Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 December 1883 — Page 3

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RRE HAUTE, DEC. 15, 1868.

twelve Pages.

& MANY WAYS TO WED. y%~

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CHANGES NUPTIAL CUSTOMS.

movations Introduced the Present Season The Practice of Kissing the Bride Becoming Unfashionable—

Expensive Ceremonies,

The later autumn and early winter onths constitute the matrimonial in 'of the year. While bo many

people are honeymooning round country, to their own delight and amusement of others, it may be in* 'resting to glance at the nuptial cusma of other quarters of the globe. In vsiria the peasant girl tell her love, id after the engagement dance, her other relieves her of all housework rid sets about fatten! og hor up for the edding day. Though relieved of do-

Btie cares, she is by no means idle, 'd finds the days aud long nights too iort for flhishing her sewing, which inades drefuses and underclothes, sheets, •illow-slips, quilts, mats, tidies, tablenen, and stockings enough to last her a dozen years. Any faiitlstlc goods /111 make her toilet, but the color or nbric what It will a veil is indespensa If, with a wreath of orange blossoms id a little satin pillow on which the edding ring is carried. This cushion usually about eight inches square and adiantly decorated with embroidery or tad-work, in which all the village

Aidens have a linger, if but todoasinstitch. The Russian bride wears a ousseau of blue, with a short, full veil •atoned on the hair with a wreath of iiver leavesj wh'cli may be made of lld silver or fine wire, but where this xtravagance is beyond tho moans of he bride, silver paper or tin foil is subStuted, unless a coronet is plaited with fver ribbon. In the ceremony two iigs are used, the bride decorating her usband after accepting the ring.

An AuHtrailian groom has to face the llsge maidens, who forcu him to run a tower or spear-pointed arrows. In irther India the couple are married /bile seated on a circular malting placed ,i the sun. All the girls iu the place institute the bridesmaids. Lacb cares a staff bound with blue and finished tho end with a bunch of fiery-red lathers. They dance round the happy luple, who are not permitted to rise till ie girls have exhausted their vocal ileotlons, aud are to tired to vary tbeir raceful motions. An Egyptian bride •ears a gorgeous robe of blood-red satin, nbtoidered with roses, birds^fef gay milage, aud graceful little cupids, 'irowu out in broad relief by outlines silver thread or gold laoe. The veil Is .trelessly draped over the left shoulder, as to partially obscure her face frotn le view of tho groom, and fastened on ith a diadem of glittering goms. In tnl the bride wears a dross of feathers, '4th metalic flowers in her hair. She hotsls on a orass wire mat, with a shield 1 one hand and a knife in the other. )er attendants, who are selected because strong lung power, dance round her vblrdes, stamping, Jumping, kicking jv impediment that comes in their y, and making the air resound with isir hideous screams. In some of the *»rbary states the bride is confined to ,e care of her mother-in-law tor forty-

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ht hours, in which time her hands are with ugly figures and computed designs symbolic of the obstacles, yncultios, and miseries that will cerfnly cross her path. 'Within the last six months many In•jvations have been made in the wed. it\tr programme. Floral designs are ipfdly beiug discarded, but there is no USger th«t (lowers will be altogether nished from the home wedding, long the-latest devices Is an open um11a. under which the ceremony is rformed. The covering Is white, ribwith red or tea-rose buds, and the is incrested with white jet or cut •stal. The rage for wish-bono wedii?s has led to a hanging design night in the form of the angular .... Th» rtn««ni AI-A usuallv white or

no. The flowers are usually white or color, and the dimensions vary. nuiOK from two to two and a half ,rds. The bridesmaids wear lace pins, [fts of the bride, and the groomsmen f.plns, which are presented by the houi, both designs representing a Uny nli-bone. ,,

At rainbow weddings the bride wears it*, and the primary colors are repre* ted In the toilets of the seven young ies who attend her. Gift wead

