, should gradually pillage that house that she, the strange woman, would dispose of the goods, and that they two should divide the money between them.

Martha broke away from that wretch indignantly, and hurried back with all speed to the house. She had been more than half an hour absent, and when she got back the place was in flames, and all possibility of getting at tho room where she had left the boy was over. No doubt the child had got out of bed, and while playing with th lamp it fell and fired tne house.

There was nothing for the discon solate father to do but to wait through the dreary watches of that desolate, dim night, looking at the uncertain flicker of the gradually dying fire.

With morning came the possibility of search. Then the remains of the lamp were found, but no trace whatever of the boy. This puzzled people skilled in fires. They owned they could make nothing of it. They could trace portions of the bedding and the floor, but nothing whatever that spoke of the presence of a human being. Walford urged the searchers to renew their quest. Again in vain. Absolutely nothing belonging to the boy was found, except, strangely enough, some buttons which were known to belong to his clothes, and a shilling. Both the father and the nurse agreed that there could not possibly have been any other coin in that room than the one given by the father to his son the evening before. The coin too, was found in a place close beside the iron bedstead which would roughly coprespond with where the nurse had put his clothes. What mystery upon mysteries were these?

Even now, although it was 9 o'clock in the morning, Walford refused to leave the ruins, and his friend, who had stayed with him loyally all the time, set off in search of some refreshment. He came back very shortly, and, preoccupied as Walford was, he could not but see that some new and startling Burprise had overtaken bis friend. He asked hastily what it was. "I don't thing ought to tell you, Walford, but if I don't some one else will in a few minutes. There was a bad breakdown at Cremonia last night"

I know there was, and I was the cause of it," said Walford, sadly. "But who can blame me Look at this. Where is my boy?" 'I don't mean you, Walford, but Grattin. He fell on the stage in a fainting fit and the opera had tobestopped. They sav he's set Uitsaly ill. In fact, the doctors ink he can't reoorer. The papers esv there's something wrong with hi* heart."

I am very sorry to hear it," said Walford. "Poor Grattin! The sight of the house in flames, and the knowledge that my little one had perished, and then having to dress and go out in a comic part, was too much for him."

While the two men were speaking a third man came up and said: "The rolice tell me one of you is Mr. Wal:ord. I have a note for Mr. Walford."

When the owner of the burned house had read it he turned to his companion and faid: "It is from

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Gratin. He asks me to come to im once for God's sake, or he may never see me a&in. He lives quite close. I will n« be half an hour. Wait for me."

Walford found Grattin exhausted but able to speak fluently. "The doctor tells me 1 may go any moment. I will not waste a" word. I have been nnconcious until just now. I want wou to forgive me if you can—if you will. I was jealoas of you. I made up my mind to destroy you if I could. The whole plot was mine. I got a woman to decoy y£ur servant away. I set lire to your house—" "And the boy—the boy whispered the father, pale a* death. "Is sleeping there." He pointed to a door leading off-the room in which be lay. "I used chloroform on a bandkerchief with him, and then brought him here. He is tefe. Open the doorand look. I shall ntver sing the part. I had a better voice than you, but I wasn't as good a man. Forgive me, and let me die ih peace with all on earth, since there is no hope of my gaining peace hereafter. I have earned damnation, bat did not kill the boy. Mercy! mercy! femes Walford! Is it not sweet enough to your ears this morning to take away your anger? That is the call-boy. "Monsieur Grattin, the stage waite.' Ready."

And with -this Word Monsier Grattin answered his laafccall. gm SS

The Washington Monument. Correspondence BaHlmor# San, Dee. t. The monument: last Monday reached a height of 410 feet. With all of its enormous weight it is but the sixty-fourth of an inch—the thickness of a sheet of stout writing paper—out of plumb. Our party went up in eight minutes from the base to the top in an Otis elevator, taking up two of Hugh Sisson's marble blocks for the last course of stone laid this season. It was a tremulous ascent up the dark marble alley with those heavy stones, the elevator quivered as it went along, and ss it reached sunlight at the top, audible breathing indicated that relief from the suspense was a boon to most of the party. The ascent could have been made by stairs which are con structed along the inner walls to the

