Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1881 — Page 1

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Senator Conkling, and tho withdrawal of their names is taken by the Senator and friends as an open declaration of war on the part of the administration. The President positively refuses to withdraw the nomination of .Robertson for Collector of Port of New York, and if he is rejected, it is understood, the President will fill the .New York offices with men who will not antagonize the administration in tho interest of Senator Conkling.

It is expected that Senator JBruce's name will be sent to the Senate, in a feways a First Assistant Postmaster General. No single act of the President would please a larger number of Republican voters. The elections last Tuesday throughout the state resulted generally in Republican success. Tho result in this city wa particularly gratifying. Tho entire Republican ticket being elected, including large majorities in both bodies of the Municipal Legislature. A bitter tight was made against Mr. (irubbs, for Mayor, by the circulation of reports that ho was opposed to the enforcement of the laws and the preservation of order in the city. Mr. Grubbs' friends, however, rallied to his support and he was elected by 500 majority of the combined Opposition of Democrats and boltin Republicans. We pre- ,. , , j, i , diet that Mr. (.rub us will not permit his adininirs ra iuli tole surpassed by any previous one in the honest administration of the lav.s and tho advancement of the int rest ot the city. Backed, as the Mayor will bo by a Republican Council and Board of Aldermen. Mayor Grubbs will keep Indianapolis in the front rack of American cities in the matters oi'good order and economic government. LirERARY. There was a very pleasant time at the 'Drop" last Monday night, and the large crowd of ladies and gentlemen assembled seemed to be filled with the spirit of the oc casion full and overflowing. A very pretty gem of the evening was the ballad, "Kiss me good-night mother," eung by Miss Dula Manson.in a very pleasing manner. The subject of discussion Resolved, ''that the pen is mightier than the sword," was handled in a epirited manner by Messrs. "Wood and Sweeney. But the crowning fea- I iura ui mo evening b gnjiucs nao tue 'ancient supper'' given in the lecture room of the Tabernacle by several of the lady friends of the Church, under the management of Miss Leah Smith, late 1 Cincinnati. And remembering it now, it was indeed an ancient affair, tho attendants arrayed in the costumes of a century ago seemed I quaint and odd enough, a picture living real and speaking ot our grandtathers days, Miss Smith, since her arrival in eur city, has made hosts of friends, and is proving herself a va'uable acquisition to Indianapolis society. The old time merry making festival which will be given by the friends and members of Jones' Tabernacle at the Second Baptist Church, on the evening of the 10th and 11th of May, Is looked forward to with I a great deal of sanguine anticipation by the I pieasurc-ioving uenizena vi mo vnoikvi, no 1 it has become generally known mat me Blackford stroet people do nothing by halves, The prevailing dress of the evening will be of "ye olden time," the gentlemen in kaeo pants and buckle shoes, and three-cornered ni t ana powaerea wig, wnwe me genue 1 . Tj V 1 A l ll . I miidens will appear in sky-scraping bonnits, bombazine frocks, snuff-box and work I ua just uiU'iaauiuucu ivi out u;c. uüo ose we will be there. The lady whose dress will be declared the most I ancient, will be presented a handsome rock : -v-r ii. ii - .1 r : -s---. - presents tho second night will consist of a valuable dress pattern and a cane. The person who selU the largest num tickets over tea will be presented' a silk dress pattern. It is unnecessary to remark that, as the prizes are all valuable, many and great efforts will be made to obtain them. The programme at t e "Drop next Monday night will consist of a lecitation by Major LewTs; ballad, "My heart is almost broken, by Miss 0. Jonnson, and a debate between Messrs. Hill and iarly. in E Child. Clara Shocked. Clara Belle has again been shocked. Poor creature. Her frail form will gradually suecuniD under these successive snocKs. uns time it is short stockings. But listen: "The other day I saw wonderful stocking in the hosiery department of one of the largest New York stores. They were dove-colored and em broidered in colors to match costumes. Their shortness was what struck me, for they were not lone enough to reach over the calf. I he lot was a fresh importation, and had not yet been exposed for sale. 'They are for hot weather wear.' said the man in charge, 'and are sure to take.' 'But how are they worn?' tasked: 'what keeps them upr ot an elastic, of course,' he replied, 'because no elastic would keep them up, they are so short. Here's the contrivance that does it,' and he showed me a very thin, narrow strip of metal with rounded ends. 'One of these is run down each side of the ankle, with one end in the shoe, and the other fastened to the top of the stocking, which, therefore, stays in its place through 110 visible agency.' And then?' 'That is all.' 'But what conft ÄfeWoi the thing.' In theory. this is merely intended for coolness; but, in prac tice. I am afraid that the girl who does not wish to disclose the complexion of her limbs will have to exercise eternal vigil ance. It hardly seems possible that such a fashion will be taken up; but I am not going to risk any money by betting on the ditfidence of American girls." And don't bet any on the modesty öf fashion writers, a dear. Nor yet on their veracity. For Clara you will get left if you do, Clara darling.

