Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 October 1886 — Page 3

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MISTS' MODELS.

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People Who Live, on Their Sb»p®-~ Society Women Who Pose for Their Artist Friend*.

Special

Correspondence of the

Express.

•'*NEW YOBK, October 8. uch people as bHT pictures or derive pleasure from looking at pictures owned by their richer neighbors have very little idea of the important aid iven to our artists by their models.

The model is not less essential to the painter of figure pi ha is

brashes. EVery branch of art that illustrates the Tarioua emotions of humanity, from the pen-and-ink- caricaturist wl"*e*

amusing sketch-

«t" appear in the newspapers up to the artist in oils whose signature on canvas makes it worth $1,000, depends almost entirely for success on models. The artist finds inspiration lor a fitting

subject to paint in his own mind or by studies pf the poets. Bnt without the assistance of the model the picture would never be painted. Hence there area great many people in New York who find" posing for artists sufficiently remunerative occupation to enable them to live comfortably. Posing in studios is a regular profession, which demands a Certain amount of physical ability and

Mch is very well paid. Som"

m°dels

course, receive higher

prices than" other^ The average amount given for their hour, but there are

services is 40 cents an plenty to be had for

least one young

as low as 2o cents, and ,L -i

s*red

for less

ad in he it an no be than $5 an hour. She is a bv

actress and is blessed with a

perfect that she only-finds artists of the wealthier sort willing to pay this exorbitant price in order to have her pose for their nudes. In addition to a form and limbs that are faultless she has a great, rage for facial expression and can simulate any emotion necessary for the picture. This young creature is rapidly growing rich out of the artists. She drives in her own •jpe to the studios and lives in one of finest apartment houses in town. Bhe takes a great interest in art, pays fancy prices for pictures painted of herself, and very often lends money to her artist friends when they are hard up. When a picture for which she has posed is in any of the exhibition she is always to be found there on reception days with some actress friends and aiaking no attempt to disguise the fact that she is proud of tha symmetry of ker figure.

Ihe is not the only one on the stage who

adds to a theatrical salary oyposing for

artists. Actors and actresses by the na-

ture of their profession are able to as-

sume various erar^ionBof if nTt im-

possible, to do. ^hey have leisure in the I

of men, women and children, who follow

other occupation- They are of all ages, all nationalities, all types oHeature

nnd'form required by artists. Some of .them, owing to the possession of a certain artistic excellotice, are engaged all the time. Others find it hard work to support themselves.

artist scarcely knows of her pres-

•ance. He looks up from Jus can-1 •as as her skirts rustle. "Model, sir, ahe says in a half whisper. "What for?"

"WAN1 A MODEL, SIB?"

he uk "Hands and neck," she replies, or whatever may be her specialty.. If he is working at a picture which needs such features as she has he engages her at so much an hour, or may make a bargain *y the week. After this ahe never spsaks At the appointed hour

The art school

wrir,k}pa

and

tume."*"But

have ever been able to solve. She has a perfect figure and is, beyond all ques tion, youthful. Further than this no one in the art school can_ find oat any thing about her. The veiled model re mains still, as she was first, a beautiful mystery.

THE EXTBEME3 IN MODELISM. The recent developments in the suit brought against Mr. La Farge disclosed to the public that a great number of so* ciety women pose as .models for their artist friends. This has been a matter familiar enough among art circles since pictures were fashionable. A well-shaped woman is no less vain of her form than a pretty woman is conceited over her face. To have her shapely contour portrayed on canvas is one of the greatest gratifications that a finely proportioned woman can have. So it is very usual among certain light-headed .society girls to follow the example of Napoleon's sister, who sat for a "Venus" to Canova, to pose for artists whose secrecy they can depend upon. Some of them sit half draped, but others evince no hesitation to pose nude, with the proviso that another girl's head shall be used to complete the figure. They want to chatter all the time of sitting, and have hard work to hold a pose steadily for even five minutes. But the artist who is popular in society circles pap.find a luxury of models that an ob••ure artist cannot. One of our clever--Ming artists has just finished a nude Hebe in P???ress whose painting

jnmping from

and

other models find it difficult, if not lm aight

afternoon and find it a lucrative aa weU chorus girls should pass before as a pleasant task to while away a.few V3 «As

hours before theatre time in the studios.

