Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1889 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1889 TWELVE PAGES.

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OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Athens, Greece, has a woman's journal. Irrigation has raised tbe valne of some California land from 7 an acre to over&OO. After Oct. 1 the French soldiers' pay -will be 25 centimes a day. or a little over 5 cents. Purine six months of this year England nnd Wales have spent on poor relief over . $10,000,000, There aro no less than 827 different terms in the English language which express the state of being in love. The sale of weekly parts of the lllnatratcd Bible published in Milan, Italy, has reached ninety thonsand copies. The mummv market is now eo overstocked that lovers of the antiqno can obtain specimens for less than $100. A Moscow foundry fuses metals by electricity. The glare is greater than the sun, & and employes work two hours per day. Coal and oil are found in every county of "Wyoming. The territorial geologist thinks the coal helds cover 00,000 square miles. Sirs. Bert Hector, of Macon county. Illinois, the mother of twelve children, cave birth the other day to a sixteen-pound boy. There are sixty paper towns in southern California, comprising 70.350 town lots, and the whole sixty have only 235 inhabitants. - London has fixed the cost of its electric light at 16 cents for one ten-candle lamp thirty hours or sixteen-candle lamps ten hours. , Belgian bakers, milkmen and hucksters make dogs draw their carts. Tho animal works under tho cart between the wheels. Some sell for $!. N. Z. McCrillis. of Dexter, Me., paid up the dues on his life insurance just in time to prevent its expiring, and expired himself an hour afterward. Lyons. France, is completing the world's biggest dam, begun a century ago. It is l.ouo feet long, 175 feet high, and the foundations are lOo feet deep. A Mohammedan mosquo has been built in Woking. England, nnd a Buddhist temple has been opened in Paris. There are about thres hundred Buddhists in Parish Woodbridge Clifford, the postmaster at North Edgecomb, Me., was i ppointed tinder Postmaster-general Amos KendalL Oct. 4, lS7.t and has held the office ever ainco that date. An immense deposit of graphite has been discovered in Lewis county. Washington Territory, at a pass in the Cowlitz river. The ledge is threo miles long and eight feet thick. A horso weighing 1.100 pounds, owned by a man in Dover, N. II., got hungry in the night, left his stall and climbed along, steep and narrow paircf stairs into the hay-loft, where "he was found the next morning. While a company of men were working tho road a few miles east of Shelbyville, Ma, they discovered a den of black snakes, on a bluff of tho creek, and killed lifty-two , of them that averaged from three to live feet in length. In the Netherlands the average consumption of tobacco in a year for each inhabitant is seven pounds. Europe's average is two and one-half pounds and that of the United States is four and ono-half pounds per inhabitant. A dilapidated safe stood out-doors, in Adrian. Mich., several years ago, and recently it was sold for old iron. On breaking it up a set of account books and a good sold watch were found inside, and no one knows whom the watch belongs to. When Mrs. Hastings, of Carlisle, N. Y.. passed over the dark river her husband had an epitaph all ready for her monument. A portion of it reads. "She never borrowed one single thing from her neighbor during her thirty-four years of wedded life." An old book on the gunpowder plot, published in London soon after it was discovered, speaks of the leaders in that attempt as "the darned conspirators." The word "darn" used in this way ha3 always been supposed to be a vulgar Americanism. After a military ball at Dover, England, a party of British officers proceeded to the shore, where, in response to a bet, one of them went into the water in full evening dress and swam around one of the mail packets in the channel. He "was in the water an hour. The largest fig orchard in the United States, says the Los Angeles Champion, is about to be set In Pomona valley, between Pomona and Ontario. Tho orchard will consist of 11,000 whito Adriatic fig trees and 5,000 Smyrna fig trees, planted eighty to the acre, on 200 acres. In Turkey the house in which a man lives cannot be seized for debt, and sufficient land must be left to serve for his support. The homestead is inviolable. The creditors must even- provide the debtor with some humble dwelling if tho land forfeited to them has none sufficient for his needs. At Doland, Fla., a few days ago. Amanda W ortby. colored, fired at a coachwhip snake, which was chasing one of her chickens, ami shot the Methodist preacher, who was sitting at his writing-table threo hundred yards away. The reverend gentleman's wound is serious and painful, but not necessarily fataL Amanda was fined $5 and costs. It is not a Yankee invention, for it originated in the brain of a Frenchman. Coats and trousers are hereafter to be made with largo water-Droof pockets, which will contain a small amount of carbonic acid. If the wearer falls into the water a small outlet will let in just enough water to create a gas, which will lloat tho man for a number of hours. Ben Williams, of Lansing, Mich., has a novel way of ridding his face of whiskers. Every Sunday morning for the past twentytwo years ho has Kat down before the glass and pulled the hair out of the lower part of his face with a pair of tweezers. He says that it hurt like most anything at first, but he dont mind it a bit now. lie is seventylive years old, and is loaded with nerve and gnt. The new dock at Halifax was subsidized by tho city of Halifax and the Canadian and British governments to the merry tune of $000,000. It cost a million, and. being C01 feet in length, can dock the longest steamshin atloat. It holds eight and a half million gallons of water, and canbeemptied in threo and a half hours. The greater part of this dock was blasted out of the solid rock. While a French girl was playing with a rone about her Deck, the other atternoon. in a Lake Village (N. H.) tenement-house, the building was struck by lightning, and, as the story goes, the rope was destroyed by the electric current, but the child escaped uninjured. A mouth ago, it is added, the taina girl was struck and thrown into a ditch by the locomotive of an express train, but was not hurt.

