Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1889 — Page 6

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TllliJ INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, ATOIL 3, 1889.

HOW THE FRENCH DRESS.

HELEN CAMPBELL'S OBSERVATIONS. The Costumes of French and American Women Contrasted The Latter the Bett Coatamed ren in Paris The French Are ot It is English-cpeaking people, otherwise English and Americans, who have ior generations been reproached with hav ing no ingrained sense of what constitutes a toilet. For the Englishwoman, gave some notable exci'ptims, tne reproach yet holds good. "For the American we shall presently see how far she must be forced to still bear such odium. Not alone these two nationalities, but all that come under the head of civilized turn to Paris as the source of all inspiration, where stufls and silks and all mysteries that go to make a woman's gown take tuch forms a3 enter no mortal minds elsewhere, and where every point that is good is made best, and everybody that is less than good disappears altogether, conjured out of eight as deftly and thoroughly as the child in the famous Hindoo trick. Color, form, grace, puitability all that is involved in these words is the inheritance of the French woman, who from babyhood, as it were, knows by instinct what best harmonizes with complexion and figure and age, and ia never at fault. With this conviction a part also of her inheritance, the American woman enters Paris, and gazes with bated breath as she makes her tirst entrance in society, or if time and opportunity for this be lacking, into the great shops, thronged from morning to night with eager buyers, convinced that whatever Ix-ars the Paris Ftamp needs no other indorsement, and that the thing bought in a Paris shop is inevitably becoming, suitable, beautiful in phort. precisely what one lias eigl.ed for always, and :st iat-t crossed the wide (oa to obtain, often this proves true, for it would be 'tuite absurd to maintain that the tradition is simply tradition, and that Paris has forfeited her old place as leader andexpounder of fashion for the civilized world. I'.i-t jiüerpome months ot close observation certain facts have to demonstrated them-h.-ivt-s that turther question of their truth would be impossible. It is these facts that 1 propose to outline in this column to-day, leaving the deductions chielly to the reader. I confess to an eagerness of interest un-f-x lifted and surprising as I studied the toilets at one 01" the lirst receptions attended after arriving in Paris. Pretty gowns I have always l.eM to K one of the inaliena!e rights of women, though pretiv never necessarily meant fashionably and usualiy the reverse. Th dress reformer!? have failed deservedly becauso beauty was ignored, though one now in the !i'Id lias suc ceded in uniting for the lirst time comfort and beauty, and will, it is hoped, ia time rind more converts than at present range under her banner. Put the blending and harmonizing of tints and 6tutl's in Mich fahion that the dress would seem dimply the natural and necessary expression of the wearer this was an art, hardly known outside of France, and to be studied quite as seriously as other phases ot art. There bad been certain inward questionings. French art as a whole had demonstrated itself for these later days as F ) purely a matter of surface linish, nine times out of ten without the shadow of a t-oul below, that the wonder crew if vitiated work in these directions might not mean vitiation in others also, and if the dress of the Parisienne was necessarily the model of all womankind who were bent upon knowing and reproducing the best. What did I see? That it is no part of ray mission to give in detail, since shapes and patterns have no place in my scheme. Put, setting these aside, it is very certain that the beautiful rooms, w hose rare simplicity of decoration still admitted all that was necessary to rill and satisfy the eye, were not outraged by any lack of harmony in the toilets of the graceful women who" came and went about the hostess. ( n the contrary, harmony was the prevailing characteristic, and though a costume might hold many shades it was a gamut of color which the eye followed as naturally and as well satisüed as the ear in the reception of genuine melody. This was the lirst phase, and covered the question of tints, of general composition and method; but presently having decided that finish had reached its highest point and summed up as perfection, rne turned tq the ligures which displayed these confections. With two exceptions they were all of one order. Waists reduced to the lowest possible terms, the average apparently eighteen inches for the largest and far less for the smaller members of the party; high shoulders emphasized by the style of trimming, and the generally scrawny and angular effect produced by the slender type of French vu-n. These are in a minority. As a rule the tendency is toward stoutness, strictly suppressed at waist, but exuberant at all other salient points, and the two classes had nearly equal representation, both leaving the impression of concentrated discomfort. The two exceptions were no less perfectly dressed. Every detail was charming, and doubly so from the easy grace of movement as well as apparent unconBeiousncss of anything that could constrain. Doth were brunettes; both spoke French