Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1880 — Page 2

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urated secession, and it is the Pcmocratic party that has restored Con

federate supremacy in Southern politics. The pemocratic party, there fore, is solely responsible, not only for th. recently past, but for the present threatened dangers to our institutions., The country has looked at it in this light.' and has so judged in the recent elections by continuing the supremacy of tho Republican party. 'With tho iiepubliean party in power, we can look forward to an era of political security and business prosperity -never-before equaled in our history. For this let us all give thanks ". ; STAND UP. Freemen of America, stand up and riute the old flag onto again. Once more have you achieved a glorious victory over tho common enemy. Onco more have you put to rout tho anarchical hosts of rebellion. Onco more have you asserted, in language not to be mistaken, that this is a Nation, one and indivisible. Once more have you said that the men who saved the Nation, and not those who tried to destroy it, shall bo its rulers. Once more have you said that the solid Union North is superior to the solid rebel South. Once more have you said that the grand old Re publican party of John Brown, of Lincoln, Sumner, Greeley, and Mor ton, shall govern this mighty continent from lake to gulf, and from ocean to ocean. For this, all honor to you. Stand up and let us salute General Garfield and tho Old Flag with three rousing cheers. Hip, hip, hurrah ! V1CTOKY! The latest election returns, from the Pacifiu Slope indicate that California and Oregon are certainly Re publican, and that Nevada is doubt ful with chances in favor of the Re publicans. With the exception of New Jersey this makes the North solid for General Garfield and the Republican party. This is glori ous news for every individual who loves the Nation better than he lovea his party. To know that the Government of the Country is to remain in tho hands of the men who saved it, instead of being transferred to those who did all in their power to destroy it, is glory enough for one day. Not only do we elect General Garfield President, but the chances are that we have also secured both houses of Congress. This will insure harmonious working of the official governmental machine, and will also insure the continuance of our present boon in business prosperity. The Republican party has achieved a grand work in the election of General Garfield to the Presidency. Future generations will remember it with admiration and respect. PRESIDENT GARFIELD. Not only the Republican party but the whole Nation can justly be proud of the great lawyer, statesman, ami legislator, who has been chosen to preside over our destinies as Chief Magistrate for tho ensuing four years. Although partisan caluminators have not hesitated to defame his character, and cast obloquy upon his good name, he stands to-day before the American people a man of spotless integrity. The vilest of slacders have been hurled against him, but they have all fallen unsupported to the ground, like arrows cast against a wall of stone. The villains who have been engaged in the dirty work of slandering him, do not and did not believe what they said. They are naught but hired assassins of the most villainous sort, who would with equal readiness pick a man's pocket, cut his throat in the dark, or ruin his character by private blackmail. The people have bo judged them, and hence their vile slanders have fallen to the ground broken shafts. President Garfield will give the country an administration absolutely pure. The record made by the present administration is a good one, aud the next will be a continuance of the good work. We are sure that at its close the Republican party will be stronger than at its beginning; and we may look forward to many jears of Republican rule, if we are in all cases as wise in our choice of a Chief Magistrate as in this. "THE BIO OERS DONE IT.' As usual, when the Democracy get whipped, they lay it all on the colored people. They blame us for whipping them during tho rebellion, when they tried to establish the southern confederacy.. They have blamed us every time for their political defeats since

MARION COUNTY VOTK.

NOVEMBER VOTE.

WARDS AND TOWNSHIPS. 6 4 c 2 First Ward Second Ward... Thinl Want Fourth Ward... Fifth Ward Sixth Ward Seventh Ward-, Kighth Ward... 279 im 167 ' 2; ml 373! 410, , ."Ml! 2! M2J KSi 55l 314' 471' 413 651 Ninth Ward i viiiii itai ......, .! Kleventh Ward... Twelfth Ward .... Thirteenth Ward Fourteenth Ward.. Fifteenth Ward ............ 271 2! I 4H5 5OT . , 291 4.SS 330 474 4i;i 6T.Ul 550 111 210 Sixteenth ward-.f Seventeenth Ward Kichteenth Ward.. Nineteenth Ward Tweutieth Ward .... 14 JUo 15 Si 47! 417 309 32"J 2W! 2 1 Twonty-flrst Ward W Twenty-second Ward-Twenty-thtra vara Twenty-fourth Ward Twenty-nltn ward . , Total vote in city , IU'i'iiHinin majority over Democrat.. TOWNSHIPS. renter Not thcast .. Northwest Southeast i jit? IfiS 1) ltti; 1S7' 94' 921 127 207 1 114j 149! lift 161 Son th west Franklin First 1'recinet.... Second Precinct. Perry First Precinct... Sacond Precinct. , 1 1 1061 Warren Mrst Precinct171 Second I'recinct. 275i Lawrence Kirnt lrecinct Second Precinct..., Third Precinct Washington First Precinct.... Second Precinct Pike First Precinct. . 7, 152 156 102 87 190j laij 114; 191 107 39 Second Precinct Wayne First Precinct 113 169 2S2 159 t Second Precinct . Third Precinct Decatur First PrecinctSecond lreeinct...... , Total vote in County Republican majority over Democrat. 107 2X9, :tc 8.5 the war, and they do not fail to put . . , . . r. in ff I wi i liffflrv .r ri i ninf ri "VITT n TT A tt llOlf