RED PLCSII MVES FOREVER. Men May Come and Go, but This Sort of CarSeat Covering Stays. Philadelphia IteccnL t The wine-red plush car seat is ono of the time-honored institutions of the railroad service. "Men may come and men may go," but the familiar red cushion lives oh forever, surviving the thousand and one changes that recur in almost every department of railroading. Even the color of tho seat is stereotyped. The railroad traveler meets occasionally with a blue or an oldgold plush in railroad-car upholstery, but the red cushion is almost universal. "Why is plush so widely used by railroads?" remarked a prominent plush manufacturer yesterday. "Because it never wears out. The plush covering of acarsoat will last on an average at least ten years. But even when it has to be removed it is not worn into holes. It h.a been torn, or stained, or faded, and for this reason, and no other, the kc at has to be recovered. The railroads have often tried substitutes. Onej sometimes sees wooden or willow-ware seat, but none are as comfortable as the old-fashioned cushion, and so the latter triumphs in tho end." "Very expensive plashes are used by some companies.'' remarked a railroad man: "stuff worth no less than $i or $4 a yard. Kailroads go to this expense partly for luxunousness, but also because the finer aVu costlier materials will wear longer. I he plush seen in the passenger cars of the 1 ennsyWania and Philadelphia & Heading railroads is - worth from to o a piece, or $1 to 81.25 ayh Mostofit is domestic material the heading railroad gets its supply from I'awtncket, 1L I. Tho Pennsylvania railroad, however, makes some importations on its own account. "It would surprise yon to know the amount of plush that a railroad company uses up in its repair shops. The upholsterer r. hl$ railroad has a great room lilled with rolls of new material with which to i iUJ new. cars and to put a new face on the old. Tho Pennsylvania railroad has in some years given it order for 60.000 yards ox luuoh, wliiltt company like vio f hila-

delphia fc Beading will pay $15,000 to $GO -000 a year for plush .used in repair work aloue." AN ODD SOCH2TY LEADER.

3 Irs. John I Gardner, the ISoiton Woman Who Makes Soclsly Open Its Eyes. Nft, York World. A Boston woman, whose eccentricities make her more or less talked about, not to say conspicuous, is Mrs. John L. Gardner, popularly called Mrs. "Jack" Gardner. Mrs. Gardner is the acknowledged leader of the younger set in Boston's most exclusive society. Being one of the richest women in Boston, she has ample opportunity for entertaining, and her magnilicent winter home on Commonwealth avenue and her summer home in the suburbs are the scenes of much gayety the year round. Thither she attracts all the bright young men who move in the inner circles the literary chaps, the artists, the wits and the musicians. These are the particular, passion of Mrs. Gardner and they are all captivated by her charming personality. She is a sort of nineteenth-century Mme. DeStael. being herself quite as bright a conversationalist as the celebrated daughter of France, and her court is frequented by the best brains in the Hub. But the lirst statement anybody makes in speaking of Mrs. Gardner is not that she is a disciple of culture, but that she always has a train of devoted young men in attendance upon her. The next statement is that she almost always appears in public with some other fellow than Mr. Gardner. .Mrs. Gardner is not a handsome woman, but what eho lacks in physical beauty she more than compensates for in culture. She is passionately interested in music and art. She has a habit of bringing the Symphony Orchestra to play at her house for the edification of a large company of invited guests, while her art collection has probably no equal in the city. So far as is known Mrs. Gardner docs not herself do anything in a literary way, but she makes special favorites of those who do. Marion Crawford, the novelist, was one of her cavaliers, and rumor has it that in his book "To Leeward' . ho makes the Boston society leader a heroine. Her a Hairs du cceur are legion. Mrs. Garduer is a woman who does pretty much as she pleases. Constantly she transgresses certain laws of social custom which no other woman would dare to transgress. For this eccentricity she is sharply criticised by those who worship "good form," but Mrs. Gardner rides rough -shod over all her critics, and never seems to suffer by it. Somo people call her sensational, but those who know her best assert that she acts just as she thinks. She is a woman of much positiveness. exceedingly independent, fond of having her own way without being domineering, possessed of strong spirit, warm-hearted and whole-souled. When Mrs. Gardner arises from her chair in a theater and beckons and waves her fan across the auditorium at somo swell young club man, people shudder at her seeming boldness, fancy themselves or any one else doing such a thing, forgive her in the same breath, aud say: "Just like her, isn't it? So sensational !" When, aUo, Mrs. Gardner, who is a devout worshiper at the highest Episcopalian church in town "Father Hall's'' St. John the Evangelist goes annually, as she is credited with doing, into retreat at one of the Episcopalian convents, her critics again charge her with being sensational. But she is undoubtedly a good in fact, a very good church woman, and her annual retirement to a conveut is done in absolute good faith. Last spring during Lent her intense religious fervor Yeuted itself in what society pleased itself to call her most unheard-of freak. Soon after the beginning of the fasting season it seems that every morning a handsome carriage and pair, conveying a line lady and her maid, drove up in front of "Father" Hall's church, and the lady forthwith alighted, pail and scrubbingbrush in hand. With theso she entered the porch, and, bending down on her knees, began to scrub the stones like any ordinary scrubwoman working by the day, by way of doing penance for her sins. It is not. known absolutely that the beautiful Binner was Mrs. Gardner, but the gossips aro all agreed that she was none other than the eccentric Commonwealth-avenue society queen. Another eccentricity of Mrs. Gardner, and one which causes much talk, is her gowns, which aro elaborately unfashionable, but no less original than their wearer, who isn't anything if not original. Her gowns in themselves Would make her a striking figure anywhere, aud only add to her reputation for being the most daringly eccentric, yet fascinating, woman in Boston. One of these elaborate gowns she wore last winter on tho occasion of the artists' festival, in the Art Museum. Supplemented as it was by a diminutive negro page to hold up tbe train, Mrs. Gardner's appearance that night was society talk for weeks. Common report, previous to tho festival, had been that she would lead a tame leopard or tiger, or some such animal, in the grand march, bnt she was content to risk making a hit with a black page and won on it, aud society hasn't stopped talking about it yet. No one ever knows what Mrs. Jack