perfectly, and it needed more than one observation to determine a fact which presently was made plain by the hostess. "1 don't wonder you're puzzled. Shut your eyes and you would sw ear they were Parisian. Put they are American, my dear, and like many others of my countrywomen, are the best-dressed women in the world. That gray cashmere with its exquisite silver embroidery is one of Worth's, and the mother's toilet also, and lie declares that American women know how to wear their clothes better than any nationality that comes under his hands. That beautiful girl has a natural waist and rhe wears an American shoe, having discovered, like the rest of us, that our countrymen make a more satisfactory one than any other people. .She can breathe and phe can walk. The rest toddie. A French woman's walk is a good deal like the highheeled Chinese woman's a painful wriggle, as you can see for yourself. "We'll talk it over when they are all gone," This was the beginningof observations made continuously with a determination that no judgment should be fixed till there had been time for seeing all sorts and conditions of wearer o( toilets. Put in salon, at theater or opera, A3 in boulevard or public gathering place, from Champs E'ysees to the parks and squares, one conclusion was inevitable that the French woman of every order above that of the daily worker, is supremely uncomfortable from head to feet. The French shoe is beautifully finished, a model in this respect for every maker, but the excessive bight of the heels and narrowness of the toes make natural movement an impossibility. French liction gives a slight and willowy figure as the standard, and every woman aims at this result, and to this end pillories herself in a corset, also beautifully finished but ic flexible to a degree; a corset which destroy every natural lino and adds another angularity to figures alre ady too well supplied by nature. The hugest and rriofct uncompromising of tournures-pur-eue their independent way, tince the motion of tLe iorni to Lieh, thoy uro

8uppos$d to give grace) has no reference to the .wobble of the structure itself. Upon all this is superimposed the toilet, aiv -rvthis season it cannot be said thai it '' harmonizes, save apart from the wearer, since the shades of green seen everywhere are as illy adapted to subdue French sallowness as pale blue to the African. The French woman, gracious and charming as she often is, is an absolutely artificial product, and her toilet is of the same order. Its beauty of detail, its harmony of color, American women have already to a great degree assimilated. Put it is quite time that the theory that whatever is Parisian is necessarily the culmination of all that women can desire, should be exploded. America has still much to learn. The shoddy element there will wear its diamonds in the morning and its most gorgeous toilets on a shopping excursion, a breach of good sense and good taste, impossible to a French woman. Put the American lady, young or old, finds on this side of the sea not one with keener eye for proper combination of color, or who wears with more thorough grace the work of the famous combiners of material. We need a school in which our dressmakers may le trained as thoroughly as the 1'aris apprentice, but each year is adding to our resources, and it is certain that, taking everything into consideration, we are already beyond any question the best dressed people of the civilized world. Paris will still have plenty to teach us. Delicate finish is a characteristic we assimilate last, but we also have much to teach her. A city which enshrines the most perfect form of woman that mortal eyes ever rest upon the Venus de Milo having cried, "Ociel ! que ravissante !" proceeds to make every woman as absolutely unlike it as human hands can accomplish. The American is wiser, and though our type is still too fragile and nervous, this fact is a diminishing one, and we are gaining yearly in the health which is the real foundation of beauty. Why should I tell you what is to bo worn in April and what in September? A hundred pens will do this with a detail leaving no lack, and it is certain that beauty and fitness will meet, and that the owner ota Paris toilet may etilt thrill as she opens the wardrobe which holds it. Put bocause the American woman has keener, more dedicate perceptions; because she is truer in ber instincts and wiser from her larger opportunity, her toilet will be the subtle expression of these qualities. She will reject whatever lielittles them, and will, iu the end, demonstrate to the world that these rare souls know also every charm of setting and have taken from Paris all that was best in her scheme, leaving to her only the need of another renaissance a need never sorer than to-day, wdien art in every form is well nigh soulless and Paris the snonym for a superficial ty, which, if she has no ear for any lesson of the past, will bring her, with her beauty and brilliancy and charm, to the same destruction that two thousand years ago fell upon the people with whom she has much in common the gay and pleasure-loving Athens, caring for naught but to hear and to see some new thing. And if this seems too somber ending for a talk on toilets it is 1 ecause there is full faith in the place and claim of beautiful dressing that these words and no others find place to-day. Helen Campbell.

