Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1889.

KEW FASniOXS IX GOTHAM. I

A FAIR YOUNG WIDOW'S TROUSSEAU. Tern-Gowns A Gray Velvet For Mr. Cleveland What Mr. Iangtrjr and Mri. Frank Leslie Will Wear Fashion Notes. New York, Jan. 4. There is a pretty widow here who will 600n put on th'o chains afresh, and in her trousseau r re throe robber tea-gowns which have stolen the youns affections of every creature ftciinino who have gazed on their charms. One oi theso seducers is of heliotropo velvet shot with yellow, the two colors recalling vividly the dark, bright purple end gold of & pansy blossom. It is made viih princessc back, demi-trained, and is lined with gold ßntin. There arc Luce pocket flaps on the hips made of gold passementerie, like those on a Louis XIV coat. Th- wide eieeves are edged with the F2me passementerie and open over a full gathered fclecvc of palo inauve silk liol i in at the wri-t to a cuff embroidered u-ith gold. The gown i3 designed alter he latest rule of tea costumes, with Bepcrate slip over which the prinocsse robe is worn, the fronts opening from the waist .. I:1 : di . Li , itGlS A l-lClUP.LslE TEA GOWN, downward to disclose a inauve sdlk petticat. richly embroidered with large groups of laburnum b!ossonis in vivid jrreen and toft gold eilks, the exact shades of the leaf and ilower. The second ah-produeer in this trous-M-au could be worn by a tlendtr woman only. It i of white ottoman silk, the ord Leins unusuaiK thick. It is lined throughout with wadded satin of a pale t-1 1 i rumoring blue shade, the wadding n-rinkied with violet powder, and the i wilting executed in a pmall and very rlaborate pattern. The robe is arraged in rgan pla:ts below the waist in the back, an-i in front it fastens all the way down n ith a double row of large opal-tinted i ?tceo buttons united by loops of silk ord. The collar and cuffs are of white strich feather trimming, and a band of the tame makes a heavy border about the bottom of the skirt. The third tea gown belonging to thisr tuach envied young person is a simple . garment, but works the most cruel havo of the trio among susceptible heart strings. It is of Liberty silk of a delicate cpal-sbade, now Hashing rosy pink, now liquid green, now white. It opens on a j-etticoat of pale green surah embroidered v. ith sprays of rosebuds. The priucesso gown is edged up and down the front with ilver lynx fur, which also trims the collar und sleeves. ".ix tea gown.,"' paid a chatty little 3'rench d re maker, pointing to &ix heaps rt velvet and lace and ribbons and fur. " All to ehine under the candlelight at efternoons next week. Two in black and white. Women like black and white this winter. Two in white and gold. Women sdore white and gold this winter. Two in green. Women lose their heads over green this winter." The black and white tea gowns were n ry smart indeed. One was a rieh softpiled black velvet of plain princesse cut, but exquisite in lit, quite loose and eacy, yrt defining everv graceful curve of the ionn. At had a Watteau back and opened o er a front of white surah. The other ias a truly delightful black cashmere, v, ith a deep border of hand-embroidery. Mack on black, about the bottom. It had h loose blouse front of pale cream silk, and the wait was confined by a peasant r-xiice of black velvet laced with black rords. The loose, full tdeeves were gathf red into velvet cutis. One cf the white and gold tea gowns ras of gold and white brocaded satin, the ground being gold an J the raised figures THE HOISE DRESS. Thite. It foil open from the throat to show r bronze ve.'t and petticoat of fine white hjaribh point, in designs of flower garhmda loopt-d with ribbons, the designs 1 'ing outlined on the lace in gold thread. The - waist was encircled by a broad cash of Liberty sil!: of a pale.gold. The second irold and white combinatiort wa3 of amber velvet, the color being rather subdued than bright. The blous front was of rream lace draped very full and fastened tv i tli ccKjOettish bows of narrow ribbon at the side. All the edges, fronts, collar and fkirt were bordered heavily with black 1'ir. It made what they call this winter en "old master" tea gown. One green tea gown was a tea creen jacket, which is an agreeable variation. Jt wa made of smooth-fawd green cloth rut ehort and sharp in front with long Ürectoire coat-tails in the back. The vest was of black crepe draped in many soft folds and embroidered v ith golden bees. A broad sash of this embroidered cicpo appeared from under the jacket fronts, '.vas knotted on one fide and fell to the Letn of the gown. The other green tea gown was of stamped velvet, the ground beinj absinthe, relieved by a large group cf flowers in dark red. It was l.'ned with jvd surah and trimmed with dark fur. One cf the pretty gowns being made for ?-lr. Cleveland by a New Yok dressji;U r is a tray velvet tea-gown. It i3 cut i 'i a novel fashion, loosely craped like a Turkish robe, almost rovered with ciu-