Gardner will do next. T1IE IRON CAGE. The Device with Which Lonls XI Equipped Many of Ills State Prisons. All the Year Round. For Louis XI, of France whom Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Henry Irving have made so familiar to the English public the iron cage had a great attraction, and he seems to have equipped with it nearly every ono of his atafe prisons. When the Due do Nemours, previous to his trial, was transferred to the Bastile, he was put in a cage of iron; and the King, learning that some indulgence had been shown to so illustrious a prisoner, wrote in the most uncompromising terms to the Sire de Saint Pierre, one of the commissaries appointed to try the unfortunate Prince. He was not pleased, he said, to find that tho fetters had been removed from tho Duke's limbs, that ho had been allowed to leave his cage, and that he had attended mass when women were present. And he charged him to take care that the Prince never left his cage, except to be put to the questionthat is. to be tortured and that this should take place in his own apartment. Other important personages in the reign of Louis mado acquaintance with those iron cages of his; among others, William of Harancourt. Bishop of Verdun, and the Cardinal de la Baltic. According to an eminent French antiquary, each cago was about nine feet long, eight feet broad, and seven feet high, and consisted of a ponderous frame work of timber, strengthened by solid iron clasps, and fenced in with stout iron bars, weighing altogether a couple of hundred pounds, and costing about SG7 livres, at the then valueof money. Philippe de Commines, the historian, makes some characteristic comments upon King Louis XI and his cages. "It is quite true,11 ho says, "that the King our master ordered the construction of some 'rigorous prisons' cages of iron and wood, covered with plates of iron outwardly and internally, and with terrible iron bars, each about eight feet wide, and about the height of a man. or ono foot more. The man who designed them was the Bishop of Verdun, and in the very lirst that was made ho was incontinently immured, and lay therein for fourteen years. Many of us since have poured our enrses upon him. and I, for one, having had an eight-months' taste of this kind of captivity. Formerly, too, tho King caused the Germans to make for him some very heavy and terrible fetters to fasten upon prisoners' feet, and an iron ring to clasp round the ankle, with a solid chain attached, and a great iron ball at the end of the chain, Theso instruments of torture were known as 'les Mlettes du Roy," or 'the King's maidens.' Theso, nevertheless, I have seen on tho feet of many prisoners of rank, who have since risen into honor and srreat joy, and hayo received many favors from the King." Decline of Births in France. Boston Journal. Vital statistics continue to Bhow a steady decline in the number of births in France from year to year. The official figures for 18bS snow that the 'excess of -births over deaths in that year was only 44,772. against 56,5.i6 in 1S87. In lSi4 there were 137,558 births: in 1885.ftM.758 births, or 13,200 less; in 1SS0, 912.S38 births, or 11,720 less; in 1887. 800,333 births, or 13,505 less; in 18S3, 8S2,fi29 births, or 10,701 less. At this rato of decline it is easy to see that the number of deaths in France will soon exceed the births. Ite Issue In Maryland. Baltimore American. Sensible Democrats have come to the conclusion that it will be a very foolish pro ceeding to try to run the campaign this fall on the race issue. Those who are shortsighted enough to attempt such a thing will reap the .reward of their folly in the November rvjetiona.

A SHIP "IIKAYINO TO."

Uow Seamen Accomplish This Very Perilous Feit. New York Times. The operation of "heaving to." performed by nearly every sailing vessel caught on tho coast during the recent storm, is never resorted to by merchant vessels until it bocomes absolutely necessary. The moment a vessel is "hove to" she becomes practically stationary, the object being merely to keep her "head to tho seas." Among tho many vessels caught outside during the gale was every type of craft known to "deep-water voyages." There were East India clippers. West India brigs, barks, barkentines, and schooners, and a few steamers. Many of the East India packets had been out over 120 days. For many days prior to the storm the sky had been overcast. Only occasionally would the sun appear, and then for so short a time as to render even a catch "sight" well-nigh out of the question. In consequence, many shins had been running by "dead reckoning." making the supposed position of ' the vessel a most uncertain one. Under such conditions were vessels overtaken by the terrible northeaster. Wind and sea aided each other in making navigation perilous, the seas threatening every moment to roll over on the decks of the fleeing vessels. Some craft, perhaps, better able to stand the seas, hold on. steering on a supposed true course for port. Inlaying off this course the base has been taken from a supposed true position of the ship. Instead of sighting the entrance, the lookout is heard calling, "Breakers ahead!" To one unacquainted with a seafaring life the horror which accompanies such a sound beg. gars description. Let it be night time, and the horror is increased. There is but ono thing to do, and that quickly to call, "All hands, save ship!" The vessel is on a lee shore, the gale is blowing her right on, and unless she can be made to beat up in the wind, head off, and clear the coast she will beach. Up comes everybody with a rush, half-dressed, half dazed, but fully alive to the danger. The moment the seamen reach the deck the cutting wind makes wide awake all hands. "Hard down the helm! Let fly the head sheets, lee head and main and weather cross-jack braces! Spanker sheet!" As fast as the orders fly from the bridge the men jump to their stations. Bound comes the great ship, and up into the wind. Tho head sails flap with tremendous force, threatening to fly out of the leech ropes with every roll. Now the spanker is being hauled a-weather. She feels it. and, as tho stern flies off, her head comes right up into the mass of seething waters. "Bound in the lee head, and main, and weather cross-jack braces!" Already the men are at their places, and up como the weather-yard arms into tho wind. Tho vessel is now broadside to the seas. It is a question of life and death whether she will stop. If she but continuo to come up all is well. A drag has been gotten over from forward. To it is bent a hawser leading through a quarter chock. Tho drag is well away from the ship. On to the hawser jump the crew. Away they go with a rush. Ihe drag bowser is run right to the bows, and at the same time tho bow comes up rapidly. .Not a moment too soon. A great sea the next instant lifts the ship high into the air. Had it caught her "broadside to" it would have plunged tons upon tons of green seas upon the decks. But the great craft's bow has met it. She rose as tho wavo advanced and plunged heavily forward as it rushed nnder her. Now is the