Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1891 — Page 1

Vol. 21.--NO. 37.

THE_MAIL.

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FIDELIA.

Yon have taken back the promise That you spoke so long ago Taken back the heart you gave me—

I must. even let go. Where I-ove onco has breathed, Pride dieth, So I struggled, but in vain, First to keep the finks together,

Then to piecc the broken chain.

Hut It might not IK -so freely All your friendship I restore, And the heart that 1 had tnken

As my own for evermore. No shade of reproach shall touch you, Dread no more a claim from me Kut I will not have you fancy

That I count myself as free.

I urn bound by the old promise What can break that golden chain? Not event he words that you have Kpoken,

Or the sharpness of my pain Do you think, because you fall mo And draw back your hand to-day, That from out the heart I gave you

My strong love can fade away?

I will live. No eyes may see it In my soul It will lie deep Hidden from all but I

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Often stirring In Its sleep. So remember that the friendship Which you now think poor and vain, Will I'tuluro in hope and patience,

Till you ask for it, again.

Perhaps in some long twilight hour, Like those we havo known of old. When pant shadows gather round you,

And your present friend* grow cold, You may stretch your hondsout. toward meAh you will-T-I know not when— I Khali nurue my love and keep it

Kalthrully, for you, till then. Adelaide A. Proctor.

Town Talk.

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Tin* tncl ro poll tan police bill Is now a law, and it only remains for 1 he police commissi. )iiei ID put the city under its provisions. Then- has been much talk of late of taking the matter Into the courts In order to test the ronxtltuilonallty of the act, and It was exeeelcd I bat something would bosaid concernl, -n a .'v mental. the bust, meeting of 11c "u» v^rev'asn'U The members ne»x uriio .-rsttcrs on I lu\ object, 'and ',0 in u»Keu tbiliidlcato thflt «.» -tirnty "n»wcetuvrl. #t«»rt^iOiiliiou will ixj-otVered to tlie new order of tilings. However, there is liable to be a disturbing element, and It is announced tliat^ the piVHcnt police superintend) nt will take the matter into court when lliedemand Is made upon blin to turn over to bis successor. Three c:i.-es of this kind have been before the supreme court, all of which are to be found In the liMii Indiana.

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in to test the validity I KM', providing for the (•Hies In this State con-

The ilrst ease was of th)' act of March establishment, ill all tiilninj! a population mote, i)f a noAHiioi ri ni.tc WOIIKS or atlaSr.'., to consist of three members, selected from the two lending political parties, one member oT said board to hold his otllee for the period of two vear from the date of his selection, and the other two members to bold their otllee for the period of four years. The decision is a very lengthy one, and covers the whole ground completely. Among other tilings it says: "it Is. perhaps, true that the general assembly may, at will, pass laws regu luting the siovernment of towns and citlew, lakliiK from them powers which had previously been emitted, or adding to that which had pnnlously been given, but we do not think that it can take away from the people id a t»»wn or city rights which they possessed as citizen* of thi" Statcboforetheirlncorporatton. The object of granting to the people of a city municipal power* Is to give them additional rights and powers to better enable them b» govern themselves, and not to take away any rights they possessed before such grant wa* made. It may be true, that as to such matters as the State has a peculiar Interest In. different from that .relating toother communities it may, by

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take control of Mich Interests but as to such matter* as are purely local, and concern only the people of that community, they have the right to control them, subject, only to the general laws of the .State, which nflect all the people of the state alike. The construction of scwiMs in a city, the supply of gas, water, tire ctton. and many other matters that might le mentioned, are matter* In which the liM-al community alone Is concerned, and In which the State has no special Interest, more than it has in the health and prosperity of the people genomlly, and they are matters over which the people affected thereby have the exclusive control, and it can not, in our opinion, be taken away from them by the legislature." Following tip thlsstratnof reasoning the court holds the entire art void. .1 ii»tlee Mitchell dissented from the opinion. Sa'-d he: "In Sloan vs. folate, S Black f. .isi. this cmrt declared that 'public or mun­

corjMtsstlons are established for the locivl government of towns or particular dis­

