Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1881 — Page 2

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IIIDIllliPOLIS LEADER,

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT BAGBY Ac CO 9 OFFICE. 12 MILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Market ftts. J. D. BAQBY, Business Manager. Katsrtd ae aecond-class matter at Indianapolis, Ind. At tha Poatofflce TCBM4 OF SUBSCRIPTION, fflagte Copy 1 year . . ..-.. .2.00 - 1.00 .60 .. .20 - 1.71 i.5a 6 months. m S months. 1 mootb... t it Gluts of six 1 year, each copy... ton, 1 year, each copy... THIS PAPF.lt SZ "? foand on file at Rowel 1 A Co.'i Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce 3t ) where advertising contract may be made for It In NEW YORK tabserlbn for the. Leader. Let everv colored man who favors the elevation of his race riibäcribe for the Lead er; and let every white roan who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. The dead-lock in the Senate con tinncs. The Democrats are afraid to allow the Republicans to succeed by the aid of General Mahone. They rightly believe that the success of General Mahone, and the movement he represents, means the disruption and destruction of Bourbon Democra ev. The contest is for a free ballot and and honest count. On this line the Republicans -will fight it out if it takes all summer, and the majority will win. Washington dispatches announce that the Brazillian mission has been tendered Senator Bruce, and declined by him. It is also announced that General Garfield will tender the Senator a position at homo, in keeping with his dignity and position. President Garfield could not do a more popular act than to give Senator Bruce a prominent position in Washington City a higher position than any colored man has yet held by appointment. So firm the conviction anions: the has been masses of the colored people throughout the length and breadth of the land, that the President will do something of this sort, that a failure to do it would be one of the saddest disappointments to which the race has ever been subjected. Wo have never permitted ourselves to doubt that President Garfield will, in due time, give this expected and deserved recognition. Ho will not "shut the gates of honor," and thus dwarf, and blight the ambitions and aspirations of the race. In conversation with a gentleman, who stands very high in -political circles, the question of official recognition of colored people came up. "Well, now," he said, "tho colored people must educate and help themselves;" all of which is true. And is it not aUo true that tho educated dominant race should give the colored people every reasonable facility and encouragement to educate and help themselves? Tho greatest bar to the intellectual and moral advancement of the colored people, to-dayris their poverty, coupled with the infernal influence of color-prejudice, which practically excludes tho educated colored man from employment in nearly every line of business above that of servant or laborer. Official recognition is a means of securing money, and money is the most potent means of securing education, culture tho knowledge which enables one, properly, to help himself. Tho colored people are tho true and tried allies of the Republican party, and it is due to them that the men, elevated to office by their votes, should give them an equitable share of the official patronage at their disposal. By giving competent colored men honorable official recognition, aside from tho direct benefit to tho individuals, tho masses would be stimulated to greater exertion. Opportunity ie what wo ask. The best talent in the race should be given an opportunity to ihow what the race can do under vorable conditions. faPERSONALS. Senator Pendleton is said to be a frequent aller at the White House. By the way, Mr. Conkling, what was your majority in the Electoral College T IIa. Gladstone is going to take a sea voyago for Us health during the Easter recess. The New Haven Register says that Mary Anderson's kisses are forty degrees below zero. M. Shyer, of Indiana, was registered at the Grand Hotel, of Paris, on Saturday, April 2. The name of Gevernor Foster, of Ohio, Is mentioned in connection with the Berlin mission. Senator Davis, of Illinois, expects to spend a portion of the summer In Colorado and California. Yincennk, Vt, has a negro Sheriff, a French Mayor, two Indian policemen and a woman City Clerk. Governor Lono, of Massachusetts, has decided 4o offer General Devens the latter's old seat in the Supreme Court, made vacant by Judge Soule'i resignation. CHTEY CHicorra, who took part in the Fort Dade massacre, füll Uvea in the swamps of Southern Florida. He la a hale old savage of ninety

years. He dresses In the costume of hia forefathers, lives in rude style, doesn't do any work and is as happy as a Cabinet officer or the Czar of all the Russias. A Mr. Brass, of Indiana, Pa,, has the hammer which Captain Paul Jones used to nail the flag