time to catch 'her. Sharp up go the yards ou the head and main. Tho ead sheets aro hauled well aft, the helm carefully tended, tho spankers .eased up slightly; the ship feels the canvas, small as the amount on her is; she reaches forward, staggers for a moment, then slowly works her way off through sea after sea. As soon as she is far enough out to sea the vessel is brought up iuto the wind, off comes the foretopmast staysail, foresail, foretopsail and spanker. A close-reefed maintopsail and main spencer alone hold her up. aud all attempt to fall off is counteracted by the position of the rudder. Should the wind still continue to increase in violence, the topsail will bo goosewiuged. This latter nail is kept on as long as possible, because of its being above the waves. Under a main spencer alone the ship has but little opportunity to feel the wind, the wave3 serving as a bulwark. Should, however, a goose-winged topsail and main spencer prove too v much, tarpaulins placed in the lee mizzen rigging may hold her up. If she still continues to heel over tho crew will cut away the foremast by cutting tho weather lanyards. If this will not right her. away will go tho mizzen and mainland then trust to riding out to a sea anchor. This alone can save the vessel. Let her once fall off, get into tbe trough of the 6ea, and the consequences will be expressed in the one word of the seaman, "foundered." THE SENSE OF SMEIX. IN HORSES. How It Enables the Blind Among: Them to Feed and Travel. Horse and Stable. The horso will leave musty hay untouched in his bin, no matter how hungry. He will not drink of water objectionable to his questioning sniffs or from a bucket which some other odor makes offensive, however thirsty. His intelligent nostrils will widen, ?niver and query over the daintiest bit ofered by the fairest of hands. A mare is never satisfied by either sight or whinny that her colt is really her own until sho has certified the fact by means of her nose. Blind horses, as a rule, will gallop wildly about a pasture without striking the surrounding fence. The sense of smell informs them of its proximity. Others will, when loosened from tho stable, go directly to the gato or bars opening to their accustomed feeding grounds: and when desiring to return. after hours of careless wandering, will distinguish the ono outlet and patiently await its opening. The odor of that particular Eart of tho fence is their guide to it. The orse in browsing, or while gathering herbago with his lip. is guided in its choice of proper food entirely by its nostrils. Blind horses do not make mistakes in their diet. It the temple of Olympus a bronze horse was exhibited, at the sight of which six real horses experienced the most violent emotions. JElian judiciously observ es that the most perfect art could not imitate nature sufficiently well to produce so perfect an illustration. Like Pliny and Pausanias. he consequently affirms that "in casting the statue a magician had thrown hippomanes upon it." which, by the odor of the plant, deceived the horses, nnd therein we have the secret of the miracle. The scent alono of a buflalo-rooe will cause many horses to evince lively terror, and the floating scent of a railway train will frighten some long after the locomotive is out of sight aud hearing. AMERICAN STABLES, Luxurious Appointments of the Modern Country Gentleman's Equine Establishment. Brooklyn Eagle. These stables of American country houses have grown to bo models of luxury, and are Suite as gorgeous and conspicuous as the welling-houses themselves, with as much archtitectural pains bestowed upon them. As Americans become more devoted to outdoor life and sports the stable daily takes a larger place in their interest and affections. One ol tho most complete stables in this country is up in Genesee county, and more nearly resembles those of some great English country-house in a hunting shire than anything known to our methods of life. Tho Waiworths, to whom these stables belong, own some sixteen thousand acres of the Genesee valley, exactly the same tract of land that was granted to them two hundred years ago by tho King of England, when it was only sixteen thousand acres of i mpenetrable wilderness. Not a foot of it has been sold or changed hands, but has passed from father to son through all changes of government. . In the center of this they have a superb dwelling nearly a century old, and very little changed by modern influences, except that it has been gradually enlarged from generation to generation, and modern conveniences added as they were needed, bnt the colonial architecture and furnishing of tho house remain unchanged. The stables, of course, are entirely modern, and are very large, with room for some thirty horses, for not only are they needed for use in coach, dog cart, drag and pony carriage, but for mounts for the family and their guests in the huntiug season. In this place is really' the only genuine hunt anywhere about New York. The Waiworths, "being ardent sportsmen, have carefully preserved their covers, and have in every lease of land retained the right to hunt across it. Somo half a dozen of the best of New York's cross-country riders passed through here this week, on their way np to the annual house party, at tho Waiworths'. . For the last two weeks in Sep tember and the lirst two or three in Octo

ber the place is always as full as it can hold of hunting guests, who get sport as f ood as any in tho best grass country in England. Two of these New Yorkers carried their own hunters with them, for their horses and grooms are made quite as welcome as themselves, and the next month will see a series of fox bunts and steeple-chases where those who have not their own horses may ride a mount from the long list of thoroughbreds in the stalls of this great stable. Strange to say, very few peoplo know about this very uncommon survival of colonial days lying amid the fluctuating social life of ourKepublic, and the newspapers have never given it any notoriety outside of the set of riding people who are fortunate enough to be asked there for the autumn hunting. The Waiworths are, as might be supposed, eople of great wealth and refinement, but ive the greater part of their lives on their own domain, and are rarely seen in New York, except for a month or two of the opera season in winter.

