Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1877 — Page 1

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VOL. XXVI, XO 26. IXDTAXAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, FEBlUJAliY 4, WHOLE XO. 1891.

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BY JOHN W. CHADWICK. It singeth low In every heart. We hear it each and all. A song ot those who answer not However we may call: Tliv thron? the silence of the brea.st. We nee them as of yore, The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet, Who walk, with us no more. T's hard to take the burden up. When these have laid it down ; Thev brightened all the joys of life. They jurtene1 every frown: But oh, 'tLs good to think of them. When we are tempted sore! Thanks be to Ood that such hav been, Although they are no more! More home-like seems the vast unknown, since ihey n..ve entered there; To follow thei wre not so hard, Wherever they my fare: Tliey can not lo here Uod Is not, On p.üjrscaorslicre; W hate'er betides. Thy love abides. Our God, foreverniore. For the Sunday (3entinel.J WHO ARE THE SUPERFLUOUS WOMEN? BY MR.. PALLIE A. RA MACK. Kvery woman should have a trade or a profession." declared Mrs. Liverniore in her recent lecture in this city, and certainly no one doubted the truth or wisdom of her remarks, but the all engrossing, all important question with the women is, "How shall we obtain either the one or the other, a trade or a profession, that shall enable us to be independent?" The matter is not limitd in its importance, nor in its scope; it affects the daughters of the rich as well as those of the poor, for no mother can tell the life needs of her girl; she can not read the future, its demands nor requirements, and she must prepare her child for the worst as well as for the best that the years may briii?. ''Educate every girl as if she was sure to bea wife, mother and housekeeper, and educate every girl as if she was sure to be neither wife, mother nor housekeeper," said the lecturess. I imagine that between thee two trainings, as we now teach, very few ordinary women would accomplish much in either direction, either at trade, prfesion or home work. The truth is a woman is essentially a woman: she must think, act, work, live as a woman, or she will lose all and gain nothing, and she is very apt to find herself superfluous when she crosses, or attempts to cross, the line that divides her labor and reward from those of men. The world has need of women cultivated, refined, zealous, strong, capable, willing, industrious laborers, but it has neither demand nor field for those who, striving for coveted position and employment, unsexthemselves, and who, trying to grasp shadowy prizes, lose their substantial hold upon competency they once possessed. Trained, skilled workers, who are willing to do their tasks humbly or elevated, are in constant demand. They are sought for eagerly and are the ones who, unless forced out by peculiar circumstances, retain iositions of constantly increasing value. Women who understand the details of their trade or their daily avocation, who are neither ashamed of their work nor themselves for doing it, are bound to succeed. They are rarely ever the ones who have to give way to any one else. They are a comfort and a treasure to their employes. The moment honest labr becomes a disgrace to any woman with false pride and silly vanity, the instant she is afraid of the world's jeers and sneers that hour she loses the dignity and respect that is part of the never ending reward of conscientiously performed work, whether it be with pin, needle or broom. We need educated, trained servants, and yet, perchance, you may imagine the want imaginary. Listen to the not overdrawn domestic pictures of wives and mothers, and see how many homes are anxious to secure capable, willing servants. Good housekeepers,cooks, housemaids, nurses are in demand, and once hired they are parted with only under protest, and the memory of the women who know what to do and how to doit will be zealously kept. There are hundreds of women half starved in attics and tenement houses, trying to make stitch by stitch a shield between themselves and detth or degradation, who, if they would, might Lave warm, comfortable homes, good wage, healthy food. But they despise, they reject the idea of menial iervice; they will beg, starve, sink, rather. than be a servant, as if there could be any stigma in doing honorable work honorably. Put many of these women are ignorant of the very first principles of housekeeping, nor have they any trade or profession. They sew indifferently well, and thus they swell the vast stream of the helpless "superfluous women" who are not needed, are of no value because they can ive back to the world nothing in exchange for what they demand, a comfortable sup. port. Young men are not ashamed to be known as mechanic, laboring under a mas ter workman, directed and puided by his word and will. Ttey deem it no disgrace to serve an apprenticeship, to learn, to know every detail thoroughly. They are laying the foundation, and they build with pride upon the firm knowledge they thus obtain. But young women want to leap at once where their prudence and wisdom will not be questioned. TI.ey want to run before they creep. They will not nerve the lady of the house in a tidy, warm, comfortable kitchen and dining room, though their brother is working in shop or foundry, obeying the gentleman of the same family. They are too ignorant to command high wages a trained servants, and yet they are not willing to take the very steps that will fit them for any position in a bouse. Every Bother

