Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1885 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1835.

AN ACCIDENT.

Xew York Time;. No one ever knew where tin- child came from, or even its name. One day a s!ooj freighted with hrick was -unloading uj town, and a hand on deck was ttin;? bricks, two by two. to another man on the dock. All of a sudden a wee little clkap, not more than two years old, came toddlin? along, tot right in the way, and was knocked over by the flying bricks. Hill Forster, who was handling the load, was a rough man. It had not been exactly his fault that the child had been knocked down, still he felt very sorry for it. The little fellow's head was badly cut and he was stunned. He was.cjirried into the cabin of the sloop and there lay quite motionless. The Captain of the bloopj)Cnt to the police station, and the surgeon came. The child -was carefully examined. The surgeon said the case might be a serious one, and that the little boy had better be taken to the hospital. J'orster Lad a sister, who worked in a laundry, and -;t once lie sent for her. Molly For-ter hurried down to the wharf, took the child in her lap and listened lreatlKd y to what the surgeon ail. The cabin of the brick sloop wa not a luttuKonie place to look at. It was dirty and slovenly, hot and close. Molly Förster set alout making it tidy. She opened the little windows of the cabin, and kept oft" the crowd who were swarming in the narrow quarter.-. She fanned the child, laid it on a coarse pillow, having first spread her clean apron over it. and bathed the poor baby's head, trying to staunch the How of blood from the wound. If," said the surgeon, you could keep the child perfectly iiiet for a while it would be all for the better. I am afraid to jolt him in the ambulance. Maybe he will come to before, long. It i? rather -cooler here on the river than in the hot ward? of the hospital. Can you take charge of him until I come back? I will see you this evening.'7 Molly had already torn up her handkerchief and bandaged the Child s head. Now she followed the surgeon's directions. The dot-tor was a humane man. for when he left he put a half dollar into Molly's hand and told her to buy some ice to cool the water she was lining on the bandage-. Moll' For-ter fanned and fanned that little su Merer, and bathed its head, and wa tender with the child. About sunset the surireon came again, and just then the child opened his eyes. "Well, that's a good sign," said the lector. '"Now hadn't you better advertise him Mine no one ha? come for hi m? Somebody m ill claim him, I v.ppose. I can arrange for on to keep him if you want to." Although the accident was reported in two brief lines in all the newspapers, and notwithstanding the trforts of the jtolice to find the parents of the child, no one ever cam for it. All that night Molly Förster nursed the child. Occasi dually Iii 11 would push Ids bard-lined and weather-beaten face into the . cabin window and look wistfully at the little c hild. He never went to sleep that night, but kept walking wistfully up and down the leck. At daybreak he said to Molly in a Jioar-e whi-r: "Molly, take that kid to vour room. It"? sot to be done." Hill Förster, who was a man of forty, I have said, wa rough. I do not know how it happens, but handling bricks seems 1o make jtople course ami rather brutal. Hill would take not only one glass of whisky, but as many as he could drink. Mixing with a -rowd of men worse than he was who frc'iuented riimsbops. he was much given to lighting, and Iii- face was as often as not dis1 inured with a black eye tu-a cut lip. Hill tarnt! aljout il.'Si a day, and when the week was up he never "had a jK-nny left. lYrliay. if Iii 1 1 had not been a little drowsy jnid stupid that morning from t much li'iuor the day itefore when the littl chap got in the way he ( Hill) would have vuen more careful how he threw his bricks. The week after Molly had taken charge of t be chihl Hill resi-itcd "the temptation to go -on a spree and gave his sister 1..'). That Was the llrsl lime fur vinr tint l, lii.t ..ii.e j-avetl a cent. The week after that Hill tlid even U tter. There was Molly working as hard as she could at the washboard or iron-itijr-lKiard, earnirisr --vpnty cents a tiav- ami feeding tho child. That shamed Hill. It ha pinned that the little 1oy' short frock l:al been staineil with bloo!. Molly had careful! y washed it, but still Hill thought he saw stains on it ami that worried him sick. Next week, when lie saw his' sister, who was waiting on the wharf for him with the little fellow in her arms, he said: ''See here, IMoIly. iff kind of hard on you. having to feed tliis little fellow. Hread and milk and potatoes costs money, and nursing him takes away lots i4 your time. Anyways, a dressing of tliat kid would be just ruination to von. Here's I.."r for his keep, and here s M besides, and buy calico or something and make a frock for that child, and mind you burn the one he's got on. and next time I sees him let him be looking prime. Won't JOU? "It's mighty pood of you. Kill and just you wail. I'll rig him out. He isn't a bit i trouble. When I'm at work I take him to tlw laundry, and lie's a real et there. I us-d to l afraid was kind of dazed but lernt you bother, Hill, he' all right, for he takes to playing now. He's only quiet on account cf Ids natural sweetne all real jrotxl children's that way and I love him, jit as if he was my own baby." On tlve next trip to the Sörth Uiver Ulli

