Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1889.

INDIANA STATE SEXTISEL lEntsred at the Postofflce at Indianapolis m second class matter.

TEKMS PER TEAK: tingle copy (Invariably in Advance.)-- 00 WessU- democrats to bear in mind and sehnet their tp tat paper when they couie to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Agents making tip clubs send for any information ifjired. Adders THE INUIANAPOLIS SfXTINEL Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. The generous people of Evansville have sent the Clay county 6ufferers a quantity of provisions, valued at 5437. These supplies consisted mainly of flour, meal, baoon and potatoes, and were thankfully received. They -were transported without charge hy the Mackey railroads. Through the efforts of the Chicago Globe, Congressman Lawteii and others some fifty tons of provisions were collected at Chicago and eent by ppecial train, free of charge, over the Chicago & Alton railroad to the starving miners in the Braidwood district Indianapolis ought to follow these worthy examples. The Sentinel will undertake to forward to the Clay county miners all provisions that may be donated for their benefit. A letter from Mr. J. A. Ckouse of Brazil, secretary of the miners' relief committee, says: "Anything we ran eat we will gladly accept." Who will co-operate with The Sestinkt. in an effort to collect a gooaly supply of provisions for the heneGt of the hungry thousands of Clay county? TwentySve rents secure Tub Sentinel for three months, including thirteen complete toriet-. If you Ar not a subscriber, send in TOurtnmeat once; if you are already one, bo careful not to let your PuWription run oat. Tlie School Itook Trust. When the war on the infamous school hook tr'jst was begun last winter it was understood perfectly well by all concerned that the trust would make a desperat resistance. The leading firm in the trust had made hundreds of thoufands of dollars perhaps millions by charging the people of Indiana extortionate prices for school books. Other firms in the trust had also made large profits in this state. So enormously profitable was their business that the leading bouse that of Van Antwerp, Hraoo & Co. bad, according to Gov. Hovey, retired a millionaire every two or three years for a long tim back. In his inaugural address ho declared that the ring was selling its books to the people of Indiana at a profit of r,f0 to 000 ;trrent. This extortion he very properly denounced as outrageous, and he urged the legislature to take some f-teps to stop it. Perhaps Gov. Hovey did not realize how strongly the trust was intrenched in Indiana. Others who attacked it did, however, and understood from the beginning that the fight would be a desperate one. With almost unlimited moneyed resources, with a superb organization, and with its very existence at stake, not only in Indiana but all over the country, it was idle to suppose that the school book octopus would not employ every means in its power, fair or foul, to break down the movement for the destruction of its monopoly. The Sentinel, for one, appreciated fully the resources of the trust, and understood perfectly what kind of a struggle it would make in ihr effort to perpetuate its grip upon the state of Indiana. At the very beginning The Sentinel predicted what has already come to pass and what is now occurring. For many years the octopus had been rngaged in systematic eflorts to corrupt the school officials of the etate. Wherever among them was a man who could be bought with a money bribe, the ringbought him. It loaded trustees, teachers, superintendents, members of school boards and other? connected with hchool affairs with books, pictures, articles of furniture, bric-a-brac and other "presents." Its agents took them on expensive excursions. Scores of young men in this state who began life with an hon est purpose and good prospects date their ruin from the time they were taken to Cincinnati hy school book agents and f-hown th round of its houses of prostitution and other dens of infamy. When pchool officials could not be readied by money bribery, or by debauching thera in the manner stated and it in proper to Baythat a largv majority wert not susceptible to Kuch temptations other method were brought to bear ujon ihftn. They were f.wned upon, flattered, lied to, coaxed, bullied, brow-beaten or intimidated. Social, political, financial and even church influences were brought to bear upon them. And if, after being subjected to all this perrceution and pressure, a school official refused to play into tho hands of the ring, he was marked for official death. Hundreds of worthy leaf hers, echool Superintendent and trustees have lot their official positions, to the great detriment of our educational interests, bccatise they J-isd stood between the people and the echool hook rin; A combination which bad yntcmatieally employed such rasmlly methods to build itAfclf up, was, of course, prepared to rev ffort to any means, however disreputable, to me itself when attacked. 'o con scientious ncruples would aland in its iray. Falsehood, perjury and bribery sperrt rlight in iU line. They were weapons In the use of which it bad be come) skilled by long practice. Its monopoly wa f.o valuable, its profits no enormous, that it could afford to spend unlimited amount of money in the effort t preserve thcrn. It would buy everv newspaper that wan for nate. It would corrupt every legilator who was corrupt ible. It would manipulate every school ftTicial who could bo reached by its pceu Jiar methods. It would assail tho charac ter of every person who should enter th list against it. It would raio tho hue and cry of "blackmail" at every Assault upon it. It would obstruct the pnwftge of every measure that waa proposed against it. And finally, if, in spite of its exer tier.!, a law should be parsed that threat ened its monopoly, it wouM apart? r effort to break this law down. Tbl has been tbe policy of the school look no, fi this and other atatcs. In the adjoining states of Ohio. Michi?au