hould teach her daughters housekeeping practically and fully. From kitchen to parlor the work should be plain to them, and only when they understand every department should they be allowed to abandon the study. I do not wonder that young men hesitate before they marry. I consider them brave to select any of the majority of ordinary women as their wives. They must earn the money. They have a right to expect the home to be properly cared for and the money judiciously expended. Few young women can do this, until better experience has taught the lessons the mothers neglected or disliked to teach. Every girl should know how to make her own clothing nicely, neatly; yes, fashiona bly. There is no need for. a woman to be dressed like a fright, nor is it proper for her to attire herself in the extremes of the day. Sue should know how to use to the best advantage the material she has. Let these lessons be taught day by day from the hour the child is old enough to take care of a box, a drawer, a room. The tuition should begin, and should cease only when the girl, the woman, is mistress of the situation, able to take, manage and keep in order her home, select, cut, fit, make her own clothing and that of her family. These women who learn to serve may never have to serve others, but they may themselves have the government of homes, and here their sphere of usefulness and labor, though perhaps not so large as that of a man ,wlll comprise the interests and happiness of all who may dwell under the Voof. Is one woman in every twenty competent to overlook the work and manage the servants of her house? Let the stories of the scores answer. How can they expect to exercise discrimination, nice judgment analytical knowledge in the public affairs in which they are so anxious to participate in, when they can not in their domestic relations preserve order and steady progress? It is well enough for women, married or single, arrived at years of discretion, to have complete control of their money, their income, the wages of their labor, but I doubt if women either can sensibly or thoroughly understand public affairs, and in the face of the incoming tide I dare protest against the clamor for more power to rest in the hands of women. When they are able to take care of the trusts and privileges they have had for years, then and not until then should they venture to ask for more. Now, and with this foundation sure, the life work can be reared day by day. If a woman shows an inclination, a constant turning towards a trade or a profession, I believe then and only then will she succeed in that direction. Certainly not all are born teachers, physicians, clerks, seamstresses;for proof witness the absolute failures in life of these who persistently try to accomplish what they dislike or do not understand. Nothing should be allowed to prevent progress in the chosen work. The highest point should be eyer in view, and there should be no cessation of effort until the mastery of the trade or profession is achieved; then the battle is won. We point with pride to the women who have achieved success, and their lives illustrate the very fact of which I have spoken. They understood, in the minutest detail and completest design, the work they intended to accomplish, and triumphed because they were neither perplexed nor trammeled by the difficulties and intricacies of their employment. Should we have industrial schools, public training, separate and apart, or should we teach the girls trades and professions as young men receive them? I incline to the latter method. If a woman intends to be a book-keeper or a clerk, or a writer or an artist, or an actress, let her punme her studies for the vocation, steadily mastering every difficulty, overcoming every obstacle, never expecting ripe fruit until after the maturity of genius and labor has I rought the time for its production. Immaturity, the plucking of blossoms, the gathering of inierfect fruit, have proved more ruinous than almost any other cause. The age is too advanced for woman to "appeal to chivalry, manly honor and stalwart protection when her work is condemned as not being up to the standard. She must stand or fall on her

own merits, and these who accomplish anything ask nothing of the world but a place to stand, a foothold, and that is given freely to men and women alike. The superfluous women, as they have been called, are not those for whom there are no place in the world. Thank God there can be .none such, but there are those who are not willing to accept the places they can fill, or who are striving for positions too high for their strength or knowledge. And the woman who is fitted for advance ment will secure it sooner or later. There is in my mind no possibility of keeping down positive talent and knowledge. There is no iron hand to crush a woman because she is a woman who desires to rise in her trade or profession, and who can prove to the workl that she is competent and able to elevate herself. Those who are always begging sympathy and pity because they are women would fail if they were men, with the imagined advantages and opportunities that they could rot use even if they were proffered them. Teach a girl one thing well and thoroughly, something on which she can always depend for support, and then add all that is possible in other directions, or in attempting too much you will fail in everything. Let the trade or profession be perfectly mastered, and if she has the life, the womanliness to try to succeed, she will ' fcever ha "iuperftuous."

