Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1884 — Page 4

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LIFE AND SOCIETY.

•.,.- Women, IXarriage and

THE DIMPLE ON HER CHEEK."

The dimple on her cheek! Were these the golden ages ... Of knights aad troubadors,"

y- •••••.•• Who brighten olden pages a-- With tourneys ts amours, What lances woald be broken— 5?

Y4»$ What silver lates would speak, ^•55 In honor of the dimple— 5fr The dimple on her cheek! 'jfc—Samuel MinturnPeck in the Manhattan.

DecoratlT® Nneltlei

Among the decorative novelties for -^mantle or table scarfs, one of the most 'AJeff"ective i0 the black satin ground- ''&$*?/ 'work

w^h

-V.

•%s

•*4

flower* or figures in bright

colors the border* can be finished by balls or fringe. The former is very

pretty if made a large squaie, with tbe .'V^lower edge pointed sharp and finished jfby a brass circlet, through which is ]drawn a twist of silk ribbon. The

Jalternate panel should be long and '^narrow with straight edges, the color V^'l^-Sbeing chosen to harmonize with the -\f|room. It is a verv good way to use up **i'.j^lold silk or satin, and the decoration .C*?' '^can be applied very easily by any one. ^Where old black silk is to be used, ^sponge it with ale this will give it

^]'v"Ow ^•Jbody, and make the surface brightand {4easy to handle.

A pretty shade for a chandelier globe agis made of a band of bright satin ribKjbon two inches wide, gathered slightly igat the upper edge to fit just above the .^largest part of the globe. The lower |1 edge is bordered with antique ribbon S about three inches in width finished ,/ with a fringe of embroidery silk of the *2 color of the ribbon, knotted into its |g pointed or scalloped edge. A chandelier of three globes has shades repeat*^ing the colors of the furniture, one with ribbon and fringe of crimson, and jthe third of dull blue. "7, The novelty for floor decoration •t which art papers are talking so much

of at present, in which wall paper is ^-applied to the use of a carpet, seems to be the revival of an old fancy. About forty years ago the same process was in vogue, and although it is f^not particularly practical, it is pretty, cheap, and cozy. First was the floor perfectly clean, and when nearly dry, give it a coating of paste in sections 7 about a yard wide cover this with .. coarse brown paper when this is dry -l^cover with paste, then put down coarse ..unbleached cotton cloth, which should be thoroughly dried before the paper is put on. The paper looks best if the pattern is dark and the surface needs heavy finish of varnish, which must ,,'*be applied frequently to keep the .^covering in good order. A covering of fjfcloth, calico, or chintz is equally pretty /land more comfortable to put down, •a The floor covering par excellence is

Ithe Turkish rug or the Kensington Art Square. The sides of the room only need paint, hard finish, or the -spatent marquetry flooring. The plan is very acceptable on account of its Jcleanliness and beauty.

This is the easiest way to applique. If you wish to cut velvet leaves for apfplique work, tack the velvet on a table or board, with a piece of flannel beslow it, and with a camel's hair brash paint it lightly over with mucilage leave it until thoroughly dry remove -'thetacks and cut out what you choose. «The object of making the velvet stiff is to prevent it from raveling as velvet {always does. When the leaves and flowers are all cut, place them on the material you wish to adorn, and put a •drop of mucilage here and there to keep them in place. Only a few should be put on at a time, and these must be button-holed with silk the same color when done, place moss leaves and sew on. The object is not to injure the leaves by having too many wasted one time, as they would drop ofi and spoil

from

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0H-

Bee

over-handling. In work

ing at fancy work the hands should be Washed frequently, as nothing spoils the luster of silk and velvet as hands tthat perspire. The same rule applies to cloth applique work. The back of the cloth is not gummed, but a spot of :gum, placed here and there, fixes the pattern and makes it easy to work. •Some people run the leaves round on ithe material with fine cotton but in pulling out the cotton afterward you ruffle the work, and make it look 88 if it had been dragged out of ^the rag-bag. Also in thus tacking on, •there is always a chance of an infenor worker pulling the pattern, that is, making it puff up while the material is drawn tight, and in that case the un"der material should be snipped with the scissors, which will remedy the evil.—American Queen.

Practical Home Hints.

Two pretty tidies for the back of a small sofa which is divided in two parts are made thus: For one take three pieces of blue ribbon the length of

the

sofa cushion, put lace insertion

the same width as the ribbon between the Btrips of ribbon, trim the edge with narrow lace, not morethan inch and a half wide. For the use a contrasting color of ribbo2%?ink

fine

?he

,, If- 1

Luxury.

^•isr

Within a nest of rosea, E ,H&1I hidden from the sight, Until a smile discloses -Itslovelinessnrtgot.

Beh°W

the work of Cupid, ^a™ Who wrought it. in a freak,' ifp The witching little dimple— J*

The dimple on heroheek! The sirens' lays and glances -, a The perilous romances

Of fabled Lorelle, And all the spells of Circe A -j Are reft of charm and weak „y: Beside the dainty dim pie— J. ffs

crimson are pretty, or

aflkde of yellow will answer.

Make

t^ tidy just like the other in form. A work-Dasket or waste-paper basket •which has become worn

and

Droken at

Spaces may be made to serve a good ^rnoseb^liuing it have the lining full bring it over the outside of

biket,hem the edge and shir it it with fine stitches to the SSS A» "d basket repaired in thi. 'wy Seven prettier than some new

OQ6S*

ia not

every

soap

that it is in goo canton

corners, tak

never

flannel of

the

good quality,

box,

then

cutty

&mncQaXm

?PraThe outside and the inside should ing. ine

this is successful

SS b/3l' b«. not otherwise^n

V» lule

friend's house

to her desk

once she as^ea i^saw there, on

for

8.°^

5SHSW

ijie fid, a motto written by

hereeli and evidently intended for no S. It said:

"Do

not scold do not

Yes," she said in answer to an I:™, look "I was obliged to pat There I wasn't very well, little fhinl troubled me,and it is so natural Sk of them but I noticed after a 1 tttlTwhile that when in the monung early before school or breakfast, I began to speak of the wrong doinga of any member of the family, that the wrone doings and the tendency to Skof them increased alarmingly all through the day, and I discovered that if I was silent the opposite was true, and I began to earnestly beheve as I

& Unique Furnishings.

The Oriential style drapery in drawing room curtains is exceedingly graceful and unique. In the model window the inner single curtain, which is close to the window,

cream-colored

left, consists of dark blue plush, draped with a cord and tasseled band, in Italian style, while the second curtain, wliioli

jIIh

straight, is of old gold silk,

and Lit-1J in position by nnyther tasseled band. The valance of blue blush, is lined with lid

hIk,

and the drapery over

nir! trillery and on both sides is looped and arrarged in revere. Two smaller liai-'-s hold the indented 8ide parts in poMiior. The gallery is covered with :ld grid silk and bound with a dark '•!n^ gold cord. For the edging of .*!•.rt.^ins an«l valance p-irli-colored lull or tassel fringe in blue and gold is used. trge mirrois in simple frames, used in i«sinK rooms, are draptd with apj.

|.ri*te

uiateriuls in various styles.

