Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

CLAKABELLE'SSUXDAYTALK

A Charming Young Woman Who Earns A Living by Her Skill as a Water. A S,1 of Col(l Uind ria(s a Fashionable L ? 3IortiO'-n,' WisM-A Problem that Pazzles JIcAllister s Milit j Brain. Special to Urn Indlaiiamlia Journal. New Yoi.k, March 2.-The Fif ili-aveuue llle is tired out. The dancing season has overworked hex, and she looks forward to Lent as a time for rest and recuperation, if not for religious regeneration. Never in Xevr oik has there been a winter of greater activity, mental and physical, for those who deem themselves "in society," and who try earnestly to do all that should bo done by society people. It isn't likely that many of the washerwomen in town have, during the past three mouths, labored harder than have the young ladies in that limited but conspicuous faction which , sets itself about the job of being truly fashionable. The matrons stand the wearaud tear very well. Tkey are inured to it. Even the younger wives and the older maidens are not so visibly fatigued. But the girls who are just finishing their first season out are weary indeed. Their pretty faces are not so smoothly fair as they were last autumn, the vivacity in their manner is sensibly forced, and they waltz with appreciably jes vim than they did at the outset. But ihe exertion will be over with the final lances of Monday and Tuesday nights, and n 6,' weeks comparative quietude will last. There are plenty of amusements fashionably permissible in Lent, but these lo not include dancing assemblies of any kind, or ceremonious receptions. The Jenten diversions are largely recreative iu the way of mildly athletic games, horseback exercises, and other things to the physical good of the participant, and so 1 suppose that our belles will bo completely rehabilitated by the timo summer brings another annual chango in their occupations. It was a particnlarlv swell-looking girl, with a trim, graceful iigureand a piquant face, whoso fatigue came so near to prostration that I couldn't help inquiring about her. I imagined from tho neat tastef ulney of her garb, and the dainty politeness f her deportment, that she was a daughter of girl is a hired waltzer in several danciug academies. Look in the advertising columns of tho newspapers and you will find tho announcements of twenty or thirty dancing masters, who orfer lessons iD waltzing at very low prices, and specify that female partners are provided. The pupils aro fellows intent on getting their money's worth. They demand constant activity lnrin tho hours for which they pay, and the tuition consists, largely, of setting them to dancing with experienced girls hired for that duty. The ono you aro now contemplating is engaged with three of these academies, and their combined requirements keep her waltziug pretty constantly six or eight hours a day. You'were right in prefcnming that tho dancing season had completely fagjred her out, but she has been under the additional strain of doing it for a living instead of for fun." Then I talked with the little girl herself. She said: "Yes, it is precious hard work, and I am just about done up. So you thought I was a fatigued society belle? I wish I were. Then I would at least have had reasonably good partners, instead of the awkward novices who are such a dreadful trial to me. Tho beginner doesn't know bow to hold you. and is afraid to when ho is shown how. His gait isn't regular and easy, bnt irregular and jerky, so that you are pulled and yanked unmercifuily. But his worst fault is that he steps on your feet. Nobody with corns should think of becoming a professional partner in a waltzing academy. But even with feet as sound as nuts, the mischances of the novice's tread will, before a winter is through, reduce them to anguishing tenderness. When a new pupil gets hold of me 1 don't try to guess whether he will step on my feet, but how many times ho will do it. Yes, indeed, it isn't au easy occupation, and 20 a week wouldn't tempt me to stick to it.'' - - "Then why do you keen at it!" "Well, 1 don't mind telling you. Among Iho many pupils w ho learn to waltz with me. shouldn't thero some dav be a hiirhlv desirable man who will fall in love with tne? So I am getting a good living for tho present, and possibly a good husbaud for the future! It was a cold and windy day. Tbo signs on the buildings creaked, the horse-car drivers ran along by tho side of their horses to keep warm, and the croud of shoppers hurried as fast as they could for shelter in the stores. A coupe rattled up to the curbstone and stopped. Tho door opened and a figure bundled up iu a long fur cloak stepped to tho sidewalk. Just at that instant the horses of the coupe gave a sudden jump and the alighting figure was thrown to the pavement. And then there was an apparition for tho passers by. A strong gust of wind had caught the cloak worn ly tho girl aud bore it straight into the air for ten , ieet or more. Now this girl was not dressed for a promenade. She was in full bail costume, and in her fall her Hutty skirts were blown in precisely the opposite direction that they should have taken. There was a howl from tho small boys and a rush by several men. The latter helped tho young lady to her feet, and thero she stood, with her jeweled neck and arms catehing the icv wind, while she tried to hold her light skirts down about her knees. A gentleman had captured her cloak, and a lady helped her to wrap it about her. Her long blonde hair, iu the meantime, being