Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 January 1884 — Page 3

Page PDF (14.40 MB)

Back to issue view

h.y

Sp#| *S8|

^v,

LIFE AND SOCIETY.

W p53a6n, Marriage and Luxury.

Home In the Winter-Tide,

"^Tht^wh^Sil ®llB the Western sky, The ^htetling winds run Bwllt with the

TThrmwhg

?Sn

sP.read8

a somber glow

LAYERING F^OW®

klndly

Among a great variety of robes on view are some elegant blouse dresses for small childreu of fine^ashmere, in cream, pale blue and deep red! the short skirts composed of three narrow gathered flounces of embroidered' muslin. A costume of rich grenat

Some bridemaids' hats of "Trianon" shape, of dark gray plush and cockades of shaded yellow feathers, are decidedly novel and well conceived. Uncommon, also, was a bonnet, the crown covered with bows of peacock velvet, lined with bright cinnamon satin. Small tropical birds nestled amid the numerous loops the brim was composed of four rows of threaded beads, in appearance like polished mahogany, and lined with peacock velvet. A bonnet of leather basket-work was another novelty, the tan-color harmonizing well with the gathered brim, of rich brown velvet, outside of which was laid alight garland of leases and tendrils of leather in front was the head of an owl.—American Queen.

Colors and Shades In Paris. Chief among the latest colors and shades which are now in the extreme of fashion in Paris, we enumerate, first, of the new shades among the grays, all of which are in high favor: Soldat, a light greenish blue tint of the shade of the overcoat worn by the French army Hussard, a bluish shade similar to the uniform of the French hussars Afghan, a bluish gray, a trifle darker than the preceding Pidgeon, a dove gray Fer, an iron gray Ardoise, a dark elate, and Plumb, a rather dark lead color. Among the new browns are some very handsome shades, as following: Hanneton, alight shade Acajou, somewhat darker Bois dore, a light yellowish brown Marron dore, a very rich dark brown Cigara. darker than the foregoing, and Loutre, rich seal brown. Of the shades on the greenish tint are Reseda, meeting mignonette Vipere- a somewhat grayish green, darker than the foregoing, and Grenouille, a frog, or dark green. In evening colors, many delicate and dark shades are shown, among the blues being Virginal, a very delicate light shade Celeste, a little darker Lune, still darker Vague, supposed to resemble the wave of the ocean in hue Sevres, a delicate shade of porcelain Mysosotis, another delicate shade similiarto the for-get-me-not, and Azur, a rich sky-blue. Among the greens, in evening shades, are Luruiere. a very fine light greenish shade of the hue of the electric spark Vert d'Eau, almost white and Azoff, wh^ch somewhat resembles Nile green. Of the pints there are quite a number of new shadeB, the following being the-latest:

Petit Due, a very delicate light tint Hortensia, a little darker Rose Bengale, a trifle darker still Rose, the meaning tea rose Saumon, a salmon color. Crevette, a shrimp color andf Bonton de Rose, a full pink. Among the whites and creams are: Blanc de iieige, snow white Blanc mat, creamish white Blanc ivorie, an ivory white. Blanc de lait, a milk white and Ble, a corn color.—American Silk Journal-

Fans and Gloves.

Handsome new fans in ovel shape "have apppnrpd. One is made wholly of downy v, uiio feathers, pure aa snow, •and in the center of the fan iB snugged a large tropical bird, whose brilliantly colored feathers is Ecarlet, green and A gold, show moat effectively against the milk-white ones. On the heart of another white feather fan is set a bud's

There

fl°w-

.Life tasks to do with a nobler a eai

king ami tea old mother earth. «?«.tloJne in the eventide, the labo/s of the day,

8^de

alIflxed

tbs

rln®

GRDY TBAT ARE

her BuHen mood,

Ana the leaves that 'round ns Scattered

Pleasures gone

day delights of the summer's

ItA^Le5.,t,hat?well,D?

lle

soul

.An Impulse clear and free we feel wrn?tli?a

bright fiie-

love, so pure and warm,

.Forgetting the cold ana gloom of the

nl8ht

In those sunny eyes and those prattling tongues, This, 1 ndeed, is the season of true home's dollght.

Life's picture in brighthtiel 'seBSis drawn, A.nd plans for the future we eagerly lay, Or In the glorious realm of books

With the bard and the sage pags the hours away.

Oh, tell me flot of the summer's Joys, Not alone with the Joys of spring can I bide, But give me the cilm and Joyous peace

Of our humbli- iiome In the winter-tide. —[William Perrlne.

.•'

•.

ITashon's Novelties, i-

A costume of ivory white Lyons velvet _ia hand-wrought with globular pearle in pansies as large as the palm of the hand, which from the border at the bottom of the tablier, the edges of the pansies being finished in relief and cut so as to form irregular scallops, beneath which peep a dozen rows of Brussels net laid in box plaits two inches wide. Five scantily plaited fans of velvet form the panels, each fan being laid with the open edge toward the tablier, where a grelot of the chenille depends from each fold of the fans, the closed part of each being confined by a trio of crescents wrought with every possible variety of pearl jets. The train of velvet is sewed under the ornaments and falls in along square, bordered underneath by plaitings of Brussels net. The cor sage is short, the basque round, high in the neck, and bordered above and belQw with niches of Brussels net small, highly polished pearl disks close the corBage, and sleeves are closed from the elbow to the wrist with corresponding buttons, the surde glove being drawn over the sleeveB. The shoes are of white velvet, laced inside the ankle, and have three crescents wrought on the toes, while the tops are bordered with swans' down. The short visite is of velvet lined with ostrich down, and bordered with the filaments of ostrich feathers fastened into a fringe. The fan is of ostrich feathers, mounted on polished ivory sticks innocent Off the graver's art. The grecque bonnet is of while velvet, with a torsade of white dove's plumage and aigrette ostrich tips, the strings of velvet cut bias, lined with soft white Bilk, and tied in a broad bow, with short ends close to the chin.