i,.iutuHiugWu.Fia1uuiUnmtt.u.vujl M one of the eretttest battles that an

last Waterloo. As we have fliid be - fore, wo plead iruilty, and aro' rather , i r .7 . t ii trtriM rt tha nnrntcohnn nni ira ahn I ' do all inöurpowci in the future to merit the charge of being guilty. WI13 shouldn't we defeat tho Democratic party every time wo get an opportunity? What has tho Democratic party ever done for the Negro that he should have any compunctions of conscience about helping to defeat it on any and aJl occasions? Do wo not know that that party fought long and hard to establish a Government, whoss very foundation was the perpetual chute enslavement of our race? Does not every Negro know that since their defeat on tho'open field of battle, they have ot hesitated at the employment of any means no matter how infamous, brutal, and devilish, to re-establish their old domination over our race in the South? Are wc not awaro of the fact that in the South, where Democracy is all potent, that tho life of a Negro is valued no more highly than that of a horse or a dog? Do we not know that thousands of our race have been murdered wilfully and without cause in tho South, simply because they were int the way of the Democratic wolf-hunt for power? Knowing that wo know all these things, how could th& Democratic party expect that ,cur-like, we will lick tho hand that smote us, and desert the friends who helped us in our hour of direst need? If they do, they have certainly grown hopelessly mad in their wild infatuation for power and place. Let them, remember that tho Negro race has the same feelings, sympathies, and antipathies, that other people havo; and that they will never desert their friends to give aid and comfort to their enemies. We are not a race of ino-ratcs and cowards, as they probably know by this time. TEL EUR All 4L - 1 Plficrt raph. o Telegraph it. Telegraph it to tho boys. Telegraph it to Forney. Whisper it to BUI English, Telegraph it to Ben Butler. Telegraph it to all of tho boys. Telegraph it to Suffragist Shaw. Telephone it to Frank Landers. Telegraph it to Cipher Sam Tilden. Telegraph it to George Julian. W. Telcgrapfj Kelley. Tclegr&pEi it to Hancock and it to the Sentinel through a lün-horn. Telegraph, it to Hendricks, Donald arl Voorhees. McCORRESPONDENC15. All coMnnictioD8 ahoald be plainl'T written and onlj on one tide of the iheot. Co.-reipo ndence to be certain or insertion mast react) tbia jmce not later than Wednesday. Merry aadlioa. There ia to be a. Republican love-fieast to night at the Court House. Quarterly meeting at Rev. Q. A. Johnson's church next Sunday. Rev. H. II. Thomp son, of rsew Albany, will be present. Everything was auiet at the polls last Tuesday. I feel so happy that I want to say rah for uarneld, Sorter and success of the KepubJi can party. The day of judgment has come on mort gages reaeemed. Mr. Johnnie Coster, who is teaching school at Seymour, returned home last Tuesday to vote for Garfield of course. Elijah Blige, who resides on Fifth street, fell dead while digging a vault in that vicinity. Last Tuesday he was speaking to your correspondent, bat a few minutes, io apparent good health; he said tfrat ho ba4

