Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1887 — Page 9

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CLARABELLE'S SUNDAY TALK

The Grant Family Will Kot Enter Society the Coming Winter. Trip of the Vanderbilts Around the World in iliffhty "Weeks Selina Felter Achieyes the Dramatic Success of the Season. The Sort of Stage Konentity that Society Girls Go Wild Over. Clara Explodes the Mistaken Idea that All New Tork Ladies Take Lessons in Athletic Exercises, and Are Growing Muscular. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. New York, Oct. L The widow of General Grant has determined not to become a social power. I have no means of knowing how much ah was inclined that way, nor how long she has really considered the question before deciding it in the negative; but it is certain that the Astor-Van-derbilt clique of wealth and fashion gave to her the opportunity, and that she ha3 declined to coma oat of her quiet retirement into social activity. The talk at Newport all summer and in Fifth avenr this fall was that Mrs. Grant and the younf sr members of the Giant family would figure conspicuously in next winter's swelldom. It was understood that Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartor is and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grans were getting extensive wardrobes ready for the campaign, and the tendency was to welcome those attractive ladies right into the inner circle. The historical distinction of the Grants, their fair degree of wealth, and their pleasant personalities combined to fit them to shine as acquisitions to "our best families." The thing was regarded as being settled. Bnt this week Mrs. Grant has put her Sixty-sixth street residence into the bands of a real-estate agent to sell, and she intends to go to live in a Fifth-avenue apartment house. Her establishment will there be comfortable, even luxurious, but not suitable for the giving of notable entertainments. She might have become at will a social lioness in New York. She has preferred a calmer life. Bachelors have suddenly come to the front as entertainers. Two wealthy beaux are rivaling each other as hosts to Fifth-avenue ladies and gentlemen. One is Duncan Cameron, son of Sir Roderick Cameron, who has just had a resplendent party at his father's residence, in the absence of his parents in Europe. The other, Francis M. Jencks, who has demonstrated that money, adroitly used, will buy admission for any decent, polite fellow into what is considered an almost impenetrable circle. Jenck3 has neither family descent to be proud of, nor accomplishments above those of the average of educated young men. He went into "West-side real estate booming, and within the past five years cleared a million or two. When a bachelor gets rich to that extent, and has plenty of time on his hands, he is apt to get a hobby. Jencks decided to become a society man. He has no acquaintance in Astor circles. But be went down to Newport, rented a fine villa, behaved well, but conspicuously, made bis way lowly but surely at the Casino, and before the end of the season was "recognized." This autumn he is the biggest social magnate at Lenox, where his house holds the most intensely stylish assemblages, and he is a muchson eh t bachelor. All of which proves that exclusive society is not very exclusive. Willie Yanderbilt and his pretty wife are having a great trip around the world in eighty weeks. That is the time which they have allotted to the tour. Their start in a splendid steam yacht, as big and complete a residence as the one they left in. town, was chronicled three months ago. They are now stopping in Scot land. At an inn, do yon suppose? O, no, indeed. They have hired Lord Lovat's castle, at Beau fort, for the autumn. The house is only three hundred feet long by eighty wide, and no more 4 than three thousand acres of hunting lands go with tt TBI structure is a restoration and ex tension of that Castle Doune which Sir Walter Scott described in "Tales of a Grand father." Well, Willie has something like a hundred millions, and his wife is the gentle boomer of the family. When they encircle the world why saoulan t they do it handsomely f Four pretty actresses are in the cast of a new comedy here in a Broadway theater. The man agement made a liberal allowance for costumes, and as a consequence there is a beautiful rivalry in fine toilets. The play crives them about an equal chance at the acting and dressing both, and it would be a neck-and-neck race for admira tion if a contestant from Kentucky didn't beat the others by a bold exploit. She is Selina Fetter, who started out to duplicate Mary Anderson's success a few years ago. Perhaps she found the job hopeless. Anyhow, she is here in the quartette of comedy beauties. Her role is that of a dashing widow who is wooed by a millionaire. The man's mind is distractedly divided between a flurry in Wall street and the commotion in his heart; and while he is declaring his passion the ticker in the corner compels his attention to the quotations of stocks on which his fortune depends. She is standing well down to the foot-lights, with