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throat and waist with large frosted silver ornaments. This upper dress is without sleeves and is lined with white silk, and hung so as to show the lining a trine. Under it is worn a petticoat of white moire, the Eloeves being also of this material. Gray velvet slippers finished with white bows and two 6now-white humming birds for the hair are the accessories of this dainty white-house robe. One of the most beautiful of the new imported tea gowns belongs to Mrs. Frank Ieslie. It is of Dubarry pink brocade a kind of modified salmon figured in dark red, and is long and full in the back, with hanging sleeves. The front is a gathered mass of salmon-colored surah, caught at the waist by an inside sash of red silk with ntrured and embroidered ends. Kitty Cheatham, the pretty actress, has a tea gown of the softest dull white silk, in her home, not her theatrical, wardrobe. About the hem of the plain skirt runs a wide border of black fur. A broad collar of fur is drawn about the neck and there i3 more at the waist, whitening the neck and hands like black velvet. Mrs. I jingtry, who pays quite as much attention to gowns to wear at home as to gowns for the stage, has just made from her own design a very fetching tea gown. It has a petticoat of the palest gold camel's hair, a real India fabric, finer and moro costly than inoet silks. Above this skirt conies a blouse of soft gold surah, with a girdle in preeu velvet laced, with gold cords. Over the blouse is worn a 6ouarefronted Kunsian tea-jacket of green velvet, finished at the edges with gold cord and fastening with large gold buttons. From the wah-t hangs a green velvet pocket, attached by a gold chain, and from the pocket peeps a lace handkerchief. The skirt is denii-triinmed behind, but short enough in front to allow a peep at green velvet slippers, with high, gilded heels, and some faint suspicion of green stockings clocked with gold. The most unique tea gown wen this winter is worn by quite a young girl. It has an accordion-plaited skirt of whito wool, overvhich comes a half-long tea coat made in genuine Louis Quatorze fashion, sloping away to show an embroidered waistcoat, both coat and waistcoat being of leather. The sott ooze calf, which is the shoemaker's present favorite, is the material, and it is beaded and stitched with silk to make a very grand garment. The violin gown is one of the tea gown's latest rivals. So many young women have set them?elves in practicing with the bow that the violin gown is the attire in which these musical aspirants are most likely to bo found of an afternoon. The violin gown most often is of a creamy primrose color, the tint which contrasts most splendidly with the dark red of the plished wood. A pale yellow silk skirt, held by a sash of crepe with fringed ends, tied to hang low in front, a round waist with lace sleeves in 6oft puffs about the arms and coming only to the elbows, forms the basis of the violin gown last seen. Clusters of deep red artitical roses delicately perfumed were fastened in the draperies, and a large opal glowed from a bracelet on the wrist. The opal is Im: THK VIOLIN (iOWN. the jewel most frequently worn with the violin gown. When the violin is under the chin and the bow is held high, and the first staccato notes begin then the opal is in its glory. Of a truth theso are the days of the house dress in all its varities. The tea gown does not squeak. It does not remind one at every movement of the armor over which it is drawn. Indeed with its soft Turkish waist the armor can be dispensed with, heno no rob3 was ever devised for a woman more artistic than the tea gown. Long may it reign. l'asliioiTa Fail. A jacket lined throughout with sfjairrel fnr is among late invention of the London tailor. II deserves rank with his best efforts in behalf nf womankind. The halflong sleeve, now so much worn for evening, have often ribbon epaulets, or ehe Ion? strings of eastern looking bead pendent from their lower edgea. IJlaok silk stockings embroidered up the outside of the log to siruulato buttons and buttonholes, o recall a lishop's gaiters as to have a decided ecclesiastical lan. The plain coat sleeve is rarely seen nowadays. But if it suits one's tate it can be made suttieiently dressy by setting four bands of wide velvet diagonally across it. Diamonds and rubies set ia a pattern of ivy leaves upon a background of black enamel irmke the caes of some of the handsomest new wutehes. A do's head in black enamel with collar of pearls is the most unique of mourning fccarf pins. Ixn? scarls of colored lace are even newer than the boa for wear bouS the throat. They hannoniziuucb more completely with the empire gown, but la- k the warmth and richness of fur, and have a certain fly-away or frost-bitten eftert. Fizaro jackets are cow rnede of braid and beeds and lined with bright ailk to match the accessories of the costume. Sometimes the fabrie i in cashmere colors with a good black lining, in which case the confection may accompany almost any toileL r.eception gowns are now cut tremendously low in front. Though the chemisette worn under them comes almost to the ears, its soft whiteness and the pearl ribbon so liberally bestowed on it do but highten instead of softening the titartlintj effect. London furrier are now besieged to sell snap of sealskin. With these, since the Colonial ex position, it is fashionable to line one's hhoes "in the style cf Canada." They aNo make of them collar and cuffs to jerseys and so on, and even line jewel boxes with them. Time to Suit. Jewelers' Weekly! sIie "The