These, however, are the .exceptional

models. The great majority is composed

TheI

most noticeable in models their taci

pose

every

morniugi he

comes to the studio and takes her pcfte silently. After the sitting is oyer she cleans his

palette,

washes his brushes

aM" quits the studio without a word, She is no

human to him than a lay

figure or a bit of drapery. When she is dismissed at the completion of the «ork he takes her address,

bat

instead of her

he substitutes "Torso4" "Limbs,

"Head," or whatever specialty he UEed her as a study. Models as a general thlng are neither looked upon during sitnor remembered afterwards bvtheir emnjoyers as human creatures. When the «rti*t wants to paint a pMticular feature be looks over his list of addresses

or fgp hie friends to find a foot, a lip or I ge^her j„

an eye. He

studiea

almost

(fair

the Academy of De-

whioh no pupil is allowed to pass the nerfestly nude model poses for fifteen minutes at a time, with five minute intervals for wst. Moat of the nude mod SCfiSSSSrgtreS^Uhl S1 'liveryha«pily wUhher. I^SSd thTSutiful cams of

a®dUiedoveSoped.

art finely model who P0** is a «ood deal of snysfi_. ,. .. wearing oonatantfy a heavy black veil, which hides het t««lures from nition. Whether she covers her face because it is homely or whether she is too modest to allow her identity to be known pre questions W «t«dents

modesty.

But

men

un-

at being aufced to K, -r^hans chaims of the figure, li Pf.. P? necessary to state that neither ,• ents nor the public know anything «P0Ul it.

par-

It is not, however, an easy thing for the artist to find in the j-eneral run ol models exactly what he wants to suit the subject of his picture. Two or three years ago one of finest painters was in dispair to get a certain figure for his composition. None of the professional models would suit him and he had almoBt relinquished the idea of his picture, when, to distract his mind, he went to the theater one night. It was a burlesque, a thing of tinsel and music and pretty girls. Suddenly, during the progress of the piece, the artist uttered an exclamation, and

offhij, chair, rushed out ef

hou S0 He made Mg wfty t0

door aad 8ent his caid t0

the stage

the manager,

The name Qn the card wa8 a great 0Be

the manager was obsequious at the

ife. When the artist gained ad-

mjttance

behind the scenes he requested

they fil£ pa8t he

watcjie(j each one

closely, and, finally,

discovered the girl whose

hftd attracted his

peculiar figore

attention in front. He

a(. once enKaj?ed

her at a salary double

at once engaged vhat she.earned at the theater and carried her off triumphantly. The picture W8S finished and achieved a great success at the spring exhibition of the academy.

When the "Pirates of Penzance" was

first produced there was a pretty chorus

turnity. When one that 1Mt journal was much enamored. He ena studio she enters the door so softly that

jQ the caat of whom the editor 0f an

ed aQ artigt tQ make a pencii

sketch

artist wa« not less

pleased with her charms than the editor himself and made the sketch a finished and exquisite study. It was engraved for the iront page of the magazine, and created such a furor in art and Bociety circles that from a humble member of the chorus the fortunate girl became in a way famous and had her salary tripled by the manager. Her name was then and is now Billee Barlow.

