Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1889 — Page 9

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VOBK AXD WAYS OF WOMEN

Veiations and Reninneration of Those Engaged in Writing forXewspapers, Other Lines of Business Taj Better Profit on Cosmetic Articles The Class of Women Who Prepare Them Jeweled Corsets Epecial to the IndUn&ixIi Journal New York, Aug. CO. With nearly two hundred letters to answer. I packed them sacredly, and fled to the wilderness. Life is short, letters are long. If "man is immortal till his work to done," as the school mottoes nsed to tell tis, life insurance may bo dispensed with or some timo to come in the present case. Whether all the homely "women travel in summer and the good looking stay at home, or not, I think come thousands of the former, all freckles, eye teeth and dcp, leathery wrinkles, have gone on tho game railroads. If one were a cosmetic Cansuolo.it would be a temptation to take a Tan, like the qnack Tenders, and travel from town to town, applying freckle washes, face bleaches and wrinkle pastes. What hosts for a whimsical genius, and "what a missionary work in general. To. our correspondents at once. It is out of the question to answer all letters which desire private reply, were time and etrength given up to them. Still those wishing persmai letters should at , .least risk stamps on tho chance, for tf tho answer to their inquiries is not worth postage to theni, it cannot bo worth taking time for. A letter was lately received from Ireland imploring directions for removing personal blemishes, in heart-moving terms, but tho evidently well-educated writer quite overlooked ocean postage. I don't know why authors' time, should, in the Adirondack phrase, be considered worth no more than setting hens' time. If people imagine that authors write because they are good for nothing else, it will do to remind them that this may be true of a good many writing folk, but thoso who make the truest success of writing are usually capablo of making nioro money in common business. Mr. Isaac Bromley wrote the "wittiest articles, political and otherwise. for the Tribune years ago, at $5,000 a year. Times changed and the salary was reduced, a year or two, when that was thought too much. Mr. Bromley left newspaper work and took a railroad office at a salary of $10,000, .where he is considered well worth the sum. So a newspaper man told me. I know a newspaper "woman, very bright and cute, whom the jealousy of unscrupulous women writers, without half her talent at anything but tring. edged off the Boston press into other usiness, where she is able to clear 800 a "week, which is thrice more than any of her rivals are doing. Two or three women I declined to help forward in the crowded lield of newspaper work your thanks, if you please. Messieurs Editors were wroth with me until they found themselves substantially placed in other work with three times the salary they could possibly hope lor in journalism. So please inquire "within yourselves if $10 a day is a very moderate price for an author's time, who could make tive times as much . outside of newspapers, and if a letter of advice often takes hours cf study and writing, isn't that reply worth postage! Another rule which writers soon find themselves forced to observe, is never to notico letters without the writer's real uamo and address. It is not remarkable that women do not wish to sign somo of the silly eti'ueions they send. Bear in mind, it is an afIront to yourself to write a letter you are unwilling to sign and nearly as much to receive it, and all such are quickly dropped into the waste-basket. Women are queer about their own interest often. For instance, one writer pathetically deplores a disfigurement of face and person, which she fears will render her an object of dislike to the husband she is soon to marry. She has been minded to break oft" the engagement on this account, but to do so, ahe says, will be to break her own heart. She has found a proprietary remedy which entirely removes the defect in a most satisfactory way, but she grodges the price, and comes to me to tell her how to reach the same effect for nothing. Now here is a delect which is likely to cost her future happiness, and a safe remedy whose virtue he knows. Does she ever balance the two things and ask herself whether she would rather let her life's hopes and a flections go, or pay even $100 to be without blemish and happy! Even a servant girl will often pay as much for an operation, and think it well worth her hard earnings. If good looks and contentment with one's self, and the gain of : husband are not not worth a dozen bottles of depilatory, even at $3 a bottle, the price of a silk gown, they can't be worth troubling about, and I decline to spoil other people's profits. The papers have had a good deal to say about the price of certain cosmetics in proportion to the cost of material. To bo consistent they should also attack all articles sold by druggists, for it has long been one of the proverbs of tido that no business was more profitable than the sale of drugs. The story has gone from Maine to California about the Norwood druggist, near Boston, who put up a lotion for a friend, charging 25 cents. "See here," says the buyer, "you needn't spoil trade like that, if you are friends with mo. The last timo 1 had that lotion put up in town, they charged me $1.23." "1 guess I won't sufter." said the druggist, dryly, "I only made 24 cents on the bottle. " They say the drug trade has gone down since then, and doesn't make so much money, but it is pertinent