watch you sold uie rnns too fast." He "Why, it was perfectly regulated when it left die store." .She "Well, when I get home to Brooklyn it." He "Ah! I understand the case perfectly, madam. Von ce, I thought you lived in Ner.' York. Of course you need a much slower movement Now, you had better keep that one to nse in th city and let me I how you something very nice for th other end of the bridge." The Heredity of Avocation. IPuck.l Mrs. Feltey "Phwat a shame, Julie' not a Loy, John, w ' we cad jet her on th' force, pi;in she's elder!" Offccr IVitey "Whisht, dar-r-lin.th' matron at hid-quarther do be gettin' ould fasht!" One of the Sign. Washington rost. Mr. Doebtful (to fiancee) "I dreamed !d Ji'.h. that I W5 in hades, Fannie." laa-de "What is that the sign of, Harold?" Mr. I)rubtful giie. it must bo a sign C . giLi to get married."

A REMARKABLE PEOPLE.

AKKA DWARFS OF THE CONGO BASIN. Four Feet Hich An Ugly snt Pugnacious Kace Cunning Fycmles Sleeping in the Trees A Vivid Description of a Peculiar Race. None of the remarkable discoveries made by explorers in the depths of Africa, says the New York Svn, has ever excited deeper interest than Schweinfurth's vivid description of the Akka dwarfs whom ho found in the northeastern part of the Congo basin. Living among tribes of splendid physical development, these little people, from four tect to four feet sir inches in height, are noted for their courage and agility, for their prowess as hunters, and for their unusual dexterity in the use of the bow and spear. In a recent lecture in London Prof. Flower, director of the natural history museum, described them as tho smallest people in the world, and expressed the opinion, now generally held, that they and their relatives south of the Congo are the Pygmies who wero known to the Greeks, and ot whom Herodotus and Aristotle gave descriptions that were long believed to be fanciful. The industry of four great travellers, who took up the work of exploration whero Stanley left it, has now supplied us with considerable information about tho remarkable latwa dwarfs, who are spread in little communities througn the densely-wooded regions south of tho great northern bend of the Congo. They have been found in districts about four hundred miles apart and in much of the intervening regions that are still little known. They have boen studied by Wolf near the Lulua river, still further east by Wissmann in the interminable forests which Eunlight hardly penetrates north of the Sankuru, by (irenfel and Von Francois on the Iussera and Tchuapa rivers, and by Oreufell on the Lubilash, southwest of Stanley Falls. These discoveries were made in the years lbv and 1SV5, but the explorers were too busy accumulating facts to prepare them for public perusal, and we have bad only the most fragmentary allusions to these" unique and interesting little folks until the writing of Wolf, Visniann, and Von Francois were published in Germany this summer. Ono day Dr. Wolf was pushing through tho forests east of the Lulua River, w hen he suddenly came upon a little glade in which were about twenty tumble-down bee-hive huts, tho homes of the Batwa. He had seen a few of these little people kept as hunters at the towns of big chiefs, but this was the first timy ho had met them in their own poorly cared for villages. .Some of them could speak the language of the rukuha, tho great tribe which claims this region, but they Avere so awe-struck by the white man's sudden advent that they would hardly Utter a word. A crowd of nearly a hundred coffee-brown little folk?, none of them larger than children twothirds grown, stood timidly at a distance and surveyed the visitors in wonder. Dr. Wolf won their confidence tso far at last that they permitted him to approach, and; unobserved by the natives, he took the bights of many of them on a spearshaft. These and later measurements by Dr. Wolf f full-grown adults varv from four feet three inches to lour feet seven and one-half inches. The average height, according to the several authorities, soemesto be about four feet rive inches. I'nlike the Akka, the Batwa are not unusually prognathous, nor have they disportionateiy large abdomens, but they are compact, wellbuilt little creatures, without any phvsical peculiarity except their small size. Lieut. Wieiuaun, however, received quite an unfavorable impression of tho Batwa from the few hpecimens he saw among the Rassonge, whom ' he describes as dwelling in tiny huts, despised by their neighbors, ill-shaped and woe-begouo specimena of humanity. All through this great forest region may be found these nomad hunters. In little bands of eight or more families they build their grass huts wherever game is plentiful, live there a few months, and then move on to other hunting grounds. Here and there in the woods they dig pits about eight feet deep, which they cover with branches and turf, and in these traps they catch elephants,hipponotami and buffaloes, which are often impaled upon sharpened stakes driven into the bottom of the pits. They also hunt large game with the bow aud'spear. They cannot kill an elephant at once with thoir weapons, but they seldom lose an animal they once wound. Von Francois nays that, lying in ambush, they attack the largest game, and follow it if necessary for