to the mast. Miss Tennijc Mills, the affianced bride of Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune. Has a dower of Sl.500.000. The engagement of Rutheford B. Hayes, Jr., and Miss Alice Smith, daughter ol liu&m Henry Smith, of Chicago, is announced. Princess Pierre Bonaparte Is about to be come a nun. Since the marriage oi ner aon v Mile. Marie Blanc she has lived a most secluded life. The Itragedlan, John McCullough, was given a farewell dinner by kdmiriug friends in New York on Monday evening. Mr. McCullough goes to Eu rope shortly. Mrs. Johnson, of Baltimore, better known as Miss Harriet Lane, the beautiful niece of Presi dent Bnchanan, hat Just lost a most promising son, fifteen years of age. Ir all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present a loop-hole of escape; and. Rod be raised ! that loon-hole is larger than the dungeon itself. Heinrich Heine. The widow of John Brown Is a tall, slender woman of intelligent and benign countenance Of the twenty children of Johu Brown's two mar riages only eight are now living. A few days since Jay Oould was seen to look long aud earnestly at the moon through a tele scope and then turn awiy with a disconsolate sigh. A railroad track can cot be laid on air. Senator Miller, of Calif onda. has a full, bold forehead, crowned with dark hair. One eye he lost in battle, and the fame wound scarred his cheek, but spectacles, skillfully worn, nearly con ceal the wound. Mrs. Farragct, widow of the late Admiral, has accepted an invitation froi i the President and Mrs. Garfield to be a guest at the While nouse during the ceremonies attending the unveling of the Farragut statue. Mr. George I. Senet, of New York, has dou bled his gift of $25.000 to the Emory College, of Georgia, making the sum presented $50,000, and he has given S50.000 also to the Wesleyan Female College of the same State. What is that false old proverb about ministers, sons? At any rate, its falsity has again been demonstrated bv the erandson of the author of Paley's Theokgy, who has lately been discovered on horseback, with top boots, flannel shirt, som brero and belt knife, attending a cattle auction at Lamars, Iowa. Mr. A beam 9. Hewitt presided at a banquet In New York, the other evening, to Mr. S. G. Thorn as, the Englishman who revolutionized the steel industry bv his improvement on the Bessemer process. The banquet was attended by engineers. experts in chemistry and editors of technical and railway newspapers from all parts of the country Though formal receptions at Washington have been generally discontinued by the wives of Senators, several of them were "at home" to callers on Thursday. Mrs. Logan received friends in formallv with her usual cordiality. Her dress was of bleck Bilk, embroidered in colors. Mrs. Wirt Sykes, a guest of Mrs. Logan, wore a dress of black brocade with Jet trimmings. Senator aud Mrs. Logan will return to their home in Chicago about the 1st of May, and w ill be Joined by their daughter, Mrs. Pettin, who will spend some time with them. The new Czar, when his elder brother died and he became heir of the Empire, at first refused to marry Dagmar, the dead youth's betrothed. He loved a certain beautiful young Russla'h Princess, and wished to nake her his wife. Thia Princes, however, ?oon married Prince Paul DemldofT, and shortly after died at Vienna. Not until lie heard of her death aid Alexander consent to become the husband of Princess Dagmar. This marriage was thus one of reason: but the Czar nas learned to love his fair Danish wife and is the kindest and best of husbands and fathers. Mrs, Senator Hawley was assisted in receiving visitors at her late reception in Washington by her cousin, Mrs. Stamen, of Cincinnati. The parlors were fragrant with flowers and the windows were filled with pots of pink and white azaleas of exquisite tints. Tea was served in cups of rare china, of unique and beautiful shape. Among the callers frequently seen here is Madame Yoshida, wife of the Japanese Minister. This lady, though but a few years a resident of this country, has made such progress in our language that she speaks it quite fluently. Madame Yoshida is exceedingly fond of children, and is devoted to her own li tie ones, the youngest a boy named Ulysses Grant. Miss J ilia Ward Howe went to take tea with the Carlyles in 1M3, and says concerning her visit in the Critic: "Our host received us with a certain rough hospitality, and entertained us with a somewhat rambling conversation nntil tea was announced. The tea-table was very simple in its appointments. I remember among these two small glass saucers containing preserves of some sort, which Carlyle offered to us, saying: 'Perhaps you can eat these: I never eat that things myself.' His chief demand was, indeed, upon the teapot. The tea was very strong, and mostly or wholly green. Mr. Carlyle drant four cups oi mis, ana under its stimulating Influence began to pour forth a stream of brilliant and varied talk. The fire of his eye was remarkable, and to it corresponded a certain glow on his cheek, which seemed a brightness rather thau a color." Mrs. Blaise had been some years In Washington, says the Denver Inter-Ocean, before Mrs. , the wifo of a prominent Senator, called on her. At last Mrs. waa announced one day. As Mrs. Blaine entered her drnwing-room she noticed the colored cook slip out hurriedly from the reception-room where Mr. was waiting. This surprised her, but she said nothing. Next day, however, her cook left her to flud a place lu Mrs. 's kitchen. At a state dinner soon afterward given at the Executive Mansion, these ladles chanced to be placed with only a seat separating them at table. The gentleman sitting between them, noticing that Mrs. Blaine did net address a wcrd to his other neighbor, exclaimed: "Why, Mrs. Blaine, you know Mrs. Senator , do you not?" "No," was the answer, loud enough for all around to hear, "Mrs. called the other day at my house on my cook, and her card was handed to me by mistake. My cook returned the calL" RESUME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. Stock-raisers la the vicinity of Pierre, Dakota, are cursing over seveu Inches of new auow. Hon. S. T. Maglnnis died at Zanesville. O., suddenly on Saturday in his sixty-seventh year. At the bench show In San Francisco, no less than seventy-seven classes of dogs are on exhibition. The strike of the journeymon carpenters of Cincinnati resulted in the concession of &.25 per day by 125 builders. The mercantile failures in the United States for the first quarter of 1S81 were 1,986, against 1,391 for the corresponding period of 1880. The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas, the diamond thief, has been incarcerated in a castle belonging to his father,-for intrigues in his behalf. A coal firm In Cleveland lias sued two railroads running into that city, claiming 127,000 for freight discriminations in favor of other dealers. Tho French Minister of Finance states that the United States, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands agree upon a double standard. Advices from the winter wheat fields In Southern Wisconsin are to the effect that the crop will suffer a diminution of one-fourth to one-half by the storms. The Board of Health of Indianapolis has discovered that, under the guise of Michigan butter, large Quantities of oleomargarine are being received from Chicago. Five treaties and 2C5 nominations await action by the Senate. The President will not ask the Republicans to go into executive session until new officers are elected. Rev. Charles J. Ramsdell, a Presbyterian pastor at Washington, has beeu arraigned by the Presbytery for marrying a Catholic lady. The ceremony was performed in Chicago by Rev. Dr. Patton. After a delay of thirty-five hours, the West Division Railway Company, of Chicago, yjelded to the demands of its conductors and drivers for an increase of 20 per cent, in their pay and reinstatement of those discharged on account of the strike. A feature of the meeting of employes was a check for 5F2Ö from Edward Leo Brown, President of the Illinois Humane Association. With the remark that he had no more time to waste in Washington. Senator Fair paired with Jones, of Nevada, and left for the West. Teller, of Colorado, and Maxey, of Texas, are paired for

the remainder of the session, and have ahaken the dust of the Capital from their feet. David