uncovered, had been entirely disarranged and was blowing in all directions. Ked with mortification and cold, the girl ordered her driver to take hT home, stepped back into the carriage, slammed the door to, and was taken away from the large collection of smiles that were turned toward her from ill sides. There was somo wonder about the reason for the unfortunate girl being costumed in such peculiar fashion by daylight in a business street, but I looked up at the building before which her mishap had befallen her, and saw that it was a photographer's gallery. She had desired to preserve her lovely appearance for futuro reference, but. as has been seen, her commendable little plan was blown to pieces. The ancient showman, Banium, has a comparatively young and entirely stylish wife. 1 le went to a dress-maker's shop with her, the other day, aud I met tho couple thero. Itanium seemed interested iu the finery that his wife was orderiug, and yet his questionings seemed careless aud aimless, until a professional spirit finally animated them. The old fellow has made many millions by shrewdness iu advertising his shows, and now his mind took a scheming turn in that direction. This dress," ho said, indicating a lino gown that was displayed on a form, "is none too big for a .twelve-year-old child, and yet in stylo it seems mature enough." Tt happens to have been mado for a diminutive woman," theattendant explained. 'And the one over there is twice as big. Do von charge the same prices without regard to variation in size!'' "Yes. sir." "No matter how big a lady is, yon don't add anything to tho bill!'' "Not a cenr." "And you don't take anything off no matter how small she may beP We do not." The showman mused. Then I ventured to ask him what he was thinking about. "Oh, it struck me that it this time were a quarterofaceiituryago," Itanium answered quit" -eriously, in spite of his smile, "I could get an advertisement for a giant and a dwarf out of this incident. I would lead this dress-maker to commit herself to what the has just told mo that she. would not vary her price on account of inequality in the size of her customers. Then 1 would uring in Mrs. Tom Thumb, and have her measured for a costume. Next I would submit Anna Swan for measurement, at tho anio price." "And next yon would get it into tho newspapers?" Ther is never any difficulty in getting good things iuto print. Tbo cleverness is reqnired in devising the matter, lint giaata and dwarfs aro no longer valuable

weaitn who had over-worked voluntarily. You are not quite right iu your conjecture," was the renlvln nir rmrrr. "That

show exhibits. And so the little scheme that I have mentioned isu'tof any practical

value. ' Tho subsidence of dancing activity for Leut will not give to Ward McAllister any vacation. He will puzzle over and arrange for the ball to bo given on April 20 as a feature of the Georgo Washington centennial celebration in this city. The new President and Ids Cabinet will be here, and if McAllister hadin his presumed mind any question about admitting these mere officials ho settled it iu tho affirmative. Indeed, he has assumed control of this occasional ball with a view to showing that ho can go outsidn of his four hundred when he chooses, and distinguish himself in doing so. lint the problem that troubles him is tho formation of the opening quadrille. He sits for hours at his task, with a sheet of purer spead out before him and a pencil in his hand, endeavoring io lay out the plan of that set. He concluded, without great mental strain, tlutt Mr. and Mrs. Harrison ought to bo in it. The next demiination arrived at was that Governor Hill and Mayor Grant should be included. Then the perplexity intervened in his calculations. A few days ago he relieved himself a little further by decidiug that Vice-president Morton and his wife ought to be comprised in that quadrille. Thus ho found himself provided with tho four requisite gentlemen, bnt with two vacant places for ladies. Yesterday ho wrote a formal letter to Mrs. Grover Cleveland asking her to take one of these two positions. I suppose there is not much doubt about her acquiescence. It is understood that she is coming to New York soon after her retirement from the White House, and that 6he will bo received into our most pretentious society. Indeed, there has really been no undetermined question in that matter. Her close relations with Mrs. Whitney, her personal good-looks and winsonienesst and her anient desire to participate in New York fashionable life, all combino to assure tho lady to our swell circles. Those who ought to know say that she has both the disposition and the power to become sociallv conspicuous here. But as to this quadrille McAllister is racking his brain whether to assign her as a partner to the Governor or to the Mayor. There is no love lost between Cleveland and Hill, and during the last year that they wero together at Albany as Governor and Lieutenant-governor they had no social intercourse with each other. Hut McAllister says to himself that Mr. Hill and Mrs. Cleveland might dance amicably together for a few minutes, notwithstanding tho husband's dislike of tho bachelor: and McAllister hasn't thought that way for more than an hour before his mind swims over to the other idea that it would be better to mate Mrs. Cleveland with Mayor Grant. Tho fourth ladv in the set is almost certain to bo Mrs. William Astor; but she is not the first choice of McAllister, nor tho second, bnt only tho third. Mrs. Ulysses fr?. Grant and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, as wives of Presidents, weve invited by him. but both have declined on the ground that they are not habitual dancers. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is visiting her mother, who mado a remark which was construed as a suggestion that tho daughter be asked, but nothing has come of it. 31 rs. Astor is aware of tho situation, but she is not at all resentful, and intimates that sho will willingly accept the place. The reader doesn't deem this a momentous topic? Well, Wrard McAllister is of a different opinion. The amusement at tho theater whefo tho London burlesquers aro performing was extended, tho other evening, to ono of the lower proscenium boxes, where the exhibit of actress-chasers was comical. In the corner, so close to the stage picture that he was practically a part of it, and with his counteuanco turned half way to tho assemblage, was one of the funniest little dudes ever seen. His faco was as smooth and pudgy as au infant's and quite as void of guile. His curly hair and 6Uggestm. of a mustacho were as yellow as the wigs of tho stage women. Ho wore white kid gloves the only pair on male hands in the theater and probably ho had lately swallowed as much as half a glass of champagne, for he was visibly exhilarated. His "ogling of tho statre beauties, his knowing glances at the audience ami his whole expression of very mild deviltry kept the observers tittering. As to tho actresses, they did not conceal their amused contempt for what they would have called a "Johnny." He was the son of a rich man, and, no doubt, has spent money freely on these same women who accept his refreshments and then treat him contemptuously. Among the half dozen other occupants of the box was ono singular creature, who kept as far as possible out of sight, but who I was enabled from my opposite box-seat to study interestedly. He was a misshapen dwarf, almost as tall as the other chaps when ho sat in tho chair, but hot much more thau half their height when on his feet, for his legs were a proportionately small section of his figure. His hands had five fingers apiece, besides the thumb, and tho extra finger was not an excrescence, but equal in sizb and proportion to the rest. His shoes were big enough to hold six-toed feet, aud, doubtless, the3 did. Now, this malformed fellow wasueither rich nor socially pretentious. His name was Henry lialph, andho was the littloTich of the stage; a grotesque dancer, whom you may have seen. The arty of young town-rounders had found kittle Tic u an entertaing companion, for io is witty on his own account, as well as udicrous in his public performances. Now, while the curled and gilded darling of wealth, whom I have decribed, was a butt for the merry burlesquers, this dwarfish and fantastic Little Tich had recently won tho heart of Laura Brooks, a beauty of th burlesque. They had been thrown together professionally, had fallen in love with each other, and had been regularly joined in wedlock. Women aro peculiar. But who shall say that of the two occupants of tho box Little Tich would not be a more endurable husband than tho brainless pretty fellow. Clara Belle. Copyright, 189 0. A FEW FASHIONS. The finest of spring mantles aro lined with watered silk. Paris predicts a season of thin stuffs, among which silk mull is likely to be a favorite. Bog-wood or dull jet is tho only proper deep mourning jewelry, but cut-jet, black onyx and crapo stone may be used after a few months. Tortoise-shell hairpins have almost entirely driven out tho old-fashioned kind of wire, which are now said to have been injurious to tho hair. Black, brown or green wool, widely crossbarred with green, or blue, or red, is very much used for house and school gowns for girls from twelve to twenty. Tho nowest black veil is of plain net, hemmed at the bottom, with a faint pattern of gold thread wrought on the hem and other lines of gilt above it. Silk-warp Henrietta cloth, in cream and magnolia tints, is one of tho best stuffs for empire and directoire evening gowns, especially for girls or very young women. In thin summer stuffs shirred corsages will bo even more worn than they were last season. The trimming will take almost any shape that woman's fancy cau devise. The accordion-pleated skirt requires just ten breadths for its due and proper construction, consequently it is heavier than any amount of drapery, or even kilt pleats. Widows under fifty haverisen iurcbellion against tho regulation pearl-gray gowns, ami now, when making a secoud matrimonial venture, array themselves in white velvet, white brocade or white silk. Gowns of good black cashmere, made with long, straight redingoto and brightened with vest, cutis, collar and revers of gold braid mixed with black silk Hercules braid, are as stylish as they are elegant and serviceable. Summer styles aro plain and rather straight. Waists will be long, though in the empire styles tho sash will disguise the fact, sleeves will have jockey caps, orelso a slashing at tho outer seam through which another fabric will appear. It is supposed that largo sleeves will rival the coat sleeves, from the fact of their apIKarance during the winter on cloth gowns, 'or summer gowns tho sleeves will be shirred and tucked, aud those of China and other soft silks will have the sleeves iu wrinkles around tho ami its eutiro length, the fullness forming a puff above tho arillliolc. Bkown's Expectorant has been in use in Indianapolis over thirty years. It cures cougas una coias.