to fiay that tho cost of baro material is usually the least item in cosmetics or medicines. People leave out the rent of buildings to manufacture and sell them in, the-cost of the mere putting up, clerk hire and advertising, which olten costs more than all other expenses put together. Tut these things together, and a medicine or a cosmetic at $1 a bottle will be no moro expensive than a sewing-machine, or a haycutter, or a pound of tine cheese. It is odd how people weekly pay charges in a dozen directions for necessaries of life which they grudge bitterly for the essentials of refinemen t, which nobody compels them to buy at all. Tho law of trade is that necessaries of food and comfort are to be sold as near cost as possible, and profits made from luxuries which peoplocanbuyor go without, as seems good. et wo are every one of us paying 8 cents a pound for tho hundred weights of sugar used yearly, when the Scientific Americau tells us sugar can be raised at a profit in Kansas for 12 cent a pound. Borax had been sold contentedly for years at 8 cents per pound, when it suddenly took a jump to 20 cents,, a year or two ago, I supposo because it is as plenty and cheap as naud in the Western States. Copperas, the best disinfectant for family use, costs a few mills a pound, but we pay at least 8 cents. The bar soap women use for the laundry costs more than their cosmetics in proportion to the expense of manufacture aud putting on tho market. Curiosity led me to look into these things lately. It is quite the thing lately for women of lashion to get their cosmetics from private hands, f mm 6ome clover gentlewoman who prepares her own special recipes. Her preparations go by worth, not show. Ihe bottles aro not manufactured for her, or I;ut up in charming boxes. They are as ikely to come in old sarsaprilla or salad bottles, without much satin ribbon tied on the corks. But tho generous bottles and tumblers, with directions in delicate handwriting, are more prized by the possessors n y'th Eimoge and engraved glass of the wholesale mixtures. Von can put them into the I.itnoge bottles and Carlsbad jewel class, you know, for yourself. A cosmetio f M L? Bd to sell in such a war. But by the time the maker sees her bottles into the express ofiice, the profit won't mterJer.e, TT,lto her going to heaven. It is hardly one of the genteel employments to recommend to distressed gentlewomen, this making of cosmetics. 1 know one lady who makes them, and very good ones, too, in the Intervals ol household work and

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jelly-makiug for profits. Like newspapers. tne cosmetic Dnsiness lsoniy proniauiew a large way. The women who deal in them are apt to be the veriest snarss, dui mere are honorable exceptions. It is greatly to tho credit of one woman, whose name is prominent in connection with cosmetics, that all her employes share in her prosperity. Not in any yearly profit sharing, to meet which expenses are cut to starvation rate in every point, but by tne payment or just and liberal wages to every tooul m her employ. Iler quiet help . to needy women, especially poor ladies, never figures in advertisements, it has never get into the newspapers and is only known from thoso who have been so helped. Women who will consider almost anything legitimate in business in an advertising way will yet have their reserves as to private benefactions, as it were, a side account kept with heaven. And the help is not merely in money, but in shrewd advice and assistance in dithculties, which is so much harder to find than pocket aid. A friend to stand by a harassed woman, to direct and say the right word in the right place is often better than a fortune, and is the bringing of a fortune sometimes. Women of force and penetration ate capable di these services to needy friends, and it is a keen sense of fitness which takes from women a love of beauty with one hand to bestow grerously on their poorer 6isters with the other. Jeweled girdles and corselets are the coming extravagances of moneyed women. The dealers in uncut stones, and the lapidaries can tell of turquoises, seed pearls aud pink garnets by the pint, which are set in these cinctures. The shadings of the Byzantine and old French designs from purplest amethyst to pink, alive with the Hash of small diamonds and cut silver.is exquisite, and as art work, far beyond the rather stiff and commonplace arrangements of diamonds which depend more on their value. Toilet and writing sets of crystal, set with minute rubies and emeralds, are very elegant. Hair-pins with heads of carved agate or beryl supplant the amber and silver pins. It is the thing to have the stoppers of scent bottles cut from ono piece of agate, amethyst or carnelian. There is an electric attraction botween humanity and precious stones. At tho highclass jewelers you will see enormous topazes aud amethysts, cut, but unmounted, solely for the cabinets of rich collectors, who delight to look at and handle them. There is an unaccountable pleasure in the touch of these tine stones, they are so smooth, cool and soothing, and seem to charm the fingers Which caress them. Where are tho great carbuncle, valued at 500,000 crowns, worn by Mary Stuart, and the string of six hundred "fair white t earls," left by Leicester to Queen tElizaeth! Good society may want them again, if it takes a jewel mania. It used to wear them by the province-worth. Jeanno of Navarre had her wedding dress 6o thick with jewels that she could notmovoinit, and the Great Constable had to pick her up and carry fier. Gabrielie d'Estues