days. Whenever the wounded animal halts it becomes the target for a fresh shower of spears, and liually, weakened by the loss of blood, it falls an easy prey. The cunning pygmies incur emull loss of weapons in these long chases after elephants and butTaloes. Their arrow and spear heads are barbed and cannot drop out of the wound, neither do they loose the spear shaft, lor they are fastened by stout cords to tho hea'd, and if the "animal in his ilight brushes against trees, the shafts, instead of fallintr to the ground, merely dangle at his sides. It is not usual for explorers to iind the Batwa timid and undemonstrative, like the first villagers that Dr. Wolf met. They have earned the reputation of being very ugly and pugnacious little fellows. In war they use poisoned arrows. They take the war-path at night, steal noiselessly up to the sleeping village of the enemy, fire the huts, and kill the people with arrows and spears bv the light of their burning houses. Their fallen foes and their prisoners becomo food at cannibal feasts, for the Batwa, like tho Akka, are numbered among tho anthrophagi of Africa. Their fame as lighters has traveled far, and the natives who accompanied Grenfell and Von Francois were panic-stricken when they first saw a dwarf. One of their peculiarities is the fact that on their numerous marches they do not sleep by camD-tires at night, like other natives, but ßtretch themselves on the branches of trees, which they clasp with arms and lees, and there slumber out of reach of wild beasts. "Don't go near tho dwarfs," was the admonition of the Congo natives to Grenfell. "They permit no one to enter their country. They oison their weapons. They aro the uirlieid of mortals, end have great heads, w ith bearded chins, upon the smallest of bodies." ure enough, Grenfell and Von Francois found beard on the face of many a Batwa, but tho heads of the dwarfa are not disproportionately largo and their features not especially ugly. Unlike tho Akka, who are nearly naked, the Batwa wear a narrow strip of native cloth around their loins. Unskilled in any arts Rave those of war and the chase, thev chiefly depend for their weapons, their grain and vegetables upon the tribes of large people near whom they live, moet of whom acknowledge their inferiority as hunters to the Batwa, and gladly encourage them to barter their loads of game for products of the garden, brass wire and beads. The Batwa use these European commodities to.buy wives, and throughout the wide region they inhabit they are thus becoming gradually merged with the surrounding peoples: Not a few communities of pure Batwa havo been found, but mixed breeds aro i.Uo coaimou. Th Batwa and

the Akka, it is believed, are the remnants of a once very numerous race, and both are gradually dying out, victims of the more powerful tribes around them and of their inferior attainments in the arts of living. Many of the Batwa children die for lack even of such imperfect care as most 6avago mothers give their offi-pring. There tseems to be little maternal affection, and in flight tho tiny mothers have often been known to abandon their babies to their fate. At the furthest points reached on both the Bussera and Tchuapa rivers, about 213 miles apart, the continued advance of the little steamer Peace was rendered impossible by tho frantic hostility of the Batwa and their neighbors. Von Francois, one of the most graphic writers and accomplished geographers who have visited Africa, makes a lively picture of the howling little demons on the shores of tho Busscra, showering hundreds of arrows that, slimy with poison, dashed against the steel network which protected tho steamer, or stuck in its wooden sun roof. He gives us a vivid idea of the agility and acrobatic accomplishments oi these people 21-3 miles away on the Tchuapa. Ho saw the little warriors clambering along prec ipitous slopes aVove the river, whero there seemea hardly a foothold ; saw them swinging like monkeys from limb to limb of trees, and climbing out on branches overhanging the water so that they might speed their arrows at shorter range against the pulling and impertinent monster that had dared to intrude upon the privacy of the little folks. He heard their ear-splitting yells, which were whollv out of proportion to their physical insignificance. Grenfell is a man oi peace, and, unlike some other explorers, he did not choose to shoot lead at them. A blank cartridge, however, had ail excellent moral e fleet when the enemy took to the canoes and seemed bent on makings prize of the little vessel. What is the past history of these most unique and extraordinary of African races? Wc aro not likely to have a complete answer to this question. As yet we have had only a glimpse of the m, and the f tudy of their languages, traditions, and habits may throw light upon their past. All onr present evidence points to the probability that they havo descended from tho earliest inhabitants of the continent. We know something of the migrations of the tribes around them, and there may yet be found evidence to show the correctness of the hypothesis that the Akka north and the Batwa south of the Congo, the Doko of Abyssinia, thcObongo of the Gaboon, and the Bushmen of South Africa aro all remnants of one great ancient familv.