Oin- 'i ii ror has valance with pendant sides, .jH!eof plush,with a silk lining, the i- lora to match or to contrast with the wall paper and furniture. The frame itself is hidden from top to bottom by a narrow banging of plush, with silk edge, both in colors to heighten the effect of the valance

Maidenhood.

I have no name. For they that know me best Know how to name me not. The nlgntngale Sings when the summer nights.are sllent-

e8t.

And the stars tremble, listening to her tale. Shy melancholy's sweetest chll$ am I. Sweeter than Joy. I hover between song And Silence. There Is smi'lng In my sigh, And sighing in my smile. A thought among Thy tnoughts, I wander like a wind thro' flowers, And only by thy trembling canst thou tell My secret Influence on thy silent hours. Yet, dost thou know me, child, and kaow sae well. —Earl of Lytton in Youth's Companion.

New Fabrics,

Bome new fabrics have been brought out in Paris for evening and visiting toilets. Among them is "taffetas chantilly." The ground of the goods is in such colors as pink, seal, green and cardinal red. On the ground is a peculiar embroidery in relief, in imitation of lace applique. Many fancy toilets are of glazed goods. Some are of fine woolen fabrics, which combine colors such as blue and old gold for the ground, with cashmere designs of large flowers in blended shades of blue and old gold. A number of

dresses

for American ladies have just

been completed in Paris. One of these is a dinner dres3. It has a pink satin skirt trimmed with butterfly bows among the plaits. The red in gote is of Pekin pompadour, striped with pink moire and blue satin brocade and covered with rosebuds. The front of the redingote opens over a straight blouse of white lace, covered with ornaments of white beads. The blouse is loose from the neck down and covers part of the skirt. It is then taken up over the hips in plainer style. The back forms a straight plaited skirt. Another suit for visiting purposes is of moss cachemire, "caroubier" surah, and brocaded moss velvet, on a ground of caroubier satin. The brocaded satin skirt forms points on the lower parts, under which are seen two small

moss

velvet plaitings

and a red surah plaiting. The draped tunique is of moss cachemire. The brocade jacket has a rouned basque, and opens over a plaited vest of red surah, which is shirred on the neck and waist, and finished with two black lace ruffles. The basque closes at the waist and neck by means of two moss silk cordings, with

olive-shaped

passe-

mentre ornaments. The back of the basque forms two fluted plaits, lined with surah and arranged in shell shape. The neck trimming consists of a draped fichu of surah, bordered with black lace.

Fashion Nots.

The big bonnet is banished. India silks will be much worn. Bracelets are worn over the gloves'. The stockings of children now match the dress.

Gray brown Is a popular shade in the new spring velvet*. The capote of medium size is the bonnet of the near future.

Characters at fancy balls have their names inscribed upon their fan. Boys wear the Russian blouse Hntil they are six or eight years of age.

There is great activity in household linens in the retail business at present. A tiny bird, hovering over a rose, Is one of the prettiest of the new printed percale designs.

Parisians are combining English crape with satin for effeclive dinner and reception toilets.

A little pelerine cape, ]ust covering the shoulders, Is pretty and fashionable with the toilets of children,

A little gathered capote of two shades of blue, pink or yellow is the proper bonnet for the three-year olds.

For the overcoats and dresses of little girls and boys taking their first steps, libbed velvet is quite popular.

Large flower designs on the new silk fabrics will be outlined with narrow lace, embroidered in Jet or beads.

Almost the only trimming employed on the handsome silk and velvet dresses of little children is the large, full sash.

The new satteens, with a cresoent and star design on grounds of various colors, are destined to great popularity.

Gendarme blue Is so becoming that Englishwomen have revived it, and are toning it with brown marabont trimmings.

Pretty foreign-looking capotes, covered with upright cock's feathers, accompany dark-green and black walking costumes.

A Portraiture of Washington. From the Oration delivered before Congress December 28, 1799, by Major General Henry Lee, a Representative from

Virginia.

"Possessing a clear and penetrating mind, a strong and sound judgment, calmness and temper for deliberation, with invincible firmness, and perseverance in resolutions maturely informed, drawing information from all, acting from himself with incorruptible integrity and unvarying patriotism, his own superiority and the public confidence alike marked him as the man designed by Heaven to lead in the great political as well as military events which

have

woman who can cover

box wUh plush and so transIt into a book rack of elegance. WI to clue plush to aboard and \In^moofh?one needs a little exhave it smo to try ex-

pe"e«mte

wfth cheaper material than

Pf1i? After

examining the box to

Ju'ot is in stood condition at the

distinguished the era of^his life. "First in war, first in peace,'and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere uniform, dignified, and commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting. "To his equals he was condescending, to his inferiors kind, and to the dear object of his affections exemplarily tender. Correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence, and virtue always felt his fostering hand the purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues. "Methinks I see hia august image and hear falling from his venerable lips these deep-sinking Words: 'Cease, sons of America, lamenting our separation. Goon, and confirm by your wisdom, the fruits of our joint councils, joint efforts and common dangers. Reverence religion diffuse knowledge throughout your land patronize the arts and sciences let liberty and order be your inseperable companions control party spirit, the bane of free government observe good faith to and cultivate peace with all nations shut up

every

avenue to foieign influence:

contract rather than extend national connection rely on yourselves only be American in though^ and deed. Thus will you give immutibility to the union which was the constant object of my terrestrial labois. Thus will you preserve undisturbed to the latest posterity the felicity of a people to me

most

d?d before that my own soft

words turned away my own wrath, and

isn't

that what

really means? for it

frequently happens that other people wrath is increased by that very course. —NewYgxk Post.

nnde of very light

silk. 01 the pair of cur-

fptng fallowing, the large one, to the

dear, and thus will you supply, if my happiness is now aught to you, the only vacancy in the round of pure bliss high heaven bestows.'"

Eight hundred vagrants, a score of them men whose ages ranged from ninety to ninety-nine years, were arrested in a single week toward the close of last month in Paris. Many of them asserted that they had not slept on a bed for thirty years.

The Italian government has determined to offer on the occasion ot opening the Turin Exhibition a pri*e of 10,000 francs for tae most practial process for the transmission of electricity.

CURIOSITIES OF COUKT8HIP.

Love-Malciog Episodes Which Show that Troth I* Stranger than FictionCases in Which Suddenness Has Carried the lay—Instances in Which Women Hare Taken the Initiative. Chicago Inter-Ocean.