ALL SORTS,

The Old Grave. Tis an old, old grave: the Knows and rains Of ft hundred years have left their stains On the broken slab, which some kind hand Has pierced with an iron bolt and band Long since for the headstone leans awry, Like a wheat Kheaf when the wind sweeps by. Tis an old, old grave; the onco trim mound I level now with the sloping ground; Kruin Ihe tangled ktakm the buttercup With a startled, wild fciwn air looks up, And the course leaved burdocks make their home i When- the mover's cythe ha ceased to come. Tis an old, old grave how came I here? I I don't know. It in mnny a year Slnee 1 went from home, and yet to-day It seems I've lieen but an hour away ! How odd that I'm standing hen alone ( With the past ho blotted out and gone! I know the place as a boy have played With my mates licm-alli "that walnut's bhade; It was smaller then no! I declare Twas a chestnut tree that once stood there! How all is changed in the snot I knew How thick are the graves that once were few! How the moss mis spread, how the wall nags down I saw it built! Why, I think the town I nearer now than it us-d to be When I was a boy. o What's this I see, As I scrape the lichen from the stone? What name do 1 read? Good God, my own ! - The Atlantic. There are 50,030 Hebrews in New York, and of the nuniner 100 have estates valued at $1,000,000 or upward. At a Washington theater no one goes out between the acts "to see a man." But scores of young men go out to see what progress is being made on Washington's monu mentand some are so deeply aflected at the slowness of the work that they return with tears in their eyes. Mr. Moody publishes a card saying that he is "glad to announcet o the Christian public that the contributions for the family of Mr. P. P. Bliss have been so liberal that with the addition of what he left thev are well pro vided for, and the collections for them should now cease." At a Faris masquerade ball a bier was brought in by a procession of people, who, leaving the candles, walked solemnly out. The masqueraders chaffed the man who was lying on the bier, and one, more venturesome than the others, lifted the pall, disclosing a corpse, with a dagger through its heart. The French are always funny. The following expression from the greetingsent by the choir who sang in the Chicago tabernacle during Mr. Moody's recent labors there to the Boston choir now doing a little duty, might well be commended to the consideration of church choirs generallv: 'Through storm and cold we have been in our places, not from duty merely, for duty has been lost sight of in the true and solid pleasure we have in singing for the Mast." When Sir John Carr was in Glasgow, about the year 1807, he was asked by the magistrates to give his advice concerning the inscription to be placed on the Nelson monument, then just completed. Sir John recommended this brief record: "Glasgow to Nelson." "Juist so," said one of the baillies; "and as the town o' Nelson's close at hand, might we no' juist say 'Glasgow to Nelson, six miles,' an' so it miglU serve for'a monument an' a mile stone too." A gentleman in Olympia, Washington territory, sent by mail to a friend in Massachusetts a few days ago, a large potato, the inside of which had been scooped out, and filled with pansies, geraniums and other 11 were. When the package was opened the flowers were found to be as fresh and bright as if they had been gathered within an hour. They had been picked from a garden in the open air and their journey across the continent had occupied 15 days. Robinson is his name. He is a Boston lawyer, uncommonly pious and extremely high church. He thinks it needful to sow seed by all waters, and so has his note paper branded with scripture texts. The other day he had occasion to write for a favor from the court to Chief Justice Gray, and he unluckily used n sheet of paper which was headed, "Ye men all bought with a price."' Some slanderous wag has been telling that the application wasn't granted. One Tay, on the Boulevard rereire, Paris, a mad dog started in pursuit of a velocipede, mounted by a boy of 14 named Dupraty, living in the boulevard, No. 1G. The chase was a terrible one and ended in the fall of the boy. Happily it was in the iron of the velocipede wheel that the teeth of the mad bulldog closed. There ended the first act of the drama. The second follows. In an impulse of passionate joy on seeing her son saved from so great a danger, Mine. Dupraty i ressed her lips to