her back turned coyly towards him. "I'm in love with you," he says; "I want yon to be my wife. "At last," she murmurs, under her breath. "Will you marry me?" She decides to droop eently and affirmatively into his arms. Exactly at that instant the ticker begins again, and he rushes to it. The directions of the author said that she must sink to the floor, as though expecting to be supported by him. Miss Fetter remarked at rehearsals that "it would be all right," and the "business" was left to her discretion. What she did, on the ooening night, was to drop plump and seated to the floor, with a thud like that of Pantaloon when the clown pulls away a chair. It was a hit, physical and artistic The audience bad a hilarious fit, and the adventuress, if able to copyrleht her funny drop, could force her salary un to two hundred dollars a week, for her dull thud i3 the dramatic success of the season. Courtice Pound3 has come to NewYork again, and the hearts of susceptible girls from Madison square to Harlem are in a flutter. He is supposed to be a very handsome man and a sweet singer. Let us critically see just what sort of a young man it is that commands the admiration of New York girls. I was at the theater when he made his first reappear ance, the other evening, and found myself in the thick of his admirers. He played the part of a French prince of the last century, a role that required most of all grace and dignity of movement and the exhibition of the manners of a polished courtier. When he made his entrance upon the scene there was a smattering ot applause, and after that an unending cackle of gushing comment. "Isn't he handsome! "How nice he looks now that his mustache is shaved of?!" "Hasn't he go t just a beautiful figuieF "What a lovely smil el" "Do look at that lovely smile! I do think he is just dreadful nice." These came from all directions, only too audible, and those who uttered them were handsome, richly dressed girls whose escorts sat silent and trying to smile polite agreement with the verdict. They were not of the immature school-girl type, but young ladies who had had plenty of experience in society to make them know whereof they spoke. Whether Po nnds deserves the guh poured out in his behalf everybody must judge for him or herself, but that he is a weak actor, and awkward at that, is undeniable. Considerably under the medium size, his beauty of figure is more the product of enthusiastic imagination than of nature's gifts. He has a round, girlish face, with liquid eyes and a mouth that is ever ajar, like a ballet dancer's in a pleasant smile. He is given to assuming graceful attitudes, and when once he gets his limbs into repose the ef fect is well enough, but the transition from one pose to another is marked by various awkward evolutions. His favorite attitude, for instance, is one which might be called gentle horror, if it

were not for the reassuring presence of his elas

tio smile. He stands with the left foot for ward and the right leg bent at the knee, and the foot thrown so far back that be can lean away in the same direction until a straight line from his head to the floor would fall far outside his beei. His arms are raised and half extended in either direction, hie fingers folded into his hands to express intense earnestness, though one of bis bands usually holds a hat, which he waves picturesauelr. After maintaining this pose for t minute or two he drops his arras, and his shoulders flop as he dos so, be lounges forward on one leg and sidles his weight from one hip to the other. Then the had hand comes up to a level with his head again, he swings half around on his hips, thrusts out his right leg, withdraws his lft lifts the left hand to correspond with tbe right, smiles, throws back his body, and there be is in the reverse of his first attitude. There are others, and he gets at them ail in much the same way. The orenfistra has to play softly when he sines, because his voice is too lighto be heard above an ordinary accompani ment, imt Qtu a strong can, ior tne gins dote on him. An unconscionable lot of nonsense is being written about what the doting men call "our athletic girls." Yon would think that we New York women had given up housework, and sewing, and thoppintr, and reading novels, and all the other feminine forms of exercise, including the consumption of candy, and that we are all boxing and playing tennis in summer, badminton in winter, riding horses, fencing, swimming, walking ten miles before breakfast, and "good ness knows what alL I have been reading it again, and I made np my diminutive mind that I would see whether what I have been taking for padding in the shoulders of so many gowns is muscle, after all, and whether the avoirdu pois that I supposed came from general beerdrinking and wine at dinner was what the dear men call feminine physical development Of course, I couldn't go up to all the other women like a cue tom-houte inspector and say, "Madam, please let me see what you have in your sleeve," or, "Pardon me, but I suspect you are smuggling stoutness in your dress and. making be lieve it is muscle." I couldn't