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a- tk.\iu^t the State, but being wholly p«KUea! r\i»: os-.ly durtug the will of the genera! 1 lego Uum\ otherwise then* would be numIMM }-e!tv sdwinlttinitu existing Within th«- s-ate and forming a par! of St, but Inde-jM-nd."ni 'lu eur.lv?! »f the sovereign! ma at any time ifpealed or by She IcsisSature, cither hy a K»-»ef:»! i.-,*«• u|*m the whole Htate. ty h|HM-tal act aUerUsg the powers of she Thi* Wsvs the law as th-! by th« aulietal dep»rt3neat of lk^ gttfcrtiuu'iit When the |sr.-ei

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Republican government that local concents shall be managed In the local districts, which shall choose their own administrative and police officers, and establish for themselves police regulations but the maxim is subject to such exceptions as the legislative power of the State shall see fit to make and when made, it must be presumed that the public Interest, convenience aud protection are subserved thereby. The State may interfere to establish new regulations against the will of the local constituency-'

The second case is that in which the city cSf Evansville resisted the operation of the act of March 7,1880, providing for a board of

METROPOLITAN POLICE AND KIKE DEI'AKTMESTr in cities of 29,000 Inhabitants. The•bjectlons to the bill were the same as those urged in the case first quoted, and the law was held unconstitutional in all its parts. The, decision Kajs: "If the act related alone to the management of the police department, and the State was proposing to take upon itself the burden of maintaining the department, us well as Its management, or if itweee made to appear that the city had failed to furnish a police force, or one that was sufficient for the protection of persons and property, then a very different question would be presented for our consideration. Except so far sis an efficient police department goes, which is for tho protection of the public at large, the people of the State arc not Interested in any of the mutters to which tho said act of the legislature relates, but the citizens of Evansville and Indianapolis, tho two cities to which the aet applies, are alone Interested. It, therefore, becomes a question whether or not the legislature may take from the people of these two cities the right of local self-government, tho right to manage aud control their own purely local affairs In their own way, and place l-he management, of all such local affairs under State eonUol We do not believe that the legislature has any such power."

The third case is ono to test the right of the board of metropolitan police and fire department of the city of Indianapolis, under the law quoted in tho Evansville ease. In this case the court decided that tho act creating a board of metropolitan police and fire department In cities hnivlng a certain population, etc.,

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in so far as It, relates to the tire department, as being In violation of therlghtof local selfgovernment and as the provisions of theact in relation to the police department are so connected with and dependent upon its other provisions as to bo practicably Inseparable, the whole act falls. In rendering the decision the court says: "There Is a class of officer^ whose duties are general, b'ut who act for the Htatein localities, which the general assemblies for some States have exercised the rieht to appoint, and courts havo upheld the right {.oitialce stich appointments but this class of oflj-irg ays,,constabulary or peace o/flcers, 't&> p&tee. In this case we do not deem It necessary to consider that portion of the law relating to peace o/lleers.or to determine therlghtof the general assembly to appoint officers of that character under our constitution. The right of tho Stale, however, to exorcise such power must rest on tho theory (hit the .State owes protection to its citizens wherever they maybe within the borders of theState, alike upon highways In a sp.irsely settled territory ns upon tho streets of a densely populated city, and to discharge such obligation has the right, to exercise control over tho peace oillcers of the State but the law in question provides for taking exclusive control of the lire department within certain cities, appointing tho officers and controlling the department, and compelling the cities to pay all the expenses," consequently held it to bo void. miAWINO THE LINE.

In reading these decisions it will be observed that the constitutionality of the police bill hits never been tried, and in the matter of looal self-government the court very plainly draws tho line 011 the police force. In one place It Is stated that an lucf flelcnt police forco would lc sufficient grounds for the recent action of the legislature, aud in another the right of the legislature Is Inn certain degree acknowledged. If it came to a question of efficiency It is not sit all probable that many persons would undertake to say anything in favor of the management of the present force, as nearly all would like to see a change. It Is barely possible that with a good head to the force the objections to the new bill would be stronger, but as it Is people are resigned and console themselves with the thought that matters can te no worse.