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so denominated because the groom rnlshes the hats, shoos, hose, glove*, —, handkerchiefs, and bouttonlere om by the gentlemen Invited to the idal party, while the bride not only pots but Tbuys and sends to each of her aids material and design for the drees oves, fan, flowers, slippers, and veil, ch weddings are necessarily expensive, d, therefore, not likely to become mmon, ^«Kugh*ve«^bave^urred the east and one in this city, less than month ago. At a

wedding

see

last

which took

month in Austin the bride was

essed a la fairy, and the nroarame for lebrattng the nuptial service In an ivy.Jned power was defeated by uufavorle weather. No other break, however, our red, and at the festivities, which ted all day long, all U» servants in bouse. the3krra-handa, and the ploys* and their families, In the sarof the bride's father, were (fined lonlal fashion ha the servants' ball. Tho daughter of a Louisiana ootton Mrchant Introduced some novel feature bar wedding, which

solemnised

iriv in November. The church was ivishlv decorated with flowers and iants, having previously been perfumbv lamps burning MO"***

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uple to be married led the bridal »rtege, followed by eight maids of onor, who were ushered byth# beat -an, and followed by two Bule pages rested in

blue

velvet* whit® lace raffles,

valler hats and plumes, and «*rry rncoplas of loose flkiwers- Each maid ad a silver reticule filled with cut owere and

rose

petals with which they

howered the veil and train of the bride uring the ceremony, and on its com'lotion scattered &er path ^thOie owers. At the breakfa*' the bride's ike. served on a thread-lace doylie, was overed with silver foil and surround*!

Ith full-blown white rosea the groom's gold o&ke, waa encircled with damask During the following weak each

bridesmaid entertained and served her guests with a box of white loaf cake garnished with a white rosebud.

There is some reason to believe that the practice of kissing the bride will before

long

be considered non-fashionable.

A Chicago bride determined to forego the promiscuous kiss of eighty-five guests, and, though she succeeded, the task was a difficult one. When a lady or gentleman approached she received their congratulations, at the same time keeping her eyes fixed on the speakers hands. In every instance this modest little dodge sufflded to keep the ladies off, but when an admirer of the opposite sex attempted to advance further lan the clasp of her hand the timed eyes raised snapped just a little, and a graceful wave of the left hand repulsed the audacious one.

A city societv paper tells us that all sorts of oddities are being introduced into fashionable wedding ceremonies. If occurring in the house the rooms are lighted with wax candles. Sometimes no gloves are worn. When the ladies areln full dress, as at a noon wedding, the gentlemen appear in morning or evening suits, and in club circles in knee breeches. In some instances the groom has a best man and groomsman too and when the bride has an odd*number of bridesmaids the one walking alone and nearest to her is called the maid of honor. The bride of the period does not invite her mother to enter the train, but is content to lead It herself on the arm of her sire in the meantime the groom makes his appearance in company with his best man, coming from the chancel study. It is permissible for both grooni and bride to carry prayer books, though neither are opened for responses. Such a volume precludes the necessity for a bouquet. The custom, as introduced by high church folks, has become contagious, and people of all denominations now carry a book. These wedding books or bibles are printed on rough-edged paper and bound In Ivory, silver, pearl satin, or wire-frames incrusted with inexpensive stones, such as imall pearls, garnents or amethysts. Such books are retained as family heirlooms.

Albeit Innovations iff toilets, decorations, ceremony, receptions, feasts, confections, and tour are constantly being Into and sancioned by society, no formula as yet are noted in which economy is largely considered, and before entering the bonds of matrimony a close intimacy with United States bonds is not to be despised.

LAW OF SEX PROD UCTION. The London Athenaaum claims for a late English author anew theory in relation to the production of the sexes. Epitomized, the theorist argues that he has discovered tho law which governs and controls the sexes and establishes a balance over the globe. That lawls that "sex is determined by the superior parent, and also that the superior parent produces the opposite sex.' If th husband, therefore, Is superior to the wife the family will consist mostly of girls, and if the wife be superior to the husband boys will predominate. It follows, of course, per parenthese, that is husband and wife be equal the family will contain an equal number of boys and