THE FEMININE LAP. Why 1 ts Woman L'nalde to Write Tpon n Table or Denk, Etc. "ew York Prcs. It is doubtful if there bo any masculine lap. The male of the human species has knees, and that is all Marco Polo, Herodotus, or some other distinguished liar, tells about certain far countries where it is the astonishing custom for the young men of the tribe to carry on their courtship of the squaws by holding them "on their laps" while they point out the effulgent moon to these remarkable voung women, and lay plans for future housekeeping. But both, of these worthy historians arc apt to use their words carelessly, and it is probable that even if such strange people and customs do exist the young women would laugh at the idea that the young men had anything but a pair of more or less bony knees on which to hold them. But the feminine lap is indispensable to the female man has no such comprehensive convenience 8he keeps fancy work in it (except for the accidental ball which rolls out), she lays down books in it,' it holds her handkerchief, I onbonniere, Howers, program (if at the theater), fau, mull', parasol her plate and teacup (if at supper) and all her endless impedimenta, it is a pocket all mouth an adjustable table, a bureau drawer, a work basket, a valise, and, above all, a desk. Just why a woman should be unable to write upon a table or desk like an ordinary male Christian it is hopeless to conjecture. A recently published account cd" Olive Thorn Miller's literary workshop gives an apt illustration of this curious idio.-yncrasy of womankind. She has a pleasant, well-fitted room, with flowers and books and pets and a desk. This piece of furniture is described, as being covered with books and manuscripts, while a lap tablet upon which she writes lies among the papers awaiting her convenience. We havo often seen a fair young creature who wished to write a letter take a small book and deposit in in the all-Fuüicient lap and laboriously scribble away, when a large and convenient flat table stood beside her chair. And she holds the ink in her lap, too, with a dexterity sufiicient to dishearten au Fast Indian juggler. Why she prefers to do it only an omniscient Providence knows. It would seem that the force and pungency of a girl's letters are the direct result of her finding the only support for her rieht arm at the point of her pen. It is one ot nature's phenomena at well ask why violets aro bluo or why rain is. always so unpleasantly and continuously wet. SHE WAS A STAYER. A Voung Fa-rrner' Experience With a Faith Cure Convert. Sl-KiXGHFLP, 111., Jan. 4. Robert Watts, a young farmer from Chatham, who came to town the other day to attend a faiih cure meeting, announces hiinjelf quite satisfied with his experience up to the preseut time, and will return home. 'Among the recent converts is Anna Pelaney of Taylorville, a youusj woniau about twenty years old, Sinca her conversion ehe hau taken up her residence in this city, and is a regular attendant at the afternoon and evening meetings, going into trances upon the slightest provocation. While in a trance Ehe hometinies wnlks about the hall. At tits meet ing Wednesday afternoon the girl was in a trance as usual, and in walkine up and dawn the aisle passed young Watts, who was standing auionc; a group of fkThtpeers in the rear of the hall. A she did &o the caucht hold of his hand with a grip so firm that although he Ftrugled to get' loose, ha was unahle to do so. Several men tried to stop the girl, bat she continued walking and Watts was comptlled to follow her. It was 4 o'cloek in the afternoon when Anna took her companion hy tne hand, and it was suveri und a half hours before he regained his freedom. When she walked Watts had to walk, and when sho stood he had to utand. All the afternoon and evening he suflered us he probably had never pulTered before, and wiped great drops of perspiration from hit forehead, while the foiihctiru bacd prayed, shouted and sang thmKtdvcs hoarse. Shortly before midnight Mihi Ichtncy fell to the floor. Sho was placed upou A stretcher and in about five minutes let go her hold of Watts, greatly to that individual's relief. The young farmer lost no time in getting out of the hall. Iiis hand swollen so that he is hardly