MR. XYE'S XOTES OF TRAVEL

His Peace of Mind Is Disturbed by the Band Attached to a Salvation Arm'. llis Thrilling Night Experience at a Western Inn-Mraycd by a Voice A Reminiscence of a Denver Hotel in Early Times. Written for the Sunday Journal. S I open these lines. tho plaintiff" wail of a brass band comes stealing through my casement. I trust that tho intelligent compositor will not strive to setme right on the word. I refer to tho wail of a plaintitfwhen he has tried to enforce the pa3ment of a bill, and finds that tho lawyer has had it, but cannot really refund it without personal inconvenience to himself. This music, to whichl at first so feelingly Uluded, comes from tho volunteer band of a Salvation Army. They aro playing be neath my casement for my benefit. They desire to snatch me as a brand from the burning, but I am in Michigan, and I would rather bo a brand at this season of the year thau to be outside, making a large mousecolored ass of myself. ISo I step to the window and say that while thanking one and all for the honor thus paid to me. a comparatively unknown mau, I am entirely unprepared to say anything at all suitable for the occasion, and being a poor extemporaneous sneaker, seeking modestly to plug along the best I can and support ray family, I will once more thank one and all for this Hattering reception, and say good-bye. The leader is a large, red-nosed man, who weeps easily, and pulls out the tremulo on his voice at all times. He wears a streetcar conductor's cap, with a red band around it, which matches his nose, and as the night is intensely cold, he wears a pair of earmuffs, which were formerly used by tho baby elephant, perhaps. Near him. with a bleak waste of purple beak, knocking a poor and defenseless tambourine silly, wearing a preen veil tied under her lower jaw in order to protect her cars, and a pair of her favorite husband's socks over her shoes to keep out the bitter cold from her massive feet, stands a woman with straws in the fringe of her shawl aud a vacant look in her hard, cold eye. I was just going to say she ought to be at homo with her family, but all at onco it occurred to mo that it would bo a great blow to the family. So, perhaps, it is better as it is. The plan of salvation as outlined by tho Salvation Army is too vituperative to be successful. Life is, of course, a warfare, and nearly all of us have to fight more or less, with the exception of the regular army, but the war made ou Satan by tho Salvation Army is too acrimonious, it seems to me. It makes a good deal of noise and requires a good deal of foraging, but is really harder on the surrounding country than it is on the enemy. Whatris the use of bombarding Satan all winter here in Michigan when the chances are that he is down at the Hot Springs? Why make a personal attack upon John G. Lucifer with a disagreeable brass baud here in the Northwest when he is, in fact, down at Washington, where ho can hear good music! The fa! cation Army. As I listen again at tho window, I hear the voice of tho lieutenant-colonel of tho Salvation Army. He is urging his little band of Don Quixotes to charge ou the Satanic windmill. He is speaking extemporaneously and the woman in the largo woolen socks is trying to look pleasant. This fritrhtens a loaded team, and a cord and a half of dry maplo wood expends itself along the main street with great furj'. The leader goes on again to state that wo are journeying through an unfriendly world. That a man may, lose his money, or his clothing, or his wife, and still recover. But when he loses his soul, his name is Dennis. "Oh, then, let us fight for those souls, such as they are. Let us challenge Old Satan and give him only timo to train down. Let us fight him without gloves. Let us knock his hedd off. Oh, I have never saw a better timo than now whilst he is thinking about something elso. Let us sock it to him now. Let us mutilate his disacrreeablo features and send him back to hell looking liko a man in tho almanac who explains the Zodiac, and who allows his works to show for themselves." , The band then strikes up a selection or fragment of campaign song that sounds so sacrilegious that it honestly makes the chills and hot flashes chase each other the entire length of my being. It is like hearing the Kazzle Dazzle song over your mother's grave. The baud is composed of six pieces the bass drum leading. It is supported by a colored man, who has joined tne band becauso he is passionately fond of music, can wear a cap with braid around it and enjoy a season of much needed rest. Coming in at intervals, there is a croupy bass horn that has lost its horn voice by sleeping in barns throughout the State. There aro four other pieces of music," but their relations with each other aro strained. The players pause ever and anon to polish their red sweep of nose with the corners of their shawls or to agitate their chilblains against a brick building, and so it otten falls out that they do lose variety notes, for which their auditors thank them aud anon snowball them as thej are in the act of journeying through an unfriendly world. 