Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1881 — Page 3

BEAR UP, L.ITTL.K W03IAN. J. R. G. PITKI5, OF LOUISIANA. Bear up, little woman. In your vigils we share; 'twas the crime of a Cain; But his Bwift, wanton bullet stung more when it sped Than the man who undaunted lies srJttenwith pain; The soft arm of a Nation steals under hia head ! Bear up. little woman. Ah, the Nation recalls when, in grief and in wraih, he strode forth with her brand thro' stern, valorous hates.

'Mid what pallors and stains that were strewn in her rit Ti ller best lilliea and roses she burst thro' her gates! Bear up. little woman. For the Nation is tender, if iron her fists. And dismisses her feuds at the Nerth or the South While for you and for yours in her 'eyes linger mists: A new smile broadens oat the thin lines of her mou th ! Bear un. little woman. From her distatF wierd Clotho extended her hands. - To the wrists of her sisters, who falter and wait While she fast spins anew: and the uttermost lands Lift their brows and rejoice for his country and mate! Bear up, little woman. What was Portia to Brutus are you unto him To ennoble and bless him, the first boon and best And a bent Nation whispers, with wroth eyes grown dim, 'He came forth from my chair to recline on ray breast! Bear up, little woman. In your burden-worn heart yearns a prayer that in onrs Quickens kinship, tlivtains the old rheums of a State, Aiid dares hope, as glad answer dawns thro' the dark hours. Tnat a bullet has pointed the last line of hate! Inter-Ocean. "FOItEVER OUTSIDE. Bow Vivian Discovered the Light of II U Life. "What a melancholy looking face!'' involuntarily exclaimed Clare Meredith to herself, as sho sat in a far corner of tho great drawing room, watching the guests as they flitted to and fro, and more particularly ene, a tall, finely proportioned man of some five-and -thirty years of age, with clean cut features and thoroughbred air, but an indefinable expressionof unrest upon hin that face attracted Clare's sympathy. He certainly was handsome of fino physique, with a pale complexion, and dark. thoughtful, brawn eyes, full of refinement and intelligence, and closelv cut brown hair that showed the intellectual sbapo of his head. Ilandsome, undoubtedly Clare could see that for herself; and Constance Petronel had told her he was very rich, very much admired, a great catch; yet every one pitied him. It was incomprehensible to Clare how, being handsome and wealthy, it was possible for Vivian Kilgour to be an object of pity l and looking half wondering! v, halt shyly at him as he walked down the long drawing room, "bowing here and there, she wondered the more. Herself, Clare Meredith, was one of the gayest little spirits that ever lived, and her blue eyes were forever dancing with mischief; her sweet, fair face always alight with the pure happiness that comes from perfect health, a clear conscience, and a cheerful temperament, while her laugh well, it was like all the enchanting sounds you chose to compare it to a purlin e moun tain stream, the chime of silver bells, concentrated, idealized music. She was pretty, loo, in a dainty, girlish way, with her shining white teeth behind the ripe, rarest month, with a ekin all cream and roseate hues and a perfect wilderness of yellow gold hair brushed off her wide forehead, and braided down her back, wit.i the ends all a curl for a quarter of a yard. Foor as a Church mouse, for she was the the eldest daughter of a large family, but happy and content for all her luck of wealth, busy fr jm 8 in the morning until G at night; patient, sunny hearted, grateful that she was succeedtng so grandly, paying all her exrjensea. dressing nicelv. atfordincr a few luxuries occasionally, and laying by a little money every year. The Petronels were old time friends, and Clare had always a welcome in the big oldfashioned house, where the aristocratic visitors elevated their noses at the pretty little obscure farmer's daughter, and the gentlemen put themselves quite out of the way for a smile and a gay careless nod from the beautiful golden head, as classic as a Grecian goddess. But Clare never cared a whit more for the masculine admiration than the feminine snubs, and went on her quiet way, sometimes spending her evenings in the grand drawing room, at others feeling perfectly content to sit and read, or sew, or chat in Constance's private sitting room, up stairs the cosiest room in the great big house, with a flowery and viney bay window, where a canary bird sang, and an upright piano and a cottage organ, and a plenty of pictures and cosy chairs. And Vivian Kilgour was te be pitied? Clare could not, somehow, reconcile herself to that; and she was so inquisitve on the subject that she spoke of it to Constance. 4I can not understand why Mr. Kilgour b to be pitied, Connie. He has everything a reasonable creature should want. What do you mean?" "Just exactly what I said, my dear Mr. Kilgour is all you say, and there are scores f young ladies continually angling for him. But haven't you noticed how quiet, and dull, and unhappy he always is?" .Clare's eyes looked thoughtful. "Yes. I know he is quiet and reserved; but "Well, that is just it. He U of a melancholy almost moody disposition, and I know he is just as unhappy as he can be. Now you know why people pity him.r A little flush of indignation was in Clare's blue eyes. "The ideal Pity a man who permits himself such unmanly indulgence as 'moods.' Indeed, I shall waste no sympathy on him. The trouble is, Mr. Kilgour is rich enough to be lazy and consequently dyspeptic and morbid I've no patience with a man who will make himsef unhappy for lo earthly reason. And Vivian Kilgour, passing through the hall, heard the burst of girlish laughter that followed Clare's protect, and involontarijy paused to listen. What a glow of happiness and exhilaration that girl must feel, to laugh like that. It is tonic in its effect on me. I wonder if it is that little Miss Meredith?" And he turned about and deliberately knocked at the door of Constance's sitting room. "May I come in? You have no idea how onely it is for a poor fellow down stairs.'' And Constance gladly invited hirn in, and Clare sang and played for him, and It was beginning to be a very pleasant -time in man a hie and, he told Mrs. ret ronel, one day, that a sight of Clare's face -when she laughed, a id the rich music of the laugh, were enough t dissipate the gathered doom oi a li retime. And, somehow Clare came to understand that it was given her to dispel some of the shadows of Vivian Kilgour's life, and. with out knowing, or asking, or even feeling curiositv to know, she did him all the little womanly kindnesses that came in her way 'I want to show you something. Con stance said to her one evening, just between riavli?ht and dark. "Mr. Kilgour has eone away for a couple of days und he asked we to see that his rooms were comfortable for an artist friend, who will be here to-night to look over some portfolios. And I want you to go with me while I show you some of his sketches. They are quite lovely." Thev were indeed worth looking at, and although Clare hesitated about going in, she