able to use it. Miss Delaney came out of the trance yesterdav, but has no recollection cf what transpired. Ilesignatlon. Doton .Transcript. "Ah! so the Spanish ministers have resigned," said Mrs. Homespun, looking up from her paper. "Ministers arc always preaching about the duty of resignation, audit's gratifying to know that some of them, at least, have finally followed their own counsel." Economical, Boston Transcript. They were speaking of Rounceabout. Brown "One thing you must admit, and that is that he is a man of high principles." Fogg Yc but he is never so narrow-minded as to use them in dealing w jth his fpllowmen." Children Cry for

A BAD MAX WAS DOBSOX

BUT HE MET HIS MATCH AT LAST, And Only the Kindness of Friends Saved Ulm From Dylnp WltH Ills Roots On A Reminiscence of California When Everybody Went Well Heeled. "This is the man who,killed Jim Dobeon," said my friend, as we crossed Twenty-third-st. at the junction of Broadway and Fifth-ave. the other afternoon. This, says a New York IFcrahl reporter, recalled the lifo and death of ono of the worst men that ever set foot on the Pacific coast. Every town in California, Nevada and Colorado, especially in their early days, has had its terror. Jim Dobson was for many years the "terror" of .San Francisco. He was a hydra-headed "terror," too. Wherever there were races, fairs, billiard matches, prize fights, or excitement of any kind Jim Dobson was there. He had killed several men and attempted to kill many more. He would no more hesitate to shoot at a man than at a cat. He never paid for anything and was generally well supplied with funds, although he never did a stroko of work. Honest men shunned him, and many cf those who knew him feared him. His associates wero of the lowest of both sexes. In one of his shooting scrapes, during a debauch some twenty years airo, his aim was so inaccurate that he emptied the seven chambers of his revolver in trying to kill his adversary, without hitting him. Throwing Iris revolver on the Hour ho exclaimed: "Here, you , you shoot. I'll be if I can." When Budolph went to Sun Francisco about nineteen yearj ago to play John Decry for the billiard championship of America an audieuco of nearly C.000 persons gathered in tho Mechanics' pavilion to witness the game. Ot course Dobson was there, lie had bet heavily on Deery. When it became apparent that Rudolph would win he having but 13 to go, with the balls in hand, to Deery's ltki Dobson stepped up to the table just as Rudolph was about to shoot, and grabbing one of the object balls threw it at random among the audience. Some one caught it on the nose. Although Deery was the favorite the audience wanted fair plav. Cries of 'l?t him out!" proceeded l from all parts of the hall. Turning to the audience, uouson saia: "There am t a here woo can put me out. If any one attempts it I'll put daylight through him." No one attempted it. The bail was brought back aud placed on the table and Rudolph ran the game out. Thee are only two instances of many of a similar nature, but they will suffice to indicate the man's desperate diposition. It was about a year later that he met his death very unpectedlv, too, for his slaver was a quiet, inoffensive amateur biiliardist of some repute. They had met at a fancy ball about a week previously. Dobson, who had been "bucking the" tiger" that night with indifferent success, asked for a loan of $20, which was refused. With an opprobrious epithet the ruffian told tho man who had dared refuse to comply with his wishes that he had better keep out of his way in the future, as he would kill him on sight. "Oh, I guess 'Frisco is large enough to hold us both," was the calm reply." On the following Saturday the two men met on Montgomery-st., near Market. Dobson stepped up to the other man and ejaculated: "I thought I toll you to keep out of my way, Now I'm going to kill you!" And he made a motion as if to draw his pistol. "You wouldn't shoot au unarmed man, would yoiHr" inquired the biiliardist, calmly. "Well, if you ain't heeled you go and heel yourself, you , for the time "time I meet von I'll shoot you anyhow!' The biiliardist, knowing the desperate character of the man whose enmity he had incurred, procured a pistol forthwith. He then