Forster pondered a great deal over the chit J. The fact is the child, whether he was awake or asleep. wa never for a moment out of Hill's mind. He had never thought much about anything before, and it was hard work for him to think at all. Maybe because for more than one-half his life hij -brain had been muddled with liquor he had never set it working. As the empty sloop floated up tlie bread river, slowly "moving with the tide. Hill sat in the hade ff the Happitijr jib and argued with himself, and the general conclusions arrived at were by no means Uattering to hiiust-lf. ' The beginning and the ending of this here is rum. I've wasted n'uii on to twentyfive years of mv life. Why hadn't the boom of that niainail knocked "the stupid brains out of me before this? What have I to show for forty year- of life? Ju.-t these here ra.:;red and brickoiled clothes I stand in. (. ante near murdering a child, did you, you pod-foriiothing boat? Didn't have no better sense nor that? A herding with drunken sailors, you bis blackguard, and not knowing nothing better? Just fitten to toss brick- from on and orf a sloop. That's the be.-t you kin do. You took a drink this morning, and you feel sharp set for another just this blessed minute. You can't get it because you are on the river where grog shops ain't Moating round. Ain't you man enough to go to Have rt raw and no matter what hapjens say, Hill Forste-, don't you take another drink, no matter if another fellow does stand treat? There's lots of thing that kid wants. There's a whip. Likewise a pair of shoes, and when winter comes Manuel etticoats and woo! socks, likewise Christmas present?. Now, you loafer of a Hill For.-tor, every time you see the lottom of a glass ain't you puzzling down something" that little shaver wants? Maylx it's just like you. you whitelivered purp- vou'll be letting your si-ter be a taking of the victuals out "of her own mouth so as to feed 'em to that chilJ, aid it was you as shoved the kid on her. Maybe vou'll be hunting around for more babies to knock over with biicks, you good for nothing I'ortujree." When Hill had called him-elf a Portuguese lie had jxiurcd the last drop from Iiis private vial of wrath on his own head. Hill helped to load the sloop with brick at llaverstraw, and although it was a hot, sultrv day and the work was heavy, he never took a drink. The other hands might come back smacking their lip- and bantering him. but he stood firm. "No ue. bovs." said Hill. ''I did the busi

ness for that baby and once is enough. I have got to take "keer of him. It stands to reason. None of you is family men like me. I kin stand as much running as the best of you. but don't you try and rub it in too steep. I hain't got the reputation of being sveet-temiered. and mebbe I kin teach some of you manner-." ft must be stated that there really was no necessity for Hill's excited words, for the hands on the sloop seemed to take in the situation at once, and rather respected the way Hill assumed his self-itnjKed duties. Uown the river Hill was thinking what name the child ought to have. Should it be Ceorgc Washington, I'lys-es Grant, or Mo-es? He knew all the names of the steamboats going up to Albany, and to call toechild "Albany'' or "Vibbard " was suggested to him. At last he made up his mind that Molly should have the naming of the child. '"She's got most rights to him, anyways." Then he felt kind of melanc holy with the idea that somebody might come later and claim the child. Kill had never read a story Ixok in his life, so no romance of a rich lather and mother coming in a carriage to demand their lost baby presented itself to his imagination. Kill became parsimonious, and that week saved almost every cent of his wages. He begrudged himself even the tobacco he chewed. He only kept sufficient money for his most meager wants. He never took a drink and declined being treated. To Molly he gave Iiis money. Sure enough the little boy. when Kill next saw him. had on a new frock, and with what pride Moll- presented him to her brother! "He jut looks like a daisy. Molly. Isn't he pretty? Kind of sleepy, ain't he, Molly?" "He tloes sleep a good deal, but that's natural, Kill. Much you know uliout babies! Hut. Kill, what's this pile of money for? I ain't sjent all you gave me yet. 1 don't need it, and the child don't. His cost for keep is so little. It's mighty good of vou, Kill: and now and then you can give him a bit of clothes. As you say. when winter comes the poor little lamb will want thicker things, and they will cost more money. Here, I ain't going to take this, depriving you of your liard-earned wages." and Molly made a motion as if to return the handful of silver. "Hut, Moll, just hold hard a minute. He mayn't want it now. Supjosin' work was slack and I didn't earn nothing. You have got to keep the cash for the time the loy gniws. He's got to go to school, and has got to look as nice as any other