was enthusiastic over the contents of the well-filled portfolios. "It doesn't saem lo be quite the thing for me to be here," she said, half laughingly, half deprecatingly; "although I can not give any sensible reason why." Constance frowned in mock reproof. "Nonsense, I want you to see this Vivian paiuted it himself and showed it to mother and me one day. He said it expressed his life as words never could do.' Clare went up to the easel and with grave, thoughful face looked at the expression thereon the expression of Vivian Kilgour's

life. And her girl's heart throbbed with sud den pitv for him, as she saw the dull, chill ing landscape, the sere, sunless, late autumn day, the leafless branches of the trees sway ing in the east wind, a solitary mm away up against the dun sky, a little desolate lonelv hut on the edge of a sullen stream and in one window a light gleaming bright ly the one bit of color in the picturewhile outside was the picture of a traveler, his cloak wrapped about him, looking at the glow a3 he passed by. It was labelled "Forever outside'and Con stance's voice quivered a little unwontedly as she looked upon it and spoke: "Don't you pity him now, a little, Clare? He said to mother that he was go miserable, so unhappy, always 'outside' of that which seems to make other people's happiness." Clare's lip quivered. ''Oh, Connie, I am f sorry I ever thought .him moody! There is gloom and wretched ness in every feature of that heart exprec eion ot his it it is not translated ironi my standpoint. Hut pee here, let me show you what I see in it. The cloudy windy day outsido the shadow; the traveler outside; but inside. Connie, at home, I translate that light to be a welcome, a smile, loving arms, loving kisses, and he need not stay outside, you Know. Clare hai not been looking at Miss Petronel. She had not seen the sudden flush come over her face, the look of surprise, tho swift, silent signal made to her, or Clare would have observed her silent departure. But the next moment she did know that Vivian was beside her, with his handiome face eager and passionate. ""Little Clare sav that again that I need not stay outside. Mv little love, my little angel, bid me come into the sunlight, tbo glory of your lovo. 1 have always been 'outside' all my life. It has made mo dull, morose, melancholy, l never had a homer mv mother I tan not remember. Take m ; lako meto vour love, mv darling! I want you I want you so! I love, dear, and you will? Look at me Sunny-eyes, and I can see my answer in tbem." And she slowly lifted her pure, 6weet eyes, that held his Heaven for Vivian Kilgour. In Park Row there is one especial house, luxurious and elegant from roof to basement, and in it Clare's heartsome laugh is often heard the sweetest music, her adoring husband says in all the world. His gloom, and cheerlessness, and loneliness are forever exercised now, and his happy, sweet tempered, hopeful little wife did it, and in the splendid drawing-room, conspicuous by it3 position, hangs a little picture, "Forever outside," and although very few people know its story, yet almost any day you may see Vivian standing before it with a look in his face that is hushed, solemn, yet rapturously luminous; for he knows and Clare knows that the shadows have all departed since she came to be the light of his life. The Solemn Bore. The solemn bore is unlike the confidential bore in that he never winks, nor punches you in the ribs, neither does he punish you with a recital of the current scandal of the neighborhood. The solemn bore's chief characteristics are dignity, a monotonous voice, and statistics. He usually carries a walking stick and abounds in large feet. He invariably suffers from some disease that has puzzled all the doctors, and that he is very proud of, although he pretends to consider it a great affliction. He never tires of describing the symptoms of the disease and his manner of applying his favorite remedy. He does everything by rule, and he boasts of it. When he undresses he folds hi3 trousers, and lays a brick on them to prevent them from bagging at the knees. It takes him half an hour to explain the process, but he never grudges the time. One of the solemn bore's strong points is proverbs, of the "early to bed early to rise" brand, and he belives, and reiterates his belief, that the whole human family is going rapidly down to an early grave because it will not use Graham bread for breakfast, and refrain from the use of ice water at dinner. But it is in statistics he shines. He rolls such words and phrases as one per cent., per capita, like ratio, acreage, etc., like a sweet morsel under his tongue, and he is prepared to tell how many gallons of whiskv. per capita, is consumed in the United States, and how many loaves of bread the money wasted in whisky would furnish to the starving poor, or how many copies of the Bible it would send to the benighted heathen in foreign lands. At a moment s notice he can give you the voting population of every State in the h nion, and tell the majority that elected Governor of the State since years before he was born, and when he comes to exports and imports, and gets talking of ''bullion," and 'bar iron," and ' breadstuffs," be is tho personification of addition, subtraction, the rule of three, and vulgar fractions; and that is about the time you begin to wish you had never been born. The solemn bore speaks in a slow and ponderous way and pays very little atten tion to what you sav: in fact, he prefers to do most of the talking himself. He speaks of the good old times, and compares them with these degenerate days, and he shakes his head and says he is afraid to think of what thofuture ha3 in store for such friv olous people as we have become. The solemn bore stavs with vou loncrer than any other member of the bore family and, when he leaves, it takes you all the rest of the day to get over the impression that this is a very wicked world, and that it is coming to a Sodom-and-Gommorahend very soon. Mrs. Garfield is not different from other women, -fche simply exemplifies a true wo man's nature, not an exceptional example of womanhood, "the distinguishing merit of Mrs. Garfield," says an exchange, "during the days that have passed since her husband was stricken down, is that she has kept a level head and did not.give up her courage, when'all around her were at times stricken with dismay, and predicting the worst. That is, if we may rely upon the sick room bulletins. For this, undoubtedly the brave and loyal woman merits the kind words and kinder deeds of the people; but, bless you, this trait is not exceptional in womankind. 1?ut,i3 the almost universal gift of the sex. where the lives of those they hold dear are concerned. In thousands of sick rooms to-day in thousands of households where other and sorer troubles have entered, mother, sister and wife are showing tho loving courage of the President's wife. It is their nature; their supreme and exalted merit over the coarser sex. Certainly bestow on the good lady of the White House all praise for doing her duty, and illnstrating the courage and devotedness of the sex; but do not advance the idea, as some seem disposed to do that it is exceptional among womankind. It is of all others, the unikrsal and all-prevading trail ot the womnn's Tneart. soul and mind, and to enforce it she even displays physical courage of the highest type. Mrs. Garfield is not exceptional. She but illustrates what, is most admirable, most lovable, and the qualities that command the most reverence. In less exalted stations in the humblest homes or in those of the wealthy and cultured the same drama is i going on every day and hour.