There is a veritable incident on record of an old 8cotch dame, toothless and nearly bent double with the aches and pains of advanced years, who, when asked at what age women gave over thinking of the men, replied, "Deed, ye maun een gang and ask some one mair nicket in the horn than me!" So we give as companion to this instance one equally authentic of a small American damsel of 4 years who being once chided by a grown-up sister of talking of marriage, with the admonition that such little girls should not think of getting married, replied with the utmost amazement at her elder's ignorance, *'Why, I thought about it when I was only 2!"

Sir Arthur Helps gave it ashis beliei that since the world was created no two couples ever made love after the same fashion. And since "it takes all sorts of folks to make a world" they may be fairly supposed to do their courting in all sorts of wayB. For instance, the courting of the aboriginal of Australia consisted simply in knocking the woman of his preference down with a club and carrying her off. This form of wooing was as efficacious as brief, and was certainly commendable.

ON THE 8CORE OP ECONOMY

since it subjected neither party to the expense of lights, fires, oyster suppers, ice cream, elaborate dresses, flowers, etc., which are the usual concomitants of civilized love-making. But the method of the Australian has been tried bv others than the dusky savages.

It is an historic fact that William the Conqueror conducted his courtship in a similar manner.' Having fallen in love with a Flemish maiden he had told her of hie preference, but received in return only scorn and indifference. Becoming enraged at this, he one day attacked the damsel in the open street and pummeled her unmercifully. The result was that she consented to his suit and made him, when married, ore of the meekest wives imaginable. In civilized countries of our day this courting ceremony is, strange to say, sometimes used after marriage.

Some curious courting customs prevail in Africa. In one tribe of Eastern Africa it is

regarded

ultra

as tbo .• lus

of gallantry for the

parade before the hut of his

inamorata

astride of a huge boar. Mungo Park tells of a tribe in the interior where custom compels a woman to. carry a calabash of water to the man who has expressed a preference for her. Seated on a mat before his door

HE WASHES HIS HANDS

in the vessel, and then the woman drinks the water as a token of her affection. Less repulsive was the act of the lover among the ancient Persians who burned his hand or cheek to prove his devotion, and then showed it to his lady love. If she was "willin'" she bound the injured part with a silk scarf but if obdurate she sent the man to the physician for healing 8&1V6S*

Among the Moravians it was the custom for the minister to select wives for the men of his congregation. If a "sister" had any objection to the "brother" selected for her life partner she was permitted to state it, but it was generally overruled by the priest's eloquence. Strange to say, the historian tells us that these marriages were generally.

In Greenland the services of the pastor of his flock are also called in. A man who has made up his mind that his worldy circumstances warrant him in indulging in what has been called the "abstract desire of every man to furnish board and lodging to some young lady," and has decided wbat young lady he wishes to be taxed for, calls on the reverend sather and states the case. The inquiry is made whether the girl knows of the Buit, to which the man replies that he has made some preliminary love-making which was not veey kindly received, but adds: "Thou knowest the ways of mankind." In Greenland, be it remarked, it is an accepted fact in Bocial philosophy that "A WOMAN'S NO MEANS YES." Th'e priest calls upon the young woman and pleads the case of her lover, assuring her that he is a good man that he catches many seals, etc. It is the custom for the women to reject all proposals at first, but to yield at last an unwilling assent. If the priest thinks she is too obstinate he generally remarks, "Ah, well, it is no matter I can easily find another woman who will have such a good provider," and turns to leave, which action brings the stubborn maiden to term at once.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, a custom prevailed for many years—though declined greatly in importance, it has not gone wholly out of use—which was designed to stimulate the laggards in courtship. On Whit Sunday there was held, in the Summer garden, one of the city's parks, a fair of all the damseis in the city who wanted husbands. Dressed in their best, with all the ornaments at command, and holding silver spoons or other ware in their hands, to show that they are not wholly portionless, they stood in rows under the trees, attended by parents or guardians to insure propriety of

We find a custom precisely like this still in existence in a district in the South of Ireland. There it is known as "shrafting," the name beingderived from Shrove Tuesday, the day on which it is held. On that day all the marriageable young people of both sexes are marshaled on the village green by the parents, the girls in all the glory of Sunday gown and gay ribbons, as lovely as fresh-blown roses, evidently enjoying their blushes, and the young men, also in their best attire, looking as foolish as only the male human can look on exhibition. The two sexes are stationed in line apart from each other and the parents pass between Cb vouchsafe proposals or to recieve them, and to haggle over marriage portions. The preferences of the young people are fully understood by the elders, and commendable effort is made to gratify them, the main object of the parents being to secure as good a set-out as possible for the young couples, AS this ceremony occurs on Shrove Tuesday.it is often "a short shrift and along rope" to the willing victims, for Len-t beginning the following day, which perforce postpones all marriages for six weeks, the majority of the couples are united by the priest the same evening.

Happy is the wooing Which is not long in doing.

the sentiment of the ancient Celt, was also the belief of the famous Dr. Abernathy. This gentleman, when he

MADE CP HIS MIND TO MABSY,

'was no longer young, and he went about the business in an eminently practical manner. Having met fre quently at the home of one of his patients a young woman whose comeliness and amiability had quite pleased him, he sought a private interview with her, told her he would Kke to

A -f

marry her, if she had no objections but had no time to spend in courting her. If, however, she would marry him and could be ready in two weeks, he would call and take her to church for the ceremony. She was ready at the time appointed, and neither ever had occasion to regret the very brief preliminaries to what proved to be a most suitable union. All persons, we may suppose, have not like opportunity with these two to be assured of the worthiness of the object of their choice beforehand but there are instances where even bolder suitors than Abernathy have been favored by fortune. A California miner, having amassed quite a fortune, was returning by ship to New York, to revisit old friends and to find him a wife. A young woman on board the ship, serving in the capacity of nursery governess to the family of a merchant on board, pleased him much by her neat and modestappearance. He therefore introduced himself one day, and broke the ice of his purpose with one reckless plunge: "Madame, my name ia my parents and family reside in New Hampshire: I have property amounting to $200,000, and expect to engage in business in I am a perfectly temperate man, and

CAN GIVE YOU GOOD BKFEBENCE

to testify of my general upright character. I am unmarried and want a wife will you marry me?" The lady took in the character of her suitor at once. "Thank you," said she, "I will," and on landing they were forth with married.

The expense in light, fuel, etc., which the courtship bring upon paterfamilias is a never-worn-out joke with our newspapers. Probably these longenduring fathers would welcome the introduction of tho system of courtship pursued by the Boers—a thrifty race of Holland descent in South Africa. Here it is the practice for the young man to make known his intentions to the lady of his choice by calling, armed with a long candle. If his suit is agreeable to the lady and her family, the mother lights the candle brought, sticks a pin in it to indicate how long a time the young people are to be allowed to devote to wooing this time, and leaves them alone. When the candle has burned down to the pin she returns, and the young man must withdraw. The same candle is brought out at subsequent visits, and burned by installments, and when it is entirely consumed the girl is expected to have her trousseau in readiness for the wedding.