boy. He's to be heddicatedr-know something more nor handling bricks. Don't lie do a lot of sleeping, Molly?" inquired Kill, anxiously. "Oh! don't you keep worrying about him. He's been playing ever so sweet. Maybe he's one of them children what talks late in life, and they, so 1 hear tell, is always the smartest in the long run. Fact is. Hill, I have a surprise for you. He never said a word before yesterday. I was afraid myself he was kind of dumb." Kill averted his face and then looked out on the water, for the brother and sister were talking on the clock. "Kut but to-day. Kill, he said 'mudder' so sweet, and then lie said it over and over again and held out his pretty mouth to be kissed. Oh, Kill, his senses is coming back to him, slow, but sure." And Moliy cuddled the sleeping child closer to her breast. Kill kept right on in the good way he had planned for himself, and never swerved a nair's breadth. Molly was his savings bank. Krotherand si-tcrcontributrd to the child's stipori. Ina month Kill was richer than he had ever been in his life. Then he insi-ted that Molly should rent a better room. The one she lived in. he said, looked out on a dingy, dreary back yard. "Stands to reason." said Hill, "that a baby should see horses and trucks and things a moving alxnit in the streets. It make thein livelv." "Little Kill 'so they called him, Molly insisting that her brother's name should serve for the child improved, but too slowly for big Hill. The l'olic-e Surgeon was t allied in. Kill Former insisting on paying him a fee. The opinion the doctor gave was a guarded one. "There is manifest improvement not. jerhaps. as rapid as I should wish. You are a capital nurse, ma'am, and I am sure your kindness and attention will help the child. He will come round, I believe." The cool weather came, and with lowering temperatures the doctor hoped the child would gain strength. The cicatrice on the head had juite healed. Slowly the little boy seemed to acquire new words. Molly wondered at tbem at times, mid tboilglit that she had taught them to the child; but then' again the little fellow's adopted mother was ftartled by words she felt tiiite certain the child iiad picked up somewhere else. These new words came to the child at first vaguely. He would reeat them over and over again, at first hesitatingly, then giving them a slight emphasis, as if to fix them on his mind, something like a little bird that pipes the first faint tune it has heard. The child was more awake now. This change delighted Molly. It never was fretful. The child would lay quiet, with its blue eyes wide ojen for hours, without a wliiinJXT. So it went on for ancfl her week or two. Kill, who was always coining or going, when he left New York for a trip up the river, was happy, for the child was bettering fast, so he believed. It wai an October evening when, as the brick sloop was being brought up to the wharf. Kill saw Molly leaning against one of the big wooden posts of the dock. Kill was busy with his hawser, but at once he saw that his sister did not have the child in her arm: more than thafc she was crying. Kill choked down his grief he seemed to know nt once what had happened. One last lioi- there was. Maybe it was. cw

that Molly had been afraid to brinj the child with her." "Kill." said Molly, sobbing, "the poor little fellow lias gone to to heaven. It was la.-t night. He called to nie and said: 'Goodnight, mud-der; good-night, far-der now I am going walking in a garden good goodnight!' Oh, Hill, he had never spoken so

long a string of words before then he played for a moment with a ring on my hnger, and then he added, 'God bless far-der and mudder, and then he looked so lovingly at nie. and around the room as if searching for you and then he diet! so quiet! Hill! Bill! don't you take on so! It was an accident, and tiod and his little child have no fault to tind with. OFFENSIVE PARTISANS. XV. II. Harn it in Visit Washington to Get a ManAoinll Post inn str. New York Suu special. At the request of a'certaiu member of Congress from one of the NewF.ngland States, Mr. William H. Karnum consented to make with him a call upon the First Assistant Postmaster General, Mr. Hay. The object of the visit was to secure the appointment of several long-trained . lH?mocrats as Postmasters in a number of Postofhccs in the State of the Congressman. Mr. Hay received the Chairman of the Ienfcratic National Committee and the member of Congress w ith the same courtesy and consideration that he was accustomed to bestow uin even the most humble citizen. The following conversation took place: "Mr. , who represents the District in t'ongress." said Mr. Karnuni. ''has called with me in reference to certain appointments that come within your ottice. The district is a close one. Mr. is personally acquainted with many of Hiebest men in it. and you probably would be glad to hear Iiis recommendations, as you must be entirely ignorant of the eople there." "No Postmaster will be removed except for offensive partisanship," said Mr. Hay. "What, ruäy I ask. constitutes offensive partisanship," inquired the Congressman. "You should know what an offensive partizan is," Mr. Hay replied. "Attending caucuses, conventions, serving as Chairman of important committees would be so regarded?" suggested the Congressman. "I'tidoubtedly." "Hut the Postmaster at A. has done none of these things." "Is he a KepuUkan?" "Ye?" "Is he unfaithful in his duties?" "No." "Is he a bad man?" "No, he's a mighty good tellow: but he's a Kepublican. and lie "e.ectsto go." "If you will make a written statement that lie is unfaithful, incompetent, or has been an offensive partisan, 1 will remove him." "I'll be hanged if I will. He's a Kepublican: that's enough, isn't it?" "No, it is not enough." 