had a black satin dress so bejeweled she could hardly walk in it. Nearer our own times Prince Esterhazy wore 5,000 brilliants in the diamond aigrette of his hat, and the Swedish nobles wore pearls innumerable, gathered from the mussels of the Swedish rivers, where they aro still found. The Countess of Northampton wore $150,000 worth of diamonds at a coronation. What do our little republican fripperies of 20,000 necklaces amount tof J. L. E. "What is the benefit of mas?age treatment, and how is it given! Is it good for the complexion!" Massage is not rubbing the body merely, as people think, but kneading and working tho muscles by another person. The limbs and muscles of the trunk aro grasped, pressed and moved with the same motion as kneading bread. The effect is to stir and equalize the circulation, t reliovo congestion, and stimulate functions. In short, it is exercise taken second-hand, and much in favor with persons who object to any personal exertion. It brightens the skiri, just as rubbing does, but its benefits are not to be compared with thoso of bodily effort, where one is not in an invalid state and is capablo of exercise. The contraction of our muscles by the force of one's own will and nerves is the only way to gain atrengtb and-sound circulation. -Passive exerciso by massage will never develop sound mnscles or prove more thaira temporary stimulus. It aids tho system like a crutch, and like it, is to be dispensed with whenever possible. J. IL, Camden The lotion you mention is safe and excellent. It soothes the skin and keeps off sunburn and pimples. I don't know any Philadelphia cosmetio artists, but suppose they advertise. N. P. "I like to look very pale. What have I got to take! I do not liko oowder." Eat slate pencils, chalk, clay and arsenio wafers, and you will be pale enough before the fool-killer comes round to you. To turn your blonde hair white, try javolle water, and repent it the rest of your life. Inquirer The French recipe for preventing wrinkles is harmless. Boil the white of four eggs in a half pint of rosewater, add half an ounce of powdered alum and the same of sweet almond oil, beating all to a paste. It is better than benzoin recipes, lo soften the skin, of teasing it, try cacao butter, five cents' worth from the druggists' will last a long time. To darken gray hair, burn peach stones to charcoal, powder fine with two parts of bruised gall nuts, and boil in white wine. Or bruise one ounce of gall nuts, and put in a nint of strong white wine vinegar with two ounces of iron tilings. Boil half awav. strain and bottle. Use either liquid by dipping a - 1 1 A. J .1 IL - 1 . . lit 1 comum ib ana comuing mo nair nil quiio wet, sitting in tho sun bare-headed half an hour after. Don't cut your hair. Carrie B. Champagne will sometimes bleach the hair. To change common-place brown hair "to a warmer tinge." infuse fresh sanron in rosemary tincture and steep the hair in it, by wetting well and covering at night with an oiled silk cap to prevent evaporation. Put one small hand ful of saffron in a pint of tincture. This is entirely safe. Daisy Deane Don't pull out superfluous hair. Nothing is worse, as they grow again coarser. Try touching each hair with a wooden toothpick dipped in tho strongest lye, taxing care not to toueir tne skin. Shirley Dare. An Incident That Booth Regrets. New York Times. This little story about Edwin Booth and E. II. Sothern is here told in print for the first time. Young Sothern' name was first made Edwin, but it was changed, at tho christening, to Edward on account of tho incident to be related. Mr. Booth and tho elder Sothern were very intimate friends, and when young Sothern was born the father choso Booth, of all his friends, to stand godfather to the boy. Mr. Booth accepted the honor, and told a number of his friends, with some pride, that he was going to be godfather to Ned Sothern's sou. One of his cautious friends asked him solemnly if he realized the fearful responsibility he was going to take on himself by accepting tho honor. "How so!" asked Booth, slightly alarmed. "You will have to be responsible for the bo3T,s entire career," answered the friend. Knowinar the somewhat erratic disposition of the elder Sothern, this suggestion almost paralyzed Mr. Booth. "Good eavens!" he exclaimed. "I can't undertake such a responsibility as that for Ned Sothern's son." and he at once telegraphed to Sothern his reercts at being unable to accept the intended honor. Young Sothern's name was, as a consequence, changed from Edwin to Edward, aud now, in view of tho young man's career, both professionally and socially, Mr. Booth sincerely regrets that ho gave the excuse for changing tho name. Fashions at the Exposition. Paris Letter. The change in the arrangement of skirts is so decided that the new fashion has not yet reached provincial towns in France, England and other countries. Nothing can be more amusing than to watch these provincials visiting the Exposition. Parisians wear skirts entirely straight, without even a tiny spring in tho back, and the country people look as though they thought the st3'le of their gowns depended upon tho size of their tournures. No skirt foundation, mado by a great house, is more than two and one-eighth yards in wjdth. and the long fiounce by which it is covered measures three and a half yards in width. Without exception, every sKirt i round and straight, but a little variation may he made by having tho front and side breadths an eighth or a quarter of a yard longer than the back, so that they may bo gracefully draped around tho waist.

