Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 October 1885 — Page 1

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Vol. 16.—No.

rHE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

NOTES AND COMMENT.

THB sensation of the week has been the bursting of toe Blancbard bubble and the flight of tbe blooming Ben. «.• has been the talk of tbe street, in tbe offlee, the store, tbe shop, at the fireside and the papers have given tbe seductive land speculator from one to three col umns daily. His career in this city is well known, and it was long ago pre dieted that It would end as it has,

Blancbard has been out of town most of tbe time for several weeks. He left Chicago on Thursday of last week to slip away from one of our attorneys who went up there to make himself safe, He came to this city to find a charge of embezzlement against him. Tbe charge was brought by John C. Paddock, formerly a grocer in the south end of town, who had entrusted 91,740 to Ben to invest in Kansas land*. After biding about the city to evade the officers, Blancbard left Saturday nigbt on Cbioago train. He got on at tbe crossIng of tbe I. A St. L. north of tbe city— it was reported dressed in woman's clothes, but there seems some doubt as to this statement. He went as far as Danville, since which time bis whereabouts are unknown.

It is impossible to estimate bis liabilities. Tbey are set down at about $100,000. Many who are known to have dealings with him are ashamed to acknowledged the ssme. Very little sympathy should be wasted on most of bis victims. They must have known they wero taking great risks, and they took these risks in the expectation of realizing big interest. They invested their money as.in a gambling or loltery scbemo, and with tbe collapse have lost. There are others, women and men inexperienced in business, who were ill-ad-vised, were induced to take a deal by the seductive representations of tbe land dealer and his assistants, who have lost their all. These unfortunate people are to be pitied.

The Iftfcat ftjpwrt ii tbat Blimkuni has written back asking charge be writ'udtawn in order that he may return and try to regain his business. This he can never do. It may be best to let him come back and help to make the best of the wreok, but his glory has departed. His elegant office furniture has been removed and a card "For Rent" bangs in the window. No more will his carriage and span of black horses, with liveried driver stand in front no more will the stroke of the bell at live o'clock announce the reading hour no more special trains of palace oars, no more free rides in "his own palace car," no more building of Methodist churches, no more costly floral displays, no more ten per cent, a month profits, no more full page aivertlsements, no more "What Next!"

The efforts of Judge Mack and the grand jury to enforce the eleven o'clock and Sunday closing features of the liquor law seem to have boen unsuccessful thus far, and, In all probability will continue to be so until aomo radical change is made in the law, although the judge and jury are entitled to credit for their honest endeavor. Various reasons are assigned for the failure. It is said tbat men who frequent saloons until the hour of eleven at night loae their memorise about that time, and when called to give an account of themselves fail utterly to remember anything which occurred at tbat period of their existence. In regard to the Sunday law, men are found who can remember positively that they drank on the day named, but it their lives depended upon it they canuot remember what they drank, where tbey obtained it, or whether they paid for it. 8uch cases of loss of memory are frequent, and are very remarkable. Tbey are deserving of close medical study tbe result of close and careful examination would prove interesting reading matter, even if uncomplimentary to the subject, or very beneficial to the saloon keeper. Another reason why tbe law is not en forced is the fact that the city and state officials make no earnest effbrta to do it. It la no uncommon thing to find mem bers of the police force and constabulary in saloons on Sunday or after eleven o'clock at night. It was argued in favor of a Metropolitan police law that under its workings the law could be enforced, but a fair trial baa failed to bear out the assertion. Neither can a law be success fully enforced which is one aided In its operation. Tbe man who places temptation in the way of the saloon keeper by inducing him to violate the law should have the same punishment meted out to him as is laid upon the other offender. It ia abm asset ted that where "all sight" boose, or one which la kepi opto all the Ume, Is found a poker room In fall blast overhead. This any ., or may not be, but It is worth an investigation. 1Ui combination of forces fstnil an est forcemeat of Saw to

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formidable, and is an obstacle which is a difficult matter to overcome.