'Hoes not the fac t that a man is a Kepublican constitute an offensive partisan?' asked Mr. Karnum. "Must we make it a personal matter, and accuse a man of criminality?" "1 will not make a change without some charges." Here Mr. Karnum became somewhat annoyed. "We will see, sir, whether this man is not removed,'" and the Chairman of the National Committee and Congressman sought Mr. Yilas. "Is it necessary." Mr. Karnum asked wf the Postmaster General, "that we should bring an indictment against an officeholder before we can secure a change'.'" "If you will put it in writing that the man is an offensive partisan I will remove him." "I will put it in.writing that he is a Kepublican. and therefore an offensive partisan," said Mr. Karnum. The Postmaster General was, of course, anxious to meet the wishes of the man to whom above all others he is indebted for his extraordinary and sudden joIitical advancement. "Very well. That will do, Mr. Karnum." When the accusation had been put in writing Mr. Yilas said to Mr. Karnum: "Your man will be appointed, but if it should turn out that we you and I have been deceived, and that the present incumbent is not an offensive partisan, and the man you desire apjointed is an inoffensive partisan, then I will turn the new Postmaster out and put the old one back again. Good morning." "Tell me," said the Congressman, who a few days ago told this story, "that the new administration isn't in love with Eaton's civil service reform! It is, and I was so well assured of it that I did not offer a single other application. I made up my mind that Congressmen were a sort of to-be-tolerated nuisance, and so I've come home. Weil, there's going to be funny times. I believe Congress sits next winter." WOMEN IN POLITICS. Four l eiuate Candidates in Montana on the Stump. Il'ittshurR Commercial Cazc tte, At the last local election in Montana there were four women in the held running for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, and. like the other sex, ran on the straight-out political tickets, either as Kepublicans, Iemocrats, or Independents. That canvas, when the giHs took the stump against their male conipetors, was one of tlie most am ising things that ever happened. Miss Clark, in Ix'wis and Clarke county, is not only a talented young lady, but also an an expert politician. Iy the votes of the hoys she got there all right, and left her antagonist far in the rear, a dazed and defeated candidate. In Meagher County two girls were pitted against each other, and the tight was quite lively. Miss Da.-cy was the candidate of the unwashed Democrats, while Miss Nicholas mustered with the Kepublican boys. In the tight broomsticks, hairpins, hustle iveM were the weajons used, and for a while it was beyond the prophecy of a man to foretell which destructive veajon would be the most formidable and death-dealing. It was hard to tell which one of the young hi dies was; the handsomest, but at a distance everltody presumed that both were lovely. Well, "everylody voted, as everybody "should, and Miss Oarcy won the day. but her defeated rival claimed, and justly, too, that her defeat reflected in no way jcrsonally upon helself, as Meagher County was, and always had been I enioeratic. In Gallatin County Miss Hamilton announced herself as an independent candidate. One of tlie (ialatiu County paen, the organ and backer of Miss Hamilton, came out a day or two before the elec tion as follow: "Hamilton enters the field against the otlds of regular party nomination. Hamilton has got sand, ami she will etay until the jh11s close. Hamilton should be elected. She says she isn't afraid of road agTNfci, and that education is her forte; also that it would allbrd her pleasure to hop around from one country school house to another in the performance of her duty. The men of Gallatin are confounded mean if they don't run Hamilton in." v.c. Nevertheless, Hamilton was defeated, and Gallatin County has a male Superintendent o Public Instruction. Toule, Alterative Hint Cathartic. s-immons' Liver regulator, purely vegetable, is not unpleasant to the taste. It is the medicine generally used in the South to arouse the torpid liver to healthy action. It cures malaria, biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, constipation and piles. The action of the Kcgulator is free from nausea or griping. It is mo effective in starting the secretions of the liver, causing the bile to net as a cathartic. When there is an excess of bile in the Momacn, the Kegulator is nn active purge. After the removal of the bile, it will regulate the Uwels and impart vigor and LealtU to the. whyle ?ysteni

FASHION AS IT FLIES.