CINCINNATI NEWS.

HACK'S HAPPY II ITS. "ALFERNO" ON YOUTHFUL SOCIETY. That everlasting subject, '"society," is disturbing Cincinnati again. Correspondents and letter writers have labored vainly, and debating societies have discussed themselves cut of existence in a fruitless endeavor tc talk intelligently and successfully on 'society.' In a crowd often, from ten to fifteen different ideas of society exist. Since tho time of '"Dipugh" and his spirited article on Cincinnati society, thi3 topic has been treated in almost every imaginable phase, shape and form, yet it remains for "Alferno" to dig up the hatchet, put on war paint and declare war against the young ladies and gents of the Occidental Society on account of their youth and inexperience in the moral ways and means of social life. Taking as the bsis of his moralizings the exceptionally fine and elegant ball given by the young school girls' Pleasure Club, "Alferno" asserts that the parents "exhibit a lack of judgment wholly unwarranted and inexcusable' in permitting their oaughters to commingle in society with the young gentlemen of tho same age and set. He also states that it is demoralizing in the extreme to introduce voung school children into society composed of youth?, and with. out the controlling influeiiccs of older head-. 'Alferno'' seems to b laboring under the delusion that these your-: ladies and gentle men whom he terms school children, are but a few years removed from infancy. To the contrary the ages of the young ladies range from 14 to 17, and the gentlemen from 15 to 20. We agree with Allerno" in saying that the parents should bepiesent, and in fact young ladies speuld never get old enough to attend a ball without their parents attendance. Hence his advice in that direction would not be any moro applicable to this young society than to the society la U1UC1 111 Ulli- i? UUl Y9j H-1H--HIÜVI th t Alfern0 ig mwi an cid veteran of society, we feel like stepping aide and say-ir-g, ne cugtit to Know, uui ones ne us to understand that ne speaks irom per sonal experience? "Alterno" makes bold to predict the most direful and terrible results from the association of these young ladies with the young men who have Deen their frknds in childhood, and companions in and out of school. Assuredly this is a grave charge, and such an accusation that should not be made unless cause has been given or tacts incontrovertiDie in tneir nature and pointed in such directions. Such a prediction is to say the least ungenerous in tho extreme and leads one to wonder, that if "Alferno" speaks from experience whether he at any time contributed in any wav toward tho wreck of the society in which he started. To hurl upon the heads of these young men a veritable ''curse of Home" is in every way contrary to the rule of life and the duty of man to man. We are bound together by nature, mutual love is implanted in us and we have been made kindly affectioned toward each other, so that it should be more painful to presume to injure by word or deed than to be injured. "Alferno" should remember this verse: I'm human T t.Viinlr nn rithur man a stranger." Marcus Aurelius says in his meditations, "Rational creatures exist ior eacn ome s goou; ior wuicu reasou our first duty is to be philanthropic. The chief end of every rational creature is the social life." Are not those young men and ladies rational creatures? and is it not far better to think good of them rather than to predict evil? Alferno" states.that colored society should be based and divided as is white society, and yet he knows full well that such 13 impossible, lie also states that a young white lady is not introduced into society until 6he finishes her education, 'Alferno' is considerably wrong here. Among whites there are societies of young folks and societies of the same age and experience as this society of which he speaks, and there is the difference between the white and colored. The white voucg fellow meets his lady acquaintance at the gato or Eome corner, while the young colored man calls at me nouse oi nis young iauy acquaintance often findi ng' Allerno' or some of his friends there ahead of him. "Alferno" charges this younger set with conversation of 'love," and that they received the inspiration from gome deluding novel. We do not understfnd why Allerno" picks out this set . k. mm - 80 particularly for conversing on 'love" because "Alterno" knows lull well that there are no topics upon which Cincinnati ladies of all sets are so conversant as "love and beaux." There