1 have often wondered what sort of life these warriors against Satan lead. What is their home lilef While they are battling against the powers of evil and advertising themselves a good deal more than they are morality and religion, what is their record as they journey through said unfriendly world f In tho extreme left wing of this detachment, iu front of tho hotel, there is a woman wearing a gray shawl and a pair of red yam mittens. She is carrying a little child in her arms and a small satchel by means of a strap over her shoulder. Perhaps I ought to say that each one carries his own 'baggage. But I would like to know tho futuro of that little child if I could; roosting about over tho country. fighting a straw Satan with a miscellaneous brass band, with no home to remember, nothing but tho clash of arms and the bray of the trumpet, together with that of the gentleman who does the speaking for the party. But I will chango the subject. I had a very trying experience last week. It was painful, but not fatal. I had been traveliug all the night before, and fatigue and brain fag were together fighting for my very existance. I got a room when I arrived and retired to seek much needed rest. I had just retired, in fact, having carefully locked the door and left the key in the lock, that the curious could not look in throuch the key-holo and see mo as I lay there asleep and make a $5,000 painting of lu Just then thero was a slight rattle at the door, such as you bear when a chambermaid attacks it with a pass key, and comes in the room to sweep holes in the carpet, aud till your lungs full of debris. I smiled to myself, for my own key was in the door, and I said softly, as I bathed my blushing features iu the pillow. "Aha! aha! je cannot enter now.?r But she continued to rattle away with her key, and I soon saw, with horror, that my own was beginning to lose its grip, and finally it fell to tho floor with

a loud report, having been pushed out of the lock from tho other side. I can hardb describe the horror of my situation. 1 thought of handing my handkerchiefs and perfumery over the transom to her, and begging her, if she had a mother or any other relatives inwhoni she had anj confidence whatever, to go away. I thought of going to the door and telling her that we had better go through life as nearlv as possible by separate routes, and that I needed rest really more than 1 did society, bnt 1 did not dare to get out of bed for fear the door would open, and I was wise, for it did now burst open as I had feared, and a tali girl in the prime of life, with llashingeye and distended nostril, came into tho room. With a wild shriek, I covered my head with tho bed-clothes, shuddering till my teeth, which were in a tumbler ot water near by, chattered together. "Go away, you hateful thing," I said, "and never, never come back again any .more." "But I want to change them sheets," sho said. Go away." I said, again. "Even your voico is hateful iu my sight. Take my beautiful 8eth Thomas silver watch, if you will, but, oh! go away, and heaven will reward you even better thau that." .She then slunk from the room, but it was a long time before I could go to sleep. Even then my dreams were troubled, and my mind tilled with apprehension. I thought I was being pursued by a red-eyed unicorn, with a navv-bluo stomach and a Chinese lantern tied to his tail. I tried to shake him off, but I could not. Ho led me down into the infernal regions, and insisted on showing me the iron bridge and the highschool, and spoke of tho great progress of the place, and said that they were likely to get a new and competing road tn there this summer, and ho showed mo the library, and walked me out to the fair grounds and down on the lake shore, so that I could take a sulphur bath, and spoke of tho desirability of the climate for people with bronchial affections, and wauted me to speak of it in my letters to the press, and said that he would pay me well for it. Just then I heard a knock on my door. m I was so glad to havo anybody knock, instead of picking the lock, that I asked, "Who's theref" A rich, manly voico replied, "Me."