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irls. What denotes superiority? A complexion Is superior to a light one, and square foreheads with strongly marked veins, and large, long or aqull Ine noses likewise indicate superiority. After a series of examinations the author claims to have found that editors, poets, philosophers, lawyers and literary men generally have uaove gtria than boys, while hotel and Innkeepers, merchants, small retail dealers, doctors, orators and musicians have more sons than daughters. Preachers usually balance the sexes, but barely eseape inferiority, while orators and musicians are markedly inferior, aud for the peoullar reason that the base of the brain dominates the intellectual and moral sections! In spite of all the reasoning of the new theorist, and others who have learnedly written about sex production, the law Is still a greater mystery when one attempts to argue from a personal standpoint. One thing Is sure: The division of the sexes is a law of the Creator, and not a thing of personal experiment or animal power solely. It was not proper when Lockhart asked Professor Wilson's daughter in marriage, and sent the girl with the request, that the great Scotchman should send her back to her sweetheart with the words written on a slip of paper aud pinned to her gown: with the author's compliments!" He was not the author of that beautiful human poem. The author was God. The secret of sex production, after human logic and Ingenuity are exhausted, will perhaps remain with Him along with the profound secret of conception, festal life and birth.

SHR UOOIJfQ HER CLOTHES OFF. Speaking of decollete dresses at the opera In New York the correspondent of the Philadelphia Record says:

Most of these bare necks were plump and prettv but I did see some that were neither. 'There waa one young woman who sat in a box near me, and who wore the lowest-neck dress in the house. In fact, it was no dreas at all it was simply a lace shawl tied under her arms and around the waist, something in the style In which Italian peasant.women wear their shawls, except that tltey wear theirs' over tbeir shoulders, and this young woman's waa under. Her favorite attldude waa facing some one In the box, and when I first notloed her I thought that she had a dreas fastened in the back with large buttons, but what I had taken for buttons were bones. She was a very sprightly woman,and bad a great many men in her box to talk with her, and as she talked ahe would shrug her shoulder* in the moat approved French fashion. I couldnt help blushing for those young men, for it seemed imposaibie for he' to give another shrug without lifting herself entirely out of her clothes.^

LOW-NECKED DRESSES?'**^ Andrews' Qnaea. We wish sincerely that some woman at the head of New York society, whose Influence Is great, and whose example would be followed, would set the fashion of wearing hqae deeollete dresses than Is at present the rule among the women who attended the opera. Tbe instance where our women show execrable

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tbe arrangement of the bodices their dresses are not very nnmerona, to be •are, bat they are woflktent in number to dtagnat all light-minded people. Of course it is entirely too »*d where a woman ha» a very beauti -1 mck and shoulders and arms that should not be allowed to go with tbeo -are and exhibit them for the benefit«the admirtng crowd who attend the pera But we really think that tbe admiring crowd could get along very well without this addition to the evening* sntertainmsnt, and are of the opinion that thai the atandard of motility to the community might be a trifle raised it tbe society women who aUeod the opera were a little more modest, and paid more attention to cultivating true refinement, womanliness, and good taste.

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL-

A PROPHETIC SPECTER.

WEIRD STORY OF THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF C. C. BROOfcB, OF BALTIMORE.

Battohorb, Md., Dec. 8.—ArenAjrkable case of promotion cf ckath was brought to light to-day iii iiilunerai discourse over the remains Christopher C. Brooks, aged 17 yen. -. $.«andson of Professor Brooks, of the Baltimore Female College, of this city. The minister said it was oneof the exceptional phenomenal cases which point to a new and higher philosophy. He said that suoh cases were like the moonbeams which came down to earth a cloudy night, through rifts in the clouds. Such cases enlighten the minds of men and direct their researches toward a suject that may yet be made to yield to their teachings and truths. He did not believe that the dead were very far from the living, and thought that in the future a new science might be established on such phenominal cases as the one which he was commenting. The following premonition referred to was obtained from the parents of the deceased:

A STRANG® 8TORY.

