Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1880 — Page 2

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J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Catered a secoud-class matter at th Poetoffic at Indianapolis, Ind. ITEBMi OF SUBSCRIPTION. Singl Copy, 1 year ...12.00 1.00 .so 6 monthf . S months m i month.. .20 1.7 1.60 CI aba of ixl year, each copy. ten, 1 year, each copy. THIS PAPEK SE p. K..VM Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St ) where advertising contract may be made for it in NEW TOBK . - Subscribe) for the Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white -man who believes that slavery was a cnne against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in hü struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. Senator B. K. Bruce and Hon. G. W. Williams, of Ohio, took an active part in the Xew York canvass. Marshal Fred Douglass speaks in glowing terms of Senator B. K. Bruce as a fit representative of the colored people to go into General Garfield's cabinet. The services of Senator Bruce to the Republican party will no doubt be honorably recognized by the incoming administration, whether he enters the cabinet or not. The net result of the Presidential election, is that Garfield carries all the Northern States, with the exception of New Jersey, Nevada, and a portion of California, while Ilancock carries the South with the above named Northern States. Garfield receives 214 electoral votes, and Hancock 155 ; 185 votes aro necessary to a choice, so that Garfield has . 29 votes to spare. The House of Representatives is certainly Republican, and the Senate probably so. Through the intense solidity and stolidity of the ignorant South, a few gleams of light acting as a beacon ray of hope are distinguishable. Tennessee elects Hawkins, Republican, Governor, and three Congressmen; Virginia, three Republican Congressmen; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, one; North Carolina, one; South Carolina, one; Missouri, four Repub-lican-Greenbackers and one straight Republican; Texas, one Greenbacker. Besides this many Republicans have been counted out, who will get their seats. Among these are Mr. Lynch, of Mississippi. New York, Nov. 9, 1880. Mr. J . E. Bruce, . (Plebian) the spicy Washington correspondent of the Republican Advocate, Chicago, 111., in a letter to Hon. J.. M. Wood ward, 178 Broadway, pays the following compliment to the Leader: "The Indianapolis Leader is to the colored people what the Times or Tribune is to the white people of the United States the most reliable and trustworthy journal ever published by colored men in this country. The editor is a gentleman of rare culture, a bold and fearless writer, and who can be of invaluable service to you when the time comes. You will find it just as represented, and I am sure you will not be disappointed with it Yours, etc., A. 31. Coe. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. What will become of the Demo cratic party in the future? is a ques tion very pertinent to our present political situation. Will it disband, or will it still continue its futile and silly efforts to secure national control that have marked its career for the past twenty years? The canvass just closed was of great and vital importance to the eountry and to the Republican party, but especially was it freighted with overwhelming sig nificance to the Democratic party. If they could wrest the reins of Government from the hands of the Republican party now, while the country was enjoying a season of great business and financial pros perity, they could reasonably hope to retain the control of affairs for a long time. If, however, on the other hand, they were to meet with defeat instead of success, they looked upon disintegration as a natural conse quence. Well, defeat, crushing, over "whelming, humiliating, has come upon them, and the future is to deter mine the result. The old dyed-in-the-wool mossbacks will no doubt meet, and rcsolvo that "the eternal principles of the grand jold Demo cratic party are undying," and con tinue the fight against inevitable fate. But can they rally the liberal minded and the ambitious younger portion of tho party to continue the fruitless Contest. We think, not. The Demo

cratic party is fossilized, and there

fore belongs to tho past. It repre sents no living issues. Its ideaai belong to tho fast receding days of slavery and mob-rule. Its "eternal principles" consist of nothing but in undying thirst to hold office. Young men just arriving at tho estate of manhood, can not bo rallied to tho support of a corpse, however much galvanizing ma' bo applied to its j cerebral parts. They follow where leadership infuses hope and patriotism. This they can not find in the Democratic party, and hence they will inevitably go elsewhere. Tho old bourbon mossbacks then must go on resolving and revolving, stultify in'g and falsifying their record; untia great popular contest between tho Republican party and some opposition organization, completely sub merges and carries them away in the conflicting currents. Tho Demo cratic party is dead, my lords aud gentlemen, dead. It has snorted, cavorted, and pranced before tho public as an impending calamity for the last time. Tho triumphant election of General Garfield places it hors du combat. The last sad rites, the funeral obsequies, remain to D6 administered. Call the undertaker, and let the funeral proceed. PBESIDENTOAUFIELD'a CABINET. The daily newspapers are overflowing with speculations and guess is as to tho names of the persons who will constitute General Garfield's cabinet when he assumes tho reins of Government. Of course these are nothing more than speculations and guesses, for no one