BILL NYE'S EUROPEAN NOTES

The Good Work of "Jack the Eippef'and the Shah in Keforming London Town. Persia's Monarch an Expert Carver Hospitality That Cannot Be Returned An American Moses The Dog and the Elixir. I Copyright, 18Sa, by Edgar W. Nye. There is one disagreeablo feature about visiting England. It is this: You are all the time fidgeting about how you can ever return the hospitality you receive and do it half as well as it is tendered to you. While enjoying to the utmost the generous hospitality of London, and wishing that I could get twenty-sir hours into a day, I could not help thinking how easily the matter of entertaining was attended to, while I would have to borrow dishes and put two more leaves in the dining-table before I could begin to return the kindness or repay tho debt The children would have to eat at the second table and be kept out of sight during the meal so that they would not announce the menu in advance. One of the dining chairs would have to be roglued and the cigars I smoked would not do at all. You go into the Savage Club and eat and talk and smoke as you would have gone into your mother's pantry when a boy, after you had been fishing all day. There is no more formality about it than there used to be when you tore out the end of a loaf of bread and pnt jam on it to your heart's content, sucked your fingers and went to bed. It is great. And yet it is whero you will meet men who think thoughts and say things which they thought of themselves. It is so everywhere. I am only worried, as I say, about the way I will return these various acts, of kindness and courtesy. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. It takes so long to bathe the forks and spoons of one course so that they can give another number on tho programme at our house, and I carve with so much danger to a Republican form of government that I hesitate about going extensively into the matter of eutertaining iu competition with Europe. I carve a good deal like the Shah. lie .had a complaint lodged against one of his soldiers once by a poor farmer of the Orient who claimed that the soldier had stolen one of his red-cored watermelons. "Very well," said his Nibs, "I will ascertain if he stole your melon." So he pulled out his sword, aud cutting a largo aperture in the stomach of the offender, ho found the melon and a few of the black seeds which were easily identified. "Aud how much are you out on the nielonf" asked the haughty monarch, wiping his ready blade on his coat-tail. "One frano six." exclaimed the hornyhanded Oriental buckwheater. "Very well." said the Shah, "here it is." and he took the amount from the pocket of tho expiring soldier. "Justice is done. Allah be praised. Return again to your toil." The Shah is a great, coarse, horrid monarch with an eye on the opposite sex, and a droop around the corners of the month, which ought to keep him ont of respectable society for a good while. He has over two hundred wives, not counting a shipment recently made from London. He and Jack the Kipper together have mado. the streets of Lontlon quite safe for au unprotected man, and yet 1 blush to fay that before 9 o'clock p. sr., on the 20th day of July, 18S9, I was caught in tho strong arms of au English lady of great descent, and hugged considerably right in plain sight of Tratalgar square. And yet we hear it said that the English are not friendly toward tho Americans. It is not so. A fair young girl playfully undertook to pat mo in a bantering way, the other evening, as I trudged gaily home in the opaque gloaming. She struck a bunch of keys which I had in my pistol pocket, and went sadly away, wringing her hands. I felt sorrow for her. but at the samo time could not afford to stop and Untieing the Guileless Xye. pity her, so I gave a piercing shriek, and darted away like a frightened deer. Many of those girls stay out until a late hour at night, conversing freely with comparative strangers, thus giving the public ample opportunity to gossip about them and to misjudge their motives. A girl iu Loudon cannot bo too careful about conversing with strangers that way. One of those pleasant and piquant maids admired my umbrella very much, and taking it gently from me with a winning smile, spreading it and holding it over us, took my arm and trudged blithely along with me until I, told her that here our ways seemed to diverge aud our paths to fork, as it were. Reluctantly I toolc the umbrella and. telling her to run along home before it rained. I passed on toward me inn. London is too large a place for me. I go out for a five minutes' walk and come home late at night, hopelessly lost in the labyrinth of her streets. Tho cabman is my salvation. I go out and get lost purposely, so that I can surprise myself at ono and six by getting back in two minutes. I would not do London on the guide-book plan, or by programme, but by strolling about, studying people more than places, and getting into the usual number of scrapes, I saw the Honso of Commons in session for the first time, and listened to several eminent gentlemen who spoke ferninst the royal grants. I can do it myself now. It is quite easy. You can sav something aud then look up and say "ah" until you can think of 6omethiug else to say. Other gentlemen with their hats on sit around and slumber, but spectators are not allowed to wear their hats. Only members can wear their hats and snore above a certain key. Mr. Gladstone, better known as the Grand Old Man, sat on the front seat. He is very bald, indeed, and his throat whiskers are very white. He is much smaller than I had thought. He wears low shoes and red woolen socks. When he works down so as to sit on his shoulder-blades, his trousers gradually ascend his limbs until you can look over the tops of his cute little red socks with perfect impunity. He is the author of his own thoughts, and I hear him spoken of in high terms, especially by his friends. Mr. T. I O'Connor has our thanks for courtesies extended while in London. He will never lack a friend if he will at any time write to box 04, Tompkinsville, Staten island. U. S. A. Mr. Robert Lincoln's last reception was brightened up briefly by a pleasant call from me. Many Americans wero present and drank the tea of the minister as administered by his bright young daughter. Wilson Barrett goes to America in October. He will take a first-class company and will no doubt continue the success he has had at home. I met Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, at a reception ono aftornoon and for tho first time heard her marvelous chest notes. My chestnotcs followed later on. She is not only a whistler, but a very artistio one. and when she "prepares to pucker" there is, in the audience, a silence which is noticeable.