Kentucky and Illinois these tactics pre vailed at the last sessions of their respective legislatures. In all those bodie: measures were introduced against tbr ring, but the ring succeeded in defeating them all. In this state, however, tnc power of public opinion and tho integrity of the legislature prevailed. The ring had a powerful lobby on the ground, marshalled by officials of tho etate. It hai' an immenso corruption fund, which wa -expended freely. It had the aid of all the venal newspapers in the state, and of every school official whom, by any means, it had succeeded in getting into its power. It contrived to introduce party politics into the question, although it was a matter entirely foreign to party politics. It enlisted in its support political and religious prejudices. Uut, in spite of all, after tiufiercest and most memorable contest iu the legislative annals of Indiana, this brazen and corrupt ring was ignominiously defeated. A law was passed which, if enforced, would drive the ring out of Indiana and rescue our schools from the most insidious and corrup'g influence they had ever been exposed to. In the first battle between the 6?hool-book pirates vin the people, the people had won. The school book robbers, however, diu not propose to abandon the field. It waa matter of life and death with theru. They pet themselves deliberately to work to nullify the law. In another art:cle we

shall show what the ring has done, and what it has attempted to do, in thidirection since the 2nd of last March. Renew your subscription promptly that your file may be kept perfect. If you don't care to renew for a year, sen J us 25 cents for three months. Tlio Salt Combine. The prospectus of tho North American salt company, which lies before us, is an interesting document. As a literary per formance it is entitled to high rank. I'erhaps the most significant portion if that in which it is explained that tho new company is not a "trust." The scheme certainly differs, in some essential particu lars, from the ordiuary trust. A trust is usually formed, as the circular says, by grouping together "properties, stocks of merchandise and good wills, withotit purchase, nt a fancied valuation, frequently far in excess of a realizable price, represented by an unlimited amount of ftock or certificates." The capital of the .Vorth American salt company, however, is limited, "the company supervised by legal authorities, and the property coming into the possession of tho company is acquired for cash at a period of its greatest depression," etc. There is a marked distinction between this arrangement and that under which sugar and most other trusts have been organized. They are secret agreements between corporations, firms and individuals, made without the sanction of tho law, in violation of the principles of common law, and, in many ptates, in defiance of express statutes. This is a corporation, formed in broad daylight for specific purposes, which are freeiy advertised to the world. It is a question whether a corporation can be lawfully erected which contemplates the establishment of a complete monopoly of any commodity ; but such a corporation at least stands on a different footing than one of the dark-lantern trusts. The publicit) given to the Rait scheme is in decided contrast to the dense secrecy that has enveloped the organization and operations of the trusts. Whether this publicity argues that the objects and character of the salt company are better than those of the regulation trusts is questionable. To our mind there is something very suspicious in the eager attempts of the promoters of this enterprise to induce the general public to invest in it. If the legitimate profits of the undertaking promised to be as large as the prospectus foreshadows, the gentlemen on the inside would want all tho bonds and shares themselves. Their willingness to divide with outsiders suggests that the salt properties are being acquired at fictitious values. Their real purpose, we fancy, is to unload their fifteen millions of bonds and shares upon a confiding public within a reasonable period, pocket the profits and leave the salt business to take care of itself. But their avowed purpose is to create a monopoly of salt. There is a good deal of fine talk about the enormous profits to bo realized by introducing improved processes, etc. Put it is safe to predict that all these economies will not prevent a large advance in tho price of salt very Eoon after the monopoly is established. The Hot duty of congress when it meets next winter will bo to put salt on the free list. This might not destroy the palt conspiracy, but' it would weaken it, and would be a safeguard againfit grossly extortionate prices for fait. It is not to bo expected, of course, that a republican congress will take such action. Put its failure to do so will show that no protection whatever can be expected from that quarter against combinations in re straint of trade. Tho salt monopoly may be attacked in tho courts, but with doubt ful issue and with a certainty that it will take long years to determine it. If it can not be reached by a repeal of tho duty on salt, as we believe it can lc, it is likely to flourish for an indefinite period. Talma prenehe to.vyviO pcopletrery wrek through Tnr. bKNTiNKL. Uead his. leruion oa another page. The Sußnr Trust. The Journal uses nearly a column to Hay that it doesn't know whether the sui;ar tariff should be repealed or not, but is inclined to believe, on tho whole, it would ho better to