is no society of young ladies in Cincinnati who can talk about lit erature or art, and in consequence tho old stand-by, "love," comes in handily to pre vent a ''Quaker meeting. Alterno' must be unacquainted with the parents of many of these young ladies, or elso he would have recognized a goodly number of parents seated on the south side of the Kail that night. Alferno" seem3 opposed to the coing in so ciety of these young ladies, yet he and some of his set call on the&e young ladies. "Al ferno" professes to be opposed, yet he and others, though uninvited, presented them selves at the ball and enjoyed themselves I until early morn dancing with these self same young men and ladies. Ob, consis a i 1 lency, luy name, is vueruoi Hogan informs us that he proposes to fat up the basement under his present snop, and nave in were a pool parlor, ine carpen teis begin this week, and will put in a flooring and board up the sides nicely and a back cellar way will bo cut Mr. Ilogan also announces that he will es tablish a strictly temperance bar whereat no intoxicating nauor will be sold, lie ex pects to have tho room lilted up in a few weeks and his shop will bo then as it is now the boss place of town. Tho Cantata last night full account next week. The Anchor club it is rumored, will pile the agony on quite high at the Cantata full account of the ''agony' next week. The German will turn out without any "agony." Tho Occidental of course will show up as usual. No ' agony" here. John J. Jackson, Esq. and wife from Natchez, Miss, arrived in the city on Tuesday, per the steamer Charles Morgan. Big picnic at P ices' May 26th. The Zenubbabel Commar.dery are to giye it don't forget. A strawberry festival i3 announced before long. Yum yum strawberries and cream. Wo won't forget it. A GRAND FEAST. week the Cincinnati Next Lodge No. vi. ri . v. oi ! strawberry festival of the season i oon f KX r . r t f :11 hold tbo first They have secured tho commodious Iii

baruia Hall, corner Ninth and Plum street?,

for the evening of May the 10th, 11th and 12th. Professor D. Hamilton's well-known band will discourse some of its sweetest music for which it is famous, each day. Three elegant and useful prizes have been offered for ladies. Those desiring to contest for them will communicate with any of the following gentlemanly committee: G. W. Dcyle, J. S. Sandipher, A. Kemps, D. M. Hickman, at 144 Longworth street; D. T. Barclay and G. W. Sraus,at 326 Seventh street. Sweet Augustus and dear Charles, with their fair partners, after witnessing the drama of Freedom's Dawn on the Tenth, can come immediately across the street and be served with delicious cream and Delaaware strawberries. Humor has it that Mr. Chas. Bentley will shortly wed a handsome young lady of San .Francisco, Cal. buccess to you uentiey. We are to have Freedom's Dawn again on the 9th and 10th inst. Mr. Fielding entertained a few gentlemen riends in royal style last week. The bovs are anxious to know when the oily-hearted B. D. Bagby will visit our city Miss Susio King of New Richmond was n the city last week the guest of Wallace Colstin. Mi:s Rosa Bunch was home last week on a visit to her mother. N. J. Riggs, of tho Ohio Falls Express is making great preparations for a grand address to be delivered by him ia Louisville, on the 20th of this month. Miss Ella Wade, of Davton, Ohio, it vu-it-&g our citv this week. Mr. Theodore llackley was home in Chillicothe last week. Jt ff Myers is quite a favorite with all the rxs here. Miss Birdy Moreland will entertain Miss Gertrude Wells of Clermont county this week. ThegenialJ. Jackson and bride arrived rom the South. Frank D. Welch is playing sad havoc with several of the ladies hearts. Hogan will open a new billiard hall for tho b ys soon. The many friends of Mr. Sandy Batt will be pained to hear that he is still quite 111 0.1 IIIS UOUiC Oil VUUlt DUlCOk, We are to have a grand picnic on the 25th of this month. liumor has it that Charles Blackburn will soon join tLe list of merry Benedicts. The handsome George Reed is visiting Lexington this week. The genial and joval John Purnell will ake in the May Festival this month at Louisville. If you want to make Jeff Myers smile ask hiai how he likes Clifton. Fred D. Anderson celebrated his 21st. birthday last week. Mr. Lawrence tho Gentlemanly head waiter at the Burnett House leaves shortly to take charge of a house at Put in Bay. Frank Abner ia quite a toast with all the adies George II. Jackson, Louis D. Easton and W. B. Koss were elected Trustees