went to the Occidental hotel and played a few games of billiards. On going out he saw DoUson half a block distant coming toward him. Thinking he had been seen, he knew it would be useless to retreat, so he waited Dobson's coming in the vestibule. When the latter had got within a few leet of him tho biiliardist stepped out and fired two bullets in quick succession into Dobson's body before the latter had time to cock his revolver. Dobson dropped on the sidewalk, exclaiming: "1 never thought you'd do this." "Well," said the other, "I thought you would, and bo 1 made up my mind to get ahead of you if I could." Dobson was then carried into a drug store across the street. "Pull my boots off," he said faintly to the bystanders, and as soon as this was done he expired. He had often been told that he would "die with his boots on," as is generally the case with desperadoes of his ilk in the west, but even in this he cheated public opinion. The man who thus rid the community of Jim Dobson's obnoxious presence was not only promptly acquitted, but even made a hero of by many and complb mented by some of the daily papers. I who had seen Dobson on a Calistoga train compel the conductor to give him change for frL'O. when he had given him only S10 for his fare, always looked upon the killing as an act of self-defenso and upon the biiliardist as a brave man. GOO BLESS BOB INGERSOLL. A Youne Woman's Keason For Catling IHvine Favor "pon the Infidel. (X. Y. sun. "Every night before I sleep I say God bless Bob Ingersoll,' " said a young lady to a reporter recently. Why? Well Ljll tell you. "Everything has been going wrong with me lately. I've been what vou would probably call 'playing in hard luck.' Bve last all my money, my income has been stopped, and I've" been for tho first time in my life thrown upon my own resources entirely. I tried everywhere to get employment. I am willing to do anything, but everywhere I've lieen confronted with the "question: 'What experience havo you bad in this line?' Not having had any, it has been simply impossible for mo to get a start even and it sounds funny to me when I say it even at tying up bundles. No one knows, no one "can realize until she is thrown into the world unexpectedly, how hard, oh, how hard, it is for a woman to pet employment in this great, big, dear old New York. "Failing at every turn and getting poorer and poorer, I went to a clergyman whom everybody knows, and whom I had known in 'prosperity personally. Going around the stores was bad enough, but ttiis was worse. Still I had known him, and 1 wa3 now cordially received until I had made known the obiect of my call, and then I was informed very sweetly that 'we have ßo many members of our own congregation to assist, you know, that really I well I'll talk it over with the ladies of our eocicty and will see if we j Pitcher's Castorla.

can't recommend you to some place,' etc. And this was about the result with them all. "By this time I was in actual need, when the thought occurred to me to go to the opposite extreme and to see Robert Ingersoll, a total stranger to me. I knew he couldn't kill me, and was sure I would be at least politely treated. I was shown to his private oliice, with my heart beating furiously, my brain in a whirl and without an idea of what I should say first. Wc shook hands, and, showing me to a chair opposite to him, he said: 'Sit down, please, End let's see what the trouble is,' with such a kindly, cordial smile that I was at once at ease and told him plainly just what a predicament I was in. He watched me closely and questioned me shrewdly, and then kept people waiting while he gave me a lot of hi3 precious time and just such friendly, fatherly advice as I had been yearning for. I could have just hugged him, while my eyes wero full of tears. I felt already rich with his earnest, sympathetic words, but before I left he voluntarily helped me substantially. Then he came way out to the door with me, and. after asking me to let him know how 1 got along, his last words were, as he shook my hand : 'Good-by ; success to you and yes, I'll say God bless you.' "I think I've got a little start now, and that's why I say every nicht before I sleep and a thousand timesadav: 'God bksi "Bob" In-ersoll.'"