LOVE AND REYESG& The Romance of a Vasaar College Graduate AVlio Loved Unwisely. Vernon County (Mo.) Democrat. In one corner of the palace coach sat a woman, young and beautiful, but with a settled look of despair upon her face and a cold, bard, cruel glitter in her eyes. She was richly and tastefully attired, and about her was that indescribable atmosphere wbieh breathed of superior education and refined, cultivated habits and tastes. As was easy to be seen, she had a history. A gentleman

who sat in other part of tho car, an. acqaintanceof the reporter's, a Sheriff of a Texas County, related briefly her story. As had been surmised, the lady had been brought ud under the best influences that great wealth and high social standing could command. She had been blessed with every educational advantage, having graduated at Vassar and spent some time in travel through European countries. "While in the Netherlands her heart and the promise of her hand were won by a handsome, titled scapegrace. This was two years ago. When she returned to this country her lover followed after in the course of a few months. But meanwhile the girl's father had died and his vast fortune tad been swallowed up in wild-cat speculations, so that the foreigner found his promised bride penniless. Like most of his kind, he broke oil' the engagement and set about sookinir a more desirable alliance elsewhere. He found it in the per son of a young lady living in the samo Texas town as the girl whom ho came to murry. He prossed his suit, and the two were mar. ried and immediately set out for Europe. The rejected girl found means to follow them 8 lowly but surely. After months of patient and persistent effort she came upon them in a remote German town. The first intimation the scoundrel had of her was the sharp, sudden crack of a pistol that sent a ball pitilessly through his false and craven heart. Of course, she was arrested, and then followed weeks of trial and torture. Finally she was declared insane, and the authorities placed her in a mad-house. Meanwhile a wealthy rela.ive.movod by a mother's tears, followed her, and, tinding her, secured her relca.o, and now'she was on her way back to her far-away, desolate To as home. ll.r relative was aboard the train asleep, and the officer was watching that sha did not do her self harm almost a superfluous, needless precaution, for ehe was chained to the seat upon which she ; at. Underneath the silken robes could be seen now and then tho cold metallic glitter of the handcuffs upon hr wrists and links of tho small but strong chain which held ner. bleep's Threshold. What footstep but has wandered free and far Amid that castle ot sleep whose walls were planned By no terrestrial craft, no human hand. With towers that point to uo recorded star? Here sorrows, memories and remorses arc. Boaniing the long, dim room or galleries grand; Here the lost trieud onr spirits vet demand Gleam through mysterious doorways half ajar. But of the uncounted throngs that ever win These balls where slumber sdnsky witcheries rule. Who. after wakening, may reveal aright By what phantasmal meant he entered in. hat porch of cloud, what vapory veetibule. What stairway quarried from the mines of niht? hdgar Fawcett in the Atlantic. How to Live iu Summer. Clothing must also be considered, for it has much to do with our elasticity of movement. It is as yet a point of dispute whether cotton stuffs are the best wear, manv ap proving of light woolens. For women, nothing is sweeter in summer than a linen dress; it is a pity we do not patronize linens more for adults; for children, cottons; for workingmen, worsteds. The heavv suits of men are weighing them down in summer, and clothes of serge are far preferable to those of thick woolen cloth. Very thin silk is a cool wear. Thoeavily laden skirts ol women impede free action of movement much, and should be simplified as much as possible for summer. So also the headgear. Infants, if at all delicate, should not be alowed to so with bare leet: it often produces diarrhoea, and they should alwayg wear a flannel band round the stomach. Another important matter is the changing ot night and day linen among tho poorer classes. It terrible to think that a workingrman should lie down in the shirt in which he has perspired all day at his hot work; Let men accustom themselves to good washes every evening before they sit down to their meals, and to changes at night, that they may take np a dry shirt, when going to their hard day's work. Jbrequent changes of linen is absolutely necessary anyhow, a night and a day change. This change alone would help to stay mortality among children, if accompanmed with other healthy measures, such as sponging the body with a little salt and water. Where tenements are very close, wet sheets placed against walls will aid to revivify the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms. All children's hair should be cut short; boys' hair may be cropped, and'girh' hair so arranged by nets or plaits that air passes freely round the neck. Liffht head coverings are essential in summer, tor the head must be kept cool. The roost serviceable dress is that which allows air to pass freely around your limbs and stops neither the evaporation of the body nor the circulation of the refreshing atmosphere. In summer you must breathe freely and lightly; you can not do so with your stomach full ot undigested food, your blood full of overheating alcohol, your lungs full of vitiated air, your smell disgusted with nauseous scents, your system unable to carry out the natural process of digestion. All the sanitary arrangements in the world will do no good, if we eat and drink in such a fashion that we are constantly putting on tuel where it is not needed, and stuffing up our bodily draught, as we would that jf a heating appliance. Our ignorance and our bad habits spoil the summer, that delightful season of the year nothing else. Activity, rost and recreatuin are the three weighty matters in influencing our health in