the wheel of the velocijede. Some hydiophobic virus had remained on the iron, and after an agony of a fortnight the poor mother died, raging mad. Mr. MacDonald is described as a man who has penetrated so deeply into the spiritual life, and his earnestness as well as Iiis imagination are so exercised, that a certain sense of reality remains even in the midst of wire-drawn- religious arguments and analyses of conditions. The only solution one can find is that Mr. MacDonald, though he would prefer to rank himself as a preacher and a teacher, is still more a poet a poet of fine discernment in subtle spiritual problems and processes, and with a power to illuminate the most recondite of inward experiences by fancy and image. A French soldier was sitting, a short time back, on the summit of a hill overlooking a garrison town; his horse was picketed near by; the man wa smoking leisurely, and from time to time glancing from the esplanade to a big official envelope he had in his hand. A comrade passed and said, "What are you doing there?" "Iam bearing the President MacMahon's pardon for our friend Fitch mann, who is to be shot this morning," replied the smoker. "Well, then, hury along witli it," said his comrade. "O, no! See, there is hardly a soul on the esplanade, and the firing platoon lias not yet been formed. You surely would not have me rob my appearance of all dramatic effect." A woman, formerly wealthy, who lately died in the charity hospital. Paris, had as a sole remnant of her former fortune an arm chair which once belonged to the Austrian empress Maria Theresa. After her death it was sent to her daughter, Marie Antoinette, queen of France, and formed part of the furniture in Louis XVI.'s prison cell. After Iiis death it was purchased by one Clery and cold in England to the prince regent, who gave it to his brother, the duke of Cumberland. The latter took it to Berlin and ordered it upholstered. The upholsterer

found in the seat a costly diamond pin, a portrait and some manuscripts. He said nothing regarding his discovery, and sold the pin and portrait to one Naundorf, a jeweler, to whom he also gave the manuscripts. The latter found the letters to be instructions on the part of Louis XVI. to his son, the dauphin, and also discovered the portrait to be that of the dauphin. Naundorf endeavored a few years afterward to pass himself off for the dauphin, who was supposed to have died in prison, but whose fate had never been definitely ascertained. The uphoMerer being on his deat hi ed soon after, confessed his guilt and exposed Naundorfs pretensions. Olive Logan writes: The recent actions for damages for defamation of charecter which the empress' mother, the Countess de Montijo, has instituted against more than a hundred journals in France, have revealed the fact that Eugenie is the granddaughter o.' an American. Yes, the Empress Eugenie's grandfather was the United States consul at Malaga under Andrew Jackson's presidency, and was also engaged in the highly honorable though not either aristocratic, diplomatic or consular occupation of selling groceries. This American family afterward settled in Glasgow, and the "'Misses Kirkpatricks" whom we saw in Paris were its youthful representatives, and her majesty's very first cousins, being daughters of the Countess de Monti jo's sister, the grand-daughters (like Eugenie) of the American consul and grocer at Malaga. So there you. have it. The scandal against Eugenie was, you remember, that she was born three years after the death of the Count de Montijo, and was the illegitimate daughter of a dissolute noble who traced bis lineage back to the Montezumas, whose arms Eugenie has always quartered with her Napoleonic bearings, without the addition of the bar sinister. Like a sensible and honorable woman, Mine, de Montijo has shown that Eugenie was born in wedlock, that Count de Montijo descended from the Montezumas, and that she herself was the daughter of the American consul aforesaid. There is no bar sinister anywhere around. The St. Louis Republican thus expresses itself: "We are unable to see any particular benefit in the proposed bill establishing a system of marriage licenses. Such a change can never be made of any consequence as a branch of revenue, but becomes an annoying exaction, exercising a repressive influence on youthful affection and the population of the state. The legislatures of Missouri have killed such a bill more than once before, and we rather expect the same thing will happen now. The present law in