One afternoon some ^eara ago Winslow Homer was chatting in his studio to wealthy young gentleman who was looking about for pictures to add to

hiB

col

lection. While they were conversing a very pretty girl en ered. "Dear me I" said Homer, in atone of irritation, "it is too bad I cannot use you this afternoon. Miss So-and So. I have just had won! from the other model, saving that he is ill." Then turning to his customer the artist explained that the models had been posing for him in "A Fishing Flirtation," which he was in a hRrry to have finished for the exhibition. The girl was so charming that the young gen tinman gallantly asked permission to with her. Mr, Ron$r acr

POSING IH PABIS.

cepted the substitute and sat them t6

position of, much tenderness,

the various tints number of sittings to finish the

fleeh and the undulating curves of a nude .. figure with a fidelity to art that renders picture, and at its completion the young faun

unconscious that it is nature fellow was desperately in love with the vrhich poses before him.

model. He bought the picture the

it was dry and

am employs a number of models regu-j him fnr it The* hr the season. Some of them sit one who had helped him sit for it. iney for the Dort^issa and exhibit in have been married now for over two th« students' paintings a great diversity I years and seem to have never forgotten

ttnA rosy cheeks, youth and I the love tbat was born from a

of wrinklesBgements of cos flirtation, There is a good -deal of various S

the most of &©inpdelB pose

•tiida fnr the life clsss. There is dress-1 the studios sometimes. tform. from which are of'such quick in

proposed to the

connected

with the

he platform, from which are oflsuch quick intelligence and fine

jng room at the dass hour and I taste that in watching the artists paint the model nscondfi the pedestal. For a space of ten feet around a line is drawn, beyond ... .ere

models in

A few of them

the ai

they learn to paint tnemselves, and in

time have sludloB of their own. Others fall in love with their artist employers and rake a tremendous row when they find that reciprocation of the feeling is out of the question. Now and then artist will marry his model and

the other

About a certain erick W. Freer married a remarkably the academy there pretty anu intelligent mods], who was She insists on held in such high esteem in the Bohemian world that all th«5 artists in the city united in their goou wishes and wedding presents to the young couple.

There was

winter. Fred-

*wedding of this *rtl«rt wi

If the public ever thinks of the models

If the public ever at all it generally believes them to

Mute wwling

THE -"HBTi-

a little ****", "J1

show that this estimate is not just but foolish. Dissipation would very soon rob the form of those charms are-valuable in the "Ustic world model has to live aBcarefullyJ™d m» orderly as the actor to keep •J?™™*" cal figure from corpulency. And to them there is nothing immodest in posing b^ Sfe wS He makes pictures and statues out of them they earn a living out of him. Without their assistance art would be oonfined to a narrow sphere. Take them as a body they are very decent, orderly and indispcnsible set of

and women, who, without any taj^ ent to make themselves famous, shall yet be admired by later generations as the eyes and noses, bodies and legs and various component parts that goto make up the figures in canvasses painted a century ago. HTT.IABY BOX.

OUR TALENT.

Interview With Mrs. Aydelotte in Regard

Dramatic and Literary Af

fairs. A

Express reporter gained some valuable information in conversation with Mrs. M. A. Aydelotte, which is worthy of mention./' "Do you consider Terre Haute, as a city, to be possessed of more than ordi nary abilities in the dramatic line "It seems so. My observation teaches me that we will find in intellectual fields groups of equal taste similiarly inclined toward certain sections of the great whole in nature, in about the same ratio that we find plants existing in certain sections together." "Have we always had a tendency to cultivate the art or is it of recent years that particular attention has been paid to it?" "Six years ago there were as many applications for stage training as at present jut ior several, years I refused to give such training, owing to a general prejudice against the stage." "Mr. Aydelotte, will you give a review of our different actors and actresses with whom you are acquainted personally?" "It would be impossible to speak of all, but happily I know three of the oldest representatives on the American stage. First of all, James E. Murdock. A man among men. Not one of us pupils but gave him reverence far his wisdom, true nobility, and Christian-like virtues. Not an actress or actor livisg, but would bow their heads to do him honor." "Were you under Mr. Murdock's instructions?" "I was for along time. Mrs. Davenport an actress of wonderful strength—a devoted yrife, a mother of many children. To her might well be given the cognomen—a christian martyr.' "Why?" "Because possessing genius of rarest ability she made herself subservient to family ties and friends. She is Jet a living monument to unselfishness. Mrs. John E. Drew unites in private and pub{lie life the charm of modesty, even to slyness, yet a powerful magnet. Her every modulation and movement a study, achftraa-" "What fs your opinion of those who have recently gone upon the stage from this city?'' ... "Very gcod, indeed. For all have ability which is based upon fundamental principles of truth and .honor. "With what