Mrs. Brooks was traveling jln Europe, and had written her son who was ememployed in New York and lived in Brooklyn, to join her. He postponed naming the time of his starting. In the interim he was taken ill, and on the day Mrs. Brooks received bis letter she received a cablegram summoning her her home on account of his sickness, and* on her arrival she found him able to go about, and his physicians had had no fears as to his perfect recovery. The youth stated, however, that a former teacher and friend of bis, a Mr. Hall, who died about five months ago, had appeared to him in a vision, and told him that he would die of heart trouble on Wednesdav Dec. 6, at 3 o'clock. Young Brooks had never had any trouble with his heart, aud his friends to whom he made the statement were in no way concerned about it. His physicians laughed at it and said he was certain on the contrary, that he would get well. The young man was, however, thoroughly impressed with the belief that he would die at tfie time indicated. A few days before that time he sent flowers to some friends, with a note saying "I shall

NBYBR AGAIN BE ABLE,

to express my appreciation of your kindness." He accompanied a lady friend to an entertainment the afternoon of Dec. 4, spent the evening in her company, and received a promise that if he wrote for her the next afternoon she would come to say good-by. His physician told the brother and mother of the youth that he would divert his mind from the subject by physical means and on Tuesday night put a fly plaster on bis neck. Wednesday morning young Brooks rose as usual, ate an unusually hearty breakfast, and to all appearances was good for a long life. The physician left him without a trace of uneasiness aB to his condition. The young man insisted that his mother should not stay with him, telling her "It will kill you to see me die." That he might not talk the matter too much, she diu not oppose him, but consented to leave him, intending to return to him in the latter part of the afternoon. While taking lunch with the family as usual at 2 o'clock, he complained of feeling faint, and asked to be assisted to his room. After resting in the bed a ftw moments he wrote to the young lady, and in about twenty minutes she ariived, and

HE DIED.

in the* presence of the family at 3:10 o'clock. His physician and his mother arrived but two or three moments later, and were shocked to find his prediction fulfilled. His father bad returned to Baltimore from visiting him some weeks ago. On Wednesday, at,breakfast, his father remarked that this was the day which his son had appointed to die, but with no thought that the prophesy would be fulfilled, and was astonished when intelligence of the death arrived. He was a young man of strong character, exceptionally good mind, and spleniic

did physique.

CORN-SI1UCKINO SO NO. A correspondent from Arkansas prefaces a«corn-shucklng song with the following:

In general the negroes have greatly changed since the war. for many of them have gone to the cities and towns, or have become small farmers but on some of these large plantation of the South, where no social innovations bave been Introduced, they are very much the same, in dress and peculiar characteristics, as they were years ago when the tap of the overseer's bell was and ordei imperative. Those people preserve their quaint traditions, moral dialogues between snlmals. In which the rabbit is always the Socrates. They have a song for each kind of work, whose authority is unknown, but with whose words and tune all are familiar. The following is tbe corn gathering song. It is impossible to

rlve and Idea of tbe effect with which it rendered, and tbe semi-weird tune. I am convinced,couldnot be written bj the moat accomplished composer: COme er hitch up de wagln an' tlrlbe In de

Time lur ter geder de coir Wete botra' fur ter hab sum ash-cake meal, Time fur ter geder de op'p.

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D« Teller man gram wid a mighty light ban Time fur ter geder de co n. But the ole Guinea nigger am de bea' in de ban',

Time fur ter geder de co'n. AnW take offde rough shock, pile upde co'n. Jurangy ho, iIrer talkUr like er doan'

We'seer gwinter hab sum fun heah asSno as year am bo'n. Jurangy ho, so early in de day. De Male bites de oo'n as we dribe er long de rows,

Time far tor geder de co'n How much da ken eat nobody nebber knows, Time fur ter geder de co'n. De young houn' pop snufifcde ar as we paaa,

Time fur ter geder de co'n An'be bark* at de rabbit What hides in de Time fur t«r geder de co'n. An' er drlbe to de co'n crib an' open up de

Jurangy bo, Jls er talkin' like er dean' kers We'Se got ter git don lore deoot'winliWow,

Jurangyao,ao early In de day.

THE BOTTOM OF THB EVIL. Wayne Cmsea. The courts fail to punish criminals. Tbe lawyers run tbe courts, and It la possible that corrupt and venal practice bylawyera is demanded by tbe people. 1m theory that a lawyer is hired to save his client from just pnnishment is at tbe bottom of tbe evil. Penalties an now and then paid, bat

If.

la rarely the

«aae tbat a criminal pays tbe tbe pen

hire a smart lawyer. who, by means reputable or disreputable, will turn Mm looee.

A MOTHER'S KISS.