Some cf the Very Latest Styles in Femiaine ApparsL Hand-Made Lace Denii-Seaon I)rese for Traveling, Shopping and Morning Wear vr Fancies of General Interest to the Fair Sex. Croc het lace, in beautiful Irish oint patterns, or the tricot and pearlingrs of Maltese, or the geometric of Greek guipure, is highly commended as an adjunct to artistic dressing. It is the only real lace in reach which has richness of old joints without an expense of time and money beyond reason. It is u&rie in smooth Italian linen thread, which is much better finished than Scotch or Irish thread, for general purposes, and specially for furniture; in tream Saxony wool for trimming stuff dresses: in creamy undyed silk for ric h cardinal collars and cuffs to wear with velvet, and in black twist for trimming silks. Young women anxious to produce something that will replenish tiieir purses will take the laut and devote themselves to this pretty art. The present fashion of wearing lace will give fresh work to clever fingers, as all varieties of needle and bone lace are called into use, including sorts that used to be devoted to underwear rnd toilet trimming. The hand-knit edging and insertion in oakleaf pattern of gray linen thread looks weil on red or blue twill. bong striies of lace are knit for insertion in the apron draperies of fall dresses. Whole aprons are knit of wool or thread in the open patterns once sacred to chair tidies, and look very well over dark red or blue dresses. The finest zephyr wools in green, sky-blue, or dark shades are knit in alternate stripes with cream wool, or cream and gold in dress sets, which combine apron, vest or lichu, sleeve rutrles and Hounces. overdresses of cream or colored wool, exquisitely light and warm are made for a few wearers, and are so charming that we may expect an episode of knitting toilets from robes de chanhres to traveling wraps. Why not? They are next to fur in warmth, anil less burdensome in price., while prettier than anything else that is seasonable. Kest of all, they are weightless, ami the nearer we come to making dress a featherweight the better for the health of our nervous women. 1EMI-SEVoX IUIEssF.s. Fo r de mi-season dresses for traveling, shopping, 'and for morning wear navy blue alpaca is being made up in imitation of the graceful gowns worn tluring the summer by the Princess of Wales and her daughters." For very young ladies silver braid or white mohair has formed the trimmings, the mohair being used as a narrow vest, high collur, and straight cutis, with rows of braid along the edges, and also on the sash drajieries that are worn with a kilt skirt. For autumn dresses black braid, or else dark blue Herc ules braid, will take the place of metal braids, and either velvet or plush will be used for the vest, cuffs, and collar. Ixng over-skirts that are made like the housemaid SKirt. and looped up on one side or both, will be used with these dresses, and there may be rows of braid or of velvet ribbon for the trimming. A side panel of velvet will be chosen by those who prefer pleated skirts with Greek draperies. f he new shade of brown, called lynx brown, is also being made up in mohair and alpaca dresses for the three autumn months, when canvas dresses will be too thin and cloth too heavy for comfort. Gilt braid will be sparingly used on such dresses' rather as a piping or celling for brown velvet than in many showy rows or in the vermicelli patterns lately used. Wide wool galloons and wgol laces that are embroidered lightly with gilt are rich trimmings for lynx brown mohairs, while sdver threads are wrought in similar trimmings for gray dresses. The mixed red and blue laces are also being used to trim blue alpacas, and with these are sometimes seen velvets of the two colors, in stripes or in very small figures, for the small accessories ol the corsage. The correct idea, however, in such dresses is to have them exceedingly plain, depending upon their fine fit for their beauty. When lace is used on mohair, it is most stylish when confined to the lower skirt: a single deep fall of lace, very slightly gathered, crosses the front and side gores, or else there are two or three narrower rutrles of lace across the front, ami several rows are placed up the left side in the space Mt uncovered by the drapery, Still another plan is that of edgingside pleats with .narrow wool lace, and forming the front and sides of the skirt of these pleats. When braid is chosen for trimming, the new fancy is to form the front breadth of two very wide box pleats, covering these with clusters of cross rows of the braid, lengthening each row in the cluster, and curling up the ends toward the sides, a pointed plastron made in the same tray then trims the corsage, and similar iints are on the sleeves. To complete such a suit for travelling there should be a long blue or brown cloth ulster, and a bonnet of rough blue straw with the brim covered with blue or brown velvet, as is most becoming to the wearer. A rosette of braid or of wool lace, or some "donkey'scar loops" of wool or of crape, should trim the close round hat of felt or straw that many ladies prefer to lxiniuts. NKW K.l.M IKS. Tartan velvets in the colors used by tho Scotch clans are to be worn as dress trimmings, and also on bonnets. Fancy ribbons of great width covered with flowers or having alternate stripes of watere 1 silk or faille and etamine interwoven with metalic thread have superseded morie antique sashes. Two styles of wraps seem certain to Ik: popular this fall tlie cloth mantle, with long fronts, and the short jacket, with loose sack front, both of which were among the high novelties of In-t spring. Among thodry pods buyer who have been laying in stocks for autumn the colors to rule tire said to be: Krowns, mt of them with a glint of gold ora touch of red; greens, with yellowish tinges; blues with metallic lustre, leaden, rather than steel ; red in warm, bright lines. The white dresses so jiopular during the surcmer for general wear will remain in favor for house dresse.s throughout the autumn. Those made if white serge will have a touch of