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Aftinnd the mohument at the present height are swung excellently contrived hempen hammocks from all four sides,

in case of a fall no dan

ger would ensue to the workmen. These tumbles are not dreaded, and are said to be frequent. A week since a Baltimore beauty so dazed a workman that in lifting his cap and stepping back to let her pass he fell over, and in the hammock, 400 feet above terra flrma, continued his admiring gaze with his cap still in hand. The superintendent says that in five years the most serious accident has not been more than a mashed finger among his ma sons and laborers. The height now to go is 145 feet. The base of the upper platform will commence when 500 feet is reached. This will be ail high as the visitor can go. The interior of the monument is twenty-five feet square, which continues to a height of 150 feet Its dimensions are then increased to 31 5-12 feet by the width of the walls being reduced from that point to the top the inner walls have a batter or slope of one-fourth inch to the foot until they will reach 500 feet

As before said, the ascent is made by an elevator, one of the Otis patent. It has a carrying strength of seventyfive tons, and the wire cables would break only at a test of 150 tons. Even

rertatn {-with *.-b*eniMke safeguards are such as. would prevent a fall of over ten inches, Yet the superintendent says he has fiequently had to stop, return and put men off, whose fears were such as to compel relief. He added he never knew a L.dy to be unnerved in that direction.

Origin of Poplar Phrases. [Written for the Globe-Democrat.] Swash Buckler.—A very old term ap plied to a riotous, quarrelsome person. Its origin can not be traced. In the afterpiece by that title, written in 1298, Nash says to Gabriel Harvey: Turpee senex mites, 'tis time for such an old fool to leave playing the swash-buck-ler.

Nine TaUort Make a Man.—A toll of a bell is called a "teller," and at the death of a man the death-bell used to be tolled thrice three times. "Nine tailors mark a man," became perverted in "Nine tailors make a man." Other origins of this proverbialism are given, but the above is accepted as the most reasonable one yet ascribed

Tale of a Tub.—A comedy by Ben Jonson, published in 1618. This was the last comedy brought out by him on the stage the first was "Every Man in His Humor" (1598). Sir Walter Scott says of the comedy in question: "In the Tale of a Tub he (Ben Johnson) follows the path of Aristophanes, and lets his wit run into lowbuffonery that he might bring upon the stage Inigo Jones, his personal enemy." "Tale of a Tub" is also the title of a religious satire by Dean Swift (1704). Its object is to ridicule the Roman Catholics under the name of Peter, and the Presbyterians under the name of Jack (Calvin). The Church of England is represented by Martin (Luther). "Gulliver's Travels" and the "Tale of a Tub" must ever be the chief cor-ner-stones of Swift's fame.—[Chambers' English Literature.

He WUl Never Set the Thames on Fire. —A "temse" or sieve might be set on fire if worked very swiftly over the wooden receiver, but not by an idle or incompetent workman. Hence the proverb, which has, through similarity of sound, been taken to apply to the River Thames.

May Tickle tBe Judge.

Proceedings of the Lime Kiln Club. Waydown Bebee offered the following:

Resolved, Dat die Lime-Kiln Club, as de representative of 5,00,000 cul'a peopl, am much obleeged to Justice Harlan fur his sound, solid an' car'fullv prepar'd diesentin' opinyun in de Civil Right case. "While de resolshun won't do any pertickler good," replied Brother Gardner, "I can't see as it will do any barm, an' it may possibly tickle de judge. Darfo' we will consider it adopted by a large majority."

The Philadelphia Clnbs. Philadelphia Times. Many members of the old gangs of toughs bave died out, but where one has gone out of existence a dozen bave sprung up. The worst tribes in the city ara the Hyenas, Schuylkill Rangers, Wild Roses, Solid Sevens, White Fawns, Merry Sixes, Dirty Dozens, Flatirous, Blue Pigs, Reading Hose, Forty Thieves, Schulkill Wbari Rats, Long Nines, Bloody Hundreds, Hounds, Mackerels, Downs, Dippere, Happy Cats, and Tommy Dodds

The Boy and the Cigarette. New York World. A email boy named John Mara was picked up in Hoboken by the police the other evening. He was lying in the street unconscious. Upon investigation it was found that he was suffering from nicotine poisoning, the result of an over-indulgence in cigarettM. The hig boys seem to stand it better, but they vrili be brought ciowu in dc# Mae. The cigarette "tuir* shot."

SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16,1883.

How Professional* Train Themielve* for These Daring Feat*. La Nature.

When a physician introduces his finger, the handle of a spoon, or a pencil into the throat of a patient, the latter experience an extremely disagreeable sensation. Any torching, however slight it may be, of the pharynx causes strangling, pain, and nausea, and the organ reacts with violence against the obstacle that presents itself to free respiration. There is no one who has not more than once experienced the disagreeable impression, and for this reason we are justly surprised when we meet with people who seem to be proof against it, and who, for example, introduce into their pharynx large, solid, and stiff objects like Bword blades, and cause these to penetrate to a deptn that seems incredible. It is experiments of this kind that constitute the tricks of sword-swallowers.

These experiments are nearly always the same. The individual comes out dressed in a brilliant costume. At one side of him there are flags of different nationalities surrounding a panoply of sabers, swords, and yataguns, and at the other a stack of guns, provided with bayonets. Taking a flat saber, whose blade and hilt have been cut out of the same sheet of metal, the blade being from 55 to 00 centimeters in length, he introduces its extremity into his throat, taps the hilt gently, and the blade at length disappears. He then repeats the experiment in swallowing the blade at a single gulp. Subsequently, after swallowing and disgorging two of these same swords, he causes one to penetrate up to its guard, a second not quite so far, a third a little less stili, and a fourth up to about hall Its length.

Pressing, now, on the hilts, he swallows the four blades at a gulp and then he takes them out leisurely, one by one. The effect is quite surprising. After swallowing several different swords and sabers, be takes an old musket, armed with a triangular bayonet, and Bwallows the latter, the gun remaining vertical over his head. Finally, he borrows a large saber from a dragoon who is present for the purpose, and causes two-thirds of it to disappear. As a trick, on being encored, the

Bword-swallower

borrows a cane

from a person in the audience and swallows it almost entirely. A certain number of spectators usually think that the performer produces an illusion through the aid of some trick, and that it is impossible to swal low a sword blade. But this is a mistake, for sword-swallowers who employ artifices are few in number and their experiments but slightly varied, while the majority really do" introduce into their mouth and food passage the blades that they cause to disappear, 'lhey attain th'is result as follows:

The back parts of the mouth, despite their sensitiveness and their rebellion against contact with solid bodies, are capable of becoming so changed through habit that they gradually get used to abnormal contacts. This fact is taken advantage of in medicine. It daily happens that persons afflicted with disorders of the throat or stomach can no longer swallow or take nourishment, and woulF die of exhaustion were tbey not fed artificially by means of the oesophageal tube. This latter is a vulcanized rubber tube which the patient swallows, after the manner of sword-swallowers, and through the extremity of which an aid introduces milk and bouillion. But the patient before being able to make daily use of this apparatus, must serve a genuine apprenticeship. The first introduction of the end of the tube into the pharynx is extremely painful, the second is a little less so, and it is only after a large number of trials, more or less prolonged, that the patient succeeds swallowing thirty or forty centimeters of the tubing without a disagreeable sensation.

The washing out. of the stomach, performed by means of a long, flexible tube, which the parient partially swallows, and with which he injects into and removes from his stomach a quantity of tepid water by raising the tube.pr,lettiij«,iLh»Dg aown^o.lornqi a siphon, likewise necessitates an apprenticeship of some days but the patient succeeds in accustoming his organs to contact with the tube, and is finally able, after a short time, to swallow the latter with indifference at least, if not satisfaction.

With these sword-swallowers it is absolutely the same for, with them, it is only as a consequence of repeated trial that the pharynx becomes sufficient accustomed to it to permit them to finally swallow objects as large and rigid as "swords, sabers, canes, and even billiard cues.

The Great Nelson's Hat,.

Notes and Queries. While Maclise was painting, in the Royal Gallery at Westminster the "In terview oi Wellington and Blucher" and the "Death of Nelson," I often stayed to gossip with the artist while he worked upon the walls. On one occasion he lamented that, having taken no end of pains to verify the costumes of his soldiers and sailors, he had never been able to get hold of a hat of Nelson's such as he wished to represent on or near the dying admiral in the latter design. Bearing in mind the costume of the effigy in question, which I had often studied, remembering that it included a cocked hat, and having no doubt that the whole suit had belonged to Nelson at the period of his death, I told Maclise that he had only to cross the street to secure what he coveted. "Why, in Heaven's name didn't you tell me so before?" cried he, jumpin up. "How could I know you wanUi it?" was the return query.