Feminitems.

Eva Hamiton has experienced a change of heart, become religious and joined church. The church should not be held

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ailip4Ht, and it smssj pTv»ttmcd that S.f tl had Nvn lrcn!«l wlw Set t«st|x»e mtrlAloai «sn the legislature."'**!as1 bt secure municipal i»««r*tions again*! snte-rfcreaoe, would haw been done by *on directs m* tbisl Judjsel'ooly esprr-mt'it the etnUmll-] ins td a when he *a.y»: "It is al**« martin of'

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for this. It couldn't help it. A new material Is of light, crinkly testure, In colorless, smoky grounds with large flower sprays in other indistinct shade's, and is known as Cleopatra cloth.

The Empress Frederick has nothing but words of praise for French meu. That"* righ t. but, somehow, there Is a lingering Parisian feeling that the pretty compliment but thinly covers a sore spot,

Kva Hamilton sfoys she wants to t* left severely alone so that she may llvedown her reputation. This is a mcrHortons desire in which everybody will be glad to assist. Let her

quiet and the world will sonn forget

her. Mr*. .Samuel Berry, the pretty young woman who recently eloped from her plaln-as-«-plktstair husband at Middletown, Conn., isn't worrying about It, «s she "knows how very forgiving tbe otd man Is.'* She remind* one of the lunbury woman who, after tiring of p~Uoc:uan with whom she had been -'vournlug, telegraphed to her husband: "Ketch me home, darlfns. and all will tie fotSivon."

An iwtresf who played the part of old wamnt3 in Kdwin liooth"* oompauy 5broc or tout ear* a«o wvs uot over too welt blessed in thi# orbtgood«v

On the final night of Uw sea*

»n. somewhere up In New England, Mr. Kootu p««8t?d her with book. Of co«r»e she appreciated the courtesy and rowlved to treasure tl»« volume as a prertou*t-ouvenlr of tier association with tla» gn*t actor* Bat, what words could dr-seribe her emotions when, few days later, on tomlajr over the I .uvea of the book, she fouud between them a new, crisp Uto«*aQtdoHftr bill.

Notes and Comments.

The situation In a nutshell and the kernel of the matter are one and the same thing.

Rhode Island wants anew divorce law, and proposes to have it even if she has to hire room in Connecticut to paste it up ou.

It looks nowadays as if no man could lie certain in making his will that his heirs will not interfere with his disposition of it unless he leaves It to them.

The base ball men may know their own business, but there Is strong outride opinion that more money is to be made by playing ball than by playing the fool.

If the Chicagoans build their $2,000,000 worth of airships there won't be any difficulty in supplying the Inflation. There is already a large surplus on hand iu Chicago.

If Governor Hill had only said to Governor Bulklcy what the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina, all this difficulty would have been avoided.

Anotker German doctor has discovered a remedy for tuberculosis. What we need most is a remedy for the German doctors. They are more dnngorous to the public health than consumption.

A war between France and Germany would be a conflict between republicanism and monnrchlsm. Friends of liberty all over the world would be glad, under present conditions, to avert such a war.

By the way, it is a little remarkable that the clergymen of Chicago seem much more anxious about the big show becoming an accomplished fact than about the question of haying itopen Sundays.

It is all very right and proper to insist that "the wires must corao down," but It begins to look as if some of the politicians would have to "come down" before we shall sec the Westtern Union's AOollan harp unstrung.

Boston finds its sitting down liquor law doesn't work, so It's going to try extreme high license. Still that patriotic city has always shown more devotion to liberty than license, aud the chances are It. will do the same now*

Blakely Hall, who made New York Truth worthy its name the first week it came under his charge, writes: '"There Is nothing that a critic of newspapers abhorsmorecouteinptuously than a fact." This is truth from away back.