presumes to say that the President elect has told him the names of the gontlemen who will constitute his official advisers, nor, indeed, is it certain yet that General Garfield himself has fully decided as to whom ha 6hall invest with ministerial authority. There aro certain embarrassments connected with tho selection of a new cabinet that an incoming President rarely meets with. General Garfield has been not only an intimate and firm friend of President Hayes, but has been looked upon as one of his leading Congressional supporters and advisers. The present cabinet is supposed to consist of about the same men that he would have called to be his advisers had ho been elected four years ago instead of Gtn .Tal Hayes. Notably is this true of Secretary Sherman of tho Treasury Department, whoso friend and advocate he was at the Chicago convention. Now what is to bo done with this cabinet? It seems hard that they should bo relegated to private life, after having administered public affairs so faithfully, and with such benefit to the country and tho Republican party. It has been suggested that Ohio and Indiana come to General Garfield's relief by sending Mr. Sherman and Col. Thompson to the Senate. While this may or may not be done we feel warranted in saying that these gentlemen will yet receive honors at tho hands of the Republican party. Upon the whole we rather incline to the opinion that the incoming administration will consist of entirely new timber. Without making any guesses as to who will be the lucky statesmen, we feel assured that the selection will be such as to harmonize all the diverse and contending interests in the party, and one that will secure to the country a just administration of its affairs. We are, therefore, content to await the Ides of March to hear the announcement of the favored few. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. As the time draws near for the assembling of tho Legislature, the contest between the various aspirants for the Senatorial succession, waxes warmer and warmer, to use a current phrase. At first tho general impression was that General Harrieon would be almost tho unanimous choice of Legislators and Republicans generally, but since the smoke of battle cleared away, quite a number of Republican leaders have shied their castors into the ring, and the contest for tho caucus nomination promises to bo both lively and interesting. Tho following are tho names of the gentlemen thus far mentioned for the place, any of whom would do honor to Indiana and credit to himself in tha United Statos Senate: Hon. W. R. McKcen, Gen. A. D. Straight, Gen. Harrison, Göv. Porter, Hon. John C. New, Hon. Will Cumback, Hon. G. S. Orth, Gen. Shackelford, Judge Gresham, Col. Tom Browne, Prof. Burgess, Asst. Post Master General Tyner, Hon. Tom Brady, Marshal Dudley, Hon. J. H. Claypool, Gen. Coburn, and Col. R! W. Thompson. With such a list as this to choosofrom, Republicans need have no fear but that they will be ably represented in the National Senate. Possibly all these names may not bo presented to the nominating caucus, but the list shows that there is good timber to select from.

ELOPING WITH A NEGRO.

Running- Away With Her Father 'Black Hired Man They Fall to Get a Clergyman to Marry Them Until II er Face and Hands Had Been Blackened With Burnt Cork. New York Sun, tfov. 11. '. An open wagon drove up before a Kingston funiture store on Monday afternoon, and its two occupants alighted. One was a white woman, good-looking and quite young, She was well dressed, and evidently had moved in respectable circles -Her companion was a negro mac of a coal tar . com4 plexion, arid countenance amazingly devoid of ever susplcioifof intellectual brightness. The couple entered the store together, and when the dealer came forward the colored man remarked: "My wife wants some furniture." ' "All right; in a minute. Just let me attend to this lady first," was the; merchant's response. .' C "Well, this here's her, it Is,r retorted the customer. - The merchant was surprised, but the young woman promptly said that1 she was the negro's wife. They purchased some articles of household furniture, and left town together. f f.. " John Deyo is one of the wealthiest farmers in the town of Gardiner. His farm it near- the village-of New Paltz on the Wallklll Vajley Ifculraad The Deyo family is one of the largest in Ulster County. It is also one of the most respected and influential, and John Deyo's reputation has ever been of," the best. -He has never been blessed' with. children of hij vrn,'artd it wias a genuine act' of love that induced him more than a dozen years ago to adopt an orphan niece. The wee mite of a girl took Iiis name, and was reared as tenderly as he would have, raised hi own child. Every advantage that social position and cash could secure were hers,, and.at the age of eighteen Ada" DeyoXecame an acknowledged belle far beyon d the limits of her Immediate neighborhood. The negro, John Wesley Sampson,' was employed on Mr. Deyo's farm. Wesley's duties were chiefly confined to a superintendence of the half hundred cattle on the place. Until quite recently Ada Deyo had been receiving the addresses of a young farmer of New Paltz, and it was generally believed that she had promised to become his wife. Says John Deyo: "Rufus was a likely lad. She could have married him and had my blessing. He is sober and industrious, and will get along all right. I would have done the square thing by them." But in October Rufus ceased to visit Ada, she representing that they had "had a little quarrel." About this . time the uncle's suspicions were aroused, and he decided upon prompt action. "You will pack up your clothes and go down to New York with me to-morrow," he paid