Euccess

do yo'i anticipate

that they will meet?" "Much may be anticipated. Knowing so well the various qualities of their powers, their invincible determination to win, Terre Haute may well effect to be the home of numerous celebrities in the years to eomfi." "Do you know of any who are at preset. studying for the stage?" "Several who will persevere. The course of study and requirements necessitate a great deal of self-sacrifice and close application. Many weary of it and quit, ft i? not play but hard work." "Do you think, Mrs. Aydelotte, that Terre Haute will continue to send forth as many and as good representatives as has been done in the past?" "Yes, certainly. Stage life is more thoroughly understood. Its opportunities and advantages for the best development of t? /mental faculties are openly nscogniz? by press and clergy and the great minds. It offers,at no great sacrifice to one'* ability, permanent and profitable employment. Intellectual advancement in moat pursuits of life in more oi less caged, in the- dramatic profession no limit is to be found by the ambitious." "We boast, I believe, of haying quite a number of playwriters. What is the merit of their productions?" tk"Merit worthy of pride. The work has just commenced we have had nothing matured as yet, while the first steps have been placed before the footlights and pleased greatly. To be a good playwriter one must be a genius, at the same time practical, to be able to distinguish within the good and ordinary events of life the real poetry inlaid and bring them out with artistic effect." "Wherein do you consider them Btrong and what seems to be the principal defect?7' "A strong conception but weak in practicality." "Do yoji know of any original plays •hat are to be produced or of any that are to be put upon the road thi3 season?" "Having several in my possession to examine, but not permission to speak ubliclv regarding them, I cannot answer efinitely, but hope to supply a demand for two well known managers for new plays." Cemetery Cgmmis^iogers Meeting.

The board of cemetery commissioners held their quarterly meeting this week and made same important orders. One was that the superintendent should proceed at once to further improve the Woodlawn cametery by straightening up a}l headstones and monuments and dig up all sprogtteg plants &nd shrubs so the same will not interfere with the grasf. It is the intention of the board to fill up all the sunken graves eo as to improve the surface of the lots.

A committee was appointed to report larty day

at an earl on tin

question of pro

viding a survoy for single graves in the {©proved part of Highland lawn. The committee on grounds was ordered to proceed at once with the graveling of the streets. The ordinances and rules for the government of cemeteries were reported aad priJsred printed. Among these rules are the following—one preventing any grave from being raised above the surface and one preventing any footstonee more than two incheB high, the intent being to keep the surface smooth, so the sward can be cut with a machine. There will he no curbing or enclosures around lots there.

A committee was appointed to report in two weeks on the price of lots in the qew pemetery, and a tjme to be fixed when the prices of lots Bhculd be increased. The lots are now selling at very low prices.

It is the intention of the board to keep the grades of the new pemetery as level as a park,rwbich is the manner in which all the new city cemeteries are* now improved and kept.

Krjslpela* suit Obstinate Ulcere, Boils, Carbuncles and Bunning Sores of every kind are cleansed, the poisongerms destroyed and a speedy cure effected by using Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. (I have been afflicted with the Erysip elas. Nothing would heal the sore or stop the running. I used Darbys Prophylactic fluid and found speedy cure. Have also tried it in several other cases

in all Mid it proyed efiFectual." —S. P. Gre«r.

(For theExpree*-]

OLEANDER GULCH.

BY CHARLES M. SKWIO®.