keep it. It is unable to say .whether the tariff is responsible for the trust or not; thinks probably it is; euspects that if the tariff was repealed the trust a profits would bo increased, lcause it would reduce the priro of raw ugar and not affect tho price of reflnod suear. All of which is rot. Thero is a duty on raw sugar, and a duty on refined sugar. Tho duty on raw sugar has an element of protection in it, but is, in cficct, a revenue duty, yielding over $.V),0oO,f0O to the treasury. On the other hand, the duty on refined suear is protective almost to the prohibitory point. It yields only about l,.V0,Oo) t0 treasury. Itepenling tho duty on raw sugar would benefit tho trust i.Y pealing the duty on refined sugar would smash it, and cheapen tho cost of this prime necessary of life to every '.no of the i'i, 000,00t) of cons'imers in tl.i country The people consume about three billion O'jvada of sugar annually, and tho tariff

duty enables the trust to extort at least

AOOO.OOO a year from them. There is just one way to destroy this in famous conspiracy and that is to repeal the duty on refined sugar, or cut it down to such a point as will admit of the importa tion of refined sugar to compete with the product of the trust refineries. The Sentinel is in favor of this. Tho Journal is in doubt, but thinks, on the whole, that the duty would better stay. "Rats .loiiv Jakrett, who came out to Indiana last year and told tariff lies to the workingraen, is now consul at Birmingham, dig. According to the Times of that city, Jarrett says that President Harrison's last instructions to him before he left merica were to seize every opportunity of removing any impressions that Americans dislike England, or wish to be on other than the most cordial terms with her. These instructions so fully accord with his own views that he had the great est pleasure possible in repeating them. He adds: Of course, I know some of our people are verv fond, at election times, of nerformin tho operation known as "'twisting the lion's tail." Mr. Cleveland and the democrats aid it pretty freely in the last election, but it made their defeat all the more crushine. The Sackville in cident, as I suppose everybody over here knows very well now, was only an election trick, and a very shabby and stupid one, too. There is not a respectable American in the Mates that does not sincerely regret the incident, and, with a meaning smile, I 6hould think those responsible for the episode are more sorry than anyone else. "If Mr. Jarrett is fairly quoted," says a cable correspondent, "he may fearlessly claim to be the most thoroughly-rounded specimen of the driveling idiot ever sent to attend to the business of the United tates in this country, and that is eaying a great deal. Lord Samsitry, at the mansion house dinner, declared that the American voters had rejected Cleveland to soothe the ruffled feelings of Sackvim.e and England, and among Americans who come here there are unhappily many who will say that, or tell any other lie to help on their miserable little struggles forsocial recognition. A U. S. cousul, however, should not be among these." Examine a copy of Thk Sentinel carefully and remember that it costs less than 2 cents per week. The First Presbyterian society of New Haven, Conn., has gone to pieces. Tho church will be turned into a business block, and the late pastor, Mr. Kodoer, is looking for another flock. Some time ago he declared, at a prayer meeting, that he had come to New I laven to work against the false theology that was taught at Yale college. Yale theology is still flourishing, but P.rother Ropoek and his society arc "in tho consomme." The collapse of his church brings to light an interesting story about that truly good man, P. M. Gen. Wanamakek, At a recent service Mr. Poimier told bis flock that he had been in communication with John "NVanamaker, the postmaster-general, who was one of tho largest clothing dealers in the country and a good, Christian gentleman, and that he had a scheme by which the church debt could be wiped out Mr. Rodger said that Mr. Wanamakek bad offered to r-tock a clothing store in this city for the pressjyterians, providing the church would manage the establishment. All in all it was to be a church affair. The pastor urged that the offer be accepted. He said that this was probably the be6tchance the church would have to free itself from the burdensome debt. The church people, however, looked upon this novel project with disfavor, and it was not undertaken. Pon't let your mbsrripticm expire. If you haven't a dollar handy, 6end us 2. cents and your subscription will be exteuded for three months. IIaxsO. Hanknfs, a wealthy politician of Albert Lea. Minn., was appointed postmaster there by President Arthur. "When Mr. Cleveland becamo president he had three years to serve. He was kept in office two years, when he was removed for cause upon charges filed by many patrons of the office, including a number of republicans. In his place D. K. Stact, a democrat, was appointed. Mr. Stacy was a brave Union soldier went into tho service a private and came out a lieutenant. He 1ms made an efficient postmaster, but with two years of bis term yet to run, he has been removed by President Harrison, and the office restored to Hankness. Civil servicj reform aside, fair play and common decency are violated in such performances as this. Tho Indianapolis Journal itself said, only a few days ago, that "common sense, common justice, pood government, and Rood politics alike require that every pcrhon appointed and commissioned to a merely administrative office for four years, democrat or republican, be permitted to Rcrvc out his term, except for good cause, other than mere political difference, justifying his removal." Tahnsje preaches to .'O.O'iO people every week through The Sentinel. Ucad his sermon on another psze. People who are inclined to doubt tho popularity of tho tariff reform idea in Indiana may learn something from the novel and significant event at Illoo'in field Saturday. This is an "off year" in politics; it is now almost midway between campaigns; there is no political excitement omong the people; it i a busy time with fanners, yet tho biro announcement of a tarifT reform "picnic" at IMooinfieH brought lo.ofo enthusiastic people to that town, eager to hear tho tarifT question discussed in its practical bearing. Tho affair wni not freely advertised, and no special effort was in ado to work up "a crowd." Put the crowd was on hand just tho same, and it was full of enthusiasm ond earnestness. Senator Voorhkc in ado a great speech, and cx-Congrcssrnan Conn, Judge Kokin.soc, Speaker Nihlack, Congressman Jason P.howji and others mado forcible and eloquent arguments. Wo present A full report of tho proceeding elsewhere, and will only add here that the liloom field "picnic" furnishe conclusivo ovidenco that the poopte of Indiana are thoroughly aroused upon this great question of tho tariff. Jons D. Urn Kr.rr.iir.n, tho Ftandard oil nabob, is believed to bo the richest man in tho world. His ineomo is estimated at $!,(xk),0X). Tho foundations of his great fortune were laid In crime. Perjury, theft,, bribery, conspiracy and arson are among the incidents of his "business career." It la interesting to know that Mr. ItocgrrtLLER is active, as he always ha been, in the Sunday-school work, and that

,- he proposes to dedicate a large share of his ill-gotten gains to religious and charitable objects. If you like The Sentinel, renew your subscription for six months or a year. Do not let your name drop from its lists. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

TRrm, Indianapolis: (1) There is no tariff on coffee. (2) There is no coflee trust. No person of sense ever claimed that a trust could not exist unless sustained by a tariff. But there is no donbt that a great majority of tnsts conld not exist a day but for tbe tariff. The exceptions are those which deal in commodities, the production of which is confined to a very limited area. Coffee is not produced in this country, and, therefore, no duty that could be imposed upon it would be protective in its character. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Frederic K Douglass, once a slave, is (aid to be worth $T00,0o0. A monument to the late E. P. Poe is to be erected at Cornwall. Gen. Grant's memoirs have thus far netted his widow aboat $:J0,U0O. The shah's famous emerald is described as too bis; for effect. Lein u about the size of an ordinary watch, and exactly like a bit of green glass. The wedding trousseau provided by the czarina of Russia for her niece, the princess royal of (Jrcece, cost over 300,000 rubles, or about SlSO.UOO. Miss G wo fn DOLES CALDWELL,the Kentucky girl who gave $300,000 toward the Roman catholic university at Washington, and is worth at least a million besides, is encaged to Prince Murat Congressman Peed of Maine is credited with a sensible observation in politics: "We managed to get our district out of the doubtful list last fall, but it looks as though, with the help of the postotlices, we will be able to put it back again. Jordan Hlaip. of Montrose, Ta., is a colored man possessed of remarkable courage. He was afflicted with gangrene in his lei; and foot, and the doctors said be would die if they performed amputation. Plair thereupon cut off his leg with a jack-knife and is now limping along the road to recovery on a crutch. Poor old Dr. Soott has had a very hard time of it since he left the pension office and became a member of tbe president's official household. Lie has always led a quiet, modest life, and the new order of things seems too rich for his blood. He doesn't like it at Peer Park, and be likes it still lesa at the white house. Jcpge Ali en O. Thtrman was one of the speakers at the formal dedication of the Columbus (O.) board of trade building on Tuesday night, lie spoke for half an hour in a very vigorous nianuer. Atone point of his speech he drew from his coat-tail pocket the wellknown "bandanna" and wiped his brow. The audience broke into uproarious applause, and it was five minutes before Mr. Thurman could proceed. The finest private collection of pearls in France belongs to Mile. Dosne, sister in-law of Thiers. It Is valued at l..r00,o00 francs. Mine. Thiers, her sister, shortly before her death gave to the state a pearl necklace worth 100,0" francs. This necklace is now in the Thiers museum in the I)uvre. The Duchess d'Tzes. who, after Mile. Dosne, has the finest jewels of all French women, possesses a diamond necklace valued at 1,200,000 francs. Mme. Henry bay has a necklace of white and black pearls worth 400,000 francs. Qcekr to tell. President Harrison doesn't tan. That is to say, he doesn't take tan; for in the active sense of the verb "tan" he tans lots of patriots, and is expected to tan Tanner in a day or two. put the white-skinned Hoosier now at the head of afliiirs doesn't how sunburn like the ordinary man, who will redden np lor you in a single day's stay by the sea. Harrison has been in the open air a Rreat deal this summer, but there isn't so much ns a peck of brown on the tip of his nose. I'hilaatiphia Jlrcord. An exceedingly sad incident marked tho intrduetion of the late Mrs. Julia Gardner Tyler to her husband, president John Tjier, in 1SH. With her father, Mr. Gardner, che had just returned to this country from Kurope, and was visiting in Washington when the two were invited by the president to join a pleasure excursion down the rirer on the war steamer Princeton. During the trin the explosion of a gun killed