ot the l "'Tl,: fr" ; AT vxnoruu urpu xxbjiuui -i-uaj SpringQeid, o. anniversary. I r.f AWwWorUv itvn . Anril 27. the many ' J r ' " friends of Mr. W. W. Spears, omWn1 at the family residence, 196 W. Jefferson St., in honor of the 81st birthday of that gentle man. We are not in possession of all the details, but we are informed that everything passed offquietly, and all enjoyed themselves hugely. Some valuable presents were made. Among the visitors from abroad was Mrs. F.O. Adams, of Indianapolis, da ighter of Mr. Spears. At a late hour the company departed, with many wishes for long life And Rucceg9 to the host and hostess the re mainder of their journey through life. In our letter last week, we gave an ac count of the death of two of Springfield s honored citizens. This week we find our selves under obligations to perform the same sad task: rincethat time, "Death" has visited us again, and laid cold hands upon another respected citizen or coror, in tne person oi "Wm. Williams. As much can be said of a - . . .,- n this man, as of the two we wrote about last week, had we space to give it. euthce it to sav that he was a Christian gentleman in -verv resnect. and an nonorea memoeroi 1 1 tho Masonic Order. lie was only ick about one week; died Thursday, 28; age 56 years; was born in Vermont, lho bereaved ones have the sympathy of the community. O. U. O. F. It seems that the boys have caught the fever at last, and are falling into tho ranks of this order at" a rapid rate. Six new members were initiated into the secrets of Solomon Temple Lodge, No. 1498, last Wednesday night, an we are reliably informed that four more will follow thi3 weeK Go it bojs while you're young. We believe there never was an age in the history of the world that has produced more wonders, or one in which more important discoveries have been made, than the 19th. century. Each day, as it is ushered into existence, brings with it its share of events, and wnen its usefulness is spent, and it is rolled into eternitv, we have left the traces of eome new and important discovery During this century manv great and won derful men havebeen brought into existence, and now we find the world populated, as never before, with an immense number of intellectual giants, each one controlling a certain poition of the minds of tho world, and among these there has been diversity of opinion upon all subjects that have arisen to command the attention of the world. To say that the questions of this kind have been many, would be putting it rather mild, but there has not been one question or "ism" that has received more attention than that of ' Spiritualism," -nor one upon which there has been more diversity ot opinion. But this ia an ago of wonders, and it is natural to expect that men go to sleep, and wake up and find that they have reached conclusions and beliefs toward which they have been rKluftantlv tending. Millions are born in to the world unheralded, and pass out un noticed, and are not remembered, but tho vriter has the peculiar good fortune to have been noticed, and was the subject of a touching obituary by the author of "Happy Hits," who, it seems, is another addition to the ranks of spiritualism. He ktpt hacküng) at his conscience until he had cut off all beliefs to tho contrary, and comes out like a little man in last week's 'Leader," and announces himself a firm believer in spiritualism. That accounts for the strangness of the announcement of our death. We are led to believe that the young man's mind

was entirely absorl ed upon the question that has agitated so many minds, and during the period of excitement, the idea of our death was originated, and though we have Eassed away, as "Hack" will have it, we are appy with the though that we yet live in the hearts of the ladies, and that they love us, because wo first loved them. Now, Hack, you have reached a wise conclusion. Don't you die until you have to; and live so that you will be remembered as I in the affections of the ladies. "While standing on the corner of Main and Market streets, Saturday Eve., the attention of "Jarius" was directed to a passing team, driven by one of our society belles. In tho rear of the wagon we saw a new gate. Now, "Viv", you're to heavy to swing on the gate; her pa is at some expense. You should atcne for it, by taking your little saw and hatchet around and hang it for him. Wonder what those three young men, who, on their way from S. School, stopped to throw stones at rats, would say if we should tell the girls about it. Jarius.