A HOOSILR IN WONDERLAND. The Peculiarities of the Air, Climate and (ifneral Features of Colorado. Our Hoosier eyes have seen many wonderful and curious things Binee coming to this country (Colorado), which is so full of the wonderful and curious. Put one of the most interesting things we have seen has been the mirage. We are on the great plains where so many gold-hunters and emigrants perished of thirst, on their way from their eastern homes to the far-famed gold mines of California. The country is so level and the air so rarified that you can see for miles in every direction. This condition of country and air causes many mistakes in regard to distances ; for instance, you see an object and think you are only a very little distance from it, when, on trying to make a closer inspection of it, you .will often be obliged to travel many miles. Put to return to our subject mirages. Some days the entire prairie is covered here, there and every w here .with large and small lakes and ponds. It is no unusual thing to see a man apparently ploughing in the middle of one of these immense lakes, and, to make the deception more perfect, you can 6ee the shadows of himself and team in the water; but if you go toward these lakes or ponds, they disappear as if by magic. You are not only deceived by the appearance of water, but sometimes you can see immense trees, rivaling in size the giants of California, looming up in sight, when you are perfectly aware that there is not a tree within miles of you; but if watch your trees long enough, you will see them turn to horses or cows as you travel nearer to them. The mirage not only transforms horses and cows into trees, but it makes huge giants of persons of ordinary stature. Put the most wonderful freak of the mirage is bringing to view objects which most of the time you cannot see at all. For example, there is a swell in the ground between two houses, which are not ordinarily visible the one to the other at all, but the mirage brings its wonderful powers to bear on the house farthest east, and anyone in the western house can see their eastern neighbors and all their eurroundings. To anyone from the East, new to euch scenes, it almost seems a3 if they were in an enchanted land. And, indeed, this wonderful state is almost an enchanted land, with its gloriously balmy climate, its beautiful sunrises and sunsets, grouping the sky in harmonies of color perfectly dazzling to an artistic eye; and it seems almost an impossibility that Italy should rival this western wonderland in respect of those things mentioned. Alick IIcckaba Kendall. Coffee and Its KftTect. The Medical Titles. The great virtue of coffee is that it Btimnlates and refreshes: these properties being due to c&fleine. It also contains jrura and sugar, fat, ncMs, easeine, and wood-fiber. like tea, it powerfully increases the respiration, but, unlike it, does not aüeet its depth. Iy its use tho rate of the pulse is increased, and the action of the skin diminished. It is a mental stimulus of a high order. Carried to ex res, it produce abnormal wakefulness' indigestion, acidity,, heartburn, trernprü, des,y, irritability of tem per, tree) Uing;, lrrsruLtr .pulse, a, kind of jt.to.tleation eoiding-in lelirioi aadpuC-Hjury to the spiral fundi a . bnfo-rtniiatery, there are many coltee-tipplers who depend Upon it as a drunkard upon his dram. On the other hand, coflte is of soTerf ijn etlicacy ia titling over the nervous system ia emergencies. A Uepublie Art View, l-afayette Courier. We may honor und revere the rams of Gen. Grant for his patriotism and devotion and the deeds he wrought, but there is neither reasoa nor serue in setting np the succeeding generations of his loins as idols before whom the common herds must bow. The II l uff Didn't Work. Tally "To yon know that T ara the chap lately acrjuittedtif killing a man?" Metk-looking Party "Yes; I wa in the court-room at the time when you blubbered and beirircd the jury to think of your wife and little children."

LENT AND THE FASHIONS.

CAN THE OLD GOWNS BE MADE OVER? The Exit of the Bastle Necessitates an En. tire Reconstruction of. Wardrobe Shoes Most Correspond With the Color of the Dress, Etc. To women Lent is a season of deep and serious meditation, but the all-important question of dress vexes tho ordinary feminine soul. It is troublesome enough to repair the winter's wear and tear upon the conscience, but it is a more dillicult task to renovate last year's wardrobe. No one can see whether the society girl's conscience is as good as new on Easter Sunday, but the least observant of her many friends know if sho appears in a "made over" gown. It is, therefore, necessary for women to spend a great many of tho forty penitential days in tho study ot dress. There is much lamentation amonjj the possessors of good "lelt-over" gowns, for the dressmakers declare that street suits cannot be altered so that they will bo stylish. "Within the past twelve months many changes have been decreed by Dame Fashion. In the first place the bustle has almost disappeared. It is so small that it is barely noticeable and is worn to support the pointed ends or plaited backs of the basques. The decline of the long-cherished bustle necessitates modifications in wraps and dress-skirts. Princess 6tyles are aeain popular and the straight-plaited back draperies are much worn. All sorts of redingotes are in high favor and the directoire shapes will still rage. Dress-skirts are narrow and much gored and they are elaborately embroidered and braided. Applique effects are the latest freak and the cloth gown that ia trimmed with an intricate pattern is a costly possession. All the new gowns have waists that are of odd design. It is a mystery how and where they are fastened. Yokes, waistcoats, spencers, and stomachers are introduced sintrly and collectively. The sleeves of street suits are again full at the top and gathered into the arm-hole. Every color of the rainbow and many shades that Noah never dreamed of will be fashionable this spring. Silk is much used in combination with wool goola and changeable silks are again in vogue. Every woman who pretends to be stylish will this season have her footgear match her gown. All the leading shoemakers are busy filling orders for the popular craze. Patent-leather