Mississippi has a bran new constitution— but a Southern contemporary remarks—"Nobody can uhderstaud It, and everybody is dissatisfied with it."* A good constitution whether In a man or a State Is not, a thing to be tlukered with.

Chicagoans are already beginning to take the liveliest Interest In Canadian affairs. One Chlcugoan, for example, took so lively an interestin the fur-llnec^al-trimmed Canadian affair valued at

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hcAet that ho carrfecl it'oh'to Milwaukee with hlni. The Democratic papers charge that Superintendent of Census Porter purposely failed to count 1,000,tWO negroes In tho South. Porter retorts that the votes of about 1,000,000 negroes if cast for the Republican ticket are never counted and asks why they should be counted by tho government enumerators.

The Indian appropriation bill this year calls for $15,000,000. These figures are worth studying IIK an illustration of the liberal manner In which the government deals with a class of people who spend all their time in avoiding tho obligation of self-support that is one of the fundamental principles of clyllizailon.

The fact that Canada Is not able to hold its young men is strikingly brought out bj the AJontreal Herald. "The young men," It says, "arj leaving the dominion in troops. In twenty-five counties in Ontario, some of the choicest in the province, the population in lsstl is less than It was in 1881, although it should be much greater."

The highest, price attained in 1890 by the amount of silver in the dollar piece was a little over 02 cents, or Just about the valuo of the same amount of the metal In 18t8, when the coinage under the Bland act was begun. Recently the price has fluctuated between 75 and 77 cents. The government has not met with much success In its efforts to bull the silver market.

An Arizona man whom a reporter approached at a hotel yesterday pulled up the ends of his four-ln-hand tic and shewed twenty 81,000 Dills sewed In the cloth. The wise Arizona man knew that such shallow sub'erfuges, while they might avail against the common bunco man and cinmsy sandbagger, would be quite futile when it came to the reporter.

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There will probably be a rigid law cuacled by every State In the Union against prize fighting. There.has been so much brutality aud so many fatalities In the prize ring of latefhat the passfge of such laws and their stringent enforcement Is demanded by* humanity. The manly art of self-defense, socalled, appears to have passed into the hands of thugs and mtirderous toughs.

A dispatch says that the pastor of a village church to New York popularised himself by stopping his sermon to say: "I am annoyed by a young lady in the audience who has been endeavoring to flirt with me. I have neither the time nor inclination to return the compliment now, but may do so later on"—leaving the scnndaloue impression that the village congregation approves of the pastor who may flirt.

When he was on the stuff" of the Topcfca Capital he spelt his name PfclJfffer, as did his forefathers. When he assumed control of the Kansas Farmer he dropped tbe "I" and made it Pfeffir, and now ho has been elected to the United States Senate he signs it Pelfer and requests all correspondents to do likewise. If his political career continues to be a success and thi# dropplngof letters continues, the man *ko has been chosen to replace ItigaHs will soon eome to be wt» as Peff. GrvaltveKV and eccentricity ayg did go hand In hasad.

The collector of customs at Vancouver, Wash., ha# -overed *.r the breakage of a bottom «f ft ~e, #up{ -d to contain eggs, thai cigarette# arc being systematically #m ogito tbe miry, with a couple of layers -«'on tov, eing entered as, and paying dnty on eggs. It is understood that the same me la adopted In bringing dutiable goods, -s cigarettes, into Victoria, and the custom officers are on the lookout While wedo not wish jo encourage Imposition upon, nor

customs ofllcers of our niy commend the spirit get cigarettes out of the or In any way. obligations to pay are bora wu with tbe provision that be made in gold or its equiva-

In 'such cases the dollar in gold is one hvgtirired cents fhe dollar in silver is eighty eentfc or less. Perhaps the owners of silver are not disturbed by this, but how does it^&em to the man in moderate circumstances who needs a little accommodation nofrund then? He who imagines that legislation can make eighty equal to one hundriil may liy^.long enough ^to come to his seujes. V$3-/T$y* 1 -^correspondent calls attention to the fact th ft -p Mrs.Harrison has made afresh departure in «&e socifil code of the White House. Last year she decreed that at state receptions the receiving party should march down-stairs in il»s3.r!monial couples each cabinet officer &• "iSScttd his own wife instead of some other cabinet officer's wife. This year she has decreed that at state dinners she shall be escortef dinner immediately after the President

J&he lady he takes out, instead of going cuf as other hostesses do, after all their guf^b. At this rate, things will soon be so 1'. vi lliat a man will be unable to get away 1 his wife at all.