Terre Llaute ews. At the election last Tuesday tho Republi cans elected the mayor and five councilmen. The Democrats eleeted one councilan city clerk and marshal. The colored boys fought nobly at the polls last luesday. The colored vote is what gave the Re publicans control of the city affairs last Tuesday. James Finley and "William Matthus de serves great credit for their work in the Third Ward. When did lt. C. Greer discover America? When will people have sense enough to present questions for intelligent people to answer? Mr. George Hammon is too young to vote a pity too. Mrs. J. II. Lott is out again looking well. Where are the girls gono? We don't see any of them any more. Mr. Troy Torter, of Paris, was in th3 city last week. Miss Alice Riley was in the city this week. A. B. Arche 13 ther coming man on the police force. J. H Lott votes when nobody Eees him. The Literary society met last Friday n:ht 8nd hftd ft ood time It was rumored that Joshua Davis work ed for the Democrats last Tuesday. T. and J. Cleveland (O) Items. The first May party past off last Monday evening. A certain Reverend gentleman has been giving a course ot lectures at tne Alt. z.ion Congregational Church, during the last week. Look out for the Musical and Dramatic entertainment by tho Excelsior Band. A number of our prominent vocalists will take part in the Band Concert. It seems to bo a custom, a growing one, with those gentlemen at the several different Churches of our city to blow off a lot of unnecessary wind, and go through a numoer of actions, as if in a pantocaine when asking a collection irom tneir congregation. 1 have reterence tothe gentlemen who imme after th(j germong ri draw out the table and begin yelling and saying tunnyt l) things to the Congregation to get their monev. After the minister has spent his time in trying to impress tue people witn ' ir r u I..." A V BOiue one BOiemu inet, mcy gee up nun ujr their noise, unnecessary talk, etc., spoil what ever eflect the ministers sermon has had upon the people. There is no need of half the fuss they make and it is almost time that our Reverends begin to see this, for there is no doubt but that the Congrega tions have in the most part. The 'Leader' was lata last week. Things are quiet this week. There Seems to be rumor of another weding. PERSONALS. "Willie Green (the female impersonator) left for his home, Detroit, to-day. Robert Sampson, of Jacksonville, Fla., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. J. Ricks, his sister. Mr. M. Ormes, of Warren, O , is also in the city. Miss Uattie Morris, of Cedar avenue, is again able to be around, after several weeks of sickness. Miss Cornelia Simmons and Mrs. Laura Campbell have returned from their trip to Mantua, U. Mr. B. Simmons, of Newton street, is im proving. Deputy Sheriff Robert Fowler and sister, Miss Maria, have returned from their trip to Elyria, well pleased. Non Nolo. Circumvented. A Quincv druggist was sitting beside the base-burner in his store, staring at the rows of bottles on the shelves, and wondering why people don t take more medicine, when the door softly opened and an eight-year-old urchin walked in. alking up to the com pounder of prescriptions, he said: "Mister, am t there some kind ot stun that you kin rub on that 11 make a fellow s skin as tough as an elephant's?" The druggist looked the boy over, and re plied : "Yes. the on ot tannin will Harden tne skin, if that's what you mean." "That s the trick I'm playm' fer exactly. Gimme ten cents' worth." While putting it tip the druggist asked: "What do you want to harden your hands for? Going to the country to work "Work nothin', an' my ban's is as tuff as rawhide now. I'm just a working up a. little scheme to circumvent the old woman's slipper. I tried a layer o' old leather, but she tumbled to my little game at the f'rst interview, an' when I fell back on a folded npw?n.iner she heard it cracklin' afore she cnt i on her knee: but if this here stulf does its dutv. I think I've got the bulge on her, right from the word go. How long does it take such ile as this to put on a pad thick enough to knock the fire out of an average snankin'?" When the desired information was given him. lie trotted off down the street singing: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." George Rooke, one of the founders of Irish Quakerism, while riding to Limerick, to woo a fair wido, fell in with another rider, bent on the same errand. His emotions on learning that he had a rival were euch 'that one after another the buttons of his waistcoat burst open." Though he lost his buttons, it is satisfactory to know that he won his bride. Quaker love affairs have given rise to manv amusing stories. Thus a wellknown gentleman of the past generation addressed an heiress on behalf of his friend: 'Friend J. II.,'' said the pretty and wealthy Quakeress, "thv friend has no chance, but if thee ask for theeself theemight." The hint" was gladly taken.

RAILROAD FLIRTATION.