Mr. Gardner ana several others. Mr. and in the sad scenes attending the funeral began the acauaintauce which ripened Into intimacy, and resulted in the marriage of Miss Gardner and tho president Do you like The .Sentinel? Hiow it by extending your subscription six months. A DRESS OF TAR AND FEATHERS. Enraged Neighbors Administer Justice to Suit Themseirrs. Canadacta, N. Y., July 27. Yesterday morning about 5 o'clock John Perry, a farmer, aged between twenty-five and thirty years, attempted to commit a rspe upon the person of Mrs. Mariette Lord, a lady aged about fifty-nine years, who employed him upon her farm. Edward Stapleton, a fellow employe, heard Mrs. Lord's outcries and interfered. Mrs. Lord came to Canadagua yesterday and made complaint against Berry, upon which a warrant waa ismed. Deputy herilT McPhillips started for Gorham to arrest Perry and when he arrired there, about 1 :.' tnia morning, he found that the enraged neighbors had taken matten in their own hands. It seems a number of men went to the Lord place last nk'ht, took Hcrry to a secluded pot about four miles distant, stripped him and dressed him in a liberal coat of tar and feathers. After ho escaped from the mob be borrowed a shirt and a pair of trousers at a farm bouse, returned to the Lord place nnd secreted himself in a haymow, where Deputy Sherill' McPhillips found him. It ia said 1 terry waa intoxicated Thursday m'sht. llow the Itook Trust l'lnj Its Came. fUlootflfliM Ifrriiormt. The ichool-book.i provided for by the new law are history, physiology, grammar and speller. We have been using the eclectic history and paying for it $l.i", Prown's physiology at il."'t, Harvey's grammar at 70 cents and McGulley's speller 20 cents. Thee samo books arc furnished by the Min house in t'nion county, a county not one-third as large as Urecnc, at the follawing prices: History M cents, physiology GO cents, grammar ,11 cents and spidlers at 15 cents. The board of education of Greene county ought to take this matter in hand and see to it that our people aro no loncrer robbed. Unless they will put the price of these books down we shall drop them and get some other. A part of them are about the poorest text books published on the subject. The board of edncation will be asked to consiiler thla mattrr and the people ohould -e their trustees ar.d icc that they look to their iuterenU. Pon't let your subscription run out. If yon have not a dollur nt hand, neud ui a quarter, and your subscription will bo extended threo months, or six months for JO cents. A Hearty rnrwdl. JTerr Haut riprr rp.l It Is said at Indianapolis that the school book publishers will withdraw their sperlnl agents la this state. For this relief much thanks. A few years bko the agents of school supplies succeeded in persuading the towr.shlp trustees to do vfry many bad thlnt;s for hicli the state suffered. The school book agents have been able to do more bail things with those oflioials wh have hud In chariro the supply of school books. The new Jaw may not operate smoothly: it must be amended, but we have eiperleu sioutrh of the evil iilccta of the insidious eflorts of theso wily agents to wish them a hearty farewell. We mtn h prefer to put our trust In the state board in the school book matter. We want our old subscribers to remain with us even more than we want uew friends. Keep up your subscription to 'I hk Hrntinku "Aeriirnta and Precise..", V)'niour l'i!iorrst.l Nelse IIuton, late chairman of the republican stale central committer. Is credited with the assertion that "every one connected with the management of tli republican campaign in Indlanau generally characterized as a kuavo and a thief." That's an accurate and precise statement that nobody coo rrratit with the situation will deny. The x-cliftlrn!'ui is, and hat been, ia a good position tu know.

"BAB" BY THE. SEASHORE.

PRETTY WOMEN AND HIGH LIFE REIGN. Gambling The Best Dressed WomanPretty Girls A Summer Scandal A Story of Maurice Barrjmore Woman' Latest Fad Chatty Pen-Pictures. At the West End, X. J., July 2-5. Special. The season down here is just at its hieht, which means that the women are fetching out their prettiest gowns, the horses are running their fleetest, and the men are admiring the beauty of nature, of art and of roulette and baccarat. Staid, eober matrons go to bed about 11 o'clock, and Monßieur le Marl sends up possibly a fancy drink as a sop to his feminine cerberus, and then he betakes himself to tho joys of Daly's club house. Wonderful etories have been told of men losing or making a deal of money here, but the losses may usually be divided by four and winnings by eight. When will men learn that under all circumstances the bank is coming out the best. At one of the club houses you pay for everything you get to eat or to drink; at the other everything is offered to the visitor free of charge. You can conclude which is the most popular. Roulette is obtaining more than ever, the American youth finding that it is not as great a strain on his brain as are some other games but, oh, the fascination ! You put down a dollar chip on No. 13, the wheel Swines around, and lo, and behold! you have thirty-five more to accompany that one. Then, if you are a wise young man, you go home. Put usually you are not; "you put your thirtv-fivc on some other number and you have the pleasure of seeing the bank tako thcru all, accompanied by your first chip. Do you etophere? I grieve to say you do not; and at 3 o'clock in the morning you ar coming home trying to explain to yourself or your companion how it was that your system did not break the bank. Everything gives tips down here. I mean that everybody gives you tips on your special ailment, on a dark horse, on tho prettiest girl, on the beft dressed woman, and on the handsomest