(Copyrighted.) he air is ever clear and ©old in Ole ander Gulch,and one might fanQ? the men at work there to have been born of the soil and nourished on that vi

talising atmosphere. The night of October 10 was sharp enough to make afire comfortable in the "Pallia" saloon. A stiff breeze whistled through chinks in the broad covering, and thturoar of a waterfall up the gulch swelled and (lied oh the wind. "Lengthy" SwifBns burst into the sa loon, his teeth chattering and his naturally red nose purpled with cold. "Br-r-r! I tell you, boys," cried he, "Oleander's goin' to be no tropic when the thermometer gets down to its winter work. Darn me if I like cold weather. If I hadn't sighted anew lead te-day I should just mosey for Denver." "Struck a lead! Boys, let's irrigate. It's Lengthy's treat," shouted the retainers of the Pallis. "If Senor O'Reilly will oblige just once more by chalking it up, we drink. Do we drink, tenor?" "Ye're good fur it, Lengthy. "Gentlemen, nominate your poison. No, the other bottle for me. Water! Great Scitt, no! Ain't I dyin' fast enough as it is? Gome, Andy, what 11

"No, Lengthy, I won't drink to-night. I'm not quite right, somehow. I feel as if something was coming te me that I— there,' don't mind me. I've just got a touch of the blues." "Say, pard," said Lengthy, after he had swallowed his drink, you ain't sick, are you? Ain't goin' to have no more of them fevers, hey? You know tie kind you had when you persisted in callia' me 'Joe' and wantin' to use weeping on me.".

Andy, smiling faintly, answered "No." "Because/' continued Lengthy, "between you and me,'one of them sicknesses is all I want to nurse you throjstgh.

Andy' sat in thoughtful attitude, his head resting on his hands, his elbowB on the table. His face was

ANDY SAT IN A THOUGHTFUL ATTITUDE, HIS HEAD RESTING ON HIS HAND.

brown but either the shadows of his sombrpjro or bis long hair and tangieu gave to his features a dj^wn aijd haggard look.' His dress, that of a miner, became him well, and his features had the openness and regularity characteristic of Western men, but his eyes were unnaturally deep and bright. He took no part in the drinking, card playing, and loud talk going on in the saloon, but sat absorbed in reflections that were evidently none of the pleasantest.

It must have been quite 10 clock when the jingle of burro bells was heard coming up the gulcli. As the sound came nearer the burro in advance gave a loud "kr-haw" by way of greeting to the lights of the Pallis. Miners and loungers sauntered forth to see the "outfit," and to welcome the arrivals, who would, of course, stop for refreshment. But. no the head of the train passed on, and the three persons on horseback, bringing up the rear, would not have drawn rein, but that a miner at the door called out,

Goin' over the pats to-night?" "Yes, it's only eight miles, and there's a good luoQn.'' "Got any stock in tbe Blueiav "That's where we're bound. "Take somethin'?"

"No, thanks. Good road over, isn't i*7" "H'm. Well, you can cill it a roau, I s'pose. Say*, you've got camp fixing havan't you? "'Cause the Windsor hotei ain't ready for visitors yet. In fact, it wasn't up when I was there last week, and maybe the lady would like a roof over her Head to night. Wowep most generally like livin' in tents, and you've only to say the word and any of the boys will give up his shack to you." "We have everything. There's timber and water, of course, at the Bluejay?" "A little of both." "Would you prefer to stay here tonight?" asked the horseman of his female companion "because, ii you do, Jose can go across with the bsnos, and we'll follow in the morning." "Let us go on," she responded in a low, tremulous voice, and with a doubting, searching look at the group of rough, honest faces at the door. 'Ijteelsafer alone with you," she added, in a tope heard only by the man addressed. "Very well. Thank you, gentlemen.

Ride on, Jose. Good night-'' "Good night!" was shouted in chorus. Then the dwr closed and the fcrawi sauntered back to the bar.

The rider who had been addressed aa Jose spurred on in advance, driving the

spu

tough little beasts of burden at a trot before him. The other man and the woman rode more slowly. The hard breathing of their horses, as they labored on in that thin atmosphere, sounded for ssme rods away, but no word was heard to pass between them. They rode with a listless, dejected air, whioh might have been the efiect o! a long, tiresome journey. The jingling and clanking of the train grew faint and distant, then died away. The moon cast over the great bald peaks a risible stillness, yet the wind roared down the canon.