caBh-

xnere, for a child of 8 years, was very prettily made, the "bag" skirt finished with a flounoe of tinted embroidery, and a waistcoat with a row of tiny-tpearl buttons. A charming little dress for evening wear was of cream surah the flounces trimmed with insertion and frills of cream lace, the pattern of small ivy leaves and buds being well displayed on a lattice-work ground. The loose gathered bodice was drawn in at the waist, and was continued as a deep flounce-like basque to about half the length of the skirt. Sows of insertion formed a wide collar at the neck, let into the material with capital effect. A new sash of crepe silk of bright crimson, the ends finished with a self-colored "mulbprry" fringe, looked exceedingly well, with a simple dress of gray twilled cashmere the ends were merely crossed behind, and passed under a group of tiny gathers placed just below the waist at the back of the skirt. Charles I. suits for boys' evening wear, or for "pages'" costumes at weddings, were made in all rich shades of royal blue, myrtlegreen, and deep Boardeaux velvet, the close-fitting habit and trim kneebreeches ornamented with cut-steel buttons, the deep collar and cuffs of pointed guipure of bold, antique de-

n*st made of gold wire, intricately an aching tooth, decided to come to woven, and iuwcie the nest are taree town with her for the pu poee of hav tiny pearl eggs. The pearl handle at the top is tied with along loops and ends of white satin ribbon. A less expensive fan, made of black feathers with ebony handle, is finished in the center wiih a iarge cluster of scarlet velvet japonk'HB'.

a growing tendency in fash

ionable circles to shorten the extravigant length of dress glovea. Many women win? give great I.eel to allinnovations of fashion are wearing gloves in four or five button lengths, thus leaving quite a space between the edge of the glove and that of the sleeve. Up now it has long been deemed inadmissible to expose any portion of the arm whatever. This change-will be best accepted by women who have arms, not sticks, so-called. «v't

The Firm Mother. _:j

"Come here to me," 'Said a flrm mother to her son. "Didn't I tell you that I'd whip you, if yotu went^ down town? "Yessum," standing on one foot. "What made you go? Say!" 'Cause," standing on the other foot. "Didn't you know 1 whip you? "Yessum," showing by his manner that he didn't. "I'm a great mind to wear you out If you go outside of the yard again. to-Jav I'll whip you."

About ten minutes afterward she sees the boy playing in the street, and calls bim. He comes reluctantly. "Didn't I tell you I'd whip you if vou went outside the yard "Yessum." '"'/I.. 4*7^ "Why did you do it?" "Cause." "You good for nothing little rascal, I'm a great mine to wear you out. If you go outside this yard again to-day I'll whip you, if it's the last act of my life. Do you hear me?" "Yessum."

After awhile she sees him playing in the street s^ain. Calls bim and says: "Never mind, he comes.

I'll tell your pa when

Women In Public Affairs Mrs. Knapp, of Philadelphia, a sum mer visitor at Deal Beach, N. J., has erected a life-saving station at that point at her own expense.

Mrs. Whitney, wife of the Sanskrit scholar, in New' Hav«n,. hta established a kindergarten for the poor, ~ta_be introductory to an industrial school.

Mrs. May Wright Sewell, in her girl's classical school at Indianapolis, has secured for general every day use a "school dress with loose waist and short, light skirt, and common-sense shoes."

A call was issued some time ago in the village of Lansirigburg, N. Y., stating that "all taxable inhabitants were requested to vote on the question of the introduction of a water works. Two of the ladies of the village, knowing they were taxpayers and presuming they-were "inhabitants," offered their votes as such, but the Inspectors and Board of Trustees refused to receive them. As a water works is as important to a woman in her sphere of the kitchen as anywhere, these taxpayers, Mrs. Mary Welch and Mrs. Caroline Rogers, thought they should, be entitled to a voice in its establishment, And now they want the courts to decide" what women are, anyway. The New

York supreme court has not decided they are "persons," but they thought they might possibly be "taxable inhabitants." Ic is certain they are taxpayers, but it seems that under the law they are not inhabitants.

Harpers: The nature of journalistic work to be done is not changed by the fact that it is a woman who undertakes it. It may be done better, more shrewdly, more honestly, but it is the same work, and requires the same qualities, whether the worker be a man 'or a woman. There are, indeed, some special branches of labor upon a newspaper, such as that which relates to the dres3 of. women, to needle and other work of the kind, with which women are naturally more familiar than men, and women will therefore treat them more satisfactorily and intelligently. But a "woman's duty upon a newspaper" is substantially the same with that of a man. Perhaos the most conspicuous and noted of women who have been employed in journalism was Harriet Martineau. For some years she wrote editorially for a London paper. Her articles were upon the current public questions of the hour—the policy of the government at home and abroad, the characters of eminent public men, and the various problems of political economy. There was no editorial contemporary of Miss Martineau's who was more fully equipped for the office of public censo^, and the volume of obituary biographies which was collected from her contributions to the paper are as admirable and vivid as any which appeared in any journal of the tfmo.

Female Freak* and Fancies. Women talk for the sake of telling what they know men talk to draw out what others know.

A woman who has plenty of her own hair doesn't have to become a switchteuder.—Exchange.

When a woman becomes flurried she feels for a fan when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar.

Women jump at conclusions and generally hit it men reason things out logically and generally miss it.

A women never sees a baby with out wanting to run to it a man never sees a baby without wanting to run from it.

The Empress of Austria has taken to writing poetry and has started a printing office in the imperial palace to print it.

Louisville gills are pretty enough to be mistaken for Bostonians.—[Boston Post. Just about.[—Philadelphia Call

A young lady of Hartford stands high and dry above her sex. having, during her life, caught twenty-nine mice with her hands. |When Minnie Maddern did not arrive at the New Orleans Academy of Music last Sunday night the manager was Maddern the btar.

A woman in Lowell, Mass., refused to pay her tax, but when she was arrested caved in and paid the tax, costs and all, which aggregated 00 cents.