do that. Not even Inspector Byrnes is enough of a detective for that. But I found out, ail the same. 1 found out that a lady has a swimming school here three or four months in tbe year, and that she has a number of little -girls to teach though nothing like so many as used to crowd the baths along the river front before they grew common say ten years ago. I found that a man on Murray Hill has a swimming-school and gym nasium for calisthenics, which is also for little girls and does not seem to be overburdened with business. I found that there are two riding clubs and six riding schools in town, attended by about 2,000 persons, only oue-third of whom are ladies. I found that there are two fencing clubs aud two or three fencing-masters, with parlors for teaching the noble art of self-defense against a sort of attack now out of style and never resorted to by ladies, except in a picture first hung in the Paris Salon two years ago and now hanging in half the tobacco-shop windows. I went to these clubs and fencing-rooms, or or rather to some. Others I knew about because my faddish friends have tried that like every thine else. With what result? That there are not forty women learning to fence in this town. Half of what there are seem to be actresses who think it clever and stagey because male actors have to learn it. I asked one of my friends how she liked fencing. "Why," she said, "half a dozen of us all tried it with the same experience. We could not get our clothes on the next morning. The feminine wrist is built for gentler doings. One nieht's exercise rendered it as useless and limp as a dust-rasr. Four of us girls are in a club and have a flat together, and the morning after our first lesson ail four had to stay in bed till the landlady came at noon to see what was the matter, and learned that they could not put their clothes on." It is just so with all the talk about pedestrianism. Why, the average New York girl always rides from Tiffany's to the shopping stores and from Macy's to O'Neill's that's four blocks. She'd be ail pains like a hot-house if she bad to walk that far. Bat Mrs. Langtry and her devoted and athletic admirer are said to walk five or ten miles of a morning, for health and beauty's sake, and so the men who write about women take it for granted that all the other women do the same thine. It's utterly absurd. Mr. Edison is a great inventor but I will defy him to take a modern pair of shoes, an average bustle, a glove fitting corset, the new-fangled stocking supporters and a tailor-made gown and build any kind of a machine inside that collection that will walk five 'feet without breaking down. It takes a woman and a smart woman at that to walk at all, nowadays. As for boxine. Well, now, I consider that a little too silly for even a man to accuse women of doing. I know that naen say that there is nothing a woman wont do if it is fashionable, but some things aren't fashionable and never will be. Boxing is at the tip top of the list. There are women who box or rather who have tried it with their brothers or their brothers' trainers, but it is a perfect farce in which no blows are exchanged. There are only two places where a woman can be hit with safety her face and her arms, and those are the very places she cannot allow herself to be hit upon for a black eye would be worse than death to one of our sex and what woman who goes to the opera or dresses for dinner, without sleeves, could afford to have her arms all blacked and blued? No, no, I hate to spoil a good story, especially one as complimentary to our sex; that is, if it is complimentary to think of us as a lot of Amazons. But we are not more athletic thau formerly. I do not think we are as much so as we used to be. The growth of population in cities, the increasing tendency toward book cultivation among women, the constantly strengthening demand of our liege lords, the men, that we shall be pretty, and gentle, and dressy, and witty, all are tending to repress those impulses that make what the world 'calls "Tom boys." Let any man who has a sister or wife go home and ask her to go through even a dumb-bell exercise for him, and see what she will say. I will wager a pippin against a pair of gloves that she will say, "What! In one of these dresses? Why, my dear, I had to hang a picture to-day, and in order to do it I was obliged to undress." We women ean't raise our arms in the elothes of to-day. We may be angels, but our wings are pinned down. Clara Belle. A Rich Cabinet Minister. Washington Star. Secretary Whitney is 83 used to handling large suras of money that he is not a3 careful as most people would be. The other day he was hunting through his office at the Navy Department for an official paper which had been mislaid. One of the drawers of his big desk, which he was searching thoroughlv, became caught at the back and refused to pull out very far. The Secretary gave it a very hard jerk, and the drawer came out, and so did the obstruction, which proved to te $3,000 in hard cash that the Secretary had forgotten all about, in attending to his private business the Secretary has the invaluable