Old Pike looks no more'e twenty mile from here," said a miner, shading his eyes from the reflections ir a window of the Pallis. "It shows up ss plain as if it was daylight. But it's a mod eighty mile, 'cause I've tramped it,"

Speakin' of Pike's Peak and trampin'," said Swiffine, starting from a lethargy produced by internal aad external warmth, "that's where Andy tramped from when he struck my cabin and me and Urn's been partners ever since, haven't we, Andy? Hullo! Where is Andy

What, has he skipped I didn't see him go." "He mast have gone through O'Reillys room or through the winder." "Andy's kinder oft to-night,1' said Lengthy. "Looks like he waa fixin"

TBBBB HAUTE, SUNDAY, OCTOBKH 10, 18u»

he was a soft spoken and easy oi touch as any girl: but when he has to be taken care of hisself he's old Lucifer. He has to work hard or he don't keep in trim. Seems, all the time, like he waa woikiu' to keep from thinkin'." "I've noticed he bad his glum spells," said one. "Had 'em aver since he came to my shack, gix months ago. I'll never forget the night he got there. He'd footed itjfrom Pike's Peak, or, rather from Manitou, and I don't think he'd eat anything on tbe trip. He was off.'color, and his cheeks waa hollered in, and his eyea had rings 'round 'em as black as O'fieilly's stove. His clotheewaatore, too, where he'd come croat lets through South Park and hadn't minded grease wood and sage brush. He knocked at my door and asked me could helie by the fire over night 'Why, o' course you can,' says J, and when Pd filled him with vittles—he was holler all through—I rigged a bunk lor him, and there he's slept every night since. I started, a few times, to find out what was wrong with him. He wouldn't answer, and he acted so distressed like that I hadn't tbe heart to ask him no more. He waa off his base for two or three days thought my name was 'Joe,' and kept a-tryin' to heave things at me. I took his shootin'irons away and he tried to pepper me with chunks o' firewood. O, he was frolicsome, he was, but he came through it, and no ain has a squarer nor a nonester pard than me."

The company digested, in silence and smoke, this information, which had been given to them on several previous occasions. Then a startling interruption came in the shape of a man, who rushed in and shouted: "Boys, there's trouble on the pass. Heard a woman whoop juit now. Andy's there. Get the rangers out. Look for the greessr! Most likely want to do some lynchin'. Whoosbi! Wait till I get my breath."

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The path had been often trod by him cut across two windings of the road, shortening the distance by half a mile to Swiffins* cabin, which waa perched on a perilous shelf of rock that overhung the gqlch.' The road across the psgs made its third gigg.ig up the mountain's faoe witbin a rod of the cabin. When half way up Andy stumbled and fell, and he realised that he was exhausting himself, for in great altitudes violent effort cannot be long continued. While he lay there, gasping, the pack train came clicking up the pass. Jose ifas alone, and driving the burros. Andy watched him *s he walked his horse along the narrow trail he saw him look up at the sky and draw deeper breath, as if,he gathered quietude of aiul from the repose and eternity of things about him. Then the poor, rude "greaser," with his gaze on heaven, sang softly to biomil A Jew lines ol a Spanish hymn. Was it tbe beauty of the nightl or the coltj, or tbe e^hauqtion of his climb that soifened the shadow op Andy's face, or was it the moonlight shining on it, as he slowly resumed tha steep ascent He reached his cabin door and stood beside it, looking into the shadowy ravine. Yes, they were coming, Jose was already beyond bearing, and the other two fiures were riding silently up the road. They passed the third turning they reached the ledge where the cabin stood. Suddenly the horses stopped. The man uttered an exclamation, and the woman cried aloud with fear. Andy stoed in the path with hand upraised, his form in black relief