WALKING ON THE WATER. An Fxtremely Perilous, Rut Altogether Successful, Experiment, Loweix, Mass., Jan. 5. G. W. OMrieve, who has achieved some reputation by his walking on the water on the Hudson river and in Boston harbor, walked from Aikeu-st. bridge, on the Merrimack, yesterday, to Central bridge, and challenged death by continuing his trip through Hunt's fulls. More than five thousand ! persons lined the banks, six to ten ranks deep for a mile alons the river banks, and the tops of the hills opposite were covered with operatives. It wai a most exciting struggle for life, and for awhile it looked as though the bold aquatic pedestrian would be drowned in the presence of the great crowd. The current bothered him at first, but as lie gained clear water locomotion, though slow, was comparatively steady and easy. He walked down stream, and his princif.il progress was by the current. He iad very little control over hi.s craft, and the current swept him to the middle of the stream. He passed under Central bridge about midway in the stream. Immediately below are Hunt's Falls, a series of rapid falls about half a mile long with a descent of about eight j feet. These are the two principal falls, with a comparatively still pool between the two. Through the upper one the Canal compauy has cut a channel to relieve the mills of back water. Throuhg this the water tlows swiftly but smoothly. On both sides the current, now swollen Dy recent rains, dashes over rocks and eddies in a hundred directions. Oldrieve attempted to steer for the new channel, but could not reach it. He was swept to the northern side and into the swift current, dashing in high waves over the rocks. The current swept him around and around, and several times he lost his' balance and fell forward with his hands on his floats. V murmur fell from the crowd, who thought he was gone. Had he been capsized his chance for life would havo been small, for in the 6wift current and with his heavy boots there would have ben littlo chance to swim. But berecovered himself and was swept by the current through the rollers, and once more stood erect. When he entered the pool between the rapidhe was thoroughly exhausted. He rested for a moment and then struggled for the shore, landing amid the applause of the spectators just after the whistles Mew 1 o clock. He was tired but successful. One I'niileasant Little Incident. Chicago Tribune. Bollinftsby has just come back from Ilcidcl-. berg "1 hope, my son, that you have improved your opportunities.'" "I tried to, governor," was the sad reply, "but that beastly German cad who sliced me in the last duel cut my nose off so clean that those McKenzied surgeons were unable to put it on again without showing the fear." Proof of Acquaintanceship. N. Y. Weekly. Office boy "stranger at the door; says he's a newspaper man and knows you, and wants to borrow some money of you." Great Editor "Pretty story. Some fraud, of course. How much does he want to borrow r' "T n cents." "Oh! He doei know me, I gucsi. Cdve him tins dime." Health is impossible when the blood is impure, thick and slugzish, or when it is thm and impoverished. Such conditions pive rise to boils, pimples, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism and other disorders. Ayer's Sarsaparilla purines, invigorates ami viianzcs tne nioou. As true as steel, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup i Twenty-five cents. j Martyrs lo Headache Setk rel',al in vain, until they begin to use Ayer's Harsaparilla. Then they regret the years of suffering they might have escaped had they tried this remedy earlier. The trouble was constitutional not local ; and, until Ayer's Sarsaparilla did its effective work as an Alterative aud Blood Purifier, they were compelled to suffer. The wife of Samuel Tage, 21 Austin tt., Lowell, Mass., was, for a long time, subject to severe headaches, tha result of stomach aud liver disorders. A perfect cure has been effected by Ayer's Karsaparilla. Frauk Roberts, 727 Washington st., Bostou, says that ho. formerly had terrible headaches, and until be took Ayer's Sarsapaiiüa, never found any medicine that would give Permanent Relief. "Everv Spring, for years," writes I.i?.zio W. DcVeau, 2iI2 Fifteenth St., Urooklyn, N. Y., "I have had intolerable headaches. I commenced tho usa of Ayer's Sarsaparilla last March, and have not bad a lieadacho since that time." " I suffered from headache, indigestion, and debility, and was hardly able to draar myself aoout the house," writes Mrs. M. M. Lewis, of A St., Lowell. Mass. " Ayer's Sarsapaiilla has worked a marvelous chance iu my case. I now teel strong and well as ever." Jonas Ganuan, Esq., of Lyklns, Ta., writes: "For years I havo sutfered dreadfully, every Sprinfr, from headache, caused by impurity of the blood and bilousness. It seemed for days and weeks that my bead would eplit open. Nothing relieved me till I took Ayer's Sarsaparilla. This medicine has cured me completely." When Mrs. Genevra Belanger, of 24 Bridge St., SprlngticM, Mass., bepn to use Ayer's Sarsaparilla, she had suffered for some years from a serious affection of the kidneys. Every Spring, also, she was afflicted with headache, los of appetite, and indigestion. A friend persuaded 1 er to use Ayer's Sarsapärilla, which benefited her wonderfully. Hei health is now perfect. Martyrs to headache should try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I'rept'ed by Vir. .T. O.Aver St Co.. Towell. Msm Pries tl ; aix botl.o, $5. Worth 5 s botllo.

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