In Wme mysterious manner an ordi nance imposing a dty license of one hundred dollars on saloons, found its way to the clerk's desk at tbe last conn dl meeting. Its author's name it un known, and it was doubtless putln as a feeler by some practical joker. There are many saloon men in the dty who favor a license of from $300 to $500 per annum, but as tbe law places tbe limit at $100, the measure is without an advocates among the liquor element, and will never pass. In regard to the present liquor law it can be said that the enforcement of the license feature is due to tbe liquor dealer's association almost entirely. In 1880 the association re-or-ganized. At tbat time forty-eight out of about one hundred snd fifty were paying license. To-day the organization has seventy members in good stand ing and there are one hundred and sev-enty-eight houses in the dty paying license. While no person in the city engaged in tbe liquor traffic can be found who advocates tbe proposed dty license, the better class of them would not oppose it if any assurance can be given tbat it will be enforced. In the meantime the citizens generally are to be heard from. There is bound to be a fight on the whiskey question in tbe near future. There is no doubt that prohibition is losing ground, because it

Impracticable. Public feeling is strongly in favor of a good license law and its strict enforcement. The present law of Indiana is not a bad one, and its provisions were strictly adhered to would give [satisfaction. There is such a thing as too much law. In fact the statute books of the State are overburdened with it now. Less legislation, better laws and a strict inforcement is the need of the hour. If a law is bad it should be made odious by a strict enrorcement, and if it is good its benefits should be made apparent in the same manner.

Although tbe political muddle con' tinues in both parties with unabated vigor, tbe indications are that there will be the usual number of candidates in this county uext Spring.

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Schaal, Weeks and Seeburger,—all of whom are at work on their fences, and each one of whom feels certain of sucs. Frank Armstrong wants to sucAuditor Orimes, unless the next legislature should pass fee bill compelling him to work nt starvation rates. There

are

several besides

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Bell who are

ready to succeed Recorder Phillips, should they be favored with a nomination and election. Treasurer Cox will have no opposition for renomination. The Coroner's office, since the last election, has been ruu on business prindpies and has been a bonanza. Ex Coroner Drought refused the nomination last year, but will probably enter the the ring next year. The republicans have not yet trotted out any of their timber, but will be on hand at the proper time more confident of success than

have been for many years.

It would be gratifying to see the present Council take a decided stand on some question. The members have had about six months in which to consider the light question, yet when tbe bids to furnish it are opened they are as much in the dark a9 ever, and want further time. The liquor license question, wfcich has been before the people for years, and which is considered a good thing, they seem to have never heard of it before, while a cow ordinance, or one regulating hack fares seems to be out of the question.

The Blancbard fiasco demonstrate what risks men will run with their money in order to obtain large dlvi dends. Here was a man paying such enormous profits on money placed in bis bands that any person of even small business capacity could forsee the result, yet men were to be found who would stake all they had, without any security, because they thought they could realise from the investment from five to ten times as much a* any legitimate business could afford.

Tbe Jefferson |Club is in. full blast again for the next campaign. In 1SS3 Its work was confined to Sullivan and Vigo couutiee, its object being the defeat of S. B» Davis for judge of the Circuit court, which it accomplished. Next year it expects to work tbe whole congreisioaal district, and if it caaaot defeat Mr. Lamb for the nomination, expects to beat him at tbe polls. These same men were Mr. Lamb's strongest support last year, but such is life.

According to Judge Taylor, of Indianapolis, "telephone" means telephone and the varioos adjuncts ussd in operating it. Perhaps we will have an oporto nity before lo&f of learning whether the Central company waa sioesre when it anooooosd that rather than rent for three dollars a month its instruments would ks removed.,

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The police ball takes pls&ififext Tues dey evening. One of the danres on the programme will be the "Ben Blancbard racquet," which will be led by Superintendent Lawlor. '*-'V

Our city has again been advertised far and wide with the Bianchard business. Terre Haute has of late cut a big figure on the map of the United States. "What next?"