summer. We are not so well inclined for activity, and yet nothing will so much assist us as a healthy employment ot our energies, without over exertion, l uy those who must exert themselves to the ut most in this torrid weather, and feel gratified if vou need onlv moderatelv use vour strength. Activity keens the system coins' the blood in healthy circulation, the digestive process free from costiveness, the skin open for evaporation, and prevents all clogging of the machine. If not forced to work in some way or other, be active an vhow; occupy your mind and exercise your limbs, stag nation will bring about lethargy, and allow tho atmosphere a greater influence upon you. Un the ot er hand, full rest is as necessary. The exhausted brain waits more recuperation, the brain leas strain, the system more gentle treatment. Things look often darker in hot weather; heat weighs upon the upper portion of the head, communi cate! itself to the perceptive powers, and influences the senses. "NV e see pictures before us, and fancy we havo not the power to combat difficulties. It is said that more su icides are committed in hot than in cold weather. A healthy sleep in this hot season is worth a great deal to us; try to court it, and never play with your life and health by wilfully neglecting it. And what shall we say of that precious, and, as yet, so little understood phaso of life, our recreation? If there is one thing mo'ethan another to be encouraged in summer, it is reasonable recreation; that exercise between body and mind which brings about harmony between both; that periodical abstaining from in cessant labor, which renders us fresher for it; that intercourse with beautiful mother earth, which leads us to value natural as pirations. Never pass a day in summer without some calm halt hour for quiet and enjoyment;

life has only so many years, and during

their space we should live, not vegetate. The time will come when-sanitary meas ures and means for enjoying a higher phase of life will bethought of more than laying up thin era that rust. . We can not here enter upon the meaning of recreation in a wider pense; but it is not recreati n to rush out of town and stop at some place to drink beer and smoke all the time; it is not recreation to pusn on in crowds for excitement out of doors; it i3 not recreation to overheat yourselt and feel more fatigued the day after than the day before. For recreation you want leisure, moderate movement, happy thoughts, kindly com nan v. some Pleasant talk, cheerful music, re freshing food and drink, and, above all, a . ... . ii a thankful heart tnat you are a me w enjoy these; then no one could say that such re creation would be against the highest of re liorious rule3 of liviner. Frwrwl rlrinlr fWellinr. clothiniT. activity. v........ o) - - J l rest ana recreation, all are modified by the Ronial circumstances under which we are living. A. Tendency to Extended Repose Indict tive of a Long Life and Mental Power. I Dr. Oswold, in the Popular Science Monthly. There is no danger of a child's especially a boy 'a oversleeping himself, unless the hardships of his walking hours are so intolerable that oblivion becomes a blessing; but it can do no bann to mako thehcalth-sriving morning hour as attractive as possible. Pro vide somo out-door amusement, a prize "foot Turf, a butterfly hunt, or gathering i 11 1 - 1 1 , Iftl... A.. WWIUIHI1 ill luv appib urtuai us. a . sire for longer sleep can outweigh such inducements, there must be something wrong a plethoric diet, probably, or overstudy. The requisite amount of sleep depends on temperament and occupation as well as on age; with children under ten, however, too much indulgence would be an error on the safer side. Let them chojse their allowance between eight and ten hours; in after years seven hours should be the minimum, nine the maximum, for healthy children; sickly ones ought to have carto blanche, both as to quantum and time of rcpose; consumptives especially need all the rest they can get. Profound sleep in a cool, juict retreat is nature's own specific for all wasting diseases, a panacea without price or money. Nothing can be more injudicious than to t-tint children in their sleep with a view of gaining a few hours for study. "That plan," says Pestalozzi, "defeats its own purpose, tor such children are never wide awake; you can keep them out of bed, but you can not prevent them from dozing with their oy es open. A wide-awake boy will learn more in one hour than a daydreamer in ten." Habitual deficiency of sleep will undermine the strongest constitution; headache, throbbing and feverish heat are precursors of graver evils, unless a temporary loss of mental power compels an armstice with outraged nature. King Alired, Spinoza, Kepler, Victor Alfieri, ilsdam de Stael and Frederick Schiller killed themselves with restless study; Beethoven and Charles Dickens, too, probably, prepaid the debt of nature with their habit of lighting fatigue with strong coffee. Sleeplessness may lead to chronic hypochondria, and even to idiocy; without their long vigils, the monks of the Thebais and the fathers of the Alexandrian Church could hardly have written such stupendous nonsense. It was a curious fact that compulsory wakefulness combined with mental activity often induces a state of morbid insomnia, an absolute inability to obtain tho sleep which it was at first so difficult to resist. In such cases the only remedy is fresh air and complete change of occupation. .During sleep the brain is in comparatively bloodless condition; a hot head and throbbing temples are unfavorable to repose, and it has been suggested that insomnia might be counteracted by a hot J foot bath, chafing the arms and legs, or any ! similiar operation that would divert the blood from the head toward the extremities, and thus tend to diminish the activity of the cerebral circulation. Listening to distant music or the ripple of a river current has also a wonderful hypnot ic effect; the repetition of monotonous sounds or, indeed, of any sensorial impresssion seems more favorable to repose than their entire absence. The philosopher Kant assures us that he could obtain 6leep in a paroxyism of gout by resolutely fixing his attention at some abstruse ethical or mathe matical problem, but remarks that the succese of that method depends upon the labor -iousness of the mental process; the mind, as it were, takes refuge in sleep as the alterna tive of drudging at the wearisome task. Rob ert Burton, too, gives a number of similar recipes, besides a list of wondrous medicinal compounds to be swallowed or inhaled ad horum somni, but in ordinary cases it is bet ter to try the effocU of outdoor exercise before resorting to. dormouse . fat, theological text books or other desperate remedies. 