Burlington Free Press: A "Woman's Exchange" is to be opened in Washington. We are glad that ths irregular practice of swapping wives is to be systematized at last-

Lizzie Fonda and Laura Watson, of New York, agreed to go on the street and smash every plug hat they saw. After they had caved in four or five the police took them in charge.

A Bay state girl frightened her lover entirely out of his matrimonial notions by working and presenting him with the motto: "I Need Thee Every Hour." He says he would be perfectly willing to give her the greater portion of his time, but that hih health demanded an hour or two out of doors every day for exercise.

Two girls in Voluntown, Conn., finding the officers coming to search the house for contraband grog, took a demijohn of whisky to bed with them, and the prowlers went

plunderless.

They giggled and told the story so the next dav another search was made, the sanctity of their couch invaded, and the jug confiscated.

Dr. Ferguson, in the Louisville Medical News, writes of a remarkable case ot aptigmatism. A lady was seized with retching and vomiting whenever she looked at stripes. She became ill after ironing a striped shirt, and always left this shirt until the last, so that she might lie down when she had finished her work. One day, when she called for medical treatment, the doctor had on striped pantaloons and a striped cravat, and she became so sick that he had to cover,these articles of clothing before he could examine her eyes. Suitable glasses so relieved her that she afterward looked upon stripes with perfect composure. A barber's pole or an American flag ought to make this young lady sick.

A farmer living a few miles from Austin, whose wife was troubled with

ing it extracted. The pair took a se it in the cars, and soon after the train started. the farmer walked forward into the smoking car, telling bis-wife be would be back directly. While her husband was absent, the conductor came leisurely along, a ticket punch in hand, and approaching the old lady, reached over for her ticket, whereupon the victim of the toothache opened her mouth and taught him, saying: "You needn't,mind gmng me chloroform, doctor just pull it right out anyhow. I can stand it, and when John comes back he'll settle with yer."

FOUR WEALTHY WOMEN.

One Who Cried when She Heard that She Was to be a President's Wife. New York Letter in tha Kansas City

Times.

Some of the very rich women of New York hate many pecularities Mrs. Stewart, for instance, never opens her front windows, and she goes out driving so seldom that even the neighbors on the adjoining block do not know her. She is a sincere christian, believing more firmly in the English church than any other, and yet worshiping more to suit her own quiet taste than according to any set tenets of faith. She does not care for her personal appearance and does not dress half so neatly as her servants. She walks out of pleasant afternoons twice or thrice a week, and while always accompanied as a respectful distance by a strong man servant, she looks so common place that not one of the multitude are awn re that she is the richest widow in the world. Mrs. Stewart always carries goodly sized coins for beggars.

Miss Wolfe differs from Mrs. Stewart in this respect: When she meets a beggar she must know his or her references before doing anything of a substantial nature. It is a very difficult matter to fix the age of Mies Wolfe. She is no longer young and yet she does not look old. She possesses a face-of the type which never ages. There is a story about her having loved a brave fellow some years ago, and that he passed away before the day agreed upon for their wedding, and when he was buried her heart also was put away in the tomb. It is a -pretty romance, all devotion, nothing but trtrtfaTm«tnarene88, and she now devotes her life to charity:

Mrs. Goelet, like her late husband, is of a retiring disposition. For intervals of weeks she will remain closely at home, out to all callers, and then again she will be seen at every place of note in the city. Her jewels are said to be the finest private collection in the country. The Goelets were always a curious family.

But the most sensible and attractive of the rich ladies in New York whom this articlo has called to mind is Mrs. Marshall 0. Roberts. The widow of a mining king, intelligent, cultured and" handsome, she, with 38,000 000 in her own right, numbers her suitere by the dozens. Some time ago, it will be readily recalled, the gossips said that she proposed to enter the White House as the wife of Arthur and its mistress. According to an informant of mine, Mrs. Roberts, when this Ftory came to hear ears, burst out crying as though her heart would break, pronounced it falBe and supplemented it with the statement that she would never again go to the altar as an expectant bride. She is the center of asocial circle of brave men and women, does a great deal in aid of literature and art, and is well known to the poor of the Five Points and the east side.

A STORY ABOUT FRED DOUG' IiABS.

jg:?

Almost a Riot on the Steamer Clmbria Because He Made a Speech* In lecture on the anti-slavery movement in Lynn, Mass., last week, Mr. J. M. Buffum related the following. "About this time the mob was after Fred Douglass, and I told him he was not safe in New England, and on the 16th of August, 1845, iVlr. Douglass and myself sailed in the steamship Cimbria for England. The captain would not allow Ms. Douglas's in the first cabin, and so we were obliged to take the after cabin. When the Irish coast was reached the captain gave the first cabin passengers a complimentary dinner. After the dinner was over Captain Judson came to me and said some of the passengers desired to hear Douglass speak. Mr. Doughas complied, and as soon as he began to speak there was great excitement, and cries of 'Throw him overboard,' 'Kill him' and other threats were made. The crowd became so boisterous that Capt. Judkins came on deck and said that he (Douglass) must stop as he (the captain) wanted to speak. The captain said that he had made it pleasant for the passengers all the way over, and that some of the passengers wanted to hear Douglass speak, and he should speak. Then said the captain: 'Give it to them, Douglass, like bricks.' After listening a few "minutes a little man from Connecticut spoke up and said that he would be one of the six to throw Douglass overboard. A big Irishman spoke up and said: 'You will throw him overboard, will you? Did it ever occur to you that you might go over yourself? Douglass has as many friends as you have.' Capt. Judkins told the boatswain to go beiow and get the irons if they made any more disturbance. Upon reaching the wharf the captain was handed a card from one of the passengers challenging him to fight a duel."