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Have tbe city Ceuncilmen no oonsid eration for the lovers and beloved throng the Normal school steps, thi tbey must order a gas lamp erected there

people will be furnished light macb cheaper than they have ever had it before.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24.1885,

The Blancbard excitement, the light contest, and the various ether incident* of the week hive bad no. effect on the corn, which continues to ripen under the October sun, gladdening the hearts of the farmers to wham, it is destined to bring prosperity.

There'are ways and wajs of doing things, but the grand jury method discounts everything else. A man waa ar rested by the police and placed in jail on the charge of wife murder. The grand jury investigated the-matter and indicted the man for fornication .:

There was a young.man named Benny B, A speculator rare indeed was he, He spent people's cash,

Made mash after mash,—'

Now his P. O. address is Canadee.

The special delivery carriers are thinking seriously of pooling their issues and starting a national bank, an "investment" office, or something of that kind. ~ch '16*. Wi MS 5

Indianapolis has adopted the $100 license for saloons and it is enforced in other dties throughout the State. The dty counoil needs money badly, %nd here is a chance to raise it.

Set tbe Mail down on thesideof a dty liquor license. It ought to be $500 in stead of $100. A license of $1,000 would put the business in hands of respectable and responsible dealers.

Nobody knows who fftapated tbe $100 license ordinance presented at the Council meeting Tuesday night. Wonder if Rev. H. O. Breeden was tbe author of If •*,"

When Bianchard's exchange was closed there were a lot of heathen gods on the inside of the window, and a bigger lot of bi-gods on the outside.

John Lamb may as well retire from business now and forever, as tbe Argo says "bis brain is a putrid mass of heterogeneous humidities."

It would be tbe proper thing for the saloon keepers to pay for tbe new High school building by means of the spedal license.'

Tbe female sex is getting equal rights in the county jail. Out of twenty prls oners,confined there nine are women.

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The spelling-school is the threatened revival of tbe winter. After progressive euchre it will probably be hailed as a relief. Already they have been or ganixed in many places. It is not much credit to be a good speller, but very discreditable not to spell well. It is well for young people to remember this. Many a youth has lostagood-payingsltnation, and many a young man has lost the chance of the best wife by failing to make a study of his spelling-book and dictionary when young. There is no place where bad spelling looks worse than in a love letter. A badly spelled love letter, written by either a young lady or gentleman, will spoil a hundred romantic tete-a-tetes by moonlight, and lock the whole case up In chancery.

A recent incident in Chicago belongs to the category of sstounding experiences which science, even white distrusting and criticising, has never satisfactorily explsined. The wife of a well-known dtlcen, soon after rising, asked her husband, "Do you koow anybody named Edsall or Bsdale?" "No. Why do you ask "Because I dreamed that a man of that name was found drowned." Is the morning paper wss the announcement of tbe disappearance of a young man named Brfak, whose remains, some ten days later, ware found in the lake. Neither the husband nor wife had ever heard tbe name before. The skeptical will call it a "mere coincidence." But waa it? Was it pomethlng more Oan so many incidents of tbe kind within the expert eoce of almoat every poison be coincidences?

Thres brothers la Perrybnrg, N. Y, laoftwlaa.

snd tbe cry "All about Ben Bianchard!" has been heard on every street corner. No man is totally bad, and dark as the cloud that hangs over him, Bianchard has many staunch friends in the community who assert tbat had he been given a litfle more time he would have straightened matters np entirely, or pnt them into abetter shape than tbey now are in.

It is not generally known that Bianchard lost a thousand dollars on the prapoMd new Asbury church. He entered into sn agreement with the Demings to purchase the talked-of site at Sixth and Oak streets and made a payment of $1,000 which was to be for-

would be labelled in his honorr and

commissioners one day this week, and endeavored to have Bon's return of taxables last April set aside for the benefit bis creditors. The commissioners decid ed tbat they bad no power to act in the matter. "In case of afire wouldn't you have power to reduce taxes asked the attorney.