color r-dded by a vest, collar, and cull's tf the new plush with loiifr pile, ami dotted with metal-like. Wads. White pique- dresses, with a vest of blue or black velvet, will still le worn by those who object to wool goods. A small Spanish jac ket of velvet or plush, rounded or square in front, and edged with the new rosary beads, will also be worn with white dresse in the house. Stries lont largely on the horizon of the coming season. Many of the more recent plate in foreign fashion journals show stripes in combination with plain goods. Pekin stritfs all in one color, an'. strijes in two, three or more shades, bid fair to be equally liked. Two of the costumes made by lUclfern for the Princess Keatrice are of brown cloth striped with red and cream; one in distinct striies, the other a brown strie allering with a decked stripe, in which threads of cream and red are woven irregular' into the brown web. Turkish towelling Is tlie latest fashion for morning and street dresses. First used with caution for collar and revers of blue linen summer dresses and white piques, it proved so acceptable that whole suits of it in white, white and scarlet, or rough ecru are worn at the seaside where some light, warm material, in changes of weather, is very comfortable. The Turkish dresses belong to that commended class which need no ironing. The ecru suits can be washed and sliaken out like a bathing dies.?, JJroad, onvu insertions vt

woven cotton braid or rickrack. knit together is the best trimming, though black velvet rest, collar and cuffs, removable at washing, are in handsome style. The colored linen collars and cuffs lately introduced have generally been adopted for wear with cloth suits, and are especially nice for traveling. Celluloid collars are rarely worn by American women, except with b-dhing suits. They are, however, eagerly adopted by Knglish women for traveling, and the "ueen and other journals for women contain letter after letter in their praise. One woman claims to have traveled all over the continent with one celluloid collar and pair of cuffs to match, which she wiped off every morning with a damp sjonge. Hotter than the jrilded milking stool, the painted Hingham buc ke t, or the decorated Ieach basket, on which idle women employ themselves, is the novel idea of transforming a small pair of folding steps into handy shelves by covering the sides with plush, and having thin boards overlaid with plush to hook on the steps. Tlie support, with due staining and gilding, makes a pretty eael, and the top holds a plant in bloom,a group of caladiums, hybrid clematis in variety, or a pink hydrangea, whit h is a modish tlower just now. When the steps are wanted the shelves are taken out, to be replaced and set in a corner when not in use. This does away with an awkward article which is too necessary to be dis'ensed with. Taking the Itlack Veit. H'ioueer I'ress.J An eye witness thus describes the takin? of the black veil, a few days since, by nineteen young nuns of the Order of St. Kenedict at the Convent of St. Joseph, Stearns County, Minnesota, this being the first time in the history of the Order of St. Keuedict in the United States that the perpetual vows have been taken by as great a number at once. The order in this State is in a nourishing condition, numbering as many as 1 Sisters. It maintains, at the mother house in M. Joseph, an excellent academy, where a trreat number of the young maidens of Minnesota have received and are receiving a valuable Christian education. It manages three orphan asylums, where many a little waif has been housed and made a useful member of society. It also supports nine sub-priories indifferent parts of Minnesota and Dakota. When I entered the church at 8 o'clock a. m., I found a devout congregation gathered to witness the impressive ceremonies. Soon after came the nineteen candidates in the habit of the order, but with long white veils on their beads, walking up the aisle preceded and followed by sisters prominent in the order, and were seated in the front pews. Pouiifical high mass was then celebrated by lit. Kev. Abbot Alexius Kdelbock, the ecclesiastical head of the order in the West. The prelate as well as all the priests officiating were over six feet tall, and in the magnificent robes they looked excellent. -After a very effective and eloquent sermon by Kev. Father Flrik, the rites began. The nineteen sisters moved slowly up toward the high altar, where they knelt in silent devotion. After they went in pairs to the Ahbatial throne where they, after having been asked some questions by the Keverened Abbot, kneeling read one after the other, the .solemn vows, binding them for the term of their natural lives to chastity, obedience and poverty. These vows were written by the candidates themselves on parchment, and after reading them they were conducted to the high altar, where they affixed their signatures to tlie instrument on the sacred gosel book. This ceremony over, the candidates Knelt in front of the high altar in a double row and prayed. Suddenly they all prostrated themselves with their arms extended and their hands folded as if in silent prayer. A deep silence reigned in the church, while the four attending sisters covered all the prostrated candidates with A Hl'OK m.ACK CI.OTIt, in the middle of which- apieared as it was unfolded a large white Kenedictine cross. Candelabrunis with lighted wax candles were placed at each of tlie corners of what now looked like one giant bier, and at each corner one sister in black veil stood with bowed head as if guarding the grave. Now the organist intonates a solemn dirge, and from an unseen choir comes as from a subterranean crypt the doleful strains of the "Miserere.' The efl'ect was immense, and when a solemn "le Profundis" was wafted as if on slow, long wavesover our heads, and the beautiful voices Hooded the immense building you could hear as one sob all over the church. The tolling of the bells ceases, the last deep strains of the "He lrof;indis'' vibrate as in the far distance, the black cloth with the white cross is lifted, the candles disappear, the candidates rise to receive the blessed feast habit of the professed sister (the cuculla, so called i, and which being worn over the ordinary habit is, by the assistance of the sisters in waiting, put on. The Keverened Ablnjt then .presents to each the black veil instead of the white they wear, and places a ring on their lü'gcr 85 a token that they hereafter are