torce is liberal in its provisions, and probably as effective as any that can be prepared. It prohibits, under penalty, the marriage of minors, and requires all marriages to Improperly recorded, and we see very little ue in trying to go any further When persons of the proper age desire to get married the state has no interest in embarrassing their, actions. 'Let them marry,' as St. Panl says, but let it be done ' 'decently and in order.' As to hunting round for licences, and witnesses, and magistrates as is still done in England and continental Europe, no practical lenetits result. In addition to ministers of the gospel, authorize the proper public officers to perform marriages with all proper caution for the legal status of the parties, and a public record of the facts, and there let the matter rest. If the aim of western legislation is to abolish unnecessary forms and to simplify the operation of the law on all matters connected with social development and growth, there is little use in the law in question." Honor has been at a premium or at a discount, as the case may be, in the good old French town of Cannes. On the day before Christmas one of the local papers made some unpleasant insinuations in regard to the wife of M. Adam, a French senator. Her husband read the article in Paris and started for Cannes. "Who wrote that infamous article"?" asked the senator. "It was I," said M. Itancurel, the editor. "Ah, indeed! then take that," rejoined the senator, slapping the editor's face. "No, no!" stammered the editor; "I was mistaken; it was not 1; it was M. Kigal." The senator left the office and dispatched two friends to M. Iiigal's house. The callenge was accepted and a day was sat. When the four seconds met to complete the arrangements for the duel, a letter from the editor was read in which he confessed that he had written the article and that he had attributed its authorship to his friend merely because he was overcome with fear. The senator went to Taris to attend to his public engagements, but threatened to return as soon as possible to seek satisfaction. But he is not likely to get it, for the editor has disappeared from Cannes, after writing the following lines to a friend: "You are aware of my private embarrassments. The affair which has happened between M. Adam and myself, which it is impossible for me to come out of with honor, has driven me to despair. By the time you receive this letter 1 shall have ceased to exist. If the sea casts up my body, will you bury me by the side of toy son in the Protestant cemetery of Nice. Be kind enough to go to my office. You will find in my desk a red note book, on which are written the words, 'Petites Infamies.' Keep what it contains profoundly seoret. Life is unbearable. Adieu, my best and only friend." The medical management of the voice is Suite as imjortant as the manner of its prouction. and the professor of singing and the medical musical trainer ought to coalesce. Dr. Brown pointed out the mistakes made by teachers in their endeavors to convert contraltos into sopranos and baritones into tenors. He said rightly that the voice should be always exercised in notes well within the range of the singer; be was opposed to the exercise of the voice to its extreme limit. He protested against tbe supposition of the existence of any universal medicine to regenerate a lost voice, and blamed the practice of singing masters prescribing for their pupils remedies they could know nothing about. The general health should be cared for on general princi i les. As for the stimulants used by singers. e was opposed to any aiconouc drinks. On this point the lecture? might have cited the various modes adopted by singers, for most certainly Malibran never injured her magnificent voice by drinking before she sang porter.which she would have out of the pewter; and Orisi was never so grand in the last act of Norma as when she had taken i bottle of Dublin stout. Mr. Sims Reeves is opposed to stimulants; be recommends a glycerine lozenge; but Rubini drank a bottle of claret, and Duprez was never in finer condition for his ut dt jxiitrltxe in the final $cena of "Arnold" in William Tell than when he had taken a pint of champagne. We have known some prime thinnc who prefer port, and there was one British baritone of note who took gin as a&timulant. No two constitutions are alike, and what would be poUon to one is salvation to the other.

FOR THE LADIES.