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Said a well-known gentleman the other day: "Do you know that about a year ago I told Ben be was sure to have bad luck, or get 'into tbe hole,' for tbe reason that he wore a ring of opals, which are the unluckieet stones ever made into jewelry. Tbe ring was an el egsnt affair, and was a birthday present from his brother and sister. He laughed at me, and said opals brought good luck to those born in October, which is his birth month. From tbat time to this he hss bad bad luck, made blunders and been guilty of tricks tha» be would never before have thought of, snd si though I am not superstitious as a general thing, I believe that if he had thrown that opal ring away he would now be on top."

The following is tbe form of the "certificates" which were issued to investors, and of which so much has been said in the dally papers: No. 1086. '950040.

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ECHOES FROMTHEBLANCHARDX HIGH DRAMATIC ART FAILURE, Following Rev. Coming's admirable .... sermon on the drama last Sunday even-

The' Indiana Ferd Ward" is what the I tag it was quite appropriate to have Indianapolis Times styles tbe bold Ben. I three evenings of the highest class Ben was always a great fellow for ad-1 lsgithnate drama, at the Opera •ertisin^ and until hard times cattae {b°Hse. It is a rare treat to have come in paid well for it. The advertising be has succession three such actors as

received this week has all been gratuiti ous. Joseph Jefferson. Warde The Lamb-Voorhees complications, I nigbt. What the postofflce war, and all else sink into IP°rmanoe

insignificance beside the sxdtement Ilntotbe

felted in case he*did not carry out the I F.«n*viaH*r

remainder of his agreement. He failed memberit ha hriA»*

d°abt

that in case he could not make a satis-

factory settlement he would telegraph

and everything here should be attached^ for a

The attorney waited anxiously telegram but none came, tbat when be vate office Ben of his original Intentions, but borrowed several hundred dollars morefrom him. mong\hepersonal property he sold some of his creditors was the

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thus immortalize bim. The owner dulgence at which we laugh as thej

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"Well, this Is the d—deet fire you ever beard of," was tbe rejoinder which brought down the bouse, and would have carried the point had the petitioner been any other than Ben's brother.

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Received of John Smith. Five Hundred Dollar*, to be forwarded with application f* the pore'iase ot the W. %of Sec. tth P. M., in Finney coanty, Kansas,, to Ben Bianchard, Land Agent, A, T. A 8. F. R. for his approval. Ban BUKCSASS.It.

If ttie bolder of this receipt does not receive an acknowledgement of tbe receipt and appHcatkm of tbe money at the Terre Oune oAos wtthln fifteen darp. addrem Ben Kancbard,Land Agt. A^T. B. F. ft. R, Terre Hante, Ind.

On the reverse ride of tbe certificate was as agieement, generally to tbe following effect: "Said John Smith to return this obligation on the payment of fSSO cash by said Biweb* aid witbfa day* from dare, which asJd Bianchard agreoi fo do. The amount called for in thbi receipt, fSOS. is a deporit to lusirve the within deaciltod land for CO day*."

Frequently the only agreement was simply "10 par cant, la 00 days," or la spedal cases In 80 days. And such were Ida powers of psrsossion that ha had no trouble la indodng persons to inves* thousand* of dollars with him with no othsr seeority.

"Virginius." It rises

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RtmosPhere

created by the failure. The news boys I ugged force softened and have reaped a harvest the past week, I '^e most exquisite tenderness

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eduo*tloQ»11§T°°d

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I riety of light and sbsde. It casts unex-

Not long since it is said that one of I pected rays of sunshine in dark places, Ben's creditors becoming tired of prom- and makes infinite agreeable surprises ises went up to Chicago to see him, I in the sombre way of tragedy. leaving word with his attorney here

Joe Jefferson will pre(Wnthl8 world.

famotw obaract€rizati„n of

his feeble attempt to excuse his In-1

James Blancbard, Ben's brother, a afternoon. "Fortune's Fool" will be I Ryce, Capt. Potter and A. C. Pot win, Newport lawyer of considerable ability presented on Friday evening and at tbe died suddenly at his home in Rockville and shrewdnes, appeared before tb6|matinee. "Called Back" will be given yesterday morning. Heart disease is

on Saturday evening.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

ventor of the Babcock fire extinguisher,

is a pauper and an inmate of the San I

forget

PURELY PERSONAL.