A Game of Baccara

At baccarat, says London Truth, half a dozen packB of cards are put before the banker. Not to enter into details, the game is this: The banger takes two cards and gives two cards to the players both bankers and players have the right to draw one card. The winner is he whose cards approach the nearest to a certain value. As'the banker may see tho cards drawn by the player before election to take one to remain with his original two, be has an advantage of about 5 per cent. Nothing is more easy than to cheat the game. The banker may be, and of course often is, a professional swindler as well as an adebt at slight of hand. This latter talent is, however, not necessary. The table at which he sits is surrounded by a crowd, every one of whom can see the cardB dealt to the players. One of them has only to make a sign to the banker in order to tell him what is the value of the players' cards, and thus to indicate to him whether he would do well to draw a card or not. That sane human beings should be induced to stake their money under such conditions is proof that human incredulity is an inexhaustible fund.

Value of Nightcaps.

Letter In the London Times. Many persons who are not by habit "dreamers" are dreaming a great deal just now and wondering why they do so. The answer is very simple. When cold weather Bets in suddenly and is much felt at night, the head, which is uncovered, has the blood supplied to it driven from the surface to the deep parts, notably the brain—the organ of the mind. The results are light sleep and dreams. The obvious lemedv is to wear a nightcap or wrap thq head warmly, at least while the cold weather lasts. I believe we of this generation Buffer more from brain troubles than our predecessors, because we have the head exposed at night and the blood vessels of our cerebral organs are seldom unloaded.

Ex-Governor William Smith, known "Extra Billy" Smith, of Virginia, lebrated his eighty-seventh birthday his home in Warrenton, that state, a few days ago. The venerable host appeared hale and hearty^ and greeted nis legion of callers cheerily.

-1

THE BOX'TUNNEL.

BY CHABLBS BEADS.

The 10:15 train glided from Puddington May 7,1847.- In the left compartment of a certain first-class carriage were four passengers of these, two were worth description.

The lady had a smooth, white, delicate brow, strongly marked eyebrows, long lashes, eyej that seemed to change color, and a good-sized, delicious mouth, with teeth ss white as milk. Arnau could r.ot see her nose for her eyes amd mouth her own sex could and would have told us some nonsense about it. She wore an unpretending grayish dress, buttoned to the throat witti lozenge-shaped buttons, and a Scottish shawl that greertbiy evaded color. She was like a duck, so tight her plain feathers fitted her, and there she sat^ smooth, snng and delicious, with a book in her hand and a eupeon of her wrist just visible as she held it.

Her opposite neighbor was what 1 call a good style of man—the more to his credit, since he belonged to a corporation that IrequeiLtly turns out the worst imaginable style of youpg men. He was a cavalry officer, aged twentyfive. He had a mustache, but not a very repulsive one not one of those substantial pigtails qn which soup is suspended like dew on a shrub it was short, thick, and black as coal. His teeth had not been turned by tobacco stroke to the color of juice, his clothes did not stick to or hang on him he bad an engaging smile, and what I like the dog for, his vanity, which was inordinate, was in the proper place, his heart, not in his face, jostling mine and other people's who have none—in a word, he was what one oftener hears of than meets—a young gentleman.

He was conversing in an animatea whisper with a companion, a feltowofficer the.' were talking about what it is far better not to—women. Oar friend, cleany, did not witih to be overheard for he cast ever and anon a fortive glance at his fair vis-a-vis and lowered his voice. She seemed completely absorbed in her book, and that reassured him.

At last the two soldiers came down to a whisper (the truth must^be told the man who got down at Slough and was lost to posterity bet ten pounds to to three that he was going down with us to Bath, and immortality would not kiss either of the JadieB opposite upon the road. "Done, done!" .Now am sorry a man I .have hitherto praised shou/.a hive lent nlniseir even in a whisper, to such a speculation "but nobody is wise at all hours," not even when. the clock is striking tive-and-twenty and you are to con sider his profession, his good looks, and the temptation—ten to three.

After Slough the party was reduced to three at Twyford one lad£ dropped her handkerchief Capt. Dolignan fel on it like a lamb. Two or three words were interchanged on this occasion.

At Reading the Marlborough of our tale made one of the safe investments of that day he bought a Times and Punch, the latter full of Bteel-pen thrusts and wood-cuts. Valor and beauty deigned to laugh at some inflamed humbug or other punctured by Punch. Now, laughing thaws our hu man ice long before Swindon it was a talking match—at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan !—he handed them out—he souped them—he tough-chii kened them—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other. On their return to the carriage, one lady passed into the inner compartment to inspect a certain gentleman's seat on that side of the line.

Reader, had it been you or I, the beauty would have been the deserter, the average one would have stayed with us till .all was bine, ourselves included not more surely does our slice of bread and butter, when it escapes from our hand, revolve it ever so often, alight face downward on the ciarpet. But this was a bit of fop, Adonis dragon—so Venus remained in tete-a-tete with bim. You have a dog meet an unknown female of his species how handsome how em*presse, how expressive he becomes such was Dolignan after Swindon, and to do the dog justice he got handsomer and handsomer. And you have seen a cat conscious of approaching cream—such was Miss Haythorn she became demurer and demurer. Pres idently our captain looked out of the window and laughed. This elicited an inquiring look from Miss Haythorn. "We are only a mile from the Box Tunnel." "Do you always laugh a mile from the Box Tunnel said the lady. "Invariably." "What for?" "Why, hem! it is a gentleman's joke."

.'\?.-s. ,c

•y $

Captain Dolignan then recounted to Miss Haythorn the following: "A lady friend and her husband sat together going through the Box Tunnel—there was one gentleman opposite it was pitch dark. After the tunnel the lady said: 'George, how absurd of you to salute me going through the tunnel!' 'I did no such thing.' 'You didn't?' 'No, why?' 'Because, somehow I thought you did.'

Here Captain Dolignan laughed and endeavored to lead his companion to laugh, but it was not to be donei The train entered the tunnel, ft

Miss Haythorn—Ah! 4 Dolignan—What is the mattei Miss Haythorn—I am frightened! Dolignan (moving to her side)—Pray do not be alarmed I am near you.

Miss Haythorn—You are near me— very near me, indeed, Capt. Dolignan. Dolisinan—You know my name!

Miss Haythorn—I heard yon mention it. I wish we were out of this dark place.

Dolignan—I could be content to spend hours here, reassuring you, my dear lady.