Davis is threatening to return to Illinois. Neither Edmunds nor Garland will participate in the deadlock. Charles O'Brien, the owDer of several business blocks In Burlington, Iowa, and one of the most extensive gmLn-dealere In that state. shot himself dead in Ms bed-room, on t riday, alter dining quietly with his family. It was stated in the British House of Commons, on Thursday, that England will not discuss the quesuon oi bimetallism, ana, tnereiore, aeaincs to DarticiD&te in the Monetary conierence. but India will send a delegate. The Governor ol West Vireinia has pardoned Elihu Gregg, who was sentenced to the gallows for burning the Court House at Preston, in 1S69, and who absolutely refused to accept a commuta tion of his sentence to imprisonment lor me. Charles Harper, a messenger of the American Express Company on the Great Western Railway, disappeared at Detroit, on Friday, where he drowned himself while laboring under mental derangement" His body was found on Sunday. The Czar is said to have . celved from the Nihilist Committee an offer to lay down their arms in return for a Constitution and amnesty. It is alleged tnat another mine has been dis covered unter the entrance to the winter Palace. Dennis Martin, a young man who left his home at Rising Sun. Ind., six years ago, and caused letters to be written home to the effect that he was dead, came home Friday sick with dropsy, and died Saturday afternoon at his mother's residence. The will of the late Thomas Carlyle. In a para graph expressing strong feellnz and good will toward America, and especially New England, elves the books he used In writing the lives of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great to Har vard University. At the Almhouse, near Allentown, Pa., John Gyumber, a Hungarian, has slept for fifty-seven du yü. it not beinsr nosslble to walte him bv an elec tric shock or the tiring of a revolver.and he having to be fed wl h a spoon. On Monday ne recovered his full respiration and opened nia eyes. Eugene Smith, a young man trom Lebanon, 0., died ut Dayton, yesterday, from being struck with a brick falling from a tower ninety feet high. Smith was starting to afcend the tower, when a brick was accidentally knocked ott by some boys on tne top. sin King him ana crusnine nis skull. On board the Australia, which vessel arrived in New lork Saturday, were twenty stallions, Kent by Tattersall, of London, to his fiit-ud. William Kaston. of New York, to be sold at the American Horse Exchange. They are said to be of the bett blood la England, and several of them are winners in good races. The dead-lock continues in the United States Senate. It has been discovered that under rulo 65 of the Senate the President can send word to that body to meet bim in executive session, as he has an important communication to make to it. This summary method of ending the dead lock has been suggested to the Chief Magistrate, but he will not make haste to try it. STATE LEGISLATURE. The Senate Judiciary Committee has reported in favor of limiting regular sessions ofjthe Legislature to 100 days, and special sessions to thirty days ; also, that the Supreme Court shall consist ol not more man nine and not less man nve Judges, who shall hold otflco for six years. The most important measure so tar mat nas passed both Houses is a concurrent resolution favoring a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the aale or manufacture of Intoxicating liquors except for medicinal, mechanical or sacramental purposes. The House passed Mr. Kenner's bill for the col lection of municipal taxes ou stock owned in banks doing business In the State. Senator Wilson resigned the Chairmanship .of the Senate finance Committee. The Senate passed a proposed amendment to the Constitution, which had already passed the House, giving women the right to vote at all elections. The Senate passed a Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, making the terms of State oflicers to be four years, and limiting them to one term; also the same in regard to County officers. The House pasted a bill prohibiting the sale of poisonous drugs or medicines to persons under fourteen years of age; also a bill establishing a Bureau of Statistics for the collection and dissemination of facts concerning agriculture, einigra tlon, etc. The report of the Conference Committee on the general appropriation bill wat made on Monday. The most important concessions are that the House concur relalire to the expenses of the Governor's office: fixing the salary of the Adjutant General at fl,10O; appropriating $100 for the distribution of law reports and documents; appropriating $750 for the .State Auditor's expenses; that the House concur an to the State Librarian's expanses; that the House concur as to the salaries of Prosecuting Attorneys (makljg the salary $700); appropriating $5, 000 for repairs of the Legislative Hulls for the next General Assembly; that the House concur In increasing the maintenance appropriation of the Insane Hospital to 5245,000 and allowing f 13,000 for clothing, the Senate receding from its allowance for repairs; that the Senate recede fron its amendment relative to the State Normal School, and that the House concur in in creasing the House of Refuge appropriation to $-15,-000. 8enator Van Vorhis offered an amendment in the Senate on Monday that whoever shall knowingly sellf to any person or deliver to any cheese or butter manufactory any Litlk diluted with water, or in any way adulterated, or milk frjm which any cream has been taken, or milk commonly known as "skimmed mllit." or shall keep back any part of the milk known as "stripping' with intent to defraud, or shall knowingly t-ell milk from any diseased cow, or cow led upon the refuse of distilleries or breweries, or shall knowingly use any poisonous or deleterious material in the manufacture of cheese-or butter, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500. The amendment was adopted. IILOWX lO ATOMS. The Wind Storm In Mississippi Destroys Considerable Property and Kills Many. Cincinnati, April 13. The Times-Star special gives further particulars of the storm at Hernando, Miss., yesterday afternoon. The dwelling of Dr. Lauderdale and store of Johnson & Ltndsey were wrecked. Dr. Landerdale was fatally injured. His daughter and a Miss Dora were bally hurt. George Landers, a planter, was badly inInred. Several negioes were killed. Many louses in the track of the storm vere blown down, trees uprooted and the ground swept clear of herbage. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. MEMPnis. April 13. The Appeal's Hernando. Miss., special gives the following particulars of the tornado which devastated the country yesterday: "The cyclone did serioua damge, commencing a mile north of Hernando, struck Mr. Miles' steam gin and demolished it. carrying away the wagon, team, driver and concluded In landing them in a ditch half a mile distant. Hisbl.ckrmlth shop was carried some distance. Frank Howard's house was carried nearly lilty yards but not injured. L. Robertson's house was blown down. Jim nunter's cabin was next struck, killing Liza Evans and stunning two children, who have not spoken since. The house was torn to pieces and covered by falling trees. Dan Glover's cabin, on the samo place, was blown to pieces, feverely injuring Sim, his wife an killing one child. Glover is not expected to live. Mrs. Humphery's house was swept away and two persons wounded by falling timber. Bob Locklaud's house was al.o demolished. The tornado next blew down Johnston 4 Co.'s and 1. Lauderdale's stores, totally demolishing them, strewing goods for miles. "Dr. Lauderdale's residence was a! so raised from the ground, dangerously wounding the Doctor and his wife. Three hundred yards further on a negro cabin was swept away. Lauderdale's gin house was blowa down, and beyond that another cabin John Chamberlain's stable and out-houses were demolished. L. Glen'sdwelllng leveled and all the cabins on Will Johnson's place swept away Crossing Camp Creek bottom, the cyclone blew down Ben Harwell's house, instantJ killing him. His wife and child escaped unhnrt. The track of the tornado i about 100 yarns wide. Deputy Sheriff Sikt-s Johnston was caught and blown off his horse. Mr. Glenu says he saw a man in the air.and one or two are reported missing. Men were blown all over the fields like barrels, and nearly beat to death against the ground. Many farms were Utterly demolished. TRAVEL CHECKED. The Western Roads Submerged bj the Floods and Tronic Interfered With. Atchison, Kas., April 13. Trains of the Hannibal and St. Joseph. St. Joseph and Council Blnfls, and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Roads are submerged and rendered Impassable at a point about a mile east of this city, where they cross Mud Lake, a sort of bayou of the Missouri River. The Rock Is'and trains reach here by their Leavenworth branch to Beverly, and thence by the Council Bluffs Road from the South. The Chicago. Burlington and Quincy trains have been using the Atchison and Northern Road to Troy Junction, and thence by the St. Joseph and Denver Road east, At about 12:30 o'clock this morning the C, B. and Q. train met with a serious accident on the A. and N. Road about five miles north of this city. Itlelthere at midnight, the train being composed of an engine, baggage car aud one passenger coach. Shortly after crossing Independence Creek bridge, the track of the A. and N. Road runs close along the bide of the Missouri River, and on reaching this point the engine suddenly sank and waa burled out of Bight. The engineer. Wm. Bird: Fireman Harry Barton, and an A. and N. man named Abe Zimmerman, who was acting ' pilot, were carried down with it but managed to extricate themselves and swam ashore. The baggage car tumbled on top of the locomotive and was half buried. The passenger coach remained on the track. Two passengers Robert Frv, of St. Joseph, and A. T. Brockway, of New York were very slightly hurt- No other persons on tho train were injured. The Missouri Pacific Road between this city and Kansas City is submerged at several iolnts, and no trains are now running. The river is nearly twenty feet above low water mark, and Is at a stand still. A portion of the low land east of Atchinson Is submerged, but no Berious damage has yet been done. It would take a further rise of six feet to reach the level of the lowest portion of this city. .... .