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Warring, of Columbus, was in tho city attend 1 uk the Teachers Association last week. Mr. A. O.' Djlaney, of Circleville, visited here last week. Mr. C. "W. Reynolds dropped in suddenly and remained over Sabbath. We were glad to see him looking well and hearty. U. VV. cast his first vote for Jim Uarfield, and took passage early Tuesday morning for Wilming ton, where he is dome good work in ms school. Wasn t tbat a feeble looking procession the Democrats got up Saturday eve? Twothirds boys and the remainder lager and kill 'em quick. Mr. John Brown, of Trov. attended the Association last week. www Misses Green, Copeland, Roney, and Hall, all teachers in schools of Columbus, swelled the number of teachers in the city last week. Mr. C. A. Sevayne has returned from a visit to Chicago. WBAIGS'S FKEE LAXcK. Political Preber-El)Ctlou Eve Col ored Connrllm n Local iacoalca Personal Paracraptaa. Columbus. Ohio. November 1. 1880We write on the eve of a mighty political battle: the hosts aggregating 50,000,000: the battle ground, a continent; the matterat issue, the welfare of a nalien. Stupendous thoughts! Will the might prove the right in this instance? We believe it will. The liberty living, loyal, patriotic people of this country will mass themselves to-morrow. and under the gallant lead or tne soldierstatesman1 James A. Garfield, again overthrow the power attempting the overthrow of our Government. For this we hope, for this we shall vote. Rev. James Foindexter has just returned from Muncie, Indiana, and reports politics brisk. In Ohio we have the following city officers: Councilmen in Columbus, Urbana, Xenia, Washington, C. H. and Delaware; City Clerk in Xenia, Springfield came near having a colored member of the School Board last spring, the candidate lacking but few votes, liet those men honored by election or appointment to responsible official position and in States like Ohio and Indiana, colored men in office will seem as natural and as fitting colored voters. The men ef to-day can pave the way for the men of the coming generations. We do not believe in ministers engaging in politics. No messenger of God should enter the pulpit after his sacred ermine has been soiled by the slime of political paths. A powerful and sanctified appeal, from the pulpit, for the right, given from time to time, is enough for the minister to do, Let the laity look after ward politics. It is not in consonance with a minister's high calling to be a politican. Some of our colored ministers might at least think of this. LOCAL LACOKICS. Miss Mollie Staunton, an adopted daughter ef James A. Staunton and neice of Miss If. E. Rodin, died Saturday evening and "was buried to-day, from the Second Baptist Church, Rev. R. A. Johnson officiating, Our young people are preparing the Cantata of Esther. Hon. Geo. W. Williams spoke in Cooper Institute, New York, last week. A. quiet day and night precede the election. A donation festival was tendered Mr. Thompson last week. Frank Merguson, one of our letter carriers, is as popular as any one on the force, and always reliable. A male glee club will soon be organized here, so we are informed. rCR601TAL PARAGRAPHS. Rev. R. A. Johnson, of Allen Temple, Cincinnati, is home to vote for Garfield. Mr. James E. Hill, of Chillicothe, is reported as lying very low. Mrs. Lizzie Wade, wife ot Samuel Wade, the popular Tonsorial artist, is home again from an extended visit in Louisville, Ken tucky. The "Sunday Capital" of this city, says: 'R. Day, Jr., of the Pan Handle office, is as gallant as a Knight Courtier of Old.'' "White festival" last week should read "Mite" festival. The "Palmer Guards" gave a fine exhibition drill to-night. We have not heard from the Douglass Society for some time. Indian summer is here. Miss Willie R, Johhson is studying at Danville, Indiana. The portion of 44 Wraign V letter of two weeks ago, referring to the schools of Ohio, was reprinted in the "Peoples Advocate of Washington, D. C. The family of Rev. Theodore A. Thomp son has arrived from Pittsburgh. Wäaiox.

OCTOBER TOTC.

DAILIES AND. DRINK.