man. The best dropped woman comes over to the hotel from her cottage wearing, in tho evening, a cream silk skirt "heavily flounced with ruffles of real Valenciennes lace, an empire coat of silvery-looking silk, the design being exactly that which was used for a silk worn by Marie Antoinette. Her waistcoat is of creamy white brocade, her cravat is of lace like that on the fdurt and is fastened with a turquoise set with diamonds. Over her blonde hair is a straw turban trimmed with white crepe and having two jaunty white wings just in front. Above her marriage ring is a largo turquoise set with diamonds, and she who has a wonderful jewel box from which to choose, has tho good taste" to relegate rich necklaces, diamonds, brooches and bracelets to absolute full dress. This is the Rareness Wane, a woman who seems to know by instinct, not only how to choose her dresses, but how to put them on, and who docs not make the mistake of wearing the finest of Worth's creations in the morning, or of driving in anything more elaborate than a gray cloth costume that owes its perfect lit to Whittaker. There has been a lot of talk about whether the husband of the baroness was a rich man, and it is very amusing to discover how unlike tho Fhiladelphians and Caltimorcans New Yorkers are in being so ignorant as to who marries who. Frederic Wane, six feet two, and handsome as a picture, had for his mother Miss Gebhard of New York, the sister of the father of Fred Gebhard and a woman of great wealth. His father owns a suburb estate nt Geneva, .Switzerland. The baron is tho oldest eon, the heir to all this, and yet as hard a worker as any man born and bred in America could desire. J'y profession a civil engineer, he is interested in all that pertains to engineering, and works from early in the morning until evening with the ardor of a man who really loves the special work that is his own. Tho prettiest prl? Tho prettiest girl cannot te counted. She is without number, and sometimes I am strongly tempted to say without manners. She is dressed in gowns of gingham in the morning, of cloth or flannel when she goes fishing or yachting, and in costumes of white muslin as she dances in the evening. That is the young woman who is properly dressed the one who isn't may wear a cotton in the morning and blossom forth in the evening in velvet and silk, diamonds and lace beet euited to her mamma. The young woman in silks delights the heart of the young man who considers evening dress proper for tbe seaside, but tho howling swells lounging about in a much easier and lens conspicuous toilet, quickly discover that the maid in muslin is more to their liking. The last scandal? We whisper it in the morning as wo listen to the orchestra play "Atuorita," and we watch it in the afternoon as we go out driving, to see how it is succeeding. It's a pitiful port of story somehow it makes a lump come in my throat whenever I see the victim ot it all. It isn't a mother selling her daughter. IVar no, we are more F.nglish than that. It'n a man trying to cell his wife a wife who two months ago was a bride. She is a little lady who attracted because of this the eyes of a man well known by his vices all over this country. lid ho approach her ? Only in the most respectable way. lie is an adept in wickedness and realized that tho way to win the wife was to appeal to the husband's pockets, and I think he is going to succeed. Every day that little woman is becoming more disgusted with her husband. Every day she is finding consolation in the courteous attention of the other man, and only tho leaves as they fall from the trees in tho autumn will tcdl tho end of the story. The latest story? It was one- that was told mo about Harry mo ro the olher night every woman in always glad to lioar a f,ory about Uarrymore,' because he is the handsomest man on tho atago to-day. One r 1 tri it ltarrymore was coming from tho Union squaro theater encorting homo a very handsome and very largo woman. Now, tho beautiful actor ia a superb athlete, and it'n a bit Isngerous Ui My anything unpleasant to him. However, one of the impudent cabmen along the square, called out to him: "Say, chappy, don't you want a cabby for your chippy?" Tho cabman found his renting placo in tho gutter. Ibrrymoro had given him one straight, and after the first indignation the littlo party of two indulged in a burst of laughter ät being mistaken for chappies and chippies. Tho latent fad? 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invariably refers to them as half-breeds, and says that if the queen's daughter had married somebody with a touch of the tar brush it wouldn't have been a bit worse. The royal family are not greatly in favor, though there is a queer sort of loyalty paid the queen, rot because ehe is who she is, but because she is the ruler of England. Don't you remember the story of the wo- j man who had found fault with all of so- i called blue blood and traced it to ofT-color j ladies, the washerwomen, or to daughters of the regiment, to a man who at last losing patience Faid: "Why, you have only left the queen and the royal family?'' H ell, 6he answered quickly, "what are ) thev but a lot of (iermans; they're not i really English!" Unless the princess has improved in her appearance since I last saw her, the earl of Eife will certainly not get a very beautiful bride, but probably she will get a much better husband than if she had been given to some illegitimate German prince whose principality consisted of a ruined castle. Novels are rcrid here by the score, French and English. The young American girl who, understanding French, delights the soul of her parents by continually reading French books to keep up her knowledge of tho language, and who makes a round of the watering places, is not the girl