assistance of bis factotum. "Mac," who serves him as nobody else could. The Secretary has perfect confidence in him, and has intrusted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bis care. Mae obeys nobody but th6 Secretary, and when he tells him to do anything it will be done, no matter what may be the difficulties. He will go where be is sent if he has to hire a special train to get there. A short time ago the Secretary tossed him a loosely rolled bundle, fastened with a rubber band, saying: "Mac. I want that in New York to-morrow morning." "Yes, sir," was the reply, and the roll was promptly put with a bundle of newspapers. "You don't know what that contains, do you!" said one of the clerks of the Secretary's office and said iu an undertone to Mac. "No, and I dont care a d-n," was the reply. The bundle contained a lot of very valuable stock, but the Secretary knew that anything intrnsted to bis confidential messenger was safe, whether it was a newspaper or $1,000,000, and he didn't need to go into particnlars. Dynamite Gun Practice. New Yokk, Oct. 1. Further experiments in target practico with the pneumatic dynatr.ite gen were made yesterday. They were undertaken to settle tbe question whether rapidity of fire could be combined with accuracy. Tbe result showed that ten shells, each carrying fiftyfive pounds of the explosive gelatine could be discharged in ten minutes and thirty seconds, and that while four of tbe projectiles failed in the matter of range, going over or falling short, the remaining six would have struck within a space of six yards on the side of a ship. A trial shot with a heavier shell, one corresponding to a charge of one hundred pounds of explosive gelatine, was fired for range, and the projectile was sent to a distance of two and a. half miles vith an initial pressure of less than one thousand pounds. Suicide of a Defaulter. Montkkat., Oct. 1. Samuel Johnson, treasurer of the Hamilton Powder Cempany. defaulted a few davs ago to the extent of $7,000, going to Ogdensbnrg, where he was arrested. While being brought back here last night, hemanagd to elude the officers, when a few milles from this city. Search was made for htm and this morning bis dead body was found with a bullet hole behind the ear, and a pistol by bis side. It is thought that family affliction is the cause of both defalcation and suicide, i

THE POSTAL TELEGEAPII

W. II. Preece, British Electrician, Talks of the Features of the System. How the Forces are Organized Women Em ployed in the Commercial Department A Great Government Enterprise. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal London. Eng., Sept 23. A few days ago I reported a talk with Mr. Lambe, second assist ant postmaster general, on the subject ef Great Britain's postal telegraph system, which Con gress proposes to introduce In the United States. Mr. Lambe told of the tariffs, the special lines. and something of the general operations of the system. .Here is what Mr. W. II. Preeee, known as the practical man of the British system, and the general electrician, said about other features: "In 1S77 I was sent by Parliament to America to investigate the telegraph system there, for the purpose of improving out own. I visited the various sections of the country and the large offices, and inspected their lines and their operations. With all dne regard to the ex cellent telegraph service in the United States, and tbe great amount of ingenuity that country pos sesses, I must say it is standing still in the mat er of telegraphy. It is now just where it was a decade ago. One would think at the first glance that ingenuity would be stunted when the gov ernment assumed absolute control of the tele graphs and made a monopoly of the syst em, and when all the operators were given positions dur ing good behavior. This is not so. We have made more rapid progress within the past fif teen years than any other country, and have greatly outstripped America. This, I think, is largely due to the fact that we have superior operators and a superior system of telegraphy. We offer a standing premium to the men in our employ and outside the service for improve ments. Promotion, vacation and money are the inducements. With the security th at a life position attaches, yon can see, if you will think of it a moment, that our system of employment will bring about more advancement than any other. The op erators in the employ cf the Western Union Telegraph Company or the Baltimore and Ohio Company the two big corporations of America have no security whatever; their employers dismiss them upon any pretext, and there is no stability about the organization of the service in its details. Here a man is retained as long as he performs his duty well, and when he attains the ace of sixty years he can retire on a pension. The pension is about two-thirds of full pay, but is graded on a basts of vears of service. I have served thirtv-six years, and can retire in seven vears. My pension would be in the proportion that 46 stands to 60, of full par, or 46-6Sth of full pav. We have a complete system of officering the telegraph service. There are