to be the tnu9 oi uinsi, jcreupou the crown of g?ftn leaves flud orange. Mowers is placed on their brows, as a promise of tlie crown of glory they hope once to wear, and Ihc candidates, who have novf become jvrofessed sisters, with silent, slow tread, move toward the pews reserved for them. While the Credo is sung each sister lights a large wax candle, and a beautiful siyrht it is to see the many sisters kneeling, each with a burning t ändle in her hand, held forth as an offering to the Creator. Poring the offertory, while the censers are swung and the liyms of praise waft forth in the high dome, two ami two they move up to the altar and offer their candles to the Lord. This ceremony over, the mass is resumed, and all the candidates receive the holy communion from the hands of the Kcverend Father Abbot, and thereupon his lontilicial benediction, and the solemn rites are over. " Why tlie Gold Standard l'lutlii Favor. New York Sun. J One of the reproaches brought 'against the silvtr dollar is that it will eventually enable debtors to cheat their creditors. The Journal of Commerce, for example, says: "It is not thesilver miners and their stockholders alone, or chiclly, who control our le; islation on this subject. Every man of the debtor class fancies that when the crisis t omes antl silver is virtually made, the pole standard, he will cscaie the enal constv qnence of the change, and can pay every dol lar lie owes with seventy-five- or eighty cents, and save the difference. It is useless to conceal or ignore this widespread belief, and those who wish to inrluenee public opinion in favor of the desired reform may as well address themselves at once to this phase of the subject." There is another phase of the subject, also, which the Journal of Commerce, and those whose opinions it echoes will do well to consider. It is the extort iou which the maintenance of the gold standard enables creditors to practica upon debtors, antl which is tlie real rcuson why that standard tinds favor in tlie eyes of moneyed men. The bonded debt of the United States now amounts to $l,tt,00o.ioi. The aggregate of State debts is about $5O0,tH0.oo, and of countv, city and town debts about TtiO.tWXH). 'Ihe total railroad debt of the country is reckoned in Poor' Manual at Ss?,iOt,otio.ooo. We thus have in these four chsses of obligations more than Sti.0o),no0,oo(), besides the enormous mass of individual debt, the extent of which it is imjx.ssible to estimate. Whether these millions shall be paid in gold or in silver is a question which bus two sides. The debtor naturally favots the medium which will rclicvehini. and Ihe creditor that which will lie most to his advantage. In this part of the country it seems to be generally assumed that only the crieditor is entitled to sympathy, and that the debtor will be dishonest if he does not pay in gold. If there had been no change in the relative value of gold to other commodities since the creation of the debts now to be liquidated, there would be no injugiee in requiring the debtor to pay gold. Hut the fact i that for every dollar of gold lent by a credi tor five years or, more ago he now is getting, back i

purchasing medium worth 120 cents. Merchandise of ail kinds sells now for .v) much less than it did then, that the debtor has to give 'JO per cent, more of it in quantity in order to get a dollar, while with that dollar the creditor can buy 20 per cent, more than he could have bought when he lent it. Hence creditors are pleased with the gold standard, ami debtors are discontented with it. He fere the Journal of Commerce, and other agencies for influencing public opinion, succeed in convincing Congress that the silver dollar is likely to become an instrument of wrong, they will have to show that it is right for creditors to exact from debtors 20 per cent, more than their original debts. At present the gold dollar is an engine of oppression, and if we are to have any change at all, it should be the abolishment of the gold standard and a return to thesilver standard, which for the first half centurv of our national existence was the only standard known to our people. The IltisU County Knir Which will be held on the beautiful grounds at Kushville. Ind., from September 8 to 11, inclusive, will be quite the event of Southeastern Indiana. Thejprogramme is a rich and varied one, promising good entertainment every day. In the sieed ring the colt races are likely to be unusually interesting. The celebrated When Hand, of Indianapolis, will furnish the music, and they are so well known that comment is unnecessary. The management is leaving nothing undone to make the 2!th annual exhibition the most delightful and successful gathering ot the kind ever held in tnis part of the country. Love's Kxrliange, Why bury all endearment in our hearts. And never know the joy of ' ive confessed? He feels the heav'iily bliss that it impurts Who loves, caresses, is loved aud caressed. " Why keep our kisses for the death-cold face, TÖ give them all with unavailing tears? Why uot lcstow thein while they may erase A line of care aud brighten weary years .' The dumb, cold clay will feel no spirit thrill. Xor touch of liiiK'ring; lips, nor last embrace; Endearing words ne'er reach the heart so still When we shall mourn above its resting place. 0 friends. I pray, ye who are friends Indeed, Keep not your kisses for my frozen face; The low, sweet word, the fond caress I need While toiling in life's weary-weighted race. My marble lips ran make no warm return. Nor eves, nor voice can utter love's delight: 1 will not need, nor will mv spirit yearu For love's exchange, when I km still and white. Chicago C urrent. Ir. Mary Walker avers she has had an öfter of marriage.