The Rev. Richard Hooker had no time to devote to courtship, and, therefore, deputed his landlady, Mrs. Churchman, to find him a wife. She selected her daughter Joan, but the unfortunate devine no doubt often quoted in the recesses of his soul in after years the old saying: "Marry in haste to repent at leisure." For Joan proved

A TERRIBLE SHREW,

and led the poor mimister a wretched life of it. Courting by proxy is a dangerous thing, whether a plausible old lady or a bosom friend is employed to do it. So the Saxon King Edgar found it when he sent his friend Athelstane to report on the charms of a lady called the most beautiful in the kingdom, and to offer her the office of queen should she be as lovely as reported: But Athelstane fell in love with her himself, and wooed and married her, and then told the king she was not beautiful at all, only being rich. When the ktng found out how he hsd been deceived Athelstane had to lose not only his beautiful wife and her wealth, but his head into the bargain. And we have no doubt that King Edgar after that always held to the motto which Capt. Miles Standish failed to heed on one unfortunate oc casion. "If you want a thing done, do it yourself, and do not leave it to others."

He who shall some day from the rich stores of this fascinating subject write a history of courtship must not fail to give an important chapter to courtship by ladies. To be sure, this has generally been of the passive sort, but there have been some verv interesting instances wherein

THE SOFTER SEX

has taken the initiative. A writer, whose veracity, however, we dare not vouch for, gives the following as an actual statute recorded in the old Saxon code, giving to the lady the privilege that she has taken such poor advantage of: "Albeit, as aften as leape yearre doth occure the womanne holdetb prerogative over the manne in matters, of courtship, love and matrimonie: so that when the lady proposeth, it shall not be lawful for the manne to say her naej but he shall entertain her proposal in all gude courtesie."

However, whether this law was ever placed on record or not, the practice of female proposals was neveradopted, and

seems

never to have been more

than a tradition. There have been instances, of course, of a "woman who dared," but not many, for the risk of a refusal was too serious_ a one to run. How the Princess Louise, of Savoy, ever recovered from her humiliation after having offered herself in marriage to Charles, duke of Bourbon, only to receive a grave but positive refusal, few women can understand. Ladies, however, are permitted to assist a bashful wooer.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, "Who dares not put It to the touch,, .5

And win and lose it all.

behav

ior, to facilitate matrimonial bargains. The men in search of wives strolled about scrutinizing the candidates at leisure. When a man saw one that pleased him, he usually

INTRODUCED HIMSELF

to her custodians, and if his statement of family, busing and prospects were satisfactory, he was made acquainted with the young woman and invited to her residence. After this the nuptial ceremony followed as speedily as the would-be bridegroom desired.

Such was .the case with the young lady who assured her lover that she COULD MAKE A BEAUTIFUL CAKE, all filled with fruit, with a ring on the top, and when the astonished swain exclaimed, "Why, that is a wedding cake," replied, "I mean wedding," which brought matters to a crisis -im mediately. More Bhrewd still was the young lady—and more daring—who told her admirer that she was a mind reader, and could read what was going on in his mind at that moment that he wanted to propose to her, but did not know how to do it, which of course relieved the young man from his embarrassment permanently.

A very bashful man having succeeded in winning a wife, a lady relative teased him to tell her how he ever plucked up courage enough to propose. "Now, tell me the truth N ," said she, "did not the lady have to do the courting for you?" "N—no," answered the gentleman, "but I own she smoothed over the hard places for me." And this seems to be the lady's mission in courtship, to smooth over the hard places. ?4 _1

He Had Him, Bald-Headed. fioston Traveller. They were two solid citizens. One was bald, but rejoiced in a fine luxuriant beard. The other had a heavy growth of hair on the head but was very bald as to his chin. The baldchinned citizea was a very talkative individual, whose conversation was rapid and incessant. Meeting the bald-headed citizen one day in a company of gentlemen, he opened fire on him touching the bareness of his sconce. "What do you suppose," said he in his rattling, vivacious way, "what do you suppose, neighbor, iB the reason that you have no hair on your head, and so much on your chin?" "Well," said the other, very deliberately, scientists say that men who work with their brains create such a heat in the scalp that the hair is worn off." "That sounds like a likely theory," chimed in the loquacious citizen. "Yee, it does," returned the otheT, "and I think your case is a striking illustration of its probability. Now you have pleri*c of hair on your head, but none on y^rchin, which just backs up the scientific rti*iryf because all your work is done with your jaws—then*nothing doing on top.V

Joeie Mansfield's grandmother and Guitean's mother-in-law are inmates of the "Old People's Home" ift Chicago.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 2,1884.

THINGS THAT AMUSE.

Clippings From the Fanny Columns of the Press.

A Lakeside Musing—A New Way of Paying a Debt—The Disappointed Walter—Jokes From the

Freshet Alauuaes.

Says Reuben Knott onto hia fair, In language barnlng hot: "Matilda, do you love me dearT" 8ays she: "I love yon, Knott." "Ob, say not so!" again he cried: "Oh, share with me my lot! Oh, say that yon will be my bride 1".

Says sh«: "111 wed yon, Knott." "Oh, cruel fair, to serve me so! I love yon well, you wot!" "I could not wed yon, Reub," cays she, "For then I should be Knott." Alight broke in on Reuben's mind

As in his arms she got She looks demurely in his face And says: "Pray kiss me, Knott!"

Anon..

A LEAP YEAR FAILURE.

Chicago Tribune. "My heart is broken!" The words came with a strange passionate force from the lips of Mignon McNulty as she stood beneath the larches that beautiful June evening and looked tendeily np to George W Simpson, and in the fathomless depths of her great brown eyes there was a wistful, fear-haunted look that told its own sad story of a sorrow that was almost despair.

The man made no reply to the girl, nor did he even look at her. His face was turned away, and although he could feel the little hand that rested so lightly on his shoulder tremble like an aspen, there was no sign in his face by which one could read his thoughts. It was a handsome face—the lines perfect in their contour, and the fair, white skin was mantled here and there by just the suggestion of a deeper color—and yet, if one looked closely, there was something unpleasant about it all, and the clear gray eyes held ever a lurking expression of firmness that might easily become cruelty. It was a face that came nearest telling its own story when in perfect repose. When George W. Simpson became engaged in conversation women called him divine. Thei riant mouth, wreathed in the sunniest of smiles, lost all the rigidity of lines that characterized it at other times, and the gray eyes looking into yours so frankly seemed but open portals to a soul within whose precincts the gaunt, horrible figures of despair and doubt had never stalked with echoing tread.