CONTESTING COLLEGES.

Gathering of the Collegiate Talcut of Indiana. The Representatives of Asbury and tho State University Awarded the Honors. Indianapolis Sentinel. The seventh annual contest of the Inter state Collegiate Oratorical Association was held last night at English's Optra House The audience was one of the largest that has ever assembled in the Opera House, unless it was upon the occasion of the inauguration of Governor Porter. Many of the most prominent citizens of th e city and State were present. Most of the Colleges of the State were represented by members of their respective faculties. The following were the contestants and subjects upon which thev spoke, with the name of the college they represented Welcome address. Keply. . Music. "The Brotherhood of Nations". .E. L, Stevenson Franklin College. "The Triumphant Nation" J. M. McBroom ruraue university. Social Evolutlou" Alice Long Statu . University, "A Nation's Virtue" W. M. Floyd uutier university. "Evolution of Mind" H. L. Anderson Wabash College "The Philosophy of Scepticism" C. F. Coffin Asbury University. "The Gospel of Dirt"....'... C. A. Kelgwiu Hanover College. The following address of welcome was tie hvered by Attorney General D. P. Baldwin Indiana has a greater acreage ol orators than any State In the Union. During the lastteu mouths she has listeued to over 40.000 speechesThink of a State that can give her children, tb Indiana did for weeks last fail, over a thousand pieces of oratory per day, and many of them of consummate aoiiuy. ina average lioosier is nothing unless oratorical. Nothing in the past delights him so much as tne memories aud triumphs of the great orators of his State Mar shall, Dunn. Hannegaii and Smith. Of none of the living sons is he so proud as of those who have won fame by their voices. No name is booiteu upon his Hps as that of the great party Demos thenes of the West need I In this the city of his pride, aud where rest his great ashes, name the name of Oliver P. Morton 7 W hue Indiana easily leads me world in quan tlty, much remains to be done for the quality of her oratory. Here we must reform our reformers. And where else shall we comniene thau among our Colleges and our youth? Youth Is the port at which the ships of life are laden. The value of tne cargo eoends upon the character of the freight. A rainless April makes a harvestless June; an aimles and effortless youth makes a bar reu and impotent middle age. It was not the legislative halls of 177ü-'o that made the snlen did oratory of Patrick Henry, but the Virginia corn fields and school houses of 17lu-'50. It was not the forums and Senates of Washington that formed tne massive eloquence of Webster, but the little Court Houses among the New Hampshire hills, whew his youthful effort were made, and vnere nis great powers were trained. Asia had her seven Churches all bright and shining lights. Indiana lias her seven college?, each the center of her best life and culture. Euch of these Institutions has sent up here its 'jest orator to compete for the honor of the evening. It was only yesterday that Indiana shook off the dust of antiquity aud took the Initial steps to give her daughters an equal chance with her sons in the political held, in accordance with this spirit one of the seven orators of the evening is a ad ty, and will soon oe a 6wee; girl graduate, If the fortunes of war and the Judgment of our honored Jommiitee should award her the laurel. every one in this great audience will bid her "God speed" in the coming Inter-State contest. But 1 must not longer detain the audience. Ex pectation must give way to enjoyment. In the name of the great Hoosier State and '2,000,000 peo ple wnom you so worinny represent; in tne name of this busy city the industrial, social and political center of a great people: in the name of this great audience, representing the wealth, tho beauty and lasnion oi our metropolis; herein this magnificent Hall that has sv lately rung w itlt the divine notes of Gerster here midway be tweeii the rising walls of our noble State House ou the rigiit that for centuries to come will ring with high debate and the tow ers ai d business of our massive temple of 1 ustice on the left, that is the pride and boast of this fair city; here amid tnese streets, thronged with banks, Churches and temples of trade aud in dustry; hero under the shadow of the risiu monument vt Indiana's great War Governor, greet you and bid j-ou welcome. All hail! ye rising hopes oi our state. Welcome you ! All things youthful aud sweet Scatter spring blossoms uuior your feet Oratory is the clear, earnest thought, the simple yet weighty word, and, above all, the enthusiasm horn of truth and iron will that makes thought and word inspired. The audience is here: the oc casion is here; the Inspiration ishere. Now let youth assert and honor i'self and make memorable both occasion, audience and inspiration. Remember and honor your Colleges. Remember and honor yourselves. THE CONTESTANTS. The first speaker wa3 Mr. E. L. Stevenson. oi irankim college, whose subject was "The Brotherhood of NBtions." Mr. Ste venson had a very credible speech, which was well delivered, notwithstanding his youth. He lacked some few things to im press the audience very forcibly. The next speaker was Mr. J. M. McBroom, of Purdue Lniversity. Mr. McBroom was also quite young, but had a very good address upon the subnet, "The Triumphant Nation." Mr. McBroom did not seem to warm up, as it we e, until near the close of his speech. When about two-thirds through he did exceedingly, and had he done as well all through his address as he did near the close, he might have stood much better in the opinion of the minds of the judges. The next speaker was Miss Alice Long, who produced the greatest sensation of the evening. Judge Baldwin, in his address of welcome, referred to the wisdom lately shown by the Legislature in opening the avenues for women to enjoy equal rights with men in having a voice in shaping the destinies of the Republic. Miss Long's address was, in the opinion of the judge, the necond best, and awarded to her the second honor. We publish the ad dress of Miss Long in full. After she had finished, she was the recipient of rounds of applause aud showered with numerous bouquets of the most beautiful design. The next speaker was Mr. W. W. Flovd, of Butler L Diversity, whose subject was, "A Nation's Virtue " Mr. Floyd's speech was delivered in style 1 m . i becoming an orator oi years ana experience He was repeatedly interrupted by the most deafening appl iuse. His subject was one of much interest, clothed in the most btauti ful language, and delivered with remarkable grace and eff-e. His voice was clear, dis tinct and musical. He was followed by Mr. II. L. Anderson, of Wabash College, who had chosen for his subject, "Evolution of Mind." Mr. Anderson made a very favorable impression witn ine auaience. ms address was a good one, but had he not been so pre cise in his delivery, he would have shown to a better advantage in the eyes of the judges. Mr. Anderson was followed by Mr. Charles F. Coffin, of Asbury University, who was the successful competitor for the first prize. We publish Mr. Cothn's speech in full. The next and last epeakcr was Mr. C. A. Keigwin, of Hanover College. Mr. Keigwin, like Messrs. Stevenson and McBroom, was young and was evidently somewhat inexperienced in public sneaking. However, he did well, and is entitled to praise as xvell as all others. Mr. Keigwin, we learn, has worked his own way through College, and has earned every dollar that has went toward the payment of his College expenses. He adorned himself with no new broadcloth suit with which to make his debut before an audience made up of intellectual and cultured people of the first city of the State. He appeared upon his merits. The following were the Judges: Hon. A. W. Hendricks, Hon. George Y iTiedly, Hon. Robert S. Taylor, Prof. H. S. Tarbell and Hon. U. W. Harrington. The prizes were awarded to Mr. Coffin and Miss long. ADDRESS Or CHARLES f. COVFIN, whose Bubicct w&i 4The Philosophy of Scepticism:'' It has been Justly said that thr shadow of riches Is poverty, the shadow of power is slavery, the shadow of virtue is vice, and with equal justice it may oe saiu mat me Miaflow oi belief is scepticism. it is, Indevd, a melancholy fact that many of the world's most brilliant thinkers, and ablest logiciaus and philosophers, have bien sceptics. It la ever to be regretted that the colossal powers of such men as Hume. Mill, Spencer and the talented Ingersoll hayebcen lost to the cause of Christian tnith. It is my purpose on the present occasion not to defend scepticism, nor to rail at theology, but to examine, in a spirit of fairness, the relation Du