Notice: In another column will be found an article in which all (whether they will or no) are interested. Neglecting to read it may prove a very serious as well as an expensive atl'air. We refer to the advertisement of Prickly Ash Hitters. A knowledge of its merits'and the benefit you or your family may derive from using it will save not only health but many dollars otherwise expended on "doctors' bills."' Horsford Arid Phosphate DRAXK WITH SODA WATER is delicious. All druggists have it. It is refreshing and cooling. Trv it often! Allen's Brain Foo J arrests all involuntary discharges, removes mental tlespondeney, and restores wonderful power to the generative organs. 1: six for $ö. Inuiggists. or bv mail from J. H. Allen, 313 First avenue, N. Y. Vital Questions! Ask the most eminent physician Of any 6chool, what is the best thin In the world for quieting and allaying all Irritation of the nerves, aud curing all forms of nervous complaints, giving natural, childlike refreshing sleep always? And they will tell you unhesitatingly "Some kiud of Hops'.:!" CHAPTER I. Ask any or all of the most eminent physicians: What is the lest and only remedy that can be relied on to cure all diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs: such as Bright's disease, diabetes, retention, or inability to retain urine, and all the diseases and ailments peculiar to Women" "And they will tell you explicitly aud emphatically "Buchu:::" Ask the same physicians "What is the most reliable and surest cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia; constipation, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, fever, etc., aud they will tell you: Mandrake! or Dandelion!!!!" HcBce, when these remidies arc combined with others equally as valuable. And compounded into Hop Bitters, such a wonderful and mysterious curative power is developed, fib ich is so varied in lis operations that uo disease or ilbhealth can possibly exist or resist ts power, and yet it is Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest Invalid or smallest child to ue. t HAlliK II. "Patients "Almost dead or nearly dying" For years, and Riven up by physicians, of Hright's and other kidnev diseases, liver complaints, severe coughs, called consumption, have been cured. Women p.ne nearly crazy!!!!! From npony of ueiraliria. nervousness, wakefulness, h ml variou- diseases peculiar to women. l'copie are drawn nut of shape from excruciating pangs of rheumatism, iiitlammatury aud chrome, or suffering from scrofula, Erysipelas! "siiltrlienm, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, indigestion, mid. in fact, almost all diseases frail"' ;aturc is heir to Ilflve lecn cured by Hop Bitters, proof of which can W found in every neighborhood in the known world. S None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white lal-el. Shun all the vile. ioisonous slult with "Hop" or "Hops'' mi their name. milium. miiiuininunniinmnni D Think, just because yon have been suffering terribly f) M T vitn. Rheumatism or Meuw j N 1 ralgta. that you must always continue to suffer. Nor think just teeause nobody has leen able to cure you or jour friends, that Keuralgu and Rheumatism are lneurable, D9 Think that a cure is imAil -p possible Just because tue U pi I physicians have been unable I to accomplish it. Nor think that because ATitLOPnoRos has not been known ever since the foundation of tne world, It wCl not aire Rheumatism and Neuralgia. D, Neglect the testimony of i. i -p the hundreds of sufferers who ' VJ I N I have tried ATHLOPH0RO8 and I are now Bound and hearty. Nor think that because you have tried fifty other tilings that failed, that AthlophoKos is like them. Don't be discouraged! The very thing that vill cure Rheumatism and Neuralgia is ATHLOPHOROS. Don't be Skeptical I ATHLOPHOROS has cured others. It will Cure YOU. If yon cannot art ATHMtrHoaoaof yonr dnunriut, we will send it exprww pV on receipt of rtvnUr rrios one dollar per bottl. We prefer that you buy ft from your drugiriat, but If be haon't it. do not be rTmiaWl in try eomethinc else, but or.Aer at once, from urn mm directed. itklcpk::. ca.. 1:2 tin ST., unsf tori. w '

R.B.KENT-Ji LOUISVILLE. KY. KENT'S PILLS Ä Biliousness, Bad Breath, Indigestion, Constipation,. Sick Headachs, Dyspepsia Stomach Troubles, , Keartbirn, Liver Difficulties, and aff diseases of the Stomach A Bowe s. For nale brail Drolt. Price 25 cents a box. DR. JOHN BULL'S 1 II FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and ACUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, AND ALL MALARIAL DISEASES. The proprietor of tail celebrated medicina jnttly Claim for it a inperiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for the SAFE, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT curd of Ague and Fever.or Chilli and Fever.whether of short or long standing. He refers to the entirs Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to tho truth of the assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure if the directions are strictly followed and carried out. In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and lonMtanding cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels ia good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after havinrtakea three or four doses of tbe Tonic, a single dose of KENT'S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS will he sufficient. Use no other. Z3n. JOHN BULL'S SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, , BULL'S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of the Day. Prlaclpal Offlre, Ml rfaia Kt LOUSVII.LE.KT. TBE SCIENCE 6F LIFE. ONLY l BT MAIL POST-PAID. A Great Medical. Work on Manhood, Exhausted Vitality. Nervons and Phrsieul Debility." Premature Decline in Man, Errors of Youth, and the untold miseries resulting from indiscretions or excesses. A book for even- man, youn?, middleaged aud old. 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