At last he turned to |Mignon. "I must go now," he said, passing his womanly white hand tenderly over the girl's brow, and then kissing her there in reverent fashion. "Will you not say good-by?"

There was no answer, and he walked slowly down the pathway leading to the gate, Mignon standing there Tike one in a trance. In the west the sun was sinking to rest, and over the girl's head a lark uttered its musical cry as it flew swiftly by. Not far away was a horse-car. y"V

The girl did not move. The lark was lost in the far blue(overhead the street-car sped on and on until the last gleam of its rear platform vanished the sun sank lower and lower, till it glowed like a globe of flame upon the edge of the horizon. Through all this Mignon never moved, but stood there under the larches with head drooped upon her breast, her form thrown out dark and motionless against the gold of the western sky, and on her face the look of one to whom death would be a blessing.

The sun sank entirely, leaving only a trail of flame across the heavens the wind rose and blew back from her forehead the masses of blue-black hair that clustered there. She started then, as if awakened from a dream, and walked swiftly into the house. Her mother, hearing the well-known footsteps, met her at the door. One glance told her all. "You have failed."

"Yes," answered Mignon, "he says he will marry no one, and that leap year is nothing but a foolish tradition. He is a heartless coquet. But let him beware. There is one whom he may yet meet whose witchery he cannot escape, even if he would. Pray heaven she may come this way!" and the girl sank weeping upon a fauteuil. ''Of wlnm do you speak?" asked her mother. "Who is this peerless beauty

Looking steadily at her mother Mignon hissed through her new teeth the fatal words: "Susan B. Anthony!" .-j

COLLECTING A BIL£

Detroit Free Press.

A citizen who has an office on Monroe avenue has for the last three years been owing a grocery bill. The grocer's collector called on him ov6r one hundred times to secure payment of the debt, but was always put off with some excuse or other. At one time it was death—another sickness—another time bad luck, and so it went on until it really seemed impossible for the debtor to invent any new pleas. The other day the grocer himself took the bill in his fist and cornered the debtor in his office. "Yes, I know—very sorry—hand you the money a week from to-day," was the smiling excuse. "See here!" said the grocer, as he locked the door and pulled off his coat "I've been figuring on this mat ter. This bill is for $15. I can give you the worst licking a man ever received and get off with a fine of $10. I'll then give you a receipt for the other five and the account will be closed. Prepare to be pulverized!" "But suppose I lick you—then what?" queried the other. "Then there won't be any resort to the law, and you shall have a receipt in full!" "That seems to be fair, and I'll do my best," said the debtor, and at it they went. The grocer expected to get away from him in about a minute, but he was a deceived man. It wasn't over three minutes before he was knocked over a chair and rendered hors de combat. "Is it a receipt in full?" asked the debtor as he sat astride of the other and keptbo.h hands fastened in his hair, "She is!" "And you'll pay me $2 in cash for the broken furniture?" "Yes." "Then you may get up, and I'll recommend you to a doctor who ll fix your broken collor-bone as good as new inside of a week."

The grocer gave him a receipt -for the account, and banded over $2 in cash, and later in the day, when telling the story in his store, he explained •'Gentlemen, I've scores of citizens, abused dozens of hackmen, and been aching for three years past to pulverize someone. It's worth $17 to me to know that my grit gives out with the first round 5"

"WHO TURN DAT DOG LOOSE?" Merchant Traveler.

At a certain hotel in Peoria, where the meals were not always what they should be, a merchant traveler one day sat down to the table. He put a dollar under a tumbler and, calling a waiter, said: 'Do you see that dollar, Jim? I 'Yes, sah," replied Jim, with a grin. 'Well, now, Jim, I want jrou to get

a real good, first-class dinner. You lerstand?" Yes, sah." and Jim set opt about furnishing a feast fit for a king. H# no time to see anybody else. He ted up new dishes, put extra touches on everything, and kept_his

eye

es, pi

irything, and

on the dollar. Finally th6 M.T.

finished, and, wiping his mouth, he a "Yes, sah," grinned the darky, in anticipation.

•JinvdcTyou see that dollar?" put- sacque buy."

tins his band on it in a generous way. es, sah." "Well, yon will never see it again," and it went into his pocket and out of the dining room, while Jim indignantly remarked: "Fo' de Lawd, who tornaathog loose in heah?"

THE L1MK-KILN CLUB.

Detroit Free Press. As the meetnig opened the president announced that the following spring mottoes would be hung on the walls during the coming week: "Pay cash." "Deal on de squarV' "Sell yonr d£." "No man kin sit on de fence and plant onions." "Time wasted am shillins lost out of a hole in de pocket" "If it am pollyticks sgainst 'taters, take de 'taters." "An hour wid a saw-buck am more valuable dan an hour wid a statesman. ~"De man in debt am a swimmer wid his bntes on."

LACK OF

Philadelphia Call. Paterfamilias—What is included in your curriculum

Young Hopeful—Our wbat, pa? Paterfamilias—The curriculum of your college.

Young Hopeful—Well, to tell the truth, I don't know. You see, being the stroke oar and the picked nine captain, I have not much time for botany.

TOOK CARE OP THE H0B8K.

Texas Sittings. Passenger—How long have yoa been employed on the street-cars

Driver—Fifteen year^—barrin'when I was sick. Passenger—You must be a great favorite with the company

Driver—Ha! hal ha! D'ye see that owld gray mare I'mdhrivin'? Well, we both fell sick together at rvanst last winter. Thev sint for a doctherfor the horse, an they sint me me resignation. ....

LAUGHLXTS.

very hot-headed when it is

Gets

scratched—a match. If the backbone of winter isn't broken it must be terribly water-soaked by this time.

While we follows are scratching to earn our living the cremationists are taking measures to urn their dead.

The girl who doesn't glaze her front hair and forehead with bandoline should be praised for her gum-shun.

The cashier's wife who is anxious to figure in society is often to blame for her husband's fuulty figuring as an accountant.

Oan the bashful young man who blushes violently whenever -he performs polite offices for the ladies be called the pink of courtesy "My dear," Baid a wife to her rich but illiterate husband, "I want $500." "What fur?" he inquired. "Sealskin sir," she said, and she got it. "Jonny," said the editor to his hopeful, "are yoji in the first class at school?" "No," replied the youngster, wh had studied the paternal sheet, "I am registered as second-class male matter."

One for Boston. New Yorker (yrho has been "stuck" more than an hour with the intellectual young lady from Boston)—"You say you despise New York men. Then why do you come to New York, and why do you go to New York paities Young lady from Boston "For a complete intellectual rest."

A CURIOUS BEAR STORY.

How Brain Tenderly Cared for a Child He Had Carried Off. Correspondence Glasgow Herald.