in a firm tone. "I am going to place you in a boarding school." She declared no opposition, but when he arose next morning it was to find that the wayward girl had fled lc the night time,. and with her was gone John Wesley Sampson. Pursuit was made without effect. The couple went to Rondout A minister was called upon. "We want to get married," hastily explained Sampson. - , Get married?" "Yes; quick; doit upright away, fur we're in a awful hurry." "Is this your desire?" the preacher asked the girl. "Yes," she answered. "I can't accommodate you," said the minister. "Now, don't you think you are doing and ill-advised and " "Now, never mind yer sermon, boss. Will ye marry us, or won't ye? That's what we are a wantin' to know." "I will not That girl is not of age. The marriage would be illegal." The preacher was about to attempt to persuade Miss Deyo to abandon her purpose, but before he could proceed the door slammed in his face and the couple were in the street. Other ministers in Rondout and Kingston, in fact, nearly all in the city, were vitited, with the same result. From Kingston the couple went to the office of 'Squire Hector Abeel, an old politician and Justice of the Peace of Marbletown. It appears that they did not long remain in the presence of that gentleman, however, for as soon as the negro made known his business 'Squire Hector ordered him out of the office. Sampson then went to a friend named Jim Cantine, in the wilds of the town of Marbletown. Cantine ' is a negro as black and fullblooded as any that ever breathed, but his better-half is white. Moreover, Mrs. Cantine is red-haired and quickwitted. A half dozen or more mulatto children have resulted from her union with Jim Cantine, and those gathered about and applauded their mother's labors as she. having declared that she would "fix things," proceeded to burn all the corks to be found in the .Cantine mansion. Ada Deyo sat down, and Mrs. Cantine completely dis-' guised the girr fair face and hands by smearing them with burnt cork. Her hair was put up in a net, and, thus changed in appearance, Ada Deyo ' again started on a journey with Sampson. This time they went to the Reformed parsonage at Stone Ridge, and Rev. Dr. Hulburt was asked to make them man and wife. Not suspecting that the girl was not a negress, the preacher married them.. , The next day Sampson took his wife to her new home in Lapala. Lapa.a consists of a colony of negroes, and all of its surroundings are low and debased. The Sampson home is a hut; it would be a gross misnomer to call it aught else. It is little superior to the savage Lapala habitation, where scores of families have no doors or windows to their rude homes save a hole near the ground, through which only are ingress ana egress possible. A gentleman from New Peltz, a friend of John Deyo, was seen yesterday by a 8un reporter. He said that Mr. Deyo was uncom municative as to his plans; "but," added the gentleman, "it is very plain that John is all broken down by the action of Ada. He tries to hide his grief, but he fails. He fairly worshiped that girl, and of course be can't give her up to such a fate without a struggle." "Will he take any action looking to her separation irom bampsonr' "I don't know; but I do know that a Deyo is desperate when he gets excited." There is a story current to the effect that a Kingston lawyer has prepared a legal document, which is to be served on the negro and his wife, making them defendants in a civil suit, which, if decided against them, will subject them to a pecuniary penalty which their means would prevent them Faying, and open the jail as an alternative, t is also alleged, seemingly upon cood authority, that a warrant is out for Sampson's arrest, charging him with having ueixayeu me gin. In the meantime Sampson does not seem to ear any legal proceedings. On Monday he procured an attachment for personal property belonging to his wife, left behind in the haste of their flight. He has also placed in the hands of a lawer for collection a claim against John Deyo for $20, money which he says was placed 5n Deyo's keeping by Ada. This $20 will be Mrs. Sampson's dower. She has not a penny in her own right, but by her marriage she has sacrificed fully $50,000. An aged colored woman who has worked for the Deyo family for two score years or more walked all the way from Gardiner to Lapala to see her "baby," as she affectionately calls the recently married young woman. Finding Ada alone, she pleaded earnestly with her to return to her home and give up her "scandalous shame." She told Ada that she would be welcomed back, and dwelt long and fervently upon the wrong life she had entered upon. Ada cried bitterly, but protested that what was done was hnal; that she should not leave Sampson, whom she loved. She asked many ques tions about her uncle, and seemed en tirely broken-spinted, but rejected every overture looking to a change in her for tune. . "A Love of a Dance.' Louisville Courier-Journal. The latest thing in dances is called the "Raquet" and is - neither a waitx nor a polka, though the beat parts of both are preserved. The music strikes up with a crash, as though tt-new volcano had . broken out, and the girl will clinf tightly as though

frightened, if she understands the dance, and the young man will reassure her by a gentle pressure, if he understands the dance orkno.ws anything at all. At the second crash they dodge, as though some one had thrown a blacksmith shop at them, and they start in. They begin by imitating the struggle for life, representing a person who is drowning, but at each crash of the cymbals and bass drum they dodge and scoot to one side, then dart back again, jam each other sideways . and then, as the crashes of music become more terrific and deafening, they try to drive each other through the floor by main strength, get desperate and claw and tear and pull, and all at once they go raving mad with hydrophobia and deYerium tremens, and gnash their teeth and rave and suffer the most terrible agony and it is all over. It is a short dance, as the design is amusement and not murder. Rut short as it is, it is said to be very sweet