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Gordon Bennett, with a party of •, is enjoying himself at Nice.' "1. elaw Held, minister at Paris, has been rlu 'y ill, but rapidly reeoverlng. S^iuapress Eugenic Is said to have refused .• 'Vi ne to write her memoirs for publlca-

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tt }J3ini:oror William of Germany is said an enthusiastic admirer o£ Wagner's ,,V.'4c.

HW Amelie Ri ves Chandler, the authoress, Ud to bo making great progress in her art llCs at. Paris, which include both paintli \tid sculpture. iS8rs. Morrill, EdmUnds, Sherman and J'.. eonvare the only members of the Senate su, 4n service who were in the chamber whi Mr. Ingalls first went there.

T4«t subscription to t.lie Btsmark raonunieij^in Eertln now amounts to nearly ainllHOtqpanes. They manage these things better }n Berllirthan they do in New York. (•erman scientists applied ft mild electric curryJtt to tt swarm of bees, causing them to fal Stupefied to the ground. No harm was do .e them, and they could be safely handled. h«ny«oe, Burks, a Norjli Carolina man, .0 have eaten one hundred and thirty ne,6lttiug he glves'a good reason for

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Chti'les Tebo, of Barre, Vt., is tho happy father of twenty-seven girls, all living &nd in jolly health. When they are all talking at once the old man goes over to the next township to get his breath.

De Lesseps is now eighty-six years old. At eighty he wus a rugged, enthusiastic and vigorous octogenarian, but since the collapse of his great canal scheme he has aged and broken very perceptibly.

General Gordon says he will join tho Farmers* Alliance March 6. This is very considerate of him. It will give the country time to recover from the last dying speech of Congress before it has to read Ills letter of acceptance.

It Is the fashion now to buy odd vases. Pairs are going out of .style. This is a very comforting thought to the woman who has engaged a new parJor maid and has had 110 experience of her talents as a brlc-a-broc smasher.

The Hon. Colonel William Buffalo Bill Cody will visit Germany this spring, but has no intention of accepting any proposition looking toward his acceptance of Prince Bismarck's vacant desk In the government department.

More than seven hundred bishops up to the present time have sent favorable answers to the proposition o!4he pope to canonize Columbus. The discoverer of America will bo known as St. Columbus before the World's Fair of 1893.

Kansas is about to lose one of her most prominent citizens. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, one of the notable Alliance characters of that State, will settle in Washington for newspaper work. Alliance feature-work will be l»er specialty.

It was in a Western city that Henry M. 8tonIC5r received his first greatshock, A colored minstrel show attracted all the people, who otherwise might have attended his lecture. As a drawing cord he was just nowhere against bones and banjo.

It is an open question whether the childwife system of India is any more demoralizing to the world than the European system of marrying women who cannot cook a meal or understand why tbe laundry folks do not starch her husband's socks.

The Rev. Father Fleming, of Orange, has threatened to cowhide young men whom be may 'catch around the church doors waiting for their best girls to come out. One by one the inducements for young men to draw near to religious comfort lade away.

The -veteran Sims Reeves will take his farewell of the concert stage early In tbe spring, and will have the assistance of Christine Nllsson In hls good-bye concert- Mr. Reeve* Is nearly 70 years old, and since 2846 has been England's greatest ballad singer and onljr tenor.

Prince Napoleon, "Plon Plon," Is still a very sick man, and Is unable to leave Rome. Cardinal Mermiilod has been to see him, but his wife, the PrlncessClothllde,doesn't»oftcn a bit, and if she consents to visit bim It will he for state reasons, not wifely a Section. That died out many years ago.