tweeu these two antlthetfc forces; to ascertain, if possible, whether they are in anv measure related as cause and effect; toluquire'whether faith is to be purchased only by paying the fearful price of scepticism. As a common ground "from which

to reason and to which refer," it will, perhaps, be admitted that law prevails iu me reaim oi minu uo less ttian in tne realm ot matter, and that mental phenomena, no less than physical, should be interpreted in the Hsrht of rational principles. For no general rha.e" of Human tnougbt, whether it relate to government, to puuosopuy, or to reunion, ever f prang spontaneously into being: but every current theorv ot State, every doctrine of modern philosophy, every leuet oi mooern ineoiogy, is me outcome ol tne slow and toilsome growth of ages. n oer meson oi lair America to-day a proud Reptihlicwavesherf5ag.it is because out of the terrible conflicts of the past, out of the tyrannies of despots and the rebellions f t the oppres-td. out of the decay of States and the disasters of revolutions, mere ras born and flourished In human consciousness the Idoa of RPlf-ttivprnment. If the philosophy of io-day is broad and deep and rational, it is s brc-tuse it is the ouinUssence of the yearuing8and the strucclines which siiue the dawn of history have impelled the human mind to search for the unknown. And. just so. 1 take it. is skepticism, the outgrowth of certain antece dent mental forces, which may be ascertained and classified, just as the forces which produced trie rrotestant Reformation, the French Revolution or the American Rebellion mar be ascertained and clarified. The demonstra'tlon of this involves a consideration of the law of human growth the method ol human progress. In this man ainers wiaeiy trom nature. lu nature there are no epochs, no conflicts between the conservative and the radical. She has no revolu tions, no reformations. The shuttle of her mighty loom moves incessantly to and fro; and no'v sne weaves a ruse, and now a lion, and now a man; but all Is qule , gradual, uniform. With man progress has been a ceaseless conflict between the radical tendency of thought and the conservative tendency of institutions, between the gradual uufolding of human consciousness aud the stubborn fixedness of the organic forms of civilization. Indeed, human progress is not unlike a voicanic eruption, ror a long while the open maothed mountain stands out against the skv. a ueau narmiesa mass oi rocic aud earth. ei, down in the subterranean caverns at iu base, the volcaulc hres roll and hiss and sputter, till at last. no longer aoie to becondned. they rush forth with uu2.mr abla fury. The skv is lirst redened witn flame, theu darkened with clouds of ashes rivers oi molten lava ioiir over the country devastating fields aud destroying cities &o numan mougnt, smotnered by oppression, goes on, dimly defined and unexpressed in the great biain of humanity, till by a co-Incident de velopment of like phssIous and feelings, like thought and tendencies, it breaks out ai d defiautiy laughn conservatism and tviannv to scorn Old instltudcns are swept away; old modes of thought discredited. The wluelsof the human chariot, deep in a rut, are lifted out and placed on a new ingnway. .etv reatious-are l rtued. bew institutions are created, and these in l urn become at once the conservators of past development and the barriers of futuie progiess till another crisis comes and another revolution solves the problem. -The human miud la so constituted that when compelled by external or arbitrary power to bide any exireme oi mougni, sooner or later it will es cape from the bonds of authority, and on the principle of the equality of action and reaction. ru.in to tne opposite extreme. What whs vol taire? ne was a reactlou. What vas David I.'ume? He was a reaction. What isRobert-Iu-geraoll? He is a reaction. These men. sceptics though they are and censure them as we mav. are nevertheless martyrs to the inexorable law of their own being and the irresistible laws of human progress. They are, to a great extent, created and destroyed by their own environment. And so long as progress shall be by revolutions, it will have its victims, its brutalities, itssocfal and intellectual ostracisms, its smoking stakes, its clank ing chains, lis times of hre and blood. It is In the light of human history and in the light of the psychological law of reaction thci skepticism is largely traceable to the antago nisin between mans religious con sciousness and his religious institutions: 1 may say. between the progressive tendency of the religious spirit which is in man and the conservative tendency of his theology. For while most of the great sciences have been studied with almott perfect freedom, and have been ojeu to perpetual revision, theology has, to a great extent, beeu studied in fetter3. The students ot the other sciences have sought facts, their use, their meaning, their law; they have acknowledged no preestablished standards, they have been bound by uo traditions, they have employed no Procrustean beds on which to torture ideas. Reluctant as we may be to admit it. so much can f-curcely be faid for theology as a science. It has frequently resisted all grow th and development of its creeds. The aim of the theologians has too often been not so much to express the highest, the freshest, and the purest religious thought of a particular age, as to formulate a system of meology which should be final to establish some external standard by Avhich theories of ethics and forms of doctrine could be tested as by some mechatiical prccess. The result is inevitable. Sooner or later a conflict arises betvteu thought and dogma. Doctrines are still avowed and defended which are so unsatisfactory to right ami reason and so far behind the development of man's religious nature that thinking men are repelled from the Church, and are led to criticise, to doubt, to deny. Therefore it is in this conflict between the conservative spirit of theology and the progressive tendency of religious thought, and also in the fear of the Church to allow the humau mind full sweep in Its investigations and iuquiries that we find the genesis, me philosophy, ludeed, ol -skepticism. Having diagnosed the disease, do we pronounce it fatal, or is there yet hope? Mum skepticism continue to be the skulking shadow of belief? continue to daiken the lives aud future anticipa tions ot so large a part or numauityr is it. and must it even be, as the great essayist has said, the very "Nemesis of Faith?" Or may we not expect to see this grim monster vanish befora the endurit.g light of truth? Listen to the answer borne ou the winds from all parts of the earth yes, there is hope. In the name of sturdy Germany there is hope. In the name of brilliant Franco there is hope. In the name of modern India, China and Japan there is hope. In the name of the God of Nations there is hope. but the remedy for scepticism must be based on the nature of lu cause. Tno Church roust abandon, as ste is already doing, the cherished id a of a final system of theology. So long as there is an undiscovered lact in the universe, so long a humau untere is subject to growth, so long as there are imperfections in the human mind, there can be no government vt man wholly by rule there c.n le no law which does not admit of k doubt in bs application: and concerning the Beyond, trif-re oar be no creed which precludes th" possibility f change, lu the march of the finite toward the Infinite, there can be no halting place till humanity "above thelow-hanging clouds, lite mountain peaks that look forever into the face of the clear, blue Heavens, aud gaze on the unsetting stars, shall look up Into the face of the Divine and dwell among principles that are eternal and unchangeable." Furthermore, the Church must throw wide open the doors of free inquiry. Nothing is more fatal to error aud more serviceable to truth than investigation.' And nothing so protects error and so hinders truth as the fear and suppression of Investigation. The brave meu who are willing to bear the pain of honest thought must often sacrifice their prejudices, hiii have great havoc made with their fondl -cherished illusions. Rut there cm be im permanent vnluo in a fal.-e position. Though a temple be buildcd as broad as the earth and as high as the Heavens, and though its vaulted dome glitter with all the w ealth of Onnus and of lud. vet if the foundations be in the sand, the external movements of the Divine floods will sometime undermine it and sweep it awy " The fatal mistake of the Roman Church was the su;tpressioi. of individual thought. It granted no freedom. It encouraged no liberty. It shut the Bible. It imprisoned the mind. It scowled upon invention an! discovery with a baleful aud malignant eye. And although the reformation broke the power of this absolute intellectual tryanuy, ard started the onward swell of a revolutionary wave which broke only when its turbulent waters kissed the peaceful shores of liberty-loving America, yet so thoroughly was the very atmosphere permeated with the spirit of iuto.erance that to the pr sent day there is more or less of a conflict between the men of science and the men of religion. Until this discordant element is cast out; until the free reading of the book of nature is accompanied by the free reading of the Book of God. the voice of the scoffer and the sceptic will not be hushed. America sunds in the front rank today, guarding the very outposts of religious freedorr, and with anxious vision she gazes toward the citadels of Europe, and with bated breath she asks: Watchman, what of the night? She can not mistake the answer: Lo! the morn appcareth. Christian are occupying the posts of the enemy. Christian men sweep the star-sown fields of space wi'h their telescopes, and know of a truth that "The Heavens declare the glory of God." Christian men with hammer and microscope explore the mysteries of the rocks and the wonders of the deep. The Church is beginning i to "prove all things." With an army of trained thinkers in her service with her Satzes, her Presonsees. Per Cocks and her Hopkibses she Is pushing her Investigations In every direction and into every province of thought. She is rapidly pushing her way up through the clouds of prejudice and superstition, through the mists of error and Ignorance, to the lofty heights of Christian scholaishlp, from which, with purified vision, she can sweep across the whole realm of thought and view things iu their true positions and right relations. As Savage says, she Is beginning to understand that "just as all life, whether it reveal itself in the vicious globule that palpitates in primeval seas or In the lichen that creeps over the rock," in the brain of a Newton or the imagination of a Praxitabs, has Its source iu the one creative God of the Universe: so all truth, whether It be in the Vedas ot Brahman, the Koran of Mohammed ot the Bible of the Christian, whether it be on the banks of the Ganges or the Jordan ; In the valley of the Tigris or the Nile, it. too.'is from God. When these grand conceptions shall be realized In human consciousness and they will be; when faith and reason shall join hands aud call upon the author of all truth to sanctify the uniou and they will do so then may we expect the progress ot man t) become like the development of nature. Revolutions will no longer call for the sacrifice of humau blood. If a dogma shall become absolute, or a Constitution fall to express the will of the people, change will no longer mean the marshaling of armies on the field of battle; It will no lunger mean the carnage of Austerlitx and Waterloo, of Bunker Hill and Yorktown. It will no longer mean the beheading of Charles I. or the assassination of Alexander II. : but the old will be merged Into the new as quietly as an arctio summer night j breaks into dawn. Religious institutions will grow 1