boots are made with cloth uppers, either laced or buttoned, but the laced boots are preferred, llussett leather is the choice for ehoes intended to harmonize with brown costumes, but every woman ought to consider the 6ize of her feet before she orders n pair of russet-leather shoes. The new fashions in footgear are not necessarily expensive. The cloth-topped shoes, when made to order, cost from $7 to S'J ; but inasmuch as they are to bo worn with only one gown they will last all Bummer. There is a great variety of hats and bonnets for this intermediate season. Irge hats have tho preference and few toques and small bonnets are seen. Veils are almost as much the fashion as hats or gloves or wraps. The ruflled, dotted, gathered and tied-down empire veil has, however, seen its best davH. Tho plain lace veil is now considered the most stylish thing to wear. Tho lace is quite costly and varies from SI to : a yard. It requires a deft hand to nrranjre tho lace veil gracefully, especially if it is just long enough to pin around the hat. Ihit why do women delight in veils? Terbaps there is an added charm to beauty "half revealed and half concealed," yet the ordinary observer does not readily discover tho charms hidden behind black-spotted lace scarfs, and men are suspicious enough to imagine that powder and rouge are generously applied before tho voluminous veils are put on. Muffs will be carried until they can bo exchanged for parasols. Of course furs will soon be hidden where the moth cannot break in, but dainty creations of cloth or velvet, trimmed with ribbons and feathers, will take the place of sealskin mufls. There is a peculiar manner of carrying the muff this year the elbows must be bent at a certain angle and the muff must be held at a piven distance from the waist line and the fashionable girl does not like to relinquish such a stylish addition to her toilet. Spring wraps are shown in every style, shape and color. Jackets will be the first choice of women with good forms. Waistcoats are a feature of all the jackets, and some of them are elaborately trimmed with embroidered and tinselled bands. Many changes are rung upon the name of directoire everything with a lapel is called directoire. Tho newest jackets are called "blazers." The "blazers" are pre sumablv intended for warm days, as they do not fasten in front. They are faced with silk or embroidery, and they hang oosely from the collar, where they are clasped with handsome buckles. One stylish promenade costume is sufficient for the season, as every woman nowadavs exchanges her street suit for a house dress whenever 6be is at home. It is now the style to study one's type and model the whole wardrobe after some special pattern. If the directoire modes are becoming all the dresses should bear some suggestion of that class of fashions, and if the quaint empiro styles are suitable to the face and figure the cot-tumcs should all be modifications of the shortwaisted, flowing gowns that made the Empress Josephine and Mme. Kecamier bo bewitching. The Ea.ster gowns, whether they belong to the empire or the directoire styles, will be unusually pretty this year. All the women who attend Dorcas societies during Ixnt ponder over the most artistic styles while they make gincham aprons for the heathen, and the result of E0 much feminine reflection will bo highly satisfactory. Latest Fashion Notes. Now evening toilets for debutantes are of soft Sicilienne silk, in rose pink, magnolia, opal blue, and water green, combined with silk llsse exquisitely embroidered. l'ersian-fiirnred brocades on cream-white crounds will be of trreut use the coming gay season in the creation of elegant toileU in Pompadour and directoire stylea. The garnitures this season designed either for wrap or dress decoration were never more elegant, varied, or handsomely applied. The newly imported blaek garnitures are marvels of richness, taste and beauty; there in fringes, pendant ornaments, Gothic panels, points, and arabesques, with glittering pendeloques and bulls depending therefrom. The pretty new Toreador vests are made wholly of embroidery to wear beneath the empire jackets of velvet, acconipanving stylish Lome toilets. Ashes of rose or mahogany velvet waists have square short jacket fronts, with a pink or pale primrose vest of embroidery so thickly wrought that the cloth beneath it is nowhere visible. An empire green velvet jacket has an old-rose Toreador vest, and one of black velvet has pale gold embroidery on its full front. A magnificent toilet sent to America for a wedding reception in Washington from a west' end house in London, is made of royale armure brocade, the sumptuous pattern showing a rare blending of the various exquisite tints of violet, mauve, and palest lilac, forming wisteria and heliotrope sprays, on the ground of pale gold shot with faintest rose. The petticoat is Children Cry for

of plain violet armure royale, with gold and lilac arabesques as a bordering at the hem. The bodice is cut in pompadour style, and below this is a Russian half-vest of violet silk, which folds over an inner vest of point lace. Buckles, clasps, slides and hooks in cut steel, gold, silver, onyx, jet or uearl are used with a free hand this spring, both in millinery and in the formation ot stylish empire and directoire costumes. Braids of silk, gold, silver and soutache are still highly popular as dress trimmings; these put on in rows or crossing each other in Grecian and other designs. Galloons of every width are made use of, and are found in all the dark and neutral shades to match the plain dress fabrics, or showing mixtures and odd combinations in keeping with the color schemes of the season. There are at least twenty-five different and distinct shades of green visible in the great emporia of fashion this year, ranging from the palest water tints to the deep moss and myrtle shades, all the varying tones displayed in nature being perfectly leproduced in art. Some of the reseda or g-ay-green tints are very lovely, and in soft China silks, crepalines, veilings and silk muslins, present a charming appearance. There is a growing taste and likinsj tor those once crude but now beautiful shades, which certainly for cool summer wear have much to commend them. WHAT IS HOVEY HERE FOR?