SOUYENIRS OF SLAVERY. Curious Badges Used in South Carolina Sixty Years Ago. Charleston iS. C.) Letter la Jewelers' Weekly. Something destined to interest us and our posterity exists in the silver, brass and copper badges issued in this city in slavery times. The Southerner of average intelligence, pride and self-respect Iooks upon these badges of servitude without a shudder of horror or a pang of conscience for his ancestors. He has heard from beloved lips the true story of slavery and slaveowners, their virtues and 'their frailties, or remembers the system as ne saw it in tho days "when Plancus was consul," and he cannot be deceived, as tho world was and still is, by the brilliant, but misleading imaginative work of Harriet BeecherStowo, or the propaganda of O. W. Cable, who, by an accident of birth, claims to be a Louisianian. The copper token is one of the many issued in Charleston to slaves who had learned a trade, or were other than common laborees slaves who worked for others than their masters. The badge was issued by the city as a license, and was paid for by the owner. Any slave working without his owner's supervision, unless wearing such a badge, was presumed to be a runaway, aud was inuneaiately arrested. These ruue aud uncouth badges were either hung around the neck of the slave by a string, or kept securely in somo inside pocket. Verv many negroes, possibly among them tho very fishermen who wore this badge, wero allowed to follow their trade or avocation, paying to their masters a stipulated sum, and retaining for themselves whatever money they made in excess of that amount. It was thus that many thrifty, hard-working negroes bought their freedom. Tho laws of tho State, after 1820, did not allow a master to emancipate his slaves, or permit a slavo to buy his froedom. Tho letter of tho law was observed, lut its spirit was evaded "by vesting the ownership in persons legally capable of holding it. and substantially securing freedom where it was legally denied." Freedom, in everything but name, was frequently bought by the slaves themselves, or granted them for faithful services rendered their masters. Tbere were in Charleston several families of negroes and mulattocs who had been made free prior to the act of 1820, and Avho were themselves the owners of negro slaves, and possibly it was to ono of such that the oval silver badge or token belonged. No one seems to bo able to explain its signilicance. as "free persous of color" were not required to carry auy such badge. The number precludes the idea that it was granted for meritorious services. It was hardly a mark of honor for saving St. Philip's steeple from llames; for exposing the negro insurrection headed by Denmark Vesey, in 1820, or for accompanying tho Palmetto Begiment 'to tho Mexican war, for all of which tho chief actors wero suitably rewarded in other Wavs. '1 he city treasurer, several of the moro prominent former slave owners and a number of the most intelligent colored people and negroes, who were either born free or became free long before President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, have declared that they know nothing of tho medal's signilicance, and tbe only clews to its ownership are the initials, "J. G." on the reverse. It was bought for old silrer by a jeweler, and is very much worn, some of the letters being nearly obliterated; but there can be no doubt of its authenticity as a relic of slavery times. 1 The general ignorance of the meaning of this silver badge is a striking evidence of how rapidly tho remaining vestiges of slavery are disappearing from this quaint old city, which has survived.war, tiro, cyclone aud earthquake, and is perhaps for that reason all the more beloved by its sons. THE KIBUON ; GOWN. I-1 1 If You Haven't One, You Can Make One AVI thou t Much Trouble. Dorothy Matltlox, in Philadelphia Inquirer. If you have a ribbon gown, don't be foolish enough to banish ft to the gloom of trunk or closet, but give to its airy, fairy loveliness a place of honor in the galaxy of cool-weather beauties that have been admitted to the sanctity of your violet-padded wardrobe. Nothing surely could be prettier for an evening at home than one of these dainty creations. . But perhaps vou are not so fortunate as to own one. Well then, .call to your aid a email stock of patience, two or three pieces of softlytinted watered ribbon, a few yards of some one of tbe inexpensive fabrics to be found : at every turn, and you will find yourself in possession of just tbe prettiest sort of a gown, Challie is a perfect material for tho foundation, one at IS cents answering every purpose. Cut your skirt plain, allowing for a deep hem. When finished, commence at the waist band and place your ribbons (which, by the way, should match the flower or plain tint of your goods) so that they will lap at least an iuch, one over the other. Continue this around the entire skirt, and when you have finished you will hold in your hand just the loveliest thing possible in the way of a skirt. The long waved lines that fall to the feet shimmer and ripple with every turn of the pretty figure like a moon-lit sea. Understand, that to fasten these ribbons anywhere but at the waist-lino is to destroy at once the supple grace of theso floating bits of beauty. Ribbons an inch and a half in width aro by far tho most desirable. The quaint, shirred bodice is also banded by ribbons that fall in a point at the back and front, and are caught above the old-fashioned leg o' mutton sleeve in big coquettish bows that look, with their innumerable loops and ends, like brighthued birds perched upon the slender shoulders, for none but a pretty figure should covet this dream of a gown. I laugh now, as I think of the madcap chase in which I indulged a few weeks ago in order to catch a glimpse of the little beauty who had donned a ribbon gown. Did I succeedf Of conrso I did, and was amply repaid for my eflorts when I found myself near enough to give this delightful pieco of feminine attire my earnest attention. What fun the summer zephyrs seemed to have as they lifted tho silken draperies in a rollicking game of hide and seek. The girl was pretty, too, which, of course, increased the fascination of the situation. I noticed, following closely in my wake, several mighty good-looking fellows, who seemed quite as awe-struck as myself over this pretty apparition that despite our bravest efforts, soon vanished from sight. Yes. she was a picture that will linger long . memory. I went home, took a good if (in the mirror, concluded I was still y ;ing enough to wear a ribbon gown, and forthwith became the happy possessor of just the sweetest and mostuecoming costame I ever had. A Worthy Representative. Washington Press. Frederick Douglass is indeed fit to represent the United States in a foreign landin any foreign land. To the natnral resources of a wonderfully gif led mind he has added the rich fruits of study and experience until he has become a practical statesman of high aims and broad capacity. Had ho been sent to the court of Str James ho would have Luen well received, and would have acquitted himself most creditably. But it is eminently fitting that our most distinguished colored citizen should go as the representative of this government to the colored republic of Hayti, just emerging from a period of revolution. He will better understand the delicate points of the peculiar situation, and will be able to exert a greater influence than would be possible for a white man, for he has been a deep student of Haytian a (I airs, by reason of the fact that Hayti is tbe seat of a black republic. If the leaders of the people to whom he goes will seek and accept his counsel they will have no more wars, aud will disappoint the enemies of their race by proving. beyond cavil, the capacity of the negro for self-government.