with the growth and expand with the expansion of man's moral and religious nature. Scept'cisni, robbed of the very soil In which to sow iu seed, speeter-like shall vanish away, ar d, by the side of tyranny, injolerauce a ud opi-res-sion.it shall lie down toils eternal doom "unwept, ur.honorcd aud unsung." The following is the A DRESS OF MISS ALICE LONO, whose subject was "Social Evolution." "Man. know thyself," was w ritten over the portahof Delphi. Lut from the day it was written it U doubtful if the full conception of this injunction has ever been grasped. Wan as an individual is not all of man. Man as a unit is much, but man as an aggregate is more. History gives us little or no insight into the vast

workings or the mass ol humanity that constitutes the aggregate of the Nations. Warriors. chieftains. Kings, Emperors and Czars till us pages. Hence, there still aeheres to us. like the garment of Nessus, a wondrous inan-woifhlp. Our ignorance of the soda! condition -f the pto pie governed is immense. No wonder so little advance has hither to been made in sociology. S-jctal organization, like the individuals out of w hich it Is composed, is brought into existent e and passed inrougn mi tne simitar stages or ehiluhood. youth, maturity and old age. Like the individ ual, ihe social organism must be unbuilt and rebuilt till it reaches a definite structure of completeness, but until it reaches this detii.ttiveness, its plasticity is such that it is lmpn ssed by the spirit that pervades it. In the Miemes there must be great generalization, but that liberalization may have ihe desired enlct In making science. Credible facts must be supplied. Facts, their relation and corelatious, constitute the elemeutary principles of a science which, if it docs not revolutionize, will charge the lines on which society at present mo es. litis change must of necessity be slow of grow th, since it must depend for its energy on such moral forces as truth, virtue, justice, temperance and humauity. In proportion as man has become more intelligent has society advanced. A sense cf morality and justice, higher than fonnetlr, already prevades all cla-ses ruler and ru ed. 'iheEu glish throne is no longer occupied bv one whose garments are stained with a brother's blood, w hose ears are rlaging w iih a sister's pleading. England needs no chronicler fave iter frow ning mns-ive tower to remind herofdukai d atrocious deeds. There the hnary bead w as bathed iu gore. There the innoc ent babe plucked f.-i.m it mother's loving arms, breathe ! out lis pure liie iu a tjtatit's cruel tlubruce. Still, there is room for progress. The Empress of India may boast that the sun never Sets on her dominions, and yet do not the ci ic8 and moans ff bei starving children ascend to Heaven? Ulunce at Dickens' penpicture of "Little Nell." Follow her by the side of the old man uiuil. worn out from cold and hunger, she falls pros ti ate at his feut; then cry: "O Kug'aiid, give heed to the tears of thy pauper childten." The oppressions of the people cau not longer last. The shi-ckles raui lall. Ma.iy art; the agencies. Fort most among these are writers for the million. They ate the great missionaries, who. with the aid of the loconiotite, teb graph and printing i ress, have cariied the gospel of rignt and liberty to the dovvu-t odden of all the earth. They have taught tho true philosophy, that the people must rule. Never was so much inquiry ; i. ever was so much commotion. The Irish tenantry will not longer submit to be taxed jeaily to a state f paur-erism. The dead Czar speaks volumes. Not Nihilism nor Coinmunbui Is to be learel. but the Wiaih, the vengeance of an aroused, an indignant people. Ttiis upheaval is but the sequence of a grow ing intelligence. It is but another proof of regular order in the succes-ion of events. What u grand conception that, while everything is undergoing change, and this change is a manifest evolution toward a higher state, all is governed by Immutable law. In what way look we that we do not observe this law ? Let us call for witness earth. Everchai.ging, restless world, will tl-ere never be oue moment's cessation iu thy onward, rapid m-dion? Echoing back comes the answer, "Never, since I am governed by e ernal, immutable law ever iu my onward rapid motion." When wilt tou, oh Nature, with all thy elemental atoms, cease thy ever never-enuiiig changing? uack echoing comes the answer: "Never. Since I, loo, am governed by laws eternal iu my ceaseless charging." Restless man! hen wilt thou cease thy aspPations, tliv pnili'itv-nr' Acrnifi ruin w ttio onci-r.p "Never." How can he, since everything around him is marching onward, upward toward the ureal .iernai7 ine law oi evolution, irom a lower to a higher form, seems to be the law of the Great Intelligent e, nor can man, either individually or as an aggregate, escape its operations. Placed upon the earth, he must fulfill his destlnv. Impelled bv the spark of mind immortal, he ascends the loftiest mountains, dives to the uttermost depths of the sea, descends to the innermost recesses of earth, where the sun's rays never reach. With the lightning, whose flash was once thought to be a d spl.y ol Jove's uncer, he has brought into communication the ends of the world. The laws that govern the social are no less immutable than those that govern the physical world. Vices will no more bring forth virtues than thistles w ill grow figs. The Upas w ill as soon give forth tne balm of health as inebriety will result in sobriety and temperate manhood. The mustard seed will as 6oon grow an oak as inherited imbecility will produce a Bacon or a New ton. Yet, we consider not Upon the laws that govern the universe cf matter have beeu expended the study, the energy of the human mind. Tiut lo the laws which govern society, which are fi aught more than all else in the