TEMPERANCE. Meeting1 of the Grand Council of the State Election of Officers. Indianapolis Sentinel, Nov. 12. The Grand Temperance Council of In diana was called to order at 1:45 p. m. by the President, Dr. J. W. r , Uerrish, of Seymour. After prayer by Dr. R. T. Brown, of Indianapolis, the President delivered his opening address. The Secretary and Treas urer then made their reports, which were referred to the Committee on Finance. Appointment of Committees was next in order. On motion, the Committee on Credentials were instructed to report the name of the Society represented, and where located. COMMITTEES APPOINTED : On Credentials Dr. E. S. Spottsword, of Perryille; W. H. Trammell, of Huntington; Dr. R. T. itrown. inainapous; v. i. sniitn, ui union; Joseph Swift, Seymour. On Resolution Rev. Mr. Buckles, Thorn town; Mis Auretta Hoyt. Indianapolis; Harry Burton, Lafayette; I. N. Davis, Frankfort," and John Dillon, Franklin. On Finance A. E. Pierce, Lafayette; I. N. Davis, Frankfort; Thomas Kavanaugh. Fort Wayne; Mrs. A. H. Noe, Indianapolis, and Mrs. W. N. Denny, Vlncennes. The Committee on Credentials reported 126 delegates present, representing sixty Temperance Societies. Moved: That all resolutions be submitted to the Committee without debate. Carried. The address of the President was ordered published. The Committee on Legislation, through H. W. Harrington, Chairman, reported progress. ; Report adopted, and further time granted to complete the work. Moved, by W. H. Trammell: That the Constitution be amended, giving the President power to fill vacancies in the Executive Committee. A. E. Pierce and Mrs. Z. G. Wallace being the only members of the Committee present, the following persons were added to it: C. L. Shoals, J. N. Davis, Frankfort; Dr. R. T. Brown, Indianapolis. The following Committee, composed of one from each Congressional District, was appointed to nominate offleers for the ensuing year: J. M. Shackelford, Mrs. W. N. Denny, Calvin Dobbin. Mr. Indiana fetiver, Mr. L. C. Arnold, XI ru Clara rVimmnna T R Rmi 1 1 iH n I Rmnrn Mrs. Ilelen M. Uougar, Wm. Walgamuth, S. Kavanaugn, Mrs. r.mma Moiioy. Adjourned. KVENINO SESSION. Dr. Spottswood moved that a Committee be appointed to make arrangements for holding a mass temperance meeting in In dianapolis during the session of the next Legislature, tamed. OFFICERS ELECTED. The Committee on Nominations reported the following list of officers : , President. Dr. James W. Oerrish; First Vice President, v. T. smith; second ice President, I. N.Davis; Third Vice President, John Copner; Recording secretary. Cora U (Jurry; correspond ing Secretary, M. . Shiel; Treasurer, Isaac Underwood. The report was adopted. The following Committee on Plan of Work was appointed: J. M. ßhackleford, Mrs. William N. Denny, Wes ley Thompson. Mrs. Indiana Stlner, . (J. Con' nelly, Mrs. Clara Commons, II. W. Harrington, John Copner. Mrs. a. M. Havens, I nomas Aianoney, Thomas Kavanaugh, Mrs. Emma Molloy. After considerable discussion of the finan cial affairs of the Council, during which $180 was raised, miscellaneous business was dis posed of, and the Council adjournd to 9 a. m. to-day. STATE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. Yesterday morning the Indiana State Tern perance League met in regular session in the Y. M. C. A. Hall. In the absence of the President Dr. G. W. IIoss. Dr. R. T. Brown was called to the Chair. The meeting was opened with prayer by Charles Secnst. After the opening ceremonies the Secre tary presented the following report: j In the absence of our President, as Secretary. I would present the following brief statement of the status and business oi the state League: In 1877, alter discovering tnat no Iriendly legislation could be obtained from the Legislature then in session, a meeting of the League was called to put a prohibitory ticket in the field ia May, 1877. Soon after the issue of the call, and before the meeting, the present Congress assembled, and at once took such grounds In relation to the matter connected with the late war at. to alarm every man who had been in sympathy with the North in the struggle for the Union. This alarm continued to do good until by the time the Presidential campaign opened the alarm ' was general, and even ardent temperance men felt that a necessity was upon them to save the country from the grasp of the men - who had been lately in arms against us. In the selection of candidates for Governor by the parties, we found one man whom we could cheerfully vote for, hence our worthy candidate for Governor declined further candidacy. We have gained ground in the last year. Our enemies have thought we were dead, but we are In earnest. It may take years to gain our end. So thought many a good anti-slavery man twenty years ago, but in an unexpected way and at an unexpected time, the work of an age was concentrated in the events of a few years. So it mav be in our work; but be it one year or a century, we will continue to work for prohibition, using every honorable means within our reach. We are not of opinion that the best means of securing our purpose is the Organization of a temperance party, but we should refuse to work for the men of any party who use their influence for the benefit of the liquor interest. T. A. Goodwin, secretary. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The following officers were elected : President E. B. Reynolds, of Hagerstown, Ind. Vice President B. F. Carter, of Mitchell. Ind. Treasurer Mrs. Dr. Siddell, of Indianapolis. Secretary T. A. Goodwin, of Indianapolis. Resolutions were offered as follows: Resolved, That we request and authorize the President of this League to travel and lecture ou prohibition, and to organize County and Township Leagues. Resolved, That a Committee of Ways and Means be appointed to collect and disburse the necessary funds for carrying forward this work. The following named gentlemen were appointed as such Committee: W. C. DePauw, of New Albany; W. S. Hubbard, of Indianapolis; Sylvester Johnson, of Irvington: The following were appointed a Committee to co-operate with a similar Committee from other temperance organizations: J.D.Mitchell, Terre Haute; R. M.Williams, Argos, andT. A.Goodwin, Indianapolis; with J. W. Jackson. Elletsville ; G. H. McLaughlin and C. Secrist, Indianapolis, alternates. After a general discussion, which was indulged in by a large number of delegates, the League adjourned to meet at the call of the President : She) Wouldn't Trust Him. An ordinary looking female stepped up to the window of the sleeping car office at the depot and asked the price of a berth to a Sunt where the rate was two dollars, ecker, the agent, told her the price, and she laid down a greenback of that denomination. According to custom he inquired her name, so that he might be able to fill out the necessary papers to secure the berth, when the following colloquy ensued: "What's my name? Oh, no, young man,' you can't come that," said the female. "I must have your name before I caa secure you a berth," insisted Mr. Decker. "Not much; I don't trust no man with my name. I am educated enough not to do that "What's your name, anyhow?" Decker told her, and tried to explain why it was necessary that he should have hers. She wouldn't divulge, however, and taking back her two dollars, walked off toward the waiting room, soliloquizing: I dont trust nobody with my name. ' That chap must think I never travel od." - .

DE MORKCr.BIBD.

J. A. MACON. De morkin'-bird is workln' hard. He's got no time to res'. For he's totln' timber up de tree An layln' orf a nes' ; . He don't wönt any cyp'us logs, , An' don't want any bricks, For he's gwine to make a little house Wid nuflln' 'tall but sticks. , Chorus Dar's nuflln' like de morkin'-bird, Nu mn' like de morkin'-bird, Nuflln' like de morkin'-bird! n ne's de cutes Uttle'rpenter Dat eber dribed a' nail, An' when you see him on a job He's neber gwine to fail; 'Cause he gets his sticks togedder. An lays 'em mighty fas' ; An' when he finish on de house, He knows 'tis gwine to las' t Chorus - Dar's nu fön' like de morkin'-bird, Nuain like de morkin'-bird, Nuinn like de morkin'-bird, nine was gittin' mighty lonesome " ' When ne led a hingle life; So he paid a visit 'cross de creek An' picked him out a wife; Now he's flxln' up a place to stay An' gwine to lib in style, An' he'll hab a little family To show you arterwhile. Chorus ' Dar's nufna' like de morkiu'-blrd, Nnffiu like de morkin'-bird, Xiiiliu' like de morkin'-bird J IV. Oh! I lub to see him hoppln' roun'. An' lub to hear hi in sing, 'Cause he understands the biznis ' An' he makes de bushes ring; You kin hear him in de moruin', For be gits up mighty soon, . An' he beats de Sunday meetin' In de turnin' ob a chune. ' Chorus " ' - . Dar's nuflln' like de morking-bird, Nuffln' like de morkin'-bird, Nuffin like de morkin'-bird I New Orleans Times. THE FASHION. MOURNING. The principal change in mourning modes are those necessitated by the advent "of cooler weather, but these serve also as the basis for tasteful effects, for even the somberness of the black robes of grief yields to the authority of Fashion, and thanks to her kindly influence, the styles of mourning apparel are much more graceful, becoming and comfortable than were once considered consistent with bereavemeat. Indeed, to great a change has gradually been made that sometimes the only crape seen upon the costume is that composing the bonnet and veil; while in some instances it is omitted even in this form, as many ladies find it very injurious to the eyes and lung; Notwithstanding this fact, it etiil remains the standard symbol of mourning, and, though the instances where it is discarded may be quite numerous, they are but exceptions to the general rule which counsels its adoption as the proper material for such purposes. Personal feeling and judgment may modify the extent of its use, but they have not as yet sensibly diminished it. In dress fabrics for first mourning the tendency is toward the perfection of crape effects, and this object . seems very nearly attained in a new manufacture called Syrien crape. It is composed of very fine wool, but has a silky look, and its surface is woven to appear exactly like crape at a little distance, the diffeience becoming more apparent, of course, upon closer inspection. It is very wide, and costs as much as very fine cashmere. Another very handsome fabric is crape cloth. There are two varieties of this material, and several grades of each. One is woven principally of wool, but has a cotton warp. The other is of silk and wool, and is, of course, the more expensive of the two; but it so far excels the other in durability and richness of effect that it is much more in demand. This fabric also resembles crape, though in a less degree than the texture previously mentioned. Drap de Kars is the name of a soft . but firmly-woven material having a serge finish. By a peculiarity of of the wearing its surface is divided into slender bars that are but little more than hair-lines in width. It possesses