The &ev. Theodore Clapp relates how a mother's kiss, given her son at the moment of leaving the parental roof in Vermont, and the tear-drenched words that followed, were remembered after years. The son had grown dissipated and an accident brought into life the parting at the old homestead and wrought a complete reformation in him. It was the pleading and the remembered kiss of the mother of Coriolanus which caused that warrior to turn back his Volcian forces from the gates of Borne and thus saved the city from immediate oapture. It cost the exiled Roman his life, but hardly a Volcian could repress a sigh when he thought of the power of tbe mother over the son.

tender and

beautiful little story is THB XAOIC OF A MOTHER'S KISS. Habit makes people indifferent, even to the sight of death, and people in constant association with misery become at last almost heartless unless startled bv some scene out of the usual routine of events. A case of this kind happened at the morgue

one of the continental

cities recently. A white-haired woman, scarcely beyond middle age, but broken spirited with some gnawing grief that was sap-

began to look upon her visits as a duty on her part. If she failed to put in an appearance promptly at the regulation hour some one would be sure to remark: "Crazy Jane's behind time," or "Where's Crazy Jane to-day?" Rain or shine, hot or cold, "Crasy Jane," as the "boys" bad dubbed the woman, who, notwithstanding her unfortunate state of mind, had inspired those rude "stiff-handlers," as they prided themselves on being called, with something very like respect. Her story, real or imagined, was brief. Her boy, her only child, had wandered from the shelter of her home aud love some five years before. He had become involved with evil. The law had encompassed him, but in pity for his youthbe was then but fourteen—had kindly sent him to the criminal school of the State only two years. The instructions he obtained there must have been of the highest and most moral, for when his time expired he had forgotten his mother. She sought for him in vain. Sbe knew he was dead, or he would not have kept her waiting so long. So she came to the morgue every day, and with her tender, loving mother eyes scanned the face of every head resting on that stone pillow. If it chanced to be "young, she would bend over it dreamily arfd mutter, "Somebody's boy, somebody's boy, maybe my bov." Tben .she kissed the icy brow, ancl walked away, saying softly,

Thank you" to the attendant. One day, a half drunken fellow had staggered and fallen in the street In front of the building. The men had dragged him in and let him sleep off his booze among the "stifife," and some of the "bovs," just for a "lark," had suggested "laying him out on a slab." 1 he joke was carried out, and while they wore still "sponging and fixing" the now reviving young fellow, Crazy Jane made her appearance. The "boys" stepped back expecting to see some fun, as this was one of "Crazy Jane's kissing sub-

As usual she went the rounds muttering to herself. When she Btooped over the face of the last arrival she eccounted a pair of bloodshot but wide awake eyes, from which the stupor was clearing, to be replaced by an expression of horror and surprise. The woman recoiled, slowly brushing some invisible Bbade from her brow. As her form drew back the head of the man was lifted like an object attracted by a magnet, the face of the pallor of frightful jhe retreated to the very wall, hef eyes dilated and dawning with

each gray emotion.

intelligence and recognition. One instant the young man stood upright before her, as if supported by some mighty effort, then his limbs refused their stay, and with a moan of shame and agony he fell upon his knees at her feet, "Mother!" "Mysonl Oh, my son!"

Sorrow for past ill doth restore frail man to innocenoe, says the poet. Mother and son, from whom I have this true story, live here in New York now, respected and worthy of all esteem.,

HOW LONG HAVE I TO LIVE* It is not everyone who asks himself this question, because, strangely enough it is the belief of most persons that their lives will be exceptionally lengthy. However, life insurance companies are aware of the credulous weakuess of those whose lives they assure, and have therefore compiled numerous tables of expectency of life for their own guidance, which are carefully referred to before a policy is granted.

The following is one of these authenticated tables in use among assurance companies, showing the average length of iife at various ages. In the first column we have the present ages of persons of average healtOt and in tbe second column we are enabled to peep, as it were, behind the scenes of an assurance office and gather from their table the number of years they will give as to live. This table has been tbe result of careful calculation, and seldom proves misleading. Of course, sudden ana premature deaths, as well as lives unusually extended, occasionally occur but this Is a table of tbe average expectancy of an ordinary man or woman:

Yeais

Age. to live. ]Z 89 10 51 20.— 90 3£ 40 80

Our readers will

Years

Age. 60-.... «0 70

to live. 21 14 6 4

easily gather from

the above tabulated statement the number of yours to which their lives, according to the law of average, may reasonably be expected to extend.