seventeen general superintendents or engineers. Ireland has three districts, located at Dublin, Belfast and Cork; Scotland two districts, at Edinburgh and Glas gow. The remainder are divided between England and Wales. Each district has subdistricts, with inspectors, numbering eighty. Then each inspector s district is divided into 'lengths.' Each lineman patrols thirty miles of line or route, and all messengers and government employes are specially instructed to have a scru tiny over the teiepraph property. An inspector is next in rank above a lineman; an engineer is over an inspector, and communicates to the gen eral postoffica department. "We employ the Wheatstone instrument, and are enabled to handle messages for the press very rapidly. Our service is exceedingly prompt. Uur general omce here, employing U,U00 opera tors, has handled 2.000,000 words of matter in one night. Male operators are in the service for press matter, and females are employed in the commercial department. Our employes get from two weeks to a month of vacation every year. We supply all our operators with medical assistance and medicine free. The hours of their duty are eight a day. There is extra pay for over-time." The gross returns from the English postal tel egraph system last year was, in A raencan money, $9,874,200, which was $1,857,770 less then the expenditures, but the government paid $1,030.085 interest on tbe telegraph indebtedness, and franked for its own service messages amounting to $134,085 and lost about $1,000,000 from the press and other sources where exceptionally low rates were made and contracts entered into. It is seen, therefore, that the English postal tele graph system, exclusive of the interest on the bonds created to pay for the lines, is a very paying investment. A gentleman expert in and experienced In telegraph and telegraphic business says that the English rate to the masses average something like 45 per cent, lower than those in America and that 70 per cent, of the burdens cf over-en-Wfs in America rest wttn tbe common people, tnose living in rural districts and small vil lages. In the fiscal year ended .March. 1886, there was in operation in this Kingdom 170,196 miles of wire and 39,235,813 messages were received and transmitted. The local traffic in London is enormous, ranging from 12,000 to 18,000 messages a day. . In 1868 there were he-e sixty offices open; but now there are 480 offices, handling an average of 15,000 messages a day. The pneumatic tube system, by which several ounces of telegraphic or mail matter can be shot about tbe city of London at the rate of thirty miles an hour, is also under the control of the government, and is a great success. It would be immensely popular in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, etc., where vast expanses of business are transacted. A great many complaints are beard in England, even to this day, about the price paid for the telegraph lines now owned by the government. Especially tbe legislators hold that the sum was extremely exorbitant. It has been suggested by several high officials in the general postoffice department here that the Congress of the United Slates should pass a law practically confiscating the lines by appointing a commissioner to -appraise the property in existence. and by some means forcing tbe owners to sell at the price stipulated by the commission. I have observed in all of my conversations with the officers of the government hers that there is not that high sense of property rights that exists in America, and there is talk about its being the proper thing for the American government to force private corporations and individuals to turn over their telegraph property at any price the government might stipulate. With the greatest impunity the officers in the postoffice department here talk of confiscations for her majesty s service, and declare that sooner or later the American Congress will lose its equeamishness in reference to taking forcible control of the telegraph. I asked one official high up in the department whether, considering the form of government in America, he would recommend the condemnation of private property for the public service, and this is what be said, as near as I can remember: "Your government already does that thine. It has a monopoly of the mails. Congress under your constitution can pass a law creating a com mission to appraise telegraph property. That commission can mate a return of the assess ments, and the money can be tendered to owners of the property, and the property can by force be taken charge of. The onlv question will be the price, if the terms fixed upon by tbe commission are not liberal enough, the own ers can su ana tbe courts will determine. Thore will be no question of the legal rights under the constitution to do this thing. This we looked into before the government of Great Britain took charge of the telegraph. Yon have recently passed an inter-state commerce law which practically amounts to the same thing I propose ar.d we took in regard to control of the telegraph." The telegraph service here is very much more prompt than in