that you or I would want our sons to marry. To be a bit Frenchv, the orange Mowers would not sit straight on her head they'd incline a little to ono 6ido in a rakish fashion. I look every day at a young girl, pretty after the delicate American etyle, well dressed, and evidently adored by her own people. I wonder if she might not be counted among the peaches that are Bold at fiiteensous; they were apparently just as fine and just as largo as those that brought fifteen francs but take one up, cxamino it with a magnifying glass, and on the peach at fifteen sous you see a tiny speck that doesn't go in far, but it mars the perfection of tho peach and it grows each day. Now, the girl that I ßee has done nothing wrong; that 1 am sure of, but the is familiar with wronc-doing, for she has listened to tales that ought not to be told beforo her, she thinks nothing of growing very intimate first with this man and then with that one, and she enjoys with the air of a gourmand the champagne that she takes with her dinner. She has been three seasons at the seaside, she is nineteen years old, and if the were put in a fruit shoo, metamorphosed into a blushing peach, she would only bring fifteen sous. Whose fault is it? Her mother's. 1 think when the great day of judgment comes there will be before the bench tor reprimand more prodigal fathers aud mothers than sons and daughters, for after all if you do not try to keep your daughter sweet and womanly, innocent and pure, she has no one to blame but you. Do women ever think all that itmean? This caring for a girl child. I am afraid not. Here comes the special woman. What is she? She is deliciously slangy, she is about twenty-six, smart, rather than beautiful, and she will tell you in a way that convinces you that she never pottered after a Johnnie in her life, but that tho boys will hang around her, and that Ned doesn't mind and that she thinks it's because the boys know she don't want to marry them and won't run away with them. Her get-up is the very latest; she wears a dark blue broadcloth skirt, made quite plain and not too full; a veritable shirt of scarlet and a white striped percale with ahitrh collar, broken just in front, and deep cufla. Over this is a dark blue coat that fita closely in the back and Hares away in front so that a full view of tbe phirtand the soft silk sash without ends that conceals the skirt band is gained. Her scarf is white silk, tied just as Ned's, and pho has a pink pearl pin stuck throush it. Tho deep culls are fastened with plain gold links, ami on her head is a sailor hat that inside boars the English ttamp of Iliggins. She will tell you what a lot of fun there is about the wash, that tho laundress cannot understand why Ned should have two sizes of shirts, one so much smaller than the other, and she will proudly announce that bis shirtniakcr civeg her a gool fit, but, of course, her cull's and collars aro on the shirt and that it buttons in tho received fashion oil the way down tho front. Ned generally ha. his yacht over at Sandy Hook, and Madamo Ned is there much moro than nt thn hotel. Her special chum, nine times ou. of ten, is some delicate, very womanly woman who thinks that Leila's get-up is awful, who is feminine to her lingcr-tips, but who will tell you that Ixula is the kindest girl in all the world, d( sperately in love with her own husband, and never lets the boys around berget into any trouble. For myself I like Leila I think she in healthy in her tanten, nud she is certain to be adored by her small fry, who are good babies tumbling up to tho age when they can peak. Ix-ila docKn't neglect them she sees they are weil cared for, but sho believes the proper place for children is either tiirnhlingcm the sand tinder tho direction of their nurses, or else appreciating the poetical figures of Noah and ids family in tho nursery. I.ik lila, I havo always appreciated the virtues of St. Herod. Tho blonde, tho clear whito blonde, who never freckles or burns, who is ns languid, ns a tigress half asleep, is given up to costume of black satin; sho doesn't appear in the morning, but in the afternoon you neo her out driving. She has on a satin gown, and u shawl of black net with deep plaited frills is about her tdiouldcrs, so that sho seems buried in a nest of lace. Her bonnet is lace and ribbon, and her parasol U covered with deep, frilln of lace. She wears sntin shewn and black silk stockings, black gloves, and a black lawn handkerchief with her monograms in black embroidered upon it. In mourning? Not at all alio never was so happy, and sho knows sho is looking her best. In tho evening sho is In black satin again, but this time it is so heavy it seems to stand alone. It is mado after the fashion of the gown worn by Madame Kecamier, so thut no great amount of material is required for it. 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She makes yon think of deep red reses, of rubis, of "Eyypt, of dead and gone beauties who killed men because they loved thera and round whose hearts were found ''one f-tranciing golden hair." she is a bit uncanny; you think he r name oucrht tobe Lahige you confess toasensi of the unfitness of things in this world when you discover it is Kate, for Kute ouht to be pf-rt, coquettish, small of build, and with b'ue eyes that name is the one tiaw in the beauty, and if ever you can got tho courage you are goinctoask her to have it changed, so that a perfect harmony maybe attained. The smart demi-mondaine is here. She is very c,.V, bavins just come from the other side, and she is gotton up as are these ladies of the lake in Tari?. Her carriage aud men are in deep mourning so is she and just beside her sits a small child, usually a girl who looks orpt'.aned in the dradness of her black gown and the biencss of l.cr crepe-trimmed