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While Senor OHeilly's guests were conversing with the travelers outside^ the voices of the latter reached Andy and startled him from his reverie. An expression of surprise and grief.'then of hate, deep and bitter, came into his eyes. He made astride toward the door, but it?both was blocked by the men who were talking I "Without another there then, as if recollecting himself, he

ve his belt a wrench, pulled his about his Irows, slipped through an adjoining room, and got out. A gust of wind struck cold against his faoe, and he breathed it as if the air were grateful. The moon was shining, stars were frostily glistening in the dark blue, and on every hand, save where Oleander Guleh opened to the pale, far-reaching expanse ef South Park, bold, snow capped muontains loomed heavenward, with a wreck of rocks-on their rugged sides. Famiilar as was the scene to Andy, a feeling of awe came over him: the bitterness left his face and changed to an expression of sadness and suffering. Again the voice that had startled him readied his ears, and a shadow fell over his countenance. "Not here, among these men," he muttered, and, turning, he fled up the mountain side.

the sky. "Dhmsaatl* he

ANDY 8TOOD OT THXXJt PATH. "DO KOUKT," HZ SAID. With corpse-like faoe and self-com-mand such as the culprit shows when walking to the gallows, the man swung himself from his saddle and helpad his companion to dismount. Then, folding his arms, he said: "I am ready."

A blast of wind swept through tha canon, like a groan from the mountains. The woman cried, with a passionate sob: "No! Let me die lor it is I who am to blame."

Andy stepped forward with such dignity that none could have read in his face a sign of the fire that had rand in his brain or of the chill that hadirosen his heart. His voice waa hollow,, but he said slowly and with firmness: "Joe. half aa hour ago I had almoit resolved to kill you both. I have thought, since then. Are you armed?" "Yea." "Thenr finish your work. Kill me!" "Andy," replied the man addressed as Joe, "one of us is near his end. There's no reparation to be made, I don't try to explain, or to excuse, for I can't. Bnt, Andy, before death separates us, I want you to forgive me. Say it, say it, Andy. Try to say it." "How can It' Think what—" a "I know, I kat w, but say it before eternity comes." "Yes—yes, I can. I forgive yon

word Joe

the road and deliberately walked from the edge of the pr^cipicev The sound of

JOE DELIBERATELY WALKED FBOX THE EDGE OF THB PRECIPICE. a crashing fall came up from the shadows, followed by the grating of stones that had been jarred down the slope, With a piercing scream the woman fell unconscious to the ground. Andy leaned against a rook and closed his eyes. There was along silence, except for the wind, bringing with it the monotonous rumble of the cataract.

Presently horsemen came tearing up the pass, their anigaaU pan*r.g and quivUndcl Uie strain of the rapid driving. The foremost drew rein and leaped into.the road. "What is it he cried. "Andy Axdy, I say Don't you hear? There a dead man in the gulch below. How came he there? Where's the greaser?"

Gone on. Don't follow. He's done nothing," "Hullo," exclaimed another. "Why, it's tbe woman." "Is she dead "No, only fainted." "Do you know her, Andy? Who is she?"' "My wife."W "And the dead man?" "My brother."

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Honey, Strained, warranted pure per lb Honey, in Comb, the finest in the city, per lb.. Cedar Pails, 3 Hooped, Bras Bound Bsans, New Marrowfat.

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The only house in the city that sells a good Boasted Coffee IffT 12} cents that will give satisfaction. ::J :Qar Sugars are very eheap.

Ju reoeived—Nsw Valencia Rai^ii Kid Ondara Layer Baislnsa

W. W. COVER,

Great Reduction

-IN-

BOOTS & SHOES

Established 1843.

tion.

.40

T. J.

GOOD MORNING!

C. C. SMITH,

Coal Shaft, Flour and Saw Mill Machinery, Bank Cars. Mills, Castings of all kinds, Cold and Hot Water Pumps, Sftt* Pumps, House Fronts, Iron Columns and all kinds ®f ArcN? tural Iron Work.