M. Balue went to Kansas to-day. Collector Hanlon is on tbe sick list Mrs. J. Irving Riddle jeturt|ed ho from Ohio yesterday.

Mrs. M. G. Lee, nee Blancbard, same

Thoe. W. Keene and I *own 'rom Chicago on Thursday.

we had on a grand per-

Geo. W. Shaffer, now located at Chi-^ cago is here on a visit to his family. Will MoCallen has cojrie home from -*y\ Topeka, Kansas, where he has been for

Judge Carlton is in Washington at-f

of feeling, the amplest pathos, and I tending a meeting of the Utah com mis-, A* sharpened into the terrible and tragic si oners. without transosndlng the bounds of

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probable passion. Mr. Warde fills full the measure of Numitorius' description of Virginias—''a just man, quick of temper, a loving father and above all a Roman.

On Mondayfvening, Thoe. W. Keene, with a strong dramatic company will play Shakespeare's tragedy of "Richard M*** week, looking as though life III." There is a tradition thata year or

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ss usual will draw an immense audience.

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somewhere a

setorofsuch rare power,

ushered into the P»-| and refined ability should degrade his I warrant that caused Bianchard to flee, only talked bim out geni^g

by the

nature apd unaffected geniality I

ra «.«. heboid[by portr,y!ftg.dl^t4hl®4S..

proposition to donate! &t which wo smile, but tno Mrs, wm, ti. v?arnni

the collection to the school, where it eonsdousness of his own helplessness I

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of the collection replied that while be inimitably defined by Mr. Jefferson feels now that she has lost all she had would be glad to accommodate the Riai-Blggei-Marlon combination I gained. school, be was after money more than

piay at the

it is said tibat the rich Jifcople live I longer than poor ones. Well, tbey can ^le^ted Foster kid gloves, of which afford to. Hoberg, Root & Co. are exclusive agents,

A Minneapolis burglar refused to take I for Terre Haute. mu'a watch beceme tt

Kossuth still wears a hat like the one I

made

McNutt will assume the dutiea nndOTH"'-comtbe

John E. Lamb, on tbe first of ing mouth. Cspt. Pitch came home on Thursday from Nevada. He visited San Frandsco while out there. And reports having had a dellghful trip. "s

E. P. Beaucbamp has purchased Cot*' Hudson's law office furniture aud fixtures, rented the room and is now ready for business. See bis card.

John C. Paddock, who swore out the

apotheosis of drunken-(""J* he has uot a dollar left, has wife

ness. Sucti }s not tbe lesson as we view *ulfhrfe children snd is out of work, it. We love Rip for what he might be, D. H. Wright says it is a mistake and pity him for what he is. Mr. Jef-1 about his going south for tbe whiter s» .,eraon awakens no greater respect for reported, but will remain here and

tlon of agates, minerals, pot- the condition of drunkeuness by show-1 davbte his time to all who wish arttettfe displayed iu the office window, ing its results in a worthless follow I photographs. J*®1 ^8 promised to donate the I whom we'like for hi, imp.rturb.Me Mrs, A.L, WiUtam.' entire .tock or goods to be closed out in dlrectoa ot .. I"-g-" p"-y -s 1 thirty d.T,. Now U, the time toJwj, ufiw dwlior with

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the treatment tbore, until last

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went evory time there wss anything cation has been made a specialty in worth seeing. He was very hoepitable I many of the western states, and coeduto actors and actresses, too. President cation is much more common than at Cleveland does' not care very much for the East. The truth is tbat tba twossotbeater, but be goes ooeaaionally. Itionsoftbe country are rapidly over—I K- coming what have constituted tbe sodal

Dr. Talmage says that no man can be educational differences between a Christian if his stomach is out of order. "Religion itself," be says, "will not keep a man cheerful if be baa dyspepsia. A cup of ooffte and an egg is not tbe kind of equipment for a day's work. I take three good meals and eat more on Sunday than any other day of tbe week."