13eing naturally a pound and long sleeper has been ranked among the surest prognostics of a long life, and sleep after a wasting disease as the most certain symptom oi recovery. Most brain-worker? are subject to occasional fits of insomnia, but the faculty of sustaining health and vigor upon a very small allowance of sleep is generally a concomitant of mental inferiority, or at least inactivity. Ihe mst intelligent animals, dogs and monkeys, sleep the longest; stupid A . A . A 1 -1 A. 1 T Z V Drutes merely sireven tneir iegs, meir jnerw brains require no rest. A cow .never sleeps in the proper sense of the word- lirabeau, Ooethe and James Quinn often slumbered for twelve or fourteen hours successively, while the Leopold I. of Austria and Charles IV. of hpam, the heartless and brainless bigots, could content themselves with five hours sleep out of tho twenty-four, and their prototype, the Emporor Jixstinian, often even with one. Why the Symbolic Marriage Itoud llmt Tansed Into Disuse in the "West. New York Times. There is manifested in some parts of the West a desire to abolish the wedding ring. This is not strange. The weddüng ring has been a fruitful source of woes a-nnumbered, which any Heavenly goddess night 6ing with great applause should she- feel so disposed. Tale ot the utmost horror have been told of bridegrooms, who, at the moment whea the clergyman pauses for the ring to be produced, can not find it. Nothing has ever 6hown naif so much kill in self-concealment &s the wedding ring. It will hide in the corner of a waistcoat poe&et in such a manner as to defy diäoovery, and it will transport itself from one pocket to another, thus compelling the bn.degroom to ransack every one of thirteon distinct pockets. Nervous men and wio is not nervous when personally undergoing the marriago ceremony? frequently drop the wedding ring on the Church floor,, where it will roll the entire length of the b ailing to ...... -. . i conceal itself in some inaccessible eracK. Sometimes it finds or makes a hole in the pocket, by means of which it peno träte into the interior of tho bridegroom's clothig, and even into his boots; so that tt is quito a common occurrence lor a wedding to be interrupted while the bridegroom reitres behind the pulpit and devotes half an hour to searching for the ring and to getting his boots on again. As men are notoriously married in new boots, and a new boot when once removed can not always be dragged on again without boot-hooks, the wedding guests are sometimes treated to the spectacle of a bridegroom going through the last half of the ceremony with one boot in its proper piace and the other held in his" left hand. There was a time when the careful Western man always kept the wedding ring in his mouth until the clergyman, called for it, but this custom has now fallen into disuse. Fastidious clergymen and brides, who had contracted the conventional ideas of the East, obiected to the jusefof a warm, moist ring. Moreover, in bis embarrassment the bridegroom often failed to distinguish, between the ring and his tobacco,a,ud found,

when it was too late, that ho had that is.

to Bay, the ring was missing. Then, too, there were several unfortunate bridegrooms who unintentionally swail.)wel wedding rings.and thus laid tlicmselves open to misconttrtt'tn There wa one man, repotted to be of miaeriy habits, who, doubtltsi inadvertantly swallowed a wedding ring known to be ol considerable valuv, Hnd choked to death in the process. This would naturally have seriously inconvenienced the bride had not her brothers t wo practical me been present. With great pre-enea of mind the brothers removed the choked bridegroom to the rear cf the church, where they recovered the ring with their hunting knives, and pressing an eligible young man iuto service, enabled their sorrowing sister to be happily married, after a delay-of only ten minutes. Still, one instance like this does not corafecsa!e for tho n;any cases in wLich swalowed rings have produced suffering nd inconvenience, and it is no wondnr tl at the custom of holding the ring in ;ae mouth has become ol3o!;te. The freedom cf divorce which prevails in many of cur Stales must inevitably render the wedding ring unpopular. Every time a wile is divorced bhe naturally wishes to take off her ring. If it is made small enough to remain E-?3l on the finger, it is very apt to bre."m-. so tight at the end ot two or three months of matrimonial felicity that it can not be removed. Hence, with a view la coiitingeiu-io.-., u;! lliii.ois v.ilo. always has her ling umde several sizes too large fr her, and keps it in place with a smallor ring. It is evident, however, that the guard-ring is liable to become permanently fixed on the finger, so that this device, specious us it may appear, is really useless. The only remedy is to abolish wedding rings altogether, and to omit from the marriage ceremony all allusion to the ring. The wedding ring is a survival of the period when marriage was held to be a sacrament, and was supposed to be of eternal duration. Now that we have rejected this belief, and hold that marriage is a business affair, a temporary partnership, the impropriety of clinging to the symbolic ring is manifest. In the place of it the Western reformers now propose to substitute a neat and inexpensive bracelet, made so as to admit of a dozen modifications of pattern, and thus suited to be used half a dozen different times. It is to te placed on the bride's wrist the day before tho wedding, so as to avoid all chance of its being mislaid, and the wedding service, is to be changed in such a way that, in-tead of mentioning a ring, the clergyman will merely refer to "the bracelet annexed to the bride, and marked Exhibit A."' Being provided with a clasp, the bride can lake tho bracelet off at any time, and as it is not verv valuable intrinsically, the husband is saved from the temptation of melting it down and selling it the week after the marriage. It seems as if . 