Dolignan—Pweep! (Grave reader, do not put your lips to the next pretty creature you meet, or you will understand what this means.)

Miss Haythorn—Ee! Ee! Friend—What is the matter?"* Miss Haythorn—Open the door! Open the door!

There was a sound of hurried whispers, the door shut and the blind pulled down with hostile sharpness.

If any critic falls on me for putting inarticulste sounds in a dialogue as above, I answer, with all the insolence I can command at present, "Hit boys as big as yourself bigger, perhaps, such as Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. They began it, and I learned it of them, sore against my will.

Miss Hay thorn's scream lost most of its effect because the engine whistled forty thousand murders at the same moment and fictitious grief makes itself heard when real can not.

Between the tunnel and Bath our young friend had time to ask himself whether his conduct had been marked by that delicate reserve which is supposed to distinguish the perfect gentleman.

With aiong face, real or feigned, he held open the door his late friends attempted to escape on the other side— impossible. They must pass him. She whom he had insulted (Latin for kissed) deposited somewhere at his feet a look of gentle, blushing reproach the other, whom he had not insulted, darted red-hot daggers at him from her eyes, and so they parted.

It was, perhaps, fortunate for Dolignan that he had the grace to be a friend-to Major Hoskyns, of his regiment, a veteran laughed at by the youngsters, for the major was too apt to look coldly upon billiard balls and cigars be ti'ad seen cannon balls and linstocks. He had also, to tell the truth, swallowed a good bit of the mess-room poker, which made it as impossible for Major Hoskyns to descend to an ungentlemanlike word or action as to brush his own trousers below the knee.

Captain Dotignan told this gentlehis story in gleeful accents but

Major Hoskyns heard him coldly, and as coldly answered tbat he had known a man to lose his life for the same thing. "Tnat's nothing," 'continued the Major, t"but, unfortunately, he deserved to loose it."

At this, blood mounted to the young' time!

3r*V" iS3s#-S«

Willi

THE TEKRE HAtrHS ECPBBSS. SUNDAY MORNS?®, 9 ANUAR 1,1884.

man's temples, and his senior added I mean to say he was thirty-five: you, Ipresume, arei twenty-one!"-"Twenty-five." "That is much the same thing will you be advised by me?" "If you will advise me"." "Speak to no one of this, and send White the £3, that he may think you have lost the bet." "That is hard when I won it" "Do it, for all that, sir."

Let the disbelievers in human perfectibility know that this dragon, capable of blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with a violent reluctance and this was hie first damper. A week after these events he was at a- ball. He was in a state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.. He was looking in vain for a lady equal in personal attraction to the idea he had -formed of George Dolignan aB suddenly there glided"

Dolignan was surprised at his success, his ill ta6te, his ugliness, his impertinence. DoligDan at last found himself injured. "Who was this man, and what right had he to go on so? He never kissed her, I suppose," said Dollie. Dolignan could not prove it, but h6 felt somehow the rights of property were invalid. He went home and dreamed of Miss Hay thorny and hated all the ugly successful. He spent a fortnight trying to find out who his beauty was—he never could encounter her again.

At last he beard of her in this way: A lawyer's clerk paid him a visit and commenced a little action against him in the name of Miss Haythorn for insulting her in a railway train.

The young gentleman was shocked endeavored to soften the lawyer's clerk that machine did pot „tboroughly, cora-

t-Vtc mcnTJiri" tit

that term.

The lady's name, however, was at last -revealed by this untoward incident from her name to her address was but a short step and the same day our crestfallen hero lay in wait at her door, and many a succeeding day, without effect. But one fine afternoon she issued forth naturally, as if she did it every day, and walked briskly on the parade. Dolignan did the same, met and passed her many times on the parade and searched for pity in her eyes, but found neither look nor recognition, nor any other sentiment for all this she walked and walked, till all the other promenaders were retired and gone—then her culprit summoned resolution, and, taking off his hat, with a voice for the first time tremulous, besought permission to address her.

She stopped, blushed,, and neither acknowledged nor discovered bis acquaintance. He blushed, stammered out how ashamed he was, how he deserved to be punished, how he was punished, how little she knew how unhappy he was, and concluded by begging her not to let all the world know the disgrace of a man who was already mortified by the loss of her acquaintance. She asked an explanation he told her of the action that had been commenced in her name. She gently shrugged her shoulders and said, "how stupid they are!" Emboldened by this he besreed to' know whether or not a life of distant, unpretendent devotion would, after a lapse of years, erase the memory of his madness—hie crime! "She did not know! She must now bid him adieu, as she had sorpe preparations to make for a ball in the Crescent where everybody was to be."

They parted," and Dolignan deter mined to be at the ball, where everybody was to be. He was there, and after some time he obtained an introduction to Mis3 Haythorn, and he danced wifh her. Her manner was gracious. With the wonderful tact of her sex, she seemed to have commenced the acquaintance that evening. Thatnight, for the firtt time, Dolignan was in love. I will save the reader all the lover's arts, by which he succeeded in dining where she dined, in dancing where she danced, iu overtaking her by accident when she rode. His devotion followed her to church, where the dragon was rewarded by learning there is a world where they neither polk nor smoke—the two capital abominations of this one.

He made an acquaintance with her uncle, who liked him, and he saw at last with joy that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when she thought he did not observe her. It was three months after the Box Tunnel that Captain Dolignan called one day upon Captain Haythorn, R. N., whom he had met twice in his life, and slightly propitiated by violently listening to a cutting-out expedition he called and in the usual way asked permission to pay his addresses to his daughter. The worthy captain straightwa/ began doing quarter deck, when suddenly he was summoned from the apartment by a mysterious message. On his return he announced, with a total change of voice, that "it was all right, and bis visitor might run alongside as soon as he chose."

My reader has divined the truth this nautical comander, terrible to the fee, was in complete and happy subjection to his daughter, our heroine.