universe with either the weal or woe of humanity, we have scarcely given a passing thought. Although all the grand achievements of the age iu art, iu literature, in science, ate the buds, the blossoms, the well line fruit borne on the social tree, individual, isolated humanity never cuuld have produced them Social evolution, as nerbert Spencer says, has attained its present status, ma by mankind' ascertaining correct principles and acting upon them, but by trying every possible way, and being forced finally to abandon the worst But the battle of reform is half won. when the errors of the past, the mailed foes of all true progress are discovered. When the thought, pervading every phase of the social structure is that man does not live wholly for himself, but that it 1 his duty to develop all his rtowcrs of body and of mind that he may be the better enabled to benfit his fellow, then will have commenced surely an era ot true aud unmistakable progress. This d.fs not demand the total ignoring of self. It is tl.is happy blending of the duties lu self aid others that is now emp.oying the be t thought of the day. When the common sentiment of mankind shall have reached this goal, the divergence between the thoughts of philosophers and theologians will cease. All w ill ie laboring in one common Held the ekvjtii.n t t man. I he new ph'.losophy w ill be, tue new theology w ill bi that earth mus't be made an cmlro Heaven, 'this demands that the line vi thought of society shall make a greater divergence from the sti er.-ntl m, the bigotry atd the barbarism of a more primitive existence. Almost suier-humaii energv will be required to free humanity from o.ie ol the worst aud most powerful of tyrants the Past. He wibes his edicts on the blank tablets of our infantile minds, stereotypes them in tur youth, and copyrights tilt in in our old age. llesats to the living present, clothed with modesty and truth. "Stand aside, thou usuri-er, intruder; dost itiou presume to set thy unhedged, thy immature conception against ihe wisdom of ages?'' Superstition and bigotry, histrmty counselors, have made the people believe mat everv lesiot holds his puw er by wiegruceof tied. Thcte nis rigorous txetui loners have celtigtd the tarth with human gore deptivtdtheeaahof its beauty and brightness, and made the pathway to Heaven not to consist iu goudne.-s. Virtue, charily and all the ennobling qualities of a higher und grander manhood and womanhood, but in a lue wasted wasted in ptndhing the body, making peucleutial otleiings lor some never committed sin. Ti e world must be itgenerated. Not thi material, ever-revolving orb of beauty, with its sunshine and flowers; its greensward and beau til ul landscapes; Its grand old continents: its majestic as.d billowy ocean; its beautiful lakes; us cascades and lofty mountains, with all their sublimity and grunoeur. This is i.,t the world that must be made better, but the human world. Notearth, but man is the sou:eetr all man's woes. Kurth and sky aud the whole universe bids him be happy; and why is he not? Tho philosophers. all me great thinkers arc bending every energy to the solution of this question. Viewed from every standpoint one Conclusion is inevitable, that the elements of evil or oi good exist in the units of society. Begeneration then consists in the purification, enliühtehinent and elevation of the individual, the unit. Hence, social evolution and iudividu.il evolution arc inseparable. Hat not the nineteenth century with all its ad vancemeut In every oiher department of science, brought man to a iosiihm that he will be enabled to study the phenomena, and lay the sure foundations of a paramount science, the science which stall raise humanity to that higher plane, which has been the aspiration, the boundless ambition of all the good and truly wise through all the ages? Of Homers ai.d Virgils we have hud full enough to lug the praises ot heroes and tf the gods. What is wanted is some Dal ton to reveal to us the true theory; to call us back to the atom, the unit ot society; some Coperulcles who 6hall Ehed new light upon the laws governing the movements of human worlds; some Galileo who shall add such new helps to our moral and mental vision that we shall be enabled to see social worlds as they are. For upon the enlargement of the moral and mental vision will depend the disposition, the ability to eliminate the faults of society. Then educate the people. Raise high the mental aud moral standard. Fer no matter how grcat.y society may suffer by some most visions and wide-spread evil, powerless as the Infantile arm will be any restraining legal enactment without an enlightened public opinion to sustain it Hence those who wish a brighter sun to dawn on the world of humanity mu6t learn to labor and be patient ; yet the men ana w omen w ho shall well and truly lay the foundation of the science, the noblest, ihe grandest the human mind ever conceived will have erected a monument more enduring than corroding brass; a monument that in the tlight of years will stand while the marble piled high in honor of warrior chief bains will have crumbled to dust The foundations of our republican Institutions are laid deep in our social structure. The rivulets are singing, the birds are caroling songs of liberty. Valley and bin. mouniaiu and wood are rever berating the strains. The rlt. ging of a thousand anvils, the clicking of a million shuttles, the smoke from a thousand furnaces are proclaiming freedom to a shackled world. Ameilca is not the home of Imperialism. At Yorktown the scepter passed once and forever from a sovereign King to a sovereign people. Then let us. by elevating our mental and moral standard, present to the world not only the model political structure, but such a social structure that Prisons and Alms Houses shall only be known as things of the past.