good wearing qualities as well as a refined and pleasing effect The name of "Madonna cloth" seems jerj appropriate for a very fine, coal-black cam-el's-hair, which is extremely soft and pliant, but is finished with scarcely any nap. It is adapted to any style of draping, and can not fail to become a favorite. It is not, however, considered suitableafor the first mourning of widows or orphans, though it is eminently appropriate after the first six months.' The materials described constitute the chief additions that have been made to tha list of mourning dress fabrics for autumn and winter, but, though they will enjoy a great share of popularity, they will by no means entirely monopolize public - favor. Bombazine, camel's-hair, drape d'ete and various other lusterless textures are as usual mvogue, the former being still a reigning favorite for first mourning. The heavier qualities of Henrietta cloth, coal-black cashmere, and after the first year of sorrow lustreless black silk are as great - favorites as ever. None but lustreless, coal-black shades are appropriate, however, the blue-black qualities not being considered p remissible. Any of these materials may be trimmed with .plaitings, folds or bands of the same. In regard to the methods of making up mourning goods there is little if any difference apparent between them and the modet that prevail for other styles of dress, exceptng, of course, costumes designed for festive occasions, when those who have recentlybeon bereaved are not expected to be present. There are also exceptions to the latter rule, as in the matter of family weddings, when if the affair be full dress, it becomes necessary to change the sable garb of grief for a dress more fitting to the joyousaees of the scene, or else forego the pleasure ot attending. For such an emergency La Mode permits a toilet of plain white, dead-white cashmere, a silk or Swiss, with . white ribbons and a Lew natural flowers at the throat or belt No artificial flowers, and not a particle of an j other color, . are permissible. The style of making up such a costume is usually more simple as regards trimming and drapery than if its selection were influenced by different conditions. For home and also tor street wear, plain and mixed gray, and also black and gray and white and black plaids are suitable for widows after the first year of demi-dress, and are also worn by young misses after a shorter period has elapsed. These goods do not constitute a particular branch of mourning fabrics, but are selected from the gen eral stock of de beiges, camel's-hairs and standard fabrics. They are less expensive and better suited to withstand the effects of dust and travel than black goods, and, when trimmed with black are equally as appropriate. Crape is the essential material for the bonnet and veil, provided what ia commonly called "deep mourning" is adopted. Smallj close shapes prevail for bonnets, and the trimming consists of bands, folds or bows of crape, which are, however, entirely concealed by the long crape veil. Widows can adopt or reject the widows' cap, as the tiny ruche of lisse tarlatan is called, according to personal preference. The veil is at first worn over the face, but frequently, after a short time has elapsed, it is worn to fall over the back or at one side, and a short mask veil of Brussels net takes its place over the face. Only widows and grown-up relatives ever wear a long veil, and even these sometimes discard it entirely before tha period of wearing the remainder of the mourning is over. ; v Jet is now mingled with crape, and, while it may sound unseemly, it certainly has the affect of brightening the dark fabric, pro

ducing a pleasing and subdued effect Of

course, it is not worn with first mourning. Black kid gloves, wth black ..buttons, are . proper accompaniments to a mourning costume. Black cloth gloves, also with black buttons, are likewise suitable, but they are not as elegant. , In the matter of lingerie there is consider able latitude allowed, though, at first, only white lisse niching is permissible lor the widow and black for - other mourning relatives. When the severity of the toiietls first mitigated black-bordered collars and cuffs are in keeping with the change. Fichus of. plaited Brussels net or Chinese crape 'are calculated to add grace to the toilet and seften its somber aspect, and are much admired for this reason. Hemstitched handkerchiefs, with black borders, are procurable, but are not considered any more appropriate mourning aceeeaories than plain white ones. - .- ' Now that the muff is really a portion of the toilet, it will be necessarily a part of the mourning garb, and for this purpose will be made of crape or lustreless silk. - " " As black stockings are fashionable with almost any style of dress, they can not be pronounced an item of mourning, except when worn by young misses whose dresses are short enough to show them. . For these young, people. they are thought essential items of the mourning dress,' and with blapk ribbons nnon the hair, black -gloves. and hats and black, gray or white dresses, they certainly constitute an appropriate mourn ing toilet. Very rmall children are fre quently attired in this way upon the death of a parent White dresses are generally se lected for girls ot six years or less, while for misses from six to ten gray dresses are worn to school, the other accessories being black. Black-and-white or gray stockings are sometimes substituted for plain black after the first three months. Gray or black cloth cloaks are in good taste for misses and gtru. For ladies who wear mourning there is separate line of cloaking, which range from rich silks to heavy cloths. Momie silk is the name of one of the richest