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William and the Bass Chambermaid. I was glad to hear tho welcome voice of one of my own sex, and so I undid the door for tho gentlemen with great alacrity. Just as I was bounding lightly back toward my couch, with a merry laugh, the party strolled in to the middle of the loom, bearing a small but rare collection of clamnry, mucilaginous towels. She was a heavyset chambermaid, with terror-cotter hair and a bass voice. 1 do not complain. I do not murmur. I do not repine. But I say that a chambermaid ought not to do that way. A chambermaid who has a bass voice ought to seek out some other calling. She may put a guest's slipper 60 far under the bed that he cannot get them without calling out the hook and ladder company. She may weep over his letters from n is wife or drown her sorrows in his bay rum, but she ought not to take a bass voice into a hotel and expect to escape criticism. Mayor Weston, now of Grand Rapids, before he became wealthy, was a newspaper man in Denver, and used to stop at the old Planter's Hotel. Ho had a mining deal to write un for the paper, and connected with the deal was a Georgetown superintendent whom wo will address as Julius H. Cavvyo. Mr. Cavvyo was to furnish the particulars to Mr. Weston, but early in the day ho began to meet old acquaintances and to cement their friendship by means of a powerful solution known as embalming fluid. So, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Weston put Julius H. Cavvyo to rest on his own little bed at the Planter's and went out to prosecute his researches in relation to tho Hold-up Mining and Improvement Company. The old Planters' Hotel was not exactly like tho Hoffman House or the Gilsey House. You could tell the difference almost as 6oon as you sat down at the table. If you spoke to the waiter about the tenacity of the steak or tho longevity of the butter, he would give you a tart reply and you would have to get along with that for dessert. One man murmured about the steak and said it was too tough, so therefore he would not eat it. "Yon won't eat it!" calmly replied tho loose-iointed waiter. "You say you won't eat iti" "I say so because I can't cut it. No man can cut that steak. You can't cut it .with acids. So I won't eat it." "Well, you will eat it," said the waiter, reaching around as if in the act of adjusting his bustle. "You will eat it or I'll wear it out on you!" Ho ate it. But. among other thiugu, there was a big alarm bell in the tower of the Planter's, which was wont to ling for fires, funerals and other entertainments. The rope hung in the hall and when the help of the populace was required in order to suppress a tiro or a riot, tho first man to tho bell rone saluted the snowy summits of the Bocky mountains with this wild alarm. While Mr. Weston was getting his information on the streets, tbo great bell awoke the echoes in the fastnesses of the conyous twenty miles away, and the excited populace swarmed to the Planter's to learn what great calamity had befallen tho new city. Mr. Weston cot there at last and. out of breath, rushed up to his room. Iu the ball he found Julius 11. Cavvyo ringing tne bclL His suspenders were draned aud soap suds were urippiug irom nis cum anu. mo xip ox 1! t . 1 nis eneiian reu nose. "What has hnnnened?" ranted Weston. "What aro you ringing tho bell for, JulinsP "Well, what do j-on s'poso I'm ringing the bell forf I am ringing for a clean towel or a funeral. If I get the towel thero will be no funeral, but if I fail, you just wait here a minute and I'll give you the first view of the corpse for your bright and racy paper i Bill Nye. The Tobacco Evil. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: The article which recently appeared in one of our dalies, regarding Mrs. Frances Hodsou Burnett's use of cigarettes, chal lenges a few words of rejoinder. Let Mrs. Burnett pose as a mirror. -'Would some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as it hers see u.,' If so disgusting a thing for a woman to be found smoking, where shall we class those who dairy and hourly corrupt the air and despoil tho streets, public buildings, con veyances, entrances, stores and shops with a ceaseless flow of juice from tho noxious weed! If so detestablo a thing in a womau. does the habit, in a more offensive form. become harmless in a man! Because trans ferred from one sex to the other, does the obiection cease? Surely there is no difference in the.vice itself, whether found in man or woman. If by smoking, women could bring about a reform m tne use of tobacco, l am sure thousands ot women would follow, willingly. Mrs. Burnett's example', even at the risk of health, and at the expense of severest criticism if not of temporary ostracism. A shock is often needed to bring us to a state of sensibility. It is time w had laid "the ax at the root of the trees 7 in trvinc to establish and push reforms. To lop off intemperance, while smoking and chewing remain unioucneu, is oniy to trim the upas treo without destroying its "baneful influence. To destroj" an appetite for the lesser stimulant first would be the natural method, and would make the sec ond step of correcting intemperance more possible and far more lastiug. What moth er would not give up any luxury rather than see her littlesoncontractingnislatnT' habit of tobacco-using? What wife would not live over many a hard day if shecouldbut undo the awful habit wbicb Ueronce cleanly vonncr husband had gradually acquired. and which now separates from her as by a