She has whistled for the Queen. I told her I had also whistled for the Queen seven years ago, but she did not come. "I presume yon were trying for a royal flnsh," said Mrs. Shaw. "I play poker myself." I met some celebrated steamship captains in Londor, Referring to steamship captains or masters, I must say here that it seems to me they aro expected to do a good deal and die as soon as they can do no more. A steamship captain is required to look out for tho interests of the company, the interest of the ship, the interests of the passengers, both spiritual and temporal, and while he risks his life every moment he is in the service, when he can no longer sail he may die in poverty or commit suicide as he" chooses, so far as the great world of traflio is concerned. This is manifestly unjust. So the average captain says: "The only safe thing for mo b to make my List voyage," that is, to go down with the boat. Tfiink of that, vou who have trusted your own lives and those of your families to these men. Think of it and talk of it until there is a pension or a provision for thoso who give their whole lives to their fellowmen. The Johnstown baby, wtose name is Moses Williams, came over on a recent trip of the City of Chicago, according to

Xye ITakes Advances to the Young Ifoses. Surgeon Peter McSweeney. Tho Johnstown baby was named Moses because ho was fcrnd on the flood, not exactly among the bullrnshes, but born on the bosom of tho terrible deluge, while his mother's house was floating down to death and destruction. It is not necessary to say that Moses owned the ship. He got about $75 from enthusiastio Americans on board, and practically was monarch of all ho surveyed. He was lucky to put off his birthday till the time of the terrible flood, for Pharaoh's daughter in the shape of American generosity has rescued him from obscurity and poverty, and hereafter, when he says "My name is Moses Williams, I was born on the breast of that terrible torrent in Johnstown," the ready wallet will come forth and Moses will bo on deck, even if .the light goeth out. Many curious experiments were made in Paris by Dr. Brown-Sequard, in the early stages of his elixir experience, according to the local physician there. Most of these experiments were made on animals. He was greatly gratified. Into the foreleg of an old horse, that was so worthless on account of age that in another day ho would T7ie Result of the Elixir, have been in the soup the mock turtle soup of Paris he injected his elixir. In an hour afterward, with bright red nostril and tail neatly draped over the dashboard, he sailed up the Shonz Eleeza knocking spokes out of valuable carriages all the way np to the Arc of Triumph, where he chipped out about' five cents worth of the corner of that great work and piled up Dr. Brown-Sequard in a chaos of clothes and contusions. His first anxiety was to find out, of course, whether tho hyphen had been knocked out of his name. Finding that it had not, he returned to his experiments. He also secured an old dog with thick hearing and pronounced flagging of the mental powers. The dog was so old that he had forgotten everything, aud so blind that a French soldier in red gored trousers did not startle him any more. After a dose of the elixir, he wagged his tail, a thing he had not dono for years. Then he yawned and ate some grass. He then noticed a cat on the lawn, one that had grown old with him, but had not had a nip of the elixir. He took after her, and in two minutes he had her quivering remains on tho grass. By 4 o'clock he had gone back to puppyhood, and had chewed up Dr. Brown-ttequard's white gaiters, a pair of lace curtains and a child. BillNyk. Death by Electricity Horribly TalnfuL London Iron. Of course, electricity can instantaneously kill a person, but in that intinitesimally small space of time of the transition from life to death the person will sutler inconceivable pain. Although the speed of electricity is at tho rate of 286,000 miles per 6ecoud, the killing cannot bo so instantaneous as to preclude all pain. Every particle of the nervous tissue is polarized, and polarization causes each particlo of matter to revolve on its axis, which means the stretching of the nerves out of all proportion, and consequently tho most Intense Eain. But the great fault with execution y electricity is that it is almost impossible to ascertain just how strong a current will kill a man instantaneously and yet not be a barbarous mode of killing. If the current be but a few volts stronger than that required to instantly executo a certain person, the consequences would be terrible. It would disfigure the body beyond recognition, and would disintegrate every portion of the corpse. Should the current be just a trifle too weak to execute a person it would throw him into a trance so deathlike that it is probable that the body would bo buried alive. Grant's Wellington Query. London Lite. The story told by Sir William Fraser about a question which General Grant addressed at Apsley House to the second Duke of Wellington is susceptible, it seems, of satisfactory explanation. It is incredible that, using the words in their ordinary sense, as one would understand them in England, General Grant should have said, during a pause in the middle of dinner: "My Lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case!" This has been snoken of. naturallv enouzh. as exhibiting "the American impudence or ignorance" of General Grant. The New York Herald. London edition, points out