How a Man Has to Work Who Earns III LI ring: 011 n Dally. Springfield Republican. The Christian Union, in a recent article on "Journalism and Drink." by a "Jour nalist," suggests, without exactly saying so, that tue daily newspaper is produced "in an atmosphere redolent with whisky," "Through the policy of the paper the younger members of the taflf are obliged not only to drink themselves. but to indorse the indulgence of others," and this is done by paying their bills for drinks when they are engaged in collecting news, by meeting the same bills when in curred by advertising agents by sending its reporters to write ui sample rooms, and, in a mythical case which is quoted, instructing "its locals to ask Smith to take a ulass of something. It will loosen his tongue." "Drinking," in a, word, this journal says, summing up the attitude of the jvapers m general, "is the policy of the paicr." Iti, - . A 1 1 utterances ui mis son 1 m pry extraor dinary ignorance or extraordinary misappre1 . rrl :.. 1 i 1 . .. ncnsion. Aiieru is prooaDiy no iraue or call ing in the world which more requires men to be always master of themselves than newspaier work. There is no close season in a reporter's work. In a well-organized newspaper lie is always at call, and there is probably not an experienced newspaper man in the country who lias not had Iiis rest and his vacation repeatedly broken bvun unwelome und une.xitected call to duty. When .a a j . a . inner men nave uieir Mitmays, 11 us some times the case that a newspaper man has none for a month, and the men are not few in the profession who can look back on three, six and nine months in which everv week saw seven days' work. The success of a newspaper pivots on always having all its men at command, on having its daily work done to the quickest possible minute und 3fr times in the year, on focussing the sharp activity of a day so that the press begins to move exactly as the press room clock ticks a peculiar minute. If any man who knows this thinks that it is the j.oiicy oi any paper to encourage drinking among its employes he must be a good deal ot a fool. The simple fact is that there is no class in the community so much excised to drinking temptations which drinks so little a.s the class which includes newspaper em ployes, lhey are not all teetotalers Neither is any other class. "I aoon found my attitude as a teetotaler," says "Journal ist," "a very unique one. So he would as broker on Wall street, as a Clubman up town, as a iolitician, as a young New York lawyer. Newspaper employes are in this like the rest of the eonimunity. engaged in work . which requires active contact with men: with this difference that a reporter or an editorial writer has tobe altogether more sparing in his indulgence under sharp penalty, often of dismissal, always of professional loss, if Iiis use of liquor leaves him unlit for his work. Other men have nothing to do after dinner, he works half the night. Other men can K)stpone much of their work, his has to be done daily. Other amen have their stated holidays, but their holidays are not apt to be his hardest days. T lie practical result of all this is that sobriety has the highest commercial value around a newspaper ollice. The man who can not be trusted to have all his wits about him after dinner, is sewn dropped; the man who cannot stand a stretch of twelve or fifteen hours long and come out clearheaded, goes to the wall. It is perfectly true, as "Journalist" says, that "the number of great dalies which are uncomproming advocates of total abstinence is very limited." It is. We only recollect one which is or was, and it rents its basement to a liquor saloon. The question of total abstinence is one on which even good men differ, and newspapers differ with them, but in encouraging the temperate habits of its employes a great newspaper has the strongest pecuniary interest, and acts upn it. Alexandre Dumas the Elder. From the Nineteenth Century. No play-writers of that time, and very few since, have shown such a complete mastery of all the resources of the stage as Dumas displayed; and, it seems to me, that no one who devotes a moderate attention to his dramatic works can rea3onably doubt that in the celebrated quarrel about the