specimens issued for the winter season It is in the same pat tern as the finer dress goods of that name,: and is very wide, which makes the price placed upon it seem only a fair value. An other variety is called Maharajah silk. It is woven so as to appear ribbed in fine horizontal bars, and h of about the same value as the momie silk. Black lady's clothcamel'shair and double-width Antwerp silks, supplemented by the novelties described, will be among the most favored selections for ladies' coats, cloaks and wraps. For the latter class of garments crape will be the trimming de rigueur, while coats and cloaks will frequently have only finish of machine stitching. - Black fur will be used by some and eschewed by others. Like many other items of dress, it is by soma not -considered distinctive enough to form a portion of a mourning toiletat least not ot thai .worn immediately after bereavement There is really no rule fixing the matter definitely. Individual preference and feeling guide the . .? m. r a wearer in ner seiecuon in most uuuucw, and this is as it should be. Koto. i One of the new features on walking dresses is the Langtry hood, lined with sme bright color. "Velours sublime" a' material between velvet and plush is much used for all sorts or trimmings. Butterfly bows and rosettes of satin ribbon, with drooping end to fall on the low coiffure, are worn by young ladies in prefer ence to the broad Alsatian bows. Flush will be utilized in every . possible way to collars and cuffs and plastron for children dresses, for trimmings, for linings for combination with every other material New breakfeast caps are fanchons of mul or else butterfly bows held by two pretty rosettes oi loose loops oi satin no Don. xne gold-dashed India muslin are also used for caps. The new purple that was called royal twenty years ago has turned up again with the high and mighty title of L'Kmineace, and it is just as trying to every complexion, save a wax doll's, as it was a decade ago. The Protean scarf for gentlemen is a novelty just introduced. Its peculiar advantage is that it may be folded m two ways, thus making two scarfs out of one and adapting its shape to the vest with which it is worn. f, 1 Low-throated linen col lan, Vith a point each side and flaring behind, are worn by young ladies. High linen collars are worn very close, indeed, and are made quite straight, with a stud button at the top of the collar and a second stud lower down. An English Farmer of tha Olden Times. Bound about a Great KataU" by Richard Jeffrie. The house was small, for in those days farmers did not look to live in villas, and till within the last few years even the parlor floor was of stone flags. Rushes used to be strewn in the halls of. palaces in ancient times, and seventy years ago old Jonathan grew his own carpets. The softest and best of the bean straw grown on the farm was selected and scattered on the flvor of the sitting room as warm and dry to the feet, and that was all the carpet in the house. Just before sheep shearing time, too, Jonathan used to have the nettles cut that flourished round the back of the sheds, and strewn on the floor of the barn. The nettles shrivelled up dry, and the wool did not stick to them, but could be gathered easily. With his own hands he would carry out a quart of beans to the pigs just a quart at a time and no more, that they might eat every one, and that none might be wasted. So, too, he would carry them a few acorns in his coat pocket and watch the relish with which the swine devoured their favorite food. He saved every bit of crooked wood that was about the place; for at that date iron was expensive, and wood that had grown crooked, and was therefore strong as well ' as curved, was useful for a hundred purposes. Fastened to a wall, for instance, it did for a hook upon which to hang things. If an apple tree died in the orchard it was cut out to form part of a plough and saved till wanted. Jonathan's hard head withstood even the whirl of the days when corn was at famine prices. But these careful economies, this continual saving, put more money . in his purse than all that sudden flash of prosperity. Every gioat thus saved was as a nail driven into an oak, fixed and stable, becoming firmer as time went on. How strangely different the farmers of to-day, with a score of machines and appliances, with expensive feeding stuffs, with well-furnished villas I Each one of Jonathan's beans in his quart mug, each one of the acorns in his pocket, became a guinea. Jonathan's hat was made to measure on his own special block by the hatter in Overboro town, and it was so hard and stout that he could sit upon it without injury. His top boots always hung near the fireplace, that they might not get mouldy; and he rode into market upon his "short-tail horse," as he called his crop-tail nag. A farmer was nothing thought of unless he wore top boots, which seemed a distinguishing mark, as it were, of the equestrian order of agriculture. But his shoes were made straight; not as now, one to each foot a right and a left -but each exactly alike; and he changed his shoes every morning, wearing one on one foot one day and on the other the next, that they might not get wore to either foot in particular. Shoes lasted a great length of time in those days, the leather being all tanned with oak bark oaly, and thoroughly seasoned before cut up.- There is even a story of a . farmer who wore his beet shoes every Sunday for seven years in Sundays flftv years and when he died had . them buried with him, still far from worn out At that date folks had ne banking accounts, but kept their coin in a strong ohesi under the bed, sometimes hiding it in strange

places. Jonathan was once visitin r a friend.

