Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — Beauties of the Harem. [ARTICLE]

Beauties of the Harem.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes from Cairo: The fat gentleman in European costume, with a tarboosh and a half dozen mounted attendants, is the Khedive. In that close carriage, under the protection of a eunuch on a horse, are two of his favorite wives, milk-white Circassian beauties, with their faces swathed in snowy folds of gauze; the exquisite carmine lips, even the faint rose-tint of the cheek, are visible through this coquettish mask ; high arched eyebrows and eyes at black as night re busy with the world they know so little of. Lovely beyond description are. these slaves, but spite of this darning loveliness you can see that it is chiefly artificial. The eyebrows are painted, the eyelids are tipped with kohl, and a dark line extending from the onter corners of the eyes makes ’ them seem much larger than they are. That white skin is softened and made whiter with powder; the flush of the cheek and the glow of the lips have been heightened for toe occasion, and all that gauze that covers the forehead like a turban and toe lower part of the face like a transparent mask adds immensely to the brilliancy of these feminine charms. White camel’s-hair shawls, covered with rich gold embroidery, lemon-colored kids, a Parisian fan, toe light of the harem is suffered to blaze upon toe world for a brief boor, but she must stop within her prison like a gorgeous tropical Sower under glass, or that light will be put out t Two, three, a half dozen carriages, and aomeef them having three or four veiled beauties in them, wheel slowly by; and then you have some of the more favored of toe wives at the mercy of your eyes. You may look as earnestly as you choose and you will not out-Stare them; smile, even, and the chances are they will hide a smile in their fans. Look well, for you cannot look long; toe carriage rolls away, you are dazed for a moment, but for a moment only, for in the muffled ramble of those wheels you are delivered from toe snare of splendid eyes! It is very noticeable bow fast pipes and cigars are giving way to cigarettes among toe smoking population, and toe change is not wholly aerfraWe if we may believe the following from the New York Graphic: “The American youto are getting into a detestable habit of smoking cigarettes toe papenr smell of which is offensive to any well-regulated nose, and which produces cancer in toe Up, and, as toe smoke is generally inhaled, trouble the lungs and bronchial tubes. The race of Americana wiU ran down If the cigarette habit becomes firmly settled In this country.”

The oimpfiign in lodiann is now at blood keat. In a few da,* it rat % *»• wilt DO DO 1 1 lug. ' Mp 1 i mats* Bishop Edmond 8. Janes, Senior Bishop of the M. E. Church, died Monday afternoon. The Winaaiae Democrat thinks “Bine Jeans'* Williams no orator. That everybody knows. Hie official returns of the recent alection in Maine shows a net gain e t 12,000 over the 3,000 republican majority one year ago. How is that for high? Senator Newton Booth, of California, will address the citixena ot Benton oouoty, at Fowler, on Saturday. Mr. Booth is an able and eloquent speaker. Old “Blue Jeans" Williams bought #230 worth of feather dusters with the people's money. Well, he will need them, for after the election he will have to get op and dust.

Soap is a very requisite article to a democrat's toilet, but, pray, what use have they for cork screws ? Will Uncle Jimmy Williams, reform candidate tor governor, please explain? Major Calkins, republican candidate tor congress in this district, is doing good work, and from every portion of the district comes the roost cheering news and flattering reports of his sore success at the polls next month. Some unprincipled person or persons tore *down and destroyed a lot of posters, in White county, announcing the recent republican rally at Monticello. This is bad work, and the parties gnilty of it should be made to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. The face of the average democrat is now about three feet longer than it waa before the Maine and Vermont elections. They see that another tidal wave has struck the country for republicanism, and that Tilden and his reform snare* don't entrap votes worth a cent. If Uncle Jimmy Williams don't give any of his cork screws, dusters, nail brushes, hair brashes, rubber combs, soap, etc., to bis .friends, he will be able to start a first-class auction store after the election is over. Who knows but that he will set up in Rensselaer ? And now the Indianapolis Journal breathes free air again. Austin H. Brown has withdrawn his libel suit .He couldn't stand it to have bis record brought before a court of justice, for be knew it wouldn’t bear examination, and then it would have imperilled hischaracter. Oh, no; he would rather be excused.

Governor Hendricks has not yet Accepted the challenge of Senator Morton to meet him upon the stomp in joint disonssipn of the political issues of the day, nor is be likely to. He is afraid Mr. Morton will “pin him down” on his attendance at the Chicago convention in 1864, which convention passed a resolution declaring the war a failure. It the results of the recent elections in Maine and Vermont “in sure a victory for Tilden and reform,” a* the South Ben<l Herald claims, jve would like to know just where their victory is coming in. There is only one chance for Tilden’a election, and that is the one which will elect him to stay at home, and the voters of the United States will so decide at the November election, by a majority of 800,000 TOtC*. Hon. George W. Julian, v the principal speaker who is expected to be present at the democratic-in-dependent rally in this place next Thursday, (the day after the Harrison rally,) rehearsed his little piece in Richmond, the. other day, to an audience of one hundred and seventy-six men and thirteen women. Such a reception was certainly not very gratifying to the “distinguished gentleman,” who spent many es the best year* of b'ii lift# in that city*

Judge James B. Reltord, a former oitiaen of Mohtioello, has been nominated for oongress by Colorado republicans. The action of thu administration in sending troops down south to preserve the purity of the ballot box, is the means of calling f>ut no little condemnation from editors of democratic papers both north and south, who denounce it in the most vicious manner as being a move gotten up for the purpose of aleoting the republican candidates for president and viee president by foroe of arms. It is a cry which comes from the adherents of rebellious principles, and men who believe that the war for the union was a failure. The simple faot that these men object to having the ballot box guarded, and that the presence of United States troops la distasteful to them, is conclusive evidence that they are bound to carry the elections in the Southern stales by violence and intimidation, and that the Tilden reformers in the south propose to resort to sbot-gun arguments to prevent loyal men from voting their sentiments. We are glad to see that proper steps arc being taken to preyent such an outrage.

Remember that next Wednesday is the day that Gen.Benj. Harrison, republican candidate for go vernor of Indiana, is to speak in this place. Let every republican work to secure the gallant general and brave soldier a crowd such as has never before been witnessed in Jasppr county or in this part of the state. Wherever the distinguished gentleman appears he is greeted by thousands of the loyal masses of Indiana, to near his stirring exposure of corruption in the democratic party and the eloquent appeals made to the honest voters of the state to give their hearty support to the party that stood by and prevented the overthrow ot the government in the dark days of rebellion, when the men who are now supporting the democratic ticket and who declared thit the war was a failure are $e men who are now fighting you and trying, by the ballot, to get control of the government Then let every voter in the county come ont and hear his able vindication ot the cause of right, justice, liberty and true reform.