CHILDREN'S CHATTER.

Sweet little Meg came into ber Sun-day-school dan one morning, her ever filled with tears, and, looking into bei teacher* face, said: "Our dog's dead, and I guess tbe angels were real scared when they saw him coming up tbe path, for be was awfully cross to strangers."

Dumley was making an evening call, and the nice little boy of tbe family had been allowed to remain np a little later than usual. "Ma," he said, during a lull in the conversation, "can whiskey talk?" "Certainly not," said ma. "What put tbat absurd notion in your head?" "Well, be replied, "I beard you say to tbat whiskey was telling on Mr. •, and I wanted to know what it

"No, I shan't!" said little Mary to ber mother, when given some command. "Hush!" said tbe mother. "Yon mint not uae those saucy words to me." A short time afterward, Mary and ber little brother Ml into dispute. 'I»b«£ do itl" exclaimed tbe boy. "Hnsbf" said Mary, severely. "You musut use tee-cup-saod-saocer worda tomeT"

A FRONTIER EPISODE. Tenderly pathetic is tho incident related below. The march of white civilization is rendering such episodes fewer

(and

fewer tbe romance is in the hereafter, when the pen of genious shall give traditional interest to mountain, valley and plain:

Among the many adventurous pioneers who pushed on ahead of safety in the Indian oountry waa a young man named Bassett, with his wife and a two-

Jousebold

ear-old child, who ldaded their little goods in a two-horse wagon and started further westward. Not satisfied with his former home on the western boundary of Kansas, he crossed over into Colorado aud selected a lonely spot on the plains, where he found sufficient timber for his wants. There he built a cabin and settled down "to grow up with the country." After a few months' residence in his new home, he learned that he was within a day's travel of a railroad station, where he could procure the meagre supplies that Jhis pitiful facilities ol buying or exchanging for admitted of. On the occasion of one of his trips to the station a straggling band of Indians came along in sight of his cabin. and of course the most ordinary redskin on the plains knows just what his duty to the traditions of his race demands of him under such circumstances so the brave and noble red men pillaged the cabin and, after setting fire to it, departed with their plunder, including, as captives, tbe wife and child of the absent jfioneer. When he returned the Indians had a day the start of him and it was two days' headway for them before any information of his terrible loss could be made known at the railroad settlement. With this start the Indians eluded pursuit, and to inaite their escape more certain, one of the Indians tore the child from its mothers' arms and, swinging it by the leg as he rode off on his pony, dashed its brains out against a boulder to stop its crying. The poor woman with anguish in her heart took observation of the lone spot on the plain where her dead baby was left, and as they rode on she watched the course of the sun and noted every mark by which if opportunity permitted the trail might be gone over. On the third day a dark speck on the horizon caught the quick glance of an Indian and they knew tbat soldiers were in pursuit. With a shrewdness which would have doue credit to the skill of a lawyer they realized that If the woman was found with them it would make a good case against them, so dropping her on the plain tney rode off, aud soon both they and the cavalry disappeared iu the distance, leaving her alone. Poor,wretched, heart-broken creature, strangely her life had been spared apparently to perish on the wide, lone prairie. But like the needle tc the poleher heart turned to the sacred spot wnere lay the dead body of her baby. Yes, she would it and die by its side, and in the laffRreat day tbev would rise up together from the dust. For two days she followed the trail backward, guided by the observations she bad taken and tbe occasional marks of a' hoof in the long grass and then she stood over the white glistening bones of all that was left to her of ber sacred treasure, tbe little lamb of ber lonely pioneer life. Coyotes had been there ana left not a particle of flesh or shred of clothing. Tenderly she gathered the bones in her apron, and trudged ou to reach safety if she could, or to die with the sacred relics In her armp whereve* she might fall. Sbe was starving, but she sought uot for food she was tired, but she faltered not by the way. An unseen hand seemed guiding her unerringly on a protecting arm seemed over her, for not a coyote followed on her trail. Alone with the remains of her dead she tramped the pathless prairie, and one day as the golden sunset was banking .•eous cloudB, they found her lying"with her thin white face turned homeward, pressing the little bones to her breast. She was just alive, but

Sone,

oor, hungry, tired nature was overand as her husband kneeled down by her side, she put her arms about his neck and faintly whispered:

Kiss me, Will. I can see them cornright up there." dear wife?" "Angels, Will." Yes, she saw them. It is such as sbe that shining white wings come down for, and they tenderly bore her spirit upward, while dust to dust and ashes to ashes her poor body was laid away with the little bones. •i V."' '.-.r

EATI NO AT N 10 HT.