Major Bonebrokc, the Sean Bromine! of Southern California, Is one ^rf those gentle* m*6 who think they were created by Divine Providence In order to fill chairs ID the United Stales Senate. The gallant Malar fancied, that he eoald squeeze himself into Senator Hearst's cbalr and bldc his rubbers under lite $esfc.

W. K. VanderMIt baa started oa bl^lotiK ocean trio to Nice via Bermuda and Madeira, and has a jolly lot of friends witb him on bis with passementerie, braiding or cording, and «tearo yacht, Alva. Mr*. Vanderbiltdeclined expensive button?,

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to go. She knows that seasickness on a half a million-dollar yacht Is just as bad as the same complaint on a Coney Island steamboat.

A. B. de Frece has undertaken tbe contract of his life in trying to raise money for the Grant Memorial Fund by means of a grand allegory of the late war in song, to be given May 2. When New York consents to havo Grant's name dragged into such money raising schemes, it ought to be consistent and insist upon the performance coating off on the. first of tbe preceding month. w?

FatherTom Sherman, in a letter written in 1878 to Hon. Samuel Reber, announcing intention to enter tbe priesthood, sail "Feeling painfully aware that I have grieved and disapoointed my father, I beg my friends and bis, one aud all, of whatever religion they may be, to spare him Inquiries or comments of any sort, for I can not lielp feeling that anything of the kind would be ill-timed and inappropriate."

Editor Farrar of the Toronto Globe, whoso pamphlet on the relations between this country and Canada has made such a stir in the dominion, is a versatile writer aud has changed sides in politics nure than once. A few years ago he and Robert S. White, editor of the Montreal Gazette, with a few other scribes, were busy preparing campaign literature for the service on the tory side. All at onco Farrar cried: "Bob, I've a grand idea for a pamphlet." "What is it, Ned?" "Oh, bedad, I can't use it," said Farrar. "I don't sec how I could ever reply to it."

When residing in Washington General Sherman was Invited to pnbllc banquetgsvnd private teas dally and often had,as follow guest General Van Vliet. On one occasion General Sherman started as usual, but on reaching tbe street he suddenly stopped, having quite forgotten the

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he had promised to att&wbfltfk evening. After some minutes ofi-'^j^WxTty, he exclaimed, aloud: "O I'm^alrfl^ht now. There goes Van Vliet, If there's a good supper In town he knows where it is. I'll follow him." So he did and luckily hp reached the right, destination.

Private audiences will bo no longer granted to private persons by Pope lcb XIII.' lie lias been much annoyed lately by the published reports of ititerviews and by the comments of the European press, based upon these reports. Tbey mainly referred to conversations held by tlie Pontlfl'with M. Plou, a French deputy M. De Honx and others,in regard to the attlJXide which the French, clergy should assume toward the republic. Tbe Pope iras Instructed his "major-domo," Monslgnor liuftb Seiila, to give 110 tickets for a private audience, except to persons clothed with an official character., 2

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ribbon, and bands of the same go round the

sleeve from wrist to elbow. Shirt-waists, blouses and round waists without end again appear upon gowns of the very prettiest sort shown as models for the spring and summer seasons.

Plain white linen cuffs, turning back over the dress sleeves are much worn with street, dressas. They give a finish to tho gown and are particularly neat In appearance.

A startling, street dress of Russia design is of bright red cloth. Strips of black sable extend from the bottom of the skirt to the knees. The red toque is bordered with black fur.

The new embroidery for the next spring season will be embroidered leaves with veins of steel, gold and silver. Colored and black glass beads are set between silk stitch embroideries.

Cafeau la.lt is one of the tints which Is growing in popular favor. Many pretty pattern dresses are in this hue. The brocaded is used for the sleeves and waist trimmings, leaving the skirt of the plain materials.

Large sleeves of net will be worn in silk dresses, with atabller of the same for the skirt, and a pretty drapery of It from the shoulders to tho point of tbe bodice. Effective patterns come with elienllledotsthatenrleh the design.