Mr. George Swift, a ranchman in the Grand -Valley, tells a story which shows how unenviable is the life of the stock-raiser in that wilderness. A short time ago Mr. Swift let his three-year-old daughter ride upon his horse, and after she had ridden about forty rods from home he lifted her off the animal and told her to run home. On returning about an hour later he found that the little one had not reached home, and, going to the place where he had last seen her, he found bear tracks in the sand. A posse was formed, and all night was spent in searching for the lost child.

In the morning, as the searchers were passing a swampy spot where the undergrowth was thick, they heard her voice. They called to the little girl to come out of the bushes, but she replied that the bear would not let her. The men crept through the brush, and when tear the spot heard a splash in the water, which the child said was the bear. They found her standing upon a log, extending half across the s.ramp, and it seemed as though the bear had undertaken to cross the swamp on the log, and, being pursued, left the child and got away

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as rapidly as possible. She had received some scratches about the face, arms and legs, and her clotheB were almost torn f»om her body, but the bear had not bitten her to hurt her, only the marks of his teeth being found upon her back, where he had taken hold of her clothes to carry her. The child told her rescuers that the bear had put her down occasionally to rest, and would put his nose up to her face, wherenpon she would Blap him and he would hang his head by her side and purr and rub against her like a cat. Her father asked her if she had been cold during the night, and she told him the old bear lay beside her and put his "arms" around her and kept her warm.

How to Keep Informed.* Fort Wayne News. The difference as regards the amount of useful practical knowledge*derived from reading the regular monthly magazines, and the nly papers has been demonstrated by a physician in this city. He and his wife are both constant readers. In order to provide his wife with interesting and nseful reading matter, the doctor subscribed for a number of the standard monthly magazines for her, all of which she reads. He would, during the evenings, converse with her upon the more important topics of the day to ascertain how much knowledge she derived from these magazines as regards tbe important daily events transpiringing in different parts of the world. After providing her with these magazines for a year, he dropped them and subscribed for all the daily papers of this city and several county papers, all of which his wife read. The doctor found while conversing with his wife while reading the daily papers that her knowledge qf important men and events was was infinitely greater and more valuable than while she was reading magazines, He says there is no better wav to gain a practical and useful knowledge of the world and its affairs, than by reading the better class of daily newspapers. A newspaper is an encyclopedia of the daily events of the world, and a constant reader of them may be justly termed a treasurus.

Parcel Post Service in England. The parcel post service introduced in England by the government is not paying its way. The reason given is that parcels of any value are still sent by private agencies, owing to the failure of the government to afford redress in the event of loss or damage in transmissiop. In order to overcome t.Ma objection to the parcelpost,it is now proposed to charge an additional penny for packages of value, and make the government responsible for their safe delivery to the same d( it is in the case of registered

that

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Translated from the Omaha Omnibus: She—"Dearest hnsband, dear Otto, I love thee indeed to much there bast thou a kiss." He—"Very fine, Marie! But now at the last of the month I cannot for thee a now seal

UORSE9 AT SCHOOL.

The Old System of Breaking as Coas. pared with tb« Hew Method* of Train-Ing.—"All-Gatted" Kentneky Animals —How Perfect Mastery la Obtained by the Teacher Over the Basistlna

Cltl.

Philadelphia Times. "If you want a good saddle hone," said Beth Craige, the riding master, "yon must have him trained. Formerly the art of horsemanship was entirely different from what it is now,in that it failed almost entirely to take into due consideration the nature and peculiarities of the horse. In former times the most important appliances for instructing a horse were the curb Lit and spur. These were regulated in severity as the rider's judgment of the disposition of the horse he bestrode deemed best, and hence there were at times misunderstandings between horse and man that resulted in cruel usage. In those days the only necessary gaits, for a saddle horse were the rack and canter. Now the canter comes naturally to a horse, but the rack is generally the result of education. In Virginia horse locomotion was necessary in early days, because of the sparsely settled condition of the country, anu thus the Virginia horses, receiving good training, were alwas preferred. Now many good saddle horses come from Ken tucky, and are what are termed 'all gaited,' which is a partial misnomer, since they do not trot. To ride a thoroughly trained horse is almost as easy as sitting in a rocking-chair, but the misfortune is that a majority of the riders do not understand their horses, and ride them after tbe oldfashioned way, which depended entirely upon the curb-bit and the spur. In the old days horses were broken, now they are trained and taught. Horse-training is a profession in itself, and demands great knowledge, labor, practice and experience." "How do you start with a horse sent to you to be trained for use under the saddle?"

THE RESISTING MUSCLES.

"In training the important and difficult matter is to discover the resisting muscles and to overcome their resistance. These are the jaw, tbe neck and the hind legs, and of these the trainer must possess complete control. Tbe heavy bearing of a horse upon his bit originates from one or all of these three points, and can be obviated with proper and careful training. If the horse bears uncomfortably, that is, pulls uneasily on the bit, it is caused by the jaw if more than slightly, but not as uneasily, the result is from the neck and jaw, and sometimes from the hind quarters. The latter is the chief foundation of resistance, causing the horse to pull with unresisting power, which, if not overcome, becomes uncontrollable. To this can be attributed the many runaways, and it is essential that the muscles I have named should be under the control of the rider." "Do you think that training adds to the physical improvement of the horse and lengthens his life?" "Most assuredly. A horse in balance will wear twice as long as one that throws most of his weight forward on his fore legs. When well balanced by training the machinery of the animal works easily and uniformly. Suppose you start your horse to travel six miles an hour. He ought to expend just enough physical power to make that speed but if, as generally hap-

ens with a spirited mount, he baa to restrained, he wears himself as much as if his speed was actually ten miles an hour. Formerly we had no means of holding him in, and when we put on a Bevere curb-bit his center of

gravitv

was in front, and the curb

was of "little use. Thus we aim to make the horse carry his burden so that it will fall principally upon the hind quarters, and this is a matter of intelligent training."

WALKING, TROTTING AND CANTERING.

"What are the popular gaits?' "A good, well-formed and uniform horse is like a good piece of machinery. He may be worn a great deal, but he will still work as well as ever in spite of years. But when any one part gives out the whole machine is gone. Thus it is our aim to equalize the work of the horse, so that none of his organs may do an undue share. The saddlehorse of the present day walks, trots and canters. The walk and trot are generally used, few who are considered good riders allowing their horses to CAQt6r" "How do you' toach a horse to

"He must first be brought into balance and taught to give up the resistance of the neck and jaws. When this is done and he is mounted the gentle pressure of the rider's legs will excite him to go forward, while he is restrained by the reins. When you restrain him thus you expect him either to stop or go on more slowly. If you urge him on with your legs or touch him with the spur or whip you expect him to go_ faster. Now, ii you urge him on you restrain him slightly, at the same time you will cause him to gather himself up, step more quickly and more actively and bring his hind legs under his body. When his hind lege are well under him he has better command of himBelf, and his front legs are relieved from the superabundant we ght that is likely to make him stumble. His back is stronger, because he carries the rider's weight on his hind legs rather than on his back. The English use a long saddle, well put back, to accomplish what we do by training. To have a horse well trained he should first be taught with the bit before being mounted. "We teach him to turn his head right or left, and he soon learns to take the direction deBired by the rider. When we have overcome the resistance of the neck we attend to the movement of the croup, which gives us control of the hinder part of the animal. To accomplish this the horse is mounted, and the trainer, holding the reins, touches him on the side with his heel or the whip, behind the saddle. This causes him to move his croup, making a pivot of his fore-legs, and puts his croup under control and enables the rider to move it in any direcrion he may wish."