An Order on the Hudson River and Harlem Lines AVIth Which Brakemen are Dissatisfied. New Yoik Herald. Flirting with the girls is one of the oldest privileges enjoyed by railroad brakemen. It is distinctively understood on the lines of all railroads that'the throwing of kisses, the waving of handkerchiefs and the raising of caps from bushy heads are duties which every brakeman understanding the regulations laid down for his guidance by common consent most faithfully performs on every convenient occasion. And if there be no convenient occasion he makes one and flirts aDyhow with every young woman who happens to look at a passing train. The young woman living contiguous to a railroad must, indeed, be differently constituted from the rest of her sisters if she does not readily yield to the blandishments cf the persistent brakeman, who, having studied the art of flirtation, can run the gamut of signs and motions quickly and artistically. From long practice and pleasant memories of success the brakeman scarcely ever fails to attract the attention of every young woman who comes as a stranger, to reside at any point along the line of road. As the flirtation progresses the young eirl, at first coy and bashful and her face burning with blushes, becomes bolder and flirts harder. Sho instils more energy into her arm when she waves her hat or her handkerchief and her face is beaming with smiles whenever the brakeman passes, and she makes it a part of her daily duties to be in sight about the time the train is due. At length the girl becomes well enough acquainted to speak to the brakeman when she eees him, and when she gets on his train his time is sorely taxed between keeping up a running conversation with her and keeping a sharp lookout for the rest of the girls along the road who expect " recognition. Notwithstanding the fact that flirtation is a time-honored custom, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company's officers have issued orders that hereafter brakemen shall not flirt or enter into conversation with any women or girls while on their trains. This rule also applies to the Harlem Division. The brakemen feel annoyed and indignant that they are singled out, and that the more aristocratic cond actor is exempt. The order has not been the means of more firmly connecting the bonds of unity and confidence between the brakemen and the conductors, in favor of whom tho officers seem inclined to discriminate. The brakemen insist, with a great deal of logic, that flirting must now become a monopoly with the conductor, whereas, under the workings of the old system, the competition was often exciting and interesting, esecially on the Harlem Railroad, where goodooking brakemen run with conductors for whom nature has not done much classical facial duty. The natural advantages of conductors over brakemen for tete-a-tetes on trains where brakemen are suppressed by general orders are regarded with' anxiety and suspicion by the brakemen. They have a suspicion that the conductors who have been compelled to compete with the brakemen. ofttimes to their chagrin, in favor with lady passengers, have been guilty of lobbying the order through. They think here are only three or four conductors on the Harlem Division, and three or four on the Hudson River, who dare stand on their physiognomical merits with the younger and more charmingly polite brakemen. The brakemen have no such desire to monopoize the smiles and good opinions of the la dies as the conductors appear to be possessed of, and if their more fortunate superi ors are not able to cope with them in - the business which belongs to railroading, the conductors ought not to take a sly advant age of them, but be manly and acknowledge their shortcomings. FROM THE BRAKEMEN'S STANDPOINT, The views of several brakemen have been obtained bv the reporter, and they are so strictly homogenous that the opinion of one will suffice for the fraternity. V hen asked what he thought of the order, the brakeman, a good-looking, ' curly-haired, blueeyed young fellow, who has been on the S i t-v - n 1 a iiariem uivison ior nve or six years, repuea with much warmth, "I think we can tand it, but it will be pretty difficult to see the conductor and the engineer, and even the baggageman and fireman, carrying on a business that belongs by right of discovery to the brakeman. You see some of the conductors are getting old and ugly, and some of them were ugly before they got old. They always try to control the flirting mar ket and run the 'buzzing' business on tne trains; but the young women like to be noticed by young men better than by old ones, even if they have gold bands around their cap?, and when the young women show a preference for us brakemen it upsets the conductors, and I know they have contplained about brakemen flirting. I wish you would just watch those old fellows and 6ee how gallant they are It would do you good to see them help a young lady on and off the train, and drop mechanically into a seat beside a pretty woman between stations. We are not allowed to do it now, and this gives conductors an entire monopoly." "How do you think the young women will receive the news?" inquired the repor"Not kindly. They like flirting as weil as we do, and they will continue to flirt. They won't mind the order. They will flirt with us if we don't with them. They understand pretty well who is responsible for the order, and I'll bet vou the conductors won't make anything by it. We are not loafers nor boors because we are brakemen. Some of us know how to be civil and gentlemanly to everybody men and old and homely women as well as pretty ones and that is an acquirement some of the conductors do not and never will possess, and and it seems pretty hard that we should all be branded as a lot of social brigands, while the men who wear finer clothes and receive better pay are allowed to have full sweep from the baggage car door on every window full of young women. It isn't fair, hut we. can t 'kick.' If we do wc get 'fired.' A conductor who was interrogated on the subject looked whimsically at the reporter, and replied that he never flirted first. ''It is not necessary. There- are plenty of foolish young women always ready to begin the business if you give them the least opportunity,'' he replied. "We have no notion of interfering with brakemen, but I tell you this flirting business became a nuisance. They had too many girls." "Suppose the order had included conductors as well as brakemen?" the reporter inquired. "We don't flirt. It is the women that flirt, and no order will stop them." 