the United States. I have filed msages from several parts of the Kingdom, and a number of times in London, for various portions cf this vast metropolis. Ordinarily a telegram filed in any part of England will be delivered within thirty minutes. One which was sent over three circuits reached its destination within eighteen minutes, and I am told this is but the average time. There is no such thing as an operator being crowdedwith work, out of the office, or having any one of the thousand and one excuses for not getting off a message. and private telegrams have the same right to the wire and delivery as corporation or government service. There is no favoritism. There is complete uniformity. The operators are the best in the country. There are no strikes, and no errors on account of inexperienced operators. The most capable men are at tbe instruments. In the entire system of large offices tbe Wheatstone instruments are employed, by which 400 to 500 words a minute are rushed through on a single instrument, and there is no possibility of error. i am toia tnat so excellent is the condi tion of the lines that very seldom are the wires down, and it is remarkably infrequent that areport is delayed. Only the best of everything is used. But there are drawbacks to the servlee, and some of the most serious ones are encountered by the newspapers, which are the largest custo

mers of the telegraph. In another letter on tbe) English postal telegraph system I will repeat a most interesting conversation I had with Mr. John Moore, the "general manager of the Central News, which is to the old world what tbe United and Associated Presses are to America, and in which Mr. Moore recites tbe advantages and disadvantages to tbe pressservice encountered in a system of telegraphs owned and controlled by the government as against a telegraphic service in the

bands ot corporations and individuals. I will also tell something of the praetioal workings of the wires and the postal telegraph offices, applying them to or contrasting them with those in America, P. S. Heath. HON. C.B. FARWELL Tells a Sew Tork Reporter What He Think! About the Political Outlook. New York, Oct 1. A reporter asked Hon. Charles B. Farwell, United States Senator from Illinois, who reached the city last evening, eV route to Europe, what he thought of President Cleveland's tour to the West He replied, that he though t well ot it, and that the President would be well received by all classes, without distinction ef party. He had made a good administration, and it was not his fault if no safe tied policy as to tbe finances had been, carried out, but the fault of hie party in Congress. Th division in the Democratic party, the lack of ex. perience among its leaders, and the seeds ot corra ption preserved since the days - when it held unrestrained control of the whole country, wonld probably defeat the purposes of the President in any direction of reform. The theorist who hoped for a new order of things through the defeat of tbe Republican party, will probably see as the eleventh hour that reform can only come through that party whose members show the highest average of intelligence. "Who do you think." asked the reporter, "will get the Republican nomination?" "Personally," replied the Senator, without hesitating, "I should like to see Judge Gresham or John Sherman bead the Republican ticket There would be some satisfaction in supporting a candidate of such high character. But personal predilections should have nothiug to do with it. The Republican party has been divided, and it is confront d with the fact that Mr. Cleveland, who baa made a good executive, will be the candidate of the Democratic party. The contest will be settled here in New York, and this fact ought to make the Republicans more prudent than they were in 1S84." "How would you meet the emergency, Mr. Far well?" "If I controlled all tbe delegates of the other States," said the Senator, "I would go to the delegation from New York and say select that man for the presidency who can carry New York the one whose success you are willing to become responsible for. There I would leave it If the delegates were patriotic men, they would divest themselves of all personal feeling and rise to the occasion. The Republicans of the States, and' especially of New York, ought to see that able and unpledged men are sent at del egates. A convention thus constituted would give the party a candidate who would bring about a union and secure the support again of a majority of the people. Too much stress cannot be laid on the necessity of having tbe next national convention composed of men who are free from pledges to particular candidates." " hat about the labor complications!" Queried the reporter. "They will settle themselves in time, and doubtless in a way to benefit tbe genuine laborer. There is no room for Anarchists, or Progressive Socialists, in this country a country offering unlimited opportunities to the industrious, the frugal and temperate to scours, the comforts of home and the blessings of free dom. If the present agitation should result in an increase of American