lie Signed the Liquor License Bill With An Invalidating; Krror. Thursday'a Daily Sentinel.. Thomas J. Newkirk, clerk of the house, has also gone into the "constitutional" business and yesterday announced that the high license bill was unconstitutional, because it amends a section of the revised statute instead of refer ring to the original act thought to be amended. Sec. 117 of the constitution provides that No act shall ever be revised or amended by mere reference to its title, but the act revised or section amended shall be set forth and published at full length. lit. Newkirk claims that . the Cullen high license act does not comply with the above requirement. The following is a copy of the act: Section 1. Fe it enacted by-the general assembly of the state of Indiana that sec. 5,317 of the revised statutes of lssl he amended so as to read as follows: No city or incorporated town hall cbarsre aoy person who may obtain a license under the provisions of this act more th:m the following sums for lice mo to soil within their corporate limits: Cities may charee S'2."o, and incorporated towns Sl.V), in addition to the sum provided for herein before. It will be seen that Mr. Cullen in drafting the hill attempted to amend sec. 5,317 of the revised statutes, instead of amending the liquor license act of 1S75, which Mr. Newkirk and other lawyers Bay is fatal to the bill. In compliance with the provision of the constitution Mr. Cullen should have drafted his bill to read as follows: IV it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, that s":c 0 f an act entitled "An act to regulate anil license the sale of spirituous, vinous ami malt ami other intoxicating liquors. Approvtd March 17, 13;., be, and the same Is hereby amended to read as follows: No city or incorporated town shall charge, etc." Mr. Cullen, nuthor of the hill, is reputed as being a good lawyer and was recognized as the ablest legal authority on the republican side on account of his loner experience on the bench, lie made the principal constitutional argument on the vetoed bill for the republicans and the discovery that his pet bill, the high license lull, to which he devoted so much time is so ignorantly drafted as to render it void, is the subject of various conclusions as to the real motives of the crentloninn troin Itush. "if my office boy didn't know more than to attempt to amend a law. by referring to the section of the revised etatutes, he would not sweep my office a very long time," said a well known lawyer of the etate last night to a Sentinel reporter. The members of the senate will remember that when the bill came up for passage in the senate some of the opponents of the bill charged the promoters of the measure with hypocrisy, as the bill would be null and void, even if it passed, because as drafted by Mr. Cullen and as it passed the house, it had a wrong title, which read, "A bill for an act to amend sec. 5,.'U7 of the revised statutes." Tnis charge was rot made until ihe bill had been passed, and it will be remembered that Mr. Johnson, who managed the bill in the senate, had the title amended so as to refer to the actoflS"), over which action the senate wrangled for two hours upon a point of order raised by Senators Urmton and I'urke that the title could not Ik;' amended alter the bill had been passed and a vote to reconsider its passage laid upon the table. However, the point of order was not sustained, and the bill, with the amended title, was sent back to the honse, where the amendments were concurred in. If the bill is unconstitutional, Judge Cullen, its author; Senator Johnson, who had charge of it in the senate, and Gov. Ilovcy, who approved it are responsible. These three statesmen claimed a monopoly of constitutional knowledge during the entire session. If the bill is void it will be a great disappointment to the people and they will want to know whether llovey, Johnson and Cullen intended it as a sham or whether it was through ignorance of the constitution that the bill was loosely drafted by Mr. Cullen, half amended by Mr. Johnson and sitrned by the governor although unconstitutional. This is a bill of vastly more interest to the tax-psyers than the Griffiths reporter bill, which (io v. Hovey carefully read to lind its unconstitutional provision in order to allow Mr. Gritfiths to enrich himself at the expense of the tax-payers and the lawyers. Gov. Hovey signed the most important labor bill without an enacting clatise, and also approved the high license bill so badly constructed that an ordinary school boy could detect its illegality at a glance. Through the carelessness or ignorance of these three men the tax-payers of the state will lose probably a million dollars annually. Hut it is well known that Gov. Hovey approved or vetoed hills without reading them. To substantiate thU assertion it can be proven by at least a dozen persons that one of the vetoed bills was returned to one of the houses with a veto message without the signature of the clerks or the presiding ollicers. The bill had been taken to the governor without any authentication whatever, and Gov. Hovey vetoed it without discovering this fatal error, which of itself would have killed