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Their Powerful Effect Tpon Doth Civilized and Uncivilized Peoples. Youth's Companion. All history reveals the fact that music, wedded to stirring and patriotic words, has in every age had a powerful influence on the course of public events. Nor is this true alone of civilized peoples. Among almost all savage races the warriors excite themselves to martial ardor by songs which thrill their souls. The war dances, alike of our North American Indians or the African negroes, and of the semi-civilized races which dwell in Asia, are accompanied by songs which, though wild and incoherent to European ears, have an inspiring influence upon themselves. . The powerful effect of songs and ballads is quite as clearly seen in tb history of more civilized peoples, and even in recent times. The old Scotchman, Fletcher of tialtoun, once wrote: "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." By this he seems to have meant that the bard really has more influence over the minds of a people, and is more powerful in directing their action than the legislator. Carrylo wisely said, "The meaning of song goes deep," and a more recent writer has declared that "it goes as deep as the heart of man, the throbbings of which it controls more readily and widely than do tho speeches of statesmen, the sermons of preachers, or the writings of journalists." It was clearly because the influence of legend and of patriotic appeal, joining with familiar tunes, so strongly aroused the emotions of the people that the ancient bards of Ireland, Scotland and Wales were held in. such high honor in tbe old royal courts and princely castles of these lands, aid were regarded with veneration by the people everywhere. About two centuries ago Lord Wharton wrote a political ballad, which was set to music, tho title of which was "Lillibullero." It was very poor poetry, but somehow the rude verses struck a chord in the popular heart, and were snug everywhere.. It "was written in opposition to King James II. and so wide was its influence that Lord WTharton boasted, it is said, that it "sang James II out of three kingdoms." The eftect of the "Marseillaise" in arousing and exciting tho revolutionary spirit of France is one of the prominent facts in tho' history of that country. To it, in no small degree, is attributed the success of tho French arms against the allies who assailed the young republic. So potent, indeed, was the "Marseillaise" felt to be in kind-, ling political passion, that both the Naoleons forbade its being sung or played in 'ranee during their reigns. In tho same way the great patriotic Hungarian song, the "Bakoczy March," w:s prohibited l3r Austria, since the very soun I of it, as it was said, "made Hungarian swords leap from their scabbards." The songs sung by tho English Jacobites, when, in the middle of the last century, they tried to restore the Stuart Pretender to the throne, did much to arouse enthusiasm' and inspire hope in his cause. Nor can it bo doubted that the fire of Scottish patriotism has long been fed by Burus's clarion song, "Scots Wha Hae." or that the Briton feels his lovo of country swelling in his heart as he hears the familiar strains of "Bnle Britannia." or "Ye Mariners of England," or that Americau souls are kindled to the same emotion when their ears aro greeted with "America" or the "Starspangled Banner." The sound of "John Brown's Soul is Marching On," and Mrs. Howe's noble"Hymn of tho Republic," echoed on every hilltop and in every valley where our soldiers marched and'battled in the civil war; while "Dixie" and "Maryland, My Maryland," resounded back in defiant strains from tho Southern camps. Thus music and somr, appealing as they do, so strongly to the deep emotions of .strong men. as well as of gentle women and little children, have a serious- use in tho most momentous struggles, and sometimes produce grave changes in tho destinies of nations and continents. ENGLISH VIEWS OF THE UNITED STATES. What a Tory Organ Predicts Would Happen if Ireland Got Home Itule. London Spectator. We are convinced that American opinion and American strength, a strength irresistible by any European state if it were once fully exerted, constitute two of tho many dangers which would result from the concession of home rule. The measure would almost infallibly result in a declaration of independence. "Some of the Irish leaders may oe quite sincere in declaring, as they do on this side of the water, that they have no such schemes in their heads; but their best motivo is the desire to be a nation with a separate career, and without independence they are not such a natiou. Thehighest, and therelore m the loug run tne most operative aspirations of their people, would not be gratified by liberty as a parish. England would always be accused of intriguing, alwajTs hated lor her wealth, always suspected of meditating invasion; the causes of friction would be endless, and some of them justly resented by tho weaker side, and in somo impulsive hour tho final declaration would b made. The vote once passed in Dublin, the independence of Ireland would be recognized by the American Uniou in a week. A hundred motives would induce the politicians of Washington to recommend that course, and the people, after a moment of hesitation, would accept the advice- They have never quite forgiven England for recognizing the belligerent rights of the South. They have never forgotten that their own freedom was in part owing to French assistance, and that their success has, nevertheless, nover in all the subsequent tiiiio embarrassed France, except, indeed, by making her for a moment think Lafayette a great man. All tho desire to give lireat Britain a lesson, which deflects -Americau politics before every presidential election, all the aspiration to stretch tho States over the provinces of the Dominion to the pole, all the anxieties of both parties to rivet tho Irish vote, and all the floating impression of Irish Buffering, would tond together to in duce the Union to protect Ireland. That would mean war with a state stronger than ourselves, with 2.000.000 of allies, ready to die for her, living in our own stroets. and with an indofensible territory, which yet must be defended, stretching along her side. . Even under those circumstances, England might survive or emerge victorious; but to say that they would not be serious circumstances, or that Ireland, in the event of rebellion, could be subdued with ease, is utter folly. No state, however powerful, will ever again do with ease anything to which the American Kepublic is strongly opposed. There is not a diplomatist in Europe who does not know this, or who does not hold, that Napoleon III was only sane in quitting Mexico, and that Prince Bismarck showed his wisdom when, rather than quarrel seriously with Washington, he abandoned all pretensions in Samoa. YELLOWSTONE WONDERS. Natural Marble-Walled Baths Rivaling the Roman, and Colors Tying with the Opal. United States Geographical Survey. Even at first Bight there appears to be something unusual and peculiar about this little opening in tho pines in the center is a shallow depression that is bare of verdure, the surface white with an incrustation that proved to bo salt, while the converging and deeply worn trails leading to it and the numerous game tracks show it to be what in the hunter's vernacular is called a lick. It is the dried bed of an ancient hot spring that is now a shallow alkali pool in tho early spring. Crossing this little meadow wo found the creek cutting its further edge, while the white slopes on the opposite side and the smell of sulphur in the air suggest at once to those familiar with geyser laud the presence of hot springs. l'icketing our horses where they might graze upon the salty grasses that grow about the lick, we descended the bank to the border of the creek, ana found its waters flowing between smooth white walls of polished marble, and an expansion of the stream bordered by this creamy white rock forms a natural bath reservoir that even the luxuriousness of ancient Home could not have equaled. In the center the water is boiling furiously, the bubbling mass rising several inches above the surface of the creek, but the wates is quite cold, the commotion being due to the copious emission of gas from some vent in the bed of the stream. Over this spring a stranded log reaches from bank to bank, and served as a foot bridge, which wo crossed with that sure footedness born of the knowledge that our clothes could no longer bo spoiled by a wetting should we fall in. On the further 6ido of the creek we first notice a low mound of red material, evidently iron ochre, and just beyond is a spring now depositing this substance. The water, clear as crystal and icy cold issues