9 this admirable substitute for the weddingring would meet all reasonable demands, and we mav expect to see it universally adopted throughout the West at a very early day. How a Mother Sends Her Son on an Errand. Mother "Now, Willie, my son, I want you to go over to Mrs. Jones' and give her my love and ask her how she is, and ask her if she wants to go driving with us. Tell her that we are going out to Silver Springs to see Mrs. Patterson, and ask her if she would not like to go. Tell her I should be very happy if she would. Ander ander ander that s all. ow go long. Don't stand there looking as if you were afraid." Son "All right, mother." (Moves oil a few steps.) Mother "Here, where you going to? Alwaj's going off without getting half your errand. Now come back here and listen to me; do you hear? I say, be sure and give Mrs. Jones mv love, that's all. Xow go along, and don't be all day about it, either; do you hear me : Son "Yes. mum." (Moves olf a few more steps.) Mother "Oh, Willie! Be sure and ask Mrs. Jones if she wants to go out driving." Son ".All right, mother." Goes out the door and gets a few steps from the house, when, up goes a window, and materfamilias is heard to scream (like a person drowning and calling lor help) "Willie! Willie! come back here. ( line conies back and stands under the window.) Mother "What are you going off for with only half an errand; now listen to me: Tell her that we are going out to see Mrs. ra.l-, terson, and ask her if she does not want to go." Son "All right." (Window closes part way down, when up it goes again with a furious slam, and the mother yells in a voice that curdles the blood of the people for half a square: "Oive her my love: and sinks back into a chair completely exbaustf d, and mentally resolves that that boy is as stupid as a "nigger.") Note. Gold and white is the fashionable color combination. , Flowers are used upon evening dresses to an unlimited extent. Harlequin ribbons, with mixed colorings, are extensively used now. Chenille ''Jerseys'' woven with Indiarubber are worn over low waists. The "Dagmar" pelisse may be relied upon as a 6tyle which will seem to be more in fashion next year than it is now. It may be made iu silk, in cashmere, infine darl cloth, or for old ladies in black satin with distinguished effect; but it may also be made in linen for summer wear, or in louisino as a summer duster, and will be found most stylish and comfortable, much more convenient as well as cooler, than the ulster for summer travel, for it does not crowd tho sleeves of the dress. Short dresses are so popular for summer, and so universal, that very long skirts look out of place ever, upon drossy occasion s,that is to say,'they look old and like part of last winter's 6tock. But they make up by being very striking. Short dresses entirely of red, or lilac, or peacock blue, or sulphur color are not at all uncommon. They should be always trimmed with white dotted muslin,or Spanish lace, and the bonnets with flowers shaded in the color of the dress, or perhaps combining more than one color. A Virginia Snake Heats a Locomotive. f Mechanicstown Clarion. As the Shenandoah Valley fast express entered the mile cut, immediately north of our town, on Tuesday last, the engineer was horror-stricken to see what he supposed to be the end of the rail just ahead of his rushing locomotive sliding rapidly away from him. His first thought was a broken rail caught by the pilot, and he expected an instantaneous shock. Wonderment usurped the place of fear when a second glance revealed a five-foot black snake of the species known as "runner," gliding rapidly away from him on top of the rail. In the moment of xcitement his hand sought the throttle, he threw it wide open, and the train bounded forward under the impulse, butthesnake maintained its lead, although the train was running at fully fifty miles per hour, and when the end of the cut w3s reached and an opportunity afforded to escape, it left the rail, ran out into an open space, coiled itself up, threw its head into an attitude of defense, and died right there. An examination proved that the intense heat of the rail had burned it to death. Arithmetic Lesson. What are you going to do when you gTow up, if you don't know how to cypher? asked an Austin teacher of a rather slow boy. "I am going to be a school teacher, and make the boys do all the cyphering," was the,impudent reply. The next thing that bov had to sigh for was a eoft cushion on the bench. "I am waiting, my darling, for thee," he warbled; and yet, when the old man threw up a chamber window and assured him that "he'd be down in a minute,r he lost his grip on the melody .and went out of the waiting business.