gulf the early lover with his untainted tfissl What young man is not less self-respecting becauso ho has a secret habit coiling huJ him, threatening to enslave hiniT What sister, of any pride or nobility, can learn of

the belittling evil fastening upon a oeioc brother without shedding tear of lament and sufiering deep anguish! , a j as, mat our tairciiy suouiu ucut"v ., as it is with tho use of tobacco! hile other cities sutler the same horror, ours is exceptional from the amount and extent oi its pollution. There aro plenty oi men, anu to their shame be it said, in Northern towns and cities who have iinbibed this unnatural taste for tobacco, but people from Milwaukee. Chicago. St. Paul. Boston, Springfield, iiartioruanu otner ivortnern aiuiLan i cities conaemn our streets ana puonc uuuuings as vile, greatly contrasting with their refined visitor through our court-house! . 111... a. - r I . - ,nO!nn n uat a picture oi iouiness our floors present! I tried, a few days ago, to find a nlace in the nostoffice where I could stand my umbrella without idunging it into a puuaie oi tiarK nuiu, uui uui walk a irood manv feet from the stamt) win dow before 1 could find a place large enough. , . In the daytime, by dint of close watcuiug, one may pick his way and escape walking through much of. tho foulness of our pavements, but "traveler, what oi tne night?' It these nollutors of our walks and highways would smoke cigarettes only, and cease spitting under our feet, wo could begin to see hope. If they will make themselves beastlv, why not expectorate in the middle ot the 6treet, where ueasis tread! By walking on the edge of the pavement, they could easily manage to spare the rest of us, who do not spit continually, the disajrreeableness of walking throuch their filth. If women should un ceasingly find it necessary to expectorato 1 ... ll ... M .11 . f iL!l. lU wueu wanting on tne siuewaiKS i uhuk. iun propriety of the habit would soon be questioned. When I keen a bank, or store, or open any office, no clerk shall receive em ployment who uses tobacco, uy cieciaeu measures of this kind on tho part of em nlovers Indianapolis would soon put on cleaner garments, and the spirit of tidiness and elevated morality would find its way from our city to the suburban towns. In going a few blocks in the street-car, the other day, five out of six men expectorated upon the car floor in the course of tho ride. I have never noticed a womau spit in the vicinity of a man's feet, but I havo seen the folds of many a woman's dress lie in the moist ejection or narrowly escape it, said ejection coming from a mouth not feminine. If so obnoxious to the traveler, what roust be the fireside discomfort produced by the spitting practice. Even boys seem to think it fashionable to spit and to find occasion to emit fluid from their mouths when not using tobacco. I have often wonderod if men's throats are mado differently from tho throats of women, that so many meu need to be continually scraping them, even when not usinc tobacco. They seem not to be troubled with any false modesty in re-. minding us often that they have throats and noses, and not untrequentiy taKe disgusting liberties in making the disclosure. I sometimes think that refined men and earnest women should abandon tho more delightful pursuits for a time and speak in stirring tones against this vice, which is not crowinar less from vear to year. They could profitably suspend art, politics, literature and cooking for a time, 1 believe, and teacn cleanliness oi personal liaons ngui hero at home. A little home missionary effort of the kind is much needed, or rather a good deal of it. The consciousness, too, of working in the lino of godliness, so closely allied to cleanliness, would be most certainly realized. k. MOVING MONEY FK03I THE MEVT. Precautions Taken to Keep the Coin from DUhonest lianas. Philadelphia Record. Through the Adams Express Company the United States government is engaged in transferring 9 7,000,000 m specie from tne $.'1,750,000 in the big vaults in the postomce buildinfir to tho United States Treasury in Washington. One million dollars' worth of the precious metal molded into United Mates coins is being daily carried out or the postoffice building, loaded on Adams express cars and shipped to Washington. The removal of the coin is made under the supervision of Maior James