In talking with a reporter on tbe subject of ministrelsy, the other dsy, George Primrose said there was one relic that could not be shaken off—the street parade. Efforta have been made to abolish it, bat tbey have not succeeded. The advance sale drags until after tbe parade. It will then open and jump a hundred dollars within an hoar.

Miss Flora McFlimsey's new fall bat is so high tbat It recslls tbe headgear of the naughty boy at school ssnt to rtaad lnthsooraar.

was taken much worse and-

opera house next Friday p. r. Whipple, who came to this city

and Saturday evenings and Saturday oyer forty years'ago with the late Ludus-

supposed to be the cause. Mi as Alice Woodard, of Foster, Paul & Co., New York, arrived in the dty last Monday and will be at Hoberg, Root A Co's for two weeks, to fit on tbe

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so fashionable during his visit

to the United States. I

It ie said that W. D. Baboock, the in-

Helen Jeffer. and Mle. Ctorrlnn.

Crulksbank came home Monday night,

tbe

company with which they

I gtarte^ jrom

dndnnatl on the first of

tbe month,

having disbanded after a

weeks' tour at a loss of one tbou-

nn(jdollars

Franciaco almshouse, I the advance agent.

A St Louis physldan cured a case of -i opium bablt by tbe use of cocoaine, but found when tbe cure was complete that the cocoaine baoit bad been formed, which was s^ the original dU-1

to tbe manager. The fail-

attributed to the inefficiency ot

Sixteenth Year

W. H. Gilbert and family went over ,A„ to Kansas, Ills., this morning on a week's visit.

Attnes Stunkard has bad a relapee and |l. his condition ltr such as to seriously alarm his friends.

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Birton 'vas iu town a couple of

P^are to him.

two ago some one said to Edwin Booth, I* Qenis and ffcmlly arrived safely at "Keene is tbe coming tragedian, and I Queenstown last Monday afternoon, that Booth replied, "No, not the coming after a stormy voyage. tragedian-Tom Keene has come." Gazette says a letter from Rev. E. There is much originality in the treat- F. fowe tells of his approaching marment begives Shakespearean characters. risge to a widow in Peoria.

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Graoe Greenwood says that "New England produces the best educated girls, the truest wives, the noblest mothers, and tbe moet glorious old maids in the world." Tbe Cblcsgo In-

There is a religious sect in Ohio which ^.Qoean suggests change of adjectives believes tbat when human beings die

tbat the

they turn into cats. Doesn't it make a I England produces well educated girls, man shiver, though, to think that per-1 ^rae wives, noble mothers, and the haps he hss been slinging bootjacks all I

wiater st his wife's grandmother.. I that to-day, "in no section of tbe world President Lincoln went to tbe tbester I are tbe girls wider awake to secure a often to

his csres. Grant not so good educstion than

frequently.- Hayes seldom. Arthur

This

sentence shall read: "New

mOBtold

maids in the world." It claims

tbe West."

is undoubtedly true. Female edu-

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Dancing seems to be going 'out of fashion. A

young lady iu New York

upon being asked what she thought was tbe cause of it answered: "Ob, it la eo horrid. Dandng will do among a crowd of romping girls in four dollar muslin dresses, but dancing isn't nice when yon are dressed in a three hundred dollar Worth dress, with point iaca sleeves. It moistens tbe powder on your fsce, drags down your hair, perspires your dresses and makes you feel Micky all over. A refined man Is diegutted at a red faced, puffing, sticky girl,"

Itls said that specialty What a tumUs.

Alice Ostes is doingIn Wsshin0on