As he was taking leave Dolginan saw his divinity glide into the drawingroom. He •fcilowed her, observed a sweet consciousness deepen into consion she tried to laugh, and cried instead, and then she smiled again when he kissed her hand at the doftr it was "George" and "Marian" instead of "Captain" this and "Miss" the other.

A reasonable time after this (for my tale is merciful and skips formalities and torturing delays) these two were very happy. They were once more upon the railroad, going to enjoy their honeymoon all by themselves. Marian Dolighan was dressed just as before -duck-like and delicious, all bright except her clothes, but George sat beside her this time instead of opposite, and she drank him in gently from tier long eyelashes. "Marian," said George, "married people should tell each other all. Will you ever forgive me if I own to you no "Yes! yes!"

Well, then, you remember the Box Tunnel. (This was the first allusion he had ventured to it.) I am ashamed to say I had £3 to £10 with White I would kis3 one of you two ladies," and George, pathetic externally, chuckled within. "I know that, George I overheard you," was the demure reply. "Oh! you overheard me! Impossible!" "And did you not hear me whimper to companion? I made a bet with her." "You made a bet? How singular. What was it?" "Only a pair of gloves, George, "Yes, I know but what about it?" "That if you did, you should be my husband, dearest." "Oh! but stay then you could not have been

angry with me, love

Why,-dearest, then you brought that action against me?" Mrs. Dolignan looked down. "I was afraid you were forgetting me, George, you" will never forgive me!" ".Sweet angel! why, here is the Box Tannel!"

Now, dear reader—fie! no! no such thing! you can't expect to be indulged in this way every time we come to a dark place. Besides it is not the thing. Consider, two sensible married people. No such phenomenon, I assure you, took place. No scream of hopeless rivalry of the engine—this

AN ENGLISH BACHELOR'S CHARITY.

Why Bl&njr a Kyraph and IHanj Strain Bless With

Joy

a man, when e, past him a most delightful vision, a /Gqd a blessing on. their endeavors, no lady whose beauty and symmetry took longer need my assistance I think it

him by the eyes—amitber look: "It can't be! Yes, it is!" Miss Haythorn! (not that he knew her name) but what apotheosis!

The duck" had become a peahen— radiant, dazzling,- she looked twice as beautiful and almost twice as large as before. He lost sight of her. He found her. again. She was so lovely she made him i-1—and he, alone, must not dance with' her, speak to her. If he had been content to commence her acquaintance the usual way, it might have#ended in kissing it must end with*nothing. As she danced, sparks of beauty fell from her on all around but him it was clear she never would see him— one gentleman. was particularly assiduous she smiled on his assiduity he was ugly, but she smiled on bim.

the Kama of Bsint.

London Telegraph. In the year 1719 Henry Raine, a wealthy brewer,--and a parishioner of St. George's in-the-East, determined to do something sound and' practical for the parish in which he had been born, and where he had acquired his great wealth and prosperity. The simple words of this fine old gentleman's will show the spirit that animated his pious intention: "Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God, from a small beginning to raise me to a plentiful fortune, and to enable me to assist my relations, who, by

my duty, in gratitude to £rod and obediance to the precept* of Christian charity, to settle part of my substance for charitable uses." He proceeds.to do as follows: First of all he erected a pile of buildings, which may be seen, to tnis day in Charles street, Old Gravel lane, to be used as a free school for fifty boys -and fifty girls of the parish of St. George's-in-in-the-East. Attached to the schools were residences for the master and mistress. Inserted in the facade were models of the schoolboy and schoolgirl of the period, in their quaint costumes of the

iaBt

century, and

placed in a conspicuous place on the building was the founder's precept, expressed in very simple words: "Come in and learn your duty to God and man." He was an old bachelor,"and he determined to keep unmarried so that he might do what he could for his relatives and never hamper.the one idea of his life.

But the great idea of Henry Raine, which has been perpetuated toth very day, was the setting apart of a certain sum for marriage portions, to be awarded by IcTt to certain of the girls who had attained fhe age of 22, and had been previously educated at the schools and at the asylum founded by him. Having rendered a girl of St. George's-in-the-East a, good scholar and a thrifty young woman, he was determined, if "possible, to- make her a valuable wife, under arrangements by which, if fortune favored her when she dipped into the lucky bag, she might, oiv her wedding* day, receive the sum of £100 nay, more, she might even enjoy, with her husband and her friends, a- wedding banquet at the founder's expense. Henry Raine would not allow any of "Raine'B girls" to look further than the parishes of £|t. George's-in-the-East. St. Paul's Shadwell, or St. John's, Whapping, for a husband. If she selected a partner elsewhere she was doomed to forfeit her hundred pounds. The marriage portion ceremony remains to this date what it was in old Raine's time, 159 years ago. On May 1, the da7 appointed for the marriage of Raine's

rotiere,

the bella of St.

George's-in-the-East ring outamerrv peal. Many of the parishioners and all the trustees attend the service, when a special sermon is preached by a selected preacher, and the marriage of last year's lucky ones is duly solmenized. Directly after the marriage service the governors, trustees, and their friends repair to the old hall in Raine's school, where the drawing for the marriage portion takes place. It is conducted exactly according to a progamme drawn out by the founder., "The lottery tickets are sealed up strictly according to pious injunction, they are »put into the very canister that Henry Raine selected himself, and the ceremonial table, a splendid piece of furniture, is Raine'B own gift. Hymns are sung and voluntaries played during the drawing of the lots, speeches are made to both the successful and unsuccessful candidates, and the lucky young woman is duly congratulated and warned for wedding the next 1st of May., The drawing over, the wedding banquet takes place, at which the marriage portion is handed to the young woman who had been married that very morning. It is significant, in connection with this wedding banquet, tbat so long as 150 yeart ago the old founder almost anticipated the historical appetite of the "voracious vestryman," for he decreed that on the day of the wedding a dinner Bbould be provided for the bride and bridegroom and their friends, but that the governors and friends of the foundation should also dine together, but at their own expense. The first ode sung annually at the wedding feast is very quaint and characteristic. It calls on the "Spirit of Love, who in the days of old didst move thy servant to provide this goodly help to virtue's cause, shed on our hearts thy grace, and aid us to fulfill the plans of Raine's munificence!" and further the following quatrain is chanted: And when long years have come andgone, Still shall the work of good go on And many a nymph and many a swain Shall bless with Joy the name of Raine. A. purse of 100 golden sovereigns is then handed to the bride, and after more hymns and odes according to the Raine ritual, "the newly-married couple and their friends retire."