Sow I Lay 91 e Down To Sleep. BY M. R. It. "Now, I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep" So the baby learned her prayer, Kneel I ut? by her mother rliair; In her little bed-gown white, Said It over every night; Learning in her childish way How a little e hild could prav. "Now I lay me down to sleep" Said the child a maiden grown; Thinking, with a backward glance, How the happy past had flown. Since, beside tier mother's knee With a child's humility, She had Kaid her simple prayer, " Feeling safe In Jesusrcare. "I pray the Ixjrd my soul to keep" Yet the words were careless said; Lightly had the hand or Time I Aid his fingers on her head; On I Jfe's golden afternoon Juy the bells and sweet the tune. And upon her wedding day She had half forgot to pray. "Now I lay me down to nleep" How the words came back again. With a measure that was born Half of pleasure, half of pain; Kneeling by a cradle bed. With a hand upon each head, Hose the old prayer, soft and slow As a brooklet in its flow. All alone, with bended head. She has nothing but her dead ; Yet. with heart so full of cure, Still her Hps repeat the prayer; liest at last! oh, storm-tossed soul! Safe beyond the breaker's roll; He, the Lord, her soul shall keep, Now she lays her down to sleep. Church Journal. No bustles are worn in the street at the moment. No fashionable lady wears a Gainsborough or large hat to the theater or opera. House dresses are made simply this season of woolen fabrics with piping and pocket of silk. Ladies wear fewer robes now-a-days and more suit dresses in the house. The outside seam of a tight sleeve is sometimes left open for two inches, and in this opening there is a fine kilting of silk inserted. Sometimes a strap is buttoned across the plaiting. All sorts of fans are in favor this winter, black feather fans with paintings, colored feather fans, lace fans and many other kinds. Very large fans are again used for the theater and opera. The outside of the collar of a woolen cos tume is woolen, the inside silk, while a velvet lining is often seen in a silk collar. It is almost impossible to make the bodies too high in the throat for the present fashion. The fashionable shade of hair just now is the red-gold tint called Titian-red, and belles are not wanting who dye their locks this once unpopular color which a caprice of fashion has brought to the height of public favor. The most fashionable morning robe is trimmed profusely with stamped velvet, all the facings, revers and pockets being made entirely of the velvet and edged with silk pipings of the same shade as the material from which the robe is constructed. A very good way cf freshening up a velvet or velveteen skirt, soiled round the bottom, is to shorten it and cut it into square tabs, sewing on a puss underneath for them to rest upon; The pass may be made of silk or cashmere, matching exactly the color of the dress. Turned-down collars have as yet found no favor. The small erect collar or with cor ners turned down are still used in linen. and the first named is also empIoyeiKas for merly, for the hnishing of polonai jrs and dress bodies, which are cut very high and very long. Small handkerchiefs trimmed with lace. or silk ones with borders, have now quite taken the place of the lace scarfs, and will be used with spring mantles on the removal of furs. When trimmed with lace they are not square, but are more than half square, the upper edee being turned over to form a. straight collar, which is bordered like the lower corner with lace valenciennes, duchesse, cluny or cashmere. Fifty strokes at night before retiring is said to make the driest hair glossy. There are also good alcoholic washes that cleanse the scalp without oiling the hair. The Grecian coil, worn low at the back, with the thickly set front hair drawn back in long loose waves, is still a favorite coiffure with ladies who have classically shaped heads. Sometimes a high hell or ivory comb is put in the coil, but combs are not as popular as they have lately been. The newest way to make a bridal dress, we find, is to cut from white satin a skirt that is of medium length, but having a sweeping court train attached to the back, to trim the entire front with point lace and orange bios-; soms, the whole placed over "ruches of Mechlin tulle of ideal freshness." . The bodice is cut low, elaborately trimmed with a drapery of Mechlin tulle and Honiton int. The front is turther ornamented y a plastron of white jet. The polonaise, the blouse waist and the straight overskirt will be in vogue again during the coming spring and summer the latter stvle is especially appropriate for print and gingham dresses for girls Ladies who use the winter days and evenings to makeup supplies of underwear for rpring and summer are recommended to try the French percale, which is light, very soft, durable, and washes easily. It is specially nice for night dresses. Under linen is now fashionably trimmed with the new torchon Smyrna lace, instead of being hand embroidered, a finish which wears as long as the fabric , The greatest novelty in neck-wear is found in a tie of white or black greneadine embelished with Japanese embroidery of quaint colors. There are black scarfs also quaintly garnished with red and blue flowers, while white scarfs are wrought with pretty designs in pale blue, pink and white. Another novelty is the lace necklace, intended only to be worn with dinner and evening dresses of the heaviest and richest materials. It is made of duchesse and round point lace, and consi-Os of a circular band over an inch wide of lace finished on each edge like insertion, and paused around the neck; in front hang pendants of lace in medallion shape, usually from three to five in number. It is said that new linen collars have added to their high English hands two pieces in front as long as a collarette, and laced to gether by white or cardinal lacing strings, or

else buttoned and ornamented with two rows of pearl buttons. The cuffs have similar lacings or buttons. Navy blue and cardinal bands sewed together and embroidered with white still continue to edge breakfast sets of collars and cuffs. A very pretty and economical set of linen may be .made by taking inch-wide edging of 8wiss muslin, embroidered, and putting very narrow Valenciennes on the upper edge and on the ends. The corners are turned over in front and made to meet quite closely. This collar has the English yoke. The cuffs of Swiss muslin are also attached to under-sleeves.