ONE THING THET CAN'T DO.

"How do you teach a horse to walk backwards?" "To back a horse in a straight line would be impossible, unless you could control his croup. To teach a horse to back re get him well balanced and then he is made by a touch on his hind leg to raise it up. At the instant that this leg is raised he is forced to make aback step, and this gives him the idea he wanted—that it is almost as easy to walk backward as forward. The whip and the spur are not used by good trainers as punishment (unless the horse is lazy), but as means of telling the horse what the driver wants him to do."

After his pleasant chat, Mr. Craige mounted a fine sorrel and put him through his motions. Backing, walking sideways, taking a sort of a sliding waltz step, climbing upon a platform and grouping his four feet upon a ilatform

•That horse," said Mr. Craige, "may be said to be well educated but any other ordinary horse c?n be made to do these things just as well if properly trained."

Sqjonrner Truth as a Iiectmrer. Rochester Post-Express. The most striking of her sayings was the famous interruption of Frederick Douglass, who, on the occasion of an anti-slavery convention, before a large

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audience, was making one of his most eloquent speeches, in which he was portraying the situation of the country and the attitude of his race under tbe domination of the slave power in the most lamentable light, as though everything was about to go headlong to wreck and ruin, when Sojourner interrupted by asking the pertinent question, "Frederick, is God dead?" Its electric effect was instantly manifested upon the entire audience. She did not call herself a lecturer, but a messenger. When asked concerning the subjects of her lectures, her answer wu, "How do I know whatde Lo'd will put into my mouth to say? Take notes? Write out my lectures?

Why, chile, Sojourner can't read a word, even if she could write out her lectures. "De Lo'd just putB de words into my month, and I go to hear myself as much as any one else comes to hear me." That, she exclaimed, was her idea of genuing preaching. "When Igetuj

of genuing preaching. "Wl to talk," she continued, going to me from

In January, 1882, there left Inverness, Scotland, for America, a young fellow named William Anderson. His father was one of the many prosperous wool-growers of that vicinity,:» widower, with one son and one daughter. He was a straight-laced Scotch Presbyterian, and his boy William, becoming tired of the restraints pnt upon him, and the drudgery of the work among his father's flocks, resolved to start out and see the world for him. self. He made his way to Liverpool on board a sailing vessel, arriving there with £50 in his pocket, a good portion of which had been given him by his kind-hearted sister, to whom he had confided his intentions of seeking a fortune in America. He came to this country by the first outgoing steamer and knocked about New York for a while, vainly endeavoring to secure work. For a time he had employment with a truckman, but his fondness for Scotch whisky soon loBt him his place, and be drifted into the furniture house where he was employed as porter While there he wrote to his sister, giving his address, but soon after that he came West, traveling in boxcars and other vehicles of the modern tramp.

Last fall he arrived in Leadvllle and sought employment in the mines, but as he was a novice in the art of excavating for mineral he was unable to procure work. In this city, however, he met some Scotchmen who had known his father in the "lang syne," and they exerted themselves in his behalf. They succeeded in having him install ed as weight master at one of the lower smelters, aud he held the situation until he received his first salary, when Scotch whisky again knocked him out of employment and the good graces of his fellow-countrymen. He becatiae a common "rounder," ate of free lunches and slept in gambling-house chairs. He was arrested for vagrancy and given twenty-four hours in, which to procure employment or leave town, the penalty of non-compliance with the command being a term on tbe chain-gang. As soon as he was libererated he started out to bunt for a job. but his dissipated and general "cussed appearance prevented him from obtaining one. That night he got drunk, and next morning he was a member of that select body ot autocrats known as the chain-gang. A few days after

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but the words come to me from Almighty power." She once said to her audience: "You have come here to hear what I am going to say, and have come here for the same purpose."

In 1878, Sojourner Truth visited New York and the East, and in the autumn of 1881 she s^oke at Chicago. She was not badly wrinkled, her hair, which was once black, then white, was ag^in black, and her eyes glistened with peculiar brightness. She was tall and slender, ebony black in complexion, with perfect teeth, and coal-black eyes "as bright as buttons."

A STRANGE STORY.

A Young Scotchman's Sndden and Unex pected Rise From Poverty te Wealth. Leadvllle Democrat.

young countryman dragging

around the heavy ball and chain with which the ankles of the gang were decorated, and he resolved to remove the stigma of dis grace from the Inverness lad, if possible. He applied to the city officials to pardon young Anderson, but they were powerless or reluctant to comply with the request. "If he is desirous of leaving the gang, why

Tbe story of Anderson's experience reads like a romance, and the manner in which he stumbled over the news of his father's death and his own good fortune is rather curious.

Mozart's Grand-Niece.

New York Sun. A grand-niece of Mozart has written to the burgomaster of Vienna, request log pecuniary assistance from tbe public treasury on the ground of her relationship to the great composer. She states that she is sixty-four yean of age, without means, and possesses neither friends nor relatives upon whom to rely for support. By reason of some unexplained status, which she appears to have occupied formerly toward the government, apparently something resembling that of a ward in chancery, she enjoys the remarkable title of "KonigHch-Kaiserliche v~,' kriegs-Kanzlisten-Wsise."

MARQUIS FROM MONTANA^

Tbe Gentleman Who Fought the Cowboys at Utile Mission—Ten Month. Work of the Marquis of Mores In the

Bad Lands—BaUding the City of Medora—A Big Business In Dressed Beef. New York Hon.

The Marquis of Mores came to New York in August, 1882. After a short time he was attracted by tbe stories of the new territory along the Notihern Pacific Bailroad, and he hnallj determined to see it for himself. In looking over the business prospects of the region he learned that the people were doing a very peculiar thing in tbe way of supplying themselves with a necessary article of diet. Bancbmen and stock breeders were raising cattle, which they sold to drovers. The drovers shipped the cattle to Chicago slaughter houses. The people of the cities along the line of the road (there were no villages, thongh some of the cities contained only three houses) were Bending to Chicago for beef, which was shipped to them in refrigerator cars. The two transportations brought up the price of steaks to afigure which even New Yoik marketmen would call handsome. The marquis made inquiry concerning the Bnipments of cattle. He found that a certain part of Montana shipped an average of 4,500 cattle a month, and imported five car loads of thirty beeves each per day. The opportunity offered for the slaughtering business in Montana was good. The marquis embraced it

Of this the public knew nothing, bat in June last,soon after the determination to go into the business, a very thrilling account of his encounters with cowboys near Little Mission was telegraphed to the New York newspapers. Some men had tried to run the Marquis out of the country. Tbe attempt gave the Marquis an opportunity to win the respect of his western neighbors, and the cowboys an opportunity to get hurt. One of them died suddenly during the encounter. They were agents for eastern land owners, and had at first tried to force the Marquis into a bargain which he did not tbink a good one.