Unfortunately, the full and best intentions of old Henry Raine were never carried out. Living and dying unmarried, he left all his property to his two nephews, and in his will he strictly en joined them to invest £4,000 in the three per cents in order to give a marriage portion and a wedding breakfast to two girls instead of one. His dying request to the two nephews who had inherited his plentiful stock and his trade in brewing is very touching. He had no earthly doubt that the said William Duffin and William Wilson would fulfill his dying request. "If," said he, "my newphews bad seen, as I have, six poor innocent maids come trembling to «iraw the prize, and the fortunate aid that got it burst out in tears with excess of joy, they would readily perform the same." Alas! for the faith of this excellent uncle. The nephev undoubtfullv winked at his sentiment, and satisfied their conscience in some other way. Anyhow, the £4,000 were never invested, and so St. George's-in-the-East can only send out one endowed maiden into the world every year instead of two.

El Matadi and 6am Arabia. New York Herald. The toothsome gumdrop and the rubber like marshmallon will soon be an expensive luxury, and all because the "False Prophet," thousands of miles away is stirring up a rebellion in the Soudan. Pure gum arabic composes over 30 per cent of all the best confectionery, and comes almost exclusively from Soudan. Khartoum is its great market. It is brought there by the natives and bartered to merchants frorii Cairo and Saukim for guns, catridges, trinkets, and other articles dear to the heart of a savage. t)nce a year, during October and November, when the Nile is at its highest, the yield is floated down on barges to Cairo, and thence shipped to the four principal markets-of the world—London, Paris, Marseilles and New York. A small part is taken overland on camels to Suakin, about a three months' trip. The unit of commerce is a bale containing 600 pounds. The European consumption every year is 12,000 of these bales, while America consumes half as many.

Sinco El Alahdi has been disaffecting the Soudan the price of gum has been steadily going up, and from the usual price of 8 or 10 cents a pound it has now risen to 20, and there is little to buy at that. No crop was brought in thisear, and unless the insurrection is quelled within the course of three months there will be none next. The Cairo merchants of course will not send their money into Soudan in its present" state, even could their agents get thero safely. Besides this, there is vety little to bring out, as none has been gathered thi« year.

The Soundan negroes, having very little of the Yankee thrift, will not work unless they can see an immedi-

EitfjlWiii

tf&ta

ate return for their labor. As JE1 Obi-id is already occupied, and Khartoum is likely to he soon, there is no chance of pringing the crop out by wateri and an overland freightage would be most expensive, "taking a caravan nearly a year to make the trip between Kahrteum and Cairo. Even then a bale would be a heavy load for a camel..

Nearly all of last year's crop was destroyed by the Egyptian army while they were in Khartoum. The bales of gum were piled in large pens waiting for the fall rise in the river to be shipped to Cairo. The army being short of grain bags' dumped the gum on the ground and appropriated the bales. Of course the next rain washed thousands of dollars into the soil of Khartoum. A Cairo merchant writing to a firm in the city says that the price of gum is almost fabulous, and that there are three buyers to every' invoice. Several London and Marseilles firms have already made fortunes out of the audden rise.. In a few weeks gun arabic will probably be quoted as high as §0 cents a pound. At that rate candy will be worth almost its weight in gold.'

The German emperor's Only surviving sister, the dowaigfer grand duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, is now visiting Him at the imperial palace. She is upwards of eighty, and, lully looks her age.

Dr. William Perry, of Exeter, N. H., the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard college, celebrated his ninetysixth birthday on the 20th inst. He is in remarkable good health.

1884.

Harper's Magazine.

ILXJUSTRATBD. JV

Harper's Magazine begins' its sixtyeighth volume with the December Number. It is the most popnl&r illustrated periodical In America and England, always fully abreast of the times In its treatment of subjects of currant, social and Industrial interest, and always advancing its standard of literary, artistic, and mechanical excellence. 'Among its attractions for 1881 are: a new serial novel by William Black, illustrated by Abbey a new novel by E. P. Roe, Illustrated, by Gibson and Dielman descriptive Illustrated papers by George H. Boughton, Frank XX Millet, C. H. Farnbam, and others Important historical and biographical papers: short stories by W. D. Howells, Charles Reade, etc.

HARPER'S

PERIODICALS.

Per Year:

HARPER'S MAGAZINE... $i 00 HARPEtt'S WEEKLY 4 00 HARPER'S BAZAR.... 4 00 HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE 1 50 HARPER'S FRANKLIN SQUARE

LIBRARY, One Year (52 Numbers)...10 00 Postage Free to all subscribers in the United States or Canada.

The volumes of the Magazine flbgln with the Numbers for June and December of each year. When no time is specified, it will be understood that the subscriber wishes to begin "with the current Number.

The last Eight Volumes of Harper's ill

cents each—by mall, postpaid. Inder Harper's Magazine, Alphabetical, Analytical, and Classified, for Volumes 1 to60, inclusive, from June, 1850, to June, 1880, oTie vol., 8vo, Cloth, 84.0C.'

Remittances should be made by PostOffice Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loss.

Newspapers are notte copy this advertisement without the express order of Harper & Brothers. Address

HARPER $. BROT rt EES, New York.

A GREAT ACHIEVEM.SN IN PUMPING.

I Vaeanm-Cb&mber A Air-Cham-ber, Prodncing a Contlnnoss Flow of Water In ?. Snetion and 01* ." •barge.

For Hose Attachment, Accessibility of Working Parts, Arrangement to Prevent

Freezing,

Maierial used in Cylinders, Lightness and ease In forking, Strength, Neatness and Durability,

THE NEW CHAMPION has NO SUPERIOR.