from the center of a little bowl of ochre, surrounded by brightest of green moss. Wo were curious enough to taste this water, and found it slightly acid, highly charged with gas, ami tasting like our soda water. But it is the surface of the little basins and pools, filled by the overflow of this spring, that interests ns most, for the surface "of the water is covered with an ever-varying iridescence whoso brilliant tints put to shame the hue of the peacock s tail, and surpass the changing hres of an opal. . This feast of color, with its kaleidoscopic changes, fascinated us, and many minntea were spent watching it before ascending to the summit of a little platform overlooking this spring. The slope is formed of a gray rock, whose riflled surface at once suggests the terraces of travertine, the socalled "formation", of tbe Mammoth hot springs. It is, indeed, the same deposit from hot springs, but altered and crystalline, the material nearer the stream resembling a coarso moss, petrified into white, nearly transparent crystals. The lower layers are, however, nearly as densp and hard as flint, and it is this material that forms the marble banks ot the creeks, where is surface is polished until it is as smooth as glass, by the stream itself. ARSENIC AND ITS SLAVES. What a DrurUt Sajs or Complexion 'Improvers.' Chicago Tribune. A box of arsenic complexion wafers, please," said a fashionably-dressed woman to a druggist on Clark street. The skin of the handsome customer that gave this order was deathly white and of that waxliko smoothness -that told unmistakably that she was an habitual arseniceater. Tho preparation of the drag called for was unhesitatingly handed out, and the woman at once opened it in view of at least a dozen peoplo, and placed two of the littio pellets in the box in her mouth, took a sip of water from the fountain to hasten tho dissolving process, and went on her way. "Much call for that sort of. drug." n3 uired a Tribune representative of tho ruggist. . "Lots," was the laconic reply, and further conversation brought out the fact that tne complexion wafers aud a liquid form of tho drug known as Fowler's solntiou wero being used by the women in Chicaco in vast quantities. Mrs. Maybnck is one of the several thousand women who use ar8e"My trade in this drug," continued tho druggist, "is of course confined to a comparatively narrow circle on the soutn siae, and from out-of-town residents who pass the store going to and from the railroad depot, but there is no doubt in my mind that druggists throughout the city, especially in the fashionable residence; districts, dispose of lots of the drug for the sole purpose of whitening tho skin, or, as most women would say. 'beautifying the complexion. In fact, 1 do not hesitate to say that the higher up you go in society tho more prevalent you will find the practice. It is just like the morphine habit. W hen you hnd an ignorant person indulging in it. it is generally because it has been recommended by a physician for some ailment, or perhaps the purchaser has read about it. Again, some poor aud unfortunate gin m iy yant a dose in order to end her misery oy taking her life, but for everyone of the cases 1. speak of yon can find a dozen cases in the higher and moro intelligent walks of life who are victims of the habit., bo with the use of arsenic for the complexion. It will bo found in more general use among the women of fashion than any other. Ihe drug has a certain strengthening power, and perhaps the exhaustion attendant on The social duties of the rich leads to its use. I sell either the complexion wafers or low ler's solution as they are called for, but use care in dispensing the liquid form. I ascertain just what it is to bo used for. and find out if the person knows how to handle it. Other druggists called on had the complexion wafers for sale and had calls forit, but denied that they would sell lowler's solutiou without a physician's prescription. That this is true of many druggists there can bo no doubt, for Fowler's preparation is a deadly drug aud. dispensed mdiscnminatelv, would probably lead in a number of instances to embarrassing complications if not serious trouble. At tho same time it should not be lost sight of that a physician s prescription is not hard to get, and one can easily understand how a young woman or a fashionable matron, for that matter, could induce the family doctor to write a prescription that would enable t hem to procure the poison that would "beautify" their faces at the risk of their constitutions The color imparted is peculiar, and when once known cannot be mistaken. It fills out the skin, giving a slight putty anpearance. and there is a glaze like wax. if the blood be warm and vigorous a faint pink tint is seen under the glazed surface, but should tho blood run sluggishly, then a paleness as of death pervades. The eyes are invariably bright and have rather a staring appearance. As the habit grows the eyes become sunken and tho pupils dilated, and a dark circle surrounds them. No matter how much improvement in the color of the skin may result from tho use of the drug, it is certain that death lurks iu every gram and it is only a question of time and a short time ere the blood becomes stagnant, the heart refuses to work, the brain and nerves numbed, and then the end. A good many cases of death from EO-calledblood poisoning might bo traced to the fft qucnt and improper use of arsenic The skull and crossbones of the old buccaneer, tho insignia of murder and rapine, is indelibly engraven on tho forehead of the modern woman of fashionwho uses this beautifier of the complexion. m ' 1 Wllkle Collins as a Public Reader. Philadelphia Re&mL In 1873 Mr. Collins visited the United States and was cordially received, although his public readings from his novels were not successful. His appearance in Philadelphia was a notable one. Mr. Collins had appeared two nights before, for tho first time, m Albany, and there were mysterious hints given out that he had greatly disappointed his bearers and saddened the heart of his managers. In Horticultural Hall, however, ho was welcomed by a very large audieuce, and a very friendly one, representiugtho culture of this city. The programme called for the reading of an original ghost story. Some peculiar English paraphernalia iu the way of an odd-looking sounding board made of red muslin and a little desk were the great novelist's environment, and he was earnestly admonished