It is evident that the sheaf skirt litis come to stay, for the spring ami summer at all events, even though having ns rivals the somewhat fuller bell skirt.awl thenll-around English model, almost -always preferred by women of tall, slender llgurc.

Buntings have again come to the front, In many new designs. When tin so were fashionable a few years ago they were found to be very serviceable, to wear well and to bear washing or cleaning. They are seen now in many new designs of stripe and border.

Scotch cotton cheviot, double-fold—a new weave of cloth, distinguished by a basketlike pattern—will bo much used for lightweight sailor suits and for blouse waists this spring and summer. Broken stripes, in which the predominating colors are blue and white, is the favorite design.

The first importations of spring woolen dresses are homespuns, cheviots, tweeds, and fanciful plaids and stripes with rough surfaces. Beige and tan shades are always popular in the spring, and are now of the lightest mushroom tints. A special fancy this season Is tbe use of pale green shades for the accessories of these light tan dresses, and of darker green and pole yellow with gray gowns.

Light delicate tints in gray, reseda or gray-ish-green, fawn, doc-colors and brown are the leading colors for spring wear in the importations of cashmere and tailor cloths. A few dyes are in dull metallic tones, but by far the greater number have a suggestion of spring sunshine In tbe golden shewn, which softens their color, and stiil others are brilliant with aglow erf beautifully interwoven Pertian dyes,oriental designs figuring extensively Jn some of thehandwipest woollens of tbe W in.

Many of Wt new b»u"iae# show a change from the general fashion of invisible fastenings, and botton down the immediate front, tbe br?* n-holes edged -'tb cordingJikethat on th' 'tasting or slat. I blp piece#. The popular spring basque consist* of a very seamed round waist, 10 wbic?. In an -bed st-am,are applied 2 or 3 be vies or Xbnii XIV. hip piece* Tbe basque*are not ling*] with crinoline, but merely faced underside with surah or otber «llk and trimmed

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Twenty-first Year

Geraldine's Letter.

Washington papers from Mi's. Gould who, is visiting there, interested me great ly. Thoy contained a full account of all the proceedings of ttw,woman's congress held in Washington *SS«t- week. ludiana women weita promineiii||Nuid Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indianapolis captured the presdency for tho coming yfef'mt Mrs. Sewall has wonderful ability as taEesiding officer, and the convention coul&nS-diy have made a better choice. Mrs. PottejJwPalmer, of Chicago, presldes^of tho womanVdepartment in the World's^ was said tJ be the more beai]4i|*L-aq^i most stylish woman .in the awmbljlk' Mi Potter read a pang^n "The WtfMt in the ColumbinTO^jflbition" whiC^NWWWO spoken of, but tl^ Cwo wcmeir-vho creuttj^Lrr,^-"* the greatest enthusiasm by their snepehes'fy" were Mrs. Florence BalgacUie, of London, •. delegate from the Woman Liberal Union of England, of which Mrs. Gladstone Is the head, and Mrs. May E. Lease, of Kansas. Sho is said to have made the rousing spcecty of convention. She spoke for tho Farmers' Alliance. She is a slight delicately built womnu with ahead and a voice like a man. She wjfli unfortunately persoual in her remarks, openly boasting that it was the wOg?en of Kansas who defeated Senator lngallto. She was answered by shouts of brava, rounds of applause and loud and long hissing. Miss Willard stepped forward and said, "An audience of ladles is no place for hisses." Mrs. Lease retorted. "0 let them go on, I'm usad to the geese process." I heard a man say the other day that recent events In Ivausas furnish a profitable field for the study of tho woman suffrage question that fiom tho Farmers' Alliance and the present Granger Legislature, it can be proved that women onco clothed','. with authority are tyrants, and the only salvation for men is to keep them In bondage. It does look as if Mrs. Annie Dlggsruns the lower house of the Kansas Legislature. Sho is a little bit of a woman, only weighs one hundred and five aud barely five feet high V" but she and Mrs. Lease made speeches all over Kansas, until Senator Ingalls found. himself without a defender amoug the farmers. She'is a member of the Alliance legislative committee, and sits in tho lobby advising the members byvote what to do ami whentpdolL