play called the Tour de Nesle right was on the side of Dumas. This quarrel is worth some attention. The story takes up 'some four chapters of Dumas' "Memories;" but, briefly, the main facts were these: Harel, the great theatrical manager, had received a play in manuscript from a young author named Gaillardct. He thought there was capital stuff in it, but as it was written it was quite unfitted for stage representation, on account of the author's inexperience. Jules Janin had tried to do something with it and had failed. Harel then came to Dumas, who, according to his own account, which I, for one, believe, entirely remodeled it, and made it one of the most impressive melo-dramas ever put on the stage. He had previously written a somewhat imprudently self-effacing letter to the young author, who, instead of being grateful, was furious at having, as he said, a collaborator thrust upon him, and ended by writing to the papers to assert that he was the sole author of the piece. The matter went through all kinds of intricacies, into which it would be tedious to go; but the last word which ought to be said about it is found in a letter written by Gaillardet in 1801 to the manager of the Torte St. Martin Theater. The letter ran thus: "A judgment of the Courts in 1S32 decreed that the. Tour de Nesle should be printed and announced under my name alone; and this was done up to the date of its being forbidden by the censorship in 1851. Now that you are going to put it on the stage again, I give you permission nay, more, I beg you to join to my name that of Alexander Dumas, my collaborator. I wish to prove to him that I have forgotten our old quarrel, and that I remember only our later Ideasant relations and the great share which lis incomparable talent had in the success of the Tour de Nesie." At the time, however, the quarrel made an immense stir, culminating in a duel between Dumas and Gaillardet, which Dumas relates in his best manner. One or two touches in the narration are intensely characteristic. He began by saying that as" he started for the place of the combat, Bonnaire, a friend of his, came up to him with an album in his hand. "Ah!" he said, "You are going out. Are you in a hurry?" "Why do you ask?" "Because, if you are not, I should like you so much to write something in this album'.' "Well, leave it in my room, and when I come back I will write something in it.! "You can't now?" "No; I am in a hurry to keep an appointment, and would not be late for any consideration." "Where are vou going?" "To fight a duel with Gaillardet." "Oh, then please write something now. Think how delightful it would be for my wife to possess the last lines you ever wrote." "Ah!" said Dumas, "you are right. I will not deprive Mme. Bonnaire of that pleasure," and so saying he went back and wrote a few lines in the album. Then, when they were on the ground, Bixio, a friend of Dumas, who was a doctor, said to him, "Shall you hit him?" "I don't know," said Dumas. "Try to." "I shall certainly try; but do you dislike Mm?" "Not at all; I don't know him." "Then why so anxious?" "Well have you read Merimee's 'Etruscan Vase?' " "Yes." "Then don't you remember that he says every man killed by a bullet turns round before he drops? I want to see if it's true." He had no opportunity to see on this occasion, for the duel was fortunately harmless: but the pendant to this odd story is that Bixio himself wasfshot some years afterward at a Paris barricade shot to death and as he fell, turning, he cried, "Ah! one does turn then!" An Author's Adventure In the Far Weat. Early in 1859 Charles Collins wrote a book about then unknown Colorado and Pike4s Peak, in which he gave a glowing picture of the whole region. This book lrtid a good deal to do with stimulating emigration. After the rush to Pike's Peak had been going on for some time, Collins, with the late A.D.Richardson, set out for that place. Collins kept distributing his books all along the line and collecting his subscriptions at the ranches previously canvassed, until, after some days of travel, both began to be aware of the fact that a great many of the emigrants, who had gone out weeks before, seemed to be returning. Their wagons no longer bore the bold inscription, "Pike's