'You are spoken of by the brakemen as monopolists in the business," the reporter suggested. " Th at isn't true. -The engineer is the man He gets the first flirt always, and sometimes it ia difficult to tell for a long time whether

eso.ee WORTUi P 2) AXDP TO BE SOLD IN THE NEXT THIRTY DATS AT THIS CENTRAL lunn 43 IV. Illinois t. the girls are flirting with him or the conductor, but we have the advantage all the time, for when one of the flirters gets on the train, it is easy to seo who they have been flirting with, "if it i3 the conductor she will smile as she hands him her ticket, and ask some foolish question or make some common-place remark which will bring on a conversation. If the conductor is not the man, she will look black as a thunder-cloud when you take up tho ticket. No, sir; the women do all the flirting with the conductors. I think the order is a good one, for flirting on trains doesn't look well. I don't know how to explain it, but young women are continually courting the acquaintance of railroad men. "Why do they court them?" I dont know," 6aid the conductor. "If they were wise they would lei them jdone. A railroad man is not the proper person to make a woman happy when she mar ries him. He is away Irom home so much that he don't care anything about it; and be sides that, he is very apt to be impecunious in these days of gates and ticket offices." Heredity or lteauty. Cor nh ill Magazine. Mr. Darwin believes that the general beauty of the English upper class, and especially that of the titled aristocracy, U probably due to their constant selection of the most beautiful women of all classes (peerese8, actresses, or wealthy burgeoise) as wives, through an immense number of generations. The regular features and complexions of the mothers are naturally handed down by heridity to their descencents. Similarly, it would seem that we must account for the high average of personal beauty among the ancient Greeks and modern Italians by the high average of general taste, the strong love of the beautiful diffused among all classes in both those races. The prettier women and the handsomer men would stand a better chance of marrying, other things equal, and of handing down their refined type and figure to their children. If this be so the evolutionieet at least, can hardly doubt it then we should expect everywhere to find the general level of personal besuty highest where there was the widest diffusion ot aesthetic taste. Now, our own -squalid poor are noticeable, as a rule, for their absolute and repulsive ugliness, even when compired with those of European countries. Gaunt, hard-faced women, low-browed, bull-dog-looking men, shapeless children, people the back slums of our manufacturing towns. Their painful ugliness can not all bo due to their physical circumstances alone for the lazzaroni who hang about the streets of Naples must lead lives of about equal hardship and discomfort vet many of them, both men and women, are beautiful enough to sit as models for a Leonardo. On the other band, every traveler speaks of the beauty and gracefulness displayed by the young and old among the a?sthet:c 'Polynesians; while in in many like cases I note that Europeans who have once become accustomed to the local type, find decidedly pretty faces ex. tremelv common in teveral tavace races whose primitive works of art show them in other ways to possess considerable a?;thetic taste. In India, whose artistic taste is universal, almost every man or woman is handsome. On the whole, it seems fairly proved that the average personal beauty everywhere corresponds to the average general love of beauty in the abstract. Eloping With a 500,000 Itride. Miss Jessie Kimball, daughter of Sarah M. Kimball, a wealthy widow residing in Cleveland, O., was married in Detroit on Saturday last to Will H. Hayes. The bride will be eighteen years of age on Saturday next, and on that day will come into issesionof $öü0,000 left her by her father. The mother is in Europe, and Miss Jessie has been keeping house with only servants fr companions. Some days ago she went to Detroit to visit friends. On Thursday of last week Mr. Hayes followed. Saturday forenoon the young couple started out from her friends, residence ostensibly for a ride. Refore they returned, however, they visited Rev. Mr. Bayley's residence, taking advantage ot the Michigan marriage laws, which require no license, and were married. They returned in time for dinner and later in the day left for Cleveland, saying nothing about what had occurred. Mr. Hayea bad been paj'ing attention to Miss Kimball for a year past, but the marriage was decided upon the impulse of the moment. -The bride has sttent several years in Paris and London, ana has acquired by her travel and studj a variety of accomplishments that have made her a leader in society. The groom, who is also a minor, is a popular young gentleman, and is holding a good position in his father's employ.

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