Tbe Grand Fight. Washington Letter to the Courier-Journal.j I am able to state positively that there will be ne diliatory tactics or fillibustering to-morrow, by either party. If there is to be a row, it will come over the vote of Louisiana. The democrats are going to make their grand fight over Loisiana. Their coun sei, Messrs. John A. Campbell, Matt Carpenter and Lyman Trumbull, have thoroughly studied the case, and will present it in ail its strengen. The objectors will be Senator McDonald, of Indiana, and Ilepresentatve Jenfcs, of Pennsylvania. Their first point of assault will be the question of the jurisdiction of the returning board and its illegality. Probably this question will be decided separately. If adverse to the board, the vote is lost to Hayes, asd this hard fight practically ended. In one respect there will be an important change of tactics on the part of the democratic counsel. They will not offer a mass of evidence, as in the case of Florida, but will offer to prove in .turn specific case3 of fraud , mutilation of the records and other illegal acta. This offer will be made in public, and the republicans on the commission, if they refuse to receive such proof, will go down to posterity with an enduring infamy. If such proof be shut out I look for an explosion that may mar Mr. John Sherman's scheme of going into the treasury department. EXCESSIVE INTEREST. Representative Warrnm N peak a In Fal vor of the Bill to Forbid It. In his speech on the interest question in the house yesterday, Mr. Warrum said: Gentlemen objected t all bills which propose to reduce the legal rates of interest, because they say if it is done capital will be driven out of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, if the $90,000,000 now loaned in this state on mortgage security were a thousand miles away, and these lands were free, it would be a blessing. The interest drained out of the state by these loans is three times as much as is collected by all our state taxes. It is crushing all our industries and bankrupting our people. Gentlemen had better look a little to the intcKsts of our constituents instead of being so tender of the rights of capital. The people are calling for relief, and you must relieve them, or you will never be returned to this body again. Gentlemen say that if interest is reduced by law, it will be exacted privately or indirectly. Munt we legalize wrong to keep men from doing it illegally? Hut 6uppose men pay premiums or enormous interest as at present. When it is done it is done once for all. It is not the eternal grinding of your law . exacting 10 per cent, year after year on judgment running forever, crushing men down and keeping them down Your interest laws are spreading ruin on every hand, and thousands will be rendered paupers by law in the enforcement of the outrageous contracts already made. I am one of tbe eople, and I stand for them on this floor. Capital is strong enough without law, and I beg you to look to the protection of the people. T1IEJ PEOPLE'S KKRVAXT8. Some Little etleeof i Few ofOnr Representative .and What They Are Doing. Among the members of the house of represenatives, none deserve the confidence and respect of their constituents more than Representatives Warrum, from Hancock county; Ferigo, from Warrick; Ilenz, from Crawford and Orange; Ueno, from Harrison, and Stewart from Fike. These gentlemen are always to be fouiid in their seats during the sittings of the house, ready to do battle for any measure that may further the interests of their constituent, and to make a rigorous opposition to bi 11sthat might retard thp growth of Indiana's interests. 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