After this encounter the marquis was allowed to pursue uis own devices. He pursued them mostly on horseback, with a sombrero on his head, a red shirt on his back, and corduroy trousers tucked into verv long legged boots. His jewelry had silver mounted handles, and were hung to a heavy leather belt He finally decided that the railroad bridge over the Little Missouri river overlooked the laiftl that he wished to buy. He purchased six square miles of the land, and Btarted in to build a city as well as anew industry. His first building in the new city was a tent, which he pitched unaided, on April 1,1883. When the last peg was driven be namsd the city Meaora. Medora is also the name of the Marquis's wife, who is the daughter of Mr. L. Von Hoffman, the Wall' street banker. Six bund red persons are now on the spot engaged in helping the growth of the city. The Badlands Cowboy, of which Mr. G. Packard, a former Chicngo reporter, is tbe editor,

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each cf the 600 wbat

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initiation to the select society he was at work in an alley, when one of his former benefactors saw him. The honest Scotchman almost wept when he saw

along

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make a brake for liberty?" said one of tbe municipal nabobs, with a look so expressive that the canny Scotchman decided there and then to induce Anderson to "make the break." Next day the guard of the chain-^ang missed one of bis flock, and that one was Anderson. How the escape was effected matters not —suffice to say that the fugitive was never again seen in Leadville. He next turned up as a sheep berder on the ranch of a wealthy Scotch-Ameri can stock raiser in Huerfano county, but be soon became tired of this work, and made his way back to Chicago where he went from bad to worse, working at odd times, drinking hard and spending many nights in the station houses. There he was taken with typhoid fever, and while in the hospi talthe Scotch benevolent society in terested itself in his behalf, and on bis recovery secured transportation for him to New York. Anderson having expreseed a wish to return home. Be lore he arrived at New York he had met a fellow-countryman who had friends in Philadelphia, and being of a sociable turn of mind he stopped off. He mislaid his ticket, spent what little money he had, lost track of his chance acquaintance and was soon in a deplorable state of poverty again. In looking over a newspaper two or three weeks old, which was wrapped around some cold victuals he begged at a back gate, he run across the name of William Anderson among the advertised letters, and while doubting that it was for him yet be went to tbe postoffice and applied for it. It was several weeks old and had been sent to his old address in New York. Though the number was correct, the street was given as "North" Eighteenth street, instead of "East" Eighteenth, and the envelope, for this reason, was indorsed "Try Philadelphia." The letter, whioh was from a firm of attorneys at Inverness, told Anderson of the death of bis sister over a year ago, and the decease of his father in December, leaving him the sole heir to the property, amounting to $30,000. Two weeks ago to-day Anderson was among the steerage passengers on tbe American line steamer Black Prince, which sailed from Philadelphia for Liverpool. He secured the means to return home from a charitable Scotch gentleman of this city, whose deeds of philanthropy are as numerous as they are unostentatious, and who declines to have his name mentioned.

the line of tbe road. He slaughtered them at convenient houses, and distributed the beef in refrigerator cars under the contract withthe^Northern Pacific. When the supply dropin herds. He 200 head of cottle a day now. His private herds at present number 6,000 head. He employs in all 150 men.

ped be drew from his owi kills about

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Near Bismarck he bought 20,000 acreB of wheat lands. To induce farmers to settle around that land he gives to each newcomer the use of 40 acres of broken land one year free, which gives the man a crop tbe first year he is there.

When the beef business was firmly on its hoofs he gave more attention to the growth of the new city of Medora. He imported in all over 1,000,000 feet of lumber for building. He had observed that the divide on the top of the ridge between tbe Little Missouri and tbe Missouri rivers, was almost a natural roadway that led directly toward Deadwood. He gave this natural roadway artificial improvements, and started the Deadwood and Medora stage line. This is now diverting tbe Deadwood trade to Medoia, to the great advantage to both places. The road will open up stock farms along the Little Missouri. It is not impossible tbat Medora may be tbe terminui of a Deadwood railway.

On Saturday the marquis registered at the Hotel Brunswick in this city. When questioned yesterday, he refused to speak of his "troubles in the West, merely saying that the bandits, not western farmers, attacked him. The people along the line of the road' had given him every encouragement in his enterprise. The business had proved profitable, he said. He came here in the interest of his business, and would return in a week. Of the

try and its prospects and its possibilities, he spoke enthusiastically. Of the temperature in winter he said: "I was there during January. It was cold. The telegraph ^ave you the thermometer's register there. But I walked and rode about comfortably without ui overcoat, because the air was dry. I have felt the cold much more severely in New York, and in Washington even. My cattle are grass fed, and they are fat. There are no better grass fed cattle in the country.

The marquis is 26 years old. He is tall and probably weighs not far from 170 pounds. He stands squarely on his heels, with his shoulders back. He has very dark hair, gray eyes, a very dark moustache, and regular features in all the marquis is a fine looking man. His dress yesterday was dark and very fashionably cnt. A silk hat replaced the sombrero of tbe plains. Any one would pick him out for a successful broker, but none would suspect him to be tbe manager of tbe various interests he has in charge along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad.

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the

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been doing during the week, and to tbe public at large details tbe many natural and acquired advantages of the new city as a place of business and residence. It has done this since February 4, a day that will therefore long be remembered in Medora.

In the meantime the marquis had not neglected his orignal intention of supplying the Montana cities with their own beef without the intervention of tbe Chicago butchers. He began by calling his enterprise the Northera Pacific Refrigerating company. It ', was a cold day among the slaughter C. houses in Chicago when he began. Then he purchased some cattle and sheep to stock his land with. The -. wire fences of the south and tbe cutting thereof did not trouble him. Nature bad provided him with natural fences, in the high, steep banks of the little creeks tbat flow into the Little Missouri river. A single line over the "divide" from creek to creek enclosed the pasture. Then slaughter houses all on on a plan were built at tbe larger places from St. Paul west. At botn Niles City and Vedalles the people united in buying 200 acres of land, which they presented to him in consideration of nis establishing the new industry of beef making. At 8t Paul he built a large refrigerator Vfl house. When ready he bought all the cattle that the ranchmen had to sell

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