mat mere was neitner impudence nor ignorance in General Grant's question. What he meant to ask was whether the Iron Duka had received a technical snecial training in a military school, like Lee, Sherman, Stone wall Jackson and himself, at West Point, or whether, like Marlborough, Frederick and other famed commanders, he 'had learned the art of war only in the field. A Teat for Tea. Astl-Adalteratlon Journal. A Russian analyst gives the following as a test by which tea can be proved to bo genuine or not: Take a pinch of tea in a glass, pour upon it a little cold water and shake it up well. Pure tea will only slightly color the water, while a strong infusion is quickly got from tho adulterated or painted leaf. Now boil both sorts separately and let them stand till cool, and the difference between them will be most marked. The false tea will become still stronger after a long standing, but will re main transparent, whereas pure tea will become muddy or milky. This last appearance arises from the tannic acid, which is a natural property in pure tea, but TThicn in ariuicuu tea is entirely aosent

ENGINES FOR EVERY LAND

One of the Great Industries That Largely Increases the Wealth of tho City, The Atlas Works, with Its Resources of Men and Machinery Labor Pay DemonstrationFederation cf Trades and Labor Unions. The other day a Journal reporter stopped in front of the Atlas engine-works. A florist's wagon arrived at nearly the same time. and the reporter wondered what should bring the vehicle to such a hard, practical and grimy concern as a foundry and ma chine shop. He looked about him, to see tho works covered with graceful clinging vines, a stretch of neatly trimmed lawn between the dusty roadway and the office, and the tall chimney, no longer rolling out black and sulphurous smoke, mantled with ivy nearly to the top. With all this attention to the beautiful, there is, none the less, attention to the practical, and the pursuit of the dollar is quite as active and as earnest as in any establishment in the land. During the past eleven years these works have turned out over seven thousand engines and as many boilers. They have gone almost everywhere on the face of the earth, from England to Japan, from Manitoba to the Argentine Republic, and of all powers from tho ten-horse power to the f our-hundred-and-fifty-horse-power engine. The establishment has much interest in the South American, trade, and C. B. Fletcher, ono of the company, was for somo time there engaged in putting np engines in Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. "We have engines running all through Central America and Mexico," said Mr. Fletcher, "though, of course, our trade is greatest in the United States. We havo some in Colombia. We have sold in San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and also in Cuba and other of the West India islands. I found we could get. in South and Central America. 10 per cent, better prices than in this country, and then bo 10 per cent, under competition. The great difficulty in handling the South American trade. is in the matter of transportation. There is.no trouble to sell; the trouble is with the delivery and in ocean freights. All our goods to that country are shipped first to Liverpool, and from there across the Atlantic again down to South America. There is a line from New York to Brazil, but it only sends a steamer out about once in thirty days, and. as it carries the mails aud gets a subsidy from Brazil, it cares little for freight. Goods are shipped from New York to Europe, thence to South America, and a return cargo goes from South America to New York, running in a circle." The Atlas engine-works have thirty acres of ground,' with buildings covering over ten acres. Coke is used in the cupolas, but for all other purposes natural gas is the fuel, these being the largest works of the kind outside of Pittsburg that are run by natural gas. Walking over the grounds and about the buildings, the extreme neatness and cleanliness of the place attract attention and remarks. There are no scraggy heaps of scrap-iron, for none is used, everything being made out of the firswuaiity of pig-iron. The pattern-house is well worth a visit. There are no wooden patterns in this building, all the standard patterns being of metal. Outside of making their own tools the works pay no attention to any class of work bnt their own standard lines of engines and boilers. All the small castings are made by a pneumatic molding machine which makes them perfectly even. There is a complete system of . overhead tracks, and all tho carrying is done by compressed-air lifts. The heavy travelers pick up and carry from 12,000 to 15,000 pounds to any part of the 6 hop where tho metal may be required. 