Popularly, it is thought injurious, but a Boston physician states that unless dinner or supper have been late, or tbe stomach disordered, it is harmless and beneficial, i. e., if one be hungry. Four to five hours having elapsed since the last meal, invalids and the delicate should always eat at bed time. This seems heretical, but it is not. Food of simple kind will produce sleep. Animals after eating instinctively sleep. Human beings become drowsy after a full meal. Why? Because blood is solicited toward the stomach to supply the juices needed in digestion. Hence the brain receives less blood than during fasting, becomes pale and the powers

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dormant. Sleep therefore ensues. This is physiological. The sinking sensation in sleeplessness is a call for food. Wakefulness often is merely a symptom of hunger. Gratify the desire and you will fall asleep. The writer was called at 2 a. m. to a lady who msured him she was dying. The body was warm, tbe heart doing nonest work. To ber indignation.he ordered buttered bread (hot milk or beef tea were better) to be eaten at once. Obeying, the moribund lady was soon surprised by a return of life, and desire to sleep.

The feeble will be stronger at dawn if they eat on going to bed. Fourteen hours lie between supper and breakfast. By tbat time the fuel of tbe body has become expended. Consequently, the morning toilet fatigues many. I^t such eat at bed time and take a glass of warm milk or beat tea before rising. Increased vigor will result, "But the must rest." True. Yet when hungry we should eat. Dow the infant's stomach rest as long as adults'? Tbe latter eats less often merely because his food requires more time for digestion. Seldom can one remain awake till 10:30 or 11:00 p. m. without hunger.

During tbe night give wakeful childran food. Sleep wifl follow. Tb^sfck should invariably eat during the night. Thi* is Imperative. At night tbe delicate and children may take slowly warm milk, beaf tea or oat-meal gniei. Vigorous adults may also eat bread and milk, cold beef, mutton, chicken and bread, raw oysters, all, of course, in moderation. Do not eat If not hungry. Eat if you are.

CAN IT BE POSSIBLE. Michigan City Dtapateb. gome people after they secure county offices are not what they seem to be before.

TERRIBLE PROPHESY.

THE RED SUNSETS, CYCLONES AND EARTHQUAKES FORETELIJNtf COMING DISASTER-HOW

TO MEET IT.

The recent mysterious appearances following sunset and proceeding sunrise have attracted wide attention fronv students of the skies and people generally. I During the days of recent weeks the sun Beems to have been obscured by a thin veil of a dull Ifeaden hue which, as the sun receded toward the horizon, became more luminous, then yellow, then orahge, then red and, as night settledi' dowh upon the earth a dull purple. At first It was thought these appearances®w were ordinary sunset reflections of light but it is now pretty certain that some, unseen comet, in which the earth is en-* veloped, or a surrounding stratum ofworld dust or very small meteors. Profeasor Brooks, of the Red House Observatory, Phelps, N. Y., has turned his telescope upon these objects and discovered wnat he thinks are myrads of telescopic meteors. If it is unorganized world dust, or decomposed vapors, as the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, N. Y., remarks: "How is this matter to be disposed of Will it settle and form a deposit upon the earth, or remain-. a partial opaque shell about the earth to' cut off a portion of the sun's light upon it?"