before going on the platform that he mustkeep up his voice ana read slowly and uistinctly. His reception was most cordial, and everything started off well, but in less than ten miuutes the reader's voice sank almost to a muitled undertone. What the story was about not one-third of those present could tell, and those in the front seats who could hear seemed to be more disgusted than those in the rear. An hoiir passed, when the reader, unfortunately for himself, took a recess. When he returned, nearly one-half his audience had disappeared, among them the leading representatives and editors of the Philadelphia newspapers, and 6ome from New York. Mr. Collins plodded along until the weary end, and it was tho end of himself, as well as his "ghost," in this country. He had bankrupted his managers, and a few days later, after making a formal appearance, with like ill success, in two or three other towns, ho set sail for England, a sadlv disappointed man. The press, almost with one accord, declared him the worst of a bad lot of English platform readers, who, at that time, were making annual raids upon the finances of the American people. Mr. Collins's attempts at the dramatization of his own plays were, as a rule, unsuccessiuL , Comparison of Cows and Sheep. Philadelphia Kccord. The hardest work on the farm is that of dairying, for such work never ends, there being no holidays or Sundays toafibrd rest, as the cows must be milked regularly. To condnct a dairy means to rise very early in the morning, feed the cows, milk, cool the milk, haul it to tbe railroad (in all kinds of wcatherj, and if converted into batter there is the setting of the milk for cream, churning, working the butter, and cleaning the cans and other utensils. Then stables are to be cleaned, bedding arranged, the cows sent to pasture, all in the forenoon. Late in the afternoon there is more milking, cooling, feeding aud fastening tho cows for tho night, a late hour appearing before the work is finished. The amount of labor necessary in conducting the dairy business demands an outlay of capital which is very large, for it means shelter for the milkers, and other accommodations. Buildings and fences, horses aud wagous for hauling, and other adjuncts, drain the purse, and yet the farmer may not make any profit at all if tho season is unfavorable, the gTass scanty and tbe bay crop short. Yet dairying pays despite all these drawbacks, as a large portion of tho profit is in the manure, which enriches the land and adds to the value of the farm. As the

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Four Tears of Armj Life mth Its Sequel. Mr. C. C. Bradymejer of 595 E. St Chir St., Tells a Story Which He Will Gladly Verify. 'T n .... A t 4. C 4 i I T , ana Volunteer Regiment, aud, as is well known, we were commanded by General, now President Harrison, and I was with that regiment at thebattlesof Resaca. New Hope, Lost Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and in front of Atlanta, and as I recall those visions of horror, manj' scenes of vicissitude and exposuro present themselves, which now make me shudder to consider. I have taken my army blanket many dreary winter nights, wrapped it around me, and laid down on the frozen ground and slept soundly all night. I was then a young man and nothing seemed to hurt me, butxas I grow older. I can trace many aches and pains to that very fruitful source, and I am thoroughly convinced that my trouble all originated from that exposure.' After I came home fron TIIE ARMY IX I went to work for the Bee-line railroad, where I have been emploved ever since, and the work I was compelled to do did not mitigate my trouble any. I would take reEeated colds which always settled in my ead and throat, and finally my head always felt as though 1 had a bad cold. My noso was stopped up and there was a dull, heavy rain over my eyes and across tho bridge of my nosa. 4 J MR. C. C. BRADYMKYKU, 70T1MNDTANA. "My ears were full and there was a constant riuging and roaring in them and they would frequently gather, which caused me great pain, and 1 noticed that my hearing was becoming aflectcd. At a littio distanco 1 could not hear without being spoken to REAL LOUD, and I was greatly annoyed both day and night by a constant dropping of mucus into my throat, and I was always hawking and spitting, so much so that 1 would keep my wife awake at night. My appetite became Eoor, and I would always feel full and loated after eating. I never said much about my sufferings, but I thought about them a great deal. . I read many statements of patients in the paper, aud even heard many of the boys who'had been cured talking about the Blair. Treatment, and the great relief they had received, ho I determined to try it before saying anything to anyone, but before 1 had been treated a month I was so pleased and relieved that I had ono or two of MY FRIENDS. who were also suffering, taking the treatment. 1 now pcc how looiish it was to neglect my condition, for I might as well hav been cured two years ago. I am well and hearty as I ever was. and my work is not a drag to me as it used to bo. The treatment is not painful, but is very efficient, and each case is treated according to the symptoms presenting themselves." Mr. C. C. Bradymeyer lives at No. VH E. St. Clair and needs no indorsement, as he is well and favourably known to a host of Indianapolis people, and he will gladly verify this statement, both in appearance and by word. Office at 303 North Illinois street: Hours 9 to 11 a. m.. I to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays, U to 11 a. m 2 to 4 p. m. Consultation, $1. No letters answered unless accompanied by 4 cents in stamps. Address all mail to Blair Treatment, 203 North Iilinoisstrect, Indianapolis. F. G. HUNTINGTON & CO., Leading Wholesale and Retail SEED MERCHANTS. 79 & 80 East Market St., Indianapolis, riTTelephone 530. sheep is an active forager, and can subsist on :ieariy all kinds of food, the outlay ot capital required to make sheep pay is comparatively small compared with that ro3 uired for dairying; but with more labor evoted to sheep they can be kept to better advantage and made a special branch of industry. It is claimed tbatheep cannot be protitably kept in large llocks unless they have an extended area of ground, but this is shown by the methods practiced in England to be a delusion. True, sheep in England are ' not kept in largo flocks, but large numbers of sheep, divided into suitable llocks, are hurdled upon limited spaces, tho hurdles removed as occasion demands, and on farms that aro rented at sums much higher than some farms can bo purchased in this country tho sheep pay well. The mutton breeds alono are kept, as wool is given no attention in England, being classed a by-product, tho same as hides. Americans object to th hurdling syRtem as being too laborious and requiring extra help. A comparison of the labor required in the management of dairy stock with, that which is necessary for sheep under the hurdling system will show a great advantage in favor of 6hecp, whila the profits will be much larger in propor. tion to capital invested and expenses in currcd. "NN ith the uso of improved breed and the hurdling system sheen in England attain the live weight of SOO pounds in twelve months. With the demand for choice mutton which always exists in our markets, there is nothing to prevent the American farmer from rivaling his brother in England. Grapo lloU New York Independent. A report made to an Ohio horticultural society asserts that while professional grape-growers are searching for a remedy for grape rot, or some means of preventing it, there is one fact that an amateur ehould never lose sight of there can be no rot whre the fruit is protected from dew and raiu. Where vines are trained on a building under a cornice tho fruit never rots. A wide board nailed ove the trellis, in so far as it protects the fruit from dew and proportion as the Tine is high. Therois always loss rot at thn top than at the bottom of the trellis. Where vines are allowed to grow over tho branches of trees, with little or no care, there is but little rot, and the vines are remarkably healthy and productive. If one can raise this fruit without having it rot and everyone can there is no reason why any person should hesitato to plant a few vines. They may be trained on buildings, fences, trees, and tho roots willfindaeupplvof food under tho walls and in the out-of-the-way places. i Small Melon ricklc. Miss Corson elves this rule for pickling small melons. Wash them well, cut iu halves, removo the t.oeds. but do not peel them. Then wcich the melons, and allow one-third their weight of sugar; dissolve an ounco of alum in four ?uarts of water, and boil the melons in it or fifteen minutes; boil the suirar with vinegar, one pint to a pound; add to this quantity half an ounce of whole mixed spice, and when the syrup begins to thicken, transfer tha melon to it, and boil until it looks clear. At that point put it into jars; boil the syrup until it thickens again, aud pour it over thetnelous. Put up and seal like preserves. This is an excellent way to savo the small green melons that are last on the vines before tho fxu4 comea.

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