the bill if he had allowed it to go to the secretary of 6tate unsigned and not disapproved. However, the bill was promptly authenticated by the signatures of the presiding officers when passed over his veto. The miners want to know whether the governor read their bill when he signed it without an enacting clause. The tax-payers want to know whether the governor read the high-license bill when he sitrned it with the first line unconstitutional. The bill has but eight lines and he cannot say that he had no time to read it. Tho people from the natural gas regions want to know whether the governor read the anti-gfis piping-out-of-the-state bill when he vetoed it, and sent a message to the senate, ia which he said: ThU act attempts to prevent the laying of pipes for the purpose of conveying natural pas outside tho limits of the state; attempts to punish persons who may do so by a fino of not less than !1W, nor more than 1,000. If Gov. Hovey read tho bill, will ho please point out to the natural gas people the section of the bill which imposes a fine of "not less than $110 and not more than $l,0OU" for piping natural gas outside of the state? It is the opinion of natnral gas people that the fine mentioned in the bill, which the republicans helped to pass over Iiis veto applies to persons who have wells unplugged and not for piping the gas out of this state. The people at large would like to know how many bills Gov. 'Hovey nctually read before approving or vetoing. Gov. Hovey is respectfully directed to the journals of the New York assembly which, arc on file in the state library. If he' will turn to messages of Gov. Grover Cleveland he will find that that great nmu sent back to the assembly seventeen bills during one session for correction only, one of which was a labor bill drawn on the Cullen plan, which if Cleveland had adopted the Hovey system of signing bills, would have been null and void, like the Cullen bill, but GroverCleveland was not a Napoleonic eovernor ami no bills received his approval before the technical defects were corrected. For the good of the tax-payers of Indiana, it would be well for Gov. Hovey to read the public acts of Grover Cleveland, for he will have to sign the bills of one more assembly. Go. Hovey, what are you here for, anyhow? ot Too Mach Joy. Nebrs-sla State Journal. 1 "So you sre going to your far-off home next week?" "Yes." And I suppose after your long absence you are overjoyed at the prospect." "Not quite j you see, I'm going home to lift a mortgHKe." Pitcher's Cactorla.

LIE HAD AN IRON NERVE.

THE BOLDEST BANK ROBBERY YET. A Hank President Compelled to Issue Iii Check For Jl,O0O, Get It Canned and Turn the Money Over to the Tlilef, "Who Made Good Ilia Escape. Denvkr, Col., March 29. The boldest and most successful bank robbery ever reported ia the West was perpetrated upon the First national bank at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The robbers succeeded in getting away with $21,000. The cashier of the bank, in an interview with an Associated Press reporter a few minutes after the robbery, gave the following account of the affair: "Yesterday morning, immediately after the opening of the bank, a well-dressed man with light mustache and complexion and of medium hight, walked into the bank and asked Assistant Cashier F.oss Lewin where he could see Mr. Mofl'att, president of the bank. Mr. Lewin informed him that he could see Mr. Moffatt, who is also president of the Denver & Hio Grande railway, at the president's office in the Cheesman block. Nothing more was seen or heard of the stranger until this morning about 10 o'clock, when he entered the railway office and asked to see Mr. Moffatt on important business, lie was admitted to hi private room and briefly stated that he had discovered a conspiracy whereby the First national bank was to be robbed of a large amount of money. Mr. Moffatt told the man that he was very busy at that moment, but he would be pleased to meet him at his private office in the bank at 1 o'clock. AVith this the man left the building. "In a few minutes after the hour appointed, he called at the bank and was shown into the president s office. While remaining standing, he inquired if the cashier, S. N. Wood, w as in, and was told that he was at lunch. He then asked for a blank check for the purpose of sho wing how the robbery was to be perpetrated. The check was handed him. He laid it upon the desk in front of Mr. Moßatt and said: 'I will have to do this myself,' and, pulling a large revolver from his coat, placed it at Mr. MoUatt's head, and in a decidedly earnest, but unexcited manner, said: '1 want $21.0(10 and am going to have it. 1 have considered this matter the chances I am running and the consequences if I fail and am arrested. I am penniless and a desperate man, and have been driven, during the past week, to that point where I have considered suicide as the only means of escape from the poverty and misery in which I exist. You have millions. I am determined to have what I have asked for. If you make a noise, call a man or ring a bell I will blow your brains out and then blow up the building and myself with this bottle of glycerine (which he at that moment