Whatever the mystery is, there is no denving that some very strange forces are at work in the upper airs. The terrible tornadoes and cj clones which have swept our own country, and the fearful ,: volcanoes and earthquakes which have destroyed so many citic-s aud thousands of people—the tidal waves which mysteriously rise and fall on coasts hitherto unvexed by them—the trenienduous activity which is evident in tho sun by the constant revelation of enormous spots upon its surface—all indicate unusual^ energy in the heavenly bodies. &

These circumstances recall Professor Grimmer a prophecies tbat from 1881 to 1887, the pnsfBge of the live great planets —Mars, Neptune, Jupiter. Uranus and Saturn—around the sun would produce strange and wonderful phenomena. He says: "The waters of the earth will become more or less poisonous. The air will be foul with noisome odors. Ancient races will disappear from the earth." He attempts to prove bis prophesy byv the fact that in 1720, when Mars aud Saturn made their passage around the sun coinclden tally, great destruction and mortality visited all parts of the globe. He also found the same results in previous prehelion passages of the planets^ and argues that these circumstances always produce epidemics and destructive diseases which will baffle the skill of the most eminent physicians that the Door will die by thousands, the wesk ana intemperate falling first, those whose blood has been impoverished by excess of work or dissipation next and only ,, those who aro in couiparitlve vigor shall escape to enjoy th© era of renewed actlvity and prosperity which will follow the period of destruction.

Inasmuch as the entire world seems subject to the sway of the heavenly bod-a ies no part of the earth, be thinks, can^ escape scourging. He even predicts that

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wuu niiu ww famine will make human misery more wretched. That hundreds will flee to overcrowded cities for .aid in vain. Tbat sudden changes in ocean curents, temperature and surroundings will entirely transform the face of nature and climate of countries that tbe air will be so foul with malaria and other noxious trasses, that those who survive will be troubled with disorders of the digestive organs. That many who escape other ills will bloat with drosy and suddenly pass away, while others will grow think, and drag out a miserable existence in| indescribable agony for weeks. Neuralalc pains in different parts of the body will torment them. They will easily tire and become desposdent. A fn'nt hot. feeling will be succeeded bv ci:uly sensations while halluciations and dread of ill will paralize all efforts. The birds in tbe air, the beasts of the fleld aud even tbe fish of tbe sea will become disesed, poisoning the airand poisoning the waters of tbe globe.' We are told on the other hand that those who shall pass through this period of trial will bave larger enjoyment, of iife and health. The earth will yield more abundantly than ever before. The animal gdom will be more jiotonged very materially. This pro onKation of life will bo owing to the and .magnetic in

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fluencoi that will pervade tbe atmosphere. It would perhaps seem that the present redness of the sun, and the presence of a belt or veil of co«mlc matter, justified, in a measure, the prediction of Professor Grimmer, but disturbing as his prediction ni« i*i we are told for our comfort that the strong and pnre blooded need bave little to fear in tbese calamaties, that those who are delicate or indisposed should adopt means to keep the system well supported ana tbe blood pure and that the ni^t philosophical and effective method accomplishing this is to keep tho kuh.ey sand liver in good condition. Frosn the testimonials of such men as Dr. lioI^BWis and Professor R. A. Gunn, Nj. D., Dean of the United States Medirnl college. New York, and thousands of influential non-professional people, it seems almost certain tbat for this purpose there is no preparation known to science equal to Warner's Safe Core, better known as Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. This medicine baa acquired the finest reputation of any preparation that waa ever put upon the market. It Js a radical Wood purifier, which soothes and heals all inflamed organs, strengthens tbe nervous system washes out all evidences of decay, regulataa ^Jj^on, prevents malassimilanon of food In a philosophical and rational manner, fortifies the system against climatic changes and malarial Influences and tbe destructive agencies which seem to be so abundant in tbese evil days." .. .„ t.

It is not our purpose to disputotbe correctness of Professor Grimmers prophecies. As we bavesaid, tbe marked disturbances of the past few years would seem to give a semblance of verification of his theory. It Is certain, as above stated, tbat we are pawing through what may be regarded as a crucial period and it is tbe part of wise men not to ignore, but to learn to fortify themselves against the possibility of betog overcome by tbeseevils. It Is a duty which each man owes to himself, and hte Wlwi^to mitigate as ranch possible tbe suffering of humanity in« *a no way better can be accomplish tntrpoae than to map to it tbat be, hit" fortified by tbe beat known preparation in the stronge possible manner trod that be eocerttbe in fltierce of hi* ***??&* upon bis fellows to tbe ei-' that they, too, may share with him immt^^from the destructive influences which seek bis rain.

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