A letter from a friend hi New York, tells of the badly managed funeral procession of General 'Sherman. It,, AVRH .announced to leave the general's home at two o'clock but it was tkree before It started. TheSoventli regiment waited two hours.for It on Fifty-/ seventh street, and whpn.it did move it was like a procession of raw recruits^ Some of the regiments marched with anu^ reversed, some with their muskets over tfuSir slioim ders, and they inarched badly, The G. A. It. „1, came straggling along without any regard to

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up with others some wore ulsters, some blaclc coats, some light, then there were all sorts styles of lutts, and altogether the G. A. R. did not add much tc the appcaranco of the parade. Tbe carriages, my friend says, sho thought rnuFt have been supplied by eontract, for they were a cheap lot. liven tho one tho President, rode In was an old, open barouche, pulled by light colored horses that did not match, and the coachman in a faded green livery. There was no black about any thing In the procession except ou the war horse, and that was covered with a black cloth drawn over the saddle, which being an army saddle with high pummels, made tho horse look like a camel. There was not oven anything Impressive about the catafalquo It was not draped heavy enough, and tho general's sword and cap should havo been placed on the coffin. Then us the catafalque passed by the men on the sidewalks stood looking ou, their hands in their pockets, and their hats sqtuirely on their heads. It secm» to me it showed utter disrespect or a lack Of sentiment. In Paris when a funeral passes by, no matter how poor the procession,every man on the sidewalk raises his hat. Contrast this with the manner 6f our country-, men who did not even raise his hat when tbo funeral car of one of o.tir grcute soldiers and best loved public men passed before them. Then I am monarchist, enough to like the rules of a (treat nation to be surrounded with a certain amount of pomp and ceremony. Doubtless If the people hail not been faralllar with Mr. Harrison's face, they could not havo told him from any one else, crouched away back In the corner of .1 third rate carriage. We Americans have a great many good qualities, but we are not over-burdened 'with uentimentorrespect. I do nol like to hear Queen Victoria spoken of and written about as "Queen Vie," nor the German Kmperorof as "Billy."

Mrs. Daniel Davis gave a very charming reception Wednesday afternoon. It might be called a carnation reception for the decorations and tbe favors were red and white carnations. Mrs. Davis was assisted in receiving by her mother Mrs. Dr. Hyde, Mrs. Chas. Shi rely of Richmond—in whose honor tho reception was given—Mrs. W. G. Davis, Mrs. W. W. Ray and Mrs. Tom Davis. In tbe dining room Mlm Carrie Hyde, Miss Henrietta Allen, and Misses Fanny and Cora O'BoyJe presided over the coffee and chocolate. Miss Anna Tavis stood at the dining room door and presented each guest with a carnation. Master Paul II de Davis carne in for 1* share of attention. The rooms were thronged frowi two o'clock until six.

Mrs. B. G. Iludnut entertained the Art Society Friday afternoon. Mrs. II. A. Morris read a paper on "Fifty Years of American Art." GKB .J.DJSB.

The prevalence of very light-colored cloths and fine wools for street wear thlssprhig wUl be very marked. In addition to pilot, faced and ladles' cloth, and tbe lighter Venetian qualities,' plain

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vogue. This has an minstiaily hairy and rough-iooking surface, but is extremely flue, light and supple. Light-colored hats and bonnet* in apricot, chamois fawo, pearl,etc., will accompany these costume*. There wilt also again appear stylish bead-coverings made of cloth matching the gown—tht*£o largely In or toque shape, the Jongpopular

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Gen. Schofleid certifies that the Indiana make good soldiers, and tbe experiment of enlisting &M3Q of them for regular service!* to be tried. Tbe country will be glad to learn that there is at least one way la which «u Indian can be usefully employed. i' Indian can be umUtUy employed.