Instantly we set off. Maclise saw Dean Stanley, who caused the glass case of the effigy to be opened, and there, sure enough, we found not only the very thing the artist craved for, but the strongest presumptive evidence that the hat at least, if not, as was most probable, the entire suit which clothes the figure, had belonged toj and even been worn by, the ad miral. Grease and sweat-marks stain that part of the lining of the hat which had touched the wearer's head, except wliere the edge of the eye-patch attached to the inner rim of the lining had protected that lining. There the paten itself is soiled. The maker's name is inside the hat, as usual, together with the stamp acknowledging the payment of the tax on the garment. Maclise borrowed the hat and painted from it. .It was duly restored to the ffigy. I beg you will allow me to place on record this testimony of Maclise's honorable care in painting his noble pictures. Moreover, it is well the world should know that a very precious personal relic of Nelson is shut up with the "ragged regiment."

How they Got at the Wine. Correspondence of the .Philadelphia Record.

A friend of mine, who is very fond of good winest and used to have one of the finest wine cellars in the country, told me the other day that he had no cellar at all now, and that he kept no more wine on hand than he wanted for his daily use. I asked why this sudden change, and he said for the simple reason that his servants would drink all they could steal and it enraged him to have his Chateau Lafitte wasted on unappreciative palates. At the same time he told me of a friend of his who was famous for

work, and took a look at his wine shelves at the same time. What was his astonishment to find several dozen empty bottles lying there. He at once suspected the plumbers, bat was puzzled to know how they could nave got at the bottles, as none of the slats were broken. He went to the master plumber and said that he suspected his men of the raid because no one else had been in his cellars. The man was very indignant, and said his men had worked for him for years, and he knew that they were honest Nevertheless the gentleman was not convinced. Said he: "lam going to prosecute your men on suspicion, but I tell you this, if they will own up how they got at those bottles I will not go on with the case. My curiosity has got the better of my sense of justice." A day or so passed, and then one of the plumbers came and confessed that he and the others stole the wine. "Well, now, how did you do it?" "It was very easily done," said the man. "We lassoed the bottles by dropping a string with a noose down between the top slats, and dragged them up the front, pulled the necks through, drew the corks, and carried awav in other bottles what we didn't drink." Necessity is the mother of invention.

Eleven Watches on a Tree. Philadelphia Press. A Bon of George Glace, while out hunting two miles below Selinsgrove, Pa., at a place known as the "Narrows," treed a squirrel, and in enlarging the hole in order to secure the game came upon a hard substance which proved to be a silver watch. Cutting in deeper, he succeeded in taking out eleven of them. Some five years ago a jewelery store in 8unbury was robbed of a lot of watches, and it is supposed that this is part of the plunder.

POST OFFICE DISE0T0B1

Ofltoei No. 30 Sonth Sixth Strac OFFICE HOURS. General Delivery from 7:80 a. in. uuti 7:00 p. m.

Lobby and Stamp Department, from 7:80 a. m. until 8:00 p. m. Money Order ana Registry office, from 8:110a. m. until o.-OO p. m.

On Sunday the office Is open from 9:00 a. m. until 10 o'clonk a. m. No Money Order or Register business transacted on Sundays.

MAILS CLOSE. EAST. 12. night 12 noon. 1:45 p. m. 8:40p. m, 8:00 a. m. 1:45 p. m.

Indianapolis and through East r. H. 41. Railroad way station I. 4

•1

St. L. R. R. way station. Toledo, Wabash A

Worthlnglon and stations onT. B. A S. E. R. R.

hiB

wine

cellar, which he had arranged on a plan of his own. He had bins made with slats, so that the air could get at the bottles, but the slats were so near ther that not only could no one a bottle out but no one could get fingers through.