pulled out of his pocket). Now, take your choice.' "Moffatt started to arsrue with the man, but was stopped with the information that it was useless, and he had but two minutes in which to fill out the check before him for .T.O.K), if he desired to live. Moffatt, seeing no other alternative, filled out the check and was then ordered to take it to the paying teller and get it cashed. Mr. Moffatt lelt his office and, with the man behind him with tha revolver partially concealed under his overcoat and with the muzzle almost against Motlatt's back, marched behind the counter and up to Paying Teller Keeley, with the request that the check be immediately cashed. They then remarched into Moflatt's office without attracting the attention of the fifteen or twenty clerks who were within two feet of where they passed. After they had remained in the private office three or four minutes, the robber informed Mr. Mofl'att that they were wasting time and that he had better step to the door and motion his teller to come to him, which he did. Moffatt instructed him to bring the money into his ollice and, as the teller turned to go away, the robber told him he wanted twenty one-thousand-dollar bills and Jl.WO in gold. The money was brought in and handed over to the gentleman, who, for a few brief moments, had owned the bank, and, waiting until the teller had reached his desk, he backed out to the front door, makintr Mr. Mofl'att remain standiug iu his door until he had reached the curbstone. He then raised his hat and walked around the corner and has not yet been heard of." Mr. Mofiatt is completely prostrated with the shock. Detectives are out after the man but no trace of him has been found. Col. IngersotPs Story, N. Y. Suu. "I'll tell you a story, boys," said Col. Ingersoll, while waiting for the Kerr jury to come ia on Friday afternoon. Ce l. Fellows, Lawyer Bird, Mr. Kerr and the reporters leaned forward expectantly. "During the gold days in California," continued the colonel, "it was the law that the holder of a claim should be liable to lose it if he let it remain idle for ten days in succession. Well, there was one fellow who had been working faithfully, when he fell sick and had to take to his tent. Another fellow came along and jumped his claim. The first man pleaded and arzued, but the other was not to be moved. So when the first man recovered he 6ued the interloper. "The case came up before the justice. He was very sorry, he told the plaintiff, but the law was absolute on the question, and the defendant could not be ousted. No sooner had he finished than the plainthF jumped up and hit the defendant a stinging blow behind the ear. The defendant fell over, and the plaintiti jumped on him and began to pummel him soundly. The constable ran up and was trying to part the fighters when the judge arose, and, pounding on the desk, yelled to the constable: you, sir, leave them alone! The law is the law, but if the gentlemen want to compromise they mustn't be interfered with.' " The colonel's way of telling it was as good as the story. Hopeful Imaginings. Have we not all, amid this petty strife. Some pure ideal of a nobler life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The rustle of its wings, and feel it near, Aye, just within our reach? And yet We lost it, in this daily jar and fret. And now live on, but in a vague regret. Tbauk God, our place iu kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen ; We always may bo, what wo might have been. All good, thugsh only thought, has life and breath, God's life and will be redeemed from death; But sin, in its very nature, ia of decay, And one repentant tear will wash it all away, The hopes now lost, and in the far distance seem, May be the rel life, and this but the dream. Indianapolis, March 27. JoSEm F. Brow. A It low at Freedom. Merchant Traveller. "Who is at the head of this vile conspiracy?" shouted the country editor, as he did a war dance among the exchanges on the floor. "Who is it that has struck this blow at American freedom? who is guilty of this dastardly attempt to grind the peoide and keep them in ignorance of their rights by muzzling the press? Who is it?" "What's the matter, anyhow?" asked the foreman, as he came out of the composing room. "Somebody has Btolen my scissors." A Fellow Feeling. Tirue.l Guzzler on his way home is halted by a footpad. F. P. "Your money or your life." Guz. "Well, 1 don't mind; I've only got a quarter." F. IV "Give it up. It's good for a drink, anyhow." Guz. "A drink! why, man alive, it's good for two; won't you treat?" F. P. "Cert, come along." Another Society Actress. Time. Minnie "So your husband has got a divorce? How could you be so foolish as to let him find yon out?" Clara "Foolish, dear? Bat Imagine, the poor dear boy wouldn't hear of my going on the stage, and 1 became desperate. Now that my fortune is assured, I am rather sorry it was necessary, though, for dear Charlie was just the man for an actress' husband." A Way Out. N. Y. Weekly. Anglomaniae 'That's the way it goes. If we hunt foxes folks say we're cruel ; if we hunt aniseed bags folks laugh at us. What can we hunt without exciting indignation or ridicule?" fa'iaaUBjy "Huts!"