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Bl imonlc Gethsemane Cunhakseet. K. T., No. 9. Regular communication second Tuenday of each month; hall in Jodah's Block, opposite Court Hons. L. M. Teheell, Recorder. J. W. STEWART, . C. Alpha Chapter No. 23. Regular commnnicatioo rt Tuostlay in each month; hall in Judith' Block. Ceari.ie Locis, Secretary. HENRY MOORE, n. P. liJMllea Conrt. üsioM Cor bt No. 1. Regular comma nlcat ion firit and third Monday ereDingi of each month; hall in Judah's Block. MKS. CORNELIA TOWN8KND, M. A. M. Mas. Sarah Hart, Secretary. Leah Court No. 11. Regular communication aecond and fourth Monday of each month; hall in Judah's Block. MART JAMES, M. A. M. Sallie Galliton, Secretary. IiMlepeiMlent ftons of Honor Lodge No. 2. Regular communication first Monday night of each month; hall in Griffith's Block. THOS. BCDD, President. John Preston, Secretary. Loih.k No. lb. Regular communication first Toes, lay night of each month; tm) I in tiriffith's Block. JOHN WIL-OV, President, Mr. Walker, Secretary. Indfpen:leut i?nngbters of Honor Lodge No. 2. Regular Communication first Wednesday night of each month; hall in Griffith's Block. . ELLEN SPACLPING, President. Ed. Ellis, Secretary. " So. is anl Dantshiort of Blornlnfr. Renlar coinmnnication first and second Monday eTeniof i f e.ich mou i It; at American hall. MKS. ELLEN ROIiEKTS, Tresirfnnt. II. O. Medlin, Secret iry. United Mstets of rrtoBadntilp. St. Mart's Temple. HgnUr communication first Monday evening of each month; hall N. E. corner Meridian and Washington streets. MART JARNE3, W. P. IIattie Francis. Secretary, kn Star Tkmplr, No. 11. Regular coro m nnicatfon 1st and 3d Wednesdays of each month. MISS M. J. GAVIN. Worthy Princess. Mrs. Hattie Stafford, Secretary. Deborah Tf.mplk No. 3, of U. S. of r. Regular communication second Wednesday and fourth Wednesday evening in each month; ball N. Et. corner ot Washington and Meridian street. MISS SALLIE GALLITON, M. W. Prince. Mrs. Fakkik Johnson, W. Secretary for 1880. Odd Fellows. Lincoln Union Lodge No. 1,48. Reenlar com munication fi'Ht and third Mondays of each month; hall 85 and 87 Kant Washington street. LOUIS HARRIS, N. G. Samtkl Spencer, P. Secretary. Household of Itath, No. 31. Regular communication first and third Wednesdays of each month; hall 85 and 87 East Wash ington streets. H. A. ROGAN, President. J. L, Leooetl, W. 8. W. S. Kkrset, P, 0. Jnvenit Knight of Bethlehem Mxt the 1st and 4th Tuesday evenings in each month, at No. 123 Columbia Street. .MRS. M. DICKERSON, Worthy Mother. FLORENCE KELLER, Kiaacial Secretary. REBECCA BOLDEN, Recorder. Union Son and IAnttters of tn Stnte. Meet 1st and 3d Friday in every month at the South Calvary Church, corner of Morris and Mania Street. NANCY SMITH. Lady President. REV. THOMAS SMITH. Chief. American Sons. Regular communication first and third Mondays in each month; at American Hall. WM. DUNMNGTON, President. William Barber, Secretary. American Doves. Regular communication first Tuesday evening of each month at American Hall. MRS. KITTY SINGLETON, President. Mrs. Mart Oublet. Secretary. Kifttert of Charity. Regular communication first Tuesday of each month at Bethel A. M. E. Church. MRS. REBECCA PORTER, President. Miss Rüth Beaslt, Secretary. Good 8amaritansj. Jericho, Lodge No. 5t G. 0. G. 8. Regular com munication, second and fourth Thursdays of each month; hall No. 36. West Washington street. S. J. Blatlock, W. F. 8. Magnolia Lodge. No. 4. P. of S. Regular communication first and third Thursdays of each month' hall No. 36 West Washington street. Mrs. SAINT CLARE, W. V. D. Mrs. Kate Johnson, D. of R. Son and Daughters of Morning Star. Lodge No. 7. Regular communications first and third Fridays id each month, in American Hall, West Michigan street. Mrs. LUCY ANN MARTIN, President. Mrs. Mattie Wells, Secretary. Sisters of Bethlehem. Sisters of Bethlehem. Jf vui Lodge No. 7. Regu lar communication ever second and fourth Tuesday in each month; hall in T ihn s Block, corner or Meridian and Washington streets. MRS. MARIA OUSLEY, W. L, Mrs. Adda Ticr, K. S. DR. T. N. WATSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, 458 East North Street EDWARD NOLAN, Fashionable Bootmaker, f ol RYAN'S BLOCK, Iiuliaim A Ten ue. All work warranted. A good fit guaranteed. Repairing promptly attended to. PlNVISIBIiE PATCHING ' Neatly done. JOU1V GENERAL BILL FOSTER Controlling tho most prominent bill boards in trie city, Including THE LABUESr BOARD I 1BE STATE, inclosing the State House Grounds. Five Hundred Three-Sleet Boards in the Citj and Suburbs. Office, at Daily Sentinel Office, INDIANAPOLIS. SLIITH'S mied DYE MIIS Is the best place in the city to have your old clothes Cleaned, Dyed and Repaired. No. 3 Mtrtlndale's Block, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. W. W. HOOVER, Dealer in Staple and Fancy aEQGIEI COUNTRY PRODUCE A Specialty, Indiana Ave. FIIED . BALZ, Dealer in all kinds of FRESH AND SALT MEATS, North West and Ind. Aye. Meat Harket 300 North West St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. .

Indpl's Peru & Chicago Ry. THE GEEAT THROUGH BOOTE

-TOrj"RTr! A ßO And n points in the rreat J--'l.XJ North atd Xorth-West. Fort Wayne, IluutinjrtoD, Le- rn-T TUn". gansport, Wabaih. lUJLiülJJU DETROIT vyut in Mich,B th las. AND TI1E Direct connections made in Chicago with the trunk lines for all northwestern summer resorta and principal point in the noith west and far west. WcodrnfT Sleeping and Parlor Coaches run between Indianapolis und Chicago, Tia Kokomo and Indiana, polia and Michigan City. Train tearing Indianapolis at 6:50 A. m. arrirrsat Chicago at 6:6o r. M., ; t. Wayne, 1:60 r. M.; Lo gansport, 1:20 p. n. ; South Bend, lk l p. m. ; Toledo, 5:2?) p. M . ; Detroit. 8:15 p. u. Train leiring Indianapolis at 12:28 r. M. arrives at Frankfurt, 4:IiO p. Wabash, 6:04 p. .; Ft. Wayna l-.Vtt. M.; Toledo, 1:18 p. m. ; Cleveland, 1:45 a. . Buffalo, 7:35 A. m. ; New York City, 10 p. m. Train leaving IndiaoarolU at 5:20 P. M , arrlTM at Loganntiort at 11:02 p. m.; Valparaiso 4:20 a. m. ; South Bend. 2:25 m. ; Mishawaka. 2:: a. m. ; Elkhart 3 a.m.; Kalatnaioo 7:3a..; Grand lUpids 10 A. M.; Chic?.so8:05A. X. Train leaving Indianapolis at 11:00 r. m. (daily) arrives at ChicaKO via Kokoiuo. at 7:05 a. m. ; f"ort Wayne, 7:00 a. m. ; Toledo, li;oo A. . Cleveland, 2:20 P. w. ; Detroit, 1:30 P.. Ask for tickets via I., p. A c. Railway. ' KeliaMo Information given by V.T. MALOTT. L. G. CAKNON. Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pans, and Tk't Agt, Ul East Washington Street. To Kervons-Tlie Kuirerrro jreat Euro ttAn KetnfMljr, Dr. J. IS. Mmpvon' Kps effie 5Ieiiciue. Da. J. B. Simpson's Sprrrric Mr.niciKa is a poelti cure for Spermatorrhea, Iinpotency, Weakness and all diaeaaes resnlticjr from Self.Abnse, Nervous Debility, Irritability. leutl Anxi.-tv. Lauirour. Lassi tude, Depression of Spirits and functional derangaoos System gener H1VIIIUI luv iicrT ally. Pains in Back or bide, Loss of Memory, Prä matur Old Are and dia&Hfs thnt lead to Consumption, Insanity and an early grave or both. No matter bowifhattered the by stem way hftroui m-rt. ot any kind a short course of this medicine will restore tb lost functions and procure Health and Happiness, where hefore w as despondency and doom. The spe cific Medicine is being need with wonderful snccees. Pamphlets sent free to all. rite tor them ai.d get full particulars. Price, Specific, 51.00 per package, or six packages for (i.oo. Will be sent by mail rocelpt of money. Aiiress ail orders. j. it. isini'M) n .-tiKiiici.t i: co., No. 104 and 16, Main Ft. B.ifWlo, N. T. Sold in Indianapolis by LOUIS EICHRODT, and all Druggists everv where. FOR NEW YORK, BOSTON, AND ALL EASTERN POINTS, TAKE THE BBB LEU C. C, C. & I. B. W. This Train Leaves Indianapolis s Follow: 41 K. A TRAIN arrives Muncie, 6:22 a. m. :10 A. iU. Union. 7:25 a. m.; Sidney, 8:45 a in.; Bellfountaine, :28 a. m.; Crestline, 11:47 a. m. Arrive at Cleveland at 2:20 p. in.; Buffalo 7:50 p. m. Niagara Falls, 9:50 p. m.; Binphanipton, 4:35 a. m. Rochester, 11:03 a. ni.; Albany fi:10 a. m., arriving at New York City at 10:30 a. m. and Boston at 2:25 p. m. SEVEN. HOURS In Advance of Other Routes JwThis train has Palace. Drawing Room and Sleeping Cwach from Indianapolis to New York with out change. Fare always the same as by longer and slower routes. Baggage checked throngh to destination. 6 1 A T) 1 Train arrives at Crettlme 4:10 a. VtU 1. Iii m.; Pittsburg, 12:15a. m.; Cleve land, 7:10a. m.; Euflalo, 11:10 p. m.; Niagara Tails, 3:50p.m.; Biaghampton, 11:H p. m.; Rochester, 4:36 p. m.; Albany, 12:40 a. m.; arrive at New York City 6:45 a. m. and Boston 9:20 a. ru. Hours qoickar than all otherJines. This train has elegant Talace Sleeping Coaches from Indianapolis to Cleveland, and from Cleveland to New York City and Boston without change. At Sidney close connections are made for Toledo and Detroit and U points in Canada. Columbus Route, 'VIA DAYTON AND SPRINGFIELD UfA 1 If Train arrives at Muncie 2:23 p. !t)U A iH m.; Union 3:15 p. m.; Dayton 5:55 p. nv; Springfield 7:15 p. m.; Columbus 9:15 p m. The only line running through Parlor Coaches from Indianapolis to Columbus, where direct connections are made with the Baltimore & Ohio Bailroad. This train connects at Muncie with the 1 ort Wayne, 5Inncie 4 Cincinnati Railway for Ft. Wayna and Detroit. 9See that your ticket reads by the ee Line. A.J. SMITH, J. W. CAMPBELL, C. GALE Q. T. A. Pass. Aot. ft. Cleveland, O. Indianapolis na polia FOH. IOWA, CALIFORNIA & NORTHWtSl -ORKANSAS, TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST. TAKE THE Train Leav Imdianapolia at follow Ti FT 1 If Train connects direct for all points :40 A. in Io. Nebraska, California and the Black Hills, Tia idmy and Cheyenne, arriving one train in advaoceof any other line, and saving one night's rid". This train also connects for Iecatur, fprinfioM, Jacksonville, Illinois, Louisiana and Mexico, Mo.; and Tia Quincy er BlouminKton for Kansas City, Atchison 8t. Joseph, Denver, and all points in Kansas, Colorado and the Sonthwext, Tia Hannibal with M.K.& T. Ry., for Moberly, Fort Scott, Tar-wons. (he Neosho Valley and points in Texas, and via Bloominfrton tor El Paso, Mendota, Dubuque, and all points In Nortk ern Illinois and Iowa. 11 K D (Noon) Fast Line, runs directly .10 ! Iii through via Danville Junction to Decatur, tpriugfielJ, Jacksonville, Hannibal, Moberly, St. Joeepb, Atchison and Kansas city, arriving at Kansas City the next morning in time to connect with trains for all point in Kansas, Colorado and NewMexico. UAA I) 1 Train has reclining chair aleepJlU X ill ing car with state rooms Peoria, and through coach to Burlington, reachinc Galeeburg, Burlington, Ottumwa, Rock Island and Davenport in advance of other lines. This train alto connects via Burlington or Rock Island for all pointa in Iowa, Nebraska aud California, and Tia Bloomington for 1 Paso, Mendota. Duhnqne, Sioux City, Yankton, and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa and the Black Hills via Yankton and Fort Pierr'e. This train also makes direct connections Tia Dan Tille to Decatur, Springfield, Jacksonville, Quincy Kansas City, Atchison, St. Joseph, Leavenworth and all iutermediate point. And via Hannibal for gedalia. Ft. ttcott. Parsons, Denison, Houston, Galveston, and all points in Texa. fipecM Notice to Land Hunter and Emigrants. If you want a land exploring ticket or reliable laformation about lands in the West, or if you have bought hotue there and want to move with your family, household goods andstock, address the General Passenger Agnt named below, and et our ratea and map. w. ii. rnouTY, acting Gen'l Taa aud Ticket Agt -tIAKAFOL18, I DO NOT CO WEST Until you have applied to A. J. Ii ALF ORD GENERAL EASTERN AUENT IDDUIUPDUSuiST. LOUIS H.H. 131 S. ILLINOIS STREET, Indianapolis. WFor Time Tables and the very lowest Freight and Passenger Rates. "' APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. . Notice Is hereby given, that 1 w ill apply to the Board of CommisMoners, ol Maiion County, Indiana, at their next term, commencing on the first Monday in July, 1M1. for a licence to sell intoxicating, spirituous, vinous and malt liouors In a less quantity thau a quart at a time,' with the privilege of allowing the same to be drunk on my premises for one year. My place of business and the premises whereon said honors are to be drunk are located at No. 65 North Illinois treet, in the 11th Ward, lot 5, square 46, in the city of Indianapolis, n Center township, iu Marion county Indiana. John U. Maktin.

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