Peak or luisi but it was transformed to

this efl'cct, "Piktt'B Pcuk Busted." The two travelers, unaware J of the depths of chagrin and , significance behind this, thought little of it until they had trawrsed aliout one-half the route 'iOO miles from St. Joseph. Here was a famous stopping place, known as Jack Mor row's ranch, a place where Collins and Richardson had determined to put up that night. Collins, who was well acquainted with Morrow, got some distance ahead of Richardson; in whose wagon, lesules himself and driver, where a number of emigrants, also bent on trying the new country. Collins, as he drove up to Morrow's ranch. was considerably surprised at the sight. The place was everywhere swarming with miners and emigrants, all excited and savage about something or another. There was loud talking everywhere, and loud threats against somebody, who" in every breath came in for the most violent aand bitter execration. Collins was about to toss one of his books to Morrow, who came forward hastily when he saw him, and getting up close to him, he said, in a voice htisky with supressed excitement: "Collins, git?" "What do you mean?" said Collins, excited. "Git out o' here quick," said the excited ranchman, a he waved his hands and disappeared. Collins, now thoroughly aroused, thrust his Imok back under the scat, and bade his driver get out and mingle with the crowd and lind out what was the matter. In a few minute: the driver returned with a face white as a ght, and told Collins that the miners were offering a reward of $2,000 for the bodies of C ollins and Richardson, dead or alive. Having heard that they would be along that way. thev had come to a stop at Mor row's ranch, and secured a couple of ropes. intending to hang them. Collins quietly slid down from his buggy and sauntered out to the edge of the crowd. Here he heard himself and Itiehard-on denounced in the most unsparing manner. Seeing there was no time to lose, he instructed the driver to take another route, while he himself cir cled around the crowd until he reached sonic tall grass, when he took to his heels, After running more than a mile he stopied Like a Hash the question crossed his mind. Where was Richardson? He turned around and struck across -diagonally for his old route, on reaching which, some distance from Morrow s ranch, lie presently met Richardson's team moving along lei surely. It required but an instant for Collins to inform him of the true state of affairs, hearing which he was not less frightened than Collins him self. The result was that they struck off on a new route, and finally reached Denver without further adventure. Denver was then a settlement of about 1,000 inhabitants, all living in tents. Soon after their arrival there the two pre-empted 120 acres of land each. Becoming disgusted afterward, they threw up the land again. To this day Collins brings his list down on his knee and says, with an emphatic air of comic regret: "And, fools that we were, this land is now the heart of the town, and sold in less tha ten years afterward for $1,000 per acre." The Sound of Thunder. Professor Tait, in Nature. The next remarkable feature of the storm is the thunder, corresponding, of course, on the large scale, to the snap of an electric spark. Here we are on comparatively sure ground, for sound is much more thoroughly understood than is electricity. We speak habitually and without exaggeration of the crash of thunder, the rolling of thunder, and of a peal of thunder, and various other terms will suggest themselves to you as being aptly employed in different cases. All of these are easily explained by known properties of sound. The otigin of the sound is, in all cases, to be looked for in the instantaneous and violent dilatation of the air along the track ot the iightmng-nasn. partly, no doubt, due to the disruptive effects of elec tricity, of which I have already spoken, but mainly due to the excessive rise of temperature which renders the air for a moment so brilliantly incandescent. There is thus an extremely sudden com pression of the air all round the track of the spark, and a less sudden, but still rapid, rush of air into the partial vacuum which it produces. Thus the sound wave produced must at first be of the nature of a bore or breaker. But as such a state of motion is unstable, after proceeding a certain distance the sound becomes analogous to other loud but less violent sounds, such as those of the discharge of guns. Were there few clouds, were the air of nearly uniform density, and the flash a short one, this would completely describe the phenomenon, and we should ha e a thunder crash or thunder clap, according to the greater or less proximity of the seat of discharge. But, as has long been well known, not merely clouds but surfaces of separation of masses of air of different density, such as constantly occur in thunder storms, reflect vibrations in the air; and thuwe may have many successive echoes, pro longing the original sound. But there is another cause, often more efficient than these. When the flash isalongone.all its parts being nearly equidistant from the observer, he hears the sound from all these parts simultaneously; but if its parte be at very different distances from him, he hears successively the sounds from portions further and further distant from him. If the flash be much zigzagged, long portions of its course may run at one and the same distance from him, and the sound from these arrive simultaneously at his ear. Thus we have no difficulty in accounting for the rolling and pealing of thunder. It is, in fact, a mere consequence, sometimes of the reflection of sound, sometimes of the finite velocity with which it is propagated. The usual rough estimate of five seconds to a mile is near enough to the truth for all ordinary calculations of the distance of a flash from the observer. The extreme distance at which thunder is heard is not great, when we consider the frequent great intensity of the sound. No trustworthy observation gives in general more than about nine or ten miles, though there are cases in which it is possible that it mav have been heard fourteen miles off. But the discharge of a single cannon is often heard at fifty miles, and the noise of a siege or naval engagement has certainly been heard at a distance of more that 100 miles. There are two reasons for this: the first depends upon the extreme suddenness of the production of thunder; the second, and perhaps the w . . a more ettective, on tne excessive varia tions of density in the atmosphere, which are invariably associated with a thunder-storm. In certain cases thunder has been propagated, for moderate distances from its apparent sources, with a velocity far exceeding that of ordinary sounds. This used to be attributed to the extreme suddenness of its production; but it is not easy, if we adopt this hypothesis, to see why it should not occur in all cases. Sir W. Thompson has supplied a very different explanation, which nequires no unusual velocity of sound, because it asserts the production of the sound simultaneously at all parts of the air between the ground and the cloud from which the lightning is discharged. The Love of Strong Drink Increasing Among Englishwomen. London Truth. Not long ago a strange scene took place in a pretty garden not a hundred miles from London. The tree-shaded lawn was scattered over with seats, with here and there a bright colored Persian rug for the special behoof of anv guests who object to open-air-amusementson account of the "damp-grass." To some mi nds grass is always damn. It was early in the afternoon, and the only tenants of the garden were the servants, who were arranging refreshments upon some tables under the trees. They seemed full of nods and becks, and whispers of apparently mysterious imjKjrt passed among them. A carriage drives up to the gate, and two ladies, entering, look round for their hostess. The servant who had admitted them goes in search of his mistress, and a few moments afterward a young and beautifully dressed woman issues from the house, her face deeply flushed, her eyes half closed and her gait uncertain. Just at this moment another carriage drove up, a gentleman apd lady being the occupants. They, too, enter the garden gate and advance toward the house across the lawn. As they approach the uncertain, swaying figure of their hostess they look at each other significantly, and the lady says in a low voie: ,