The COMMON SENSE ENGINE AND EAGLE SUAPUMP a specialty. Dealers in Wrought Iron Beams and Channels, Leaflfer Rubber and Chain Belting Bolting Chests and Cleaning 3ft chinery of everydescription used in fldur mills.

Repairing promptly done.

J. A. PARKER, Propyl

Cor. First and Walnut Sts., Terre Haute.

Ifyiptptia, Impaired Vitality, Nmralgui,

BROKERS,

StMb, Indh Oram and Provisins,

638} MAM Ur SIAIBB.

iUnUSCBi

flrat Rational Bank, lndianapbtii, Ind rint National Bank, Kvaa*Tllle, Ind. LouUTille Banking Company, l«onla-

TCovm«ton

Have you #ecn &v

WAVERLY

OPEN FROItf^

Tha

most patfw? ever Ut&( market

Heater in this

100 in Uadlnthistrjr Also entirely new signs for 1886.

Call and See V* fore buying.

303 Haln'S^'i

VMH,

MANUFACTURERS Of

Steam Engines.

ite*-

Automatic Revolving Coal Screens,.

New styles and pri&i to suit the times.

THH OXIZ3AT STBXLVXA TONIO,

VnturpoMed a* a Remedy for Gtmernl Debility, SlnepleMtneas,

STRONOLY ENDORSED *Y T»l* MBOlCAt. PBOFTtSSIOK. BOI9 53*S" snsatra GUSTS AITS :D:SS«A.X«3EX&S.

prepared by Handy & Cox, 143 N. Howard tit., Baltimore. Hfr BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. TAKE OWLY DB. HENLEY'S.

PhcBnix Foundry Machine WorU

•9TABLIBHBD. 1861. IHOOBPOIiTlDll«m23 jUsaiutotm «&4 D«al«n ia Irxytkiag Balal I*

Machinery Power, Cast and Wrought Iron WosK

B«PiraraB PMIHM ITTBIPI)

213 to 235 North Ninth St., Near Union Depot, Terr* Hauto, Int

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ijji

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T0WNLEYBR0&

WHOLESALE and RETAtt,

512 and 514 Main Ff,

Largest and most coma plete stock of baso bun^' crs

,ind

heating

ranges and cook stOYea, The KEWDIYIS GASOLINE STOVE, kitcb& furbishing goods cutlery.

A'MWMW

JJfcetmwtoin,

JBroketi-Down CotmHtutions.

Remington Standard Type Vk^'Aii

Unequalled tor ean of manlpnlaMoa, raplj «ivjU quality of work, simpllolty darAoUlty* Correspondence aolioitai. WycioiT, Seaman's '& Uenedlc^ 84 Eaat Market -.treot lndln»p3lla, Intf.

TORNADO,

HODGEN & CO.,

City National Bank, Covine-

"SrSlreet prtvmte rrtrea. Talepho« 93. CaU for market quo*

ANDREW R0E8CH, SAW yiiuINO, LOCK 6 GUNSMITHINGr

BCAJJX BEPAIKXNO, Etc.

f*9»l 8tT«9t, .*«» *»to

CYCLOS* AND VNI

STOKM

INSURANCE?

Granted on tar

properly

and on dwellln-, Uoaaebold Fire nnd lltbtnlng a«o nt rates In the old reliable I'hen «nc« Company, of Brooklyn, S. Kvlhger, Sandford, tod.

Also loans made on proved. 8and7 percent. lntertt,with qatiM mlaelon. All those W-iaUog InKamb farm loans will do Will to ee« blm.

M. S. EVINGEfe

SANDFOHl), IXD.

Galvanized

IroD,1

HA!Vi03rBa«)d»

Siaii

And dealers in Mant*

uaivanlMd

y»lephOB« fS.4:*'"

Tru\,

OornJee, Tin andS aio tCootbij. evv •MrJob work :»mwiVT.»tAaid«d