hat. A farce? That goes without saying but it's a farce that it is not' wi-e to see and certainly one not cahnlatcd to keep mourningin good repute. But it is all part of life at the seashore, where the waters dance and sing of a world that we do not know and where the sua makes a wondrous glory in the morning as it gets up to look at a world of laughter and tears, cf happiness and sorrow, which is after all, the world of men and women. Bab. THE SCHOOL BOOK LAW. Duty of School OHirlitU Perfectly PlainLet Them Ignore, the Trust. fAuderoti IVnK'Crat.l There i much being done ami still now being Raid about the new school hooks. It if no small a Hair. It means quite a chance in the state of Indiana. There ein be no. q neution but that the law wos enacted in answer to the wishes of many ut h'T-t cf the chool officers of the state. It votd for by nearly all ihe members of the legislature. Whether the Jaw has defect, or whether it is the best possible law In not a relevant question at thin juncture. It is a law; it is a pood law. It will require much worü and probably some worry on the part of oflicer to carry out its rro viions; especially m thi true hen the re is such a waren ac;s:n-t it by f.uMi.-hers concerned. Many people tindi-rtstiinate the force of the organized opposition tothis measure. There is capital to licht it in abundance and slick scents in Dumber, too. If then, the lw is ttiirly successful the first year it wiil m"an much. If this plan proposed and to be tnVd, succeeds in Imliana, it will be a precedent for other ftates, and means the surrcnilcr of lrt:e protits by certain publishers. School officials Bnould not lose their heads in th excitement. They should not albiw themselves to be deceived. The law is enacted and as such is entitled to a fair trial, and the only sensible thing any officer can do ist) do all he can to honestly enforce it. Anythinsr else will be a breach of duty. The state board of education are men of sound judgment and much can be trusted to their wisdom. They fchoul l have the co-operation of every subordinate officer in the state. It is to be believed, aud w ith cood reason, too, that the la a is cood, that the books will b pood and that it will tilt result in prcat coed until proved otherwise by an bonet tnaL If it is to be a failure the bestand quickest way to prove it is by a fair trial. The inducements and arguments held out by other publishers should receive no consideration whatever and are made only to confus and hinder or obstruct; made from motivea other than a desire for the progress of th schools of Indiana. The trustees should determine as soon as possible the number of books they will need and report to the county superintendent, giving ths publishers every opponunity to fulfill the contract. Don't pet excited, tntorce the law which is your plain duty, pay no attention to foreica circulars, and ycur schools will flourish as be fore. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. An i:ceiof K.iln-FaU Keporled-A Favor. utile YVelc l-".ir Cropn. Washington, July 2. The week ending July 27 was wanner than usual throushont the pulf and south Atlantic states and slightly rooler thfin usual in the northern states an t Ohio valley. The departure from the normal temperature was very slight in the Northwest and a'ons; tbu Atlantic coast, while the averac daily temperature in the lake region wa from three decrees to five degrees below normal. The? i has been an excess of rain during th w er k along- the Atlantic co it from Maine to South t'nrolina, and over the cotton region, from the Atlnntic const westward ti north Texa. More rain than uual alo or. curred in southern Dakota, and over the preater portion of ebr--ka. Kansas and Cohralo. In the principal corn states of the central vr.lhys and nUo the spring whe.it regions ot Minnecota and Dnkoln, thj ruinfull for the week was less than uual, but generally amounted to about orc-half an inch, except in some sections of Iiiin is and Mis. aouri, where tlie rainfall exceeded Ihrer-fourlhs of fin inch. The rainfall for the .cr.son ccn tiinifi in excess penendly throughout tha Mid lle and South Atlnntio states and from thn Texas coast northward to the Missouri Talley in western Illinois, eastern Uis''ns!ti mil northern Michigan. While the recent rains over tho linst tiidf states and thence northward to the lake region indicate n excess of moisture fr the season, the di ficiency in rainfall over this section pencrally ranges from four to ten inches for the season, or about N) per cent, of the nouiinal rulnhdl has occurred over the liast (fiiif slates and less than N per cent, over the states of the Ohio valley. In the extreme Norlbwesiern states, including Minnesota and northern Pakota only ahotit i d per cent, of the normal rainfall has occurred. The weather during Ihe week was decidedly favorable for crops in the spring wheat regions of Minnesota and Pakota, m Iicm a goo t har. vest Is in progress. Throughout the northern Slates of the centrnt valleys, exten.linn from Ohio westward to Nebraska and Kansas, tha weather whs favorable for corn, which is re. f sorted as excellent and growing finely. Tha larvestin of w inter whent, grass and oats waa interrupted by rains, and the weather in msny localities was too wet for their thrashing. In tha middle Atlantio states the week was generally favorable for harvesting aud promg crops. Il New York an average crop of heat, rye and barley is reported, w hile corn it poor, potatoes fair and outs a!v the avorae. Kell Iend In Her Poor Yitrrt. Kokovo. July 27. Special. Mrs. Msry I", Tsrrell of this city fell dead in her door yard this morning. Fhewmth widow of John II. Terrell, ex-sheri:f of this county, who died twelve years ago. s-he wm in her usual good health early this mominj.