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A HOG RACKET WORKED. Three Sharpers Work a Trick That Fays Them Well. X. Y. Sun. When I entered the villatre. situated amonsr the hills of New York, at 10 o'clock in the morning, all was peaceful and serene, and the pocket of every man who walked the streets had chink in it. When I left, at 4 p. m., an exc ited mob had possession of the mam street. and every other man was dead broke. About noon a man arrived from the nörth m a buggy. He said he wns a drover and looking for hogs. He bought half a dozen before he ate dinner and it was astonishing how closely he guessed at their live weight. He was within two Toiind on four of them nm! onlr h:ilf a pound more on others. Ihese had been an attraction to a crowd of ldiers, and the general verdict was that the drover was as sham as a barber's razor. Soon after dinner a farmerlooking boy drove a hog into town, and staked him out in trout of the tavern. As he wanted to sell and the drover wanted to buy, they boon came together. "Might take him on a pinch, but he's only a nubbins," said the drover, as he sized the porker up. "Xubbins! Why, that pig goes over two hundred pound!" exclaimed the owner. "Can't stuff me, boy. lv'e been in the business twenty years." "So one wants to stuff. That 'ere hog goes to 210." "He does, eh? Wish your father had come in. I'd like to make & bet with him. Boy, you ought to have better judgment. That hog won't pull down ISO." "Guess you are off, too," remarked a stranger who had quietly driven up in a buggy. "I've raised hogs all my life, and that boy hain't five pounds out of hin guess." "Ain't he? Raised hogs, have you? Ever raise any money?" "A little." "Perhaps you'd like to bet on that hog?" "Perhaps." "Have you trot $20 as says he goes 200?" "1 have fifty a hundred!" "Then let's chalk. Anybody can blow." It wa a chance to make a dollar, and the cit izens improved it. The man in the buggy was an accommodating chap, and somehow or other tne tamer boy managed to hsli up about a hundred dollars from the hind pocket of his overalls. The citizens stuck by the drover, having abundant proofs of his judgment, and when every man in that town who had a loose dollar or could borrow one had made his bet the hog was driven to the scales and weighed. . "Gentlemen," 6aid the drover just before the weighing, 'T was never deceived in my life. This hog won't go to 1!X pounds." I ll take even bets that he goes over "w. replied the man in the buggy. This bluff raked out the" last nickel in the crowd. ,! the hog was driven upoa tie 6cah s. T le record was 211 pounds. He was weiuuc i and re-weighed, but the ligures stood. ell, it s my hrst error in a hog, said the drover, and all bets were at once handed over. The farmer boy slipped out, the two men drove ot!" in the buggy, and half an hour had elapsed before a church deacon, who had laid his ten with the drover and lost, suddenly declared that it was a put-up job to skin the town. J'urn my buttons ifithaint! yelled two hundred men in chorus, but it was too late. The town had been skinned, and the trio had escaped. All the mob could do was to turn loose and wreck an old vinegar factory and pass a resolution to the effect that liberty was a sham and a delusion. Sherman Harked AVindom. Washington Special. It has been affirmed and reaffirmed with much positiveness by the "inside politicians" that teve Flkins was -responsible for Mr. Windom's selection as secretary of the treasury. The fact is that the appointment wss due 6olely and entirely to the persistent and persuasive efforts of Senator John Sherman, who is under very heavy obligation to Mr. Windom for one or two special favors rendered at the time Mr. Windom was secretary of the treasury, particularly the disposition which Mr. Windom made of the report of the Pitney investigation, which showed a'state of things by no means complimentary to Mr. bherman, when that gentleman was secre tary of the treasury. That report never saw the light of day. It was put under lock and key by Mr. Windom. and to-day there is no trace of it to be found in the department. For purifying the blood, stimulating the ap petite, and invigorating the system in the spring and early summer, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is unsurpassed. Be sure you get Ayer's Sarsaparilla and no other; else the result may be anything but satisfactory. That tired feeling, so subtle and yet so over powering, is entirely overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which tones and strengthens the system and gives a good appetite. He sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla. "One hundred doses il" is true only of this peculiar medicine. Consumption Surely Cured. To tiie Editok Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. Py its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall lie glad to send two bottles of ray remedy FKHE to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and P. ). address. Respectfully, T. A. S5LOCVM , M. C, 1SI Pearl-st., New York. The new craze. "Pigs in Clover," will be piven to each new subscriber to TllE SUNDAY Sentinel, l'nce six months, $i. Dr. Henley's (ienulne Inrlgorator. Celery, Teef and Iron eive food to the brain, enriches the blood, aids digestion, gives refreshing Fleep, where other remedies fail. Try it. Sold by dealers. Price, $1. Tho fifteen-puzzle drove hundreds crazy. The pig puzzle promises to drive thousands mad. The new craze, "Pigs in Clover," will be fiven to each new subscriber to THE SUNDAY estin EL. Price six months, fl. DETECTIVES V ant. In rrr ronotr. Shrewd nn it act 4? Initnirttnii. Id our herrt S-rricc. Fxprioff not !(! nr. Srnd 'io. tiara pc (rannanDetectivrBureauCo.44 Arcade, Cinclnnatl.O. TREES Hoot Grafts Kwythlnul No larger stock In the U. 8. ho better, no cheaper. Pike Co. Nurseries, Louioiana Mo. PHI rCHTH Van,wI : '"' nl trrtlln. Position SnLLuitlLil permanent. Hliry from Urt. MpcriUcuovuiUMxxMarr. BrBr.,irrj,tklctAJt.

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