One day he had to have some plumbing work done in the cellar near the wine bins, and the men were at work there for some time, After they had pone he went down to lupMt tat

w§i§

Oranges wt Now Orleans. f,A ride in the Buburbs of NeW Orleans," says the Times-Democrat, "will show thousands of orange trees, the branches weighed down with luscious fruit. The evidences of the terrible freeze of 1880-81 have almost entirely passed away, and ihe seedlings of 1881 are now ten feet high, and trees grafted at that time are bearing. The entire front on the river, for miles below the oity, is deveted to oranges."

Miss Emma Abbott Is singing in Detroit for the benefit of a murdered policeman's family. It can be fairly said that Miss Abbott'B vocal talents are of a high order of charitable merit.

Slg. Nlcolinl complains that there is a lack of social culture in America. The force of this criticism Is broken somewhat by the mooted fact that theslgnor has no marriage certificate pasted on the headboard of his bedstead.

13, night 9-M p. in

Western, east of Danville, 111,

llsaop. m.

WKST.

St. Louis nd 12, night 9 40 a. m. through West. 10:00 a. m. 1:45 p. m. 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. 8,00 a. m. Toledo, Wabash &

Wes'n, west of Dan- tr vllle. ril. li :80 p.m. Charleston, Illinois, (through pouch,) 12, night. Mattoou, Illinois, (through pouch,) 12, night. Paris, Ills., (through pouch,) 6rfX) p. m..,

NORTH.

Chicago, Illinois, 8:00 a. m. 1:46 p.mi 11:90 p. m, CHI. & Eastern III.

R. R.. way stations, 6M0 a. Danville, 111. through pouco ll:J0p. m, T. H. & Logansport K.

R., way stations. 6 KX) a. m. RocKVille, Indiana, through pouch. 8:40 p. ui. Sorth'n Ind. north'n 1 12, night,

Ohio, Mich. A Ca.. lstop.m.*11:80 p.m BOUTB. Evansvllle and stations uu T. H, A K.

R.R.

6:00 a, m.

HACK LINES,

Pralrleton, Prairie Creek, Graysville and Fairbanks: -i

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: 7)00 a. m, Nelson, Ind.. TUPS-

day and Saturday 1 .-00 p. CITY DELIVERY. The Carriers leave the Office for dellveiy and collection, over the entire city, 7:00 a. m. and 1:80 p. m. Over the business por'.ion of the City: 7:00 a. m., 11a. m., 2m) p. in., 8:80 p. m. and 6 p.m.

The mall Is collated from Street Latter Boxes on street, from First to Twelfth streets, north on Fourth to Cherry, south on Fourth to Walnut and south on First to Poplar, and on Ohio between Firstand Fifth, every week day between Sand 9 a. m., between 9 and 10 a. m. be tween 12 and 1 p. m. and between 7:80 and 5:20 p. m. All other boxes are collected twloea day. between the hours of 7 Ml and 10 a. m., and between l:80and8:80p.m.

On Sunday the Post Office is open from 3 to 10 o'clock a. m., and persons desiring their mall can call at the window designated by the number of their carrier.

Sunday collections over the entire olt: are made between 430 and 6:00 p. m., anc again In the business part of the city be' "o'clock, p. m.

tween 7 :S0 and 8

J. O. JONES, P. M.

1884.

Harper's Magazine.

XXjlj-tTSTR. ATHJXX

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FEED STEAMEB,

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nectlon with then 1Vro* trade. Addns* X- CH&Jh M«V tiVfi" ar«r», JtfsF

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Han's Sewed Brogans, $1,25.

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TEHEE HAUTE, INDIANA.

Omot HOUM:—9 to 13 a. m., and from

to 5 p. m.

SAVE YOUR EYES I

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Men's Fine Sew«d Button, $2.00 Men's Calf Boots, $2.50. Men's Kip Boots, $2.00

Boy's Brogans, 50 Cents. Boy's Kip Boots, $1.50. Women's Fine Buttoned Shoes $1.50. Women's Lace Shoes, $1.00. Misses'Fine Button Shoes, $1.00.

All goods are Marked Down to Make a Clean Sweep, to Close Business. We don't Brag or Blow but will substantiate all we.advertlse, so come along, and bring your families, we can save you from 25 cents to tl.00 on a pair of Boots.

Goods Warranted AS Represented or Money Refunded.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.

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Of all sizes, new and second-hand.

All Kinds of Billiard Material

To be had the same price as per

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In. Terr® Ha-vit®.

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