'Ihe engine-room in which is the power that drives the machinery of these great works is kept as clean as a parlor, thanks to the absence of coal and tho presence of the clean and volatile fuel, natural gas. The main machine shop is 50xi0 foet, while the next in size is 50x250 feet. There are half a dozen men whose business it is to keep the tools in order and up to the standard, no wear being allowed beyond the 25-100 part of an inch. When that standard is encroached upon they are promptly cut down to smaller sizes or destroyed altogether. Calculation shows that these works can turn out complete a forty-horse engine in an hour and a half, and a ten-horso power in an hour. Hero are always carried in stock from 100 to 200 engines (and a liberal supply of boilers), all sizes being represented, from a ten-horso to a 450-hbrse power, and a customer who is in a hurry can make his purchase in livo minutes and have it upon the cars in less than half an hour, as the company hero have their own system of trackage, three and a half or four miles, with their own locomotive and direct communication with the Belt, handling all their own freight, whether incoming or outgoing. In the boiler-shop a riveter is used that holds the seams together with 2,000 pounds pressure before the rivet is driven. When the rivet is driven there is a pressure of 110,000 pounds givenit exclnsiveof the momentum of the blow struck by the riveter. Last month C0.000 horse-power of engines wero sold, together with boilers. The Atlas Engine Company is interested in the approaching visit of the representatives of the Central and South American republics, and will be ready to show them through their establishment upon their arrival hero in November. Labor Day Celebration. . To-morrow is tho day set apart by workingmen for a general holiday, and the local celebrations bid fair to be a credit to tho city. For the past two months preparations for an observance of the day havo been under consideration, and it is thought by those interested that the arrangements could ' not bo more complete. There will be two distinct celebrations in the city tomorrow. At the fair grounds the Knights of Labor will have a picnic on a broad scale, with amusements of every 6orc. A large crowd is expected. Special streetcars will be run to and from the grounds, and every effort will be made to accommodate a large attendance. But tho more pretentious demonstration will be in ' the shape of a picnio at Hammond's Grove, given under the auspices of the Central Labor Union. The feeling between tho managers of the two celebrations has become a matter of somo comment. But it is claimed by Sersons taking a neutral position that Inianapolis has workingmen in sufficient numbers to assure success to both meetings. The Central Labor Union, representing the rapidly increasing new movement in organized labor, begins its observance with a parade. Uoi. K. xs. uosney, tne grand marshal, will have headquarters at the corner of Mississippi and Washington streets, and will move the procession promptly at 0:80 o'clock. It will be formed in the following order: Tho first division will form on North Mississippi street, right resting on Washington, aud will be composed of the grand marshal and aids. Union Band, Carpenters' Union No. 209, Carpenters' Union No. 446, Capenters' Union No. CO. Furniture Workers' Lnion No. 13, Painters' Union No. 47. Finishers' Union. The second division will form on South Mississippi street, right resting on Washington, and will comprise the When Band, aged brick-layers in carriages, Brick-layers' Union No. 3. Plasterers' Union No. 46, Hodcarriers' Union, Stoue-cntters' Union, Bakers' Union No. 18, Pressmen's Union No. 17 and Typographical Union No. 14. The third division will form on North Tcunessee street, right resting on Washington, and consist of Muoller's Band. Typographical Union No. 1, Cigar-makers' Union No. S3, Molders' Union No. W. Molders' Union No. 17, Salesmen's Union, Ilair-epin-

ners' Union, Saw-makers, Tile-workers, Book-binders, Tailors and Packing-home men. The fourth division will form on South Tennessee, right resting on Washington, and will be composed of the Hotel Waiters' Brotherhood Band. Hotel Waiters' Brotherhood, Waiters' Union, and all colored workingmen who believe in the principles of organized labor. The column will move on Washington street from the corner of Mississippi, and the line of march will be easttoEast street, north to Market, west to Circle, northwest to Meridian, west to Illinois, south to Union Depot, where the column wilibreak ranks. The first train for Hammond Grovo will be in readiness when the parade is over, at 11 o'clock, and will run even' hour thereafter. The grove is a beautiful tract of seventy-five acres, heavily &haded, and situated on the banks cf Fall creek, five miles north of the city. The programme will comprise music by the Union Band and the Social Singing Society and addresses bv Wm. Nichols. Maurice Don

nelly, Philip Rappaport and Alexander Smith. In addition there will be dancing, music, boating and other sports. Tne proceeds of the day will be sent to the Clay county miners' relief committee. Federation of Trades and Unions. The fifth annual session of the Indiana Federation of Trade and Labor Unions will meet at the Central Labor Union's Hall, No. 1153 Ea3t Washington street, Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock. All delegates are requested to report promptly at that hour, as the business of the day will be at once taken up. One of tho most important matters to be considsed will be the organization of trades-unions in the Fmaller towns and cities of the State. There are many trades.it is claimed, and notably those of the building mechanics, which should be organized into separate unions, if a sufficient numderof one trade can be secured, and into mixed unious, if not. It is believed, also, that by a meeting of tho Stato Federation an opportunity will bo offered to the representatives of the several trades and callings in different sections of the State of coming together for the free expression of opinion and thought relative to the existing stato of the workingmen and women of the country. Labor Notes. Toronto pick and shovel men are organized. New