X OVJtJCENES AT A HALL. LadW-a lu the iiolv!n.Uooiii ot Qoinf Home X i ! I ?;ort)lnj. (Correspondence of tbt- New Y.ik Tribune. Florence, Italy, March 4. To the stranger in Italian society, a fashionable ball in this city of beauty and art presents many phases of social etiquette at once novel and picturesque. The invitation consists of an ordinary card, with "At Home" written or printed in one comer, with the hour, probably 9 or 10 o'clock. On the guest's arrival, even as late as 11 o'clwk, he is handed "No. 2," for his carriage. Ladies and gentlemen are alike ushered

into a great hall or antechamber, sometimes on the ground floor, spinet, me on the first, and are waited on by ihe same attendants, and the !l--ey ieiieate wraps of the ladies are raogttl beside the rougher garments of the sterner sex. There is seldom a mirror lefore which a belle can poe and exasperate her escort by detaining Lim in the draughts of the corridor to take the chances of catching a severe cold. Next, ascent is made ly an immensely wide, carpeted stairway, bordt red on cither side by a wall of blooming azalea and jajonica trees, such as are only seen elsewhere at the great balls in Paris, to the drawing-room door, where th ho-d and hostess are always in wailing to welcome thtir guest, who. on beine re ceived, pass along to explore the line of brilliantly-lighted salons before the crowd fills them, or seat themselves in a feminine row against the wall, to observe and criticise the guests as they arrive. Ice, syrup cakes and tea and :mdwicli-s arc dispensed irom u table or bulTet in the dining room until siipier is served by a throng of gayly-liveried lackeys, and refreshments are never expected to be furnished beyond the dining-room dxr. In some very large houses 1 have found ta many as a dozen small tables provided, besides one extending the entire length of the enormous dining-room, so that at least 100 guests were comfoitably seated at a time. A bottle of champagne i.s placed at each plate, as was the .custom at the Tuileries at those grand entertainments given by Najoleon III. A smoking-room is open'the entire evening, and us lunch frequented by ladies as gentlemen. When I first saw this it nearly took my breath away; I don't mean the smoke, which was dense, however; but I was appalled at a custom that has become too familiar in Kuril to create surprise except among strangers. One English lady of high social ratik even brought her cigarette out into the drawing-room, and pulled away among the dancers, entirely at ease and exciting no comment w hatever. The belles of France have great beauty and fascination, at-d certainly our own countrywomen and many of the" English are as much admired. Everybody seems to dress well, but the display of family jewels among the Italian aristocracy is something fabulous. They are always inherited by the eldest son, whote wile Las a particularly good time displaying them as long as she lives, and then, alas, they are to illumine the shoulders of the ever-dreaded daughter-in-law. After the supier and during cotiliou refreshments are asscd around and partaken of freely, and at 8 or later in the morning a hot breakfast refreshes the guests, w hose carriages have been ordered at 10, or iu some cases not until noon. I know an instance of a gentleman who left his wife at 1 o'clock to dance, went home to bed, and came back to breakfast with her at 9 o'clock on hot collee, chops, green ieas and other delicacies of the season. You will hardly realize such a taste of social excess, but it is an entirely true picture, and given me by the lady who herself gave the entertainment referred to. The women who give themselves up to this life of so-called pleasure night after night expect to sleep all day until tim to dress and lunch and dine, and make a few late calls just before a 7 o'clock dinner, after which they usually go to bed again to prepare for another midnight carousal. A married belle has usually five admirers who contract to dance w ith no one but herself, and her dancing steps are equally circumscribed. There are enough men, however, wh ite fet are free to fly around with the young maidens or othe'r married ladies who wish to give or receive only general attention. A reporter who attended a banquet concluded his description with the candid statement that "it T. not distinctly remembered by anybody present who made the last speech." 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! THE Indian Eotanis Physician LATH OF LONDON, ENGLAND, Th nfst snrcewfnl cntarrh, lung and throat doe ti-r iu America, is riniiirTit y hx-att-d at ihe cor ner vt Illinoi and I.uii'i-i trirtf, li-diaiiapoli Imlisim, w);rr li will MiiOje all Jim-, nl tell the cvmpUiut without aoking a si u nie q option e-CoDsnltation Free, in either German or English PKKM ASElf T CCRt A I Dr. Rtavi-M warrsnta a prnia-nt enr of th following dice st: Pilra aud tumort. Itching ani protrndii'g, cured tritt.. ut piu or Instrumenta; canctrt cured in all their form without the knife or sick- ( of tn patient. The Doctor baa rnr-d baa dredi of thia ireadfcl ranker of the human body, which hits bsfnVd the accumulated skill of ge. Iii remedies excel auytbiug kuowo to medical cletice. He dfi-t the world to brii g bim a caae when there U tuflii lent vitality to eastain the jtem, that he ran not cure. AnyiT'n wishing farther information or trratnient, kIiouII gite hin a call, fihenmatUm cured and warranted to atay cured in every case. All f irms of Itlotwl and Nbla Dlieaiei are Permnnenlly I'nrett ! Such as tetter, salt ihm tu. rrt-fuU or syphilitic sorrs, fietnre, eeminal weaktma or upermatcrboea, primary and pecoudary ) phi lis, gonorrhoea, or chronic Tf-nereal. kidney or urinary dUeasc of either sex, young oi vid. no matter bow bad. lie challenges a comparison with aiy phjsician In America In curing tliete diseases. Lota of manhood restored. The Doctor can ref-r to hundreds tbns affected whn credit their present existence to being curd by bim. All mok-e, Mrth-niarks and trickles removed. Also, all the various diseases of the te and ear. FOB THE LDIEK OXLYI A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to th grave, may, if ill, suffer iom one or more of the fol lowing diHesses. which ,the Doctor will positively core: Liver complaint, indigestion of the stomach, nervous weaknesses, lung dia-as, etc., prolapsus ot the vagina or womb, Irucorrboea or whites, aotveraion, retroversion, antiplexlon, retroplexion.t r ulceration of this organ, sick bradache, rheumatism and sciatic ;r.ins. Dropsy permanently currd in a short time without tapping. . Call or write to tt cfBe, cor. Illlsla anil lAuifiaua ireik( Itvillaaapejlla Indian. Prirate medical aid. All diseases of a secret natar speedily cured. If in trouble call or rius perfectly confidential. AKT CASE or Will? KT HABIT CCEIO IM TEN DAYS.

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