'I was afraid of this. Where can Mr. X. be to allow her to be seen in this state?" The interpretation of ' those wild Un.k, that disordered hair, - and those meaningless words is that Mrs. X. is intoxicated, thomrh not sufficiently so to be quite helpless. She wanders about among her guests, her condition, however, being so pal liable, so unmistakable, that the majority laugh and titter, while the friendly few pity, though they condemn her. The painful scene was ended by the arrivaltf her husband, whose looks of misery, as he held his wife on his arm through the groups of gayly dressed teople into the house, touched even the laughers with rUv - - ' '

This is no exaggeration of facts. It is, unfortunately, a scene from real life, and, I fear, not an uncommon one. ; Ihe love oi strong drink appears to be increasing among .the educated. jvomen ot our dav During the season just past, instances of this were ho frequent as to lead to the conjecture that a- kind of epidemic of drink was pervading t those classes of socie ty in which culture," iosition, and the jiossestlon of every comfort of life would appear to be a sufficient guarantee against so degrading a vice. "Society" ladies, in fact. live too much upon excitement not to suffer from the inevitable reaction. For a few months in the year they endure continued fatigue intreadingthe social mill, and forthe remainder they are a prey to ennui. They try thehrstiloseof chloral as an exiienment. "Mv eves look so dull and heavy this mornm Am a ing. Nanu-so savs chloral is such a caiital thing; I think I'll try it." In thiscase, as in that of rouge, it is not "the hrst step that costs. It is easy enough. But, from being an experiment it becomes a practice, ana from a practice it developes into a necessitv It is no longer servant, but master. My lad v has her half tint of chamiiatrne about an hour after breakfast, another at luncheon, a glass of liquor lastcad of afternoon tea, a requence of wines at dinner, and brandy m her post-prandial coffee. Her chloral in" her dressing-room is as permanent and indis pensable an arrangement as her bath, and much sooiner missed from its usual position than her Bible. Some Types of Western Girl. Sitting over there in acorner, of the porch, says a Chautauqua iake correspondent, is the typical Western girl. Mie dresses well, but not so elaborately as some of her sisters from other places; he goes in for brains, money. handsome masculine admirers, and personal comfort; she is good looking or pretty, but is not beautiful, as a rule; tJie has a carriage or buggy at home and knows how to row and has. a goodly following of beaux, but she rarely marries . until she is past twenty. Lazily rocking to and fro in that big chair is the Cleveland girl. She is wonderfully vivacious; her piquancy is soniethim marvelous and electrical in its effect. She is exceeding pretty and has the rarest kind of American beauty. She is quiet in dress, but has a style and knack in wearing her costume that makes her the envy of her sex here. This faculty enable her to always apjiear fresh and dainty without frequent changes in apparel. She reads a great deal, talks well, tlirts in a dolce far niente way, that is as becoming to her as her cloth robes. She is independent in opinion, knows something about iiolitics from an Ohio standpoint. She deals frankly with the men of her acquaintance, is shy about making friends of strangers, and dances divinely. The girl who islaughing and talking rapidly with the 'gentleman who is promenading with her is from Columbus, O. She wears a great many showy 'dresses, knows everybody, is good-hearted, easy to become acquainted with at this sort of place, talk a great deal about her school life and her conquests, and docs not like the Cleveland girl. The Buffalo girl is pretty and interesting, and has ideas. She does not know how to dress well, - because she admires obstrerierous colors. She dances well, flirts as though she enjoyed it hugely, and marries a man with a great deal of money if she can. The Indianapolis girl is iolly, affable and kind-hearted. She is moderate in her ambitions, likes autograph albums, and wears nice, tasteful dresses. The Louisville girl is full of vim, dresses nobbily, and has many marvelous suits. She has a pretty Southern accent, and is a Sineral favorite. One of the best tyies of hio womanhood is the Warren girl. She is modest, shy, extremely prettj, quiet but stylish in dress, exquisite in figure, charming in face and conversation, and mows down the other sex without apparent effort or desire. She is good and womanly, and 4 knows heaps." , 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! DE. REEVES, TFIE Indian Botanic Physician , LATE OF LONDON', ENGLAND, Th aiost turcetefal catarth, Inng and tliroat doctor iu America, U rrnmiieiitly lorab-d at the corner of Iltiiioi aiid Louisiana trr-tK, li-dianai!i, Indiana, wher h- will xmine all liM"fw, and tell the coniplaiut without asking a vingle pieation. VConenltation Free, ia either German or English. r ' - PERM . RNT CUKES ! 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