Mullane. assistant cashier of the National Treasury. He is accompanied by two assistants from Washington. Twenty laborers from the Philadelphia Mint, under the direction of Superintendent Fox, complete the working force. The workers are cuarded bv secretservice detectives attached to the Treasury Department, who are unknown to all but tho officials from Washington, and their glances never wander from the mountain of silver dollars in tho vaults oi tho postoffice. The first installment was shipped to the national capital on Monday. Larly yesterday morning the second million-doDar in stallment started on its journey. I he specie is tied up in heavy canvas bags, each con taining $1,000, which weigh sixty pounds. Theso bags aro sealed with the government seal, and before passing from the vault they are carefully scrutinized. Alter being satisfied as to the correctness in weight and the perfect state of tho bag. the express company's inspector seals it with the company's seal. The slightest imperfection is suthcient cause for reiection by the express company's othcials. A thousand-dollar bag with a small hole was rejected yesterday, and had to be recounted and verified be fore it was allowed to pass the inspectors. Fiftv baes. each containing 1.000 silver dol lars, and weighing in the aggregate 3,000 Sounds, are loaded upon a carnageortruck. luarded by two uniformed officers and the eyes of the secret service detectives, the carriages are wheeled to the elevator and taken down stairs and through the passageway to Chant street. At the rear entrance stands a heavy wagon of the Adams Ex press Company. Tne contents of the carriage are transferred to the wagon, and, manned by four detectives, the load is con veyed to the mam ofhee of the company at Sixteenth and Market streets. Theso So0.000 installments aro conveyed to the depot until the million dollars aro stored at the depot. Each detective carries two loaded pistols ready for instant action. Twopairs of the finest automatic handcuffs aud a blackiack complete his defensive outfit. Any attempt to molest the precious load would invite a volley or pistol bans irom every detective, as their orders are to snoot upon the slightest attempt at robbery. When the sixtv-ponnd bags of silver ar rive at the main office they disappear as comnletelv as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up. The money is never seen atrain until its arrival in Washington. Each "bag of silver is placed in a heavy oaken keg bound with iron aud 6ealed with the coverument and express company's seals. These kegs aro loaded upon an express car built expressly for this service and lined with wrougut-iron. Each car will carry 1,000,000 in silver or $10,000,000 in gold specie. About the movement of the cars tho closest secrecy is observed. But one person knows when it will start on its a l. . i : : a. ; ti i. .. a journey or io wiiai iraiu it wiuueavtached. Awaiting nis orders is a corps of armed secret-service detectives. A few moments before the starting of the train selected to bear the money the car is and one detachment is placed in the car. Other detectives distributed through the train closely watch the movements of the passengers. This system of surveillance is continued until the train reaches Washington, when the same method of transfer is employed as occurs at the sub-treasury vaults in this city. The government learned the importance of secrecy by a severe lesson in 1803, when $3,000,000 in silver and gold was transferred from San Francisco to the mint in this city, wnen tne tram ar rived at liarnshurg the train was split in to two sections, the Government car being in the second section. The first section was running at a high rate of sneed near Frazier, when the engine plunged over an embankment, wrecking the train and killing the engineer and fireman. Tho passengers who endeavored to assist tho wounded were 6toned by an invisible gang of robbers. The car containing the money had been traced from San Francisco and the train was to bo derailed for the pur pose of robbing the government, lhe unlooked-for split in the train defeated the plau. Wefdry Pursued a Different Method. Boston Herald. John Wesley used to blow sinners up in a rather lively fashion, but b" never un'd a dynamite bonibto doit. That is where tue students of the university that bears his name depart from the creed of their patron saint. fche Ilaa an Advantage. Btngbamton Republican. Lydia Thompson announces that she will soon retire. Tho gay and gauzy Lydia has the advantage of most people the won't havo to disrobe.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, Xo. 3 ATxa Bttildi.no, ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. AUGUSTUS LYNCH MASON, (Formerly of MrTfcmald. Butler A Maaon.) ATTOUXKY AT LAW. 4)0 a Eat Market utreet. DR. E. U. LEWIS. Practice Unilted to disease of the THROAT AND XOSE. 139 North Meridian street.

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