spirit, the restriction on the immigration of paupers and evil-minded persons from Europe, it will be a real benefit te tbe country." The reporter mde reference to the use of Mr. Farwell's name for the Republican nomination for the presidency, but his only reply was cheerful "good night, and the Senator entered his state-room on the Umbria. . LITERARY S0TES. Gossip About Wives of Literary Men and Hus bands of Literary Women. ' Special to the JndianaDolis Journal. New Yore, Oat. 1. Curiosity about the wives of literary men or the husbands of liter ary women-never dies out so deep rooted is tbe impression that genius or even moderate talent is unco' hard to live with. The wife of Charles Dudley Warner is an attractive woman, bandsome, interested ia the best thought of the time. The couple are childless, but thoroughly happy in their homo. Anna Kntherine Green, the writer of the ''Leavenworth Case," and ethers among the best known detective stories of tbe time, is the mother of a family of little children, handsome, sturdy youngsters, devoted to their pretty mamma. Mrs. Rohlfs, as she signs her self when she doesn't use her pen name, is the bent of housekeepers in her home in South Brooklyn, and her husband guards her leisure with zealous care. Bronson Howard and his wife are always seen together and are a devoted pair. Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke it as cosily domestic in her tastes as if she had never touched a pen. Mrs. Laura liolloway bas made herself a home by her literary work, and keeps it acbeery place for ber grown son, who looks too big t call her mother. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis. whose short stories are apt to have a melan choly turn, is a vivacious body, a thorough optimist to all appearance, withja son who has reached man's estate. She and her husband. Mr. L. Clark Davis, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, are a bome-loving couple, and their house is full of sunshine. Clara Lanza, or, te give her her full title, the Marquise Lanza de Mercato Blanco, has little people pretty enough to call . so beautiful a woman mother, and her home .in Seventy-third street is furnished with a rare feeling for color and harmony. It is a very dainty abiding place, and has a home look withal. Mrs. Llvermore is a grandmother of the first order, and ber grandchildren swing on the gate of her big old house in Melrose, unreproved. Julian Hawthorne is t be best of husbands, and there are seven children in his home. Cable hns half a dozen young folks and s serene home life. Marion Harland is as notable a housewife in fact as en paper, and paints and embroiders with considerable skill. Mrs. Burnett sent her husband abroad with her earnings to finish his studies as an oculist, and the pair are one in their devotion to old armor and various antique bric-a-brac, and to their two fine-looking sons. Frank Stockton's wife ia a clever woman, snd Stevenson's wife has something of a literary reputation of her own. Howells makes a fresh study of his wife for every one of his heroines, and it is putting the severest test to their domestic happiness to say that she doesn't resent it Louise Chandler Moulton has a very charming daughter, and she and bei husband, Mr. William C. Moulton, of the Boston True Flag, are an entirely united couple. Mrs. Lucy Liilie has adopted a couple of children because the mother instinct was so strong in her. Literary marriages are not such bad things after alL Following the Precedents. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Rochester, Ind.. Oct L The contested county superintendency case was decided to-day by Judge Conner in favor of A. J. Dillon. The facts in tbe ease are: When the trustees, eight in number, assembled to elect a connty superin tendent, the four Democratic trustees refused to vote, and the four Repnblicans cast their votes for Dillon. The auditor declared it a tie, and gave the casting vote for Dillon. Dillon filed bis bond, and proceeded to discharge tbe duties of his office. Suit was instituted by the prose entice attorney for usurpation of office against Dillon. The court ruled that tbe trustees must discbarge the duties for which they were assem bled: and that as four trustees voted lor Dillon and four refused to vote, the latter should bo counted in the negative, making a tie, which auth orized the auditor to give tbe easting vote. I. O. O. F. Officers at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal. Oct 1. The officers of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-fellows, who left Denver Sept. 25, arrived here yesterday to visit tbe point selected for holding the next annual session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. Among the members of the party are Hon. John 1L White, grand sire; John W. Stokes, past grand sire; Lieutenant-general John C Underwood, deputy grand sire; General James B. Nicholson, past grand sire. The visiters were received by tbe Mayor, local Odd-fellows' lodges and leading citizens. A parade was followed by a reception at the Opera-house, where Mayes Workman formally extended, the city's welcome