and after they had hob-nobbed a while the old fellow took him, with many precautions that they should not be observed, into the pigsty, and showed him fifty guineas hid in the thatch. That was by no means all his property, but the old fellow said with a wink that he liked to have a little hoard of his own that his wife knew nothing about The Combative Clam. Tb Ltiar Hoar. In divine for clams fas in octopus divine! it is uflusTl to provide oneself with a sharppointed stake or an iron rod. At Aitutaki, ween vno uao u out, citau aro picaou up every where on the reef. At Mauke men dive for them on the ocean Bide of the nar row fringing reef when the sea is smooth. On reaching the bottom the diver stabs the gasping clam, which for the mollusk is very tenacious of lue at once firmly grsps the weapon.' The diver now tugs with both hands until the clam is dislodged. A couple of expert natives with a canoe will get as many as a hundred in a day when a least is In preparation. At Manihiki and Rakaanga the largest clams are about two spans in length, the animal itself being sufficiently lx rge to satisfy the hunger of three persons. Clam-diving is woman's . work., in those atolls. ' Yet it is surprising ".how few accidents occur. ' The reason fors this may be they dive in comparatively shallow water. tUUg BlülU B UBUIC W BD lOCMU at the bottom of the lagoon of one of the Faumotu atolls for the dark-edged pearl oyster, when he unfortunately inserted the fingers of his left hand between the valve of a clam. The diver was instantly made prisoner by the mollusk. His agony was intense. Was it possible to get free? As the clam was in a hollow just adapted to its size, he could sever the byssus- At length, in sheer terror of drowning, he cut of hi four fingers with the knife pearl- drivers carry with them, and rose to the surface a sadder if not a wiser man. A .similar accident took place at Penrhyns; but the diver, instead of maiming himself for life, forced his knife between the valves, and released himself. Should the clam be attached to a smooth bit of coral, the speediest mode of jrcue is to sever the bundle cf silky filaments by which it moors itself. On a neighboring bland, ere this could be done, the forefinger of the right hand of a clam driver was lopped off. Brought ashore in baskets, they live for some time. Children in their play are apt to put their fingers between the cpen valves, and so get caught' Their screams soon bring their parents to the rescue, which is effected by stabbing the clam through the cavity for the byssus. The supply of clams in the Pacific is inexhaustible. If a party of divers should remove all the large ones from any particular locality for a grand feast, and should return next vear to the same spot, no difference would be perceived, so rspid is the growth of the clam in these warm waters. Pearls of a peculiarly brilliant hue are occasionally found in the clam. Salt a a Prophylactic In Diphtheria. (Philadelphia Medical and Surgical KtpoiUr.) In a paper read at the Medical Society of Victoria, and published in the Australian Medical Journal for June, 18S0, "On the free use of salt as 'a prophylactic against diphtheria," Dr. Day stated tnat having for many years past looked upon diphtheria In its early stage as a purely loeal . affection, characterized by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted most to the free and constant application of antiseptics; and when their employment ha been adopted from the first and has been combined with judicious alimentation, he has seldom seen blood poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power which salt possesses in. preventing the putrefactive decomposition of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has often prescribed for diphtheritic parents living far away from medical aid the frequent use of a gargle composed of a tablespoonful or more of salt dissolved in a tumbler of water, giving children who can not gargle a teafpoonful or two to drink occasionly. During the prevalence of diphtheria he recommends its use instead of sugar in the food of ; children, adults using the gargle as a prophylactic three or four times a day. 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE I THK Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LONDON, ENGLAND, The Baoet sncceMfiil catarrh, long and throat doetor in America, ia permanently locatrd at the corner of Illinoia and Louisiana etrteta, Iidianapolir, Indiana, where he iil eaamine all diaoeeee, and tell the complaint withont aüking a tingle qoeetioa. SWConenltation Fre, in either German or Zngliab. PEOn A!f EICT CUBES X Dr. Reeree warrante a permanent care of the fol loving diseases: Piles and tomora, itching and protruding, cured withtut pain or Instruments; cancer cured la all their forma without the kail or aicknea of the patient. The Roc tor ha ored bundredi of thi dreadful canker of the hnaan body, which hae baffled the accumulated akill of age. Bis remedie excel anything known to medical actence. He dene the world to bring him a caa where there ia sufficient yitaUty to sustain the eyatem, that he can not cure. Any person wiahing further information or treatment, should give him a call. Bbeu matiem cured and warranted to atay cared la etery caa. All fortaa f Blood and Skia Disease are Permanently Cured I , Such aa tetter, alt rheum, crofula'or yphilitie or, atrictores, seminal weakneaa or apernatorhaFa, primary and secondary ayphilia, gonorrhoea, or chronic venereal, kidney or urinarr die of either ex, young or old, no matter bow bad. lie challenge a comparison with any physician in America in curing thee dlaeaae. Loaa of manh ood restored. Th Doctor can refer to hundred tbua affected h credit their preaent exlateoce to being curt-d by bim. All mole, birth-mark nd freckle removed. Also, ail th Tariooa disease of the eye and ear. FOB TOE LADIES OHLT1 A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to th grsvs, may, if HI, Buffer from one or more ot the following diseases, which the Doctor will positively care: Li Ter complaint, indlgrstloa of the atomach. nervous weakneeeee, lung diet- e, etc., proUpen of the vagina or womb, leucorrbcea or white, authorion, retroversion, antiplexioo, retropU-xion, or ulceration of this organ, aick headache, rhumatiamand sciatic pains. Dropsy permanently cured In a abort tia without Upping. Call or write to ta fil-, cr. Illtoole and ltoolaiaaa afreets, IodLamalia, Issdlaaa, Privat medical aid. AU disease of a secret natur speedily cured. If in trouble call or write perfectly confidential. kt case or vthiskt habit ct bed rx TIN DAYS.

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