Haven plumbers get 33 1-3 cents per hour. The best diamond-cutters make $00 per week. A Canton (O.) watch firm employs three thousand hands. A carpenter's union in the northeastern part of the city is being urged. Pressmen's Union, of this city, will give a private picnio on Sunday, Sept. 8. The National Association of Stationary Engineers has 1S5 branches, with 10,000 members. The total number of strikes in this country during August was twenty, and tho total number of strikers, 15,973. In the event of bad weather to-morrow, the labor picnic at Hammond's Grovo will be postponed until next Sunday. The Labor Signal printed two thousand extra copies yesterday for free distribution at Hammcndrs Grove to-morrow. Tho German Singing Society, thirtystrong, will render a number of their best songs at the labor picnio at Hammond's Grove. During the past few months there have been numerous strikes of the carpenters of England and Scotland. Trade has been good there lately. In the southern section of Missouri sawmills are going up in every direction, and tho year's output of lumber will far exceed that of any previous year. The Natiqnal League of Musicians is about to adopt an insurance system, under which the heirs of each deceased member shall be entitled to $500. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, reports that there are eight-hour leagues in all the big cities and towns in the United States. All members of Molders' Union No. 17, of this city, are employed, and a number of union men from other places have been sent for. to help out the rush. Carpenters' Union. No. 446, of this city, is wide awake. Eight new members were taken in last week and several applications are pending. The union is in a flourishing condition. The Indianapolis Drum and Bugle Corp will be-in the trades-union procession, and to further enhance the music of the demonstration, Albert Gall has provided for an additional band. The largest piece of machinery exhibited at Paris is an English lathe, weighing S30 tons, and long enough to swing a piece seventy feet long between centers and ten feet in diameter. An army of a thousand Piute bucks, squaws and papooses will be employed iu California hop-fields this year. Captain Sam is in charge of the hop-pickers. They receive 1 cent a pound for picking. The New York Steam Fitters Union has a vigorous system of dealing with candidates for membership. They are examined by a special committee as to their knowledge, theoretical and practical, of the trade. All deputy marshals for the Labor parade are requested to report at 1151? East Washington street this morning, at 10 o'clock. All shops or factories desiring to turnout in a body should report by committee at same place and time. In ten years the world's production of pigiron has increased from 14,117,902 tons in 1878 to 23.194,473 tons In 1SS3. ox a growth of 64 per cent. During the same period the world's production of steel increased from 3,021,003 tons to 9,679,070 tons, or 220 per cent. The Extra Bookinders' Union, of New York, is striving to secure a reduction Of the hours of labor, a reform in the apprentice system, and the abolition of contract labor in the trade. It is for the purpose of gaining these ends that tho open union has been formed. The Arlington Mills Manufacturing Company, of Wilmington, Del., has given notice to its 500 employes of a general reduction in wages ranging from 5 to 10 per cent., to take effect on Monday next. 'I he company manufactures ginghams, and attributes general depression in the trade as tho cause of the reduction. A peculiar industry has sprung up near Albany since lWvi, that of supplying crushed stone for asphalt and macadamized roads. The quarry lrom which the stone is taken is operated night and day. Ono thousand tons of rock a day are crushed, and 250 cars are used In transporting the fragments of rock to all parts of the country. Bismarck's new law for workingmen, which has met the approval of the German Federal Council, makes especial provision for 1 he suppression of strikes. A strike is defined as a conspiracy, and severe punishment is provided for those who may take part in it. The promoters of strikes are declared to be public enemies, who may be cither imprisoned or exiled. Under the head of ''Further Victories Won" the last number of the Carpenter gives a list of the places in which the ninehour svstera has recently been established for that trade. This system now prevails among the carpenters in a largo number of cities throughout the country, as far west as Washington Territory and as far east as Connecticut. The London papers give accounts of the co-operative exhibition that was opened at the Crystal Palaco on the 17th of August. There wero two hundred trades represented at it by sixteen hundred establishments, some ofwhich aro very extensive and possess large capital. The exhibition was very fine. There has been a great growth of manufacturing and trading co-cperativo establishments in Great Britain within tho past few years. Within a short time there has been some Important labor legislation in Belgium, Holland and Germany. In Belgium thero is uow a law for the establishment of councils of industry, or arbitration boards, in which trade disputes may bo settled. In liollauda new law for tho regulation of the labor of women and children in factories has been adopted. In Germany the law enacted by the Reichstag for pensioning aged and infirm workmen provider for asseaing tho wages of labor, and tiu ia-