SOLD BY

.. -SJJI

STUBBS BROS.,

420 Ohio Street,

TERRE HAUTE, IND.,

Dealers In best make

.Iron Pumps, Stone Pumps, &

Wood Pumps.

REPAIRINU A SPECIALTY, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Also, best quality vitrified stone sewer pipe, culvert pipe, well tubing, fire clay llues, chimney lining, chimney tops, etc.

J.F.McCANDLESS,

Dealer in all grades of hard and soft goal,

BRAZIL BLOCK, -r

BLOCK NU^

and BITUMINOUS

CHOICE

GROCERIES

-ASl)

Fresh Country Produce,

J. F. ROEDEL,

N. E, Cor. of IHrst and Ohio 8t*.

W. H. HASLET,

IS Sooth Fifth Streec,

Pays a liberal cast-off clothing.

COAL!

'?j.

f. —1

Champa Forw Pump.

BITUMINOUS

Attorney at

nz_i»

JFOOD AXD COKE. $3

,7,V- •,

Office, 18 and 20 Son ill Third Street

(Telephone Connection.)

made

L. F. PERDUE,

Dealer In ICS, 1 Hard and Soft COAL,. Long and Short WOOD.

OFFICE:

26 North Sixth Street.

WE STILL HAVE SOKE OF THAT CHOI

Large Stock Ranches, Well Improved Farms, ^Finely Selected Section&i

BARGAINS FOR CAPITALISTS,

sBEN. BLANCHARD

630 Main Street, Terre Haute, Indiana.

WE ARE OFFERING

PARLOR SUm at-COST!

CALL AKD BE COML\CE».

J. R. Fisher's Bargain Stores

W. S. CLEFT. J. H. WILLIAMS,

CLfflT, WILLIAMS & CO.

MANU?ACT\JK»K8 or

SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,

AHD DUJLiKBB IH

Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Glass, Paints, OiIs and Bnfid era' Hardware.

MULBEllEY 8TBEET. COR. NINTH, TEB&B HATTT3- TtTP,

A. C. COMBS

StrCC££SOK TO COMBS &

DEAJjEH IN ALL GRADES OF HARD AND StFT COAL. BRAZIL BLOCK, BLOCK NUT, AND

WOOD AND

21R to North \lntTi Street, Vur rni«n» Torr* Pnnt/.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

I. H. C. ROYSE,

Law,

No. 503 1-2 MAIN STREET.

H, X* BARTHOLOMEW* W. H. HALL.

BARTHOLOMEWS. ML-

fg'^Dentist,

OFFICE J—Southwest corner Sixth and Ohio streets, oversavings Bank. Entrance on Ohio street.

Or. W. C. Eichelberger,

OCULIST and AURIST,

Room 13, Sayings Bank Building.

TEKRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

0ncz

HOOBJS:—9

3 to 5 p. m.

to 12 a. m., and from

MS. RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAH,

f§

H)^ntists,t

Office, S. W. Cor. Fifth and Main Sts.,

ENTRANCE ON FIFTH STREET.

Communication by telephone. Nitrons Oxldo Gas administered.

SAVE YOUR EYES!

'&SC

Terre Haute, Indiana, Eye Infirmary. Da. R.

N. Y., late of Trenton,

DAI.KY,ofDTTKBAB,

Mo., and

R.J. E. of St. Louis,

late of Winchester, Mo., Proprietors.

WU1 treat all diseases of the eye ten days free of charge if ample satisfaction not given. Office and rooms, 12V Sonth Third, street, opposite St. Charles Hotel, where one of ns can be consulted at all hours during the day. City leferences:—J. T. Mustek, druggist, next door to postofflce •rln.di

N. H. McFerri lealer in -(cultural lmagri piemen ts, west side Public Square Hiram roults, grocer. Cor. First and Main.

FARMERS, ATTENTION!

Save Your Feed,

FEED STEAMER,

Just the thing for Farmers or Dairymen.

R0MAIN A DAILY FEED STEAMER

ten be seen at Fonts & Hunter's livery •table, or at corner of Seventh and Poplar street*. It wOl I«VB yon moa«y-««Il and

W.ELL VOU

"Catch On!"

Men's Sewed Brogans. $1.25. ,,

Men's Fine Sewed 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 S!:oes, $1.00.

All goods are Markod Down to Make v$ Clean Sweep, to Close Bnslness. We dontBrag or Blow but will substantiate All we advertise, sq come along and bring your families, we can save yon trota 25 cents to 1.00 on a pair or Uootn.

Goods Warranted a« Represented or Honey Refunded.

Yours

Truly,

Daniel Reibofd,^

Cor. Third and Main Sts.,

J. M. BRUSHKK

•jf

w%'

3. U.

CLIFT

^•v«f

&c.

COKE.,

ALL ORDERS OF 25 CENTlS AND UPWARDS PKUtfPTLY FILLED. OFFICE, 123 SOUTH THIRD 8TRF.KT, at ST. CI1AKI.W HOYK1., (Telephone Connection.! T'.iilHi HAITTK. fvo ,..

Phrcnix Foundry a Machine Worki

jBSTABLISHED, 1866. rFOfKPuSATED' Manufacturer* »od Dealer* in Everything Relating to

Power, Cajst and Wrought Iron Work'

BEFAIBlStil PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO

•v S

.-J*?.

TERRE HAUTE. IND.

liJIM'S

Billiard and Poo! Tables,

?N,

Of all slses, new and second-band. •.

All Kinds of Billiard Maierial

j®

To be had the same price as per

BRUNSWICK and B.tLKK & CO.'S wt PRICE-LIST, s-,

In Terr©

wvi*,,

Haute.

JACOB MAY, Agent.

J. R. DUNCAN & CO.

Wholtt&le £c*Uir* In

Paper^ JPaper Bags,

Stationery,

Twines, Ete^

Noi 628 MAIN STREET

T. J. PATT0N & CI

OhoioeM^ goutbdown

•oat*